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INDEX TO THE PROSE.
A. B. to Philo Madan, 360.

Account of the country preacher, 398, 405.
Act worthy of American seamen, 277.
Admonisher, the scntentious, 155.

Adventures, my, 116, 132.
All things beautiful in their time, 331.

American Indians, 28, 357.
American millstone manufactory,_ 96.

American ornithology, 64.
American porcelain, 240.
Amcrtcan vineyards, 296.
Biography. Sketch of the life of John Howard, 153,

161.
Criu'cus and C0. Levity and Light Reading by, 44

59.
Memoirs of William Cushing, 169.

Life of general Israel Putnam, 177, 185,
193, 201, 209, 217, 225, 233, 24-1.
Short account of the life of Mr. Jamcs
Ferguson, 24/9, 257, 265, 273, 281.
Memoirs of general Montgomery, 289,
297.
Sketch of the life of Benjamin Douglas

Perkins, 305.
Cushing William, memoirs of, 169.

Danby, lord, anecdote of, 352.
Danish custom house oicera brought home by an

American vessel, 224.
Dante, anecdote of, 207.
Deaths, 6, 24-, 40, 56, 103, 111, 128, 136, 168, 207,
223, 232, 239, 255, 277, 295, 352, 400, 415.
Declaration of independence by the represenwtives
of the people of West Florida, 279.
Anthrophagy, 319.
Apointamnts by the president, 5, 21.
Life of Livia Drusilla, 313, 321, 329, 337.

Life of John Milton, 345, 353, 361.
Detector, 118.
Life of Arctaphila, 369.
Dl-lerbois, Collet, account of his death, 20.
Life of the duke of Marlborough, 377, \Discoveries in chemistry, 36, 344.
385, 393.
Domestic intelligence, 16, 21, 47, 55, 63, 78, 103,
160, 173, 184, 192, 200, 208, 232,239, 255, 277,
Blodgcts economics, new additions to, 304-.
296, 304, 312, 360, 392.
Boissy, anecdote of, 342.
Burdett, sir Francis, 64-.
Do unto all men as you would they should do unto
Burning to death, 328.
you, 99.
Brutality, horrid, 416.
Dreadful murder, 407.
Dreaming, on, by Dr- Beattic, 11, 19, 28, 37,45;
Architecture, Dysterian iron, 62.
Cabinet, 111, 124, 141,143, 156,163,171, 182, 195,
Amicuss criticism, 61.
Amicus to Philo Madan, 108,

Amuser, by Mentor, 120, 128,136.
Mom, a, 13, 112, 168, 191, 207, 215, 223,231,

247, 253, 269, 295, 303, 310,311,319, 327, 335,
342, 343, 351, 359, 361, 315, 376, 383, 334, 392,
399, 407, 415.

am, 261, 276, 292, 301, 307, 315, 324, 331,
338, 347, 363, 355, 372, 381.
Ardennis, or the Spirit of the Wood, 378, 386, 394,

401, 409.
Aretaphila, life of, 369.
204, 220, 227, 236, 243, 251, 259, 267, 275, 235,
291, 299, 306, 314, 323, 330, 338, 348,354, 361,
370, 380, 388, 396, 404-, 412.
Drinker, Edward, brief account of, 343.

Drunkenness, 82.
Drusilla, Livia, life of, 313, 321, 329, 337.

Duels, their frequency in Virginia, 367.
Arlotto, Piovano, anecdote of, 191.
Canibals, savage, island of, 221.
Durable dyes,312.
Articial cold, new mode of producing, 232.
Capital punishments, essay on, by llerminius, 228.
Dysterian iron architecture, 62.
AStonishing prosperity,
Caraccas, geography of, 66, 74-.
Atheism, 292.
Caterer, 28.
Caustic to Dr. Fungus, 92, 108, 165, 332.
Avarice, on the torments of, 327.
Caustic, Clementina, to the editor, 373.
Babylon, description of, 319.
Censor, 92, 125, 140, 164, 173, 196, 211,306, 346.
Banks, 104.
Barometer, 68.
Change of times, 231.

Characteristics, 25.
Deattie, of Dreaming, 11, 19, 29, 37, 45.
Chateaubriant, count, history of, 341, 351.
Beauty, 245.
Chemistry, discoveries in, 336, 344-
Equitns, 107, 114, 132, 141, 165.
Bees,391.
Chemical manufactures, 104-.
Benevolence, 90.
China, manufacture of, in the United States, 111.
Bertrand on the passion of love, 299.

Beware of old gun-barrels, 403.
Colburn, Zerah, 368.
Eugenius, communication from, 18.

Every heart knowetli it own bitterness, 371, 405.
Extraordinary meteor, 344.
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Collector, 84-, 93.

Conscience, a good, 75.
Contemplations, 339.
Contemplator, 77, 82
Fejee Islands, 221.

Ferguson, James, a short account of the life and
character of, 249, 257! 265, 273, 281.
Life of David Rittenhouse, 25, 33, 41.
Corn, seed, 48.
Fine arts, 320.
Life of illiam Penn, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81,

89
Life of John Smith, 97, 105, 113, 121,
129, 137, 145.
Country preacher, account of the, 398, 405.
Foppery, 189.
Foreign intelligqce, 5, 16, 24, 32, 39, 48, 88, 103,
128, 144.
Fragments, gallery of, 296. 285, 291, 309, 364-.
Bible soeicties, 278, 287.
Biograghy. Memoirs of the life and character of

John Redman, 9, 17.
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Earthquake, 277v
Economica, Blodgcts, new additions to, 304.
Economy, 335.
Elizabeth, anecdote of queen, 8.
Empyricism, 84.
Enormous snake destroyed, 353.
Envy, 172.
Court of Death, 359.

Cowper, humorous letter of, 374.
Critique on Laurel Hill, 156, 173, 181.
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INDEX TO THE PROSE.
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Franklin, Dr. anecdote of, 247.
French emPrcss, description of her peison, 21
Friend, the, 353.
Friendship, 52, 92.
Fulton, Robert, letter from, respecting torpedoes, 3.
Fungus, Francis, M. in. letter to Nobody, Somebody,
Anybody and Everybody in the practice of
duclling, 75.
Fungus, Francis M. o. to Christopher Caustic, 142
Letter from Nobody to Somebody, 57)

Letter, extract ofa, from Smyrna, 119.
Letter respecting a new city opposite Albany, 144.
Letter from the French minister of foreign relations
to Mr. Armstrong, 175.
Letter from Theophila, 181.
Letter from Mr. Pinkney to the secretary of state,
Genius, 84.
Letter from a mother to her son, 236.
N.s Criticism, 85.
Genius and taste contrasted, 27.
Letter from a clergyman in Philadelphia to the

editor of the Providence gazcttc, 256.
Letter from the secretary of state to governor Clai
borne, 263.
N.s essay on chemistry, 347.
Genius, on the idleness of, 53, 59.
Geography ofCaraccas, 66, 74.

Good conscience, 76.
Gout, cure for, 48.
207.
Letter from A. Gsllatin to the collector of the cus

toms, 223.
Ms. criticism on Momus, jun. 142

M., remarks of, 155,
My adventures, 116, 132.
Nashville, prosperity of,)8

Nuptial ceremonies, 8.
Nobodys reply to Somebody, 69
Novels, 109.
0. Madame, anecdote of, 295.
Ornithology, American, 64.
Lettcrlfrom John Rhea to the secretary of state, 272.
Grammatical smoaking, S75.

(irisken, Obadiah, communication of, 238,
Grummet, captain, to Dr. Fungus, 134, 229, 397.
Letter from the convention of West Florida to the

governor of the Mississippi territory, 279.
Letter from Mr. Smith to governor Holmes, 280.
Letters on serious subjects,10, 18, 27, 35, 42, 50, 58,
Howard, John, sketch ofthe life of, 153, 161.

Hampton, general \Vacle, his generosity to the
citizens of Charleston, 224-.
Harmony, Sacred, 35, 100, 126, 150, 197, 213, 255,
260, 284i, 315, 389.
Murder, Remarkable discovery of, 316, 2324.

Murder, dreadful, 407.
Parabolic lens, remarkably large, 239.
Patent gates, 112.

Peas. The shells of green peas make an excellent
soup, 6.
Levity and light reading, 4-4, 59.
Penn, \VilliamJife of, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81, 89.
Linegar, Dr. anecdote of, 311.
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, sketch of thelife of-v
Linnean society, proposition of, 104.

Literary curiosity, 28.
Literary intelligence, 48, 30, 224, 240, 280, 287, 320,
305.
Petition of the widows and spinstcrs, 68.
Philosophical apparatus for the use of the university
of Pennsylvania, 248.
Pious rogue, a fragment, 295.
Pleasure ofpaying debts, 215.
Poetry, the origin and true use of, 34, 42.
Heiress of Sobeiski, 83, 90, 98, 106, 114, 122, 130,
Loommew invented, 239. '
138, 146, 154, 162, 170,178, 186,194, 202, 210,

218, 226, 224, 242, 250, 258, 266, 274-, 282.
Ilelps for memory, 115.
Herminius, 316, 355.
Herminins in reply to Censor, 189.
Looking glass for a slander-er, 343.

Luxury, 413.
llerminius on capital punishments, 228.
Manufactory, American millstone, 96.
Hindoos, nuptial ceremonies among thc,.8.

llindoos, superstition of, 179.
lltrgauth, anecdote of, 8.
Manufacture of china in the United States, 111.
Macklin and Dr. Johnson, anecdote of, 13-
Porcelain, American, 240.
Man to man, 327.
Preacher, country, account of a, 398, 405.

Preliminary observatiohs,1, 9.
Presidents message, 253.
Proclamation of the president of the United States,
h'lanufactures, chemical, 104.
Manufactures, domestic, report on, 1, 14, 22, 31, 40,

223, 264.
47, 55, 63, 71, 79.
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Holt, justice, anecdote of, 303,
Maria Louisa of Austria, description of her person, lutmah, general, israel,'life of, 177, 185, 193, 201,
florid brutality, 416.
House of-rcpresentativcs, proceedings of,- 4,'263. >
209, 225, 233, 241.
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Margaretta, communication from, 27.
Marlborough, duke of, life of the, 377, 385, 393. 1 Rapid settlement, 192.
Idleness ofgenius, 53, 59.
improvement in the art of weaving, 328.
Marriages, 6, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 96, 111, Redman; John, memoirs of the life and character of,
1 19, 128, 160, 175, 164, 192, 200, 207. 215, 225,.
9, 17.
tndians, American, 28, 367.
232, 239, 262, 270, 277, 295, 304, 320, 828, 352, Reeves, Miss, murder of, 215.
Interesting calculation, 109.
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392, 400.
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. Reflection, temple of, 332, 339, 365, 373.
Invention, useful, 4-08.
Inventions, satire on, 302.
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Maxims, 15, 37, 45, 59, 61, 101, 115, 125, 143, 164, Reector, 364, 370.
i 186, 246,268, 301, 317, 322, 348, 354, 368, 386. Religion, scoing at, 360.
Iron architecture, Dysterian, 63
Medal awarded to Dr. John Stearns, 344-.
Religion, the wickedness of scepticism in, 166.
.lerusalem destroyed, 334-.
Medical Lyceum, gold medal o'ered by, 6.
Remarable occurrence, 294,
Justice, 84-.
Memory, helps for, 115.
Remarks on Mr. Pinkncys correspondence with
Juvenile productions, 92.
Merino sheep, description of, 6.
the marquis \Vellesley, 31.
\iessagc of the president of the United State, 253.
Remarks on the Due de Codores letter to'gcneml
Kine puck, 48.
Message of the governor of Pennsylvania, 263.
Armstrong, 38.
Meteor, extraordinary, 344.
Millstone manufactory, American, 96,
Report on domestic manufactures, 1, 14-, 22, 31,
Laurel Hill, critique on, 156, 173, 181
Law Andrew, on l'hilo Madan, 301.
Milton,John, life of, 345, 353, 361.
Report of the secretary of the treasury, 270
Laws of the United States, list of, 15
Mineral spring discovered, 104-.
Riches, 147.
Legal pun, 109.

Letter from Robert Fulton respecting Torpedoes, 3.
Letter from Somebody to Nobody, 44-.
Letter from Francis Fungus, u, n, to Nobody,
Somebody, Anybody, and Everybody in the
practice ofiduelling, 73.
Modesty, communication from,150.
Ridge road or natural turnpike, 322.
Momus, jun. life of, 148, 187.

Montgomery, general, memoirs of, 289, 297.
Risible, Ralph, to the Public, 268.
4o, 47, 55, 63, 71, 79.
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Rittenhouse, David, biography of, 25, S3, 41.
Moral thermometer, 319.
Robber, the, 367.
Murder of Miss Reeves, 215

Murder of a Prusian soldier, 311.
Robbery, 277.
INDEX TO THE PROSE.
Sacred Harmony, 85, 100, 126, 150, 197, 213, 253,

260, 2% 315, 389.
Sonnas, 296.
Stackelberg, count, anecdote of, 223
University otPcimsylvania. philosophical apparatus
Q.mre or inventions, 302.
Steiu'ns, Dr- John, prize medal awarded to, 344-.

Superstition ofthe Hindoos, 179.
Surprise, e'ects of, 327.
Useful invention, 408;
Sange canibals, island of, 221.

Scepticism in religion, the wickedness of, 166.
Science. 101.
Seotng at religion, 360.
Secretary of the treasury. report of, 270.
Selector, 205, 212, 220, 229, 235, 244, 268, 292i 307,
317, 323, 330, 339, 364, 371, 381.
Sententions admonisher, 155.
Serious subjects, letters on, 10, 18, 27, 35, 42, 50,
58.
Sing'uhr case, 239.
Silgular anecdote, 310.
Slander, looking glass for, 343.
Smith, John, life of, 97, 105, 113, 121, 129, 137, 145.
Smyrna, extract of a letter from, 119.
Snake, enormous, destroyed, 358
Sobeiski, Heiress of, 83, 90, 98, 106, 114, 12), 130,
Sweet accommodation, 372.
for the use of, 348.
Venet, aneodote of, 583.
Vesuvius, mount, eruption of, 239.

Vineyards, American, 296.
Tanning, new art of, 239

Taste, 35, 245.
Vladimir the great, 7.
Taste, genius and, contrasted, 27.
Voltaire, anecdote of, 8.
Temple of reection, 332. 339, 365, 37.3.

Theological institutions, 31;").
The Public, 262
Thermometer, moral, 319.
Thou must die, 60.
Through nature we look up to natures God, 150.

Thuring, anecdote of, 112
Virtue, 75.
War, on the iniquity of, 196.

Weaving, important improvement in the art of, 328.
\Veekly reections, 100, 107, 116, 123, 131, 149,
163,174, 188, 198.

\Vest Florida, 290, 298.
\Vife, character of a good, 342.
Times, change of, 231.
Witches, reality of, 231
Tis not. the tincture of the skin, 342.
\Vl1at will this world come to, 125, 139
Torments of avarice, 327.
138, 146, 154-, 162, 170, 178. 186, 194, 202, 210, Tornado, 6.
218, 226, 234, 242, 250, 258, 266, 274, 282. Torpedoes, letter from Robert Fulton respecting, 3.
'Irochaic, Jack, life of, 205, 213, 2377 252, 260, 284-,
Sobrius in reply to N. 94.
300, 308.
Somebodys letter to Nobody, 44-.
K. in reply to N. 93.
Yankee stratagem, 327.
INDEX TO THE POETRY

ACRMTIC. 334.
Adam, description of, 358.

Address to the Tiber, 30
Address to captain Grummet, 118.
Address of the carriers, 285.
Epitaph, 152, 327.

Epitaph on Dr. Beattie, 310.
Esther, 78.
Evening, 38.
Exile, 191.
Ilium 1,1, 340.

Almshouse, lines on visiting, 87.
Faded rose, 46.
Alphonso to Miss Hannah Lh, 110.

Amator to Miss
, 95.
Anniversary of American independence, verses
written by Edward Rushton, on the, 63,
Folly of Atheism, 326.

Fourth of July, song for, 69.
My dog, 333.
Fox chase, 374-.
Friend, stanzas on the loss of a, 7.
Answer to charades, 78, 167.
Am and peacock, 261.

Atheism,folly of, 326.
Mankind, view of, 110.

Marshall, epig-ram from, 46.
Mary queen of Scotts, verses by, 46.
Mary queen oi'Scotts, Latin prayer by, 46.
Meditations, 167, 206, 230, 286.
\Melancholy, ode to, 332.
Midnight wanderer, 349.
Moral reections, 158.
Friendship, 94-.
Fungus, Dr. to Glormon, 54.
Balad stanzas, 310.
Generous negro, 357.

Glormon to Dr. Fungus, 46, 69.
Beanie, Dr. epitaph on, 310.

Bible, the, 87.
Blattleburg-h and Palmira, 293.
Gregory Gravity to Peter Peaceable, 406
Grants prize poem, 334.
My father is at the helm, 365.

Myself, address to Miss 81, 86.
Night mare, 19s

Ode to new year, 287.
Ode to melancholy, 332.
Ode by Peter Peaceable, 374.
On the death of M. H. K. 126.
On Peter Peaceables having turned poet, 365.
Original charades, 30, 95
Harp, 54, 62, 69, 102, 110.

Caustic, Clementine, to Glormon, 94.
Caustic, Clementina, to captain Grummet, 118, 247.

Clustic, Clementina, to \Valter \Viggle, 383, 406.
Chaplet, 20, 30, 38, 46, 62, 68, 214.
Charades, original, 30, 95.
Henry and Amelia, 175.

Hermit, 127.
Hope, 183.
Human life, 327.
Hymns, 262, 318, 333, 391.
Patriotic, 199.
Perrin and Lauretta, or virtue rewarded, 135.

Phoenix and the owl, 135.
Clumdes, answers to, 78, 167.
Cobler, the dead, 327.

Contemplatist, 238.
Contrast, 110, 127, 174.
Orlando to Amyntor, 102.

Osmonds dream, 95.
Ill habits, 383.
lnstructive lesson, 13.
Poetic selector, 310, 333, 34-0, 365, 374-.

Poetical ight, 333.
Prize poem, Grants, 334.
Isabella, on, 214.

Cow, 246.
Query, 319.
Death of the righteous, 103.
Della Lira to S. 95.
Description of a day spent on the west banks ofthe
Schuylkill, 102
Description of Adam, 358.
Dew drop, 325.
Jeu DEsprit, 20.

Jew, the, or the ruling passion, 20.
John ofGaunte, singular last will and testament of,
391.
Quid of tobacco, 269.
Reections of a solitary wanderer, 102, 111,118,

126, 134, 143, 190, 206, 222, 261, 286, 302,
34.9, 390.
Latin prayer by Mary queen of Scotts, 46.
Laura, or yes and no, 399.
Reections tear, 119.
Laurel Hill, 118, 127, 14s.
Reections, moral, 158.

Religion, 190.
Disappointment, 247.
Dmnkard, the, 119.
Lesson, an instructive, 13.
Religion, sonnet to, 110.
Eclipse of the sun, 302.

Edmund and Delia, 231.
Edwin and Emma, 87.
Ellculation on tho millennium, 191.

Eli'giac lines on the death of captain Grummets
boy Jack, 152.
Flegiac sonnet, 199, 294, 325.
Liberty, a dithyrambic ode for the fourth of July,

69.
Lines to a lady,with a song, 13.
Retirement, 333.
Lines by Alphonso, 54
Lines on reading Harveys Meditations, 86.
Lines on visiting the Almshouse, 87.
Lines by Harmonica, 391.
Lines to J. P. L-c, 391.
mil? 0n the death of a friend, 191.
, Pismn from Marshall, 46.
Resignation, 214-.
Response, 309.
Righteous, death of the, 103
Rose, the, 46.
Rose, faded, 45.

Rural poetry, 175.
Rural reections, 269.
Linns Valerian, 7.
Rushton, Edward, Verses written by, for the anni
Lyre, the, 110.
versary of the American independence, 53

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INDEX TO THE POETRY.
Sabbath, 302.
Sailor boy, 414-.
Stanzas by Florenzo, 357.
To a hand organ, 319.
Stanzas to Maria, 373.
To Mary on the death of her mother, 325.
Saracen, 157.
Stanzas by Lotharia, 399.
To Amicus, 325.
Satire, 199. 230, 309, 326, 850,366, 382.

Schuylkill, description of a day spent on the west
bank of the, 102.
Stanzas by Arouet, jr- 4145
To Octavian, 326.
Storm, the, 70.
To Miss Maria Kr, 333.
Society, on, 77.
Tiber, address to the, 30.
To Rebecca, 365.
Soliloquy on death, 135.
Theatrical, 358.
Solitary wanderer, reections of, 102, 111, 118, 126,
To Miss -, 38, 95.
T0 Mary, 366.
To my father, 372.
134, 143. 190, 266, 222, 261, 286, 302, 349,390.

Solitude, 414.
Song for the fourth of July, 69.

Song by Katy, 70.
Sonnet by Rockingham, 62.
Sonnet to Amynwr, 86.
Sonnet to religion, 110.
Sonnet by Alonzo, 111.
Sonnet by Julio Averard, 183.
Sonnct to hope, 373.
Set, 247.
Southampton canal, 302.
Sportsnun, the, 78
Stanzas on the loss of a friend, 7.
To Julio, 365.
To My,4-5. Reply, ib.

To a young lady, 38, 46, 54.
To a friend, with a copy of the wandwer of Swill
To Amelia, 46.
To health, 390
To Miss Ad, 62.
Trzuiquillity, 340.
To my sister, 78.
Traveller, 398.
To Ophelia, 78.
Tribute of glory, 366.

Triumph of grace, 238.
To Della Lira, 86.
zerland, 374.
To Glormon, 54, 94-, 318.

To Dr. Fungus, 46, 69.
Valerian, Linns, 7.
To S. 59.
To Amyntor, 102.
To the memory of Mr. J. Holderness, 110.
To Miss Hannah 1411, 110.
Verses by Mary queen of Scottsti

Verses by Buckingham, 77.
Verses by Cesario, 95.
To my infant daughter, 15.].
Verses addressed to Miss H. 8-, 214

Verses on the death ofW. P.,231
Verses by Valerian, 238.
Verses written on the rst leaf of a bible, 334.
View of mankind, 110.
Virtue, 70.
Vision in hell, 399.
Verses addressed to a human skeleton, 2V].
Stanzas mitten in retirement under a willow tree,
To Celia, 152.
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Stanzus on the death of master John Averly, 78.
hunzas imitated from Moore, 86.
Stanzas to Eliza, 199.
To Esther, 199.
To a ower plucked from the tomb of Hamlet, 276.
To Ralph Risible, esq- 277, 294.
To a y, 287.
To the readers and correspondents ofthe Repertory,
294.
Slanzas to Walter Scott, 269,
To Miss M. Rl, 309.
Stanzas to Glormon, 293.

Stanzas by Herminius, 340.
Stanza-us by Montaldo, 350.
To Homer, 318.
Wiggle, Walter, to Clementina Caustic, 390, 414
To Orlando, 318.
To Winter, 318.
Winter thoughts, 357.
tanzas by Thaddeus, 102.

Stanzss by Orlando, 126, 167, 183, 214-, 231, 246, 294
\Vanderer, 276.
Wounded lark, 851.
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four dollars per annum, payable quarterly
produce that which is excellent in its kind; taking so meritorious and laudable, the as
but he must continually vary the matter and sistance and support of men of talents and in advance.
At the close of the year will be presented
manner of his lucubrations: he must, to a leisure, in every part of the union, are re
a
title
page and index, with at least one hand
certain degree, be all things to all men. The spectfully solicited, and condently expect
some engraving.
serious, the gay, the learned, and the un ed.
Subscriptions and communications, post
learned, not only expect that their tastes
Information respecting the progress of the
paid,
will be thankfully received.
will be studied and their inclinations grati useful arts, and improvements in agricul
ed; but even the same individual becomes
ture and manufactures, will be collected from
dissatised with a long course of the same

species of entertainment: he hopes to be
delighted and surprised: he must nd vari
every quarter.
LETTER,
From the Secretary of the Treasury,
The proceedings of our national council
and state legislatures will be carefully exa Transmitting a report, in part, on the sub
ety in those productions which are meant to mined; and a compend of the same will be
ject of American manufactures; prepared
be instructive, and novelty in those which presented to the public.
in obedience to a resolution of the house
are designed for amusement.
of representatives.
The Editor will extract the most interest
How the Editor will execute the duties of
ing portion of foreign intelligence, especial
Tnensunr DEPARTMENT,
his employment, time will discover: he is
ly that which is any way connected with our
Alzril 17M, 1810.
not disposed to boast of his education, to
own country, and prepare, weekly, a con
SirIn obedience to the resolution of
make a parade of his abilities, or to seduce
densed narrative for the Philadelphia Reper the house, I have the honor to transmit a
the public with a multiplicity of specious
report, in part, on the subject of American
promises. It is too common for the authors tory.
Biography
shall
hold
a
place in this pa manufactures.
'
of periodical works to undertake innitely
Some important information has been ob
more than they are able to perform: they per. No species of writing is more agreea
ble, and there is none so eminently useful: tained; but is in general partial and defec
engage to blend inotruction with entertain
menl; to mix the utile with the dulce; to cull
ower: from the gay [tartar-res of literature;
it enables us, in the voyage of life, to avoid
tive; and it would have been desirable that
those shoals and breakers, on which preced

ing navigators have made shipwreck; it en
courages us to emulate the actions of the
virtuous and the wise; and it urges us for
ward in the paths of honorable ambition.
American characters shall have the prefer
ence; but those of other countries and dis
tant ages shall not be excluded.
Religion and morality are the great pil
lars of national prosperity: fully convinced
of the truth of this position, religious and
the report might have been delayed till the

next session.
Permit me to observe, that the approach
ing census might afford an opportunity to
obtain detailed and correct information on
that subject; provided that the deputy mar
shals were directed by congress to collect it,
and to make return in such form as would
be prescribed.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Sir, your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
and to make their publication one continued

"rite of delights. But, alas! their knowledge
is generally exhausted, and their talents worn
out, in nding charms for their introductory
essay, and giving a aming brilliaucy to a
taking prospectus!
The Editor is determined not to subject
himself to accusations of the nature above
mentioned: and, although he feels a consi
derable portion of diidence, he would have
it fully understood that he expects and de moral essays, namely, such as are calculated
sires to be judged by his works. One thing, to give stability to virtue, and preserve the
however, he condently promises: the most purity and simplicity of our manners, will
assiduous and persevering industry will be nd a welcome admittance.
Essays on scientic and entertaining sub
exerted to render this paper worthy of the
patronage which he hopes it will experi jects, poetry, merriment, wit and humour,
ence, and to preserve it from the fate of many will form a pleasing variety.
Each paper will contain a list of marria
preceding publications.
The Editor has long thought that it would ges and deaths; and, in compliment to the
The honorable the Speaker of the

House of Reresmmtives.
REPORT.
bThe secretary of the treasury, in obedience
to the resolution of the house of repre
sentatives, respectfully submits the fol
lowing report, in [181], on the subject of

domestic manufactures:
The following manufactures are carried
be an acceptable service to present the pub
ladies, the fashions will
lic with a paper in which DOMESTIC INTEL

Licsxcr. should be considered as of prima
given.
on to an extent, which may be considered
Finally, The Philadelphia Reertory shall adequate to the consumption of the United
not be a receptacle for party politics or per- u States; the foreign articles annually impor:
ry importance; and in which should be care
be occasionally
>2
m_
ed, being less in value than those of Ame

rican manufacture belonging to the same ge
ther and of Morocco, are still imported;

but about 350,000 lbs. of American leather
680,000 pounds of brown soap, and 50,000

pounds of Windsor and fancy soap, with a pro
t, it is said, of 15 per centum on the capital
employed.
neral class, which are annually exported are annualfy exported. The bark is abun
viz. Manufactures of wood, or of which d-Jht and cheap; and itseems by the annex
wood is the principal material. Leather and? ed communication marked(A), thathides cost
The animal ifnport'ation of foreign manu
manufactures of leather. Soap and taliow {in AmeriCa ve and a half cents, in England facture, are candles 158,000 pounds, soap
candles. Flaxseed oil. Rened sugar. Coarse seven cents a pound; that the bark used for 470,000 pounds.
earthen Ware. Snuff, chocolate, hair powder tanning, costs in England nearly as much
The annual cxportations ofdomestic manu
as the hides, and in America not one tenth facture are candles 1,775,000 pounds, soap
and mustard.
The following branches are rmly estab part of that sum. It is at the same time ac 2,222,000 lbs.
The annual value manufactured in the
lished, supplying in several instances the knowledged that much American leather is
greater and in all a considerable part of the brought to market of an inferior quality, and United States, and including the quantity
consumption of the United Statesviz. Iron that better is generally made in the middle made in private families for their own use,
and manufactures of iron. Manufactures of than in the northern or southern states. cannot be estimated less than eight million:
cotton wool and ax. Hats. Paper, printing The tanneries of the states of Delaware of dollars.
S/zermaceri Oil and Candles;
types, printed books, playing cards. Spirit employ collectively a Capital of one htuidred
The establishments for this manufacture
ous and malt liquors. Several manufac and twenty thousand dollars, and ninety
tures of hemp. Gunpowder. \Vindow glass. workmen, and make annually 100,000 doi are at-Nantucket and N ewliedford in Massa
Jewelry and clocks. Several manufactures lars worth of leather. Those of Baltimore ehusetts, and at Hudson in New York. Be
of lead. Straw bonnets and hats. Wax can amotlut to twenty two, seventeen of which sides supplying the whole of the domestic
have together a capital of 117,000 dollars consumption, they furnished annually, for ex
dies.
Progress has also been made in the fol and tan annually 153.000 hides, and 251000 portion to foreign countries, 20,000 pounds
of candles and 44,000 gallons of oil. The
lowing branchesviz. Paints and colors, calf skins.
several chemical preparations and medicinal
Morocco is also made in several places, whole quantity annually manufactured a
mounted to about 300,000 dollars. But the
drugs, salt, manufaCtures of copper and brass, partly from imported goat skins. and prin
japanned and plated ware, calico printings, cipally from sheep skins. And it may be pro exclusion from foreign markets has lately af
queens and other earthen and glass wares, per here to add. that deer skins. which form fected the manufacture.
Rayined Sugar.
an article of exportation, are dressed and
Stc.
The annual importations of foreign ren
Many articles, respecting which no infor manufactured in the United States to the
mation has been received, are undoubtedly amount required for the consumption ofthe ed sugar amount, for the years 1808 to 1801
to 47,000 lbs.
>
omitted; arid the subStance of the informa
country.
The
annual
exportation
of
American
ren~
tion obtained on the most important branches,
The principal manufactures of leather
is comprehended under the following heads: are those of shoes and boots, harness and ed sugar amount, for the same years, to
Wood and Manulrturea of lVood.
saddles. Some inconsiderable quantities 01
All the branches of this manufacture are the two last articles are both imported .-.nd
carried to a high degree of perfection, sup
ply the whole demand of the United States,
and consist principally of cabinet ware and
other household furniture, coaches and car
riages, either for pleasure or transportation,

and ship building.
The ships and vessels above twenty tons
burthen, built in the United States, during
The than existing duty was, in the year
exported. The annual importation of fo
1801, collected on 8,827,000 pounds; and as
reign boots and shoes, amounts to 3250
the manufacture has kept pace with the in

crease of population, the quantity now annu
pair of boots, and 59,000 pair of shoes.

principally kid and morocco. The annual
exportation of the same articles of Ameri
can manufacture. to 8.500 pair of boots and
127,000 pair of shoes.
The shoe manufac
tories of New Jersey are extensive. That of

the years 1801 a 1807, measured 774,922 Lynn, in Massachusetts, makes 100,000
tons, making on an average about 110,000 pair of women's shoes annually.
tons a year, and worth more than six millions
The value of all the articles annually ma
nufactured in the United States, which are
of dollars a year.
Under this head may also be mentioned embraced under this head (leather) may be
pot and pearl ash, of which besides supply estimated at twenty millions of dollars.
ing the internal demand, 7400 tons are annu
150,000 lbs.
ally made may be estimated at ve millions

of pounds, Worth one million of dollars. Till
capital employed is stated at three million!

and a half of dollars: and as the establisiv
ments have increased in number, some of
them have declined in business. it is believed

that if a drawback, equivalent to the duty
paid on the importation of the brown sugar

used in the rened sugar exported, was again
allotved, the foreign demand, particularly of
Russia, would give a great extension to this
branch. A special report has been made on

that subjeCt to the committee of commerce
A great portion of the soap and candles and manufactures.
Son/i and Teller Candles.
ally exported.
used in the United States is a family manu
Leather and Manufactures QfLcallzer.
Cotton, "00! and Flax.
Tanneries are established in every partd facture. But there are also several establish
1. Spinning mills and manufacturing establishmentl.
of the United States, some of them on a very ments on an extensive scale in all the large
The rst cotton mill was erected in the
large scale; the capital employed in asingle cities and several other places. Those ofthe state of Rhode island, in the year 1791; an
establishment amounting to one hundred village of Roxbury near Boston, employ alone other in the Same state in the year 1795, and
thousand dollars. A lbw hides are exported, a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, two more in the state of Massachusetts, in
and it is stated that 'one third of those used and make annually 370,000 pounds candles, the years 1803 and 1804. During the three
in the great tanneries of the Atlantic states,
' Unless otherwise stated, the importations and succeeding years ren more were erected or
are imported from Spanish America. Some expOrtations are in this report taken on the average commenced in Rhode'lsland, and one in Com
superior or particular kinds of English lea of the years 1806 and 1807
necticut, making altogether 1'5 mills erect
PHILADELPHIA R EPERTORY.
3
w
ed before the year 1808, working at that time
the details of one of the establishments, as fur
about eight thousand spindles, and producing

about three hundred thousand pounds of yarn
ayear.
Returns have been received of eighty
seven mills which were erected at the end
of the year 1809; sixty two of which (48
water and 14 horse mills,) were in operation,
and worked at that time thirty one thousand
spindles. The other twenty five will all be in
operation in the course of this year, and to
gether with the former ones (almost all of
which are increasing their machinery,) will,
nishcd by the proprietors.

The seventeen mills in the state of Rhode
Island, included in the table
which were
in operation, and worked 14,290 spindles in
the year 1809, are also stated to have used
during that year 640,000 pounds of cotton,
which produced 510,000 lbs. of yarn; ofwhich
124,000 lbs. were sold for thread and knitting,
200,000 lbs. were used in manufactures at
tached to, or in the vicinity of the mills; and
the residue was either sold for wick, and for
the use of family manufactures, or exported
to other parts. Eleven hundred looms are said

to be employed in weaving the yarn spun by
those millsinto goods, principally of the fol
lowing descriptions, viz.
nufacture on the best terms, is estimated at Bed ticking, sold at 55 to 90 cents per yard.
do.
the rate of one hundred dollars for each spin Stripes and checks, 30 to 4.2 do.
40 to 50 do.
do.
dle; including both the fixed capital applied Ginghams,
to the purchase of the mill seats, and to the Cloth for shirts and
sheeting,
35 to 75 do.
do.
construction of the mills and machinery, and
that employed in wages, repairs, raw mate Counterpanes, at 8 dollars each.
Those several goods are already equal in
rials, goods on hand and contingencies. But
it is believed that no more than at the rate of appearance to the English imported articles
sixty dollars for each spindle is generally ac of the same description, and superior in dura
tually employed. Forty ve pounds of cotton, bility; and the rm-hing is still improving.
worth about 20 centsa pound, are on an ave The proportion of fine yarns is also increas
rage annually used for each spindle; and these ing.
produce about thirty six pounds of yarn of
The same articles are manufactured in
different qualities, worth on an average one several other places, and particularly at Phila
dollar and twelve and a half cents a pound. delphia, where are also made from the same
Eight hundred spindles employ forty. persons, material, webbing and coach laces, (which
viz. five men and thirty ve women and chil articles have also excluded, or will soon ex
by the estimate received, work more than
eighty thousand spindles at the commence

ment of the year 1811.
The capital required to carry on the ma
dren. On those data, the general results for
clude similar foreign importations,) table and
the year 181 1, are estimated in the following

table.
other diaper cloth, jeans, vest patterns, cotton

kerseymeres and blankets. The manufacture
of fustians, cords and velvet, has also been
_ Mills.
No.
87
Spindles.
No.
amplfjc',
Dollars.
4.800.000
Pounds.
3.630.000
Cotton
usvd-
80 000
TibThoooo
Pounds
2.880000
Ym SP vnni"|
3.240.000
__"
Men. l
Persons
women
emplgyed'
chfidgen.
500
commenced in the interior and western parts

of Pennsylvania, and in Kentucky.
Some of the mills above mentioned are
also employed in carding and spinning wool,
though not to a considerable amount. But al
most the whole of that material is spun and
wore in private families; and there are yet
but few establishments for the manufacture
of woollen cloths. Some information has, how
3,500
ever, been received respecting fourteen of

these, as stated in the table __(E.)manufactur
The increase of carding and spinning of ing each, on an average, ten thousand yards
cotton by machinery, in establishments for of cloth a year, worth from one to ten dollars
that purpose, and exclusively of that done in a yard. It is beiieved that there are others
_'Iotal. '121005
private families, has therefore been fourfold
from which no information has been Obtained;
during the two last years, and will have been and it is known that several establishments,
tenfold in three years. The table (B.) shows on a smaller scale, exist in Philadelphia, Bal
the situation and extent of those several mills, timore, and some other places. All those
and that although the greater number is in cloths, as well as those manufactured in pri
the vicinity of Providence in Rhodelsland, vate families, are generally superior in quali
they are scattered and extended throughout ty, though somewhat inferior in appearmice,
all the states. Those situated within thirty to imported cloths of' the same price. The
miles of Providence, are exhibited in the ta principal obstacle to the extension of the
blc ((3.) and the statement marked (1).) gives manufacture is the Want of wool, which is
still decient both in quality and quantity. But

those defects are daily and rapidly lessened,
by the introduction of sheep of the merino
and other superior breeds, by the great de
mand for the article, and by the attention
now every where paid by farmers to the in

crease and improvement of their flocks.
Manufacturing establishments for spinning
and weaving flax, are yet but few. In the
state of New York, there is one which em
ploys a capital of 18,000 dollars, and twenty

six persons, and in which about ninety thou
sand pounds of flax are annually spun and
wove into canvas and other coarse linen. In
formation has been received respecting two
in the vicinity of Philadelphia, one of which
produces annually 72,000 yards of canvas,
made of ax and cotton; in the other, the ax
is both hackled and spun by machinery, thir

ty looms are employed; and it is said, that
500,000 yards of cotton bagging, sail cloth
and coarse linen, may be made annually.
Hosiery may also be considered as almost
exclusively a household manufacture. That
of Germantown has declined, and it does not
appear to have been attempted on a large

scale in other places. There are, however,
some exceptions; and it is stated that the
island of Marthas Vineyard exports annually
nine thousand pair of stockings.
(To be continued.)
-.v.
TORPEDOES.
To the lllembcrs of Congress who voted in
zvor of the Torjzedo Bill.
Gentlemen,
Being informed that you have wished to

see the experiments previous to the rising
of congress on the 23d inst. I beg leave to
state to you my reasons why they could not
be made in asatisfactory manner in so short
a time as from the passing of the bill to the
adjournment of your body this spring. There
are not many gentlemen who doubt that a
torpedo will blow up a ship of any size or
strength, provided it can be got under her
bottom. But many are of opinion that by
means of booms, spars, ropes, chains or
nets, a vessel may be so guarded, that a tor

pedo or torpedoes cannot be got under her.
It is therefore interesting that those and
other modes of defence which may be dis
covered, should be put to the test of expe
riment: For this purpose time must be given
to collect from the officers of the navy their
several plans of defence, and if any embar
rassing obstructions should be contrived, I
must have time to see if I can devise means
to destroy them or avoid them, in sending

the torpedoes under the bottom of the ship.
As I cannot foresee all the obstacles which
may be presented, or judge of the time no
4
A.
PHI Lanai-ram
REPERTORY.
j
cessary to overcome them, the experiments

should be commenced in a satisfactory and
not defend her: for she cannot put out a suf

cient number to contend with 30 or 40 tor
The following are the proceedings of the

last day of the session. Our limits will not
permit us to go further back: nor is it ne
systematic manner, so as to secure a fair
pedo boats. That the fire from her cannon
investigation, and a necessary experiment

on every plan ofdefence and attack. As such
and small arms cannot protect her has cessary, as the transactions have not, latterly,
been proved by hundreds of instances of been of great importance, being principally
boarding vessels from boats, where the dan
private petitions.
details may require a whole summer, and

should have the advantage of good weather,
I have proposed to the secretary of the navy
ger was much greater than it can be in har

pooning, and by examples of valor in taking
the following mode of proceeding. First,
redoubts or fortications by storm. If all other
that the investigations and experiments on
difculties be surmounted, the experiment

of positive attack must be left to a time of
actual war. You will perceive that to do jus
tice to the experiments, some months may
be required; that consequently they could
not be performed during the present session
obstructions, defence and attack, be made
in the harbor of New York, in which city 1

can have the aid of my own workmen to
construct machinery. Second, that a com
mittee be appointed of the following gentle
men: Messrs. Oliver Wolcott and Cadwala
der Colden of this city, gentlemen of fede

ral politics; chancellor Livingston and go
vernor Lewis of this state, republicans; co
lonel Williams of the engineers, Mr. Gar

net and Dr. Kemp. mathematicians; gentle
men of such high respectability and ac
knowledged talents, penetrate to truth, and
make a report which should satisfy all par
ties. That commodore Rodgers and such
ofcers of the navy as the secretary of the
navy will please to name, and can with con
venience, will attend the committee to state
their modes of defence. That a circular

letter be addressed to the principal ofcers
of the navy, requesting from them memoirs
and plans of the measures they would adopt
to defeat attacks with torpedoes while ves
sels are at anchor or under sail. The ob
jections being received, shall be examined
before the committee, and such as require
it shall be proved by experiment; if after the

combinations of ropes, chains, booms, spars,
nets, Ste. have been investigated and expe
rimented, it shall appear that I Can defeat all
they may deem a most effectual resistance,

that they anchor her and put out their nets
or booms, or put her under weigh, back her,
or ll her at pleasure, and I believe I shall
show in all cases the torpedo will go under

her, and that it shall not fail to blow her up.
If i succeed to defeat all precautions before
mentioned, it follows that the ship will have
A message was received lrom the presi

dent, in compliance with the call of yester
day, with documents, of which the following
are the most material:

In pursuance of the resolution of the
house of representatives of yesterday, the
secretary of state has the honor to transmit
of congress. It is justice due to your libera to the president of the United States the
lity, and a duty which I owe to the nation accompanying papers, marked, A. B. C. D.
and to the arts, that nothing maybe left un E. F.
.
No information has been received that
done which may lead to a fair investigation
of the power of torpedoes. I have never any communication has been made to our
wished the government to adopt them as a minister at London on the part of the Bri
means of defence until their utility shall be tish government in answer to any note
proved by satisfactory experiment. My presented by him in pursuance of instruc
whole time and attention are now directed tions given on the 23d of November, 1809.
to ways and means to secure success. And
No answers have been given to the pro
I have the pleasure to inform you that every positions or overtures, made on the part of
plan of booms, chains, nets, Ste. which I the U. S. to the governments of G. Britain
have yet seen, instead of being obstructions and France, respecting any of the orders
will by a new combination on my part, and decrees affecting neutral commerce,"
really facilitate my operations, and enable which have not been heretofore, or which
me to destroy a vessel with much less risk are not herewith communicated. All which
of my men than if she had no such tackle. is respectfully submitted.
l have thought proper to mention my having
R. SMITH.
made such improvements, that gentlemen Dc/mrrment of State.
opposed to the system may exert themselves
[Way I, 1810.
to devise means of defence, and I shall feel Cally qfa letter from Gen. .drmstrong to Air.
much obliged to those who will have the
Pin/racy, dated Paris, Jan. 25, 1810.
goodness to send me their objections or
Sin,
plans of defence, by drawing or letter, di
A letter from Mr. Secretary Smith of the
rected for me at New York. To this I hope

such precautions, and send the torpedoes there can be no objection, as all plans 01
under the bottom of the vessel, the report attack or defence which may be discovered
of the committee containing the plans, de must become public. I hope, gentlemen, to
tails and experiments, should be satisfactory lay before you in autumn such a report on
to congress, as far as relate to such means the experiment as will give you pleasure,
of defence, and it will be unnecessary to re and induce many good men who voted
peat them in the meeting of congress in against the bill, to become friends and advo
autumn. At which time I propose that a ves cates of the system.
ROBT. FULTON.
sel in the Potomac be put under the direc
tion of opponents to the system, for them
to load and strengthen in such manner as
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, May 1, 1810.
lst of December last, made it my .duty to

inquire of his excel. the duke of Cadore
what were the conditions on which his ma

jesty the emperor would annul his decree,
commonly called the Berlin decree, and
whether if G. Britain revoked her blockade:

of a date anterior to that decree, his majes
ty would consent to revoke the said decree?

To these questions I have, this day received
the following answer, which I hasten to com
vcy to you by a special messenger.

answna.
_
The only conditionl'reguired for the re
Ipbl'lallzlllbl',
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1810.
vocation by his majestylthe emperor of the

The Report on Domestic Manulactures decree of Berlin will be the previous revo
occupies a considerable portion of the rst cation by the British government of her
number of our paper; we shall continue it blockades of France, or part of France (such
in succeeding numbers to its conclusion. its as that from the Elbe to Brest, 81c.) of]!
importance, we conceive to be a sufcient date anterior to that of the aforesaid de
cree. I
i
V
apology, if apology be necessary, for giving
no other mode of defence than the re from
Mr. Macon
laidwould
on thecall
table
it a preference to miscellaneous matter or ,whichihe
said he
upa resolution,
the neit
her cannon and small arms; her boats can
foreign neWs.
l.
session of congress, providing that no se
rmor or representative after having taken
his seat, shall, during the time for which
he was elected, be eligible to any civil ap

pointment under the authority of the United
States, nor shall any person be eligible to
any such appointment until the expiration
of the presidential term, during which such
person shall have been a senator or repre
sentative."
Mr. Butler, from the committee appointed
to inquire into the conduct of general Wil
kinson, made a report, which, together with
the documents accompanying it, were or
dered to be printed.
The bill further to amend the census bill
was read a third time and passed.
The amendments of the senate to strike

out the 50 per cent. duty, were disagreed
to, and a committee appointed to confer with
the senate on the subject.
EVENING SESSION.
The bill from the senate prohibiting citi

zens of the United States from accepting
title of nobility, was ordered to a third read
ing and passed, ayes 87, noes 3.,
Macons commercial bill was passed,

with the provision for excluding British and
French armed vessels from our ports and
harbors, and authorising the president to

renew the non-intercourse against either
belligerent, in case the other shall revoke
its orders or decrees.

The lean bill was also nally passed, with
out the amendment respecting the bank
charter.
Session ended.
The president ofthc United States, with
the advice and consent of the senate, has ap
pointed the hon. Benjamin Howard, (member

of congress from Kentucky) governor of the
territory of Louisiana, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the much lament
ed Meriwether Lewis, esq.
The rev. and hon. Stanley Griswold, esq.
late a senator of the United States from the

state of Ohio, has been appoint.d by the Same
a judge of the Illinois territory.
_
Accounts have been received from Holland
_which state that Bonaparte had issued a de
cree ordering all the American property in
France to be conscated and sold, and thepro
duce to be vested in the imperial funds until
the nature of the relations between England

and the United States should be ascertained.
The letters add, that general Amisttong had

presented a romonstrance against this violent
measure, in which he declared, that he could
enter into no treaty, nor hold any intercourse
with the French government, until the pro
A letter from Amsterdam, of March l4,

which may be depended on, says, Accord
ing to the last advices from Hamburgh, they
were afraid American property would again
be put under sequestration; besides, a decree
was issued by the Danish government forbid

ding cx portations beyond the frontiers of Hol
stein, under very heavy penalties and impri
sonment. All trade is at a stand.
The American frigate John Adams was to
sail the 2lst of March for the United States.
It is generally believed among the American
merchants in England, that she carries out,for
approval and ratication if they be deemed

satisfactory, the provisional terms of adjust
ment supposed to be concluded between Mr.
Pinkney and marquis Wellesley. The frigate
sioned, it was expected Cadiz would hold
out for a long time against its besicgcrs.

It is said that Bonaparte was to be married
to the arehduchess of Austria on the 29th of
March. Splendid preparations were making
at Paris in honor of the occasion.

The Spanish council of regency, which,
from the urgency of the present state of all
fairs, has been formed by the supreme junta
of government, entered upon its functions on
the second of February. It consists of ve
members of the junta, the bishop of Orense,
president, don F. de Saavedra, don F. X. Cas

tanos, don A. Escana, and don E. F. de Leon.
The foreign journals still continue the re
ports of a misunderstanding between Russia

and France. Hamburgh gazettes to the 15th
February advise, that very formidable bodies

of
Russian troops are assembling along the
the best informed merchants suppose she will
take general Armstrong on board, in order Neimen and the Bog, and that a numerous
army, to he commanded by general Kutuzow,
to convey him home.
Dutch papers, received at the ofce of the is forming in Russian Poland." It is stated
Baltimore American by an arrival from Ton also, in the Hamburgh Correspondent, that
the greatest alarm and anxiety prevails
uingen, state, that Holland is preserved as
throughout the Polish territory, in conse
a kingdom, but that a new ministry was to be
quence of the extensive military preparations
formed, part of which is to be French. Han
over was formally annexed to the kingdom of of Russia, and that the communication be
tween the two countries had been in a great
Westphalia, and Jerome, by proclamation
measure suspended in consequence of an or
dated Cassel, March I, had taken possession
der from St. Petersburgh, directing that all
thereof.
letters to and from the grand duchy should
It was rumored at Vienna, on the tenth of
be opened and examined.
Boston Gaz.
March, that the archduke Joseph was to be
A letter from Liverpool, dated Sunday, Fe
king of Poland. The arrearagcs of the late
bruary ll, says, I write to apprize you of
contribution on Austria has been remitted to
one of the most calamitous events that has
the emperor by Bonaparte. The south of occurred in this town since the memory of
Tyrol is to be annexed to the kingdom of man. A charity sermon was to be preached
Italy.
at the old parochial church this morning,
An alliance between France, Austria and when about ten minutes before the usual time
Sweden is said to be about to take place, in of beginning the service, the steeple and six
order to draw a closer connexion of the con
bells fell, the former carrying the whole roof
tinental confederacy. Pomerania, it is Said, of the church with it, and buried in the ruins
will be restored to Sweden; Hannau and Ful a great part of the congregation that had al
da are to be annexed to the grand duchy of ready assembled. It is not yet know how
Frankfort; and the Bavarian army is to be put many people have perished, as the ruins are
upon the peace establishment.
not half removed; but about forty dead and
In January last the Turks were\ said to be mutilated bodies have already been extricat
raising a new army of 150,000 men. The Rus ed from them. The poor charity children, we
sians, as Reported, had advanced towards Si fear, have suffered most, as they were seated
listria and GriergieWs.
immediately under the centre of the roof. A
By a vessel which left Cadiz on the 22d of scene so afflicting I never beheld; the heart
March 'we learn that Cadiz still held out; that rending cries ofthe relatives of the dead and
the French army, under Joseph Bonaparte, those unfound, and the dreadful groans of the
consisted of about 50,000 men, and that the unhappy suerers, were too much for human
emperor Napoleon was shortly expected with nature to sustain. All the laborers, and many
a reinforcement of 50,000 more. The force tradesmen ofthe town, are digging in search
employed in its defence consisted of 22,000 of the sufferers; and Isuppose tomorrow we
Spaniards, 7000 British, and 4000 others were shall know the extent of our misfortune."
daily expected from England. There is a con
The following shocking catastrophes hap
siderable party in Cadiz in favor of the French, pened in Kingsbridge, Ireland, on the 27th
will, it is said, rst proceed to Havre, where
perty conscated was unconditionally restor
but it is almost certain death even to speak February last. A miller having employed a
Cd, and concluded by demanding passports.
the French language there. Being well proyi. butcher to kill some pigs for him, and having
left his knife behind, four children, who had

witnessed the operation, agreed to play at
kill-pig,- the youngest was to be pig, when
one of the others who acted the part of
butcher, stuck him in the throat and killed
him on the spot; the others, alarmed at what
they had done, ran into the adjoining mill and

hid themselves under the wheel, which was
not working at the time, but was set going

almost immediately afterwards, and crushed
them to death.
The island of Bossen, or Penguin, some
times called Seal Island, at the western ex
of this place, the last season, measured and

put up in cribs, upwards of eleven hundred
bushels of good corn, from eleven acres of
ground.
Mr. John Juhel of New York and Mr. John
P. Durand of Newark, have purchasedalarge
farm in the neighborhood of South Orange,
state of New Jersey, for the sole purpose of
stocking the same with Merino sheep.
The followingdescriptions of the Merino
sheep, are published by the direction of 'the
trusteesof the Massachusetts society for pro
moting agriculture, being considered as the
most perfect that have been offered to the
public. it is believed they will serve as a ge
matter, and when properly cooked, make a

very pleasant avored soup. The manner of
preparing the soup is as simple as that used
to make any other. The shells are boiled ith
water; afterwards the dec0ction being sepa
rated from the shells by draining, is thicken

ed with a little flour, and seasoned in the com
mon way. If a small piece of salt pork is boil
ed with the shells the soup will be considera
bly improved; it is with the last addition and
a few ofthe peas that this soup is prepared in
Virginia, where it is found a favorite dish,
and on the most profuse tables. In a large fa

tremity of Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope,
mily,particularly of children, the green pea
has entirely disappeared beneath the waters.
shell soup will be found an excellent nourish
A convulsion was felt at Cape Town, in De neral guide to the purchasers of that animal, ing, wholesome and economical dish.
cember, only two leagues distant, by which either in Spain or this country.
Among numerous proposals for new pub
some damage was occasioned to the houses,
The rst is by lord Somcrvillc, who ob lications we notice those of Hamilton and
but we nd no lives were lost at that place; serves, These sheep are dierent from any Ehrenfried, of Lancaster, for publishing by
and it is supposed that the earthquake extend other breed in the color of the fleece: there subscription, in one large Octavo volume, a
ed to Bossen.The island was about two miles is a dark brown tinge on the surface of the complete English-German anrl German
in length and one in breadth. The Dutch, best eeces, which is formed by dust adher~ English dictionary. To which will be prex
when in possession of the Cape, kept a guard ing to the greasy and yolkey properties of its ed the principles of pronunciation and pro
of 24 men on Bossen, and it was employed as pile. The harder the eece the ner the sadial grammar.
_
a place of banishment for criminals. N o wo wool. it appears knotted and curled close to
The following estimate shows the relative
men were then permitted to reside there, not the body. The males have horns, and the fe value of our' domestic exports to Great Bri
even the wife of the postmaster. At the south males none; but sometimes the males are tain, compared with all other countries, be
ern extremity of the island a ag was hoisted polled, or have no horns, but it is a rare oc fore our commerce became embarrassed by
currence. There is a loose pendulous skin French decrees or British orders in council.
on the approach of any vessel.
Whole amount of domes- Exported to Great
Tornado. A gentleman just arrived from under the neck or throat, which is usually
tie exports.
Britain.
the upper part of the state, has communicat attended with a sinking or hollow in the neck.
1802,
36,180,000
19,014,943
ed the following distressing information. On The sheep have always a large tuft of wool
1803,
42,135,000
23,597,903
\Vednesday, the 28th ult. the citizens of Lau between the eyes, zmd it grows on the legs
1804,
41,470,000
19,346,517
rens county were awakened, a little before almost to the hoofs.
Col. Humphries describes two distinct spe
sunrise, with an incessant ood of rain, a vio
Dolls. 119,785,000
61,959,363
lend wind, and a frequent falling of trees. In cies of sheep in Spain. One is called Meri
about tWenty minutes the alarm became ge nos, famous for their ne wool; the other is
MARRIED,
neral, and the destruction of every object called Churros, distinguished for their coarse
On Sunday evening, the 22d of April, by
round seemed to be threatened by one of the and bad wool. The head of the Merino ap
most violent tornados perhaps ever wiuicssed pears lalgtrl than that of our common sheep; the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Edward Wallas,
in Georgia. So great have been its ravages, their ears very small; their eyes bright; the to Miss Catharine Wright, both of this city.
On Wednesday evening last, by the same,
that whole forests have been laid prostrate, horns are curved in a spiral turn; the neck
and some of the nest highland in this state short; the chest broad; the body, face, and Mr. George Roberts to Miss Rebecca Pen
rendered a heap of ruins. Many of the best legs, are covered with a delicate eece, with nell, both of Newtown, Delaware county,
,
plantations have become unt for immediate out any mixture of coarse locks or hairs. Pennsylvania.
At friends meeting, on Tuesday the lat
cultivation; houses, fences and stock have The eece is remarked to be much more im
been swept away or destroyed; and the dis pregnated than any other breed with an oily inst. Joseph Morrice to Sarah Evans, both of
.
tresses of the planters (many of whom Were substance, apparently exuded in perspiration. this city.
new settlers, and had just began to surmount This species of sheep is perfectly gentle,
DIED,
their difficulties) are indescribable. Some of but rm in all its movements.
On Sunday morning, the 22d ult. at the sea
them have lost their all, having neither a
A gold medal prize of the value of fty dol of C. A. Rodney, esq. near Wilmington, De
horse to plow, or a cow to milk. The width tars is offered by the Philadelphia MCdlCol laware, captain John Hunn,a respectable and
of the tornado is supposed to have been about Lyceum, for such experimental communica generally esteemed citizen; distinguished by
six miles; but its extent has not been ascer tion on the following question as shall meet his activity in naval service during the strug
tained. It passed over the Oakmulgies, about their approbation. In what manner do dele
glc for American independence, and under all
the seventh district of Baldwin, in an easterly terious gasses and eluvia injure the living the uctuations and trials of party on uniform
direction.
Savanna/i Reflublican.
animal body? Essays submitted must be and inexible supporter of those principles
.
written in the English language, andtrans upon which the declaration of independence
The Western San, printed atNincennes, mitted, post paid, on or before the rst day was made and the nation established. He has
Indiana territory, contains the following am of January, 1311.
closed his career in a good old age, surroundi
cle. \ We can from good authority state as ..
Green pea shells, when emptied of the ed by a numerous circle of his descendmts
fact, that a gentleman in the neighborhood peas, contain a large portion of nutritious and connexions, who, while they deplore their
loss. inust derive solace from the recollec To aid my speech, to make my accent clear,
And heighten beauty when we both were young.
tion of his virtues, and that he has only gone
before but a. short stage on the journey of But age malicious stole thy ivory hue,
And bade disease to rob thee of thy pow'r;
mortality.
On Wednesday evening, the 25th ult. in Pain seized thy vital part. hence vigor flew,
And made thee passive in the festive hour.
this city. Jacob Broom, esq. of \Vilmington,
Delaware, in the 58th year of his age. Pos Then have I sat with sympathetic pain,
sessed of uncommon vigor of intellect and of

great activity and enterprize, he was enabled
to spend a life of eminent usefulness in soci
ety. In that community in which he was des
tined to act, his loss is considered as a public
calamity, and will be long and sincerely de

plored. He lled many public offices of ho
Nor pleasure at the savory least could nd;
In solitude I sought for ease in vain,

Or on my couch my fever'd head reclined.
Thus long 1 felt peculiar pangs of grief.
Whilst yet each night m. cup of sorrow ll'd:
From other hands I sought to nd relief,
For one I knew who was in science skill'd.
To him I told, without reserve, my case;
nor and condence in the state of Delaware,
and was a delegate from that state to the fed

eral convention which formed the present
constitution of the United States. Thusdeath
is calling- to his vast dominion the smallest
remnant of the worthiest who framed our

admired constitution; but though his power
may deposit their bodies in the grave, their
names, in being attached to that important
instrument, are consigned with it to the re
cords of imperishable fame.
*0.
To connnsronnnnrs.
\Ve have received several communications
from Alderbain and My which shall appear

in our future numbers.
For the Repertory.
He bade me hope and trust to him for cure;
The Judgment of their love revise.

ThoIgh passages evince some spirit,
And sparks of fancy sometimes glow;
Theres little of the hardy merit
That bids defiance It) a foe.
1 mean of Drvdens sterling bullion,
Thar hands the test of every age,
Hm vhe vain glare that gulls the million,
The glittering dross of Darwin's page.

Such is my thought; I may forego it;
And pleasure would the change impart:
For honestly 1 love the poet.
Not for his song, but for his heart.
My.
April 21, 1810
Then stand excused before the world shall 1,
Whilst mourning for a friend that l hr-ld dear.
Vladimir ordered the number of idols to be
But soon my sorrow was to have an end;
increased in the city of Kicf; and erected a
The man of science was a man of truth:

He eased my pain. but snatchd away my friend,
new and superb statue to the goddess Pc

rune in the principality of Novogorod. Soon
And 1 have lost what nature gavea Tooth!

ALDERBAIN. .
a
VLADIMIR THE GREAT.

The princess Olga, grandmother to Vla
dimir the great, was the rst person of dis

tinction in Russia who was converted to
christianity. She went to Constantinople to be
baptised; and was led to the font by the eas
tern emperor Constantine Porphyrogcnne'
to, who gave her the name of Helen; and
sent her back to her country, laden with rc
lics and costly presents. Her son, the erce

Sviatoslaf, refused to abjure his pagan gods;
and Vladimir, her no less ferocious grand
son, paid as little respect to her religious
zeal. What parental anxiety could not ef
fect, in the course of a few years afterwards
was so ably compassed, as to cause the
prince not only to become a convert him

self, but to accomplish the holy conviction
of the most considerable families in the em
pire. He too received the seal of the cross
before the altars of Constantinople; and
from thence, with a christian bride, the sis
ter of the emperor, brought priests and

learned teachers to instruct the whole na
tion in the doctrines of the Greek church!
Thus was one of the most sanguinary wor
the religion of peace, into a powerful but
mild asscrtor of the charities of Heaven.
Mark how strong is the difference between
Vladimir pagan and Vladimir christian.
In the early part of his sway, while as grand
prince he was carrying conquest to the very
0f! have 1 known thee, at the festive board

extremities of Russia, he resolved to re
My active friend. intent to please my taste,
Most willingly thy noble powers afford.

Nor precious time in base supineness waste.
Long have 1 known thee fairhfui and sincere,

And ever ready to obey my tongue,
deemed sacrilcge, and at his commands bc~
ing disputed, ordered the doors of the house

to be forced. lie was obeyed; and the father
and son furiously immolatcd in each others
arms. Not satised with this diabolical rite,
shippers of idolatry transformed at once, by

STANZAS ON THE LOSS OF A FRIEND.
told Vladimir that a victim selected from

amongst his own people would greatly cn
hance the homage paid to the propitious
deities. He approved the hint, and pitched
on a young man, the son of a venerable
christian, and professing the same faith.
The unhappy father refused to yield up the
victim. The monarch, enraged at what be
I could not longer patiently endure.
For the Repertory.
1f misery ever claimed a swelling sigh,

1f sympathy eer shed a balmy tear,
so many of their fellow creatures, but they
My friends distress depicted in my face,
LINNS VALERlAN.
Tis plain if men of taste and reason

Did e'er Valerian truly prize,
They judged too fast; and will. in season,
courtiers, still more barbarous in their piety.

were not content with the smoking blood of
turn thanks to the savage gods of his coun

try for the victory granted to his arms, by
sacricing on their altars the prisoners
whom he had taken during the war. His
after those heathen acts, a Greek sage ap
peared at his court; and gaining his car, in

a very impressive manner so discoursed of
the truth of the christian dispensation, rea
soning of righteousness, temperance, and

judgment to come, that the monarch trem
bled, declared his faith in what he heard;
and following the holy man to the font, re

ceived the name of Basilins, and leaving
in the sacred water the leprosy with which

his vices had covered him, came forth a
character as pure as infancy." indeed the

change which took place in him from that
hour, seems almost miraculous. He broke
down the idols throughout the empire. He

put away his wives and'concubines, to the
number of eight hundred, and adhered to
the princess Anna alone, the christian lady
whom he had brought from Constantinople.
He founded churches :md schools, built ci
tics; and drawing the famishing savages

from their huts and wild pursuits, planted
them in these new dwellings, under the tui~
tion of holy men, and the protection of his
choicest ofcers. Even' his prisoners, in
stead of being sacriced to bloody idols,

were sent to people the wastes of his em
pire. Every way he conducted himself, not
only as a sovereign who consulted the pros
perity of his country, but as one who con
sidered all mankind as his brethren. On
great festivals he entertained at his own cost
the inhabitmits of his capital: and to them
who, from disease or inrmity, could not
attend the public tables, he sent a plentiful

repast to their own homes. But even in
cases of blood, when we might have sup
posed that the'sanguinary scenes to which
he had so long been accustomed, must al
together have blunted his feelings of com
passion, we nd that here too the religion of
w
mercy had penetrated his heart. Being one

day called upon to pass sentence for the im
subject suggested in the preceding para

graph, it may be remarked, that it arises
come, but at the same time resolved to divert.
mediate execution of a notorious robber, he

exclaimed with much emotion,
\Vhat am I, that l should condemn a
from a laudable motive; from a sense of
himself at the expense of the poet. He ac
duty incumbent on a father, who considers

as a debt, the obligation of providing a suit
fellow creature to death! This sketch is able match for his daughter. This notion,
suicicnt to show that the lessons of the which is strongly inculcated by Hiudoo le
Greek sage had not been barren. They not gislators, is forcibly impressed on the minds
only converted the prince, but by the mild of parents. But, in their zeal to dispose of
ness and wisdom of his reign (now that he a daughter in marriage, they do not, perhaps,
had become christian) the people saw by the suiciently consult her domestic felicity.
fruit that the tree was good; and in crowds By the death of an infant husband, she is
they pressed towards the cross to receive condemned to virgin widowhood for the pe
its mark, and express, with their devotion,
riod of her life. If both survive, the habitu
nished. The king gave him permission to
cordingly placed the Englishman behind a

screen, and ordered him to pay particular
attention to what Voltaire should read. Vol
taire came, and read his poem with much
emphasis, in hopes of obtaining the kings
warm approbation. But to his great disap
pointment, the king seemed perfectly cold
and indifferent to what he was reading. The
poem was nished; Voltaire asked the king

his opinion upon it, and received for answer:
That his majesty had lately observed that
al bickerings of their infancy are prolonged Monsieur Voltaire fathered the works of
in perpetual discord.
others, and gave them out for his own.
Numerous restrictions in the assortment This was a degree of erontery he should
of matches, impose on parents this necessi not have thought him capable of, and he
ty of embracing the earliest opportunity of could not but be highly displeased at it."
aiancing their children to t companions. Voltaire was astonished! he exclaimed that he
.Mz/uial ceremonies among the I'Iindooe.
The intermarriages of different classes, for was wronged, and protested by every thing
The bridegroom goes in procession to the merly permitted, with certain limitations, sacred that he did not deserve the reproach.
house where the brides father resides, and are now wholly forbidden. The prohibited
I will immediately convince you, repli
is there welcomed as a guest. The bride is degrees extend to the sixth of affinity; and ed the king, of the truth of my assertion.
given to him by her father, in the form even the bearing of the same family name The verses you have just now read, are the
usual at every solemn donation, and their is a sufficient cause of impediment.
composition of an English gentleman whose
hands are bound together with grass. He
Asiatic Researches.
claims are undoubted. Voltaire defended
clothes the bride with an upper and lower
~O_
himself with still more warmth, and swore
garment, and the skirts of her mantle and
The celebrated Hogarth was one of the the poem was his own. Well then, said
his are tied together. The bridegroom makes
most absent of men. Soon after he had set the king, come forth, sir, and repeat the
oblations to re, and the bride drops rice on
verses of which Voltaire pretends to be the
it as an Lbl \tion. The bridegroom solemnly up his carriage, he had occasion to pay a
author. The Englishman came forward,
visit
to
the
lord
mayor.
When
he
went
the
takes her hand in marriage. She treads on
and with the greatest composure repeated
a stone and mullar. They walk round the weather was ne; but he was detained by
the poem without missing a single passage.
business
till
a
violent
shower
of
rain
came
re. The bride steps seven times, conduct
Now," cried the king, are you obliged
on.
Being
let
out
of
the
mansion
house
by
ed by the bridegroom; and he then dismisses
to confess that my accusation is true?
a
different
door
from
that
at
which
he
enter
the spectators, the marriage being now com
ed, he immediately begsn to call for aback Heavens! cried Voltaire, why sleep.
plete and irrevocable. In the evening of the
your lightning! why is your vengeance with
same day, the bride sits down on a bull's ney coach. Not one could be procured; on
held from punishing the crimes of a mis
which
Hogarth
sallied
forth
to
brave
the
hide, and the bridegroom points out to her
creant, who dares to rob me of my laurels!
storm,
and
actually
reached
his
house
in
the polar star as an emblem of stability.
Here sorcery is employed, and I am driven
Leicester
elds
without
bestowing
a
thought
They then partake of a meal. The bride
to despair! The king laughed heartily at
on his own carriage, till Mrs. Hogarth, as
groom remains three days at the house of
tonished to see him so wet and fatigued, the poetic fury, and rewarded the English
the brides father. On the fourth day, he con
man liberally for the amusement he had pro
asked
him where he had left it.
ducts her to his own house in solemn pro
cured him.
--.cession. She is there welcomed by his kin
gratitude towards their leader. Vladimir

died at Berestof in the year 1015; and was
honored with the testimony of canonization
to his piety.
q...
dred, and the solemnity ends with oblations
ANECDOTES.
to re.
When Voltaire was at the Prussian court.

Among the 'Hindoos, a girl is married and peaceably enjoyed the highest admira
before the age of puberty. The law even tion and praise that superior talents and wit
ccnsures the delay of her marriage beyond

the tenth year.
For this reason, and be
cause the bridegroom too may be an infant,

it is rare that a marriage should be consum
mated until long after its solemnization.
The recital of prayers on this occasion con
could insure, an English gentleman arrived

at Berlin, who had so extraordinary a me
mory, that he could repeat a long composi

tion in prose or verse, if once read or re
When queen Elizabeth, in one of her

progresses, soon after the defeat of the
Spanish armada, visited Shrewsbury, the
mayor, on congratulating her on the memo
rable event said: When the king of Spain

attacked your majesty, rgad, he took the
wrong row by he ear. The queen could not
help smiling at this, and her admiration was
cited to him, without missing a word. The
further heightened, when, at her departure,
king had the curiosity to put him to the
he begged permission to attend her ma

jesty to the gallows!" which stood a mile out
stitutes it a religious ceremony; and it is test; the Englishman appeared and succeed
the rst of those that are performed for the ed to the astonishment of the whole court.
purpose of expiating the sinful taint which It happened that immediately after this trial,
a child is supposed to contract in the womb Voltaire sent the king word, that with the
of its mother.
kings permission he should do himself the
On the practice of immature nuptials, a honor to read to him a poem he had just
of town.
PHIL ADELPHIA ,
Printed and published by Dennis Hemt.

No. 17, Arch street.
N0. 2.
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 18).
VOL. l.
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'
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some engraving.
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ed.
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Subscriptions and communications, post
Information respecting the progress of the paid, will he thankfully received.
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eulties attending the task he has undertaken:
To please the public, an author must not only
produce that which is excellent in its kind;

but he must continually vary the matter and
manner of his lucubrations: he must, to a
certain degree, be all things to all men. The

serious, the gay, the learned, and the un'
learned, not only expect that their tastes
dissatised with a long course of the same

species of entertainment: he hopes to be
every quarter.
The proceedings of our national council
delighted and surprised: he must nd vari
and state legislatures will be carefully oxa
ety in those productions which are meant to mined; and a compend of the same will be
be instructive, and novelty in those which
presented to the public.
are designed for amuScment.
The Editor will extract the most interest
How the Editor will execute the duties of
ing
portion of foreign intelligence, especial
his employment, time will discover: he is
ly that which is any way connected with our
not disposed to boast of his education, to
make a parade ct guides, or to seduce
own country, and prepare, weekly, a con
the public with a multiplicity of specious
densed narrative for the Philadelphia Reper
promises. It is too common for the authors
tory.
of periodical works to undertake innitely
BIOGRAPHY.
From the Medical and Philosophical Register.
MEMOIRS or THE LIFE nun cntnacrsn or

JOHN REDMAN, M. D.
DR. JOHN Remus was born in Philadel-'

phia, on the 27th of February, 1722. His pav
rents
belal professions,
early destined
forhim
which
to ll
purpose
one ofhe
thewas
sent to the Rev. Mr. Icnnents academy, at
Neshaminey, in Bucks county, where he ac

quired a correct knowledge of the
and
Greek languages, and a general acquaintance

Biography shall hold a place in this pa
with such of the sciences as were then taught

in public schools. His companions and school
per. No species of writing is more agreea

mates in this academy, were his precep-~
ble, and there is none so eminently useful: tors sons, the Rev. Gilbert, William, and
it enables us, in the voyage of life, to avoid Charles Tennent, the Rev. Daniel Lawrence,
owzra from the gay ftarlerree of literature; those shoals and breakers, on which preced
and the Rev. Dr. Rogers, of New York, with
and to make their publication one vczmnnued ing navigators have made shipwreck; it en all of whom, during their lives, he kept up a
uric: of delights. But, alas! their knowledge courages us to emulate the actions of the friendly intercourse. After nishing his aca
is generally exhausted, and their talents worn victuous and the wise; and it urges us for demical edUCation he entered upon the study
out, in nding charms for their introductory ward in the ~ paths of honorable ambition. of physic with Dr. John Kcarscly, then one
essay, and giving a aming .brillz'ancy to a American characters shall have the prefer of the most respectable physicians it. Phila-,
ence; but those of other countries and dis
toiling prospectus!
delphia. He served his master faithfully, and
The Editor is determined not to subject tant ages shall not be excluded.
acquired during the period of his studies, the
himself to accusations of the nature above
Religion and morality are the great pil esteem and condence of all his patients. 'ikf
mentioned: nntl, although he feels a consi
lars of national prosperity: fully convinced, tor the expiration of his up1)rcirticc5111p, he
<htrable portion of diidence, he would have of the truth of this position, religious and went to the island of Bermuda, where he ax,
more than they are able to perform: they
engage to blend instruction with entertain
mmr; to mix Hie utile will: the dulce; to cull
it fully understood that he expects and de

Sifes to bejudgcd by Ilia works. One thing.
however, he condently promises: the most

miduous and persevering industry will be
exerted to render this paper worthy of the
patronage which he hopes it will experi
ence, and to preserve it from the fate of many
Wing publications.
The Editor has long thought that it would
be an acceptable service to present the pub

lic with a paper in which DOMESTIC INTEL
ucmtcs should be considered as of prima
l?
moral essays, namely, such as are calculated
ercised his profession for SCVCIul years, and

acquired soniuch money as enabled him, with
the property he inherited from his fathom-and
a small lOall from his relation, judge Adieu, to
proceed from thence to Europe, for the pur
jects, poetry, _merriment, wit and humour, pose oiv completing his studies in medicine.
will form a pleasing variety.
He spent a year-in Edinburgh, While the nie
Each paper will contain a list of marria- dical school of that city ,Was in the hands of
to give stability to virtue, and preserve the
puvity and simplicity of our manners, will
nd a welcome admittance.
Essays on scientic and entertaining sub
gcs and deaths; and, in compliment to the 1
the rst Monroe, Sinclair, Alston, Plummer,
ladies, the fashions will be occasionally and Rutherford. He likewise passed a ybar
given.
l in attending Guys Hospital, and some time
Finally, The PhiladeI/lhia Repertory shall 1
' The following is I copy of a certificate of his
and in which should be care. not be a receptacle for party politics or peril undue, upon um hawmL
10
time. He saw distinctly the truth of Dr. Sy

tals in Paris. Copies of the lectures of the denham's rpmarks upon the laws of epide
above professors, and notes of the cases which mics, and regulated his practice by them. He
occurred in the hospitals, while he attended considered a greaterforced-medicine neces:
sary to cure modern American, than modern
them, are now in the possession of his grand
He was faithful and punctual in his atten

dance upon his patients. In a sick room he
possessed-virtues and talents of a. specic
British diseases, and hence be was a decided
tion, which was occasionally facetious and

full of miecdotcs, or serious and instructing,
according as the nature of his patients (lis
eascs, or the state of their minds. ~A lady,
whom he attended in a fatal consumption,
in attending lectures, dissections, ard hospi
son, Dr. John Redman Coxe, written with
singular correctness and perspicuity. He gra friend to depletion in all the violent diseases
(ltlutL'tl in the University of Lcyden, on the of our country. He bled freely in the yellow
15th of July, in the year 1748, under the cc fever of 17 62, and threwihe .weight of hisvc
notable name in the scale of the same reme
' lebrated Albinus, Gaubius, and Musschen
brock, at a time when that seminary retain dy in the year 1793. In the diseases of old
ed a large portion of the reputation it had age, he considered small and frequent bleed
derived from the illustrious name of Dr. ings as the rst of remedies; and to them he
Boerhaave. The subject of his inaugural dis was indebted for much of the case he enjoy
sertation was Abortion, which he handled ed in his descent down the hill of life. To
with great learning and ingenuity. Few bet wards the close of his life, he read the works
ter essays upon that subject are to be met of Cullen, Brown, and several other physi
with in any language. The conclusion of this cians, who had Called in question the truth of
disscitation strongly indicates the piety which Dr. Bocrhaave's principles in medicine. He
admitted their objecrions, and embraced some
distinguished the early part of his life:
H Fand: Deus Ter Opt. Max. ut hacce mea studio of the modern opinions and modes of practice
with the avidity of a young man of ve and
or conamina dirigantur in nominis sui gloriam, prox
imorumquc salutem."1'
After receiving the highest medical ho

nors in his profession, he returned to his na
tive country, and settled in Philadelphia. He
twenty. He published, about the year 1759,

a defence of inoculation, and advised the use
of mercury to prepare the body for the recep

tion of the small pox. He cntertaineda high
soon succeeded in business, and in the course opinion of that heroic medicine in all chronic
of a few years, ranked among the oldest phy diseases. He gave it in the natural small pox,
sicians in the city, in point of celebrity in with a view of touching the salivary glands
medicine. For a while he practised surgery about the turn of the pock, a time in which
and midwifery; but, nding the labors of patients often die, from the whole force of the
those branches ofmedicine incompatible with disease falling upon the windpipc and lungs.
the delicacy of his health, he declined them, He introduced the use of turbeth mineral as
and conned himself exclusively to the prac an emetic in the gangrenous sore throat of
1764; and, such was its efcacy, that he did
tice of physic.
.
His principles in medicine were derived not lose a patient who took it in the early
from the writings of Dr. Bocrhaave, but his stage of that epidemic.
practice was formed by the rules of Dr. Sy
About the fortieth year of his age, he was
denham. He early saw that the modes of alllicted with an abscess in his liver, the con
practice which were recommended by that tents of which were discharged by expecto
enlightened physician, in the seventeenth ration through his lungs. He was frequent
century, in England, were equally proper, in ly conned by acute diseases, and suffered
the eighteenth century, in America, from the much from the rheumatism as he advanced 111
sameness of manners of the inhabitants of years. Thesc are mentioned to show, that
both countries, in those different periods of frequent attacks of violent diseases, when
" We think the character of Dr. John Redman treated properly, do not prevbnt the attain
so much deserves our approbation, that it is with ment of extreme old age.
pleasure we can say, that after having spent a.
considerable time in the universities of Edinburgh

and Leyden, in which last he had the degree of
doctor of physio conferred on him, and made all the
improvements necessary to the knowledge of phy
sic, he has with great application attended the

practice of this hospital, by which means he has so
well qualied himself, that we doubt not his future
success will answer to the care and pains he has i:
lycn to deserve it.
(Signed)
- CLARKE, M. D.
CHARS. FEAKE, M. D.
N. MUNCKLEY, M. D
Guy's Hospital, Feb.21. 1748-9.
fGod grant that my studies and labors may be

dirCClCd to the glory of his name, and to the wei
re of my neighbors.
His fellow citizens, and his medical bre
thren, Were not insensible of his merit. He

was elected one of the physicians of the
Pennsylvania Hospital immediately alter its
establishment, and afterwards the rst presi
dent of the College of Physicians of Philadel
phia. He discharged the duties of these sta
tions faithfully, and reluctantly retired from
them,in consequence of the weakness and in
rmities of age. He served as a trustee of the
colleges of Philadelphia and New Jersey for
many years, and more than once refused to
stand a candidate for a seat in the legislature
of Pennsylvania, before the American revo
lution.
kinda He suspended pain by his soothing

manner, or chased it away by his conversa
said to one of her friends, that " death had
nothing terrible in it when Dr. Redman

spoke to her about it. The respectability of
his character as a physician will derive a lus
tre from the history of his domestic and reli

gious character.
(To be concluded in our next.)
q_
For the Repertory.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
[He who presents himself to the public in

the character of a friend, should evince that
his mind is susceptible of those feelings and

his soul alive to those affections which prove
his professions sincere; his motives should
spring from a pure source, and his actions

tend to promote the happiness of those whom
he addresses. Should dissimulation be disco
vered in his communications they will con
sequently cease to be useful: if self interest
predominate over love, it. is evidence of im
proper views and he ceases to be an object of
esteem. Frankness and candor should be his
attendants in all his exhibitions, and a desire
to produce joy in the heart should be a pro.

mincnt feature of his lucubrations. For these
purposes he will work in the richest mines
and endeavor to procure the most precious
treasure, which having obtained, he will pre
sent with sincerity, in the most interesting
manner of which he is capable, and endea

vor to engage attention to its value.
Divine truth is a mine of inestimable va
lue, a source of wealth which only can satisfy
the vast desires of the immortal soul; it is a
subject which needs not the power of art to

render it attractive; its innate beauties are
such as need only to be seen to be admired,

and so cxhaustlcss is it, that all are invited to
participate of its fulncss and draw forth abun

dant supplies; its cxcellency will always be
developing to those who diligently search its
immeasurable extent, hence it is that the
writer of the following letters has endeavor

ed to enrich his correspondence. As they are
from a brother to a sister, they are conse

quently the offspring of affection, and being
of general import, are now ocrcd to the pub
lic with a sincere wish that they may prove
useful, by exciting the reader to a serious
consideration of the importance of genuilm
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w
i
religion to the happiness of mankindin every

situation of life.]
LETTERS ON SERIOUS SUBJECTS.
From a Brother to a Sister.
No. 1.
manifested himself to the world, and in a pc

culiar mariner hath he manifested his excel
lency to those who are the subjects of his
you with a great salvation, is the sincere wisf

and prayer of your affectionate brother, J.
grace.
A glorious plan of salvation hath been de
vised in the eternal councils, and executed by
For the Repertory.
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Mr. Editor,
Dreams have always been subjects of gel

Reecting on the frailty of human enjoy Jesus Christ, who, by his incarnation, became neral interest. A belief in dreams being prel
God with us; clothed with humanity he gave monitory, strongly marks the ignorance and
ments, and the uncertainty ofall sublunary ob
jects,this passage from the prophetic writings himself a ransom for sinners; he hath risen consequently the credulity of the people
of lsaiah, l conceive to be appropriate to my from the dead and ascended to heaven, where among whom it prevails. Most dreamt
mind under its present exercises, Cease ye he ever liveth to make intercession for his proceed from causes easily tracedPen
from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for people; he hath triutnphed over the powers haps, to a man accustomed to selfexamina
My Dear Sister,
wherein shall he be accounted!
Reason recognizes man as the noblest work

of God, beautiful in structure, dignified in ap
pc-amnce, possessing an expansive and com

prehensive mind, and, above all, endOWed
with an immortal soul. Thus viewing him,
he is a subject of high admiration: but from

whence does he derive this excellency! From
the hand of creative Wisdom; from him who
spreadeth out the heavens as a curtain, who
poureth out thesea as from ameasure, Who
made the earth and all that is in it, who co
vereth the elds with verdure and causetli
of darkness, and brought life and immortality
tion, no dream could possibly occur, but
to light by the gospel. Through him alone
which he could account for upon rational

principles. But so fond are people of being
we have access to the Father; in him all ful

ness dwells, and we have only to ask in faith,
in a state of breathless uncertainty, than be

convinced that what has happened to them,
them, and we are directed to seek rst the
kingdom of God and his righteousness and

the promise is all these things shall be ad
ded unto you. Do we desire spiritual gifts?
Ho possesses all power in heaven and'in
neither good nor evil. Dr. Beattie, professor

ofmoral philosophy in the university of Aber
deen, has written a very sensible essay on this -.
subject. As Dr. Beattie.'s works are not in the
hands of every anal[though 1 am happy to
earth, he giveth liberally to those who ask of
see that Mr. Enwsnn EARLE,| bookseller, of
them to bring forth nutritious nerbs and truits, him, and he upbraideth not.
'But before we can reasonably expect to en
who spake all worlds into existence, who sus
tains all things by his power, who hath lled joy any thing'from his bounty, we must be
sensible that he is God over all, blessed for
the universe with his goodness.
Here then our thoughts rise from the crea ever. We must feel our own unworthiness,
ture to the. Creator, and we discover our own and the necessity ,Qfvhi Spirit to inuence us
ignorance by our
his MW through the blessed Saviour
a inability to comprehend
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glorious charactW by faith, and desire the purication of our
W'hat conceptions can we have of an in souls from the malignant poison of sin, that
nitely holy and pure Being? Dare we compare 'we may experience a resurrection to a life of
him with ourselvesfThis would be the most righteousness.
presumptive folly, for he is eitalted above the
The unrenewed soul cannot feel happy in
measure of human or angelic minds, high the practice of those duties which are the joy
as the heavens are above the earth, so are his and delight ofthe people of God; they receive
thoughts above our thoughts. He governs all all they possess from his benecent hand, but
the affairs of men and knoweth the secret regard not the giver, consequently they can
thoughts of the heart, and it is in him we not feel the divine pleasure of gratitude for
what in his kind providence he bestows on
live, mave and have our beingl
How then can'man raise an arm of esh them. Nor can they feel resignation to the
and say 1 am strong! I will subdue mine en divine will when adversity brings them low.
emies in mine own strength? Yet too often On the contrary, these who put their trust in
are we tempted to this; and we have heard of the Lord and stay themselves on their God,
those who have even dared to defy the power can derive prot even from afictions, and,
of Omnipotence! This serves to show the humbled under the mighty hand of him who
WC.ikllSS of man and the depravity of the hu is the disposerof all' events, are enabled to
discern their own insufficiency and induced
man heart.
To perfectly conceive of an innite source to look unto him who is their light and their
of light and knowledge, is beyond the powers shield, and desire that he will strengthen their
of finite minds; and the more we endeavor to
know of him, the more awful and glorious

will he appear in being innitely above our
comprehensions.
_
Here we might conclude that we are too
diminutive for his notic, and despair of ever

gaining access to his favor: but blessed be
the name of our God, he hath not left us to

grope in darkness; he bath in various ways
frightened," that they would rather continue
believing in Jesus, and whatsoever is neces

sary for us, that shall we receive. Do we de
sire temporal blessings? He only can give us
was only a common occurrence, portending
tlris city, has lately published a very neat

pocket edition of the whole of themjl have
taken the trouble to copy off this essay, and .
now send it to you for publication. I have a
reason, too, for wishing it published. I have
some female acquaintances, who frequently, l
occupy a whole evenings conversation on
their dreams; which, notwithstanding I have
often endeavored to convince them pro
ceeded from stuing themselves at the pan
try after they had left the company and
were going to bed; or, at other times, from
the vicious 'mclinations excited by reading

till late hours the trash of the circulating
libraries; or, from an uneasy position, or,
diseased bodyyet they still are sure

there is a reality in dreams-and they still
continue to dream, and to talk about dream
ing, and to pore over drcatn books, and to

seek the interpretation of their dreams by
spending the little money, that is given them
to buy laces, upon a set of wretches called
fortune tellers, who are at present very nu
merous in this city, and who batten upon this
extraordinary fatuity. I have little hope that
the reasoning of Dr. Beattie will effect much,
but as he is a powerful auxiliary, I have a
great deal of pleasure in calling him to my
souls in the knowledge, fear and love of God, aid against a superstition which especially
that they maybe enabled to speed their way disgraccs a christian community.
in the' divine life and overcome every obsta
OF DREAMING.
cle that may intercept their progress, and to
Nature
does
nothing in vain. But, from the
ascribe all the glory of their deliverance to
God through Christ who loveth them. May impei"lft.eii~l'E\{our knowledge, we often mis
causes, and are too apt to pro
this be the desire of your heart, my dear sis take?
ter, and may you put your whole trust~ and iioutie''tltat useless, of which we do not per
condence in him who alone is able to_save ceive the use: which is not less absurd in mm
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ny cases, than if a man born blind were to

deny the utility of light, or the beauty of co
lor. In the shop of a watchmaker, or of any
artist who employs himself in complex me
chanism, how many wheels are there, and
Though there are not many natural ap

pearances more familiar to us than DREAM
ING, there are few which we less understand.
It is a faculty, or an operation of our minds,
of which we can hardly say, whether or not
pegs, and utensils, whereof a clown cannot it be subservient, either to action, or to

conceive to what purpose they are to be ap knowledge. But we may be assured, it is not
plied! How many parts are there of the hu without its uses, though we should never be
.man body, which anatomists only can ex able to discover them.
plain! and how many, which the most learn
I shall not trouble the reader with the opi
ed of that profession cannot fully account for! nions of the ancients, in regard to the imme
Shall we therefore imagine, that any of those diate cause of dreaming. Epicurus fancied,
parts are superuous or useless?
that an innite multitude of subtile images;
A king in Spain is said to have censured some owing from bodies, some formed in
the arrangement of the planetary system; the air of their own accord, and others made
impiously asserting. that he could have made up of different things variously combined,
a more regular world himself. His presump are always moving up and down around us:
tion, we know, was the effect of ignorance: and that these images, being of extreme ne
he took upon him to nd fault with that which ness, penetrate our bodies, and, striking upon
he did not understand. Had he known the the mind, give rise to that mode of percep
true astronomy, he must have been over
whelmed with astonishment, at the regulari

ty, with which the heavenly bodies perform
their revolutions.
tion which we call imagination, and to which

he refers the origin both of our dreams, and of
makes, upon the human soul, or upon some

other part of our frame, a certain impression;
perceive not the necessity, or the propriety,

it becomes us humbly to confess our igno
that made it is gone; and which, being after
which remains for some time after the object

wards recognised by the mind in sleep, gives
rise to those visionary images that then pre
sent themselves. These opinions. if one were
sumeto cavil at the dispensations of innite

to examine them, would be found, either to
wisdom!
Mans knowledge is progressive. How amount to nothing that can be udcrstood; or
many things are known to us, which were un to ascribe to human thought a sort of mate
known to the ancients! What at present rial or bodily nature, which to me is perfect
seems of little value may hereafter be found ly inconceivable.
Neither shall I take up time with enume
of the greatest. Many countries are uninha
bited now, which before the end of the world
may support millions of human creatures,
and give rise to new arts and sciences, and
to have a fever, and then dreamed for the rst
time. Agreeably to which, Aristotle observes,

that those,who never dream till they be grown
up, are generally liable, soon after their rst

experience in this kind, to some change in the
bodily constitution, tending either to death, or
to sickness. Plutarch mentions one Cleon,
his friend, who lived to be old, and never
dreamed once in his life; and, says, he had
heard the same thing reported of Thrasymc

des. I myself know a gentleman, who never
dreams but when his health is disordered.
And it is generally acknowledged, that some
people are not often conscious of dreaming,
and that there are many who always dream
when they sleep.
Those philosophers, who maintain that the
soul thinks always, will have it, that in sleep
we dream always; and that, if we ever ima
gine otherwise, it is only because we forget

our thoughts when we are awake. Aristotle our dreams. This is just saying, in order to
seems to think, that every object of sense support a theory, that a thing may have hap
In fact the more we understand nature, the

more we admire it. And, when, among the
works of God, any thing occurs, of which we
rance. For what are we, that we should pre
r
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quaintance, who never dreamed till the tWen
ty sixth year of his age, when he happened
rating ve different species of dreams, ac
pened whereof we have no evidence. That all
men should dream equally, notwithstanding

that some are always conscious of it, and
some never; notwithstanding that we dream,
sometimes a great deal, and other times very
little, is a position that cannot be admitted, if
experience is a rational ground of know

ledge. I my therefore repeat, that dreaming,
though common,is not universal. ButI only
mention the fact, without pretending to ac;

count for it. And I have nothing else to say
about it, but this, that probably dreaming is
not equally necessary to all constitutions.
Dreams give to human thoughts a variety,
which (as will be observed by and by) may be
knowledged by some ancient philosophers,

and particularly described by Macrobius. useful to some minds as an amusement, but
Dreams are indeed of different sorts and not to all, or at least not to all in an equal
other wonderful inventions.
These remarks we ought never to lose characters; but I see no reason, why they degree. As some bodies require less food,
sight of, in philosophical inquiry; especially, may not be divided into fty classes, as well and less sleep, than others; so some minds
may have more, and others less, need of
when we are at a loss to explain nal causes. as into ve.
Without attempting to explore the eicient dreams, as a recreation.
Our knowledge of these will always be in
2. In dreams, we mistake our thoughts for
proportion to our knowledge of nature. For, cause of this phenomenon, which it is proba
real
things. \Vhile the dream lasts, it ap
ble
we
shall
never
come
to
the
knowledge
of,
if we be in any degree ignorant of the form
pears a reality; at least it generally does: but
and structure of a thing, we must in the same I shall content myself with making a few un
degree he ignorant of the end for which it connected remarks upon it, chiey with a the moment we awake, we are conscious,
was made, and the uses to which it may be view to point out its nal cause; and to obvi that the whole was imaginary, and that our
applied. \Vere it required of us, to nd out ate those superstitions in regard to it, which waking perceptions, and they only, are real,
the use of a machine, which we had never have sometimes troubled weak minds. 1 and such as may be depended on.
Some writers, who a'ect to disbelieve
before seen or heard of; the rst thing we mean not to be positive in what I suggest;
the
existence of the body, and maintain that
for,
on
a
subject
like
this,
in
which
our
expe
should do would be, to examine its nature,
that is, the form, connexions, and tendency of
rience can never be accurate, because the
we never perceive any thing but the idws
its several parts. If we will not take the trou
phenomena never occur but when we are al

most incapable of observation, our knowledge
of our own minds, have urged this as an

gument in favor of their theory. if we be
can hardly be supposed to rise higher than
imposed on by our dreams, say my:
ble to do this, or if we have not mechanical
skill to qualify us for it, what title have we to

afrm, that the machine is ut'i
'
feet! As well may a blind man

my complexion, or a deaf man con
symphony of musical instrumo
why not by our sensations, When awakf;

conjecture.
1. My rst remark is, that dreaming, if ideas in sleep aect 08 in 31 amed?
though common, is not universal among man as bodily objects, may not those things
kind. Locke tells us of a person of his. ac- which we now take for bodily object-B be
m
~ really ideas, and nothing more?" This rea

soning, if it could prove any thing, would
prove too much. If we be so far impos
ed on by our sensations, when awake, as to
mistake an idea for a body, that is, one sort of
object for another which is totally different

and unlike, we may be so far imposed on by
our faculties in general, as to mistake black
For the Repertory.

AN INSTRUCTIVE LESSON,
If whats conducive most to ease
The summum bonum be,
Then laugh who will, but those who please

Instruction gain from me.
our senses and understanding are fallacious
Reection would this truth have told,
Draw gently, or twill break.
almighty Being, who made us, meant to de
ceive us, and yet that we have sagacity to see

through the deception; and, therefore, that
we ought not, and rationally cannot, believe

any thing whatever, nor even admit any one
proposition to be more probable than any
other: which is pyrrhonism in the extreme,
and at once puts an end to all science, and
overturns every human principle.
But in fact, the delusions of dreaming, not
Had this monition been by me

\Vith rev'rence due observed,
1 should have been from cobbling free,

The strap had been preserved.
Yet, though no cobbler, I contrived
My broken strap to mend.

Nor scornful smile who think it strange,
But wisdom rather learn;
Though barefoot, yet return.
Retrace your steps without delay,

Neglect will sorrow bring.
.
Thus tries, if improved aright,

* ' simportant hints may give;
that what we rememnermlmettreantedT
it by: neither can I, disbelieve it. Such is the
And this may be, to many a Wight,

A lesson how to live.
ALDERBAIN.
For the Repertory.
And so, ofcourse, can have no friend
Who is not some unheeded elf

As vile and vulgar as myself.
I would have talk'd; to show how hard,

By dint of care, it is for Bard
As good to render as he would

\Vhat only can by chance be good.
Fine songs, and all the little ware

Of sparkling pretties, for the fair,
Are what the critic elves and wit:
Have aptly christened, lucky hits.
And though,by trying, any time
The Muse can make a bit of rhyme,
The lucky lay, of glee or signing,
Is made without a thought of trying. My.

SONG.
Hast thou e'er sat upon the river's bank
\Vhen the faint sun, that late the waters ush'd,
Behind the distant mountain pensive sank,
\Vhile the wide ood and winding shore were

hushd;
LINES TO A LADY, \VITH A SONG.

Ah me! with Burnss forceful art,
Could I make music in the heart,
law of rational, or at least human, nature. Nor
It were a task of pride and glee
is my beliefin this case less necessary, than
To weave the Witching lay for thee.

But who is like to Burns on earth,
the effect of those physical laws that operate

upon my body. I could no more bring myself
But then the price, ah, who can pay!

It must be paid for every day.
For me, I thus nor buy nor vend;
But this is gabble out of place;
Nor lounge recumbent in the way,

For time is on the wing;
That 1 at this moment am awake, and not

asleep, is selfevident. I cannot prove it; be
cause I know nothing more evident, to prove
Must not be thought, to lowly worms,

To yield the smile on easy terms.
It must be bought, which is but fair,
Few give away such precious ware,
It was of making songs with grace
of our knowledge. \Vhile sleep lasts, we may
when asleep, is not real but imaginary. There

is no need ofargument to enforce conviction.
Must learn by attery to retain;

For those with whom such trade is planntl
Being the great ones ofthc land,
Of my right foots good friend;
And ifin vicious paths you range,
us, whether we will or not, to believe, that

what we perceive, when awake, is real; and
Should cram himself with tarts and cream

That he might dream a pretty dreami
And seldom fails at odds to set
The Bard and Muse in cruel pet.
But heedless, l was quick deprived
withstanding their frequency, never ali'ect the

assurance of our conviction, or the certainty
mistake a dream for a reality; but no waking
man in his senses ever mistook a reality for
a dream. The law 0! our nature determines
Resolving to be gay at night,
It thus with me fell out.

Not heeding that my boot was old,
The strap of course grown weak;
faculties; that by the law of our nature we are
compelled to believe what is not true; that the
13
Yet such who friends by attery gain
By drawing on my boot in haste,

Too strong I pulld no doubt,
ln saving time, time oft we waste,
for white, vice for virtue, and truth for false

hood. And, if this be allowed, it follows, that
'
m
lsjust as ifa sorry wight,
And heard the hunters bugle, wild and lone,

Winding in softened sweetness far away?
Then hast thou heard Marias mellow tone;
The music of the heart is in her lay.
Hast thou at night sojourn'd on watery waste;
When on the settled deep scarce moved the bark;
Leand oer the prow, while on the quarter paced
The midnight watch, low humming in the dark?
to believe, that I am now asleep, and that

whatl see around me is a dream, than I could
In tenderness, or grief, or mirth,

When, undisturbd by meddling throng,
He breathes his soul into the song.
Yet take my gift; and tell who deem
by an effort of my will suspend my body in
The lay unworthy of the theme,
The seaboy's guide, sweet watch-light of the pole?
the air, or make it gravitate upwards to the
The power that gives the harp to thrill

Is not a minion of the will.
Shedding the radiance of a cloudless loul.
clouds.
:
I
Aristotle remarks, and every person must
have observed, that in sleep we sometimes
fancy, among other things, that our dream is
Only adream. But this is not so common. It
holds true for the most part, that in dreams
We mistake ideas or thoughts, for real exter

nal objects, and are affected by them in nearly
the same manner. Only, when we look back
\lPOu a dream, we seem to remember a par
ticular
0 Place
confusedness
in Our feelings,
ol'perception,
when we are
which
awake.
B ibis We are not always sensible of, while
the dream continues. It is a circumstance that
mend" the recollection of our dreams.
Then hast thou seen Marias eye of light
It is a power, the truth to speak,
Of stubborn pet. and froward freak,

That neer in act or mood will trim
To aught but accident and whim.

Ah, sad the humble poets fate!
Who tries must premeditate
To tickle mighty friends, and raise
A never-ending chyme of lays
To condescenaion pleased to bless,
With notice, his unworthiness.
No bard, who thus to.work may go,
Can show the powers he has to show;

For, not toname the dire disgrace
Heap'd on the Muses bastard race,
The brats to interest born, that show
A harlotry of all most low;
To plan, angwpre-resolve to sing,

(To be continued.)
And markd the star o'er ocean beaming bright,
At stated time, a happy thing,
Who shall that soul's unfearing fondness prove?

Whom shall that voice of peace in sadness cheer?
Happy the youth with her in dreams to rove;
Happy in dreams that voice ofpeace to hear!
My.
Q.
Macklin and Doctor Johnson, disputing on

a literary subject, Johnson quoted Greek. I do
not understand Greek, said Macklin. A man
who argues, should understand every lan

guage, replied Johnson. Very well, answered
Macklin, and gave him a quotation in Irish.
GM
Our companions please us less from the

charms we nd in their conversation. than
from those they nd in ours.
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P'HMDELPHIA BEFERTORY.
mM
An act to revive and continue in force for a

l
An act for altering the time for holding
.tvcning last. A woman by the name of JONES

left her daughter, of six years old, at home
further time, the rst section of the act en

titled An act further to protect the com
the district court in Ohio.

An act providing for the printing and dis to keep house, while she herself was absent
. merce and seamen of the United States tribution of such laws of the United States at a night meeting. A person, passing by,
if
observed an extraordinary light in the cham
as respects the public lands.
against the Barbary powers.
An act to prescribe the mode in which
An act providing for the better accommo ber, and being alarmed went in; when he
application shall be made for the purchase .dation of the general post-oliice and patent found the child (who it is supposed had been
overcome by sleep) lying on the oor, wrap
of land at the several land oilices; and for oliice, and for other purposes.
the relief of Joab Garret.
An act providing for the sale of certain ped in ames. She lived in great agony till.
An act to revive an act, entitled An act lands in the Indiana territory, and for other the next day and then expired. Her body
was burnt in a manner too shocking, to be
for the relief of the refugees from the Brit purposes.
ish provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia,
An act in addition to an act, entitled An described. The living worms were seen re.
and for other purposes.
act concerning the library for the use of both treating from the heat through her mQl-ttlr.
and nostrils.
v
Salem Gazeuc.
An act making appropriations for the sup houses of congress.
On the 27th of March, the thermometer;
port of the government during the year one
An act to extend the time for making
thousand eight hundred and ten.
payment for the public lands of the United was in the morning 42; at 3 o'clock it. sVJOd
at 80; at 10 at night 72; the forepart oftho.
An act for the appointment of an addition States, in certain cases.
'
al judge, andextending the right of sullrage
An act authorising a loan of money, for a day was clear; the sun descended with rays
to the citizens of Madison county in the sum not exceeding the amount of the prin of clouds pointing to it; the evening was se
cipal of the public debt, reimbursable during rene; at 4- oclock in the morning on the 28th,
Mississippi territory.
it began to thunder in the west; two cloudi
An act making appropriations for the sup the year 1810.
port of the military establishment of the
An act making'appropriation for carrying nearly parallel to each other appeared, rising
slowly in that quarter; the thunder continued
United States, for the year one thousand into eect certain Indian treaties.
Resolution, relating to the oicial corres< at short intervals for half an hour, but the di
eight hundred and ten.
An act making appropriations for the sup pondence between the secretary of state and rectiou of the electric uid was more from,
port of the navy of the United States for the Francis J. Jackson, minister plenipotentiary cloud to cloud than towards the earth- The
clouds exhibited thelgroen, yellow and blue
year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
of his Britannic majesty.
mixed as they rose, resembling before their
'- An act for extending the time for locat
And nine otheracts of a private nature.
dispersion, the color of the paroquot. About
ing Virginia military land warrants, and for
-'.
returning the surveys thereon to the secre
Mr. Tompkins is re-elected governor of 5 oclock a hurricane passed us, and with its
New York by a majority of upwards ol~ .5000. skirt unrooi'ed half ourhouses, nearly took oi
tary of the department of war.
An act to prevent the issuing of seadet In the assembly the democrats have 70 mem that of your midcnQt-vL its (whim passed
through the lowerpart of my elds inan ensh
ters, exCept to certain vessels.
bers, the federalists 42.
The intendant general of Havanna, under wardly direction, and prostrated for half a
An act to make public a road in Wash
date of the 30th of March, has ofcially an mile in width nine tenths of the {186$ Within
ington county, in the district of Columbia.
An act to alter and amend an act, entitled nounced that no vessel whatever from the the scope of.its action; ltsfury was spent in
. An act prbviding for the third census or United States, will be admitted to an entry in ve seconds, passing, it seemed to burst over
us, and discharge ve inches of water in ten
enumeration of the inhabitants of the United any of the ports in the island of Cuba, with
States, passed the 26th day of March, lBlO. out the necessary certicates to the manifest seconds; it was succeeded by a dead calm the
An act to amend an act, entitled An act and invoice of each cargo from the consular whole day; where it commenced or termin
Georgia Journal.
for the establishment of a turnpike company agents of Spain in the United States, who ated, I know not.
The
rebellion
of
the
East
India companys
in the county of Alexandria, in the district when called upon will inform the merchants
troops
against
the
authority
of the supreme
what articles are admitted in said ports for
of Columbia.
government
of
lndia,
which
was so serious
An act to allow the benet of drawback the present.
in its nature as to jeopardize the British do~
on merchandize trzmsported by land convey
Capt. Hurd, who arrived here on Sunday
I.
minions in Asia, has at length been quelled.

ance from Newport to Boston, and from
Boston to Newport, in like manner as if the

same weretransported coastwise.
An act to establish post roads.
An act'rcg'nlating the post oliicc estab
lishment.
,
An act concerning invalid pensioners.

An act in addition to the act, to regulate
the laying out and making a road from Cum
last, says, that on the 29th of March, in lat.

26, 20, long. 67, 27, he was boarded by a
The companys troops had seized on several
British gun brig 3 days out, who informed
cities, which have all since been delivered

up or retaken; and in the last battle which
him that the British had taken St. Burts,
was fought between them and the kings

without much resistance.
Boston a.
Goohm, (JV. Y.) My 1. In the gale last
evening, the ne large church, recently
erected in this village, was completely level
troops, near Scringamtam, -21 ofcers of tlw
former, out of 33 who were engaged, pcls

ished. The loss of the privates is not stated:
ireemana Journal. .
led to the ground, besides considerable oth

d.
er damage done in the village. It was by

far the most tremendous gale ever witnessed
of Ohio. _
1..
_
An act to incorporate a company for mak in this place.
ing certain turnpike roads in the district of
.4 shocking occurrence. How many tragi
cal events take place, from trusting to the
COlumbia.
An act making appropriation for the pur care and discretion of very young children!
berland, in the state of Maryland, to the state
Married, on Monday evening last,by thl
Right Rev. Dr. 'Egan, Ro'nnrt'r WALsli, Jun;

esquire, of Baltimore, to Miss A_NNA MA
RIA MAYLAN, only daughter olJaspar May
lan, csquirc. of this 'city.
PiliLAljlrlLlHlA,
pose of trying the practical use of the tor
pedo, or sub-marine explosion.
The follou ing is afatal and alarming instance,
. which occurred at Marblehcad, on Thursday
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No- 1?, Arch street.
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VOL. I.
SATURDAY, MAY l9, lBlO.
No. 3.
a:
BIOGRAPHY.
From the Medical and Philosophical Register.
xtstotns or The urn AND CHARACTER or

JOHN REDMAN, M. D.
(Concluded)
Ht; married Miss Mary Sohers, a lady of

uncommon talents and accomplishments of
mind and body, soon after he settled in Phila

delphia, by whom he had two sons and two
daughters. His sons died in their infancy. In
the year l770. his elder daughter married
Daniel Coxe, Esq. one of the kings counsel
of New-Jersey. This gentleman adhered to
the royal party during the American revolu
tion, in consequence of which he went to
England, whither he was followed by his wife
he was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,

and liberally contributed to its support; but
the evening of his life was the meridian of
his piety. Being easy in his circumstances,
and feeling the labours of his profession in
compatible with his health. be early declined
business; but it was to engage in business of
another kind. He was elected an elder of the
Second Presbyterian church, in the year 1784-.
The duties of this office gave him both em
ployment and delight. He gave Secretly and
liberally to the poor, from a principle of
charity, and, when conned by sickness, he
conveyed his bounty to them by the hands of
a friend. He visited his old patients regularly
two or three times a year, and always left
behind him some pious remarks, oranecdotes,
that were not soon forgotten. His conversa.
and children, in the year 1785. The separa

tion of this daughter was to her father a most
poignant affliction. He accompanied her with tionWas facetious, animated, free from the
tears to the vessel that convayed her from querulousness of old age, and always seasoned
his sight; but his distress was soon alleviated with the grace of the gospel. In his OWn
by the suggestions of religion. These he tx house he passed his time chiey in reading
-.pressed the next day to a friend. whom he books of devotion, wMious ex
informed, that his mind had been composed ercises. He thought humbly of himself, and
by reecting upon the following words of our often lamented his slender attainments in re
Saviour: He that loveth father or mother ligion. For some years before his death, he
tween a passionate temper, and a bad disposi

tion. The former is a transient emotion, and
often exists
with candour, sincerity, and
benevolence. The latter is a settled principle,

and vents itself in cool and protracted acts of
malice and revenge.
In the month of December,
1806, his
younger daughter died. She had lived with

her parents for fty years, and secluded her
self from society, in order to sooth their de/
clining years. Her death left them in a state
of the most distressing solitude, and at a time
when they were least able to hear it. His elder
daughter, who had been separated from him
nearly four and twenty years, upon hearing
of the death of her sister, immediately tore
herself from her husband and children, and
crossedthe ocean, to alleviate, by her presence,

the grief of her bereaved parents. Her arrival
exhibited a scene of joy such as seldom oc
curs in domestic history. The good old man
said to a friend, upon this occasion, that he
had formerly 'ovved ten thousand talents to his
Maker, but that his debt had increased so
much by the arrival of his daughter, that he
was determined to become bankrupt, and

more than me, is not worthy of me; and he heard and read with diiculty, from the decay throw himself entirely upon the mercy of his
that loveth son or daughter more than me, is of his hearing and eyesight; but, under the
pressure of these evils, he was so far from
not worthy of me.
He was remarkably attached to all the complaining, that he was constantly 'nding
branches of his family, even to those who out reasons why he should be contented and
Were distantly related to him, or who Were in thankfull. Such was the natural cheerfulness
indigent circumstances. His only brother, of his temper, that upon serious subjects he
Joseph Redman, formerly a merchant in was never gloomy. He spoke often of death,
Philadelphia, partook of his affections in an and of the scenes which await the soul after
uncommon degree. He died in the autumn its separation from the body, with the same
of 1779. The doctor sat in the room with his composure that some men speak of going to
corpse while the company were assembling bed, or visiting a new and pleasant country.
to attend his funeral. Just before the lid of It remains only to be added under this head,
his cofn concealed him forever from his that he Was a stranger to bigotry, and that he
sight, the doctor rose from his seat, and, often Worshipped with sects of Christians that
grasping the lifeless hand of his brother, he differed in principle and forms from the one
turned round to his children, and otherrelatives with which he was united.
\lVith all the virtues and piety which have
inthe room, and addressed them in the follow
ing words: l declare, in the presence of God,, been ascribed to him, it would be unjust to
and of this company, that, in the whole course !i conceal, that he possessed, in the early and
of our lives, no angry word nor look has ever middle stages of life, a quick and irritable
passed between this dear brother and me. He i temper. But the sun never went down upon
then kneeled down by the side of his cof'fin,f his anger; and to his pupils and servants, he
and in the most fervent manner. implored thev

{has been known to make acknowledgments
protection and favour of God to his widow i for even a hasty expression. The admission
of this inrmity in the character of Dr. Red

ln the early and middle stages of his life, u man will make it necessary to distinguish be
and children.
divine creditor. The lamp of life, which was

nearly extinguished in him and his wife, sud
denly blazed forth upon this occasion; but it
was only to consume the oil which fed it
with the more rapidity. Mrs. Redman died on
the 29th of November, two months after the
sight of her daughter, in the eighty-fourth

year of her age. The distress occasioned by
this event was severely felt by her husband.
They had passed nearly sixty years to
gether, in the most uninterrupted harmony.
She was his best friend, and wisest counsel
lor, in all the trials and difculties of his life.
His affections now centered themselves
wholly in his surviving daughter; but time
and nature forbade the long duration of this
last portion of social happiness. On Friday,
the 18th of March, he took a walk to his
grandsons. In the afternoon, he discovered
an unusual degree of sprightliness in his con
versation. After drinking tea, he rose to light
a candle, in order to go ihto an adjoining
room. In attempting to walk, he staggered,
and was led to a chair by his daughter. He
squeezed her hand, and gave her a look
which indicated his belief, that the time of
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18
ly author) assume more titles than Proteus, and spirited, temperate and dignied; and I
that most changeable of divinities, ever as am condent that you need be under no ap
snmed shapes. They have keenly bent their prehension of an honourable success. That
eye on the morals and manners of the times, such may be the result of your meritorious
tion, about ve oclock the next day, aged under the name of S/zcclatora; presided with labours is the ardent desire of your sincere
eighty-six years and twenty days. it would the dignity of Guardians,- and amttsed with friend,
EUGENIUS.
seem, from the easy manner in which he ex the familiarity of Tamera. They have emu
a._
pired, that the messenger of death had been lated the glory of ancient Rome, and boldly
For the Repertory.
instructed to blindfold him, in order to con stepped forward with the stern front and un
LETTERS 0N SERIOUS SUBJECTS.
ceal from his view the dreary objects which yielding spirit of Freeholder-s to defend the
No. Hi
sometimes surround the passage out of life. rights and privileges 0| the commonwealth:
his departure had arrived. His disease imme
diately assumed all the symptoms of apoplexy,
of which he died without pain, and apparently
without the least consciousness of his situa
He was buried, at his request, in the Pres
then, softened into Lovers, they have soothed
our sense of bondage to the fairer part of it,

and reconciled us to the loss of liberty. At
one time they appear with all the blushing
honours of patriotism thick upon them, and
claim the distinguished character of English
seldom felt, except in old age, or in the hour men: at another time, disdaining all local ho
of death. Its extent is universal. its nal nouts, and scorning to be contracted within
cause is no doubt a wise one, but this is not the limits ofnational polity, whetherin church
or state, they have burst all-glorious" into
the place to inquire into it.
To those who may read the account that that unbounded character which includes all
has been given of this excellent physician parties, all politics, and all religions, and for
and eminent Christian, without knowing him, its object is satised with nothing short of the
it may not be amiss to add, that he was some whole World. Reclining at ease in an elbow
what below the middle stature; his complex chair, they have been contented with the
ion was dark, his eyes black and uncommonly humble title of Rcadera; and, without remov
animated; and his manner, both in gesture ing one step from it, they have had the am
and speech, such as indicated a mind always bition of calling themselves Jldventurera. Sur
busy, and teeming with new and original con rounded with dust and cobwebs, they have
fancied themselves entitled to the honours of
ceptions of human and divine things.
Students: from thence by an easy gradation
.0.-
The following communication is from a they have commenced Old Maids (by which
native of a sister state.
I am also reminded of Old lV/tign!) and, to
nish the character in this line, have tumd
To the Editor of the Philadelphia Repertory,
plain Fools at last. Here, under the severe
Sir,
I and my friends have read your prospectus and formal guise of a Connoisseur, they make
and we are pleased with the undertaking. \Ve us merry: and there, under the light and airy
all sincerely hope that a W0rk,Which promises dress of a Rambler, they make us wise. As
to afford general information in an agreeable Ina/rectors, indeed, they engage for more
byterian church-yard, in Arch-street, exactly

in the same spot in which his mother had
been intered fty years before him. This at
tachment to the dust of ottr ancestors, though
a deep seated principle in human nature, is
form, may meet with that liberal encourage
ment which characterises the literary pur

suits of the present day. There are, perhaps,
no works more inter-taining and extensive
ly useful than those periodical publications,

which embrace objects of general concern,
and are conducted with good taste and abili
ty. This remark will be corroborated by a
view of their very powerful effects in that pe
riod which has emphatically been called the
Augustan age of English literature; they im
proved the morals and polished the manners
of society; and, what is, perhaps, not the least
trait oftheir excellence,they have called forth
that glorious light of genius and truth, which,
like the sun, has irradiated,animated and bles
sed susceeding.ages. Pardon me if I give you
an apposite quotation: in it you will discern
the hand of a master, sketching, with brevity
but precision, the predominant features of the
literary productions of the day.

Periodical publications (says this spright
My Dear Sister,
It is with sorrow of heart that I frequently

nd, as well in myselfas others, a timidity in
openly professing attachment to the cause of
God, which is productive of unhappiness to
ourselves, and unbecoming the Character of
Christians.
When We consider the importance of di
vine things, and contemplate the glorious
character of God and the excellency of the
blessed Saviour, we have certainly much rea
son to lament our backwardness in attending
to those things which relate to our eternal
peace: but that we should in any degree be
ashamed boldly to acknowledge Christ as the
foundation of our everlasting hopes, is matter
of exceeding great wonder.
If we have any good reasons to believe we
have an interest in his love, we certainly have
cause to rejoice in him, and speak of his mer
cies with a condential boldness which is best

calculated to promote his glory and produce
comfort in our own minds. If we are willing
to be his disciples indeed, we must follow him
through evil as well as good report; we must

glory in the cross of Christ. Those who are
ashamed of him follow him afar off; they di
vide their affections between God and the
world; between the professions of attachment
than they have the ability to execute: but as to the blessed Redeemer, and the practice of
Idlers they amply recompense us, by per indelity. But this will not do; he will not
forming more than they promise.
accept of a partial obedience; he must
This description is certainly an animating have the entire affections of the heart and
one, and ought to excite a noble emulation in reign supremely there: and those who are.
the present age. But it might, perhaps, be made 'willing to accept of him as their all, are
objected \Vhy, such a host of writers must innite gainers by sacricing the carnal will,
surely have already exhausted every subject. and are enabled, by a lively exercise of faith
and have left nothing for us to say." Not at all; in Christ, to enjoy sweet communion with
this is only the language of dulness, indolence God, and realize the manifestations of his
or timidity; it is notthe language ofa spirited, love, in being permitted to approach a throne
enterprising, freeborn American. Genius, ta of grace with an humble boldness, and to re
lent and industry are by no means conned to ceive strength sufcient to overcome all their
one nation or to one age; they exist more or spiritual enemies and rise superior to the
less every where; and i see no good reason world; they are inuenced by a holy desire
why they may not be as promising, ourish to promote the glory of their divine Master,
ing and great under the auspices of Virtue, whom it is their highest privilege to serve,
Liberty and Independence as any where else and they manifest a peculiar zeal for his ho
upon earth. Go on, then, sir, with your pub nour.
But shame inevitably awaits the workers of
lication; give us as much variety as is con
sistent with your plan, combining the useful iniquity, notwithstanding their pretensions to
with the agreeable; let your career be upright happiness in the way their corrupt hearts
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_PHILADELPHIA REPER'IORY.
have suggested; for the Saviour hath declar not wonder, that there should be, notwith
standing, some analogy between them. It is
fore men he will be ashamed before his this mixture of resemblance and diversity,
fither and the holy angels. and the day of that makes many of our dreams allegorical.
Gods wrath shall overwhelm their souls and But,when that happens, an attentive observer,
sweep away every refuge of lies which they who is free from superstition, will nd, that
have industriously provided for their shelter, they allude, not to what is future, but to what
and they shall be utterly confounded; whilst is present, or past; unless we have been anti
those who wait on the Lord, who are built on cipating some future event; in which case.
the rock 70f ages, shall be exalted. That you, our dreams m .\y possibly resemble our con
my dear sister, and your unWorthy correspon jectures. Now if our conjectures were right.
dent, may so walk in the light of Gods coun and if our dreams be like them, it may hap
tenance that we may be enabled to entertain pen, that there shall be a resemblance be
a hope full of immortality as an earnest of our tween a dream and a future occurrence. But
meeting in the mansions of felicity is the con in this, there is nothing more supernatural.
stant prayer of yours affectionately,
J.
than that I should dream to night of what 1
-.O
have been employed in to day. For this is no
01" DREAMING.
thing: more than a particular train of thought
(Continued)
impressed upon us in sleep by a certain [ire
3. Though some of our dreams are Very
vioua train of thought into which reason and
extravagant, others are more regular and not
experience had led us when awake.
unlike real life. \\-'hen the mind is at ease.
For example: \Vhen I see a man dissipat
and the body in health, we often dream of our
ing his fortume, I may, with reason, appre
ordinary business. The passions, too, that 0c bend, that poverty will soon overtake him. If
ed, that of those who are ashamed of him be
cupy the mind when aWake, and the objects
and causes of these passions. are apt to recur

in sleep, though for the most part under some
disguise; accompanied with painful circum

stances when we are in trouble, and with
more pleasing ideas when we are happy.
The poets attend to this; and. in describing.
the dreams of their heroes and heroines, are
careful to give them a resemblance to their
real fortune. Dido. when forsaken by Eneas,
dreams that she is going along journey alone,

and seeking her Tyrians in a desert land:
longttm, incomitata, videtur;
Ire viam, Tyriosque deserts quzrere term.
thus uniting, in one image of melancholy dis
tress. the two passions that engrossed her

through the day, love to her people and a
sense of her forlorn condition. Eloisa, sepa
rated for ever from her friend, dreams of be
ing again happy in his company: but the next
moment. says she.
Methinks, we wandering go
Through dreary wastes, and weep each othertt woe;
\\h--re round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps,
And lowhrowd rot-ks hang nodding o'er the deeps.
Sudden you mount; you beckon from the skies:

Clouds interpoae, waves roar, and winds arise.
Do these occasions. the poet will not describe

a dream exactly like the real circumstances
of the dreamer: he makes it only a sort of
datk'allegorical similitude. And this We ap
prove of; because We know it is according
to nature.
For a reason to be given in the sequel, it
will appear to be mercifully ordered by Pro

vidence, that our dreams should thus di cr
from our waking thoughts. And, from what

we know of the inuence of our passions ups
on the general tenor of our thinking, We need
great proportion to the wnole of human life;

and, if there be any expedient for rendering
that part oftime agreeable, it is surely worth
while to put it in practice. Habits of virtue
and soberness; the repression of turbulent de
sires; and the indulgence of pious, social, and
cheerful dispositions, are, for the most part,
eliectual in giving that lightness to the ani

tnal spirits, and that calm temperance to the
blood, which promote pleasurable thoughts
through the day, and sweet slumber and easy
dreams by night.
The ancients thought that morning dreams

come nearest the truth. In the morning, no
doubt, the prespiration and digestion continu

ed through the night will make the stomach,
and the whole frame of the body, more com
posed and cool, than when we go to sleep: and
hence, perhaps, it is not absurd to say, that
dreams may be more regular then, and more
like real life. But if we have passed the ear

lier hours in the morning without sleep, and
fall a dozing about the time we usually rise,
our dreams are seldom agreeable, and our
this conjecture trouble me in the daytime, it slumber is rather stupefying than salutary:
may also recur in sleep. accompanied with whence we may reasonably suppose it to be
some visionary circumstances; and I shall the intention of nature, that we should rise
dream, perhaps. that I see him in rags and early, and at a stated hour.
4. As agreeable thoughts accompany good
misery. Suppose this to happen soon after,
what opinion am Ito entertain concerning mv health; as violent passions, and even phrensy,
dream? Surely, l have no more reason to con are the effects of certain diseases; as dulness,
sider it as prophetical, than to look upon the and confusion of thought, may be occasioned
conjecture which gave rise to it as the effect by a loaded stomach; and as the swallowing of
tnuclt strong liquor produces temporary mad
of inspiration.
Some of our dreams bear little or no re ness; as our thoughts, I say, when we are
semblance to any thing that ever before oc~ awake. are so much determined by our bodily
curred to our senses or fancy. But this is not habit, it is no wonder that they should be still
common, except in bad health. It holds true in more liable to such inuence when we are
general, that dreams are an imitation, though asleep. Accordingly certain dreams do, for
the most part, accompany certain positions
often a very extravagant one, of reality.
There are people. who observe, that one and states of the body. \Vhen our breathing
particular dream frequently returns upon is in any degree interrupted, by the head
them. Socrates, in the Phedo of Plato, says. falling awry, or by the hedclothes pressing on
that he had all his life been haunted with a the mouth and nostrils, or by any internal
vision of this kind. in which one scented to disorder, we are apt to dream of going, with
exhort him to study music. If this repeti great uneasiness, through narrow passages
tion of dreams be, as is likely enough, the where we are in danger of suffocation. When
effect of habit: if I dream the saute thing a the state of the stomach and bowels occasions
second. and a third. time. in consequence of any convulsive motion in the jaws, a thing
having thought or spoken of it, after I rst notuncommon in sleep, and Which frequently
dreamed it: we may hence learn the expedi produces a strong compression and grinding
ency of concealing disagreeable dreams, and of the teeth, we are apt to dream, that our
banishing them from our thoughts as soon as teeth are loose, or falling out, or that our
we can. Indeed, it is a vulgar observation. mouth is full of pins. or of something very
that they who never speak of dreams are not disagreeable. In cold weather too, when by
any accident we throw aside the bedclothes,
often troubled with them.
Intemperance of every kind, in eating or we dream perhaps of going naked. Aristo
drinking, in sleep or watching, in rest or ex tle abservcs, that in sleep a weak impres
ercise, tends to make dreams disagreeable: sion made on an organ of sense, may make
and therefore, one end of dreaming may be. us dream of a strong impression; and that a
to recommend temperance and moderation. strong impression may make us dream of a
For the time we employ in sleep bears a weak one. A slight warmth in the feet, he
20
4
says, if in any degree greater than ortltnary,

will sometimes cause us to dream of walk
ing on burning coals; and the crowing ofa
cock heard in sleep will seem fainter, than if
we had heard it at the same distance when
awake.
prejudice, might make important discoveries

in regard to their health. So Plutarch thought
long ago. See his dialogue called Mosclu'on
and Zeuxi/l/me.
In some constitutions, certain dreams go

before, or accompany, the beginnings of cer
Of all these facts I have had experience.

And here discover one source of the great
variety of dreams. And if the thing could be
accurately attended to, I make no doubt, but
many particular dreams might be accounted
tain diseases. kVnen, for example, there is
which, by the explosion, aWaked him.
good, and not evil.
-Thus Delia, to condole his state,

Compares her art, and his sad fate
Once chaste Diana sprang her how,

Nor yet did she her victim know,
Till settling with her sport a truce,
She saw her dart had pierced a goose."
H.
THE JEW: OR, THE RULING PASSION,
any tendency to fever, we are apt to dream 0! Two criminals, a Christian and a jew,
performing, with great labour, some work, we
'hod been to honest feelings rather callous,
know not precisely what, in which we never Were on a platform once exposed to view,
Or come, as some folks call it, to the gallows;
make any progress. This imagination will
for in the same manner; that is, from im occur in sleep, even while one has no means Or, as of late, a quainter phrase prevails,
pressions made in sleep upon our organs of of observing, when awake, any symptom that To weigh their weight upon the city scales.
sense, particularly those of touch and hear could lead one to suspect one's health to be in In dreadful form, the constables and shrieve,
The priest and ord'mu'y, and crowd attended,
ing. A very slight hint, suggested from danger: and, when it does occur, may it not
Till xd the noose, and all had taken leave;
without, or in any way suggested, is suf serve as a Warning to make some change in
When the poor trembling Israelite, befriendedI
cient for fancy to work upon, in producing the ordinary regimen, to eat or drink less than Heard by express, from ofcer of state,
usual. or have recourse to some ofthose other A gracious pardon quite reverse his fate.
multitudes of visionary exhibitions.
In conrmation of this remark, I beg methods, whereby acute distempers are pre Unmoved he scemd, and to the spot close sticking,
leave to mention what, from good authority, vented? In general, when one is haunted with
Neer offers, though he s bid, to qttit the place;
I have heard of a gentleman in the army, disagreeable dreams, it may, I think, be taken Till in the air the other fellow kicking,
The sheriff thought that some peculiar grace,
whose imagination was so easily affected in as a sign, that something is wrong in the con
sleep with impressions made on the out stitution; and, therefore, . that temperance, Some Hebrew form of silent deep devotion,
Had, for a while, deprived the Jew of motion.
ward senses, that his companions, by speak fasting, or exercise, may be requisite to avert
But
being questiond by the sheriffs orders,
ing softly in his ear, could cause him to the impending evil. And these are remedies
Why not with proper ofcer retiring?
dream of what they pleased. Once, in par which one may have recourse to, and in re In tone of voice that on the marvlous borders,
ticular, they made him go through the whole gard to which one may venture to make a
While that his looks were to the beam aspiring,
procedure of a duel, from the beginning of few experiments, in almost any circumstances. " I only wait (said he) bere I coec,
the quarrel to the ring of a pistol which Agreeable dreams I would take for the signs Ofmtmer Catch to buy the trad man's clorlml
bl.
they put in his hand for that purpose, and of health; and consider them accordingly as
COLLET DHERBOIS.
The following is an account of the death of

This theory, which I have reason to think
dream, we ought to look, not forward with is not without foundation, may, to such as ac the celebrated Collet d'Iierbois, well known
apprehension, as if it were to be the fore quiesce in it, prove a good antidote to those in the bloody annals of the revolution for his
runner of calamit '; but rather backward, to idle superstitions in the affair of dreaming, cruelties and murders. W hen he was taken
ill, the surgeon, who was appointed to attend
see if we can trace out its cause, and whether which have been too prevalent in all ages.
'
(To be continued.)
the exiles, asked what was his complaint I
we may not from such a discovery, learn
_.0._
have a fever, and a burning perspiration."
something that may be protable to us. I
For the Repertory.
I believe it wellYou perspire with guilt
dream, for example, that some of my teeth
THE CHAPLET.
drop out. That, say the vulgar, betokens the
and crimes. Collet turned from him, and
Bead I.
loss of friends. No doubt, if I have any
burst into tears. He called on God and the
When therefore we have an uncommon
friends, and should happen to outlive them,

the time must come, when I shall loose them.
HOPE, A SONNET.
Hope hears us through, nor quits on when we die."
Pope.
But the dream has nothing to do, with either Enrobed in radiance of etherial light,
With aspect winning as the smiling May,
the loss, or acquisition of friends: nor does it
And scattriug roses oer lifes barren way,
direct my thoughts to futurity at all. I wish What form celestial charms my ruptured sight?
rather to know, to what state of my body this
Tis Horn, Heavens bliss-inspiring cherub, sent
dream may have been owing, which if I can
holy virgin to come to his assistance. A

soldier to whom at his rst arrival, he had
preached his doctrine of atheism and in

delity, approached and asked him, why he
invoked that God and that virgin, whom, a
few months before, he had turned into ridi
nd out, who knows, but I may draw advan
cule? Ah! my friend, my tongue belied my

heart. And then added: My God! my God!
dare I still hope for pardon? Oh! send me
dinner? Let me eat lighter food, and in less
turn aside my eyes from the re which con

sumes me. Oh God! my God! grant me
some peace and comfort.
The approach of his last moments was
dreadful and horrible in the extreme. While
a priest was sent for, he expired in dreadful
agony, vomiting blood, and every limb dis
To cheer man's mental darkness and despair,

'Io soothe his sorrow and corroding care,
tage from my dream? My teeth seemed to And heal the heart by sad Misfortune rent.
drop out. Perhaps at that time my gums were At her approach, the mourner lifts his eye,
Suffused and glistning with Afictions tears;
affected with some painful sensation, or con
Her animating voice Despondence hears,
vulsive motion. Might not this be occasioned
The head upraiscs, and forgets to sigh.
by too heavy a supper, or by an ill digested
Blest Horn! thou art, till chequerd life shallend,
quantity, for some time, and observe, whether
the same vision makes a second appearance.

Imake the trial; and I nd that my sleep is
sounder, and my dreams more agreeable.
This is making a right use of dreams. And
in this way, I am persuaded, that persons,
who divest themselves of superstition and
Our guide, our guardian angel, and our friend.

AMYNTOR.
+
I"or the Repertory.

JBU DESPRIT.
Poor Strephon sings of Delias art

To around each gay incautious heart,
And pipes in love-expiring tone
Her greater powr to ll his own:
some consolation; send me some one who will
torted. Diarile Justitiam moniti, et non tem
nere Divoa.-The day of his interment was

a holyday. The negroes who were to bury
him, anxious to get to their dances, scarcely
21
m
put him in the earth. His body became food tent energies of his mind. it is a very just and of the United States, knowing them to be
forcible remark ofsome ofthe most eminent such. and found guilty. The defendant, how
for hogs, and birds of prey.
Such was the end of a man who possessed writers, that no man knows the strength of ever, not being in custody but on bail, made
many excellent qualities-weak, but irascihle his own powers, without strenuous exertion; his escape and has not since been heard of.
to excess; generous without bounds; little re
nor the treasures of intellect, without explor
At a meeting of the managers of the

Pennsylvania Hospital, held on Monday last,
Thomas Parke, Benjamin Rush, Philip Syng
Physick, Benjamin Smith Barton, Thomas
Chalkley James and John Syng Dorsey (in 1
the place of Dr. Caspar Wistar, resigned)
were elected physicians of that institution, for
the ensuing year. And Joseph Hartshome
_
The marriage of the French emperor was elected physician to attend all the out \
Napoleon. to the princess Maria Louisa of patients of the said hospital.
Austria, having afforded to all Europe a topic
It is suggested in the Connecticut papers,
of general interest, we present the following
that Vaccination, or Innoculation with Cow
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
sketch ofthe French empresss person, hoping
Agapets piece, even as a fragment, is it may be gratifying to the fair readers of the Poclt matter, would be an eectual prevention
of the Spotted Fever, on the ground of the
too imperfect for the public eye.
Repertory.
plague. The following facts are from the au
In gure she is below the middle size;
\\e are happy in being introduced to
.4myntor, though the public have been some gracefully formed in the neck and shoulders, thority of Dr. Jenner.
lst. Ofsix thousand vaccinated at Constan
what acquainted with him before; and we with a complexion ofthe most delicate white
tinople,
not one took the plague.
hope. that our fair readers will be pleased ness; a nose somewhat inclined to the Roman;
2d. Infants previously vaccinated, have
with his Chaplet, as his former publications eyes of the most brilliant blue, and a profu
sucked without injury nurses infected with
in the Philadelphia Repository give us reason sion of shining axen hair, that reaches
the
plague, 8cc.
to think, that it is a primary object with him nearly to the ground; her hands and feet most
delicately shaped; her lips are truly Austrian;
to [than the ladies.
.
APPOINTMENTS
Eugenius has our grateful acknowlegments however, when opened by a smile, they dis By the President of the United States, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
for his friendly communication inserted in cover a set of teeth, most beautifully arrang
this week's number. The hints it contains are ed, and exquisitely white.
Buckner Thruston, of Kentucky, an assist
The writer of the above atlds- I remem ant judge of the circuit court of the district of
very good, and will we hope be benecial to
us. It is true we are but just entering on our ber to have seen her own lovely aunt taken Columbia.
career; yet we are not unaware of the impe from her mother in just such a transitory
\Villiam H. Harrison, governor of the In
diments, difculties and even dangers thatmay blaze of beauty, joyfully expecting to ll a diana territory.
lie in the way: but, if an inviolable regard for long established throne; and afterwards I saw
Comelius P. Van Ness, of Vermont, attor
truth, an inexible adherence to principle, her fall the victim to her subjects-on a scaf ney for the district of Vermont.
John Willard, of Vermont, marshal of that
an editorial conduct at once impartial and fold.
.
district.
candid, can hear us through, we trust that we
Connecticut ElectionPHisexcellency John
Joseph Crockette, of Kentucky, marshal of
are not too sanguine in our expectation of
Treadwell
is re-elected Governor of the the district of Kentucky.
success. We do not, however, rest all upon
Return J. Meigs, commissioner to hold a
the exertion of our own powers: we cheerfully state of Connecticut; and his Honor Roger
-"
convention between the state of Kentucky
rely upon the aid of Genius and Taste, whoare Griswold, Lieut. Governor.
A dispute exists between Georgia and N. and the Chickasaw nation of Indians.
ever the generous patrons of honest endea
John Eppenger, of Georgia, marshal for
vours in the cause of truth, virtue, literature Carolina respecting their boundary line. The
and renement; and, from the spontaneous latter has appealed to the United States, as the district of Georgia.
Alexander Montgomery, David MCaleb,
effusions of native and unvitiated talent, we she sold to Georgia the land in question, and
atter ourselves, that our readers will fre is now called upon to put the purchaser in Thomas Barnes, Joseph Robert, and Joseph
Carson, all of the Mississippi territory, to be
.
quently enjoy the most delightful of all re possession.
Having received information that several members of the legislative council of the said
pasts_ the feast of reason and the flow of
soul. In addition, therefore, to the general vessels had been tted and armed within the territory.
Henry M. Queen, Nathan Lu'borough
invitation in our prospectus, we now most waters of the U. States, with intent to cruize
cordially and affectionately invite the youth of against the subjects of a foreign prince with and Walter S. Chandler, justices of the peace
both sexes to favour us occasionally with whom the U. S. are at peace, government has for the county of \Vashington, in the district
communications, either in prose or poetry; issued instructions to institute prosecutions of Columbia.
John MCambell, of Tennessee, attorney
they shall be treated with delicacy and ten against all persons whatever who may have
derness: and, when we reect that there was been or shall hereafter be concerned in the for the district of East Tennessee.
Obadiah Jones, of Georgia, an additional
a time when not one of the bright luminaries tting out and arming of any such vessel or
of learning, from Addison down to Godwin, in the augmenting of the force of any such judge of the Mississippi territory.
Stanley Griswold, a judge of the Illinois
[ll/at. Int.
knew how to construct half a dozen well con vessel.
Simeon Van Houten was tried before the territory.
nected sentences, it certainly ought to afford
John B. C. Lucas, of Pennsylvania, one of
encouragement to the young literary adven Supreme Court, at Trenton, on the 10th inst.
turer, to exert himself in calling forth the la for passing counterfeit bank notes of the bank the judges of the territory of Louisiana.
garding fortune; a stanch friend, but a most ing minutely that wonderful mine of know
implacable enemy. The revolution was his ledge.
Several other communications are receiv
ruin. He meant to expatiate his crimes in
some sort, in the history of his life'which he ed which will be attended to in our next.
began; but his notes could not be found after
,*,, It is requested that all communications
he made as early in the week as possible.
his death.
*
lDbaanBlPbl'a.
22
Otho Shrader, of Pennsylvania, a judge of marines, to be rst leutenants in the corps of

marines.
the same territory.
Nicholas Martin, of Maryland, Samuel G.
Francis Xavier Martin, of North Carolina,
Hopkins, of Kentucky, Nathanial Allen and
a judge of the Orleans territory.
John E. Beck, of Tennessee, attorney for Francis D. Cummings, of Georgia, Joseph
\Voodson.of Tennessee, Francis Thornton, of
the district of \Vest Tennessee.
George Washington Park Custis, a justice Virginia, Robert B. Riedell, of Maryland, Jo
of the peace for the county of Alexandria, in seph Mosely,of Kentucky, James M. Broom,
of Delaware, Charles S. Hanna, of Kentucky,
the district of Columbia.
all with the two cents per pound laid on white

and red lead, is asked by the manufacturers.
Various other paints and colours are also
l,l50 tons, and those of lead itself, and of all

other manufactures of lead, to l,225 tons.
Jersey, and on the Oluo, make various kinds
prepared in Philadelphia, and some other

places.
Tin,ja/zancd, [ilated warn.
The manufacture of tin ware is very ex
tensive, and Connecticut supplies the greater

part of the United States with that article:
Benjarjn Howard, of Kentucky, governor and Alexander G. Sevier, of Tennessee, to be but the sheets are always imported. The
manufacture of plated ware, principally for
second lieutenants in the corps of marines.
of the territory of Louisiana.
John Randal, to be mvy agent at Anna coach makers and saddlers, employs at Phila
Tuhy Robinson. of the Orleans territory.
delphia 73 workmen; and the amount annually
polis.
attorney for the district of Orleans.
Constant Tabor to be navy agent at New made there exceeds one hundred thousand
Oliver Fitts, of North Carolina, a judge of
dollars. There are other similar establishport in Rhode Island.
the Mississippi territory.
ments at New York, Baltimore, Boston and
*
Ebenezer Knight, of Rhode Island, mar
REPOIIT
ON
DOMESTIC
MANUFACTURES.
Charleston.
shall of the district of Rhode Island.
(Continued)
Gun Powder.
Parke \Velten, of the Mississippi territory,
SJllPCIIC is found in Virginia, Kentucky
Co/t/zcr and Brass.
receiver of public monies for the lands lying
Rich copper mines are found in New and some other of the western states and
west of Pearl river in said territory.
Lewis Sewall, of Georgia, register of the Jersey, in Virginia, and near lake Superior; territories; but it is principally imported from
but they are not now wrought. The principal the East Indies. The manufacture of gun
land ofce east of Pearl river.
Levin \Vailes, of the Orleans territory, re manufactures of that material, are those of powder is nearly, and may at any moment be
gister of the land oice. in the western part stills and other vessels; but the copper in made altogether adequate tothe consumption;
sheets and bolts, is almost universally import the importation of foreign powder amounting
of the territory of Orleans.
Jesse Somers, of New Jersey, collector for ed; the only manufacture for that object, only to 200.000 pounds, and the exportation
which is at Boston, not receiving sufficient of American powder to l00,000 pounds. The
the district of Great Eggharbor.
Amos Spatiord, of Ohio, collector for the encouragement, although a capital of 25,000 manul'actute of Brandywine, which employs
dollars has been vested in a rolling mill and a capital of 75,000 dollars and 36 Workmen,
district of Miami.
Thomas H. \Villiams, of the Mississippi other apparatus. The true reason is, that those and is considered as the most perfect, makes
territory, collector for the district of Missis articles are imported free of duty; and the alone 225.000 lbs. annually, and might make
owners seem to be principally employed in 600,000 lbs. if there was a demand for it.
sippi.
Two others, near Baltimore, have a capital of
Archibald S. Bullock, of Georgia, collector casting bells and other articles.
Zinc
has
been
lately
discovered
in
Penn
l00,000 dollars, and make 450.000 lbs. of a
for the district of Savanna.
Parker Barnes, of Virginia, collector for the sylvania, and there are a few manufactures of quality said lately to be equal to any imported.
metal buttons and various brass wares.
There are several other powder mills in
district of Folly Landing.
Pt-nnsylvania, and other places; but the total
lanufacturcs of Lead.
James Spark, of Virginia, collector for the
amount
of gun powder made in the United
Lead
is
found
in
Virginia,
and
some
other
district of East river.
Peter Isaacson, of Norway, consul at Chris places, but the richest mines of that metal States is not ascertained.
Earthen and Glass H'are.
are found in Upper Louisiana, and also it is
tiansand.
A SllmClttlli quantity of the coarser species
Thomas English, of Pennsylvania, consul said, in the adjacent country, on the east side
ofthe Mississippi. They are not yet wrought of pottery is made every where; and informa
at Dublin.
to the eittent of which they are susceptible. tion has been recived of four manufactories of
Since the adjournment of the Senate.
John B. Davy, of Pennsylvania, consul for and after supplying the western country, do a ner kind lately established. One at Philadel
the port of Rangoon, in the Birman empire. not furnish more than tWQ hundred tons to phia, with a capital of H.000 dollars, manu
factures a species similar to that made in
Charles Harris, of Georgia, commissioner the Atlantic states.
The annual importations from foreign vwtatiordshire, in England, and the others. in
of loans for the state of Georgia. countries of red and white lead, amount to Chester county in Pennsylvania, in New
APPOINTMENTS IN THE NAVY,
Made by the President and conrmed by the Senate,
during the late session.
of queens ware.
Information has been obtained of ten glass
The principal American manufactures are
those of shot and colours of lead. Ofthe rst. tnanufactories, which employ about I40 glass
in the navy.
Alexander \Vadsworth, John Pettigrew, there are two establishments on a large scale blowers, and make annually 27,000 boxes of
Jesse D. Elliot, George \V. Rogers, George at Philadelphia and another in Louisiana, window glass, containing each 100 square
C. Read, Henry E. Ballard, and'lhomas Gam which are more than snicient to supply the feet of glass. That of Boston makes crown
ble, now acting lieutenants, to be lieutenants whole demand, stated at six hundred tons a glass equal to any imported: all the others
year. Five hundred and sixty tons of red and make green or German glass, worth l5 per
in the navy.
George Logan, of South Carolina, and white lead litherage, and some other prepara cent. less: that of Pittsburgh uses coal, and all
Amos A. Evans now a surgeons mate, to tions of that metal. are made in Philadelphia the others wood for fuel.
alone. A -repeal of the duty of one cent per
be surgeons in the navy.
The annual importations of foreign window
Henry H. Ford, James H. Boyle, and pound on lead, and an equalization of that on glass amount to 27,000 boxes; the extension
Joseph Forster, now second lieutenants of the manufactures of lead, by charging them of the domestic manufacture, which supplies
Jacob Jones, to be a master commandant
PHILADELPHIA REPER'IORY_.-
25
Precisely one half of the consumption, being the competition of similar foreign articles.
The difculties under which they labour are
prevented by the want of workmen.
Some of those manufactories make also stated in the petition of the calico printers of
green bottles and other wares: and two works, Philadelphia to congress. A considerable
employing together six glass blowers, have capital has been rested in an establishment
been lately erected at Pittsburgh, and make
decanters, tumblers and every other descrip

tion of Flint glass of a superior quality.
Chemical Prearaliona.
Copperas is extracted in large quantities

from Pyrites in Vermont, New Jersey and
Tennessee. About 200.000 lbs. of oil of
vitriol and other acids. are annually manufac
tured inasingle establishment at Philadelphia.
Various other preparations and drugs are also
made there, and in some other places, and the
annual amount exported exceeds 30,000 dol
krsin value.
Salt.
The salt springs of Onondago and Cayuga,

in the state of New York, furnish about
300.000 bushels a year; and the quantity may
be increased in proportion to the demand.
Those of the western states and territories
supply about an equal quantity; that known
by the name of the \Vabash Saline, which
belongs to the United States, making now
130.000 bushels. Valuable discoveries have
also lately been made on the banks of the
Kenhawa. But the annual importation of fo
reign salt amounts to more than three mil
lions of bushels, and cannot be superseded by
American salt, unless it be made along the
sea coast. The works in the state of Massa

chusetts are declining, and cannot proceed,
unless the duty on foreign salt should again
be laid. It is necessary to shelter the works
from the heavy summer rains by light roofs
moving on rollers. This considerably in
of society in other countries. No laws exist

here directly or indirectly, conning man to .
a particular occupation or place, or exclud
ing any citizens from any branch he may at
any time think proper to pursue. Industry is
near Baltimore, which can print 12,000 yards in every respect perfectly free and unfettered;
a week and might be considerably extended, every species of trade, commerce, art, pro
if the prot and the demand a'orded sul fession and manufacture being equally open
to all, without requiring any previous regular
cicnt encouragement.
From this imperfect sketch of American apprenticeship, admission or licence. Hence
manufactures, it may with certainty be infer the progress of America has not been conn
red that their annual product exceeds one ed to the improvement of her agriculture, and
hundred and twenty millions of dollars. And to the rapid formation of new settlements and
it is not improbable that the raw materials states in the wilderness; but her citizens have
used, and the provisions and other articles extended their commerce through every part
consumed by the manufactures, create a home of the globe, and carry on with complete suc
market for agricultural products not very in cess, even those branches for which a mono
ferior to that which arises from foreign de poly had heretofore been considered essen
mand. A result more favourable than might tially necessary.
The same principle has also accelerated
have been expected from a view of the natu
ral causes which impede the introduction, and the introduction and progress of manufac
retard the progress of the manufactures in tures, and must ultimately give in that branch,
as in all others, a decided superiority to the
the United States.
The most prominent of those causes are citizens of the United States over the inhabi
the abundance of land compared with the tants of countries oppressed by taxes, restric
population, the high price of labour, and the tions and monopolies. It is believed that
want of a sufcient capital. The superior at even at this time the only powerful obstacle
tractions of agricultural pursuits, the great against which American manufactures have
extension of American commerce during the to struggle, arises from the vastly superior
late European wars, and the continuance ot capital of the rst manufacturing nation of
habits after the causes which produced them Europe, which enables her merchants to give
have ceased to exist, may also be enumerated. very long credits, to sell on small prots, and
Several of those obstacles have, however, to make occasional sacrifices.
been removed or lessened. The cheapness oi
The information which has been obtained
provisions had always, to a certain extent, is not sufcient to submit, in conformity with
counterbalanced the high price of manual

labour; and this is now in many important
branches nearly superseded by the introduc
tion of machinery: a great American capital
creases the expense; and it appears that the has been acquired during the last tWenty
erection of ten thousand supercial square years; and the injuriousviolation of the neutral
feet, costs one thousand dollars, and that they commerce of the United States, by forcing
produce only two hundred bushels a year. A industry and capital into other channels, have
more favorable result is anticipated on the broken inveterate habits, and given a general
coast of North Carolina, on account of the impulse to which must be ascribed the great
dierence in the climate; and works covering increase of manufactures during the two last
.
275,000 square feet have been lately erected years.
The revenue of the United States being
there.
principally derived from duties on the impor
IVIieccllaneoua.
Respecting the other manufactures enu tation of foreign merchandize, these have also
merated in the former part of this report, no operated as a premium in favour of American
important or correct information have been manufactures, whilst on the other hand the
received, except as relates to the two follow continuance of peace, and the frugality oi
government have rendered unnecesssry any
ing.
Straw bonnets and hats are made with great oppressive taxes, tending materially to en
success; and a small district in Rhode Island hance the price of labour, or impeding any
and Massachusetts annually exports to other species of industry.
No cause indeed has perhaps more pro
patts of the Union, to the amount of 250,000
moted,
in every respect, the general proa
dollars. See communication (N.)
Several attempts have been made to print perity of the United States, than the absence
calicoes; but it does not seem that the manu of those systems of internal restrictions and
factures can, without additional duties, stand monopoly which continue to disgure the state
the resolution of the house, the plan best cal
culated to protect and promote American

manufactures. The most obvious means are
bounties, increased duties on importation, and
loans by government.
Occasional premiums might be benecial;

but a general system of bounties is more ap
plicable to articles exported than to those
manufactured for home consumption.
The present system of duties may, in some
respects, be equalized and improved so as to
protect some species of manufactures without
affecting the revenue. But prohibitory duties
are liable to the treble objection of destroying
cotnpctilion,0f taxing the consumer, and of di
verting capital and industry into channels ge
nerally less protable to the nation than those
which would have naturally been pursued by
individual interest left to itself. A moderate
increase will be less dangerous, andif adopted,
should be continued through a certain period;

for the repeal of a duty once laid, materially
injures those who have relied on its perma
nency, and has been exemplified in the salt

manufacture.
Since, however, the comparative want of
capital, is the principal obstacle to the intro
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l ducuon
.
.
and advancement of manufactures m
' America, it seems that the most eicicnt and
most obvious remedy would consist in sup

plying that capital. For although the extension
of banks may give some assistance in that
1 respect, their operation is limited to a few
places, nor does it comport with the nature of
those institutions to lend for periods as long
as are requisite for the establishment of
manufactures. The United States might cre
ate a circulating stock, bearing a low rate 01
interest, and lend it at par to manufactures, on
principles somewhat similar to that formerly
adopted by the states of New York and Penn
sylvania in their loan oicee. It is believed
that a plan might be devised by which ve
The diamond which ornaments the hilt of mon misfortune. His great revolutionary ser
Bonaparte's sword is Worth l2,000,00() ot vices; his irreproachable moral character; his
francs, which is three times the value of the incorruptible personal integrity; and the so
celebrated Orleans diamond.
lidity of his political sentiments, conspire to
The court of Denmark, it is said, has seiz render his loss a public calamity, as well as
ed and ordered for sale, all American vessels a distressing family bereavement.
in its ports, and directed the proceeds to be

HEALTH OFFICE,
paid into the royal treasury.
May 12, 1810.
March 28.
Interment: in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
from the 5th to the 12th May, 1810.
The following letter has been received from
Diseases.
ad. ch.
I)isealel.
ad. ch.
Holland, but we are by no means disPOsed to
Apople xy
1 0 Inammation ofthe
pledge ourselves for the truth of its con Consumption ofthe
brain
0
lungs
2 0 Inammation ofthe
Convulsions
2 l
bowels
3 0
Decay
1 0 Pleurisy
2 I.
matters of apprehended dttl'erence between Dropsy ofthe breast 1 0 Rickets
0 1
0 2
the courts of Russia and France are nally Dropsy in the brain 1 1 Scrofula
Drowned
1 0 Stillborn
0 1
tents:
Banks of the Scheldt, March 22.All
millions of dollars a year, but not exceeding and amicably adjusted, so that there is not the
Fever
in the whole twenty millions, might be thus smallest chance of a disagreement between
lent, without any material risk of ultimate loss. these two powers.
Fever, Puerperal
Gangrene
Hooping cough
1 0
1 0
0 1
and without taxing or injuring any other part

of the community.
All which is respectfully submitted,

ALBERT GALLATIN.
Treasury Department, April 17th, 1810.
(To be continued.)
_O__
Total 27
Of the above there were,
be immediately commenced, to Great Britain Under 1 year by France, upon the occasion ol the august Between 1 and 2
5
matrimonial alliance between France and
5
10
10
2O
Austria.
20
30
Several sail of the line are assembled at
Yarmouth, and are to be joined by a eet ol
transports, with troops, destined upon a secret

New York, May l5. By the British Packet expedition.
d.
Princess Amelia, captain Moorson, which ar
'3 The eighth Missionary Sermon will
rived at this port yesterday in 35 days from
Falmouth, London papers to the 6th of April be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Speece, in the
are received, from which the following ar Second Presbyterian Church, on Monday
evening next; after which a collection will
ticles are copied.
One circumstance has occasioned con be taken up to aid the funds of the General
siderable sensation in England: Sir Francis Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which
Burdett has been committed to the Tower for are appropriated to the important purposes
publishing a letter to his constituents in of sending the gospel to the blacks, to the
Cobbetts Register, under his own name in frontier settlements, and to the Indian tribes.
N. B. Divine service to begin precisely at
which he denies the power of the House of
Commons to imprison the people of England eight oclock.
u_
The U. S. frigate John Adams sailed from
MARRIED,
Cowes for France on the 26th of March, with
On the l2th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Myers,
dispatches from Mr. Pinckney.
London, March 26.
19
*t Pacic proposals have been made, or will
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Two ships have arrived from Norway. The

passengers describe the situation of the in
habitants of that inhospitable region, as most
deplorable from the scarcity of the ordinary
means of subsistance. From Riga, under the
date of the 17th ultimo, we learn that trade
had acquired considerable activity. Hemp was
sold at 22 dollars, and the prices of other
Baltic commodities had not declined, though
prices of colonial produce remained the same.
A negociation for the exchange of prison-
ers betWeen this country and France, is at '
present pending; and an agent for conducting
On the l5th, by the Rev. Mr. Hurley, Mr.

Fielding Lucas, junr. of Baltim'ore, to Miss
Between 50 and 60
60
70
3
0
3
0
70
80
80
90
1
O
90
100
30
40
5
10
40
50
__
Total 27
By order of the Board of Health,
JOHN ALLISON, Clerk.

STATE OF THE THERMOMETER.
9 oclock. 12 oclock. 3 oclock.
May 7
61
63
62
8
65
64
63
9
66
69
67
10
72
72
70
11
68
72
6;}
12
65
72
68
*
Interments in the city of New York and at Pot.

ters Field, from the 28th April to the 4th May,
1810, adults 21, children 7; total 28.
.
Apoplcxy
Carbunc e
Casualties
Childbed
Cold
Consumption
Decay
Typhus fever
Mr. William IVurts, merchant, to Miss Ann Fracture
Lentz, eldest daughter of Henry Lentz, esq.

all of this city.
4
1
2 Hives
1 Inammation of lungs
2 lntemperance
1 Old age
1 Palsy
7 Pleurisy
2 Scurvy
1 Sudden death
1 Teething
1
1
l
1
1
1
l
2
1
lnterments in the burial ground of the city and

precincts of Baltimore, during the week ending
May 17 at sunrise, adults 14-. children 9; total 23.
Drowned
2 Unknown
2
Worm s
1 Cholera
2
Childbed
1 Bilious
2
Eliza Carrcll, daughter of Mr. John Cart-ell,

ofthis city.
Fits
Same day. by the Rev. Dr. Rogers. Mr. Dropsy
John Berwick, of Baltimore, to Miss Sarah Stillborn
3
1
Pleurisy
Consumption
1
4
m
M Taylor, of this city.
The price of the Philadelphia Repertory is four
On the l6th, by the Rev. Dr. Gray, Capt.
dollars per annum, payable quarterly in advance.
Reuben Woodwortb, of Connecticut,
to
Miss
_
At the close of the year will be presented a title
Margaret Syminglon. of this city.
page and index, with at least one handsome en
DlED,
graving.
Subscriptions and communications, post paid,
At his seat in Hingham, (Mass) on \Ved
the same will shortly leave this country for a
will be thankfully received.
nesdaylast, MajorGeneral Benjamin Lincoln,
French port.
The value of the jewels and nuptial orna-l late collector of the port of Boston and
PHILADELPHIA:
ments which Napoleon has destined for his Charlestown.-The death of Gen. Lincoln,
Printed and published by Dennis Heartt,
full of years and full of honor, is no com
No. 17, Arch Street.
bride are estimated at 18,000,000 of francs.
@iljiliabelpbiaweperforp.
SATURDAY, MAY 26," 1810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
DAVID RITTENHOUSE,
Pruident of the American Philosophical Society.
quainted with the principles of national ju

risprudence, by listening to his son while he
read to him in his shop, the works of Grotius
and Puffendorf; and Herschel conceived the
Im an oration delivered before the society by Dr.

Bush, 17th December, 1796.
Dsvw Ri'r'rmlnousn was born in Ger

mantown on the 8th of April, I732; his an
cestors emigrated from Holland about the

beginning of the present century. They were
distinguished, together with his parents, for
probity, industry, and simple manners. It is
from sources thus pure and retired, that
those talents and virtues have been chiey
derived, which have in all ages enlightened

the world. They prove by their humble ori
gin, that the Supreme Being has not surren
dered up the direction of human a'airs to
the advantages acquired by accident or vice,
and they bear a constant and faithful testimo
ny of his impartial goodness, by their neces
my and regular inuence in' equalizing the
condition of mankind. This is the divine or
der of things, and every attempt to invert it
is a weak and unavailing effort to wrest the
N0. 4.
mi
great idea of a new planet, while he exercis

ed the humble oice of a musician to a
marching regiment.
It was during the residence of our ingen

ious philosopher with his father in the coun
try, that he made himself master of sir Isaac
in urging him to remove to this city, in order

to enlarge his opportunities of improvement
and usefulness. He yielded with reluctance to
their advice, and exchanged his beloved re
tirement in the country for this city in the
year 1770. Here he continued for several
years to follow his occupation of a clock and
mathematical instrument maker. He excel
led in both branches of that business. His
mathematical instruments have been esteem
ed, by good judges, to be superior in accu
racy and workmanship to any of the same
Newtons Princiflia, which he read in the

English translation of Mr. Mott. It was here
likewise he became acquainted with uxions, kind that have been imported from Europe.
of which sublime invention he believed him
About the time he settled in Philadelphia,
self for a while to be the author, nor did he he became a member of our society. His
know for some years afterwards, that a con rst communication to the society was a cal
test had been carried on between sir Isaac culation of the transit of Venus, as it mm to
Newton and Leibnitz, for the honor of that
great and useful discovery. What a mind

was here! Without literary friends or society,
and with but two or three books, he became,
before he had reached his four and twentieth

year, the rival of the two greatest mathema
ticians in Europe.
It was in this retired situation, and while
happen on the third of June, 1769, in 40 de

grees north latitude, and 5 hours west lon~
gitude from Greenwich. He was one of a

committee appointed by the society, to ob
serve in the township of Norriton this rare
occurrence in the revolution of that planet,
and bore an active part in the preparations
which were made for that purpose.
government of the world from the hands- of employed in working at his trade, that he
We are naturally led here to take a view
planned and executed an orrery, in which he

represented the revolutions of the heavenly
bodies in a manner more extensive and com
plete than had been done by any former as
tronomers. A correct description of this or
rery, drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Smith, is pub
lished in the rst volume of our Transac
tions. This master piece of ingenious me
chanism was purchased by the college of New
Jersey, A second was made by him, after the
same model, for the use of the college of
Philadelphia. It now forms part of the philo
sophical apparatus of the university of Penn~
sylvania, where it has for many years oom
manded the admiration of the ingenious and
the learned, from every part of the world.
The reputation he derived from the con
struction of this orrery, as well as his general
ofour philosopher with his associates, in their

preparations to observe a phenomenon which
had never been seen but twice before by any
inhabitant of our earth, and which would ne
ver be seen again by any person then living,
and on which depended very important astro
God.
The early part of the life of Mr. Ritten
house was spent in agricultural employments
under the eye of his father, in the county of
Montgomery, twenty miles from Philadel
phia,to which place he removed during the
childhood of his son. It. was at this place his
peculiar genius rst discovered itself. His
plough, the fences, and even the stones of the
eld in which he worked, were frequently

marked with gures which denoted a talent
for mathematical studies. Upon nding that
the native delicacy of his constitution untted
him for the labors of husbandry, his parents
consented to his learning the trade of a clock
and mathematical instrument maker. in ac

quiring the knowledge of these useful arts,
he was his own instructor. They afforded
him great delight, in as muchas they favored character for mathematical knowledge, at
his disposition to inquire into the principles tracted the notice of his fellow citizens in
of natural philosophy. Constant employment Pennsylvania, and in several of the neigh
of any kind, even in the practice of the me boring states, but the discovery of his un
nomical consequences. The night before the
long expected day, was probably passed in a

degree of solicitude which precluded sleep,
How great must have been their joy when
they beheld the morning sun, " and the whole

horizon without a cloud; for such is the de
scription of the day given by Mr. Rittenhouse

in the report referred to by Dr. Smith. In
pensive silence and trembling anxiety, they

waited for the predicted moment of observa
tion; it came and brought with it all that had
been wished for and expected by those who

saw it. In our philosopher, it excited in the
instant of one of the contacts of the plamet

with the sun, an emotion of delight so exqui.
site and powerful as to induce fainting. This
chanical arts, has been found, in many instan

ces, to administer vigor to human genius.
common merit belonged chiey to his bro
will readily be believed by those who have
ther-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Barton, Dr. Smith,
known the extent of that pleasure which at
Franklin studied the laws of nature, while he

landled his printing types. The father of
Rousseau, a jeweller at Geneva, became sc
and the late Mr; John Lukens, an ingenious tends the discovery or rst perception of
mathematician of Philadelphia. These gentle.
truth. Soon after this event, we nd him act.
men fully appreciated his talents, and united ing as one of a committee appointed to 9b..
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She claimed him as her own, and employed

him in business of the utmost importance.
wise done at Norriton; an account of it was
In thto year 17 79, he was appointed, by the
drawn up, and published at the requestofj legislatureaof Pennsylvania, one ofthe com{
serve the transit of Mercury on the 9th of

November in the same year. This was like
the committee, by Dr. Smith. A ininute his

tory of the whole of'these events, in which
Mr. Rittcnhouse acted a distinguished part,_
is given in our Transactions. It was received
with great satisfaction by the astronomers of
Europe, and contributed much to raise the
character of our then infant country for as
tronomical knowledge.
In the year 1775, he was appointed to
compose and deliver the annual oration be
fore our society. The subject of it was the his
vy is not the least. Ambition bears on its pin

ions the aspiringmind, above the grovelling
pursuits which have only for their end the
gratidation'of a selshnppetite, and incites
missioners {or adjusting a territorial dispute to laudabltfenteiri'zes, which eventuate in
between Pennsylvania and Virginia, and to

hisvtalents, modgilation and rmness, were
ascribed, in; a;great degree, the satisfactory
the instrument is consequently honoredv by

termination
that once alarming controver those who take delight in bestowing on me
rit its reward.
_
sy, in the year 1785.
In 1784, he assisted in determining the
There are di'ercnt degrees of usefulness
length of 5 degrees of longitude from a point to which different persons are, by their pow.
on the Delaware, in order to x the western ers, qualied to arrive; we have no instance
of a man, however great his talents may have
limits of Pennsylvania.
In 1786, he was employed in xing the been, shining with equal lustre in every
northern line, which divides Pennsylvania sphere of the circle in which he may have
moved; nor have we yet known that being
from New York.
But the application of his talents and who could drink dry the streams of honor;
knowledge to the settlement of territorial they still ow freely, and the industrious re
disputes, was not conned to his native state. searcher may refresh himself from their ex
hilarating waters.
In the year 1769, he was employed in set
We have however known those who, with
tling the limits between New Jersey and
tory of astronomy. The language of this ora

tion is simple, but the sentiments contained in
it are ingenious, original, and in some instan
ces sublime. Astronomy was the favorite ob
ject of Mr. Rittenhouses studies. Attempts
have been made to depreciate this branch of
natural philosophy; but it is easy to show the
advantages of this science. It is to astronomy New York; and, in 1787, he was called upoii
that we are indebted for our knowledge of to assist in xing the boundary line between
navigation, by which means the different the states of Massachusetts and New, York.
parts of our globe have been discovered, and This last business, which was executed with
afterwards cemented together by the mutual his usual precision and integrity, Was his
wants and obligations of commerce.
farewcl peace offering to the union and hap
It was astronomy that taught mankind the piness of his country.
. t
art of predicting and explaining the eclipses
In his excursions through the wilderness,
of the sun and moon, and thereby delivered he carried with him his habits of inquiry and
them from the superstition, which, in the observation. Nothing in our mountains, soils,
early ages of the world, was connected with rivers and springs, escapedhis notice. It is
those phenomena of nature.
to be lamented, that his private letters and
We are taught by astronomy to correct the memories of his friends, are the only, re
our ideas of the visible heavens, and thus by cords of what he collected upon these occa
discovering the fallacy of the simple evi sions. Philosopher! orNaturalist! whosoever
dence of our senses, to call to their aid the
thou art, that shalt hereafter traverse thewi
use of our reason, in deciding upon all ma

terial objects of human knowledge.
Astronomy has the most powerful inu
ence upon morals and religion. Yes (says
our philosopher in another part of his ora
tion) the direct tendency of this science is to
dilate the heart with universal benevolence,
and to enlarge its views. It atters no prince
ly vice, nor national depravity. It encourages
not the libertine by relaxing any of the pre
cepts of morality, nor does it attempt to un
dermine the foundations of religion; it denies
none of those attributes which the wisest and
frequented woods of our state, forgetznot to

respect the paths rst marked bylbe feet of
best of mankind have, in all ages, ascribed
to the Deity. Nor does it degrade the human

mind from that dignity which is ever neces
sary to make it contemplate itself with com
placency.
.
Talents so splendid, and knowledge so
the general good; the effect of such exer

tionsjs felt, kno\m.and acknowledged, and
this ingenious and faithful servant of the.

public; honor the. fountains consecrated to
science by his skilful hand; and inhale, with
double pleasure, the pure atmosphere of the

mountains, on which be renewed his. ac
quaintance with the canopy of heaven, after

passing whole weeks in forests, so shady as
to conceal from him the .rays of the sun;
and, citizens of Pennsylvania, friends and
patrons of literature, be grateful for his ser

vices; let the remembrance of them be dear
to the present generation; and let a part of
the state, distinguished in a. more special
manner for its resources in natural know
ledge, hear his name, with honor, to the lat
est posterity.
'
(To be continued.)
practical in mathematics, are like mines of
_.9._
precious metals. They become public pro

perty by universal consent. The state of
CHARACTERISTICS.
For the Repertory.
Among the various ingredients which com

Pennsylvania was not insensible of the wealth
she possessed in the mind ofMr. Rittenhouse. pose the bitter in the cup of human life, en
but small claims of merit, have endeavored
to tear from the brow of their successful ri

val the laurel which their usefulness has en
titled them to wear. From whence arises
this disposition? Has it any afnity to liber
alit'y of sentiment? or, is it the offspring of
the monster Envy, whose machinations are
continually in. exercise for the destruction of

honest fame? Truly it can spring from none
other than this foul source.
' Two characters present themselves to our
view: Arno, whose candid mind and gene
rous sentiments render him the object of
general esteem; and Brevos, whose envious
disposition causes him to be 'shunned like

the unwholeso'me vapors of stagnant-waters.
Arno blames with candor faults which he
conceives it wouldbe criminal to pass with
outnotice; is ever ready to afford his assist:
ance. and advice, and derives pleasure from
the consideration of havingbeen instrumental
in improving others, and is ever willing him
self to prot by instruction: he can discover
excellencies, and delights to render them
conspicuous; he can discern faults, but suf
fers them not:to eclipse beauties which shine
although partially. obscured by .clouds of im

perfection: in short, he ever evinces a dispo
sition to place in the most prominent point of

view the exertions of virtue, and while he em
ploys his skill to correct errors, uses unWea
ried. diligence to screen the authors of them

from the malignant observations of those
who are gratied with the miseries of others
How opposite the character of Brevoal "0

sooner does the slightest impropriety meet
his notice, than he becomes the voluntary
agent of detraction, and proclaims it to the
world; the voice of scandal, when engaged in

denouncing him who, in an unguarded mO
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ment, has become the victim of imprudence, ers of Genius; his name is REFLECTION.
is to him the most heart cheering music; and With these brief hints I remain, Etc. yours,
be still exerts his ingenuity to cast a veil of
MARGARETTA.
obscurity over the merits of the unassuming,
while his malignant art is employed to paint

the virtues of his contemporaries in such co
lors as may render them of a dubious com
plexion, and triumphs in the idea that modest
talent sleeps in the bosom of oblivion.
Vho would not with to deserve that love
to which Arno is entitled? who would not
For the Repertory.

From a Brother to 1 Sister.
No. 11!.
My Dear Sister,
to glow with a sacred ame of joy, a lively

description of which is in their own words,
Did not our heart burn within us while he
talked with us by the way and opened unto
us the scriptures!
Happy souls are they who are divinely in
structed in the things which belong to their
eternal peace, to whom God makes known
his ways and endows with strength to walk

in them; this is the privilege of the people of
Meditating on the various employments God, to them is given to know the riches of
shun with indignant sentiments such prac and amusements which engross the atten
tices as justly x on Brevos a disgusting tion of mankind, I am led to consider the dis
redeeming love; " the secret of the Lord is

with them that fear him," and the blessed
tinguished situation in which the christian is Spirit takes of the things which are Christ's
*0.
placed. He is never more in his proper ele and shows them to their souls.
To the Editor of the Repertory,
But if we expect to meet Jesus we should
ment than when his mind is employed on di
be
found in the way of our duty, seeking him
Dear Sir,
vine subjects. Hc is in the world, but not of
I have just received the third number of the world; the important business of his life with sincerity of heart in his public ordi~
your paper and feel highly gratied that in is to do the will of God, and endeavor to nanccs, in our private devotions and in every
your notes to correspondents, you have inti promote his glory. For this purpose he nds situation in which we may be placed; for he
mated a willingness to accept of communica it necessary to seek for heavenly knowledge: hath promised that u where two or three are
A.
tions from the female part of the community,
the scriptures of truth are in his hands, and
for it appears to me that the observation of it is his duty and privilege to read them with
my uncle, Dr. Caustic, Men of genius no an engaged heart, looking to God for the en
leisuremen of leisure no genius," is veri lightening inuences of his Spirit, to enable
ed by daily experience; to make up for this him properly to understand them; and being
deciency of intellect and this sordid en led by that Spirit, he will not fail of obtaining
gagedness in the men, I do sincerely hope that true wisdom which cometli down from
our sex will give you the aid of their talents. above. The blessed Saviour hath said, " seek
Indeed I have seriously thought (believe me and ye shall nd;" he will cast none of on
sir, for women sometimes think seriously) account of their ignorance if sincerely desir
that were we to unite our strength and con ous of being taught of God; " if any one lack
centrate our abilities, We might effect a re
wisdom let him ask of God, who givetli libe
version of the decrees of fame, and become rally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given
ourselves the literati of the city; this is not a him.
precipitate thought, evanescent as the morn
In the divine life there is an eternal pro
ing mist; it has been whispered in several of gression towards innite perfection; and those
our social circles; and the idea of an associa
who have made great attainments, when they
tion for this purpose even communicated to contemplate the inexhaustible source from
some of our beaux, but their assumed self whence those streams flow by which their
consequence has rendered them insensible to souls are now refreshed, nd that they know
the practicability of such a plan. Having, but little of all that is to be revealed to those
however, felt areadiness ever to acknowledge who love the Saviour.
and admire the talents of men of taste who
The two disciples on their way to Emmaus
are willing to improve an hour by devoting it seem to have been ignorant of the spirituality P
to letters, and recognizing some of this de of what they were conversing about; but when
scription in the number of your paper before Jesus came to them and explained the scrip
me, I am not immediately desirous of effect tures to their understandings, light beamed
ing the objects of our scheme, but still hope into their souls, and they began to reect on
your future numbers will evince that the Attic the great events which had recently taken
re still warms the bosoms of gentlemen of place, in a very different manner from what
the present day, and I shall be pleased to see they did before. But though they u ere sen
a respectable number of volunteers enter the sible of the superior degree of light they had
eld of literature under the banner you have received by the instructions of their heavenly
erected. Surely, sir, they can be at no loss for companion, they knew not that it was the Re
subjects; but if this be an objection, permit deemer himself who discoursed with them,
me to recommend to them an adviser the until by a nearer communion he was pleased
most intelligent, who dwells in the vale of to manifest himself; at which time they be
Serenity, to whom Truth has committed in gan to consider of the inuence his instruc
trust the keys of her cabinet, who unlocks tions had on them, and to speak one to an
the stores of Science, who cultivates the ow other, as christians delight to do, of the pow
er of his presence which caused their hearts
. The Eye, vol. I. p. 31.
met together in his name he will be in the

midst of them; and in all our private walks
God ought ever to be in our thoughts, and
the language of our hearts should be, thou,

Lord, who seest me, direct my steps. Let us
therefore, my dear sister, he constantly en

gaged seeking to know our interest in the
S..viours love; and may our souls desire a
knowledge of the excellency of God as re
vealed by the grace which is treasured up in
Christ. These are the sentiments of your
brother, which he humbly hopes you will
pray may ever actuate his affections.
J.
We offer no apology for the ensuing selec

tion: good sense will always recommend it
self to good taste and erudition.
GENIUS AND TASTE CONTRASTED.
Various are the denitions which have

been given of Genius. it is a word still used
in the greatest latitude. Thus we commonly
say, a person possesses a mathematical or a
poetical genius, or a genius for music, sculp
ture, or painting; or, from some happy ulld
successful efforts in any of the arts or scien
ces, the voice of the public or posterity may
honor him with the appellation of a great or
transcendant genius.
The vulgar, whose ideas are always with
out accuracy or order, generally substitute
one quality of mind for another. For this rea
son, Genius and Taste are often mistaken for
synonimous terms and confounded, though

it is hardly possible for any two things to be
more distinct. Indeed, their difference is so
great and various, as to merit a short illustra
tion. This is the more worthy of attention,

that it may furnish us with some pertinent
and satisfactory conceptions of the subject.
By Taste, we receive pleasure from arti
as
W 5
ficial or natural beauty, and judge ofcorrcct

ness and elegance in particular compositions.
To the Editor of the Repertory.
We are enabled by Genius to perform in
My reading has been of the desultory kind;

and I have, from time to time, treasured up
such extracts as I thought might afford me
amusement and instruction at a future day.
As your paper appears to be a good literary
asylum for fugitive pieces, I cheerfully offer
you my collection. I cannot at this distant
day recollect the authors from whom they
such a manner as to make others perceive the

pleasures of Taste. The one communicates
such qualities to an object as are discernible
at least in an exquisite degree, by those only
who possess the other. if a tragedy makes
me shed no tears, the writer has missed his
aim. lfa poem or picture raises no emotions
in 1' ~"_.' mind, I conclude the artist destitute of
Genius, or he may conclude me destitute of
Taste.
Though a very palpable connection sub
sists between Taste and Genius, the one may
often prevail in a very extraordinary degree
where there is but little of the other. The

rst implies delicacy, the second the strength
of imagination. The one may prevail in a
rude, the other never but in a polished, and
both are essential to a nished character. Ho

mer, Shakspearc, and Milton, are all distin
guished by a genius eminently original and

extensive: yet which of these great masters
is not chargeable with blunders, which an ac
curate and rened taste must have prevented?
It will be generally found that a good
taste is much more universal than a ne
genius. Many who are incapable of imitating

or equalling, can yet relish the beauties or
excellence of the most nished performances.
One is the eye of a rened, the other the
executive faculties of a masterly understand
ing.
Some portion or share of taste, however,

seems indispensable to the rudest exertions
of genius. Order and design are more or less
inseparable from all the eorts of a rational

agent. There are rules to which the boldest
minds are in no case, on no occasion, superi
ris, and such other heterogeneal language,
without dilucidation of their genuine signifi

cation, we lose the whole system of your doc
trine in admiration of your eximious erudi
tion. Being therefore undera panic timidity,
lest we should see a restauration of the dia
lect of Babel, and that some sesquipedalian
circumfomneous saltimbanco should mount
the rostrum, and after your example, should
in spagirical bombast repuzzle the quintes
were selected; but this I know, that there sentials of our ingeniosities, with more amal
are some original pieces among them, for gamations, cohobations, and xations; We beg
I was favored with the perusal of several you to call to mind St. Austins saying, 111a!
manuscripts. You are at liberty to cull out lem ut rc/zre/tendant grammatici, quzim non
such as you like, and present them to the intelligent [zo/mli: I had rather that the gram
public in whatever form you may think pro marians should blame, than that the people
per. Being altogether miscellaneous, some of should not understand me.
.
And now,egregious sir,we supplicate your
them may chance to hit the fancy of some of
your readers: if so, it will give me no small clemency, not to look upon these lines as de
rogatory to your most exquisite parts and pro
degree of pleasure. Yours, Ste.
G. H.
found science: for we rather admire such
THE CATERER.
superlative acquisitions; which however we
No. I.
humbly opine, are more proper to be display
A LITERARY CURIOSITY.
The following singular letter was actually ed among learned academicians, than me
sent to a young country clergyman (who used chanical and agrestical auditors. And we ex
hard words in his sermons) in behalf of his istimate ourselves abundantly justied in this
poor ignorant congregation; by a gentleman our humble application by the authority of
St. Paul, much greater than that of St. Aus
who accidentally heard him.
tin, who says, interpreted in plain English,
To the most deoteronomical polydoxologist, panto
If I know not the meaning of the voice, I
philological linguist, Mr. , mhi rabbi lophi
shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian)
diotrephes, Ste.
and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto
Sir,
The unanimous and humillimous desidera me, 1 Cor. xiv. 11. And thus having copu
tions, as well of your parochian, as hic et ubi lated our plebeian endeavors, we exosculate
quitarian, illiterate, semipaganian auditors, the subumbration of your subligacles, and
beg leave submissively to remonstrate, that sooner shall the surges of the sandifcrous sea
although by your specious proems, and spa ignify and evaporate, than the cone of our du
cious introductions, promising great perspi ty towards you be in the least unconcatenate
cuity in predication, you endea'. or to invei or dissolved, always wishing you health and
Sir,
A, B, C, D, 8w.
gle our affections, in order to indoctrinate our happiness.
or. It is not this which gives Genius the agricolated intellects; yet through the caligi
P. S. To render our petition in this epistle
power to please, but this certainly prevents nous sublimity of internexed conundrums, to the more acceptable to you, we prevailed with
nitruating with obstreperous cadencies, you the schoolmaster to draw it up in a style as
it from disgusting others.
But the chief characteristic of Genius is rather obfuscate than illuminate our a-b-c4la
invention. It creates and multiplies, while rian conceptions, so that we generally return
Taste only arranges and digests. It is Genius not at all edied, but puzzled, confounded and
who projects the plan and produces materi aston'ished.We therefore for our souls' good,
als; it is Taste from whom they derive that (in bonnc esperance, that your urbanity will
symmetry and adhesion, which forms and en not be exasperated at the presentation ofthese
joins them into one building. This noble and our cordial desires) do from the nadir of our
prolic talent gives the former a decided su rusticity almacanterise to the very zenith ot
periority over the latter. Genius, like the Nile your unparalleled sphere of activity, in be
or the Ganges,fertilizes the most barren soil seeching your exuberant genius to nutriate
over which it ows. it acts in the articial, our rational appetites with intelligible theolo
as the sun does in the natural, world. A cer gy, suitable to our plebeian apprehensions,
tain degree of light and heat are felt wherever and to recondite your acioaiiiatical locutions
it shines. It possesses the power of charming for more scholastic auscultators. For, while
the fancy and captivating the heart. From it our'fu'st, second, and third selves, together
the tritest subjeCts derive lustre and novelty, with our domestics, all of Ignoraniuss olf
and without its assistance, the newest and spring, hear you gigantize in lycophronian'
most exalted lose their original qualities, and and pharigenous raptures, in wotds we never
met within holy writ, as corollaries, epheme
become base and vulgar.
near as he could to your own.

AMERICAN mounts.
Reliance may be placed on the correctness
of the following information, from the respec
table source from which it proceeds. It is part
of a letter from James Oglethorpe, esq. in
Georgia, to the honorable_, in London,
dated June 9, 1733. We presume that the
picture, though drawn at so early a period,

will, in most of its features, be found to re
semble that of the Aborigines of our country

at the present day.
"
There seems to be a door opened to our
colony towardsthe conversion of the Indians.
I have had many conversations with their
chief men, the whole tenor of WiliClA snows
that there is nothing Wanting to their conver

sion, but one who understands their language
PHILADELPHIA REPE RTO'RY.
29
well, to explain to them the mysteries of reli

gion; for as to the moral part of christianiiy
they understand it and assent to it. They ab
hor adultery, and do not approve of a plurality
of wives. Theft is a thing not known among
the Creek nation, though frequent, and even
honorable, amongst the Uchees. Murder they

look on as a most abominable crime, but do
not esteem the killing of an enemy, or one

that has injured them, murder. The passion
of revenge, which they call honor, and drunk
enness. which they learnt from our traders,
seem to be the two greatest obstacles to their
being truly christians: but upon both these
points they hear reason; and with respect to
drinking of rum, I have weaned those near
me a good deal from it. As for revenge, they
say, as they have no executive power of jus

tice amongst them, they are forced to kill the
man who has injured them, in order to pre
vent others from doing the like; but they do
not think that any injury, except adultery or
murder, deserves revenge. They hold, that
ifs man commits adultery, the injured hus
band is obliged to have revenge, by cutting off

the ears of the adulterer, which if he is too
sturdy and strong to submit to, then. the in
jured husband kills him the rst opportunity

he has so to do with safety. In cases of mur
der, the next in blood is obliged to kill the
murderer, or else he is looked on as infzunous
in the nation where he lives; and the weak
ness of the executive power is such, that

there is no other way of punishment but by
the avenger of blood, as the scripture calls it.
For there is no coercive power in any of their
nations. Their kings can do no more than
fizrauadt. All the power they have is no more
than to call their old men and captains toge
ther, and to propound to them the measures
they think proper. After they have done
speaking all the others have liberty to give
their Opinions also, and they reason together
with great temper and modesty, till they have
brought each other into some unanimous re
solution; then they call in the young men, and
recommend to them the putting in execution

the resolution, with their strongest and most
lively eloquence. And, indeed, they seem to

me, both in action and expression, to be tho
rough masters of true eloquence. In speak

ing to their young men they generally ad
dress to the passions; in speaking to their old
men they apply to reason only. Tomo-chi-chi,
in his rst set speech to me, among other

things, said, Here is a little present; and then
gave me abualos skin, painted on the inside
with the head and feathers of an eagle. He

desired me to accept it, because the eagle
signied speed, and the buffalo, strength.
they ew from the utmost parts of the earth
violent anger, and that he stikcs a blow,
over the vast seas; and, like the second, no~
which knocks a person down and kills him.

He awakes in horror at the thought of what
thing could withstand them. That the feathers

of the eagle were soft, and signied love; the
bualos skin Warm, and signied protection;
therefore he hoped that we would love and
protect their little families. One of the Indi
ans ofthe Cherichee nation being come down
to the governor upon the rumor of the war,
the governor told him that he need fear no
thing, but might speak freely. He answered
smartly, I always speak freely; what should 1
fear? lam now among my friends, and 1 tie
ver feared even amongst my enemies. An
other instance of their short manner of speak
ing was, when I ordered one of the Carolina
boatmen, who Was drunk and had beaten an
Indian, to be tied to a gun till he was sober in
order to be whipped; Tomo-chi-chi came to

me to beg me to pardon him, which I refused
we ever derive this advantage from dreams,

we cannot pronounce them useless. And why
may we not in this way reap improvement
from a ction of our own fancy, as well as
from a novel or a fable of Esop?

One of the nest moral tales I ever read,is
an account of a dreamin The Taller, which,
though it has every appearance of a real
dream, comprehends a moral so sublime and
en, should also desire the pardon for him.
if he remembers, whether he can ever cease
Tomo-chi-chi desired him so to do; but he
to be the better for it. Addison is the author

insisted on satisfaction by the punishment of of the paper; and I give the story in his own
the man; upon which Tomo-chi-chi said, O elegant words.
Fonseka, (for that was his name,) this Eng
n I was once," says the Tatlcr, in ago
lishman, being drunk, has beat you; if he is nies of grief that are unutterablc, and in so
whipt for so doing, the Englishmen Will ex great a distraction of mind, that I thought
pect that, if an Indian should insult them myself even out of the possibility of receiv
when drunk, the Indian should be whipt for ing comfort. The occasion was as follows:
it. \Vhen you are drunk you are quarrel When I was a youth, in a part of the army
some; and you know you love to be drunk, but which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in
you dont love to be whipt. Fonse ka was con love with an agreeable young woman, of a
vinced and begged me to pardon the man, good family in those parts, and had the satis
which as soon as I granted, Tomo-chi-chi and faction of seeing my addresses kindly receiv
Fonseka ran and untied him; which I per ed; which occasioned the perplexity I am
ceived was done to show that he owed his going to relate. We were, in a calm eve
safety to their intercession."
ning, diverting ourselves on the top of the
cliff with the prospect of the sea; and triing
away the time in such little fondnesses as
OF DREAMING.
are most ridiculous to people in business,
(Continued.)
5. After hinting that dreams may be of use and most agreeable to those in love. In the
in the way of physical admonition; what if I midst of these our innocent cndearments,
should go a step further, and say, that they she snatched a paper of verses out of my
may be serviceable as means of moral im hand, and ran away with them. I was follow
provement? I will not airm, however, as ing her, when, on a sudden, the ground,
some have done, that by them we may make though at a considerable distance from the
a more accurate discovery of our temper and verge of the precipice, sunk under her, and
prevailing passions, than by observing what threw her down from so prodigious a height,
passes in our minds when awake. For in upon such a range of rocks, as would have
sleep we are very incompetent judges of our dashed her into ten thousand pieces, had her
selves, and of every thing else: and one will body been made of adamant. his much easier
dream of committing crimes with little re for my reader to imagine my state of mind
morse, which, if awake, one could not think upon such an occasion, than for me to ex
press it. I said to myself, it is not in the
of without horror. But, as many of our pas
sions are inamed or allayed by the tempera power of heaven to relieve me; when I
ture of the body, this, I think, may be afrm uwaked, equally transported and astonished,
ed with truth, that, by attending to what pas to see myself drawn out of an aiiction, which
ses in sleep, we may sometimes discern what the very moment before appeared to be alto
passions are predominant, and so receive gether inextricable."
lish were as swift as the bird, good hints for the regulation of them.
,
{-7' f". a
ble to form resolutions against violent anger,

lest it should one time or other hurry him
on to a real perpetration of a like nature. If
so interesting, that I question, whether any

man who attends to it can ever forget it; and
That the
._
a moment's recollection, he rejoices to nd

that it is but a dream, he will also be inclina
to do, unless the Indian who had been beat
and as s
mhsince, like the rst,
he has done, and of the punishment he thinks

he has reason to apprehend: and while, after
I might enlarge on the beauty ofthis narra
A man drums, for example, that he isin vei but I mean only to recommend to. the
50
PHI
m
serious consideration of the reader, the im
which sleep does not seem, at one time or
portent lesson implied in it. \Vhat fable of other, to have great inuence, fancy alone
Esop, nay of Homer, or of Virgil, conveys
so fine a moral? Yet most people have, I am
excepted: and even this faculty appears to be
Yes. lovely stream. dear to my early youth,

I hail thee as a bosom friend sincere,
From thee l learud the salutary truth
That bade me Virtue and her laws revere.
S.
extinguished, when we sleep without dream

_____
'\m-f
i g, (if that is ever the case,) and sometimes

acquires a vivacity and a wildness that are
quite unaccountable.
Who can tell, but the temporary suspen
awakes in the regions of everlasting light and sion of these powers may be useful, by en
peace; looking back upon the world and its abling them to act more regularly, and with
troubles, with a surprise and a satisfaction, greater vigor, at other times? Or, to express
similar in kind (though far higher in degree) it in different words, who can tell, but the
to that which we now feel, when we escape soul, when it has long acted in one direction,
from a terrifying dream, and open our eyes may be relieved and strengthened, by quitting
upon the sweet serenity of a summers morn the old track entirely fora while, and exert
ing. Let us not despise instruction, how mean ing itself in a new one? For, when we think
soever the vehicle may be that brings it. too long on any one subject, we nd that our
Even if it be a dream, we may learn to prot intellectual energies become languid turd un
by it. For, whether asleep or awake, we are successful, and that a little rest is necessary
equally the care of Providence: and neither a to the soul as well as to the body. Nay, on
dream nor a waking thought can occur to us, these occasions, the mind may regain her
without the permission of Him, "in whom vigor, not only by rest, but also, and more
we live, and move, and have our being.
etl'ectually perhaps, by exerting herself in
6. The imagination, or fancy, seems to be another way. Thus, conversation makes us
almost the only one of our mental powers, forget the labor of invention: reading is a
which is never suspended in its operations, by relief after the fatigue ofcornpany: music is
sleep. Of the other faculties, some are more frequently more soothing than silence: and
and others less affected, and some appear to they who are harrassed with metaphysical
be for a time wholly extinguished. That ine uncertainty, may nd a cure in the demon
rnory is often impaired in sleep, is evident strations oi Euclid.
sure I have, met with such deliverances by
means of a dream. And such deliverance

will every good man meet with at last, when
he is taken away from the evils of life, and
For the Repertory.

ORIGINAL (JIIARADES.
I.
My rst some writers call a part of speech:
My resend is of sight the utmost reach:
My rbr'rd is the familiar well known name
Common to two parts of the human frame;
My wbole. united, plainl) will unfold
An aurbor on the list of fame enrolld.
lI
Mynr upholds a shield, a sword or spear,
And from my second wrll its power appear;
My tubal: will show bim, in whose nervous line
Virtue and medical instruction slime.
AMUEMENT.
pbaaflllbi.
SATIRIHY, MAY 26 l8l0.
T0 CORRESPONDENTS.
If any apology to " H." be necessary, for

not mentioning him in our notes last week,
the insertion of his Jeu desprit" will satisfy
him that our omission did not arise-from de
sign or indifference. We are, indeed, solicit
ous to enliven our paper occasionally with the

effusions of an innocent hilarity; though we
(To be continued.)
from this, that a person shall dream of con
..re by no means ambitious of being always
versing with his deceased friends, without
on the broad grin with Democritus. nor of
For the Repertory.
wearing the woe-be-gone phiz of Heraclitus.
remembering any thing of their death,thougu
THL til-ratLhT.
There is certainly a happy medium, which is
that even is seldom out of his thoughts when
Bead ll.
as friendly to the mind as to the body, and
awake. Sometimes we seem to be carried
FAITH, ;\ bUNNET.
has a cheering inuence on the variegated
back into the ages of antiquity, without being
Through Faith we look beyond these earthly scenes.
journey of. human life. This medium shall be
sensible of what in our waking moments we
B More.
one of our resorts of pleasure: hence our
can never forget, that those ages were past Lo! Faith. triumphant. mounts on daring wing,
Beyond all worlds. beyond bOlh space and time,
readers may justly infer, that to communica
before we had an existence: as I remember
And gains the heavenly bolyma sublime,
once to have dreamed that I was passing the
tions of humor, wit and ction we shall give
Alps with Hannibal and his army. Sometimes Where reigns, enshrined in light, creation's King. a welcome reception.
our memory seems to be more vigorous than Mid countless myriads there. in bliss above,
Alonzo's" piece shall be inserted with
Of spirits gloried. a dazzling throng!
our judgment; as when we dream of convers
pleasure, if he will, in any way agreeable to
ving with a dead friend, and yet are not surpris
Who ceaseless chaunr their hallelujah song,
himself, assure us of its being original. It ex
She holds sweet converse \vilh the God of love.
ed at the circumstance of seeing and talking
hibits marks of foreign manufacture; one of
with such aperson. At other times, judgment As swift descending from th empyreal throne,
which is the introduction of " Philomel, a
She brings to earth the treasures of the skies,
is more active. Thus, as already observed,
poetical
name for the nightingale,which is not
Rich aniepast ofjoys and ecsracies.
men sometimes conclude (and I have reason To human eye and ear and though: unknown.
a native of our country: still, however, it may
to believe that the same thing happens to
be an original, though the use of such names
These to the new born soul give life divine,
children) from the absurdity of the scenes
is certainly injudicious in an American poet.
Where heavenly love and holy rapture shine.
that present themselves in sleep, that they
AMYNTOR. We avail ourselves of this opportunity to
are not real, but visionary. I dreamed once,
make this general remark to our correspond
e'n, and we hope it will be received with the
that I was walking on the parapet of a high
For the Repertory.
.
same spirit of candor in which it is offered:
bridge. How I came there I did not know:
ADDRESS TO THE TIBER, CITY OF
WASHINGTON.
That we trust they have too much love of
but, recollecting that I had never been given
country to acknowledge that they are by na
to pranks of that nature, I began to think it Calm owing Tiber, gently gliding stream,
0ft have I stny'd along thy sedgy side,
might be a dream; and, nding my situation
ture inferior to Europeans in intellect or ta
And pleased oft view'd the moons resplendent beam
lent; and too much principle'and regard to re-'
uneasy, and desirous to get rid of so trouble
Reected in thy sparkling, glirtring ride.
putation to degrade themselves by descending
some an idea, Ithrew myself headlong, in the
0ft. by thy side. has Contemplation wrought,
to
the meanness of attempting to impose, as
belief that the shock of the fall would restore
Within my breast. sweet techngs half divrne;
original compositions, pieces which they well
my senses; which happened accordingly. In Twas there my youthful heaii Reection tlught,
a word, there are none of our powers, over
know are not such. if they are attered by
' Only be virtuous, happiness is thine!
3]
unity with the acquisition of fame, let them

reect that such fame will be spurious and
evanescent, for the deception will sooner or
later be discovered, and the detection will x
on them the deserved and lasting stigma of

disgrace.
We feel a peculiar pleasure in introducing
to the public our young correspondent S."
His production, though a small one, evinces
a goodness of heart and a promise of poetic

talent, which are entitled to sincere com
mendation, and shall from us receive a me
rited encouragement: indeed, original effu

sions of Virtue and Genius, from whatever
quarter they may come, shall always meet

with an affectionate reception, and be treated
with distinguished favor.
The H Charades of H Amusement are
received with thankfulness. They will call
into action the ingenuity of our correspon
Mr. Pinkneys correspondence with the

marquis Wellesley appears to have excited
very general sensibility. Mr. Pinkneys let
ter, dated the 2d of January 1810, explains
the grounds upon which he was instructed
to request the recall of Mr. Jackson. The
marquis in his reply,dated the l4th of March,
says, that his majesty has been pleased to
direct the return of Mr. Jackson to England.
But his majesty has not marked with any ex
pression of his displeasure the conduct of Mr.
Jackson; whose integrity, zeal and ability have
long been distinguished in his majestys ser
vice; and who does not appear, on the present
occasion to have committed any intentional
offence against the government of the United
States. And that he (Mr. Jackson) is or
dered to deliver over the charge of his ma
jestys affairs in America to a person proper
ly qualied to carry on the ordinary inter
course between the two governments. It
does not then appear that any minister is to
requires a capital of one hundred thousand

dollars. We have three tanneries,for the con
veniency of collecting hark, rather than do all

our business at one place, which would ne
cessarily soon produce a scarcity of bark, we
use such aquantity, say one cord to six hides:
we have six hundred and seventytwo vats.
and three bark mills which grind our bark by
water, between two stones, as corn is ground.
We have the same number of hide mills

which go by water, for softening foreign
hides, taking 08 the hair and working the
hides. Also, three rolling machines, which
also go by water. These produce a very ad
vantageous effect in perfectly extending and
consolidating the soul leather after it is tan
ned, and supersedes the necessity of the shoe
makers hammering the leather; saves entire
ly the labor and waste attending that part of
the shoemakers business, and gives the lea
ther a closeness of texture by far beyond ham

mering or any other plan now practised. Al
be sent out to this country; but, according to so I have found much advantage by applying
dents, and afford them an opportunity of dis the concluding part of the marquiss letter, heat, by means of a copper cylinder, adapted
his ma'esty is ready to receive with senti to the purpose, passing through vats, we call
playing their poetical talents.
'e welcome " Margaretta" with the most ments 0 undiminished amity and goodwill leeches, in which we make the last e'ort to
any communication which the government of extract the tannin from the bark, after the
lively emotions of pleasure, and shall treat her the United States may deem benecial to the bark with a decoction has been for from thir
with that respect and delicacy to which the mutual interest of both countries, through ty to ninety days applied to tho hides. Most
sex have a natural claim. How happy should any channel of uegociation which may appear of the above methods I have originated. "0
we be to see her fair sisters come forward and advantageous to that government. Such is from long experience nd me success attend
adorn the elds of literature! What could be the amount of the case, though the corres ing them has abundantly equalled my expec
more captivating than an assemblage of men pondence occupies between ve and six co LaUODS.
Much saving of labor and bark is gained
lumns in the daily papers.
tal excellencies and personal charms? what
by these improvements, as must be obvious
*
on earth more lovely and endearing (we had
Thc Richmond Enquirer states, that Ed to any person who has a slight knowledge,
almost said divine) than afemale in whom are ward Livingston,a citizen of New York, (now either practical or theoretical, of the busi
united a lively fancy, an enlightened under of New Orleans) has brought a suit against ness. Our forests abound with bark: our
beeves afford many hides, and large quanti
standing, a feeling heart, and engaging man Thomas Jeiferson, in the circuit court, on the
ties are imported from the Spanish domin
ground
of
his
having
ejected
him
from
the
ners'. And without entering into vain specu
ions, part of which are manufactured and part
lations about the gifts of nature, we are con Batture of New Orleans, while Mr. Jefferson are re-exported. Slaughter hides are some
was
president
of
the
United
States;
and
that
strained to believe that many of those proper
times exported, which ought to be prohibit
his damages are laid at one hundred thousand
ed, if practicable. I have known, and I be
ties and accomplishments may be acquired dollars.
lieve it not uncommon, that quantities of
by such sedulous attention to the cultivation
--.
of the mind, as should have a commanding REPORT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. hides and bark have been exported to Eng
land, and the leather made from these hides
inuence on the regulation of the passions
(Continued.)
imported and used in this country. The ma
and the government of the heart.
(5-)
nufacture of leather in the middle states is
" A." is requested to accept our sincere Extract of a letter from William Edwards of North. far in advance, beyond either the northern or
smpton, t0 the Postmaster at that place, dated southern states. A heavy duty on green or
thanks for his Characteristics. In propor
November 29, 1809.
slaughter hides, if constitutional, and a small
tion to our delight in the amiable, is our de
duty, say one cent per lb. on the exportation
Having
been
regularly
bred
to
the
busi
testation of the malignant passions. Envy,
ness of tanning, and this having been my sole of foreign hides; a heavy impost duty on
Hatred, Malice, Revenge and Uncharitable occupation for twenty ve years, I have been leather of every kind and in every shape,
ness, with all their hateful offspring and re led to reflect with much regret on the general with an aid of capital, and perhaps a bounty
latives, cannot, for the well being and happi inferiority of American leather, compared on improvements, made public, would have a
ness of society, be too pointedly and too with most European, and particularly Eng~ tendency to encourage the manufacture of
strongly characterized. We hope, therefore, lish manufactured. A want of capital has been leather. Also a law appointing inspectors of
that A. will go on with that independence of the great cause of the depressed state of the slaughter hides, to guard against the great in
jury they now in many places sustain, by the
spirit, and strength of cploring, which the na manufacture. The hide in its naturalistate is
a mass of bres; the interstices between the carelessness orwantonness of the butchers in
ture of the subject imperiously demands.
bres is lled with a eshy substance; to ex hacking and cutting them. In the city of New
"- G. H. will perceive that we have used pel these without injuring the bres, and then York there is a loss from this source of twen
the liberty which he kindly offered; and in to ll the vacuum completely and intirely ty per cent. at least, without a particle of gain.
Also a law appointing inspectors of leather, '
tend to present his collection in numbers, un with what the chymists call tannin, contain
der the title of Tue CATERER. 'e deem ed in bark, is the whole art of tanning. To to prevent tanners from using an improper
this to be an appropriate namE, as the selec do this effectually years of time is necessary, quantity of lime in the process, and offering
and repeated applications of fresh bark to the their leather in market when only partially
tion, being miscellaneous, is adapted to that hide at proper periods. The establishment tanned, would be very useful. The tanners in
diversity of taste which we must expect to which I have made in this country will re
Boston and its neighborhood practice this
lind among oui-ireaders
ceive sixteen thousand full grown hides, and
method, much to the injury of the article: and
:32
in that way to the public. The same hide well

manufactured will assuredly be worth double
to the customer, than if poorly manufactured.
Yet mankind are so much the creatures of
habit, and such the nature of the business, the
difference will not be readily discovered by a
supercial observer. One third of the hides
tanned in the United States are imported
hides. These come from the Spanish colo
nies almost wholly. Hides in England are
uniformly higher than in this country; four
shillings and six pence per stone Is the least
price 1 have seen stated, that IS something
more than seven cents per pound. Their bark
in England costs more than their hides; that
is, bark sufficient to tan a hide costs more
than the hide. My slaughter hides cost me

five and a half cents per pound, and my bark
costs me one thirteenth as much as the hide.
Leather would be an important article of ex
portation even to England, if it could be ad
mitted there by paying no more duty than
their manufactured articles pay in this coun
try. The manufacture of leather is by no
means completed when it goes from the
hands of the tanner. The currier, the shoe
maker, saddler, harnessmaker, and several
other tradesmen t it for various uses after

the tanner has performed his operations.
B.
Statement of Mills for aim-its; Cotton, of which an
account has been received.
No.
Spinm
Stile
Town or situation. a -
or districtMaine
I-s
Whoreugh
1 1'.
N. Hamp- New Ipswich

shire
lv
if
a
a u
2
4
150
300
200
192
c.
R. Island Providence and its

vicinity
"
r:
_
e. 17
200
900
14296 22900
Ditto
c.
7
7600
East Greenwich
I
500 1000
Connecti- Pomfret andSterling
2
1390 4500
cut
NJlaven and Derby
Killingly kPlainfteld
Vermont
Ditto
Few York Washington county
Hudson
Whitestown
Washington county
e 700
3600
350
2
350
1
608 700
I
e. 500 500
1
200 300
1
500
Dntchess county
260
Ditto
Patuxent
1000
e. 500 500
e. 500 500
5
600
$00 300
480 500
r. 200 200
1100 6000
1
1
Washington county 1
Petersburgh
5000
300
1
I
3
25
$.Carolina Charleston
Georgia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
1'
1'
1'
1'
1
I
6
I
Louisville
Cincinnati
Six several places
Nashville
700
.N. Jersey Patterson8t Bellville

2
Pennsyl- Near Philadelphia
2
vania Shippensborough
1- 1
Pittsburgh
1' 1
Delaware Near Wilmington
1
Ditto
1
Maryland Near Baltimore
Virginia
in the Francis, with the Russian minister, and
was to sail from Rochelle for Philadelphia,

about the l6th of April.
General Armstrong had taken up the ship
Sally,
captain Scott, lying at St. Sebastians,
4820 7600
13000 to take himself and family to America. He
would embark at Bourdeaux about the rst of
1
1
c. 8
Ditto
,3,
"
t:
III
-._
2000
in the state of R.
1: and
1200 2000
0ther towns
Massachu- Near Newburypert

some
Dedham
Sundrytownsadjoin
belonging to American vessels, captured and

conscated in the ports of Biscay, also came
home in the Camilla. The crews of seques
which are impelled by horses.
e. These are on estimate: the residue of the spin tered vessels were denied a support by the
dles for 1809 are from actual returns.
French government, and were daily entering
(To be continued.)
on board of French privateers.
*0,
By a late decree all import duties are dou
New York, Flag 23, 1810. Yesterday ar bled and on prize goods treble. Mer. Ad.
The archduke Francis, brother of the em
rived at this port the fast sailing ship Camil
peror
of Austria, is to marry Maria Augusta
la, captain Shaler, from St. Sebastians, which
Antonictte, princess royal of Saxony, and will
port she left on the llth of April.
Mr. John Griswold came out in the Camil be created king of Poland.
Letters from South America say, that a.
la, bearer of despatches from general Arm
subscription
was opened at Mexico some time
strong to our government, and has furnished
the editors of the Mercantile Advertiser with since, for carrying on the war in old Spain,
when 20,000,000 dollars were subscribed in
the following summary of news.
Mr. Griswold left Paris the 26th of March. four hours.
Charleston, May l2. Captain Cracklow in
The emperor and sundry members of the
French court were at Compeigne, where the forms us, that the port of Havanna was oi
new empress Maria Louisa, accompanied by cially opened to all friendly and neutral ves
the prince of Neufchatel had just arrived. sels on the 28th ultimo, and that the article of
The triumphant entry into Paris, with the co our, which had been before prohibited, was
ronation ofthe marriage ceremonials, were to permitted to be sold.
take place on Sunday, the lst of April. The
MARRIED,
preparations for this great event were splen
On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Dr.
did beyond description, and it was supposed
Rogers, MnLewia Emery, junr. to Miss Sal
the illuminations and feasts would excel in
rah Fenian, both of this city.
brilliancy those of any former period.
On Sunday evening, by the Rev. Dr. Aber
General Demotier had been appointed by
crombie, Mr. George Palmer, printer, to Miss
the emperor minister to the United States. It
Eliza Wall, both of this city.
was not known whether he was to succeed
general Turreau, or that he is appointed to
HEALTH OFFICE,
May 19. 1810.
some special mission. He had taken passage
e. For a detail of these see statement ((1.)
1' All are water mills, except those marked thus 1,
96
300
500
350
500
57
600
7
3000
250
_._ l___
Tetal lpiudles ,3050037000
June. The Sally was to proceed to Bordeaux,
protected by two passports. American pro

perty was still under seizure in all the ports
on the continent. Amount of property cons
cated under the late orders, in the ports of
Biscay, Naples, kc. exclusive of Tonningen,
was computed to have cost in America more
than seven millions of dollars. That seized at
Naples has been sold, and the proceeds placed
in the royal treasury; that in Spain was trans
porting to Bayonne, where it was to meet a
similar fate. The reasons assigned for this
proceeding was to prevent costs to individual
claimants, who would otherwise be prosecut
ing their claims separately, and at great ex
pense.
Little or no news from the armies in Spain
that could be relied upon.
Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphit

from the 12th to the 19th May. 1810.
Dileaue.
ad. cb.
Diseases.
ad. (:5.
0 Pleurisy
Consumptionoflungsli
Apoplexy
I Still born
0 B
Canvulsionl
-- -
Decay
I 0
Dropsy in the brain 0 2
Insanity
1 0
8 1
Total 22
0f the above there were,

Under
1 year
9 Between 50 and 60
Between 1 and 2
I
60
70'
2
I
2
5
1
70
80
0
5
10
3
80
90
0
10 20
0
90
100
0
20 30
1
.
30 40
3
Total 28
40
50
1
By order of the Board of Health.
JOIIN ALLISON. Clerk.
May 14
9 oclock. I2 oclock. 30clock

66
66
63
15
16
17
18
71
75
78
71
78
77
82
73
72
75
80
72
19
73
73
The price of the Pbiladelpbia Repertory is four dol

lars per annum, payable quarterly in advance.
At the close of the year will be presented a litle
The Camilla has brought home the crew of graying.

the ship Ann,Penderg1ast, of New York, late
PHILADELPHIA,
ly condemned in the court of prizes at Paris,
Printed and published by Dennis Hem,
both vessel and. cargo. Seventy six seamen
@itabefpiagdeperfom F
VOL. I.
SATURDAY. JU.\ R- 2, lit to.

No. 5.
common to lament his want of what is Culilld

a liberal education. Were education what it
should be in our public scminarics, this would
BlOGRAPl-i Y.
DAVID RITIENHOUSE,
President of the American Philosophical Society.
have been a misfortune; but, conducted as it
From an nation delivered before the society by Dr.

Rush, l7th December, l796.
is at present, agreeably to the systems adopt
(Continued)
ed in Europe in the fteenth century, lam
In the year l791,he was chosen successor

to Dr. Franklin in the chair ofour society. In
this elevated station, the highest that philo
sophy canconfer in our country, his conduct

was marked by its usual propriety and digni
ty. Never did the articial pomp of station
command half the respect which followed his
unassuming manners in the discharge of the
public duties of his ofce. You will often re
collect, gentlemen,withamixture of pleasure
and pain, the delightful evenings you passed
in the society, every time he presided in your
meetings. They were uniformly characteris

ed by ardor in the pursuit of science, urbani
ty, and brotherly kindness. His attachment to
the interest of the society was evinced, soon
after he accepted the presidents chair, by a
donation of 3001.
But his talents and knowledge were not li
disposed to believe that his extensive know

ledge and splendid character are to be ascri
bed chiey to his having escaped the perni
cious influence of monkish learning upon his
mind in early life. Had the usual forms of a
public education in the United States been
imposed upon him, instead of revolving
through life in a planetary orbit, he would,
probably, have consumed the force of his ge
nius by fluttering around the blaze of an
evening taper. Rittenhousc, the philosopher,
and one of the luminaries of the eighteenth
century, might have spent his hours of study
in composing syllogisms, or in measuring the
feet of Greek and Latin poetry.
It will be honorable to the citizens of the

United States, to add, that they were not in
mited to mathematicial or material subjects;

his mind was a repository of the knowledge
of all ages and countries. He had early and
deeply studied most of the different systems
oftheology. He was well acquainted with prac
tical metaphysics. in reading travels, he took
great delight. From them he drew a large
fund of his knowledge of the natural history
of our globe. He possessed talents for music
and poetry, but the more serious and neces
sary pursuits ofhis life prevented his devoting

much time tothe cultivation ofthem. He read
the English poets with great pleasure. The
muse of Thompson charmed him most: he
admired his elegant cimbination of philoso

phy and poetry. However opposed these stu
dies may appear, they alike derive their per

fection from extensive and accurate observa
tiOns of the works ofnature. He was intimate
ly acquainted with the French, German and
Dutch languages, the two former of which he
acquired without the assistance of a master.
They served the valuable purpose of convey
ing to him the discoveries of foreign nations,

and thereby enabled him to prosecute his stu- .
l
dies with more advantage in his native lan \1

guage_
_
In speaking ofMr. Rittcnhouse it has been
they were never obscured in any situation or

Stage Of his k, by a single cloud ofweakness
or vice. As the source of those virtues, whe
ther of a public or private nature, I shall rst
mention his exalted sense of moral obliga

tions, founded upon the revelation of the per
fections of the supreme Being. This appears
from many passages in his oration, and from
his private letters to his friends. In his ora
tion we nd the following pious sentiments:
Should it please that almighty Power who
hath placed us in a world in which we are only
permitted to look about us and to die, to in
dulge us with existence throughout that half
of eternity which still remains unspent, and
to conduct us through the several stages of
his works, here (meaning the Study n: .stro
nomy) is ample Provision made for employ
ing every faculty of the mind, even allowing
its powers to be enlarged through an endless
repetition of ages. Let us not complain of the
vanity of this world, and that there is nothing

in it capable of satisfying us. Happy in those
wants; happy in those desires, for ever in suc
cession, to be gratied; happy in a continual
approach to the Deity.
I must confess, that I am not one of those
sanguine spirits, who seem to .think, that,
when the withered hand of Death has drawn
up the curtain ofcternity, all distance between
the creature and the Creator, and between
nite and innite, will be annihilated. Every
enlargement of our faculties; every new hap
piness conferred upon us; every step we ad
vance towards the Divinity, will very proba
bly render us more and more sensible of his
scnsible of the merits of our philosopher. ln

ventions and improvements in every art and
science were frequently submited to his ex
amination, and were afterwards patroniscd by
the public, according as they were approved
of by him. \Vherever he went, he met with
public respect, and private attentions. But his
reputation is not conned to his native coun
try. His name was known and admired in
every region of the earth, where scince and
genius are cultivated and respected.
Such were the talents and knowledge, and
such the fame of our departed president! His
virtues now demand our tribute ofpraise; and inexhaustible stores of communicable bliss,
here I am less at a loss to know what to say, ,and of his inaccessible pcrfections.
There appears to be a natural connexion
than what to leave unsaid. \Ve have hitherto
beheld him as aphilosopher, soaring like the between a knowledge ofthe works of nature
eagle, until or eyes have been dazzled by his and just ideas of the Divine perfections, and,
near approaches to the sun. "0 shall now con if philosophers have not, in all ages, been
template him at anearer distance, and behold equally devout with our president, it becomes
us to inquire. how far the benecial inuence
him in the familiar character of a MAN, ful
lling his various duties in their utmost ex 0f philosophy upon religion may have been
tent. If any thing has been said ofhis talents E prevented, by their minds being preoccupied,
and knowledge that has excited attention, or f in early life, with the ctions of ancient poets
kindled desires, in the younger members of )and the vices ofthe heathen gods, It remains
our society, to pursue him in his path of ho yet to be determined, whether all the moral
nor, let me request them not to forsake me as well as naturalattributcs ofthc Deity may
here. Come and learn, by his example, to be not be discovered in the form and economy
good as well as great. His virtues furnish the of the material world, and whether that righ
most shining models for your imitation, for , teousness which deceuded from heaven near
34
*
that part of his fellow creatures to which the

usefuliiessof good men is chiey conned.
His country, his beloved country, Was the ob
ject of the strongest affections of .his heart.
bosoms, a witness of the truth of each ofthese
to the subject, that rather than subserve a

cause intrinsically inestimable, impoverishes
it, by rendering admissible the fact that the
tinsel ornaments of the muse are calculated
to recommend it to the taste of man. The fu
tility of such positions must be evident to eve
i'y mind that gives a proper scope to the rea
soning powers: even a Critical attention to the
volume ofdivine inspiration will disprove the
doctrine they aim to establish, that pocsy
ought never to be employed for devotional
assertions. The year of the declaration of in

reasoning to suppose, that there is any thing dependence, which changed ourroyal govern
good, lovely or praiseworthy in us which is ments into republics, produced no change in
not possesed, in an innitely higher degree, his political principles, for he had been edu
by that Being who first called us into exist cated a republican by his father. I can never
ence. In the next place,l reckon the CXqlil forget the pleasure with which he avowed his
site and innocent delight that many things early, but secret, attachment to an elective
around us are calculated to aord us. In this and representative form of government. Of
light, the beauty and fragrance of a single ten have I heard him, above twenty years ago,
rose is a better argument for divine goodness predict the immense increase of talents and
than a luxuriant eld of wheat. For, if we can knowledge which has peen produced by the
suppose that we were created by a malevolent strength and activity that have been infused
being with a design to torment us for his into the American mind by our republican
say much with regard to a subject on which

the amiable and pious poet Watts has written
with cogent perspicuity, in a style so agreea
ble as must captivate the attention of every
person of correct taste, and gratify every
friend to that religion for the promotion of
the interest of which he applied his admira
ble talents with unwearied deligence; l will
therefore present him to my readers in his
own dress.
_
It has been along complaint of the vir
tuous and rened world (says he) that pocsy,
1800 years ago, may not wait for philosophic

truth to spring up from the earth, in order,
by uniting with it, to command universal be
lief and obedience. This opinion, as far as it
relates to one of the mural attributes of the

Deity, seems to have been admitted by our
philosopher, in the following elegant and pi
ous extract from a letter to one of hisfriends:
Give me leave (says he)_to mention two or
three proofs of innite goodness in the works
of creation. The rst is, possessing goodness
For her he thought; for her he labored; and
for her, in the hours of her difculties and

dangers, het wept in every stage ofthe Ame
rican revolution. Pau'iots of 1776, you will
acquit me of exaggeration here, for you feel,
in the recollection of what passed in your own
ourselves. Now, it is inconsistent with all just
amusement, he must have furnished us with

the means of subsistence, and either have
mm our condition tolerable. or not have left

the means of quitting it. at pleasure in our
own power. Such being my opinions, you win
constitutions. Often, likewise, at the same
remote period of time, have I heard him an

ticipate, with delight, the effects of our revo
lution, in sowing the seeds of a new order of
things in other parts of the world. He be
lieved political, as well as moral evil, to be
purposes. It is, however, needless for me to
whose orginal is divine, should be BllSluVed

to vice and profaneness; that an art, inspired
from heaven, should have so far lost the me

mory ofits birthplace,as to be engaged in the
interests of hell. How unhappiiy is it pervert
not wonder at my fondness for what Mr. Ad
ed from its most glorious design! how bascly
dison calls the pleasures of the imagination) intruders into the society of man; that gene
has it been driven away from its proper sta
They are all, to me, so many demonstrations ral happiness Was the orginal design and ul tion in the temple of God, and abased to much
of innite goodness.
timate end of the divine g0vernment; and that dishonorl the iniquity of men has constrained
But the religion of Mr. Rittenhouse was a time would come, when every part of our it to serve their viiest purposes, while the
not deriVed wholly from his knowledge and globe would echo back the heavenly procla sons of piety mourn the Sacrilege and shame.
admiration of the material world. He believed mation of universal peace on earth,and good
The oldest song, which history has
in the Christian revelation. Of this he gave will to man."
brought down to our cars, w..s a noble act of
many proofs. not only in the conformityof his
worship paid to the God of Israel, when his
life to the precepts of the gospel, but in his
right hand became glorious in power: when
letters and conversation. lwell recollect, in
For the Repertory.
thy right hand, 0 Lord, dashed in pieces the
speaking to me of the truth and excellency
THE ORIGIN AND TRUE use or POETRY. enemy: the chariots ot Pharaoh and his hosts
of the Cliristain religion, he mentioned, as an
No. 1.
were cast into the Read Sea. Thou didst blow
evidence of its divine origin, that the miracles
It is but too frequently the case, that peo with thy wind, the deep covered them, and
of our Saviour differed from all other mira ple imbibe the opinions of others, and by an they sank as lead in the mighty Waters. Ex
cles, in being entirely ofa kind and benevo habitual adherence, mistake them for their odus, xv. This art was maintained sacred
lent nature. It is no small trumph to the own; to such, I would suggest the propriety through the following ages of the church,
friends of revelation to observe, in this age of ofinvestigating the foundation of their prin and employed by kings and prophets, oy Da
indelity, that our religion has been admitted ciples, that they may be enabled to ascertain vid, Solomon and Isaiah, in describing the
and even defended, by men of the most ex
whether they act from conviction, or whether nature and glories of God, and in conveying
alted understanding and of the strongest rea they only breathe the atmosphere of vulgar grace on vengance to the hearts of men. By
soning powers. The single testimony of Da prejudice.
this method they brought so inueh of heaven
vid Rittenhotise in its favor, outweighs the
To give an instance of a particular case in down to this lower world,as the darkness of
declamation of whole nations against it.
which many good people seem to be decided, that dispensation would admit: and now and
As the natural effect of his belief in the re permit me to mention that of the proper use then a divine poetic rapture lifted tneir souls
lation of the whole human race to each other, of poetry. it has been asserted by high autho far above the level of that economy of sha
in a common Father and Redeemer, he em rities that this sublime art can never be ap dows, bore them away far into a brighter re
braced the whole family of mankind in the plied, with propriety, to divine subjects. Di gion, and gave them a glimpse of evangelic
arms of his benevolence. But the Philanthro vinity, say they, has no afnity to pocsy, the day. The life of angels was harmoniously
py of Mr. Rittenhouse did not consist simply embellishments of which are inconsistent breathed into the children of Adam, and their
in whishes for the happiness of mankind. He with the dignity of the subject, and can never minds raised near to heaven in melody and
reduced this divine principle to practice by a be found useful in its illustration, the highest devotion at.once.
series of faithful and disinterested services to and most melodious numbers are so inferior
In the younger days of heathenism, the
muses were devoted to the same service; the
Saviour had, during his stay with them, com

municated much heavenly instruction, yet so
language in which old Hesiod addresses them

is this:
' contracted were their powers, that they could
MWII lllIMJlY oi pom xhnowzl,
Alvin, AT infra-n: eel-near 13375,]; difw'dl.
comprehend but little of the true meaning

of all he had spoken: but he had said nothing
in vain, and none of his divine precepts were
35'
informs us that unless a man be born again

he cannot see the kingdom of God. How
diligently then ought we to examine our
selves! We often experience the depravity of
he was to perform'the last grand act which

completed the redemption of man, when him
self was about to undergo all the indignities
and cruelties which the malice of his enemies
our hearts rising in opposition to the will of

God. We should therefore be watchful, de
to be lost; he knew that their minds were as siring much of this Spirit to purify us, and
yet earthly, but he had chosen them for great instruct us in the way we should go. And I
purposes. He tells them he must of neces
do believe that if we feel a desire after holi
sity leave them. This information lled them ness because God is holy, and that we love
with sorrow, to alleviate which he promises him for the purity of his character; if Jesus
not to forsake them; I will not leave you com is precious to our souls as a Saviour from sin,
fortless, he Saith, I will come to you. He ex
and we admire him as one altogether lovely;
plains the necessity of his going, and informs if we really hate sin because it is derogatory
them of the advantages which shall result to to the divine perfections, and an obstacle to
them and the world from it. He tells them, our communion with God, we have good rea~
If ye love me ye ought rather to rejoice, son to believe he will appear for our deliver
because I said I go to the Father; and if I ance, and manifest himself in such manner as
go not away the Comforter will not come unto will produce in us an assurance of faith of
you, but if I go away I will pray the Father such a nature as to enable us to put our
and he will send him unto you. He shows whole trust and condence in him, and induce
them the nature and Ofces of the Comfort us to draw near to him continually for the
er: he is represented as an instructor to di aids of his Spirit to direct us in the way of
rect them in the way of eternal life, and en all truth. And, my dear sister, that this bles
lighten their understandings with respect to sed Comforter may abide in each of our
heavenly things; it is also an attribute of the hearts, so that we may be enabled to show
divine Spirit to bring to the recollection all forth the glory of our heavenly Father, by ma
those instructions which the Saviour com~ nifesting to others in our lives and conversa
municated in person, and to stamp them with tion that we have been with Jesus, shall be the
a degree of authenticity as though he were prayer of your affectionate brother,
J.
immediately present declaring them from
*
his own lips.
As the following is from one of the purest
The great work of mans redemption hav fountains of English literature, an attentive
ing been completed, the Comforter has come perusal of it will, we think, amply repay the
into the world. We have amost remarkable intelligent reader, with both prot and plea
account of his descent on the day of Pente sure.
cost. And the same Spirit whose extraordi
ON TASTE.
nary inuence was noticed at that time, is still
The feelings of men are so various, and
operating in the 'heart of every sincere fol their determinations concerning the produc
could invent, and, above all,to'experience the
lower of Jesus, however humble his situation;
Picrian Muses, famed for heavenly lays,
Descend. and sing the God your Fathers praise.
And he pursues the subject in ten pious

lines, which I could not forbear to transcribe,
if the aspect and sound of so much Greek

were not terrifying to a nice reader."
As my principal design in quoting this
author is to show the origin and true use of
pm sy. I shall pass over what he says with
respect tov those who have profaned this di
rine art, and close this number with a pro
mise of introducing him in my next, speak

ing in such a manner as cannot fail to inter
est my readers.
S.
0
For the Repertory.


No.1V.
My Dear Sister,
How contemptible are all the pleasures of

this world when put in competition with that
unspeakable love which unites us to God by

a living faith in Christ.
The character of the blessed Saviour ap
pears in all his acts whilst on earth, in a supe
rior degree amiable. His employment was to
do good to the children ofmisery, and admi

nister consolation to the sons and daughters of
afiction. When the time drew near in which'
hidings of his Fathers presence, his thoughts his power is still experienced as an irresist
were turned to the comforting of those who ible re, purifying the hearts of believers,
had been his faithful follovVers. Although he instructing them in the scriptures of truth,
hadfrequently intimated to them the igno and taking of the things which are Christs
miny and death which he must needs suffer, and showing them to their souls. By the
they little apprehended that this subject was agency of the divine Spirit, christians are
so highly interesting to them. They were at enabled to enjoy an incomparably greater
tached to him by the strongest ties of affec and more exalted communion with Jesus than
tion; they had been accustomed to receive his followers did on earth; they are permit
sublime instructions from his sacred lips, and ted to draw very near to God through Christ.
Could we properly estimate the privileges
enjoy the most intimate communion with
him, and their exalted ideas of his person, we have a right to by this inestimable gift,
no doubt, induced them to give no place to how would our hearts exult with joy, admi
any considerations which were seemingly de ration and gratitude! For if we are led by the
rogatory to his character. They had hitherto

kn0wn Christ after the esh, but the time was
now-approaching when they should thus know
Spirit, then are we the sons of God; and if

sons, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs
with Jesus Christ. The Spirit is that witness
him no more; he was to 'be led from judgment within us which witnesseth with our spirits
that we are the children of God.
to death; the Shepherd was about to be smit
ten and the sheep scattered. They still ap
But it is of importance for us to know whe
peared ignorant of the spiritmlity of the Re ther our hearts have indeed become the teln
deemers kingdom; and although the kind ples of the Holy Ghost. The word of Christ
tions of genius have been so different, that
the very existence of taste has been called in

question. Or suppoaing there is such a fa
culty as taste, some have doubted whether
all mens are not alike true. We shall there
fore rst endeavor to establish the reality of
taste, and then consider in what it consists.
The truth or existence of this pleasing

quality of mind, may be inferred from the
very fact produced as an evidence against it.
For, were there no such thing, mankind
would equally approve or disapprove cvcry

composition. This supposition would forever
put an end to all discrimination of merit. The
lowest ballad, or piece of knight-crrantry,
would from that moment be put on a level
with the lliad or Eneid; and the indigested
lucubrations of a cemmon newsmonger be
deemed equal to the historical comp0sitions
of Sallust or Livy. But if this is too gross
to be admitted it will of consequence follow,
that the nature and operations of taste are in
disputable.
2:6
positions of the most classical writers. The

Taste may be dened, the power of receiv
ing pleasure from the beauties of nature and bare mention of this single circumstance
art. Some are of opinion, that for the disco seems sufcient to expose its absurdity.
The word taste is derived or borrowed from
very of these we need have recourse to no
other faculty than that of the understanding. one of the external senses which bears the
Truth, say they, of all kinds consists of a same name, and as by proper application the
conformity to nature. The understanding is literal sense may improve to an high degree,
the only judge of truth. Therefore by the so also may the gurative. Thus he whose
undestranding alone, we may certainly deter taste is not yet rened pronounces only on
general, being unable either to point out par
mine, what in the various objects we contem
ticular beauties, or to discriminate minute
plate is natural or unnatural
If by reason and understanding be here imperfections. Afterwards by proper culture
meant that faculty which, by comparing things and a sedulous attention to the most eminent
unjust? Where have we any proper or deci

sive standard by which our various appeals
may be nally adjudged? Here indeed is the
hardest part of our task! We give the name

of standard to that which is generally ac
knowledged to be an equitable criterion of
other things of the same kind. A standard
weight for instance is that by which we try
the justness of all other weights. Thus the
court is deemed the standard of good breed
ing, and the holy scriptures of theological
truth. In like manner the standard of taste
applies only to objects subject to its cogni
authors, comparing them together, and mark
zance. One admires music, another poetry,
and a third painting, and yet all may possess
sion is by no means just. These are powers

to which the most different operations belong.
Taste judges instinctively, reason by the in
tervention of other ideas. Beauty is the ob
ing the most striking passages, he may come

to descry those very graces which he saw
not before, and which escape the notice of a
less inquisitive and curious mind. He will
then observe the nicest difference between
light and shade, and trace with accuracy and
ject of the one, truth of the other: the rst
pleasure the smallest lines, however blend
nist afrm that Homer has no beauties, or at
is allied to a warm heart, and the second to
ed, till they mingle entirely, and are lost in
a cool head. It is certain, however, that such
each other.
least but very few, I conclude immediately

that he is either totally destitute of taste, or
performances only as are conformable to na
One of the most general laws in our con

stitution is that all our powers, whether of
body or mind, are constantly improved by
exercise. Such artists as are habitually em
ployed in polishing bodies, bring their sense
of feeling to a wonderful degree of perfection.
Those too who are much conversant with mi
croscopical objects, generally perceive the
smallest ones with astonishing exactness.
We see also that such as are used to the
avor of liquor can even distinguish their
different ingredients when various and com
pounded. By similar means, our internal
sense is likewise rened, as appears from the
palpable disparity which every where takes
place, between rude and untutored nations,
and such as enjoy the advantage of a liberal
education.
The distinguishing qualities ofa good taste
are delicacy and correctness. By the one we
receive pleasure from the sweetness, by the
other from the unity of composition. By the
rst we are sensibly affected with all its
graces, we perceive by the second its smallest
defects. That owes most to an exquisite sen
has only a most imperfect one. For this I ap
sibility, this to sound reason. The one re

ceives more from nature, the other from art.
failed to do them justice. The highest models

of composition have been accidentally cou
together, enables us to discern between truth

and falsehood, and discovers the causes or
traces the consequence of things, the conclu
ture, will always please; that a orid stile,

monstrous characters, and forced sentiments,
though perhaps relished fora while, delight

no more, the moment sense and reason make
it appear that they have no just foundation

in nature.
But though the understanding be not the
only source of taste, the one is in some de
gree indispensable to the growth and im

provement of the other. It is a well cnlti
vated understanding which enables us to
judge of the symmetry of parts, and their
proportion, as well as the tendency of each
particular part to form and complete one en
tire whole. So that by a true taste joined to
sound reason and strong sense, we are best
qualied to judge of composition.
It is still urged that there is no such thing
as true and corrupt taste. For as in architec
ture the Grecian structures were admired
for many ages, then the Gothic taste succeed
ed and prevailed for as long a time, and now
the models of ancient Greece are again re
vived. Thus different periods and different
nations have each a different stile in building.
In like manner, the Asiatics always assumed
such bold metaphors and strong language as
appeared turgid to the Attics, who delight
ed only in plain and simple expressions.
ajust taste. The tenderness and delicacy of

Virgil, may charm one. I may be struck
with the simplicity and re of the Iliad: still
neither of us may be defective in point of
discernment or taste. But should my antago
peal to the united testimony of all ages, which

would condemn him, as it would his taste
who should afrm that sugar is a very strong
bitter. Some think nature the only standard
to which we ought to apply our different
tastes, in order to determine which deserves
the preference. Though this may be no im

proper rule in imitative and designing arts,
as the test of literary composition it will not
prove uniformly decisive. The inimitable
simplicity of Fame] is generally preferred
to the sprightly wit of Cowley, it is notwith
standing still diicult to say which of the two
is the most successful imitator of nature.
Did we know any person possessed of in
fallible reason, the best sense, true discern
ment, and just taste, to him we might nally

and safely refer, on his judgment securely
rely. But there is none to whom mankind
will pay such a deference. We must there
fore have recourse for a standard to another
quarter. And though works of the most per
fect description have not escaped the censure
of some periods, succeeding ones have never
concluded that every ones taste is equally
Though none are singularly delicate, who are demned, but the temporary illusion which
not in a certain degree correct, and none obscured their excellence soon disappeared,
thoroughly correct, who have not a tincture and they, by commanding universal attention,
of delicacy, yet some have the one and some excited that unanimous suffrage and admira
the other, in more or less perfection. Among tion, which is their natural and just reward.
good, and that there is no standard by which
ancient critics, the rst prevailed in Longi
From these and similar facts, some have
Of this class are the lliad and Eneid, which,
to ascertain what is true and what is false. jnus, the second in Aristotle. Among the though not absolutely perfect, are certainly
the noblest and most accomplished pieces of
Swift had he wrote on criticism, would cer all antiquity, and have been generally admired
in almost every age. Among ourselves, in the
as the taste of an European, who has receiv tainly have excelled in this.
ed the best culture by an application to the
But supposing some difference in taste, (lissolute reign of Charles the second, taste
sciences, and by carefully studying the com- j how shall we distinguish the just from the was very different from what it is at present.
But will any pretend to say that the taste of a
Hottentot, or that of :1 Cherokee, is as good
modems, Addison succeeded in that, and
3'7
The quaint witticisms of Cowley, and the
track, refreshing it with new ideas, and forc

wild sallies of \Valler, were then applauded ing it to exert itself in a new direction, and
and extolled as elegant models ofne com with unusual energy.
position, while the simple majesty of Milton Go, soft enthusiast, qu'lt the cypress groves,
was altogether overlooked and Paradise Lost Nor to the rivulets lonely meanings tune
lay buried in oblivion. Ignorance and bar
Thy sad complaint. Go, seek the cheerful haunts

Of men, and mingle with the bustling crowd.
barity, luxury and profusion may indeed

Lay schemes for wealth,or power, or fame, the wish
sometimes render nations, as well as indivi
Of nobler minds, and push them night and day.
duals, blind to the productions of the greatest

masters, but we may fairly and honorably
rely on the public judgment when conrmed
by a series of successive ages.
Here, the reader will permit me to add,
Or join the caravan, in quest of scenes
that goodness of heart, as well as soundness

of head, is peculiarly essential to a-good taste.
\Vithout this you will be wholly unable to

relish the various pleasures of moral beauty,
one of the noblest and sublimest sources of

rened sensation which the mind of man is
capable of indulging. The man who is des

titute of this talent, whatever his other pow
New to the eye, and shifting every hour,

Beyond the Alps, beyond the Apennines.
Or more adventurous, rush into the eld
Where war grows hot, and raging through the sky
The lofty trumpet swells the maddening soul,
And, in the hardy camp, and toil.ome march,
Forget all softer, and less manly cares.
Armstrong.
sympathetic affections, which constitute a culty, and even of danger, are, as we have
series of the most exquisite and substantial seen, recommended to the patient oppressed
'-_._
or panama. _
"
(Continued.)
'
7. It was remarked, that some men dream

more, and others less; and some per
haps, though these are few, not at all. This
cannot be fully accounted for, from the differ

ent degrees of health which di'erent men
enjoy, nor from their'di'erent ways of life;
although these, and the like peculiarities, may
no doubt have inuence. Persons, who think
much, and take little bodily exercise, will
perhaps be found to be the greatest dreamers;
especially if their imagination be active, and

their nervous system very delicate: which
last is too common aninrmity among men
of learning. The sleep of the laboring man is
sweet and sound; and his dreams he seldom
remembers. For his mental faculties are not

much employed, his nerves are firm, and the
sphere of his imagination is narrow.

As nature does nothing in vain, is it not
probable, that to the constitution of some
people dreaming may be more necessar , as

a mental recreation, than to those of others?
To meditate continually on the same set of

disagreeable objects, is hurtful to health, and
may be fatal to reason: and when one is
aficted with low spirits, which often proceed

from this very cause, the physicians never
fail to recommend amusements, company,
travelling, sea voyages, and other expedients,
for leading the mind out of its old gloomy
that, after the experience of so many ages,
we should never have found out any rational

way of expounding them? And if some are
prophetical, but not all, is it not strange, that
every species of dream should be equally
familiar to good men, and to bad! For oeach
character, there are some superstitious peo
ple who believe in dreams, and some more
rational who do 'not. To say, that dreams are
of divine original, implies (as Aristotle has
They therefore, who think more than

others, may have more need than others have
of that amusement and variety, which is pro
duced by dreaming.
Certain it is that dreams are often a relief
to those, who are in perplexity, or who have
long been ruminating upon disagreeable
things, or upon any one set of ideas which well observed) many absurdities, and this,
they cannot easily get rid of. Nor is it neces among others, that it is not to the wisest and
ers may be, labors under a defect which no

kind or degree of renement can possibly
supply. For the tender, the humane, the
benevolent, the generous and noble in heart sary, in order to effect this, that a dream
and character excite those congenial and should in itself be pleasing. Scenes of diffi
enjoyment.
good, which would give rise neither to actit i.

ty, nor to desire. An oyster, endowed with
sight and hearing, consciousness and reason,
would not be a more wretched creature.
Even when God has foretold future events by
his prophets, he has generally delivered the
prophecy in terms that could not be fully un
derstood, till after it was accomplished: for
otherwise it must have interfered with the
principles of human action, and with the or
dinary course of human affairs.
Is it not strange, if dreams are prophetical,
best men they are sent, but to all indiscrimi

nately.
The rules by which the vulgar pretend to

interpret dreams, are too ridiculous to be
with melancholy: and if a dream shall only -mentioned. They are indeed such as may
give a new impulse, even for a short time, to make almost any dream prophetical of any
the mind of such person, it may do him an event. if a dream and a subsequent occur
important service, however disagreeable in rence be the same or similar, then they be
itself. Rarely, indeed are they happy in their lieve that the dream foretold it; if totally dif~
dreams, whose faculties are worn out with ferent, and even contrary, they still believe
that the dream foretold it.
much thinking.
That there may occasionally be a coinci
8. We are warranted by authentic history
to believe, that dreams have given information dence of a dream with a future event, is
of future events. Hence weak people infer, nothing more than one has reason to expect
that they always were, or still may be, pro from the revolution of chances. It would in
phetical._B_ut nothing is more absurd. Be
deed be wonderful, considering the variety of
cause in ancient times there were prophets, our thoughts in sleep, and that they all bear
and holy men,shail I therefore conclude, that some analogy to the affairs of life, if this did
I am a saint, or a prophet? Because the never happen. But there is nothing more ex
Deity has been-pleased to reveal himself, in traordinary in it, than that an idiot should
an extraordinary manner, Lto some persons sometimes speak to the purpose, or an irre
set apart by him for extraordinary purposes, gular clock once or twice a year point to the
shall Itherefore imagine, that he will reveal right hour. The same coincidence of a rea
to me the triing occurrences of my life, a lity with a previous imagination is observable
few days before they happen? He has in when we are awake; as when a friend, whom
great mercy concealed from usthe knowledge we did not expect, happens to come in view
of what is to come; except so far as it was the very moment we were thinking or speak
necessary to us, and could not be made out ing of him: a thing so common that both in
by human reason. For man, acquainted with Latin, and in English, it may be expressed
.
futurity, would be both useless and miserable. by a proverb.
\
To him all curiosity and enterprise would be
4.
at an end, and all hope extinguished; future
evils would torment him before they came;
He is a great and self-poised character
and future good, by being anticipated, would whom praise unnervcs not; he is a greater
lose every charm that surprise and novelty one who supports unjust censure; the great
confer upon it. And he would sit down, er is he who, with acknowledged powers, re
motionless and stupid, in expectation of evil presses his own, and even turns to use unde
which he knew he could not avoid, and of served censure
A PHILADELPHIA REPERLTORY.
0s
gas-aeg
For the Repertory.
THE CHAPLET.
Bead III.
For there I oft my anguish tell,

And oft your sacred name repeat.
and commands the homage of every unviti'.
"
" 1
With musing steps, the banks along

The streamlets course I love to trace;
To listen to its murmuring song,
And view the moons reected face.
SONNE'I TO CHARITY.
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree;

But all mankind's concern is Charity. Pore.
Pure eluence. oifspring of benignity,
Beloved and chosen, by th eternal Mind,
\Vhere'er l stray, where'er I rove,
The change but binds me stronger thine;

Nor time nor space is death to love,
\Vith Faith and Hope, to bless all humankind,

Thou art the loveliest of the lovely three.
So tender and so true as mine.
Thy name, thy nature, thy design, is love,

Emblem of the ineffable, divine,
First Cause of all, whose gracious will benign,
Pours light and bliss on all that live and move.
0 could the soul-ennobling theme

Inspire a kindred glow in thee,
From those bright eyes one pitying beam
Would melt my soul with ecstacy,
0 may thy kindly beams all nations see;

Each various race of men thy inuence know;
Then let me waste no more, in tears,
sted heart. All his numbers shall appear in

regular succession, and'wc shall be proud of
the continuance of his correspondence.
Mys" merits will always insure him a
hearty welcome, and we hope he will fre-_

quently adorn our columns with his poetical
owers.
I
_
" S.-will be pleased to accept our thankful
acknowledgments for his very agreeable fa
1 vor on the " Origin and true Use of Poetry.
We feel no apprehensions for its welcome
reception with readersof taste. A good' se
lcct'ion is alWays preferable to a bad original;

and it is to be lamented that multitudes of in
A life that seeks connubial bliss;

An angels joys, in yon bright spheres,
Are cold to loveand you in this
ROCKINGHAM.
_._
For the Repertory.
Each heart with brotherly adeetion glow,

And ev'ry house be peace and harmony!
0 be thy voice obey'd, through earth abroad,
U Bear and forbear, and love thy neighbor and thy

God!"
AMYNTOR.
TO MISS -.
O, thou soft illusive trie!
For the Repertory
EVENING.
How calm, methinks, the shades of eve descend'.
The night draws on with ever lingering pace;
1
Bright from the west, what various colors blend
;
Their burnish'd tints, where Ihebus ends his race! i
Fare thee wellI thought to day

Feeling in this soul wouldst stifle!
Fare thee wellaway! away!
What! with dangling idiots dangle,

Ape a tool, and lounge and leer!
No: when l with reason wrangle
Nights curtain draws; bright Sol has sunk to rest,
And Luna now assumes her milder reign;

l-ast y the colors from the glimmering west,
1
Her radiant beams now spread oer all the plain. 1
ALozszo.
~
For the Repertory.
When bright Aurora's rosy car

Ascends yon airy mountains height,
I climb the cli's, to mark afar,
The ruddy streaks of morning light.

At eve, agaiii, the briery dtll
A'ords a silent, loud retreat;
Cadore to general Armstrong, dated Paris,

Airy thing, of witchery stealing,
\Vhile the eye is free to roves
\Vhich, undisturbd, I in my breast enjoy?
Each sleepless night, the downy bed

I press with still increasing care;
The charms of life and hope are ed,
Beyond the presence of my fair.
r _
I am, girl, a fool sincere.
Virtues fair dictates, and your health destroy;

bay! can ye eer that tranquil peace obtain
Some tender feeling sure must glow,

Some drops of pitys balm to cure
Or ease a hapless wretchs woe.
dotes, {- A Subscriber, the "Dreamci,

Sedlcy, Ste. are received.
*-._
February l4, l8 l0, is of a very singular com
plexion: in the following remarks of the Na
What is loveliness to feeling,
\Vithin that breast, so soft, so pure,
interview with him would lead toa modoof

doing good, more eligible than the publication
of his pamphlet according to his inquest. '
An address to Amelia, " Original Anec
.,,
Say! ye loose sons of vice, who oft disdain
Nor bid one gleam of hope arise

To gild the gloom of misery!
cernment and industry. This hint may sug

gest a pleasurable and highly'la'udable recre
ation to our numerous literary friends.
The communicator of the "' Charms 'of Be;
The ofcial note of Champagny Due de
Say! ye who glide in grandeurs airy round,

And in subjection bow to follys reign;
W ho think contentment is in pleasure found,
Yet never can that true enjoyment gain:
TO A YOUNG LADY.
And can'st thou, :hen, swcet maid, despise
The Wish, the fear. the frequent sigh;
valuable pieccs, like S.s extract, are in a great

measure lost tot'he world amidst masses of
erudition, for want of the exercise of dis;
nevolence is informed that we conceive an
Yet, thou wouldst not sure deceive me,

O, I could be kind to thee!
No, tis idleleave me! leave me!
Hence, forever dead to me.
How sweet to wander in the woodland glade;

How sweet the uplands, and each owery dale;
How sweet when shrouded in the placid shade.
To hear the strains of lonely Philomcl!
'1
"
Wanting its enchantment, love!
tional Intelligencer are pictured its prominent

features, which cannot fail to be deeply into
If to icicle, sight pleasing,

Sunbeams bright a glare impart,
Shall I rush, and, cold and freezing,
Snatch it to my burning heart?
vIiiy.
resting to all real Americans of all parties.

The information recently received from
France, is of such 7a complexion as to give
increased interestto the arrival of the, John

Adams. By her, it is probable that a fuller,
perhaps
a conclusive, indication ofthe tempo;
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1810.

of the French government will be received.
We shall then, probably, be enabled to decide,
To connnsroxnnxrs.
H Alonzos" piece is inserted upon having whether bad as the existing state of things
received his'assurance of its originality and of with her are, the prospect is not that they
the existence of an American nightingale. will grow worse rather than better; and whoHis mode of thinking evinces a native talent ther the time is not at hand when every Ame
for poetic description, and the easy ow of his rican vessel, entering the ports of the conti
numbers is pleasing. As he appears to have nent of Europe, will be condemned; whether,
a heart susceptible of that peculiar pleasure in fact, any trade to the continent can be car'
which rural scenes inspire, we invite him to ried, on with safety. \Vc would notwish to
fnVUI' us with further descriptions of that paint the dangers of the commercial world in
tranquillity enjoyed by moral reection in the exaggerated colors; but it is a truth, which
placid shade surrounded by the charms of neither can or ought to be disguised, that the
nature, which we believe, with him, to be as whole foreign horizon lowers with dangers.
pure and true enjoyment as we can have The numerous private letters, received from
every part of Eu rope under the control of Bo
on earth.
In Rockingham" we discover traits as naparte,corroboratc the tenor ofthe oliicial do
amiable as they are scarce. A tender passion, cuments, and are commenturicsnvhich Cannot
virtuous and honorable, in an age of luxul;v be mistaken, on the note ofthe Due de Cstiore,
"2%
"Pbaatlllbi.
and liccnuousncss, is next to a phenomenon,
Our vessels are every where seized, not by the
municipal authority, or conformably to the
usual forms of judicial proceedings; but by
the strong arm of military power; not in de
tail, but in mass. A general condemnation
follows, and by one tremendous sweep mil
lions are carried into the public coffers. In
many ports, all this is done, not merely with
out notice, but in direct violation of solemn
political views, of honor and of energy. The

blood that was spilt in achieving our liberties
is called up in judgment against us, and we
are told that we ought either to tear to
pieces the act of our independence, and to
become again, as before the revolution, the
subjects of England, or to take such mea

sures as that our commerce and industry
assurances of protection; and from Denmark, should not be tari'ed by the English, which
unfortunate Denmark! we are threatened renders us more dependent than Jamaica,
with the lawless depredations of a swarm of which at least has its assembly of represen
privatecrs.
tatives and its privileges.
But, suppose it possible that we could be
Such are the outrages committed on our
rights, which it would seem, ow from the so base, as at the mandate of any foreign gov
mandates of the French government contem ernment, to be driven into war with its one
poraneous with the note of the Due de Ca my, what would be the effects? The trade with
dore. \Vhat prospect there is of being reliev England, we all know, would be lost. Is it
ed from them may be best ascertained from certain that we should retain that of the con
the note itself. This paper, it will be observed, tinent, as our indemnity? So far from this
is no light or hasty exposition of the senti being certain, is it not most likely, that France
ments of the French government. It purports would then impose the same restrictions on
to be a written answer given to the verbal our trade to the continent that she now does
overtures of our minister, -- that the president upon that of her allies; prohibit it altogether,
of the United States may the better know the or only so far authorise it as comported with
friendly intention: of France towards the her own interest?
United States, and herfavorable dis/ioeiriom
The official papers, respecting the state of
towards American commerce." It is conse
our relations with France, go far to show that
quently written to prevent all mistake, and but little chance exists of an early accommo
We might perhaps add, to silence all hope of dation of our differences with her on any
principles compatible either with justice, or
my change for the better.
If then, says the note, after going into that respect which every independent nation
mine detail, the minister of America can owes to itself. These communications remove
enter into an engagement, that the American 11 doubt ol'the genuineness of the Due de Ca
vessels will not submit to the orders in coun dore's note to general Armstrong, which, in
cil of England of November 1807, nor to any point of language as substance, is equally re
decree of blockade, unless this blockade prehensible. The principles it assumes are
should be real, the undersigned is authorised such aswe never could adoptwithout disgraCe,
to conclude every species of convention tend .tnd the terms an outrage on dignity and de
ing to renew the treaty of commerce witn corum.--\Vith such features it is not sur
Antenna and in which all the measures pro prising that its genuineness was questioned,
per to consolidate the commerce and the {or it was scarcely credible thata government
that, we were told, from various quarters,
prosperity of the Americans shall be provid
professed friendship towards us and a respect
ed for.
The only construction that can be put upon for neutral rights, should use language only
this language, is, that if America will actually fitted to excite indignation. We are authoris
make war upon England, France will make a ed to say, that our government had no oieial
treaty with her. For France knows, that, knowledge of the existence of this note, until
short of going to war, we have done every it was rrceived through England, a few days
thing to resist the British orders in council since by the Camilla. The publicity given to
and proclamation blockadcs; that we have it must have been by the French government,
imposedan embargo, passed a nonintercourse .s it made its appearance in the Paris papers
law, and prohibited English armed vessels a few days subsequent to its date4 memora
from entering our waters; and that we have ble fact, indicating the resolution of that gov
odered to her, to continue the two last pio-_ ernment, in thus committing itself to the
hibitions so far as they a'eeted England, if world, to maintain the ground taken in it.
she would rescind her edicts. More than this
For our own part, we do not hesitate to say
could not have been done, unless we had ae that the time' has come when every patriotic
tually made war on England. This, then, is or prudent man among us should cease to
the end at which France aims; and this her {latter himselfwith justice much less friend
sine qua non for'respecting our rights. And \llll) from either of the belligerents; when
because we do not take this Step at her dicta the government should take rm and perma
tion, we are reproached. with a want of " just nent ground; and the people by their indus
'39
w.
try and enterprise make themselves indepen
dent of Europe. England and France have
both the same object in view. Iii-the fury of
their animosity against each other, they are
totally regardless of the rights of neutrals;
and if they possess the power, they will not
leave a neutral plank on the ocean.
Qb
The schooner Adventurer, captain Arm
strong, arrived here on Sunday last, from La
Guira. Captain Armstrong informs, that a
revolution had taken place at the Caraccas,
the oliiccrs of government imprisoned, and

the province declared independent. Ministers
had been appointed to proceed to London and
to \Vashington. A letter from the Caraceas
states, that a manifesto had been published by
the revolutionary leaders, in which it is de
clared that the province will submit to Ferdi

nand the V11. whenever he is restored to his
throne.
Frc'em. Jour.
Sweden has joined the European confede
raey, in excluding British commerce from
her ports.
Sir Francis Burdett has been sent to the

Tower, for his exertions in behalf of a Mr.
John Gale Jones, who was imprisoned in
Newgate for an alledged contempt of the

privileges of parliament. The circumstances
it appears were these:A London paper
called " The Forum, containing some stric
tures upon the house of commons closing
their doors while debating upon the subject
of the Walclieren expedition, the printer, a
Mr. Dean, was brought to the bar of the
Muse and called upon for the author of the
strictures. He- gave up the name of John
Gale Jones, who was brought to the bar, and
there expressed his regret that his printer

had su'ercd on his account, and his sorrow
that he had unintentionally violated the privi

leges of parliament. lie was, however com
mitted to Newgate for punishment. Dean,
on making an apology, was discharged. On
a subsequent day, in the house of commons,
'sir Francis Burdett moved for the dischargo
of Mr. Jones, on the ground that the house

of commons had not the power to commit
him; his motion was howwer, negatived by
a majority of l39. Defeated here, sir Francis
next appealed to the people, in a long address

directed To his constituents," in which,
after animadverting in a spirited manner up
on the laws and constitution of England, and
explaining the unalienable rights ol English

men, he pronounces the imprisonment of
John Gale Jones, an " enormous abuse of
power, and most dangerous olall encroach.

ments upon the rights and liberties ot Eng
lishmen. This Was viewed as a seditious
l?III]Q\])]E]Jl?I{Ii& Ii]]?]3]lif()llil
'40
publication by the house of commons, and

sir Francis Burdett directed to be imprisoned
in the Tower.
Sir Francis Burdett has served the speaker
of the house of commons and the sergeant-at
arms with notice ol'an action in the court of
kings bench for an assault and false impri
sontnent.
Accounts have been received in private

letters from Malta, which describes that isl
The consternation of the town of Villette Was
In addition to this list of mills, there are
beyond conception; all the bells ringing,

monks praying, women screaming, the peo
ple running desperately through the streets
and the horses and cattle, as usual, joining
several intended to be erected the ensuing

spring; for some the mill seats are already
purchased. I am well informed, that by next
April there will be upwards of 40,000 spin
dles in operation, and it is expected that the
in the terrtir and noise. The solid rock was

shook like a cradle, and ships in the harbor
tossed up and down as if in a swing. Two
tnore shocks ensued the next day, though not
so severe. The only actual damage done to
buildings is the fall of one hespital, and one
of the gates of the town. The packet put
back in the hurricane, and did not sail again
till the 19th, when it was currently reported
and to have undergone a severer shock of

an earthquake than it had ever before expe
rienced. It took place on the night of the
l6th of February, having been preceded by
cxtraordimu'y and terric symptoms. The and believed, that three islands on the coast
shock continued for two minutes, with the of sieily, with Syracuse itself, had been des
respite of a few seconds, an unusual length. troyed.
whole number above mentioned, will be in
operation in the course of one year.

(Signed)
Thomas Coles, Collector.
(To be continued.)
9.
MARRIED,
In Stamford,
colonel Joseph Hoyt,
aged 84, to widow Ann Nichols, aged 82.
In East Greenwich, (R. I.)
Mr.
Henry
Olin, aged 93 years, to Mrs. Sally Ayles

worth, aged 55.
__o._.
DIED,
REPORT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
On the 20th inst. at the plantation ofGeorgc
(Continued)
Calvert, esq. Prince George county, negro
(6-)
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to the last.
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HEALTH OFFICE,
May 26, 1810.
Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
791. Almy. Brown and Slater Rhoda Island N. Providence Almy and Brown
1795 Warwick spinning mill
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VOL. I.
No. 6.
L'
acceptable to the ears of an American au president exhibited the taste of a philoso

dience!
pher, the simplicity of a republican, and the
In
the
more
limited
circles
of
private
life,
temper of a christain. He was independent
President of the American Philosophical Society.
and contented with an estate, small in the
From an oration delivered before the society by Dr. Mr. Rittenhouse commanded esteem and af
fection. As a neighbor he was kind and estimation of ambition and avarice, but am
Rush, 17th December, 1796.
charitable. His sympathy extended ina cer ply suited to all his wants and desires. He
(Concluded.)
Let it not be said, that he departed from tain degree to distress of every kind, but held the ofce of treasurer of Pennsylvania,
the duties of a philosopher, by devoting a it was excited with the most force and the by an annual and unanimous vote of the le
part of his time and talentsto the safety and kindest effects to the weakness, pain, and gislature, between the years 1777 and 1789.
happiness of his country. It belongs to mo poverty of old age. As a friend, he was During this period, he declined purchasing
BIOGRAPHY.
DAVID RITTENHOUSE,
narchies to limit the business of government
sincere, ardent, and disinterested; as a com
to a previleged order of men, and it is from panion, he instructed upon all subjects. To
the remains of a monarchical spirit in our his happy communicative disposition, I beg
country, that we complain when clergyman, leave to express my obligations in this pub
physicians, philosophers and mechanics, lic manner. I can truly saYafter an ac
take an active part in civil affairs. The obliga
integrity, which is known and felt only by
pure and elevated minds.~

In the year 1792, he was pursuaded to ac
quaintance with him six and twenty years, cept of the oice of director of the mint of
that I never went into his companny, without

learning something. With pleasure have I
looked beyond my present labors to a time,
when his society should constitute one of the
principal enjoynients of the evening of my
life. But alas! that time so often anticipated,
and so delightful in prospect,will never come!
and a republic was made for man; otherwise
I hope it will not be thought that l tread
divine power and goodness have been wasted too closely upon his footsteps, when 1 pre
in the creation and gift of his. public a'ec sume to lift the latch of his door, and to ex
tions. Our philosopher adopted this truth hibit him in the domestic relations of a hus
from the evidence of his feelings, in com band and father. It was the practice of phi
mon with the rest of mankind; but it Was losophers of former ages, to pass their lives
stmngly reinforced in his mind by numer in their closets, and to maintain a formal and
ous analogies of nature. How was it possible distant intercourse with their families; but
for him to contemplate light and air as the our philosopher was a stranger to pride and
common and equal portions of every man, imposture in every thing. His family consti
and not acknowledge that the goodness of tuted his chief society, and the most intimate
Heaven intended liberty to be distributed in circle of his friends. \Vhen the declining
the same manner among the whole human state of his health rendered the solitude of
race? Or how could he behold the beauty and his study less agreeable than in former years,
harmony of the universe, as the result of he passed whole evenings in reading or con
universal and mutual dependence, and not versing with his wife and daughters. Happy
admit that Heaven intended rulers to be de family! so much and so long blessed with
pendant upon those for whose benet alone such a head! and happier still, to have pos
all government should exist; to suppose the sessed dispositions and knowledge to discern
contrary, would he to deny unity and system ,and love his exalted character, and to enjoy
in the plans of the great Creator of all things. his instructing conversation! Thus sir Tho
I shall make no apology for these senti mas More~lived with his accomplished wife
ments. They are not foreign to the solemnity and daughters; thus Cicero educated his
of this discourse. Had I said less of the beloved Tullia; and in this way only, can
political principles and conduct of our en the female sex be elevated to that dignity
lightened president, hundreds and thousands and usefulness in society, for which they
ofmy fellow citizens would have accused me were formed, and by which, from their in
of an act of treachery to his memory. May uence upon manners, a new era would be
the time never come, in which the praises created in the history of mankind.
of our republican governments shall not be
The he, and manner of living of our
tions of patriotism are as universal and bind

ing, as those of justice and benevolence, and
the virtuous propensities of the human heart
are as much resisted by every individual who
neglects the business of his country, as they
are by the extinctions of the domestic affec
tions in a cell. Man was made for a republic,
the smallest portion of the public debt of

the state, thereby manifesting a delicacy of
the United States. His want of health oblig
ed him to resign it in 1795. Here his con

duct was likewise above suspicion. for I
have been informed by his colleague in of

ce, that, in several instances, he paid for
work done at the mint out of his salary,

where he thought the charge for it would
be deemed extravagant by the United States.

His economy extended to a wise and pro
table use of his time. No man ever found
him unemployed. As an apology for detain
ing a friend a few minutes, while he arranged some papers he had been examining, he
said, that he once thought health the great
est blessing in the world; but that he now

thought there was one thing of much greater
value, and that was time." The propriety of
this remark will appear when we consider,
that providence, so liberal in other gifts,
bestows this in a sparing manner. He never

gives a second moment, until he has with.
drawn the rst, and still reserves the third
in his own hand.
Here I expected to have nished the de
tail of his virtues; but, in the neighborhood
of that galaxy created by their connected
lustre I behold a virtue of inestimable value,
twinkling like a rare and solitary star, it is,
his superlative modesty. This heaven born
virtue was so conspicuous in every part of.
his conduct, that he appeared not so much
to conceal, as, to be ignorant of his superi
ority as a philosopher and a man over the

greatest part of his fellow creatures.
' On the subject of religion Dr. Price was his
favorite. He read one ofhis semiotheuming
before he died.
4-2
M
His constitution was naturally feeble, but
the presence of his Maker, to feel an at

tachment to that spot in which he had cul
it was rendered still more so, by sedentary

labor and midnight studies. He was alict tivated a knowledge of his perfections, and
ed many years with a Weak breast, which held communion with him through the me
upon unusual exertions of body or mind, or dium of his works. Hereafter it shall become
sudden changes in the weather, because the one of the objects of curiosity in our city.
Thither shall the philosophers of future
seat of a painful and harrassing disorder.
This constitutional inrmtiy was not with ages resort to do homage to his tomb, and
out its uses. It contributed much to the per the children yet unborn, shall point to the
fection of his virtue, by producing habitual dome which covers it, and exultingly say,
patience and resignation to the will of Hea there lies our Rittenhouse."
ven, and a constant eye to the hour of his
dissolution. It was a window through which
For the Repertory.
he often looked with pleasure towards a
place of existence,wherc from the increase
and profection of his intuitive faculties, he
would probably acquire more knowledge in

an hour than he had acquired in his whole
life by the slow operations of reason; and
where, from the greater magnitude and ex
tent of the objects of his contemplation, his
native globe Would appear like his cradle,
and all the events of time like the amuse

ments of his infant years.
On the 26th of June, of the present year,
( 1796) the long expected messenger of death
disclosed his commission. In his last illness,
which was acute and short, he retained the
usual patience and benevolence of his tem

per. Upon being told that some of his friends
had Called at his door to inquire how he
was, he asked, why they were not invited
into his chamber to see him? Because
(said his wife) you are too weak to speak to
thcm.= Yes (said he) that is true, but I'
could still have squeezed their hands." Thus
with a heart overowing with love to his
family, friends, country and to the whole
World, he peaceably resigned his spirit into
the hands of his God. Let the day of his
death be recorded in the annals of our so
ciety, and let its annual return be marked
with some public act, which 'shall charac
From a Brother [0 a Sister.

No. V.
My Dear Sister,
house, in the presence of a numerous con
course of his fellow citizens. It was natural

-v
A mat of anneariv~.-' in
A cleansing ocean without bounds.

Then. 0 my soul, for shel'er fly
To Christ, the precious smitten Rock;
Secure on him thou mayst rely.
Nor fear the earth's expiring shock.
It is our duty to examine our hearts be

fore God, looking to him for light, asking
of him wisdom to understand his word, that
we may be able in some measure to deter

mine what good grounds we have to believe
we have any claim, through the merits of
Christ, to this rest; whether we are built on
the everlasting Rock; whether we have a.
nature, he is revived by the invitation of the
they mansions of rest, if we are truly united
philosophers. Very different was the latter,
hoping for happiness from every attribute of

the Deity.
' Agreeably to his request, his body Was
interred in his observatory near his dwelling
Forth issued from his various wounds,

Ali'ords a shad0w, drink and food,
true faith in our hearts: and if so, earnestly

strive, with all diligence, watchfulness and
his illustrious example.

'
It has been the fashion of late years, to
say of persons who had been distinguished
in life, when they left the world in a state
of indifference to every thing, and believing
and hoping in nothing, that they died like
a Christain, interested in the welfare of all

around him, believing in a life to come, and
And his pollutions wash away.

jesus. the Rock, whose precious blood
The prospect of rest to the weary traveller

is a cheering object which serves to enliven
his spirits and animate him on his journey.
The life of a Christain is truly a pilgri
mage, in which he has to encounter many
difficulties and to contend with many dan
gers, but the end presents a happy rest in
the kingdom of that Master whom he hum
bly endeavors to serve. Often when nearly
fainting under the pressure of trials to which
he is subjected, and especially those which
arise from the remaining corruptions of his
terise his services and our grief, and thereby

animate us and our successors to imitate
end of our excellent president. He died like
Drink, and forget of life the woes,
prayer, to secure a right of entering in

through the gates into the city, where we
shall reap a rich reward for all our troubles,
in that heaven where there is no more curse,
where the wicked cease from troubling and

where the weary shall be forever at rest.
That the love of our heavenly Father may
be richly shed abroad in each of our hearts,
my dear sister, as an earnest of those un
speakable joys which are prepared for us in
blessed Saviour, Come unto me all ye that to God by a living faith in Christ, is the hum
labor and are heavy laden and I will give ble but sincere prayer of your aectionate
J. i
you rest. Often when benighted in his way, brother,
when dark providences threaten, and he is
suffered to mom under the hidings of the
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divine presence, does he search in the word
THE ORIGIN AND TRUE USE OF POETRY.
of life for something to brighten his hopes
No. II.
and remove the clouds which darken his un
It has been already shown from ancient
derstanding, when at the application of some
precious promise his light breaks forth as authorities, both Jewish and heathen, that
the morning, and he is enabled to look with poetry is of divine origin; to such, however,
who still imagine that it is near akin to vice,
unspeakable joy to Jesus the author and fin
isher of faith, and relying on his promises is .nd who found this axiom on its abuse, it
condent that he who begins a work of grace will be necessary to produce farther proofs:
the author we have attended to isnot insen
in_the heart will complete that work in glo
sible to the diiculty of removing inveterate
ry, and finally, bring those who are the sub
jects of it to that rest which remains for the prejudices, he has therefore been copious in
iis citations from the sacred oracles, and af
people of God.
ter noticing the unwarranted objections of
The weary trav'ler seeks for rest,
When fervid noon-beam scroaeh the pilins;
Enerved by heat, faint and deprest,
Desires a febpilt from his pains.

How happy ifa friendly shade
He finds. and near a cooling stream,
those who are opposed to the application of

noesy to divine subjects, he continues:
Let me entreat them to look into their
--ibles, and remember the style and way of
\ riting that is used by the ancient prophets.
Have they forgot, or were they never told,
What tranquil joy s his breast pervade,

Tis paradise In his esteem
but many parts of the Old Testament are
There is a Rock whose towring height
lebrew verse; and the gures are stronger,

nd the metaphors bolder, and the images
A renovating shadow yields,

Secures from ills nfgloomy night,
And from the raging tempest shields:

A smitten Rock, whence freeli ows
-'o. stream of which the nil-rim m'w
more surprising and strange than ever I read
in my profane writer. When Deborah Sing!

her praises to the God of Israel, While he
" Lehed from the eld of Edom, she sets
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the earth a trembling, the heavens drop,
the stars by their names, he frustratcth the
and the mountains dissolve from before the

Lord. They fought from heaven, the stars
in their courses fought against Sisera: when
the river of Kishon swept them away, that
How mournful and dejected is the language

of his own sorrows: Terrors are turned up
on him, they pursue his soul as the wind,
and his welfare passes away as a cloud; his
bones are pierced within him, and his soul
ancient river, the river Kishon. O, my soul, is poured out: he goes mourning without the
thou hast trodden down strength. When sun, a brother to dragons, and a companion
tokens of the liars, and makes the diviners

mad. He turns wise men backward, and their
Eliphaz, in the book of Job, speaks his sense
knowledge becomes foolish. His transcend

ent eminence above all things is most nobly
represented, when he sits upon the circle
of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are

to owls; while his harp and organ are turn-. as grasshoppers: all nations before him are
of the holiness of God, he introduces a ma ed into the voice of them that weep. I must
chine in a vision: Fear came upon me, transcribe one half of this holy book, ifI
trembling on all my bones, the hair of my would show the grandeur, the variety, and
esh stood up; a spirit passed by and stood the justncss of his ideas, or the pomp and
still, but its form was indescribable; an image beauty of his expression; I must copy out a
before mine eyes; and silence; then I heard good part of the writings of David and Isa
a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more iah, if I would represent the poetical excel
just then God? Ste. When he describes the lencies of their thoughts and style: nor is it
safety of the righteous, he hides him from the language of the lesser prophets, espe
the scourge of the tongue, he makes him cially in some paragraphs, much inferior to
laugh at destruction and famine, he brings these.
the stones of the eld into league with him,
Now, while they paint human nature in
and makes the brute animals enter into a its various forms and circumstances, if their
covenant of peace. When Job speaks of the designing be so just and noble, their dispo
grave, how melancholy is the gloom that he sition so artful, and their coloring so bright,
spreads over it! It is a region to which I beyond the most famed human writers, how
must shortly g0, and whence I shall not re
much more must their descriptions of God
turn; it is a land of darkness, it is darkness and heaven exceed all that is possible to be
itself, the land of the shadow of death; all said by a meaner tongue! When they speak
confusion and disorder, and where the light of the dwelling place of God, He inhabits
is as darkness. This is my house, there have eternity, and sits upon the throne of his ho
I made my bed: I have said to corruption, liness, in the midst of light inaccessible.
thou art my father; and to the worm, thou \Vhen his holiness, is mentioned, The hea
art my mother and my sister: as for my hope, vens are not clean in his sight, he charges
who shall see it? I and my hope go down his angles with folly: he looks to the moon
together to the bars of the pit. \Vhen he and it shineth not, and the stars are not pure
humbles himself in complainings before the before his eyes: he is a jealous God, and a
almightiness of God, what contemptible and consuming re. If we speak of strength
feeble images doth he use? Wilt thou break Behold he is strong: he removes the moun
a leaf driven to and fro? wilt thou pursue a tains, and they know it not: he overturns
dry stubble? I consume away like a rotten them in his anger: he shakes the earth from
thing, a garment eaten by the moth. Thou her place, and her pillars tremble. He makes
lif~est me up to the wind, thou causest me a path through the mighty waters, he dis
to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. covers the foundations of the world: the pil
Can any man invent more dispieable ideas, lars of heaven are astonished at his reproof.
to represent the scoundrel herd and refuse And, after all These are but a portion of '
of mankind, than those which Job uses? and his ways: the thunder of his power who can
thereby he aggravates his own sorrows and understand? His sovereignty,his knowledge.
reproaches to amazement: They that are and his wisdom, are revealed to us in lan
younger than I have me in derision, whose guage vastly superior to all the poetical ac
fathers I would have disdained to have set counts of the heathen divinity. Let the
with the dogs of my ock: for want and fa potsherds strive with the potshcrds of the
mine they were solitary; eeing into the wil earth; but shall the clay say to him that
demess, desolate and waste: they cut up mal fashioneth it, what makest thou? He bids the
lows by the bushes, and juniper-roots for heavens drop down from above, and let the
their meat: they were driven forth from skies pour down righteousness. He com
among men (they cried after them as after mands the sun, and it riseth not, and he
a thief) to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, sealeth up the stars. It is he that saith to
in the caves of the earth, and in the rocks: the deep, be dry, and he drieth up the rivers.
among the bushes they brayed, under the Woe to them that seek the deep to hide their
nettles they were gathered together; they council from the Lord; his eyes are upon all
were children of fools, yea, children of base their ways, he understands their thoughts
men; they were viler than the earth: and now afar 05'. Hell is naked before him, and de
am I their song, yea, I am their byeword, Ste. struction hath no convering. He calls out all
as the drop of a bucket, and as the small

dust of the balance: he takes up the isles as
a very little thing; Lebanon, with all her
beasts, is not sufcient for a sacrice to this
God, nor all her trees sufficient for the burn

ing. This God, before whom the whole cre
ation is as nothing, yea, less than nothing,
and vanity. To which of all the heathen gods

will ye compare me, saith the Lord, and what
shall I be likened to? And to which of all

the heathen poets shall we liken or compare
this glorious orator, the sacred describer of
the Godhead? The orators of all nations are
as nothing before him, and their words are
vanity and emptiness. Let us turn our eyes

now to some of the holy writings, where God
is creating the world: how meanly do the
best of the Gentiles talk and trie upon this
subject, when brought into comparison with
Moses, whom Longinus himself, a Gentile
critic, cites as a master of that sublime style
when he chose to use it: And the Lord said,
let there be light and there was light; let

there be clouds and seas, sun and stars, plants
and animals, and behold they are: He com

mandod and they appear and obey: By the
word of the Lord were the heavens made,
and all the host of them by the breath of his

mouth. This is working like a God, with
innite ease and omnipotence. His wonders
of providence for the terror and ruin of his
adversaries, and for the suceor of his saints,
is set before our eyes in the scripture with

equal magnicence, and as becomes Divini
ty. When .he arises out of his place the

earth trembles, the foundations of the hills
are shaken because he is wroth: there goes
a smoke up out of his nostrils and re out
of his mouth devoureth, coals are kindled
by it. He bows the heavens and comes down,

and darkness is under his feet. The moun
tains melt like wax, and flow down at his
presence. If Virgil, l-Iomer, or Pindar, were
to prepare an equipage for a descending god,

they might use thunder and lightning too
and clouds and fire, to form a chariot and
horses for the battle, or the trumph; but
there is none of them provides him a ight

of cherubs instead of horses,or seats him in
chariots of salvation. David beholds him

riding upon the heaven of heavens by his
name JAH: he was mounted upon a ehcrub
and did fly; he ew upon the wings ol the
wind;and Habbakkuk sends the pestilenCc
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before him. Homer keeps a mighty stir with

his N4Anrrp|1d Zn);- and Hesiod with his Zn";
t'rdgiCppins Jupiter, that raises up the clouds,
ignorance of their pernicious tendency are

placed in female hands, that have a decided
and durable effect, inimical to the primary
the impudence to claim kindred with the
and [lint makes a noise, or thunders on high.
interests of virtue; we conceive it a laudable
of the Nubodys. And since the honor of
But a divine poet makes the clouds but the

dust of his feet; and when the Highest gives
undertaking, by developing the principles

of the respective systems of morality in this
class of works; by recommending to the no
' _ of the fair sex, only such works as are
glue with wit, genius, sound judgment
and pure morality, to exclude from their
parlors all that might undermine correct
,principles, or destroy the bulwarks of mo
desty. W'c are induced to offer a series of
commentarial essays with the following
prospectus of their arrangement: we pro
pose furnishing a succinct but complete,
summary of the plot and incidents, and re
marks on the general execution and peculiar
merits of such works as have undergone
the test of our strict scrutiny and have been
judged worthy of appearing in our series.
\Ve shall generally but not invariably con
ne ourselves to the latest productions, and
our achievements has too often been atuibut

ed to you, and your roguery has commonly
his voice in the heavens, hails-tones and
coals of re follow. A divine poet discovers

the channels of the waters, and lays open the
foundations of nature; at thy rebuke, O
Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nos

trils. When the Holy One alightcd upon
Mount Sinai, his glory covered the hea

vcns: he stood and measured the earth: he
beheld and drove asunder the nations, and
the everlasting mountains were scattered:

the perpetual hills did bow; his ways are
cvcrlasting. Then the prophet saw the tents
of Cushan in aliction, and the curtains of
the land of Mitlian did tremble. Nor did

the blessed spirit which animated these wri
ters forbid them the use of visions, dreams,
the opening of scenes dreadful and delight
Somebodys, but then it will be found that
they came originally from the dastardly race
been laid at our door, I think it high time to
tell you plainly, Sir, that I renounce you, I

despise you, and if I meet you in the street,
I will cane you and kick you; so defend and
help yourself how you can.
hy, it was but a few evenings since I'
happened in a mixed company of ladies and
gentlemen, where the topics of conversation
were as various as the characters present, and
your name was honored with particular dis
tinction. One said, well, the weather has
suddenly become very warm; l,wonder whe

ther we shall have the yellow fever here this
summer"the answer was ah, Nobody

knows." Next, Pray, Sir, will Mr1 -,
after so long a courtship, be married to Miss

? answer A'obody knows. And imme
diately after what can be the cause of the
ful, and the introduction of machines upon
one number shall be devoted to each work;
great occasions; the divine licence in this

respect is admirable and surprising, and the
images are often too bold and dangerous for
an uninspired writer to imitate.
Bythis time,I am almost induced to be
of which such as appeal to the judgment, high rents in Philadelphia, when within the
that affect the moralprinciples, in which in last two years there have been so many housq
struction is blended with amusement, will be es built?--The answer was still the same,
submitted to the inspection of the senior Nobody knows. Now, sir, I am hold to
partner in the literary rm, while whatever tell you plainly that you bfor it is I, and
lieve that the veil \of prejudice is remov'ed, claims no higher than to excite merrimcnt
that the clouds of error are dispelled by the
rays of truth, and that those who have hither
to contended for the separation of a sublime
art from the most excellent subject are now
ready to recognise the pious conciliator in
the person of Watts. I shall however reserve
the conclusion of his remarks for my next
number, in which I must claim the honor of
again introducing him to my readers.
S.
_Q.
For the Repertory.

LEYITY AND LIGHT READING.
BY cruncus AND co.

No. I.
4- Meanwhile whateer of beautiful or new
Sublime or dreadful (all that books apply)
By search or chance is offered to our view,
We scan with curious and romantic eye." Beanie
It is a question that has excited innite

controversy, both in\ this and the preceding
century, whether novels and romances are,
generally speaking, productive of bad effects

on the minds of the rising generation?
As we do not imagine ourselves capable
of deciding the dispute, which an agitation
of the question invariably occasions, we shall
decline the offering of our opinion on the

subject: but laboring under a rm conviction,
rosulting from mature deliberation, and cor

roboratedby general experience, that there
are many productions in this species of lite
rary composition, which from inattentiOn and
or produce amusement, will be allotted to

his less scholastic and studious, but more
animated and facetious colleague, Will Ver

satile.
_o.
not you, that know these things.

I will give you another instance, wherein
you have been extolled for qualities which

you never possessed. A friend of mine in
the country informed me that there is a
certain township where the clergyman for
'the good of souls, is often a non-resident.
My friend asked, who preached in his ab

In an age so tremblingly alive" to the sence? he was answered Nobody did. But,
nicest sense of honor, the inclosed correspon good sir, how long have you been a preacher?
dence may abrdapeculiar gratication. The I cannot help thinking that this is a lie, be.
duellists are certainly two of the mest re cause I know your want of talents. However,
doubtable champions on earth; and if true my friend stands to it that it is true; and
courage consist in family pride, high toned that often in the same congregation, when
resentment and liberality of opprobrious epi the clergyman himself preaches, you only.
thets, these lads of wax may lay claim to are awake; yes, truly!
ubody is awake;
rivalship with the choice spirits of any Nobody minds whats said, andNobody
age.
careszbut, pray sir, how long has your
MR. SOMEBODYS LETTER TO MR. NOBODY. worship been taken notice of for these cx
\
Presumptuous though invisible Sir,
cellencies?
.
Heraldry will inform you that our family
I confess I was mightily pleased sometime
boasts the highest antiquity, and impartial ago when I read in the newspapers that
history has through many generations, with Nobody would probably be hanged this sea
well merited eclat, handed down our name as son; but as unfounded rumors will some
an illustrious race. I have long enjoyed the times nd their way into the best newspa
dignity of my noble descent, and have valued pers, I have my doubts. But I know enough
myself as of the greatest importance in so to declare that you are charged with many
ciety. But, from some late rumors it would offences and crimes. For instance, is it not
appear, that you, a mere nonentity, think you who break windows, beat the watchmen,
yourself as famous as my great self; but with set re to houses, Ste. and what can you say
how little reason, any person with half an eye in your defence? Nothing, truly? Nothing at
may easily see. I acknowledge there are some all, for .N'obody did it.
sorry scrubs of the Anybodys that have had j
I know further, that youcause a report to
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be spread that, in-many shops in this city,

Nobody minds how things go; Nobody takes
care; Nobody knows how long a man will
brings on solicitude and melancholy. This

is particularly the case with those persons,
whose nervous system has been weakened
by a sedentary life, and much thinking; and
Nobody knows how rich this' man is; Nobody

knows how poor that man is; and many
other such matters, which none but a proud,
they, as l hinted formerly, are most subject
natural, than a cut nger, or a pang of the

toothach.
lO. Concerning the opinion which some
have entertained, that our dreams are sug
gested by invisible beings, I shall only say
to troublesome dreams. If the external air

can affect the motions of so heavy a sub
that I think it very improbable. For, rst, I

see no reason for believeing, that the Deity
vain, conceited coxcomb, like yourself, would
stance as mercury, in the tube of the baro

meter, we need not wonder, that it should
'would employ millions of spiritual crea

tures in such an ofce, as that of prompting
our ordinary dreams. Secondly, I cannot
hold it; .Nobody knows how much he owes;
pretend to know. And it seems it is con

dently reported by some of your creatures,
that you, Mr. Nobody, can nd out the longi
tude, and the prepetual motion, and can

make the philosophers stone, &c. But, vain
a'ect those ner fluids,that circulate through

the human body. And if our passions and
thoughts, when we are awake, may be va
riously modied by the consistency, defect,

or redundance of these uids, and by the
tions blazoning of learning you never pos
state of the tubes through which they cir
sessed, made to catch the admiration of the culate; need we wonder that the same things
wondering populace, and thereby acquire the should happen in sleep, when our ideas, dis
reputation of being a-greater man than my~ engaged from the control of reason, may be
supposed to be more obsequious to material
self.
But it is time to hasten the grand point: impulse? \Vhcn the air is lled with gross
My dear father just before he expired, made vapor, dreams are generally disagreeable
this expression in my hearing; A dying to persons of a delicate constitution.
If then our thoughts in sleep may receive
man will speak the truth; I owe Nobody a
farthing; I owe Nobody a grudge; now, sir if form and color from any circumstances,
this be the ground upon which you have dared from the general state of our health, from
to tarnish the lustre of our name, I shall the present state of the stomach and uids,
exitinguish my fathers debt, and give you from the temperature of the air, from the
a well merited and exemplary chastisement tenor of our thoughts through the day, and
for your insolence and temerity. Therefore, from the position of outward objects ope
according to the laws of honor, I hereby rating upon our organs of' sense; need we be
challenge you to ght me as a gentleman: surprised at the variety of our dreams? And
Meet me on Saturday next precisely at six when any uncommon or disagreeable one
O'clock. in the morning with your seconds, occurs, is it not more rational to refer it to
at-, in Jersey, where I am well informed one or other of these causes, than to terrify
you have already appeared several times and ourselves with a foolish conceit, that it is
have been wounded too. If you refuse, I supernatural, and betokcns calamity? How
will post you- in every paper in the United often, during the day, do thoughts arise, that
States, that Everybody may know, to your we cannot account for, as uncommon perhaps,
eternal disgrace and infamy, that Nobody is and incongruous, as those which make up
a base slanderer, a coward, a poltroon, a our dreams!
Once, after riding thirty miles in a high
villain! and not t to keep company with
genllemen! And, harke, if you exasperate wind, I remember to have passed part of a
me but a very little more, it shallbe pro night in dreams, that were beyond discrip
claimed that Nobody was killed in running tion terrible: insomuch that at last I found
away. Iexpect your answer by Jnybody; and it expedient to keep myself awake, that I
might no more be tormented with them.
am your sworn enemy,
Had I been superstitious, I should have
SOMEBODY. .
Reply of Nobody in our next.
thought that some disaster was impending.
But it occured to me that the stormy wea
ther I had encountered the preceding- day
0]" DREAMING.
(Concluded)
might be the occasion of those horrors: and
9. My next remark is, that dreams de I have since, in some medical book, met
pend in part on the state of the air. That with a remark to justify the conjecture. A
which has power over the passions, may very slight cause may check that insensible
reasonably be presumed to have power over perspiration, which is so ncedful to health:
the thoughts of men. For the thoughts that and when this happens, we cannot expect
occur to a mind actuated by any passion, that our dreams should be so easy as at
are always congenial to that passion, and tend other times. Let no one then, be alarmed'at
to encourage it. Now, most people experi an uncommon dream. It is probable nothing
mentally know, how effectual, in producing more than a symptom of a triing bodily
boaster, this is all a gasconade, an ostenta
joy and hope, are pure skies and sunshine;
disorder: and, if so, it has no more to do
and that a long continuance of dark weather with futurity, nor is one whit more super
conceive, how those creatures should be af

fected, in such an operation, by the external
air, or by the state of our health, which are

known to have great inuence on our
thoughts, both in sleep, and when we are .
awake. And, thirdly, from what we know of
the rapidity of fancy when awake, we need

notsupposc any foreign impulse requisite
to produce the various phenomena of dream
ing; as the soul seems to possess in himself
powers sufcient for that purpose. Fever,
melancholy, and many other such diseases,
give a wildness to the thoughts of waking

men, equal, or even superior, to what hap
pens in sleep. If the agency of unseen be

ings is not supposed to produce the rst,
why should we have recourse to it in order
to account for the last? But, it is urged,
that in sleep, the soul is passive and haunted
by visions, which she would gladly get rid

of, if she could. And it may be urged in >
answer, for it is not less true, that persons
aficted with anxiety and melancholy too

often nd, to their sad experience, that their
soul is almost equally passive, when they

are awake; for that they are even then haunt
ed with tormenting thoughts from which

all their powers of reason, all the exertions
of their will, and all the exhortations of
their friends, cannot'eectually relieve them.

To conclude: Providence certainly super
intends the affairs of men; and often, we
know not howoften, interposes for our pre

servation. It would, therefore, be presump
tuous to afrm that supernatural cautious, in

regard to futurity, are never communicated
in dreams. It is the design of these remarks,
not to contradict a authentic experience,
or historical fact; but only to show, that
dreams may proceed from a variety of causes

which have nothing supernatural in them:
and that though we are not much aquaintcd
with the nature of this wonderful mode of
perception, we know enough of it to see,
that it is not useless or superuous, but may
on the contrary, answer some purpose of
great importance to our welfare, both in soul
.md in body.
_-_
Sagacity in selecting the good, and cou

rage to honor it, according to its degree, de
termines your own degree of goodness.
PHILADELPHIA REP'ERTU RY.

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Yet though its beauty may decay,

Its fragrance never, never dies.
In vain Loiiisas bosom heaves,

For with its charms the rose is dead.
That Rose transplanted to my heart
So the fair maiden in her prime,

That blossoms with the pride of May,
THE CllAlLILT.
Dead lV,
'
Vlli'l'l'i'l'l, A SONNET.
Virtue. the strenglh and beauty of the soul,
Is the best gift of Heaven.
Annrlrang.
Perhaps might bloom perennial there,

Till pierced by Deaths enveiiom'd dart,
Unheeding swift-wing'd Times career.
ROCKINGHAM.
Blest is the man, who feels the ardent glow

Of heaven born Virtue kindle all his soul;
\Vliose various charities, without control,
To all the sons of men spontaneously ow.

How high he soars beyond the stoic schools!
How far his views transcend the Roman fame!
For, popular applause was this ones aim;
\Vhile that but aped the apathy of fools.
He follows where Perfection leads the way;
" In doing good to man his duty is;
And from that duty springs his highest bliss:

50 shall his name outlive the solar ray;
And he, when ruin whelms the earth and skies,
Shall from the sinking world triumphant rise.

AMYNTOR.
For the Repertory.
Will you remember me, dear maid,
For the Repertory.

T0 AMELIA.
Wheneer thy lovely eyes have glanced on mine,
Mr. Editor,
Be pleased to publish the following trics,

occasioned by my verses in your laSL num
ber.
MY.
T0 MY.
Say then, Amelia, for you hold my heart,

Now to bury me's thy part;
Not in vault, or vale, or hill
Bury me in thy own heart,
Which from your lovely self can never part,

Oh tell me. fairest of the virgin train,
Must this my love, but meet a cold disdain!
EMMA.
0h quench the tortures of the raging fire,
And bid my passion to reward aspire.
REPLY.
To bury thee shall be my part,
E'en in my bosomyetno, no
0, wert thou buried in my heart
MY.
\Vlien from your circling arms I y

To dwell beneath a foreign sky?
For the Repertory.
Though absent, you must ne'er forget
\Vhereer you are, abroad, at home,

With mirthful friends, or all alone;
Let memory never cease to dwell,
\Vith him so far, who loves so well.
When twilight spreads her dewy veil,

And lovers breathe their plantive tale,
Remember him beyond the wave,

And all the tender vows he gave.
\Vhen human cares are hushd in sleep,
And moonbeams tremble o'er the deep,

0. heave the pitying sigh for me
\Vho heaves so many oft for thee.
'When in the gay, delirious dance,
If wanton lovers round you prance,
Or Flatterys voice assail your ear,
TO DR. FUNGUS,
On my not bowing when he did, last Sunday.
I was thinking, dear Doctor, of one I had seen,

\ With an eye jetty black, and bewitching to view.
When you bow'd oer the street; so 1 markd not
your mien,
l Nor indeed till you passd had a notion of you.

But then I did base! so admit still my claim
To a cavalier spirit of courtesy high;
For your worship must see there is no one to blame

But the girl of St. Pauls with the pretty black eye.
GLORMON.
..._
For the Repertory.
THE FADED ROSE.
Yon rose late bloomd with tincture bright,
No ower more beauteous could be found.
And smiling with the orient light,
Diffusd its odrouii sweets around.

Oh. tasteless turn, nor deign to hear.
Let Fancy's sadly pleasing powers
0ft bring to mind the raptured hours,
\Vhen by the murmring brook wed rove,
And plight our vows oniurual love
It gave rich fragrance to the air,

And waving kiss'd the gentle breeze;
And though it gave, appeard still fair,
But blooming with uncommon pride,
And blushing with the rain-how's hue,
For the Repertory.

THE ROSE.
Tis often said. that Roses glow
And lose their sweetness in an hour;
But oh! "is false. a Rose] know,
Superior to the winter's power.

A Rose whose bloom may die away,
As Times unconcious pinion ies;
To the editor of the Repertory,

Sir,
I have lately met with the following quo

tations. which] should like to see in a good
English dress. Perhaps some of your corres
pondents would oblige me by a translation or
paraphrase in verse. If well received, you
shall hear more from your friend,
A B.
l. A copy of verses written on a sheet of

paper, in a rambling hand, by the beautiful
and unfortunate Mary, queen of Scots, during
her connement in Fotheringay castle.
Que suis-je, hlas? Et de quoi sert la vie!
J'en suis fors qu'un corps prive de cueur
Un omhre va) n, tin object dc malheur
Qui na plus rien que de motirir en vie.

Plus ne me portez, 0 enemys. denvie
Qui n'a plus l'esprit a la grandeur:
j'ai consomme dexcessive douleur,
Votre ire en bref de voir assouvie.

Et vous, mes amys, que mavez tenu chere,
Souvenez-vous que saris cueiir, et sans saute)

Je ne scaurois auqun bon oeuvre faire.
Souhaiiez donc fin de calamitey,
Et que m bru- etant assez punie,
J'aie ma part en la joie intinie.
Still yielded nectar to the bees.
Soon shall I sooth your idle fears,
Soon kiss away those bitter tears,

Both happy then; one soul. one mind.
One heart by sep'rate forms enshrined.
ROCKINGHAM.
And thou, what language could not tell, read there?
And viewd strong feelings rack my doubting mindl
Whither to see thee should lgo!
That Loves bright sun can never set;
Did not my soul's emotions speak to thine?

Did not my face confusion't. maze declare;
Hast thou not seen me fixd to one dear spot,

(While Cynthia shone, unheeded and forgot)
Inteiitly gazing on thy charms combined.
Am 1 dead tothee, 0, Hard!

Am 1 dead indeed!---ah n0
Yes I am'tis very hard
But 'tis soit must be so
Or will your love. like roses, fade,
But shines with purest, spotless ray,

And gives the soul eternal day.
ALONZO.
To the editor of the Repertory.
Else indeed I won't lie still!
TO A YOUNG LADY.
Feels the destroying hand of time,
And all unconscious fades away.
Upon the foliage by its side,

It glitter'd with the morning dew.
2. A Latin prayer of Marys own composv

ing, and repeated by her immediately before
her execution,
O Domitie Deus, speravi in to!
O cari. nii Jesu. nunc libera me;
A maid that watchd her eecy ock

Beside the bending poplar shade,
And resting on a mossy rock,
Espy d it waving in the glade.
In dura catena, in miserti poena, desidero tel

Languendo gemendo, et genuectendo,
Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me!
Eager to have the envy d rose,

And with it deck her glowing breast,
Flemihus Heliadum ramis dum vipera serpit,
She left her charge. forsook repose,
Fluitit in obstaiiterti succina geii-ima scram!

Quac. dttm miratur pingui se roreteneri
3. lVlui'tials 56th Epigram of Book IV.
And pluck'd it from its thorny nest,

That instant droop'd its spreading leavti,
And won its lovely color ed;
Concreto reguit VlnClZl repente gelu.

Ne tibi regali' placeas, Cleopatra, sepulchro,
Vipers si tumulo nobiliore jacet.
47
ml:
Pbamlllbl'a.
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
It is with heartfelt pleasure, we this day

present an essay of Criticus 8: Co." intro
ductory to a series of essays upon a subject
which we deem to be as important to the
public as it is honorable to themselves. If
the undertaking be executed with the taste,
judgment and ability, which we have reason
to expect, the good effects that will ow to
society are incalculable. \Ve cordially wish
those gentlemen a happy success in the pro
secution of their meritorious design; and to
the sweet reward that ever awaits as the

crown of virtuous exertion, may they be af
fectionately hailed as benefactors of the ris
ing generation.
We acknowledge our obligations to A
B." for his French and Latin extracts. Such
communications o'er an agreeable diversion
for the hours of literary leisure, and a useful
exercise to the Alumni of our academics and
colleges.
7 .
which it fortunately did without doing any Greatest number of spindles which may be
injury! It is stated that there were from
l0 to 12,000 bushels of grain in these mills,
the whole of which we believe will be lost,
besides large quantities of our, our bar

rels, hogsheads, &c. &c. lost and damaged.
We can give no guess at the immense loss

of property sustained by this unfortunate
event; we may however venture to say,
40,000 dollars at a moderate computation.
employed 2,000.
This establishment suered much in the

outset, it being put to much expense by En
glish workmen, who pretended to much
more knowledge in the business than they
really possessed. At present only two are
employed, andAmcricans as apprentices, Ste.
are getting the art very fast.
No dividend for prots is expected for a
The night was calm, and the volumes of

curling smoke and ame seemed to ascend considerable time, and from the want of ex
to heaven, and fall again to earth in a shower

of burning cinders. Our powers of descrip
tion would fail us were we to attempt to
paint the scene asit really was. The gleam
ing of the ames, contrasted with the black
ness of the horizon; the scenery around
with the attendant circumstances, presented
a picture (alas, too real!) awfully magni
cent.
One of these mills (Morton and Wilsons)
was built on the most modern construction,
and had every improvement and convenience,

which rendered it not only one of the rst
perience in the durability of the machinery,

&c. are at a loss to calculate what they may
expect; they however calculate, under a pro
per care of government and the growing
disposition if the American citizens to con~
sume the fabrics, to make it a good business.
Providence, Aug. 31, 1809.
[American Hatchman.
On Friday the rst inst. the degree of
The valuable merchant mill, on the James
Bachelor of Arts was conferred by the Pro
vost of the University of Pennsylvania, on River Canal, near Richmond, belonging to
Messrs. Franklin Bache, Charles G. Bishop, Mr. Isaac Webster, was totally consumed by
Benjamin Chew, Samuel Chew, Joseph S. re on the night of the 20th May, together
Cohen, Edward D. Coxe, George W. Gray. with all its contents. The coopers shoop ad
Christain Hanckel, William Hay, John C. joining the mill and a large quantity of stuff,
were all consumed.
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scene, a mill stone, which was rolled out of
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PHILADELPHIA REPER TORY.
Note F.
Among numerous other facts the following are

particularly stated.
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70,000120,000 lbs. of
ax and cotton
spun and wove

Of the cloth and annel thus wove, about
two thirds are cloth, generally worth more

than one dollar a yard, and the remainder
annel.
In Delaware l_50,000lbs. wool annually
spun and woven in private families. Large ex
portations of linen from the western counties
of Pennsylvania, and some from Kentucky,
and several places in the eastern and middle

states. Eighty thousand yards brought for
sale in 1809,10 Pittsburgh alone; and the
number of looms in that town has increased

since the year 1807, from 17 to 4-4. In the
lower counties of Virginia, North Carolina
generally and the upper counties of South
Carolina and Georgia, almost the whole of
the summer cloathing for every description

of persons, is of household manufacture;
and almost all the slaves are entirely clothed
in the same manner. The scarcity of wool
alone, prevents any adequate supply from the
In Rusia during the recent year, there

were 886,084 deaths; [During the same
period the marriages were 288,78.8; and the
birth 2,334,596.]
Literary Intelligence.
We are happy to announce the attering
distinction recently paid to our countryman
Dr. Benjamin S. Barton, Professor of Ma
teria Medica, Natural History and Botany in

the University of Pennsylvania. A copy of
his elegant and valuable work, the Elements
of Botany, was presented by L. Harris, Esq.

the American consul at St. Petersburgh, to
the empress dowager of Russia, who caused

some parts of it to be translated for her use.
From these she had derived so much satis
faction that a translation of the whole work
into French has been ordered by her ma
jesty. This compliment we mention with
the more pleasure because it proves that
no elevation can exclude the amiable studies
of nature, and because we deem it equally
honorable to the illustrious personage who
offered, as to the distinguished scholar who
received it.
-_$.
Seed corn.Farmers, try the following

experiment: to half a bushel of seed corn
put three ounces of salt petre, bruised ne;
cover the corn with soft water; add one pint
of strong lye, and let the corn soak twenty
hours; then spread it on a dry oor live or
six hours and plant it immediately.

Kine ParkaIn the report given by the
Board of Medicine in India, we nd that
June 2. 1810.

from the 26th May to the 2d June, 1810
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Aneurism
0 l Inun. stomach I 0
Apoplexy
1 0 lnam. bowels
0 1
Casualties
0 1 Insanity
1 0
Childbed
0 Mortication
Consumptionoflungs
Convulsions
1
Decay
2
Diarrhoea
1
Dropsy
1
Dropsy of the breast 1
Drunkenncss
1
Fever
0
Fever, typhus
2
Gangrene
1
0 Old age
1 0
2 Pleurisy
1 0
U Smallpox inoculat.0 I
0 Still born
0 C
0 Suicide
1 0
1 Whooping cough 0 1.
1
1
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Total 39
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1 year
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Between 1 and 2
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70
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100
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IOHN ALLISON, Clerk.

STATE OF THE THERIHOIHETER.
9 o'clock. 12 oclock. 3oclock.

89
88
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81
82
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May 28
29
30
31
June 1
2
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96
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MRS. KAMMERER
Informs the ladies and gentlemen of Philadelphia,
and of the nmhern and sothern states, that she
has opened a. Boarding House, in the city of Bur

lington, New jersey.
Persons desiring an excursion to one of the most
agreeable villages in the United States. may be fur
North Carolina, where more than fteen
in the space of 18 months, no less than nished with very genteel lodgings at her house on.
145,806 persons were vaccinated, and recov Green Bank, upon the margin of the river Dell
ered. The Rajah of Tanjore, and the Divan ware.
The easy and almost hourly intercourse by land
of Travancora, Were among the number.
stages, waver Packets, and asteam boat,with Phila
delphia,
Bristol and Trenton, the fashionable and.
Gout.-A new virtue is discovered in the
society of Burlington, its excellent schools,
loadstone. The severest ts of gout will, it cultivated
public library, market. daily post, Etc. render it in a
is said, be cured by the sufferer wearing a peculiar degree eligible as a summer residence for
magnet enclosed in a annel case next his families, and gentlemen, either ofbusiness or leisure.
While these circumstances remove the inconveni
skin.
ence of too much solitude and privation of the daily
hundred persons were on the ground, there

were not forty who were not entirely cloth
ed with homesjiun.
that in no instance can our enemies show situations, gentlemen and ladies Will nd here whab
ever conduces to make a country residence in the
an example of prosperity equal to the little summer desirable.
'
same source for winter clothing. The num

ber of stores for the sale of foreign goods,
has in Matthews connty, Virginia, from the
year 1802, decreased from 15 to one. At a
general review of militia last summer in
A late Nashville, [Ten] paper observes,
town of Nashiille, which 31 years ago was
comforts of life, so much complained of in remote)
The Bristol baths, so celebrated and elegantly,
vateers to resume their business. We have

understood the Russian government object
up. being directly on the opposite side of the

uninhabited, and not a white person within tted
rivet,may be visited in the course of a few minutes,
less than 200 miles. The value of the real and its mineral waters besupplied at Mrs. Kammer
property assessed by the commissioners is ers every morning if requested.
There is also in the city of Burlington a mineral
given for the last year at the sum of 359,208 fountain highly reputed; the rides about the townv
dollars, and the population cannot be short and along the river, are very handsome; shing and.
ed to this permission as improperly control
of 3000.
The Danish government, previous to the

third of March, gave permission to the pri
The governor of Jamaica has authorized

a trade to the United States according to
the last instructions from England, and to
their utmost eittent. The people at Jamaica,
appear highly gratied by the prospect of a

renewal of commercial intercourse.
fowling may be enjoyed almost at the door; and in

regard to air, water and healthfulness, no situation
ing the navigation of the Sound.
HEALTH OFFICE,
is more tobe preferred.

The price of the Philadelphia Repertory is four dol
lars per annum, payable quarterly in advance.
graving.
Subscriptions and communications, post paid, will

Besides stated lodgers, Mrs. Kammercr can se
commodate travelling and occasional company.

June 9th, 1810.
PHLLADELPHIA,
No- 17, Arch street.
lifabfpiaQiQwerhm '
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE or 'ILLIAM PENN.
To conne all merit to a particular reli
gious persuasion, is certainly the property
of a little mind; of a mind neithcrillumined
by reason, nor inuenced by Christianity. The
bigot looks at principles alone,and condemns

without mercy those that do not exactly tal
ly with his own. The man of virtue and un
derstanding makes a candid allowance for
the prejudices of education, or the fallibility
of human judgment; and in right practices,
from whatever source they spring, sees much
to love and much to admire: the former, in
his narrow zeal, disregards good actions,
which are the only incontcstible proof of

good principles; the latter, without su'er
ing any improper bias to mislead him, judges
of the tree according to its fruit.
SATURDAY. JUNE I6, 1810.
No. 7.
him while at the university, in conjunction at a religious conventicle, and, with eighteen
with some other students, to withdraw from others, committed to prison by the mayor of
the established worship, and hold a private Cork; but upon his writing a handsome ad
meeting, where they preached and prayed in dress to the earl ofOrrery, lord president of
their own way. The discipline of the univer Munster, in which he very sensibly pleaded
sity being very strict in such matters, he for liberty of conscience, and professed his
was fined for the sin of nonconformity; desire of a peaceable, and his abhorrencc of a
this served to x him more rmly in his tumultuous and disrespectful separation from
principles and habits, and exposed his sin the established worship, he Was discharged.
gularity more openly to the world. His con This second stroke of persecution engaged
duct being then deemed obstinate, he was, him more closely to the Quakers: He associ~
in the sixteenth year of his age, expelled, as ated openly with them, and bore with calm
an incorrigible o'ender against the laws of ness and patience, the cruel abuse which was
liberally licswWed on that singular party.
uniformity!
His father being informed of his conduct,
On his return home he found his father
highly incensed against him. As neither rc
remanded him home; and though now VVil

monstrances, nor threatnings, nor blows, liams age forbade his trying the force of
could devest him of his religious attachments, that species of discipline, to which, as a
he was, for a while, turned out of the house; naval commander, he had been accustomed,
but by the inuence of his mother, he was yet he plied him with those arguments which
The extraordinary man, whose life we here so far restored to favor as to be sent to it was natural for a man of the world to use,
present, was one of the original bulwarks of Fmnro. in rnmpowy 1 WM Par-earn! of am! withk, On cm-h an nne, would have been
the society of Friends, and the founder and quality, with a view to unbend his mind, and prevailing. The prinCipal one was a threat
legislator of Pennsylvania; and had he lived rene his manners. Here he learned the ening to disinherit him; and to this he hum
in the age of Solon or Lycurgus, his name

would have oated down the stream of time
with theirs.
WILLIAM Pass wasthe grandson of cap
tain Giles Penn, an English consul in the Me
language of the country, and acquired such

a polite and courtly behaviour, that his fa
ther, after two years absence, received him
with joy, hoping that the object of his
wishes was attained. He was then admitted
an adxniml of the English navy, in the pro
the plague broke out in 1665, when he re
bly submitted, though he could by no means

be persuaded to take off his hat in presence
of the king, the duke of York, or his father.
For this inexibility he was again turned
out of doors; upon which he commenced an

diterranean, and the son of sir William Penn, into Lincolns Inn, where he studied law till itinerant preacher, and had much saccess
tectorate of Cromwell, and in the reign of turned to his fathers house.
Charles 11. in which oices he rendered very

important services to the nation, particularly
by the conquest of Jamaica from the Spani
ards, and in a naval victory over the Dutch.
\ 'illiam was born October 14-, 1644, in the
About this time (1666) the kings coders clergy and the magistmcy frequently brought
being low, and claims for unrewardcd ser him into difculties, and sometimes to im
vices being importunate, grants were fre prisonment; but his integrity was so manifest,
quently made of lands in Ireland; and the and his patience so invincible, that his father,
merits of sir William Penn being not the

parish of St. Catharine, near the tower of least conspicuous, he received a valuable
London, educated at Chigwcll, in Essex, estate in the county of Cork, and committed
and at a private school in London; and in the management of it to his son, then in the
the fteenth year of his age, entered as a stu twenty second year of his age. Here he met
dent and. gentleman commoner of Christ with his old friend Lee, and immediately at
tached himself to the soeiety oi Quakers,
Church college in Oxford.
His genius Was bright, his disposition so though at that time they were subject to se
ber and studious, and being possessed of a vere persecution. This mighthavc operated
lively imagination and a warm heart, the as a discouragement to a young gentleman of
rst turn of his mind toward religious sub such quality and expectations, especially as
jects was attended with circumstances bor he exposed himself thereby to the renewed
dering on enthusiasm. Having received his5 displeasure of a parent who loved him, had
rst impressions from the preaching of; inut the integrity and fervor of his mind in
Thomas Loe, an itinerant Quaker, be con- duced him to sacrice all wordly consider
ceivcd a favorable opinion of the ights and

renements of that rising sect," which led
in making proselytes. In these excursions,
the opposition which he met with from the
at length, breame softened toward him, and

not only exerted his interest to release him
from connement, but winked at his return
to the family whenever it suited his conve

niency. His mother Was always his friend, and
often supplied his necessities without the
knowledge of the father.
In the year 1668, he commenced author,
and, having written a book, entitled The
sandy foundation shaken, which gave great

offence to the sfiiritunl lords, he was im
prisoned in the tower, and the visits of his

friends were forbidden. But his adversaries
found him proof against all their ef
forts to subdue him; for a message being
brought to him by the bishop of London,

It was not long before he was apprehended that he must either publicly recant, or die
ations to the dictates of his conscience.
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leaving him his paternal blessing and a plenti as the only medium of his acceptance, put
ful estate. This accession of fortune made no ting his condencc in God, who hath pro
alteration in his manners or habits: he con mised he will never leave nor forsake his
tinucd'to'preach, to write, and to travel as people, he is enabled to rejoice in a sense
before; and, within a few months afterwards, of his own weakness, glorifying God as his
was taken up again for preaching in the strength and support, who will guide him
street, and carried to the tower, from whence in the way of truth and establish his goings.
W'e have abundant cause to cast all our
No Cross, no Crowu;" and another, In after a long examination he was sent to
novency with her open face,- in which he Newgate, and being discharged without any cares on him who alone is able to keep us
explained and vindicated the principles trial at the end of nine months, he went over from falling, and who alone is able to restore
which he had advanced in the book for to Holland and Germany, where he continu our souls from wandering in the broad road
which he was imprisoned. This, with a let ed travelling and preaching, till the king of destruction and lead us in the way even
'ter which he wrote to lord Arlington, secre published his declaration of indulgence to lasting; and which he will do, not in consi
tary of state, aided by the interest which tender consciences;" upon which he return deration of any good works which wealiave
his iZ-ther had at court, procured his release. ed to England, married a. daughter of sir performed, but for his own names sake, of
after seven months connement.
William Springet, and settled at Rickmansr his own free and unbounded mercy.
a prisoner, his answer was, my prison shall

be my grave. I owe my conscience to no
man. They are mistaken in me; I value not
their threats. They shall know that I ccui
weary out their malice, and bafe all their
designs by the spirit of patience." During
this connement he wrote his famous book,
Soon after this, he made another visit to

Ireland, to settle his fathers concerns, in
which he exerted himself with great indus

try and success. Here he constantly appear
ed at the meetings of the Quakers, and not
only ofciated as a preacher, but used his
worth, in Hortfordshire; where he pursued
Let us then, my dear sister, be alert in
his studies, and multiplied his controversial the performance of our duty, seeking to
know our hearts, a knowledge of which, with
writings for about ve years.
(To be continued.)
*0.
For the Repertory.
interest with the lord lieutenant, and others

of the- nobility, to procure indulgence for
them, and to get some of them released
No. VI.
from their imprisonment.
In 1670, an act of parliament was made,
My Dear Sister,
Which prohibited the meetings of dissenters
Such is the deceitfulness of the human
under severe penalties. The quakers being heart, that the Christian is often led astray
forcibly dcbarred entering their meeting by depending on the strength he thinks he
house in Grace Chillmjitrem._lnndnn_ as nnssebse-v he is more to believe himself
sembled before it in the street, where Penn capable of performing meritorious works, by
preached to at numerous concourse, and be which he can lay claim to the favor of God,
ing apprehended on the spot by a Warrant that he frequently stumbles on the stumbling
from the lord may'or, was committed to stone of selfrighteousness; and it is only by
Newgate, and at the next session, took his the light of the blessed Spirit that he is en
trial at the Old Bailey, where he pleaded his abled to discover his errors and the dangers
own cause, with the freedom of an English into which he hath plunged.
man and the iiiagtianimity of a hero. The
When this light breaks in upon his soul,
jury at rst brought in their verdict guilty he sees there is no refuge of safety out of
of s/teah'ng in Grace Church street;" but Christ; and receiving fresh supplies of grace
this being unsatisfactory to the court, they he is enabled by faith to determine that he
were' detained all night, and the next day will arise and go to his Father, remember
returned a verdict lnot guilty." The court ing his tender mercies, considering the rich
Were highly incensed against them, ned es of his grace, his ability and willingness
them forty marks, each. and imprisoned to save and that to the uttcrmost, convinced
them along with Penn, till their nes and of his own inability to do any thing effectual
fees WCYC paid. An expression which drop for his own salvation and experiencing the
ped from the recorder on this trial, rendered ineicacy of all attainments independent of
the cause of the Quakers popular, and their constant supplies of heavenly grace for his
persecutors odious: It will never be well establishment in holiness, he humbly casts
with us (said the infatumls sir John Howcl) himself at the feet of sovereign mercy, plead
till something like the Spanish inquisition ing the meritorious righteousness of Christ
be established in England. The triumph of remembered " Three things I commend to you:
Penn was complete: being acquitted by his lst Let nothing tempt you towrong your conscience;
a sense of their natural depravity, will inu
ence us in our petitions atathrone of grace

for the imputed reghtcousness of Christ to
render us acceptable before God, then shall
we be safe amidst the storms that shall nal
ly overwhelm those who have built their
foundation on the sand of their own moral

conduct in preference to the allsuicient
merits of the spiritual Rock, Christ Jesus,
on which alone m..y we both be establishal

by grace, is the prayer of your affectionate
brother,
I.
For the Repertory.
THE ORIGIN AND TRUE USE OF POETRY.
No. III.
Proofs such as those which have been ex

hibited, are superior to volumes of argu~
ments for establishing the propriety of ap
plying poetical grandeur to divine truth;
whatever has a tendency to elevate the soul
to God and raise the a'ections to their pro
per object, is consistent with reason; the de
votions of him in whose heart a ame of sa

cred love is enkindled will swell with
" Thoughts that breathe and words that burn."
And do not the prophets sanction the use of

such language, as to our best judgment
seems most rich? and shall we err by taking

them for our examples? True it is that the
highest stmins of human eloquence and the
most rened language of pocsy are compa
ratively mean when we contemplate the at
tributes and perfections of Deity; he need
eth not the adorations of men's hands, he
peers, he was released from prison, on -thc if you keep peace at home, it will be a feast to you dwelleth in mysterious light, encompassed
payment of his fees,v and returned to the in the day of" trouble 2nd. Whatever you design to with inconceivable glory: but as he requir
do, lay it justly, and time it seasonably, for that
zealous exercise of his ministry.
eth of the intelligent beings whom he hath
His conduct under this prosecution did gives security and dispatch. Srd- Be not troubled at created that worship which belongeth to him
disappointments; if 'hey may be recovered, do it; if
him great honor. is father became per
alone, and as he hath made his praise our
'not. trouble is vain -These rules will carry you
fectly reconciled to him, and soon after died, , with rmness and comfort through this inconstant
The dying advice of his father deserves to be! world."-No Crau no Crown.
privilege, it is certainly our duty to render

to him the best offering of our hearts and
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our tongues, and to serve him with all the

powers of our minds. But to return to our
author:
Who is there now (says he) will dare
to assert, that the doctrines of our faith will
not indulge or endure a delightful dress?

Shall the French poet (Boileau) ali'right us
by saying
De la foy d'un Chrtien les mystres terribles,
D'ornemens gayez ne sont point susceptibles?
But the Frencc critic (Rapiu) in his rc

ectious upon eloquence, tells us, that the
majesty of our religion, the holiness of its
laws, the purity of its morals, the height of
when the muse nods, the sense would burn
its mysteries, and the importance of every
and sparkle upon the reader and keep him
subject that belongs to it, requires a gran
feelingly awake.
deur, a nobleness, a majesty, and elevation
With how much less toil and expense
of style,suited to the theme: sparkling ima
might a Dryden, an Otway, a Congreve, or
ges and magnicent expressions must be

used, and are best borrowed from scripture:
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ornament. The book of the Revelations seems lions might almost convey piety in resisting
to be a prophecy, in the form of an opera, nature, and melt the hardest souls to the
or a dramatic poem, where divine art illus love of virtue. The aairs of this life, with
tratesthe subject with many charming glo their reference to a life to come, would shine
ries; but still it must be acknowledged, that bright in a dramatic description; nor is there
the naked themes of Christianity have some any need or any reason why we should al
thing brighter and bolder in them, something ways borrow the plan or history from the an
more surprising and celestial, than all the. cient Jews, or primitive martyrs; though se
adventures of gods and heroes, all the daz veral of these would be better understood
zling images of false lustre, that form and by most readers, and the application would
garnish 3. heathen song: here the very argu be much more easy. The anguish of inward
ment would give wonderful aid to the muse, guilt, the secret stings, and racks and scour
and the heavenly theme would so relieve a ges of conscience; the sweet retiring hours,
dull hour, and a languishing genius, that and scraphic joys of devotion; the victory
of a resolved soul over a thousand tempta
tions; the inimitable love and passion of a

dying God; the awful glories ol~ the last
tribunal; the grand decisive sentence, from
which there is no appeal; and the conser,
:1 Dennis, furnish out a Christian poem, than quent transports or horrors of the two eter
.i modern play! There is nothing among all nal worlds; these things may be variously
let the preacher that aims at eloquence read
the ancient fables, or later romances, that disposed, and form many poems. How might
the prophets incessantly, for their writings
have two such extremes united in them, as such performances, under a divine blessing,
are an abundant source of all the riches and

the eternal God becoming an infant of days; call back the dying piety of the nation to life
ornaments of speech. And, in my opinion,
the possessor of the palace of heaven laid to and beauty! This would make religion ap-l
this is far better counsel than Horace gives
sleep in a manger; the holy Jesus, who knew pear like itself, and confound the blasphe
us, when he says,
no sin, bearing the sins of men in his body mies of a pi-ofiigate world, ignorant of pious
Vos exemplaria Grzca
on the tree; and the sovereign of life stretch pleasures.
,
Nocturna versate manu, versate diurnd.
But we have reason to fear, that the
ing his arms on a cross, bleeding and ex
As in the conduct of my studies with piring: the heaven and the hell in our divi tuneful men of our day have not raised their
regard to divinity, I have reason to repent nity are innitely more delightful and dread ambition to so divine a pitch. 1 should re
of nothing more than that I have not perus ful than the childish gments of a dog With joice to see more of this celestial lire kind
ed my bible with more frequency; so if I three heads, the buckets of the Belides, the .ling within them; for the ashes that break
were to set up for a poet, with a design to Furies with snaky hairs, or all the flow
exceed all the modern writers, I Would fol
one as themes divinely true, and the others

.,s a medley of fooleries which we can never
Besides, we may fetch a further answer believe: the advantage for touching the
to monsieur Boileaus objection, from other springs of passion will fall innitely on the
poets of his own country. What a noble use side of the Christian poet; our wonder and
have Racine and Corneille made of Chris our love, our pity, delight and sorrow, with
tian subjects, in some of their best trage the long train of hopes and fears, must needs
dies! What a. variety of divine scenes are be under the command of an harmonious
displayed, and pious passions awakened in pen, whose mery line makes a part of the
those poems! The martrydom of Polyeucte, readers faith, and is the very life or death
how doth it reign over our love and pity and of the soul.
If the trilling incredible tales that fur
at the same time animate our zeal and de
low the advice of Rapin, and read the pro

phets night and day.
out in some present and past writings betray
ery stories of Elisyum. And if We survey the an infernal source. This the incomparable
Mr. Cowley, in the latter end of his preface,
and the ingenious sir Richard lilactnnore in
the beginning of his, have so pathetically de
scribed and Lunented, thit i rather refer the
reader to mourn with them. than detain and

tire him here. These gentlemen, intreir
large and labored works or pocsy, litti't. pit"

en the world happy examples of who! they
wish and encourage in prose; the om: in a
rich variety of thought and lir',r"f'.tl1e otner
in all the shining colors of protuso and no
ritl diction."
'
In closing these remarks, I CL. only add,
votion! ' " " ' The Davideis, and th. nish out a tragedy, are so armed by wit and
two Arthurs, have so far answered Boileau's fancy, as to become sovereign ol~ the rational that I have but little hope: of gaining many
objections, in English, as that the obstacle> powors, to triumph over all the a'ections converts to the doctrine ol \z'nts, among
of attempting Christian poesy are broken <1.d manage our smiles and our tears at those whose prejudices are so strong as to
down, and the vain pretence of its being im '_\leasure; how wonderous a conquest might prevent them from seeking; grins ii tit rich
c-e obtained over a wild world, and reduce mines of taste and genius, or plucking am
practicable is experimentally confutetl.
t. at least. to sobriety, if the same happy brosir-l mvers in the guilt n of nous}, wuo
It is true, indeed, the Christian myste
ries have not such need of gay trappings A [lent Were employed in dressing the scenes are ever fearful oi :ipoismwus tanker. 1'- 10
continually dread :1 prit'aly tirorr; lilll i
beautied, or rather composed, the heathc of religion in their proper gures of majes
superstition: but this still makes for tlu 'y, sweetness, and terror! The wonders of will condently assertythttt should the) un
wnrily stray into the groves of lit-moist with
greater ease and surer success of the p00 nesting power, of redeeming love and re
The wonders of our religion, in aplain nat '. l wing gr.=.ce, ought not to be thus impi the sublime and 'Hiuring: Militia. in will
not strive to "'Xtsntlute thr'n" n-r .--nn- by
ration and simple dress, have anative grzr 'msly neglected by those whom heaven has iatying the 5"!!Klil'iiet lliltit'iifilzlll'l they
unlued
with
a
gift
so
proper
to
adorn
and
deur, a dignity and a beauty in them, though
lvcnture to taste the httt-llectuul sweets ~01
they do not utterly disdain all methods ol cultivate them; an art whose sweetinsinua
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Cowper, they will take delight in the luxuri i charms and energy to truth, must be seen and, though thousands perform their duty'
ant elds where grow together in rich clus
in our expression and deportment before we feeling only that part of the motive, which
ters, the nutritious and exhilarating fruits of can render an acceptable service to such as has relation to themselves, yet there can be
piety and genius.
S.
stand in need of correction or reproof.

Many pious divines and eminent meta
For the Repertory.

FRIENDSHIP.
Is aught so fair
In all the dewy landscapes of the spring,
In the bright eye of ilesper or the mron,
In natures fairest forms, is aught so fair
As virtuous friendship?
One of the principal reasons why good

advice is so frequently disregarded or treat
ed with neglect, is a belief that it is gener
ally dictated by selsh or interested motives;

and it must he confessed that an acquaintance
with the world and its fashions, discovers so
many examples of persons engaged in the

ofce of giving advice who seem to have so
little knowledge of its practical advantages,
that the opinion, though sometimes erro-'
neous and often prejudicial, ought rather to

be regarded with complacency and forbear
ance than hastily or passionately condemned,
Where vanity urges to the giving of advice,
we cannot wonder that it should be opposed
or rejected, without much inquiry concern

ing its excellence or its use; for few men,
whatsoever may be their ignorance or their

necessities, will endure the idea that (mother
is growing great in his own eyes at their

expense, especially if he evinces a desire to
inuence their determinations without per
mission: nor am I altogether certain that it
is not easier to submit to the consequences
physicizms, still contend for the disinterest

cdness of moral virtue; but I am disposed
to think that there is no such thing as dis

interested morality: and doubt very much
whether, if there was, the world would be
the better of it. From a supercial view of

the subject, one would be apt to pronounce
this a degrading and unpopular opinion;
but let it only be recollected that there are
di'erent kinds and degrees of interest, ope
rating in various ways and discovering them
selves in an endless variety of shapes and
combinations, and the opinion will appear
neither humiliating nor improbable. I speak
not of that groveling interest so palpable
and predominant in the commerce of man
kind, which converts friendship into a mer
cenary trafc in which self love always pro
poses to be the gainer; nor would I be sup
posed to give countenance to that a'ectation
of friendship, the o'spring of pride, ambi
tion or corruption, which men use as a lad
der to climb to favor, or as a silken patch
to conceal their hypocrisy, and to give a
sightly and a tolerable appearance to that
which, without such a covering, would
'shock us at once by its loulnsomeness and
deformity. From this friendship may heaven

preserve all honest souls: it is an aromatic
flower with which men dlaw around them
of our own mistakes, than to brook the inso a tribe of gilded butteries which, after
lcnce of him who is continually reminding uttering gayly for a while in borrowed
us of our weakness, by proclaiming his su splendor, taste the delicious poison and are
periority in foresight or in skill. lshall not

here detain the reader with a detail of the
various objectionable motives which prompt
the interested to proer advice: my object is
to show that it may proceed from good ones;
no impropriety in remembering the connec

tion and making it an incentive to moral
actions. Suppose it had pleased an allwisc
Creator so to frame my heart and to consti
tute my faculties that my greatest satisfac
tion or my only unmixed pleasure consists
in living virtuously and doing good; am I
to be condemned for seeking happiness in
the exercise of those powers and affections
which make a necessary part of my being?
Unquestionably not. It is an eternal and
immutable law of our nature, that whenever
we rationally bestow happiness we receive

it in return; and I feel no hesitation in as
serting, that disgust and disappointment
will forever be the lot of that man who hopes
to obtain it on other terms. This principle

in the economy of human nature instead of
leading us to repine at the dispensations of
Providence, ought to be a subject of per
petual joy and exultation; it is the most

glorious evidence of his superlative good
ness; since, by this means, he makes hap
piness and virtue to depend on each other,

hereby securing to man the dignity of his
nature and extending the motive to do good
through the boundless regions of intellectual
existence. For the digression I have thub
msensloiy made, I implore the readers par
don; it has proceeded from the pride 1 al
ways feel in contemplating man in his af
nity to his maker, and in observing hmv
nearly we approach whilst in our proper

character, to the Great Fountain of all per
fection; who far from being displeased that

seen no more; a mere name which instead of we should look for happiness in the practice
giving as it was intended to do, strength of virtue and acts, of kindness and bene
and consolation to virtue, too often robs it cence, has taught us to believe that this is
of its dearest hopes and prepares the grave the source of his own felicity. Yes, if to
in which it is entombed! For what purpose seek pleasure in doing good and conferring
and, I trust, that the instance hereafter to be this adultcrated coin is suffered to circulate happiness be a proof of the existence of
given by the author of these remarks, will among men, I Cannot tell. Neveitheless,
self love, the Deity himself is selsh, and
be accepted as anevidence of the fact.
um persuaded it is not without its use: PCP-i condescends to stand in this respect upon a
There is but one character in which a haps like the copper currency occasionally; level with his creatures.
man can hope to labor protably in this met with in trade, though of no intrinsic;
From what has been observed the nature
much frequented eld of moral duty; and worth itself, it may serve to show, by com- of friendship may be easily collected: it is
that is the character of a friend. \Vhether parison and contrast, the value of that sterJ l a disposition in the heart of one being to
this character, founded on social connex ling medium which it barely represents.
| promote the welfare of another, with no
ions and habits of intimacy, be the result ol
The friendship that really deserves the,] gratication in view except that which is
2. long interchange of affectionate sentiments name is a virtue of the highest order, and derived from a conviction of right and it
and regards, or spring from that wide and ows, as I shall endeavor to prove, from a; sense of duty. The virtue is not perfect
diffusive benevolence which unites a man, principle of the most commendable self love,:' when we aim at honor as the recompense
not only to his kindred, his companions and viz. a consciousness of receiving pleasure of our actions; it is less so when we are in
his countrymen, but to the whole human from an action which confers it. Never, cited to expect an augmentation of fortune;
race, it is indispensably necessary that it surely, will it be alledged that he who be- and least of all so, when it becomes the
should be acknowledged and conspicuously stows a kindness from this conviction, has minister of sensuality and impure desires.
appear. That air of candor, of condence ideparted from the character of a friend; for The chief duties of friendship are condence,
and sincerity, which never fails to accom no good need done by a person in his sen- sincerity and constancy; and virtue, a pre
pany the counsel of a friend and to give ses was ever yet denied this sweet reward; .1 requisite. No man will ever fully conde in
PHILADELPHIA' REPERTORY.
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him whom he knows to be destitute of vir~ they are necessarily connected, that the
me; and how can sincerity be expected from one must inevitably follow the other as the
one whose sentiments are always covered shadow follows the substance, that every
with a veil', and whose naked heart is never man of genius is an indolent man, though
seen? To the perfection of friendship con every indolent man is not a man of genius.
stancy is likewise essential: it is the only
ning bursts through the summer}, clouds,
time and space are annihilated at his touch,

his pen embodies every thing he deems
valuable, he paints with truth, and exhibiting
the picture to nature, bids her observe the

However general, or however conned this resemblance of herself.
opinion may be I am not one of those who
If the term genius be not applicable to
are willing to subscribe to adoctrine which those who excel in the branches of litera
furnishes an excuse for indolence, without ture, which are the [cast dependant on the
attempting to examine the foundation on fancy, then, with respect to them, the dis
unequivocal proof of its truth and reality.

A friendship that is pure, which has origirA
ated in a conformity of wishes and opinions,
which is founded on mutual esteem and
cussion is at an end, if their claims be ad
supported by integrity, will bid deance to which it is erected.
For this purpose it is rst necessary to mitted; is it not wickedly unjust to charge
casualties and calamities of the world. The
tide of fortune may take an adverse course, form some general or determinate denition with indolence those who are condemned to
the heavens may lower, and the face of na of the term; with its origin, or its derivative so much labor, whose very pursuits, imply
ture be wrapt in one universal gloom, yet meaning, I am unacquainted. If in doing the possession of industry, patience and
this remains stedfast and immoveable: it is this we call it that power, whether real or perseverance, let observations, and the his
our sheet anchor in the storm, our shield in acquired, which enables men to display their tory of their lives answer the question.
If ever we admit the last denition to be
the battle, our comfort in adversity, and our excellence in works of the imagination,
consolation in the hour of death! Away, then, they are inventive,- if they excel in pour the only correct one I think it cannot be
with these fair weather pretenders, who traying the manners of the age, they are proved that they (poets) are necessarily in
press around us in times of prosperity and acute observers; if they are wise and pro dolent, the mind and body are not compell
vanish as soon as a cloud appears above the found politicians, thcy prove themselves cd tollabor in the same cause, when neces
horizon of our joyous prospects; and let men of judgment and erudition; if skilled sity chains the latter to some laborious em
us hold fast of that friend, who having es in the structure of languages and sciences, ployment, the former is happily not oblig
caped with us from a common danger, de men of learning; now, shall we deny those ed to assist in the toil, but, free as air may
lights to recount the perils of the voyage who excel in any or all of these branches wander at large in the elds of fanCy and
and fondly cherishes in a grateful bosom of literature all pretensions to genius, or gather the fairest owers that grow, and
the partners of his past aiictions. Melan shall we only allow them to those who are many of the most celebrated works have
choly, indeed, are the reections arising susceptible of the ne impressions which sprung from minds whose perishable inclo
from the mutability and inconstancy of mor distinguish the poet. I am not willing to ad sures have been compelled to guide the
tal attachments; and grievous are the pangs mit (except for the sake of argument) the plough, to lay at the our, to labor at some
they are daily inflicting upon the children former or the latter, genius I conceive may peaceful and homely art, or to wield the
of sensibility. Alas. in the haven of safety be properly called invention, not exhibited sword in drfcnce of-their country. Exam
how quickly do we forget the trials we have alone in writing a poem but equally so in plts might be readily mentioned, but are
passed and the consolations of those who erecting a building, or constructing a ma too well known to make it necessary.
So far am I from admitting that men of
have shared our griefs on the boisterous chine, that superiority of mind which tri
ocean of life. Secure from the howling umphs over all obstacles by its own internal genius are necessarily indolent, that I think
tempests rage, we think no more of the energies, .that irresistible strength which it is easier to Prove that they are as indus
dreadful fury of the elements; and basking overturns with all subduing hand all that trious as others. lndolence, though not in
in the mild sunshine of prosperity, soon opposes its majcctic course, or silently but activity, seems to be a natural propensity,
lose the remembrance of clouds! that over securely, and certainly undermines their and is only overcome by habits of labor in
whelmed us in our less propitious days. foundations, and exulting as it treads on their duced by necessity and continued from,
This disposition to forget our troubles as ruins, moves rmly to the attainment of its choice, or is seized upon as an antidote to
soon as they are past arises from one of the object, in deance of the cautions of dosing toilsomc or Oppressive care, to engage the
happiest principles in our nature, and con indierencc, or the hastings of trembling .mind, or to strengthen the frame. It may
lindccd be urged that they are not so regu
tributes greatly to lighten the burthen of timidity.
larly assiduous in their pursuits us men are
This
is
genius;
place
a
man
possessed
of
human misery; but it is unkind and ungrate
ful to forget our associates in distress, es it, amidst diicultics, he overcomes them whose bodies and not their minds are en
pecially where we have reason to believe by invention, by prudence, judgment and gagcd. This is true, and is so ofmmcssity; the
they have afforded us an alleviation of suf perseverance, he is not the creature of cir Imind could not' support such continual ex
fering! Let us recollect that, although our cumstances for he bends them to his pur crtion, and if it could, would nature herself,
sorrows be past, had they been greater we pose; he is not the slave of fortune, for the vast and various as she exhibits herself in
must have suffered more, and might now revolutions of her wheel obey the impulses of , her works, furnish subjects sufcient for the
have been the victims of some calamity from his own hand; he speaks the commanding ' purpose? Her principal features have been
which we are happily exempt. SEDLEY. words I will and sooner or later it is ldelinated by the early masters, and nothing
:is left for modern poets, but to array them
done.
If his powers are applied to poetry, his in fresher colors: this is an old complaint,
For the Repertory.
minds eye penetrates the deepest recesses ' but here it may be justly urged as an ar
ON THE IDLENESS OF GENIUS.
or A. c. it.
of nature, it pursues the comet in its > gument.
(To be concluded in our nut.)

According to some writers, indolence is trackless course; the air, the ocean,thc earth 5
*9
so commonly an attendant on genius, thati are all the objects of his glance; it glances'
Who
seizes
too
rapidly, drops as hastily.
we might be pardoned for supposing, that from one to the other swiftly as the light-ll
For the Repertory.
i
God of my life, above thy choicest gifts,
_1 bless thee for the nerves that vibrate free

To nature's touch, for gratitude that lifts
'llli. HARP. l.;\\' I.

Long, long, 1 ve strove with many a gloomy care,
And braved. with furtilutle, unnumber'd woes;
Sorrow has brought me many a briny tear,
In this majestic scene my soul to thee.
ALONZO.
But, not a murmur from my lips arose.

' For the Repertory.
Thus, with Misf-trtunc's darkling frowns, opprest,
Ive wanderd long in Sorrows cheerless maze,
,And oft the smiling infant Hrpe carest,
Or een to case the bosoms rankling pain,

Or for a ' mind diseased' to nd relief;
For nought but an unvaried life of woe,
ls Della Lira ever doomd to know!
DELLA LIRA.
For the Repertory.
TO A YOUNG LADY.
Bright is the orient blush of day,
Bright is the sun's-declining ray,

Bright the red rose that blooms so fair
Diffusing fragrance through the air;

Bright the gay ow'rs on spring's enamell'd eld,
But brighter is the blush your checks can yield,
Soft is the robins tremulous song
Chaunted the burthend trees among,
Soft is the yielding virgins sigh,

Soft the rapt notes of ecstacy,
lineation is so fair, and some of the touches
TO GLORMON,
are so delicate as almost to charm us into a

belief that there is such a thing as pure.
Dear Glormon, think not an apology's due
disinterested friendship."
FromVi-nn in so trivial a case.
The anecdotes respecting Rochambeau
For one \v ho like the numbers conlfty'ttvo
.uid Le Clerc would have been inserted some
Has been blind more than once by a. face.
That a dimpling smile on a look broad and plain, time since had we been satised of their
Should shroud my old phiz from your view,
truth; unless this. were done we should deem
Or the fire of an eye hide my gold headed cane,
ourselves highly reprehensible in giving
I can readily think to be true.
them publicity, and more especially so if
-' As the little blind boy in the plot has a hand,
those men (as we believe) are gone to
I hope youll attend Hymens calls,
their account.
And soon in his temple may happily stand
We thank C. L. K. for his kind hint;
With the beautiful Girl of St Pauls."
and shall at all times be obliged to our friends
FRANCIS FUNGUS, M. D.
for any suggestions that are calculated to im
prove our paper, or to render it generally
interesting.
Sir,
y
In answer to his 'rultlt'esa of Saturday last.
That fondly bade me look for brighter days.

But, ah! for brighter days I hope in vain,
In vain I hope to banish heart felt grief,
The soft complainings of the rst Lay

The following lines, written in an apothe
of Della Liras Harp" give us reason to an
carys shop, are the rst attempt of a youth
ticipate, in the series of his harmonious num
of fourteen years of age; if you think them
bers, much of that pensive pleasure which is
worthy a corner in your poetic department
ever dear to a tender sensibility.

they are at your service.
The essay on Genius, though possess
Soft the sweet music of Arcadias swain,
But softer is your soul inspiring strain.
effusions afford to our readers as much gra

tication as we ourselves have experienced
from their sprightly productiOns in The
Eye.
'
Sodleys picture of virtuous friend
slp is a very pleasing production: the (le
As my rst essay,
I'lumbly to you I dedicate my lay;
White is the robe that virtue wcars,
Hoping you will rim, u'ith a critics eye,
Transparent as eves dewy tears,

White is the winter's spotless snow,
Observe my errors, but still pass them by.
ing merit as a juvenile production, is, in

its present state, too imperfect for publica
tion. To show, however, that we are desir
For thee, O ' ' ', do I touch the string:

Pestle and mortar now inspire my tongue,
Which oft like music in your ears have rung.
ous of encouraging beginners, we will, if the

author chuse, present the leading ideas of
his essay in a more regular Shape; and he
may either pursue the series which he rst
Pills of all sorts are ranged in beauteous row,
intended, or enter upon some other path
Steal the sweet nectar of those lips,

Twine round that breast, so soft, so fair,
And ery labels in the window glow,
where a nicer discrimination would not be.

expected.
\Vhite is the lilly, rising low,
White are the summers curling clouds above,

But whiter is the bosom of my love.
A druggists fame inspires me now to sing:
Oh! could I like the be-e that sips
Breathe out my soul in transport there,
Even heaven's eternal joys could scarcely move

My soul from such a blissful scene of love.
RUCKINGHAM.
For the Repertory.
Yet still of all the attractions here we boast,
The handsome Owner surely is the most:

Him nature form'd for making pills, tis true,
But nature formd him for the muses too;
His power for poetry no one can doubt,
Since when in prose he bubbles lamely out.
ALPUONSO.
TO A YOUNG LADY.
O, Mary, wilt thou go with me,
And strewt life's path with thornless owers?

Ker what are thorns, with love and thee,
Pbahtlpbia,
SATURDAY, JUNE l6, 1810.
Though fortuues star forever lours.

Thee in my arms. my soul adoring,
Nor grief. nor care should stain the day;

M, life should be. one pleasant morning,
Nor time should ever haste away
ROCKINGHAM.
-_-
For the Repertory.

STA NZAS
Severalcircumstances, unnecessary to be
(lt.'t-.tll(l here, prevented many acknowledge
ments last weclt,and among others the plea

sure we felt in welcoming Glormon among
our obliging corresponding friends. Our ple-a
sure has since been greatly enhanced by the
very handsome reply which Dr. Fungus
The Storm, by S. is suspended for
the present, not for the want of merit, for it

possesses a considerable share; but neither
the language nor the collocation of the words

are adequate to the elevation of the concep
tions. S. discovers the buds of a talent for
this species of writing, which need only the
tender hand of delicate cultivation to evolve
them into delightful owers. If S. will there
fore favor us with an interview it may even
tuate to his adv-.mtage.
The conjectures of Alonzo respecting

the Aurora Borcttlis, are not pursued far
cuough to be considered as a complete es
,say. We are pleased with his remarks as far

.=_s he has .rcatetl the subject; but as the por
tion we have would appear to a disadvantage

in its present state, we think it better to post
FVrt'rn in r'ermuent undc'r a willow tree.
ints given us the honor of presenting to Glor pone the publication till we receive the re
Could human vengeance turn his broodipg eye
~
\
On this sweet scene, his gloomy course would mon in this days paper. We invite those 1,iuinder.
\Ve return our grateful acknowledgments
gentlemen to furnish further contributions
cease;
Here might \mbitions restless wishes die,
And Misevys bleeding heart drink deep of peace.
for our poetical department; Ith'i it may lA to A. C. M. for his several cominmiica
a source of selfcomplaccncy'to them if their tions in prose and poetry, with which we
5.)r.
=====_-=
shall occasionally ornament our Columns.
At the annual meeting of the American

His experience in composition, which is evi Academy of rm and Sciences, holden at
denced by these productions, will render the Boston, the 29th ult. the following ofcers
continuance of his correspondence highly ac were elected:'
ceptable.
Hon. John Adams, L. L. D. President.

The few lines of Alfonso ow with a
Rev. SamuelVebber, DD. VicePrceidt-nr.
sprightliness and ease, indicative of a native
CounsellorsHon. Robert T. Pain; Hon.
talent that merits cultivation. We shall be Francis Dana, Rev. John Lathrop, Dr. John
glad to have some more sallies of his youth \Varren, Galeb Cannet, Esq. Rev. James
ful muse; and we trust our pledge of indul Freeman, Dr. Aaron Dexter, Hon. John
gence and candor will inspire him with a Davis, Hon. Thomas Dawes, Rev. Henry
REPORT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES
(Continued)
(5 )
Household manufacture: in New Hampshire.
In almost every town (of six miles square,

ora district containing one or more towns}
having a population of 200 or 300 families,
there is a carding machine and fulling mill.
The cost of a carding machine is about
500 dollars; one described to me, cards
annually 6,000 pounds of wool, at 7 cents
proper condence.
per pound, attended by one hand. This mode
Ware, D. D.
Many pieces, both in prose and poetry, Rev.William Emerson,Rrcording Secretary. of carding relieves the house spinner of one
received at different times, we have been Hon.Josiah Quincy,Corres/zandingSecretary. half the labor of a day, for the sum of
compelled to suppress, as well from a re Hon. Dudley A. Tying, Treasurer.
three and a half cents.
gard to their respective authors as to our Dr. John C. Warren, Vice Treasurer.
Every farmers house is provided with one
selves. since they could do no great credit Rev. Dr. Lathrop, Librarian.
or more wheels, according to the number
to either.
Dr. John Gorham, Cabinet It'rc/zcr.
of females.
The unavoidable press of other useful mat
Committee for PublicationsHon. John
Every second house, at least, has a loom
ter has, contrary to our expectation, squeez
Davis, Rev. James Freeman, Rev. J. T. for weaving linen, cotton and coarse woollen
ed out ilIr. Nobody from this number; we Kirkland, D. D. Nathaniel Bowditch, Esq. cloths, which is almost wholly done by wo
hope. however, that the graceful bow with Professor John Farms.
men.
which he will next week present himself to
Manufactures of these kinds amount pro
__.-_
our readers, will compensate for his tempo
IVas/u'ngton, June 13. \Vc are at length , bably, on an average per family, to from 100
rary absence.
lto 600 yards in a year, without an hours
Criticus and Co.s second number, and the enabled to announce with certainty the ar loss of labor to the eld.
conununication of a friend to useful arts, rival of the John Adams, at Annapolis, after
Considerable quantities of cearse axen
were received too late for this Weeks paper. a long and boisterous passage. She left Havre cloth worth from 14 to 20 cents per yard,
the 24th of April, and met with almost a
thus manufactured in families, are sold to
About two o'clock on Tuesday morning, constant succession of westerly winds dur traders in country villages or in towns, and
a re broke out in a building occupied as a ing the voyage. I
Captain Fen" ick, the btll'ur Ufdc spatulltts sent for a market to the southern states,
white lead manufzwtory, near the corner of
from France, arrived in this city last evening. on which a prot is made by the trader.
Chesnut and Broad streets. That and euro
A specimen of the cost and prot on the
The contents of the despatches have not
or three adjoining frames were entirely
,employ of a fulling mill, in the county of
transpired.
.
consumed. The roof of an adjoining three
iCheshire, in dressing cloths for household

.~
story brick house, and a large quantity of

white lead, prepared for market, were also
lmanufactures. Yearly supply of cloths, for

The spotted PeachThis dreadful scourge vdressing and dying:
yds. 1,000
destroyed, notwithstanding the most active still continues its ravages in many places, i Of fustian or cotton,
and seems to have spread nearly over the
Wollen, merely to be pressed,
1,700
exertions of the citizens.
'
New England states. It was hoped, from
Ditto, to be dyed, fullcd, &c.
4,000
The corner stone of the building now some accounts given of it by the physicians, .
.
yards, 6,700
erecting in Crown street, near Sassafras, that on the approach of warm weather it i The charge and sum received for dressing the
street, by the Evangelical Reformed con would have abated and disappeared. But this 2! above,
dolls. 1,125
gregation, was laid on Mondaylthe 28th of appears not to be the case. \Ve daily re-". The expense of labor, 8: as follows:
The proprietor states. his services af
110
May, in the presence of a number of the ceive accounts of deaths occurring from it,
Two men employed four months at
and
of
the
alarms
and
distresses
it
occasions
reverend clergy of this city, and a great
twenty dollars
160
concourse of spectators; on which occasion, in many places where it rages at large.
_._
a discourse was delivered by the Rev. Jamesv

K. Burch, pastor of the said congregation,
from Isaiah 28th chapter and 16th verse.
[The Cabinet.
Two apprentices. the same time,

Cost of dyestulf, &c.
m
_ 175
1 Other expenses,
In
75
\Ve learn from Stoddard, that the hail
600
was so severe on \Vednesday, 30th uit. as i
I
Leaving a balance to the mm of
625
At an election held the 4th inst. at the to kill cattle, and that it Was several inches
Pennsylvania academy of the Fine Arts, the deep on the surface of the earth some illilk ' The Cost of the mill and machinery is slated to be
i 1,500 dollars.
1.223
[Bu-st. C'ln on.
following gentlemen were chosen otlicers after the storm.
The
foregoing
may
he
considered
as a
of that institution for the ensuing year.
_._
PresidmlGQOIgC Clymcr.
DirectorsWilliam Tilghman, \Villiam
Rawle, Charles \_Vilson Peale, \Villiam
Poyntell, Zaccheus Collins, Pluncket F.
Glcntworth, Joseph Hopkinson, William
sample of the rlothier's mills in New Hamp

shire, of which there-arc about 140 in the
are said to be building in New York; which
state; some probably may do less and others
upon an average will costsOOO dollars each;
much more than the above.
and altogether employ more than 6000 me
The cost of unmufacturiug 18 pounds of
chanics. The new city hall will cost 500,000
wool into 20 yards .of cloth is as follows:
Between 6 and 700 houses and stores
Rush, Edward Penington, James Gibson, dollars, Washington hull 100,000. ,Several
Samuel F. Bradford, Charles J. Wistar.
churches are also building.
18 lbs. wool, but common, 12.50 cts.

Carding, oiling, &c.
_9 00
' 1 4f
4.
_Spinning,
l4
2 80
Weavihg,
l 60
32
6 40
Dressing, colored black ,
HEALTH OFFICE,
the manufacturing business, that had the
june Q, 1810.
same support been afforded manufactures
lnterments
in
the
city
and
liberties
of Philadelphia
generally that has been to trade and com
from the 2d to the 9th June.
merce, our manufactories at this time would

dollars 21 24
have been Carried on much more extensively,

This cloth 3-4 yards wide (cost per yard and would have generally afforded a prot
lOO cents) is thick and rm, is ner than to those concerned. Since the obstructions
English cloth of 6-4 yards wide; sold at re to our foreign trade, the manufactories of
tail stores at three and a half dollars per our country have increased astonishingly:
the demand for wool and cotton cards, the
yard, and is twice as durable. '
present season has been twice as great as it
(He)
has been any year preceding. Since the re
Extract of a letter from William Whiitemore, of ceipt of your letter my time has been so
West Cambridge, to the collector of Boston, da
constantly occupied with the concerns of the
ted 24th Nov. 1809.
'
manufactory, that I have not been able to
The machinery with which we now make out any statement of it beforeJ have
manufacture all kinds of wool and cotton endeavored to give a general description of
cards that have been called for, were invent our manulllctory; time would not permit
ed by Amos Whittemorc, in the year 1797; me to be more particular."
he then obtained the exclusive privilege of
(To be continued.)
using sad machines, by letters patent, for
0
fourteen years. Amos Whittemore and my
self were jointly concerned in the rst ma

chines that were built, and are still the sole
Din-aces.
ad. cb.
Caries
Casualties
1
1
Diluft-
ad. cb.
0 lnllam. of liver
0 Jaundice
1
1
O
0
Consumption oflunglll 0 Small pox natural
Convulsions
Debility
O
1
3
0
1
1
0
l
0
1
2 Stillborn
0 Suicide
Dwpsy of the breast l 0 Sudden

Erysipelas
1 0 Unknown
Fever
Fever, remittant
0
0
l
1
- -
16 ll
Puerperal
lnam. stomach
1 0
I 1
-Total 27
lnam. bowels
1 0
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
6 Between 50 and 60
1
60
70
1
2
5
10
20
1
1
2
0
0
0
20
30
3 Ages unknown
30
4-0
40
50
7
3
2
5
10
MARRIED.
70
80
90
80
90
100
At Londonderry, (Mass) Master Samuel
proprietors of the patent. Congress at their Wallace, aged 15, to Mrs. Betsey Coin,
last winter session extended the patent four aged 57!
teen years, by a special act. We have fty
I
DIED,
ve of those patent machines, thirty seven
On Wednesday the 30th May, in the
of which are now in use; these machines,
with the other apparatus necessary to carry 8lst year of his age, William Ball, esq. of
on the business to its present extent, have Philadelphia. He was an attending member
cost us about forty thousand dollars. we of the society of Free Masons upwards of
have now employed in the factory upwards 59 years, and was the rst grand maste'r of
of forty hands; we manufacture weekly one
the grand lodge of Pennsylvania. His re
hundred and eighty dozen pair of hand cards,
and two hundred square feet of cards for mains Were interred in masonic form, in the
the woollen and cotton factories, which to burial ground of the Baptist congregation
thcr amount to about two thousand dol in this city, on the next day, at the hour of
lars. Had it been in our power the year past 10 in the forcnoon, by the grand lodge and
to have supplied ourselves with card wire, the subordinate. lodges in the city, who as
the amount of the cards manufactured in
sembled at the old hall of the grand lodge,
our factory would have exceeded three
and
proceeded from thence, by lodges, ac
thousand dollars per week, for we should
have had all our machines in use. The build cording to seniority, in procession to the
ing in which we now carry on the business house of the deceased, and from thence to
has cost us ten thousand dollars: fty thou the grave. A short address was delivered
sand dollars at least, is necessary for a capital by the Rev. Dr. Staughton and a prayer of
to carry on. the business to the extent, ex fered 'up by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, after
clusive of buildings and machinery. we
have been obliged to make great sacrices which the proper masonic funeral service,
to obtain money to enable us to carry on the Szc. \vas performed by the grand master and
business so as to be able to answer the de grand chaplain, and the masonic honors, 8m.
mand for cards: our monied institutions have kc. given by the brethren.
aordcd but little support to domestic manu
On Saturday, the 2nd instant, in the for
factures. The wire is the only article neces
tieth
year of his age, Mr. William G. Lati
sary to the manufacture of cards, but what
our own coimtry produces, and that might rner, merchant, of this city.
be mannf.-.ctured here as good and nearly as
cheap as in England. \Ve have so far satis
ed ourselves (by experiment) that nothing dollars per annum, payable quarterly in advance.
but want of capital has prevented us from
setting up that business. The iron made on page and index, with at least one handsome en
lake Chainphiin, is found to be as good for grit/mg.
wire, if not superior to any ever imported.
The wire to supply our factory one year will be thankfully received.
in England cost about fteen thousand dollars,
and the expense of importingabout ten p. r
WANTED,
cent (it being free of duty;) perhaps about
..
Total 27

jOHN ALLISON. Clerk.
9 oclock. 12 oclock. 3oclock.
72
75
75
June 4
5
6
7
8
9
66
66
63
58
57
67
67
63
58
69
67'
68
63
$7
59
MRS. 'KAMMERER

agreeable villages in the United States, may be fur.
nished with very genteel lodgings at her house on
Green Bank, upon the margin of the river Dela
ware.
The easy and almost hourly intercourse bv land
stages, water packetsiand a steam boat, with Phila
delphia, Bristol and Trenton, the fashionable-and

cultivated society of Burlington, its excellent schools,
public library, market, daily post, Ktc. render it in a
peculiar degree eligible as a. summer residence for
families. and gentlemen, either ofbusiness or leisure.

\Vhile these circumstances remove the inconveni

comforts of life, so much complained of in remote
situations, gentlemen and ladies will nd here what.

ever conduces to make 1 country residence in the
summer desirable.
The Bristol baths, so celebrated and elegantly
lined up, being directly on the opposite side of the
river, maybe visited in the course of a few minutes,
and its mineral \vatersbe supplied at Mrs Kammer

er's every morning if requested.
fountain highly reputed; the rides about the town
and along the river, are verv handsome; shing and

regard to air, water, and healthfulness, no situation
is more to be preferred.
Besides stated lodgers, Mrs. Kammerer can ac
commodate travelling and occasional company

]une 9th, 1810.
As an apprentice to the Printing Business, a boy
the same quantity is used annually in the between twelve and fteen years of age One that
other card mannl'acturies in the United can be well recommended will receive good encou
There is no doubt in my mind from ngemcm'
Inquire (If this Ocr.
the observations made since I have been in
june l6.
-.
Informs the ladies and gentlemen of Philadelphia,

and of the northern and southern states, that she
has opened a Boarding House, in the city of Ban
lington, New Jersey.
PHILADELPHIA:
Printed and published by Dennis Heartf
Qtiawpmgtmm. 2:
VOL. I.
N0. 8.
BIOGRAPHY.
pation; and he had studied the whole con before the privy council, on the l4th of
troversy between regal and popular claims: June, concerning those words of his petition,
LIFE OF 'ILLIAM PENN.

(Continued)
the result of which was, that govemment as far as p1antab1e,(he declared) that he
must be founded on justice, and exercised

In 1677, he had a drawing" to renew with moderation.
It has been observed that his father, sir
his travels in Holland and Germany, in
company with Fox, Barclay, Keith, and \Villiam Penn, merited much by his services
several others of his brethren. On his re in the English navy. There were also cer
turn to England, he found his friends suf tain debts due to him from the crown, at the
fering by the operation of a law made against time of his death, which the royal treasurers
Papists, the edge of which was unjustly were poorly able to discharge. His son, after
turned against them. The law required a much solicitation, found no prospect of get
certain oath to be tendered to those who ting his due in the common mode of pay
were suspected of Popery, and because the ment, and therefore turned his thoughts to
Quakers denied the lawfulness of oaths, in ward obtaining a grant of land in America,
any case whatever, they were obliged to on which he might make the experiment of
bear the penalty annexed to the refusal of settling a colony, and establishing a govern
this oath, which was not less than a ne of ment
201. per month, or two-thirds of their estate! views.
By Penns advice they petitioned the parlia
suited to his own principles and
Mr. Penn had been concerned with seve
ment for redress of this grievance, and after ral other Quakers in purchasing of lord
explaining the reason of their declining the Berkeley, his patent of \Vest Jersey, to
mth, offered to give their word to the same make a settlement for their persecuted
purport, and to submit to the penalty, if brethren in England, many of whom trans
they should be found faulty. Penn had a ported themselves thither, in hope of an
hearing before a committee of parliament, exemption from the troubles which they had
when he pleaded the cause of his friends endured from the execution of the penal
.md of himself, in a sensible, decent, convinc laws against dissenters. But they found
ing manner, and what he said had so much themselves subject to the arbitrary imposi
weight, that the committee agreed to insert tions of sir Edmund Andros, who governed
in a bill, then pending, a proviso for their the duke of Yorks territory and exercised
relief. The bill passed the commons, but jurisdiction over all the settlements on both
before it could be got through the house of sides of the Delaware. Penn and his asso
lords, it was lost by a sudden prorogation ciates remonstratcd against his conduct, but
their eorts proved ineffectual. However,
of parliament.
\Ve have hitherto viewed Mr. Penn as a the concern which Penn had in this pur
Christian and a preacher, and he appears to chase gave him not only a, taste for specu
have been honest, zealous and industrious lating in land, but a knowledge of the
in the concerns of religion. W'e shall now, American coasts; and being desirous of ac
time him in the character of a legislator, in quiring a separate estate, where he might
which respect his learning, his sufferings, realize his sanguine wishes, he had great
his acquaintance with mankind, and his advantage in making inquiry and determin
genuine liberality, were of great use to him. ing on a place.
Having examined all the former grants
Among his various studies, he had not
omitted to acquaint himself with the princi to the companies of Virginia and New
ples of law and government; and he hath England, the lord Baltimore and the duke
more especial inducements to this, fromi of York, be xed upon a territory bounded
the prosecutions and arrests which he fre-f on the east by the bay and river of Dela
quently suffered, into the legality of which? ware, extending southward to lord Balti
it was natural for him to inquire. He had .mores province of Maryland, westward as
observed in his travels abroad, as well as in ' far as the western extent of Maryland, and
his acquaintance at home the workings of northward as far as plantable. For this
arbitrary power, and the mischiefs of usur he petitioned the king, and being examined
should be satised with the extent of three

degrees of latitude; and that in lieu of such
a grant, he was willing to remit his debt
from the crown, or some part of it, and to
stay for the remainder, till his majesty

should be in a better condition to satisfy it.
Notice of this application was given to
agents of the duke of York and lord Balti
more, and inquiry was made, how far the
pretensions of Penn might consist with the
grants already made to them. The peninsula
between the bays of Chesapeak and Dela
ware had been planted by detached compa
nics of Swedes, Finlanders, Dutch and
English. It was, rst by force, and after
wards by treaty, brougbt under the dominion
of the crown of England. That part of it
which bordered on the Delaware was with
in the duke of Yorks patent, while that
which joined on the Chesapeak was within
the grant to lord Baltimore.
The dukcs agent consented that Penn
should have the land west of Delaware and
north of Newcastle in consideration of the
reason he had to expect favor from his
majesty." Lord Baltimores agent petitioned
that Penns grant might be expressed to lie
north of Susquehann'hh fort, and of a line
drawn east and west from it, and that he
might not be allowed to 5011 arms and am

munition to the Indians. To these restric
tions Penn had no objection.
The charter, consisting of 23 sections,
penned with all the appearance 10f can
dor and simplicity, was signed and sealed
by king Charles II. on the 4th of March,
1681. It constitutes \Villiam Penn, and his
heirs, true and absolute proprietaries of the

province of Pennsylvania, saving to the
crown their allegiance and the sovereignty.
The charter being obtained, he found
himself authorised, to agree with such per

sons as were disposed to be adventurers to
his new province. By a public advertisement,
he invited purchasers, and described the

country, with a display- of the advzmtages
which might be expected from a settlement
in it. This induced many single persons,
and some families, chiey of the denomina
tion of Quakers, to think of a removal. A
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number of merchants and others, formed promised them, that he would shortly come
piration of a century. The experiment is

themselves into a company, for the sake of and converse with them in person.
now in operation, and without experiment
The next spring he completed a frame of nothing can be fairly decided in the political,
encouraging the settlement and'trade of the
country, and purchased 20,000 acres of land. gm'ernmcnt'(Api'il 25, l682) with the ex any more than in the physical world.
They had a president, treasurer, secretary, press design to support power in rever
(To be continued.)
and a committee of twelve, who resided in
England, and transacted their common bu

siness. Their objects were to encourage the
manufactures of leather and glass, the cut
ting and sawing of timber, and the whale
shery.
'
The land ,was sold at the rate of twenty
pounds for every thousand acres. They who
rented lands were to pay one penny yearly
per acre. Servants when their terms were
expired, were entitled to fty acres, subject
to two shillings per annum; and their masters

were allowed fty acres for each servant so
liberated, but subject to four shillings per
annum; or if the master should give the ser
vant fty acres out of his own division, he

might receive from the proprietor one hun
dred acres subject to six shillings per an

num. In every hundred thousand acres, the
proprietor reserved ten for himself.
According to- the powers given by the
charter, for regulating and governing pro
perty within the province, he entered into
certain articles with the purchasers and ad
venturers (July llth, 168l) which were en
titled Conditions and concessions. These
related to the laying out roads, city and
County lots, the privilege of water courses,
the property of mines and minerals, the re
servation of timber and mulberry trees, the
terms of improvement and cultivation, the
trafc with the Indians, and the means of
preserving peace with them, of preventing
debtors, and other defaulters, from making

their escape, and of preserving the morals
of the planters, by the execution of the
penal lawsof England, ll an assembly
should meet.
These preliminaries being adjusted, the
rst colony under his authority, came over
to America, and began their settlement above
the conuence of the Schuylkill with the
Delaware. By them the proprietor sent a
letter to the Indians, informing them, that
' the Great God had been pleased to make

him concerned in their part of the world,
and that the king of the country where he
lived had given him a great province there
in, but, that he did not desire to enjoy it
without their consent, that he was a man of
peace, and that the people whom he sent

were of the same disposition; but if any
difference should happen between them, it
might be adjusted by an equal number of
men, chosen on both sides. With this let
ence with the people, and to secure the

people from the abuse of power. It is pre
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faced with a long discourse on the nature,
origin, use and abuse of government; which
shows that he had not only well studied the
No. VII.
subject, but that he was fond of displaying
My Dear Sister,
his knowledge.
To this frame 'of government was sub

It is a subject worthy our most serious
joined a body of fundamental laws, agreed consideration, that the eternal and ever bles
upon by Penn and the adventurers in Lon sed God has in innite goodness and mercy
don, which respected moral, political and provided for sinners a suitable and ample
economical matters; which were not to be salvation! Considering the purity and eter
altered but by the consent of the governor, nity of the giver, contrasted with the vile
or his heirs, and six parts in seven of the ness and frailty of those who are the sub
fret-men, met in provincial council and as jects of it, we have certainly cause of won
sembly. In this code we nd that celebrated der and gratitude. But, as though the mere
declaration, which has contributed more redemption of sinners was not a sufcient
than any thing else to the prosperity of manifestation of his goodness, he hath also
Pennsylvania, viz. That all persons living bestovred on them innumerable concomitant
in the province, who confess and acknow blessings: he hath given to his people the
ledge the one almighty and eternal God, promise of this life and that which is to
to be the creator, upholder and ruler of the come; and that same Saviour who hath paid
world, and hold themselves obliged in con the price of their ransom and sealed their
science to live peaceably and justly in civil pardon with his own most precious blood,
society, shall in no wise be molested for hath engaged to bring them through every
their religious persuasion or practice, in difculty which may arise in opposition to
matters of faith and worship, nor shall they them; he hath promised to them a glorious
be compelled at any time to-frequent or rest in the mansions of his Fathers king
maintain any religious worship, place or dom, and himself hath undertaken to bring
ministry whatever. To which was add them thither victorious over sin and death;
ed another equally conducive to the wel and to convince them of his faithfulness, he
fare of society: that according to the hath sent his Spirit into their hearts to wit
good example of the primitive Christians, ness with their spirits that they are the chil
and the ease of the creation, every rst day dren of God and heirs of eternal glory.
But this is not all: he hath permitted them
of the week, called the Lords Day, people
shall abstain from their common daily labor, access to his throne; he hath, in the abun
that they may the better dispose themselves dance of his love, even invited them to com
to worship God, according to their under munion with himself, and given them the
desire of pouring out their souls in holy as
standings.
These laws were an original compact be pirations, of laying before him all their pe
tween the governor and the freemen of the titions, of telling him all their wants; not
colony. They appear to be founded in wis that he is ignorant of their necessities and
dom and equity, and some of them have needeth any should tell him, for he knoweth
been copied into the declaration of rights all things, and the secret thoughts of the
prexed to several of the present republican heart are not hidden from him; but he hath
constitutions in America. The system of graciously thought proper to make this the
government which Penn produced has been medium of communicating his blessings, and
regarded as a Utopian project; but though hereby we are strengthened in faith from his
in some parts visonary and impracticable, manifesting himself in granting our petitions,
yet it was liberal and popular, calculated to our condence is established by the expen
gain adventurers with a prospect of repub ence of his faithfulness, and we are enabled
lican advantages. Some of its provisions, to enjoy a sense of his love which it is im
particularly the rotation of the council, possible to describe.
But there is a rule laid down by which we
have been adopted by a very enlightened
body of American legislators, after the ex must ask, expecting to receive; we must ask
' About this time (Nov. 1681) he was elected a. agreeably to his will; we must come in faith,
ter, be appointed commissioners to treat

with the Indians, about purchasing land, and fellow of the Royal Society.
believing that he is, and that he is arcWd'
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perseverance; when his mind is richly stored
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er of those who diligently seek him. We are

sensible it is his will that his people enjoy with the treasures of fancy, when contem
the gift of his Spirit, and be adorned with plation holds the mirror to his minds eye
the graces which ow from it, that they feed that reflects the various beauties of nature
plentifully in the luxuriant pastures of his and art, of manners or events, they must be
salvation and drink deeply of the waters of pressing calls indeed which will make him
life; but they are not to follow their own will drop his pen, and leave the glass while it
in devising a way by which they may do this, reects one object which he has not embo
and thereby dictate to God, but they are to died. No pect will deny, that he cannot at
come in at the door through Jesus, renounc all times fully comprehend his subject;
ing all selfwill and the lthy garments of though he may use every exertion, yet, like
their own righteousness. and humbly accept that animal which when attacked encloses
the glorious robe of the Redeemers righte itself in its shell, he may turn it over as often
ousness; and he hath promised that those as he pleases, still it will not unfold itself.
who thus come to him he will in no wise Can he then be censured for not doing that
which it is not in his power to do, any more
cast 06.
Surely this is a great salvation; surely than the workman for doing nothing when
these are inestimable privileges; and the his labors are remitted from corporeal ina
more we endeavor to appreciate them the bility? It would be equally absurd in either
more constant shall we be found in the ex case.
ercise of the duties annexed to them, and
Nor do I think the poet always idle when
the more shall we experience that this di his employment is not evident to our senses;
vine communion is the joy and delight of the walk he appears to be taking for no other
our souls. The numerous incentives to it, purpose than to shake off listlessness, or fan
and the precious promises connected with the wings of time, is frequently devoted to
it, supersede the necessity of argument to other purposes. It is then that the beauties
prove the advantages resulting from a life of nature display themselves to his eyes, and
of faith; i shall therefore, my dear sister, impress the outlines of their features on his
submit to your serious attention the few im fancy; it is then he surveys the lofty hill, the
perfect ideas 1 have here stated, and sub level plain, the foaming torrent and the tran
myself your aectionate brother, J. quil stream; and glancing from earth to
heaven his sight moves over all within its
reach; all these objects impress upon his
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mind the outlines of some future produc
ON THE IDLENESS OF GENIUS.
tion; they serve as guides to direct the fu
BY A. c. M.
ture excursions of fancy, and keep it true
(Concluded)
to nature and probability. It is not even ne
Genius, when applied to poetry, can be cessary to insist, that it is for this purpose
only occasionally exerted; it would therefore alone that he walks; 1 will allow it to pro
be as wrong to call that indolence which is ceed from its apparent causes; still the mind
only relaxation and rest, as it would be to receives impressions from the involuntary
expect from any one uni-emitted labor. Sea use of the senses, which are equally vivid
men, soldiers and others, whose active em and durable. The youth learns not that alone
ployments are only occasional, are with dif which his teachers inculcate; but receives
ficulty brought to submit to regular labor; much insensible instruction from those eva
yet this can be produced by time and habit; nescent impressions, which he receives in
and was the man of genius inured to it, I do the hours of relaxation and amusement. The
not think his poetic e'orts would be less human mind resembles not the mass of ig
noble in their general structure, though they nited metal beneath the sledge of the black
might be nished with less elegance. The smith, which only receives impressions by
poet, to whom none will deny the claim of violent blows; but the yielding wax, impres
genius, may dislike active, laborious occu sed with a touch, which memory retains.
pations, and even not pursue his mental ones Even in the hours of apparent idleness he
with unremitting assiduity; he cannot rise at is making useful attainments, which, when
a given hour in the morning and compose a employed, he calls on memory to restore,
determinate number of lines for each days judgment to discriminate, and fancy to em
woyk. Necessity may, indeed, impel him to hellish.
sq.
do all his powers will enable him to accom
He knows nothing of men, who expects to
plish; but he may be frequently compelled
to wait long for the happy moment when he convince a determined party man; and he no
can compose with ease and pleasure. But thing of the world, who despairs of the nal
when it arrives he labors with diligence and impartiality of the. public.
LEVITY AND LIGHT READXNG.

BY cnt'rxcus AND co.
,
No. ll.
London, or Truth without Treason, a novell in four
volumes, by Francis Lathom.

London. the needy villains general home, yobmun
A wild, where weeds and owers promiscuous shoot.
Pope.
Among the rst novelists of the present

day, Mr. Lathom occupies a distinguished
rank. It has been attained by his acute, in
tuitive perception and his unrivalled fertility

of invention, his profound judgment, rened
taste and vigorous genius, and by the pure
and elevated spirit of morality that pervades
his works.
In all probability, there never was a novel
published, in the production of which so
little attention has been devoted to the ar
rangement of a regular plot, or in which
the incidents are so unconnected yet
natural and interesting. In London it is
diicult to decide whether it is an advantage
or defect, for bat is lost in perspicuity is
amply gained in the unshackled elegance of
expression that adorns its desultory pages.
As it would therefore be impossible to
afford our readers a comprehensive view of
the plan of the production, we shall wave in
this instance a strict adherance to our orig

inal design of detailing plot, events and oc~
currences.
Stella \Voodville, the interesting heroine
of London, at the early age of seventeen,
is thrown
unprotected
the she
world,
ex
posed
to the
dangersv toupon
which
is sub
jected through the unrelenting persecution
of lord Dartville. Nearly sinking under the
anguish and anxiety which the inveterate

malice of her rancorous oppressor produces
on her mind, she is unexpectedly relieved
by Shadrach Shem, who by his humane in

terferencc in her embarrassed affairs, re
moves all her distresses; and united to the
man of her choice, her beloved Frederick,
she is restored to health, fortune and happi

ness.
The steady and a'ectionate Charles, the
impetuous and noble minded Horace and
the ingenuous Amelia, render the family of
the Belcours worthy of the highest esteem
and admiration.
Shem, an honor to human nature, is a
character on which the author seems to
have dwelt eon amore. While he disregards
his own convenience or personal interest,
he indefatigably devotes his time and exer
tions to the relief and benefit of the children
of want and misery. Despising the censure
of the world when at variance with the plans
of beneficcncc, he secures the approbation
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of his conscience, and the affection of those

in whose welfare he has assumed so vivid
an interest.
Lords Ching and Amberdown, Flanagan
Muggins, and Jack Naggs and Miss Mary

Melliday are nished originals, although
highly colored, and, in some respects, in
clining to caricature. The description of the
scene, in which through a very natural but
ludicrous mistake, Flanagan and Jack Naggs

make so conspicuous an appearance, pre
sents a happy specimen of the authors pow
ers in the via comica.
The impressive justice that arrests the

career of lord Dartville; the amusing obser
vations and the judicious strictures and re
ections interspersed throughout, combine
to produce a pleasing, interesting and in
structive novel; which, in whatever point of
view it may be examined, may safely be
considered one of the best of authors best
of works.
C.
Q.
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THOU MUST DIB.
\Vhen we bring to mind this sentence,

which has been passed upon every creature
inhabiting this ball of earth, how insignifi

cant appear all those low pursuits which
agitate the toiling race of men! He who has

been for a series of years building airy cas
tles, and preparing for future years of en
joyment, who has been llitfg his barns with

plenty and his stores with abundance; how
is he astonished, when to him is sent this
awful summons! His proud projects vanish

into emptiness; and more worthless than cha'
appear those vast designs of grandeur, which

had called forth all the energy of his mind.
Not so with the Christian, who
" Has made the statues of the Lord
His study and delight."
To him death comes not 'unlooked for; he

knows it is the lot of our frail nature, and
he rejoices in it as the road to blessedness.
Sustained by the hope of glory, he sinks
not under the readings of pain. The ago~
nies of his disease are considered by him
as the price of his passport to a happier
state; and, resigned, he receives the cup of
aiiction. The death of the Christian is the

revival of faith. Those who stand at his
bedside, who behold him throw off the
shackles of mortality, his countenance beatn

ing with heavenly smiles, and his lips ut
tering praises, must surely be convinced
that he has followed no cunningly devised
fables; and even sceptics must be induced
to wish that their last end might be like his.
Thou must die! \Vhen the grim messenger
delivers this awful sentence, he pays no res
pect to persons; not all the riches of the Ill tell you a secret, which all the world
nabob, the supplications of the beggar, nor knows, but yourself; and that is (pray, come
the threats of the deist can aught avail to a little nearer to me, if y0u please) and that
suspend or avert this common lot of man. isyou, Mr. Somebody, area jackanapse, a
I have sketched the dying Christian, let very silly coxeomb indeed: nay, don't start
me now give the contrast in the closing scene at it, and roll your saucer eyes so wildly
of the unthinking youth, who, amidst volup round; for it is true, true every \vord. And
tuous comrades and destructive amusements, now take this from me, whom you have had
had hooted at the notion of judgment, set at the basencss to traduce and the tcmerity to
nought the salutary restraint of wisdom, and challenge, that .I'Vobody cares a straw for you;
banished all reection from his mind. In Nobody dares contend with you; JVobody
this state he is visited by sickness; behold dares ght you; and, in a word, Nobody dares
him groaning under afiction; the stings of do any thing at all with you at all times.
To show you, however, that I have a pro
guilty conscience add torments to his bodily
pains. He endeavors to pray, but death per respect for those laws of honor and
stares him in the face; he cries for mercy, etiquette, which with the beau monde are
but alas! he had scoffed at the offers of par paramount to religious obligation, and upon
don; and he is now suddenly called into the which you pique yourself, I will condescend
presence of his Maker, loaded with the pol to make a brief reply to the leading accu
lutions of this world, and his dark pmage sations of illiberal reflection contained in
through the valley of the shadow of death your very extraordinary letter.
In the rst place, your assertion that your
not illuminated with one ray of consolation.
\Vith such examples before him, is it descent is higher than mine, is a falsehood
not astonishing that man should still run on so palpable and presumptuous as to bear the
in the mad Career of vice, and end his days mark of the beast in its forehead, for Every
in wretchedness and despair?
body is well convinced that I was in exis
VERNACULUS. tence long before this world was created;
and I can prove that Nobody is older than
Somebody or even .dnybody. Your second
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assertion is if possible a more barefaced lie,
and the presumption here surpasses that of
REPLY 0!" MR. NOBODY TO MR. SOMEBODY.
some modern philosophers and is but little
May it please your bigb Excellenqy!
short of blasphemy; for when you say posi
Your ourishing rodomontade has been a tively that you know" whether the yellow
source of such mirth to me, that before I fever will be here this summer, you arrogate
had read it half through I burst off two of to yourself the prerogative of Omniscience
my gallice buttons with laughing at its in alone. And respecting the marriage of Mr.
tolerable vanity and the weakness ofyour poor --and the high rents in Philadelphia, I am
noddle. Indeed, most noble air, your inimit bold to say that I know at least as much
able chef dmuvre exhibits such symptoms as you do, though I do not trouble my
of alienation of mind as would render your self much about those things, nor inter
situation truly pitiable, did I not know that meddle in other peoples affairs, as those of
it is the nature of ignorance and ambition to your family connections do, and hence ac
bribe both heraldry and history to blazon quire the addition to their names of Buoy
Op
them forth to the world, in order to hide
bodys. In your third assertion, in which you
the meanness of their origin and the rascali aect to sneer at me for excellencies ex
ty of their practices. This has been coeval hibited at a country church, sometimes as
with the existence of the Somebodye; and a preacher and sometimes as a bearer, you
from your splutterings about preeminence, seem to have some doubts ofthe truth of your
Everybody might suppose that with justice' friends account of me; but surely this pro
you boast the highest integrity and mean ceeds from a bad heart in yourself, for know
to maintain the rank of an illustrious race" ing your own want of veracity you are al
with well merited eclat; but I am deter ways ready to suspect others; so true is the
mined to arrest you in your vainglorious ca proverb we always see our own faults in
reer, and Everybody shall be constrained to other people." If, however, you still doubt,
confess that .Nobody was completely able to call on the honest parishioners, and see
stop your everlasting tongue, which, like that how soon their plain unvarnished tale will
of all your tilled gentry is always too apt to put you down; or, if that step be imprac
grow wanton in the praise of high birth, ticable, you may satisfy yourself, any sabbath
nobility and knight errantry. But, says you please, by attending church in the city;
Burke, the age of chivalry is gone! the there you will have ocular demonstration
glory of Europe is"-A word in your ear7 that I sometimes preach and pray, that I
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sometimes sing, urn-very frequently awake, blood thirsty vagabond, calling himself by returning rcpenting sinner. Banish, there
show great devotion, bear with attention, the name and apeing the airs of a gentleman, fore, that gloom which overshadows thy
care much for what is delivered, receive the feels the smart twingcs of wounded honor, brow; the bosom of Providence is capacious
word in the love of it, and carry a good

portion of it home for the benet of my fat
mily as well as myself. Your fourth asser
tion is as malicious as it is false, for Every~
body knows that there have been, particu
larly in tyrannical governments, at least one
hundred to one more of the Somebodys
hanged, than of the .N'obodys; and that there

fore the Somebodys have always been the
greatest rogues and rascals upon earth, from
time immcmoria]; in fact, all the cheating,
robbery, larceny, villainy, arson, murder, &c.
that is committed, when the naked truth
comes to light, is always found to be by

Somebody, although Nobody generally bears
the blame of it at rst. If, according to
your h assertion, I interfere in the shops

in this city, and act as a general superinten
dent in buying and selling, I do it entirely
for the good of that accommodating class of
our citizens, the renders; and sometin'ies
when it would seem from the accounts of

our fair countrywomen that Everybody had
been out a-sho/zjzing, it is well known that
I alone bought; when SomcbOdy has bought

(though he never bought any thing
for me by the bye) I have paid for the
goods; and when Anybody has thought pro
per to give his promise or note of hand for
and rushes forth like a madman, through enough to hold the human race, and the
crowds of lamenting women and children, word of Deity is passed to wipe the tear
in pursuit of an object visionary as his mo from every eye. Rocking/mm next deserves
mentary motives. And as my honor is deeply to be noticed. To deck the object of love
involved in the issue of this unhappy dis with every grace, to clothe her with every
pute, I hereby assure you that .N'obody cheer beauty, has been the desire of the poet in
fully accepts your challenge, and will meet every age when describing his favorite fair
you at the place and time appointed, and one, and in painting the greatest extrava
will ght you; and, if you dont mind your gances have been admitted. But lovers must
hits, will in the most fashionable style, run have some allowance: therefore, although I
you through the lungs, like a gentleman: could not call Rockinghams lady a beauty,
and that same Nobody (whom you affect to if the blush on her cheek were as highly
despise) will turn your very insides out, colored as the orient blush of day, by
and expose to the gaze of Everybody the which he means, I suppose, the rising sun.
blackness of that heart which has so long I am lost in ignorance concerning the robes
panted to shed innocent blood. Ill teach of virtue, and could never admire a lady
you how to bully a man of honor! I will, you with a bosom white as spotless snow, yet 1
braggadocio! And, harke, one word more, would have passed these by as poetic hyper
and I have done: I shall be scrupulously ex boles had he not proceeded beyond all
act as to the very moment; but be sure you bounds of moderation in the last verse. The
must meet me without a second, and have four rst lines are in the true style of R0
your will made previously, so that you may chester, and scarcely delicate; the two last
not walk when you are dead, for Nobody profane. The poet should certainly have
will as certainly kill you as you are now limited his comparisons to the whole round
alive. Come open breasted then, and die
of creation, and we could have travelled in
bravely by the invincible hand of your mor

tal enemy: and I hope that Everybody will
company with pleasure; but to compare the

pleasure of female converse with the joys
of heaven is not in the spirit of Christizuiity,
which declares that eye hath not seen not
ear heard neither hath it entered into the
heart of man to conceive of these felicities:
but I trust next time our poet will be more
careful. His next piece, in the same page,
is faulty also. I doubt our poet cannot nda
henceforth learn, from your example, that
the temerity of Anybody presuming to in
payment, I have, perhaps too frequently, sult me, shall, as its condign punishment,
stepped in to save his credit. In your sixth meet a speedy and inevitable death, from
the implacable and inexorable,
NOBODY.
er, saying that I have found out longitude,
perpetual motion, the philosophers stone,
bit. but surely if I ever said so, I have said To the Editor of the Repertory,
and last assertion, you call me a vain boast
no more than the honest truth; for it has
Sir,
Your situation is a difcult one; the

been proved to the mortication of all your
Somebody; of philosophers, astronomers and productions of your correspondents come
chymists, from friar Bacon down to Dr. before the eye of a disceming public, and
Priestly: and now be it known, to your if worthy of approbation, X, or \V, orAlonzo,
heartrending vexation, that there are nume or Amyntor, are praised, but should any
rous phenomena in the visible, and arcana piece appear destitute of merit you are
in the invisible world, which are as plain censured; thus the blame turns on you for
and familiar to me as the nose on my face, their errors, whilst you cannot receive much
but with which all the Somebody: on earth praise for their beauties. If, therefore, it
should be agreeable to you, I shall occa
are totally unacquainted.
But, as you say, it is time to hasten sionally, as leisure may permit, make some
to the grand point;" as to your father and observations on the productions of your
debt I despise him and his kind of honesty young poets; but be it remembered, nothing
and virtue, as much as I do you and all your prompts me to do this but an ardent desire
kind of honor and courage. You may possibly, for their improvement.
Your seventh number is the rst with
indeed, have construed my delay in sending
'
you this reply, into a balancing between which I commence my criliqur.
The HGT/l .No. I. I could weep with
fear and necessity, in order that I might
seek some excuse, and so decline to accept Della Lira; he has feelingly struck the harp,
your challenge: but, let me tell you, sir, that the tone frpm every string makes the heart
you are agregiously mistaken in your man, throb; but, Della Lira, despair not, there
for Nobody loves ghting merely for ght are joys prepared for the virtuous, nay fur
ing's sake; and is athirst for blood when a ther happiness, innite happiness, for the
ower with a thorn in it; the rose has its

thorn, but I know no ower that has; there
fore, in my opinion, the expression thorn

less owers is incorrect. And in the last
verse, to imagine if he had his Mary in his
arms that the progress of time should be
stopped, leads me to conclude that the au
thor is to say no more in love.
Although I have thus freely noticed
Rockinghams productions in this number,
yet I do not consider his verses without
merit; his rhymes are pure, his lines run
sweetly, and his imagination is fertile; the
road is before him that leads to the temple
of fame.
I cannot close this essay without noticing
the verses of Alonzo. They delight my soul;
they lift my thoughts to the author of every
good. May we see many such poetic stars
shine in the Repertory, and tries will nd
no place.
AMICUS.
ea
Neither the cold nor the fen id, but cha

racters uniformly warm, are formed for
friendship.
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PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY'.
PM
obviates the difficulties, dangers and expense

CdMMt'NICATXON.
attendant on laying the foundation of piers
DYSTERIAN IRON ARCHITECTURE.
in the beds of rivers. Piers not only obstruct
This grand improvement is the invention the free passage of timber rafts, watercraft,
M
For the Repertory.
THE HARP. LAY ll.
0, say, dear Mrlia, can you eer deny,
To shed, for luckiess love, a pitying tear;
ice, Sac. but are continually subject to be

very ingenious architect, as appears not only materially injured by them, which must be
Or eer refuse to heave a heartfelt sigh,

For love, at once as hopeless as sincere!
by the very high recommendations with

which a number of gentlemen of distinction
have honored him, but also by the applica
tion of his new invented principlc_to the
erection of iron bridges. The principle is
an entire new one, and it is to be hoped that
those gentlemen who are fond of elegant
architecture and who likewise feel disposed
to encourage useful arts and inventions,
will, .is occasion offers, give that support to
this thing which its merits entitle it to. In
this plan of J. J. Dystcrs, iron beams and
joist unite prodigious strength with small
weight of material, and will be found to re
duce very considerably the quantity of labor
required in the erection of bridges with
other materials, being composed of hollow
tubes or pipes. This new principle of Mr.
Dyster's may be applied to the ceiling of
0, no. youll surely pity love like mine,
of Joseph Joshua Dyster, of Philadelphia, a
obvious to every one who duly considers the

subject.
In a period in which this great and rising
empire displays so many grand and useful
improvements, it is to be hoped that every
citizen who loves his country and is emu
lous of its welfare, will contribute his en
deavors to assist the discoverer of useful
arts, especially when his efforts are directed
by a regard to an object so peculiarly im
portant, and facilitate the intercourse be~
tween the different parts of our extensive,
rich and fertile country.
And neer will check the sympathetic sigh;
For sweet Compassions tender tasks are thine,

To soften grief, and dry the weeping eye!
if, then, thou fair enchantress of my soul.
Thy heart will heave its deepest sighs for me,
And o'er thy cheek pure tears of pity roll,
Then willingly l'll calmly die for thee!
For, 0. t insure thy happiness alone,
Will Della Lira immolate his own!
DELLA LIRA.
+
For the Repertory.
SOXNET.
This invention must be calculated to ad

vance the prosperity of this country which
Blest moon! how can you shed so pure a light;
Blast winds! how can you breathe so soft a gale:

Blest stsrs! how can you twinkle half so bright;
abounds with so many runs of water, creeks,
While I, distracted, pour my plaintive tale!
rivers, Ste. over which it is necessary and

desirable that good, cheap and durable Ah! once, beneath your chastely freezing beam,
The hours of bliss sweet oer my senses stole,
bridges should be erected.
Love, through my brain, roll'd many a happy dream.
rooms, churches, and other public buildings,
Joseph Joshua Dyster has obtained a pa
And rais'd the warmest transports of my soul,
by the use of which they may be extended tent right for his invention under a special
to a width hitherto unattempted without the act of congress passed in the last session. But oh! enrapt in love's delirious trance,
I thought my dreams too true to melt in air;
use of pillars.
A FRIEND T0 USEFUL ARTS.
I could not think, that one deceiving glance
0,
Indeed this useful discovery may be cal
Could beam from eyes that seem'd so heavenly fair
For the Repertory.
culated upon as constituting a great and im
May
happy plighted lovers never dream like me,
portant era in the grand science of archi
THE CHAPLET.
And wake from rapture to the keenest misery.
tecture as it respects its principles, prac
Bead V.
ROCKINGHAM.
tice and elegance, and excite the emula
MASONRY, A SONG.
tion of men of science to the execution of

works of grandeur, combined with useful
ness, and promote the honor and renown of
the United States by the cultivation and im
proveme t of a science so extensively use
ful and important to the interests of society.
It will appear to any gentleman who may
On being raised to the degree of Master Mason.
For the Repertory.
take the trouble to examine for himself, that
this invention possesses the following ad

vantages over all others, as it relates to the
building of bridges.
I. They may be built with much less ex
pense than it requires to build with stone.
and in most cases as cheap, and in many cases
materially less than to build with wood, and
will with a greater degree of durability
combine a superior degree of elegance.
2. The span of a single arch may with a
small degree of elevation be made to ex

tend to at least 600 feet if required with
perfect safety.
3. They may be erected in a very short
time, and will stand for ages without re
pairs.
4. The great objects to be attained in the
building of bridges are strength, durability

and convenience, all of which are united in
this peculiar and grand system. it completely
Tune, Wben enrib'rundutiom rst were laid.
TO MISS Al).
Light oating in the balmy gale,

Behold the soft returning spring;
Come, brethren, let our songs begin

In praise of the mysterious art;
All who the glorious {igbt have seen,
Feel rising bliss expand the heart:
Luxurious breezes sweep the vale,
Love, friendship, virtue, charity, combine
The mountains smile, the vales are green,
And show Free Maronry divine.
Fresh owers start all around to view,

Chequering with gayest tints the scene,
And all is fresh and all is new.
Chorus: Love, friendship, virtue, charity, Gtc.
All nature 5 framed on Wirdomc plan,

And Strength, supporting, binds the whole;
Emmy Marum'c clothes the man,
\Vho wears heaven's image on his soul.

Chorus: Love, friendship, virtue, charity, &c.
"lwas Maconry gave Science birth;
Hence we the Arts derived their skill:

\Viih good celestial it blessd earth;
'Tis Masonry that blesses still.
Chorus: Love, friendship, virtue, charity, Ste.
Th indulgent parent, lender wife,
Or cordial friend, whereer we go;
All the endearing ties of life

To Mnumry their being owe.
Chorus: Love, friendship, virtue, charity, &c.
Hail, sacred boon! that Heavn imparts,
To smooth the ruggiaths of time;
That joins our voices, hands and hearts
In harmony and joys sublime.
Chorus: Love, friendship, virtue, chlrity, Ste.
AMYNTOR
The hills with joy ful echoes ring.
The sweet musicians of the groves
--..
1
Pour their soft mellow notes along,

Warble in varied strains their loves,
And cheer the listner with a song.

Askest than me why gentle spring
My undesired theme should be?
Or why of balmy gnles I sing,
\Vhen i should sing alone of thee!

Should not the now reviving year
When spring, arrayd in robes so gay,
Appears again the world to cheer,
1.
Inspire the youthful poets lay!
And is it not thy spring, my friend?

The joyous smiles of youth are thine;
But youth and joyous smiles will end,
And be no longer thine, or mine.
The smiles ofjoy are like a dream
That on th' ungoverned fancy plays;
And yOuth is like the rapid stream,
It: onward course for none it stays.
.
i
1
\
m
When time shall silver oer thy brow,

If no sad cares disturb thy rest,
Perhaps the lines I write thee now

Uulookd for may thine eyes arrest.
Then to thy long past youthful years
Fond memory shall with joy return,
And see how bright the scene appears,
How blest those hours whose loss you mourn.
And midst the shades to view that rise,
Mine too an humble place may claim,

And grateful for returning joys,
'ith pleasure thou will see my name.
A. C. M.
.
The following is the production of an ling
pbalibia.
REPORT ON' DOMESTIC MANUFACTURER.

(Continued)
'
. November 29, 1809.
(C 0 M)
\Vorcesitlzr),
Hon. Henry Dearborn, esq.
Sir, having invented a cheap and simple

W'e return our thankful acknowledgments method of manufacturing wood screws front
to our literary friends for their numerous iron Wire, I obtained a patent for the same
contributions furnished this week; they shall from the United States, in July last, and
receive an early and merited attention. We nding it extremely difficult by any means
avail ourselves of this opportunity to men within my power to obtain wire of suitable
tion to our correspondents generally, that sizes, I was induced to attempt the manu
unless their communications be in a plain facturing of it; and as a necessary append
handwriting, we will not hold ourselves an age, to connect this business with that of
swerable for the inaccuracies that may ap

it was copied by his daughter for africnd of pear in their publication: we could wish that
it were not quite so fashionable to write so
ours not long since from England.
bad a hand as to baffle all power of dccy
"'ritten for the Anniversary of American pheringverbum sat.
lishman who has the misfortune to be blind;
Indr/zrndrnre. By Edward Rushlon.
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screw making, the process being so easy

and simple that two men of common capa
city can manufacture from rods, about the
size of common nail rods, three hundred
weight of assorted screw wire per day; in
We. need say nothing in commendation of the same time a man with two boys can
Ye sons of Columbia! oh, hail the great day,

Which burst your tyrannical chain;
Amicus: his perspicacity, discrimination, make from the wire twenty grocc of screw
taste and criticism will insure him a wcl of a quality very much superior to those im
Which taught the oppressd how to spurn lawless
come reception with the lovers of polite li ported. The expense of constructing screw
sway,
terature; while the indulgence, candor and machines upon the principles of my patent
And establishd equalitys reign.
tenderness of an affectionate friend can is small, and the capital now employed,
Yes, hail the blest moment! when awfully grand
not fail to endear him to those for whose (the business being in its infancy) but in
Your Congress pronounced the decree,
'hich told the wide world, that your pine coverd benet alone his kind remarks are offered.
one year, with the capital I can command,
land,
We decline the publication of Clituss it would be in my power to erect as many
Spite of British coercion, was free.
critique upon Rocking-ham, as the most machines as would enable me to supply the
Those worthies who fell in your soul-cheering cause, striking objections to that poets concep
United States with that article, and of a
To the true sons of freedom are dear;
tions, gures and epithets are anticipated in quality-much superior to any ever imported,
Their deeds the unborn shall rehearse with applause, Amicuss critique.
and at as low a rate as are now paid for
And bedew their cold turf with a tear.
Vernaculus has our sincere thanks for those imported of an inferior quality.
Oh! cherish their names; let their daring exploits,
his communication in this days paper: it is
And their virtues, be spread far and wide;
The manufacture of iron and brass \virc
And should fierce-eyed ambition encroach on your a wholesome admonition; and, whatever at has been often attempted within the United
rights,
tention it may now receive, it will unques States with success, and can be carried on
Again shall her schemes be destroyd.
tionably, sooner or later, be of the very last to a very great extent; but all the under
As he tills your rich glebe, the old peasant shall tellI importance to every son and daughter of
While his bosom with gratitude glows,
Adam.
How your Warren expired, how Montgomery fell,
The Stomi by S. and some other pieces,
And how Washington baffled your foes.
hitherto unavoidably postponed, will we hope
With transport his offspring shall catch the glad
appear next week.
.
sound,
Orlo, Atlo, Eugenio, Cesario, Glormon
And while freedom takes root in each breast,
"heir countrys defenders with praise shall be Katy, Nosnah, Criticus junior, S., Mentor,
and Thaddeus, are received.
crownd,
\Vhile her plunderers they learn to detest.
By those fields that were ravaged, those towns that
The despatches received by the John

Adams add little to the information previ
By the wrongs which your people endured:
ously received; but they place that informa
By those blood sprinkled plains where your warriors
tion
in the most unquestionable shape, by
expired,
were red;
giving it an official stamp. Some hope might

Oh! preserve what your prowess procured;
\nd reect that your rights are the rights of man have been entertained, that our frigate would
kind,
not have been suffered to depart with such
That to all they were bounteously given;
unwelcome intelligence. But even that hope
.nd that he who in chainswould his fellow man bind, is now dissipated; and nothing remains but
Uplifts his proud am against Heaven.
takers, in consequence of foreign who be

ing imported free of duty, have without ex
ception abandoned the business; if I depend
ed on foreign wire for the manufacturing
of screws I should not be an advocate for a
duty on it; but as I make my own wire, its
free importation does not affect me, as re
lates to the quantity appropriated to that
particular use; but it very seriously affects
me in a much more enlarged and extensive
point of view: but if a duty of 15 or 20 per
cent. -ud valorem was laid on the importation
of foreign wire, the capital within the con
trol of the company now interested with me
in this business, would enable me immedi
ately to extend my machinery to a magni
tude sufficiently extensive to meet the con
sumption of course wire within this state.
the manifestation of the naked purpose of The manufacture of card wire also, of which
low can you whohave felt the oppressors hard hand, the French government to pursue what it
there is a great consumption within the
\Vho for freedom all perils would brave;
considers its line of interest, without regard United States, could be made to equal ad
low can you enjoy peace while one foot of your land
ing our interests or rights. It is possible that vantage and would follow in course on ac
ls disgraced by the toil of a slave?
previous to the departure of general Arm count of the demand for it, provided manu'
), rouse thenI in spite of a merciless few,
And pronounce this immortal decree,
.hat whatecr be mans tenets, his fortune, his hue,
He is man, and shall therefore be free.
strong, some amicable propositions may be facturcs were aided by the above mentioned
made; but they ought not to be expected, duty on foreign wire; but if they should ex
much less relied on.
War. Intelligcnrer. tend their works, anticipating that enrol
PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY:
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ragemcnt from government, and if it should

not be given they would suffer great loss
and disappointment.
The malleability of the American iron
renders the United States perfectly inde
pendent of all other countries for that first
of all raw materials, and it is only by the
patronage of congress that industry and the
arts can be so extensively cultivated as to
take the greatest advantage, not only of this
article but of other raw materials which the
great resources of our country furnish. The
prevailing spirit of enterprise at the present
HEALTH OFFICE,
Jmerican Ornithology. The second volume
june 16, 1810.
of \Vilson's American Ornithology, is cer
lntermcnts
in
the
city
and
liberties
of Philadelphia
tainly the most splendid work ever publish
from the 91h to the IGll'l June.
ed in this country. It contains colored en
Diuaur.
ad. cb.
Dimmer.
ad. cb.
gravings of fty American birds in the high
Astmah
1 0 Inam. bowels
O 1
est style of execution. Some beautiful native Apoplexy
0 1 Inflam. of liver
1 0
0
ochres have been used in this volume, which Cholera morbus
Cholic
2
for richness of color are not exceeded by any Consumption
oflungs4
of foreign growth or manufacture. The la Convulsious
1
bors of Mr. Wilson will afford amusement Decay
Diarrhoea
l
to those whom curiosity may prompt to be Dropsy
2
come acquainted with the birds which sur Dropsy of the breast 1
round their dwelling, or who study ornitho

time, in the exertion and extension of manu logy as a branch of natural history.
Charleston Courier.
facturing establishments, is much owing to
the measures heretofore adopted by govern
ment; and I feel confident that few articles
several instances, similar to that of Sir
4
0
2
0
1
0
0
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Locked jaw
Mortication
Old age
Pleurisy
Small pox natural
Stillborn
Sudden
\Vorms
0 1
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2 O
0 1
0 3
0 2
1 0
0 1
Debility
Drunkenness
21 19
Fever, remittant
Puerperal
1 0
Inammatory 0 1
Total 40
1
10 Between 50 and 60
2
Francis Bartlett, occurred in the reign of Under
Between 1 and 2
5
60
70
2
Charles 11. one of which was precisely the
5
2
70
80
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5
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30
90
1
same. The sergeant at arms was prosecuted;
10
20
2
90
100
0
and on trial judgment was given against the
2O
30
4- Ages unknown
0
sergeant. The judges were summoned to
30 40
9
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40
50
2
Total 40
the bar of the house to account for over
ruling the jurisdiction of the commons.
JOHN ALLISON. Clerk.
They
accordingly
did
appear
and
ably
jus
sures government now appear to be taking
STATE
OF
THE
TIlERhIOIWETER.
will be efficient in patronising the very valu tied their decision; but they were commit
9 oclock. 12 o'clock. 3ocl0ck.
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68
June I 1
able cxcrtions of its citizens in the produc ed for the judgment they gave. It is remark
12
64
67
68
tions of articles indispensable to our neces able that one of the judges (Sir Thomas
13
67
68
70
sities, and especially those that are produced Jones) is the ancestor of Sir Francis Burdett.
14
68
74
72
l5
72
76
80
from the raw materials of our own country.
BIARRIED,
16
75
78
82
And the only patronage required in this
At Flatbush, on Thursday evening the
business, is that the article of iron wire
MRS. KAMMERER
Inform: the ladies and gentlemen of Philadelphia,
should be subjected to the same duty that 14th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Lowe, \Villiam
and of the northern and southern states, that she
other articles of iron manufactures are sub A. Millar of Philadelphia, printer, to Miss has
opened a Boarding House, in the city of Bur
jected to when imported from Great Britain. Laura Averill, daughter of Dr. Averill of lington, New Jersey.
the
former
place.
[ am most respectfully, sir, your most obe
On the 18th instant, at Fricnds meeting agreeable villages in the United States, may be fur
dient and very humble servant.
can be made in this country to so great ad

vantage as iron wire, and that no sufficient
reason can be adduced why this article
should be exempt from duty more than
many others, to the particular and very
great injury of our own citizens. Iain how
ever much encouraged to hope that the mea
: nished with very genteel lodgings at her house on

Green Bank, upon the margin of the river Dela
ware.
I am satised that wire of all kinds can the city of Philadelphia, to Mary Howell
The easy and almost hourly intercourse by land
{ Signed)
ABEL STOVVELL.
house, in Motherkill, Thomas 'ilson, of

Point Pleasant, in the northern liberties of
and would very soon be manufactured in Miiin, of Camden in the state of Delaware.
this neighborhood sufcient for the con
In this city, on Thursday the 14th inst. by
sumption of the United States, if a duty the Rev. Joseph Filmore, D. D. Mr. \Vil
should be laid on imported wire equal to liam Free, son of Mr. Benjamin Free, mer
what is paid on foreign articles generally. chant of this city, to the amiable Miss Sarah
If congress should deem it expedient to lay Paul, daughter of Capt. Paul, of the north
a duty on wire, I have good reason for be ern liberties.
lieving that a considerable capital would be
On Sunday evening, the 17th inst. by the
immediately vested in the manufactory of Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Patrick MManmay,
that article.
to Miss Ann MDivett, both of this city.
(Signed)
H. DEARBORN.
On Thursday evening, the 2 lst inst. by the
P. S. The wood screws manufactured by Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. George Hansell of
Stowell and those concerned with him, are Lower Merion, Montgomery county, to
superior in quality to imported ones, and Miss Margarctt Hoffman of the northern
I presume that there is no doubt in the liberties, Philadelphia.
minds of those who have become acquaint
The price of the Pbiladc/pbia Repertory is four
ed with the facility with which they are now
made, but that a sufficient quantity will be dollars per aunum. payable quarterly in advance.
At the close ofthe year will be presented a title
made for the use of the United States, ifsuit
able encouragement is afforded by the gov graving.
ernment for the manufacturing of wire.
(Signed)
H. D.
stages, water packets,'and a steam boat, with Phila

delphia, Bristol and Trenton, the fashionable and
cultivated society of Burlington. its excellent schools,
public library. market, daily post, Esc. render it in a
eculiar degree eligible as a summer residence for

amilics. and gentlemen, either ofbusiness or leisure.
While these circumstances remove the inconveni~

comforts of life. so much complained of in remote
situations, gentlemen and ladies will find here what
ever conduces to make a country residence in the

summer desirable.
The Bristol baths, so celebrated and elegantly
fitted up. being directly on the opposite side of the

river, may be visited in the course of a few minutes,
and its mineral water: be supplied at Mrs. Kammer
er's every morning if requested.
fountain highly reputed; the rides about ihe town
and along the river, are very handsome; fishing and
regard to air, water, and healthfulncss, no situation
is more to be preferred.
Besides stated lodgers, Mrs. Kammerer can ac
commodate travelling and occasional company.

]unc 9th, 1810.
PHILADELPHIA:
No. 1?, Arch Street.
Q hilabefpbiaweperfam
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF VILLLkM PENN.
(Continued)
Having by the help of sir William Jones,

and other gentlemen of the long robe, con
structed a plan of government for his colony,
Mr. Penn prepared to make the voyage to
America, that he might attempt the execu
tion of it.
At this time, the penal laws against dis
senters were executed with rigor in England,
which made many of the Quakers desirous
of accompanying or following Penn into
America, where they had a prospect of the
most extensive liberty of conscience. Hav
ing chosen some for his particular compan
ions, he embarked with them in August,
1682, and from the Downs, where the ship
No. 9.
an opinion which he had formed, and which
English and Indians must live in love, as

he openly avowed, that they were descend long as the sun gave light. \Vhich done,
ants of the ten dispersed tribes of Israel. He another made a speech to the Indians in the
travelled into the country, visited them in name of all the sachems, rst to tell them
their cabins, was present at their feasts, what was done, next to charge them to tove
conversed with them in a free and familiar the Christians, to live in peace with me and
manner, and gained their affections by his my people, and that they should never do
obliging carriage, and his frequent acts of me or my people any wrong: at every sen
generosity. But on public occasions, he re tence of which they shouted, and said amen,
ceived them with ceremony, and transacted in their own way. The pay or presents I
business with solemnity and order.
made them, were not hoarded by the parti
In one of his excursions in the winter, cular owners, but the neighboring kings and
he found a chief warrior sick, and his wife their clans being present when the goods
preparing to sweat him in the usual manner, were brought out, the parties chiey concern
by pouring water on a heap of hot stones, ed consulted what and to whom they should
in a closely covered hut, and then plunging give them. To every king then, by the hands
him into the river, through a hole cut in the of a person for that work appointed, was a
ice. To divert himself during the sweating proportion sent, sorted and folded, with a
operation, the chief sang the achievements gravity which is admirable. Then that king
of his ancestors, then his own, and conclud subdivided it in like manner among his de
tionate letter to his friends, which he called ed his song with this reection: Why are pendants, they hardly leaving themselves an
a farewel to England. After a pleasant we sick, and these strangers well? It seems equal share with one of their subjects.
lay waiting for a wind, he wrote an affec
passage of six weeks, they came within as if they were sent to inherit the land in
Mr. Penn was so happy as to succeed in
sight of the American coast, and were re our stead! Ah! it is because they love the his endeavors to gain the good will of the
freshed by the land breezes at the distance Great Spirit, and we do not! The senti Indians. They have frequently, in subsequent
of twelve leagues. As the ship sailed up the ment was rational, and such as often oc treaties many years after, expressed great
Delaware, the inhabitants came on board, curred to the sagacious among the natives: veneration for his memory, and to perpetu
and saluted their new governor with an air we cannot suppose it was disagreeable to ate it, they have given to the successive
of satisfaction. He landed at Newcastle, and Mr. Penn, whose view was to impress them governors of Pennsylvania the name of Omar,
summoned the people to meet him, when with an idea of his honest and pacic inten which signies a Pen. By this name they
possession of the soil was given him in the tions, and to make a fair bargain with them. are commonly known and addressed in
legal form of that day, and he entertained
Some of their chiefs made him a volun the speeches made by the Six Nations in all
them with a speech, explaining the purpose tary present of the land which they claimed, their treaties.
of his coming, and the views of his govern others sold it at a stipulated price. The
One part of his agreement with the In
ment, assuring them of his intention to pre form of one of these treaties is thus de dians was, that they should sell no lands to
serve civil and religious liberty, and ex scribed in a letter which he wrote to his any person but to himself or his agents;
horting them to peace and sobriety. Having friends in England. The king sat in the another was, that his agents should not oc
renewed the commissions of their former middle of a half moon, and had his council, cupy nor grant any lands, but those which
magistrates; he went to Chester, where old and wise, on each hand. Behind, at a were fairly purchased of the Indians. These
he repeated the same things, and received little distance, sat the young ones in the stipulations were conrmed by subsequent
their congratulations. The Swedes appointed same gure. Having consulted and resolved acts of assembly, and every bargain made
a delegate to compliment him on his arrival, the business, the king ordered one of them between private persons and the Indians
and to assure him of their affection and to speak to me. He stood up, came to me, without leave of the proprietor was declared
delity.
_
took. me by the hand, saluted me in the void. The charter which Penn had obtain
Three principal objects engaged the at name of the king, told me he was ordered ed of the crown comprehended a far greater
tention of Mr. Penn; one was to unite the by the king to speak to me, and that now it was extent of territory, than it was proper for
territory with the province, another was to not he that spoke, but the king, because him at first to purchase.of the natives.
He did not think it for his interest to take
enter into a treaty with the Indians, and a what he should say was the king's mind.
During the time this person was speaking,; any more at once than he had aprospect of
third was to lay out a capital city.
Mr. Penns great object was to treat with not a man of them was observed to whisperi granting away to settlers. But his colony in
the natives. The benevolence of his dispo or smile. When the purchase was agreed, creased beyond his expectation, and when
sition led him to exercise great tenderness great promises passed between us of kind- .new tracts were wanted the Indians rose
toward them, which Was much increased by ness and good neighborhood, and that the :l in their demands. His rst purchases were
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made at his own expense, and the goods de were built, wherein merchants and mechan
livered on these occasions Went by the ics exercised their respective occupations;"
name of presents. In course of time, when and they soon found the country around
a treaty and a purchase went on together, them so well cultivated by the planters, as
the governor and his successors made the to abrd them bread and vegetables, while
speeches, and the assembly were at the ex the venison, fowl, and sh made an agreeable
pense of the presents. When one paid the variety with the salted provisions they im
mana, and the island of Margaretta. By P.

Dupons, late agent of the French govern
ment at Caraccas, in three vols. 8vo. with a

large and beautiful map of the country."
The work being procured, I thought I

could not present my readers with a more
interesting article than the very [til/l and
cost, and the other enjoyed the prot, a ported. Penn himself writes, with an air of marrow of it, extracted with much labor
subject of altercation arose between the cheerfulness, that he was well contented and after a careful examination of every
proprietary and the popular interests, which

other causes contributed to increase and in
ame.
Mr. Penn easily foresaw that the situation
of his province, and the liberal encourage
ment which he had given to settlers, would
draw people of all denominations thither,
and render it aplace of commerce; he there
fore determined to lay the plan of a capital
with the country, and the entertainment page of the work. The whole will require
which he found in it. This letter is among additional interest from mentioning the fact,
his printed works, and, in the same collec
tion, we nd an affectionate address to the

people of Pennsylvania; in it he appears to
have a tender concern for their nforal and
religious improvement, and warns them
against the temptations to which they were
exposed. Their circumstances were indeed
city, which, in conformity to his catholic peculiar; they had suffered contempt and
and pacic ideas, he called Philadelphia. persecution in England, and were now at
The scite of it was a neck of land between rest, in the enjoyment of liberty, under a
the river Delaware on the east, and Schuyl popular form of government; the eyes of
kill (Hiding Creek) a branch on the west,
and he designed that the city should extend

from one to the other, the distance being
two miles. This spot was chosen on account
of the rm soil, the gentle rising from each
river towards the midst, the numerous
springs, the convenience of coves capable

of being used as docks, the depth of water
for ships of burden, and the good anchorage.
The ground was surveyed, and a plan of the
intended city was drawn by Thomas Holme,
surveyor general. Ten streets, of two miles
in length, were laid out from river to river,
and twenty streets of one mile in length,

crossing them at right angles. Four squares
were reserved for common purposes, one in
each quarter of the city; and in the centre,
on the most elevated spot, was a large
square of ten acres, in which were to be

built a state-house, a market-house, a school
that a very wealthy and intelligent native of

Caraccas, lately in this city, pointed out the
work as being uncommonly correct for a
geographical compilation. It is therefore
considered as a great desideratum at the
present period; and geography, always use
ful and interesting, is more eagerly sought
for when it relates to a country so little
known as Caraccas, and about to take a
rank among the nations of the earth.

Extent and Boundaries. The captain
the world were upon them; their former generalship of Caraccas, comprehends the
enemies were watching their conduct, and province 'of Venezuela in the centre, the
would have been glad of an opportunity to government of Maracaibo on the west,
reproach them; it was therefore his desire Guiana on the south, the government of
that they should be moderate in prosperity, Cumana on the east, and the island of
as they had been patient in adversity. The Margaretta on the northeast," and is bounded
concluding words of this address may give by the sea on the north from Cape de la
us a specimen of his style and manner of Vela to the point of Megilones or Paria; on
preaching. My friends, remember that the the east by the sea from the 12th to the
Lord hath brought you upon the stage; he 8th degree of latitude; Dutch Guiana and
hath now tried you with liberty, yea, and Peru bound it on the south, and the king
with power; he hath put precious opportu dom of St. Fee on the west.
Provinces.
Chief Towns.
nities into your hands; have a care of a per
Venezuela,
Caracas.
verse spirit, and do not provoke the Lord
Maracaibo,
Maracaibo.
by doing those things by which the inhabi
Guiana,
San Thomas.
tants of the land, that were before you,
Cumana,
Cumana.
grieved his spirit; but sanctify God, the
Varinas,
Varinas.
living God in your hearts, that his blessing
Isle of Margaretta.
may fall and rest as the dew of heaven on
Pojzulation. The population of Caraccas
you and your o'spring. Then shall it be
house, and a place of worship. On the side seen to the nations, that there is no enchant is placed at 728,000 souls, thus,
of each river it was intended to build ment against Jacob, nor divination against
Venezuela including Varinas 500,000
wharves and warehouses, and from each Israel; but your tents shall be goodly, and
Maracaibo
100,000
front street nearest to the rivers, an open your dwellings glorious."
Cumana
80,000
space was to be left, in the descent to the
Guiana
34,000
(To be continued.)
shores, which would have added much to
Isle of Margaretta
14,000
a..
the beauty of the city. All owners of a
From the Baltimore Evening Post.
thousand acres were entitled to a city lot in
728,000.
GEOGRAPHY OI" CARACCAS.
the front streets, or in the central high street,
Of which two-tenths are whites, three
A friend directed our attention, last even tenths slaves, the descendants of freedmen
and before each house was to be an open
court, planted with rows of trees. Smaller ing, to a new and interesting work entitled, four-tenths; the Indians compose the re
purchasers were to be accommodated in the A voyage to the east part of Terra Firma, mainder. There has for many years past
other streets; and care was taken in all that of the Spanish Main, in South America, been very little emigration from Spain to
no building should encroach on the street during the years 1801, 2, 3, and 4-, contain this country; and its inhabitants are much
ing a description of the territory under the attached to it.
lines.
Productions. All sorts of colonial pro
The city was begun in 1682, and within jurisdiction of the captain general of Carac
less than a year, eighty houses and cottages cas, composed of the provinces of Venezuela, duce are raised in this land of jiromin,
Maracaibo, Varinas, Spanish Guiana, Cu without exception, in greater abundance
' This plan has not been adhered to, unfortunately
both for the beauty and the health of the city, par
' Probably alluding to the ten tribes of Israel, from than in any of the Antilles, and are of a far
superior quality. The tobacco, alone, which
ticularly about Front and later streets.
whom he supposes the Indians to be descended~
sna
ub-4.
M
is exported on the kings account, netts

yearly to the treasury four millions (of
francs). The province of Venezuela itself
might afford ten thousand weight of vanilla
a year, notwithstanding the neglected state
of its culture, and the quantity could easily
be doubled by the smallest application of
industry. Wild cochineal abounds, but as
with vanilla little attention is paid to it.
The dying arts of Europe mightbe made
tributary to the eastern part of Terra Firma
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of Abraham might have been on this occa

sion, we know not; yet, from his implicit
obedience to the command of God, we are

From a Brother to 3. Sister.
N0. VIII.
My Dear Sister,
In all periods of the church of Christ

this truth has been established by experience,
that wherever true faith is, the fruits of it
will appear in the lives of those who are
the possessors of it. For men to say they
[Caracas] for more than 500,000 francs a have faith and yet produce no better proof
year, without doing the smallest disservice of it than their bare assertion, is a clear
to the raising of other produce, by the labor evidence that they have not; they may give
necessary for their coloring materials. their assent to the reality of the existence
Gums, rosins, balsams and medical oils of God, which assent may be the result of
[and herbs] might make a conspicuous early instruction or historical and theoretical
gure in trade if attended to. There is knowledge, but is not that faith which quali
more sarsaparilla here than all Europe can es the soul for' an entrance into the hea
consume. There are more than twenty venly mansions. The devils, if I may so ex
sorts [of trees] t for inlaid work of the press myself, havc a better and more rational
most exquisite nish. The forest trees are faith than this, they believe and tremble;
uncommonly stately, and the forests nume they are fully convinced that God is almigh
rous and extensive. In Venezuela and ty, and they know to their everlasting con
Barcelona, Spanish Guiana, and on the wes fusion, that he is a holy, pure and just Be
tern side of lake Maracaibo, there are ing.
1,200,000 neat cattle, 180,000 horses and
A living root will produce living branches,
mares, and 90,000 mules, scattered over the which branches will blossom and bear fruit.
plains; sheep are innumerable, and deer If we have that true faith in our hearts
abundant. The commerce of the country in which unites us to Christ we shall delight
these animals is estimated to be worth in the service of God, it will be our great
1,000,000 of dollars per annum. The other est desire to imitate his perfections, and
articles of provision necessary for the sup walk in the way of his commandments; and
port of man are abundant. Podigious quanti the more lively the exercise of this precious
ties of the best salt may be made (and a grace of the Spirit is, the stronger will be
great deal is made) on the whole north our condence in our heavenly Father; the
coast of Venezuela. The country abounds promises will be sure to us, and we shall
with mineral waters. The shing for pearls have no reason to doubt the faithfulness of
on the coast is abandoned. Cocoa, coee, him who hath promised, sensible that he is
cotton, sugar and indigo are staple articles able and will perform all that he hath
spoken.
of agriculture.
Our works however, being the product
Commerce. An account of the commerce
of Caraccas, restricted and uncertain as it of faith and the means God hath been
was under the old government, would ex pleased to establish as the medium of com
tend to a length far beyond the sketch I municating his blessings, cannot be depend
propose to lay before the public. In 1196, ed on as meritorious in themselves, but
the sum of 281,328 dollars was received in should be esteemed as the voice of his
duties at the port of Laguira, on imports to Spirit speaking through us to his own glory
the value of 83,1 18,811; the same year there and are as much the free gift of God as is
was sent to Spain from the same port pro every grace which worketh in us to will
duce to the value of $2,098,316, on which and to do.
Abraham, that distinguished pattern of
the duties levied amounted to 138,052 dol
lars. Of the trade of the other ports we faith under the patriarchal dispensation,
have little information. The contraband trade believed God at the rst communication of
with this country has always been great; his promise, although it was made under
induced to believe he was wholly resigned

to his will and did not consult his own rea
son on this subject, but hesitated not to
comply with the requisition of his heavenly

Father and prepared to offer up his son
Isaac. But his hand was arrested by 'divine
interposition; his faith tried and exemplied,
the name of God gloried and the promise
renewed to him.
And thus it is at the present day when
God sees t to try the faith and patience of
his people by alictions, that however dark
our skies may be and our difculties increase
to such a degree as to all appearance there
is no probability of our deliverance, yet we
are permitted to y for aid to the precious
promises whence we derive hope, knowing
that the grace of God is sufficient for us
and that in every difculty and temptation
he will make a way for our escape.
It is certainly of importance for us to
examine our own hearts and inquire what
assurance we have that this faith is in us,
whether we have experienced that Christ is
more precious to our souls than all things
else, and whether we are desirous of being
made more conformable to the divine will,
whether his service is delightful to us, and

it is our greatest sorrow we do not serve
him better.
We are commanded to work out our own
salvation with fear and trembling, knowing
that it is God that worketh in us both to
will and to do of his own good pleasure.
We are to give all diligence as though our
salvation were the effect of our own exer
tions, and yet place no merit in all we do,
as we come innitely short of the glory of
God, for all we can render unto him is his
just due and we have reason to account

ourselves unprotable servants. Did our
salvation depend on our own good works we
should be miserable indeed, for sin is mixed
with our best performances, and our hearts

are naturally prone to wander from God;
and therefore, if we would be saved from sin
and the consequences of it we must depend

wholly on the merits of Christ, pleading his
righteousness as our only hope of acceptance.
That we, my dear sister, may have our
hearts so disposed by grace as to accept of
this hope is the sincere prayer of your a'eb
said to amount to $2,000,000 per annum. every circumstance of human improbability, tionate brother,
The cash in circulation has been estimated and yet it was necessary in the divine econo
my that he should be justied by works:
at four millions of dollars.
ncnce the command of God that he should
sacrice that very son in whose existence
If you mean to escape your creditor or depended the accomplishment of the pro
misc: made to him. \Vhat the natural ideas
enemy, avoid him not
4*
J.
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Who can relate with composure, with pre

cision, truth, clearness, and artless sentiment,
and relate the same twice equally well, him
seek for a friend, or rather deserve to be his
friend.
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rectness of this declaration, they unhesitat

ingly appeal to the Searcher of hearts.
Mr. Printer,
Your petitioners therefore respectfully re

If you think the publication of the annex
quest that you would take the premises into
ed petition, drawn up by a friend of the fair
your most serious consideration; lay a heavy
sex, will serve to amuse or gratify any of your
readers, the insertion of it will oblige
tax upon all bachelors beyond the age of

tWenty one, unless they can prove by com
A SUBSCRIBER.
To the honorable the General Assembly of the com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in senate and house
of representatives assembled,
petent evidence that they have made an ho

norable tender of their persons to some
widow or spinstcr, and been rejected; ex
empt from taxes and military duties all mar

ricd men who have ve children born in
sters, of said commonwealth,
lawful wedlock; and by such other restraints
HUMBLY snowa'rn,
and disqualications upon celibacy, and hold
That the rst, as well as the most impor out such other encouragements to matrimo
tant command of the Almighty to his crea ny, as may extirpate from our happy coun
tures, was to increase, and multiply and re try the odious race of old bachelors.
plenish the earth.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound,
That various wise governments have paid shall ever pray.
cury rises it will certainly snow. 4. When

foul weather happens soon after the fall
ing of the mercury, expect but little foul
weather; and, on the contrary, expect but
little fair weather when it proves fair shortly
after the mercury has risen. 5. In foul wea
ther, when the mercury rises much and
high, and so continues for two or three days
before the foul weather is quite over, then
expect a continuance of fair weather to fol
low. 6. In fair weather, when the mercury
The petition of the subscribers, widows and spin
falls much and low, and thus continues for
very considerable attention to this subject,
two or three days before the rain comes;

then expect a great deal of wet weather and
probably high winds. 7. The unsettled mo
tion of the mercury denotes uncertain and
changeable weather.
The thermometer has its uses respecting
drought and moisture as well as heat and
cold. Farenheits is preferred.
and held out inducements to matrimony, and To the Editor of the Repertory,
discouragements to celibacy. The Romans,
Sir,
your petitioners are credibly informed, ex
The following is an extract from Capper
empted married men, having three children,
on the winds and'monsoons; if you think it
.o.
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THE CHAPLET.
Bead VI.
from certain burdensome duties, and gave
will be interesting to any of your subscribers

them a priority in bearing ofces, with a tre
you will please give it a place.
II.
ble proportion in all distributions of grain.
THE BAROMETER.
Those who lived in a state of celibacy could
not succeed to an inheritance, nor receive
The words generally engraved on the
an entire legacy.
plates of the barometer rather serve to
That your petitioners respectfully suggest mislead than inform; for the changes of the
to your honorable legislature, that in their weather depend rather upon the rising and
humble opinion, there is no country in which falling of the mercury than on its standing
these or similar regulations are more impe at any particular height. When the mercury
riously required than in the United States; is as high as fair, or at 30 degrees, and the
as the population bears so very small apro surface of it is concave on beginning to de
portion to the extent of territory, and as scend, it very often rains; and, on the con
celibacy, with her constant attendants, vice trary, when even the mercury is at 29 de
and immorality, is making most rapid strides grees, opposite to rain, when the surface of
among us.
it is convex on beginning to rise, fair wea
That among other inducements to the in ther may be expected. These circumstances
crease of population in this country, your not being known or not duly attended to, is
petitioners believe, that strong reasons might the principal reason that farmers and others
be drawn from the dangers with which we have not a proper condence in this instru
are menaced by the ambition of some of the ment. It must also be observed, that, cateris
nations of the old world, as well as from the flaribus, the mercury is higher in cold than
very high degree of happiness enjoyed by in warm weather, and commonly early in the
morning or late in the evening than at noon;
the favored inhabitants of these states.
That your petitioners, fully sensible of all which seems occasioned by the obvious caus
these weighty considerations, and impressed es of the atmosphere being condensed by the
_with a due sense of the duty of obedience to cold of the night, and raried by the heat
the ordinances of their Maker, more parti of the day. The following observations of
cularly the important one above quoted, are Mr. Patrick seem conrmed by experience.
very sincerely disposed to compliance. And I. The rising of the mercury presages, in
they beg leave, with the utmost seriousness, general, fair weather; and its falling, foul
to enter their most solemn protest against weather, as rain, snow, high winds, and
the calumnies of such of their enemies as storms. 2. In hot weather the fall of the
charge them with a reluctance towards en mercury indicates thunder. 3. In winter the
tering into the holy state of matrimony. In rising of the mercury presages frost; and in
this odious charge, they one and all assure frosty weather if the mercury falls three or
your honorable legislature there is not even four divisions, there will certainly follow .a
the slightest shadow of truth; for the cor thaw: but in a continued frost, if the mer
ABIERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
Tby rpin't, Independence, let me share,
Lord oftbr lion-bear: and eagle-eye,

Tby rttedlfollo'w, witb my bosom, bare,
Nor
tbe rtnm tbat bowl: along lb: :17.
SMOLLZTT.
In the temple of Liberty, pride of the earth
See Columbia resplendently shine,
Proclaiming the glorious day that gave birth
To an empire of Freedom divine.
Independence, that heart cheering goddess, attends,
Inspiring with raptures the soul;

While patriot music our hemisphere rends,
And resounds to each far distant pole.
Let us join in the chorus, and chant the sweet song
That our rights and our blessings conveys,
Till all nature, uniting, the strains shall prolong,
And all nations shall hail the glad lays.

In vain would our insolent enemies dare
To enthral us by force, or by fraud;

Were cemented by principles just, true and fair,
That will shield us at home and abroad.
In vain would the clouds of detraction increase,
Our name or our honor to stain;
Our white lobe of innocence, virtue and peace,

Shall pure and unsullied remain.
In vain human ends, with infernal design,
Would attempt our fair mom to obscure;
Our bright sun of Liberty brighter shall shine,

And, increasing in splendor, endure.
Detachd from the scenes of corruption and vice,

\Vhere despots tyrannical reign;
In Peaces tranquil bosom, Columbia enjoys
The rich prize of her contest and pain.

In her lap Plenty all the choice benets pours,
That natures benecence yields;
The emulous seasons bestow fruits and owers,
And surcharge with their bonnties the elds.

Industrious husbandry gladdens the soil,
Agriculture his products imparts;
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A rid soon Manufactures benignant shall smile,
While the shrill trump of Fame,
And hail her the empress of marts.
And Hist'rys proud page,

Their deeds and their valor oer earth shall proclaim,
Soon Commerce inviting shall circle her shores,

From each distant region and clime;
And revrence of nations engage:
And Trade from the east and westwafting his stores,
Her wealth and importance sublime.
ChorusThen hail the glad day, Sac.

Our breasts feel the warmth of true Libertys glow,
And each fourth of July

Shall triumphantly cry,
This is the day that he won liberty!
And boldly sing the glories of that happy morn!
\Vhcn oft to heaven's walls their loud huzzas shall
rise,
And well guard ottr just rights with our blood, And shouts of Independence rent! the vaulted skies!
Resisting the tide of each tyrannic foe,
DELLA LIRA.
Roll it back on their legions, a ood;
.-
America shall stand
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Triumphantly free,
Within her blest bordersfair Science shall dwell,

And smile with elfulgence on youth;
Her praise, as the loved Alma dimer, shall swell,
For knowledge, and wisdom, and truth.
Here Tyranny never shall clank his fell chain,
While Freedom dispenses her smiles oer our land,
Nor despot his tribunal rear;
Her sons keep the great jubilee:

ChorusThen hail the glad day,
Bu: harmony, mildness, benevolence reign,
And banish oppression and fear.
Drive sadness away,
The asylum for virtue, and talents, and worth,

Here distress from all nations may come,
And prove, in our bowers, all enjoyments of earth,
And a peaceful and permanent home.
Columbia's broad standard in honor display.

ALICIAN.
For the Repertory.
THE HARP. LAY Ill.

The Arts here shall ourish, improve and increase,
And in elegant usefulness shine:
Be still, ye perturbations of my soul,
Thus, the fame of Columbia never can cease
And cease, ye throbbings of my grief-worn heart,
To be amiably great and divine.
Turn back, ye tears, that oer my cheeks would roll,
And ye sad melancholy thoughts depart?
Our Government, free, independent, serene,
Is the source whence all blessings shall flow;
The best fabric of liberty man has eer seen,
The best bulwark a nation can know:
O! cease awhile, my Muse, thy mournful lays,

And each deep sigh of fond remembrance, cease;
A loftier theme demands thy noblest praise

A nations freedom, liberty, and peace!
Thus in fame may our loved Constitution expand,
\Vith the rst beams of morning arise;
To joy, then, boldly strike the trembling string,
Progress with the progress of light througheach land,
To heavens high walls a song of triumph raise;
And in eclat extend to the skies!
And loudly on this day of freedom sing,
Columbias glory, and Columbias praise!
Tis ours, ever mindful of favors sublime,
Ever grateful for what we possess,
Yes, yes, Columbias liberty and peace,

Bids Della Liras mournful numbers cease!
To transmit, unimpaired, to the exit of time,

These gifts that forever will bless.
DELLA LIRA.
SOXG FOR THE FOURTH OF JUL .
TuneHail Liberty, rupreme deligbt.

\Vhile Europe groans with horrid war,
And hostile cannons roar;
\Vhile loudly Fame proclaims afar,
Her scenes of blood and gore;
ChorusColumbia still enjoys the fame,

Of bravely living free;
And still the rolling years proclaim.
Her peace and liberty!
Columbia! envy of the world,
And favorite of the skies;
On every sea thy ag 's unfurl'd,
And with each nation vies!
ChorusColumbia, kc.
Assert thy rights, both far and wide,

iVith honor plow the sea;
Let Independence be thy pride,
Thy boast, thy Liberty!
ChorusColumbia, &c.
Let heaven echo with the name

Of her brave favorite son;
From whom our glorious blessings came,
The godlike \Vasltington!
ChorusColumbia, 8m.
___.__
Then united let hearts, hands and voices be found;
And while her echoing walls resound
Let each breast glow with patriot re;

And echo repeat to the unverse round,
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With conquests nobly won;
LIBERTY.
Independent well live, or expire.
A Dithyrambic Ode for the 4th of July I810.
AMYNTUR.
0! let one mournful tear be fottnd,
To drop for \Vashington!

ChorusColumbia, ne.
Strike, strike the golden strings,

Tis Liberty Columbia sings
This glorious day;
Liberty-40 bravely won,
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SONG FOR THE FOURTH 0]" JULY.
The cannons loud roar, the dread thunder of war,
By her's and heaven's favorite son,

The great, the virtuous, and immortal Washington!
\Vakes the morning to Liberty dear,
And, 0! while we these laurels wear;
And triumphs rend the skies;

The smiles of every virtuous fair,
Shall crown our glorious joys!

ChorusColumbia, &c.
DELLA LIRA,
The breeze bears the sound to the mountains afar,
Then let rejoicing sound from shore to shore,

And while the cannons loudly roar,
Ere Auroras soft blushes appear;

The drums inspiring roll,
" Columbia 5 free,"

The jublee proclaims,
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Lets shout a glorious huzza!

While Peace sways her sceptre our fears to control,
And Freedom each bosom inflames:
ChorusThen hail the glad day,
Drive sadness away,
Columbia's broad standard in honor display.
For Freedom, Plenty, Peace, and Liberty!

For free from tyrants, free from chains,
Columbia still remains!

Let W'ashington forever be our greatest boast,
iVhile the trump of fame
His virtues and his deeds proclaim,
O'er every peaceful, every hostile coast!
Independence, our boast, our national theme,

Twas decreed, and our patriots, in blood,
Inspired by the warmth of bright Libertys beam,
Thus the sons of Freedom sing,
For the cause of America stood;
With the heavenly theme inspired,
The battles they have fought,
To celebrate the glorious day that made them free;
Broke Slaverys vile chains,
\Vhile echoing woods and valleys ring,
Their counsels and valor her freedom have wrought,
With \Vashington and Liberty!
'l'O DR. FUNGL'S.

So, doctor, so, you wish to see
Friend Hymen light his torch for me;

Remembering not that prankish prig
Might use it but to re my wig.
That still Ive been in some love t,
E'er since I was a puling chit;

That scarce a lovely form X view
Without adoring, is most true.

But Pride, that goodly cavalier,
Has ever been my friend, and near,
Through love's vexation, " change and chance,
To bear me as through pleasant dance.
And Liberty shines on our plains:

ChorusThen hail the glad day, (so.
With joy to the board by rich Plenty supplied,

Now Columbias brave sons may repair,
Remembring the warriors who fought,bled and died,

Let them ll with their praises the air;
And every bosom with the love of freedom 5 red!

And many ages yet unborn
Shall shed a tear for Washington,

And each Columbian hero,
Who bravely fought and bravely won
Peace, liberty and freedom!
He, in my woeful mood, I ween,
\Vhen girls have cold and cruel been,

Will always at my elbow be,
To watch me, while nearood or tree.
50 that I never fear to greet
The spell of beautys \vitchcry sweet;
7O
Nor ever fail in loving true
Of damsels bright, a dozen or two.
But marrying is a different thing
Had Hymen me in leading string,
If prickly thornbush proved the bride,
What comfort could I hope from Pride?
Then, like the prudent world, with scorn,
As it no more could serve my turn,
As it could be of use no more,
I e'en must thrttst it from my door.

Beside, a sprightly girl you know
In fashiun's brilliancy must glow;
By costly frippery lure the gaze,
And aunt at balls, and runs, and plays;
And homely joy and care forego,

And all but foolery and show.
Added to which my purse, alas!
Is like what '5 called a singing glass;
And waistcoat pocket; and must needs
Take me to see his elds and meads.
Some pleasant sparks await us there,
Wondrous ne company, and fair;
And will be here when we come back.
GLORMON.
The storm, though dreadful to behold, has givn

SONG.
" O, we would, if we could," say many men,
" Get married," but this, sure, is sporting;

For Im sure there 's plenty of girls, and then,
Dear me! they don't want so much courting.
Theyd soon, if they might, y to you.
Indeed it s no shame, and dont you all know

Tis but when youre silent we hear not.
OI why then, 0 why dont you woo,
A home, to bailiff elves unknown,
So, if there were a girl on earth,

Rich in the wealth of native worth;
By nature and by culture graced

\Vith wit, intelligence, and taste;
Boasting a frank and feeling heart,
And skill in each fine female att,
More sweetly smiles, in vivid beauty drest.
S.
For the Repertory.

VlR'lUE.
Beauty, a pleasant, fading ower,
Time withers as it goes;
But virtue is a lasting bower
Of peace and sweet repose.
Then let us seek such tranquil rest

As virtue will impart;
\Vhich vice nor folly can molest,
0, think, we must wait till you do.

And three warm hearts, I call my own;
\Vhcre X may whirl my cane, and say,
Some welcome blessings from benignant Heavn;

Nature revives, and with fresh vigor blest,
0, seek them, dear sirs, seek and woo;
Yet Im a happy wight, and I

Laugh fifty times for once 1 sigh.
By Man, Ill keep the dogs away!"
From verdant elds high raised in misty air;

lts matchless hues the power of art defy,
And court and captivate th admiring eye.
For the Repertory.
Nay, gentlemen, dont be ashamed! no, no,
Eighteen by thirty feet of ground,
And nature's smiles succeed the direful scene

Now mark yon beautenus arch, of colors rare,
And dont be afraidnay, fear not:
And eke a fair domain spreads round,
The rain is ceased, the lightnings ash no more:

The thunder clouds recede; Sol shines serene,
We'll have of Vemu'r lips a smack,
A thing you must not sport with much,

Too slight to bear a heedless touch.
Green oer the door the fresh vines grow,

Lucid the swelling clusters glow;
Now the storm passes 08'; the gloom is oer;
I wish youd all wed; for then, I foresee,
Nor envys poisond dart:
My joys would defy fancy's summing;

I'm sure as I'm born there 5 a mate for me,
But 0! he s so mighty long coming.

\Vill you comewill you comeO, do!
Sweet sir! I would soon y to you.
Ah thus, while youre triing from day to day,
1 Nor pity nor thought your steps hasting,
l'm wailing and fretting my life away,
And in some lone sequesterd spot,

'lo meditation given,
Reside within an humble cot,
And there prepare for heaven;

That when arrives the dread address
That bids us mount the sky,
\Ve may obey with cheerfulness,
And soar to God on high.
And my youth and my beauty wasting.
TYRO.
Will you comewill you comeO, do!

O,come! Ill be kind, come and woo.
True pride, good sense; and with all these,

This fund of powrs to bless and please;
A strength and nobleness of mind
To be in state obscure resigned;
Content if but her household few
Her goodness loved, her talents knew:
Could I meet such, if we both choose,
\Vhat we might do no mortal knows:

But Hymen, you will instant see,
May take his dram and snore, for me;

For I such maid will neer survey,
0r 1 am devilish!) astray.
As for this thing whom glance enthralls,
This black eyed baggage of St. Pauls,
It is a pretty toad, that 'a true,
But, I'll be bound, tis skittish too.
Im a poor devl, to speak more plain,

And would with all my soul disdain
To render such, in this worlds sight,
A maid who fairly truly might
Deserve a better fate; and she
Who did not, would not do for me.

And yet one thing I must implore,
l amhencuriouryes, no more,
Tis, if, at church, or plays, or balls,

This little " sparkler of St. Pauls
1t e'er should be your luck to see,
Youll try tofeel ber pulse for me;
And make report upon the case,

When next commune we face to face.
Till then adieu: with elftn band,
With pack on back, and staff in hand,
Now journey to the western sky
My cousin Zepbyrus and 1.
He has to its been bringing down
Some breezes fresh in his hat crown
KATY.
iPbllBlllbl'.
For the Repertory.

THE STORM.
Behold yon rising cloud of blackest dye,

With majesty sublime, obscure the sky!
lts form terric, of tremendous size,
Frowns on the whirlwiuds that from earth arise.
Like amy arrows see the lightnings y,

Through the black ramparts that conceal the sky!
And hark! what awtul roar, what solemn sound,
Yet ling'ring in mine car, rolls echoing round!

Lo! the dread gloom approaching still more near,
Loud pealing thuntlers strike th' astonishd ear!
Tis natures God, who makes the clouds his car,
Whose power directs the elemental war.

Expanding ashes beam upon the eye,
And louder peals of thunder rend the sky:
With reverential fear appalld I stand,
And view the power of an Almighty hand.
From bursting clouds the copious rain descends,
Althottgh, as editors, we possess an impar~

tial neutrality in politics; yet, as native Ame
ricans, we utterly disclaim all neutrality in
feeling: hence have arisen the delightful sen
sations we experience in presenting our fel
low citizens with the patriotic effusions of
our own poets in commemoration of the
day which gave America a highly distin
guished rank among the nations of the earth.
To the honor of that day we have devoted
a considerable portion of our paper, to the
exclusion of some valuable communications
from our obliging correspondents; for which
if an apology were necessary, it would nd
a ready admission by every American who
feels the true amor fmtrz'x. Among the po
ets on this occasion, we recognize, with pe
Beneath whose pressure the green herbage bends;
The swelling tempest rushes oer the plain,

And forests own the victor of the main.
culiar pleasure, our old friend but new cor

respondent, Alician; whose various pro
ductions gave a very pleasing interest to
Now let the atheist rising fears expel!

Is there a God? Let angry nature tell;
Can cbance the warring elements control?
No; tis Intelligence that rules the whole.
The Eye. We thank him for his several
Need mortals ask a stronger proof to see,

Than in his works to view the Deity!
communications, and shall always be grate

ful for his favors.
A subscriber will accept our grateful
acknowledgements for the Petition of the
No! tis enough; there is a God above,
widows and spinsters." Though appearing
\Vhosc ire destroys, who vivies with love.
merely as a piece of pleasantry, the subject
will, upon mature reection, be deemed of gret that the very interesting statement of
no inconsiderable magnitude, since it in the case contained in his address To Nobo
\OlVCS some of the dearest interests of so

ciety. \Ve solicit a continuance of his cor
dy, Somebody, Anybody and Everybody in

the practice of dueling we are obliged to
respondence; which shall ever be treated postpone till next number.
with sincere respect.
To our correspondents generally, we offer
Poor Katy" comes next; we could in our acknowledgments of obligation in the
deed weep with the forlorn hope, if it unequivocal language of sincerity; and as
would remove the cause of her piteous la sure them individually, that their many fa
mentation. But, alas! our sympathies cannot vors, though detained so long from the
e'ect the desired relief: ye bucks and ye public eye, shall be neither forgotten nor
beams: and ye handsome young fellows, it neglected.
is to you the unfortunate Katys doleful
Altamont, Lorenzo, T. D. M., and M-,
ditty" is properly addressed; and if your are received.
hearts are not double hooped with int, the
pleading eloquence of beauty in tears will

certainly touch them feelingly. Our paper is
at all times open as a ready vehicle to the
sorrows and joys, the wrongs and rights of
the fair sex.
Tyro is welcomed to our columns, as
well on account of his name as of his sub
ject. It is very common for young authors,
whatever their natural disposition may be,
to try their powers on some serious or mo
ral subject at rst; and as this is certainly
highly laudable, it may also be the presage
of a future literary usefulness, upon which
they will never have cause to look back with
regret. The charms of virtue and moral sci
ence have frequently been chanted in the
sweetest numbers and by the best of men;
and the song can never cease to be sweet as
Capital 3 BOOOworkmen 201600 hats

at 8 71800 at 8 Sand 3000 at S ltotal
6,400are annually made, the value of which
is $19,600Value of foreign goods and ma
terials annually used is s QOOProt, 15 to

20 per cent.
Memorandum by a country Hatter in the state of
New York.
FINE HATS.
68 1-2
1 50
25
of the char-odes; but we must decline to in
sert them as Alician had anticipated him by

four days, and the subject is not of sufcient
consequence to justify the publication of
both answers. His original charade shall have
a place as soon as he furnishes us with its
Net prot
5 93 1-2
1 06 1.2
Wool, 5 oz. _
Racoon, 1 oz.
Muskrat. 1 oz.
"
Dye stuff and trimmings

Making and nishing
Sundries
Net prot
20
31
50
68 1-2
l 25
12 l-2
3 07
1 93
Sell for
dolls. 5 00
NAPPED HATS SECOND QUALITY
W'ool, 7 oz.
28
Muskrat, 1 oz.
50
be enabled to judge of the truth of solutions

Making and nishing
Sundries
68 1-2
1 25
12 1-2
cessity of always accompanying enigmas of

any kind with their proper answers, will we
hope be obvious to all our readers.
From the great respect we bear to Dr.

Fungus and the faculty we sincerely la
ment the unpleasant predicament in which
he has been placed by our blustering duel
ists, Somebody and Nobody, and we re
Philadelphia. One situated on Chester creek,
where we have ten machines, the other

situated on French creek, where we are
desirable and encouraging to manufactures
if permanent regulations could be consist

ently adopted that would tend to render
cheap and plenty the raw material, and that
would discourage foreign importation. Such
a measure would greatly facilitate domestic
manufactories; it would divert the energy
Sell for
dolls. 7 00
NAPPED HATS FIRST QUALITY
solution, or some criterion by which we may
that may be offered. From this hint, the ne
two patent machines upon J. Reeds plan of

cutting and heading with the same operation.
We are also interested in two establish
ments upon the same plan in the vicinity of
fty two machines, sixty men and boys are

rendered capable of manufacturing from the
nail plates, fteen hundred tons of nails per
year, and by multiplying the number of
machines, a quantity could be manufactured,
more than adequate to the consumption of
the United States, more especially if con
gress, duly estimating the benets to be de
rived from this importzmt branch of industry,
should see t to grant a drawback on ex
portation somewhat proportionateVto the
duty paid on foreign irom Itwould be very
Statement of aNote
Manufacture at Albany.

Making and nishing
Sundries
_
\Ve are obliged to S. for his solutions
establishment at Malden, ve miles from

Boston, where we have in operation, twenty
ed, seventy ve thousand dollars. \Vith the
2 50
1
science, truth and religion, it will be to us
W'ith two brothers I am entrusted in

the manufacture of cut nails. \Ve have an
(Continued)
Racoon, 8 oz.
Beaven, 1 oz.
a source of the most felicitating reection

during life.
REPORT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
ral agent. For such reasons, it is a primary

object with us to give every possible en
couragement to the effusions of virtue and
genius, especially to Tyros in composition:
ment of forming but one youth to be a good
writer and an able advocate for the cause of
(1..)
Boston, September 25, 1809.
preparing to erect twenty machines. The

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three manufacturies with the mill streams,
At a meeting of the managers, of the Penn buildings and machineries necessary for that
sylvania H0spital, held the 25th inst. Thomas purpose, when the French creek establish
C. James, was elected physician, to the ly ment is completed, with two rolling and
slitting mills already built, will cost ninety
ingin department of the said hospital.
thousand dollars. The active capital employ"
*
long. as man is an intelligent being and mo
and if our paper shall become the instru
71
_i
Net prot
Sold for
NET PROFIT
On fine hats
Napped do. rst quality
Ditto do. second do.
Felt
do.
2 84
1 16
dolls. 4 00
1 06
1 93
1 16
60
and enterprise of wealthy men from ordinary

pursuits; be productive of the welfare and
interest of our country; whereas only tem
porary regulations tend to intimidate. The

encouragements offered by government,
whether prohibitory or remunerative, should
at least be co-extensive with the time neces
sarily required for the erection of extensive
works, laborers to be instructed, and for the
manufactured articles to nd a market, that
the manufacturer may without distress be

enabled to meet his current expenses, and
to replenish his stock from the return of
sale; otherwise the wealth and inuence of
foreign competition, would by long credits,

and by purposely furnishing a surplus of
cheap inferior articles at a low price, not
only retard but impoverish the very existence
of any infant manufactory in our country.
If the foreign manufacturer so nd a ready

sale for his goods in the United States at
cost and charges, his object is gained, 1hr
72
%
between ninety ve and one hundred and

frequently both to the injury of the consum forty dollars per ton, whilst the consumption
er and of the American manufacturer; to of nails has been diminished, and of course
the consumer, because the cheapest goods the demand for them; and notwithstzuiding
are commonly the most deceptive, and to foreign nails have been prohibited, yet the
the American manufacturer, by an unex quantity on hand when the prohibition coni
pected inux of foreign goods in his line, menced, added to the quantity since manu
he may be defeated in his calculations, be factured in the United States, with a great
supplanted in his sales, and compelled to diminution of exports, has left no chance
ware~house a heavy stock of nished goods for them to rise in proportion to the rise of
until the season is past for procuring to ad the raw material. The manufacturers pro
vantage, the raw material indispensably ne t is, therefore, less than it was prior to the
cessary to his business. Being thus situated, rise on iron. During the present contest
he must either abandon his employment or with Great Britain, both the French and
resort to the painful alternative of sacris Spanish colonies in America and the \Vest
ing his nished goods for less than their Indies have received considerable supplies
manufacturing prot is secured, and not un
cost, or borrowing money upon usury, to
of nails from the United States, and parti
replenish his stock at an advanced price,

either of which to a moderate capitalist, if
persisted in, is inevitable ruin. English nails,
the ne drawn excepted, are usually made
of inferior iron, and are sometimes trans
cularly cut nails, which they preferred for

many purposes. Reference to the custom
house books, will probably show the differ
ence between the imports and exports, and
the result, the expediency or inexpediency
of encouraging by drawback, the exportation
of them.
In the event of a peace in Europe, and
a free trade between Great Britain and the
Spanish colonies, the former perhaps could
supplant the American supply of this article
ported to this country in lieu of ballast, al
most freight free, and sold for cost and

charges; and their hoops, rods and nail plates,
are made from a kind of unwrought iron,
by a process recently invented; and when
the latter are cut into nails they are tender
and brittle, hence arises a prejudice against in the markets of the latter, Were not con
all cut nails, the consumer being ignorant of gress'to grant some encouragement either
the cause; but cut nails made of Russia, by drawback or by bounty t0 the exporter.
The fact is that American iron although
Swedish or American iron are ood substi
tutes for hammered nails, and in fact have the the ore is excellent, is brought to market,
preference with most people, for the follow and sold in an unnished state; it is not suf
ing reasons, viz. on account of the sharp ciently hammered to be sound, and it is
corners and true tapers with which cut nails hammered in a state so cold that the seams
are formed, it may be driven into harder and cracks, of which there are many, do
wood without bending or breaking or ha not close and weld; the iron therefore to the
zard of splitting the wood, by which the la worker or consumer is worth less by ten
bor of boring is saved, the nail one way dollars per ton, than iron nished in the
being of the same breadth or thickness from style of Russia or Sweden; and this is not
head to point. A moments recurrence to the all, for the ends of the bars of American
origin of this art, and to its rapid progress iron are so unsound that they are only t for
within a few years in this state may not be snap iron, and in fact are ended and sold as
amiss at this time. By the effect of neces such by the manufacturer, who pays full
sity in the time of the revolution, cut nails price for them, losing thereby ve dollars
were rst made out of the rusty hoops of twenty ve cents, besides loss sustained by
old casks, and were as worthless as the ma transportation and frequent handling. This
terials of which they were made, but after being the case, and the manufacturer not
the introduction of rolling and slitting mills being disposed to a reform, I should be
into the state, nail plates of new iron were sorry to be left in their hands, or be sub
substituted instead of rusty hoops, yet nails ject to their pleasure, so much as I would
were for sometime manufactured in a very be, if our government would adopt eectual
imperfect manner; at present it is otherwise. measures to prevent the importation of iron,
There are now in this vicinity extensive nail under the mistaken impression that our
continue to be encouraged until we can be

supplied at home with less hazard; these
occasional remarks you can think of, and if
proper, use them to advantage.
BIARRIED,
At Rowley, (Mass) Phlemon How, esq.

aged 89, to Miss Mary Wise, aged 98!
At Scipio, (N. Y.) Mr. Jonathan Wood

worth, aged 19, to Miss Ellen Cummings,
aged ll!
HEALTH OFFICE:
June 23. 1810.
from the 16th to the 23m June.
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Cholera morbus
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ConsumptionoflungsG
Convulsions
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Diarrhoea
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Dysentery
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Hives
Serofula
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Small pox natural 1
Smallpox inoculatedO
Stillborn
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can be well recommended will receive good encou
mgemem'
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country is at present capable of producing
The price of the Philadelpbin Repertory is four
saving of labor, and the business is better a sufcient quantity for its own consumption.
understood and conducted, and the quality Any thing that would tend permanently to
of cut nails is so much improved that little advance the price of iron, by increasing the
eems to be wanted in order to success but demand, would tend to increase its inferiori
the protection and patronage of government. lty in point of intrinsic value, for when any
By the best information I can obtain, I nd 'article in our markets of home manufacture
that on an average of the last three years produces the highest price, and is in demand,
the quantity of nails and brads manufactur it is frequently hurried o' hand in a very
ed within the state, may be computed at no unnished and slovenly manner, even in
less than two thousand tons per year, of such an imperfect state as would not in
which about seventeen hundred and fty common times sell at any price; it is there
tons have been cut, the residue hammered. fore necessary, that our country should be
The foreign relations of our country for protected from inipositions of this kind, and
some years past have been so contingent, that instead of prohibiting the importation

At the c10se of the year will be presented a title
manufacturics, with useful machinary for the
that the price of iron has been uctuating
of iron, as some would have it, it should

graving.
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PHILADELPHIA,
Primed and published by Dennis Hearth

@Pbilabelpbiaeperfom
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE 0? WILLIAM PENN.
(Continued)
In the spring of l683, asecond assembly

was held in the new city of Philadelphia,
and a great number of laws were passed.
Among other good regulations, it was en
acted, that, in order to prevent lawsuits,
three arbitrators, called peace makers, should
be chosen by every county court, to hear

and determine small differences between
man and man. This assembly granted to the
governor an impost on certain goods ex

ported and imported, which he, after ac
knowledging their goodness, was pleased,

for the encouragement of the traders, freely
to remit." But the most distinguished act

of this assembly was, their acceptance of
another frame of government, which the

proprietor had devised, which was in part
conformed to the rst, in part modied ac
well as philantrophy, to return to England.

At his departure, in the summer of 1684,
No. 10.
vindicating the duke of Buckingham, who
had written on the same subject. Another

circumstance which strengthened the sus
ing, contained nearly three hundred houses, picion, was his taking lodgings at Kensing
and two thousand inhabitants; besides which, ton, in the neighborhood of the court, and
there were twenty other settlements begun, his frequent attendance there, to solicit the
including those of the Dutch and Swedes. liberation of his brethren who now lled the
He left the administration of government in prisons of the kingdom.
the hands of the council and assembly, hav
He endeavored to allay these suspicions
ing appointed ve commissioners to preside by publishing an address to his brethren,
in his place.
in which he refers to their knowledge of
The motives of his return to England his character, principles and writings, for
were two: A controversy with lord Balti eighteen years past, and expresses his love
more, the proprietor of Maryland, concern of moderation, and his wish that the nation
ing the limits of their respective patents; might not become barbarous for Christiani
and a concern for his brethern, who were ty, nor abuse one another for Gods sake."
suffering by the operation of the penal laws But what gave him the greatest pain was,
against dissenters from the established that his Worthy friend Dr. Tillotson had en
tertained the same suspicion, and expressed
church.
The controversy with lord Baltimore ori it in his conversation. To him he wrote an
ginated in the construction of the fortieth cxpostulary letter, and the doctor frankly
degree of latitude, which Penns heirs con owned to him the ground of his apprehen
his capital city, then only of two years stand
cording to the act of settlement, and'in part tended was the beginning, and Baltimores
sion, which Penn so fully removed, that Dr.
the com/zletion of the fortieth degree, the

difference being sixty nine miles and a half!
number of the assembly from seventy two
The other cause of Mr. Penns departure
to fty four, and the giving the governor a for England proved a source of much greater
negative, in lieu of a treble voice in acts of vexation, and involved consequences injuri
legislation. Their thankful acceptance of ous to his reputation and interest. His con
this second charter was a proof of his great cern for his suering brethren induced him
ascendency over them, and the condence to use the interest which he had at court
which they placed in him; but these changes for their relief. He arrived in the month of
were regarded by some as a departure from August, and the death of Charles, which
the principles on which the original com happened the next February, brought to the
throne James II. under whom, when lord
pact was grounded.
The state of the province at this time has high admiral, Penn's father had commanded,
been compared to that of a father and his and who had always maintained a steady
family; the latter united by interest and af friendship with the son. This succession
fection, the former revered for the wisdom rather increased than diminishcms attach
of his institutions, and the indulgent use of ment to the court; but as James openly pro
his authority. Those who were ambitious of fessed himself a Papist, and the prejudices
repose found it in Pennsylvania, and as none of a great part of the nation against him
Tillotson candidly acknowledged his mistake,

and made it his business on all occasions to
vindicate Penns chametcr. This ingenuous
acknowledgment from a gentleman of so
essentially different from both." The most

material alterations were the reducing the
returned with an evil report of the land,

numbers followed. All partook of the leavcn
which they found; the community wore the
Same equal face; no one aspired, no one was
oppressed; industry was sure of prot, know
ledge of esteem, and virtue of vcneration.
When we contemplate this agreeable pic

ul'e, we cannot but lament that Mr. Penn
Should ever have quitted his province; but,
(Er residing in it about two years, he found
much information, and so determined an
enemy to popery, is one of the best evidences

which can be had of Mr. Penns integrity
in this respect; but the current of popular
prejudice was at that time so strong, that it
was not in the power of so great and good

a man as Dr. Tillotson to turn it.
llad Mr. Penn fallen in with the discon
tented part of the nation, and encouraged
the emigration of those who dreaded the
consequences of king Jamcss open profes
sion of popery, he might have made large
additions to the number of his colonists,
and greatly increased his fortune; but he

had received such assurances from the king,
were very high, it was impossible for his of his intention to introduce universal tole
intimate friends to escape the imputation of ration, that he thought it his duty to wait
being Popishly affected. Penn had before for the enlargement which his brethren
been suspected to be a Jesuit, and what now must experience from the expected event.
contributed to x the stigma upon him was, His book on liberty of conscience, address
his writing a book on the liberty of con ed to the king and council, had not been
science, a darling principle at court, andl published many days, before the king issued
l
' For the particulars of this controversy, and its 1 a general pardon, and instructed the judges
nal decision by lord chancellor Hardwieke in 1750, I
' These letters, which do honor to both the writ

see Douglass Summary 11. 309, and Veseys Re- 1 ; ers, are printed in the rst volume of Penns work's,
himself urged, by motives of interest as _ ports I. 444.
and in the Biographia Britannica.
74
=9.
of assize on their respective circuits to ex

tend the benet of it to the Quakers in par
ticular. In consequence of this, about fteen
hundred, who had been conned in the pri
sons, were set at liberty. This was followed
by a declaration for liberty of conscience,
and for suspending the execution of the
penal laws against dissenters, which Was an
occasion of great joy to all denominations
of them. The Quakers, at their next general

meeting, drew up an address of thanks to
the king, which was presented by Mr. Penn.
The declaration of indulgence, being a
specimen of that dispensing power which
the house of Stuart were fond of assuming,

and being evidently intended to favor the
free exercise of the Popish religion, gave
an alarm to the nation, and caused very se
vere censures on those who, having felt the

benet of it, had expressed their gratitude
in terms of affection and respect. The
Quakers in particular became very obnox
ions, and the prejudice against Penn, as an
abettor of the arbitrary maxims of the court,
Valencia. The rst is one and fty leagues

in circumference, the latter about forty two
the command of the captain general of Ca
miles long and twelve broad; both are navi
third of whom were troops of the line and
gable, and abound with wild duck and artillery, the rest a well organized militia,
\
other game. Twenty rivers empty into the completely equipped.
lake of Valencia, though it has no visible
Religion. The established religion of Ca
raccas is the Roman Catholic. The inquisi
outlet.
Rivers. The whole of this country is tion had full sway in these provinces. There
well watered; the ()ronoko, Guigues, To
are three bishops with splendid livings, with
cuyo, Aroa Tuy Unara, Neveri, Manzanares a numerous inferior clergy. The curates are
and Cariaco, are the principal rivers.
spoken of as being generally amiable men.
Pam. The chief ports are Porteta, Mara Missionaries are numerous, they have sala
caibo, Coro, Port Cavello, (several ports in ries from 150 to 200 dollars each per annum.
the bays of Turiamo and Ocumara) Laguira, The convents are on a rapid decline, though
Port Francis, Barcelona, Cumana and Araya. possessed ofvery great wealth. The churches
The coast is intersected by many bays and are grand and exceedingly rich, some of
them are asylums, i. e. places of refuge for
gulfs.
.Mz'nes. Gold mines were formerly wrought the violaters of the law. The tythes yield
in this country; but abandoned in conse
quence, in some instances, of the revolt oi
the Indians and blacks, and in others, by

reason of the unhealthiness of their situa
tions. The vestiges of them are at present
lost, being destroyed by the Indians. Some
was increased, though on a candid view of copper mines are worked in the jurisdiction
the matter, there is no evidence that he of St. Philip, about two hundred quintals of
sought any thing more than an impartial and which is exported.
Finances. The nett receipt of all the taxes
universal liberty of conscience.
and
duties in Caraccas amounts to about
'It is much to be regretted, that he had
not taken this critical opportunity to return 8 1,300,000, the expences of every kind to an
to Pennsylvania. His controversy with lord average for several years of about $1,500,000.
Baltimore had been decided by the council, But the exclusive sale of Tobacco produced
and his pacic principle ought to have led to the kings revenue $700,000, not includ
him to acquiesce in their determination, as ed in the above.
The seasons. Winter and summer com
did his antagonist. He had accomplished
plete
the whole year, rain and drought mark
his purpose with regard to his brethren the
their
boundaries.
T0 winter, the rainy sea
Quakers, who, being delivered from their
difculties, were at liberty either to remain son, are assigned the months from April to
in the kingdom, or follow him to America. November.
Jllounrains. A chain of mountains, start
The state of the province was such as to
require his presence, and he might at this ing from the Andes and losing itself in the
time have resumed his ofce, and carried island of Trinidad, runs through the country.
on his business in Pennsylvania with the

greatest probability of spending the remain
der of his days there in usefulness and peace.
(To be continued.)
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From the Baltimore Evening Post.

GEOGRAPHY OF CARACCAS.
(Concluded)
Lakes. The lakes are numerous. The
chief of them are those of Maracaibo and
' if an universal charity, if the asserting an im
partial liberty of conscience, if doing to others as
one would be done by, and an open avowing and

steady practising of these things. in all times, and
to all parties, will justly lay a man under the reec
tion of being ajesuit or Papist, I must not only
submit [O the character, but embrace it; and I can
bear it with more pleasure than it is possible for

them with any justice to give it to me. Pcnnr Let.
to Sec. Pop/71:, Oct. 24-, 1688.
raccas consisted of 13,093 men, about one
There are also many other ridges. To these
$100,000 per annum.
Alanners and customs. The creoles (native

inhabitants, descendants of Spaniards) are
much attached to their country. They are
on the increase, but population is supposed
to be greatly retarded by the number of
monks and priests. Public education is but
little attended to in this captaincy, though
there are some very good schools; and the
people have a great aptitude for the scien
ces, being possessed of a quick and pene
trating mind. They universally appropriate
two or three hours to a nap after dinner.
Marriages are contracted at very early ages.
A youth, not married at the age of twenty,
is accounted dilatory. The joint ages of the
parties very often do not exceed thirty
years; a girl is allowed to be marriageable
at twelve, a youth at fourteen years. The
people are generally hospitable and courte
ous, and visit each other frequently. They
are said to be very litigious. Cataccas is
one of the best soils for lawyers in the world,
who pluck the geese, to the value of
$1,000,000 per annum. The slaves are treat
are attributed the happy temperature of the ed with much lenity, as is common through
atmosphere of Caraccas. The mountains the Spanish settlements, and much exertions
are not very lofty, generally t for improve made to instruct them in the tenets of Chris
tianity. On a complaint being preferred and
ment, and habitable.
substantiated,
the master is compelled to
The captain general had a salary of $9,000
per annum. His perquisites were, perhaps, sell his slave at a price not exceeding $300,
much more valuable. His term of ofce let the slave have cost what it may, and for
was for seven years. He was president of the same sum the slave can compel his
the audience at Caraccas, which was com master to grant him his freedom. The freed
posed of the captain general, a regent at men are numerous, about one third of the
35,300 per annum, three oidors at $3,300 whole number of people; but under the old
each, two scals at $3,300 each, a reporter government could hold no ofce of honor
at $500, with perquisites, and an alguazil or prot, and were likewise subject to many
major; their oicial dress was black, with a restraints. The artists and mechanics are
white wand suspended from a button hole. mostly freedmen. Marriages between the
it held a session every day except holidays. people of color and the whites are prohibited,
its prerogatives and powers were very ex yet not unfrequently take place.
The Indians, (the Caribs on the Oronoko
tensive, it also had some peculiar privileges.
illilimryforre. The military force under excepted) scattered over this great tract of
country, are mild and inoffensive. They
retain many of their original manners and
customs, and do not love labor, though some
of them are industrious and wealthy. Many

powerful tribes are unsubdued; the Caribs
never will be, but by extirpation. They
formerly maintained dreadful wars against
the Spaniards, but at present are unmolested.
The subdued Indians have made considerable
advances in civilization, and most of them
are members of the church, but the inquisi
tion has no power over them. While the
mines were worked in Caraccas, they fre
quently revolted; since then, they have re
mained quiet. Some of them cultivate their
own land, but they generally make a living
by laboring for the whites at stipulated pri
ces, and altogether compose about one-tenth
of the population of the country.
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For the Repertory.

VIRTUE.
Virtue, which is the offspring of religion,
man desires that others should grace his everything becoming. Of all the qualities
triumphs; the proud wishes them to feel
of men, the most rare, the most apt to cre

ate respect, is that elevation of thought,
clear of his pursuit; the imperious, that they sentiment and manners, that majestic con
bend to him. It is the same of the different sistency of character which truth alone can
competitions, which an excessive love of presume, but which the least exaggeration,
praise, high reputation or fortune gives birth the most trival affectation, would disconcert
to. In the path they choose, every one or banish. This resembles not pride, and
wishes to go alone, or advance before all the still less vanity; as one of its ornaments is,
rest; and, occupied about their own interest, that it never seeks for the homage of others.
they clash inconsiderately with those of
There is, in every virtue, a kind of beauty
others. Virtue, very different in following which charms us without reection; our
its course, fears neither rivals nor competi moral sense, when improved by education,
tors. It does not jostlc with any one; the is pleased with that social harmony which
road is spacious, and all may walk at their the sentiments of justice preserve. These
case. It is an orderly alliance, of which enjoyments are unknown to men, whose
morality is the knot, drawing together by selshness renders them insensible to every
the same motives and hopes heldin common, kind of concord: as they appear to me to
that chain of duties and sentiments which deserve our contempt in one essential point.
unite the virtues of men to the ideal model It is, that they prot by the respect others
of all perfection.
have for order, without being willing to
Virtue, which guards us from the snares subject themselves to the same rules, and
of our senses, and checks our blind desires, without declaring publicly their intention.
is besides, the basis of the most precious It seems to me, that in this view, a defect
their inferiority; the ambitious, that they keep
is of the greatest use in delivering men
wisdom. But it is not the interest of a day,
from the tormenting solicitude of doubt, by

presenting a general system of conduct; and
above all, by marking xed points to direct
or the pleasures of a moment, that it pro
them, by telling them what to love, choose,

and do. Thus, while men, carried away by
their imagination, continually allow that they

are deceived by phantoms, and lend the
most glowing colors to those which have
just escaped them, virtue sets no value but
on what it possesses, and knows not regret.
It would seem, at the rst glance, that the
desires and caprices of the imagination can

not agree with any kind of restraint. How
ever it is not less true, that those triing
forerunners of our will have need of a guide,
and often of a master. Our rst inclinations

and sentiments are frequently uncertain,
weak and wavering: it is of consequence to
our happiness, that this trembling stalk
should be xed and supported; and such is
the service virtue renders to the human mind.
\Ve see not any uniformity in the conduct
of those who are not inuenced by motives
of duty. They have too many things to re
gulate, too many to decide about every in
stant, when convenience is their only guide.
To simplify the management of ourselves,
we should submit to the government of a
principle which may be easily applied to
most of our deliberations.
In short, virtue has this great advantage,
that it nds its happiness in a kind of res

pect for the rights and claims of the differ
ent members of the community, and that all
its sentiments seem to unite themselves to
the general harmony. The passions, on the
Contrary. are almost always hostile. The vain
tects: it is the whole of life, that it takes
under its superintendency. It is to speak

metaphorically, the vindicator of futurity,
the representative of duration, and becomes
to the feelings, what foresight is to the
mind. \Ve must then, with respect to private
manners, consider virtue as a prudent friend,
of morality is indeed a breach of the laws

of hospitality.
Virtue, in its most improved state, virtue,
such as we have represented, is not the
work of a moment: it is necessary that it

should be called forth and strengthened by
degrees. But it would be nipped when it
rst begins to unfold itself, if we destroyed
the simple opinions which serve to educate
it, if we overtumed the only end which can
be perceived by all minds, and if we weak
ened the sentiments which connect it with
those who respect the laws of morality, and
who promote this cultivation by their com
mendations and esteem. ALTAMON T.
taught by the experience of all ages, who

directs our steps, and never lets the am
bcau waver, whose salutary light ought to
guide them. Our tumultuous passions dis
pute the honor of partaking the government.
It is necessary a master should assign to
each its proper limits; one who would keep in
peace all those petty domestic tyrants would
For the Repertory.
remind us of the image of Ulysses arriv
ing suddenly in the midst of the hundred To Nobody, SomebodyI AnybOdy and Everybody in
the practice of duelling.
kings who had taken possession of his palace.
W'ould not virtue, some will say, severe
Gentlemen,
in its judgments, and austere in its forms,
Although I am no duellist myself, I have

deprive us of the greatest happiness, the no objection to your amusing yourselves in
pleasure of being loved? I reply, that shooting a! each other, provided you conne
virtue in its most improved state, has not
your operations within the circle of those
this character. I represent it to myself as whose brains of feather waft them to the
a just sentiment of order; far from banish pistols month, where, with one foot upon
ing all other comforts, it leads to them. the laws of God and the other upon the laws
Thus, benevolence and forbearance, which of man, they hurry each other into the pre
agree so well with human weakness, the sence of Omnipotence with unwashed hands;
social spirit, so consistent with our nature, but to prevent the consequences of your liki
urbanity in discourse and manner, that ami
lanthro/zic amusements extending to those
able expression of a heart, which seeks to unfashionablc creatures who do not like to
unite itself to others, all those qualities, murder or be murdered, ladvise you for the
very far from being strangers to virtue, are future not to give so much publicity to your
challenges, places of meeting, Ste. for be it
its attendants and brightest ornaments
Virtue then enlarges the mind, gives dig known unto you,that in consequence of the
nity to the character, and invests it with challenge in number six of the Repertory l
76
and a particular friend of mine have suffer

ed severely.
In support of this allegation I shall relate
the circumstances as they occurred.
I was sitting, a few days since, in my neigh
bor Caustics back parlor, talking with old
captain Grummit about Cadiz, when in came
a'slcek haired youth in linsey trowscrs with
a letter for Dr. Fungus. I did not know the
confesses, bring him along. In the mean

time the captain suffered himself to be led
along in silence, hearing the questions of his
leaders with that taciturnity for which men
of his profession are so often remarked when
in trouble or danger.
After a short walk we reached a farm
house. Is the squire at home? said the
foremost of our escort. He is in his room,
hand; it was signed Marmaduke Melon, replied a fat girl, showing us through the
and the writer informed me that his father

had broken some bones by a fall, was dan
gerously ill, and wanted me immediately at
his house near Coopers ferry on the Jersey
shore. I was at a loss how to act; I knew
not the family requiring my assistance, and

though not in circumstances to refuse a pa
tient, was afraid to trust myself upon the
water with the young Jerseyman who stood
before me. I mentioned my distress to the
captain, who kindly offered me his boat, add
ing with an *" that the boy might make
the best of his way home, and Jack, his cabin
boy, should pull me over before I could snap

my ngers; and I will go and steer the boat,
said he.
Rather more pleased at this proposal than
Miss Clementina, whose lowering brow
log kitchen into the stone part of the house.

We were soon in the presence of the re
tailer of homespun justice, \Vho are the
prisoners? said he. This, said one, shak
ing me by the collar, this one has confes
sed that he is Nobodys second, but as to
the other we can get nothing out on im.
Here a sturdy fellow gave the captain a tug
and asked him if his name was not Nobody.
carried in, Ill tell you what, if I had you
cond Daniel; I commit them both to stand
their trials for duelling at the next court. If

they had not confessed, these two numbers
of the Repertory are sufcient to convict
them. Clap them into the smoak house."
another. No, I said, I am second to no
slumbers not, whispers in his ear. Guided

by virtuous integrity he need not fear the
shafts of malice; that sacred monitor, whose
judgments are all just, will hear him guilt

less and appear his friend. Conscience was
as necessary to the happiness of man in this
life as his reason: without it, he would be
meant by a good conscience, I answer, it is,
out of this room Id soon convince you that in my opinion, a selfconviction of having
I am somebody. The ca/ztora chuckled at acted in a correct and upright manner. Let
this speech. That is enough, said the se us suppose the case of a culprit arraigned
I am a surgeon, said I, on my busi
body. Second to Nobody! that will do, he

' Vide " The Eye," vol. i. p. 77.
of slander is directed against his character,

the still, small voice of conscience which
little better than the brutes which perish;

in the possession of it, he is truly the noblest
work of God. The real value of a good
Ill tell you what, said the captain, break conscience is most sensibly felt by those
ing silence for the rst time since he was who do not enjoy it. If it be asked what is
frowned disapprobation of the captains po

liteness, I procured my case of instruments
and was soon seated in the boat beside the This order was immediately obeyed, and we
captain, who had provided himself with a were incarcerated in sooty darkness.
double barreled gun, humorously remark
During our connement the captain never
ing, that while I was setting bones he might spoke; and I, the innocent cause of his trou
be breaking a few if there was any game in ble, dared not break the silence. At the dawn
the neighborhood.
of the next morning a key turned in the door
We soon reached the shore, and our feet of our prison and we beheld a wagon ready
had scarcely pressed the sand when a mo to convey us to the country gaol. Judge our
tion in the underwood arrested the captains surprise and pleasure when in the driver
attention. 'l'is a rabbit, said he, and the dead we recognised the sleek headed youth who
ly weapon was levelled at the spot, when I brought me the letter the day before. He
heard a whisper in the bushes, tis the par instantly left the wagon for his masters with
ty. The captain heard it not; the sight had the intelligence of our maltreatment, and
already been taken; his nger was stretched through Mr. Melons intercession and state
upon the trigger; when, nerved by the im ment we were immediately liberated. After
pulse of the moment, I pulled him round; brushing off the soot and taking a glass of
It is a man, exclaimed I, and in a mo
his American wine we left him in a fair way
ment we were surrounded by a number of of recovery, and were soon landed on the
countrymen. These are they, they voci Pennsylvania shore.
ferated one and all, and laid violent hands
The captain has not quite recovered his
upon us. The captains gun ew one way serenity yet. For my part I assure you,
and he was dragged another, whilst I and young gentlemen, I forgive the past, but
my instrument ease were hurried along af sincerely hope you will be more circum
spect for the future.
ter him.
\Vho are you? said one of them to me.
ness. I told you so, said he, turning to
his comrades; these are the very fellows.
Bent you a second to a duel, mister? said
they can y from the assaults of designing

men. And considering the frailty of human
nature, such a provision was necessary.
Happy is that man who is blest with a good
conscience. It is that staff which can give
support when illgotten treasures and fame
will be of little service. When the trumpet
at the bar of justice for having destroyed a.

fellow creature without any just provocation.
How miserable his situation! his ears are
saluted with nothing but accusations of
guilt, and his conscience proclaims him a
murderer. The voice of his brothers blood

crying from the ground, conveys more hor
ror to the soul than the cries of ten thou

sand accusers. Had he a friend? even that
friend is his enemy, and his worst foe is the
monitor within. \Vho can plead his desperate

cause, when he becomes his own accuser?
Were he to deny the fact, repel the charge
and plead innocence, the witness in his bo

som would bale his efforts and confound
the guilty culprit. Forsaken by his friends
and left to the remorse of his conscience,
he falls a prey to despair and greedy indig

nation. IIere then is a tragical proof of the
inestimablc value of a good conscience.
But let us reverse the picture. \Ve behold
an innocent man charged with the commis
sion of an enormous crime. The tongue of
slander and calumny is ever active and soon
creates a thousand enemies. But of what im
portance is all the reproach and apparent
disgrace? 'With conscience for his friend,

he can assert his innocence with boldness;
and even though injustice should be his re

ward, he may content himself with reect
ing on the sincerity of his heart and the
purity of his motives.
.
For the Repertory.

A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
Let him but feel that conscience is his friend,

And all his doubts and fears shall have an end
Amid the disorders and confusion which

mingle with the happiness of this life, the
gond and virtuous have a resource to which
Of what consequence is it to achieve by

some desperate enterprise the character of
a great man? Traitors have been called the
P HILADELPHIA REPERTORY.
77
best blood of their country; murderers have
been honored with promotion to ofce for

the very act of destroying human beings,
and the vilest of the vile may possibly
through deception receive the applause of
many. But what is honor, what is sordid
fame? tis vapor which is dissipated in a

moment, 65 volatile as the air. Conscience
alone can support us on this uctuating

stage, and it is this only which can aord
real contentment and happiness. Who would
then for the sake of paltry honor forego the
enjoyments of a good conscience? There is
no character, no situation in life in which
we can be placed where we would not 'de

rive advantage from this great blessing.
Surrounded by so great a variety of beings,
with many enemies and few friends, we are
exposed continually to unjust accusations
and false reports, which are credited too
easily by an unthinking world. Valuable then
is a good conscience, and truly happy is that
man who feels its real work. T. D. M.
were perpetually shooting upwards towards

the zenith, to represent two armies engaged
in battle; and converted the luminous akes,
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How sweet when morning blushes dawn,
And summer winds perfume the grove,
either white or colored, that were seen

arising from the ether heaven, and those
To mark the beauties of the mom
clouds of a dark red streaked with violet,

which are sometime mixed with them, into
Along the windingvers course
the heads of giants or monsters separated

from their bodies, aming chariots or armed
men; they also fancied that they distinctly
heard the clashing of swords and sounds of
trumpets, and were persuaded by the credu
lous that those vapors condensed in showers
of blood.
And listen to its murmurings hoarse,
But in latitudes further south, where this
phenomenon was rare, and there was seen

only a lambert light, not much elevated
above the horizon, it was a pleasing object,
In converse with the maid I love.
'
Delighted oft we ove to stray,

Or see the snowy lambkins play.
The fragrant owers that round us spring,
In wreaths l twine to bind her brow,
And sweetest rose buds y to bring,
And bid them in her bosom blow.
The little birds on uttring wing,
Who lightly brush the sparkling dew
And love in tender malins sing,
Are not so happy or so true.
How blissful are the lovers joys,
By innocence and beauty blest!
When not a cloud his peace destroys,
Or doubts or fears disturb his rest.
and never caused terror, but on the contrary

inspired cheerfulness, and the name by which
ROCKINGHAXW.
it is distinguished in China, signies a
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thing beautiful and admirable to behold. In
For the Repertory.
the middle ages, when fairyism and enchant
mcnt had taken possession of the mind, the
ON SOCIETY.
_._
inhabitants of Germany discovered in the 1 often have heard, with amazement, the sound
For the Repertory.
Of frigid philosophers lays;
aurora borealis their fairy Morgan, or
THE CONTEMPLATOR.
otherwise called Morgania, whose palace Have seen them with raptures ecstatic abound,
And chant to dull Solitudes praise.
No. I.
sparkled with chrystal and precious stones,
Conjectures concerning the poetic ction that the and was decorated with arcades and co Bold Genius to her condescending to bend,
At her shrine with humility bows;
summit of Olympus was the place where the lumns: And when the appearance happened
And, begging her kind inspiration to lend,
gods assembled in council.
in remote ages the Greeks thought they saw
An humble dependence avows.
It is a. thing well known that numbers of Ju/ziler and the gods assembled in. council on
But perish such thoughts! they from phantasy spring;
Olym/ius.
the fables of antiquity arose from certain ap
Ye Muses, descend not so low;
But under the name of Olympus I com No longer your lyre with misery ring,
pearances in nature, the cause of which was
not very perfectly known, and which by soine prehend, as they did, the whole chain of
And tune it no longer to woe.
vilLS considered as supernatural. Among these lofty mountains that divides Thessaly from No longer proclaim the disgrace of mankind,
appearances was the aurora borealis, or north
ern light. This phenomenon has'three dif

ferent appearances; one in the polar circle,
another in the middle latitudes of France,
England, and Germany, and the northern

parts of Spain and Italy, and a third in the
inland parts of Spain, south of Greece. Thesc
countries lie between thirty and forty de
grees of north latitude, not far from the
bounds beyond which those lights are never

seen.
In the sky which is there irregularly co
vered with akes of luminous matter, the
aurora borealis forms directly over their

heads a kind of cap, of which can be seen
no more than the edge; and though it pro
bably very much alarms them at rst, yet
its frequency has perhaps so much familiar
ized it to them, that they confound it with
the twilight and with other phenomena pe
culiar to their country. But in middle lati
tudes, the circumstances that have attended
the greater kind of these lights, which rarely
happened, always alarmed the inhabintnts and
they regarded them as presages ol' misfor
tune. They fancied the streams of light that
Macedonia, and lies to the north of Achaia

and Pholide, and the whole of Greece pro
perly so called, which was the ancient Hel

las, a country remarkable for pectic ctions.
Homer has often mentioned the summit
of Olympus in the plural, and upon its ridge
places the palace of the gods; a particular
And to Fames sounding trumpet convey

Those tidings which, spurned by a generous mind,
Would moulder in silent decay.
No more with stem coldness humanity chide,
And nature degrade with a tear;
No longer repeat the false oaths of the bride,

And declare all her vows insincere.
which ought to be noted, for this reason,
Then mournfully say, from the world you'll retire
because if Olympus had terminated in one

point or summit, it must be supposed that
the inhabitants of Thessaly and Ancient
Greece could have seen the aurora borealis
only to the east or the west of that point,
and consequently only a small number of
the inhabitants of that country would have
seen it in a direction that favored the notion
of its being oCcasioned by the assembly of
the gods upon that mountain: philosophers
have often asserted that all the north part of
their horizon is bounded by a chain of very
lofty mountains, and of great amplitude, all
the inhabitants saw the phenomenon over
Olympus; and all therefore agreed that on
the summit the gods assembled in council.
ALONZO.
Where no tie will continue to bind;

There peaceful, remote from its venom, expire,
Subject to be continued.
And in heaven that happiness nd

Which so constant on earth you have sought for in
vam,
To enjoy it in tranquil repose;
But, evading your grasp, she left nothing but pain,
A reward for your dangers and woes.
Let Solitude's votary Solitude sing,
Sweet Society still will I praise,
Unappalld by the sound of his harsh grating string,

To her dedicate all my lays.
Of female inconstancy he may complain,

Her praise my best theme shall be still;
And whilst he, with sorrow, shall mourn o'er the
plain,
In the city Ill wander at will;

On the breast of my charmer with rapture recline,
Exist on her nectarous breath;
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When he o'er misfortune shall secretly pine,
And pray for a respite of death.
Are these then the pleasures of Solitudes charms?
Is it thus she commands her esteem!
Whilst Society, mildly expanding her arms,
No boggy marsh or swamp can stop his way,

Nor thorny, pathless thicket force his stay;
ANS\VERS TO CHARADES.
Soon as the warbling ock ascend the air,

l-Iis gun is aim'd with certainty and care;
Some fall immediate from their lofty height,
Dead to the ground, arrested in their flight;
Your rst is A, which schoolmen teach,
Some wounded, uttering, are an easy prey;

The rest to seek for refuge soar away.
Ranks in the scale of parts of speech:

Your second, if I guess aright,
The night comes on and evening shades appear,

The huntsman homeward thinks tis time to steer.
Is ten the utmost reach of sight:
By stoics is hissd frqt the scene.

Avaunt! then, ye insects of miserys cell;
In misery silently rove:
I ever will sing (disregarding her yell)

To Society, Friendship and Love.
THADDEUS.
-.
Now the wild beasts may stroll in safety round,
The featherd race may dwell in peace profound;

The night can shield them from the fowlers skill,
Secure in slumber now they fear no ill.
For the Repertory.
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For the Repertory.
M.
See antea, page 30.

I.
The human frame if we divide,

Well nd has right and left a ride.
Connecting parts, I plainly view
A poet and physician too,
\Vhom genius owns as one allied,
_._
\Vell known by name of Aberm'de.
For the Repertory.
II.
To hold a spear. a sword or shield,
ESTHER.
As I traversed the banks of Schuylkills soft stream,

STANZAS
And wanderd from thicket to grove,
The warrior in the embattled eld,
I saw through the foliage a fair one astray,

She seemd like the goddess of love.
On the death of Master John Averly, who was un
\Vill try the vigor of his arm,
bathing in the Schuylkill: He was a promising
And deal out death among the throng,

While yet he nds that arm is strong;
And these two parts wheneer conjoined,
In silent amazement I gazed on her charms,

youth.
While my bosom in fervor did glow;

\Vith doubt I was fraught, whether mortal was she,
Parent, why does thy striken heart
Incessantly repine?
Why nd it still so hard to part,
And innocence resign.
Or an angel descended below.

Her eyes were of azure, her bosom of snow;
Her cheeks with the blushing rose graced;
Her lips as if coral had claimd them its own,
He is from sin, from sorrow torn,
And there its chief residence placed.
Name him who means of health dened,
\Vho justly is enrolled by fame,

For Armstrong is the poets name.
ALICIAN.
An olfering due to heaven;
Twas Esther; she dwells in yon mansion of peace,
For that blest end thy John was born,

Just lent, ah'. never given.
The fair who rst taught me to love;
lDbiIaUBItlbia.
SATURDAY, JULY 7', 1810.
\Vith chaplets twined from sacred bowers
For her my fond bosom heaves many a sigh,

As I wander the shady alcove.
A fragrant wreath he wears,
Not fading, but immortal flowers,

She s beauteous as Venus, transcendent as Sol;
Each shining temple bears.
She may eye thefalre Hebes below,

And indignantly spurn at the vain charms of those,
Which art and not nature does show.
To guard his life, his foes t alarm,
fortunately drowned on the 23d of June, while
S.
For the Repertory.
He was a ower, so early eroppd,

Was handed to the tomb;
week; and we atter ourselves that their re

Yet Death this angel only loppd,
In paradise to bloom.
ALONZO.
TO RIY SISTER,
\Vho had plucked a rose which I had intended to

present to a female friend.
For the Repertory.

TO OPHELIA.
I had chosen a rose for my fair;
I watchd it as daily it grew;
Well! joy to thy soul though it melt not for me!

Soft peace to thy mind and from care be it free.
But vain my solicitous care,
Alas! it was plucked by you.

Than a ruse, you have robbd me of more,
More roses adorn the green plains;
A loss I have still to deplore,
A kiss I had had for my pains.

But the rose has been pluckd, it is gone;
And may it prove pleasant and sweet,

As the breezes that wait on the morn,
When spring owers glow at thy feet.

May it plant in thy bosom no thorn,
Nor cause thee, my sister, a pain;
But long may it grace and adorn,
And its fragrance forever retain. A. C- M.
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDEN TS.
As it is our main object to present a union

of the useful and the agreeable, we give a
general welcome to our correspondents this
Though far from my woods, from my cottage I roam,

A wanderer wild, from the pleasures of home;
That eye, which with tenderness thrillingly beams,

Unfaded in brilliance, shall glow in my dreams;
And thy fair blooming cheek, the abode of the rose,
Fond fancy will view in the realms of repose;
ception with the public will be such as to

induce them to continue their favors.
The few remarks we had intended to make
on the respective writers we have been obli
ged to omit in order to give place to our
friends.
We have received a multiplicity of com
munications, which we have not room to
particularize.
_.
The trustees of the university of Penn

sylvania, with a view to a more complete
system of medical education in that seminary,

have lately established a professorship of
My slumbers will oft be disturbd with a sigh,
Natural Philosophy for the medical depart
And the visions of happiness mock me and y,
When I think that thy heart, though truant to thee, ment, and divided the professorship of Ana
tomy and Midwifery into two separate pro
Beats not with affectionate fervor for me.
fessorships.
The green dewy lawn and the jessamine bowers,
Dr. Caspar \Vistar is elected the professor
Where Ive raptrously spent the gay lightfooted
hours,
With thee, my companion, so frequently strayd,
of anatomy; Dr. Thomas C. James the pro
the
fessor
professor
of midwifery;
of natural
and philosophy.
Robert Hare,
Or courted repose mid the Elms spreading shade;

And o'er ev'ry gay scene, to fond memory dear,
With hounds well traind he tracks the nimble hare,
At a stated meeting of the college of

physicians, held on the 3d instant for the
Then joy to thy heart, and may angels attend,
election of ofcers, the following persons
And temporal trials with happiness blend!
were chosen ofcers for the ensuing year.
But as oft as each morn shall your pleasures renew,
PresidentDr. Adam Kuhn.
Breathe a sigh for the youth who still loves you so
Vice PresidentDr. Samuel Duield.
true."
CensorsDrs.ThomasParke,GasparWis
\Vith skill and eagerness pursues the deer.

He marks th' unheeding pheasant as it ies,
And oer the verdant plain with swiftness hies,
Thus Fernando, dejected, a prey to despair,

Sighing sung while the sails were unfurld to the air.
ORLANDO.
For the Repertory.

THE SPORTSMAN.
The joyous sportsman ranges o'er the lawn,

Before the light of day begins to dawn,
Ill shed, while recalling them, many a. tear.
tar, Samuel P. Griltts, and William Currie.
TreasurerDr. Thomas C. James.

SecretaryDr. Thomas T. Hewson.
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REPORT ON DOMESTIC .ANUFACTURES.
(C0ncluded.)
(M)
Boston, 13th August, 1809.
ment, to render them superior to wrought ed to stop his works and subject to losses,
nails in every particular.
and the consumer deceived by the name of
The principle business of rolling and English nails has bought this refuse greatly
slitting mills is in rolling nail plates. They to his injury. It is therefore highly impor
The importance in Massachusotts of also serve to make nail rods, hoops, tires,
nail machinery, and of all that relates to sheet iron, and sheet copper. In this state,
rolling and slitting mills, with which nail we have no less than twelve, viz.
machinery is immediately connected, re
At Dover, one owned by the Boston iron
quires that a particular account should be and nail factory, which is composed of John
given of them.
and Samuel W'elles, and R. Whiting.
In old countries, nails are forged; here,
At Plymouth, one owned by Samuel
they are cut, and it is curious to trace the
progress of American genius, through the

various steps of this invention. Twenty
years ago some men, now unknown, and
then obscure, began by cutting slices out
of old hoops, and by a common vice griping
those pieces,
headed them with several
strokes of the hammer. Gradually slitting

mills were built and the shears and the
heading tools were perfectioned; yet much
labor and expense were requisite to make
nails. In a little while, Jacob Perkins, Jona
than Ellis and a few others put into excu

tion the thought of cutting and of heading
nails by water; but more intent upon their
machinery than upon their pecuniary af
fairs, they were unable to prosecute the
business. At different times, di'crent men
have spent fortunes in improvements, and it

may be said with truth, more than a million
of dollars; but at last those joint efforts are
crowned with complete success, and we are

now able to manufacture at about one third
of the expense that wrought nails can be
manufactured for, nails which are superior
to them for at least 3-4- of the purposes to
which nails are applied, and which for 7-8
of those purposes are as good. The machine
made use of by Odiorne, that lately invent
ed by Jonathan Ellis, and a few others, pre
sent very ne specimens of American genius.
To northern carpenters it is well known
that in almost all instances it is not neces
wry to bore the wood before driving a cut
Mil-All that is required is to place the

Culling edge of the nail across the grain of
the wood. It is also true that cut nails will
hold betterin the wood. These qualities are,
In some instances, worth twenty per cent.
0f the value of the article, which is equal
to the whole expense of manufacturing it.
For sheathing and drawing, cut nails are
full as good as wrough nails. Only in one
"We" are the best wrought nails a little
Fupcrior to cut nails, and that is, where it
5 6665531? they should be clinched. The

manufacture of cut nails was born in our
Wu country, and has within its bosom ad
"mced through all the various stages of in
fancy t0 manhood, and no doubt we shall be
50 able; by receiving proper encourage
tant to prohibit the importation of English

nails and brads, of all the kinds which can be
replaced immediately by America, and this

includes all except ne drawn nails, upon
which an extra duty of one per cent. per
lb. might be placed, and if no part of this
extra duty were drawn back, it would by
Spear, W. Davis and Nath. Russel.
thus much encourage the exportation of
At Dover, Beverly, Amsbury, one each, American nails.
all incorporated companies, owned, in part
Nor can the legislature be restrained
I presume, by \Villiam Gray, Samuel Gray from prohibiting foreign nails and brads, by
and Osgood.
a fear that the American manufactures will
At Newton, one owned by Rufus Ellis, be unable to furnish the quantity wanted,
general Elliot and others.
for almost immediately they could manufac
At Norton, one.
ture half as many again as they now do, and
At Taunton, three owned by Leonard and in six months could increase to any quantity
Croeker and others.
desired; nor is it to be feared that the prices
At Bridgewater, two.
will be advanced by monopoly, as the dif
These mills could roll and slit 7,000 tons ferent patent rights of improved nail ma
of iron a year. They now, it is presumed, chinery are owned by a great many individ,
roll and slit each year, about 3,500 tons, uals totally disconnected, and as some pretty
2,400 tons of which are probably cut up good machines are common to all. It is also
into nails and brads. These 3,500 tons sell well to state, in addition, that cut nails have
for as much as 700,000 dollars, and we may been exported in considerable quantities,
call American labor and prot 3-5 of it, and gone to a good market; whilst they
when foreign iron is employed, and the were not so well made, they were sold in
whole of it when our iron is made use of.
foreign ports without a prot; in Havanna
It is not useless to observe that the con
and in many other places they now actually
sumption of cut nails has increased in pro prefer 4d cut nails of a good quality to the
portion as their manufacture has been best English nails with which they have
brought to perfection. As late as ten years usually been supplied. I cannot leave off
ago, it was very small and the increase has this subject without adding one word more
been much less rapid than it would have about English iron. It may be the plan of
been had the rivalship of foreign nails not the English when selling it to us to bring into
stood in the way.
discredit American cut nails and other Ame
The English iron imported into this rican manufactured articles. Unfortunately a
country, either in bars or in nail plates, or great proportion of those articles, and especi
in nail rods, or in hoops, is not good for ally cut nails, has been manufactured out of
any thing, nor are tires manufactured with that iron, and probably it ever will be, because
it of any use. Out of the ore they roll the the articles cost less, look full as well, and sell
iron into bars, without hammering it, which as well to those who never bought any before.
saves them much expense: but the conse It is almost impossible for many people to dis
quence is, that although the iron looks well, tinguish between good and bad cut nails,
yet it is not compact at all; has no strength and some are led to prefer giving a higher
and good as the razors of Peter Pindar to price for English wrought nails, which are
sell but not to use. The fact is the British no better than cut nails, manufactured out
nevcr'cmploy it in their own country, nor of any iron but English. I have already ob
can a man while he is buying a hoop, or a served that the mills in Massachussetts
tire, or a cut nail, distinguish whether it could manufacture 7,000 tons of iron, while
was made out of English iron. To prevent they only manufacture 3,500 tons. This
this species of fraud, it is necessary that arises mostly from the rivalship with im
government should prohibit entirely the im ported articles of the same kind, a rivalship
portation of English bar iron, nail plates, which the legislature may do away at once.
nail rods, &c. This will also encourage the
It need not be mentioned that the iron
manufacture of our own iron. At particular manufactures have, on exportation, an equi
times America has been lled with the re table right to a drawback of duty on impor
t'use of English nails and brads, and then ted iron.
the American manufacturer has been oblig~
In Massachusetts originated the project to
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m
manufacture cut nails, and there it has rst towns in the counties of Bristol and \Vor
been brought to its present state of perfec cester have likewise entered into this busi
tion. Lately manufactories have been erect ness.
This concise history of a manufactory
ed to a considerable extent, in New York,
which
owes its commencement to mere ac
Pennsylvania and Maryland, and unquestion
ably they will rapidly multiply there, and cident, may not be uninteresting to you; in
soon be spread all over the country, if the which I have been a little particular to
encou ragements are given by the legislature shew from what small beginnings an impor
which are suggested in this sketch. If the tant article of merchandize may be produc
legislature should determine to allow a ed. Could you have believed that the annual
drawback of the duty on iron when manu amount of straw hats and bonnets made in
factured, it might be well to render the thing the town of Wrentham alone, is equal to
more simple to change that duty, which is 100,000 dollars? This I suppose to be within
new ad valorem, into a specic duty by the bounds; for the amount of the other towns
pound. Say, for example, make it one cent in the county of Norfolk above mentioned,
I add 100,000 dollars more; this sum is per
per pound.
haps much too small. Bristol and Worcester
(NJ
\Vrentham, October I, 1809.
STRAW BONENTS.
This business commenced in this town
in the year 1801; at that time the English
straw bonnet had become the fashionable
out-door head dress of the ladies in the large
towns, who are allowed always to take the
manufacture to a considerable amount, and

the business has commenced, I have been
informed, in the other parts of the state.

It is to be understood that the above sum
of 200,000 dollars, is exclusive of hats and

bonnets made and worn by those who manu
facture them. These bonnets and hats are
exported, not only to New York, Philadel
lead in the fashions. The prices demanded

for them were so great as to prevent phia, Baltimore, Virginia, North Carolina,
the farmers daughters purchasing them. Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah and
A young lady, stimulated with a desire to New Orleans, but to several of the West
appear not less fashionable than those who India islands.
OFI
were better able, or more willing to pay an
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
extravagant price for a bonnet, conceived
We announce with pleasure that Mr. John
that she might, with her own ingenuity and
\V.
Scott, printer and bookseller of this city,
industry, fabricate one for herself, equal in
quality and less in expense, than an English has issued proposals for publishing Sermons
bonnet would cost. The bonnet was soon on various and important subjects in Prac
completed, and was thought to be no way tical Divinity, adapted to the plainest capaci
inferior to the English. This rst success ties, and suited to the family and closet, by
ful effort of the young lady soon command Devcreaux Jarratt, late minister of the gos
ed customers, who were furnished with pel in Virginia. The zeal and perseverance
bonnets at about half the price which were of Mr. Jarratt in the important work of the
ministry, the success of the gospel by the
paid for those imported.
The demands for these bonnets increasing, instrumentality of his preaching, and above
others were induced to try their ingenuity. all, the intrinsic excellency of divine truth,
These small attempts were generally crown which stamps a character on these sermons,
ed with success. In a few months the manufac strongly recommend them to Christians of
ture of bonnets exceeded the domestic de every denomination: Mr. Jarratts manner is
mand for them. The surplus were entrusted impressive, animated and engaging; his elu
to the care of a man who frequented the cidations plain and pcrspicuous, his style
pure and elegant: sensible himself of the
market at Boston, with the common pro
ductions of the country, who made such high value of immortal souls and feeling in
returns as to not only encourage the rst his bosom the glow of Christian aection, he
adventurers to continue the business, but to manifested an ardent desire for the salvation
induce others also to become adventurers; of sinners, diligently applying himself to the
so that at the end of one year the bonnet service of his divine Master, anxious to do
business had become an important article of the work of an evangelist, to make full
traffic in this vicinity. Since which the busi proof of his ministry: and, that his usefulness
ness has annually increased and the demands might not end with his temporal existence,
for hats and bonnets becomes more and he was induced to publish in volumes the
more extensive. The principal part of the substance of what he had delivered from the
business is done in the towns of \Vrcntharn, pulpit. We feel a peculiar satisfaction in re
Franklin, Medway, Medeld, Billingham, commending this valuable work to the pa
\Valpole, Sharon and Foxborough. Some tronage of the Christian community.
MARRIED,
On Tuesday the 19th June, by the Rev.
Isaac Grier, Mr. Thomas Billington, of Phi
ladelphia, to Miss Susan Hunter, of Augusta
township, Northumberland county.
On Thursday the 2lst June, by the Rev
erend Dr. Green, Mr. Andrew C. Barclay,
merchant, to Miss Catharine Goddard, both

of this city
-_._
HEALTH OFFICE,
June 30, 1810.

Dir-carer.
ad. cb.
Apoplexy
1
Cancer
1
Casualties
1
Cholera morbus
0
ConsumpnonoflungsS
Convulsions
0
Decay
1
0
l
0
13
3
6
Dire/u.
ad. :6,
Fever, malignant
l
Inflam. of lungs
1
Inani. of bowels l
Old age
1
Sore throat
0
Small pox natural 0
0 Stillbom
0 Chicken pox
0
0

Drowned
0 l
Dysentcry
Debility
1 0
0
O
0
O
l
1
1
l
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15 3'1
Total 46
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
6
60
70
3
70
80
2
4
30
90
90
100
3
l
1
O
1
20 30
2 Ages unknown
0
30 40
4
40 50
1
Total 46
9 oclock. 12 o'clock. 3 oclock.
I one 25
72
76
79
26
73
75
77
27
71
74
75
28
72
72
77
29
73
79
80
30
76
80
83
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ngmem'
Inquire at this Oice.
june 16.
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and at the book stores of Mathew Carey, No.12?

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VOL. I.
No.11.
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to the Conduct of Human Life, being the

BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN.
result of much observation and experience,

has been much celebrated, and has passed
(Continued)
through several editions. In 1693, by the
The revolution which soon followed, pla

ced him in a very disagreeable situation.
Having been a friend to James, he was sup
posed to be an enemy to William. As he
mediation of several persons of rank, he
was walking one day in Whitehall, he was
that he was a fourth time honorably acquitted.

The true cause of these frequent suspi
arrested and examined by the lords in

council, before whom he solemnly declared,
that he loved his country and the protes
tant religion above his life, and that he had
was admitted to appear before the king in

council, where he so maintained his inno
cence of what had been alleged against him,
cions was the conduct of his wife, who be
ing passionately attached to the queen, con
others, were charged with adhering to the

enemies of the kingdom; but no evidence
appearing against him, he was a third time

acquitted by the court of kings bench.
Being now at liberty, he meditated a return
to Pennsylvania, and published proposals for
another emigration of settlers. He had pro
recded so far as to obtain from the secretary
of state an order for a convoy; but his voyage
was prevented by a fourth accusation, on the
oath of a person whom the parliament, af
terward, declared a cheat and impostor. A
warrant was issued for apprehending him,

and he narrowly escaped an arrest, at his
return from the funeral of his friend George
Fox, on the 16th of January 1691. He then
thought it prudent to retire, and, accordingly,
kept himself concealed for two or three
years, during which time he employed him
commissioners (1686), to require its disso

lution; but the assembly, perceiving the loss
of their privileges, and of the rights of the
people, to be involved in frequent innovations,
opposed the surrender. The commissioners
themselves were soon after removed by the
proprietor, who appointed for his deputy
John Blackwell, an ofcer trained under
Cromwell, and completely versed in the arts
sort of James, made a practice to visit her of intrigue.
at St. Germains every year, and to carry to

her such presents as she could collect from
the friends of the unhappy royal family.
in justice and gratitude to be a friend to Though there was no political connexion
him. He was obliged to nd securities for or correspondence between Penns family
his appearance at the next term, and thence and the kings, yet this circumstance gave
to the succeeding term, in the last day of color to the jealousy which had been con
which, nothing having been specically laid ceived; but the death of his wife, which
happened in February 1694, put an end to
to his charge, he was acquitted.
h'Fhenext year-(1690) he was taken up all these suspicions. He married a second
wife in 1696, a daughter of Thomas Callow
again, on suspicion of holding correspond
hill, of Bristol, by whom he had four sons
ence with the exiled king. The lords re
quiring securities for his appearance, he ap and one daughter.
pealed to king William in person, who was
By his continual expenses, and by the
inclined to acquit him; but, to please some of peculiar difculties to which he had been
the council, he was, for a while, held to bail, exposed, he had run himself deeply into
debt. He had lost 7000!. before the revolu
and then acquitted.
never acted against either; but that king
James had been his friend and his fathers
friend, and that he thought himself bound
Soon after this, his name was inserted in

a proclamation, wherein eighteen lords, and
meanors. Disgusted with their disputes, and

dissatised with the constitution which he
had framed and altered, Penn wrote to his
'
He began his administration in December,
1688, by a display of the power of the pro

prietor, and by endeavoring to sow discord
among the freemen. Unawed by his inso
lence, they were rm in defence of their
privileges, whilst, at the same time, they

made a profession of peace and obedience.
He imprisoned the speaker of the assembly,
who had impeached Moore, and, by a variety
of artices, evaded the granting an habeas
corpus. He delayed as long as possible the
meeting of a new assembly, and when they
entered on the subject of grievances, he
prevailed on some of the members to with
draw from their seats, that there might not
be a quorum. The remainder voted that his
conduct was treacherous, and a strong pre

tion, and 4000!. since, besides his paternal judice was conceived not only against the
estate in Ireland, valued at 4501. per annum. deputy, but the proprietor who had appoint
To repair his fortune, he requested his ed him. The province also fell under the
friends in Pennsylvania, that one hundred of royal displeasure. Their laws had not been
bring a large number of inhabitants with

him. What answer was given to this request
does not appear; but, from his remaining in
presented for approbation, and the new king

and queen had not been proclaimed in Penn
sylvania for along time after their accession;
but the administration of government was
continued in the name of the exiled monarch.
At what time the alteration was made we
England six or seven years after, it maybe
cannot be certain; but in the year 1692, the
them would lend him 1001. each, for some

years, on landed security. This, he said,
would enable him to return to America, and
concluded that he received no encourage
king and queen took the government of the
ment of this kind from them. The low cir

cumstances of the rst settlers must have
rendered it impossible to comply with such
a request.
Pennsylvania had experienced many in
conveniences from his absence. The provini
cial council, having no steady hand to hold
the balance, had fallen into a controversy
rcspccting their several powers and privi
colony into their own hands. and. appointed
sclfin writing several pieces, one of which, leges, and Moore, one of the proprietary
f'nlilhd .Vaxims and Reections relating ofcers, had been impeached of high misde
colonel Fletcher governor of New York and

Pennsylvania, with equal powers and prero
gatives in both, without any reference to the
charter of Pennsylvania.
It being a time of war between England

and France, and the province of New York
being much exposed to the incursions of

the Indians in the French interest; the prin
cipal object which Fletcher had in view,
was, to procure supplies for the tit-fence of
i
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the country, and the support of those In

dians who were in alliance with the English.
The assembly insisted on a conrmation of
their laws, as a condition of their granting
a supply, to which he consented, during
the kings pleasure. They would have gone
Aw
more likely to be the aurora borealis, which

the darkness of the night renders visible,
than the rays of the rising sun. \V hen Ulysses

and Telemachus were busy at midnight in
preparing and hiding the arms which they
vient to theology and received traditions,

there is great encouragement for 1118 to
were afterwards to use, and saw the walls
pursue this train of inquiry farther; and

there is some reason to believe that the
fables of Pindus, Helicon, and Parnassus,
the habitations of Apollo, Bacchus and the
farther, and demanded a redress of grievan
of the palace, the seats, the ceilings, and the
muses, will evidently appear to have
ces, but Fletcher having intimated to them
colonades, suddenly illuminated with a vivid
that the king might probably annex them to

New York, and they knowing themselves
unable to maintain a controversy with the
crown, submitted for the present to hold
their liberties by courtesy, and voted a sup
ply. On another application of the same kind
they nominated collectors in their bill, which
light, Telemachus turned round to gaze with

an interested curiosity, but Ulysses imme
diately rcproved him, repress, said be,
same origin with that of Olympus; and per

haps, Mr. Editor, some of your ingenious
correspondents, abler hands than myself,
may favor you with further elucidations of
your curiosity; it is the [irivz'legc qf the
the subject.
the
ALONZO.
gods 10/10 inliabz'l Olym/lus lo manzfrsl them
selves in su'cb illuminations without appearing

visibly. Odyssey, book 19.
Some indeed have been of opinion that
he deemed inconsistent with his prerogative,
and, after some alter-cations, dissolved them. in Homers system, Olympus was a moun
In 1696, W'illiam Markham, deputy go tain in heaven, and not upon earth; for Homer
vernor under Fletcher, made a similar pro makes J upitcr say, that if a chain of gold
posal, but could obtain no supply till an ex was suspended from heaven to earth, and all
pedient was contrived to save their privi the gods were to pull it downward with all
leges. A temporary act of settlement was their force, he could at his pleasure draw
passed, subject to the conrmation of the them up to him, and with them both the
Proprietor,_and then a grant was made of sea and the earth; to which he adds, that
3001.,- but as they had been represented, by if he should then fasten his chain to the
some at New York, as having acted incon summit of Olympus, they would all remain
sistently with their principles, in granting suspended in the air; and in Popes transla
money to maintain a war, they appropriated tion we have the following:
this grant to the relief of those friendly " Let down our golden everlasting chain,
Indians who had suffered bythe war. The Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth and
main:
request Was repeated every year, as long as
Strive all, of mortal and immortal birth,
the war continued; but the infancy, poverty To drag, by this, the thunderer down to earth:
and embarrassments of the province were Ye strive in vain! If I but stretch this hand,
alleged for noncompliance. The peace of 1 heave the gods, the ocean and the land,
__O._
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ON DRUNKENNESS.
\Vhen we contemplate the striking variety

of character around us, we are astonished
at the great difference subsisting among men.

We are ready to inquire, why this dissimi
larity in the human race; and why such
heterogeneous objects in the family of man
kind? While some boast of their overowing
co'ers, how many there are who scarcely
enjoy the means of a comfortable exist
ence! \Ve are sometimes delighted to be
hold the charitable acts of a man whose
purse is a little more than adequate to his
own support; but how often are we disgusted
at the sight of a miserly wretch who turns
with haughty indignation the poor beggar
from his door! For what purpose was this
great diversity of character intended? \Vas it
not to exhibit the weakness of mankind?
Surely this does not comport with the boasted
I x the chain to great Olympus height,
Ryswick, in 1698, put an end to these re
And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight'
dignity of human nature; far, very far from
quisitions.
But it cannot without the grossest absur it. Rather is it calculated to humble us in
dity
be supposed that the whole earth and the dust, and to evince our depravity. Of all
a,
sea should be suspended in the air at one the vices and base practices which are cur
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lend of a chain, by fastening the other end rent in the world, none has a stronger ten
THE CONTEMPLATOR.
of it to the mountain that is part of the dency to increase this dissimilarity than
N0. ll.
earth; it must follow either that the Olympus drunkenness. That vile, detestable and ruin
Conjectures concerning the poetic ction that the mentioned in this place by Homer, is a ous custom which so generally prevails, is
summit of Olympus was the place where the mountain in heaven, or that Homer has been the source of more evil than one would ima
gods assembled in council.
gine. lt saps the very foundation of virtue,
thus egregiously absurd.
(Concluded)
Mount Ida, _ which is a little south of and has brought to the dust the fair hopes
The aurora borealis of Greece formed a Olympus, is also, like that, a chain of moun of many a family. It is that odious and abomi
luminous arch emitting rays in all directions, tains, and extends itself over all the district nable vice which not only wrecks the body
a segment of a glory, the ends of which of ancient Troy in the direction of S. W. and cuts short the lives of those who prac
rested upon the summits of the mountain, and N. E. it is equally celebrated in poetical tise it; but it tends likewise to brutalize the
and which might well be supposed for a ctions for the presence of the gods, and in philosopher and destroy the fair fabric of the
visible sign of the presence of the heathen the same situation as to the aurora borealis mind. While war brings carnage and blood
deities; and the obscure part next the hori with respect to the neighboring countries shed on the land, the rum hogshead, with
tenfold fury, sweeps before it millions of
zon broken here and there with rays of situated towards the north.
Northern lights have also been seen in devoted victims. Where is the man who
light, which was supposed to be a Cloud
which concealed the assembly from the eyes several parts of America, and have been ac would venture to exhibit a catalogue of all
counted very extraordinary phenomena, and the miseries of which this evil has been pro
of man.
It is also observable that Homer constant by the credulous, as omens of a future des ductive? \Vords are inadequate to so great a
task; and the attempt would be superuous.
ly gives the epithet brilliant or luminous to tiny.
As it is probable that all the fables of We can read its direful effects on the page
Olympus, and the white light, which, accor
ding to the expression of the poet, runs antiquity are nothing more than the natural of history, in the public street, and, ulusl too
_ along the summit of this mountain, is much_ history of fabulous times rendered subser often in the bosom of an unhappy family
am
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How are we struck-with horror at the tion of thy existence! Notwithstanding the saw. His family consisted of himself, his
scenes which are daily presented to us! If baneful eects of this vice, how many are wife and daughter. The cottage and little
we walk but a short distance, we behold the there who continue to pursue it. May the domain that surrounded it, were the gift of
tottering frame and the bloated countenance period soon arrive when the laws of the the former count Sobeiski, a master whom
of some miserable wretch. At the public land will oppose this evil with that punish he had faithfully served, and who, to rcquite
corners, or perhaps behind a cellar door, our ment which it merits, and teach the drun his services, bestowed upon him Malda, the
attention is often attracted by the appearance kard that the good things of this life were wife of his choice, with the cottage and lands
of something like a human being, shrugged made to be used, and not to be abused.
as a wedding dowry.
up in a heap, ragged and lthy, snoring in
T. D. M.
They had now lived twenty years in all
as
the sleep of intoxication. Born, it may be, of
the heaven of conjugal felicity, and watched
respectable parents, educated on the lap of
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with parental fondness the opening beauties
virtue, once the hope and delight of his
of the sweet Roselle, their daughter, who
THE HEIRESS OF SOBEISKI.
friends: but, alas! intcmperauce, that pathway
had just reached her seventeenth year. She
A ROMANCE
to destruction, has led him by degrees from
was indeed what the eye of Lavater would
PREFACE.
merriment to brutish licentiousness, till at
have considered as a perfect beauty. Though
length Bacchus is his god and rum his idol.
As he who writes for the scrutinizing bred in a cottage she possessed an easincss
Furrows on his cheeks, carbuncles and grog glances of the public eye, must of necessi of manners peculiar to polite circles, with
boils form the despicable insignia of his ty lay himself open to censure or to praise, a brilliancy of fancy and luxuriancc of wit,
profession. His iniquitous conduct has stamp and as our intention is to please ourselves which made her considered by her rustic
ed his character with infamy, and poverty as well as others, we have no objection to neighbors as a being of superior order. Her
with all its concomitant evils has laid hold either, where either is deserved, though na form was of the nest symmetry, her blue
upon him. Dcplorable is the picture, but true turally we should prefer [truism The candid and piercing eyes, crowned by a pair of ne
in every shade. If none but the individual critic will never poison his remarks by cy brows, were a mirror to~-her soul, in which
who practised this vice felt its direful effects, nical rage or fulsome panegyric; he will was reected every feeling of her bosom.
the case even then would be a lamentable never rob the rich to bestow their treasures Her hair when oating in auburn aringlets
one; but how often does it call us to witness upon the 1100r; will give to each his due, and upon the wanton breezes," and _a sweet
the deSU'UCiiOD of families!
exhibit a fault or an excellence in its true langor that would often overspread her face,
There is nothing in life more pleasing and colors. As for the paltry dabblers in criti
would heighten the luxuriancc ofher charms, agreeable than to behold a collection of cism, who have neither judgment to discern and render her the object of universal ad
healthy children, blest with honest, loving nor talents to display the merits of a work; miration among the rough and uncultivated
and industrious parents. Though supported who have by the help of a lexicon stuffed peasantry, whose blunt professions of love
by the sweat of the brow, their deportment their heads (otherwise emjity) with a jumble would often raise a blush on her modest
is decent and respectable. Peace and con of monosyllables, to dart (like an irritated cheek, though they excited nothing but
tentment reign in every breast; their days porcupine his quills) their venom promiscu
mirth in her bosom. Though she had learnt
are crownd with health and happiness. Such ously at all, we laugh at their efforts and of virtue and vice but from the relations of
a scene excites pleasurable sensations and despise their malice. Tis the candid critic, her parents, she adored the one as much
aords real joy. But how altered the condi the honest reader, and the capable judge, we as she abhorrcd the other. Braubenski had
tion of that family when the love of ardent wish to peruse our novel attempt. \Ve wish taught her that virtue raises the peasant to
spirits creeps in like a serpent to destroy. not to receive reward for a fault nor chas
the level of the prince, while vice degrades
The public inn is more fascinating than the tisement for a beauty, and request them to the prince below the peasants rank. In short
workshop, and the unhappy victim falls a bear in mind that this is our rst essay. If we she was the darling of her parents and the
devotee to idleness and every disorderly fail, our poverty but not our will con
wonder and admiration of the village throng.
habit. N0 longer do we behold in his dwell sents.
Let us now for a few moments enter the
UBALDO.
ing the pleasing group; happiness has taken
walls of Sobeiski castle, which was situated
THE HEIRESS OF SOBElSKI.
her ight, and sadness dwells within. The
about three miles from the cottage of Brau
CHAPTER I.
distressed mother beholds the scene with
benski. The name of Sobeiski is enrolled on
bitter anguish; and, alas! this is the source
the page of history as among the rst and bra
Foul deeds will use.
of her constant sorrow: compelled by press Though all the world oerwhelm them to men's eyes. vest supporters ofthe Polish sovereignty in its
Sbalspeare.
ing necessity, she strives hard to earn a
glorious but ineffectual struggle to maintain
Under the mild reign of Stanislaus Au
livelihood for her growing offspring. Un
its hereditary power, and only became extinct
happy children, thus to be afiiicted by an gustus, the inhabitants of Poland were~not upon the extinction of that monarchy. The
unfecling father! But the time hastens when in that wretched state of vassallage, in which uncle of the present Sobeiski was the good
justice will take vengeance on the wretched they previously had, and subsequently have count, who had so well repaid the services
sot; and sickness with heavy hand will soon been; for this good monarch thought the of Braubenski, and who, about sixteen years
seize upon him. Confined to his chamber king was happiest when his people were before, had fallen a sacrice to the avaricious
with the ravages of disease, he is now per free.
and sanguinary rage of 'a lawless bauditti that
Previous to the dismemberment of this infested the forests between the castle and
mitted to reect on the ruinous consequen
ces of his past life, and to prepare for his devoted country, on the banks of a little the capital.
dissolution. Thus before he has entered the river that branched from the Vistula, mean
The family name of the present posses
borders of old age, or even middle life, dering through a fertile country, stood the sor was Ferresburgh, by which we shall dis
drunkenness consigns him to infamy and cottage of Braubenski, a Polish peasant, at tinguish him in the sequal of our tale. Upon
death. Vain man, miserable is the termina
the distance of about ten leagues from \Var the certainty of the untinn-lv end of Sobeis
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m
ki, he became the heir and took possession the conception of others! Genius acts very justice had striven in his breast, love to jus
of the riches and honors of his uncle. From
differently upon different persons. On the
tice having gained the superiority and vic
the death of his predecessor he was never pedant it has an inclination to elevate him tory, he commanded his mutcs to strangle
seen to smile, nor would he permit the sound above the sphere in which nature evidently
of joy within the castle walls. This was designed him to move, and it is to the de
a strange disposition which, it was said, pro fects in his performance there that may be
ceeded from continual grief on account of ascribed the natural detestation we entertain
his son Mustapha with a bowstring, that by

his death he might make amends for violated
chastity.
Justice indeed was formerly more strictly
his uncles death. But Ferrcsburgh was be
observed, I fear, than at present. There are
nevolent and the benefactor of his vassals,
not one of whom ever pressed his rude couch
without breathing forth a prayer for the hap

piness of their beloved lord. Though the
count was kind, his acts of benecence were
always performed by a proxy, who, in dis

tributing the bounty of Ferresburgh to his
needy vassals, always impressed their minds
with the idea, that but for his persuasive ad
vice that bounty would never be bestowed.
Ferresburghs son, tlfe young, noble, brave,
generous and accomplished Linhault, was the
idol of his father, and in fact of all the tenants
of the castle, except the above mentioned

proxy, a monk, named Austin, who was the
condant of lerresburgh. The open and ge
nerous soul of Linhault could not bear the
disguise anticunning of the hooded villain;
neither could the guilt and hypocrisy of Aus
tin endure the scrutinizing eye of Linhault,
nor that generous disposition which had pro
cured him the love and esteem of the good
around him. Though the monk hated the
youth, his courage and virtue commanded
his respect, nor did he ever meet the glance
of his hated observer, without shrinking
abashed, as if conscious that his villany was

discovered. Austin was indeed a villain; Lin
for the name. In a man of good sense geni

us invariably is the forerunner of good un
derstanding and an expansion of our ideas,
in a way which benets another, as it aug
ments our own felicity and tends to our
mental improvemement; it is the parent of
that well directed virtuous ambition which
designates the hero and the patriot from the
fawning sycophant. Its index is the tongue
and its mainspring the heart; its ospring is
virtue and discretion, two essentials so neces
sary to enterprize of importance. It is pre
sence of mind in the exigencies of misfor
tune and the nger post to virtue. It is that
which constituted the characters of a Penn,
a Franklin, aW'ashington, and a Pickering.

NOSNAH.
too many instances in the present day where
the love of gold bears down that of justice:

for many follow the allurements of the
world which lead their thoughts from God.
While mankind thus continue it is no won
der to the observing mind, that they thus
depreciate. But there are still many who
follow justice in all things, who obey the

dictates of their own conscience, and follow
the path pointed out by reason and virtue.
JUVENTUS.
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EMPYRICISM.
I have no hesitation in believing that the
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exposition of errors which injure science

and affect the welfare of society, will nd
COLLECTER. No.1.
a ready admission into the Repertory. And
0.
I with the greater assurance claim the publi

cation of the following strictures, as its co
JUSTICE
J usticc may be dened that virtue which lumns are never made the deposit of quack
impels to give to every person what is his ish nostrums and advertisements; were this
due; and comprehends the practice of every the case the pecuniary consideration of the
virtue which reason prescribes, or society editor would be very ready to prove fatal
should expect. Our duty to our maker, to to my production, for truly our numerous
each other and to ourselves, are fully an impostors in medicine are famous for their
swered, if we give them what we owe them. typographical patronage.
The intelligent and reflecting part of the
The respect which was paid to justice in
former times is fully evinced in the follow world have long viewed the intrigue and
sordid tricks of empirics as detestable and
ing anecdote.
From ower to ower we go, collecting sweets.
hault was the only one that suspected it, as

he was the only one that could see through
his covering, and had long set him down as
a hypocritical wretch; though he did not for
a moment suppose his father acquainted with
the guilt of his confessor; and though he was
lost in wonder at the continued melancholy
of Ferresburgh, he resolved not to notice
further mystc ries which he could not fathom,
and in consequence the monk was under less
embarrassment in his presence.
iVe shall notice other characters as .the
chain of our narrative calls for their intro
duction, and as the sun is now declining in
the west, we will seek to refresh our mind
him in the empire, prone to indulge criminal

desire, but otherwise a good prince. The
young prince had fallen in love with the
imagination, but how much more beyond
Dodd.
Mahomet, the second of that name, em
peror of the Turks, had a son called Mus

tapha, whom he had designed to succeed
wife of Achmet Barsa, a Woman who was
pernicious ;
indeed these want but the
slightest examination of their pretensions to

science to involve them in the most con
temptible ignorance and disgrace. How then,
it will be asked, are they tolerated? By the
credulous or ignorant; the often innocent and

unsuspecting sons of poverty. These are
exceedingly beautiful. He had long endea they who incapable of examining their merits,
voured to prevail with her by all sorts of al are the supporters and unhappy dupes of
lurements, but these failing of success, he their barefaced crontery. Could these illi
was determined to seize on her by surprise. terate sufferers but arraign their impostors
Having obtained a knowledge of the time before the bar of criticism and the investi
for the renewal of the task, in the arms of when the women went to bathe, (as the gation of truth, very soon would they sink
sleep, and leave the cottage and the castle Turks do) he soon followed her, with a few into neglect and merited insignificance. But,
unfortunately, no such termination of em
of his rctinue; and, in despite of all resist
to enjoy the like repose.
piricism
can be expected to ensue; for the
ance,
gained
his
brutal
purpose.
She
told
(To be continued.)
subduction
of this evil, then, we cannot look
her
husband,
who
told
the
emperor
and
_-.v._
to this class of society who become the de
desired
justice.
The
emperor,
vexed
at
the
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outrage, sent for his son, examined him luded subjects of quackery, but to the adop
0N GENIUS.
touching the fact, and, he having confessed tion of judicious and energetic laws. Let it
in the eccentric ights of genius how it, dismissed him with threats. Three days not be said, this would be anti-republican, by
often are we carried almost beyond our own after, when parental love to his son and doing violence to the liberty and indepen
deuce our fellow citizens. N0; the attacks of
3: m:
an enemy upon the lives of our fellow sub readily adduced to the infamy of individuals
jects, incapable of self protection, demand and the disgrace of civilized life. Suffice it
the notice of judicial authority, whetherthe to say that this busy crowd of empirics,
enemy assume the form of a highwayman with their perpetual advertisements of pre'
tended nostrums, have proved so notorious
with his pistol, or a quack with his bolus.
It is not the wish of the writer of these and manifestly injurious, that the govern
remarks to exaggerate the enormities of ments of a number of our sister states
empiricism; but the unceasing impudence of have long since taken cognizance of the evil
quacks, the increase of their nostrums and and exercised their authorities in its sup
patent medicines, are evils which have an pression; and to the legislative interference
extensive effect on the community; hence alone can we look for the wished for oblivion
it becomes the duty of every one who wishes of these enemies to science and the public
well to society, to oppose these enemies to welfare. Like public highwaymeu they plun
science and the lives of our citizens, with der the pqckets ofour citizens,atthe expense
of life and happiness; and that this individual
every barrier at command.
v
The science of medicine is not only abused state should longer tolerate the injuries ac
and debased by the intrigues and sordid cruing to the public from this source of ef
ricks of empirics, but thousands of the in frontery and outrage upon humanity is un
nocent and credulous are serious sufferers reasonable, unpardonable, and I had almost
by placing condence in their unparalleled said intolerable. From the enlightened repre
lies and absurdities, contained in every days sentatives of Pennsylvania then, we seriously
advertisements; we nd them extolling every anticipate an exemption from these foes of
article of their manufacturing as a never virtue, morality and happiness.
failing remedy for every form which disease
CENSOR.
"9
can assume. Thus do the vulgar, and the in
dolent hypochondriacs, superstitiously fear To the Editor of the Repertory,
Sir,
ful of diseases which they do not labor under,
From a general examination of the Re
become the ready prey of every crafty em
piric. Now, can it be possible these boasted pertory, it appears to me that your primary
nostrums are applicable (as their proprietors object is usefulness; and it is equally a cre
declare) to every form of disease; regardless dit to yourself and your patrons, that such is
of age, temperament, constitution and cli the tendency of your paper. Honorable is it
mate? Such barefaced absurdity and falsehood to that society, where a liberal encourage
cannot claim a thought, without our feeling ment is given to a miscellany whose pages,
unpleasantly exasperated at such dishonest unblotted by profanity, unsullied by indeli
vagrants of society, who should dare thus to cacy, unstained by party virulence, and in
impose upon the ignorant and unsuspecting accessible to illnatured invective and per
sonal abuse, convey only salutary truths and
patient.
It is a very erroneous, though a very instructive amusement; may such be the
common observation, that these preparations tenor of your career, and I think you can
"if they do no good will do no harm; noth not fail of enjoying ultimately an honorable
ing can be more fallacious and preposterous success.
tlnn such conclusion as this. The fact is,
these empiric potions are frequently com

posed of the most active ingredients, and
there is every reason to suppose as fre
quently conquer the patient as the disease:
and this is not all, as the invalid whilst triing
with inert or improper medicines, may be
deprived of the advantages of professional
skill until disease shall make such inroads
upon vitality that no human e'orts however
potent can rescue him from the grave; thus
do many families and the nation suffer from
the loss of industrious citizens.
That these and a multitude of other evils
m: consequent upon the tolerance of quack
ly, there is the amplest testimony, too
strongly to conrm. \Vere it not too tedious
or it might appear personal, instances of the
most alarming and arrant quackery having

occurred in this city and state, could be
Among the variety of useful communi

cations, I have looked in vain for some
essays or remarks on a subject which, to
me, appears to be well worthy the attentive
85
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4_.
and the nature of the undertaking will be

speak for me the candor and indulgence of
the benevolent reader. Under two general
heads or divisions, may be classed all I mean
to say; rst, the present state of church
music in this city, and, secondly, the means

by which it may be made better; interspers
tng such collateral remarks as may inciden
tally arise.
SACRED HARMONY.
The wonderful power of music in general,

is felt and acknowledged by every body; but
sacred music, when performed with appro
priate life and expression, whether in public
life, in private society, or in individual ex
ercisc, is productive of elevated feelings,
and a sublime and devotional spirit, scarcely
less than divine. The end of church music
(says T. Collyer) is to relieve the weariness
of a long attention; to make the mind more
cheerful and composed; and to endear the
ofces of religion. It should, therefore, imi
tate the perfume of the Jewish tabernacle,
and have as little of the composition of com

mon use as possible. There must be no
voluntary maggots, no military tattoos, no
light and galliardizing notes; nothing that can
make the fancy triing, or raise an impro
per thought: this would be to profane the
service, and bring the playhouse into the
church. Religious harmony must be moving,
but noble withal; grave, solemn, and sera
pltic; t for a martyr to play, and an angel to

hear. It should be contrived so as to warm
the best blood within us, and take hold of
the nest part of the affections; to transport

us with the beauty of holiness; to raise us
above the satisfactions of life, and make us
ambitious of the glories of heaven."

How far these remarks are true, and in
what degree they are applicable to the church

music of Philadelphia, 1 submit to the serious
reflection of every one who attends our
worshipping assemblies.
PHILO MADAN.
consideration of your correspondents; and
had it been taken up by an abler hand, I had
not entered upon it; I mean music. My in

tention is to offer a series of essays on this
subject, as leisure may a'ord me opportu
nity; and my object is to excite in my fellow
citizens such an attention to vocal music in
particular as shall load to an improvement in
the divine art of practical psalmody, both at
church and at home. My numerous avoca
tions will deprive me of sufcient time for
pursuing a methodical arrangement; but, as
the subject is generally interesting, it is not
improbable that my deciencies may be
supplied by the voluntary aid of some friendly
amateur; at all events, I trust, my motive
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Those who cannot write, and those who can,
All rhyme and scrawl and scribble to a man.
Mr. Editor,
The great quantity of poetry, or rather

g-ingling [II'081', which has gained insertion
in the Repertory since its establishment, has
excited not a little curiosity and surprise.
Such numbers, and such great assiduity in
your correspondents in replenishing this de

partment of the paper, would seem to prove
a very prevailing itch for tuning our lan
guge; though not so certainly a talent for
poetical composition. It would be a curious
subject of inquiry to learn from what source
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- PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY.
m
This opposition to the petty poets of the

Repertory, I had like to have forgot to 0b
of most of the essays under consideration, serve, is by no means that of a solitary in-v
we cannot suppose their authors had any de dividual; many of your readers have expres
sign to please or instruct their readers, how sed their disapprobation of the promotion of
ever much they might have pleased them these illegitimate sons of Apollo to the co
lumns of your paper, so frequently containing
selves in the construction.
Poetical expression, says Dr. Johnson, other company of distinguished worth and re
includes'sound as well as meaning? Now spectability; the latter, it is true, lose nothing
it is true that these ephemeral and triing by a comparison with the former; but that
productions have sound, but it is equally cer such plebeian comrades should be thus in
tain they are very destitute of meaning. They truded upon them is certainly a detraction
convey no information and afford very little from their honor and must eventually induce
N.
pleasure or amusement to the reader. No them to retire.
thing is expressed either new or interesting,
a..
nor can we nd a line which merits reec
For the Repertory.
tion. In short these are poets with whom
On myntors appearing in the Reliertory.
neither youth nor ignorance can ever be
soxnrn.
pleased.
this apparent solicitude in so many to a/zliear

jzoets originates. To judge from the sterility
I fear the charge of petulance or malig

nity for such raillery; but really such essays
are imposing and irksome. I know they must
have gained admittance in your paper, be
cause of your laudable wish to encourage
They neer with the bloom of her cheek can compare,
Nor equal the lustre that brightens her eye.

Within these sweet bowers where innocence dwells,
\Vith her whose kind heart palpitated for me,

How calm could I steer down life's current of swells,
And moor my frail bark in deaths tranquillized

sea."
ORL AN DO.,
For the Repertory.

On reading Harveys ieditations.
Sweet soothing writer! who with matchless skill
And reasons force, canst bend all stubborn will!
Who rmly rearst truth's bulwark in each page,

To stop the torrent of a vicious age!
In vain remorse the atheist would control,
Soft murm'ring, soothing as the song of love,
Concludes all happiness comprised in sense;

Others, to heavenly bliss pay no regard,
Salutes another sweet, poetic day.

Oft have we heard him, when erewhile be sung,
merit which you suppOsed them intrinsically

Borne on the trembling pinions of the gale.
to possess. But however gratifying such in
Ah! never cease the magic of thy strain,
dulgence may be to your writers, it cannot
That melody which never discord knows;
be equally so to your readers; particularly The fair shall bless their own dear bard again,
when inserted to the exclusion of your in
And weave of praise the cbaplet for thy brows.
teresting remarks upon correspondents, Thus welcome we Amyntors well known song;
and your reception of a multiplicity of com 0! may he evry touching note prolong.
LORENZO.
munications.
I would by no means he understood to in
__._
clude in this general censure, all the poetical
For the Repertory.
productions which have appeared in the Re
T0 DELLA LIRA.
pertory. Some of these writers have given
Say, hapless hard, of melancholys strain,
us pretty samples of harmonious numbers,
Why will you ier shed the sorrowing tear!
now and then exhibiting the warmth, the fan \Vhy do you always murmur and complain,
Though fortunes frowns to you have been severe?
poetic genius. But its rhymes, for the most

Mistaken bard! why not address thy lay
part, have been triing ditties of unseemly
To Where sweet consolation waits for those,
jargon, undeserving of criticism, and only Whom stern aictions, crowding in lifes day,
meriting ridicule and contempt. This manner
Awake to sorrows, miseries and woes!
of writing I am well aware is unphilosophi Mayhap you feel the joy of grief divine,
cal and unpleasant; but as such puny scrib
Which sensibility alone does know;
blers neither benet themselves nor their But greater bliss than that will eer be thine,
readers, they are certainly more deserving
If to Omnipotence thy sonnets ow.
of raillery than reason. I wish it Were possi

ble to convince these they never can acquire
celebrity or fame for studying or writing that
for which it is evident to capacities as weak
Unfold thy feelings to the God of Peace,

Then, Della Lira, all thy woes will cease.
Too good to take for virtue a reward:

Thy pen, inspired by Heaven, each scheme confutes,
And makes those men who labor'd to be bruter.
ALONZO.
.
For the Repertory.

MYSELF, ADDRl-ZSSED TO MISS SL.
What though the brazen trump of fame

Should neer resound my humble fame
Through distant ages yet to come,
Nor oer my dust the labrer toil
To raise the monumental pile
Oer my last dark but peaceful home.

Nor while I slumber with the dead,
No travller who my grave shall tread

Shall say, how greatly once in life
I strode amidst the deathful strife
And hurld destruction round;
Or seated in the chair of state

I rose in powr sublimely great,
In wisdom's lore profound.
Yet if in the domestic bound
The memory of my name be found
United to a friendly sigh
And an unbidden tear,
It is enoughcontent I'll die,
Nor dark oblivion fear.

Remember, then, from thee I claim
This tribute to my humble name,
S.
For thou hast promised it, and pledged

Thy word; thy honesty s engaged.
Then grant the boon I claim of thee,
For the Repertory.
Remember, ah, remember me.

Perhaps, of man the common fate
STANZAS IMITATED FROM MOORE.
Us soon, too soon, may separate,
as their own, they can have no talents; and
run mad indeed.
are fair,
They cannot the face of the maiden outvie;
Whilst artful sophisiry has Iulld his soul;
And raptrous listend to his tender tale;
his risibles excited, I asked why he smiled?

How ridiculous, said he, this is prose
H But, oh!" I exclaimd, " though these owrets
The airy libertine, at truths expense,
His soft notes, markd, the warbling tribe among,
let them also remember Addison has said,

politics and poetry are the study of all fools
of eminence."
A very intelligent gentleman of profes
sional character, was just now engaged in
the perusal of your last number; observing
And the groves with the choristers' matins were

cheerd.
Hark! from the breezy precincts of the grove,

One \varbler rises oer the genral lay;
the juvenile correspondent, rather than any
cy, and sometimes the impressive energy of
The bee on the breast of the red rose reposed,
And leave of me no form behind,
I knew by the owrets so tastefully spread

oer the lawn, that the home of some beauty was
nigh;
By the jasmine entwined round the cottagers shed,

Twasithe home of content, undisturbd with a
sigh.
It was morn, and the owrets their fragrance dis

closed;
The lily, fair emblem of virtue appeared;
No image living in thy mind,

Save that, straind mem'ry still may trace
Upon her motley page,
If care should not the lines etface

In one extensive blot,
In more advanced age,
Amidst the cares that time may bring,
While on he ies with rapid wing,
Whatever be thy lot.
?
Amidst the joys that round thee ow
And bid thee smile secure at woe,

And fear no future change,
Poor Emma! she was sorrows child,

Yet in her tears she hoped, and smiled,
Thought on the blessings of the coming day.
In youthful bloom when all is bright,

Shall settle on thy silver brow,
Through valleys deep, oer mountains high,

She kept her lonely way;
But oft in sad despair did sigh,
0ft wildly pray'd of heavn to die,
In trembling age when shadowy night

And bid thee no more pleasure know,
From prospects of approaching joy
_ Nor saw the wand'ring monk, who thus did say:
In life's remaining range;

But turn to memrys page thine eye,
Behold the idiot, see the blind, the lame!

i Aged and young, of every kind and name;
See poverty impressd on every face!
There learn the frailty of the human race.
But, let us go where sickness ne'er departs,

\Vhere sadness dwells and sorrow fills their hearts;
See some expiring, some in deaths embrace!
Here learn the frailty of the human race.
What do I hear? whence comes that dismal sound!

" Bless thee, my daughter! what has made
Thy tender feet pass here?"
And view thy youthful days,
"lwas from the tenements below the ground;

In those sad mansions horror ever reigns,
The maiden startled, thus she said,

Vhen pleasure came on every breeze,
1
" Ah! tell me, is my Edwin dead?
t \Vhy on my hand dost drop this burning tear?"
And sung of rapture, bliss and ease,
In corresponding lays.
\Vhen Hope, her hand aloft in air,
Daughter, no tear is on thy hand,

But what tbine eye hath shed;
But why didst leave thy native land,
A nd why dost thou of me demand,
A recluse friar, if Edwin be not dead?"
The zephyrs sporting in her golden hair,

Lightsomely steppd the ground,
Pointed to some pleasing scene,
(Conceald the clouds that hung between,
Or rolld their awful storms around)

Smiling with seductive grace,
Not a cloud upon her face,
O! l have left my native home,

To seek him far away,
And o'er these dreary wastes I'll roam,

Till back to me my love shall come,
Or on his breast 1 bid adieu, the day."
Enchanted, charmd thee at her will,

And bade thee follow, follow still,
(And seize th illusive prize

That glittring met thine eyes,)
Daughter, thine Edwin have I seen,
And much he wishd to hear,
Eager as the trembling rill

Rushes down the furrowd hill,
So long, so wistful view'd,
If I at Emmas cot had been,

Vliich gayly stands on Ashley green,
And if! knew the gentle maiden there."
So long, so ardently pursued;

Then vatiishd, as the dreams of night
Fly before the mornings light.
" Thou hast it right; 0, father! then,

\Vhere shall I Edwin nd?
I
Or I lie cold, the victim of the grave,

Living or dead, amidst the shades that rise,
Ill bless thee o'er and o'er again,

, Quick lead me to him, calm my troubled mind.
Mine too may meet thy then regretful eyes;

And as to these poor lines thine eyes are turnd,
0, east: my heart of doubt and pain,
Together onward then they went,
With swift and hurried pace;
The hard who pennd them may perhaps be mournd,
Thus to conne him to this piteous state!

But why repine! tis just and must be 50;
Here we are taught what all the world should know,'
Frail human nature tells us here our doom,
Pain from the cradle onward to the tomb.

Look all around, wliereer you cast your eye,
Behold the wretched! hear th alicted sigh!
Perchance our present state is known full well,
But what shall be, who can presume to tell.
Then learn the lesson, get instruction here,

And pay to human woes the tribute ofa tear.
M.
+
THE BIBLE.
\Vhat joy divine dost thou impart,

When with delight thy sacred page
My rst attention doth engage!
May light and power and grace be giv'n,
To show the path that leads to heav'n:
The precious promises apply,
And bring the great salvation nigh!
To where a rapid river bent
And say, if o'er my grave thou then shouldst bend,
Its winding course, and awful lent

A. C. M. I
ti Its roaring horrors to the dreary place.
For the Repertory.

EDVIN AND EMMA. A BALLAD.
Hear his dread howlings and his frightful yell'

0! sad allotment, dreadful, cruel fate,
Thou, blessed book! be near my heart,
Then should between us ocean roll his wave,
Peace to thy ashes, my departed friend.
The tenants groan beneath their weight of chains

See the poor maniac fastened in his cell!
Dark was the midnights gloomy hour,

No star its lustre shone;
The heavy dews press'd ev'ry flowr,
And from the ivy loving tow'r
Nights solemn bird sent forth her piteous moan.
A boat was quickly drawn along,

And swift the oars they ply;
The boding raven om'nous sung,
\Vhile round her waist the father ung
His armswild echo back resounds her cry.
How kind is that inviting voice,
\Vlticli bids me seek immortal joys!

Nor less the threatning would 1 prize,
\Vhich warns me where my danger lies.
Both food and medcine here I nd,
To nourish and to heal the mind;
Hence suitable supplies I gain,

In health or sickness, ease or pain.
Mine now, by heavn! he ercely said,

And said it thrice again;
Not all the wealth that misers hoard,

Such precious treasure can afford;
II Thine Edwin slumbers with the dead,
Through dreary forests, deserts wild,
Nor can the joys of sense impart
A maiden kept her way;

Poor Emma! she was sorrow's child,
ii
The chilly earth supports his head,
'i
PerdiOus wretch! now hear me, heavn!"

Th affriglited virgin cryd;
H In mercy kind this stream is giv'n,
ii
For mis'ry sharp my heart hath rivn,
Thought on the blessings of the coming day.

Edwin had taen the holy cause,
The holy cause of God;
And to maintain the Christian laws,
Have pity, saints!" She plungd into the tide!

y
I
But soon, alas! on earth laid low,
In early youth must die;
\Vhat thou commandest me to do,

\Vith vigor would my soul pursue;
And learn with equal zeal to shun
What thou forbiddest to be done.
And win his countrys sweet applause,

The way tr- distant Palestine he trod.
Such satisfaction to the heart.
i His bones lie bleaching on the desert plain.
Yet in her tears she hoped, and smiled,
And never home to Emma go,

Again a life of love to know,
Night grew more dark, the waters rose,

Dismay'd the monk did scream;
The wind yet more terric blows,
Down through the dismal gulf he goes,
A victim to the spirit of the stream! LORENZO.
Thou, blessed book! be near my heart;

And may I never with thee part:
From lieedless youth to hoary age,
Still let me love thy sacred page.
innaanetpiita,
But far away, in death must close his eye.

Full many a lingring month went by,
For the Repertory.

No Edwin did return;

" To Palestine will Emma hie,
, Lz'ms occasioned by a visit to the .Jlnzshouse
;,
of IJ/li/HdcI/I/ii'd.
Ulinltlo's romance of the Heiress of So

beislti, we have no doubt, will be very ac
Upon his cold, cold breast to die,
I! Ye sons of pleasure, splendid ease and wealth,

Or if he live, the trembling truth to learn."
Through dreary forests, deserts wild,

The maiden kept her way;
, Children of honor, sacred peace and health,

.i Enter with me yon spacious, gloomy dome,
!1 Go through its walks and visit every room;
ccptable to a large portion of our readers.

Though we cannot say we rclish all the pro
ductions that are classed under this spcci'. '
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of composition; yet, from the amiableness of will be a chance of its descending to pos the lst of March, 1809, ordered, 1. That
from the 20th of May next ensuing, vessels
y
this author, and the neatness of the style of terity.
arriving in the United States, under the
We
are
glad
to
see
the
subject
of
music
his introduction, we have reason to antici
French ag, shall be seized and conscated,
brought
up;
for
although
it
is
generally
inter
pate an agreeable repast. \Ve hope he will
together with their cargoes. 2. That from
not, like the generality of romance writers, esting, yet like many other good things, it has the same period, no merchandise, nor pro
disgrace his talents by indelicacies of in been too generally neglected: if Philo Madan duction of the soil, or manufactures of
trigue, or impassioned exclamations border shall effectually arouse the attention of our France or her colonies, can be imported into
citizens to an improvement of sacred music, the ports of the United States, from any
ing on the prophane.
foreign port whatsoever, under pain of seiz
The ballad of Edwin and Emma by Lo he will render us all an essential service.
ure, conscation and penalty of three times
Censor
on
empyricism
and
N's
strictures
renzo may be called a pretty piece; it re
the value of the goods, 3. That it shall not
on
our
poetical
dc
partment,
we
present
to
the
minds us of the legendary lore of the days
be lawful, for American vessels to proceed
that are past: what a pity it is discolored public, verbatim, as we received them, with from any port in France, her colonies or
out comment, but with this one remark, that dependencies;) decrees as follows:
by an oath!
All vessels sailing under the American
\Ve cannot hcre resist the impulse of an we are not disposed to take to ourselves any
ag, and owned in whole or part by any
praise
or
blame
intended
to
be
conveyed
by
earnest desire that our correspondents would
citizen or subject of that power, that reck
as cautiously guard against the introduction either of those writers; as editors, weve oning from the 20th of May, 1809, may
of impurities and profanities, as they would done our duty, but weve done no more.
have already entered, or that shall subse
Doctor Caustic to Dr. Fungus, and Miss quently enter the ports of France, her colo
against Grubstreet ,vulgarisms and Billings
gate indecencies. Time will convince them, Clementina Fungus to Glormon will be pre nies, or the territories occupied by the
French armies, shall be seized and sold, and
they may rely upon it, that oaths, impre sented to the public next week.
the produce of the sale shall be deposited
.
cations or indelicate expressions are by no
The new British order in council of the in the Caiese DAmortisotion. From this
means necessary to the character of the
wellbred man, the accomplished gentleman,
the erudite scholar, or the profound philo

sopher.
Ms reections on a visit to the Aims
house do honor to his pensive muse, but
much more to his benevolent heart: we can

not_but regret that an author possessing such
feelings, should ever have descended to the
description of the Sportsman.
Orlando, in his imitation of Anacreon
Moore, shows some rays of a genius that by

proper cultivation may in time vie with that
fashionably-favorite bard. With sincerity we
wish his imitations may outshine the origi
nal in brilliancy of talent, but never be tinc
tured with the licentiousness of some of its

imagery and diction.
The contrast of society with solitude, by
Thaddeus, last week, was recommended
principally by the correctness of the senti

ments and the unassuming, appropriate lan
guage in which they were expressed; how
very di'erent from those continual glitter
ings of tinsel ornament, which but too fre
quently conceal a poverty of genius and a
paucity of ideas!
Altamont, in his essay on the ma'jesty and
dignity of virtue, exhibited, last week, the
masterly strokes of an experienced hand.
The pictures given by T. D. M. of a good
conscience and drunkenness are well drawn;
2d of May l8l0, subjects to capture and

condemnation, all vessels, with their stores
provision are alone excepted such vessels as
are charged with despatchcs, or commissions

and cargoes, which shall have cleared out from the government of the United States,
from any port, so far under the control of and have no lading or merchandise on board."
--_o.-
France or her allies as that British vessels
HEALTH OFFICE,
may not freely trade thereat and which are
July 7', 1810.
employed at the whale shery, or other sh
ery of any description, and are returning, Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
or destined to return, either to the port from
whence they cleared, or to any other port

or place at which the British ag may not
freely trade.
Vessels employed in conveying sh fresh
to market, and are not provided for the
curing of sh, are excepted from this order.
A letter received at New York from
Liverpool, dated May 25, 1810, states that
we are informed that Mr. Pinkney is at
length in possession of the French decree,
by which all American property is seques
trated, as likewise the imperative order for
all citizens of the United States to quit the
French territories without delay, under pain
of imprisonment. This decree was passed as
from the 30m June to the 7th July.
Dimmer.
ad. cb.
Dimuu.
Casualties
1 0 Fever, typhus
Cholera morbus
0 9 Pleurisy
Consumptionoflungsii 0 Suicide
Convulsions
ad. cb.
1 O
1 0
1 0
3 Sudden
2 Teething
1
0 1
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12 18
Drowned
Debility
Fever
2 0
0 1
Fever, remittent
Total 30

Under
1
Between 1 and 2
4
60
70
0
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70
$0
80
90
0
1
90
100
10
20
20
30
6 Ages unknown
lished until the 8th of May. It is transmit

ted to all the northern powers for their
adoption.
Accounts received at Charleston the lst
instant states that a great battle had been
30
40
0
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40 50
3
Total 30
JOIEN ALLISON, Clerk.
fought on the connes of Portugal, between

and the French, in which the latter were com
0
2
5
10
far back as the 23rd of March, but not pub
the combined British and Portuguese army

July
2
3
4-
69
70
70
7'3
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75
74
pletely defeated with great loss. The French

5
To
73
76
5
72
78
80
had been compelled to evacuate Madrid for
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the want of provisions. A reinforcement of
9000 men had arrived at Lisbon from Eng
The price of the Pbiladelpbia Repertory is four
land. The French are still progressing in
the siege of Cadiz.
The following is a copy of a French de
cree, noticed in London papers.
The last number of the Bulletin des Lois graying.
the latter is in particularly strong coloringn

though not more so than the subject impe
riously demands.
Juventus on justice and Nosnah on genius
are well enough as far as they have gone;
but we think they have done little more
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contains an imperial decree, dated at Ram
than just touch upon their subject: we wish bouillet, the 23d of March, 1810, which,
PHILADELPHIA,
to see an essay possess matter, consistence, (taking into consideration that the govern
Printed and published by Dennis Hear",
form, animation and interest, and then there ment of the United States has by an act of
@ljifabefpiaeptrfam
VOL. I.
SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1810.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF \VIIiLIAM PENN.
(Concluded)
Thus the province of Pennsylvania, as

well as its proprietor, experienced many
inconveniences during their long separation
of fteen years; and it is somewhat singular
to remark, that, whilst they were employed
in an ineffectual struggle with the royal
governor ,md his det uty, he, whom Montes
quieu stvl~s tie X'ncricun Lvcurgus, WJS

engaged in his darling work of religious
conirnversy, and of itinerant preaching
througr. England, \Vales and Ireland.
In August, 1699, he embarked with his
family. and after a tedious passage of three

months, arrived in Pennsylvania. By reason
of this long voyage, they esc..pcd apestilen
tial distemper which, during that time, raged
in the colony.
He did not nd the people so tractable as
before. Their minds were soured by his
long absence, by the conduct of his deputies
and the royal governors; their system of.
laws was incomplete, and their title to their
lands insecure. After much time spent in

trying their tempers, and penetrating their
VICWS, he found it most advisable to listen
to their remonstrances. Five sessions of as

sembly were held during his second resi
dence with them; his expressions in his
public speeches were soothing, and he pro

mised to do every thing in his power to
render them happy. They requested of him
that in case of his future absence, he would
appoint for his deputies men of integrity

and property, who should be invested with'
full powers to giant and conrm lands, and
instructed to give true measure; and that he
would execute such an instrument as would
secure their privileges and possessions. To
these requests he seemed to consent, and
with the most attering complaisance desir
ed them to name a person for his substitute,
which they with equal politeness declined.
In May, 1700, the charter was surrender
ed by six parts in seven of the assembly,

under a solemn promise of restitution with
such alterations and amendments as should
be found necessary. \Vhen a new charter
was in debate, the representatives of the
lower counties wanted to obtain some privi
N0. 12.
leges peculiar to themselves, which the

others were not willing to allow. The mem
bers from the territory therefore refused to
join, and thus a separation was made of the
province of Pennsylvania from the three
and while he was preparing to rc-cmbark

for England, which he did immediately on
signing them. The cause of his sudden
departure was an account which he had
received, that a bill was about to be brought
lower counties.
_
into parliament, for reducing the proprie
In this new charter, the people had no tary and chartered governments to an im
voice in the election of councillors; whoever mediate dcpendance on the crown. In his
afterwards served in this capacity, were ap speech to the assembly, he intimated his
pointed by the proprietor, but they had no intention to return and settle among them
power of legislation. The executive was with his family; but this proved to be his
vested solely in him, and he had a negative last visit to America. He sailed from Phila
on all their laws. On the other hand, the as
delphia in the end of ()ctober, and arrived
sembly had the right of originating laws, in England about the middle of December,
which before had been prepared for their 1701. The bill in parliament, which had so
deliberation. The number of members was greatly alarmed him, was, by the solicitation
four from each county, and more if the gov of the friends of the colonies, postponed,
ernor and assembly should agree. They were and nally lost. In about two months, king
invested with all the powers of a legislative W'illiam died, and queen Anne came to the
body, according to the rights of English throne, whiclrbrought Penn again into fa
subjects, and the practice of other American vor at court, and in the name of the so
colonies. The privileges before granted were ciety of which he was at the head, presented
conrmed, and some of the most salutary to her an address of congratulation.
laws were included in the body
the char
He then resumed his favorite employment
tcr; all of whi were declared irrevocable, of writing, preaching, and visiting the socie
except b co ent of 6-7th of the assembly ties of Friends in England, till the year
witlitshig ,_ ve or; buf the CREE respecting 1707, when he found himself involved in a
liberty-o dnsciencemas declared absolutely suit at law with the executors of a person
irrevoca'b {TA Mionalhrticle was added, who had formerly been his steward. The
that if in 1 so years, the repr sentativcs of cause was attended with such circumstances,
the proiim? and tegi-itoripsdionld not join
that, though many thought him ill used, the
in legislation, ea'ch caunty of the province

might hoqje eight persons, and the city of
Philad ph a two, to represent them-in one
assembly, and each bounty of the territory
the same numbe'r t
stitute another as
sembly. On the 28th ofctpber 1701, this
charter was accepted by the fepresentatives
of the provr cc; previous to which (viz. on
the 25th) UM ofPhlladelphia was in
court of chancery did not give him re'icf,

which obliged hitn to live within the rules
corporated by anot icr charter, and the gov
ernment of it committed to? mayor, record

er, eight aldermep, and .- ' velve common
council men. The personsiil each of these

oices were appointed by name in the char
ter, who were empowered to choose suc
cessors to themselves annually, and to add
to the number of alder-men and common
council men so many of the freemen as thej
whole court should think proper.
j
These two charters were the last public
acts
in Pennsylvania.
of Mr. Penns
They
personal
were done
administration
in haste,
of the Fleet Prison for about a year, till the

matter was accommodated. After this, he.
made another circuitous journey among his

friends, and in the year 1710 took a hand
some seat at Rushcombe in Buckingham
shire, where he resided during the remain
dcr of his life.

.
His inrmities and misfortunes increased
with his age, and unttcd him for the ex
ercise of his beloved work. In 1711, he dic
tated a preface to the journal of his old

friend John Banks, which WuS his last print
ed work. The next year, he was seized with
a paralytic disorder, which impaired his
memory. For three succeeding years he
continued in a state of great debility, but at
tended the meeting of Friends at Reading,

as long as he was able to ride in his chariot,
and sometimes spake short and weighty
sentences, being incapable of pronouncing
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a long discourse. Approaching, by gradual

decay, to the close of life, he died on the
30th of July, 1718, in the seventy fourth year
of his age, and was buried in his family
their illustrious sovereign, the peasants de

termined to celebrate the welcome anniver
sary by one of their rustic fetes.
Preparations were made accordingly, in
tomb, at Jordans, in Buckinghamshire.
which Braubenski, his wife and lovely daugh
Notwithstanding hislarge paternal inheri

tance, and the great opportunities which he
enjoyed of accumulating property by his
connexion with America, his latter days
were passed in a state far from aluent. His
fortune was reduced by his charity to his
ter with cheerfulness and alacrity assisted,

and ere the sun lengthend their shadows
oer the level ground the plain was lledwith
lads and lasses and the sport commenced.
The beauty of Roselle never appeared in
greater brilliance than on this occasion,
though she was arrayed in the simple style
brethren, by the impositions which he suf

fered from ill disposed persons, and by re
peated misfortunes. He was continually sub
ject to the importunity of his creditors, and
obliged to mortgage his estate. He was on

the point of surrendering his province to the
crown, for a valuable consideration, to extri
cate himself from debt. The instrument was

preparing for his signiture, but his death,
which happened rather unexpectedly, pre
vented the execution of it; and thus his pro
vince in America descended to his posterity,
who held it till the revolution.
At the time his affairs were in a deranged
state the sight of his creditors was particu
larly wounding to his feelings. A pleasant
anecdote is recorded on an occasion of this
nature. He had contrived an aperture, at
his house in Norfolk street, by which he
could see without being seen. A creditor,
having sent in his name, waited along time
for admission. \Vill not thy master see me?
said he, at last, to the servant. Friend, re
plied the servant, he has seen thee, but
does not much like thee.

As a writer, William Penn evinced great
good sense, except where it was obscured
by mysticism, or the peculiarities of his re
ligious creed: as a mild and benecent man,
of the purest virtue, integrity and conscience,
he would have been an ornament to any re
ligious society, as certainly be is to the re
spectable and amiable society of Friends: as
a legislator, he is an honor to the country
that produced him, as well as to the state
that bears his name; and his memory will be
dear, as long as the rights of conscience, dif
fusive benevolence and inexible justice are
estimable.
d..-.
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A ROMANCE.
CHAPTER I.
(Continued)
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the world oerwhclm them to mens eyes.

Sbal'spcare.
7e left the inhabitants of the castle and

cottage retiring to rest; and as the sun the
ensuing morning rose upon the birth day of
of a country lass; with a wreath of straw
Be calm, my dear Braubenski, said the
affectionate Malda; perhaps she is safe;

perhaps fatigued"
N01 cried the peasant; she is lost, and
I am undone forever! I neglected to guard

her; I have betrayed a trust reposed in me
by the wonderful designs of Omnipotence,
and every thing for which I wished to live
has now forever own!"
Perhaps, said his wife, while a tear
stood trembling in her eye, perhaps fa

tigued she has proceeded to the cottage.
It may be so, indeed," answered Brati
fancifully interwoven with her elegant ring benski, his visage brightening with hope.
lets, while her long hair played in wild gam- g
Malda cast her eyes toward the water,
bols on the ruleing breeze and added grace Good powers! she exclaimed, and fell
to the fascinating symmetry of her form. All senseless on the shore.
other lasses were forgotten by the peasants
By this time the peasants, who had been
in the contemplation of this brilliant of su searching for Roselle, arrived after their
perior lustre. This produced not envy in the fruitless attempt; and while the women at
artless maids of the village; for they eyed tended to the recovery of Malda, the rest,
her with equal admiration, and acknowledg with Braubenski, turned their eye toward
ed the superiority of her charms. Every the river, and too soon discovered the cause
swain would have touched in delight her of her sudden exclamation; for near the
snowy hand, but none presumed to ask it; shore they beheld a scarf that Roselle had
yet she, with a condescension peculiar to worn that day, and the identical straw wreath
her amiable disposition, gave it to each in oating on the surface of the water.
turn to lead her down the dance, while every
Every one expressed their grief on this
one seemed to tread upon air that danced discovery, and Braubenski was almost mad
with her.
with agony, as he doubted not but that his
At length, quite fatigued, she sat down, daughter was drowned, particularly as the
and while the rest were busily engaged in bank, on which she was known often to re
their sports, she left the crowd unobserved, pose, was broken down, and its grassy clods
and sought a cool retired seat beneath the were seen scattered at the rivers edge.
leafy honors of a spreading am, that grew
The affected father bewailed afresh his
incumbent over the stream, about half a mile loss, while the recovering mother uncloscd
from the scene of mirth. Here she listened her eyes but to renew her tears.
with delight to the hou'se murmur of the
Let us hasten to the castle and procure
stream, softened by the mellow chorus of the apparatus for searching the river, cried
the feathered tenants of the wdgd. ,
young Leopold, a peasant, one of the most
Meanwhile the sports continued till the ardent lovers of Roselle. This expression
moon arose falcated in the silvered east, and aroused Braubenski.
the bright gems of heaven began their
Stay, Leopold, he cried, whither
stellar reign. Each then prepared to conduct would you go?
his partner to the ni'ghy home, and proceed
To our good lord, said the peasant,
there himself; whaymust have been the feel
and
ings of the whole, but particularly Brauben
Good!" interrupted Braubenski.
ski and his wife, when Roselle was no where
Braubenslti!" whispered Maltla signi
to be found. Every oneiwas confounded in cantly.
conjectures as to the manner in which she
I had forgot, answered the father, and
could have been borne off, or could purpose continued, come, my friends, let us to our
ly have withdrawn herself from the group. homes; Heaven has deprived me of my child,
Her parents grew almost frantic. Some were and let the will of Heaven be done!
dispatched one way and some another in
All were astonished at this sudden resig
search of her, while Braubenski and Malda nation to divine power in the mind of Bran
hastened to the elm, where they knew she benski, and all with heavy hearts departed for
frequented, but, gracious heaven! Roselle their. homes.
was not there!
When the father and mother of Roselle
Braubenski now lost all hope, and gave were cheerlessly seated in their cottage,
vent to his feelings in bitter accusations of Malda demanded of Braubenski the reason
himself, in suering her for amoment from of his sudden alteration.
his protection.
It was, said he, caused by a wish to
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prevent any inspection of the person of R0

selle by Ferresburgh, and the consideration
that if by any strange interposition of Pro
vidence she should exist, it would introduce
her to too much notice at the castle; my rea

sons for not wishing her noticed there are
not unknown to you."
The good Ferresburgh, said Malda

Good! interrupted Braubenski again,
for he, and only he, suspected the count of
guilt.
Malda was silent.

The castle bell now told twelve,and still the
cottagers, resolving not to rest till they had

learned the fate of their child, listened to the
such a virtue as benevolence actuate the

minds of many. Blest, heaven born principle,
offspring of the deity! may the shadow of
thy wings extend, until the indigent and
needy of every clime shall feel thy consoling
inuence. All men must be aware of the
brevity of human life. The wealth of the
whole world would be insufficient to raise a
wall capable of keeping out the last enemy
of man. Disease starts up like the plagues
which issued from the box of Pandora, and
in deance of armed guards, forces its way
through fortresses and castle walls and xes
its residence in the hearts of tyrants. What a
death blow is this reection to the selsh mi
scr! How happily might he appropriate the
few days of his existence to the reliefand com~
patter of the rain which about eleven oclock

began to descend with tremendous fury.
They saw the lightning ash through the fort of his distressed fellow beings, and at the
openings in their cottage, and heard with same time, to the satisfaction and instruction
solemn awe the hoarse mutter of the suc of himself. For, he who dispenses liberally
ceeding thunder. Suddenly Braubenski start of his goods to the poor, is not recompensed
by the mere reection of having benetted
ed from his chair.
Perhaps, cried he, my Roselle still the sons of poverty; his conscience satises
lives, and wanders unsheltered from the him with the assurance that he has discharg
rage of this dreadful tempest! Perhaps while ed an important duty; moreover, in the exer
I linger here she may become the prey of cise of charitable acts he is instructed, for
some ferocious animal! He seized his glit he learns what nature is in reality, not as
likely to do good. The objections adduced

with respect to the difculty of performing
benevolent acts are all whimsical, and are
never heard from one who is actuated by
pure desires to alleviate the miseries of his

fellow men. If the love and esteem of others
were of any consequence, what powerful in
centives would be offered to the benevolent
man! Saluted on every side by the grateful

expressions of the poor who have shared in
his generosity, he feels at least the consola
tion, that while the man who revels in his
riches has but few friends, he can boast of
many, though indigent yet sincere. I have.

heard (says the abbe St. Pierre) manyahis
tory of persons who perished in hunting
matches and parties of pleasure, but not one
of those who were engaged in performing

acts of benccence. How many delicious
banquets of internal happiness that man
might enjoy who would expend a few hun
dred pounds annually in relieving the miser
able! W'hat pungent sorrow may be soothed
by a single word and by the feeblest marks
of benevolence! The utility of the life of a
charitable man is beyond all expression; it
is most sensibly felt when the lamp of life

is extinct and he is no more. The loss which
over his shoulders, in spite of the remon the original page. Let the learned metaphy society sustains by his death is certainly im~
strances of Nialda, issued forth in search of sician theorise and speculate and then show mense. He leaves behind him many a weep
us his system, while the benevolent man ing widow, many a hapless orphan, who are
his daughter.
UBALDO.
striving for the good of others, enters the now bereaved of a once kind benefactor. See
(To be continued.)
haunts of misery, of poverty and vice, and them surround his lifeless corpse, and view
__o._
there
beholds, not at a distance, but in the them at his grave! Thither with moumful
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very face of day, the actual appearance of hearts they have repaired to pay a feeble
BENEVOLENCE.
things. This is no fancied tale, no perversion tribute of respect to his blest remains. Once
Do unto all men as you would have of the imagination. Many there are whose happy in doing good, he was beloved and
them do unto you, is a maxim which should engagements and occupations lead them fre esteemed, and his death is lamented with
govern us in all our actions. If some are quently into the suburbs of our city. There genuine sorrow. Truly, such a loss is more
born to share the smiles of fortune, and some they have often beheld in striking colors, grevious than if the despotic emperor of
to eat the bread of industry, the necessities the truth of what has been asserted, and France had uttered his last groan.
of the latter present a wide eld in which there it is that the man of generous heart .
T. D. M.
the former may exercise pure benevolence. will always nd objects ready to accept the
We are mutually bound to assist each other smallest pittance. To enter some of their
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in times of distress, by the close and en solitary abodes,
To the Editor.
dearing ties of nature. The great family of
\Vhen hoary winter with his chilling frost
Though it be rather unseasonable I beg
Oerspreads the earth,
mankind which inhabits our globe, is com
leave to offer a few observations upon the
posed of the same original materials, for all would change the obduracy of the misers essays of S, on what he has called the
are of the same esh and the same blood. soul into pity and-compassion. Some may origin and true use of poetry. The rst num
The natural tendency of habit among men, assert, that giving alms to such people would ber will be found in the Repertory of June 2,
is to create those petty distinctions of cha often be a perfect waste and an injury to and its not being sooner noticed was in con
racter, by which some are celebrated for themselves. To this let me reply, that the sequence of my having very recently ob
wealth and others disregarded or dispised great art of doing good consists in doing it tained the paper. This much of an apology
byreason of poverty. Alas! this diverges too in a~judicious manner. There is a right and for the delay.
far from the real, unveiled condition of man
wrong road of management in all the affairs
To embrace the subject then, S. in the
kind. It is not in men that the difference of life, and if discretion and prudence be rst place very justly ccnsures the preva
consists, but in imaginary superiority and used, there will be but little difculty of lence of prejudice and the too frequentadop
mere triing contingencies. But we might getting into the right path. Besides, if we tion of the opinions of others without in
reason with all the powers of logic and fail should perceive that some make an impro vestigatin g their principles, and then to give
In our attempt to convince prejudiced, sel per use of the assistance obtained from us, an instance of a particular case (that is of
Sh creatures. In such a situation of affairs, such cases are calculated to make us more prejudice) in which many good people
it is necessary and eminently important that cautious in contributions, and of course more seem to be divided, gives the opinion i
tering sword, and throwing his fur cloak
those who learn from books, for he reads
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others repugnant to his own upon the proper

use of poetry. It has been asserted (says
he) by high authorities that this sublime art
can never be applied with propriety to di
vine subjccts. That poetrytought never to
be employed for devotional purposes, 82c.
These opinions, it is true, have been assert
ed and are still believed by persons of as

high authority and as destitute of preju
dice as Mr. 'atts or any of his commen
tators. The pious poet \Vatts, from whose
writings S makes such lengthy extracts, he
says, must captivate the attention of every
person of correct taste. Perhaps not. A po
rt who had written so much of what is term
ed devotional poetry as Dr. Watts was
deeply interested in accumulating every ar
gument in the support of its propriety; but
without attempting to investigate the merits
of so lenthy a discourse, permit me to quote
the language of Dr. Johnson in his biography
of the poet now under consideration. His
devotional poetry (says he) is like that of
others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its
topics enforces perpetual repetitions; and
the sanctity of the matter rejects the orna
ments of gurative diction. It is sufcient
for Watts to have done better than others
what no man has done well." This is the
language of a writer unequalled for his
solidity of judgment and just criticism. To
class such a character then with other high
authorities among those who breathe the
atmosphere of vulgar prejudice is as illi

beral as it is untrue.
To make poetry subservient or rather a
substitute to divine worship, is, in the opin
spirit upon the mind, the praises and as

pirations suited to its condition.
S, in the sixth number of the Repertory,
continues his selection, taking care still to
prelude it with an exposition of inveterate

prejudices, unwarrantable objections, and
though he already begins to think the
veil of prejudice is removed, yet terminates
his lengthy extract in the seventh number

with little hopes of gaining converts to the
doctrine of Watts whose prejudices are so
strong, &c. In all of which there is a great
says has endeavored to quiz her particular

friend doctor Fungus. In the name of hea
ven! endeavor to persuade her not to full her
resolution, for should it be published, fare
well all peace and quietness; locks! bolts!

and bars! will be insuicient to protect me.
Poetry will be served up for breakfast, din
ner, and supper, and even the retirement of
my bed chamber will be disturbed by her
extempore verses, or as she more poetically
terms them, the effusions of youthful
genius.
CAUSTIC.
want of argument and consistency, as well
as of that liberality of sentiment which dis

tinguishes a writer possessed of either
christian charity or general knowledge. And
let me further observe that the repeated as
persions of prejudice, ac. which S attempts
to cast upon the opponents of the doctrine
of \Vatts and himself. are so illy calculated
to effect his design, that they rather prove
their writer possessed of a large share of
that which he condemns in others.
CENSOR.
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JUVENILE PRODUCTIONS.
The youth of the present age appear to

be uncommonly stimulated by some motive
or other to assume the character of authors.
The prevalent taste manifested by some for
poetical productions, and now and then for
effusions in prose, indicates some fertility of
genius and a desire for improvement. Ju
venile exertions are certainly laudable, and

where praise is due let it not be withheld.
But when a young writer ventures to move
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beyond his proper sphere, to delineate ob
TO DOCTOR FUNGUS.
jects for which he has an inferior up tcity,
So, doctor, I perceive in spite of my re it is high time that he should be informed
peated admonitions you are still determined of his errors, and by friendly council direc
to persevere, and now actually gure away ted to a more suitable course. The tyro in
in the columns of the Repertory. Ah! composition should consider what subject is
Fungus, better had it been for thee, my friend, most proper for his investigation, before he
to have continued at thine old trade; feeling attempts to commit his ideas to paper.
the pulses of the sick, administering medi Discretion and prudence are too necessary
cal aid to their calamities, and, what would prerequisites, and unless they be attended
have been still more preferable, pocketing to, he will discover in the end, that a, good
with calm composure the fees of ofce. superstructure must necessarily have a good
The muses are, alas! but sorry pay, and the foundation. \Vhen a young writer at the
poor unfortunate devil of a votary has, for very commencement, soars aloft in the sal
the most part, only his labor for a reward.
lies of his imagination, gives a loose to the
However, as experience has shown, that rovings of fancy or plunges -into the depths
to cure an author of his itch for scribbling, is of profundity, we may restassured that rea
as diicult as to persuade a female of the son has either vacated its seat, or been in a
present day to wear suicient clothing to latent state. He who enters the list in this
protect her from the rude assaults of master manner will most assuredly meet with dis
Boreas; I will therefore not trouble you with appointments, and will thereby see the ne
any more arguments to prove you are in the cessity of guarding against rashness and
wrong, but content myself with leaving it to frivolity when he reappears on the literary
time and reection. Perhaps some day or stage. Disappointment, to a young writer,
other they may teach you the truth of the is a source of great vcxation; and we are con
old adage,
dent, that if he would but consider this fact,
ion of many, inconsistent with the duties of

a Christian and derogating much from the
dignity and sublimity of devotion. A certain
set of verses or rhymes personate the ex
periences and conditions of their writers,
but methinks they must illy suit the great
diversity of minds present in an assembly,
convened for the purpose of performing
acceptable worship. Indeed, much might be
said of the impropriety of such ceremonious
introductions in the exercise of devotion,
but this would lead to theological discussion
and unpleasant controversy. No friend to
piety will censure Dr. \Vatts, S, or any
" Let the cobler stick to his last."
other individual who can make poetical com
position serve the purposes of devotion,
Upon my word I am inclined to think
but at the same time it is very unchristian some mad must has bit half the town, even
and very unphilosophical to charge those who my own family have not escaped the infec
cannot do so, with prejudice and want tion. My daughter, Clementina, now scribbles
of reection. Devotion is a serious thing; nonsense from morning to night, which she,
and they who wish to indulge themselves in tbrsooth,dignies with the title of poetry. A
such rational pleasure do not want a pre few days since she made a wonderful discove
scribed harmony of words or the melodious ry that her forte lies in satire, and intends to
effusions of poets. It must arise (when ac come out" very soon with a terrible denuncia
whenever he takes up his pen for the pur

pose of coming before the public, his suc
cess would be more frequent and his essays
more productive of satisfaction. Let it not
be imagined that the writer of these remarks

is actuated by any illiberal motives; so far
from this being the case, it is his orly aim
to promote the good of others, and his de
sire is to give a gentle admonition to such

as seem disposed to accept it. However, it
ceptable) from the divine inuence of the tion against a certain Mr. Glormon, who she is readily granted, that the cause of these
!
observations is no other than the appearance
of certain essays in the last number of the
Repertory. I have no wish to enter minutely
into the merits of these publications; they
must have received the approbation of the
editors only on the ground of being the pro
ductions of mere novices in composition; for
as to merit, they are utterly undeserving oi
such a character. I hope it will not be taken
altogether amiss if I should say that one of
them savors somewhat of plagiarism; but
as it might be a source of unpleasant scn
sation to its author, I shall forbear saying
any thing further on the subject. I sincerely
hope that such as may feel themselves ag
grieved by what has been said, will take the
trouble of considering the subject; of re
ecting on its importance; and this being
done, I beseech them to make the appropri
ate conclusion of applying it to themselves.
The careful and experienced writer will
perceive the good tendency of these remarks;
if they only receive the attention of those to
whom they are directed, there is little doubt
of the happy result which must necessarily
follow.
D.
6*
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life, in which you cannot appear with the

same distinction, or entertain your friends
with the same liberality as formerly, will he
think himself happy in your society, and,
instead of gradually withdrawing himself
from an unprotable connexion, take plea
sure in professing himself your friend, and

cheerfully assist you to support the burden
of your alictions? \Vhen sickness shall call
you to retire from the gay and busy scenes
of the world, will he followryou into your
gloomy retreat, listen with attention to your
tale of symptoms, and minister the balm
of consolation to your fainting spirit? and
lastly, when death shall burst assundcr every
tie, will he shed a tear upon your grave, and
lodge the dear remembrance of your mu
tual friendship in his heart, as a treasure
never to be resigned? The man who will not
do all this, may be your companion, your
atterer, but believe me he is not your friend,
he does not feel a pure disinterested friend

ship for you.
It is friendship that binds a man to his
native soil, that inuences him to take up
arms in defence of his countrys rights. In

stances have often occured where friendship
for a person, has kept back the hand of re
COLLECTOR. No. II.
venge from rising against a parent or bro
FRIENDSHIP
ther of a friend; indeed, friendship is the
Of all the blessings that to us are given,
Friendship 's the greatest gift received from heavn.
A principal fruit of friendship (says lord

Bacon) is the ease and discharge of the ful
ness of the heart, which passions of all kinds
do cause and induce. is know diseases of
stoppings and suocations are the most dan
gerous to the body; you may take sarza to
best and greatest gift of heaven.

Monsieur Ledaine informs us, thata cer
tain gentleman of rank lost a friend, who at

his death left debts unpaid, and two children
very young. The surviving friend was im
mediately observed to retrench his house
hold, his equipagc, and take lodgings in a
9. 5.
rected? what information have you given

to your readers? can any of our young poets,
who have made their appearance in the Re
pertory, see the fault in a single line, or the
abuse of a gure, by what you have written?
Answer for yourself; you have literally done
nothing for the benet of readers or corres
pondents; but for yourself you have proven
that you possess a petulancy of temper
which ought to be timely corrected; other~
wise if you be a young man, and was I a lady,
I would not be your wife for a. world. Per
haps example may have a more powerful
tendency to correct, the faults of N than
close reasoning. Take the following: Betty,
says the high bred mistress, how comes it to
pass that you are always doing wrong? dont
I always tell you to do right, and are you
not constantly plaguing me with your faults?
Dear mistress, what have I done wrong now?
Done wrong now! is there a moment passes
in which you do not do something not right?
I cannot make you better. Dear madam, be
so good as to tell me what I have done
wrong, and Ill strive to amend? Every thing,
girl, every thing. Indeed I am sorry that I
have done something of which I am ignorant
that has o'ended you. Impertincnce! so you
pretend ignorance? that is another fault; and
as to offending me, no, no, child, you' are not
of so much consequence, I assure you; go,
go, I must nd some person who can better
wait upon me, and without pleading igno
rance. Permit me, Mr. Editor, once more to
change my style and examine Ns prose. The

second sentence ofour friend is, in my opinion
as incorrect as any written by these gingling
poets to whom he has reference Such
utimbers and such great assiduity in your
correspondents. If N, for I will not call him
small houso; from whence he walked every

open the liver, steel to' open the spleen, day to the palace, followed by one footman,
ower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum and performed the duties of his post. He
for the brain; but no receipt openeth the was instantly suspected of avarice and bad a critic, had understood our language well,
he would have said such numbers of cor
heart but a true friend, to whom you may conduct, and underwent a variety of calami
impart your secrets and whatsoever lieth ties. At the end of two years, he reappeared respondents aud such great assiduity. But as
in the world, having accumulated the sum I wish to put N, the next time he writes,
upon the heart to oppress it.
The following character of a true friend of 20,000 livers, which he applied to the upon his guard, this member of his sentence
by Eneld is the best in my opinion that l service of his deceased friends children; and would, when analized, stand thus: Such
have seen: I therefore offer it to my readers. thus rescued a worthy memory from shame, numbers in your correspondents, and such
Concerning the man you call your friend, and a helpless offspring from misery and assiduity in your correspondents. I pray
you let this be avoided.
tell me, will he weep with you in the hour disgrace. It is a pity the author has not in
of your distress? Will he faithfully reprovc formed us of the name of a man who showed
Third sentence. It would be a curious
to your face, actions for which others are such a proof of disinterested friendship.
subject of inquiry to learn from what source
JUVENTUS.
this a/mrem solicitude to appear poets origi
ridiculing or censuring you behind your
l
a..
back? Will he dare to stand forth in your
nates." Query, of what use is the word appa
For the Repertory.
rent? draw your pen ever it, and the sentence
defence, when detraction is secretly aiming
And let them retire, said I, when I read will be improved; useless words are like base
its deadly Weapons at your reputation? Will
he acknowledge you with the same cordiality the last sentence of Ns angry production, coin, they should never pass current.
Man, says the v\orrcct Dr. Blair, is
and behave to you with the same friendly in the last number of the Repertory, let them
attention, in the company of your superiors retire, the Repertory will do well enough both a poet and musician by nature; if this
in rank and fortune, as when the claims of without such unprotable essays as Ns. But be true that we Li's : aturally inclined to
pride and vanity do not interfere with those laying aside this style let me ask this very write and speak po-tically, surely it ceases '
of friendship? If nlistortunc and losses should liberal N, what possible good can result to be a curious subject ofinquiry, why there
oblige you to retire into the private walks of from your essays? what error have you cor is a desire in young persons to appear po~
\
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ets. Horace says, naturam expellas furca

tamen usque recurretf" and for my own
part I acknowledge the sentiment just.
Fifth sentence. Poetical expression in
cludes sound as well as meaning. Very true;
but, my dear Mr. N, why did you not give us
some of those lines of sound without mean
How unlike the candor of .dmicus is the

pompous display of owing diction, we
should feel inclined to adopt the language of spleen of N! the former plainly points to a
you blame; I have not written a single line

for the Repertory, but I disapprove highly of
general censure. I have found lines in almost
every poetic work I have read, in my opin
ion justly worthy of disapprobation, but few,
if any, without meaning. I shall dismiss N,
with one other observation: we are all ple
beians; among us, patricians are not, and, I
There is certainly little talent for discrimi

nation exemplied in Ns declamation; a
the Ubaldo of your columns, and class him

with those dabblers in criticism, who have
by the help of a lexicon stued their heads

(otherwise empty) with a jumble of mono
sylables, to dart (like an irritated porcupine

ing? Do not think I am one of those poets that his quills) their venom promiscuously at all."
trust, never will be known; nobility even in
poetry, has not yet been established, nor has

even a classical education been able to in
fuse a poetical spirit; poeta nascitur mon
t, said Horace,r and he, it will be generally
allowed, knew something of the matter. For
myself I can freely speak, I have often times
been more pleased with a verse written by
a young student which, like Horaccs Lady,
was simplex munditiis, than with the taw
dry verse of a poet laureat.
Two things are necessary to render an
action materially good, the intention and the
action. Every person who writes ought to
consider this. And if I thought that no
good might eventually result from this cs
say, I would now throw into the re. If N
possesses poetic abilities, and a critical
knowledge, let him show it and we will thank
him; let him exert himself and correct in
" Hear how learnd Greece her useful rules indites,
\Vhen to repress and when indulge our ights:

High on Parnassus top her sons she showd,
And pointed out those arduous paths they trod:
or demerits of no one piece are examined, Heldfrom azr, alQf , tb' immortal prize,
but all are alike damned by this critical Jove And urged tbe rest by equal mp: to rise.
as unworthy of public notice. Except, indeed,
SOBRIUS.
"ow
the alt/larently strained expression, now
For the Repertory.
and then exhibiting, t'Jc. which appears to
have been introduced merely as an endea
FRIENDSHIP.
vor to avoid the appellation of cynic, which,
Dwells there on earth a charm so sweet
however, we are constrained by justice to
As that which binds the human soul,
\Vhen we a. kindred spirit greet
apply to N; for we cannot perceive one ray
In condence beyond controll
of candid criticism in the publication, but
Oh,
no; its soft consoling powr
every part is stamped with the same malig
Dispels the lingering cloud of woe;
nant aspcrity.
Soothes us in many a pensive hour,
\Ve wish for our part, to see the most
And bids our happiest feelings ow.
triing shoot of genius nourished by all who
If sorrow wrings the heart with grief,
have the judgment to perceive it, as it may
Or storms of black despair arise,
thereby in time ripen into bloom; nor can
Fair Friendship ies to give relief,
A minstting angel from the skies.
we conceive any reason why a production,
If love the tender breast inspire,
that is not perfectly classical, should be ex
And hopes warm, glowing visions cease;
cluded from the columns of a paper, the
Or thou can'st not awake a re
professed end of which is the encouragement
In her who wrecks thy bosoms peace:
of literature. Let N remember that without
A kindred mind thy wounds will close,
the genial warmth of encouragement nothing
With balm the bleeding heart assuage;
will expand. Let him likewise remember
Hush its deep sighs in soft repose,
that the same Samuel Johnson who says,
And bids its passion cease to rage.
ROCKINGHAM.
poetical expression includes sound as well
-.
as meaning, has likewise said, that he that
For the Repertory.
applauds him who does not deserve praise,
is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that
T0 GLORMON.
readers; if not, they at least demanded can
dor from the critic.

When N says, he wishes it were pos
sible to convince those they can never ac
Turnd critic: next, and proved plainfoola at last quire celebrity or fame, for studying or
writing that for which it is evident to capa
Pope.
Mr. Editor,
cities as wrak as their own, they have no
I was much chagrined at perusing a talents, does he mean to impress us with a
general, and very ungenerous philippic in high idea of his own depth in literature? or
your last number over the signature of N, ought we not rather to apply the fable of the
against the poetical part of your correspon fox, who declared that the grapes were sour
dents; upon which I bcg leave to offer a few because he could not reach them?
remarks, through the same medium.
We entirely disclaim aiming at any per
\Vere we to judge of Ns abilities by his son in our strictures, for we have not the
most remote idea who N can be. \Ve should
' If you drive away nature with a fork she will
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong, for one who writes amiss.
Some have at rst for wits, then poets past,
come back again.

1' A poet is born and not made.
ter with tremendous sweep is for hurling all

into oblivion. Which approaches nearest to
Popes opinion of the necessary qualica
tions for a critic, let the reader take his
words and judge;
criticism it'cannot be called, for the merits
kindness the faults of our young poets; but

never again appear in the Repertory to blame
without a point, and like Bettys mistress,
scold, but tell not either why or wherefore. hisses in malice or in sport is an oppressor
X.
and a robber.
If the essays so severely handled by N,

were, as he supposes, really inserted in your
For the Repertory.
paper but to encourage youthful genius,
Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
they deserved lenity from all descriptions of
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But of the two, less dangrous is th offence
To tire our patience than mislead our sense.
beauty or a fault as it occurs, while the lat
certainly attribute it to Nobody, but that we
know Nobody could not write such a piece.
Prythee, Glormon, cease thy boasting,

Hymen ne'er shall scorch thy wig;
But the eye of beauty glancing

'
0ft shall quiz thee, prankish prig."
So the fox, the grapes desiring,
Strove their sweets to taste in vain;
The longing wight with frowns retreating,
Cursed the fruit he could not gain.
The fable s pat; and Dr. Fungus
Suggests to me, thy boasted friend

Pride, which oft thy valor cheering
Is calld, poor aid, when hopes do end.
For whilst thourt viewing beauty coldly,
Never glowing at her smiles,
The lovely fair neer think thy soul is
\Vorthy of subduing wiles.
And though, alas, thy " purse is empty,
Golden showers glld not thy day;
Yet of one joy fate cant deprive thee,
Thy phiz will fright the girls away.
As for the smiling black'eyed beauty,
The little H sparkler of St. Pauls,
Alas. I fear she s but a phantom,
Conjured up at fancy's call;
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l Now rush to my arms and encircle thy bride,

l
You strive to escape me in vain;
Embrace me, my bridegroom, the skeleton cried;
For well we know the swain unnoticed

Often talks of dimpliug smiles,
From the coral lips of fair ones,
\\'no know not, or his suit reviles.
0! fly, dreadful vision, appall'd I replied,

No never, she answer'd, again!
Adieu, dear " prig," too Curious Glormon,

Should Fungus meet her in his way,
To " feel her pulse there '5 no occasion,
Behold what youve made me, she mournfully said,

Vhile her frame in an instant transformd;
Her pale glaring eyes from their sockets now ed,
He fears thourt devilishly astray."
And wan grew her check as the cheek of the dead,
But. ere Ive done, let me advise thee,
Should heaven consign thee to his longing arms,
And bless him with the circle of thy charms.

Philadelphia, july 4-.
AMATOR.
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For the Repertory.

If Mr. Editor should count
This fragment worth attention,
He may insert it, and surmount
The trouble of decleusion.
CESARIO.
\Vhen no longer with lifes vigor warmd!
Sh .n the chur h, if only that
\Vith trembling hand I touch the lyre,

The esh from her bones fell around me, distressd
l strove to escape from the harms;
But a skeleton loathsome and meagre impyess'd
Thou got-st to gaze at female taces,

Yawn or whisper, sleep or chat.
CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
Although so very wtlltng;
Fearful the Muse's sacred tire

Might give me too much thrilling.
My cold sliivring form to her death geltd breast, \
And threw round me her mouldering arms!
For the Repertory.
Her breath quite infected was mingled with mine,

0! gods, how I shudderd at this!
TO S.
Indeed the "joy of grief" is mine,
A joy inejably divine;
Some wights there are who write for pence;

Alas that bards are needy!
Aim at Olympus height for sense,
But headlong fall, soon giddy.
Round my hands did her cold rotten ngers entwine,
To Osmotid's her pale shriveld lips did she join,

And imprinted there deaths bridal kiss!
A gfenter. then, there cannot be,
Here to be ever felt by me.

Bu', 0! dear bard, mistake me not,
Nor think 1 murmur at my lot;
In the sockets which of their pale eyes were bereft,
They think that genius can be made

By the mere dint of study;
And deem him of the rhyming trade

tVho wants a face that s ruddy.
Full millions of vermin appear;
Or eer complain, for well I know,

That Heaven ordains my life of woe.
And when I feel that sacred joy,
God is my silent soul's employ;
For rben t0 Heav'n I raise my soul,
And all my worldly cares control,
Praising th eternal God of Peace,
And joyous in horror they sported each cleft!

l Nor yet the impression my fancy has left,
Hence some chalk eat, and some no meat,

And some use great phlebotmy,
And some have ground their system down

To skeleton anatmy.
For still their rejoicings l hear!
l Now adders that crawl'd from her mouldering ear,
Curld playful and hiss'd in her hair!
Still, still do these cold piercing honors appear,
1 And still the re-echoing groans do I hear,

1
Of terror and pale eyed despair!
The God whose mercy neer will cease;
And then my Saviours face appears,

Dissolving all my soul in tears,
; Now blue dismal ames meet my terried glance,

|
As they burst from each wide yawning tomb;
And bands of erce spectres in wild, frantic dance,
1 Led on by black vengeance terric advance,
That o'er his feet in silence ow,
To plead for me and all my woe.

This, this, indeed, is joy divine,
And, 0. this joy has long been mine.
To pronounce my deplorable doom!
For when to grief my heart is given,

My soul, for rest, ies up to heaven.
DELLA LIRA.
L \ifelcomel thou patricide, welcome, they cry,

Beware, lost forever, beware!
For death and hells lingering torments are nigh,

And furies now wait with thy spirit to y,
To fathomless gulfs of despair!
For the Repertory.

OSMONDS DREAM.
Methooght that 1 traversed the dark, low brow'd

caves,
Of native love to learning.

May often warm, and oft'iier charm
A girl that is discerning.

But female love me does not move,
Because I never felt it;
Yet if my heart as stone were hard,
Good poetry would melt it.

Therefore as high encomtums fly,
(And dear to man is praise, O!)
Succeed may I if I but try;
For 0! twould have made laughing pleasure to weep,
Towrds your young bard then be not hard,

Although of faults there 5 plenty;
Where my ancestors relics repose;
And the wrinkles of age oer the face of youth creep,

To have gazed on the terrible sight!
Now horror and fear like the wind troubled waves,
O'IHELLO.
Oerwhelmtug my bosom, arose!
I threw a wild glare round the caves in distrust,

Expecting the dead to appear!
They trill the amrous ditty.

A cultured mind that has some kind
Horror now burst the bland pinions of sleep,

I ed from my couch in alfright;
Some moulderd uncover'd, some slept in their graves,
My eye dwelt with awe on the tombs, with disgust

On mortality's emblems that there
Unburied and terrible moulderd to dust;
Thai people thus mistake their parts,

Dear me! it is a pity;
Anxious to catch young female hearts,
For the Repertory.

TO MISS
The Repertory says so.
In ve years he a man will be,

OrI at least, one and twenty.
For the Repertory.

ORIGINAL CIIARA DES.
Hail, gentle Anna! tender, kind, and fair;

Thy lovely fnrm, thy easy graceful air,
I.
Myrrt is that which all men strive to nd,
When now a tall form with an aspect benign,
Thy taste rettd, and manners free from art,
My second gives it form, of any kind;
Giided by and bent on me a glance;

Twas Angela, maiden unmatclid and divine,
Have gaind a lasting empire oer my heart.
In both united, you may plainly view

A famed historian and a poet too.
My arms were already unclosed to entwine

Her sweet form as she bade me advance!
Oh. lovely maid! with every grace adornd,
For which the fairest of thy sex was form'd,

-
But, 0! scarce a faint cry ofjoy I expressd,

W'heu my fancied delight disappeared;
The wound that 1 gave her appeard in her breast,
In the same bloody garment her spectre was dressd,
As the dead Evelina upreard!
11
And with the most exalted virtues blest
Myrst contains the misers rusting hoards,
Of which the human heart can be pnssessd:

Sweet blushing innocence and peaceful ease
Dwell on thy looks to captivate and please;
My second half of Cupids name affords;
Whilst tht soft boson beats for others woe,
My whole united quickly will disclose

A statesman, famed for edifyiiig prose.
Thy eyes \vtth tears of tenderness oerow;
My third a Wide expanse, or open plain,

\Vhere many heroes are in bat'le slain;
S.
Thy hand and heart unite to give relief,
The same as when dying she sunk at my feet,

Her body all coverd with gore;
Chese words in a deep hollow veice my ears greet,
" Osmond, fell murderer! again shall we meet,
Before this dread night shall he oer!
To sooth aliltction and despfmding grief;
\Vlio setlulously attends, pointedly asks,

\Vith such transcendent charms youre quite rend,
And far excel the loveliest of thy kind

Since of such Worth and beauty thourt possess'd,
Thy B'"" sure must be supremely blest;
calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases
when he has no more to say, is in posses
sion of some of the best requisites of man
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good apothecary; and make only this re
\Ve
are
informed
that the sloop of war
mark on his daughter, that although she
appears rather severe upon Glormon, yet the Hornet will sail from New York between
she has given a satiric touch in the last the 25th and the last ol' this month, for 1 rance
stanza, that will not affect the nerves of and England; and that her commander Will
Glormon alone.
Othello possesses strong powers of de
scription in the terric; his Osmonds
Dream will not su'er by a comparison
with Alonzo the brave and the fair Imo
gine of Lewis, when the age and experi
ence of the two writers are taken into con
sideration.
Cesario, as a poetic tyro, claims and we
have no doubt will receive the indulgence
of the candid critic.
The small specimen Amator has given
us of a poetical talent, induces a wish that
he would employ it on a subject that is ge
nerally interesting.
We have received apiece on love, signed
Junius, which has evidently been copied,
though very incorrectly, from Akensides
song on Ai'pasia. We would charitably hope
that the communicator did it from inadver
take charge of mercantile and other letters

for Europe.
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They will teach in a manner that will lead on their
since, at a moderate rate, secured for a term
pupils in an easv and familiar way,andwxllgive
of years the valuable part of the bed, and them a thorough knowledge of the art of singing,
are now working it to great advantage. Up and of the rst principles of the an of music.
Their method has been found. by fair experiment,
wards of sixty pair of these mill stones have
to advance the pupil with double the rapidity of any
already been spoken for.
O.
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Other method. and to make him master of the art in

less 'han half the time that is required in the other
methods.
On Tuesday evening last, by the Right

Rev. Bishop White, Mr. Joseph Parham to
The price of the Pbilmlelpbin Repertory is four
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Two enterprising mill stone manufactur
A Singing School
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ing, Berks county, came to view the stone new and elegant room in (lherry street, No. 22,
in March last, and prepared and transported next door to the German church; where those who
to Reading, as many as completed two pair wish to bemme acquainted with the art of Sacred
of mill stones, which on trial surpass even Music are requested to give in their sames on Wed
their most sanguine expectation. They have nesday or Saturday evening.
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@ histamine,
VOL. I.
SATURDAY, JULY 28. 1810.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN ShHTH.
Though the early part of the life of this

extraordinary man was spent in foreign tra
vels and adventures which have no reference
to America, yet the incidents of that period
so strongly mark his character, and give such
a tincture to his subsequent actions, and are
withal so singular in themselves, that a short
_account of them must be amusing to the
reader.
He was born at W'illoughby, in Lincoln
ohire, in the year 1579. From the rst dawn
No. 13.
his queen Elizabeth, and in a t of pious

rage threw him into the sea. He swam to
set off again on his travels, in the winter of the island, and the next day was taken on
the year 1596, being then only seventeen board a ship of St. Malo, which had also put
which his father had left him, he put him
self into a better condition than before, and
years of age. His rst stage was Flanders,
in there for shelter. The master of the ship,
where meeting with a Frenchman, who pre

tended to be heir to a noble family, he, with
his three attendants, prevailed upon Smith
to go with them to France. In a dark night
they arrived at St. Valery, in Picardy, and,
by the connivance of the ship master, the
Frenchmen were carried ashore with the
trunks of our young traveller, whilst he was
left on board till the return of the boat. In
the mean time, they had conveyed the bag
of reason, he discovered a roving and roman
tic genius, and delighted in extravagant and gage out of his reach, and were not to be
daring actions among his school fellows. found. A sailor on board, who knew the vil
When about thirteen years of age, he sold lains, generously undertook to conduct him
his books and satchel, and his puerile trin to Mortainc, where they lived, and supplied
kets, to raise money, with a view to convey his wants till that arrival at the place. Here
himself privately to sea; but the death of his he found theif'it'ionds,from whom he could
father put a stop for the present to this at gain no recompense; but the report of his
tempt, and threw him into the hands of guar sufferings induced several persons of distinc
dians, who endeavored to check the ardor of tion to invite him to their houses.
his genius by conning him to a compting
Eager to pursue his travels, and not car
house. Being put apprentice to a merchant ing to receive favors which he was unable
at Lynn at the age of fteen, he at rst con to requitc, he left his new friends, and went
ceived hopes that his master would send him from port to port in search of a ship of war.
to sea in his service, but this hope failing he In one of these rambles, near Dinan, it was
quitted his master, and, with only ten shil his chance to meet one of the villains who
lings in his pocket, entered into the train had robbed him. Without speaking aWord,
of a young nobleman who was travelling to they both drew, and Smith, having wounded
who was well known to his noble friend the
France. At Orleans he was discharged from

his attendance on lord Beitie, and had mo
and disarmed his antagonist, obliged him to
earl of Ployer, entertained him kindly, and
carried him to Alexandria, in Egypt; from

thence he coasted the Levant, and on his
return had the high satisfaction of a naval
engagement with a Venetian ship, which
they took and ried of her rich cargo. Smith
was set on shore at Antibes, with a box of
1000 chequins (about 2000 dollars), by the

help of which he made the tour of Italy,
crossed the Adriatic, and travelled into Sti
ria, to the seat of Ferdinand, archduke of
Austria. Here he met with an English and

an Irish Jesuit, who introduced him to lord
Eberspaught, baron Kizel and other ofcers

of distinction; and here he found full scope
for his genius, for the emperor being then
at war with the Turks, he entered into his
army as a volunteer.
He had communicated to Eberspaught a
method of conversing at a distance, by sig
nals made with torches, which being alter
nately shown and hidden a certain number

of times, designated every letter of the al
phabet. He had soon after an opportunity of
making the experiment. Eberspaught being
besieged by the Turks in the strong town
of Olimpach, was cut off from all intelli
gence and hope of succor from his friends.
Smith proposed his method of communica
confess his guilt before a number of persons

who had assembled on the occasion. Satis
ed with his victory, he retired to the seat tion to baron Kizel, who approved it, and
of an acquaintance, the earl of Ployer, who allowed him to put it in practice. He was
had been brought up in England, and having conveyed by a guard to a hill within view of
received supplies from him, he travelled the town, and sufciently remote from the
alotig the French coast to Bayonne, and from
' The method was this: First, three torches are
thence crossed over to Marseilles, visiting shown in a line equidistant from each other. which
into Scotland, with the promise of being and observing every thing in his way which are answered by three others in the same manner.
strongly recommended to king James; but had any reference to naval or military archi Then the message being written as briey as possi
ble. and the alphabet divided into two parts, the let
being balcd in this expectation, he return tecture.
ters from A to L are signied by showing and hid
At Marseilles he embarked for Italy, in ing one light, as often as there are letters from A to
ed to his native town, and nding no compa
ny there which suited his taste, he built a company with a number of Pilgrims. The that leuer which you mean The letters frv-m M to
booth in a wood, and hetook himself to the ship was forced by a tempt-st into the har Z by tom lights in IllB same manner. The end of a
study of military history and tactics, diverting bor of 'l'oulon, and afterward was obliged by Word is signied by showing tbree lights. At every
letter. the light stands till the other party writes it
himself .-.t intervals with his horse and lance; a contrary wind to anchor under the little
and answers by his signal. which IS one light. From
in which exercise he at length found acom island of St. Mary, o' Nice in Savoy. The hence we may perceive the rst idea of what is now
panion, an Italian gentleman, who drew him bigotry of the pilgrims made them ascribe called the Telegraphe, and from which the succeed
from his sylvan retirement to Tattersal. ' their ill fortune to the presence of a heretic ing improvement was not so wonderful a discovery,
Having recovered a part of the estate on board! They devoutly cursed Smith and or invention, as has been imagined.
ney given him to return to England. With

this money he visited Paris, and proceeded
to the Low Countries, where he enlisted as
a soldier and learned the rudiments of war,
a science peculiarly agreeable to his ardent
and active genius. Meeting with a Scotch
gentleman abroad, he Was persuaded to pass
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Turkish camp. At the display of the signal horse richly furnished, a cimetar and belt
Eberspanght knew and answered it, and worth three hundred ducats, and acommis
Smith conveyed to him this intelligence, sion to be major in his regiment. The prince
Thursday night I will charge on the cast; of Transylvania, after the capture of the
conscience sometimes checked its bloody
place, made him a present of his picture
made him behold every one with an eye of
at the alarm sally thou. The answer was,

I will. Just before the attack, by Smiths
advice, at great number of false fires were
made on another quarter, which divided the
set in gold, and a pension of three hundred

ducats per annum, and moreover granted
him a coat of arms bearing three Turks
attention of the enemy, and gave advantage heads in a shield. The patent was admitted
to the assailants, who, being assisted by a and recorded in the college of heralds in
sally from the town, killed many of the. England, by sir IIenry Segar, garter king at
Turks, drove others into the river, and arms. Smith was always proud of this dis
threw succors into the place, which obliged tinguishing honor, and these arms are ac
the enemy the next day to raise the siege. cordingly blazoned in the frontispiece to
This Well conducted exploit produced to his history, with this motto, V incere eat
our young adventurer the command of a "vi-acre.
(To be continued.)
company consisting of two hundred and fty
4*.
horsemen, in the regiment of count Mel
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drick, a nobleman of Transylvania.
The regiment in which he served being
THE HEIRESS 0F SOBEISKI.
engaged in several hazardous enterprizes,
A ROMANC E.
Smith was foremost in all dangers, and dis
CIIA PTER I.
tinguished himself both by his ingenuity and
(Continued)
by his valor; and when Meldrick left the im
perial army, and passed into the service of Though all the world o'erwhelm them to men's eyes.
his native prince, Smith followed him.
Sbahpeare.
At the siege of Regal, the Ottomans de
After Braubenski had left the cottage a
rided the slowtapproaches of the Transylva few moments, he thought it best to return
nian army, and sent a challenge, purporting and procure his lantern, as the glimmer of
that the lord Turbisha, to divert the ladies, the blaze, through the almost impenetrable
would ght any single captain of the Chris darkness, might direct the wandering Rosel
tian troops.
le to safety and protection, if through the
The honor of accepting this challenge, kindness of Divine power, she was still pre
being determined by lot, fell on captain served from the horrors of the night.
Smith; who, meeting his antagonist on
Accordingly he returned and procured it,
horseback, within view of the ladies on the and after having tenderly entreated Malda
battlements, at the sound of music, began to retire to their humble bed, lie-again set
the rencounter, and in a short time killed forth in search of his daughter; in which
him, and bore away his head in triumph to search we will leave him for the present,
his general the lord Moyzes.
and enter once more the walls of the castle.
The death of the chief so irritated his
It was now morning, and though Ferres
friend Grualgo, that he sent a particular burgh was still on his couch, yet sleep had
challenge to the conqueror; who, meeting never visited his eyes. Guilt can never sleep.
him with the same ceremonies, after a short While innocence, secure of the protection of
combat, took o his head also. Smith then Heaven, shuts her calm eyelid as sleeps
dictates, was cruel, revengeful and murder
ous! The remembrance of former crimes

sat heavy on his mind, and fear of detection
suspicion, save the monk, who was now his
condent, as he had been formerly the in

strument of his pleasures, and the compan
ion of his guilt!
Ferreshurgh sat ruminating for some time:
at length he seemed wrought to a phrcnzy;
his dark eyes rolled wildly round the cham
ber, and starting from his couch he vehe
mently exclaimed,
O, that the lovely serpent was within
my power, I would completely rob her of

her sting! W'ould that the fellows had re
turned, that I might know if the basilisk
was still alive! Damnation! that after seven
teen years, she now should plague me! If
they have discovered her retreat, their pon
iards have before this pierced her he. rt, and
with her lie buried all my fearsl'O! th.-.t I
was sure of this, that my soul might take
her pleasure, and revel in the arms of iuz-tu
ry! Guilt, guilt, how canst thou appal me! I
paid a bloody price for all the horrors that
I wear; I dared to murder him whom ar
mies have beheld with terror, and now a

girl affrights me!
He was here interrupted by the entrance
of the monk, who with a scrutinizing eye
gazed on him for a few minutes to observe
what disposition he was in, then approached
him and inquired after his health.
This heart will never be at rest, good
Austin, said the count, until the daugmer
of my murdered uncle is at rest forever!

Then let your heart be at rest, for if
found she is no more, replied the cunning
friar.
If found! echoed the baron.
I speak, continued the monk, froma
certainty that if alive, Weineet and Truro
will nd her, and if foundhere the crafty
in his turn sent a message into the town, balmy comforts invite her to repose, guilt villain half drew a naked dagger from be
informing the ladies, that if they wished for starts affrighted from her opening arms,
more diversion, they should be Welcome to afraid to close his eyes lest justice catch
his head, in case their third champion could him in the silent hour!
take it. This challenge was accepted by Bo
The baron had listened in fear to the ele
namolgro, who unhorsed Smith and was near mental war that had been waged during the
gaining the victory; but remounting in a cri night; though the sky was now clear, and
tical moment, he gave the Turk a stroke the sun began to streak the orient with his
with his falchion which brought him to the dappled beams, the impression of dread had
ground, and his head was added to the num
not left his mind, for terror is the attendant
ber. For these singular exploits he was ho

nored with a military procession, consisting
of six thousand men, three led horses, and
the Turks heads on the point of three Ian
ces. W'ith this ceremony Smith was con
ducted to the pavilion of his general, who,
of crime and Ferresburgh was criminal! He

was the patriot in his countrys service, the
protector of the innocent, and the guardian
of the poor; yet he was guilty! Nay, thest
unmerited attributes made him trebly guilty
for he acquired them, merely to cloak tin
after embracing him, presented him with a real disposition of his soul, which, though
neath his gown and looked signicantly at

his lord, who replied,
It is true there is every reason to believe

that she is found. Yet, Austin,I sometimes
think I could not injure her were she in
my power! Shall I say I feel something like
remorse for what I have already been guil

ty of I
.
Ha! ha! ha! exclaimed the holy/arbor.
Dost thou laugh at me?" returned Fer
resburgl.; Ill tell thee, bloody priest, that
couldst thou once but turn thine eye within,
thou wouldst find thy soul too monstrous to

he seen! \Vhat then am I! I found thee in
nocent, my gold corrupted thee"
I pray my lord forbear, interrupted the

.r'-
...i
m
monk hastily, and for the rst time a tear

was seen to glisten in his eye.
Does the remembrance of former days
of innocence unman thee? cried his lord.
Here they were interrupted by the entrance
of Lopez the steward of the castle, with a
letter stamped with the royal signet; and
having delivered it to his master he retired.
Ferresburgh no sooner cast his eyes upon
the seal than a cold chill ran through him,

big drops of sweat began to settle on his
brow; so pale a coward is distracted guilt;
and he not being able to open it, handed the

letter to Austin, who soon smothered his
feelings, smiled in derision of his masters

fears, tore open the seal and read aloud.
Dear count, you may expect to see me

at your castle in a few days." Ferresburgh
started \Vhat can he want here? he ex
claimed.
Be calm my lord, said the monk, the
letter will doubtless inform us. He then

proceeded with the scroll which continued
thus
You will doubtless wonder what can

possibly bring me to your castle, for which
I have the strongest reasons. One is, that as
l owe my life to your son, and as he is the

only heir of Sobeiski
Ferresburgh seemed petried, and fear
fully murmured, the only heiri The monk
went on,
I have determined to unite him to my
only child and daughter and make him also
heir to the crown of P014 .
Both were astonished. That never must
be!" said the count.
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merited it, now I am amurdcrer! \Vhat po
O! that he may never return, muttered
tent stream can cleanse my soul from blood? Austin to himself.
I would give that heart to buy the precious
"- Has my poor boy been exposed all night
current?
to a pitiless storm? demanded Ferresburgh.
Forbear these dreadful thoughts, cried How comes it, old man, you did not visit
Austin.
his room last night?
It is not penitence but fear appals me,
We did, my lord," replied the steward,
said the count.
and nding it locked concluded that he.
Fear of what? demanded Austin.
was at rest, but upon waiting a great while
Stanislaus comes here shortly," answer this morning we forced the door and found
cd his master, and I fear that his oicious the bed had not been lain on.
love will make my guilty soul betray her
The baron was thunderstruckl all other
secret thoughts! Yet sooner than that should cares were forgotten in anxiety for his son;
be, I would bury king and castle in a burning in a few minutes the whole castle was in con
ruin, then rush myself into the aming pile! fusion, and some servants were dispatched in
I pray, my lord, desist, said the monk,
search of the generous Linhault, whose noble
these sudden ts and starts of passion in

deed are calculated to betray you! Your face
heart, as we shall have occasion to relate, was
should wear a smile of satisfaction, however
your breast is laboring! Do but banish the

remembrance of former years from your
mind
Ferresburgh suddenly seized the monks
hand and ercely cried, Canst thou hurl
Joves dread thunderbolts, Austin? strike
the cause of his strange nonappearance at the

castle.
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
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For the Repertory.

To the Editor.
The great rule of justice to be observed

in dealing, between man and man, has been
through the opaque earth and bid the sea

forsake his rm foundation?
WVhat mean you, my lord?" said the con
fessor.
Or canst thouin a drop of water quench
the sun? continued the baron. As easy
mayst thou wash out the dire remembrance
of the past, as easy in that single drop
handed forth to us by the founder of Chris

tianity in this short but comprehensive pre
cept, do unto all men as you would they
should do unto you. By this law every claim
of right may be immediately adjusted; a law,
which every man possesses within himself;
for the exposition of, which, he need only
drown the dread voice of conscience, and
honesty of intention anti purity of will are

the only qualications essential for a man to
possess, in order to live up to the practice
of this important precept. The cruelty and
inhumanity which we painfully behold among
cleanse my mind from all distracting fears!

But come, there is other business now on
hands; this marriage must not take place;

It never shall be!" said the friar, while but how to avoid it.
A thought has struck me. I have told
his face betrayed the ponderings of his soul,
where murder was making dreadful prepara young Linhault that Thadia still exists and he
is anxious for the maids recovery of her pa
tion. The letter concluded thus:
I likewise purpose bringing to immedi ternal right," Said Austin ironically. \Vell
ate punishment a band of robbers that infest send the stripling for her.
Art thou mad? exclaimed the count;
your forests, who probably were the mur
should he succeed it would be impossible
derers of Sobeiski.
STANISLAUS.
Sobeiski and his confessor stood some to eect our end."
Fear not, said the monk, if Weineet
moments in surprize, at length the baron
striking his forehead, cried Why does this and Truro do not succeed in their endeavors
fever rage within my brain? Quiet thou to recovcr her there is no fear of him, as he is
restless monitor within, nor shake my heart unacquainted with any one circumstance.
strings with thy ceaseless groans! Would I
There may be something in this, re
could make my bosom guiltlcssl
turned the baron.
This weakness is unmanly, good my
If it. should fail, there remains but to
lord! said Austin. Such thoughts as these disclose the secret. Here the entrance of
rill ruin both of us.
Lopez again interrupted the conference of
Ferresburgh was absorbed and heeded the unparalleled wretches.
Go, s-aid Ferresburgh to Austin, and
not his remark. Yes, he continued, I do
-remember that there was a time when I was prepare my son for his departure.
Our dear lord, said Lopez, may it
guiltless! Sleep then was welcome, for I
slept in pcacel No Vctlinui closed his eyes be please your excellency, is not in the castle,
fore be breathed a prayer for Ferrcsburghs nor has he been in all night.
life and happiness; they do it now; then I
How! cried the father.
turn to the dictates of his own breast; and
our fellow creatures, would be much dimin
ished, if mankind were more generally to

attend to this divine command, of doing to
others as they would that others, in similar
circumstances, should do unto them. The
great, wise and benevolent Author of our

being, has created and endowed us with ra
tionality; and certainly we ought to act con
sistent with the laws of humanity and treat
our fellow creatures with that degree of
tendemess, which ought ever to character
ize rational beings.
I think there is noway, by which we can
better judge of the condition of a fellow
creature, than by putting OlllSUlVCS in his
situation. Then, and then only are we capa
ble of judging what his sutl'erings are, and
what remedies would be most effectual to
mcliorate his condition and promote his hap
piness. It is a duty incumbent on every man
to endeavor to render a fellow creature
every service that lies in his power, so far
as he can do it without injuring himself.

\Ve ought also to reect that if we violate
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the laws of humanity, we not only break the

express commands of the Prince of Peace,
hut degrade the dignity of human nature.
VERNACULUS.
For the Repertory.
WEEKLY REFLECTIONS.
To think and reect are two great func-,
tions of the mind, which are not only pro

table, but absolutely necessary. Without
them, our knowledge would be restricted
and trivial in importance; in the exercise of
them on various subjects, we are enabled to
versal good, would meet with universal re risen paramount to law, are guilty of injus~
ception. But custom, that beguiling and de tice. Privileged characters, as physicians,
structive serpent, ever ready to lead astray, lawyers, 8ze. who are sometimes exorbitant
gives to evil the appearance of good, and in their charges, take advantage of igno
converts good into evil. Custom has been rance; and thus, while they make a. preten
called error, because errors are so frequent sion to fair dealing, are doubtless acting the
ly propagated by habit. If we imagine how rogues part, though in a modest manner.
far the good policy of honesty actuates the Many other examples might be adduced to
conduct of men, our astonishment is excited show how little this excellent maxim is re
on beholding the great propensity to swerve garded by mankind; but all of them would
from a straight line of virtuous conduct. The be as so many proofs of its correctness, and
violation of this principle is not manifested of the happy effects which result from it to
T. D. M.
in the highway robber alone, or merely in those who practice it.
the midnight thief. Roguery has athousand
different forms; it is the cameleon of human
For the Repertory.
depravity. it is but the specic name; its ge
SACRED HARMONY.
nera are incaleulably numerous, yet each ge
No. 1!.
nius agrees with the specic in some way or
An intervention of two sabbaths has af
other, and in essence they are the same.
Now, if we should connect in the same class forded the reader an opportunity of reect
a customary mode of discharging just debts, ing on the few remarks contained in my in
some might charge us with asperity, because troduction on Church Music; and, after com
rs/lion has apparently devested the practice paring them with thc state of church music
of its base character. But let us investigate in our city, of deciding according to my wish
this point; and if it should not appear to sa in what degree they are applicable: and
vor a little of dishonesty, we will disown it if he has given the subject the candid con
altogether, as belonging to a different spe sideration it deserves, I atter myself the re
cies. Then let us take into consideration the result is that those remarks are true; and
ease of a man in a fair prospect of making that there is ample room for improvement,
money. He continues awhile in prosperous in more respects than one. \Vhat these are
circumstances; but by extravagance and ac and what the best means to effect the most
tual waste in procuring objects to gratify his eligible state of practical psalmody, will be
fancy, the cash slips out of his pocket much unfolded and elucidatedjn the proper place.
faster than it entered. By and by, accounts At present, I am anxious that it should be
come to be examined, he perceives the thoroughly impressed on the mind what
amount of his debts to be greater than the music in the just sense of the word is in
sum of the charges on his own books. \Vhat general, and what in its divisions and ap
is the next step? He may indeed call his cre plications; that thus the contrast between
ditors together and agree to give them a few chuch music properly so called and the mu
shillings in the pound; or, what is more com sic in general use, may appear, to every one,
mon, he may make a private assignment the more obvious and striking. Music,
of his money to some friend, who of conse says a skilful professor, may be divided
quence is little better than himself, and then into two general heads or branches, and be
by swearing a few round oaths he gets rid called, rst, sacred, and secondly, profane or
in a short time of a multitude of debts. This secular. Sacred music may be subdivied
mode of transaCting business has been so com into two general heads, church musicand
mon of late, that very little reproach has been oratorial music. Profane music may also be
attached to those who have taken the bene subdivided into martial and theatrical.
t of it. Now, to say the best of this prac
l. Martial music is calculated to rouse
tice, it is a decent way of cheating the cre and animate the hero, to banish the fear of
ditor and actually robbing him of his just death, and inspire the soldier with heroic
dues. Even suppose a man to have been so sentiments in the eld of battle.
grossly prodigal as to be unable to pay his
2. Theatrical music consists of several
debts, or even to support himself, he proves branches, all of which have a style suited
to the world that he has not only acted un to the different exhibitions in the theatre, in
justly to others, but he has destroyed his the ball room, in all brihiant assembl-cs, in
own happiness and incurred the evils of po the festive circle, and in the social club.
velty. But there are other methods of act
3. Oratorial music is that which is appro
ing dishonestly, and even runong men whose priate to a subject in all its various branches
duty it is to exact strict justice from others. or parts; under this head may be ranked all
Civil officers, who receive greater fees than anthems, and set pieces, whether consisting
the law allows, merely because custom has of simple or fugueing strains.
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expand our imagination and to enlarge the

capacities of our genius. To improve privi
leges like these is the duty of every man
who is sensible that he is the possessor of
them. To neglect their cultivation is savage
indifference, far less degrading to the Indian
of the forest than to the man of civil life.

He who seldom reects seriously, cannot be
entitled to the character of a man in the full
sense of the word. Brutes associate and
judge, but reason belongs to man. The more
we habituate ourselves to close reection,
the more we become fascinated by it; we
feel its advantages and realise its value.

\V hen I hear it asserted that honesty is
the best policy, I am led by reection and
thought to examine the correctness of the
maxim, and to mark how far it is observed
in the world. As to its correctness I need

no proof, farther than that which I derive
from daily occurrences. If 1 inquire why
this man is conned within the walls of a
prison, and that man locked up in a (lun
geon, it is hardly possible that the answer
would be favorable to the objects of my in
quiry. Public places of connement were
not erected for the innocent; their numbers
have not increased on account of the dili

gence manifested among men to discharge
the duties of this life; quite the contrary is
true. By honesty we mean justice, virtue,
truth, and every other characteristic of a
good man; and it is more than probable that
very few have been subjected 'to conne
ment and prevented from mingling with so
ciety merely because their actions evinced
a strict observance of the good qualities of
the mind. Thus we see, by a plain demon
stration of- facts, the truth of the maxim, the
conduct of men to the contrary notwithstand
ing. Indeed, if we subject any virtuous prin

ciple to the test of its acceptance in the
world, the result would be rather unfavor
able; for so powerful is the inuence of self

interest, that it often rises superior to moral,
nay, even religious obligation. It might be

supposed, that a principle in itself true,
and tending to promote individual and uni
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of a similar subject; and a tune may be se
drawn. The present times were neglected

for the past, and the great body of the peo
ple excluded from the pleasure and improve
ment of letters. The learned became a se
parate order of men; philosophy did not
mingle with human affairs; and science was
conned within the walls of a college. Ab
tions, and forward the interpretation of na
lected which is adapted to the subject, and
stract subjects, technical terms, an unknown
ture.
may be sung with propriety to each and

every one of these psalms and hymns, and
a great number of tunes may be found equal
ly well adapted to each of these psalms and
hymns, and these tunes may be applied as
tongue, all dcbarred the public access, and

shut the gate of knowledge on the world.
In the present century a more liberal system
hath taken place. Men no longer write in
one language, and speak in another; the
terms of the schools are left to pedants;
barren speculation hath given place to use
ful inquiry. At last the philosopher recol
lects that he is a man, and raises his voice
to the world. Hence a diffusion of knowlege
chamctetises the present ago more than any
of the past. True philosophy, the best bless
ing of nature, begins to spread; and the
3. Concatenation of the facts in nature.

When we contemplate the phenomena of
4. Church music is a species of tune adap

ted to general subjects, and may be sung
with propriety in different psalms and hymns:
that is to say, ten, fteen or twenty psalms or
hymns, may be selected, of the same measure
or feet, and of the same metre, which are all
OCCuSlOn may require.

Music is the language of the passions; and
every passion of the human breast may be
excited by this art. When it excites feelings
of the soul proper in the presence of God,
it may be termed sacred: on the contrary,
when it excites gayety, levity, or the licen
tious passions, it is called profane or secular
music.
It is evident, then, that church music
ought to be solemn and sublime, and parti

cularly calculated to raise the feelings of pi
ety and devotion to the most exalted height:
and it is also evident, that whoever intro
duces into the house of God, gay and 'light

airs, which excite the licentious passions and
divert the mind from the true spirit of de

votional worship, is criminally guilty of pro
fanity and mocking in the presence of the
Supreme Being."
Thus far my authority: and the denition
is so plain, the statement so luminous, and
the reasoning so forcible, as to leave nothing
for me to add; it applies with such peculiar
aptitude to my design, that I refrr it to the
readers serious reection till I appear again.
PHILO MADAN.
0.
From the London Magazine, 1782.

ON SCIENCE.
light of literature, like the light of heaven,
the mind begins to operate upon its own

ideas a higher sense of order arises. Objects
enter into the mind as they appear in the
universe. To arrange, to classify, to general
i_ze, are employments of philosophy. Such

arrangements assist the mind in its opera
the universe, we not only nd things re

sembling, which we put into one class; but
we perceive also, that these are c0nnected
with others. To trace the connection between
them, to refer effects to their cause, and
particular operations to general laws, is the

last and most perfect work of science. This
kind of search and investigation is natural
to the mind of man. Even the vulgar give
their reason. The boy who, inquisitive into
the causes of things, fathoms the well, or
traces the stream to its source, discovers
arises to shine over all.

Science consists in the discovery, the ar
the rudiments of that science by which
rangement, and the concatenation of the
quieu made a system of human affairs. The
facts in nature.
1. The discovery of the facts in nature is
a preliminary part of science. The mind is
passive in its rst perceptions; but the plea
sures and the pains to which man is expos

ed from external impressions, lead him to
exercise his active powers. Curiosity awakes,
an original instinct in the human frame, and
the spring of our knowledge. The operation
of this principle precedes the maturity and
even the birth of reason. During the roam
ing of a savage, or the migration of a bar
barous tribe, this principle makes little
progress. But when, in the progress of the
species, man begins to unfold his nature,
elegant desires succeed to necessary crav
ings, the ner parts of the human frame
make their appearance, and curiosity, set
ageing, extends to all the objects of nature.
Newton measured the heavens, and Montes

rst step towards natural philosophy is a
history of plants and animals, and a descrip
tion of the appearance of nature. The man

of science succeeds to the natural historian,
who classies plants and animals, and ex
plains the phenomena of nature. The rst

step towards moral philosophy is a collec
tion of aphorisms, maxims, and proverbs,
without any connection, but that they are

subservient to one end, the conduct of hu
man life. By degrees the philosopher ap

pears, who arranges the duties of man, and
traces morals to their foundation.
Such is the nature of science. To com

mon minds every thing appears particular.
A philosopher sees in the great, and ob
serves a whole. The curious collect and de
scribe. The scientic arrange and generalise.
An ordinary man marks the phenomena of
nature. The philosopher refers them to
The rise of literature in modern times A large and liberal knowledge of facts is the
was not owing to an original effort of the foundation of all philosophy. The ' human their class, and traces them to their cause.
human powers. The study of the ancients mind ascends from particulars to generals, A man of sense makes single observations:
awaked the genius of the modems, and the and from parts to awhole. The ofce of true at man of science forms general maxims.
philosophy that rst prevailed was introduc philosophy is not to invent, but to discover; The one draws particular conclusions; the
ed from Greece and Rome. The circum not to create systems, but by collecting the other infers universal propositions. There
stance of a foreign original had serious phenomena in the universe, to interpret na is a chain (says Homer) let down from hea
'
ven to earth: mortals catch at a link; but

and permanent effects upon literature. The ture.
Greek and Roman classics suggested the
2. The discovery of the facts in the ma Jove holds in his hand the chain that binds
materials as well as the form of the rst terial and moral world leads to their arrange the creation.
a.
compositions; and the original genius of man, ment. It is the property of man not only to
for a long period of time, was lost in imita think, but to think in a certain manner.
Distinguish exactly what one (is when he
tion. 50 strong was the enthusiasm in fa There is an order in his ideas, and a train stands alone and acts for himself, and when
vor of the classics, that the rst authors in in his mind. Our rst perceptions have no he is led by others. I know many who act al
modern times not only borrowed their sen other bond of union but that of contiguity ways honestly, often with delicacy, when left
timents, but also wrote their language. By in time and place. This is the order of the to themselves; and like knaves when inuen
these means the chief object of the philoso senses, and of memory which merely re ced by some overbearing characters, whom
pher, the poet, and the historian, was with news the impressions of sense. But, when they once slavishly submitted to follow
!
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For the Repertory.
I roam; and oft beneath some aged oak,

Or spreading elm, whose branches ntottrnful wave,
THE HARP. LAY l'\'.

In solemn grandeur, to the whistling blast,
Again I feel the silent " joy of grief,"

Again my soul 5 in unison with woe;
Sighs burst, once more, to give my heart relief,
And tears of anguish now spontaneous ow.
I sit, unknown, and inly ruminate.

Haply if some soft glimm'ring ray of hope
Dart its faint iumen through my pensive soul,

Pourtraying joys which once \\ ere all my own,
That yet might gild and tranquilize my mind,

Then come, my Harp, into the arms of Woe,
And Sorrow's hands shall softly touch tlty strings;
Endeavring to retain the fond illusion,

Opes ev'ry wound, impressively recals
While Grief, in tears, that sympathetic ow,

Shall listen to each strain that Anguish sings!
Past days of bliss, the souls to friendship dear
0! now I hear the Harps dissolving lay,
\Vithin a bosom formd for social joys.
\Vhich long have tied, and left a dreary blank

Reechoing the mournful notes I sing;
And, as soft zephyrs waft the sounds away,

Grief is still heard to sigh on every string!
0, cease, O, cease, ye sad responding sighs,
That burst my heart, _or Della Lira dies!
DELLA LIRA.
I'
Oft beam'd in sweet expression of delight;

Mute is each tongue, whose honied accents fell
sung;
The eloquent strains lulld each passion to rest,
Save delight, for the numbers flowd sweet from
his tongue.
" And who," I exclaimd, can thus breathe on the
strings
Of the lyre which Milton and Thompson have

\Vhose breathings, as light as zephyrus' soft wings,
But the canker which gnaws on the heart.
Thus the roses of happiness fade,

And evry thing yields to times merciless sway,
Which envelops all earth in its shade.
But Virtue, eternal as heaven above,
In heaven its refuge shall nd;

There forever exist in elysiums of love,
With laurels of glory entwined.

Then, virtue pursue, 0'. ye children ofearth,
The specious paths which lead the soul to vice;

On eagle wings, dispersed the gath'ring gloom
Ofyouthful grief, and for revolving years

Oped a bright vista to unclouded peace.
ST. ORME.
Tis the pilot oer lifes stormy sea,

Twill conduct you tohim who gave evry thing birth,
And like him eternal shall be
THADDEUS.
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For the Repertory.

For the Repertory.
STANZAS.
Aurora her nymphs with fresh garlands adorn,
With owers her footpaths prepare,

And mildly disperse, with the breathings of morn,
The vapors which hung on the air.
swelld,
The wrinkles of time now appear on my brow,

Old age, all decrepit, comes on;
The frown of stem sorrow will soon lay me low,
And my visions of greatness are gone.
In soft persuasion, bade me shun the paths,
Whose pleasing converse made the moments fly
I listend; the melody came from the west;

Than the rest more melodious a bard smoothly
I strove to resist, but oerpowerd by force,

To his fury I yielded a prey.
Thus youth's blooming owers are wrapp'd in decay,
Glowd with the fervant ame of friendship, love!
And they greeted my soul with a rapturous glow.
I never once wishd to control.

But misfortune, unerring as time in his course,
Pttrsued me at length on my way;
Breathe oer my soul a temporary calm,

And, whispering, tell some kind benignant heart
Could ease with sympathy my throbbing breast,
A breast which once embraced the blissful tie
Which binds in one vast chain the souls of men,
Friends? where, alas! are they? Cold, cold in death!
Closed is each eye whose tender glance on me
loved,
Every hope that arose in my soul,

Unconsciotts of sorrow, a stranger to pain,
So strange is the doom of miraculous man,

Thus quickly his pleasures depart,
And nothing is left by aliction's dread hand
TO ARIYNTOR.
I heard the sweet songs of the bards as they roved,

And drank of the streams that from Helicon ow;
Their harmonious strains were the strains that I
12:22::
Each thought that would bud in my feverish brain.
I love to listen to the plaintive lay

Of wakeful Philomel; her melting strains
For the Repertory.
"Again those strains delight my youthful ear. Anon.
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Dcsrrijilion (.fa day often! on the west bank

tf t/ir Schuylkill.
The sun, with brightning face, looks from the east,
His radiance plays oer yon high waving wood;
There let me now Enjoy the mental feast,

And taste, once more, the bliss of solitude.
Sols coursers with eagerness burn to appear,

And bursting the bontls of delay,
Let others wake to busness of the day,
Then sudden the breeze blew the branches aside,

For they sat in the shade ofa sheltering vine,
As Phebus directs, they commence their career
For me, I take my solitary way,

And visit reason in this calm abode.
1 gazedwith emotions of pleasure descried

Amyntor, the favorite child of the Nine.
The birds quite refreshcl from the rest of the night,

\Viih new animation arose;
And tuning their notes to the Author of light,
Dispelld the soft thoughts of repose.
The soul in the folds of their sweetness have held?
" Tis the bard who oft breathed to Maria his lay,'
1 said, and the past was recald to my view;

His fame shall survive till time moulders away,
And Phebus his radiance forgets torrenew.
ORLANDO.
For the Repertory.
REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY \VANDERER.
'I hrough the luminous portals of day.
This happy spot, natures profound abode,

Did once, perhaps, the Indian hut sustain;
'lhis steep the natives well skilld foot has trod,
There, oft, his fire has blazed upon the plain.
Disturhd not its tranquil domain;
Contemplative fancy then woke in my mind

The rememb'rance ofjoys transient gleam,
\Vhich leaves no impression of pleasure behind
More than morning retains of a dream.
But wherefore can mine eyes that powr resist,
\Vhose soothing inuence lulls the wounded mind,

And o'er the wearied senses draws the veil
Of sweet oblivion, drowning all their care?
In vain mine eyelids close, I strive in vain
To drown the recollection of the past;
And while mankind are lulld, so sweetly lulld,
In the embraces of assuasive sleep,
' See Repository, vol. i.
And sportive swallows in the waters lave.
The sea was unruflled; the soft sighing breeze
\Vere lulld to repose on the plain.
And all are wrapp'd in sleep save only I.
Na'ure 5 gay songsters chant amid the trees,
With rest of night, each object stands renew'd,
The zephyrs which silently wafted the trees,
Nature, fatigued, to seek repose retires,
Fresh and reviving is the earlv breeze.

And gently dimples Schuylkill: placid wave;
The visage of heaven so mildlyi serene,

Display d all its beauties to view;
And the landscape extensive embellishd the scene
With pictures of liveliest hue.
No. I.
Tis night, and nought disturbs the tranquil hours

Save the low sound of Schuylkillsmurmringstream.
'loiling, pursue to wealth the cheerless road;
Vain man! then no longer arrayd in false power,

In thoughts of false grandeur preside.
Since fates dark'ning frown in one horrible hour
Might oerwhelm you in miserys tide

In youth, too, compietely wuh happiness blest.
\Vith health, wealth and love I was crownd;
No passion ofjoy sought access to my breast
But a ready admittance it found.
And gladly welcomes in returning day;
Each little owret glistning, yet bedewd,

Courts the bland inuence of the solar ray.
From the dark bosom of yon covert deep,

The Ily Indian. big with anxious fear,
Hath oft surprized, while in unguarded sleep,
And started through the wood, the 'remblmg deer"
Wild. native plants! ah, ye cuuld nevPr grow,
M'dst foreign lux'ry, lab'ring to destroy;
, But where Miamis rapid \i J'ers ow,
Ye ourish fair, ll'tltl natures pride and joy
Slowly Comes on the languid linonvide hour,
The pro ive warblvrs rush flit' lively song;
Now by the fount, where babbling waters pour,
Prone on the grassy couch I lie along.
PHI LADELPIIIA REP ERTORY.

Or from the dripping rock where soft distills
The gelid bevrage, quaffthe sparkling wave;
Or where, Collected from a thousand rills,
Shines the smooth lake, my limbs enfeebled lave.
Triumphant smiles the victor brow,

Fannd by'some angels purple wing;
0, Grave! where is thy victory now?
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dcnt want of temper in the lost, would alone

cxcludc them from our columns.
Invidious Death! where is thy sting?

DIED,
Or up the rising hill direct my feet,

And there, beneath some spr'ading oak trees
shade,
\Vith spirits hold the mental converse sweet,

Or mark \he prospect from the opning glade.
A holy quiet reigns arotind;

A calm which nothing can destroy;
Nought can disturb that peace profound,
\Vhich their unfetterd souls enjoy.
Farewel conicting hopes and fears,
But, oh. more lovely is the gentle eve,

The hour which souls contemplative revere;
"hen fancy's fair illusions best deceive;
That hour of love, to tender minds most dear.
To other worlds pursued his azure way;

The li'tlr birds, preparing now for rest,
Each little owr lookd pensive and forlorn,

Each wand'ring warhler to his thicket ew.
The dark green pines around, which thickly stood

0n clis that overhang the rivers bed.
Pour'd their rich fragrance through the breezy wood,
Light. from its load, the :pirit ies;

\Vhile heaven and earth combine to say,
Sweet is the scene when virtue dies."
lubilavtlpbia.
Vie return our thankful acknowledge

ments for the numerous favors lately receiv
As on the ambieni air their odors shed.
cd; many of them are valuable, and would
The various swarms of insects, late so gay,
ntl immediate inscrtion did not the limits

of our plan prevent; they shall, howevcr,ap
pear
soon as possible. When it is recol
lcctcd illui all good writers, whether of prose
or poetry, have justly an equal claim to at
tention, our friends will feel for the delicacy
of our situation when amultiplicity of Com
Now round the leafs expanded bosom press'd,

No more enlivend by the genial ray,
In clusters hung their giddy wings to rest.

At once the heavns assumd a sable hue,
Eve's gentle zephvrs gradual grew more strong,
And swelling through the wood it angry blew;
mothc DEon, aged 83.
Farcwel, inconstant world! farewell
Carold a requiem to the god of day.

All nature Sols departure seem'd to mourn,
Even the wild rose wept its silver dew;
Samuel VVcbber, D. D. president of Harvard
university.
In England, 10th May, the celebrated che
valier Charles Genevieve Louis Andre Ti
\Vherc lights and shades alternate dwell?

Ho bright the unchanging morn appears!
Its duty done. as sinks the clay,

The glorious sun was sinking in the west,
In Cambridge, very suddenly, the Rev.
The rapid Schuylkill hoarsely pourd along.
Boston,JuIy 18. Last evening arrived here

the brig- Richmond, captain Johnson, 42 days
from Bristol, England; who politely favored
us with London papers to the 2d June.
The news from Spain and Potugal is not
so late as we have received direct. The
French papers continued full of accounts of
French victories over the Spanish rebels.
On the 30th May, a eet with reinforcements
[or Spain and Portugal, sailed from Ports
mouth.
Napoleon and his Empress were to return
to Paris from their northern tour the 30th
May.
An attempt had been made to assassinate
the duke of Cumberland, (fth son of the
king) in his sleep, by an Italian valet named

Seillis. The duke received eight or ten
wounds from a sword; but wresting it from
the assassin, the latter ran into his chamber,
and cut his throat with a razor, which occa
municntions lies before us, and we are to

The thunder. awful, broke along the sky,
The distant mountains echod back the sound:
Fierce oer the scene the liquid re did y,

And ran in forked streamers on the ground.
While I, beneath a far projecting rock,
Viewd the dread cr'nic! with an eye serene;
Beheld, sublime, the elemental shock.
And drew a lesson from the fearful scene.

'Tis God who rules the fury of the storm,
He bids the thunders roll, the lightnings y;

Then cannot he protect from evry harm,
So poor a being, such a worm as 1?

He can: he will: his promises declare.
Though dire convulsions natures fabric rend,

Who put their trust in his almight- care,
In him shall nd a father and a friend.
The dreary tempest glided far away.
And left serene the silent fate of night;
The happy signal quick did I obey.
Retiring by the moon's unclonded light.
LORENZO.
From the Leisure Hour Improved "
TIFF. !)F'.\TH OF THE IllGtl'l'EOUs.
SWeet is the scene when virtue dies,
W hen sink: a righteous <oul to rest;
How mindly beam the closing eyes;
How gently heaves th' expiring breast!
evince at once an impartiality and a desire sioned his immediate death. The papers are
to please: to gratify all at the same time, is lled with particulars of this horrid trans
absolutely impossible; and not immediately action.
Burdett remained in the tower. Parlia
to gartiiy some, might draw on us the impu
ment
it was expected would be prorogucd
tation of an intentional neglect or partiality,
which we totally disclaim, and by which we the 19th June, when he would be liberated.
trust we shall never be actuated. Hence our The papers are silent respecting him.
7e nd very little mention of American
obliging correspondents will have no cause
affairs.
The Catholic question in_ the Com
for impatience, if their pieces do not always
appear immediately after they are received.
The plaintive muse of St. Omte excites
in us sensations that are pensivcly pleasing;
and there is. perhaps, scarcely a heart oi r..
tional sensibility that will not participate in
the feelings of the solitary Wandcrer. As
such a plan may embrace a diversity of sub
ject, and is susceptible of that variety of mat
tcr. which is calculated to be extensively in
teresting, we trust it; are not too sanguine
in expecting, as St. Orme proceeds, an en
tertaiiunent similar to that ali'orded by Cow
per in his Task.
M s proposition of becoming umpire in the
controversy betWeen X and Sobrius, and N;
.tnd N's retort upon X and Sobrius,though
both are written with ability, we are compel
led to declare inadmissible. We do not, in
So fades a summer cloud away;

So sinks the gale, when storms are oer;
SO gently shuts the eye of difi
So dies the wave along the shore.
mons had been negatived, 213 to 109.
The duke of Albuquerque had arrived in

London, minister from the Spanish regency.
The port of Elsincur had been declared
to be in a state of blockade.
-.
Frankfort, Ken. July 7. The Indians are

likely to be troublesome on our frontiers.
The prophet has been very busy in his cn
tlcmolS to stir up the Indians against the
whites. The last dates inform us they were
in a measure pacied, but the prophet was
to hold another war council, when it is pro
bable we shall know the truth of their deter
mination. The executive ofthc United States
has ordered a coitipuny of regulars to Vin
cennes, to watch their movements.
cussion; and, if we did, the illibemlity of some
A law for the suppression of duelling is

passed in the Illinois territory, founded on
the Virginian code. The surviving duellist,
of the epithets of both M and N, and the evi
(if his antagonist die within three months)
deed, deem it necessary to protract the dis
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To assist in obtaining a full knowledge

HEALTH OFFICE,
July 21, [810.
to suffer death by hanging. The challenger, of the medicinal and dying drugs indige
or person accepting a challenge, is declared nous to our soil; to expedite the discovery Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
from the 14th to the 21st july.
incapable of ever holding or being elected of useful metals; to aid the manufactures of
Dinner:ad. cb.
Dice/leer.
ad. cb
their
country,
as
far
as
they
are
connected
to any ofce of prot or trust, civil or mili
the aiders, abettors and counsellors thereof,
tary, within the territory. Persons when en
therewith; and to remove the inconvenien
tering upon the duties of ofce, are to swear ces and disadvantages of individuals not pos
or airm, that they have never been engaged sessing an acquaintance with natural know
in a duel, either directly or indirectly, in any ledge, the Linnean society of Philadelphia,
has directed the undersigned committee to
wise whatever. \
give this public notice, that any plants, ores,
By the last Frence code of laws, duelling or any mineral substance whatever, which
is made a capital offence in Francc and her shall be forwarded to any member of the
committee, shall be examined by the botani
dominions.
cal and mineralogical departments of the
The following gentlemen, to wit, Gover society. The result of the examination shall
neur Morris, Stephen Van Renselaer, De be communicated, as soon as completed, to
\Vitt Clinton, Simeon Dc WVitt, William the person transmitting such specimens, to
North, Thomas Eddy, and Peter B. Porter, gether with such other information relative
appointed by the legislature of the state of to its nature and uses, which the society can
New York, at its last session, to explore the
impart.
most practicable route for improving the in
SAMUEL JACKSON,
JAMES CUTBUSH, } committtee.
land navigation from Hudsons river to lake
SAMUEL BENEZET,
Ontario and lake Erie, have already entered
upon the duty of their appointment; an ap
pointment which, in its result, promises the
highest and most important advantages to

the community.
Banks. Mr. Blodget, of Washington city,
has recently obtained a complete and accu
rate return of all the banks in the United
States. On the rst of April last the number
of banks was l03, and of the branches 30,
making in all 133. The nominal capital of
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Chemical Manufactures.
Nothing can manifest the zeal in this

branch of manufacture; in every quarter of
the union new establishments are daily form
ing. iVe learn that near Thetford, Vermont,
Cholera morbus
Cholic
0 l7 Fever. rcmittent 0
1 0 lnam of stomachO
1
1
Consumption oflungs 7 0 Pleurisy

l 2
Convulsions
0 2 Small pox natural 1 0
Dec y
1 0 Still born
0 2
Diarrhoea
0 l Sudden
l 0
Dropsy
O 1
._ _
14' 3
Dysentery
Debility
1
0
2
2
-
Total 46

Under
1
25 Between 50 and (\0
Between l and 2
2
60
70
5
l
70
80
5
10
10
20
I.
3
80
90
90
100
20
30
3 Ages unknown
30
40
40
50
5
3
1
2
0
0
0
0
Total 46

9 oclock. 12 oclock. 30 clock.
I uly l 6
17
18
19
20
21
72
68
67
68
71
72
75
68
72
71
78
74
67
7O
69
76
75
A Singing School
Is opened by a number of Mr Laws pupil- in 9
an immense body of what mineralogists term new and elegant room in Cherry street, NO- 22'
nex' door to the German church: where thns? who
iron pyrites (sulphuret of iron) is found, wish
in become acquainled wvh the art of Sevrtd
which is manufactured into coppera . The Music are requesrd '0 give in their sames on let!
establishment is new, and the quantity al nesday or Saturday evening.
_
The) will 'each in a manner that will lead on the"
ready manufactured is sufcient to supply pupils
in an east and familiar way. and will give
the whole of these banks exceed fty eight the United States. Near the same town a them a thorough knowledge of the art of singing,
millions of dollars.
Aurora.
quantity of galena (sulphuret of lead) has and of the r~i principles of the art of musnc
Their method his been found. hv fair exnerimenb
A mineral spring, the medical qualities

of which are said to be very powerful, has
been discovered on the farm of George
Githens, esq. in the district of Colestown,
Chester township, Burlington county, New
Jersey, about eight miles from Philadelphia,
four and a half from Haddoneld, and two
and a half from Moorestown. The water is

represented to contain saline matter and iron,
which renders it both diuretic and tonic,
and therefore generally useful in disorders
of the stomach. From its proximity to Phil-a;
delphia, it will afford an opportunity to ma
been discovered, attached to a brownish sub

stance, which, by the examination of a che
mist of this city, was found to be the car

bonated oxyde of zinc or calmtine.
This mineral, with the copper which ex
to advance the pupil with double vhe rapidity of any

other method. and to make him mayor of the art In
less than half the time that is required in the other
methods.
ists in the same neighborhood, will, if found
WANTED,
As an apprentice to the Printing Business, 507'
in abundance, prove of the greatest utility

in the manufacture of brass. The mines of
between twelve and fteen years of age. One th

ragement.
[Ir-14in; at [his (,ice.
Perkiomen, however, furnish both these
materials.
A peculiar variety of limes-tone, found
dollars per annum, payable quarterly in advance

At the close of the year Will be presented a Kille
in Vermont, which may be called a chrys
tallized carbonate of lime, and which veiy
page and index, with at least one handsome 811'

graving.
much resembles specular gypsum, has been
Suhscrip'ions received by the publisher. N0 7
ny in indigent circumstances, to whom it employed with success in agriculture. It

was generally taken for plaister by the far
Arch street, George Booth, No 10 Sana-m Sim",

and at the book stores of lVla'hc-w Carer. N" 22
while to the rich and aluent it will afford
mers; but, on examination, proved not to be
Market street, John W Scott. No
a pleasant ride.
manufactures, contains the following lauda
street, W. W. Woodward. corner rt Second and

a sulphate but a carbonate of lime.
\Vegcongratulate every friend of Ameri Chcsnut streets, and David Hogan, No 249 M!"
street.
can manufactures, who undoubtedly should knCommunications.
post paid, addressed to the pub
possess a zeal for so important and so useful lisher, will be thankfully received
an institution, if a spark of patriotic re _
->
glows in their breasts, that by a uniform per~
PHILADELPHIA,
severance in the path already trod, we may be
ble proposition.
independent of foreign nations. .duror'a.
may be prescribed, to avail themselves of it;
Free. Journ.
--.
An address of the committee of the Lin

nean society of Philadelphia, to the citizens
of the United States, on the subject of the

natural productions employed in the arts and
147' Chem"
@Piiabefpiafceperfam
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, I810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE 0: JOHNdsITH( ontinue .)
No. 14.
IHe was employed in threshing, ata grange,
ing engaged Edward Maria Wingiield, a
in alarge eld, abouts league from the house
r.~erchant, Robert Hunt, a clergyman, and
of his tyrant, who, in his daily visits, treated several others, they prevailed on a number
him with abusive language, accompanied
with blows and kicks. This was more than
Smith could bear; wherefore, watching an
opportunity, when no other person was pre
of noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants, to
who sent him as a present to his mistress,

Tiugahigzanda, at Constantinople. accompa
nied with a message as full of vanity as void
of truth, that he had conquered in battle a
Bohemian nobleman, and presented him to
solicit a patent from the croWn, by which the

adventurers to Virginia became subject to
legal direction, and had the support and en
sent, he levelled a stroke at him with his couragement of a wealthy and respectable
threshing instrument which despatched him. corporation, which was usually styled the
Then, hiding his body in the straw and shut South Virginia company or the London com
ting the doors, he lled a bag with grain, pany, in distinction from the Plymouth com
mounted the bashaw's horse, and, betaking pany, who superintended the a'airs ofNorth himself to the desert, wandered for two or Virginia. The date of their patent was April
three days, ignorant of the way, and so for
10, 1606, and on the 19th of the following
tunate as not to meet with a single person December, three ships, one of one hundred
who might give information of his ight. tons, another of forty, and one of twenty, fell
At length he came to a post erected in a down the river Thames for Virginia. The
cross road, by the marks on which he found commander was Christopher Newport, an
the way to Muscovy, and in sixteen days ar experienced mariner. They had on board
rived at Exapolis, on the river Don, where the necessary persons and provisions for a
was a Russian garrison, the commander of colony, and their orders for government
her as a slave.
which, understanding that he was a Chris
were sealed in a box, which was not to be
After this the Transylvanian army was de

feated by a body of Turks and Tartars near
Rotenton, and many brave men were slain,
among whom were nine English and Scotch
ofcers, who, after the fashion of that day,
had ente red into this service from a religious

zeal to drive the Turks out of Christendom.
Smith was wounded in this battle, and lay
among the dead. His habit discovered him

to the victors as a person of consequence;
they used him well till his wounds were heal
ed, and then sold him to the bashaw Boga],
The present proved more acceptable to tian, received him courteously, took 05 his opened till they should arrive in Virginia.
The ships were kept in the Downs, by
the lady than her lord intended. She could iron collar, and gave him letters to the other
governors
in
that
region.
Thus
he
travelled
bad
weather, six weeks, and afterwards had
speak Italian, and Smith, in that language,
not only informed her of his country and through part of Russia and Poland, till he a tempestuous voyage. They took the old
quality, but conversed with her in so pleas got back to his friends in Transylvania, rc route by the Canary and Caribbee islandsl
ing amanner as to gain her affections. The ceivipg presents in his Way from many per and did not make the entrance of Chesapcak
connexion proved so tender, that, to secure sons of distinction, among whom he mentions buy till the 26th of Apiil 1607. From the
him for herself and to prevent his being ill a charitable lady, Calamata, being always beginning of their embarkation there was a
used or sold again, she sent him to her bro proud of his connexion with that sex, and jealousy and dissension among the company.
ther, the bashaw of Nalbraitz, in the Country fond of acknowledging their favors. At Leip~ Smith and Hunt were friends, and both were
of the Cambrian Tartars, on the borders of sic he met with his colonel, count Meldrick, envied and suspected by the others. Hunt
the sea of Asoph. Her pretence was, that and Sigismund, prince of Transylvania, who was judicious and patient, and his oice se
he should there learn the manners and gave him fteen hundred ducats to repair cured him from insult. Smith was ardent
language as well as religion of the Tartars. his losses. ith this money he was enabled and industrious, courteous in his deport
By the terms in which she wrote to her to travel through Germany, France and ment, but liberal in his language. On some
brother he suspected her design and resolv Spain, and having visited the kingdom of suggestions that he intended to usurp the
ed to disappoint her. \Vithin an hour after Morocco, he rammed by Sea to England government, and that his confederates were
Smiths arrival he was stripped, his head and having in his Passage enjoyed W Pleasure i, dispersed among the companies of each ship,
of another naval engagement. At his arrival ll he was made a prisoner, from the time of
heard were shaven, an iron collar was put
about his neck, he was clothed with a coat in his native country he had one thousand their leaving the Canaries, and was under
of hair cloth, and driven to labor among
other Christian slaves. He had now no hope

of redemption but from the love of his mis
ducats in his puree; hiCh, with Um illwiCb'i r connement when they arrived in the Che
110 had rvmhin'mg in England, he dCVOK'd sapeak. W'hen the box was opened, it was
to seek adventures and make discoveries in

North
America.
I,
tress, who was at a great distance, and not
Bartholomew
Gosnold
having
conceived
a
likely to be informed of his misfortune; the
hopeless condition of his fellow slaves could favorable idea of America, had made it his
business, 0 his lm 0 England, to 50m?
not alleviate his despondency.
In the depth of his distress, an opportunity
LtSSlStullce in prosecuting (ilSCOVCl'iCS. ZMCCL
found that Bartholomew (iosnold, John

Smith, Edward M. \Vingfit'ld, Christopher
Newport, John Ratclifl', John Martin, and
George Kendal were named to be of the
council, who were to choose a president from
among theynselvcs, for or"; yuug and the g0.
presented for an escape, which, to a. person ing with captain Smith, he readily entered ! veronient was vested in them. Matters of
of aless courageous and adventurous spirit, into his views, the employment being ex- vl moment were to be examined by a jury,
would have proved an aggravation of misery. actly suited to his enterprising genius. Hav
but determined by the major part of the
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PHILADELPHIA REIERTORY.
"gx
I built. Captain Newport presented a hatrhd Tl

council, in which the president had two
voices. \Vhen the council was sworn, to this prince, which he gratefully receii to.
\Vingeld was chosen president, and a de and when some of his Indians inutmured at l
claration was made of the reasons for which the coming of the English among them, he
Smith was not admitted ahd sworn among r,ilenccd them by saying, 'hy should We
be offended. They want only a little ground, =
the others.
Seventeen days from their arrival were which we can easily spare." This appear
spent in seeking a proper place for their ance of friendship was not much relied on,
rst plantation. The southern point of the when, at their return to Jamestown, they :
bay was named Cape Henry, and the north found that the company had been surprised
ern Cape Charles, in honor of the. two sons at their work by a party of Indians, who had
of king James. To the first great river which killed one and wounded seventeen. A double
they discovered they gave the name of their headed shot from one of the ships had cut
sovereign, and the northern point of its en oli~ a bough of a tree, which falling among
trance was called Point Comfort, on account
of the good channel and anchorage which

they found there. On the flats they took plen
ty of oysters, in some of which were pearls;
and on the plain, they found large and ripe

strawberries, which afforded them a deli
cious repast.
Having met with ve of the natives, they
invited them to their town, Kecoughtan,
where Hampton is now built. Here they

were feasted with cakes made of Indian
corn, and regaled with tobacco and adance;
in return they presented the natives beads

and other trinkets. Proceeding up the river,
another company of Indians appeared in
arms. Their chief, Apamatica, holding in
one hand his bow zuid arrow, and in the

other a pipe of tobacco, demanded the cause
of their coming; they made signs of peace,
and were hospitably received. On the 13th
of May they pitched upon a peninsula where
the ships could lie in six fathom water, moor
ed to the trees, as the place of their intend
ed settlement. Here they were visited by
said Flauriee, remind me of our last bat

tit!"
\Vell, we \\ 2! not trifle now, replied his

master.
By my faith, I mean no trifling, may it
please you, my lord, answered the squire,
it is too serious a truth. In our last battle,
my lord, our general told us, by way of en

couragenient, to defy death; that we could
not, like the sun, die every night and return
to- life, therefore we need not fear, for we
could not receive the pain of a mortal wound

more. than once, and that would soon be over.
I thought this very sound logic, but could
the Indians, terried and dispersed them. not reconcile myself to the idea of dying but
This incident obliged the president to alter once."
the- plan of the fort, which was now atrian
True, Flaurice, answered ,Linhault,
gular palisade, with a lunette at each angle; we cannot, as the glorious maker of our
and ve pieces of artillery were mounted on day emerges from his watery bed each
the works, which were completed by the morning, burst from the narrow tomb, and
15th of June. It was also found necessary to live again upon this shoal of time; but
exercise the men at arms, to mount guard, there is another world to which we all must
and be vigilant; for the Indians would sur rise, and that world is eternal!
prise and molest stragglers, whilst, by their
These solemn reflections threw_ a melan
superior agility, they would escape 'unhurt. choly cast over the visage of the youth; he
(To be continued.)
went silently on absorbed in his own medi
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tations, until he was amused by the sound
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of music. It came oating on the pinions of
the breeze, and was rendered trebly sooth
ing to the' air by its melodious distance.
A ROMANCE.
Where can this music, so delightful to
CHAPTER II.
my mind, come from, Flaurice?" said Lin
Haste, haste, Orlando, curve on evry tree,
The fair, the chaste, the inexpressive she.
Sbaheare.
The sun had passed his meridian, and his

retiring beams began to show more faint
tipon the rippling stream, when the brave
hault as he listened to catch the sound

again.
Just before you, my lot , answered the
squire; dont you see the lads and [asses

as merry as I am before a battle? I feel my
young Linhault, attended by his squir, left
legs move under me, just to see them at
the castle and proceeded on a walk, to inhale
this distzuice move so lightly over the lawn.
made acquainted with their design, offered the balmy fragrance of the western breezes,
them as much land as they wanted, and af to indulge his ardent mind in the contem
terward sent them\ a deer for their enter plation of the works of nature, and from
tainment. On this spot they pitched their these to raise his thoughts to natures God.
tents, and gave it the name of Jamestown.
Flauricc, who never left his master, was
Every man was now employed either in indeed a squire of the Quixote school. He
digging and planting gardens, or making inherited every quality of his great prede
nets, or in cutting and riving timber to re cessor, Sancho Panza, though I know not
lade the ships. The president at rst would that he ever augmented a wind will into an
admit of no martial exercise, nor allow any armed host. However this may be, exagge
fortications ' to be made, excepting the ration was his peculiar vice.
boughs of trees thrown together in the
As they passed on Linhault observed, for
form of a half moon. Captain Newport took
His years were young, but his experience old;
Smith and twenty more with him, to disco
His head unmcllowd, but his judgment ripe:
ver the head of James river. In six days
Behold, Flaurice, how the huge orb of
they arrived at the falls, and erecting a cross, day is sinking beneath the western circlet:
as they had at Cape Henry, took possession so is it with human life. Brought into the
of the country in the name of king James. world, like him, to answer the unsearchable
In this route they visited Powhatan, the prin designs of Omnipotence, like him, we quick
cipal Indian chief, or emperor. His town ly pass our mom of life, and the brilliancy
consisted of twelve houses, pleasantly situ of our meridian glory, then hastily decline
ated on a hill, before which were three isl
into the night of death!"
ands, a little below where Richmond is now

These reections of yours, my lord,
I do, indeed, said his master, behold

a groip of rustics before me; doubtless,"
Paspiha, another Indian chief, who, being
continued he with a sigh, they are cele

brating the birthday of our illustrious mo
narch, who is almost forgotten at the eas
tie.
Your l)l(lSl1Ip never spoke a truer word
than that, said Flaurice.
Linhault continued; My father"-and

here his mind fell upon thoughts which he
had some time since resolved to smother,
or, if possible, totally eradicate; and break
ing a murmuring sigh at the recollection,

he walked pensively on, until he arrived very
near the spot where our beforementioned
rustics were indulging in an innocent festi

vity. He took his station behind the body of
an Oak, where he remained unnoticed as be
imagined by all.
He had not long'remained in this situa

tion, smiling at the pleasure which appeared
in the face of every rustic, as his rosy part
ner gave her hand, in passing clown the
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dance; when he burst into an exclamation of not without noticing the appearance of Linsurprise, which made Flaurice tremble. It hault. She was as much struck with his man
was the perfect beauty and superior grace ly beauty, as he was with her fascinating ap
of Roselle in dancing, that attracted his pearance. They had seen each other once,
attention and occasioned his surprise; but and tasted the nectar of love.
Reclining on her seat, various conjectures
when in turning, during the dance, she gave
him a fuller view of her ne form and face, passed through her mind, as to the rank and
{16 was lled with wonder and admiration character of the admired strmiger; for as her
a: so much grace and elegance in a cot father, for some unknown reasons, had never
tage girl, and turning to Flaurice he ex permitted her to enter the walls of the cas
tle, nor had any of its inhabitants ever been
claimed,
\Vho is that lovely girl with her hair invited to the cottage, consequently she was
so fancifully woven in a wreath of straw, ignorant respecting them. His Polish cap
and who, instead of being, as I expected to and fur cloak trimmed with crimson velvet
nd all, the awkward country girl, isof such
announced Linhault of no mean mark, and
exquisite beauty and modesty as to ll my

heart with admiration?
Does your lordship mean the handsome
girl who has a white scarf round her waist?
inquired Flaurice.
she involuntary shrunk as she contemplated

him as a prince. These ideas made her me
lancholy, and she pcnsivcly breathed forth
the following st..nzu.s:
The same, the same, returned his lord
ship, with agitation and his eyes intently x
l others will be the portal to inuence, zmd

1 his wisdom will command the attention of
such as want instruction. He that would be
healthy, must be temperate; he that would
be vigorous, must not overst'rain his pow
ers; he that makes profession of philanthro
py should know with precision the true
measure of right. He that would persuade,
he that would argue to convince, he that
would converse for mutual benet, must
keep himself in order, and suffer no intent

perance to intrude. Intcmperance is disor- '
ganizing to ourselves, and to society. \Vhen
an overbearing disposition is observed, it is
accounted tyrannical; and however grateful
to us may be the augmentation of our stock
of knowledge,we naturally hesitate to accept
of information at the expense of our liberty
and equality. \Visdom directs that we avoid
obligations to the proud, and the domineer
ing. Let them alone. Philanthropy extends
towards them compassion for their folly,
but prudence chalks out the true medium
of separation. The proud are bclield afar 0171
A. '
Ye breezes that rulile the streams

That murmur so sweetly below;
While bright on their surface the beams
ed on Roselle; who is she, good Flaurice?
Of the moon in white brilliancy glow;
If my eyes deceive me not, said Flau

rice, she is the daughter of good old Brou
benski."
'
Can it be possible, said the youth, with
out removing his eyes from the object on
which they so ardently gazed, can it be
Go whisper the youth, that Roselle

Now waits on the edge of the stream;
To list while her lover may tell,
The raptures that iii his eyes beam.

But bid him beware, nor suppose,
Though her heart by the passion be torn,
Shell permit him to olfer the rose,
possible, Flaurice, that she can be Braulxm
cp
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WEEKLY REFLECTIONS.
In all ages of the World the importance of

a liberal education has been duly appreciat
And leave her, alas! but the rborn.
skis daughter!
ed. But it is to be lamented, that there exists
Increased melancholy covered her lovely in every country a certain class or descrip
visage,
and a trembling tear involuntarily tion of persons, whose situations and circum
squire; she has long been celebrated as
traced its passage down her check, as she stances in life have been insuperable barriers
the beauty of the forest.
\Vhere could she have acquired this nished these words: when by some unlucky to the acquisition of this necessary ornament
grace? cried Linhault; my eyes have no accident her foot broke the soft turf on which of the human mind. Such has been the me
ver beheld such transcendent beauty, such it rested, and her whole weight thus thrown lancholy condition of the world from its ear
upon the seat, it gave way, and she fell into list ages even to the present enlightened pe
symmetry of forml"
the
water!
UBALDO.
She is indeed beautiful," said Flaurice,
riod, that the truth of an old maxim is clear
(To
be
continued.)
* and Leopold will be a very happy fellow."
ly proven, man is learned, but men are
.Q.
Leopold! said his lord, aim is ht?
ignorantz that is, the means of education
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have been enjoyed by individuals, while the
A young peasant, answered Flaurice,
_
nourrus. No.1.
community at large have shared but sparing
in his usual way of exaggeration, who, I un
Temperance is an important virtue. Eve ly in so great a blessing. This is a truth, the
de rstand. in a few days is to receive the hand
ry concern of life is invigorated by its inu causes of which are so very plain that to
of the fair Roselle in marriage."
Indecd. replied Linbault, let us then ence. He that would enjoy health of body enumerate them would be superuous. In
and soundness of intellect, should strictly all the variety of situations in which man may
retire, for I have gazed too long.
Thus saying, the generous youth depart observe its requisitions. By luxury the cor be placed, whether in the tranquility of pri
ed, and ordering Flaurice to follow him, pro poreal system is efl'eininated and made vate life, or in the noisy bustle of the world,
ceeded along the margin of the river, until sickly; by an excessive indulgence of men he feels the inexpressible value of a good
they came to the little bridge ere ;tcd by the tal passions, the spirits are reduced, become education. This is his friend at home, which
peasants for their own convenience in cross languid, perhaps entirely exhausted. He guides him in times of difculty; and when
ing and recrossing the river. The country that would be useful to himself, he that he traverses the pathless ocean and visits un
on the other side looked inviting, and as gray would confer benets upon the community known lands, he sets at deance the craft
twilight was now retiring to her ed, and the as a good citizen, must be careful in his and cunning of those intrigues to whose ar
moon began to brighten in her lustre, thtiy actions. Ilis mind, being nicely regulated ticcs the ignorant would often fall a prey;
determined to lengthen their Walk. \Vrap by genuine principle, no intemperance on and, like Tclcniachus with Mentor for his
ping his .fur cloak around him, and follow any occasion would be maniltst; but he guide, he steers his course in s..ftty. Such
loweu by his faithful i"l.iurice,Linhault pro would exhibit such an instance of sell-pos advontages as these belong to the man of
session and self-government, as would carry learning, even though the brilliancy of his
ceeded across the bridge.
In the mean time Rescue had retired, as with it the most unequivoml evidence of a genius be not dazzlii'ig, and the lustre of his
mentioned in the proceeding chapter, but qualication to do good. His dcfct'CtlCC to natural talents very little above mediocrity.
It is, indeed, my lord, answered the
108
W
But to the man whose mind is peculiarly

susceptible, whose understanding is active
and vigorous, a liberal education is doubly
fcot will become more evident. If an esta

blishment were erected in every county large
enough to hold all those who might stand in
advantageous; it is, to such a character, the
need of such assistance, the effects would
surely be perceptible in the mzuiners and

minds of the inhabitants of future ages. Ma
rit, and to the acquisition of a name that ny are of opinion that colleges (to which none
shall descend to posterity. I do not wish to be can gain admittance but persons of afuence)
understood by what has just been asserted, are best calculated to promote the cause of
that there have not been instances of celebrat literature and knowledge. To this, however,
ed persons, whose scientic attainments owed I must object, for a general distribution of
nothing to art as it respects acquisitions at learning, in a moderate degree, would cer
school. I know there have been some of this tainly be of more utility to society, than the
description, but I am bold to declare their possession of a Perfect college education in
number has been small indeed; so true is the hands of a few. There are many men in
this assertion, that in my opinion, if the pro the United States, famous for their talents
motion of science had depended on these and scientic knowledge, whose tuition in
alone, its very name would have been buried youth was restricted to a mere acquainumce
in oblivion long ere now. It is to the pro with arithmetical calculations; and there are
gress and general dihsion of knowledge, not a few examples of the depravity of hu
that we are indebted for discoveries and im man nature among those who have passed
provements in various arts. \Vhen we re through all the forms and ceremonies of a
ect on the effects which ought to follow a college. These are facts which cannot be
confuted, and they tend to prove the utility
good education, we are astonished on be
holding how much it is abused by many. of institutions for free tuition. Such esta
There are persons from whose acquirements blishments cannot be too numerous in aland
in literature much might indeed be expect whose natives breathe the air of freedom;
ed, who, notwithstanding, are a disgrace where liberty and equality are inseparably
to society and a reproach to themselves. connected, and where oppression ought ne
Prompted by wrong motives and inuenced ver to be tolerated.
T. D. M.
by vain desires, their conduct in life is such
o
pioneer to future fame and laurels of re
nown. It prompts him to deeds of noble me
blood of the Caustics." vociferated I, grasp

ing the pestle, instantly give me an expla
nation of what you mean by a Shakspearc
shop-~ Stop, old gentleman, do not per
mit passion to overcome reason; I will in

form you in a few minutes. Then rising
from his chair, and placing himself in the at
titude of a tragedy teapot, went on thus:
" 1 do remember an apotheeary,
And hereabouts he dwells.
In tanerd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Meagre were his looks, sharp misery had wom him

to the bones,
And in his needy shop a"
Not having patience to wait the conclusion

of his speech, I hurried round the counter;
but the genuine sample of modern buckism

watched my motions too well, and had made
his exit with such hurry and precipitation he

threw my shopman, Hans Sourcrot, prostrate
on the oor. The rueful countenance of poor
Hans as he gathered himself from the oor,
swearing in High Dutch all the time, excited
my risible faculties to such a degree, that I
gave several hearty ha! ha! has! and my pas
sion immediately evaporated.
But I must now conclude, for Iobserve
some of my best customers crossing the

street, and business before friends is a
maxim I adhere to with the zeal of an An
chorite. Yours, in haste,
CAUSTIC.
as would be abhorred by an ignorant simple

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ton. The manner in which some men abuse

such high privileges, does not by any means
derogate from their real dignity and impor
tance. It tends rather to enhance their value
in the estimation of those who enjoy and
wisely improve them; and even those who
are destitute of them furnish the best proofs
of their utility. Since, then, the importance
of a good education is beyond all dispute, and

since it is equally true that many are desti
tute of the means of acquiring it, how neces
sary was it that some plan should be adopted
T0 DOCTOR FUNGUS.
A few days ago, as I was behind my coun
ter, busily mixing up some medicine for our

worthy friend captain Grummet (who is ra
ther indisposed,) a little effeminate animal
came prancing into the shop, and without
ceremony set himself down on a chair which
happened to be standing in-the passage. As
I am not possessed of the sweetest temper
in the world, I felt somewhat rufed at such
impertinent behaviour; however, thinking,
P. S. I have just time to mention, our old
friend, captain Grummet, called to inform me

he was preparing to start for the capes, from
whence he would write, giving an account of
his voyage and adventures.
a.
Sir,
I feel extremely happy at the prospect of

much useful and interesting light being
thrown on the subject of sacred harmony, in
the essays of Philo Madan: they appear to

for the universal diffusion of learning. To possibly, he might be a good customer, I be written by a person who is fully acquaint
the accomplishment of so noble a purpose, disguised my feelings, and coolly asked him ed with the rst and true principles of mu
free schools have beenestablished in almost what he would please to have. My gen sic; and I hope they will have the effect to
every country, whither'the poor were invited tleman, stretching his legs across an empty awaken the attention of a large portion of
to resort and partake of the fruits of tuition. box, stared me full in the face, burst into a your readers to a just and proper underHowever various the plans and arrangements horse laugh and exclaimed, Why, curse standing of the utility of a science, which has
of such institutions may have been, their de me, if you are not the most quizzical old been too often and too much perverted in a
sign and nal object was one of the greatest twadler that I ever recollect to have wit most degrading manner. There are, how
importance. If it were not for poor schools nessed. (Puppy, thought I.) What does ever, somc terms used in his rst essay,
how deplorable would be the condition of your wise head suppose a gentleman like me which to me appear rather obscure, and I
society! The doom of many would be igno wants? I walked into your shop, sir, because have no doubt are so to many of your read
rance with all its miserable attendants. But it suited my con-ve-en-cnce, (yawning). ers; thus, in the quotation from T. Collyer
from this calamity they are happily preser Well, then, sir, says I, as you walked are these words: There must be no volun
ved, and an asylum has always been open for inlo my shop to suit your convenience, I de tary maggots, no military tatoos, no light and
their reception. But it is yet to be lamented sire you now to walk out of it to suit mine. galliardizing notes. These are terms which
that poor schools are not suiciently nume Dem your Shakspeare shop, replied this I should like to see fully explained; and,
rous even at the present period; and in pro pitiful imitation of an Ourang Outang, and from the knowledge which Philo Madan dis
portion as the population increases this de you too, you sour old prig. By the noble plays ou his subjet, l atter myself that a
10$)
number of amateurs will be much gratied

by an explanation of this part of the quota
tion alluded to. I remain yours, Szc.
AN AMATEUR.
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From the London Quarterly Review.
NOVELS.
Novels are read so generally and with
such avidity by the young of both sexes,
that they cannot fail to have a considerable
inuence on the virtue and happiness of
society. Yet their authors do not always ap
pear to be sensible of the serious responsi
bility attached to their voluntary task. In
several novels which we frequently observe
in the parlors of respectable families,
there cannot be a doubt that the warmth of
coloring in certain passages produces in
the imaginations of many of their readers,
disorders which are far from being gulli
ciently corrected by the moral maxims, the
good examples, or the warning events. Of
such grievous misdemeanors, Fielding is
notoriously guilty; other writers also, from

whom better things might have been ex
pected, have stained their pages with indeli
cate details. But the practice is a shameful

violation of good manners, and admits of no
excuse; for either the details are superu

ous, which is most frequently the case, or
else the story should be suppressed alto
gether, as one which will do more harm
than good to far the greater number of those

who will certainly peruse it.
But there is another way in which it may
be apprehended that novels are frequently
hurtful. The P/lit poem and romance qfehi
valry transport us to a world of wonders,
where supernatural agents are mixed with
human characters, where human characters,
themselves, are prodigies, and where events

are produced by causes widely and mani
festly different from the course which regu
lates human affairs. With such a world we
do not think of comparing our actual situa
tion; to such characters we do not presume
to assimilate ourselves or our neighbors:
from such a concatenation of marvels we
draw n0 conclusions with regard to our own
expectations in real life. But real life is the
very thing which novels aect to imitate;
and the young and inexperienced will some
times be too ready to conceive that the pic
ture is true, in those respects at least in
which they wish it to be so. Hence both
their temper, conduct and happiness may
be materially injured. For novels are often
romantic, not indeed by the relation of what
is obviously miraculous or impossible, but
by deviating, though perhaps insensibly,
beyond the bounds of probability or consist
accomplislnnents and enchanting man

which distinguish the favorite charac
in those histories, will be apt to look
contempt on the most respectable and
of the number of these who were more than
amiable of their acquaintance; while in the
that in about twenty seven years a numo.r
showy person and attering address of some

contemptible and perhaps prolligate cox
comb, she may gure to herself the proto
type of her imaginary hero, the only man
upon earth with whom it is possible to be
happy. Nay, if she should venture to in
dulge her lover with a private assignation,
she knows from those authentic records
that her conduct is sanctioned by the ex
ample of ladies of the most inexible virtue.
She may still plead the same authority for
dies equal to that ofall the inhabitants uponthc

globe. Some have estimated the inhabictm
liant
ncrs
ters
with
seventeen at the commeiicennrnt of the tell

years, another numbt r dies equal totie otla 1'
half of all the inhabitants upon the tartlzz -o
of the earth at a thousand lnihions; others at
nine hundred and fty or sixty millions. Ar cording to the rst of these estimates. there
die, annually, about thirty seven millions ol
people; about seven hundred and twelve
ting youth she render herself an outcast

from her station and her family. \Vhatever
she may give up, she has learned from her
oracles that no sacrice can be too great
thousand every week; one hundred and our

thousand seven hundred and fty daily; four
thousand two hundred and thirty nine each
hour; and about seventy every minute. On
the lowest computation of nine hundred and
fty millions of inhabitants, there die yearly
thirty five millions one hundred eighty ve
thousand one hundred and eighty ve; every
week, six hundred seventy six thousand six
for real love; that real love, such as subsists
hundred and thirty eight; in each day, nine
and ever will subsist, between herself and

the best of men, is adequate to ll every
moment of her existence, and to supply the
want of every other gratication and em
ployment. And although she may be pre
vented by fortunate circumstances or by the
prevalence of better principles from exhi
biting in her own fate the catastrophe of a
melancholy novel, yet tinctured with such
notions she must even in prosperity be la
mentably disappointed in her fondest hopes,
and look with a joyless heart to the society
of ordinary mortals, to the ordinary duties
ty six thousand six hundred and sixty two;

every hour, four thousand and twunty seven;
and sixty seven evel'y minute. Amazing mor
tality! What an astonishing stream of souls
is rapidly borne on with the tide of Lime,
continually shooting into the ocean of eter
nity, and appearing before God in judg
ment!
and ordinary comforts of life; those duties
will, by the end of the nineteenth century, he
justication, if for the sake of this fascina
A new year and century are now com
mencing; the events of it will be vast and

momentous, and the earth will be mightily
shaken. The inhabitants of the United States,
according to their usual rate of population,
which the sober minded discharge with
twenty ve or thirty millions. Death by that

cheerfulness, and those comforts in which time, like a mighty deluge, will sweep from
they acquiesce with contentment and de~ the theatre of life more than three thou
sand millions of the human race. Solemn,
light.
-_0.
allecting thought!
While we drop our tears over the graves

of our ancestors and fathers, shall we not
if the following interesting calculation, learn wisdom?
Do we see kings, counsellors and judges
from the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine
of 1801, should be thought worthy a place in of the earth; the wise, the beautiful, and the
your useful paper, it is presumed it may lead strong, covered with clods and worms, and
to some momentous reections in the minds reect how soon we shall be like them; and
shall it not mortify our pride, bring down
of your readers.
\V. R.
Every year is productive of events, so every high imagination, and clothe us with
'
lemn, vast, and wonderful. It terminates the humility?
Sir,
lives_of millions, and, like an irresistible cur
A Legal Pun. Some time since, when it

rent, bears on the dying children of men to
the grave, to judgment and eternity. It ap was becoming fashionable to transform cro/m
pears, from the bills of mortality, that in this
heathful climate, one half of the number of
into queues, a celebrated law character, now
on the bench, happened to call in at a bar
those who are bo'm into the world, die under bers'shop, while a cert-an zs/zionablc was
twenty years of age; and it is computed that, undergoing the operation of having three
taking the world at large, one half of the hu inches of zlae hair tied to the back part of
man race die under seventeen. It is estima
ted that, in ten years more, including those
ency. And the girl who dreams of the bril. Who are born and die in that period, and out
his head, by the help of one inch of his own.
The operator had made several attempts

without success; the queue would not stick
110'
4
Tis by thy aid alictions wounds are heald,

To minds diseased, thou best of friends eer givn!
His endeavors to grasp as much of the inch
Mayst thou he with me, seraph, when I die,
of hair as possible, gave his patient intolerable
Until I gain a brighter world than this,
pain; till unable to contain himself any long

er, he rst vented his passion upon thcfml
:. rur in fashionable and appropriate language,
And Hope shall melt in ecstacy of bliss,

Within the spacious mansions of the sky!
The purest comforts are by thee reveald,
There shall I lose thee in a certain joy,

And praise eternally my powrs employ!
Then, all consoling power, be ever mine,
When resignation hows the soul to Heav'n

Oer my sad soul thy placid sceptre away;
and then demanded of the counsellor, if there

For no sensations are so sweet as thine,
was a legal method of bringing the OECIIdCI'

Co coutlign punishment? Most undoubtedly
there is, replied the oracle of law, you
must have him indicted for RETAILIXG twirli

mir a licence, contrary to the statute.
T0 DESPAIR.
Nymph of the hollow eye and haggard brout.
Whose breast no touch of comfort eer can know,
'lliy sole companion melancholy woe;
The bane of peace, my souls ahhorrence thou!
Through time's career, and at lifes closing da; :

Thou art the loveliest inmate of the breast,
And all thy votries are forever blest.
S.
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For the Repertory.

Down to thy mansions of eternal grief;
--.e.
Let sad Ixion, on his restless wheel,
For the Repertory.
The fury of thy malice ever feel,

And shriek to gain a moments sweet relief!
A VIEW OF MANKIND.
The world 's a tragedy, a scene of woes;
And every creature by experience knows,
THE HARP. LAY Y.
'l'hcre was a time, (0! I remember well!)

\Vhen I could mingle with the jovial throng,
When my light heart with joy and glee could swell,
Ihate thy inuence, and defy thy rage;

Strive thou to bend, beneath thy dark coniroul,
The stubborn feelings of my hopeful soul;
And in the strife thy ercest ranks engage;
The numerous direful ills of life;

Even from the king enthroned in princely state,
Still will I stem the torrent of thine ire,

And hurl thee baclt to tortures and to re.
OTHELLO.
Some dwell in honor, splendid ease and wealth,
Down to the beggar at the rich man's gate,
There s nought but envy, wrath and strife.
Or, of: delighted, hear the jocund song!
There was a time, (to recollection dear!)

\Vhen, through the mazy dance, Id gaily lead;
Or y from joy to joy, with not a care
T obstruct my progress through lifes owry
mead!
And, oh! there was a time,
time of bliss!)
When I could warmly woo the fairest fair;

Could talk of love, and sip the humid kiss,
And shed, for her, alTections silent tear!
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For the Repertory.
And share the sweetest of all blessings, health,

Yet, discontented, oft complain;
Others around, enjoy a plenteous store
Of good, yet, avaricious, grasp at more,
And envy others lawful gain.

To the [Urinary qfjlli'. Ilenry J. Holrlerm'sac.
Some live, alas! in abject poverty,
= Chant we'the sad strain o'er his cold, senseless form,
\Vhich reclines, undisturbd, on the breast of the
grave,
Unmindful alike of the loud roaring storm,
But now, to rise no more, (O, sad regret!)

And the breeze which with gentleness rules the
The happy star of Della Lira s set!

wave:
And often humbly bow and bend the knee,
Thus suppliant t obtain their bread;

They ask the rich man, whose near soul, thOugls
loth,
\Vill sometimes grant the relics of his cloth,
And thus the hungry poor are fed,
DELLA LIRA.
Far away from his home on Columbias loved plains,

From relations, and all that his heart held most
For the Repertory.
dear,
In the summer-burnt groves of the India domains,

THE LYRE. STRAIN I.
His tombstone is fashion'd, unblest with a tear.
\Vhen light the moon beam dances on the wave,

Whose watery bosom rises, silver bright;
When meditation roves with aspect grave,

And fancy sweetly wings her airy ight.
0, then, the scenes ofjollity I y,

And wander, lonely, in some woodland gloom!
For hopeless love still prompts the tender sigh!
Since thorns do ourish, where sweet owers
should bloom!
Yet, while I sigh with griefs oppressive load,

And weary on my journey, rough, uneven,
I know and feel that virtue is the road
To peace on earth, the passport sure to heaven!
But. ah! severely is the bosom torn,

That meets for tenderest love the mock of scorn!
AMOR MENTAL.
Unpitied, unknown in a far distant land,

No affectionate parents to soothe the dread hour,
His spirit obeyd the Eicrnals command,
And, rcleasd, robbd the keen shafts of pain of
their power.
None strew his tomb with owrets fair,

Nor wet it with sweet friendship's tears,
No bursting sighs oat through the air,
No wafted plaint his hovering spirit hears.
And though his form in distant lands,
Lies entomb'd by stranger hands;
Though the storm erce o'er it howls,
And the awful thunder rolls,
While some enjoy the sweets of freedoms store,

Some dig in mines and some tug at the our,
Anti long for deaths approaching day;
Some die in palaces with friends around,
Others iti huts, or on the open ground;

All mingle in the same cold clay.
But here the contrast ends not: look beyond;
The fate of all men will not correspond,
\Vhen time shall cease and be no more;
For though the world s a varied scene of woes,

Yet every creature by example knows,
That lifes dread ills will soon be o'er.

Now change the scene: See " Heavens eternal day
Burst on the raptured soul, in full display
Of equal Providence divine!
See suffering Virtue leave this vale of tears,

To be rewarded in the blissful spheres,
Where endless love and glory shine!
M.
Nothing its peaceful sleep can wake;

But sunbeams oft shall cheer its bed,
Till the last trumpcts accents break

The tranquil slumbers of the dead.
Ye parents, so sad, who still sorrowing sigh,
For the Repertory.

MISS HANNAH LIl.
Hannah, sweet soother of the soul distressd,
A 'lyro poet dares to sing your charms;
For the Repertory.

Aectionate sisters who weep oer his doom,
THE CONTRAST. No. I.
TO HOPE.
Offspring of Heaven, bright Hope, thou art divine,

Sent down to cheer thesinlting soul of man,
\Vhen rst old time his earliest reign began,
And must till time shall cease superior shine!
\Vhen my sad heart is tilld with pale despair

Chose thou the wrathful fury from my breast,
Point me onrapturd to approaching rest,
And bid my soften'd soul expatiate there!
Oh! mourn now no more; for his soul, in the sky,

Dwells enraptured iii joys which forever shall
bloom.
ORLANDO.
Although in aluence lap you are caressd,

You deign to feel for povertys alarms.
The child of sorrow never at your gate,
Found pride and insoleiice forbid his stay;
The beggar never yet was forced to wait
For the Repertory.

SONNET TO RELIGION.
Hail! herald of true happiness divine;
Healer of trouble and earth springing woes;

Soother of souls oppressd, O dwell with mine,
My heart possession readily bestows.
\Vhole hoursthen turnd inhumanly away,

Humanity forever warms your heart;
Your mouth ne'er opens but as truth decrees;
DClighr and pleasure you to all impart;

'
The great and mean alike you always please.
ALPHONSQ.
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111
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For the Repertory.
Ebaneltlbia.
BEFLECTlONS OF A SOLITARY \VANDBlllllt.
S.-\TIillD-\Y_. .\ UGUST 4, 1810.
No. II.
When Sols last rays the western mountains tinge
TO REA DERS AN'D CORRESPONDENTS.
With glowing red, and twilight gray appears;

Sweet owrets, bending ncath their dewy load,
Veil all their charms, and wait returning day
Their petals to disclose; when the blue sky,

Clear and with twinkling brilliants studded thick,
L'nfolds new beauties to th' enraptured eye,
With awe I view, and ponder on the great,

The wise Creators works, his gifts to man,
A feeble race! and mentally exclaimd,
Cannot his deeds. which thus evince his power,
Inspire belief within the human soul,
And teach it rightly to esteem his mercy,

l-hs bonnteous providence, and own his glory?
They bid it pay the tribute, justly due,
To his great power and wisely lenient laws,

Which claim an uncorrupted, grateful heart.
Can doubts pervade the mind when all his works

Calmly Contemplating? No hand but his
Can gently mould the stubborn heart of man
To virtue, and its guilty progress check.
What are the giddy pleasures of the world,

The pompous trappings of exalted state,
When put in competition with his goodness!
Art cannot furnish to the sense a view
So truly grand, as at the silent hour,
When Phebus, sinking down the blushing west,

Retiring, sheds upon the mountains top
His fainter beams; as well the laggerd snail
Might strive to distance farI with crawling pace,
The eetness of the deer. Yet man, rash man,
Dates hurl deance at his Makers power,

Whose nod could sink him into nothingness!
And strive to burst creations dearest tie,
The unity of souls. Gods law commands

"That in fraternal love his children dwell.
But is that law obey'd which shows his love?
Abs! 'tis the reverse; for man on man
lnhuman preys; deceit and hatred reign
1n breasts which should be pure. Interest it is,
Self interest, which absorbs each sparkling gem,
Each ner, virtuous feeling, in its gulph?
'
ST. ORME.
For the Repertory.
SONNET.
Written in the manner of Slzmazonc.
How sweet was my youths early morn,
Ere reection had clouded my brow;
Ipulld the mild rose from the thorn,

And was happv I cannot tell how.
ljoind in all sports of the plain:
With joy I have heard the blithe song;
\Vc are happy in introducing another pc

riodicztl writer by the name. of Equitus, who
for intelligence. correct thinking and strong
language, cannot full to be an agreeable com
panion to the reecting reader.
A Subscriber" who has sent us Select
ed mathematical questions, may perceive in
our notes to correspondents some time since,
that problems, cnigmas, sec. must inv-nrinbly
be accompanied by the proper solutions, or
some criterion by which we may judge of
the truth of solutions that may be offered:
we do not pretend that we have the eyes of
an Argus, or the powers of an (Edipus; and
if we had, we have at all times a sufficiency
of other employment for them.
The soft breathings of the Lyre of Amor
Mental are in a strain of tenderness that ex
cites our sympathy; and, while as an infant
which tt'cmbles in the eye of friendship, Lilt
sure criterions of his WUlll't. \Vhilc this vir

tuous mm cultivated and promoted. both b_\
precept and example. pence, condor. and

all the benevolent affections, ho wisely ut
tcndcd to the all-important dutit-s of rcli
gion, doing; justly, loving mercy, and
Walking humbly with his God. During his
distressing malady, by divine old, which he
oftcn ft-rvcntly invoked. he was enabled to
sustain the mging ills of life with enem
plary patience and fortitude, and to leave
this transitory scene with that peace of mind
which the world could not give; and while
life was rapidly ebbing, his mental faculties
became so signally invigorated, as in a dc~

grec to comfort his comforters, by his
dying expressions of faith and trust in the
mercy of God, through the atoning merits
bard he claims our indulgence, we have no of the divine Redeemer of a sinful world.
doubt that candid criticism will be disarmcd His conduct is a legacy for all.
of the severity of stricture.
()n the. 'l'hursday afternoon following, the
The Cabinet, a periodical undertaking, rcmuins of this estimable citizen, whose loss
came too late for this number; but next is so generally and sensibly felt in this com
week it shall be unlocked, and some of its munity, were respectfully cntontbed in the
contents presented for the gratication of north burying ground, after the delivery of
the curious.
a pathetic and appropriate address to the
throne of grace, by the Rev. Mr. Gum), in
the presence of at numerous and deeply
IMARRIED,
On the 29th July, by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, affected auditory. The studtnts of Brown
Mr. Jacob Johnson to Miss Hurriol Thomson, University, of the corporrttion of which tho
both of Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county. deceased was a very useful member, with
becoming reverence, formed at part of tho
DIED,
solemn funeral procession.
On Tuesday afternoon, the 17th instant,
departed this life, at Providence, (Rhode
Island,) Mr. John Rogers, merchant, in the
54th year of his age, (brother to the Rev.

Dr. Rogers of Philadelphia.) He was a na
tive of Newport, (R. Island,) but had resi
ded in the town of Providence upwards of
thirty years. He was, in every walk of life,
- a highly interesting and valuable member of
society, possessing a polished, cupscious and
enlightened mind, matured by experience,
accurate investigation, and acute observa
tion; to which were united the most correct
In the dance I was rst of the train,

And was gayest among the gay throng,
husbmtl, father, brother, and friend, were
sustained with an affection and propriety

peculiar to his delicate and g'ltllc nnttu'c.
The title of sorrow; which t)\t:\'.ltl but; his
bereaved family, and the lthl of sympathy
Captain Porter, lately commanding the

gunbonts at Ncw Orleans, has been ordered
to take comnumd of tho frigate Essex. Cup

tttin Smith, her late commander, having ob
tained leave of absence, for some time, to
recover his health, which has been much
impaired by an uninterrupted devotcdncss

to the service for years past.
.Nulz'onal Intelligt-nrer.
Albany, July 27.

Remarkable rural/arr. A gentleman from
Chenango county, informs us, that the frost
was so severe in the vicinity of Oxford, on
principles, and an engaging philanthropy

thattinfused into his heart a patriotic love
But, ah! these fair visions of youth,
for all mankind. He was eminent, as a the night of the 18th inst. that corn, See. in
DZ-appointment has chased front my mind! '
merchant, for his profound knowledge in the high and exposed situations, was much do
And the friends whom I fancyd all truth,
most extensive and complicated routine of maged, and in some elds completely dc
Alas! can be something unkind.
commerce, to which unblemished integrity
stroyed. lot: of the thickness of window glass,
lhzve seen the bright azure of morn,
and uniform punctuality were indissolubly was found in many places.
With darkness and clouds shadowd o'er;
combined. In domestic life he was as irre
Ah! his true that the rose has a thorn,
proachablc as in his more enlarged sphere
Which oft wounds when its sweets are no
JIJVt'tv [llanuu'turta W'c understand that
of action, and the endearing characters of the true fttluel' and kaolin (the earthy sub
more.
ALONZO.
PHILADELPHIA. BEPERTORY.
112
stances used in the manufacture of china)

have been discovered in the United Stutcs;
and that china equal to that imported from

the East Indies, has been made. This fact is
undoubtedly interesting, more especially as

we. may be furnished with this article from
our own inanulizctorics. Decomposed feld
spar, which, according ,to the opinion of
some, constitutes one of the earths, has been
found in different parts of the country; and

the other, which appears to differ not very
materially from this earth, will, when mixed
with it in proper proportion and exposed to
a given heat, afford scmitransparent ware
possessing the properties of china. The par
ticular property of one of the earths is to be
come fusible in a given degree, and there
fore to assume in a measure the property of
glass; when it is mixed with an infusible
earth it must form a compound possessing
the scmitransparcnt and other properuds of
china. This e'ect is attributed by some to
the presence of potash.
Aurora.
_.._
Communication for the Repertory.
Mr. Editor,
Having observed a number of communi

cations in your useful paper, calculated to
advance the prosperity of the country by cir
culating information respecting the useful
arts and inventions of our ingenious coun
trymen, and unions to contribute my mite,
I am induced to communicate as follows:
In my pcmmbulations about the city I lately
obst-rVed, at the corner of Thirdstreet and
Brewers alley, a new fashioned gate,- I had
the curiosity to examine it, and found that

instead of swinging on hinges, as is usual, it
was elevated in 'the air in a very pretty and
easy manner, by means of weights and pul
lics; there being posts on each side with
elegant; and that were its merits generally

known it would be universally adopted. Gen
tlemen who have pleasure grounds or coun
try seats, and who wish to combine elegance
with usefulness, may now have an opportu
nity of displaying their ingenuity to great ad
vantage, as those gates may be so construct
ed as when elevated to have the appezu'ance
of a triumph-.1 arch, Ezc. Indeed my fancy
would lead me to a great length in describ
ing its beauties, werel not fearful of tres
passing too much on your good nature.
It possesses this advantage over other gates,
HEALTH OFFICE,
July as. 1810.

Interment; in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
from the Qlst to the 28th July.
Diuaser.
ad. cb.
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Atrophy
1 Whooping cough 0
Cholera. morbus
1
Cholic
1
Consumption oflungs 1
Convulsious
0
Decay
6
Diarrhoea.
0
Dropsy of the breast l
Dysentery
0
Debility
1
Epilepsy
0
Fracture
0
21
0
2
4
0
I
0
1
1
1
l
1 O
0 2
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 2
0 1
1 0
-
19 4O
-
Fever, typhus
that it shuts close at bottom, which will ef
Fever, puerperal
fectually protect farmers who may adopt this

plan, from the annoyance of pigs, and other
mischievous animals.
I am confident they must be found useful
in many places in the city where gates are

Under
1
23 Between 50 andtiO
Between 1 and 2
9
60
70
wanted, as in courts, alleys, Ways, 3w. where

there is not room to swing a gate; and. even
where there is, it would be a complete sav

ing of so much room, which must certainly
be a very considerable object. I shall not say
any more, but leave it for those who are
lnam. of lungs
Inam. of bowels
Rheumatism
Small pox natural
Stone
Still born
Worms
Unknown
Total 59
2
0
70
80
10
l.
80
90
10
20
20
S
4
90
100
4 Ages unknown
0
0
3O
40
4-
_.
6
Total 59
40 50
~
9 oclock. 12 oclock. Soclock.
1 uly 23
71
73
74
24
25
68
70
71
73
76
75
26
27
28
71
70
71
72
72
73
7'3
72
more particularly interested.

Jfrimd to all new and useful inventions.
+
An CX-pllCSt named Thuring, died lately
at St. Servant, whose life was marked with
A. Singing School
an adventure that might appear extraordi Is opened by a number of Mr. Laws pupils, in a
nary, even to such as read only romance, new and elegant room in Cherry street, No. 22,
and see only melodrames. Thuring had been next door to the German church; where those who
on his return to France, with his wife and
two children, and a considerable property,

which he had acquired in New England,
but suffered shipwreck within sight of the
coast of Brittany, and swam ashore alone.
Not doubting that the sea which he saw

covered the ruins of his fortune, had also
swallowed up his wife and children, he has
grooves to secure the gate. The adv-.mtagcs tened to bury his despair in a monastery
which attracted his notice. His superior
of this new, and, as I afterwards found, pa
discovered in him some talents for the pul
tent gate, 1 conceive to be as follows:
They are not subject to sagging, like the pit, and sent him on a mission to preach in
common swing gate. The common gate ope the neighboring cities and villages. He was
rates as a lever upon its hinges, so that it is preaching one day precisely in the place, on
almost impossible to keep the outer end from which he had ve years beiorc suffered ship
touching the ground, especially those that wreck, in the city of Croisic, on the insta
bility of human affairs, a text which gave
are much used.
Being raised in this manner, they do not, him an opportunity of quoting the tale of
of course, occupy any room in swinging; and his own misfortunes as an example. He had
as the ground which lies contiguous to a scarcely nished his interesting picture,
mrnpikc gait; is always valuable, they must when a woman, who had listened with par
be preferred. Toll gatherers will nd their ticular attention screamed and fainted. Be
usefulness upon all occasions, peculizuly so ing removed into the sacristy, she recover
on many urgent and important ones, as they ed just as the sermon was ended, and the
can be ele vated or lowered very easily, and in rst object she perceived was Thuring, who
less time than the common gate can be open was p.tying her a visit. The female was his
wife, whom some shermen had brought off
ed or shut.
I am induced to believe that it will be the rock when the vessel sunk.
.Lon. Pajzer.
found not only convenient and useful, but
wish [0 become acquainted with the art of Sacred

Mule are requested to give in their names on Wed
nesday or Saturday evening.
'lhe\ will teach in a manner that will lead on thcil

pupils in an easy and familiar way,and will givt
them a thorough knewledge of the art of singing,

and of the rst principles of the art of music.
Their method has been found. by fair experiment.

to advance the pupil with double the rapidity of any
other method, and to make him master of the art ir.
less than half the time that is required in the oth

methods.
VANTED,
between twelve and fteen years of age. ,One that

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ance was half a pint of damaged wheat, and
equipment was to be supplied by resolution
as much barley, per day; the river, which

at the ood was salt, and at the ebb was
and address; and Smiths genius was equal
muddy, afforded them their only drink; it

also supplied them with sturgeon and shell
river to Kecoughtan [Hampton] where the
sh. This kind of food, with their continual
lony, treated them with contempt, oering
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN SMITH.
(Continued)
The ships being almost ready to return,

ll was thought proper that some decision
should be had respecting the allegations
against Smith. His accusers a'ected com
No. 15.
to the attempt. They proceeded down the

natives, knowing the needy state of the co
labor in the heat of summer, and their fre them an ear of corn in exchange for a mus
quent watching by night, in all weathers, ket, or a sword, and in like proportion for
miseration, and pretended to refer him to having only the bare ground to lie on, with their scant and tattered garments. Finding
the censure of the company in England, but a slight covering, produced diseases that courtesy and gentle treatment would
rather than expose him to a legal prosecu among them, which, by the month of Sep not prevail, and that nothing was to be ex
tion, which might injure his reputation or tember, carried of? fty persons, among pected in the way of barter, and moreover
provoked by their contempt, Smith ordered
touch his life. Smith, who knew both their whom was captain Gosnold. Those who re
malice and their imp0tence, openly scorned mained were divided into three watches, of his boat to be, drawn on shore and his men
their pretended pity, and deed their resent whom not more than ve in each were ca to re at them. The a'righted natives ed
ment. He had conducted himself so unex pable of duty at once. All this time, the to the woods, whilst the party searched their
ceptionably in every employment which had president Wingeld, who had the key of houses in which they found plenty of corn;
but Smith did not permit his men to touch
been allotted to him, that he had rendered the stores, monopolized the few refresh
himself very popular; and his accusers had, ments which remained, and was meditating it, expecting that the Indians would return
by a di'erent conduct, lost the affection and to desert the plantation privately in the pin and attack them. They soon appeared to the
condence of the people. Those who had nace, and remove to the West Indies. These number of sixty or seventy, formed into a
been suborned to accuse him, acknowledged things rendered him so hateful to the rest, square, carrying their idol Okec, composed
that they deposed him, and elected Ratclie
of skins, stued with moss and adorned with
in his room; they also removed Kendal from

demanded a trial, and the issue was, that the his place in the council, so that, by the
president was adjudged to pay him 2001. middle of September, three members only
but when his property was seized in part of were left.
Ratcli'e, being a man of no resolution
this satisfaction, Smith generously turned it
into the common store, for the benet of nor activity, committed the management of
chains of copper. They were armed with
their fault, and discovered the secret arts
which had been practised against him. He
the colony. Such an action could not but in
crease his p0pularity. Many other difcul

ties had arisen among them, which, by the
inuence of Smith and the exhortations of
Hunt, their chaplain, were brought to a
seemingly amicable conclusion. Smith was
a'airs abroad to Smith, in whom his con
clubs and targets, bows and arrows, and ad
vanced singing to the charge. The party

received them with a volley of shot, which
brought several of them to the ground and
their idol among them; the rest ed again

to the woods, from whence they sent a de
dence was not misplaced. At the same time, putation to o"er peace and. redeem their
the Indians in their neighborhood brought in god. Smith having in his hands so valuable
a plentiful supply of such provisions as they a pledge, was able to bring them to his own
ihad, which revived their drooping spirits; terms; he stipulated that six of them should
and Smith, seeing the necessity of exertion,
come unarmed, and load his boat with corn,
to secure themselves, and provide for the and on this condition he would be their
the next Sunday they celebrated the com approaching winter, partly by his animating friend and give them hatchets, beads and
munion. At the same time, the Indians came speeches, but more by his example, set copper. These stipulations were faithfully
in and voluntarily desired peace. \Vith the them to work in mowing and binding thatch, performed on both sides; and the Indians in
good report of these transactions, Newport and in building and covering houses. In , addition presented them with venison, tur
admitted to his seat in the council, and on
sailed for England on the 22nd of June,
promising to return in twenty weeks with

fresh supplies.
The colony thus left in Virginia consist
ed of one hundred and four persons, in very
miserable circumstances, especially on ac
count of provisions, to which calamity their
these exercises he bore a large share, and,
keys, and other.birds; and continued sing
in a short time, got a suiciency of houses ing and dancing till their departure.
to make comfortable lodgings for all the peo
The success of this attempt encouraged
ple, excepting himself. This being done, and him to repeat his excursions by land and
the provisions which the natives had brought I. water, in the course of which he discovered
in being expended, he picked a number of several branches of James river, and parti
the best bands, and embarked in a shallop cularly the Chickahumony, from whose fer
long voyage did not a little contribute, both which they had brought from England, to tile banks he hoped to supply the colony
as it consumed their stock, and deprived search the country for another supply.
with provision. But industry abroad, will not
The party which accompanied Smith in make a ourishing plantation without eco
them of the opportunity of sowing season-ably
in the spring. \Vhilst the ships remained, this excursion, consisted of six men, well nomy at home. \Vhat he had taken pains
they could barter with the sailors for bread; armed, but ill provided with clothing and, and risqued his life to provide, Was carc
other necessaries. What was wanting ih"; ~lessl}' and wantonly expended; the trafc
but, after their departure, each mans allow
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with the natives being under no regulation,

each person made his own bargain, and by
out-bidding each other, they taught the In

dians to set a higher value on their commo
dities, and to think themselves cheated when
nd that the storm, the last night, had com

pletely destroyed the frail passage, and not
even a vestige of it remained. Filled with ex
pectation, he returned, found he had left the
much honor, too much virtue to prot by it.

The overjoyed Roselle now recovered
from the swoon into which the sudden and
unexpected appearance of her father had
key of his boat at home; but with a sudden
thrown her, and overwhelmed her deliverer,
they did not all get the same prices. This effort he broke part of the stump to which in whom she had recognised the handsome
bred a jealousy, and sowed the seeds of a she was fastened, and leaping into the boat stranger, with the most grateful acknow
quarrel with them, which the colony were in
a poor condition to maintain, being at vari

ance among themselves.
(To be continued.)
a..
ledgments.
proceeded across.
When the man, who was Flauriee, saw
Braubenski approach, he flew to inform his

master that relief was at hand, while Brau
benski, following in astonishment, was con
For the Repertory.
ducted a few hundred yards to the entrance
of a wood, where he beheld a scene that ll
ed him with delight and wonder.

The young baron Linhault sat at the foot
of a tree supporting the head of a lovely fe
A ROMANC E.
CHAPTER II.
(Continued)
Haste, haste, Orlando, carve on ev'ry tree,
Sbal'rpeare.
Braubenski proceeded on his search with

a heavy heart, and almost hoping, if he did
not nd Roselle, some accident might ob
struct his return, for he could not live with
out her; but the remembrance of his good
and beloved Malda checked these impious
thoughts, and brought a salutary reproof into
the bosom of the alicted father.
He now quickened his pace, hallooing as
he explored every inch of ground, but all
in vain; no Roselle could he discover, and
only the hoarse reverberation of the hollow

bosom of the wood answered to his repeated
calls.
Despairing now of nding her alive, he
resolved to seek the river, and see if the
male, who, upon beholding Braubenski, flew

into his arms, exclaimed my father! and
fainted on his bosom. It was Roselle.

Tears of transport ran down the cheek of
the honest peasant, as he held her in his
arms for some moments with speechless ec

staey. \Vhat must have been his feelings at
this moment! He beheld the object of his
dearest affections; she whom he supposed
buried in a watery grave; for whom he had
mourned with the severest anguish; for
whom he had deed the severity of the rag
ing tempest, and left the shelter of his hum
ble cottage at the noon of night, clasped in
safety to his heart! The transports of his be
loved Malda, too, rushed forcibly upon his
mind, and he thought that his joy could
know no increase.
The noble soul of Linhault melted at this
winds had even been so merciful as to throw
scene of consummate bliss; he gazed in
her body on the shore, that he might be cer
transport at the venerable father and his too

lovely daughter. The thought of her being
tain of her fate.

The gray eye of twilight had closed, and
the dappled glories of Aurora began to scat
ter over the orient horizon just as the hap
less Braubenski reached the margin of the
stream. Fastened to a stake upon the waters
edge was the little boat, which he sometimes
used in shing, as well for pastime as sub
sistence. He sat some moments gazing at
the promised bride of Leopold checked for

a moment his joy, but all powerful virtue
soon destroyed these selsh views, and his
heart beat in delight as he mentally exclaim
ed, I am the instrument that has produced
this scene of happiness! and even the
thoughtless Flaurice could not behold the
father and his recovered child, without emo
the barque in which Roselle, the object of his tion, in spite of the levity of his character,
care and solicitude, had often angled by his
side, and involuntarily wept at the thought
that she would never more be seated there!
\Viping the honest tears from his eyes, he
and mechanically drew

across his eyes, to stop
that broke its passage on
Though Linhault was
prepared, with feelings the most acute, to
Behold, my father, she cried, the no
ble stranger to whom you owe the safety of

Roselle; but for him I should now have been
a lifeless burthen at the bottom of the rapid

stream! How should you, how will my mo
ther pour out her soul in gratitude to the
instrument of my salvation!"
As she spoke, her eyes beamed something
more than gratitude, and she blushed as she
met the pleasure beaming glance of Lin
hault.
Though the youth disdained the idea of
committing a noble action in hopes of a re
ward, he turned away to conceal the chagrin
that became visible on his face, upon his be
ing very coldly thanked by Braubenski for
hazarding his life for the preservation of his
beloved child.
Roselle was astonished; ashamed of the
light manner in which her father returned

his acknowledgments for her safety; but she
had to learn that Braubenski would have
been much more gratied if any but an in
habitant of Sobeiski castle had rescued Ro
selle from destruction.
His mysterious reasons for this strange
disposition, as well as the reason of his not
imprinting the kiss of a'ection on his daugh
ters check, which excited so much astonish
ment in Linhault, it is more than probable
the catastrophe of our narrative may unfold.

As it is possible our readers may be anx
ious to hear in what manner our fair hero
ine was preserved, in order to gratify their

curiosity we shall proceed to relate it-in
our next number.
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
_-_'_
For the Repertory.

EQUITUS. No. 11.
his handkerchief
A bad memory is a common complaint
the generous tear This defect arises, in general, from want of
his cheek.
close thinking. People suffer their minds to
much affected at rovc from one object to another, without
this melting interview, he was still more
xing upon any. Public discourses of the
return to Malda without their darling child, astonished and confounded by conjecture, in
dreading the consequence of the certainty of observing that the joyful father imprinted
her fate; when casting a look across the not a kiss upon the face of his enchanting
most serious nature, and private conversation

on the most important subjects are lost on
such minds. \Vhile they should be employ
stream, he observed a man standing on the
daughter, and almost envied him the happy
ed in examining, in comparing and reect
opposite shore, who, as Brauhenski was ra opportunity. What could restrain a parent
ther deaf, had called to him in vain, and now from giving the innocent pledge of affection
beckoned to him to hasten across.
to a dear child raised as it were from the
Braubenski immediately repaired to the very grave? Yet Linhault had, a short time
bridge, but was astonished and chagrined to before, the same opportunity, but had too
ing on the subject discussed, foolish imagina

tions frequently occupy their whole attention.
In the same way, business is mismanaged,
by forgetting, or what is all one in elfect,
by neglecling', the proper method, and tri
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\
ing from one thing to another. It is an un

fortunate circumstance that habits of this
kind are frequently grounded in the youth
ful mind. Thoughts are left to take their
be remembered, till they are well digested,

and accurately understood; the views of the
mind should be clear and pointed. Every
memory exercise her powers amidst tumult

and distraction! There must be no intellec
tual commotion while a train of thought is

object of thought should be reviewed in carried on; but the utmost composure should
course without any such thing as a deter

mined channel: like the waters of the brook
which stray through capacious valleys, they
succession, and canvassed with a scrupulous be studied.

exactness. When there is an imperfect com
Whatever is read, or thought, should be
prehension of ideas, the knowledge result come the subject of conversation. It is of
run from one side of their area to the other, ing is unimportant and transitory. There inconceivable help to memory, by deepening
find obstructions to their course, and are can be no extensive degree of retention, impressions on the mind, and evincing how
naturally driven into another direction. Thus without understanding. The traces which far our studies have been well digested.
with the unregulated mind, awandering and ideas, passing through the brain, leave upon Conversation, like a mirror, discovers our
devious disposition is indulged in preference it, are deeper or fainter, in proportion to imperfections in knowledge, and often re
to a straight and regular course, and gather
the vigor of conception. Men who think moves the attering opinions which we had
ing strength by time, a habit becomes more supercially, are seldom retentive: impres formed of our powers.
and more established, and seldom is there sions follow one another sufciently quick;
Writing also has a very impressive ten
fortitude of mind suicient to correct the but, like circles in the water, they vanish as dency. \Vhoever is at the pains to write out.
procedure, however sensible a person may soon as they are made. Inattention is the any thing in a fair legible hand, will facilitate
be of its pernicious tendency.
source of this imperfection. They are at no the business of memory. The act of writing
Memory is the great medium by which pains to examine their ideas, to compare xes the attention on each letter and word, and
we are enabled to reason. Were we not
them with each other, and discern their
possessed of this faculty of recalling past
agreement or difference. Hence their ideas
scenes into view, we should lead an animal

life, on a level with brutes. He then that
would act consistent with the dignity of hu

man nature, should regard memory as one
of its most valuable prerogatives, and on all
occasions endeavor to preserve and improve
it by assidious cultivation.
A.
As the preceding is rather short for an es

say, we subjoin an apposite Selection, which
happily forms an appropriate appendage, and
can scarcely fail to be generally acceptable.
Ed.
HELPS FOR MEMORY.
As memory is the storehouse of know

ledge, it may be of use to point out a few
methods for enlarging it, or accommodating
its present size to a more convenient dispo
sal of its contents. Those who labor under
any defects in the nature of this faculty,
should carefully attend to them, and apply
suitable remedies.
'
The state of the memory principally de

pends on that of the brain; and if the latter
be too hot or too cold, the former will suf
fer loss. A proper mixture of heat and cold

is most favorable to memory. Lord Bacon,
in some part of his works, prescribes par
ticular medicines for restoring it to a just
balance, where it is wanting. Our own ex
perience, however, will teach us how to act
in many cases. Too much sleep, by stupify

ing the head, and too little, by inflaming it,
are extremes equally pernicious to the at
tainment of learning. The student must
avoid nightly watchings and morning slum
bers, as he would intemperance, which is not
less fatal to the mind.
Having seen how the brain is disposed by
nature, our care must be directed to the
application of it as it respects memory. We
should be careful not to commit things to
the mind, in recollection, easily recals them
in the order of succession, and joins sen

tences or paragraphs, according to their
is always kept in a state of blank.
relative places. It is Plato, surely, who re
Beside a just understanding, method is marks that writing is apt to produce care
also necessary. It not only assists us in the lessness; and by releasing memory from the
act of committing to memory, but will serve severity of her task, to weaken her capacity.
to retain or recal ideas which appear to be But this objection holds not good in ex
lost. Every ones experience shows the ad perience. \Vriting is generally found to
vantages of method. For example, how strengthen weak memories, and to render
easily the scholar gets off any passage from strong ones accurate.
an author who observes a connection of
Care must be taken not to overcharge the
thought; while the same number of lines, memory. Small portions must employ its
composed of independent sentences, cost rst essays, and a gradual increase be made,
him innite labor, and perhaps are at last according to its power. If it be too much
badly committed. \Vhen there is no bond of strained, it will lose its elasticity and force,
union amongst our conceptions, but only a and, like a weak body oppressed with weight,
random relation to each other, it cannot be grow in imbecility. A few trials will con
expected that the mind should be ready in vince a person to what point he may safely
recollection, or dextrous in passing from go; and to exceed it, is not only ineectual
one thing to another.
.
to any good purpose, but, as before observed,
As man is constantly busy in amassing hurtful. Many teachers, from neglecting to
materials of knowledge, he would be em estimate the strength of boys memories,
barrassed how to adapt the whole to useful often do them a serious injury, for which
ends, if he had not the art of connecting nothing can compensate.
ideas of the same species or class. \Vhen
There have been many devices formed
any new idea is acquired, it should be im for assisting the memory, upon the ingeni
mediately annexed to that bundle of them ous scheme of Simonides; but all of them
peculiar to it. .Thus knowledge is divided are tedious and conned. The best way for
into parts or sections, according to its quali acquiring a sound memory, is by a mode
ty, and, upon each addition, the mind takes rate and constant exercise of that faculty.
a general survey of that part of it to which All habits are strengthened by practice; and
the newly entered idea belongs. Hence memory will as soon yield the fruit of it as
arises a double advantage, viz. of imprinting any other. To improve the power of reten
fresh ideas, and recovering the memory of tion, should be the constant care of the stu
dent, in order that industry and improvement
old ones.
Nothing can be more prejudicial to lite may attend each other, as uniformly as cause
rary acquisitions than that hurry of mind to anti effect.
are retained for a short time, and the mind
"0.
which some busy spirits are subjected.

Coolness and deliberation, on which the for
mation of true ideas, as well as the retention
be silent; still less how to act with vigor and
of them, is dependent, belong to souls in

clined to'peace and tranquillity. How can
decision. Who hastens to the end is silent:

loudness is impotence.
He knows not how to speak who cannot
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For the Repertory.
many other points of view. The business of
\VEEKLY REFLECTIONS.
the day in which we are engaged, calls forth

the energies of our mental faculties; these
In all the works of nature, we behold that
uniformity and regularity, which at once

designate their beauty and the wisdom of
their Creator. No where do we nd that jar
gon and imperfection, so characteristic of
the very renements of art. All is harmo
nious, admirable and great, without a single
blemish or defect in any thing necessary or

useful to man. But the noblest, the most as
tonishing master piece in nature, is the hu

man frame; fearfully and wonderfully is it
made. The perfect adaptation of one part to
another, the delicacy of structure and the
grandeur of the whole machine, call forth
our amazment and admiration. Compared
with surrounding objects, it rises superior
to every thing in sublimity and beauty. But

the machine itself, though calculated to ex
cite such sentiments as these, is by no means

so astonishing as the movements within.
The animal economy is the very paragon
of perfection; mysterious in its nature and
far above our comprehension in many of its
operations. But there are some of the laws,
by which the human system is regulated,
with whose actions we are acquainted.
The existence of man requires some ex
ertion of bodily and mental powers; these
would soon sink into decay, if a period of
rest was not allotted to them. The exigen
cies of the body demand a relaxation from
toil, a retreat from the aairs of life, in or
der to be recruited for more vigorous action.
The animal machine (says a writer) like the
the clock, must be wound up once in twenty
four hours.
Sleep is as necessary to man as food; it
gives to wearicd nature the blessings of re
pose! We read, it is true, some extraordi
nary accounts of persons living without

sleep for months and years; but these are
slight deviations from the usual order of
things, so uncommon as to make scarcely
an exception to the almost universal rule.
Indeed it would appear as though the dark

some gloom and still silence of the night,
were destined to answer this necessary end.
They seem to point to retirement from the
cares, the busy scenes of life. All animated
nature is dependent on this grand provision
for support and existence.
The feathered race, whose tuneful and
melodious notes please and delight us all the

day, drop their sweet strains when evening
shades appear. And shall not man retire to
rest? Shall be not quit the active stage of
business and fall a while into forgetfulness,
to taste the pleasures of this momentary
death? Sleep is not only necessary to the
healthy functions of the body,(it is useful in
are so frequently disturbed and wearied by

our numerous pursuits, that it is indispen
sably necessary they should enjoy some ces
sation from action. For, although some
metaphysicians have ventured to assert that
the mind is active in sleep, yet we believe
that correct reasoning has established a doc
trine directly the reverse. if the mind be
not passive, what good would result to it
from the tempory suspension of bodily ac
tion, which all acknowledge to be necessary?
To sleep, is only to enjoy an absence from
the cares, the anxieties which perplex and
annoy us through the day. It is to experience
an exemption, a transitory respite from the
troubles of life. Is fortune rugged? is our
path beset with thorns? Blest is repose, be
yond expression blest! it frees us from the
oppressive load that daily bears us down.
The laborer, who is compelled to toil from
the rising to the setting sun, for the support
of his family, knows the full value of sleep.
\Vorn dowu with the fatigues of the day,
his languid limbs need something to refresh
and invigorate them. He enjoys the pleasure
of repose, even though his bed be no better
tormenting dreams and the frightful forms

of fancy.
T. D. M.
For the Repertory.
hIY ADVENTURES.
Strange it may be, and so it is, but my

old woman says, teaze me she will, if I dont
tell our funny adventures. A mix medley of

oddities it will be, drunk and sober, dirty
and clean, and such like things as half the
world never thought about. But to comply,

1 needs must; and where to begin or where
to end, is a matter not yet determined. Well,

as the story goes, I and my wife, or as de
center folks would say, my wife and I, be
witched with some odd notion or other, took
it into our heads to go a journey. \Vas mor

tal ever amazed like I, to hear such a pro
position from an old maid, just turned of

forty. To be plain, Id half a notion some
thing was brewing for a long time, and now

dye see, the bung 3 out of the hogshead at
last. Well, it cant be helped, thought I;
but to be sure, a mans pocket is the best

place for his own money. But the old plague
harrassed my very soul all night, til] at last
I told her, to keep her long tongue within
her teeth and she should see our neighbors
bread coach at the door next morning. You
than a bed of straw; and he rises with the must know my old woman s a lady so called,
morning light, prepared to enter on his a cart was too mean for her, plague on such
stinking pride. So the coach was geered up
customary employments.
How sensibly do we feel the effects of a with a ne old horse, just turned of eighteen
temporary deprivation of sleep! It enervates and blind only in one eye, and off we started
the whole fabric, unhinges the system and bright and early by the peep of day. Things
for a while creates disorder and confusion went on gaily, till we had reached thirty
in the exercise of our functions. It unfits miles from home, when of a sudden, bless
us for acting the part of men and for ming me, how it scared us! down went the coach
ling with society. It damps our ardor and and we of course with it, plump into a great
zeal, and casts a veil over the eulgencc of wide ditch. My wife screamed, murder! got
genius. It renders objects disgustful, which the hysterics, till at last I told her, for mer
at other times afford pleasure and satisfac cys sake, to hold her peace, or she would
tion; in short, it seems to interrupt the very certainly raise all the neighbors, though by
order of nature. Such is the importance of the by, we had not seen a living being foran
sleep and such its utility to the human race hour. This pacied her a little, when on
telling her we had one consolation yet left,
and to all animated creatures.
Who then will contend that man has an she cried out, dear Ned, whats that? Why,
inherent principle of action, an innate pow Betty, said I, it 9. bad enough, dear knows,
er of motion? or who will assert that any but sure it might have been worse. Beinga
living being possesses such powers? They little calmed from the fright, we began to
are alike totally dependent on the impres conjecture what was to be done; here lay
sions of external agents, and without these we, in as pretty a pickle as mortals ever
they would soon drop into nonentity. Sleep heard of, and at this moment it seemed as
is nothing but the effect of the action and if the very elements had clashed, it thun
abstraction of such stimuli as are capable of dered, lightened, poured and hailed in tor
producing it There is as much philosophy rents. My wife and I were all this while in
in the phenomena of sleep, as in many other the coach, in a very humble posture, dis
things which escape general notice. Be this puting about getting out. She began to rail
as it may, we know by its effects, that it is, at me for being miserly and getting such an
indeed, tired natures sweet restorer. Hap old hack; and I quoth, retorted by telling her
py are they, whose midnight hours roll that all old gossips ought to be served thus,
sweetly round, free from the disturbance of to learn then to stay at home and mind their
m
business. Thus the time passed, the storm

increasing, till at length, the poor old horse,
tired of hearing our arguments pro and con,
took it into his head to lie down. This was
something like coming to an equality; but
recollecting that we had some good old home
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m
of my money, and whip me if she did'nt

look ne enough, that is as some folks call
it. However, it was a pity to see her lying in
such a plight, and dirty and vexed as I was,
I picked her up, determined to make her
Our friend promised to get the coach in or

der next morning bright and early, so bed
time having arrived, we dropt anchor for the
night on the best heap of straw in the house.
walk, but upon second consideration thought
afterinsisting for half the night, that I should
made wine in the coach box, I determined she looked too beastly nasty to go along side
to take a sip by way of refreshment, as it a man of my standing; accordingly, she
had never entered my brain to think of mounted my back a second time. It just now
bringing eatables at all; and as for my old happened, as good fortune would have it, for
wife, neither drinkables nor eatables were I always thought myselfa lucky fellow, so a
thought of, her head was stuffed with the light beamed in through the edges of the
thought of her jaunt. The old horse, as I wood, which cheered my soul amazingly.
concluded, must needs be in want of drink, But my wife, plague on her nonsense, would
and remembering that a good man is mer have, that this was nothing but the light of
ciful to his beast, I offered him some of the the moon, and notwithstanding my logic, and
clear stu', dye see, and he drank it off all the rain that was falling in rivulets almost,
cheerly 0. It was now near night, and I could not persuade her of her mistake.
we were in the midst of a thick wood, where Any man might have perceived my reason
ghosts and fairies are known to resort, so ing powers in this, but all grannies, so called,
we concluded it would never do to stay here, know nothing of astronomy and such queer
and after harranguing a while we got out of things. My thoughts were soon realised, for
the coach in order to mend it. This was my it was not long before we came butt up
suggestion, you must know, for I was by against an old log house, so old indeed, that
this time in a talking mood, and to tell the had I have known any thing about Noahs ark
truth my old woman was so far under the I might have conjectured that this was one
weather, as to be not very troublesome by corner of it revived in our modem times.
her loquacity. After studious reection, I The side of it, which in my notion faced the
hit upon something at last, which to be sure north, was almost battered in by the storm,
a philosopher can always do. Necessity, they and though from appearances, I expected
say, is the mother of invention, so by dint of but poor fare, yet in I pushed and my old
what people call mechanics I fell to work, woman followed, as we might expect, for I
and at length, after the short space of two told you, she was safely seated on her
hours, got the coach on a horizontal posi old mans back. The inkeeper, for it hap
tion, as far as my eyes could determine, and pened to be a tavern, gave us a hearty we]
there secured it with the but end of my come, and after chatting awhile he proved to
old cart whip. This, as I thought, was a toler be one of our old neighbors, who left us
able expedient; better than none, however. several years ago, much as I left my home,
But how to get out of the wood was the instigated by an old fool of a wife. Finding
next plan, in order to nd some neighbors who his guests were, a pot of good rye mush
house to get a nights lOdging. So after with a little indian in it, dye see, and some
getting my wife on my shoulders and giving molasses to make it palatable, was served up.
her a blessing or two for bringing me into Eath of us was presented with a stout ladle
such a scrape, I trudged out of the wood and so to work we fell like two hogs, and in
with all speed; when 10! before we got out, a few minutes, it was clean enough, that whe
as I was crossing a narrow log that was ther bellies were full or no, the pot was
placed over a quag mire, the horse sat off fairly empty and licked as nice as if a cat
full tilt, which so alarmed me that my feet had been at it. A bowl of good whiskey was
slipt from under me, and where we went, any next ordered, which, never fear is had no
fool might guess; why, to be sure, into all the danger of standing a ground. For a full hour,
horrors of a mud pond, surrounded by frogs, my old woman sat as mute as a mouse,
fairies, and every such thing, in the dark too, something queer too for old gossips, but
it was enough to frighten any man out of now she broke out at such a rate, that I pray
his wits; yet there were we. Did mortal ever ed heartily within myself, that the mush
witness such a scene! The poor old horse, which was yet sticking in her throat, might
quite fatigued, had broken loose from the rise up and choak her. So she told our ad
coach and gone fast ahead, no doubt, with ventures as well as her memory served, and
more sense than either of his comrades, to I helped her out in the rest. \Ve had now en
acquaint the next neighbor of our approach. I joyed ourselves so happily as to forget coach,
forgot to mention, in the introduction, that my horse and every thing else, but it so turned
old woman to look ne, put on her very best out, that the good old horse had made free
dimity gown, that cost many a good shilling to enter the barn yard and was safe enough.
commit our travels to paper, so to get some

sleep, I promised to grant her desire, which,
Now my old woman began to get sober, and
dye see, like a faithful fellow I am now go
ing to accomplish. And if fortune should be

frisky in the rest of our journey, you shall
bear again from your friend and humble ser
vant,
NED NEVERHEED.
At the old log house.
_o.
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. I.

If public friendship you would eer attain,
Your subject vary, and the end you'll gain.
Boilmu.
Mr. Editor,
The great number of essays which pre

sent themselves to the view of the pub
lic, renders the part of an agreeable es
sayist difcult to perform. Almost every sub
ject has been alternately stretched upon the
wheel of torture; and whilst a new adventurer
is, on the one hand, in danger of being per
plexed in the mazes of his plan, he has on

the other, to cope with the invidious tygers
of criticism. Under the pretext of im
proving by sound and candid remark, either
from a malicious heart or a stubborn con
tempt of literature, they, by laboring to dis

sect the productions of the zealous champions
of morality with the barbarous instrument of
unskilful prejudice, encourage the obscurity
of vice and endeavor to defend it from the
just punishment of public hate.
Having thus foreseen what we have to fear,
and xed our determination to look upon the
futile efforts of the malicious critic with an
eye of pity, and regard the attacks of the vi
cious with philosophical contempt; condent
ly hoping, that in avoiding Scylla we shall
not be ingulfed in Charybdis, Ietcr Pcace
able (a literary friend) and myself, propose
publishing in your sheet a series of essays,
calculated to comprehend diversity of matter,
for the furnishing of which we shall expect
assistance from those that have time and ta
lents. We shall use our utmost exertions to
keep it but as a cabinet of literature, u' "on
taminatcd by political disputes and free from
personal allusion. Unfcttered by particular
subjects, we will range among all: morality
being the great basis of a republican g0
vernment, with which we are so fortunately
blessed, claims the rst place; but variety
shall be our leading principle. We will wan
der unrestrained through the fertile garden

of observing experience, and cull its choicest
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owers to adorn our collection. \Vhilst we

endeavor to deracinate the rankling weeds
of vice, the owercts of virtue shall expe
Neer let me lose thee while the genial spark

Oflife does animate my care worn frame.
To be deprived of that donation sweet,
That ranks us bove all other creatures far,
rience our peculiar attention: her opening

buds we will study to shield from the tem
pestuous blasts of frigid adversity, and the in
fected breath of withering detraction; whilst
the deformities of the one are exhibited in
colors, we hope, capable of exciting disgust,
the ornaments of the other (which though
they add nothing to her intrinsic worth or real
beauty yet they render that beauty more ob
servable) shall not be neglected. The enthu
siasm with which our subject inspires us
may perhaps carry our hopes beyond the
bounds of prudence, but as far as our ability
extends you may consider our promises as
already performed. WVe would be happy if
we could say of our paper in the words of a
celebrated poet.
" Delectando pariterquc monendo."
Should we, however, fail in instructing,
which we confess we have some reason to

fear, our end will not be entirely unattained,
if we succeed in pleasing. As our exertions

will be the productions of leisure, the peru
sal of the unemployed is all that we may
Is dreadful. Sad is yonder wretchs fate,

Whose garb disorderd. wild and vacant stare,
Proclaim him lost to cvry smiling joy;
\Vhere lambs are playing on the level plain;

Or where the sunbeams with the waters play,
0r where, secluded from the scorching ray,
But quick he starts and shuns me. Once as gay

\Vas he, as is the young and sportive roe
Such various scenes such various beauties mix,
With all the carelessness of innocence;
The wandering eye knows not on which to x.

In wild luxuriance natures hands appear
'1" have formd a paradisial bower here;
But now a maniac, all s alike to him,

The whisp'ring breeze that ruffles scarce the stream
And the erce patt'ring of the fearful storm.
Heavn's rude winds piercing coldly through his
cloak,
Sir,
When for the hope of acquiring a small

portion of fame, so eagerly desired by wri
ters of every description, an author seeks to
palm upon the public the productions of
another as his own, he deserves to be thus
Disturb him not. Unconsciously his feet

Do press the lonely shore, and when the storm
Is for a moment hushd, his plaintive song,
Borne on the lessning gale, strikes to the soul.

One mournful verse, that be perhaps did love
When reason lld her throne, the burthen sad.
He never weeps; tears cannot force a path
Down his pale furrowd cheeks; furrowd indeed,
Not by the wintry storms of chilling age,
But by excess of sorrow and misfortune.
His blanch'd locks wanton wildly in the wind,
And all his gestures to th observer tell

His mind is crazed, alas! for e'er oerthrown.
To th necessities of the tender lamb,

That, shorn and pilfer'd of it's sheltring eece,
Shivers with cold whenever the " frowning skies
Pour out theii' wrath, forget to weigh our claim
To his protecting care? He never can.
Unseen his mercy leads us through the paths,
The thorny paths of this dark vale of tears.
t
Tremendous rocks secure from vulgar view
This " love inspiring" grove, known but to few;

Where owers, in sweetness, with each other vie,
Worn thin and threadbare by the hand of time,
Can he, who tempers the keen northern blast
The humble, peaceful anglers love to stray.
That lightly bounds oer verdant hills and vales,
Relying on the clemency of the generous, \Vho dare to censure his divine decrees,
and the impartiality of the world, we present His equal justice into question call!
them our introductory number containing a In his own wisdom the Eternal oft
Bids the dark clouds of woe descend and burst
development of our plan.
Their terrors wild on our devoted heads;
GREGORY GRAVITY.
But tis to wean us from sublunar joys,
N. B. Original communications for this And turn our thoughts unto a better world.
series, if left at the ofce of the Repertory Nor may I think the weight too heavy; each
shall receive prompt attention.
Doth bear bi: share of sorrows, and no more.
_o.-
Till, wearied with the distant straining view,

Returns to nearer scenes, of varied hue;
Where elds are waving with the golden grain,
I meet him often, as I pensive stray,
But who shall dare to murmur at the fate

Which God allots to all of mortal birth?
presume to expect.
Here can th extended eye, delighted, trace
The watery element of the funny race,

Through wilds romantic andthrough boundless space;
But, lo, the morning dawns through yonder cliffs,

publicly exposed.
I refer to the lines published in your last The shepherds pipes do welcome its approach,
number said to be written in the manner of And their wild chorus through the dewy groves
Reverbrates; hark! how blythe and sweet the sounds;
Shenstone, and signed Alonzo, that the
That charm the heart, and please th' admiring eye;

'Ihither Zephyrus wafts his spicy gales,
Sweets gatherd from his ower scented dales;
Breathing fresh odors in this dear retreat,
And sweetness gives to those already sweet;
The playful owers and the whisp'ring trees,
Are sweetly kissd by this refreshing breeze.
The lofty trees embow'ring branches spread,

Luxuriant, oer each fragrant owrets head,
O'er violets blue, oer roses white and red;
Myrtles, embraced by twisted eglantines,

And owers blooming by the purple vines;
Turtle doves wooing, chrystal fountains owing,

Little birds singing, infant rose buds blowing,
Lillies and violets kissing, roses playing
With wanton breezes and their course delaying;
Inspiring all the heart and soul to prove,
In a new paradise, the sweets of love.
To this sequesterd bower of peace and love,
Alone, at early dawn, I often rove;
Before a new born ray of Phebus ies,

To gild, with orient tints, the eastern skies;
To see the flowers blush, with morning dew,

That adds new lustre to each brilliant hue;
And with delight to taste and sweetly sip

The rose of health from off Aurora's lip;
iVhile warbling birds, with untaught melody,
Make vocal every wood and every tree;
While I t almighty God my homage pay,

And hail, with songs of praise, the infant day.
DELLA LIRA.
+
For the Repertory.

ADDRESS T0 CAPTAIN GRUMMET,
On his leaving Philadelphia for the sea shore, to
improve his health.
Adieu, my friend! may prosperous breezes swell
The losend sails, and waft thee safe away;
Each featherd songster tunes his little throat
piece in question is not original you may

have occular demonstration by referring to
page 32, vol. I. old series, of the Port Folio.
I did not think Alonzos brain was so shal
low and devoid of penetration as to imagine
so glaring a plagiarism could remain undis
covered. I am, sir, 81c.
DETECTOR.
Q.
For the Repertory.
Yet whilst thou'rt absent 1, deserted, dwell
To joyous strains; each heart is light and_gny.

Amid regrets, which cloud each opening day.
ST. ORME.
_.._
But though thourt gone, I rove o'er every scene
\Vhere thou and l sweet moments oft have pass'd:

For the Repertory.
In fancy, see thy sun burnt placid mein,
LAUREL HILL.
A POEM, m THREE PARTS.
Part I.
Here rocks on rocks in awful grandeur rise,
Supporting trees that tower to the skies;
Whilst hope assures me thoult return at last.

My father's house no more 5 perfumed with tar,
The fragrant smell has ed, alas! with thee;
On distant lands thou treadst the beach afar,
And fond musquitocs greet thee, stead of me.
Here precipices strike th astonish'd eyes,

REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY WANDERER.
N0. III.
And the dark rocks with frowning aspect rise;
But when salt water has thy health restored,

I, once again, thy well known form shall see
While caverns echo with the catarac's roar,
Oh! Reason, glorious, greatest boon to man!

Gift from eternal Love, the fountain pure
From which each blessing to us sweetly ows,
Whose waters loudly lash the rocky shore.

' On the banks of the Schuylkill, near the falls.
With gossip friends around the circling board.

And see thee sip a balmy cup of tea.
CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC
M
For the Repertory.

THE DRUNKARD.
The tempest loud bellowing, howl'd oer the plain,
And shook with dismay all the tenements round;
To the shes my body Ill render a prey,
No attering falsehoods shall glow on my tomb,

Tis fate's strong command, which her ensigns con
vey
Who seal the black scroll of my merciless doom;
High mounted the waves of the boisterous sea,

\Vhich his eyes ashing fury with horror sur
charge,
The infuriate surges engulng her lee,

Destruction forebode to the wallowing barge.
He raved with distraction; " O, fatal decree!

\Vith frenzy transported, in agony cried;
Front a rock that oerhung the tempestuous sea,
He precipitant plungd in its swallowing tide.

THADDEUS.
For the Repertory.
The forests resounded with beasts frightful cries,
SONG. REFLECTIONS TEAR.
Which the wind to the ocean enragedly bore;
Tune~Tbe Lat: tfPatie's Mill.

Oft does reections tear,
In thoughtless silence flow,
\Vhen to my mind appear,
Their deafening clamors awakcnd the skies,
Which responded in thunder their horrible roar.

In this time of awe, when night's sullen glooms
In mantles of darkness the hours invest;
No lustre escaped from the tremulous moon,
No meteor blazing illumin'd the west,
Times when I knew no woe;

When evry care was lulld,
In happiness secure,
And from each moment culld,
No stars of the evning, (with terror aghast,)

No planets of night, for from earth they were
veild,
With inuence cheering, their radiance cast,
To illume in his fury the ravenous gale:
L'nguided, where madness directed he roves,
Ungovernd he rushd in his headlong career,
And swept in his circuit the shadowy groves,
W'hich bade him deance, unshaken by fear.
Mountains shuddering groan'd neath the horrible
sound
Of the trumpet he bore in his blood distain 'd hand,
And the fury be spread, when he darkening frownd,

Envelopd in terror the ocean and land.
Alone, on the shore of the echoing deep,
A wretch steepd in sorrow despondent did roam,

lie seemd in an accent unceasing to weep,
And articulate faintly, " I once had a home."
New pleasure to endure.

When Esther, lovely fair,
Oft bless'd me with a smile,
But blissful joys so rare,
Did last but for a while.
I loved her, and I thought
My love was well repaid,

But this I vainly sought,
Inconstant was the maid.
And now to range the world,
In wretchedness, alone,
From pleasure's summit hurld,

Im doom'd in grief to moan;
But hope I still caress,

And oft forget my harms,
For Esther yet may bless
Her faithful Edwards arms.
jULlO EVERARD.
His garments were tatterd, distressing his form,

His checks were bedewd with misfortune's chill
tears,
@ballllbi,
Unprotected he wander'd amid the wild storm,

\Vhich frownd on his sorrows and howl'd oer
his fears;
His hair all disheveld, his shoulders ocrhung,
Which exultingly viewing the hurricane scorns,

And to his paind senses discordantly rung,
'Dte knell of his wife, and his station forlorn.
ills woes he recounted, his errors confessd,
To Heaven his melting petition preferrd;

He once had a family, happy and blest,
But now it no longer his miseries heard.
0, Drunkenness! strange are thy footpaths, in
deed,
How could I pursue them!" the wretch would ex
claim;
" My wife by thy fury ordained to bleed,

Lives no more gainot thy horrible acts to declaim.
Within thy foul form what seducing is seen?
What lures us to thee when it lures to destroy?
T113" smiles are all hideous, infernal thy mien,
And thy greatest delight is to damp real joy.

Then how could I make such an infamous choice?
How could I a wife and an offspring despise?
And fly at the sound of thy dissonant voice,
To perform what thy horrible arts could devise!
dison; and this is, perhaps, in the power of

any young writer who will take the same
pains that he did to acquire it.
\Vo present Ned Nevcrhccd to the pub
lic in his own homespun dress; and leave
Ez-lus assumed his tyrannical reign,
And burning with vengeance unfeelingly frownd;
119
his marvellous adventures to speak of

him as he is; but we would fondly hope
that his heart is not so hardened as to have
sincerely prayed that the mush, which was
yet sticking in her (his old girls) throat,

might rise up and choak herz" want of feel
ing has a direct tendency to mar, counter
act or destroy the pleasurable sensations
which wit and humor are calculated to in
spite.
Of the merits of the Cabinet, or of its
projectors and coadjutors, a correct judg
ment cannot be formed, until we have seen
several successive numbers of the contem
plated series. \Ve would, however, just hint

to the authors, that by great precipitancy in
ushering immature productions to the pub
lic vicw (the almost invariable fault of young
writers) they will not only defeat every
laudable object of their undertaking, but
slide into a careless habit of composition,
devoid of accuracy, strength and elegance,
which they may, perhaps, forever afterwards
strive in vain to conquer.
_._
MIARRIHD,
At \Vashington, Pennsylvania, on Thurs

day evening the 19th ult. by the Rev. Mat
thew Brown, Mr. W'illiam Wilson, of the
house of Hood and Wilson, of Philadelphia,
to Miss llltzl'garet Wilson, daughter of John

\Vilson, csq. of \Vashington.
.-
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of Boston, da

ted Smyrna, February 16, 1810.
About midnight I experienced a consi

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDEN'I'S.
derable shock of an earthquake and while at

\Vc accept, with thankfulness, the offer dinner next day the shock was twice repeated.
of Mentor; tuid have no doubt that his I have since learned that the same earthquake
plan, if pursued with good judgment, will was felt, in all its terric force, in the island
edify as well as amuse. His anticipation that of Candia (the ancient Crete); that the
objections will be made to his undertaking, greater part of the city of Candie and all
its fortications, are entirely destroyed, and
on the ground that many of the anecdotes are a destructive re raging at the same time,
not new, will, with every intelligent reader, added to the miseries of the wretched in
be obviated by one or two reflections like the habitants; that eight villages in the neigh
following: that if we must never publish any borhood of Candia, are but heaps of rubbish,
thing but what in the strict sense of the and many thousand people buried in the ru
word is new, that is, what has never been
ins of their own dwellings, drowned in the
thought of or published before, we may as rush of water, or perished by the re, for
it seems as if all the elements had conspir
well throw away our printing presses at ed in vengcncc against this unhappy island.
once, since at the present day, literally and
The olive elds are destroyed, and the most
philosophically speaking, there is not/ting

new under the sun, the most fascinating
and desirable talents that an author can pos
sess is the ability of presenting old things
in a new and captivating form, and impart
luxuriant part of this beautiful island cx

hibits at present but one With: waste of ruin,
devastation and death. The earthquake has

been (as letters which are received mention)
felt in Cairo, Alexandria, Malta, Sicily, anti
in all the islands of the Archipelago, in many
ing lively interest to whatever falls from his of which it has thrown down houses and
pen. This was the felicitous charm of Ad
done other damage.
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gm
M
Sailed from New York on the 2nd inst. the ' must call for his bottle, or pay a dollar.
United States brig Hornet of thirteen guns, Very well, says Pat, Im agreed. \Vell, then,
HEALTH OFFICE,
August 4, 1810.
Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphi

from the 28th July to the 4th August.
Dinar".
ad. cb.
Disease-r.
ad. cl
Abscess
0 1 Gangrene
0 .
Apoplexy
0 I Hives
O 1
Casualty
O l Inam. of liver
0 I
says the chief wit, what is the reason that

there is no dirt found at the mouth of a hole
which a squirrel makes in the ground? and
all were agape for the answer. \Vhy, says be,
1 22 Insanity
Captain Story of the Tamaahmaah, arrived because the squirrel rst begins to dig at Cholera morbus
Consumptionoflungs4 1 Mortication
I 0 2 Old age
at New York on the 2nd inst. from Liverpool, the bottom of the hole. Aftera loud burst of Contusion
captain Hunt, for France and England. The

Hornet has a government messenger on
board.
informs that the British frigate Venus, with

Mr. Morier, the new charge des affairs, on
board, was to sail from Portsmouth on the
24th of June; and that Mr. Jackson is to re
ha! has! they, all at once, bawled out, why,
turn to England in the frigate Venus.
or down with your dust every soul of you.

In a twinkling, their mirth was changed to
melancholy, and Pat, having demanded the
debt of honor, obliged them to go on tick to
the landlord for the amount; so clapping the
remaining six dollars into his pocket, wish
ed them a good day, and prudently walked
o, leaving them to reect that even wits
may be outwitted.
Remark: Rightly served, for attempting
to make a butt of a fellow creature.
-.Q-_
For the Repertory.

Mr. Editor,
I have been thinking that a collection of

anecdotes moral, historical, biographical,
literary, humorous, 810. all thrown together
promiscuously, might be a pleasant ingre
dient in your olio; and shall, therefore, offer
you a string of them, every week if possible,

or at any rate as often as I can find time.
how the deuce could the squirrel get there?

Och! my honies, thats your own question,
dye see, cries Pat; so, answer it instantly,
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2. A thief, in Maryland, having stolen a
9 oclock. 12 oclock. 3 o'clock.
Good anecdote, I conceive, may be made an
hog, had tied its legs together after killing

agreeable medium through whichto convey
it; and, for the convenience of carrying it, he
amusement, diversion, entertainment, in
let the hog rest on his shoulders, while the
struction or even improvement: it opens a
rope with which it was tied went over his
direct and ready inlet to the heart; and, by
breast. On his way home, nding himself
reason of point and brevity, often has a more
fatigued, he laicbthe hog in the crotch of a
salutary effect upon the mind than the for
tree, about the height of his shoulders, in
mal didactic of moral duty. That such may
order to rest himself. But the hog slipping
be the happy result of my labors, is my ardent
through, the rope that was round the mans
desire; and lest the reader should feel disin
breast slipped up to his throat, and imme
clined, or neglect, to make the proper ap diately choaked him to death; and in the
plication of the useful anecdotes that may morning they were both found dead, the
be offered, I shall take care to do it for him,
one on one side, and the other on the other
by way pf a remark or reection subjoined.

side of the tree: thus, the thief hanged the
I well know that many parts of my miscel
hog, and the hog, in his turn, by the rule of
lany have appeared before, some in one
law taliom's, hanged the thief.
shape and some in another: but what of that?
Remark: A just reward for villainy.
The proverb says truly, that a good story is
3. Some years ago, a gentleman in the
not the worse for being told twice, and if
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markable for transparency of character, was
that it is sterling coin which will never de
strenuously advocating the passing of a bill

for the emission of a paper currency. After
above place, for the mutual accommodation of store

and house keepers, and for all persons who want
employment, viz. clerks, men or women to attend
stores, house keepers, nurses and we: nurses, jour
neymen and journeyman mechanics, apprentices,
hired, bound or bought men and women servants, &c.
Aug. 11.
a great deal of warmth, he declared, in the
it be stamped with virtue, truth, good sense legislature of one of the states, not very re
preciate.
MENTOR.
THE AMUSER. No. I.

conclusion of his arguments, that if the bill dollars per annum, payable quarterl) in advance.
l. A dozen jovial fellows, who had been did pass, he would stake his reputation to a
cracking their jokes over a bottle, had in fart/ling, that the currency would be equal page and index, with at least one handsome en
dulged rather freely in wine and wit, till to gold and silver. I dont like betts (observ graving.
Subscriptions received by the publisher, No.17
they had emptied the sixth bottle. Being ed a person in the gallery) but, I think that Arch
street, George Booth, No. 10 Sansom street,
10th to stop short in the height of their that is a very equal one.
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glee, they sent for a jolly Hibernian, chuck
ling at the idea that by his blunders they
Remark: There is many a bett not a far
thing better or a whit wiser.
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you; you are a humorous dog: come, sit
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lhose that have them entered, are let immediately, at
down and take a glass. We have been try

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VOL. I.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, l810.
No. 16.
of the needle, and the fly under the glass,

which they could see but not touch, a'orded
them much amusement; and Smith having
learned something of their language, partly
by means of that, and partly by signs, enter
tained them with the nature and uses of the
terried them, and to convince them of the

truth of what he told them, he wrote on a
Indian guides with his garters to his left
leaf of his pocket book an inventory of what

he wanted, with some directions to the peo
ple at the fort how to a'right the messen
gers who went to deliver the letter. They
instrument; and gave them such a lcture returned in three days, reporting the ter
on the motions of the heavens and earth, as ror into which they had been thrown, and
amazed them, and suspended for a time the when they produced the things for which he
execution of their purpose. At length, curi had written the whole company were aston
osity being satiated, they fastened him to a ished at the power of his divination by the
tree, and prepared to dispatch him with their speaking lea/I
arrows. At this instant the chief holding up
After this they carried him through several
the compass which he esteemed as a divinity, nations, inhabiting the banks of the Potow
they laid aside their arms, and forming a mack and Rapahanock, and at length brought
military procession, led him in triumph to him to Pamunkee; where they performed a
their village Orapaxe. The order of their strange ceremoney, by which they intended
march was thus: they ranged themselves in to divine whether his intention toward them
a single le, the king in the midst, before was friendly or hostile. The manner of it
him were home the arms taken from Smith was this: early in the morning a great re
and his companions; next after the king came was made in along house, and a mat spread
the prisoner held by three stout savages, on each side, on one of which he was placed
and on each side a le of six. When they and the guard retired. Presently, an Indian
arrived at the village, the old men, women, priest, hideously painted and dressed in furs
and children, came out to receive them; after and snake skins, came skipping in, and after
some manoeuvres, which had the appearance a variety of uncouth noises and gestures,
of regularity, they formed themselves round drew a circle with meal round the re.
the king and his prisoner, into a circle, danc Then came in three more in the same fright
ing and singing, adorned with paint, furs and ful dress, and after they had performed their
feathers, brandishing their rattles, which dance, three others. They all sat opposite to
were made of the tails of rattle snakes. Af him in a line, the chief priest in the midst.
ter three dances, they dispersed, and Smith After singing a song, accompanied with the
was led to a long hut, guarded by forty men. music of their rattles, the chief priest laid
There he was so plentifully feasted with down ve grains of corn, and after a short
bread and venison, that he suspected their speech three more; this was repeated till the
intention was to fatten and kill him. One of re was encircled. Then continuing the in
arm, and made use of him as a shield, whilst
the Indians, to whom Smith had formerly
cantation, he laid sticks between the divi
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN SMITH.
(Continued)
As the autumn advanced, the waters were
covered with innumerable wild fowl; which
with the addition of corn, beans and pump

kins procured from the Indians, changed
hunger into luxury, and abavd the rage for
abandoning the country. Smith had been
once up the river Chickahamony; but be
cause he had not penetrated to its source,
exceptions were made to his conduct as too
dilator-y. This imputation he determined to
remove. In his next voyage, he went so
high that he was obliged to cut the trees,

which had fallen into the river, to make his
way through as far as his boat could swim.

He then left her in a safe place, ordering
his men not to quit her until his return;
then taking two of them, and two Indians

for guides, he proceeded in one of their
canoes to the meadows at the rivers head;
and leaving his two men with the canoe he

went with his Indian guides across the mea
dows. A party of 300 Indians below had
watched the motions of the boat. They rst
surprised the straggling crew, and made one
of them prisoner, from whom they learned
that Smith was above. They next found the

men whom he had left with the canoe, asleep
by a re, and killed them; then having dis
covered Smith, they wounded him in the
thigh with an arrow. Finding himself thus as
saulted and wounded, he bound one of his
he dispatched three of his enemies and given beads, brought him a garment of furs
wounded some others. He was retreating to to defend him from the cold. Another, \VliOSC
his canoe, when regarding his enemies more son was then sick and dying, attempted to
than his footsteps, he suddenly plunged with kill him, but was prevented by the guard.
his guide into an oozy creek, and stuck fast Smith being conducted to the dying youth,
in the mud. The Indians astonished at his told them that he had a medicine at James
bravery did not approach him, till almost town, which would cure him, if they would
dead with cold, he throw away his arms, and let him fetch it; but they had another design,
Begged them to draw him out, which they which was to surprise the place, and make
did and led him to the re, where his slain use of him as a guide. To induce him to
(Mnpanions were lying. This sight admon perform this service, they promised him his i
ished him what he was to expect. Being liberty, with as much land and as many|
revived by their chang his benutnbed limbs, women as wouldlcontent him. Smith magni
he called for their chief, Opcchankanow, ed the difculty and danger of their at-.
king of Pamunkee, to whom he presented tempt, from the ordinance, mines and other =
his ivory compass and dial. The vibrations defences of the place, which exceedingly ti
sions of the corn. The whole day was spent

in these ceremonies, with fasting; and at
night a feast was prepared of the best meats

which they had. The same tricks were re
peated the two following days. They told
him that the circle of meal represented their
country, the circle of com the sea shore,
and the sticks his country; they did not ae

quaint him, or he has not acquainted us
with the result of the operation; but he ob

served that the gunpowder which they had
taken from him, was laid up among their corn,_
to be planted the next spring.
After these ceremonies, they brought hint
to the emperor Powhatan, who received him
inroyalstate,clothedinarobe oi'racoon Skins.
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PHILADELPHIA REPERTORIY.
seated on a kind of throne, elevated above the
For the Repertory.
floor of a large but, in the midst of which was

a re; at each hand of the prince sat two beau
'
Learn there 5 one that claims her truth,
Leopold 's the promised youth,
Evade the danger, then, and shun despair!
A ROMANCE.
tiful girls, his daughters, and along each side

of the house a row of his councillors, painted
and adorned with feathers and shells. At
Smiths entrance a great shout was made.
The queen of Apamatox, brought him water
to wash his hands, and another served him
with a bunch of feathers instead of a towel.

Ilaving feasted him after their manner, a
long consultation was held, which being
ended, two large stones were brought in, on
one of which his head was laid, and clubs
were lifted up to beat out his brains. At
this critical moment, Pocahontas, the kings
favorite daughter, ew to him, took his head
in her arms, and laid her own upon it. Her

tender entreaties prevailed. The king con
sented that Smith should live, to make hatch
ets for him and ornaments for her.

Two days after, Powhatan caused him to
be brought to a distant house; where, after
another threatening, he conrmed his pro

mise, and told him he should return to the
fort, and send him two pieces of cannon
and a grindstone, for which he would give

him the country of Capahousick, and forever
esteem him as his son. Twelve guides ac
companied him, and he arrived at Jamestown
the next day. According to the stipulation,
two guns and a large grindstone were offer
CHAPTER II.
Though this was salutary advice under the

erroneous opinion which he formed, in con
(Continued)
sequence of the relation of Flaurice, yet he

Haste. haste, Orlando. carve on ev'ry tree,
found himself unable to prot by it; for on

reading it over once or twice, be perceived
SbahPeare.
that
the name of Roselle had crept in, and
\Ve have already said that Linhault and
Flaurice crossed the bridge, when they left he sighed at this repeated proof that it was
the scene of rustic festivity, where the beauty impossible to banish her from his mind.
They sat some moments silent, when
of Roselle had so impressed the mind of the
Flaurice
reminding his lord that they ought
young baron.
Invited by the coolness of the weather to think about returning, he immediately
and the healthful fragrance of the dewy arose and proceeded to retrace his way to
ground, they walked on admiring the beau ward the bridge; when their progress was
ties of retiring nature, over which the moon arrestcd by the sound of soft vocal music
her silver mantle threw, while millions oating on the air. It was Roselle. Linhault
of gems studded the azure arch of heaven, followed the delightful sound, and reached
until the frowning front of a majectic forest, the waters edge, as she, seated on the op
as it reard its awful brow above the level posite side, had just nished her second
glebe, arrested their progress.
Linhault was particularly struck with the
sight. He had never before during his resi
stanza; and when she commenced the third,
dence at Sobeiski castle been across the river,
that she was the pretty country girl that had
and now the solemn grandeur of the scene

filled him with sentiments of the most pro
found veneration.
Observe, Flaurice, he exclaimed, the
he was ravished with the sweetness and

clear melody of her voice, totally ignorant
so charmed his heart a short time before;
for, though the stream was not very wide,

yet the moon had now began to hide her
borrowed lustre behind the bosom of the
lessening summit of you towering oak. Hark!

how its leafy honors rattle to the western
breeze, while its rm trunk seems to defy
the rage of elements! and yet if the Eternal
but unpinion his tempests and mount upon
showerful clouds that overcast the heavens,
third time defeated the project; in revenge
entered the bosom of the wood; where a
tude, plunged into the water, followed even
for which they meditated to put him to death,

under pretence that he had been the means
of murdering the two men who went with
him in the canoe; but by a proper application
lucid rill rippled through some scattered

fragments of a rock, upon one of which
seating themselves, Linhault took out his
by his squire, who scorned to see a female
in consequence of which he could not so

clearly distinguish her person.
ed them; but having in vain tried to lift them
\Vhen she completed the third stanza, he
they were content to let them remain in their
listened eagerly for the commencement of a
place. Smith, however, had the guns loaded, the vehicles of the whirlwind, the monarch fourth, but waited only a few minutes when
and discharged a volley of stones at a tree of the woods shakes in his lodgement, and he beheld the object of his admiration pre
covered with icicles. The report and effect often thunders from his pride!
cipitated into the water!
confounded them; but being pacied with a
The noble nature of the youth needed no
This appeal to the understanding even of
few toys, they returned, carrying presents to Flaurice, was so forcible that it could not monitor to urge him; the goodness of his
Powhatan and his daughter of such things pass unnoticed.
heart impelled him ever to hasten to the
as gave them entire satisfaction. After this
True, my lord, he replied, how can any relief of the distressed. Misfortune never so
adventure, the young princess, Pocahontas, rational being look upon surrounding nature. licited his assistance in vain, for he was ready
frequently visited the plantation, with her and ina moment of reection declare his con on all occasions to administer consolation.
attendants, and the refreshments which she viction that all things came by chance!
\Vithout a thought of the danger to which
brought from time to time proved the means
In the hour of security from danger, himself would be exposed, he considered
of saving many lives, which otherwise would answered his master, the pretended atheist only the hapless, helpless situation of the
have been lost.
will mock the existence of a Deity, but female; he instantly, therefore, threw off his
Smiths return happened at another critical when that Deity throws round the thunders fur cloak, and pulling off his boots, which
juncture. The colony was divided into par of his anger, show me a coward more pale the coolness of his mind immediately sug
ties, and the malcontents were again pre faced than the atheist!
gested would prevent his rendering any ef
paring to quit the country. His presence at
They now passed through the glade and fectual assistance to the object of his solici
of valor and strength, he put his aceusers
tablets, and being unable to banish Roselle

from his mind, penned the following stanza,
under connement, till an opportunity pre
which he found to be an acrostic.
sented for sending them as prisoners to

England.
(To be continued.)
a>
Forwardness nips affection in the bud.
Rash youth! desist, nor think of love,

Or hope to gain the gentle fair;
suffer, and his master in danger, without

sharing the distress and peril; but the cur
rent, which set directly on the same shore
from which they started, prevented Flaurice
who was neither as strong nor as expert at

swimming as his lord, from reaching the
spot, and the poor fellow was obliged to re
turn, beholding the young baron with the
Shall she for Linhault cruel prove?

Envious, misguided boy, forbear!
greatest anxiety.
123
w
In the mean time the brave Linhault, too much for them to bear, and I fear the
stemming with undaunted resolution the knowledge of my rescue will come to their
resisting current, determined to save the cars too late!
The soft and soothing accents of Linhault,
drowning maid or perish in the attempt,
reached the spot where the fair Roselle was who used every persuasion to mitigate her
sinking for the third time. He caught her grief, at length quieted her apprehensions,
by the hair, and raising her as gently as and they set forward to return home.
possible, caught her round the waist with
But during this time Biaubenski had
his left arm, while with his right he kept missed his child, searched in vain for her,
her and himself from sinking, and suffered and had left his cottage during the storm to
the current to carry them both on shore seek her.
where it might, where Flauricc stood ready
Through the severity of the tempest our
to receive the fair but senseless burthen hero and heroine sought their way to the
from the arms of the fatigued Linhault.
bridge, but the storm had destroyed it, and
\Vhat was the joy of the youth, mingled they were obliged to return to the shelter
with fear for the safety of her life, whenin of the forest, and pass the night under the
the female he had snatched from the very poor covering of the leafy trees!
jaws of death, he recognised the maid that
Roselle overcome with fatigue in spite of
during the rustic amusements had so rivet her unwillingness sunk into aprofound sleep,
tcd his attention and fascinated his heart!
while the more fatigued Linhault determin
He now blessed the happy chance that ed to watch her till morning.
Flauricc, regardless of the weather, laid
caused him to loitcr so long from his home;
' and thrice blessed, cried he, be the sweet his head against the body of a tree, and
voice that arrested my return! He almost snored the night away," and when the
wished that the danger had been greater, streaks of morning broke upon the eastern
that he might have undergone a greater risk sky, being awakened and dispatched by his
in rescuing her from almost inevitable fate. master for assistance, found Braubenski, as
Roselle gave no signs of an approaching already described.
recovery of her senses, and it was impossi
Braubcnski now rowed his dear Roselle
ble to hear her to the cottage. They there across the river, and immediately returned
fore, to preserve her from the night damps, for Linhault and his squire. The open and
conveyed her to the friendly shelter of the unaffected manners of the former complete
wood from whence they were coming when ly eradicated suspicion from the peasants
led by her music to her preservation, and mind, and when meeting the servants which
Linhault delicately used every means in his Ferresburgh had dispatched in search of
power to restore animation to the lovely him, Linhault bade them an aectionate
sufferer. He pressed the water from her adieu, the father requested to have an op
cloathes, and wrapping her tenderly in his portunity of thanking him at the cottage for
Russian fur cloak, she began in a short time
his rescuing his child from the arms of des
to exhibit symptoms of returning sense.

truction.
A heavy sigh preceded her recovery, and
To this Linhault readily assented, and
upon opening her eyes she was at rst as they parted mutually pleased with each other.
tonished, but recollection soon ushed upon
'
UBALIX).
(To be continued.)
her mind, and being informed by Flaurice
db'
with conscious pride and accustomed exag
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geration, of her extreme danger and of his
masters intrepidity, she attempted to thank
Linhault, who sat on the ground supporting
Man has been justly called, the most in
her,. but overcome by her weakneSs, and at consistent being in the universe, and indeed
that moment the thought of the anguish there is no truth more incontrovertible. This
of her parents rushing forcibly upon her is evident in almost all the affairs of life and
memory, she was unable to support her among every description of persons. W'e be
feelings, and fainted in his arms.
hold this disposition in the overowing cup
Laying her on the leafy ground, the youth of prosperity; and it is here, that the high,
soon restored her, and fondly Conjured her the low, the rich and the poor stand on equal
ground.
to dismiss all her fears.
Soon your aficted parents shall be in
Inconsistencies in the conduct of men are
formed of your safety, said he, and I pledge not exhibited merely in their intercourse
my honor to conduct you safely to their with others, but the actions of individu..ls
relative to their personal concerns are mark
arms, or perish with you!
~' But their anguish, said the affectionate ed \-.'ith perfect incoherence and perpetual
daughter, has already killed them! It was
else but the imperfection of human nature,
the great fountain whence all the frailtics of

men continually ow. Numerous are the ex
amples which press in upon us and conrm
the melancholy fact. \Vhen a man makes
open profession of certain principles, whe
ther moral, political or religious, and at the
same time acts in diametrical opposition to
such profession, have we not a sufficient
proof that he is indeed an inconsistent ani
mal? There are many who venture to rally
those around them to the exercise of virtu
ous actions, vociferating with all apparent
zeal in the praise of morality, whose private
conduct is totally repugnant to their public
declarations; concerning these, correct rea
son cannot hesitate to pronounce a verdict
of hypocrisy. Such characters should learn,
that he who wishes to promote by precept
what he fails to promulgate by example, will
receive for his pains all the perplexities of
disappointment. This truth is so well con
rmed by daily experience, that to say any
thing farther is quite unnecessary. Incon
sistency may be called hypocrisy, and in fact
the terms may be considered as synonymous.
For he whose actions are at continual vari
ance must of necessity practise deception.
Of all the base appendages to the human
character, this is certainly one of the most
despicable; it reduces man to a level with
beings of inferior order in' many respects,
and it is undoubtedly a frequent and cease
less cause of numerous evils which infest
our race. It is that most prominent link in
the great chain which mingles sorrow with
our sweetest pleasures and embittcrs the
existence of thousands. It is this which buoys

up the villains courage in the highway, and
it is this which hoists the pirates ag at sea.
It lays projects to entrap the unsuspecting
and to delude the innocent. It corrupts the
happiness of private life; and is not content
with this; it rushes into the public councils

of the state and deles the sacred temple.
The most ardent zeal in the best of causes
is too often masked with the veil of hypo

crisy. Many, whose ner feelings are touch
ed with some melancholy exhibitions on the
stage, whose souls are swelled with compas
sion and even overflow, feel no unpleasant
sensations at refusing to aid the distressed.
Misers may sympathise with the sons of af
iction, mad with forced pity drop a tear; but
what is this, if it be not hypocrisy? In this
point of view it is the blackcst trait ofwretch
ed depraxity. This despotic tyrant HigDB
with ungovernable sway wherever" solfmtc
rest is uncontrolled. Indeed. it is the wry
offspring of selfish principles, and ii the lat
ter did not exist tln; formu- vrould Ct use of
variations. '0 can attribute this to nothing course. Scilloye has been called the [zrimu/Il
I
124
mobile of all evil, and its influence is so evi

dent in the world, that there is little doubt,
of what he was going to say, opened his

mouth to this effect: As long as Peter
if this great wheel were arrested in its mo

tions, that all nature would experience a re.
volution.
Pcaceable continues to uphold the Cabinet,

there can be no danger, for its readers will
Dreadful streams its peatilential breath,

Fangd like the wolf and all agaunt. it prowls around,
Squinting its rolling and deluding eyes.
always nd it adorned with the choicest

gems and most sparkling brilliants of lite
rature! Reader, canst thou believe it, old
Peter Ieaceable felt his heart jump at this

A hypocrite must be in continual dread, lest compliment of his friend; he looked upon
in the end his deceptions should be detected Gregory as having neither promised too
and all his deeplaid schemes be overtured. little, nor too much, and immediately deter
This being true, his mind must be constant mined to prosecute the work.
ly uneasy and burthened with tuiceased anx
After my friend had left the room, I con
iety. He is compelled to keep a guard upon tinued thinking on the wonderful effects of
his tongue, lest by being too loquaeious, an flattery. Few is the number of those who
expression might fall from his lips calcula can resist the Well mixed dose; it is so ac
ted to involve him in difficulty. How pitiable, commodating to the palate, so tranquillizing
then, is the condition of the man who prac to the spirits, so sweetening to the disposi
tises hypocrisy! His situation is surely a tion, and so well calculated to put the man in
source of grievous perplexity. If, says a good humor with himself, that we eagerly
writer, there be such a thing as perfect seize upon it for its agreeable effects. It
ease and pleasure attainable among men, it hides our faults from our own view, and ex
is certainly to be found only in a freedom aggerates our virtues, making us esteem
and openness and security of mind and con ourselves even better than we had before
versation. To this assertion the dictates of imagined.
reason and judgment compel us to assent, for
There is no passion which we so easily
there can be nothing more unpleasant in com give into as pride." All persons have an in
pany, than dissimulation. It broods a thou ternal pride which loves to be fed with the
sand ills, and renders society disagreeable and delicacies of attery. Flattery, then, is the
an object not to be desired.
T. D. M.
favorite and most powerful instrument of the
designing; and as those who have favors to
dispense are obviously the more exposed to
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their arts, they are never in want of atten
THE CABINET. No. II.
dants to mix the palatable dose. Although
" But I discern their attery from their praise.
the meanest wretch that crawls the earth has
A few mornings ago, as I sat ruminating his little prides and vanities, as well as the
in my study, I was agreeable surprised by monarch on his throne, how does he demean
the entrance of my friend Gregory Gravity. himself towards those from whom he ex
He appeared to labor under something very pects bounty? Does he tell the opulent
important, and from the extreme length of gentleman, from whose abundance his pit
his phiz, I seriously apprehended the death tance is secured, that he considers himself
of some of his family; but in this I was hap
as good as he? Does he tell him thata beg
pily disappointed, for instead of a death gar is a man, and deserves to be supported?
there had been a birth, and Gregory Gravity Does he remind him that God has command
it was, that had brought forth. It appeared, ed thc rich to be merciful to the poor? Dare
that after many agonizing throes, his brain he pour into his ear such truths as these?
had been delivered of the introductory num Ah! no; he paints himself as a miserable
ber to the Cabinet! Upon a matter of so creature, unt to stand in the presence of
much importance Gregory had betaken the great, and tells the rich man how hap
himself to my study, and advancing forward py is his condition, and calls him the pecu
put the bautling into my hand; I examined liarly blessed of Heaven! He emblazons his
it closely and soon discovering it to be the charity, and his virtues in general, and when
genuine offspring of my friend, took it into the afuent man has done his duty, Heaven
is called upon to shower down its choicest
favor.
After having perused the paper, twill do blessings upon so benevolent a man, so ex
vastly well, said I, the editor can never re
cellent a christian. This pleasant tale will
fuse promises so fair; but pray, my friend, last forever, and will be rewarded whenever
continued I, have we not promised too much? it is delivered; and such is the conduct uni
shall we ever be able to perform half the versally pursued through the varied scale
ne things which you have here set forth? of existence, from the humble walks of
Gregory at this, putting on a longer face mendicity, to the polished circle that sur
than before, in order to add to_ the weight
round the august person of majesty.
As much an enemy as I am to deceit, I

can excuse the playful flatteries of ordinary
life, when they serve only to exhilarate the
spirits without degrading the mind. But
how despicable is he who has reduced at
tery to a refined system! who searches the
weak string in the bosom of his fellow, and
harps upon it to the advancement of his
own interest! \Vhen I see a man of this
character in the act of pouring forth his
vile and hypocritic adulation, I am satised
that he holds his subject in the most pro
found contempt, and is himself a frivolous
and unmanly knave.
To be praised, is a thing very different
from being flattered. To desire the former
is laudable, for it implies the performance.
of some action which deserves the approba
tion of mankind; while the latter is a series
of falsehoods made up to the taste of the

person who is to receive them, and best
calculated to answer the purpose of him by

whom they are presented. Happy he, who
in his dealings with men can say, like Dry
den,
1 I discern their attery from their praise."
PETER PEACEABLE.
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" Virtue and knowledge are the only genuine
distinctions which render one man superior to an
other."
A paper which has for its object the pm

motion of virtue and knowledge, is deserving
of applause and encouragement, though it
should eventually fail in its design. But
when it has obtained extensive patronage and
is continued with ability, it becomes highly
important in its effects, and it may be made
eminently useful in banishing ignorance and
vice, encouraging the liberal arts and sci
ences as well as establishing a taste for po
lite writing. Hence it has an agency in

forming the moral and literary characters of
its readers, at the same time we plainly dis
cover its inuence on the manners and ha
bits of society at large.
The benecial effects of those periodical
publications, the Tatler, Spectator, Guar
dian, Stc. were nationally conspicuous. Such
writers as Addison and Johnson, possessed
dignity of character and solidity of judg
ment sufcient to enable them to stand forth
disinterested and e-icient censors of pre
vailing folly and fashionable vice. They were
not the dupes of party prejudice, nor did
they stoop to gratify any private pique; their
strictures were made in sincerity and in
tended to promote the happiness and welfare
of the community. Though they could but
duly appreciate the advantages to be deriv
ed from the study of natural philosophy, the
12. IQ!
arts and sciences, kc. yet the conduct of the

times required it, and they proved it neces
sary, to draw the attention of mankind to
the study of life and manners, subjects of
much more importance from their indisso
luble connection with individual and public
happiness. The truth is," says acelebratcd
writer, that the knowledge of external na
ture and the sciences which that knowledge
requires, is not the great business of the
human mind. Our intercourse with intel
lectual nature is necessary; our speculations
upon matter are voluntary and at leasure.
It wu the labor of Socrates to turn philo
sophy from the study of nature to specula
tions upon life. But the innovators whom I
oppose are turning off the attention from
life to nature; they seem to think that we
were placed here to watch the growth of
filanls or the motions of the stars. Socrates
was rather of opinion, that what we had to
learn was how to do good and avoid evil.
Johnson's lives.
Before I take leave of these periodical
writers it must be observed such was their
exalted genius and extensive learning that
they have embraced almost every subject
which the most copious invention couldde
vise; and their speculations being at once so
diffuse and inimitable, they would seem to
have left nothing for the animadversion of
future authors. Every days experience, how
ever, exhibits some new folly or vice which
calls for the sober reasoning of the moralist
or the more powerful weapons of the satiri
cal champion. Strange itis, that notwithstand
ing the amiable persuasion of the divine and

the impressive reasoning of the most accom
plished writers who have ever adorned the
pages of literature, men of genius and good
talents should still abandon themselves to
libertinism, dissipation, and every- species of
vice which disgrace the human character;
which distinguish the virtuous, soon become,
Intelligence is received at a female party
in the sons of libertinism and dissipation,

completely extinguished.
I
It must be a very unpleasant idea to every
one, to live and die without pursuing any
other purpose, but that of the low one of
personal gratication; no man liveth unto
that Mr. Debonair, a handsome young fel

low of twenty two, is married to the old
himself, he has something more to do than
what will this world come to!"
and ugly widow Wrinkle of sixty live. Lard

preserve me! simpers one lady, dear me!
lisps another, how strange! whispers a third,
and, to cap the climax, a fourth ejaculates,
merely indulge in his own little pleasures,
Chance introduced me one evening to a
mean desires or low unworthy passions, the
large company of ladies and genlemen. Af

ter the customary ceremony of bowing and
scraping was concludedfl set myself down
in a corner of the room by the side of an in
timate friend; nearly opposite to me sat a
young lady whose attractions had collected
dirty family of selshness. He is entrusted

with faculties or talents for his own and the
public good; and however limited his sphere
of action may be, it is within his power by
the proper exercise of his intellects to con
fer some benet on his fellow creatures.
Were the sensual part of mankind to culti
vate the powers of reection they would
soon discover, (what is confessed by all who
are capable of exerting the faculties of think
ing in their full vigour,) that the enjoyment
of the understanding far exceeds the plea
sures of sense. They would then derive a
pleasure .from their own breasts as rational
as it is exalted; but always remembering that
no one can feel the pleasures of reection
who does not enjoy the peace of innocence.
Let the conduct of these devotees to vice
be what it may if they should prove always
incorrigable, stillin the language of Knox
there is this satisfaction, that notwithstand
ing the depravity of human nature, virtue

still appears amiable to the vicious and 'know
ledge to the ignorant, goodness will ever he
possessed of charms irresistibly captivating,"
and some lines from an old poet, just now
recur which, though not poetically elegant,
are yet so comprehensive and impressive I
beg leave to offer as a conclusion to this
essay.
Virtue alone has that to give,
W'hich makes it peace to die or live;

For if we live, our life is peace,
And if we die our joys increase.
these acknowledge the necessity of adhering

But vice can only that supply,
to virtue and stability in order to obtain any
Which makes it pain to live or die,
kind of respectability in this life; they are
For if we live tis pain tomorrow,
also aware of the disgraCe and perdition
And if we die tis endless sorrow.
which await them in the next. Yet still per
(JEN SOR.
sist in the practice of vice, regardless of all?
For the Repertory.
admonition, and it would seem as if 'some
I'Vfmt will Jilin world mm: to!
times, they were desirous of pervcrting the
Thereis no expression in more general
very harmony of nature, throwing all into
use than what wiil'ithis world come to!
discord and confusion. Habits of libertin
ism, says Paley incapacitate and indispose Old or young, rich or poor, sick or we'll, all,
the mind for all intellectual, moral and re
all are wondering what the world will
ligious pleasures, and this is a great loss to
come to.
my mans happiness. However this may be

accounted f0r, the examples are very nu
merous to prove the assertion. Characters in
dulging in this vice soon lose that percep
tion of guilt which maintains innocence;
The antiquity of it (the expression) cannot

be disputed, for {have not the least doubt,
when our rst parents were driven from Pa
radise, Eves exclamation, as she' hooked
arms with her partner, was, Adam, my dear,
While that good sense, integrity and honour what will Mir'world some to!"
most of the beaux around her, and who was
conversing in an affable manner (but without

the least show of acctation) withal, nor
did she scream or fall into pretended con

vulsions when a daring wight pressed his
lips to hers. Miss Prudy Prim (a virgin lady
some half dozen years past her grand climac
teric) tossing her head and shaking her fan
about in a most violent manner, expressed
her amazement, that such indelicate proceed
ings should be allowed in genteel company,
then turning up her eyes, added, in a hypo
critical tone, what will this world come to!
A severe reproof was on the eve of issuing

from my lips, but, like lady Townly in the
play, I gulped and swallowed it, for let a fe
male do as she will, it is not amans business
to insult her.
To conclude, in spite of wonderings or
prognostications the world has remained
nearly six thousand years in much the same
state as ever it was, the same vices and fol
lies are still in existence, and mankind are
new as prone to evil as they were in former

days.
For my part 1 consider myself in duty
bound to enjoy every pleasure placed within
my reach, else, why are they given me? not
merely as a temptation to sin? surely not.
Let the tnisanthrope rove by moonlight,
or no light, by the side of the meander
ing stream" or recline beneath the ancient
elm, there pour forth his griel's, whine and
sigh as long as he likes. 1 take the world

as it goes; and should I ever be rich enough
to purchase a coach, I will have the follow
ing lines on it, in letters of gold, for a motto:
1 make the most of life, no time mispend,
Pleasure 's the means. and pleasure is the end;
No spleen, no trouble, shall my time destroy,
Life 5 but a span, I'll every inch enjoy.
MOMUS, JUN.
_.'>'
As a persons yrs and no, so all his cha

racter. A downright yrs and no marks the
rm, a quick the rapid, and a slow one a can
tious or timid character.
126
For the Repertory.
lively and airy music; or from galliardise,

which signies merriment, exuberant gaity,
SACRED HAPJIONY.
No. Ill.
or extravagant mirth: and, which ever be the
Every person who shows respect to others

is entitled to respect in return. Under this
impression it is that I olicr a short explana
tion to an Amateur, in compliance with a de
sire intimated by him in the Repertory of
August 4: that I did not notice him at an ear
lier period, arose partly from indisposition
and partly from indispensable avocations; this
it is hoped will be accepted as a sufcient
apology.
I do not think that I am bound to give the
precise import of the expressions contained
in the extract from T. Collyer that he in
tended them to convey; nor can I indeed say
that I can discern his meaning in any other
way than by taking the whole of his lan
guage in connection; and almost any man
may do this himself by the help of a good
dictionary. But I well know the meaning
which I attached to the terms in question,
true denition, it will appear obvious to al

most every body, that such notes cannot har
monise with a devout frame of mind; nor are
When Sol has sunk to rest," with spirits gay,

To meet the rustic train upon the lawn,
And in amusements sweet, most sweet for they
Are innocent, heed not the ying minutes
Till the old clock proclaims the parting hour.
they, any more than the military tattoos, pro Then in sweet dreams thou viewst her fairy form
per for worshipping assemblies, or consis Roving amid the maze: of the dance,
While her blue speaking eyes dart full on thee
tent with the end and.object of church music.
Expression sweet of love; oh! happy boy!
Under this head may be ranked some .of the St. Orme were blcst were he as blythc as thee.
most injurious faults of teachers, singers,
ST. ORME.
and leaders of congregational music; such
as the rolling, jerking, jigging and ourish
For the Repertory.
ing Qflhe notes,which are as repugnant to the
STANZAS.
true spirit of sacred harmony, ,as they are

contrary to the example of Handel, Medan,
Arne and Arnold. Faults of this nature, to
gether with others which, though of a dif

ferent kind, are likewise materially injurious
to heart felt adoration, solemn worship and
devout praise, will be made the subject of a
future number.
PHILO MADAN.
Alone, unprotected, a fair ower ourishd,

And scented the breeze, in a verdant domain,
No hand gently reard and with tenderness nourishd

The rose bush so lovely, the pride of the plain.
The monarch of groves screend its form from the
blast,
And fannd by Zephyrus to vigor it grew,
The buds were expanding; the foe came at last

And ed with the fragrance no charms can renew.
00
and which induced me to use the quotation;
and this together with a remark or two the

Amateur shall have in as few words as is
consistent with pcrspicuity.
l. The maggots mentioned by Collyer,

simply mean whimsies, caprices, or odd fan
cies. These some professing teachers intro
duce into both the theory and practice of
church music (with what motive we shall at
another time attempt to show) and thus they
materially injure and sometimes destroy the
richness and sweetness of some of the best
music we have. They not only frequently use
graces of their own in pieces where the ablest
composers have studiously avoided them; but
they have sometimes altered the basses of
tunes in a manner unwarranted by the laws
of composition, and inconsistent with the
principles of good taste.
2. The tattoos have reference to that
beating of the drum which warns or orders
soldiers to their quarters: hence the music
that resembles such sounds cannot be accor
dant with devotional feelings, or at least
with those devout affections which ought to
be in exercise when worshipping the ador
able God in his holy temple. The introduc
tion therefore of such kind of notes by the
15:;
And in her smiles approaching. meet thy fair
And wishd reward; with her his speedily,
For the Repertory.

REFLECTIONS 01- A SOLITARY W AN DERER.
No. IV.
How mild and calm the shades of evning fall!

The moon slow rising from the neighboring hills
Silvers their tops, ensteepd in balmy dew,
With her soft beams, and Philomel, as though
Rejoicing at the zcphyrs sighing breeze
\Vhich gently waves the deep green spreading fo
linge,
Sends forth her notes in such sweet melting strains

As wakes the pensive soul to meditation,
And winding slow around yon rocky steep,
Shaded with branching oaks whose sheltring boughs
When rays meridian glance along the earth,
Screen from the oppressive heat the grazing hard;
The simple cowboy seeks his humble home,

To court the downy pinions of repose
On his hard bed of chaff, forgetting soon
In balmy slumbers the fatigues which he,
His exterior so pleasing. his accents so sweet,

The oweret deprived of fair virtues perfume;
He seduced it away from the tranquil retreat,
And robbd the green vale of its opening bloom.

Unabated awhile his affection remaind,
But cloyd by possession, his tenderness fled;
His victim, deserted, in silence complaind,
And unpited, alas! sought the realms of the dead.

0
Ye beauteous fair ones, remember the fate
0f the oweret which once was as lovely as you;

Whose breast was with virtues aioma. replete,
And whose breath was as sweet as the summer
eve dew.
Oh! beware of the youth whose soft voice whispers

love
And attringly paints fair illusions ofjoy,

Of raptures uncqualld by pleasures above;
For he seeks the fair peace of your mind to de

stroy.
Perhaps, has undergone. Oh, happy boy!
Canst thou possess that tranquillizing friend

\Vhich I so oft have wood in vain on couch
Of softest dOWn? Oh. were my mind like thine,
As unrestraind and gay, then would I not
Court it in vain. nor eeting are thy joys,
teachers alluded to, and some others who
The space which separates thee from the great,

15 the vast bar which Providence has placed
Twixt thee and sad inquietude; and then
As soon as morning dawns, the leaden wings
Of Morpheus spread and leave thee fresh in health
And able to fulfil returning toil.
While. mid some ancient spreading oak's deep shade,
occasionally lead the music of some congre
Around thee graze thy patient sober ock,
gations, has a direct tendency to defeat the Thy Oatcn pipe with streams melodious pours
happy effects of the pious labors of the Its breathing numbers through the rocky dell,
preacher, by diverting the attention of the While Echo soft with her responsive tones
hearers from the solemnities of divine ser Bears ofr the pleasing sounds; SOOlh 'd with thy music
And you, selsh wretches! whose joy and delight

Is remorse and regret on the fair to bestow,
Can ye view and not shrink back abashd from the

sight
Of a. oweret, the fairest of natures, laid low.
Oh! tremble; your moments of misry draw nigh;
On the pale bed of death when you languish in
pain,
The forms of your victims will meet your " minds
eyel'l
And soft soothing slumbers will court you in vain.

ORLANDO.
-.
For the Repertory.
On the deaf]: cf Ill. H. K. aged nine mom/1.9:
Thou dost forget the lapse of time 'till noon
And is the arduous struggle oer,

Didsr thou, so soon, the heavenly shore,
'
Unblemishd babe, attain?
A cherub now, in yonder spheres,
Exalted oer this H vale of tears,"
gnlliurd, which is the name of an active,
And scrip well stored invite the needful meal;

Then bounding oer the green luxuriant sward
Pluck fragrant vwerets, and in Chaplets fair,
Entwincd by skilful hands, present to her,
nirnble and sprightly dance that moves to
Some smiling village maid, the welcome wreath,
vice.
3. The term galliardising notes, may,
I presume, have been taken from the Word
Relieved from all thy pain.
PIIlLA DELPHIA REPERTOR Y.
127
Pleased. then, X view the different scenes around;

The rocks terrific, the abyss profound,
The distant woodland hills, the owery dales,
Thy little cup oflife, with ill

W'as dash'd, to render sweeter still
The pleasures of the sky;
The lowing herds, and busy village vales:

The bridge extending, too, from shore to shore,
All heaven rejoicing at thy birth,
It then decreed. redeem'd from earth,
An angel thou shouldst die.
Approach not, Grief, my youthful breast,

Nor madden in my fever'd brain!
But all thy milder anguish bear,

Pour in my haughty breast a part;
Be nought but melting sorrow there,
\Vhere waters rush with a tremendous roar;
To check my arrogance of heart!

The woodman, singing, as he hews the oak,
0! happy child, beloved of God!
And beating time with every lusty stroke;

The shepherd watching oer his eecy care,
The thorny way thy spirit trod,

\Vhile yet below thy heaven,
Of life it was resemblance strong,

For painful tis, though short, though long,
To all is misry given.
0, let a parents sorrows cease,
Regret not him who is at peace,
Blessd with a Saviour's love;
The Dryades sporting in the woody groves,
\Vhere featherd songsters warble forth theirloves;

The Oreades dancing on the lofty hills,
\Vhose height the musing mind with wonder lls;
And Naiades kissing, in the sunny beam,
The silver bosom of the sparkling stream;
The jolly fishermen, though doubly wet,
Carolling sweetly as they spread their net;
But pour their grateful thanks to heaven,

That tis by them a soul is given
To join the host above.
While rustics to their golden elds repair;
LORENZO.
_._
While his well coverd hook the game beguiles,

THE HERMIT.
Or roves, from place to place, in hopes to nd
Begone, dull care, cease evry strife,
A crowded rcbool to please his well formd mind;
Far from my cell let sadness y;

Here let me taste the sweets of life,
Rwn, too, with his gun and faithful Tray,

Along each marshy shore directs his way,
Alone to liveI alone to die.
And as his dog startles the winged game
Avaunt! the busy, bustling throng,
Directs his deadly and unerring aim.
The merry group, th enchanting scene;

Far better joys to me belong;
All these and more delightful views I nd,

\Vhile on Melias bed of owers reclined
And give to meditation all my mind.
DELLA LIRA.
.._._
For the Repertory.
Blest are my days, my nights serene.

Sweet meditation here is mine,
Reection smooths the rolling day,

Peace and contentment here combine,
To chase the shades of grief away.
THE CONTRAST. No. TI.
Envy my lot, ye sons of care,
TO JOY.
Forsake th alluring paths ye tread,
Rosy friend of mirth and pleasure,

In my breast thy power employ;
Thou the guiltless bosoms treasure,
Sweet companion, smiling Joy,
The joys of solitude to share,
And natures plainer page to read.

Say, what is all your jovial glee?
Your airy pleasures mirtd with pain?
Grief impatient to devour,
Come to a hermits cell and see.
Can no more thy soul annoy;

If thou come with magic power,
Come learn that all your bliss is vain.
Sweet companion, smiling Joy.
Then own that solitude is blest,

The noisy crowd no more pursue,
The hermits is a. life of rest,
A life of sweet contentment too.
Come not thou with erceness greeting,

All my hopes but to destroy;
Bliss in the extreme is eeting,
M.
For the Repertory.
I would have thy soothing feeling,

Gradually, blooming boy,
LAUREL HILL.
Oer my bosom gently stealing,
A POEM, IN THREE PARTS
Part II.
New aming Ethon draws the orb of light,

In foaming pride, to its meridian height;
Tis an antepast of Heaven,

Where reigns bliss without alloy;
And still, in calm quiescence, here I rest,
\Vhere thou art forever given,
On owers sweet seemed, that are often prest

By Melias and by Elizara's breast:
And as I lie, entranced, amidst the owers,

TO GIULI
Creating the fragrant sweets that Flom showers,
Whose check neer wore a playful smile;

In sadness on thy care worn brow,
Sit pain and melancholy toil.

Tis time with " healing on his wing,"
Bu: closely search in vain, for noughtTnd

Alone can give thy bosom ease;
Such bland persuasion does he bring,
But these dear sweets her breath has left behind:

'
And think I am, indeed, supremely blest,
To touch, 0, raptures! what my Melia prest!
'
lobahtlrbia,
We have received several communica

tions from different quarters animadvcrting
upon various poets in the Repertory; and
many of the sentiments contained in the
strictures are the same as our own. Among
these writers we recognise two, of distin
guished talents, good sense and acumen of
criticism, namely S
S
and N. ()f
the former, it will be unnecessary to say any

thing more than that there exists now no
cause for his severity; and of the latter we
will comprise all we have to say at present
in a general observation or two. Under the
conviction attempted, though in vain, to be
established by a dcistical writer, that ridi
cule is the test of truth, (in the prevalence

of which he fondly anticipated the estabish
ment of his own peculiar religious tenets)
almost innumerable have been the advocates
of his opinion, who have taken up the cud
gels of ridicule to prostrate whatever did
not coincide precisely with their own opin
ions,sentiments and feelings. As if metaphy
sics (an illimitable space for the daring ights
of the soul) were not suicient for the full
exercise of the faculties of man, the elds of
literature became the theatres of ridicule,
raillcry and burlesque, in order to test the

merits of the compositions or the fortitude '
of the authors. It is too much so at the pre
sent day; and humble as our paper is, it has
been almost too much so for us. If, however,
; N, or any other able hand, will give us crill liques instead of indeterminate reections; if
l he will point out particular parts or passages

1 in the performances of any writers, whether
E in our or any other paper, instead of throw
Queen of the cheerless front art thou,
My fancy dreams rny Melia is conceald

Amrmg the sweets, the sweets these roses yield.
0! then, I closely search the closest bowers,
Bles' bowers. that softly breathe the soul of owers;
Heaving a sigh, I press again the rose,

On which she oft reclined in sweet repose;
This portion of thy anger know,

Enough to teach my soul to feel.
And sympathise in others woe!
OTHELLO.
'l'O READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
And Lws, angling in the eddy ood,

His favorite sport to catch the nny brood;
Pleased, by the brink, for hours he stands and smiles,
For the Repertory.
Chast'ner, before thee let me kneel,
'
To sooth the troubled heart to peace.

In all thy pomp and anguish drest,
With rage and horror in thy train;
ing out indiscriminate censuregas be certain
ly has done, he will always meet a welcome

reception with us. Our paper is over open
to that candid criticism, which, as we have
already observed, is dictated by good sense

and good temper; ,and we conceive that if
any other were admitted, it would lead to an
almost endless discussion, which to an intel
ligent and liberal mind, might be as unen
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3':
teitaining as unprotable; and would ex

clude from our columns articles calculated
to do good, and more likely to be generally
HEALTH OFFICE,
For the Repertory.
August 11, 1810.
THE A'MUSER. No. II.
1. Soon after a person in Jersey had been
acceptable.
married, at the advanced age of 106, he was
Alonzo is reminded that what he offers in

exculpation of the plagiarism of which he is
accused, coming as it does from an anony
mous writer, is virtually no evidence at all:
nothing but the testimony of the editor of
the Port Folio, or some other respectable
and disinterested person, substantiating as
fact, that Alonzo was the author of the piece
accosted by his daughter-in-law, with father,

Im offended with you for not having invited
me to your wedding. In order to atone for
the neglect, he gave her a signicant smile,
pointed out by Detector as a literary fraud,
would be conclusive evidence in favor of the

accused; it is therefore no longer our busi
ness, but remains with Alonzo to clear him
and clutching her under the chin, answered,

never mind it for the rearm, daughter, I
intend you shall be invited to my next.

Remark: 'I wonder whether this man

from the 4th to the 11m August.
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Atrophy
0 1 lnam. of bowels 1 0
Cancer
Compression of brain 0 1 Locked jaw

Cholera morbus
0 18 Old age
1
1
0
0
Convulsions
6 Small pox natural 1
Dropsy ofthe breast I 0 Still born
0
Dropsy in the brain 0 l Sudden
l
0
1
0
Dysentery
Fever, bilious
Fever, typhus
2. A poor dervise made his pilgrimage to
humor and fun, between hilarity and levity,

between wit and buffoonery; and if there
without shoes.
have been afelicity evinced by some writers

in the choice of subject which critics have
Christian.
3. During the usurpation of Cromwell, sir
John
, of Surrey, who was one of Crom
our young Momus has merit in his discrim

ination, independently of his easy and happy
manner of treating his subject. A succession
of such favors will be received with grateful
acknowledgement.
4
1
1
2
0
O

19 33
Under
Total 52
1 year
an immediate insertion, had there been room;
the charge, said he had done nothing but his
they shall, however, appear as soon as pos

sible.
duty; that he had only preached, in general

terms, against vice and immorality, which
70
80
10
20
I
1
80
90
90
100
O
O
20
30
4 Ages unknown
30
40
40
50
5
10
70
0
_.
Total 52

STATE OF TIIE 'IIIERMOAIETER.
August 6
7
Remark: A good lesson'from a Turk to a
wells knights, and a man wholly attached to
Between 1 and 2
9 oclock. 12 oclock. So'clock.

68
67
71
67
70
68
73
76
9
10
11
67
73
78
74
77
81
77
79
83
his party, was sued by the minister of the

parish for his tythcs. While the dispute was
pending, sir John thought that the parson
every Sunday preached at him, as he called
The merits of some late communications, it. He, thorefore, made his complaint to the
particularly those of our constant and regu protector, who at his request summoned the
lar correspondents, would have ensured them minister before him. The good man denied
LIARRI'EI), '
O Sore throat
Mecca barefooted, for want of shoes; curs
0 Insanity
Hives
thought of staying here forever.
ing his lot, and accusing Heaven of cruelty:

self
but when he arrived at the gate of the great
We give Momus, Jun. a hearty Welcome mosque of Confa, be perceived a poor man
among our corresponding friends; anti we who had lost both his feet. At the sight of
have no doubt that the sprightly turn of his a fellow creature so much more miserable
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No. 17.
1
BIOGRAPHY.
grandeur of the English nation. In a visit

which he made to this prince, under the
gave the name of Smith's Isles, which they

still bear. Then reentcring the bay they landed
LIFE OF JOHN SMITH.

(Continued)
conduct of Smith, he was received and en
on the eastern neck, and were kindly received
tcrtained with an equal show of magni by Acomack, the prince of that peninsula,
The misfortunes and mismanagements of cence; but in trading with the savage chief a part of which still bears his name. From
this Virginian colony, during the period here
related, seem to have originated partly in the
tempers and qualications of the men who
were appointed to command, and partly in
the nature and circumstances of the adven
ture. There could be no choice of men for
the service, but among those who offered
themselves; and these were previously stran
gers to each other, as well as different in
their education, qualities and habits. Some
of them had been used to the command of
ships, and partook of the roughness of the
element on which they were bred. ~It is, per
haps, no great compliment to Smith, to say
that he was the best qualied of them for
command; since the event prevcd that none
of them, who survived the rst sickness, had

the condence of the people in any degree.
It is certain that his resolution prevented the

abandonment of the place the rst year; his
enterprising spirit led to an exploration of
the country and acquainted them with its
many advantages; his captivity produced an
intercourse with the savages, and the sup
plies gained from them, chiey by means of
his address, kept the people alive till the
second arrival of the ships from England.
The Virginians, therefore, justly regard him,
if not as the father, yet as the saviour of
that infant plantation.
In the winter 1607, captain Newport ar

rived from England in Virginia. The other
ship, commanded by captain Nelson, which
sailed at the same time, was dismastcd on

the American coast, and blown off to the
fest Indies. The supplies sent by the com

pany were received in Virginia with the
most cordial avidity; but the general license
given to the sailors to trade with the savages,
he found himself outwitted. Powhatan in a thence they coasted the eastern shore of the
lofty strain, spoke to him thus: it is not bay, and landed sometimes on the main, and
agreeable to the greatness of such men at other times on the low islands, of which
as we are, to trade like common people for they found many, but none t for habitation.
trics; lay down, therefore, at once, all your They proceeded up the bay to the northward,
goods, and I will give you the full value for and crossed over to the western shore, down
them. Smith perceived the snare, and warn which they coasted to the southward, and in
ed Newport of it; but he, thinking to out this route discovered the mouths of the great
brave the savage prince, displayed the whole rivers which fall into the bay on that side.
of his store. Powhatan then set such a price One in particular attracted much of their
on his corn, that not more than fourbushels
attention, because of a reddish earth which
could be procured; and the necessary sup they found there, and from its resemblance
plies could not have been had, if Smiths to bole ammoniac, they gave it the name of
genius, ever ready at invention, had not hit
Bolus river, and it is so named in all the
on an artice which proved successful. He early maps of the country; but in the latter,
had secreted some tries, and among them it bears the Indian name _Patapsco, on>the
a parcel of blue heads, which seemingly in north side of which is now the ourishing
a careless way, he glanced in the eyes of town of Baltimore. Powhatan. The bait caught him; and he
The Virginia company in London, de
earnestly desired to purchase them. Smith, ceived by false reports, and misled by their
in his turn, raised the value of them, extoll own sanguine imaginations, had conceived
ing them as the most precious jewels, re an expectation not only of nding precious
sembling the color of the sky, and proper metals in the country, but of discovering the
only for the noblest sovereigns in the uni South Sea from the mountains at the head of
verse. Powhatans imagination was all on James river, and it was thought that the
fire; he made large o'ers. Smith insisted on i journey there might be performed in eight
more, and at length suffered himself to be ' or ten days. For the purpose of making this
persuaded to take between two and three capital discovery, they put on board New
hundred bushels of corn for about two ports ship, a barge capable of being taken
pounds of blue beads, and they parted in to pieces, and put together again at pleasure.
very good humor, each one being very This barge was to make a voyage to the
much pleased with his bargain. In a subse head of the river, then to be carried in pie
quent visit to Opechanltanow, king of Pa ces across the mountains, and to descend
munltee, the company were entertained with the rivers which were supposed to run west
the same kind of splendor, and a similar ward to the South Sea. To tiicilitate'this plan,
bargan closed the festivity; by which means, it was necessary to gain the favor of Powha
the blue beads grew into such estimation,
tzui, through whose country the passage
that none but the princes and their families must be made; and, as means of winning
were able to wear them.
him, a royal present was brought over, con
Having nished the necessary business of sisting of a bason and ewer, a bed and fur
proved detrimental to the planters, as it

raised the prices of their commodities so the season, and dispatched the ship, another
high, that a pound of copper would not pur voyage of discovery was undertaken by capt.
chase what before could be bought for an Smith and fourteen others. They went down
ounce. Newport himself was not free from the river (June 10, l608) in an open barge,
this spirit of profusion, so common to sea in company with the ship, and having parted ,
faring men, which he manifested by sending with her at Cape Henry, they crossed the
presents of various kinds to Powhatan, in
mouth of the bay, and fell in with a cluster of "
tending thereby to give him an idea of the islands without Cape Charles, to which they I
niture, a chair of state, a suit of scarlet
clothes, with a cloak and a crown, all which

were to be presented to him in due form,
and the crown placed on his head, with as
much solemnity as pessible.
The present being put on board the boats,
was carried down James river, and up the
Pamunkce, whilst Newport, with fty men,
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"went across by land, and met the boats, in
which he passed the river, and held the

proposed interview. All things being pre
pared for the ceremony of coronation, the
present was brought from the boats; the
bason and ewer were deposited, the bed and
chair were set up, the scarlet suit and cloak

were put on, though not till Namontac (an
Indian youth whom Newport had carried to
England and brougditback again) had assured
him that these habilimcnts would do him no
harm; but they had great difculty in per
suading him to receive the crown, nor would
he bend his knee or incline his head in the
least degree. After many attempts, and with
actual pressing on his shoulders, they at last
made him stoop a little, and put it on. In
stantly a signal being given, the men in the
boats red a volley, at which the monarch
started with horror, imagining that a design
was forming to destroy him in the summit
of his glory; but being assured that it was
meant as a compliment, his fear subsided,
and in return for the baubles of royalty re

ceived from king James, he desired Newport
to present him his old fur mantle and deer
skin shoes, which in his estimation were
doubtless a full equivalent, since all this

nery could not prevail on the wary chief to
allow them guides for the discovery of the
inland country, or to approve their design of
VISItlng it.
(To be continued.)
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A nosmucn.
CHAPTER III.
A cave profound
Their habitation, where no cheering beam
Nor soft Etesian breezes ever come,

But unrelenting cold and rayless night
In everlasting horrors there reside!
Ovid.
resburgh, by my hopes I thought not that

thou wast so dear to me. If I should lose
thee I should know no peace!"
Indeed! ejaculated Linhault in sur
prise.
Indeed! echoed his father, aye, youth,
indeed! You have not, surely, doubted that I
loved you!"
Pardon me, my lord," returned Linhault,
cute to me! said Linhault, the smile of de
rision settling on his visage.

Something that near concerns thee, an,
swore the monk.
Truly, said Linhault, it must be of in
finite concern when lwly Austin holds the

precious knowledge.
Come, come, returned Austin, with
draw that supercilious glance, and let us
together hold a more friendly converse.
your mysterious behaviour, your cold for

With the! cried the youth, no, lest the
bidding frown that struck me dumb when I
vengeance of olfcnded heaven should quick
would fain have soothed you
Here the youth was checked by the wild ly seize me for the crime! Prithee monk,
and vacant look of 1*erresburgli, who at name friendship with thee no more: thou art
length seemed to recollect himself, and said as hateful to me as the lurking viper.
to Linhault,
Indeed! Replied Austin.
Thy thoughts have wandered widely from
Thou art, answered Linhault, and my
the truth!
rage shall one day crush thee!"
I am indeed too happy, said the young
Here the youth again attempted to with
baron, in having discovered that my sus draw, when Austin no longer able to con
picions have been without foundation. Yet tain his passion, and resolving with one blow
what could I suppose the reason of your to glut his vengeance and at the same time
coolness? your sudden starts when no one to stop his loudest fear, drew a dagger from
was near you but myself? your calling on beneath his robe and rushed upon the baron.
my name and on Sobeiskis in your sleep
Linhault had divested himself of his arms
Traitor! cried the count, have you in another room, but bending beneath the
beheld all this? Have my frailties led you to dagger of the monk, he seized his lifted arm,
watch my secret hours? Have you dared to unrenched the deadly weapon from his hand,
pry into my souls recesses? Have you dis and throwing him indignantly upon the floor
covered
was again retiring when the voice of Austin
Here the entrance of Austin checked the now more effectually arrested him.
If, said he, your fathers life be dear
imprudent warmth of Ferresburgh, as his
frenzy was leading him to betray what most to you remain!"
My fathers life! exclaimed the youth,
on earth he wished to conceal.
Have I discovered what? demanded how is his life endangered?
Come nearer, said the monk, were I
Linhault.
Young lord, said Austin, twere well to tell thee tales of former deeds of cruelty
this timeless curiosity were checked in its 'and blood
Eternal powers! interrupted Linhault.
birth, or else
Were the knowledge of these deeds
Else what? thou hooded murderer!" cried
within your breast, could you bear to hold
Linhault
Linhault," said his father, I must not that knowledge in the grasp of silence, as
hear this language to my dearest friend, and sist to bury vestiges of blood and, pity and
by your respect for him expect to know my forgive the perpetrator?"
Linhault gazed some moments upon the
kindness.
Respect, sir! exclaimed Linhault, cast monk in silent horror, and at length cried in
an agony of deathful suspicion; No, may
ing a dreadful glance upon the monk.
heavens red vengeance hurl me from exist
For him," returned his father, and turn
ing to Austin requested him to remember ence if I ever stoop to cloak a fathers
crimes, or mcanly bend to yencrate a mon
his instructions.
Touch upon the relation of the whole, ster!
Destruction! muttered Austin to him
whispered he, if we can gain him to our
purpose it were great! And surely lial love self.
Thou hell inspired monk!" exclaimed
here the monk nodded his perfect compre
After the servants had been dispatched

in search of his son, Ferresburgh continued
in extreme anxiety for his fate. His mind
was wrought up to such a frenzy of fear,
that he threw himself on a couch that lay in
the room and gave himself up to the most
extravagant convulsions of dread.
Linhault found his father in this dreadful
perturbation of mind, and upon throwing
himself upon the bosom of the count, nothing
but the feelings of the father could be per
ceived to operate upon Ferresburghs soul.
Art thou found, my darling boy? ex hension of what his lord would say, and
claimed he, my fearful imagination pour Ferresburgh with a piercing look upon Lin
traycd thee ere this closed in the silent arms hault hastily withdrew.
Linhault casting a look of the most pro
of death!"
Thou art too kind, my father, answered found contempt was following his father when
the youth, I have been in no very great Austin, stiing the deadly venom in his soul,
danger.
exclaimed, stay, young lord, and hear me.
Tell how thou hast escaped, said Fer
What has the man of God to communi
Linhault, thou hast conrmed a black sus
picion here that I would fain have buried! I

would learn more, then tell me all the dread
ful truth."
Ill tell thee, boy, it is thy fathers will
that you set out in haste to search for The
dia, the lost but haply living daughter of

Sobeiski.
131
to Malda and Roselle, who blushed as her
might plead some excuse, but we behold it
father cried to the youth,

Behold, my lord, the living maid your
will restore her to her right!
Tis more than probable thou wilt not, generous valor rescued from seemingly in
said Austin to himself, mentally rejoicing at evitable fate! She owes you more than she
the eastv with which Linhault swallowed the can ever repay.
Not so," cried Linhault, nothing more
bait, which tended to make him the instru
easy; a smile from the fair Roselle, is more
ment of putting Thadia into their power.
\Vhen must we depart? demanded Lin than I deserve. I should esteem my life of
little value when put in competition with her
hault.
safety.
At least before the king arrives, an
This compliment passed unnoticed by all
swered Austin.
The king!" reechoed Linhault, does except Roselle who conceived she saw more
than mere politeness in it. Braubenski now
he come here?
insisted that our hero should condescend to
He does," said A ustin.
And for what purpose? inquired the stay and taste their rustic dinner, to which,
young lord.
not wanting much persuasion, he assented.
That I may not reveal, replied Austin.
Braubenski soon regretted his politeness,
You will prepare yourself for your journey for upon Rosellcs mentioning that she must
and leave no means untried to discover the go some distance for a necessary article for
helpless orphan of your murdered relative. their meal, and rising for that purpose, Lin
Fear not my vigilance, returned Lin hault immediately declared his intention of
hault, for he who could be slack in such not permitting her to go alone, and accor
a cause is surely outcast from humanity!
dingly prepared to accompany her.
Theres one thing more, said the monk,
Though chagrined that he had caused this,
Ive let you know there is hidden in my Braubenski was obliged to comply. Suspicit n
breast a dreadful secret."
of all who belonged to the castle was the
Thou hast, indeed! returned the youth. cause, yet he was compelled to see Linhault
Why then, within your bosom let that depart with his fair charge.
knowledge close remain, replied the friar,
There was a strange mystery about the
* or a secret still more terrible to you shall old man, which Linhault had observed with
be disclosed!
surprise, as he could not fathom the cause of
To me! cried Linhault with emotion.
such conduct in one upon such a low scale
To thunder ruin on thy head! cried of human existence. The peasant would ne
Austin vehemently, and with a glance in ver suffer Roselle one moment from his
which end like malice beamed triumphant, sight if possible, and the baron had often
he hastily left Linhault in horror and amaze heard him since their intimacy caution his
daughter about too much exposing herself.
ment!
What meant the villain? he at length
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
exclaimed: there is an awful something in
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my breast that whispers horror to my soul!
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Sobeiskis dreadful massacre! My fathers
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long, long grief seems more the effect of
conscience than of love! And when I touch
As beauty and order naturally excite our
ed upon his strange disposition he looked a admiration, so nothing is calculated to give
very fiend! A secret too concerning me! us more pleasure, than to behold an amiable
What can it possibly be? No matter; be it disposition and a sweetness of temper. These
what it may my conscious rectitude of heart are qualities so rare, that to be possessed of
them, is truly worth all the difculties we
will support it.
Several days passed on without any mate incur in their acquisition. They often screen
rial occurence, yet Linhault could not bring from public view, many of the defects in the
his mind to sufficient complacency to comply characters of those who exercise them.
with the invitation of old Braubenski, and it
He who is satised with every thing just
was not till the sixth morning after this that as he nds it, who is contented with the
he found himself in a situation to visit the coarsest fare and the roughest lodging, will
cottage, though he would have given worlds always be received with complacency by the
hospitable and the wise. Since whatever is
to have seen Roselle.
On entering the humble abode of inno is right, of what avail is continual grum
cence and beauty, he was cordially accosted bling and murmuring anxiety?
by the old peasant, who inquired after his
How often are we compelled to view the
health with great solicitude, and leading him unhappy tendencies of dissatisfaction! \Ve
to the interior of the cottage presented him see it, not only among those whose indigcncc
more frequently in the rich and afuent; of
I'll cheerfully obey that order," answer

ed Linhault, and if the world contain her,
tener in the lap of fortune, than in the den
of poverty, rather in the palace, than in the

humble cot. for. witness it in every class of
men, and it is the same sad feature in the
human mind, under all its various forms. In
this, as'in many other respects, the rich have

no claim to superiority over the poor, and
this is sufficient to convince us of the tri
ing dierence that exists between men,
whose pecuniary circumstances have been
supposed to create an essential distinction
in their very natures.
The laborer, who toils for his daily bread,
is often heard repining at his unhappy lot

and desiring to be differently situated in life,
and even anticipating a change. Vain hope!
If he knew what was his best interest, he
would bless the destiny that compels him to
earn his food by the sweat of his brow, he
would spurn the vapid greatness of the
wealthy and prize the blessings of his hard
fortune. Little does he know, that labor and
exercise are the best means of preserving

his constitution from those maladies which
prey upon the man who reclines on the
couch of indolence, otherwise he would
glory in his condition and think himself in the
best of circumstances. He is capable of en
joying felicity, which wealth alone can never
purchase. Why then should he be discon
tented? why grieve that his lot is cast in the

eld of labor? Look at the rich man, who is
ignorant of the extent of his fortune, who is
surrounded by an host of attendants, and

who, notwithstanding, is eagar to increase
his stock. His whole life furnishes a lamen

table history of human weakness. His frame
is disordered, his inrmitics are fast press
ing him down, and in all his affluence, he is
unhappy. What a picture, what a mass of
wretchedness! He fears to repose, when na- '

ture veils the earth in darkness, lest some
sad fate should befal- him and deprive him
of his money, the idol of his heart. He

seizes every opportunity of getting a little
more, and is as apt to overreach the mark
of honesty, as any in the most indigent cir
cumstances. We are ready to inquire, why

all this anxiety and uneasiness of mind? Per
haps his trouble to raise heap on heap of
sordid gold, is but to enlarge thescope of
dissipation, of luxury and extravagance, of
some one, who, in expectation of inheriting
a large estate, enters the busy world, resolv
ed to live in idleness and case.
And is it for this alone, that constant dis
satisfaction should sully the passing days of

man? Is the perpetual disturbance of his
mind to cvcntuate in nothing more noble
than this? Surely, the man who goes through
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life thus, must be a stranger to reection and

reason.
If wealth were inseparably connected with
discontent, then I should say, blest is the den
where poverty forever reigns. But a man
may participate in the smiles of foitune, and
at the same time possess complacency of
temper and tranquility of mind. Such exam
ples are indeed uncommon, but we have no
hesitation in admitting the possibility of their
occurence. There can be no doubt, that so
ciety would be benetted by the universal

prevalence of this contented disposition; it
would smooth the rugged path of life and
ameliorate the hardships of fortune. It would
often dispel the lowering clouds of sorrow
and diffuse the pleasures of serenity through
the soul.
Contentment is a prize of real worth, it
is a laurel in the character of a man, which
prayed, not that his disciples might be taken

out of the world, but be preserved from the
evil in the world. An abundance of similar
testimony might easily be adduced, to evince
that the enlargement of the mind and cul
tivation of the understanding, though not

absolutely the same, yet nevertheless main
tain an intimate connexion with the virtues
of the heart; and that they were to be recom
mended accordingly to all such as would as

pire, in any degree, to the possession of wis
dom; a portion of which is absolutely neces
sary to our safe progress through life, as
well as to tit us for nally relinquishing it
here.
There are, indeed, many means whereby
we should go wrong." Tis practice which

renders theory useful.
To us, this world in several respects, may
be compared to awilderness. We come into
it innocent but uninformed. \Ve are initiated
into the duties of life by observation and ex
perience, and thus become capacitated for
acting that part for which a superintending
Providence designed us. But in the acquisi
tion of knowledge by observation and expe
rience, we nd exercise for both corporeal
and mental endowments; we must judge of
the tness or untness of things, and, by
comparing one thing with another, we are

enabled to form pretty accurate plans, both
of domestic and of more extensive govern~
we may be instructed in the paths of wisdom, ment. But such plans must be tested by ex
but because one mean may be more bene perimental authority before we shall be safe
cial than another, we may not hence infer in stamping upon them the seal of authen
that all others ought to be neglected. Rather LiClty.
.A.
*1.
will render him, at all times, agreeable and let us enjoy the superior advantages which
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happy. But \\ ithout it, he must be at perpe arise from a combination of them.
MY
ADYENTURLS.
Almost the whole of mans business and
tual war with himself and with the whole
As
I
mentioned
in my last, we were safely
duties
has
been
systematized
and
reduced
to
world.
T. D. M.
the formality of rule; so that almost every landed in Blanket harbor, and my old woman
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thing may be learned theoretically by read had scarce began to dose, when she fairly
, ing. But however perfect we may be in terried me with her tremendous snoring
EQUITUS. No. III.
Perhaps no inclination of the human mind theory, we still nd that perfection in prac and grunting; it seemed as though our kind
is more general than a relish for that novelty tice is quite another attainment, which can host had taken it into his head, to call up
which nature allords. The construction of not be arrived at but'by practical application. his pigs to the swill tub, for verily two hogs
man appears so well adapted to the change For instzmcc, we may go constantly to church, wouldnt have made more noise; so I,was
or read the best sermons and lectures on obliged for my own sake, to hit her a few
able nature of tcrestrial things, that a con
stant uniformity of objects excites few live religion, yet if our minds are unenlightened pelts in the side, to settle her stomach, for
ly sensations, and generally is attended with by the pathetic glow of divinity, those ex it might well be supposed, that any one with
an unprotable insipidity. For, as the stren cellent means for instructing us in a way so the best half of a pot of mush in em, would
uous diet of one single dish, is neither so important, will leave the heart as unregeu feel not very gingerly. But dogs the bit
could I budge her, snore she would, till day
pleasing to the palate, nor so contributary to erate as they found it. \Ve may read the re
health, as a moderate variety; so neither is marks of moralists; but if we are not con break being near at hand and I almost worn
'it to be supposed that he who is altogether cerned to practise the duties of morality, down with fatigue, dropt into a good sound
secluded from the world in his own native what do they prot us? \Ve may read the sleep. Now, as to what took place between
vale, would be likely to enjoy so much of histories of nations, and ages that are past; this and a while after, I cannot be account
the comforts_of life, to enlarge his intellec but if we do not transfer their experience to able, but this much is certain, that a thought
tual capacities, or improve his condition, in ourselves, and as individuals, or as members about waking never entered my pate, till the
an equal degree with one who sees more of of the body politic, so conduct ourselves ac sun peepetl through a glass window in one
the manners and customs of mankind. In cording to the sage maxims which the wis corner of our apartment and its rays were
solitude andseelusion the powers of genius dom and folly of others have afforded, we so fairly condensed on my phiz, that for all
are liable to be obscured by a rust which may still be like uncultivated barbarians the world I couldnt sleep any lenger. Now,
corrodes the best feelings of humanity, and whose judgement of things is governed by thought I, here s a fair expedient to try
hides the lustre of that polish which con custom's arbitrary power. \Vc may study the with my old woman, since thumping wont
tributes materially to the welfare of society. whole circle of the sciences and make our rouse her, so I shifted quarters at little and
The desire for knowledge, says a late selves acquainted with the theory of agricul rolled her over till her face: came plump
writer, is inherent in the human mind, tuid ture, commerce and manufactures; but if we against the piercing light which just distur under due restraint, may be made highly come not to practical illustration, we shall ed me; but no, plague on her, it seemed as
conducive to our interests and Welfare. It is be liable to fall into error by estimates in though she had determined on snoring till
an appetite implanted in us for wise and im which we take into view only a part of the dinner time, so I concluded she might lie,
portant purposes, and if moderated in the perfect system. \Ve may commit the whole if she chose, the whole day. Having dressed
bounds of discretion, may be very innocently of the maxims of politeness and good breed myself, down stairs I went, though by the
as well as agreeably indulged. Religion au ing to memory, and store the mind with by, the house was all on one oor, and the
thorises it, when it says be ye wise as ser every art which good sense can invent for rst thing I saw was the inn keeper with the
pents and harmless as doves, and again, the purpose of pleasing in conversation; yet bottle in his mouth, taking what country
" concerning evil, be ye simple, but in un we may go into company, feel embarrassed people call a swig. \Vcll," said he, SOOd
derstanding be ye men. And the Saviour and confounded, afraid to go forward, lest morning, Ned, come try a glass, and make
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free as I do." So to show that I wasnt bashful,
too heavy laden, a pretty gure well make
wise, and pity me if we didnt dip pretty
after thanking him and wishing agood health,
of it indeed. On the other hand, if we start
I fell to work, and may be, I didnt drink it

all, however, as to that, its nobody's busi
gone clear as a whistle, not the stuff itself,
off, the mach may break down again and if

no house should be near why we must lie
in the wood all night. So after serious
meditation, I came to this conclusion, that
if we did stay to the election, we wouldnt
go an inch further on our journey, but tack
about and push home. I had some hope that
deep into the bucket. Presently the punch

was called for a second time, when as I was
dyc see, but bottle and all was off nice
my old woman would not like this, but ra
I that made the bucket, so I couldnt answer
enough. \Vell I felt confounded vext to be

sure at my loss, but not liking to make a
ther than miss a frolic, she would agree to
for its breaking, and of course nobody was

to blame in the business. Towards dusk as
I was walking through the parlor, I saw a
ness, and after washing my face and hands I

went into the yard to 506 how the coach and
horse fared, when lo! to my extreme disap
pointment, the bottle of home spun wine was
fuss about it, so here the matter dropt.
By the time I got back to the house the

table was getting in order for breakfast and
I was much pleased even before I entered
the room to nd that the good old lady had
put a piece of ham down to fry fora relish.
You must know that all our family have re
markable noses for smelling this kind of salt
pork, and, by the by, we have some strange
propensity for eating it. The ham had not
been scarce two minutes on the re before
the old woman began to make a noise as if
she had a mind to get up; her smellers were
worked upon at such a rate and of course
her appetite a little more so, that the meat
was hardly cooked, when Betty hopped in
any thing, and I must confess, of choice, Id
rather stay and see it out.

The morning was chiey spent in telling
dreams and such hobgoblin tales as were
enough to scare any man out of his wits.
You may easily guess what quarter this
came from, since two old women never get
together without hatching as many stories
as would ll a cart chock full and running
over. However we were a little diverted
twixt whiles by a few oddities that fell from
the inn keeper and a strange looking genius
that called regularly every morning to wet
his whistle. Dinner time soon arrived and
we were to have what country folks call a

good meal, neither more nor less than round
apple dumplings and fat pork, of which 1151
VVhy, concern it all, said I, what have you
learnt, afterwards, the lady of the inn had
been :1 doing all this here while, why we

might have been twenty miles on our jour
cooked twice as much as she wanted for din

ner, so as to have some cool for supper.
However the whole was placed on the table,
and since my old woman and I had not been
used to get dinner for the sake of a show,
so we turned the dumplings out of the dish
ncy. 0, said she, law suz'. dont bother a body,
wont it all go in the days work? Indeed,

said I, thats more than I am able to say, but
wash your face and come along and look

like other folks.
All hands were now called to breakfast,
and when we were cleverly seated, in came

Betty making a wonderful to do about how
warm it was and how nasty a bodys stomach
feels such hot mornings, all which was
enough to make any body know what she
meant, so the inn keeper left his seat to get
her the whisky bottle. After pouring out a
good glassful, without making many cere
monies, she swallowed it 05' hand in the
wink of ones eye. This settled her awhile

and we all ate heartily of what was on the
table, and after breakfast our good friend in
vited us to stay with him all dz-y as an elec
tion was to be held at his house in the after
noon.
one after the other, till not one remained and
verily there was a pretty clever hole made

in the pork. Our friends stared and no doubt
thought us a little hoggish, so to keep up the
joke, 1 turned round to my old woman and
told her, that beyond all dispute, she had cer
tainly lost her stomach and found a horses.
But the dumplings were all gone and broad
hints were of little use, as they seemed to
come the day after the affair.

The hour for election was nigh at hand
and folks came in from all quarters, so that
our good friend the tavern keeper was like
to be very busy; accordingly Betty and I
agreed to lend a hand in making grog, 51c.
two trusty hands in such matters, beyond a

doubt. Matters went on pretty well till some
running with all imaginary speed to serve it,

off came the hoop, the bottom of the bucket
fell out, and, bless me! such another splash as
the punch made, I never saw; and Betty, like
a concerned old dunce, held out the front of
her gown tail to catch it in. Now as it wasnt
man with a newspaper in his hand, and as he
didnt seem to be much taken up with it, so

I made hold to ask the loan of it from him.
I began to read attentively on the subject of
our foreign relations, Ste. when lo! as I was
throwing my eyes across the columns, an
advertisement with my name in it caught
my attention. On reading more closely I
perceived to my utter amazement that I had
drawn the high prize in the lottery and was
requested to call for my money.
Guess my joy at such unexpected news;
I danced, jumped and my old woman got
Dutch ts. This served for conversation the
whole evening, and we were determined to
set off the next day to get our fortune. Pre
vious to our going to bed, I purchased of a

neighbor a handsome light waggon and a
pair of good horses, since I was resolved to
go home in style. My old woman, on the
strength of it, was continually at the bottle,
and when we got to bed, I gave up all hopes

of getting any sleep; for the old plague
bothered me about one thing and another
till my brain was fairly addled. She would
have this and that and a whole pack of stuff
that nobody but a fool would have thought
about. However she had taken too much
strong grog to let her talk so freely much
longer, and her tongue growing thicker and
thicker, she at last made a full stop and there
ended the chapter for that night. We-got
up bright and early next day, partook' of a
good breakfast and made ready for starting.
My old wife gave fty invitations to come
and see her when she would get into her
big house, and the tavern keeper knowing
what was in the paper about me, never
troubled himself with
out a bill. So
off we set full tilt, and dogs the word had
Betty or Ito say till we got home; when on
making inquiry at the lottery ofce about
of the voters began to dispute on political

points which were decided by harsh words,
wise man always reects before he deter-' smart blows, bloody noses and the like co
mines, so I began to consider a little. Now, ercive arguments. But the most remarkable the high prize it turned out to be all fudge.
thought I to myself, if we do stay, Imay be thing that happened, is what I cant help re Now this made us whacking mad. I grum
sure to nd my old wife as drunk as a hog, lating; a bucket of punch being c..lled for, bled and Betty growled, when in the midst of
for its no secret, as every body knows she I agreed to make it, and sohfter squeezing our sorrow, in came an old friend, who had
loves a drop. This being the case if 1 should the limes and all the rest, and the liquor be just received a letter from the old country,
keep sober myself, thought I, a shamed face ing exactly to my fancy, I seemed to take a requesting information concerning some
Ill haVe without doubt, and if I should get great liking to it, as did my old woman like body, who as good luck would have it, was
This, to be sure, was a temptation, since I
like to have a little fun now and then; but a
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neither more nor less than 'old Ned; I was

soon told, that I had been made heir to a
\Ve had not proceeded far before Jack,

who rowed the bow oar, lost his rholjzin, and
considerable estate, andthus you see, it ap
popped overboard! The tide set so strong

that it was impossible to save him and the
on some occasions, yet it is evident, my des poor boy went to Davy Joness locker! Choke
tiny is prosperity and happiness. Having my rudder case, Frank, if the s/Iray didnt
passed through many difculties and witness dash about the bows/nit of my face like a
ed many odd scenes, I now go to enjoy my heavy sea shipped over a weather quater!
new acquisitions, and if my adventures will Howsomdcver as he was gone and there was
he of any service to others who enjoy a mix no help for it, Teady took his oar and began
ture of adversity and prosperity, they are to pull in his place.
heartily welcomed to accept of them by their
\Ve were not a little amused at his awk
pears, that however adverse my lot may be
ward manner of rowing, as he could not
friend and humble servant,
NED NEVERI-IEED,
At his own house.
q
For the Repertory.

TO DOCTOR FUNGUS.
Cape May, Aug. 14-, 1810.

Dear Frank,
keep stroke with the after oars. Every now

and then he would sing out to the man next
him, Harke, jewel, don't think to have all
My heart is as hot as a peppermint drop,

Till the parson has spliced me unto you!
Does your father intend, dear, to send you this way?

I dislike't, when I ought to be pressing;
For 'tis plain in this case that to me this CapeMay
Be the place to receive my best blessing!
GABRIEL GRUMMET.
I forgot to mention that this impulse of

my affections was drawn forth upon receiv
ing the poetical address which Clementina
sent me, and which for a lovely maid was
rather too cool to be addressed to so ardent
an admirer. Your's truly,
GABRIEL GRUMMET.
For the Repertory.
the river to yourself, plasc to hold up your REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY IVANDERER.

oar till I get a a'i/z.
No. V.
At length after a tight pull of it we ar How dark the scene! this gloominess profound
rived safe on the Jersey side, after treating A deeper shade than usual overcasts
the men we sent them on board again, and My pensive mind; no light is seen save that
stepped into the tavern to refresh ourselves. Which feebly streams from yonder straw thatchd
cot,
Here again MFallough kept us in humor. Where helpless age counts oer lifes eeting mo
That I may not be thought a ying sh.

I stick to my word like the kedge in a muddy
bottom, and write you an account of my voy
age, and am just now dipping myfeather oar Addressing our tacituru passenger, he cried,
whats the raison master Prim you spake
into the black sea for the purpose.
We had just left the wharf when the cap so little? Devil a word, gentlemen, did he say
tain of the boat gave me a hearty tap of his coming across, except lifting up his hands
daddle and said he heard as how my name when master Grummcts younker went into
was captain Gabriel Grommet, and hoped the water.
Why, I say, mistir, says a young coun
Id take the helm, as he had enough for the
land lubber that was there to do elsewhere. tryman, did he fall over. You may say
Such a polite invitation, you know, doctor, I that, was the reply.
And what did he say when he came up?"
could not refuse, more than your worship
at free, or friend Caustic a prescription, so Devil aword, jewel, for he didnt come up
I steppd aft and took hold of the helm. at all."
We proceeded to work the vessel down un
Our grog and forecastle jokes were now
til we reached Newcastle, when the tide met rounded to by the arrival of the stage, in
us, and the wind continuing dead ahead we which all that were for Cape May embarked,
were obliged to come to and wait for the tide. and we proceeded on our journey. I shall
So ho! so ho! my lads, said I, here s write again soon, my dear Frank, and con
live hours pastime for your." Canst thou tinue my story; in the meantime hand the
inform me, friend, said an old passenger, following effusion of my muse to my charm
Obadiah Prim by name, canst thou inform ing Clementina, and tell her I have endea
me ifwc must lie here yet ve hours? Yes, vored in vain to keep my passion for her
messmate, that s no lie, says the skipper. under hatches, but it will leak out. Sink my
~' Tundcr and turf 1 by the powers of Moll buoy, Frank, if I dont think love's hotter than
Kelly!" said a short full faced Irishman,who vitriol.
had seated himself upon the companion, and
TO 11" DEAR CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
whose name was Tcady MFallough, I'd
Shiver my topsails, dear Clem, I declare,
been after taking my shipping in the stage
When rst I received vour kind letter,
mems
As they glide quick away; one poor old man,
Whose sight, alas! is gone, there bears along
A painful, sad existence; lingring still,
The quivring ame of life is kept alive
By the fond labor: of a grateful maid,
Oer whose young head scarce thirteen sons had
rolld
When he from povertys fell grasp had saved her.
Gratitude soon as reason dawnd within
Her mind, illumd the orphan's heart, and now
She is his only solace, the sole tie
That holds his spirit from its soaring ight

To other worlds; for sad has been his doom;
His story is so mournful, it would warm
The marbled breast with sentiments of pity;

And with the souls whove bowd before the power,
Impoisond arrows of aliction keen,

Can claim a near alliance. I have met
And mark'd him oft as tremblingly hed lean

Upon the arm of his delighted orphan,
Orphan now no more; if not connected by

The ues of consanguinity, he supplies
With equal tenderness a parents care.
As warm with love paternal is his kiss

As if she were his own. But, ah! the debt
Which ev'ry mortal must to nature pay
E'er long will leave her in the world alone,

Tare from her fond embrace her only friend
But no! some power unseen does draw together
The children of misfortune, and St. Orme

Shall prove to thee a faithful, fervent friend.
coach, if I had larnd that the water run two
I was thrown in an eddy twixt hope and despair,
ways together in this ugly river! Is it Gabriel

Grommet 5 your nate little name? says he
to me; then let us put across this dirty
creek of a river and go the rest of our voy
age in this boat by land.
Youre right my rosy gilld salmon, cried
Douce my ghm if I know what '5 the matter!
Dear Clem, if you're cruel youll set me agog,
I, so the captain ordered three hands into
Youll give your sweet Gaby the phthisic;
The soft gales of kindness and love seem to glow

In some of the lines, that your sort is;
Then like a tornado you instantly blow,
\Vhile my heart burns just like aqua fortis!
And if rh Almighty power should will that thou

Should'st be the rst to leave sublunar things,
Ill deck thy grave with owers of earliest spring,
And oft bedew it with my burning tears.
Her mild blue eyes dart on his aged face
The beams of love: 'tis she whose tender hands
Provides his daily food; which were she not
He would, perhaps, be doomd to roam and crave,
the boat who with my boy Jack made four

oars to be pulled, and the Irishman, friend
In which desperate case I must leave off my grog,

And apply to your father for physic.
From evry traveller, his scanty meals.

And sooths him now, through age, grown weak and
childish.
Prim and myself stept in and we left the
What boots lI palaver just like a thin fop,

A dirty decoy ship to woo you:
\Vheneer he weeps her sympathising sobs

Convey to his sad soul the soothing thought,
packet.
M'
That in the worlds immense and thorny groves

There still exists a friendly pitying being,
'ho for him feels and sighs. Oh! my full heart
Throbs when I view his venerable form,
Majestic still, though worn by cankring care.

In vain 1 seek to draw him into converse;
He shuns all friendly intercourse, forbids
My entrance to his cot, and says mankind

Are wolves that prey, remorseless, on each other:
Bidding me go and H leave him to his sorrows.
In his sad fate I view the powerful hand
Of the all wise and great Omnipotent,
'ho pleased in wisdom to alict him sore,
Left him not friendless, but has raised him up
A youthful friend, to break his fall from joy,
And to inform him, though he 's pleased to pour
A storm of ills on mans devoted head,
He neer abandons, but with care sustains him
'Till the appointed hour when spirits wing
Their joyous ight to the etherial courts

Of glorious heaven; and even then instils
A pleasing hope through him whose pitying love
For sinners was displayd by yielding life.
The God incarnate on th' accursed tree
Did by his suffrings wash away our sins.

ST. ORME.
They often met; and when the eecy fold
To Indias burning zone." The morning came,
That on its margin grew; the gentle pair
When Perrin show'd his visitors his elds,
\Vould seek the shelter of some favorite shade,
And all the produce of his fruitful farm;

Tlten thus addressd the owner of the gold:
Where the fond youth in accents sweet as morn,
To bless their loves; and after four long years
This cultivated farm. The stranger read

Attentively the scroll, and with a look
Bent on the peasant and his wife and boys,
The fair consented; as young Perrin kissd

Her lovely cheek, she blushd a tender wish
For his success: but thus the father spoke;
He cried, " hast thou no other land but this?"

None, said the youth; but you will want a le
And take her to the woods? Forbear, rash youth!
I hope that youll allow me to remain."

The strangers, sttuck with such a godlilte virtue,
You both are young and both can wait awhile:

Therefore no more; procure her but a home,
And then you shall receive Laurettas hand."
This was a stroke of terror to the heart
Of one who loved so well; yet his strong mind

Confessd the reason just, and silent bent
His homeward way: th impatient maid he met,
Or stern refusal blasted all their hopes.
" Ah! now, dear girl, exclaim'd the hapless youth,
Now I complain that Heaven ordain'd me poor,
For now Lauretta never can be mine!"
There, to my great account, I too must go:

This tenement shall into ruins fall;
Until the shades of evening closed around.

When in returning, by a lucky chance
The foot of Perrin slippd, the ground received him,
And he alighted on a heavy bag,
Which borne to day light open on his view,
Twelve thousand livres to reward his worth!
" Heaven, 1 thank thee! cried the noble boy,
And crumble into dust; but thou, my soul,
But soon he thought, perhaps the man who lost

The precious prize, lamented the misfortune.
Shalt long survive the universal wreck
Though love stood ready to reward them both,
Of perishable matter. 0, then, why
They scornd to purchase bliss by loss of virtue,
This thy aversion to the shades of death?

\Vhy is my heart appalld, as thus I view
The opening grave? Can I prevent the stroke
That cuts assunder lifes weak, trembling thread?
And hastend to the vicar for advice.
Worlds may grow old with years, and empires fall
Ah, no! I hear the mandate from the skies,
\Vhile a bright tear betray'd his feeling heart.
But sure a home, a shelter for my child

Were necessary: you would net, sure, receive
The maidens heart was touchd; with laggard step

They both went on, and lengthcn'd out their walk,
Of man thus soon to fade away? 0, no;

'Tis Heavens high will that it shall live forever.
Before my eyes beheld you, our vicar holds

An instrument that unto you secures
" Thy worth, fond boy, no riches can augment,
And left life busy cares: but whither gone?

My soul shrinks back, and points to yonder heaven.
And sickness tortured, shall e'er long decay.

But ends existence here? and is the soul
To join my vessel on the distant coast,

Which prosp'rous breezes waited to convey
All these are yonrs; I found the wealth you lost.

And purchased what you see. lfl had died
That all must die; another has departed
This frail and feeble frame, with sore disease
Ask'd if no search had then been made for them.

No, he replied, for I was hastning on
\Vhen rst she sheds her fragrant breath around,

And oer the grassy globe her dew drop falls;
Would woo the yielding fair, and often urge
Permission to demand her site's consent
Anxious to learn or if success had crown'd,
What mean this grave, this coffin and this corpse?

1t whispers in my ear, with awful voice,
Twelve thousand livres." Astcttish'd Pen-in
Retired beneath the oak's cool spreading shade,

\Vhile noon tide fervor scortchd the naked field,
Or playful tripp'd to taste the lucid rill
That ow'd meandering through the winding dell,
Roofd in by spreading vines and sapling oaks,
For the Repertory.

A SOLILOQL'Y ON DEATH.
1 So
m
nant;
Broke an astonishd murmur of applause,
And he who claimd the gold, with ardent voice,

Seizing the peasants hand, returnd him thus:
" Thy virtue claims a nobler recompense.
I have amassd considerable wealth,
Nor feel my loss: the property is yours,
.~\nd if it lacks of aught that may be useful

I will supply it. Nor prince nor peasant
Could eer have acted nobler than thou hast;
l gaze in admiration on thy virtues,
And only grieve that their reward s so small."
Now Pertin and his fair Lanretta shed

Their tears ofjoy. " Come here, my boys," he cried ,
H And kiss your benefactors hand." " Not so,
The gen'rotts guest replied, and on their cheeks
With tearful eye a kiss he kindly pressd;

Then left them ll'd with gratitude and joy,
And bore the blessings of the happy cot.
Now the blest pair with humble hearts adore

The mighty Power that guides the changeless fates.
Let him who would the prize of virtue gain,
A life of virtue live. Heaven neer forgets
Or soon or later to reward the good;
And if not here the glorious boon 5 received,
And thus exclaimd: " Cherish such sentiments,
They gain it in the skies; when death arrives

Peace sits triumphant on the good man's brow.
His eye beams pleasure, and his faltring tongue,
For Heaven will bless such nobleness of soul!

The owner found will well reward your justice.
\Vith its last accents breathes a song of praise.

Through the dark gloomy vale of death he has
He gazed some moments on the gen'rous pair,
Ill with the gift bestow a liberal share,
A vista to his God; and if he sinks,
He sinks to rise in brighter worlds of joy.

OTHELLO.
Vain were the thought! my rapid glass must run;
And yet Lauretta shall be Perrins bride.

In vain they search'd, no owner could be found;
\Vhen the good vicar thus address'd the youth;
Nor can it szop till the last sand run out,
This gold lies dormant, take it and procure,
That bids me to the silent dust return;

'Tis Heavens decree to all mankind: then why
Resist the councils of eternal truth?
_._
And the faint glimmering of lifes taper be
Whate'er your just necessity demands:
Extinct forever!
If th' owner eer return, you may refund
HERMINIUS.
For the Repertory.

PERRIN AND LAUllETTA, OR \ lll'll.l".
R EJVA RDED.
Perrin was poor. Before his infant tongue \

Could lisp the tender name of parent forth,
They both expired! The philanthropic school

Rear'd him, and gave him charitys best gift,
A virtuous education. Sixteen years
Had rolld their rapid seasons oer his head,
When a rich farmer hired the honest boy,
.To be a watchful shepherd in his elds,
Near where Lauretta kept her father's ocks.
The principal; the interest sure twcre worth

To save the former." A farm was purchased,
Laurettes sire no more refused consent,
The pair were wedded, lived contented long,
With two sweet boys to bless their tender loves.
One happy eve as homcward from his toil

The peasant came, a chaise that pass'd that way
By chance oerturnd; young Perrin forward ew

To yield assistance; from the shatter'd coach
Two gentlemen sprang forth, to whom the peasant

Oiferd, with humble courtesy, his home,
Which was as courteously received. " This spot,"
Cried one, " is fatal still to me; nine years
Have passd since in this very place I lost
For the Repertory.

Mr. Editor,
The following beautiful little piece from

Ramsay has given me so much pleasure that
I could wish to see it in your ttscful paper,
that thereby it might become generally

known, and, of consequence, admired. 1'
have presumed to alter the diction in a few
instances, so as to render it more intelligi
blc to the English reader; but by no means
to alter the sense or meaning of the author
Youra,
THE PHENIX AND THE OWL.
Phenix, the rst, the Arab lord
And chief of all the feather'd kind,
C.
A hundred ages had adored
The sun, with sanctity of mind.
The Cabinet, No. 3, Laurel Hill, part 3,

and several other communications, have been
Yet, mortal, you must yield to fate;
in the city and liberties of Philadelphia

unavoidably omitted this week for want of Interments
from the 11th to the 18th August.
room, but shall appear in our next.
Dismal-s.
ad. cb.
Dice/ls.
ad. ci.
He heard the summons with a smile,
And unalarmd, without regret,
He formd himselfa funral pile.

An owl, a bird of mean degree,
Poor, chilly, lame, and doting oldI
Lay lurking in a neighboring tree,
Cursing the sun that he was cold.

Said phenix, brother, why so griev'd,
To curse the being gives thee birth?
Learn to die better than thou'st lived;
Believe me, there 5 no ill in death.
Believe ye that! the owl replied:

Preach as ye may, death is an ill:
When young 1 every pleasure tried,
But now i die against my will.
For you, a species by yourself,
Near aged with the sun, your god,
No wonder tis to hear you tell,
Yere tired, and incline to nod.
It should be so; for had I been

As long upon the world as ye
No tears should e'er drop from my een
For tinsel of my hollow tree.
And what, returnd the Arabian sage,
Hast thou t' observe thou hast not seen?
Each day s the picture of an age,

'Tis still the same thing oer again.
1mm,
At sea on his passage from the Huvanna
to this port, lieutenant Tripp, of the United
States navy. He had the command of the
brig Vixen and was ordered (as we are in
formed) to cruzc in our waters for the pro
tection of our trade. Lieutenant Tripp was
a brave active oicer, and had signalizcd
himself in the Tripolitan war, in the Medi
.d't'tv Orleans Ila/I.
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THE AMUSER. N0. 111.
It happened at Athens, during a public

representation of some play exhibited in
honor of the commonwealth, that
an old
gentleman came too late for a place suitable

to his age and quality. Many of the young
gentlemen, who observed the dilliculty and
confusion he was in, made signs to him that
they would accommodate him if he came
where they sat: the good man bustlcd through
the crowd accordingly; but when he came
to the seats to which he was invited, the jest
was, to sit close and expose him, as he stood
out of countenance, to the whole audience.
Thou who in darkness took delight,

From twangs of guilt could'st ne'er be free:
\Vhat won thou by thy shunning light?~
But time ies on ;I haste to die.
benches. But on those occasions, there were
The frolic went round all the Athenian
I like not in the dark to leap:

The proverb calls that man a fool,
\Vho slips a certainty for a hope.
Then straight the zealous featherd king
'1" his aromatic nest retired,
tice, and must postpone our remarks tonext

stock.
2 Suicide
1 Syphilis
Dysentery
1 Tabes
Fever, rcmittent
Fever, bilious
Fever, typhus
1
1
0
0
19 30 "
--
Fever, malignant
\Vhooping cough
1 0
0 1
Total 49
Under 1 year
1
Between 1 and 2
8
60
70
3
2
5
1
70
80
0
5
10
1
80
90
2
10 20
1
90
100
0
20 SO
7 Ages unknown
0
30 40
4
__
40
-50
2
Total 4-9
STATE OF THE THERMOBIETER.
August 13
1(l5
16
9 oclock. 120clock. Soclock.

76
78
81
75
68
67
75
TO
7O
77
70
71
17
70
72
74
18
71
73
76
Genuine Bank Notes

OF THE DIFFERENT STATES, EXCIIANGED
OR TAKEN FOR
LOTTERY TICKETS.
Real Estate, and for Letting and Renting of
stores, house keepers, nurses and wet nurses, jour

neymen and journeyman mechanics, apprentices,
hired, bound or bought men and women servants, Ste.

Aug. 11.
Alcibiades one day boasting of his vast

The price of the Pbilnt/e/pbia Repertory is four
possessions, Socrates, whose scholar he had
been, showed him a map, and desired him
dollars per annum. payable quarterly in advance.

to point out Attica, which with some dif

culty he did. The philosopher then bid him
show the situation of his own estate. This

graving.
Alcibiades said, was impracticable, as it
\Ve feel ourselves under so many obliga

tions to our obliging correspondents that we
have neither time nor room to do them jus
Decay
Dropsy
derstand what is good, but the Laccd'aetno

nians practise it.
IBlJRUBlDlJI'a.
Inam. of stomach I 1
Inam. of liver
0 1
Old age
2 0
Pleurisy
1 1
Still born
0 2
rose up all to a man, and, with the greatest
the old man cried out, The Athenians un
0
0
17
1
2
respect, received him among them. The

No. 138, 5. Fourth street.
Atltcnizuis, being suddenly touched with a
N. B. A General Intelligence Occ kept at the
sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own above place. for the mutual accommodation of store
degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause; and employment, viz. clerks, men or women to attend
Meantime there blew a western gale,

\Vhich to the owlet bore a coal;
He died for everll'air and bright

The phenix from his ashes sprang,
Thus wicked men sink down to night,
\Vhile just men join the glorious thrang.
Apoplexy
1
Cramp in the stomach 1
Cholera morbus
0
Convulsions
0
also particular places assigned for foreigners.

\Vhen the good man skulked towards the
Notes discounted and money advanced on mer
boxes appointed for the Lacedaemonians, that chandize.
charge for entering of property or examining
honest people, more virtuous than polite, theNo
Register. By
J_ H_ BAKER,
Collected sun beams with his wing,

And in a spicy ame expired.
The saint departed on his pile,

But the blasphemer in his hole.
August 18, 1810.
terranean.
Come let us both together die;

Bow to the sun that gave thee life;
Repent thou from his beams did y,
And end thy poverty and strife.
Your servant, sir, replied the owl,
HEALTH OFFICE,
could not be distinguished in a map of so

small a scale. Behold then," said the philo
sopher, what an imperceptible spot you
are proud of."
Agesilaus being very fond of his children

he would sometimes ridc about on a cane
among them. A friend catching him at this
sport, he said, Tell nobody till you are
yourself a father."
and at the book stores of Mathew Carey, No. 122

Market street, John \V. Scott, No. 147 Chesnut
street, W. \V. Woodward, corner of Second and
Chesnut streets, and David Hogan, No, 249 Mar
ker street.
PHILADELPHIA ,

@Wabelipbiaweperfm *
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN SMITH.
(Continued)
ed by one of Smiths party, and communi

cated to him, he resolutely seized the king
by his hair, and, holding a pistol to his breast,
led him trembling to the ambush, and there,
No. 18.
of copper, they went away, believing and re

porting that Smith was able to bring the
dead to life. The effect was, that not only
many stolen things were recovered, and the
The harvest of 1608 had fallen short both with a torrent of reproaehful and menacing thieves punished, but peace and friend
words, obliged him to order those very peo ly intercourse were preserved, and corn
ple not only to lay down their arms, but to brought in as long as they had any, whilst
load him with provisions. After this, they Smith remained in Virginia.
made an attempt to murder him in his sleep,
Such was the state of the Virginia colony,
and to poison him; but both failed of success. when captain Samuel Argal arrived on a
The chief of Paspiha meeting him alone in trading voyage, and brought letters from the
company in England, complaining of their
pressing, Smith ventured on the dangerous the woods, armed only with a sword, attempt
project of surprising Powhatan, and carrying ed to shoot him; but he closed with the sa disappointment, and blaming Smith as the
off his whole stock of provisions. This In vage, and in the struggle both fell into the cause of it. They had conceived an ill opi
dian prince had formed a similar design with river, where, after having narrowly escaped nion of him, from the persons whom he had
respect to Smith, and, for the purpose of drowning, Smith at last prevailed to gripe sent home, who represented him as arbitrary
betraying him, had invited him to his seat, him by the throat, and would have cut off and violent toward the colonists, cruel to the
promising that if he would send men to his head, but the entreaties of the poor vic savages, and disposed to traverse the views
build him a house, after the English mode, tim prevailing on his humanity, he led him of the adventurers, who expected to grow.
rich very suddenly.
and give him some guns and swords, cop prisoner to James town.
This intrepid behaviour struck a dread
There was this disadvantage attending the
per and beads, he would load his boat with
corn. Smith sent him three Dutch carpen into the savages, and they began to believe business of colonization in North America,
ters, who treacherously revealed to him the what he had often told them, that his God at that day, that the only precedents which
design which Smith had formed. On his ar would protect him against all their power, could be had were those of the Spaniards,
rival with forty six men, he found the prince whilst he kept his promise; which was to who had treated the natives with extreme
so much on his guard, that it was impossible preserve peace with them as long they should cruelty, and amassed vast sums of gold and
to execute his design. Having spent the day refrain from hostilities, and continue to sup silver. Whilst the English adventurers detest
in conversation (in the course of which ply him with corn. An incident which 0c ed the means by which the Spaniards had
Powhatan had in vain endeavored to persuade eurred about the same time, conrmed their acquired their riches, they still expected
Smith to lay aside his arms, as being there veneration for him. An Indian having stolen that the same kind of riches might be ac
in perfect security) he retired in the evening, a pistol from James town, two brothers who quired by other means; it was therefore
and formed a design to surprise Smith and were known to be his companions were thought politic, to be gentle in demeanor and
his people at their supper; and had it not seized, and one was held as hostage for the lavish of presents toward the natives, as an in
been for the affectionate friendship of 'Poca other, who was to return in twelve hours ducement to them to discover the riches of
hontas, it would probably have been effected. with the pistol, or the prisoner was to be their country. On these principles the orders
This amiable girl, at the risk of her life, hanged. The weather being cold, a charcoal of theVirginia company to their servants were
stole from the side of her father, and passing re was kindled in the dungeon, which was framed. But experience had taught Smith,
in the dark through the woods, told Smith, very close, and the vapor had so suffocated the most discerning and faithful of all whom
with tears in her eyes, of the plot, and then the prisoner, that, on the return of his bro they had employed, that the country of Vir
as privately returned. When the Indians ther at the appointed time, with the pistol, ginia would not enrich the adventurers in
brought in the supper, Smith obliged them he was taken out as dead. The faithful sa the time and manner which they expected;
to taste of every dish; his aims were in vage lamented his fate in the most distress yet he was far from abandoning it as worth
readiness, and his men vigilant; and though ing agony. Smith, to console him, promised, less; his aim, was thoroughly to explore it,
there came divers sets of messengers, one if they would steal no more, that he should and by exploring he had discovered what
after another, during the night, under pre be recovered. On the application of spirits advantages might be derived from it; to pro
tence of friendly inquiries, they found them and vinegar, he showed signs of life, but ap duce which, time, patience, expense and la
so well prepared, that nothing was attempt peared delirious; this grieved the brother as bor, were absolutely necessary. He had fairly
much as his death. Smith undertook to cure represented these ideas to his employers, he
ed, and the party returned in safety.
In a subsequent visit to Opecaneanough, him of this also, on the repetition of the pro had spent three years in their service, and
by whom he formerly was taken prisoner, mise to steal no more. The delirium beingl from his own observations had drawn and
only the effect of the spirits which he hadi sent them a map of the country, and he had
this prince put on the semblance of friend
ship, whilst his men lay in ambush with their swallowed, was remedied by a few hours; conducted their affairs, as well as the nature
bows and arrows. The trick being discover sleep; and being dismissed, with a presenti of circumstances would permit. He had a
among the new planters and the natives,

and the colony was indebted to the inventive
genius and indefatigable perseverance of
Smith for their subsistence during the suc
ceeding winter. The supplies procured by
trading being insufcient, and hunger very
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t
disorderly, actions, discontented, disappoint
out, and a scene of confusion ensued; the new
ed set of men to control, by the help of a few
comers would not obey Smith, because they

supposed his commission to be superseded;
adherents, in the face of the native lords of

the soil, formidable in their numbers and
the new commission was not arrived, and it
was uncertain whether the ship which car

ried it would ever be seen or heard of.
gem, tenacious of resentment, and very jea
lous of strangers. To court them by presents Smith would gladly have withdrawn and
gone back to England, but his honor was
was to acknowledge their superiority and in
ate their pride and insolence. Though sa concerned in maintaining his authority till he
vages, they lwere men and not children. should be regularly superseded; and his
Though destitute of science, they were pos spirit would not suffer him to be trampled on
sessed of reason, and a sufcient degree of by those he despised. Upon due considera
art. To know how to manage them, it was tion, he determined to maintain his authority
necessary to be personally acquainted with as far as he was able, waiting some proper
them; and it must be obvious, that a person opportunity to retire. Some of the most in
who had resided several years among them, solent of the new comers, he laid by the
and had been _a prisoner with them, was a heels." With the more moderate he con
much better judge of the proper methods of sulted what was best to be done; and as a
treating them, than a company of gentlemen separation seemed to be the best remedy,
at several thousand miles distance, and who and it had been in contemplation to extend
could know them only by report. Smith had, the settlements, some were induced to go up
certainly, the interest of the plantation at to the falls, others to N ansemond, and others
heart, and by toilsome experience, had just to Point Comfort. Smiths year being almost
knowledge of the country, versed in strata
learned how to conduct it; When he found
himself so obnoxious to his employers, that

a plan was concerted to supersede him, and
reinstate, with a share of authority, those
whom he had dismissed from the service.
The Virginia company had applied to the
king to rccal their patent and grant another;
in virtue of which they appointed Thomas
would not accept the command; he, therefore,
(To be continued.)
Gates, lieutenant general; sir George So
For the Repertory.
mers, admiral; sir Thomas Dale, marshal;

sir Ferdinando VVainman, general of horse;

A ROMANCE
Newport, had each a commission, investing

either of them who might rst arrive, with
power to call in the old and Set up the new
commission. The fleet sailed from England
in May 1609, and by some strange policy,
the three commanders were embarked in
one ship. This ship being separated from the
others in a storm, was wrecked on the island
of Bermuda; another foundered at sea; and
when the remaining seven arrived in Vir

ginia, two of which were commanded by
Ratclilfe and Archer, they found themselves

destitute of authority; though some of them
were full enough of prejudice against Smith,

who was then in command. The ships had
been greatly shattered in their passage, much
of their provision was spoiled, many of their
people were sick, and the season in which
they arrived was not the most favorable to
their recovery. A mutinous spirit soon broke
About midnight, when they had nearly

reached the opposite glade of the woods,
they were surprised at the appearance of a
dim taper at some distance before them.
Stanislaus ordered his men, who were all on
foot, to be upon their guard, and having dis
mounted himself, fastened his courser to a
the head of his men; and in a few minutes
kept up the form, and, as much as he could, the reappearance of the tiambeaux near them,
of the power of government; till an accident was succeeded by an immediate attack from
which had nearly proved fatal to his life, the robbers.
obliged him to return to England.
The attendants met them with the ercest
asu
which were embarked 500 persons, men,

women and children. Gates, Somers, and
py of earth in restless delight; when Stanis
laus and his train entered the forests and

seemed to have plunged, so dreadful was the
darkness, from the regions of day down to
the mansions of the deepest night!
The king however was well acquainted
with the road, and riding before directed the
attendants.
tree where they might nd him in the mom

ing, and commanded atrumpet to be sound
ed, which was followed by a shrill whistle
answered in several di'erent directions, and
an immediate disappearance of the light.
expired, he offered to resign to Martin, who
The king convinced he was surrounded
had been one of the old council, but Martin by the banditti, moved cautiously forward at
lord de la Warre, general; sir Thomas
and captain Newport (the only one who had

seen the country) vice admiral. The adven
turers having by the alteration of their pa
tent, acquired a reinforcement both of dig
nity and property, equipped nine ships, in
silver rays across the bosom of the limped

stream, and the stars in sparkling radiance,
seemed to dance along the blue arched cano
resolution, and each dealt death at almost
every blow.
Courage, my lads, cried the leader of
the band, this will doubtless be choice spoil,
they ght so wicked for it. No more blood

than
necessary! yield to our arms there,"
CHAPTER III.
exclaimed he to the kings party, and ex
A cave profound
perience our mercy!
Their habitation, where no cheering beam
We disdain thy mercy! cried the noble
Nor soft Eresian breezes ever come,
But unrelenting cold and rayless night
Stanislaus, dost thou call upon us to yield?
In everlasting horrors there reside!
Ovid.
know me for thy sovereign and yield thee to
Stanislaus agreeable to the tenor of his my will!
letter to Ferresburgh left Warsaw for the
First conquer us, cried Martix the cap
castle with but a few of his attendants, the tain of the troop, then will we yield! yield
day previous to Linhaults visiting the cottage ye, or oppose and perish!
of Braubenski.
Oppose and perish, my brave followers,"
The king and his train having left the echoed Stanislaus, your king will perish
capital just in the commencement of the ere he submits!
evening, on purpose that they might pass the
The king! art thou Stanislaus? demand
forests which surrounded Sobeiski castle ed Martix.
about the noon of the night, entered the con
I am, replied the monarch.
Hold you of our command," exclaimed
nes of them, having passed thus far unmo
the robber, 1 charge you hold! who lifts
lested.
The reasons which Stanislaus had for this, his arm to aim another blow shall die by
were his hopes of discovering some clue that mine!
might lead him to explorate the abode of
How! cried the king.
Great, and good Stanislaus, said Marti):
the banditti, the bringing of which b'dJld to
justice, we have already said, was one cause we dare not war with you. \Ve know your
of his visit to the castle.
virtues and respect them! Draw off our band!"
The heavens were dressed in their most
Yet hold, cried Stanislaus, I am your
admired apparel, the moon falcated in her king, yield to me without conditions, or
cresent, was playing her gambols in darting dread my heaviest vengeance!
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armor were scattered round the oor. Seve; must consent to put on this cloak and wear
ral large chests stood under the table which this bandage, while we conduct you safely
contained their spoil, and in one of which from this spot.
they deposited their present booty.
The king, who saw in this the complete
I am afraid, said Martix, our late visi
frustration of his plan, reluctantly complied,
tors Truro and W'eineet, two servants of as it was the only way of getting from their
Martix, or certain destruction will ensue. Ferresburgh, have gained our secret; curse power. The operation was accordingly per
formed, and Martix followed by Jacques con
\\'e are but few at present, but our band is on my inebriety!
I thought that your inebricty would ruin ducted him tip a long ight of stairs; he
numerous; We would not touch your sacred
heard them open a door after passing as he
life, but self preservation may lead us to out all! said Jacques, one of the band.
No
matter,
said
Martix,
I
bound
them
supposed
a number of rooms, and the rst
rage on our feelings!"
Yet one moment, hold!" said the king, by a dreadful oath not to divulge one single sound that struck his ears was a long and
now sixteen years are past since near this thing they heard or saw, and my heaviest heavy groan that proceeded from some one
spot I lost a friend both to my empire and vengeance shall overtake them if they do! near him.
My brave comrades, said Laupold,
Alas! my love," the mysterious prisoner
myself."
I know it," answered the robber, upon theres treason in our hand, your captain cried, droop not in absolute despair, the
period of our sufferings has at length arriv
the rivers banks he fell! I was the leader of is a villain!"
Traitor! cried Martix, catching him by ed!"
that dread attack!
Vengeance shall yet overtake you, said the throat.
Has heaven indeed been merciful," ex
Why does Laupold prate? said Pertro, claimed a female voice. Stanislaus thought
the king.
he had heard both voices before.
Farewel, king, returned Martix, when because our chief is not so bloody as him
next we meet, if ever we should meet again, self?
No, said the wretched man again, we
Aye! cried Jacques, when I bore are not so happy! here goes a wretch whom
I hope well meet as friends!
As deadliest foes! exclaimed Stanislaus command to stop the slaughter, Laupold they release! 0! stranger, if thou shouldst
swore that none should shake a tongue to meet Stanislaus
emphatically.
I hope not 50, said Martix, and he and tell the news!
One word more, cried Jacques, and
Yes, continued Ludolfo, and even death is ready.
his band retired.
The king determined if possible to nd plunged his dagger in the infants breast,
Speak again, unfortunate wretch, cried
out the retreat of the robbers, and for this when her tearful eyes and piteous looks the king, I am
purpose, ordering the attendants to proceed, might have charmed a end!
Silence," whispered Martix to the king,
Here they were interrupted by the entrance say who you are and I'm compelled to kill
as they went, favored by the darkness of the
forest, he silently left them, and guided by of Beatrice, the old woman, and the king.
you!
I have brought you a nice chap, says
their torch followed the road the robbers
They then passed on, carefully fastening
she, he just popped through the trap.
every door after them, until after some time
had taken.
Why did you not turn your knife into the king felt the cool breeze of the morn
He soon arrived within a convenient dis
tance, and resolved to follow them wherevei him, said the sanguinary Laupoid, and not ing fanning the fever of his forehead, and
they went, and in consequence arrived on the trouble us about him!
Walking some distance further the bandage
By my faith," answered Beatrice, l was was removed from his eyes.
margin of the river. Here he could perceivv
nothing that designated an habitation, wher near letting daylight peep into him, but his
Stanislaus stood some moments without
they removed what appeared nothing but the handsome phiz touched my feelings, and so noticing any object around him, for his mind
1 put up my knife and brought him here.
branches of trees and old shrubs, and he ob
was entirely occupied in wondering who the
A loud roar from all but Martix express prisoner could possibly be. UBALDO.
served the low entrance to a cave. Stanislaus
followed, and on arriving on the inside he s-iw ed their applause of the old hags cruelty.
(To be continued.)
before him a large heavy door which Martix Stanislaus was now conducted forward.
The king! exclaimed Martix, how
opened and all within was dark. They all en
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tered, and St-nislaus fearing that they might came your highness here?
\Ve respect and honor you as our sove
reign," cried the intrepid thief, but we
fear you not as an enemy!
Consummate insolence! exclaimed Sta
uislaus.
Attempt not to follow us, my liege, said
close it, rushed forward, but stepping on a

trap that was between him and the door, it
sunk a long with him through the ground.

The king Was received below by aman of
terric appearance and an old withered hag
in the shape of a woman, who held a rusty
dagger, and seizing the astonished monarch
menaced him with instant death! \Vell did
she answer Ovids description of envy, for
No matter, answered Stanislaus, con
duct me out.
Aye, marry will we, said Laupold, rais
ing his dagger, out of the world, your ma
jest d
How! exclaimed the king, you dare
not be so bloody!
Leupold! said Martrix with a frown,
and thus addressed the king: Fear nothing,
my liege, you are safe. I know that your
highness suspects that you have discm ercd
enough of our haunt, but it will avail you
Notwithstanding the equality to which all,

of right, are entitled, as a sacred gift of
Heaven, the perverse disposition of man

stimulates him to deeds of tyranny and bar
barity, altogether derogatory to the cha
racter of intelligent and rational beings.
That haughty spirit of indignation, so fre

quently exercised towards a fellow creature,
is the contemptible offspring of despotic
" Pale was her countenance, ghastly was her form,
principles, and is equally repugnant to the
Cankerd her viprous teeth; her heart was gall;
Her ever wakefnl eyes enjnvd no rest,
Governor ofthe universe and to the enlight
And a sharp venom blisterd all her tongue!"
little.
ened reason of man.

Mean time the robbers passed on to their
He then whispered Beatrice, who brought
By nature we are all free, but tyranny
accustomed hall or consultation. A large ta him a large cloak and a bandage.
would doom to submission and scrvile cap
ble appeared in the middle and arms and
Your highness, said he to Stanislaus, tivity, half the human family. See this sa
140
PHILADELPHIA BEPERTORY.
m
vage principle exemplied by practice, in

yonder dolcful regions; where the benight
ed African grovels along the vale of life in
misery and woe! his fate, far worse than that
of the wild beast of the forest, compels him
to drag out a painful existence, while the

roaring lion and the erce tyger run at large,
and enjoy all the pleasures, that the dreary
wilderness aords! \rVhy should this be?
Not that one man is naturally superior to
another; this is impossible. The same breath
that made the beggar a tenant of this world,
gave to the wealthy the name of a living

being. "here then is the di'erence? As in
birth, so in death, all men appear the same.
This power, this supererogation is assumed,

not granted, and it is an insult to the ma
jesty of Heaven and an abuse of liberty.
\Ve need not search the shores of Africa
for examples of tyrannic sway; all nature
groans beneath the heavy load, and it is ex
ercised in a degree more or less in every
part of the habitable globe. The more civi
lized nations practise it, and even where
liberty is the motto of the land, the inu
ence of despotism is perceptible. There is

such a tendency in the human mind to glide
into extremes of error, that rectitudc is
often abolished where perfection might be
expected to predominate. Ambition is so
deeply rooted in the constitution of our
minds, that in order to extract its pernici
ous agency, would require a new set of fa
culties, and a total change from our present
condition. Now, who think rightly, and with
unprcjudiced sentiments reect seriously,

can for a moment justify the exercise of
tyranny in any form whatever? But how often
does man act contrary to his better judg
ment and to the dictates of reason! Though
sensible that his fellow is entitled to the
same natural privileges as himself, yet in
stigated by improper motives, he endeavors
to trample beneath him, his kindred blood.
How base,how degrading! The boasted rea
son of man, where is it? how weak! when
thus it yields to prejudice and error. There
seems such a propensity to fall into devious
paths, that if a straight line of conduct be
maintained, for a while, we gradually taper
off, till we sink into the lowest grade of er
ror.
In the infliction of punishment, where
crime has been committed, tyranny often
prevails, and while it makes no amends for
the wrong, renders the criminal no better.

That justice should be satised, is the real
end and design of all punishment, and where
means unnecessarily harsh are employed
for the correction of the aggressor, equity
is not the more promoted, nor the aggressed
more beneted. Hence the impropriety and
injustice of this principle; it grew out of
and there is a kind of lascivious manner

the moral inrmities of mankind, and is which these young gentlemen (for so they
consequently like its parent, corrupt and are called) practise in female company which
depraved. It cannot be subdued or routed is a downright insult upon modesty. \Vhere
from society, but it may be kept within me they get it you know best, but it is very evi
derate bounds, by that process which some dent from their conduct they are sons of
governments have adopted to give to every dissipation and libertinism. They have the
man equal rights and liberty. T. D. M.
impertinence to make pretensions of love,
a.
and talk to us about marriage when they
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have no such prospect in the world; thus
we are tried with most unaccountably, and
One piryd, one contemn'd the woeful times,
One laughd at follies, one lamented crimes.
cheated along year after year till we are
Dryden. plagued all .tt once with the epithet of old
From the signature I have assumed l nd maids in spite ofour teeth. But mind them;
myself likely to get more business upon my they, forsooth, receive in return the con
hands than I had any idea of. The follow temptible epithet of old bachelors, and ought
ing letter comes from a lady of irreproach actually to be ashamed to show their faces
able character, with a request to publish it, to the fathers and mothers of the next gene
if I should think proper, in union with my ration. This is all because gentlemen can
next essay. The justness of her remon do as they please, and we must submit to our
strance cannot be questioned; and as every
fate; but we are determined to be virtuous,
friend to decorum must feel solicitous for however great the restraint upon flesh
the happiness and quiet of the female world, and blood. The character of these cox
I shall very readily give it a place as quick eombs discovers itself in their very coun
as possible.
!
tenance : one cannot walk the streets with
Sir,
out forever meeting their wanton eyes that
I am mightily pleased with your assump would seem to pierce you through and
tion of censorship, and am resolved occa through with impudence. We give them
sionally to send you an account of some of disdainful looks as a rebuke, but all to no
our female grievances, to stimulate your purpose; for they return it immediately
exertions. Nothing could be more interest with a petulancy and wantonness in theirs
ing to the ner feelings of many of our sex, which makes us almost shudder for our vir
than the subject of libertinism which tue; and no sooner have they passed us than
you touched upon in your last essay. I say they turn their head upon their shoulders
interesting, because it is such a dreadful with a contemptible sneer upon our backs,
enemy to matrimony, which is so desirable atnobody knows what.
to all sober, well meaning girls. I wish you
While I am upon this visage imparti
would expatiate upon this subject and op nencc I must complain to you also of a set
pose these vices, the sources of such gene of beardless striplings who have nothing else
ral dissolutcness, with all your might. The to do (and no better breeding) than to stand
ambition which the virtuous part of us have in the doors of stores and counting houses,
to become good housewives is not only gaping all day at every petticoat that passes;
defeated by your unprincipled libertines; but this they do with an elevating and signi
many helpless young women who might be cant motion, as though they thought them
samples in conjugal life, are sacriced to selves of consequence enough to do what
lcwdness, poverty, disease and contempt. I they pleased with us. I dont wish to fatigue
am not about to picture all the evils result you, but these things call for censure. Do
ing from these causes, but to be short, it is not think we have any objection to the ten
the ruin of your sex.
der and affectionate looks of regard; no, no,
You cannot think what a swarm of arro so far from it, we are quite willing to be
gant coxcombs there are in this city, who reciprocal in such tender looks and all other
take on wonderful airs of merit, and in their modest behavior, which will facilitate our
own estimation are ner fellows than Lord progress to conjugal felicity; for my part
Chestereld or any body else would have I declare I am not ashamed to confess with
them be. They are what our irting crea a great writer that the word wife is the
tures call ne, lively, sociable companions, most agreeable and delightful name in na
who never trouble themselves with sobriety ture. If you think so too, give this a place
or reection; but are always ready to show in your next censorious column and oblige
their gallantry and amour. Now you must yours, Ste.
KITTY CELIBACY.
know that the decent and sensible part of
N. B. I forgot to mention a class of im
our sex are out of all patience with such pudent fellows (only dressed on Sundays)
creatures; they are mere pests in society, j who station themselves at the corners of
J
streets adjacent to places of worship for the

purpose of staring at the female part of the
congregation when separated; this is a great
annoyance to all modest persons who would
wish to walk quietly home from their devo
tional services. Request their masters to
keep their domestic clothing on their backs
of a Sunday, and I am sure this will keep
them at home and remedy the evil.
The limits to my essay will not permit
me to make such comments upon Miss
Kittys letter, as I could wish; but I am well
convinced her own representations of such
enormities, will have more inuence in their
subduction than any thing I can add for

that purpose. It may be supposed by some
that such perpetrators are unworthy of no

tice; that they are incapable from their shal
low capacity of having any extensive inu
ence on society; but the powers of the half
Witted coxcomb, and the busy liberne are
glaringly obvious. The innocent su'ers by

their impudence, and the incautious youth
is ruined by their example. It is a great
error (says Lord Clarendon) to believe a
man whom we see qualied with too mean
parts to do good, to he therefore incapable
of doing hurt. Virtue must be supported or
happiness is lost; she has many component
parts and we may remember the maxim
nilu'l ramrmum eat, cui periculum non sit,
CENSOR.
_o-~
For the Repertory.

EQUITUS. No.1V.
To follow an occupation that is useful,

and that has a tendency to promote the in
terests of the human family, however limit
ed the sphere of its inuence, and however

small its efforts to lift a person into life"
and make him conspicuous, must still be
entitled to a rank of importance in the scale
of utility, of merit, of honor. The states
man, the merchant, the mechanic, the farm
er, the rich, the learned, and in fact all other
classes (for none are so low but that they

may see others still lower,) all in their turn
may contemplate upon their elevation, and
look upon their inferiors with the ideas
which pride can assume over unfancied dc
gradation. And not unfrequcntly have in
stances occurred, when people of virtue and
real usefulness to the community, have been
despised because their avocations were un
congenial with imaginary greatness. I
should like, says the young Probasco, to be
14l
the dispensations of Providence: not duly
of others. It is an oracle open to the insin

uating voice of attery and pregnant with.
existence of seciety, depends upon the mul selfpraise. Such being its real colors,
tiplicity, the variety of occupation, which where are its attractions? How can it be be
the experience of all ages has stamped as loved? Yet (01 shameful instance of the dc~
essential; and that the good of the whole pravity of human taste!) it is cherished by
is indebted to the liberality, to the mutual many; I had almost said, it is partially sup
respect, to the harmonizing concert of all ported by all. Its power is chiey founded
classes and of every individual. \Vere those, in weak minds; its strength generally built
whose talents are tted to the more conspi upon the imbecility of man; and although
cuous posts, to withhold the contribution of we sometimes see it gain admittance, by
their efforts to promote the public good, stealth, where we little expected to nd it;
and to hide themselves in obscurity, the yet most frequently a person of strong in
community might suffer for want of their tellect, despises its open attack to conquer,
and smiles at its insidious arts to ensnare
assistance. If those whose abilities are cal
culated for less extended circles, were to him. Why should a man be proud? Should
aspire after and attain to some higher grade the perfections of the body, bestowed by
of ofce, an injury might result from their Providence for a more admirable end, (that
incapacity to full the duties of the station. of displaying the grandest work of nature in
There is muchdepending upon the proper its utmost elegance) be. exercised as an in
strument for the degradation of the mind?
adjustment of action to capacity. The wel
fare of society is most advanced when every Has one person received from nature a
man occupies that part for which he is best greater share of genius than falls to the
common lot of mankind? Let him return his
qualied: on the contrary, when any ad
vance to a station beyond their sphere, or thanks to God! If he suffers that to elevate
when any descend from one which they him in his own opinion above his fellow
ought to abide in, the community sustains creatures, he perverts the original purity of
injury, in proportion to that degree to which its design, and makes that which was intend
the circle of their inuence was calculated ed to insure his humility, the means of
to extend. Let every one know his own gaining the detestable pinnacle of pride; by
proper calling, and abide in it; and let it the doing of which he renders his genius,
be remembered, that every thing that is the butt of witticism, and even the jest of
useful to an individual is benecial to the fools. Does a man perform a laudable action?
public; and that no calling is despicable that By admitting pride into his bosom he do
stroys its merit; he should let the deed com
is essential to general good.
A.
mand that praise from others which his
tongue
should scorn to utter. Are the glit
For the Repertory.
tering tinsels of false grandeur, or heaps of
THE CABINET. N0. III.
gold, capable of exalting one mortal above
Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet. his
another,
and subverting the order of nature?
Own chronicle. and whatever praises itself
Surrounded by the ensigns of external mag
But in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
o
I
o
o
0
I
\
nicence, and roaming in the gardens of ar
Why should a man be proud?
Sbabpeare.
ticial delight, quafng the dangerous beve
As I do not possess a sufficient share of rage of the vine, and rioting on the rosy bed
selfconceit, to suppose that my abilities ex of fascinating but ruinous luxury; can he
ceed those of my neighbors; and do not pro forget that he also is mortal? Can he suer
considering that the welfare, and even the
fess that fertility of genius, of which I am
himself to be deluded, but for one moment,
not the inheritor; much cannot be expected

from me on a subject so frequently discuss
ed as the present. I shall, however, venture
to make a few observations; and I hope that
the exposition of a noted foible to public
contempt, will not be entirely uninteresting
to all: I allude to pride. Let us then in the
into the absurd idea that he is independent?
rst place, consider what it is; and in the
"The weak worms brothergrovhng on the ground!
He must know that his riches were be

stowed by the bounteous hand of Heaven,
for far more noble purposes; and that, by
permitting an intemperste and improper use
of them to inate his mind with vanity, he
offers a double insult to the Deity. Cease

second, why a man should possess it.
then, 0, fool! to look upon your fellow crea
a farmer, were it not such a mean calling.
Pride is a certain haughtiness of spirit tures with disdain: remember the source
Such has been the sentiment of many an which, whilst it regards others with an eye from whence your blessings spring; and, re
idle observer, clad ii. the trappings of va of contempt, renders itself most contempti eeting on its sublhnity, no longer think
nity. and fraught with the ideas of that self ble. It is an unbounded selfconceit, which yourself above mortality, and no longer con
impoitance, which arises from a mean and raises the merits of its possessor in his own sider yourself more than man!
incorrect view of the economy of men, and opinion, but evidently depresses them in that
GREGORY GRAVITY.
'1 42
For the Repertory;

To Christopher Caualic, Esq. J/zothrcary, tic.
Dear Caustic,
While many people are disputing whe

ther there is a hell or not, do you know that
I think there are two, one here and one here
after. It is true that which is here is merely

a taste or small sample of that which is to
come, but it is sufcient; it warns the man
who tastes, to turn from the nauseous sub
stance, and as he dont like the commodity,

not to buy, to shun the market where the
Devil is the chief seller; for the purchaser
may be assured, that although the cake is
so nicely pasted over, it is wormwood and
rue within, and after having licked of the
teman, driving (to use her own words) two

horses inaatring. I suppose you mean tan
dem, said I, passing her to go to the door.

I opened it and found the street lled
with a number of people who (believing the Upon this being done, three cheers from
child dead) seemed bent on vengeance. the mob evinced their approbation of the
One party had possession of the horses and proceeding. This morning, after restoring
gig, and another surrounded the unfortu the child, nearly recovered, to its anxious
nate driver, whom they were loading with the parents, I stepped to the mayors ofce
most opprobrious epithets.
where I saw the young man liberated, after
A girl of ve or six years old, lay on my paying the ne usual in such cases, and
steps senseless, whilst several women were promising with much apparent sincerity
looking on, not knowing what to do. On never for the future to let his [Measures or
examination I found that no bones were ca/zrice endanger the life or [ire/terry of
broken,and there were hopes of life. I opened another.
a vein and set the women to work, in chaf
The robber, the liar, the drunkard, the
ng her temples, Ste. In a short time I had

the pleasure to see symptoms of reanima
tion, and conveying the little sufferer to a
couch in my parlor, I ordered the women
to continue their humane exertions, whilst
Ireturned to the street where the noise
became louder every moment.
I made my way to the centre of the crowd,
where the infuriated people held their vic
tim in durance vile. He was a well dres
sed young man, and exhibited marks of
contrition. Iventured to expostulate with
those who held him. You know nothing
about it, said one to me roughly; I sup
pose you care more for your horses than
you do for your children, or you would not
profane swearer and all the great catalogue
talk so. These fellows, said he, shaking the
sugar he will, notwithstanding his wry faces,
have to swallow the cake.

I have ever been of the opinion, that each
improper action bears with it, in a certain
degree, its own punishment even on this
side of the grave.
Is there not a spark of that re which
is not to he quenched" in the breast of the
contumelious and successful villain, when
he sees the honest man eat his crust in

peace, and return thanks to God for his
goodness? There is; his heart is ready to
burst with a pain, which his smooth face,
his purple and ne linen can scarcely

conceal.
trembling youth by the collar, these fellows

spark will burn, they cannot avoid it, they are endangering the lives of our citizens and
carry it about them, and it will occasionally children every day, by driving their horses
ame up and inform them, there is one through the streets as fast as they can, to
more terrible to come. Sometimes the tem show that they trot well, or with what dex
poral punishment of those who act impro terity they can turn shar/z round a corner
perly, comes from the hands of their fel at a full trot. I agreed with him in all he
low creatures; the penalty of a broken law said, but still urged the necessity of mode
overtakes them, and gives them a taste of ration, and had partly succeeded in extri
that which is in store for impenitent of cating the young man, when one of the
crowd pushed rudely by me, it was your
fenders hereafter.
An instance of this I will give you, as it shopman Hans Sourcrout; he no sooner got
happened with the saucy youth who so im a sight of the prisoner than with a sudden
pudently insulted you, in your own shop, a jirk of the foot and a blow at the same time,
few days since:* justice has overtaken him, he pitched him into a deep kennel near
which he stood, from this he was lifted up
as you shall hear.
I was sitting in my front room about sun by some of the bystanders in a woeful
down last evening, listening to some loud plight.
voices which I heard in; the street, (but
I endeavored to appease the enraged
could not distinctly understand) when my Dutchman in vain. He told me it was the
old housekeeper, Deborah, came in, she same duerfeln kin: that had insulted his
appeared alarmed; she did not look pale for master, and clenching his st swore with
her skin is black,- but that power who made a tremendous dander and blixen that he
both white and black, has wound around her would have satisfaction, and was proceed
heart certain strings which vibrate through ing to put his threats into execution, when
every nerve; her steps were tottering and the timely arrival of alderman W. (a gen
voice tremulous; she informed me a child tleman who has a head to understand and
had been run over in the street by a gen nerve to execute the laws) put a stop to
See Csustic'l letter, page 108.
the riot.
of offenders, have their moments when the
Upon hearing the parties he prudently

resolved to put the young man immediately
into prison, thereby securing his personal
safety and appeasing the angry populace.
For the Repertory.

Mr. Editor,
Though mere animadversion and petu

lant disquision on the sentiments of a writer,
may not be relished by a majority of read
ers; and though such productions may be
of little utility; yet I conceive, that when an
author comes before the public, upholding
opinions which are in their tendency inju
rious and even subversive of true morality,
he deserves to be informed of the error of
the principles he advances.
If I be able to prove to the satisfaction of
your readers, that a late writer in the Re
pertory is really thus culpable, can any one

think me too censorious, in attempting to
expose the fallacy of dogmas which strike
at the very root of virtue?
The writer to whom I now more imme
diately allude, is Momus junr. whose sub
ject, whether curious or not, is by no means
interesting.
We are placed in this world, not merely
for our own happiness, but for the good of
others; and when a writer thus talks of en
joying the pleasures of life in their picni

tude, he betrays that lurking principle of
selshness, which too often tarnishcs the
lustre of many otherwise fair characters.

The human race is composed of an in
nite variety of beings, each differently cir
cumstanccd in life. Of these the sons of po
verty and afiction are a numerous body;
and if the sentiments of Momus were uni

versally prevalent, they would live and die
the unhappy offspring of misfortune.
It must be a contracted spirit, that can
picture the pleasures, the airy happiness of
life, and at the same time feel no emotions
of sorrow at the recollection of the pains

which destroy the joys of thousands. Since
we know, that the sensation of agreeable
objects generally reminds us of those that
are disagreeable, it would appear as though
the reason of our author had be en perverted,
or that be committed his ideas to paper in
m
S;
Us pure and free from base alloy, to life
a hasty manner. \Ve are certain, at any rate,
For the Repertory.
that what he has \vrittcn is injudicious and

improper. Many of the irrational delights
REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY \VANDERER.
Eternal, worlds of endless joy, it loses,

In part, remembrance keen; and as it owns
N0. VI.
The justice of Jehovah, hopes for bliss
which some men call pleasures, are not, as
The lucid sky is hid by little clouds.
our author insinuates, designed for our hap
And the pale moonbeams glance no more across
piness. He who supposes the contrary, and
The lately tranquil stream, now rough and rude

It ercely beats on yonder moss grown rock,
Which has resisted long its utmost force.
in the persuasion that his supposition is

true, grasps at every allurement and deceit
The rising gale sweeps oer the virid plains,
ful snare, proves the frailty of his nature

hold with rmness, the passing show of vain
Stubbornly yielding to the furious storm,

Scarce screens the humble cottage where St. Orme
glory and the glittering splendor of empty
His form, when weary with his wanderings wild,
bubbles that burst and ee before us, be
Does,careworn, rest. The storm did drive me neath

Its roof for shelter; but not till mine eyes
Had witnessd the sublime, majestic scene:
spc-aks an energetic mind, a power to with

stand the ensnaring baits of noisome mirth
and folly. But to be overpowered by what
ever seems to wear a pleasing aspect and
The bursting clouds discharged their ercest fury,

Drenching the vale below; the vivid glare
Of the sharp lightning struck my soul with awe,
to be carried thus into the destructive cur
As I, enabled by the transient gleams,
rent, along which hundreds glide to ruin,
Gazed on the scene around. It was indeed
is truly enough to make us exclaim, alas! A war of elements; each strove for mastry;
While Schuylkill's wave was heard at intervals
how weak is man!
Lashing the rocky shore. Shivring and wet,
To take pleasures as they come, what I sought my cottage, closed the humble door,
does IVIomus mean by this? Does he wish And, while the rays of one small lamp illumed
to make us believe, that in seizing every The room, my warm head resting on my hand,
opportunity to participate in the amusing Its only pillow, I did recollect
and enticing scenes of revelry and dcbauch, (Fit time for recollection) days long past.
The ardent dawn of youth's delightful morn,
his happiness will be increased or promoted? And all the joys that once with me did dwell,
Let us examine this point a moment, and Rose full to view. Again I was, methought,
we shall nd the principle to contradict Surrounded by the loved, revered few
itself. The name, pleasure, has been applied \Vho were to me most dear; and heard again
to every pursuit that tends to gratify the My parents thrilling voice invoking blessings,
desires of men; and I would ask how many From the pure Fount of mercy, on the head
Of their loved, youngest boy. I was as blest
of these are conducive to happiness? The
(Unreal joy!) as I was wont to be;
experience of thousands can testify, that When the loud thunder the illusion broke,
sorrow and anxiety are the concomitants or And made me feel that I was still the same
results of most of them. There are some Deserted wandrer, from the world shut out,
which tend to dispel dull care and sadness
A link detachd from great creation's chain.
from the mind, but how do they effect thisfr

They may do it for awhile, but the secret
ebullitions of uneasiness and discontent are
fast increasing and in the end fall upon the
devoted victim with tenfold fury.
Have I been too lavish in my exposition
of the erroneous principles inculcated by
Youre gone, dear parents, to the tranquil grave,
hIomus? I think not. If, as I presume, the
And are exempt from the alicting pangs

Your hapless otfspring is condemn'd to feel.
If, haply, disembodied spirits rove,
For it is said they do, and leave awhile
The ecstacies of bliss, perhaps you're near;
And, if your airy forms can feel, through which

"lis said, the twinkling stars do gleam, you sigh.
Blest thought, thou art most soothing to my soul!
I
author designed to exhibit the advantages

resulting from contentment, the object was
a good one, but the means made use of, are
by no means justiable, and in my opinion, are

highly reprehensible. I do not object to the
enjoyment of such pleasures as are worthy
the pursuit of intelligent creatures; but the
writer whose scntimentsI have ventured
to analyze, has been too indiscriminate in

his remarks; and if I have written censori
ously, let it not be imagined thatmy motive

is any other than a desire to promulgate the
importance of observing correctness in prin
ciples and practice.
M.
__..._
l
l
The friend of order has made half his way

to virtue.
For the Repertory.

LAUREL HILL.
A POEM, IN THREE PARTS.
And the tall oak, as it is forced to wave,
and his inability to resist temptation. To be
Beyond the dreary precincts of the grave.

ST. ORME.
Part III.
Mild Plilegon pensively now draws away,
Beyond our mortal view, the blaze of day;
And eve, the herald of approaching night,
A dusky veil throws oer his glimring light,
Prepares the road for Cynthia's silver car,
Followd by each attending glittring star:

And now appears each object to the sight,
Bedeckd with moonbeams and translucid light;
The woods are now, with lamps of re ies,
Illuminated, like the starry skies;
The moonbcams sweetly kiss each rippling wave,
The waves their kisses to the moonbeams gave;
The pensive breeze of night now softlylhlows,

And lulls the winged people to repose;
O'er aspin leaves awhile it gently sighs,
Or, sipping sweets, from ower to ower flies;

The swains are bathing in the rippling stream,
That brightly glitters with the silver beam;
The weeping rock, shedding unceasing tears,
\Vith new refulgenr spangles now appears;
Mky, too, slowly strays, with musing mind,
And gives a sigh to every passing wind;
Mourning the absence of his faithful maid,
While treading sofrly oer the dewy glade;
Or dropping tears, while cutting on each tree
His absent fair onc's name, in ecsiacy;
For dear Lucinda is his daily theme,
And dear Lucinda is his midnight dream!
And now he seeks rhe gloomy willow grove,
While breathing softly sweet a song of love;
Or makes his dulcet ute to speak his pain,
While caverns echo with the melting strain;
The fair ones lightly tread the dewy green,
Sharing the sweets of this delightful scene,

While rambling oer the rivers bank of flowers,
In peaceful innocence, to spend their hours.
0, heavens! Melia 5 there! Farewel! farewell
Ye scenes where contemplative pleasures dwell!
Ye roses, myrtlcs, owers impearld with dew,
And every scene of joy here adieu!
I go where Melia now delights to rove,
Hark! 'tis the night bird screaming hoarse and wild.

Perhaps some wrerch, more wretched far than I,
Is now exposed to all the wildring horrors
Of this tempestuous night; perhaps 'nearh some
Old shed, with heap of straw his homely bed,
He shivring lies, faint too with gnawmg hunger.
And leave you all, for Melia and for love!

DELLA LIRA.
innovation,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1810.
And shall I then repine, who safely screend

From the appalling storm, and hue regaled
T0 READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
On viands sumptuous? No'. Why sleeps the wrath

Of the almighty Ruler of the world?
Why patient still. nor sweep ihe murm'ring race
From fair creations face? But he is mercy;
And were his vengeance to oertakc the guilty,

Allow no time to turn our crring hearts,
Our doom were dreadful Thus tis when the mind,
Though deeply wounded, on reection turns,

And knows the unseen hand that deeply wounds,
Yet still supports, and tries our greatest strength
And wavering faith, that he may bring at last
It is our duty to fulfil our last weeks

promise; but our circumscribed limits will
necessarily shorten the remarks we had in

tended.
We hail with a hearty welcome our wor
thy correspondent Captain Grummet. The
noble generosity of the honest tar gives him
a friendly reception every it here; and when
he is above profanity and indelicacy (and
144
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we are proud to recognise very many that

are truly so) such a character is an honor
to our nature. May our captains merits
soon advance him to a commodore! and may
his adventures soon assume the life and

spirit so conspicuous in the celebrated au
thor of Commodore Trunnion, Ste.
The communication of Herminius, though

of a cast totally opposite to that of the cap
tain, is received with as cordial a welcome.
The few alterations we made were with the

view of rendering it conformable to the laws
of approved blank verse. This is a measure
of which we are particularly fond; and we
are happy that the specimens of it given by
two of our young poets, afford a attering
promise of their success. The great exam
ples of all who have used it, from Shaks
peare down to Cowper, prove it to be sus
their trade. But on an enlarged view of

this subject, I am not of opinion with those
who view as prejudicial to the interest of
the above places the establishment of another
trading town in this vicinity. Nature has
clearly pointed out this spot as the peculiar
central place of a vast extent of surrounding
country. Here must ultimately be found the
centre of trade and wealth, and the vast dc
pot of national opulence. In short, Albzuty

is indubitably destined to become the capi
tal and key of a vast empire, by whatever
political name it may be distinguished, and to
absorb in one general appellation those little
villages that skirt its borders.
Such, I confess, are my ideas, nor can I
by three gentlemen, for 64,000 dollars, and
cible, the elegant, the pathetic, the ludi

crous, the versatile, &c. To have its desired
a plan for a town submitted to the public. Al

ready the proprietors have sold lots to the
effect, however, writers should guard against
amount of about 30,000 dollars, and another

public sale of lots is advertised, on the rst
tention to accent and the cesural pause.
Christophe, president of Hayti, has made a

decree, hearing date the 30th July, declar
ing the name of Cape Francois changed to
Tuesday of September, on the premises.

The town plat, is situated immediately on
the east bank of the river, where the bottom
is about half a mile in width, on the back of
which is a high plain, of about one hundred

and fty feet elevated above the upper plain
run, mill creek, a good size mill stream, fal
that of Cults Henry, and subjecing letters
bearing the ancient name of the place in their

superscriptions to be stopped and sent to the
government.
From the Albany Gazette.
Messrs. Webster and Skinner,
The following letter of a well informed traveller, to

his friend in Philadelphia, is copied, by the writ
er's permission, and o'ered for publication in your

paper.
Dear Sir,
ling abruptly over this precipice, on a slaty

rock, and presents a very picturesque appear
ance, thence winding through the bottom,
enters the Hudson within about half a mile
of the fall. From the surface of the lower
plain, about 130 feet head may be saved for
the whole quantity of water in mill creek.
This is a most importent item in the many
advantages attending this spot, in regard to
hydraulio'wmks, elegant and ornamental im
provements, or security against res. From
the shore, it is from 60 to 200 feet to the
I have just returned from a careful survey ship channel, and several docks and wharves
of the site of the contemplated new city, on
the east shore of the Hudson, opposite Alba
ny. Having been particularly attentive to the
view of the comparative advantages of this
spot, anti the disadvantages under which it
must labor, am bold to say, no unimproved
spot in the United States, which has fallen
under my observation, combines so many su
perior and commanding advantages, with so
few and trivial disadvantages. Collisions of in
terest, however, are to be expected, and ought
not by any means, to operate as any discou
ragement to the man of enterprise. Albany is
already a plabe of immense trade, and one of
the richest cities in the union; it is also the po~
are now erecting. Sloop navigation is good to

New York; and this may be properly called
the head of the navigation for all vessels ex
ceetling fty tons.
The Rensselaer and Columbia turnpike
commences at this spot and extends to
Massachusetts line, and the Farmers turn
pike is now working on the bank of the river

to Troy, which will be completed this sum
mer. It is condently asserted by travellers,
that the ferry across the Hudson, between
this modern Sparta and Albany, is the most
frequented of any in the United States, and
I am of opinion that no roads in the union
are so much travelled as some of those lead
litical centre ofthe state. Troy,six miles above ing westward from Albany. The stock of the
on the same side of the river with the new Ransselaer and Columbia turnpike, is almost
town, is a ourishing place, of great trade, and
' The proprietors have not yet projected a name,
employs a great capital. Lansingburgh is a a common omission and very great error in this coun
considerable place, andWatcrford enjoys also
HEALTH OFFICE,
August 25, 1810.
lnterments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia

from the 18th to the 25th August.
Dieeaeee.
ad. cb.
Ditearer.
Asthma
1 0 Old age
Cholera morbus
0 8 Pleurisy
try. Towns and villages are built with astonishing
ad. clono~HMQP
5|
HOHoOoow
Consumption of lungs 1 1 Scrofula

Convulsions
HowHoH FHF 2 Sore throat
imagine that any triing collisions of inte Decay

rest will materially retard its progress.
Dropsy in the brain
But I have omitted to inform you what is Debility
the present situation of the concern, as well Dysentery
Fever
as to enumerate the local conveniencies of Fever,
remittent
the site. A mile square has been purchased Fever, typhus
ceptible of the sublime, the solemn, the for
nlexandrines, and pay an undeviating at
a solitary exception in this state, because it

is productive to its owners, and worth, as I
am told, fteen or twenty per cent. above par._
If you think proper you are at liberty to pub
lish my observations for the information of
the public. I remain, dear sir, with great respect, yours truly.
_._
0 Still born
0 Sudden
2 Teething
0 Disease unknown
Oi-lOr-n-n
Total 39
Hives
Inam. of stomach
Urder

1 year
Between 1 and 2
60
70
5
10
1
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70
80
80
90
1
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10 20
0
90
100 ' 0
20
30
3 Ages unknown
0
30 40
1
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40
50
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Total 39
9 oclock. 12 o'clock. 3 oclock,
August 20
68
68
70
21
22
68
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69
68
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71
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25
68
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73
73
just published and for sale by Deleplaine and Hel

lings. No. 84 North Second street,
THE POETICAL APOTHEOSIS 0F
General George Washington,

The friend of man, and father of his country.
\VI'IH AN ADDRESS
To the citizens of Philadelphia, on the propriety of
erecting a statute to his memory in their metropo
lis, opposite the statehouse in Chesnut street.
Let us not make the beast of kings too true;
'hen they airm. we're base and thankless too.

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* @hljabefpbiaweperfom
VOL. I.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 18K).
N0. 19.
dred and fty men in two small vessels,

which they had built out of the ruins of their
ship, and the cedars which grew on the isl
and, they found the remnant of the colony
hesitation, they determined to abandon the
country, and were sailing down the river,
when they met a boat from the lord de la
address to write a handsome letter to the

queen, setting forth the merits of his friend,
and the eminent services she had done to
him and the colony of Virginia. She was
introduced by the lady de la Warre; the
queen and royal family received her with
complacency, snd she proved herself worthy
of their notice and respect. At her rst in
Warre, who had come with a eet to their
terview with Smith she called him father;
relief. 13y his persuasion, they resumed the

plantation, and to this fortunate incident,
may be ascribed the full establishment of
this distressed condition, Ratcli'e and Ar the colony of Virginia.
cher conspired to murder him in his bed;
Such a genius as Smiths could not re
but the assassin, whom they employed, had main idle. He was well known in England,
not courage to re a pistol. Smiths old sol and the report of his valor, and his spirit
diers would have taken o their heads, of adventure, pointed him out to a number
but he- thought it prudent to pass by the of merchants, who were engaged in the
offence, and take this opportunity, as there American fishery, as a proper person to
was no surgeon in the country, of returning make discoveries on the coast of North
and because he did not immediately return
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN ShHTH.
(Concluded)
On his return from the new plantation at

the Fans sleeping by night in his boat, a bag
of gun powder took re, and burnt him in
a most terrible manner. Awaking in sur
prise, and nding himself wrapt in ames,
he leaped into the water, and was almost
drowned before his companions could rc
cover him. At his return to James town, in
in such a forlorn condition, that without
the salutation and call her child, she was so
overcome with grief, that she hid her face

and would not speak for some time. She was
ignorant of the ridiculous aectation which
reigned in the court of James, which forbade
Smith assuming the title of father to the
daughter of a king! And when informed of
it she despised it, passionately declaring that
she loved him as a father, and had treated
of the miserable colony after he had quitted

iL \Vithout government, without prudence,
him as such in her own country, and would

be his child wherever she went. The same
gold, and another of copper, which were pedantic affectation caused her husband to
said to be there, but which were never found. be looked upon as an offender, for having,
At Smiths return to England, he put in though a subject, invaded the mysterious
at Plymouth, where, relating his adventures, rights of royalty in marrying above his rank!
and communicating his sentiments to sir This marriage, however, proved benecial
Ferdinando Gorges, he was introduced to the to the colony, as her father had thereby be
Plymouth company of adventurers to North come a friend to them, and when she came
Virginia, and engaged in their service. At to England, he sent with her Uttamaccomac,
London he was invited by the South Virgi one of his trusty councillors, whom he en
nia company to return to their service, but joined to inquire for Smith, and tell him
made use of his engagement with the Ply whether he was alive. Another order which
mouth adventurers as an excuse for declin he gave him was, to bring him the number
ing their imitation. From this circumstance inf people in England; accordingly on his
it seems, that they had been convinced of ilunding at Plymouth, the obedient savage
his former delity, notwithstanding the let ibegan his account by cutting a notch on a
ters and reports which they had formerly long stick for every person whom he saw,
received to his disadvantage.
but soon grew tired of his employment, and
During his stay in London, he had the at his return told Powhatan that they exceed
very singular pleasure of seeing his friend the number of leaves on the trees. A third
Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan. Hav command from his prince was, to see the
ing been made aprisoner in Virginia, she was God of England, and the king, queen, and
there married to Mr. John Rolfe, and by him princes, of whom Smith
told him so
brought to England. She was then about much; and when he met
'th Smith, he
twenty two years of age; her person was desired to be introduced to those personages.
graceful, and her deportment gentle and He had before this seen the king, but would
careless, indolent, and factious, they became
pleasing. She had been taught the English
to England. As soon as his intention was

known, the council appointed Mr. Percie to
preside in his room, and detained the ship

three weeks, till they could write letters
and frame complaints against him. He at
length sailed for England, about the latter
end of September 1609, much regretted by
his friends, one of whom has left this cha
racter of him; In all his proceedings he

made justice his rst guide, and experience
his second; hating baseness, sloth, pride, and
indignity, more than any danger. He never

would allow more for himself than for his sol
diers; and upon no danger would send them
where he would not lead them himself. He
would never see us want what he had, or could
by any means get for us. He would rather want

than borrow, or starve than not pay. He loved
actions more than words; and hated covetous- .
ness and falsehood worse than death. His ad
ventures were our lives, and his loss our
deaths."
There needs no better testimony to the

truth of this character, than what is related \
Virginia, to take whales, examine a mine of
prey to the insolence of the natives, to the language and the Christian religion, and bap
diseases of the climate, and to famine. With- I tized by the name of Rebecca. She had heard
in six months their number was reducedl that Smith was dead, and knew nothing to
from ve hundred to sixty; and when the; the contrary, till she arrived in England.
Uuee commanders, who had been wrecked:
The fame of an Indian princess excited
0!! Bermuda, arrived (low) with one huh-i great curiosity in London, and Smith had the
not believe it, because the person whom they I

pointed out to him had not given him any
thing. You gave Powhatan (said he to
Smith) a white dog, but your king has given
me nothing. Mr. Rolfe was preparing to
return with his wife to Virginia, when she
was taken ill and died at Gravcscnd, leaving
HG
H
n infant son, Thomas Rolfe, from whom are

descended several families of note in Virgi
nia, who hold their lands by ifiheritance
from her.
\Vhcn the news of the massacre of the
Virginian planters by the Indians, l622, ar
rived in England, Smith was all on re to
go over to revenge the insult. He made an

offer to the company, that if they would al
low him one hundred soldiers and fty sai
lors, with the necessary provisions and equip
ments, he would range the country, keep the
natives in awe, protect the planters, and make
discoveries of the hitherto unknown parts of
America; and for his own risque and pains
would desire nothing but what he would

produce- from the proper labor of the sa
vages. On this proposal the company was
divided, but the pusillanimous and avaricious
party prevailed; and gave him this answer,
that the charges would be too great, that
their stock was reduced, that the planters
of fresh sh their ow'n rivers produced

enough, beside an innite quantity of fowl,
as their woods did of deer and other game.
They had two brew houses; but they culti
vated the Indian corn in preference to the]
European grain. Their plantations were
scattered; some of their houses were pali
saded, but they had no fortications, nor ord
nance mounted.
This was probably his last publication, for

he lived but two years after. By a note in
Josselyns voyage, it appears that he died in
1153!, at London, in the fty second year of
his age.
It would give singular pleasure to the
compiler of these memoirs, if he could learn
from any credible testimony, that Smith ever
received any recompense for his numerous

services. The sense which he had of this
sible to hunt out the habitation of the ban

ditti and bring them to justice, guided only
by the supercial knowledge he had gained
of their retreat, and proceeded to the castle
to relieve the anxiety which be naturally
supposed would'be felt by every one there,
but more particularlyby Linhault, whom he
really loved with the affection of a father,
and who, he knew, would be in the utmost
grief on the arrival of his vassals without

him.
He proceeded forward at a slow pace,
pondering on the most probable and quick
est means of unkennelling the banditti, and
purging the state of this dreadful calamity,
when his progress was suddenly arrested by

the sound of voices very near him.
He mounted a little eminence on one side,
words. I have spent ve years, and more
and on the bosom of a grass clad vale, be

neath the cooling shelter of a. spreading elm,
to his innite satisfaction beheld the young
than ve hundred pounds, in the service of
baron.
ought to defend themselves; but, that if he
Virginia and New England, and in neither
would go at his own expense, they would

give him leave, provided he would give them
one half of the pillage. Such an answer
could be received only with contempt.
When the king, in 1624, instituted a com
mission for the reformation of Virginia,
of them have I one foot of land, nor the
Joy at beholding the intrepid youth, who

some short time before had struck the erce
boar and cleft him quite asunder when he
had fastened on his nerveless arm in the
chase, made him look at no other person,
and he was rushing forward to embrace him,
when he was suddenly stopped by observing
Smith, by desire of the commissioners, gave
in a relation of his former proceedings in

the colony, and his opinion and advice res
pecting the proper methods of remedying
the defects in government, and carrying on
the plantation with a prospect of success.
These with many other papers he collected
and published, in 1627, in athin folio, under
matter, in 1627, shall be given in his own
very house I built, nor the ground I digged

with my own hands; but I see those countries
shared before me by those who knew them

only by my descriptions.
O.
For the Repertory.
Roselle seated by him, and the youth gazing
on her in the most impassioned manner.

After they had together left the cottage, as
A ROMANC E
before related, Linhault and Roselle had,

CIIAPTER IV.
'
Her rising beauties ushd a higher bloom,

As thus Palemon passionate and just,
l'our'd out the pious rapture of his soul.
Thompson.
\Vhat tempting lure
Hath this deceiver to beguile his guilt.
Cumberland.
from a neighboring peasant, procured the

article which they stood in need of for their
homely meal, and in returning, invited by
the delightful spot, and Roselle somewhat
fatigued, they seated themselves upon the
grass to inhale the breeze that fluttered fra
grantly across the river, where they were
discovered by Stanislaus.
The king gazed some moments upon the
young pair, struck with the simple but en
gaging beauty of Roselle, and exclaimed
\Vho can this be? I have come here on the
express errand of engaging this noble youth
as a husband for my daughter; but if he
hath to this sweet maid plighted his heart,
far be it from Stanislaus to destroy their
darling hopes. I will attend at least a little
the title of The General History of Vir

ginia, New England, and the Somer Isles.
The narrative part is made up of journals
and letters of those who were concerned
This road, said Martix pointing to one
with him in the plantation, intermixed with that led through the forest, will conduct
his own observations.
your highness to Sobeiski castle, whither I
In 1629, at the request of sir Robert Cot presume you wish to go. Go, tell Fen-es
ton, he published a history of the early part burghs count that Martix lives! Thus say
of his life, entitled, The True Travels, ing he and Jacques immediately disappeared
Adventures, and Observations, of Captain among the trees and left Stanislaus in the
J ohn Smith. This work is preserved entire, most profound astonishment.
The rst idea that struck the mind of the
in the second volume of Churchills collec
tions, and from it the former part of this king was, who the person that so mysteri
account is compiled. In the conclusion he ously called upon his name could possibly be further; well I know the noble boy disdains
made some addition to the history of Virgi and the reason why the robbers were so to take advantage of so fair a form: Ill lis
nia, Bermuda, New England, and the West afraid that he (the king) particularly, should ten to the truth.
He accordingly took his station silently
Indies, respecting things which had come to mention his name.
He left the spot, and after proceeding a behind the trunk of a venerable oak that
his knowledge after the publication of his
general history. He stated the inhabitants of little distance out of the forest, turned his grew majestic near him, and waited very
Virginia in 1628 at 5000, and their cattle at eyes towards the place he had left, but could impatiently for the result of his attempt.
Stanislaus waited a long time, for though
the same number. Their produce was chiey see no appearance of an habitation, but the
tobacco; but those few who attended to their summit of a ruined abbey. thatjust lifted its Linhault could smile amid the din of battle
gardens had all sorts of fruit and vegetables height above the top of the trees and seem or rush intrepidly upon the cannons mouth
to serve his king and country, yet whenever
in great abundance and perfection. From ed ready to topple to the ground.
He found that it would be utterly impos his eyes met the piercing glance from the
New England they received salted sh; but
i 1'!
cerulean round of Roselles, his courage fled

and the soldier was vanquished by the fear
ful lover. At length summoning all his cou
rage into his tongue he ventured to take the
hand of his fair charge.
~ You are much fatigued, my sweet Ro
selle, said he.
I do indeed feel a little weary, i) replied

she, and but for your kind support I had
been overcome. How much, my lord, I owe
you: a few (lays since you saved me from

certain death, when struggling in the stream
with no protector by save Heaven directed
Linhault, and now your generous care has
guarded and supported me.
on my knees profess, the fond and pure af

fection that I hear you. Before the disastrous,
blessed chance that made me instrumentally
your preserver, I saw. you at the rustic feast
and loved you, but being told you were con
tracted to another, I resolved to bury in my
soul the secret. You say that you are free,
may I not then hope there is a generous
spark of love within that tender bosom? Tell
me that I am not hateful to you
Hateful!" cried Roselle, 0! no, Ipray,
my lord, arise and do not overwhelm me with
confusion!
Then, say I am blessed! exclaimed
Linhault.
I pray, my lord, arise, said Roselle with
a faltering voice.
'
as he wished to hold his young dcliverer to

his heart!
The king! exclaimed Linhault with
emotion and surprise.~ Roselle was burning
with the blush of confusion.

Yes, answered Stanislaus, I have over
heard your whole discourse, and give you

here my blessing on your love! Nay, bashful
maid, do not avert thy face in soft confusion;
is not a candid, sweet confession of thy love,

more noble than the little arts the fair co
quettc would use?
Can it be possible? said Linhault, the
Never! cried Linhault, till you decide
king, my friend? the great, the good Stanis

laus!
The king now took the hand of Roselle
and placing it within Linhaults, upon the
very spot where they confessed their love
my fate! Tell me that you cannot love, I
for each other, blessed them, and gave the
given one moments ease to thee, dear maid,
will never persecute you, dear Roselle, with
my soul desires
my presence!"
Generous b0 '1 exclaimed the king men
tally.
If it will make you happy, said the
yielding maid, to know I do not hate you
that
O! speak! cried Linhault.
That I loveyoube happy! said Ro
selle, and Linhault received the lovely bur
maid to the enraptured youth; who having

expressed his astonishment at meeting the
king alone at that distance from the castle,
Stanislaus informed him that he had not yet
been there.
I own, my liege," said Linhault, your
This was delivered with such enchanting

sweetness that Linhault forgot his fears, and
rapidly cried, Do not, dear Roselle, thus
appreciate my feeble services; if I have but
He would have said, no other recom

pense," but he checked himself with a sigh
conscious of the falsehood of the assertion,
for he desired her affections.

t
I feel this fair hand tremble as I press
it," continued he, it is not fear; then what
can cause this strong emotion?

It is not fear, indeed, said Roselle em
phatically.
Then, then, why this perturbation my
fair friend? said the youth with an inquir

ing look.
I really cannot tell, replied Roselle, I
was never before affected in this strange
manner, I pray you pardon me, my lord.
Pardon you! exclaimed Linhault, ah!
happy, happy Leopold!
R0selle raised her eyes in astonishment.
\Vhat mean you, my lord? said she.
By thy matchless purity, said he, I
then into his arms.

Do not esteem me forward," said the
maid, that I am won so soon, but grati
tude has ripened into love!

This as sufficient for the king, and he
determined that Linhaults happiness should

know no diminution by his even knowing
that he had mentioned to Ferresburgh his

wish to conclude a marriage between the
baron and his daughter.
Am I indeed so blest! said Linhault,
after his surprise of joy was a little assuag

meantI meant, he continued with a ed, and kissing the tear of pleasure from the
sigh, that he is to be envied, who gains the blushing check of the lovely maid, am I
mistress of his heart, as much as that wretch indeed so blessed as to be beloved by her my
is to be pitied, who is doomed to see the heart holds most dear of any earthly tic!
arbitress of his happiness in the arms of Canst thou, my Roselle, bestow thy heart on
another!
one so worthless of the precious gift?
Still more incomprehensible," said Ro
Unworthy! said Roselle, Linhault, but
selle, I pray, my lord, thatI may understand for thee this heart would not new boat with
you.
Tell me, dear Roselle, said the young
rapture, nor me, without deceit or practised
appearance there would have been as unex
pected to me as it is here.
Tis true, said the king, I did not ex
pect to arrive so soon after my letter; but
having received the despatches for which I

lingered, sooner than I expected them, I
left \Varsaw immediately.
The king then informed them of his at
tack, his strange capture through the trap,
the mysterious manner of his release, and
strange circumsttuice connected with it.
Linhault testified his surprise, and Roselle
her pity of the unfortunate prisoners, and
proceeded immediately to the cottage.
After the astonishment and transport of
Braubenski on seeing the king had subsided,
a necessary explanation took place. The
peasants countenance fell when he heard!
but as Stenislaus had bestowed his daughter
on Linhault, he could not but acquiesce.
They now left the cottage 'and Linhauh
conducted Stanislaus tOWards the castle.
UBALDO.
_-_-
For the Repertory.
RICHES.
guile, confess that I love you! \Vho was it
It is easier for a camel to pass through
snatched me from a watery grave and watch
ed me mid the horrors of the night? Ah! the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
was it not thee? Shall I not then make so enter into the kingdom of heaven, Were
pold?
Gracious powers! cried the maid, who poor a return, not give my hearts affections the words of our blessed Saviour to one who
when thou hast preserved my life?
was very rich: and indeed we nd that riches
could have propagated such a report!
Tell me, is it not true? said Linhault in
Unequalled excellence! cried Linhault, are but too generally attended with a degree
hope and expectation.
each word you utter endears you more if of inattention, lukewarmncss and irrcligion,
True! replied Roselle, cruel and un possible to my conquered heart! Come, let sufficient to justify the divine assertion. But
gencrous falsehood!
us hasten to your father and demand his leave this is only a general truth, and does by no
Falsehood! echoed Linhault, then lam to think of you as one to be my bride!"
means infer the absolute impossibility of b( no longer withheld! Lovely Roselle, hear me
Your sovereigns too, cried Stanislaus, coming virtuous and rich at the same time.
baron, is not your hand, are not your af

fections engaged to a peasant, young Leo
m
Observation may convince us that many

opulent persons have distributed their wealth
with such liberality, that they have appeared
not to possess it more for themselves than
for mankind in general: whilst, on the other
hand, riches in the possession ofweak minded
persons, by giving them the means of grati
good strive for my conscience, and therefore

without farther preface I will begin.
clay cold lips; and was with difculty forced
Momus, son. was, as every body knows,
from the body. The whole night was spent
called a genteel manner, more than from
borhood, who was my godmother, made ap
any inherent virtue they possess.
plication and promised to take every care of

me. They, I suppose, not being remarkably
fond of trouble, (for I was a noisy brat)
willingly acceded to her proposition, and I
became an inmate of her little cottage.
My mother (as I called her, as soon as I
began to prattle) was a most singular charac
ter. Early in the revolution, she had espous
ed with enthusiastic ardor the cause of liber
ty and independence, and to such a height
did she carry her patriotism, that, I verily
I threw myself by her side; kissed her
my father; and I ammy fathers son. Not in tears, and in bewailing my disconsolatc
having ever seen my papa, I am unable to situation.
furnish my readers with a description of his
So true it is, that he who is accustomed
person, features, or qualications. In fact I to anticipate trouble, meets it with fortitude;
fying a multitude of irregular passions, have know as little concerning my mother; she but he who never looks beyond the present
been the sources of much mischief; for it is died about eight months after I rst saw the moment, in the hour of tribulation all cou
rage forsakes him; and, like a ship without
but too true (though shameful to tell!) that light.
The parish ofcers took charge of me for a rudder, becomes the spoil of every wind
many avoid vice and extravagance for the
MOMUS, JUN.
want of fortune to support it, in what is a short time, until an old lady in the neigh that blows.
The wise man, says Seneca, does not
love riches to excess; but he would by no

means choose to divest himself of them; he
does not receive them into his soul, but his
house; he is careful of them, and employs

them for the purpose of opening a wide
eld of virtue and making it appear in all
its splendor.
From these considerations I am induced
to believe, that it depends in a great measure
on the possessor what shall be the good or
the evil that is to result from his wealth.
\Ve seldom see an unexpected turn of good
fortune make any change in a man of an
enlarged understanding, except that it puts
him in a situation to extend his bounties;
whilst a man of contracted understanding

never fails to place his whole hope of hap
piness on riches. To this end, he hoards up
in his coffers, that which can only benet
man in circulation and exchange for other
property. But he sees, though often too late,
that his gold is only trash, in comparison
with the benets and blessings that might
have arisen from a proper use of it, and is
made wretched by the painful reection, how
much happier had been his lot if he had
laid up his treasures in heaven."
VERNACULUS.
a...
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THE LIFE OF MOMUS, JUN.
An idea struck me last night, that I would

\vrite the history of my life. Here a diiculty
started up. I have kept no journal, not a
single memorandum to enable me to trace
back the time, and my memory is rather the
worse for the wear; how shall I act? I am a
queer fellow, my life has been queer, and

these are combined with a thousand other
little queerities, (as the advertiser sayeth)
too tedious to enumerate. Perchance I
may stumble on some other persons adven
Ventures, and bear away the palm; what then?
\Vhy, he certainly should be much obliged
to me, as it will save the trouble of his relat
ing them himself. I think that is a tolerable
believe, sooner than drink a dish of tea or

wear clothes of British manufacture, she
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THE CABINET. No. IV.
Malta er przclara minands. Ear.
\Vhcn a man undertakes to support a

periodical work, he frequently nds himself
much at a loss for a proper subject; this, in
deed, constitutes one of his greatest difcul
ties. The mere writing a series of essays
upon indifferent topics, would, perhaps, be
no difcult matter; but to make choice of
subjects which shall show the age and
body of the time its form and pressure, has
puzzled periodical essayists in every age.
would have undergone every punishment A paper like this in which we are engaged,
that the ingenuity of man could invent or is particularly intended for the instruction
inflict One circumstance tended to heighten of the million, and not for a display of
this in a great degree; her husband was that kind of learning which may not, with
inhumanly butchered at the Pauli. She fondly the happiest effect, be applied to the ordi
lovcdlhim and lamented his loss to the last mo
nary business of life; hence, these essays
must be on popular subjects; and to accom

plish this, we must observingly regard com
mon incidents as they take place under our
heart warm and benevolent, and a hand rea
eyes; believing that those topics are the most
dy to execute what her heart dictated.
Excuse me, I cannot refrain from this interesting, which most closely relate to
eulogium on one who loved me as her own, what concerns those for whom they are in
and who for my enjoyment deprived herself tended. If an essayist would succeed, he
must be ever on the alert, for sometimes the
of many pleasures.
I will not tire you with a repetition of any veriest tries turn out greatly to his ad
unmeaning childish tricks; sufce it to say, vantage. His walks, his conversations, his
days, months and years merrily rolled away, companions, his daily exercises, will, to an
without any thing remarkable occuring to attentive mind, furnish better speculative
render a relation of it interesting, until I ar matter. as relates to life and living manners,
than the most profound abstraction of
rived at the age of fifteen.
One evening, as I sat reading to my mo thought, and the most laborious research
ther her husbands last letter, she sighed into books, can possibly afford.
very heavily and appeared to be much agi
A few days ago as I sat in the parlor of
tated. I stopt reading; gazed on her; she my friend Gregory, very sedatcly conversing
grew pale, and in a few minutes sank on the with his aunt and maiden sister, upon the
oor. I endeavored to raise her, but in vain; vicissitudes of fashion within the last thirty
I then alarmed the neighbors, who came in years, who should burst in upon us but
and after examination found the vital spark that most egregious egotist Peregrine Pea
of life was ed forever! Just Heaven! what cock, who, to our great annoyance, intro
were my sensations! Deprived of the only duced himself with a ladies, good mom
being whom I could look up to for consola ing to you; Mr. Peaceable Im yoursone
tion; of one who had cherished and loved of the pleasantest hits ever a fellow receiv
me, and who, but a few moments previous ed. I was, a moment before, telling the joke
to her dissolution, had offered up a fervent to a friend of mine, at the corner, he laugh
prayer to the Fountain of mercy, beseeching ed heartilyI assure you: twas an admirable
stroke, faith! By this prelude, our curiosity
protection for her darling boy.
ment of her existence. Independent of this

prejudice (if it may be so termed) she had a
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he supposed would be raised; but the cha the narrator; if the answer be in the nega
racter of the man was well known to us, tive, he may happily improve by an appli
sndwe were unwilling to touch upon a string cation of the case to himself. \Vhen a man
Which we well knew would vibrate with an gets upon what relates to himself, he experi
unceasing discord. But not waiting for our ences such superior pleasure in its discus
question as to what he alluded, and addres

sing himself to me, Sir, you cant imagine
sion, that if he can nd any one to listen, he
generally engrosses the conversation; than
a clevcrer thing. I was always eminent, you which, nothing can be more detestable: and,
know, for being tolerable at a cut; why, sir, what is worse, he engrosses it with a sub
it was but an hour ago, a puppy struttcd up ject which cannot be agreeable to others.
An egotist is sure to tire. If this were
to me, and with a look of the biggest im
suiciently impressed upon the mind of
portance, demanded satisfaction for an in
sult. Now, to be sure, I had used the fel
every man, the folly would certainly be ex
low rather satirically at Mrs. P.s, and before terminated: for there is in the hearts of all
his mistress too; but Ill tell you that ano a desire to be pleasing; and most people
ther opportunity. I was not to be intimi would even take a little trouble to become so;
dated. for you must know he is a mighty tall at least, they would not do a thing which they
fellow. So, after he had made his demand, were condent would draw upon them the
contempt of any assembly. From a vicious
Mr. Sensitive, said I, giving him the broad
est stare in the world, Mr. Sensitive, do you propensity, which some have, to detract from
know that I am a gentleman? and do you the merit of a man, an egotist is commonly
know, Mr. Sensitive, that a gentleman is by them considered as one who would not
never accountable to his inferior for any hesitate to depart from truth, if he could,
thing he says or does? If you dont like what by doing so, place himself in a favorable
I told miss B. concerning you, go coax a point of view.
kiss, and console yourself with that, for I
Egotism effectually destroys the charm of
assure you tis the only satisfaction you are modesty, and washes away that endearing
likely to get; .and so, sir, I turned upon my blush which men of all ages should be proud
heel,and left the astonished simpleton to to wear. It habituates the mind to being
chew my words at his leisureha! ha! ha! pleased with nothing but what respects itself;
W'hat think you, sir; wasnt it a hit! A and, consequently, diminishes a proper sense
very palpable hit," returned I drilyatfthe of enj0yment in other things. In ne, by the
same time settling myself more composedly general consent of society, egotism is con
in my chair, with a countenance unenlight
temptible; and he that indulges in it will
ened by a single smile; twas a very pal
never be an agreeable participator in polite
pable hit. Peacock looked mortied; he and rational conversation.
deserved it. But soon recovering his natural
PETER PEACEABLE.
serenity, he started out at great lengths
o
with his own sayings, his own plans, his
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own possessions, &c. till nding the gravity
of the family not exactly the thing for a man

in his line, he took his hat and wished us a
good morning.
The silly conversation of Peregrine had
thrown me into meditation; and as I walked
home, I could not forbear reecting on the

contemptibleness and absurdity of egotism.
It is a fault that is the more unpardonable,
because it may be wholly corrected by a
little thought. It is natural, to be sure, for
a man to like that subject best in which he
is most interested; but if private affairs are
at all introduced into conversation, every

one has his own, which he would discuss in
preference to those of any other: on this

ground, therefore, an egotist may assure
himself that he will never be able to please

and interest. He who is inclined to this foi
ble, should ask himself, whether he could
sit with patience and pleasure, while another
man related the whole history of his life and

actions, in which nobody was interested but
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like this, it would indeed be less despised,
the petition of the needy would be less fre

quently rejected.
But enter the precincts of a public alms
house or the connes of a prison; ask yon
der dejected, unhappy man, what brought
him to his present condition? hear his an
swer; will he tell you, that misfortune at
tended all his pursuits, that notwithstanding

his industry, every thing went wrong and
that all his undertakings were thus frustra
ted? Alas! he cannot! Perhaps he was the un
fortunate heir to a large estate, which being
too great a temptation for his weak mind to
endure, led him to indulge in every vice and
folly. Devoted to luxury and excess, he soon

sunk by his own weight into the low ebb
in which he is now situated.
Another will tell you that he set out in
life with a fair wind, which continued for
awhile and seemed to waft him prosperously

along, but delusive fancy ruied his sails,
and after being driven with frequent gales
into uncertain channels, his bark at last split
on a rock and left the poor wretch to la
ment the bitterness of his hard fortune.
Thus we behold poverty from extravagance,
from dissipation and vice in various forms;
but it may assume aspects still more formi
dable.
Is the object of our inquiry, one of the
wretched group, that inhabits yonder man
sion, for the connement of those who have
violated the laws of the land? Behold him in

the form of a man, in tattered rags, meagre
and wan, the very emblem of poverty. You

need not ask, why all this? his whole life has
been a scene of dishonesty and his chief aim
has been to rob the orphan, to distress the
widow; and here he is placed, that the
wrongs he has done to others may be aveng
ed, that justice may be satised. Unhappy
wretch! sad was the hour that gave thee
birth! Thus we perceive that the concomi
tants and effects of poverty are almost as
various as the subjects of it. And it is our
duty to show compassion for the sufferings
of our fellow men, to pity theirmislbrtunes,
Among the vast multitude of those who

bear the stamp of indigence and thc cha
racteristics of misery, we always discover
many, whose lot has been sad and whose
days have been a continual succession of
misfortune. There are those whose hearts
overow with sorrow and whose breasts
heave and swell at the recollection of days and from their situation, to learn instruc
that are past, when prosperity beamed around, tive lessons, which may be protable to all
when their basket and store were full, and and injurious to none.
when they thought themselves really happy.
If a wretch, by his disgraceful and per
But losses and unexpected disappointments petuul acts of misconduct, forfeit all claim
overtook them, and laid low in the dust of to indulgence and tender regard, let us at
humility their towering hopes and flattering least pity the hapless victim, and instead of
prospects. With these we sympathize, we spurning him from our presence with con
shed the tear of compassion and lend our tempt, let us seize every opportunity which
feeble aid to alleviate their distress. Huma may be offered to reclaim him. Thus many
nity urges us to the performance of our might be restored to their former virtue and
duty and the endearing ties which kindred live respectable in the world, who are now
blood can claim, prompt us to charitable horrible to behold and frightful to the feel
exertions. If poverty always wore an aspect ings of humanity.
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Let us only consider that no man is so command the belief of their purity, and sup
situated but that he may one day become as port unshakcn the dignied empire of
miserable and odious as those whom we
MODESTY.
have been depicting; let him for a moment
place himself, as it were, in this miserable
condition, and he will be sensible of the dole
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Through nature we [cu/c u]; to natures God.
Reason and moderation may occasionally

ful state in which thousands spend their
days. He will feel disposed to moutn over give currency to any sentiments however
the sorrows of his fellow creatures and to absurd, but when inculcated with a spirit of
fanaticism, it becomes of little importance
weep over their distress.
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to the majority of mankind. The promulga
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tion of religious and virtuous principles is
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certainly of immense consequence, but en
Mr. Editor,
Miss Celibacys communication to Censor thusiasm is the great inlet to false doctrines
in your last number, representing the griev and superstitious dogmas. Hence the per
ances of her sex, must he confessed to be in veited reason of some eminent characters has
a great measure just: it is a subject which led them to oppose the pursuit of any thing,
demands observance; it is a practice which which, in their judgment, has not a religious
merits the lash of satire. On a sabbath l have aspect. It was undoubtedly this principle
frequently observed young coxcombs arran that induced a celebrated writer to say, that
ged before a place of worship to observe the the knowledge of external nature and the
female part of the congregation withdraw.
sciences which that knowledge requires, is
Such conduct is highly improper, it is not the great business of the human mind."
profane. I have seen girls in the evening \V hat he meant by external nature, is more
insulted in the street; and when they have than I can solve, since I am not capable of
appeared to deserve it I have defended them. conceiving, how such a division or distinction
evident, that they operate through the me

dium of the senses. It is dillicult, even ad
mitting the existence of a sixth sense, to
1
conceive how it could act independently of l
1
matter; for what is the mind, but the effect
of stimulating powers acting on the brain

and producing what are called ideas? So that
in whatever way we examine the subject, it
will appear that the sentiment of our author

is incorrect.
A writer, speaking of the benets resulting
from the study of the chemical science, tells
us, that it leads man to adore the designs
of his Creator, which obtrude themselves on
him from every side; and let men talk as

they will, no one can behold the wisdom, the
superlative grandeur of Creative power so

conspicuously, as he, whose scientic mind
explores the mysteries of nature. The facul
ties of the soul are never more protably
exercised, than when engaged in the con
templation of the works of the great First
Cause, which created all things.
The imagination, soaring aloft, encroaches

on Omnipresenee itself, and looks through
nature up to natures God. How wonderful
But as miss Kitty very ingeniously recom can be made, and since, in truth, there is is man, with all his powers, which enable
mends to masters to keep their every day no authority for such distinction. Nature is him, through the objects around, to hold
clothes upon their apprentices on sunday, I one and indivisible, and though innite in converse with the King of heaven and to
would also advise ladies to keep their all day its objects, yet the whole exhibits unity in adore the majesty of Omnipotence! Let not
clothes upon their maids at night. For as essence, but variety in eect.
the enthusiast again call us from these pur
these male upstarts disgrace the character of
It would seem as though the writer to suits; or rather let him direct us to the path,
a gentleman, so do these female pretenders whom I allude had some perceptions not at whose course however winding shall lead us
overturn the respect due to a lady.
all related to any thing material, indeed he to more noble objects, and if the channel be
\Vhen in the evening they are habited in appears desirous of devesting himself of all more exalted than that which we have just
their best apparel, the extreme difculty to ainity to matter and assuming an invisible advocated, we promise a cheerful acquies
distinguish the mistress from the maid but form. But how vague the thought! Can we cence in his directions. HERMINIUS.
by their conduct, renders it absolutely im frame ideas of any thing the very image
.
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proper for a modest girl to be seen alone in of which did not previously exist? The sup
the street after dusk. I confess, (and am sorry position is absurd. There is nothing new
SACRED HARMONY.
No. IV.
there is occasion to confess it) that the dan under the sun, the world is just what it was
Before I proceed to a particular speci
ger is only to be apprehended from libertines; a thousand years ago, not a particle has been
cation of the errors both in the theory and
but the aunting behavior of the impertincnt annihilated, not an atom created.
I have heard men of sense assert, that practice of our church music, whether they
jack daws I have already mentioned, encou
rage that practice which every one should they really believed, divine impressions were may have arisen originally from an infelici
condemn, and subject their mistresses to the made independent and external to all matter. tous selection of the compiler, an injudicious
same insult which they would wish to receive Now this appears to me to be exactly the choice of the clerk, or an interpolation of the
themselves. There are other girls of a dif sentiment held by the writer already quoted. teaching professor, it will be necessary to see
ferent occupation, whom I at present forbear It will not require many moments reection what ideas of the nature and design of sa
to prove the futility of this opinion. \Ve are cred music are entertained by others. Hence,
to mention, that are no less wanton.
\Vhilst Censor very properly ridicules actuated by the inuence of divine agency the violations of the principles of melody
some of the dross of our sex, it is to be hoped to perform good actions; through the me and harmony will, by contrast, become the
he will not neglect exposing the irts of dium of the senses, we discern the nature more conspicuous and glaring; and congre
theirs, for the improbability that a female of these actions, and in no other way can we gations, perceiving what the faults are and
will mention them renders it necessary that become acquainted with them. The man whence they proceed, will be the better able
they should be taken notice of by him. I have who is born blind has no correct notions of to apply the proper remedy for their correc
not unfrequently seen something lurking in colors, and the sense of smelling when dor tion. A collector of music, who was for a
the eye ofa lady which seemed to request a mant cannot excite the sensations or per long time conversant with both the theory
return; but I have seen those the rmness ceptions of odoriferous substances; and un and practice, has the following language;
of whose countenance would awe the pro. less a sixth sense be discovered, through which we presume expresses his idea of sa
fane gaze of the libertine: such is the coun which divine impressions are transmitted to cred music: That a tribute of praise is due
tenance they should all assume, it would the mind, independent of matter, itis dlearly to the great Author of nature, every rational
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intelligent will grant: and divine song seems

to have been given us, as peculiarly suited
to express those sentiments of devotion and
reverence, which become every true chris
tian. Nothing so much elevates the mind,
raises the devout affections, calms the swell
ing passions, calls home the, wandering
thoughts, and prepares the heart for the
worship of the Supreme Being, as the sing
ing of psalms. It lls the mind with solem

nity and awe; and, as it were, raises us above
the things of this world, and gives us a taste

of the angelic cmployments above. And it is
but reasonable that our breath should reas
ccnd, in songs of praise, to him that gave it;
and that we unite in heart and voice, while
here below, to imitate theangclic choirsabove,

in singing praises and hallelujahs to the great
Jehovah, which will be the employment of
the blessed throughout the endless ages of
eternity." But a greater than this compiler,
Mr. Harrison (from whom it is not impro
bable the above was abstracted) gives a more
animating picture of sacred music in the
most glowing colors: divine song, says
he, is undoubtedly the language of nature:
it originates in our frame and constitution.
Do lofty contemplation, elevated joy and fer
vor of affection, give beauty and dignity to

language, and associate with the charms of
poetry, by a kindred law which the Creator
has established? They pleasingly unite with
the strains of sweet and solemn harmony.
And there are two principal views in which
music will appear to render eminent service
to the sacrice of praise. In the rst place,
it suitably expresses the sentiments of de
votion and the sublime delight which religion
is tted to inspire. Joy is the natural effect
of praise, and song the proper accompani
ment of joy. Is any merry, or glad, let him
sing psalms; and singing is not only a gene
ral indication of delight, but expressivealso
of the prevailing sentiments and passions of
the mind; it can accommodate itself to the
various modications of love and joy, the

essence of a devotional temper; it hath lofty
strains for the sublimity of admiration; plain
tive accents, which become the tear of peni
In the second place, music not only de
cently expresses, but powerfully rrciica and

improves the de-uout acctiorzs. It is the pre
rogative of this noble art to cheer and in
vigorate the mind; to still the tumultuous
tion accompanied with rapturous delight."

W'ho is there that doas not feel his ani
mated soul glow with this glowing descrip
tion of sacred music? Surely the enrapturcd
passions; to calm the troubled thoughts; and
poets words were never more happily ap

plied than to such elevating language! here,
to x the wandering attention: and hereby

she happily composes and prepares the heart
for the exercise of public worship. But she
further boasts a wonderous efcacy, in lead
ing to that peculiar temper which becomes
words that
Now let
power and
delineated,
indeed, are, thoughts that breathe, and
burn!
the impartial reader compare the
effects of divine song, as thus
with the powcr and effects she
the subject of praise, and is favorable to re
exhibits in many of our churches; and, if he
ligious impression. She can strike the mind

with solemnity and awe, or melt with tender
ness and love; can animate with hope and
gladness, or call forth the sensations of de
vout and affectionate sorrow: even separate
be candid, the striking, the glaring contrast

will furnish all the comment I at present
and unconnected, she can inuence the va
rious passions and movements of the soul;

but she naturally seeks an alliance, and must
be joined with becoming sentiments and lan
guage, in order to produce her full and pro
per e'cct; and never is her energy so con
spicuous and delightful, as when consecrated
to the service of religion, and employed in
the courts of the living God. Here she dis
plays her noblest use, and her brightest
glory: here alone, she meets with themes
that fill the capacity of an immortal mind,
desire. \Vhence such a contrast arises, is
among the objects of the ensuing inquiries.

PHILO MADAN.
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TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER.
Sweet babe! thoust just begun to be.
To toss on life's tumultuous sea;

Those eyes have just received their hue
Of uid and cerulean blue;
Thy little check but youngly glows
\Vith all the blushing of the rose;
How feeble is that frame ofrhine,

My lovely infant Josephine.
How soon would death, with cruel grasp,
and claim its noblest powers and affections.
Thee to his ruthless bosom clasp,
\Vhat voice of song so honorable, so elevat

ing and delightful? To whom shall the breath
ascend in melodious accents, if not to him
who rst inspired it? \Vhere shall admiration
take her lofticst ights, but to the throne of
if none affectionate were near
the everlasting Jehovah? Or, what shall

awake our glory, and kindle our warmest
gratitude, if not the remembrance of his

daily mercies, and the praise of redeeming
love? \Vhen the union of the heart and
voice are thus happily arranged; when sub
lime subjects of praise are accompanied with
expressive harmony, and the pleasures of
genuine devotion heightened by the charms
of singing; we participate of the most pure,
rational, noble and exquisite enjoyments that
human nature is capable of receiving: the
soul forgets her connement with the body,
is elevated beyond the cares and tumults of
To guard thee with a parent's care:

Learn, if from childhood thou should'st grow,
How much thou dost thy parents owe,
And let their evry pang be thine,

Let not that passion, dark and rude,
\Vhich Heaven has named lngratitudc,

Be for a single hour thy guest,
Nor nd asylum in thy breast;
Revere the mighty Lord of earth,
\Vho by a word ordaind thy birth,

With evry grateful creature join,
Learn that the fair and fragrant rose,
Which morning's balmy dews disclose,

Is robbd of all its beauty soon,
And withers ere the fervid noon:
Beauty! despise the fading ower,
The eeting blossom of an hour;
Never for want of it repine,
tence and sorrow; it can adopt the humble

plea of supplication, or swell the bolder notes
of thanksgiving and triumph. Yet it hath been
this mortal state, and seems for a while trans
ported to the blissful regions of perfect love
properly remarked, that the influence of song
sacred writings delight'to represent the hea
Be all thy anxious powers combined

To deck with elegance thy mind,
\Vhich shall with thee till death remain.
And hail thee in the skies again!
reaches only to the amiable and pleasing af

fections; and that it hath no expression for
malignant and tormenting passions: the sor
row, therefore, to which it is attuned, should
be mingled with hope; the penitence which
and joy; and it is worthy of remark, that the

venly felicity under this image; and though
the language be allowed to be gurative;

though eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither hath it entered into the heart of man
to conceive the things God hath prepared
On virtues soft and sacred breast,

Sooth each corroding care to rest,
For she is deathless as divine,
My lovely infant Josephine. VALERIAN.
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it expresses, cheered with the sense of para for them that love him-, yet our most natu
Mr. Editor,
don; and the mournful scenes on which it ral, our most just conceptions of the happi
sometimes dwells, irradiated with the glori ness of the heavenly world, is that which we
The following lines are written with a 1rd
have been describing, namely, sublime devo pencil on the tomb stone of the late Dr.
ous news and consolations of the gospel.
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lames \Voodhouse; if you think proper, you
may give them an insertion in the Reper
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No sound was heard but heaven might hear,
And angels gaze with fond delight,

Unknown to us was guilty fear,
Our loves where pure as holy light.
EPITAPH.
Deep in the shades of melancholy gloom,

\Vherc silence reigns and spirits deign to stay,
\Vrapt in the darksome chambers of the tomb,
Here lies the man whose death commands my lay.
While the soft breezes waft around his stone
The tall grass yielding to the passing wind,
I sit to hear the striking hells sad tone,
But, ah! how.weak, how fail is dying man!
Soft as the gentlest stream that ows!

Hast thou forgot the spot we pressd,
\Vhere zephyrs woo the leaves above:
When rst upon my throbbing breast,
You ownd the tender chains of love!
Dost thou forget, ah! Celia, dear,
Canst thou forget the rosy bowers
\Veeps for your loss, elysium hours!
Hours, too happy long to last,
The longest life is but a narrow span,

A glimmering taper, or a twinkling star.
Sweet prelude: to my future woe;

Tell me, why did you y so fast,
Ah! why a reign no longer know!
Blooming with youth, and clad with healthful ease,

The son of science shared contentments smiles,
Happy Lorenzo! had he too

Have perishd with his short lived bliss!
In all his walks, death casts his venom far;
Ah! little did he think, to woo

By nature formd the merry group to please,
The unthinking victim ofdeceitful wiles.

Such was the man whose early fate l mourn;
And oer whose grave I drop the rolling tear;
Peace to his shade till that auspicious morn,
\Vhen he shall rise and safe in heaven appear.

A FRIEND.
50 oft the witness of our vows,

Where rst I told a tale to thee,
hVe oft have known? This dropping tear

\Voodhouse had neer received the fatal blow,
Nor l the mournful muse would now invoke.
Poeticaa, together with several pieces hither

to unavoidably postponed, will appear in our
nexh
Hast though forgot the aged tree
And leave a feeble monument behind.
Could genius y before the monster's bow,

Or honest fame avert the deadly stroke,
A critique on Laurel Hill, by Amator
\Vas such a piercing thorn as this.

May all thy paths through life be blest,
May every joy thy portion prove;
And never may thy lovely breast,
Be torn with ill requited love!

LORENZO.
HEALTH OFFICE,
September 1, 1810.

from the 25th August to the 1st September.
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Asthma
0
Atrophy
0
Cancer
2
Cholera morbus
l
Convulsions
0
Decay
0
Diarrhoea
2
Dropsy
2
Dysentery
1
Fever, remittent
0
1
1
0
9
f2
4
3
2
0
2
1
1
Fever, bilious
Direasts-
ad. cb.
Inam. oflungs 1
Inam. of stomach 0
Inam of bowels 0
Inam- ofliver
2
Insanity
2
Old age
2
Rupture
1
Scrofula
0
Small pox,natural 0
Still born
0
Worms
0
--
0
1
2
0
1
O
0
1
l
2
2
23 39
Fever, typhus
1 0
Hives
0 3
Total 62
Under 1 year
3
Between 1 and 2
12
60
70
1
5
7
70
80
2
5
10
0
80
90
0
10
20
90
100
2O 30
5 Ages unknown
1
30 40
40
50
2
Total 62
Bytorder of the Board of Health.
For the Repertory.

Elrgiac lines on the death qfm/ztain. Grum
mets boy Jack, who was drowned on his
jlassage to Cafze lilay, 121/; August, l8l0.
" No pealing anthem swells" the mournful lay,
Norfragrant owerets strew poor Jacks cold grave;
@baalllltlbia.
STATE OF THE THERMOMETEK
August 27
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from street outrage and street insult; while
Nought but the dashing of the roaring spray
Sings oer his form; he sleeps beneath the wave. we sincerely regret that there is so much just published and for sale by Delaplaine and Hel
cause for the pointedness and severity of the
lings, No. 84 North Second street,
No tender parents mourn his early fate,
Nor friends, save one , (twas all that fortune gave) animatlversions: with regard to the Sunday
THE POETICAL APOTHEOSIS OF
\Vill sigh, as fame shall his sad doom relate,
behavior alluded to, strangers visiting Phi
For him who sleeps beneath the rolling wave.
ladelphia have noticed it, with marks of The friend of man, and father of his country
The lucid stream that proudly glides along,
strong disapprobzttion, as disgraceful.
WITH AN ADDRESS
In which he oft his youthful limbs did lave,
Of the beautiful little ower of Valerian, To the citizens of Philadelphia, on the propriety 0f
erecting a statue to his memory in their metropo
Is his cold tomb; its roar his funral song,
which decorates the poetical department of
Majestic rolls o'er him its glassy wave.
the present number, we could scarcely say

If faithful service, and a beating breast
That glows with gratitude, rude time can brave,

Each one that knew will pray, in realms of rest,
The soul may live, that sank beneath the wave.
CLEMEN'I'INA CAUSTIC.
Let us not make the boast of kings too true,
too much in commendation. The sweetness When they airm, were base and thankless too.
of infant innocence captivates all hearts; and
in this poem the fondness and solicitude of
dollars
per annum. payable quarterly in advance
parental love are set forth in such tender
At the close of the year will be presented a titlt
touches of pathetic description, as we think,
For the Repertory.

TO CELIA.
I loved thee, when our years were young,
Thy pouting lip, thy speaking eye;

With rapture on thy words I hung,
And breathd my rapture in a sigh.
In unsuspecting youth we stray'd,
\Vhere rivlet's murmur on their way;
\ And there our vows of love we made,
And swore them by the lunar ray.

And oft upon thy ruby lip
l stamp'd the chaste and blushing kiss;

Sweets there the am'rous gale would sip,
And share with-me a lovers bliss
cannot fail to be endearingly interesting to

every reader, but particularly so to every af
fectionate parent.
gravmg.

The notice of a marriage, which is said to and at the book stores of Mathew Carey, No- 122
have been solemnized at Frankford, wants
some credible authority to warrant its inser

tion. Knowing the mischiefs that have arisen
from the hasty publication of alleged mar
riages communicated by anonymous persons,
we shall not give publicity to any annun
ciation of marriage, without having the [110
[zer name of some respectable character who
will be responsible for its truth
street, W. W. \Voodward, corner of Second and

Chesnut streets, andDavid Hogan, No. 249 Mat
ket street.

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PHILADELPHIA,

' ' @iifabefpbiafceperfom

SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
SKETCH or 'rnr. urn or JOHN HOWARD.
And now, Philanthropy! thy rays divine
Dart round the globe from Zembla to the Line;
Oer each dark prison plays the cheering light,
Like northern lustres o'er the vault of night.
tngly as occasion called them into action.

This will be illustrated in the subsequent
memoirs.
Howard, having, in the opinion of his
guardians, acquired a proper education for
No. 20.
gcnius is devoid of some; but his were all

of the most amiable complexion, and he had
seldom reason to blush for them.
After about three years cohabitation, his
wife died; and left him a sorrowful widower.
Oer burning sands, deep waves, or wilds of snow;
About this time, his philosophical attainments

procured him the honor of being elected a
grocer in London, but the delicacy of his fellow of the Royal Society; and being now
constitution proving unequal to the toils of disengaged from domestic cares, he formed
Thy Howard journeying seeks the house of woe,
a laborious business, and the circumstances
From realm to realm with cross or crescent crownd,
\Vhereer mankind and misery are found.
the trade to which they had destined him,
was apprenticed to an eminent wholesale
Down many a winding step to dungeons dank,

Where anguish wails aloud. and fetters clank,
To caves bestrewd with many a mouldering bone,

And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan;
Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose,

No sunbeam enters. and no zephyr blows,
He treads. inemulous of fame or wealth,
Profuse of 'ml, and prodigal of health,

\Vith soft assuasive eloquence expands
in which his father had left him and an only

sister, rendering it unnecessary for him to
persevere in trade to the injury of his health,
he bought out the last part of his indentures,
and made a tour on the continent.
On his return, he took lodgings at Stoke
Newington, at the house of Mrs. Lartleau,
a sensible, worthy, good woman, but an.inva
Powers rigid heart, and opes his clenching hands,

Leads stern-evd Justice to the dark domains,
If not to sever. to relax the chains,
'hen rst arrayed in Virtues purest robe,

They saw her Howard traversing the globe:
lid for many years. She had felt the misery

of ill health herself, and she sympathized
with others. Howards constitution was not
yet conrmed or recovered from the effects
of connement during his apprenticeship;
and in his landlady he met with a tender and
attentive nurse, inuenced by sympathy or
benevolence alone. At length, her assiduities
conquered his heart; and though old enough
Saw round her brows her sun like glory blaze,

ln arrowy circles of unwearied rays;
he made her a tender of his hand. The good
Or guides awakend Mercy through the gloom,

And shows the prison sister to the tomb!
Gives to her babes the self dev0ted wife,
To her fond husband liberty and life!
-The spirits of the good, who bend from high

'tde o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye,
Mistonk a mortal for an angel guest,

And askd what seraph-foot the earth imprest.
Onward he movedDisease and death retire;
And murmuring demons hate him and admire.
Darwin.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
who, copying the divine example of Christ,

20ml about doing good, was born at Hackney,
England. His father was very respectably con

nected; but, engaging in trade, kept a ware
house in Long-lane, Smitheld; and dying

early, left him under the care of guarditms.
Not being intended for'a learned profession,

he received only an ordinary education; but
the strength of his mind, and the steadiness
of his perseverance made up the deciency;
and, if he could not be ranked among scho
lars, he wrote in his native tongue on sub
jects which have gained him ajuster reputat

tion than the mere linguist can ever expect
Concerning the early habits of John How
ard, though his character has been so mi
nutely scrutinized, we know very little. The
nursed propensities of the mind, however,
appeared at very different periods, accurd
to be his mother, and broken by inrmities,

woman, who, it seems, had entertained no
views of this nature, and perhaps was sur

prised at the offer, expostulated with him on
the extravagance of such an union; but it
was not the character of Mr. Howard to be
deterred from his purpose, by the dread of
obloquy or ridicule; and she became his wife
in 1752, while he generously bestowed the
small fortune which she possessed on her
sister; a proof that interest had no share in
the match.
During his residence at Stoke Newington,
he spent his time chiey in improving his
mind, and enlarging his acquaintance with
books. Enthusiastic in all his pursuits, he!
the resolution of visiting Lisbon, then be
come the object of melancholy attraction by
the recent earthquakes. His friends strenu

ously dissuaded him from this design, on ac
count of the risque which he run of being
captured by the French, with whom England
was then at war; but their remonstrances were
ineffectual, and the consequence was as had

been predicted; the ship in which he sailed
was taken by one of the enemys privatcers,
and he was soon after lodged in a French pri
son. He was now experimentally convinced of
the miseries of connement; the latent sym
pathies of his soul were excited; and the

future direction of his time and his talents,
which has gained him immortal fame, was
probably owing, in a great measure, to this

personal misfortune. In his State of the
Prisons," he says, perhaps, what Iv suffer
ed on this occasion, increased, if it did not
call forth my sympathy with the unhappy

people whose cause is the subjectof this
book.
'
'
Soon after his liberation he' settled at Bro-3

kenhurst, near Lymington, in a most retired
and delightful situation; and here, , in 1758,

he espoused Harriot, only daughter of Ed-_
wurd Leeds, esq. of Croxton, in Qambridgcs
shire. The pleasures of domestic cndcar
ment, and those avocations whichiarc pecu
liar to rural life, seem to have occupied the
principal share of his attention for, some suc

ceeding years;%ut, his lady dying in child
bed, of an only son, in 1765, he wasiagnin a
widower, and, relinquishing his; sweet retire
was seldom frustrated in his aims; and hel ment in the New Forest, he purchasodmr
laid in very considerable stock of know estate
in the
vicinityatofCurd'tngton,
his relation, near
Mr. Bedfortl,
\Vhitbrcadiltmd
ledge, moral, religious, and scientic. It is;
said, that he frequently rode out with a book; there he determined to settle, , I
I, ~
in his pocket, turned his horse to graze onf

The philanthropy of his disposition now
a common, and, when the season permitted, , began to display itself by numerous acts of
read several hours with ardor. He, unqucs- " pure benevolence. He projected many im-.
tionably, had what may be called eccentrici provcmcnts of his domain; as much to giro
ties: no man, perhaps, of quick sensibility or employment, to the poor, as tougrutify his
,
PHIL DELIHIA REFER-TO Rv Y.
154
command that you should depart before I

arrived?
however, were the only passports to his fa

It was," replied the youth, but I trust
vor; and thus, in a moral, as Well as a chari
your majestys unexpected coming will plead
table view, his conduct became exemplary. my excuse. However this night I shall obey
He had been brought up among the dis his orders, and leave the castle with Flaurice
senters, and to their communion he stt'lctly in search of the living daughter of Sobeiski."
adhered; but his benevolence was neither
W honi? exclaimed the king, starting a
confined to sect, nor warped by party. How
few paces from him.
ever, it is natural to suppose, that the dis
Thadia, my liege," answered Linhault.
senters were not a little attached to such an
Indeed! returned Stanislaus, thought
amiable member of their society; and, on fully.
own taste, he built cottages for some, and

others he clothed. Industry and sobriety,
their interest, he was afterwards, in l774, an

unsuccessful candidate, as a representative
for the borough of Bedford. In conjunction
\Vould it not give you joy, my liege,"

said Linhault, to see the heiress of Sobcis
with Mr. \Vhitbrcad, who was also a candi

date, he petitioned against the return; but,
though it was amended, by declaring his as
ki restored to her inheritance?"

Beyond expression! cried the monarch,
but I never knew she lived!"
Did not my father-he could proceed
sociate duly elected, Mr. Howard found his
no further, for a strange horror of thought
prospects delusive, and turned his ambition

into another channel, where there were no
choaked his utterance.

He never informed me," replied the
king, otherwise than that not a soul escap
ed to tell the dire relation. Can it be possi
ble that Ferresburgh has deceived me? No,
competitors, and his praise Would be single

and undivided.
'
d.
no, impossible, you must be in an error, Lin
For the Repertory.

A nomuvcs.
hault.
IIas my father never informed your ma
jesty, said Linhault, that Austin the con
CHAPTER Iv.
fessor- was the only one that escaped the

dreadful carnage?
(Continued)
Her-rising beauties ushd a higher bloom,

As thus Palemon passionate and just,
lour'd out the pious rapture of his soul
Tbomwn.
\Vhat tempting lure
Hath this deceiver to beguile his guilt.

Cumberland.
Never!" said the king, nor was this

Austin in Sobeiski's train when he left War
saw!
Tis very strange! said Linhault.
Ill know the truth of this, cried Stan
islaus, from Ferresburghs lips! What

Braubenski was not a little chagrinetl that character does this confessor hear?
after they had been at the trouble of procur
The character he bears, said Linhault,
ing something extraordinary for their noble is holy and humane; but if 1 err not he is
guest, they should be denied the pleasure a hooded villain!"
of his company; however as the arrival of
Then, said the king, willing to banish
the king made it necessary for him to over hard thoughts of Ferresburgh, your father
come his disappointment, he sat down to en may have been deceived by him for reason
joy the meal with his wife and daughter only; to us unknown."
after which, as he had business at the capi
tal, he bade his family adieu until the even

ing, and set out for \Varsaw.
On their way toward the castle Linhault
informed the king, that that night he would
Set out attended only by his.squire to exe
cute a positive command from his father.
What strange act demands a night ex
cursion? asked the king.
Not strange, my liege," replied Linhault,
but noble, just, and generous!
But what is the necessity of departing at
night? demanded the king.
None other, my liege," returned Lin
hault, but that I promised the count my
father that I would leave the castle before
your arrival.
Indeed! said the king, and was it his
It may be so, replied Linhault, but
surely it was a strange neglect that my father

should not inform you!
As they arrived within sight of the castle,
they concluded this conversation, which

could not fail to excite suspicion in the mind
\Vhat I have to tell," said Austin, may

dissipate your gloom. Linhault informed me
last evening that to-night he would leave
the castle, therefore you need not fear his
meeting with the king."

That's well indeed, replied his lord,
one loud, loud fear at length is silenced! If
they had met and he informed Stanislaus of
my deceit towards him, what would be his
thoughts of me!"
That need give you no uneasiness,"

replied Austin, for if it were so, it were
easy to persuade the king your fears for her
safety were the cause of your concealing
Thadias existence from him and from the
court.
.
Ha! it strikes me, cried Ferresburgh,
fears lest the knowledge of her birth be
fore she was secure in my possession, might
lead the murderer of Sobeiski, again to seek
her life. My gentle Austin, but for your
counsel Ferresburgh were undone!
You rate my services too high, my gral

cious lord, answered Austin.
No, by my hopes, no," cried Ferres;

burgh, I owe you every thing; my exaltn
tion to these glittering honors, and now my

safety here!
7
The happiness of being servicablc to you,
good my lord, answered Austin, ' is a suf
cient recompense for all my efforts to se
cure your peace!"
My safety, gentle Austin, not my peace!
said Ferresburgh, nothing can hush the
ceaseless storm within, "or sooth my bosom
into calmness! Yes, shall I say it Austin,
Ferresburghs baron was innitely happier

than is Sobeiskis count. Though I enjoy
these fair domains and dazzling honors, and
boast the friend of Polands monarch, still am

I wretched!"
Without a cause, my lord," said Austin.
No," said the count, I have an awful
cause! The murder of an uncle who lavished

on me every kindness!
Things must not thus be thought after,"

cried the monk, or it may be the means of
hastening destruction on our heads!

Austin, exclaimed the wretched Fer
of the king, of Ferresburghs conduct to
resburgh, I stand amazed in gazing 011

you! Do you never hear the thunders of a
wards the heiress of his uncle, though he

did not for a moment suppose him guiltyfof
guilty conscience; never in sleep behold the

bloody visage of some murdered friend, nor
Sobeiskis murder.
Ferresburgh, ever unable to smother the
feel him with deathful touch embrace your
voice of his conscience, had left his couch
very early in the morning, and was travers

ing his room in extreme agitation, when
Austin entered the chamber.
How fares my lord to day? asked the
monk.
Ill, ill, as usual! replied Ferresburgh.
shivering frame, or with a look of agonizing

despair, point to the Wound your bloody
poignard made? Austin, such sights disturb
my rest forever!
The noise of trumpets now aroused Fer
resburgh from his affected state, and he
commanded Austin to y and stop the dread-'
ful sound!
l 55
m
Have I not, cried he, forbidden the
sound of joy within the castle? haste, haste

and stop this funeral knell; to me more
ing shown to his apartment, retired to ru

minate on the mysterious behaviour of Fer
resburgh, and to endeavor to recollect who
the prisoner at the ruined abbey could pos~
through life, and would have lasted for ages
after he had to the dust gone down.

If your vanity be attered and gratied
by any praise or fame which your works

may have procured you, from that moment
He was convinced that he knew the voice, you rise no higher, the acme of your tran
though recollection failed him; yet it must sient glory is attained; and you will have
My lord, my lord, said he, ~ dispel these have been some one who had known him in the corroding mortification of seeing modest
signs of anguish from your brow, and dress more prosperous days, and be determined merit passing by you to the pinnacle of im
yourself in smiles, for know that trumpets before he left Sobeiski castle to attack the mortal fame, while you are going down to
sound proclaimed the kings arrival!
abbey and rescue the prisoner whoever he obscurity and oblivion.
How! the king! exclaimed Ferresburgh, might be.
If you would be a poet, whose name shall
so soon arrived? 0! how my soul grows
Linhault in the mean time ordered Flau descend, with those ofthe worthies of ancient
sick to think of meeting him! \Vhen last he rice to prepare for their departure in the and modern times, down to the latest pos
pressed me to his kingly breast, my hands evening, and Austin hastened to inform Fer terity, read none but those worthies, the
were not stained with blood!
resburgh that Stanislaus and his son had legitimate offspring of Phebus, and read
Na , nay, my lord, said Austin.
them by day and study them by night; and
met.
U BALDO.
(To be continued.)
Go, Austin, go and meet the king," con
to attain the elegance and force of nume
tinued the count, say I am ill and cannot
rous composition, consult and be governed
For the Repertory.
by the rules laid down in Blairs Lectures,
now appear; prevent this dreadful meeting
THE SENTEN'I'IOUS ADMONISHER.
and Popes Essay on Criticism; and so God
but for one hour, and Ill endeavor to be
No. I.
speed you! I wish you success! Farewell
more composed!
Hints to Young JIM/lore.
NESTOR.
1 will, my lord, replied the monk.
O
Always choose a subject that you are
But take care, my Austin, said Ferres
For the Repertory.
burgh, to prevent the meeting of the king pretty well acquainted with; and increase
your
stock
of
knowledge
by
frequent
read
Some men vainly suppose, that to eat,
and Linhault.
'
They were about separating when Lopez, ing, observation, conversation and medita drink,and the like, comprise the very objects
tion on that particular subject: this is the for which they were created, or rather, that
the porter of the castle, entered the cham
ber in great trepidation to inform his lord way to understand it thoroughly, and to their existence is incapable of effecting any
that the attendants of his majesty had arriv write well on it: Fielding was at great pains, thing more. The son of Bacchus pays his god
in his Tom Jones, to prove that no one the wonted tribute, and the epicurean revels
ed without their master!
This information, though he could not ac writes the worse on a subject for under in the luxuries and debauches of a depraved
count for the kings strange disappearance, standing it well. I quote from memory.
appetite. So is it with many others, and in
Never sit down to think what you shall deed half the world pass their days in this
gave. secret satisfaction to Ferresburgh,
while he manifested a great degree of alann write; but sit down to write what you have maumer, strangers to the pleasures of reec
lhouglzt: else you will have only your la tion and the benefits arising from the culti
for the monarchs safety.
He questioned the leader of the troops, bor for your pains; and aconsequcnt heart
vation of genius. How derogatory to the
intellec
who informal him of their attack, and that rending mortication, which may discourage character of a rational being, of
when morning dawned they missed his ma you from ever taking up your pen after tual soul! Gifted with faculties, whose pow
jesty and immediately scoured the woods in wards.
ers no barriers can restrain, the mind of man
search of him, but found only his horse fas
Never attempt to complete a piece, how
grasps at innity and seems to seize the
tened to a tree. That~ then supposing he ever small, in a lmrry; hurry will spoil the great chain.
might have been dismounted; and found his best designed performance: the immortal
Nature in all her numerous recesses, with
Way to the castle, they hastened thither, but compositions were the productions of much the siren's charm, invokes the man of reason
were dreadfully alarmed at not nding him thinking, labor and time.
to trace her mysterious whys and to investi
Let your subject be, if possible, of your gate her operations. She offers an inexhaus
there. \Vho had caught his horse and fas
dreadful than the dying groan!"
Austin obeyed his master, but immediate
ly returned to him in the utmost haste and
perturbation!
sibly be.
tened him as found, he could not imagine,
own choice, and not dictated; then your ef
unless it were one of the robbers.

All the inhabitants of the castle remained
in the utmost suspense until the arrival of
the king and Linhault, though not all actu
ated by the same motives; Ferresburgh and
Austin from a fear that he might arrive, and
the rest that he might not.
After his attempts'to smother his indig
nation, confusion andrage at seeing the king
fusions will ow spontaneously, freely and
tible store, whence we may draw treasures
of intrinsic worth, and increase our stock of

effectively: your sweetheart, your country. knowledge.
your patron, or your friend may, perhaps,
\vVhy then should the studypof nature be
have some right to claim the exercises of so much neglected? andwhy is it so often
your pen; but Vidas advice is,
supplanted by the mean and degrading ob
A task enjoind refuse;
jects of sensual gratication? The most in
Unlessa. monarch should command your muse.
teresting of all subjects is, to many, a dead
Never be so doatingly fond of the off letter, an empty void, which the contemptible
spring of your brain, as to be ojended if a pleasures, of which even brutes are in some
and bnl'Oll together, had succeeded, Austin good and impartial judge should propose degree susceptible, engage and occupy the
requested of the former that as his master corrections, though you can see no fault: transitory life of man. This is indeed the
was very ill, he would excuse him for a many a man, who has been voluminous in result of strange illusion and the erroneous
short time, when Ferresburgh would throw writing, has from this cause alone, ncrcr tendency of superstition,
gained that honorable fame and distinction,

himself at his majestys feet.
Ignorance appears to be more a matterof
which would have been grateful to him choice than of necessity, else why would Clie
To this the king readily assented, and be
156
great mass of mankind refuse to in'cur a little j incur the imputation of ignorance; and surely
trouble in the acquisition of knowledge, l he is a stranger to one of the most delecta
ble pursuits in which our time can be em
when it is actually within their reach.
M.
It is really strauigc, that man should not ! ployed.
have a natural inclination to examine and
For the Repertory.
be acquainted with objects around him. The
various articles so necessary to the preserva Critique on the Laurel Hill of Della Lira.
in many other points of view, are passed by
Part I.
" Still pleased to praise, tho not afraid to blame;
with indifference as to their nature, and their
Averse alike to atter or offend."
tion of life, anti those which are interesting
peculiar qualities are totally disregarded.

While the inanimate bodies in nature
In his eighth line,

The watery element of the nny race,
Is tautology both in sense and numbers. His

next line is nely poetic. In his fth couplet
he has fallen into a grammatical error, the
nominative of the verb returns" should
have been expressed. The last couplet of his
second stanza I admire.
In the third line of his third stanza, I am
Pepe.
Mr. Editor,
at a loss to conceive,
" Tremendous rocks, secure from vulgar view."
There is in my opinion no subject, upon

This appears to me extremely cxceptionable.
In his fth couplet, same stanza, the mean
seem to court our investigation, man too of
which an author can enter, of so much de
ten looks on, a silent spectator of these im
licacy as criticism; a person who expects to

ing of the author would seem to be,
excel in it should certainly be possessed of
" And sweetness add: to those already sweet "
great powers of discrimination and an ex
Gives"
in this line is introduced to 'great
alted idea of justice. Equally impressed
disadvantage.
with the knowledge of this, and my own in
portant concerns.
There can he no doubt, that half the er
rors prevalent in the world have arisen from

the 'want of serious reection, and careful in
quiry into mattersin which all should be
interested. They who view the exterior of
an object, without penetrating into its ob
scurities, cannot enjoy that satisfaction which
belongs to the philosophic mind, whose
business it is to explore the secrecies of
nature. The latter ashe advances in his re

searches, continually beholds something new
and capable of exciting his admiration; he
progresses from one discovery to another,
without any apprehension of decreasing the
sources of information. But how different is
it with the former? His notice is attracted by
In the eighteenth and three followinglines

ability, it is with the greatest diidence I at
of
the same stanza Della Lita appears on
tempt to analyse the Laurel Hill of Della
tirely
to have relinquished the command, dJlCi
Lira. It was never my intention to have
gured on your page in the garb of a critic; suers his muse to wander at random; the
and I hope it is from principle that I now sudden transition from the iambic to the
undertake it. The greatest fault in persons trochaic measure is jarring to the poetic
ear, and the expressions are rather feeble.
of this character, is, that they generally car
In the fourth line of his fourth stanza
ry criticism to defamation, and would un
justly damn the production and hurt the re

putation of a person, merely because some
private pique had incensed them; or the su
perior abilities of their adversary, kindled
in their minds the devouring ames of ma
something which at rst appears miraculous, licious envy. Of this sir, you have already
but fearful or not desirous of risking a few complained, and at the same time invited
moments thought on the subject, he resolves liberal criticism to a situation on your sheet,
the whole into a mystery, totally unintelligi sensible of its important utility. Under your
ble. Here is an evident cause of ignorance, patronage, I would fain aspire to that honor:
and it is in this way that errors have been knowing that nothing can be more acute than
adopted and pron'iulgated in the world. For the feelings of an author, I will endeavor to
nothing is more clear, than that ignorance is avoid wounding Della Liras sensibility, or
a frequent source of error, and perhaps it is that of any other person whose productions
the only cause of it; for if all were equally I may occasionally examine, without depart
conversant with those things in which all are ing from truth. Being totally unacquainted
concerned, though the supposition be absurd, with Della Lira, but as a poet, I trust the
how is it possible that error could predomi present critique will prove to the candid
reader that I have not been actuated by ili
nate?
The ignorance of an Arabian prompts him nature.
I propose for the present to examine the
to believe, that Mahoniet carries half of
the moon in his sleeve: now such an idea rst part of his poem, and shall treat of the
would be totally discarded among civilized others in due time.
The striking similiarity between the rst
nations, yet how numerous-are the super
stitious notions that prevail, even where nur and fourth lines is unpleasing; thus in the rst,
series of science and literature abound! The
multitude deem it of no consequence to pry
into any thing not actually necessary to-the
support of life; but he who reasons with
judgment, views natures wide, extended
book, as one unsullied page of interesting

variety. He goes to the fountain and partakes
of the limpid stream, whose cverever ow
ing waters can never be exhausted nor di
minished. The man who neglects to partici
pate in these pleasures, must undoubtedly
" Here rocks on rocks in awful grandeur rise."

And in the fourth,
" And the dark rocks, with frowning aspect rise
The lines being so near each other, renders

this similarity the more perceptible.
The idea in the rst couplet can be recon
ciled in no other manner than by supposing
there is another redundzuicy,

" To gild with orient tints the eastern skies."
I am much pleased with the next couplet.

In his seventh and eighth lines, same stanza,
the idea of s.pping the rose of health, from
off Auroras lip, is evidently erroneous,
which is a striking proof of sense having been

sacriced to sound. The two following cou
plets have a lack of energy, and the rst a
want of sense which I cannot reconcile.
I beg that Della Lira will not consider
me too severe; the beauties with which I
have been pleased I have marked, although
I have not shrunk from mentioning his
faults.
AMATOR POE'flCzE.
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. V.

O scorn the efforts of the vulgar great
To trample learning in contemptuous hate;
Who nd more pleasure in a sordid gain,

Than the rich hoards of wisdoms mine contain.
Some evenings ago, a young gentleman of

my acquaintance, who sometimes honors me
with his visits, was by some means introduced
into the conversation; he has a handsome
turn for poetry, and a good taste for prose,
in both of which species of composition he

exercises his talents to great advantage. IR
is a very ne young man," said my ail"t
Dinah, but he has one propensity, for
the rocks themselves to be immensely high,

as they are well known to support nothing
which, although in every thing else he is ex

actly what I would wish him, I must dislike
him. The character of my family is nely
but shrubbery, or trees of no considerable

magnitude.
immediately turned around and asked with
conveyed in its name, and my sister Priscilla
great composure, what that might be? Up the senseless jargon of the enemies of litera
on which my aunt opened the whole but ture tending to the same point.
tery of antiquated prejudice against yount,r
The faculties of the mind are so unremit
authors in general, in which my friend had ted in their labors that they must be con
a liberal share. Among many other sage ob stantly furnished with materials to work up
servations, not suiciently impressive to re on; why not then let those materials he of
main upon my mind, and if they had, not the proper kind, calculated to give pleasure
worthy to relate here, directing her conver to the possessor, and benet to the world?
sation to me, of whose authorship I believe The mind if not stored with useful know
she had not the most distant idea, she said, ledge, will become a magazine of tries and
I am condent, that if a son of mine, if I follies. I would therefore recommend to all
had one, or even Gregory (though to be sure young persons inclined to write, rst to lay
he is not young) was even to give himself in a good stock of intelligence from books.
up to writing verses and such trash; he and to walk through the paths of real life.
would incur my serious displeasure. It is with an eye of minute discernment. \Vli.tt
well you dont read the Repertory, aunt, tends so much to the renement of mankind,
thought I. Having listened with considerable as the dissemination of literature? And, with
attention to her malevolent attack upon lite out authors, how is this literature to be dis
rature, I remained absorbed in thought for seminated? ()ur span of life is so short, that
some time: but my meditations were inter unless a person begins early to cultivate this
rupted by a strict injunction from my aunt taste, there is no probability of, his becoming
to my sister, declaring, that if ever she mar
useful; for before he can reasonably expect
ried an author, she wouldnot consider her as to arrive at perfection he is hurried off the
a relation any longer: and that her folly would stage of existence.
carry its own punishment along with it; for
Young authors of talents, although they
she would most assuredly be doomed to may be looked upon with an eye of con
starve in a garret or nourish her wretched tempt by those whose minds are confined
existence on the crumbs of the great. \Vhy, within the limits of avarice, and who consi
child," continued she, I tell you I had as der all the pleasures of this world centred
lief see you marry a playactor as one of these in riches, are in truth the rising pillars of
detestable authors, and I am sure you have their nations glory.
frequently heard me say that I would rather
Happy to see Peter Peaceable so much
follow you to your grave than to the altar to like myself in this particular, and rejoicing
'see you united with an actor. These cau
to nd the editor of the Repertory favorable
tions, from the present appearance of Pris to our designs, those gems of youthful ge
cilla, seemed to me to be totally useless, but nius with which we may be favored, shall be
I said nothing, and she, of course, felt highly deposited in our literary cabinet with plea
gratied. Having always been passionately sure.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
fond of books and the stage, I felt indignant
a.
at the ill timed abuse, and could not conve
niently
durst not
restrain
defendmy
them,
resentment;
yet I ventured
although
to ask
my aunt the occasion of her excessive dis
lilie (I feared to call it prejudice) against
these classes of people. She answered me
rather hastily; have I not told you that they
are all a moping, lounging set, and that I

never knew a rich author in my life; and.
pray sir, what greater reason would you wishi
For the Repertory.
liberalitv on her side, yet seemed determin

ed to overwhelm me in a sea of declamation,
I very dCIIbCIatCIy retired to my chamber,

and there ruminated on the strange opinions
which frequently usurp-the throne of reason.
Ithere scanned the merits and demerits oi

the case, and am sorry to say, that this im
proper prejudice is implanted in the minds
of many more rtnra' persons than my aunt,
and that my cars are constantly assailed, by
Do the angry ranks engage;

Many a brave and daring warrior.
Sinks beneath the battles rage.

There the fearless Malech Adhei,
And the great Saladin here,
Clad in coats of shining armour
Grasp with might the glittering spear
Vhvle the gallant Coeur de Lien,
Dauntless leads his mighty host;
Warrior genrous, brave and noble.

Britain's monarch, Britains boast
Oer the various hosts embattled,
(luick he casts a piercing eye;
\Vhile the blood of slaughterd Arabs,

Paints him with a crimson'd dye!
Who is yonder captain mounted,
jealous of renown, he cries,
Vainly his attack resisting,

Whosoev'r opposes, dies!"
Shining is his sable armor,
Towering is his plumy crest;
Proud he stalks the eld resistless.

Proudly heaves his pagan breast.
Keen he spurd his neighing courser,
Soon the daring chiefis nigh;
Instant yield thee, ruthless pagan?"
Hear the British monarch cry.
" Yield to thee? replied the warrior,

With a keen and angry glare;
In reply, the. lord of Britain
Wingd his javelin through the air.

Not in vain the whirring weapnn;
But a sharp and mortal wound
Pierced his throat, the great Saladin
Tumbled on the ensanguined ground!
See, the bold Saladin slain is,
Cried the hosts, th exulting king

Bade them sound the songs of triumph,
Bade the joyful clarion ring!
" Briton, cried a noble Arab,
" Vain, exulting in thy pow'r;
Matilda, the sister of Richard Cmur de
Lion, being taken by Malech Adhel, brother

to Saladin king of the Saracens, he fell des
perately in love with her. In a battle which
I have placed before the walls of Ascalon,
he meets Richard, and is on the point of kill
Should the prophet guide my weapon,

This is now thy nal hour."
" Yield thee, see thy monarch bleeding,
Cried the victor once agnn;
" Yield thee instant, base born Arab,
Ere I stretch thee on the plain.
ing him, but nding him to be Matildas bro

ther, assits him to mount his horse, and urges
" Yield to thee, thou beardless boaster,"
him to fly. This is the foundatiun of
" Never yet has Malt-ch Adhel
I made her a low bow; and nding it IDI
possible to reason her out of her opinion,

who, having no principles of justice or
I'iercer now, and now still herccr,
Full of rage the chief replied;

Struck, but y'hat the victim died!
THE SARACEN. A BALLAD.

Stop thy rolling, winding river,
Stain'd thy current is with gore;
For full many a dauntless hero

Basks upon thy crimson shore.
" Oer the flying hosts of Britain,

Oft Ive dealt destruction round;
Often has this steel) rum,
Stretchd whole legions on the ground'_
Dread Ascalons rattling clangor,

Pierces thro the ambient air;
Fly thenfy then, infant warrior
Hark! the dying groans of anguish,
Fly the avenger of Saladin
And the shrieks of pale despair!

Hear the rattling peals of thunder,
Following the lambent fire;
Adding to the mighty horror,

Bearers of tremendous ire!
Spur thy coarser. shun the strife;

While there yet ishope of life!"
" Malech Adhel!" cried the monarch,
Shrinking with instinctive dread;

Now his fear fraught mind portrayd him
Numberd with the heaps of dead!
PHILADELPHIA R EPER'IORY.
155
Then his native soul returning,
" Gallant Saracen, he cries:
And beast the grateful prospect pleased enjoy.
to write till they are adepts in it: another remarks,
Thus nature, ever kind to man, makes plain
Rouse thy prowess, no pale dastard
His path; but he her dictates disregards,
I love to see the fostering hand exercised in cultivat

ing the native productions of our country; and that
our young tyro should be kept from public view till
he be complete master olcomposition, appears to be
as rational as '.h:tt he should be kept from the water
till he has learned to swim. One says, throw all po
litical notices out of your paper; we have read them
And takes, perversely takes, his own sad course,
Otiers for th_\ sacrice.
Now the clashing armor bray-ing,

Nearer still the chief advance;
First the daring king t f Britain,
Flung the beamy pointed lance .

Bnt the wary Malcch Adhel,
Whose end is certain trouble, sorrow, pain.
Blind to his real interest, weak man

Runs onward to the brink of woe; nor stops,
Till desolation gloom his days and sad

Misfortune ll the overowing cup
Of sorrows; and behold he drinks the dregs!
Saw the weapon y in vain!

Alas! how very bitter is the draught!
It \\'l'liZZlllg past the noble captain,
The price of fully, vanity and crime.

The cost. how dear! Will mortals ne'er grow wise!
Spent its fttry on the plain.
at least a week before you give them: another 0b

serves. l am glad when you present an}~ political in
telligence, as you hold an equal scale; for, front the
gloss of party writers on both sides. I am puzzled
which to credit. One 51) s,ottt with yourlist of man
Back the Arab on the Briton,
Arid learn to live as those whose destiny
riages, health ofce reports, &c ; another, I subscri
Cast his dark and angry e es;

W hisiling comes the spear of Adhel,
Is surely Bid for immortality
bed to your paper principally because it contains va

ltiahlev though fugitive, documents that may be use
ful at a future day. 81c &c.
And the steel unerring ilies.
And endless being! Or will they thus tread

Unmindful, heedlessly, the dangerous path,
Ringing came the bleeding monarch,
Speechless on the bloody ground,

And his languid eies up casting,
Threw a pallid glare around.

Once again the Arab cliieftain,
Till on the breaking verge of life they stand,

Then, sudden, down the dreadful precipice,
Rush headlong to oblivton's dreary gulf!
Alas! how awful, and how sad! Thus ends
Mans transitory life; and heavy cares
Which marrd his peace, now cease to trouble him.
Aims to give a mortal blow;

But a voice his arm unnerving,
Saved from death his fallen foe.

" Hold thy vengeance, Malech Adhel,"
Thus his lovely captive cries,

" Turn thy rage from Coetur de Lion,
For with him Matilda. dies!"
" Coeur de Lion!" cried the Arab,
" Art thou, loved Matilda, here!

Thou hast saved thy brother, maiden!"
But, oh! more awful is his future fate!

Tis xd, eternal, neer can be reversed!
Then, why indulge in vanity and foil)!
Why yield submissive to the tempters wiles,
And fall, the victim of deltisive error?
Oh, man! be wise! forsake ambitions snares;
And live as being; of superior rank:

So shalt thou safely and securely pass
Through this worlds desart, to a higher sphere
Of life and bliss and immortality.
HERMINIUS'
In perplexities like these have we poor editors

been; and now, in such cases,
" Say, ye severest, what would ye have done?"

A recent communication, however. of a very sin
gular complexion, signed -- Laneret," demands a

more pointed animadvetsion: not from its own me
rits; not front the merits ol its author; not from the
puerile liuggaboos held out to intimidate; but from

a sense of duty to our obligitig correspondents, to
our liberal subscribers. to our patronising friends, to
the public at large, and to ourselves. We could with

a great deal of ease, and we would with a great deal
of pleasure, give a full and complete refutation of
every objection and allegation made by Laneret: but,
as we should thereby encroach too much upon the
privileges of our worthy correspondents, we shall
On the ground he cast his spear.

" Haste thee, haste thee, king of Britain,
Fiercer see our ranks engage;

Haste thee to thy camp for safety,
philamlllbia.
Ere thou sink beneath their rage."
conne our remarks to the most prominent features

of his splenetic invective: these we shall state in the
order in which they occur, in his own words; which
will be treating him with more candor than he has
treated us.
Instantly upon his charger,
He replaced the wounded king;

Richard ed, and fair Matilda!
While the sounds of battle ring.
Mounted on a. milk white courser,
'lO READERS A ND CORRES PONDEN'l'S.

1. He, says he, takes into consideration " the im.
At an early period of our publication, we invited ! possibility of (our) wholly pleasing every reader."
such suggestions for the improvement of our paper g
2 Ourpaper " is not what it easily could be; it is
as might render it generally useful and pleasing; in I not what it ought to be
See her Adhel's rage subdue;

And when ed her kingly brother,
consequence of whiclt we received some hints orally

3 Its " character is one continued ow of .teriou:
and some by letter: of these we think a bare recital matter, erroneously styled essays, written iii a dry
will evince to the world, more titan a display of elu- v monotonous style, neither aording any thing new,
\Vith him fair Matilda ew.

Adhel loved the royal beauty,
cidation, the great diicolties and perplexities at- 1! no, phasing oneb pan of [he madam"
And in rattling wat's alarms,
He, when he a captive made her,
tending the situation of an editor, who acts as at ca- 1

4 The mind of man is so very varying that
terer to the diversied taste of the public One says, i among the whole of the subscribers there are not:
the
we don't
preservation
like yourofsecretary
such valuable
'5 reports,
public
Stcdocuments
; ari0ther, i two whose taste corresponds to each other."
5. t The paper should contain as great a variety
\Vas made captive by her charms.
How she lied, and with Matilda
deserves a distinguished encouragement One says, i of subjects, if possible, as there are minds to be found.
All the heros prowess lied;

And the fearless Malech Adhel
among the subscribers.

6. H The poetry chiey ows in the same pensive
can't conceive what taste some people have to relish } strain as the prose; and some pieces (remindingLa
stich stuff, which lls the head with nonsense and: neret of the story of the dog with akettle tied to his
the heart with vicious propensities; I am pleased tail) have nothing but ajmgle at the end of their
you will get ten subscribers to one if you will pob
lish intrigue novels and amorous tales; another, I;
Sunk among the heaps of of dead!

O'I'l-IELLO.
For the Repertory.

MORAL REFLECTIONS.
Hark! the dread thunder! how it pcals above!
Through heaven's wide arch in awful sounds it flies
And bursts \vitli fury on the world below;
The vived lightning darts; the gathering cloud

With gloomy darkness veils the clearer slay,v I
And copious showers descend Theparched earth,
Burnt with the summers all prostrating heat,
Drinks in the cheering water as it falls

And seems revived: new life and vigor spread
Through all the vegetable world; and man
that the Repertory is so free from such trash. One ; lines to recommend them
says, I hate the serious cast of your paper; it makes

7 Of the prose. " the biography, the letters to a
one gloomy; it is for all the world just like preach
sister and the Heiress of Sobeiski. are the only sub
ing, and we have enough of that already: I want fun, i jects that have been worth perusal: the other com~
something to make me laugh: another observes, I munications that occupy the rest of the columns are
like your paper, because I nd something solid and scarce worth mentioning,
useful in it, that will bear a reperusal. and has a

tendency to counteract the pernicious frivoliiies of
the day. One says, I like all well enough except the
poetry, and poetry though ever so good I never could
hear; another, the e'usions of the intelligent muse
animated by the glow of sensibility, are what I love
above all things; it softens the asperiiies. and light
ens the cares oflife. One says. 1 hate this original

Arms on armor clashing, brayd
Horrible discord.
ity as they call it: every fellow that can hold a pen
tries his hand at scribbling; they ought not to attempt
8. The paper should contain a little of every

thing; it should be a medley," Etc.
9 Laneret gives -' the prophecy, that if the Re
pertory does not take for its model the Rambler,
Spectator. Connoisseur. Minerva, Dessert, or Port
Folio, it will soon, very soon. meet with the fate of"
too dreadful to name!
10- He closes the list with an emphatic N- B.

" The letter box," is resorted to " only ' by " swarm;
of nmlntiou: doggrel poet: and miserable scribblar.
PHILADELPHIA REPE l' ORY.

'hat a melancholy catalogue of faults, objections
and blemishes! lhat aprofound and capacious mind
is here displayed! What perspicaeity! What energy!
What solidity of judgment and soundness of logic!
En tugh. one would think. to appal the stoutest
heart. and prostrate the boldest e'orts of a Hercu
lean editor! But we will meet cur adversary with that
dispassionateness of temper which ought ever to
characterise the investigation of truth; and our only
weapons shall be common reason and Common sense
Before we answer the allegations separately. we
beg the candid reader to take notice of the great

wuimqv of our author. thus; by comparing the
rst, second, fourth, and fth numbers, it will appear
that no two tastes correspond; that the subjects ought
to be as various as the minds of the subscribers; that
it is impossible wholly to please every reader; and
the precise number that are pleased with the paper.

As be, however, may have calculated by some sys
tem of arithmetic with which we are unacquainted,
as new and accurate perhaps as his logic, we shall
not presume further to contest the point.
4. That " the mind of man is very varying is true
enough; but it is a very bold assertion that among
159
good reason for making even those immortal monu

ments of erudition the model" which we must
copy,and by which we must be governed, in all
their minutiae. But as to setting up the Minerva as
t the model" of our paper. the Minerva! the Miner

va, so full of lurciour tales for an indelicate taste! the
Minerva! the language of some parts of which
upwards of three hundred persons " there are not
would call a blush into the check of a virtuous female
two whose taste corresponds to each other. But

perhaps by the rules of calculation in the arithmetic
referred to, Laneret has found it out; at any rate we
have no divination dictionary at hand to satisfy our
even in the retirement of her chamber! Indeed. Mr.
selves on that subject.

5. From the modes ofthinking to which we have
been accustomed, we pronounce the whole of this
Laneret. we. can scarcely tell whether to laugh or
not: you are certainly dreaming of the liccntious age

of Charles the H. We could give you a few good
stories about the Minerva; but we think you have
enough at present of this kind; and, if you will only
keep your temper, we will in a few moments give
you more than enough of another kind which you
yet, forsooth, it is what easily could be done. As this

is a species of ratiocination which is not to be found
allegation to be but a fortunate expletive to till up

a great chasm where sense (that uncommandable
thing!) was much wanted; for really when analysed
and examined, it appears to have no meaning at all.
in \Vatts or Duncan or Andrews, we should be glad

to know whence it has been taken. Again: by com
paring the third. sixth. and seventh numbers, it will
Repertory are the doggrr'l poets, and those who

write prose are the miserable rcribblt-rr, which you
er with the malicious sneer with which it is uttered,

deserves not a reply; and as to the vulgar story of the
are pleated to call them. we will show, by such a
appear that our Arirtotle objects to the prose of the

Repertory for being in one continued ow of rerinu:
dog and kettle, it may " excite his risibles" because
pouring of honorable testimonials," as ought to
he is fond of laughing. and because it may have
matter, and to our poetry for owing in the same
been one of his boyish tricks; but it is indeed too piti

fully low to merit a serious answer. L. will. how
ever, have reason to feel the injustice of his unquali
ed censure before we have done with him
7. The broad assertion here made implies that
two-thirds of the prose in the Repertory are not
overwhelm you in confusion, and induce you to hide

for shame in the -' umbrageotis bowers of Schuyl
Pemive stream: and ret at the same time he speaks

in encomium of Js letters to a sis'er, which a child
might perceive are among the mart .reriour subjectrrf

religion. and consequently are of that sombre cart.
which seems so peculiarly disagreeable to him If
this be nor absurdi'y according to the approved modes
of reasoning, we will allow it to cap the climax of
Ls new sy ~tem of logic But we hasten to a more

important object, that of giving a short reply to each
of his allegations. in succession
l \Ve are well aware not only of the absolute im
6 The palpable falsehood of this assertion, togeth
"worth perusal," and indeed " are scarce worth

mentioning. Is not this the very quittrescence of mo
duty! \Vhat a handsome compliment paid to many

hundreds of readers in different parts of the Union
as we shall shew in the sequel!
8 We wonder ifitbe possible that Laneret can
possibility of wholly pleasing etery reader, but of be in earnest when he says that our paper ought to
wholly pleasing any one reader for a length of time, contain a little of em) thing? We admit the pro
because " the mind of man is so very varying " that priety and it shall be our unceasing endeavor to pre
what would please to day, to morrow might disgust. i serve a due intermixture of the serious and Comic.
All we can do, is what we are striving to do, nanely, the solid and airy, the useful and amusing, through
to diversify our paper in such a manner as to render the course of the publication; so that th sombre
can of one part may be enlivened by the sprightly
it generally, and permanently pleasing.
2, That our paper is not what it nugb! to be, we air of another; but all editors of miscellanies well
have already anticipated, Would be the cry of many know that it is scarcely within the compass of hu
who feel and more who fear the stroke" ofjust satire man ability to have every single paper for years so
upon the reigning vices and follies ofthe age So it equally balanced as to hit precisely the fastidious
was with the snarlersinthe time of Steele. Addison, ness of some tastes, or the caprtciousness of some
Young and Pope; but those illustrious champions in y fancies. Suppose, for instance, we were, according
the cause of virtue and literature held on their steady to Lanerets scheme, give in any one paper a little
and determined course. and we at the present day of every thing. in order to please all our subscribers:
feel the benign effects of their labors but who is into how many atomical divisions must our eight
this mighty dictator who sets his opinion to prepon
pages be divided! and how very , very little in
derate the scalecontaining the weight of the collected deed would there be on any one thing! the absurdity
opinions of hundreds? [see below.] And \s ho is this of such a plan is its own refutation Take, how
colossus of learning who can so curily render a peri
ever, another instance from Laneret; suppose we
odical publication what it ought to be? The reader
give a little of every thing to suit every taste: then,
will see by and by.

3. We know that the style of our serious matter
is in general monotonous and has little or " no
here must be the language of the moralist, there

the language of the tavern; here must be the purity
ofchastity, there the licentiousness of the brothel;
thing new; and we know also that this is the case . here &c. but it is too shocking and painful to enu
little expect.
10. Whether those who write poetry for the
crowd of respectable witnesses, and such an out
kill.
Attacked as we have been,e\'ery liberal minded
man wrll allow us the right of self defence: and in
such a cause no substantial evidence that may be
adduced can savor of ostentation;
no just vindi
cation will incur the imputation of vanity. What

immediately follows contains the unsolicited and
spontaneous opinion of men with whom we have
no personal acquaintance, whom we never have seen
and probably never shall see: though in the incomi
astic strain it may overrate our deserts, it cannot
overrate our desires to merit the honorable praise
it bestows. Let it speak forth to a candid world.
1. In the Times of May 19, published at Harris

hurgh, Pennsylvania, by H. Hamilton and]. B Ris
ley, is contained the following notice: We have

received the first number of a well conducted and
handsomely executed literary paper entitledthe lhi
ladelphia Repertory." And in subsequent numbers

they have published from the ltept rtory , the descrip.
tion of a day spent on the west bank of the Schuyl~

kill, by Lorenzo; the stanzas beginning with Au
rora her nymphs with fresh garlands adorn, by
Thaddeus; the view of Mankind by M ; the Lyre
strain 1, by Amor Mental; the Contrast No I, by

Othello; the stanzas beginning with " Alone unpro
tected a fair ower lluurish'd," by Orlando, and the

Hermit, by M.
In the American Daily Advertiser, published

in Philadelphia by Zachariah Poulson, was publish
ed, a few days after its appearance in the Repertory,

but without acknowledgment, American litdepen.
deuce, a patriotic song, by Amyntor.
3 In the New York Journal of the 7th ofjuly,
the same stanzas are inst rted.
4. In the Edenton Gazrtte ofJuly 13, printed at
of all serious matter: why? because that is the style l merate what would compose the desired Medley.
Ihich from its nature suits it best; and the matter \ The horrid and disgusting picture is of itself a com
Edenton N. C by james Willis, is inserted from the

Repertory an Ode on the Anniversary of American
of religious instruction is the same that it was eigh
independence taken by us from a manuscript copy

brought front England. In the same paper of Aug.
6, is inserted from the Repertory Katy's song.
5 In the Raleigh Minerva of July l9, published
teen hundred years ago. But by what supernatural
| plete refutation ofthe plan.

9. We bow with sincere deference and respect to
power has Laneret diseovered that our serious mat

the Spectator, Rambler, Connoisseur, lort Folio;
ter is not pleasing to " oneji/ib part of our readers?" land we shall avail ourselves ofthe instructions of
We ourselves can tell how many subscribers we
have: but as in the houses of many subscribers there
are from ve to ten persons capable of reading, it
altogether bafes even our corg'ectttre to tell how ma

ny readers we have, and much more so to ascertain
those admirable works, as far as in our judgment will

comport with the views of the Rept rtoiy, but not
an iota farther; we view no set of men as incapa
ble of error, we hold up no work as perfect exem
at Raleigh N. C. by \Villiam Boy-Ian, is inserted
plars, that ate to be tervilely imitated; and we see no
as, printed and published at Newbern N."C. by
Katys song, written by one of our young poets who

possesses the most promising talents
6. In the Carolina Federal Republican of July
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Hall and Bryan, is inserted from the Repertory the

Essay on Drunkenness by T. D M.
7. In the Star of August 2, publshed at Raleigh
by Thomas Henderson jun. is inserted from the
Repertory bur withont acknowledgment, the song
of poor Katy mentioned above.

8. In the Adv_rtiser of August 17, printed at
Ballston-Spa (New-York) by Samuel R. Brown, is
inserted the following notice: "The Philadelphia
Repertory. \tVe have received several numbers of
an interesting publication under the above lilie.
This paper has been recently established at Phila
delphiili and for neatness of execution. and origi

naiity cfniatter, is net excelled by any paper in the
United States. It abounds with well written essays
in prose and verse. on moral and literary subjects
\Ve shall occasionally favor our readers with selec
tions from the chaste and elegant columns of the
Repertory. \Ve commence with the following spe
cimen:" here they 159" the rst number of the
Mary's and from the Atlantic to the Alleghany,

bow to this Longinui, this paragon of literature and
criticism! And ye sons of Apollo.
there be any in
the Union who are not droggirl poet-i, weave your
best wreath to decorate theaugust brows of this
Moenides! Let there no longer be cause for the dis
graceful imputation that all republics are ungrateful:
ifyou have never had a IllJi) meritorious object be
fore, you certainly now have one of supreme excel
lence and superlative resplendence; seize therefore
with avidity the present glorious occasion, for

" \Ve neer shall look upon his like again.
As to ourselves, we congratulate L that in the
admirable workmanship of his inimitable perform
ance he has not broken that long commandment
which forbids making the likenesrqfany thing, Us.

thn train the date of his letter (Sunday Sept. 9 )
we fear thathe has broken the short commandment
which enjoins a remembrance of the Sabbath day

to keep it holy and to do no manner of war) \Ve
Jones, csq. of Philadelphia, to IVIiss Frances

A. Each, of North Carolina.
On Friday evening the seventh instant, by

the Re v. Dr. Smith, NIP. VVilIi-arii Roberts, to
Miss Ann Read, both of this city.

HEALTH OFFICE,
September ti, 1810.

from the lst to the 81h September.
Disemta.
all. cb.
Dinners.
ml- c5.
Apopleity
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Cholera morbus
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Couvulsions
Consumption oflttngs 4
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Decay
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Small pox, natural 0 I

Still born
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Suicide
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Sudden
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Dysentery
Reections of a Solitary Wanderer, by St Orme.

And in subsequent papers they have published the
congratulate him further that his fame is not ofthe
Disease of hip joint
19 96
common, perishable kind: it will not stand in need
Fever
of statues or mausoleums to give it immortality; for

" he will live in the hearts of his countrymen."
Fever, remittent
two following numbers of the same.
9. In the Farmers Register of August 7, printed

and published at Troy (New-York) is inserted from
the Repertory the ballad of Lorenzo; and in subse
quent numbers are inserted from the Repertory, a
view of Mankind by M. and the stanzas mentioned
above. by Thaddeus
IO In the Constittitionalist of August 20, pub
lished at Exeter New Hampshire by E C Beals, is

inserted from the Repertory an interesting calcula
tion concerning mortality, selected by \V R
In the
same paper of Sept. 3, is inserted from the Reper

tory a paper of the Cabinet on Flattery, by Peter
Pcaceable.
And, hark'e, Mr. L., one word in private before

we part: Those who are so very vulnerable as you
are. ought never to cast arrows at those who have
it in their power to inict deeper wounds. Had you

been a total stranger to us, we should have been se
vere upon you: but we know you-dye you may
state in astonishmentbur we know you well; and
as you have advised us largely, it is but fair that
we give you a small piece of advice in returntry
to conquer your vanity and govern your temper; it
II. In the Herald of Liberty of September 4, pub
appointed and mortied at not seeing several of the
lished in Augusta, District of Maine by Peter Edes,
darling poetic children of your brain presented to

the public at the very moment you expected, do not
let the whole world see your weakness in your
chagrin
EDITORS.
is inserted from the Repertory the stanzas beginning

with " Alone unprotected a fair ower ourish'd,"
by Orlando.
12 In the Independent American of September 1,
published at Ballstown Spa, by Comstock and Bates,

is inserted from the Repertory the second No. ofthe
Contrast, by Othello.
13. In the Bee of Sept. 7, published at Hudson by

Samuel S. Clark, is inserted from the Repertory, the
little piece headed " what will this world come to!"
by Momus junr.
These papers, accidentally preserved. a'ord a few
_._.
Now, let the reecting and unprejudiced reader

say, what is the conclusion to be drawn from this
host of witnesses, this mass of testimony! Which

is tlte more likely to be wrong in judgment, one
person or one thousand? Surely, if the judgment of

1.. be the result of Wisdom, the consequence is as
plain as plain can be, that all the editors who have
copied from 14 are fools; that the supporters of
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lings. No 84 North Second street,
THE POETICAL APOTHEOSIS OF
ferred on the following gentlemen: His cit

cellency Elbridge Gerry, honorable Timothy
The friend of man, and father of his country.
Pickering, honorable Theodore Sedwick, and
To the citizens of Philadelphia, on the propriety of
\VITH AN ADDRESS
ItOllUIdiC James Kent, Chief Justice of the

state of New York.
erecting a statue to his memory in their metropo'

Let us not make the boast of kings too true,
When they affirm. were base and thankless too.
Jflbrmy, Jaguar 30. On Sunday last, the
high sheri Fl' of the city and county of Albany,

The price of the Pbi'lirde/pbia Repertory is four
visited the county prison iii this city, and in
company with his deputies and gdOICI, pro dollars per annum payable quarterlv in advance.
At. the close of the year will be presented a title
ceeded to throw open all the doors connec
ted with the debtor's apartment, there not page and index, with at least one handsome en
being a single person in said prison conn graying.
Subscriptions received by the publisher, No 17
ed for debt! A circumstance most grateful to Arch street, George Booth, No 10 Sansom street,
the philanthropic and benevolent mind, and and at the book stores of Mathew Carey, Nit 122
which, perhaps, has not a parallel in' any Market street. John W Scott, No I47 Chesnut
{county of the same population within the street. W. W. \Voodward, corner of Second and
United States.
Chesnut streets. and David Hogan, No. 249 Mar
hlARRIBD.
their papers, who front a very moderate calculation

On thursday evening last, by the Rev.
cannot be less than 5000 people, must be downright , Mr. Alexander, Mr. Richard Veltliovcn, to
infatuated fools to plirnnize such foolish editors! t Miss Elizabeth Crossman, both of this city.
What a modest, what a handsome compliment to
At Holmesburgh, on Saturday evening
ket street.
Communications. post paid, addressed to the pub
lieher, will be thankfull; received.
PHILADELPHIA,
our countrymen!
Bow, therefore, ye editors, from \Viscasset to St.
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saying any thing in our oun favor, we took no care
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instances wherein. according to Ls very temperate

scribble scarce worth mentioning have been copied;
and there were many other papers that copied from
our columns; bttt, never haying had the most distant
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 18H).
VOL. 1.
'No. 21.
he continued his remarks on the countries am not insensible, observes he, ofthe dan
which he visited in succession. Such an ag gers that must attend such a journey, Trust SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOHN HOWARD.
gregate of private misery, of insensibility in ing, however, in the protection of that kind
(Concluded.)
gaolers, and neglect or cruelty in magistrates, Providence which has hitherto preserved me,
Before he had aspired to a seat in the se was never before exhibited to the commiss I calmly and cheerfully commit myselfto the
nate, he had served the ofce of high sheri ration or abhorrence of mankind. It has been disposal of unerring wisdom. Should it please
said, that his personal safety was endangered God to cut o my life, in the prosecution of
for the county of Bedford, which, as he em
phatically observes, brought the distress of in France by the spirit with which he expo this 'design, let not my conduct be uncandidly
prisoners more immediately under his no sed its despotism; but subsequent inquiries imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a
BIOGRAPHY.
tice;" and this, reviving the idea of his own
show, that even the most active ministers of
serious, deliberate- conviction, that I am pur
captivity, led him to form the benevolent de

sign of visiting all the prisons, and places of
connement, throughout England, for the
celestial purpose of alleviating the miseries
arbitrary power were impressed with a re

verential regard for the character of the man;
and that it never was in contemplation to in
terrupt him in his laudable pursuits.
suing the path of duty; and to a sincere de'

sire of being made an instrument of more
extensive usefulness to my fellow creatures,
than could be expected in the narrow circle
of the sufferers, and meliorating their con
By his sister, who died unmarried, he

gained a liberal accession of fortune; which,
of retired life. The event which his mind
dition. This project, which gave full latitude

to the philanthropy of his heart, he accom
plished with indefatigable zeal; and, being
examined before the house of commons on
the subject of prisons, he received the thanks
of the senate for his exertions; and had the
felicity to nd that his voluntary labors had

not been whollyin vain, as they excited the
attention of the legislature, and were, in some
measure, productive of the benets proposed

by them.
To a man of Mr. Howards enthusiasm a
stimulus was scarcely necessary to do good;
but the encouragement which he received,
operated like a cordial on his mind; and, hav
ing again and again inspected the receptacles

of crime, of poverty, and misery, throughout
Great Britain and Ireland, he extended his
views to foreign countries. With this design,

so beautifully pourtrayed in the introductory
lines, which will be more durable than his
monument, he travelled three times through
France, four through Germany, ve through

Holland, twice through Italy, once through
Spain and Portugal, also through Denmark,

Sweden, Russia, Poland, and part of Turkey.
These excursions occupied, with some
short intervals of rest at home, the period of
twelve years; and never before Was sucha
considerable portion of an_individuals life
applied to a more benevolent and laudable
purpose, without a motive of interest or plea

sure, save the virtuous satisfaction of serving
his fellow creatures.

His State of the Prisons in England and
\Vales, with preliminary observations, and
an account of some Foreign Prisons," was
first published in 177 7; and in Appendixes,
seemed to presage, and for which he had.

in his own opinion, could not be spent to a bet prepared himself, by deprecating invidious
ter purpose, than in the relief of poignant _reections,actually took place. Having spent
misery, shut up from every eye, except that some time at Chcrson,a new Russian settle
of the most active benevolence. Though the ment, where the malignity of disease had cut
selsh and uncharitable have attempted to off thousands of that nation, as much from
blame the profusion of his bounty, when it is ignorance and neglect as from the natural
considered, that hisonly son was abundantly insalubrity of the place, his benevolence
prow'cd for, it is impossible to x any charge. prompted him to visit a young lady, who
of this nature on Mr. Howard, which will lay dangerously ill of an epidemic fever, in
not recoil on his detractors. But the purest order to administer some medicines for her
conduct must not expect to escape the tongue relief: he caught the distemper, and soon
of malice; superior excellence is the butt at became the victim of his Own humanity.
which obloquy constantly aims her darts.
Prince Potemkin, hearing of his illness, sent
While engaged on one of his last pere his own physician to attend him;,but all in
grinations of love and charity to the human vain: the days of his life were numbered, the
race, his singular worth had made such an measure of his labors was complete, and he
impression on the public mind, that a liberal died on the twelfth day. He was buried in
subscription was opened to defray the ex the garden of a French gentleman in the'
pense of erecting a statue to his honor, while neighborhood; and, barbarous as was the
yet alive. The principles of Howard were country in which he made his exit, the grave
abhorrent from ostentation; his services to of our virtuous philanthropist was not unwa
mankind were not baits for praise. When he tered by a tear. In Britain, his death was
heard of this scheme, Have I not, Said he, known with the sincerest regret; it was an
one friend in England who would put a stop nounced in the London Gazette, a compli
to such a proceeding? The business was ac ment which no private subject ever received
cordingly dropped; but to the credit of the before; and all tanks were eager to testify
subscribers, the money collected was princi their regard to the memory of a man who
pally applied to the relief of captive indigence had merited so well of human' nature in ge
and misfortune.
neral, and'who will ever be an ornament to
An Account of the principal Lazarettos the country that produced him.
in Europe, with various papers relative to
The abstemiousness of Mr. Howard was
the plague, and further observations on pri
very great; and to this cause the prolonga
sons and hospitals, made its appearance in tion of his life, amidst infection and disease,
1789. In this publicaton, Mr. Howard an may in a great measure be ascribed. He to
nounced his intention of again quitting his tally avoided the use of animal food; and at
country, for the purpose of revisiting Russia, one time lived almost wholly on 'potatoes; at
Turkey, and some countries of the East. J i another, on tea, bread and butter.
No con
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vivial invitations, however honorable, were
Perdition to my hopes! cried the count.

The cursed chance, continued Austin,
-______
bolt of vengeance had transpierced me, but
accepted by him: his only delight consisted

thou hast averted the dreadful, deadly blow!
in visiting the abodes of misery, that he that delayed the kings arrival at the castle, often hast thou snatched the chalice from
might be the happy instrument of alleviat and the youths ungovernable passion for the my lips and saved me from unutterable ru
rustic daughter of the peasant Braubenski, in! how much I owe you then, good Austin;
ing its oppression.
His monument in St. Pauls cathedral is have been the cause!"
and when I think that but for me your soul
at once a proof of national genius and na
Indeed! cried Ferresburgh, what the had never been condemned by blood, con
tional gratitude. The inscription tells us, drowning girl that Linhault nobly snatched science arises from her latent bed and tears
with truth, that he trod an open but unfro from the rivers rapid stream?
my heart strings with despair and fear! I
qucntcd path to immortality, in the ardent
The same, replied the confessor, from found you innocent, I made you guilty! I
and unremitted exercise of christian chari his squire I gained this welcome informa found you starving in your naked cot, and in
ty. And concludes, May this tribute to tion."
stead of nobly relieving you I tempted your
his fame excite an emulation of his truly
How! welcome! said the count.
poverty, and bought with gold your souls
Certainly my lord, answered Austin.
honorable actions.II!
eternal hope! Is there a end that bears lifes
4.
Welcome information to my ears in burthen in the realms of night more black
For the Repertory.
deed, said Fcrresburgh sarcastically, to or damned than Ferresburgh!
hear that Ferresburghs heir has thrown his
Despair and the horrors of aiicting con
THE IIEIRESS OF SOBEISKI.
princely heart upon a peasants daughter! science operated so forcibly upon the mind
A ROMANCE.
It should be welcome to your ear, my of the miserable Ferresburgh, that it requir
CHAPTER V.
lor , replied the wily counsellor of Ferres
ed all the wily arts of the diabolical Austin
His visage like the troubled sea,
burgh, if you do not wishyoung Linhault to sooth his mind to momentary peace.
Uptorn and furrowd with tempestuous winds,
to be wedded to the princess.
I pray you, good my lord, said the
Shifted its hues, now deadly pale, aghast
And horror struck.
Cumberland.
Ha! exclaimed the count, that I do monk, dispel these foolish, childish fears,
Black tLry stood as night,
not wish it you too well know! But how can or else we are undone! why let your soul feel
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell.
Milton.
you use this knowledge to our advantage? horror struck on my account, when, my good
Ferresburgh remained some time in the Wedded to theprincess! Wherefore do I lord, I disdain these terrors for myself? By
apartment meditating in all the anguish of a send him on his bloody errand, which he my hopes of greatness, I would not return
guilty heart, depicted in his visage, upon the thinks so generous and noble, but in part to to the base thing I was, to buy a paradise!
danger in which he stood by the untimely endeavor to prevent his union with the prin This heavenly mockery, this sacred cheat,
arrival of Stanislaus at the castle.
cess? But no matter; how may we prot by this friars cowl, has often covered a murder
Pernicious fate!" cried he, when I con
your knowledge?
ous visage; why should I not then make it
ceived myself secure from danger, she rises
Think you, the princess would receive subservient to my dreadful purposes?"
awfully with her snaky crest and hisses ruin the hand of Linhault," cried the confessor,
It is too true, returned Ferresburgh,
on my head! How shall I bear this load of without having any share in his affections?" but have you no fear, Austin, that Heaven
growing grief, or how disguise my guilt to
I know she would not, replied his mas hereaftcr'will hurl his heaviest vengeance
Stanislaus?"
ter.
on your head, for your abuse of his most sa
The rage of disappointed murder seemed
\Vhy then, my noble lord, said Austin, cred functions here?
gleaming from his eyes, and now the [mleur what more easy, than, when the king urges
What is there in a gown, my lord? de
of fear overspread his countenance! This the marriage of Linhault and his daughter, manded Austin.
agony of mind was lessened by the entrance to inform him of the aections of Linhault
Nothing, said his lord, but in the oc
of Austin, but only for a moment, for soon being previously placed on Roselle.
cupation of which that gown is the badge,
his fury darting eyes convinced him all was
True, true, answered the count.
there is a world of bliss!
not as it should be.
I know his noble nature, continued the
As to hereafter, my iioble lord, said
Austin," cried the wretched criminal, monk, when Stanislaus hears that his pre this coadjutor of Apollyon, I have never
after a short pause, why sits this pictured server has placed his heart upon another, thought much about it, and what I have
horror on your brow and wherefore is this hell not only withdraw all claim, but use his thought has not been much to its credit, I
Portcntous haste? Say, are we safe, or is per inuence to hasten the nuptials of the youth can assure you. If I may be so presumptu
dition on her way to crush us?
ous, the less your lordship would think of
with Roselle.
My lord, my lord, said Austin hastily,
Ha! cried Ferrcsburgh, and suppose these idle bugaboos, invented by old women
and now the emblem of fear for the rst he should insist that they should take place to frighten children, the more secure from
time whitened his visage, my lord, destruc previous to his quitting the castle!
the danger of discovery we should be!"
5tion grows thick around us, and despair
Nothing, more easily avoided," answered
They will intrude, replied Ferrcsburgh,
stands ghastly on the brink to hurl us down the monk, the boy receives with mouth in spite of every effort, and in idea I am
the precipice of ruin! And yet, continued expanded our well chosen bait, and will this damned foreverr!
this pattern of holiness, I have some pleas evening quit the castle upon his intended
And only in idea, said the confessor.
expedition, which you know will cause his
ing news to tell."
Here their discourse was interrupted by
Let us our danger rst, cried Ferrcs
absence for a length of time, and long ere the entrance of Lopez, who came to inform
burgh fearfully, that we may if possible he returns Stanislaus leaves Sobeiski.
his lordship, that the king would wait upon
plan some measure to prevent our coming
Thou ruler of my heart and mind, thou him immediately.
art my wiser part, my Austin," said the count.
Tis well, said Austin, Lopez, you may
fall!
The king and Linhault, have already But for thy counsel ere this Ferresburgh retire. Lopez withdrew.
met, exclaimed the monk.
had betrayed his guilt! ere this the thunder
Stanislaus now entered the appartmcnt;
16's
and taking Fcrresburghs hand, expressed his norant: for it is quite common to see pre
happiness at meeting once more and in So sumption and selfconceit triumphing over the
feeble perceptions of those who are not bless
beiski castle.
A terrible feeling for which the king could ed with an exuberance of intellect. In this
not account, restrained him from embracing instance, how despicable does it appear, how
Ferresburgh, though he had formerly been inordinately base! It is little better than rob
bery or injustice in any form whatever.
his monarchs favorite.
But when a man, puffed with conceit, falls
Ferresburgh noticed the coolness with
which Stanislaus greeted him, and his guilty in the way of those, who possess evident
heart whispered that he was already disco characteristics of sound sense and discrimi
native judgment, his insignicance is duly
vered.
Pardon me, my gracious liege, said this appreciated, and the silly miscreant is treat
arch deceiver, kneeling to his king, par ed with merited contempt. It is in vain for a
don me that I have been so slow to greet man to suppose that he will ever become
your highness, but let it be attributed to conspicuous in the world, however great his
merit; unless he be introduced to notice by
grief at great Sobeisltis fall!
I can sympathise with you, my lord, persons of popularity and esteem, or by the
answered the king, but trust me, this long silent modesty of his own conduct. Boastings
continued grief will injure both health and and fulsome vauntings avail nOthing; he
mind. Well have you paid the tribute due may trumpet his own fame all the days of his
to great Sobeiski's memory; then leave these life and then die unnoticed and unknown. In
solemn weeds, and shine once more at court." deed the very semblance of selfestimation in
Excuse me, good my liege," returned the actions of men, is enough to stamp all
Ferresburgh, 1 am not t to mix again their pretensions with infamy and disgrace; it
with crowds of attering courtiers; it is is, as it were, the truest test of ignorance
better that I leave the haunts of men where and erroneous principles.
Signicant and sensible is that prayer of
nought but danger and bloody thoughted
the Spaniards, 0 God, [tracer-v: me from my
ambition lurk!
He plays it well, said Austin mentally. aeff; for we cannot be in worse hands than
\V ho," pursued the count, who can be our own. Innumerable testimonies conrm
secure when even the noble,'just, and brave the truth of the adage, that man is his worst
his walks and movements, he will be, as it

were, attended with a monitor, whose secret
foe; for while others would suffer him to live
it occasions."
Chestereld.
" He whose jests make others afraid of his wit,
had need be afraid of their memory." Grey. Cup.
Sobeiski bad a mortal foe!

That is, alaslivtoo true," returned the king,
1 never thought my friend could have a
foe, he was so greatly good! But yet this long
long grief to me is most mysterious! \Vhat,
sixteen years of sorrow for a friend!
I pray you, pardon me," returned Fer
resburgh, I will endeavor, my good lord, to
be more myself."
unmolested, he is continually devising some

scheme by which his best interest may be
seriously affected; and thus while injuring
himself, he offers a temptation to others to
annoy his happiness. This cannot be denied,
for the proofs of it are in the experience of
almost every person who will take the trou
ble to examine for himself.
This principle, says an author, is
Thats well said, replied Stanislaus,
the
pest of mankind, the most mortal and
and now, my lord, I wish to be alone with
irreconcileable enemy to wisdom, the very
you for some short time.
The monk immediately bowed and with corruption and gangrene of good sense and
drew, while the king thus proceeded to understanding; it swells us with eonceits and
false satisfactions, and causes us to make un
Ferresburgh.UBALDO.
due estimates of our sufciency. This is a
fair delineation of the consequences result_
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ing from selfestimation, it is truly a devour
WEEKLY REFLECTIONS.
ing vulture, which constantlyi disturbs the
Selfestimation is the bane of individual hap peace and comfort of thousands.
Is there no antidote foran evil of such mag
piness, and the frequent cause of general dis
quiet. It prompts the subject of it to deeds far nitude, for the total eradication of a weed so
above his capacity to accomplish, and having noxious? The fault evidently lies at our own
elevated vanity to its summit, leaves the un door, and it remains with us to apply the
happy victim to experience all the bettemess remedy. Nothing more is requisite,in order
of disappointment. This is too often the case to efface this principle, than to have a just
to pass unobserved by many, for in fact it is a conception of the numerous inrmities inci
frailty to which the greater part of mankind dent to every man through life. This is the
is subjected. It must proceed from a want of only e'icient agent to extirpate the seeds of
the correct exercise of judgement, and fre vanity and to place man on a footing with him
quently,,from a desire to delude the more ig self. Impressed with this sentiment, in all
counsels will direct his footsteps. Thus he

may pass through life with some degree of
satisfaction, sensible that the best evidence
of solid judgment and clear understanding,

is modesty, diligence and virtuous integrity)
A man devoid of selfconceit, seems more
to wear the dress that nature gave him, than
when decorated with this pilfered garb.

Away then with his deleterious annoycr of
our peace, this miserable cobweb to conceal
our deformities; the man of sound sense can

live without it, and however much it may be
practised by some, it will prove in the end

useless or injurious. W'e meet with simpli
city in all the works of nature, and feel de
lighted with it; then, why should we desire
to render our own characters an assemblage
of heterogeneous complexities?
Tis strange, tis passing strange, that man
should live in ignorance, in spite of know
ledge.
T. D. M.
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THE CABINET. No. VI.

" There is a species of minor wit, which is much
used, and much more abused; I mean raillery. It is

much safer to let it quite alone, than to play with it;
and yet almost every body do play with it, though

they see daily the quarrels and heart burnings that
Nothing could be more congenial with my

disposition, than to be permitted to pass
through the world in perfect amity with its

inhabitants. This, I hope, grows out of prin
ciple; for it is evident that the rSt state of
man was a state of harmony and peace; and
we are commanded by that religion in which
we profess our faith, to love one another.
But notwithstanding the mild tenor of my
wishes, I nd my spirit sometimes ruied at
the follies, not to say more, of a portion of
my fellow men. \Vhat has contributed of late

to put my temper out of sorts, is the notion
of an absurd propensity which some people
have to raillery; on which a few observations
will be the entertainment of the day.
Between individuals in any way connected,
raillery, when carried beyond the bounds of
the most harmless meaning and most perfect
good nature, is disgusting and improper; but
when I see a married couple launch out in
to an ocean of sarcasm, even though there
be kept up an appearance of no real inten
tion to offend, I always fear something is

going wrong at the bottom. There is a de
sire implanted in our bosoms that our faults
may be concealed; and when our most secret
actions are drawn into public view, it is but
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poor consolation to know, that he who ex the kind. As I am unmarried, I may, possi
Herminius
in
the 19th No. of the Reper
bly,
be
considered
as
an
incompetent
judge
of
posed us wore a smiling countenance, and
that we were laug/n'ngly insulted. Satire is what ought to be observed in the conjugal tory has attempted to stamp absurdity upon
a weapon which few know how to handle, life; but of this I am condent, that where a sentence of Dr. Johnson which I hadjust
and while it is never productive of much there is a continual indulgence of raillery in before quoted in a former paper, and which
good, it may cause many a heart rending either, or both parties, there is good reason lfeel interested in supporting. Herminius
for suspecting that such couples do not ex has, as I conceive, given currency" to de
moment.
perience, in their extensive and rened sense, ductions which are extremely fallacious;
lVhat can satire whether grave or gay?
but no more than could be expected from a
It may correct a foiblemay chastise
" The fond endearments of connubial bliss.
The freaks of fashion!
Cowper.
It is the most difficult attainment in the ex writer, who builds up a set of accusations
A few evenings ago I met a large com exercise of wit, to know when to hold your against an author for expressing sentiments,
pany at the house of Mrs.
Among the peace. There is something so agreeable in by which his accuser has acknowledged, he
guests were Mr. and Mrs. R. but the un being thought superior to our neighbors, that knew not what he meant.
seasonahle raillery of the husband extremely when we give a loose to one witticism, we
Dr. Johnson declared the knowledge of
mortied his wife, myself, and others who feel an almost irresistible desire to pursue external nature, and the sciences which that
were present. Mrs. R. is alovcly woman of with a train of others; and where there is knowledge required, is notthe great business
about two and twenty; to a. face and person such a ourishing of the sword of satire, it of the human mind, and 1 cannot think that
uncommonly interesting, nature has added a may condently be expected, that the tender Herminiuss disquisition upon the subject
considerable portion of ne sense, which, cords of friendship will be cut asunder for has in the least invalidated the assertion; the
were it not obscured by the impcrtinence of ever. Long continued raillery generally sentence has no relation that I can discover
to enthusiasm, superstitious dogmas, or
her spouse, would be the delight of every closes in settled hate.
company in which she apPeared. Her dis
A man of genuine wit, possessing a heart any such imaginary bugbears, nor is it the
position is amiable and tender, and the deli lled with humanised sentiments, has it in offspring of perverted reason." It wanted
cacy of her feeling keenly subjects her to his power greatly to enliven conversation, no spirit of fanaticism to inculcate it when
the apparently malicious wit of Mr. R. The by a good natured display of raillery. He reason and moderation have always sup
modest timidity of her manner, rouses the begins, not by exposing the follies of the ported its truth and importance.
soul in her behalf, when we see her loaded person raillied, and drawing into view all his
Dr. Johnson was himself acquainted with
with sarcastic abuse; yet such is the object vices in their most despicable colors; he external nature and possessed a vast fund
upon which the talents of her husband are seeks not to butcher his feelings by making of literary knowledge: he could not op
to be displayed. The conversation, unfortu him appear ridiculous before those in whose pose these, then, merely because they had
nately for Mrs. R., turned upon matrimony. presence he wishes to be respected; he en nota religious aspect; he only opposed the
Here was a wide eld for the witling, which deavors not to make him blush and attempt exclusive attention to them and neglecting
he failed not to take advantage of; by contin to clear his character before an assembly the great business of the human mind,"
which (if man has an immortal part) must
ually adverting to his wife, Mr. R. gained who are laughing in his face; no, he re
his point, for she became the topic. He made, members the good deeds he has done, and most assuredly be, to t it for that immor
as he thought, a very obvious comparison he exposes them,- he tells him that he has tality which is blessed. A man may cer
between his own good nature, and the ter gone a little too far in the performance of a tainly study nature, sound the depth of all
magent temper of his lady; what was the laudable action; he informs the company that sciences, and yet neglect entirely that devo;
opinion of the company as respects the truth his friend is the most bashful creature living, tion which he owes his Maker, and that faith
of his estimate, the reader may probably ima even when he has done a thing that deserves which the gospel of Christ requires to se
gine: Mrs. IL, was decidedly in favor of the to be published in letters of gold. The spec
cure an admittance for the soul in a future
wife, and told Mr. R. that she had been per tators may smile, but it will be the smile of state of felicity. Herminius has said the
fectly intimate with his lady before her mar love for the retired virtues of the millied, promulgation of religious and virtuous prin
riage, and that she was then remarkable for and for the good heart of him that endea
ciples is certainly of immense consequence;
the sweetest and tenderest disposition. Ma vors to bring them forth; the object of his and yet, as I think, offers sentiments directly
dam, replyed the wit, had I known her raillery may frown, but it will be the froim subversive of the Christian religion and all
before marriage, as thoroughly as you did, of pleasure and endearment. To make revelation. It will not require many m0
I, probably, should not now have been trou
raillery agreeable, a man must either not ments reection (says he) to prove the fu
bled with her." This cutting and unfeeling know he is raillied, or think never the worse tility of the belief, that divine impressions
speech had the effect, which, if not intended, of himself if he sees he is.
are made independent of and external to all
might have been expected: Mrs. R. blushed
As respects the generality of men, raillery, matter, or in a few words, that every per
excessively; and, although monied to the to use the language of Chestereld, had ception of the mind is through the medium
quick, tried to smile upon the monster who better be let quite alone, for few are capa of the natural senses. I would ask through
had wounded her. The feeling heart, perhaps, ble of making it answer a good purpose; and what sense was the gospel received by
would be happy to know, that instead of the and unless it do this, a satirical vein is dan the evangelists? and through what sense
laugh hich he had hoped for, the discern gerous and disagreeable.
do mankind receive faith in it at this day?
ing company recompensed Mr. R. only with
Knox says, a mind not vitiated by acquired'
PETER PEACEABLE
an involuntzuy frown. After all this, the world
corruption feels a natural tendency to de
calls him a good husband.
Receive no satisfaction for premeditat votionz" this is an impression upon the mind;
Such conduct as this has not unfrequently ed impcrtinence; forget it, forgive it; but but through which of the natural senses is it
passed under my eye, and I imagine every keep him inexorably at a distance who of received? The reasoning of Herminius upon
one will be able to recollect something of fered it.
those who are born blind," &c. is entirely
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irrelevant to the subject, it can have no con
nection with divine impressions upon the

mind." If such logic be correct, then is man
tical production, in the 18th No: if he will

look into Catos solilequy on the immor
tality of the soul," he will nd the most pro
constitutionally moral, and a kind of mecha minent thoughts, in his own productions;
nieal machine.
and from the little variation in the language.
But the writing of Herminius contradicts it is presumed they were evidently borrow
imelf, or I do not understand it. \Ve are ed. But the sentiments in that celebrated
actuated (says he) by the inuence of the soliloquy" of Addisons he will also observe
divine agency to perform good actions; to have no unity with his prosaic essay which
through the medium of the senses, we dis
has been the subject of this paper.
C.
t.
cover the nature of these actions, and in no
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other way, Ste. Thus we have an impression
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of the divine agency upon the soul pro
ducing a good action;" and yet throughi
Tyranny is a serious evil under the sun.
the medium of the senses" we are to be in It arises from an unqualied condence
formed of its nature: now, where, I would which is placed in an individual or a set of
ask, does this second impression, by the me individuals, who have become distinguished,
dium of the senses, come from? cannot this by superior qualications, to take the station
divine agency, this divine spirit act upon of responsibility and the care of government.
and inuence the soul, the spiritual and im
Great minds acquire an aseendeney over
mortal part of man? or are not spirits capa those more contracted; they prove by occu
ble of mutual intelligence? in short is there lar demonstration in the concussion of hu
no such thing as the will of God to man, man events, that they are capable of impor
independent of all matter? nothing but mat tant atehievments; and inferiors, prostrating
ter can act upon the external senses of the before them, acknowledge themselves vas
labor after that which confers no real good

upon ourselves, but iuealeulable evils upon
those by whom we are surrounded! Happy for

us, if tyramiy and arbitrary power may never
reach our shores. But while the passions of
men are let loose to rage without controul,
while false conceptions are entertained, and
while appearance is accepted for reality,
dangers are spread out wherever we may
turn. Let virtue reign within, and our ex
ternal movements will appear in perfect
unison with reetitude and order. We then
can give no aid in the elevation of a tyrant
to oppress us: we can give no encourage
ment to aspiring pride, to that foolish am
bition which seeks distinction by baseness
and villainy, by deception, and fraud; or by
the performance of actions that are highly
injurious to the happiness of the human fa
mily.
A.
a...
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TO FRANCIS FUNGUS, M. D.
Review of a Poet's Apartment.
body, producing ideas particularly from this
sals, and like the sons of the patriarch, see
source. If God is a spirit,and the soul of

man not perishable in the earth; then are
they equally immaterial, and the action of
the former upon the latter must he inde
pendent of matter.
The greatest characters who have ever
lived have expressed their belief in revela
tion. Locke has given his ideas of revelation
as contradistinguished from reason; and he
ing that rest is good," that it is easier to terday, I heard my name several times, very
has dened them (says a great writer) with

a clearness and precision, which never can
be exceeded, and which should never be for
gotten in thought or conversation." I need

not quote it, as his work on the under
standing" is in every bodys hands.
The faculties of the soul, says Hermi
nius, are never more protably exercised
than when engaged in the contemplation of
the worksof the Great First cause (then they
are not more protably exercised in wor
shipping this First Cause) and securing that
everlasting inheritance promised to the soul;
because I have observed before, we may be
engaged in the contemplation of these
works, without their proving subservient to
the great business of the human mind." Man

is wonderful, but not so much so as I eon
ceive to hold converse with the King of
Heaven, through the objects around him.

This I think irreverent indeed. I hope Her
minius will again consider the subject, as
the doctrine he has assailed is all important,
and has for ages had the most respectable
testimony in its support.
CENSOR.
N. B. It will not perhaps be improper to
callthc attention of Herminius to his poe
be directed than to take the trouble of en

quiring and investigating what may be ex
pedient for themselves, they crouch down
Walking through an obscure street, yes

audibly repeated. I looked around; I could
see no one: but happening to cast my eyes
upward, I perceived the head and shoulders
of a man shoved out at a garret window.

to be led or driven like beasts at the will of Was it you that called? asked I, and do
between two burdens, and submit as slaves
their possessor. But human nature is a dan you want me?" Yes," replied the inhabitant
gerous master. Power is subject to error, of the attic story, I do want you; and if you
and is frequently exercised far beyond the have not grown too rich or too proud to ac
boundaries of justice. In this day of intel knowledge an old friend, you will walk up
lectual illumination, when every man pro stairs." I accordingly entered the house, and,
fesses to think for himself and to act in con after some diiculty, succeeded in nding
formity to his own judgment like an inde this high gentlemans apartment. Conceive
pendent citizen, it might be considered de my astonishment, on beholding a tall thin
rogatory to the dignity of his independence, gure, dressed in a shabby suit of clothes,
were any one to be charged with servility which had once been black, but old time,
and obsequiousness: and yet facts plainly
" Who cuts down
Both black and brown,"
show that men are as fond of ease as ever,
and are as ready to trust their happiness to had changed them into a color similar .)
the disposal of another, as in any age of the rusty iron: in lieu of a hat, he wore a cap,
world. hat but this unbounded con which from its form and make I conjectur
dence, can reconcile to their fate, the mil
ed must have been borrowed from his land
lions who follow the standard of an ignis fa lady. He rose from his chair, waved his hand
tuus to the eld of destruction and death? thrice, and with great solemnity, welcomed
The lessons which wisdom would inculcate me to the seat oft/re muses! Humphl thought
by the events that have transpired upon the I, casting my eyes round the room, ragjc'n'r
theatre of Europe and Asia, in the present would be a tter appellation by half. I gaz
age, might inspire us with a substantial turn ed on him for a few minutes, and at length
of thought, and teach us to regard life as a recognised the features of my old school
blessing too great to be sacriced on the fellow, Jack 'l'rochaic. Ah Jack!" exclaimed
altar of fame; too precious to sport away in I, extending my hand, is it indeed you: and
the pursuit of shadows, passing and eva do I behold you in this miscmble situation?"
nescent as the transient visions of a dream. My dear, dear friend Caustic!" he return
Instead of enjoying the present life, limited ed, embracing me with such eagerness, that
in its duration to a few years only, in trun he threw my hat and fresh powdered bob
quillity and peace, how we fret, and toil, and rmjor on the oor. Half stilled, and fearful
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M'
of hug the second, I retreated to what I sup

posed to be a chair; but even here ill luck
still attended me: this piece of furniture,
unfortunately, had but one leg more than
myself; and losing my balance, I shared the
fate of my hat and wig. However, with the

assistance of my friend I got up, and you
morning, I returned, and I will discharge

it." Good;" replied he, I will be very
punctual to the appointment, you may be
sure." Oh, sweet sirl" said I with a half
sneer, I do not doubt it in the least; till then,
to believe there Were such men as_Cicero,

Seneca and Cesar, who did the things ascri
bed to them. The history of the New Testa

ment has all those marks ofauthenticity which
give credibility to other ancient writings; and
Jewish and Pagan writers conrm many parts

of the narrative. The learned Dr. Priestly as
serted that no other history is attended with
any evidence that can be compared with that
of the gospel.
Josephus gives information concerning
\ one Jesus, a wise man, if yet it be lawful
to call him a man. He mentions his mira
cles, crucixion under Pontius Pilate, his re
surrection the third day, and his numerous
amongst our ashy apothecaries to have the followers in his time." Within seventy years
bust of some great doctor or other stuck after his death Tacitus wrote of Christ, as
over their doors, suppose you were to step the author of the christian name, and put to
up to Mr. Rushs and get your head model death by Pontius Pilate, the procurator in the
led; this will answer two good purposes; in reign of Tiberius." Pliny wrote to Trajan
the rst place bring you into notice, and concerning the Christians, that they were
secondly give me an opportunity of inform wont to assemble together on a set day, and to
ing the public, that Christopher Caustic, sing hymns to Christ, as God. Near the
apothecary, Ste. at the gilt Fungus head, No. same time Suetonius wrote, that the Empe
24 Mushroon street, still continues to sell rors punished the Christians on the score of
medicine sufcient to dose half the union. their professing Christ. Neither Pagans nor
Jews, who lived near the time of Christ, de
C. C.
nied the miracles he performed. Thus have
a.
enemies given their testimony in support of
From the Panoplist.
the christain cause. The truth of the gospel
The lVickednees of Sce/zticiam in Religion.
being established by these and a variety of
I have the inexpressible pleasure of wishing

you a good morning." Slipping a trifle into
"may rest assured, I took special care to seek Jack's hand (who was too much agitated to
another seat with a surerfoundation than the thank rife) I left him and returned home
first. After a few minutes conversation, I wards, meditating all the way on the folly of
discovered Jack was as poor and as poetical making that a serious emjzloymrnt, which
as ever. \VhilSt I was earnestly persuading should be only used, in my opinion, as an
Your's, &c.
him to renounce his present occupation, and agreeable recreation.
CHRISTOPHER CAUSTIC.
to seek an office of more emolument, I was
interrupted by a shrill voice from the bottom
P. S. As it is getting to be all the rage"
of the stairs, exclaiming, Mr. Poet, heres
a fellow who calls himself Mr. Crotchet,
wishes to see you." Heavens! said Jack,
the very man I wanted to see: do, my dear

Caustic, excuse me for a few minutes; and
amuse yourself in the mean while, by look

ing over my papers. He accordingly went
down stairs; and in conformity to his request,
I proceeded to an examination. The rst

manuscript I laid my hands on was entitled,
the Bloody Monk, or the infernal Banquet,
a tragedy in ve acts: this horrid title,
chilled my blood; and I instantly threw it
from me. The next was a roll of papers
neatly folded up, called, poems on several
occasions," in imitation of Anacreon Moore
and others:" but (to my shame I must con
fess it) like Hotspur, poetry is to me like
the forced gait of a snuiing hag; and I
would as soon hear, a dry wheel grate on
the axle tree, as the most sublime poetical
composition in the world. I therefore made
she poems companions of the Bloody trage
dy. In the middle of the table was a large
bundle of papers, and as nearly as I can re
Doubt and indecision in any business are

unhappy and injurious; in religion they are
wicked and fatal. While the mind is clouded
other proofs, we have only to read the sacred
with uncertainty, it has little comfort in the
we learn the opinions and laws of any legis
complied with my command, and released

his prisoner, who looked half frightened to
With the same facility and certainty, that
promises of religion; it has little dread of its lator, we may learn the doctrines aud pre
threatenings, and yields reluctant obedience
to its laws. As decision elevates, so uncer
tainty depresses a rational being. Where

light shines, to be undetermined respecting
collect, consisted of the following, viz. A things of serious aspect, to have no xed
Poem on the Slave Trade in eight cantos, opinion respecting things of innite moment,
- Tears of Sensibility, a new and interesting is to wound the dignity of reason, to disclaim
novel in six volumes, interspersed with the honors of a sound mind.
poetry?! Stanzas addressed to Miss Au
Uncertainty respecting religion is criminal,
gustina Cleopatra Octavia Juliana Crab; because there is evidence to satisfy a teacha
Essays on Domestic Manufactures;" and ble mind. To suppose that God has required
epigrams, acrostics, and enigmatical lists by a religious belief of men, without affording
the peck.
them evidence for the basis of that belief, is a
Hearing a bustle and confusion below gross reection on his goodness. Nothing can
stairs, I desisted from my employment, and present the Divine Being in a more dismal
hurried down; where I found my poor friend form, than to suppose he requires faith where
in the hands of a constable, who was dragging he has not furnished conclusive evidence.
him along with great violence. Let him
N0 man is under obligation to believe
alone'." exclaimed I with the voice of a without evidence; where there is evidence
Stentor, what has he done that you use him it is always criminal not to assent. That the
so roughly?" The ofcer, who knew me,
volume, to learn what is truth.
fullest credit ought to be given to revelation,
cepts of the christian Legislator. Men may

and do form dierent opinions, and so they
do concerning the writings of Plato, the con
stitution under which they live, and the laws
made the present year. Though there may
be opposite opinions, the majority will think
essentially alike. Should amalefactor, to ex
cuse himself, plead o/z/waite o/u'mom respect
ing the law, would this be accepted in a judi~

cial court? Will such an excuse be accepted
in the supreme court of the universe?
God has given men power to examine
and decide on the subject of religion; this

renders religious scepticism crimnal. Any
man of common sense and honest inquiry
may satisfy his mind respecting all essential
doctrines. The laws and doctrines of Chris
tianity are as easily understood, as the laws
of any community, as the doctrines of any
religion. We have only to open the sacred
volume, and truth is visible before us; we
a supercial examination alone will make have only to [00k, and the path of life is seen.
sufciently certain. We have, to say the least, All may know what is truth; the wayfaring
death. Sir, said he, I have arrested him at as great reason to believe there were such man, though a fool, need not err."
the suit of Mr. Fig the grocer, for a debt of persons as Jesus Christ, Paul and Peter, who
Men ought immediately to form their
twelve dollars." Call at my house to-morrow did the things ascribed to them, as we have opinions on religious subjects, because their
M
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opinions inuence their moral and religious opinions; then are they accountable to God
conduct. Though the passions of men often for the manner, in which they perform this
impel them to actions which their judgments service. God requires men to believe accord
disapprove; yet nothing can be more absurd, ing to a known standard of truth, his word is
than to suppose that opinions have no inu truth. He that believes according to his own
ence on actions. Will he, who denies the di
wicked wishes, does not perform his duty,
vinity of the Saviour, conduct like the man does not obey any command. Human tribu
who seriously believes and trusts in him? Will nals have cognizance of actions only; at the
Above the summit ofthc eastern hills,

Falcated in the crescent rises now,
In silver majesty! th' astonish'd stars,

As brighter lustre passes oer their orbs,
Sink mid the splendor of the conquering beam!
L0! in the mirror brook she views her face,
Which seems to quiver as the little waves,

Reard by the efforts of the evening breeze,
'
Verge to the winding shore. The frowning woof
Looks more majestic as her silver beams

Brighten its leafy honors; and the oak
Waves his tall top obedient to the breeze,
While universal nature looks serene!
Now while the solemn silence of the night
he, who makes convenience his law, and his
bar of God, thoughts, wishes, and desires,
own pleasure the highest object, conduct as
and opinions will be judged, for the Judge

knoweth the heart. Not only conduct, but
belief will be examined in the judgement of
the great day; not only actions, but opinions Invites the mind, relaxd from daily toil,
will be judged and punished, or rewarded. In To contemplation, let me snatch the hour,
that awful moment when all mankind shall \Vhen toil disturbs not reasuns glorious sway,
stand before God, voluntary errors respect As growing wonder lifts th admiring soul,
ing religious truth, pride of philosophy, and And meditate upon deciduous life. VALERIAN.
obstinacy of opinion, will be placed on the left
For the Repertory.
hand of the Judge: therefore it is of innite
the man who loves the law of the Lord, and
feels the charity which seeketh not her own?

No dream of enthusiasm is more wild than
the indifference respecting religious opinions
which some persons avow. Their religion,
indeed, is made of such stuff as dreams
are." Doubts and uncertainty will inevitably

render morality inconstant, devotion languid,
hope wavering, fortitude feeble, and the cha
STANZAS.
racter suspicious.
importance that we take heed, how and what
The rays of Aurora now brighten the east;
The innite im/mrtance of religion presses we hear, and read, and believe.
The shadows of night have evanishd awav;
an immediate decision on the mind. It is
Like the mind from a vision of horror releas;d,
important for a physician to entertain those
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On the sight breaks the dazzling brilliance of day.
views of chytnistry, anatomy, and medicine,
MEDITATIONS. No.1.
The morning serene with the bosom can vie
best calculated to guard against contagion, And now the mighty maker of our day
\Vhen it glows with the raptures of innocent joy,
and to heal the diseases of the body; but Passes the western circle! of the world,
And the heart in tranquillity gives to the eye
A beam of contentment no storms can destroy.
what is the body, what is life, compared with Sinks through the burning billows of the deep,
the immortal soul? Yet should we not detest,
ies to his second charge, and leave: one half

The anxious earth to wait his wishd return!
Twas thus, as I gazed on the splendor of morn,

That my soul took the complacent cast of the hour,
And felt that the rose of delight hid a thorn,
as a murderer, the physician whose mind was
The solemn reign of silence has begun,

not decided respecting the different systems Save where the sparrow twitters on the spray
of these sciences? What should we think of Her plaintive melody to ambient air,
a prince, president or ruler, whose mind Or where the night hawk croaks his doleful notes.
Now sober twilight, from her dusky bed,
Was not stored with political knowledge,
Throws her grey mantle o'er the limpid stream,
whose opinion was not decided respecting the And on its brink returning cattle drink
best mode of government? Yet whatlare the Their evening beverage. Home the shepherd boy
bursn'ng bubbles of human govemments, Drives whistling from the elds his little ock,
what are nations and empires, compared While in the van the leaders tinkling bell
with the gospel of Jesus, the crown and Makes welcome music to the rustic ear.
throne of glory, prepared for the children of The sheep are folded and the cattle housed
Within the shelter of the straw roofd barn.
God?
1,
Home from his toil the blithesome peasant hies,
" Religion '5 all; descending from the skies
With sithe or sickle o'er his shoulder hung;
To wretched men, the goddess in her left
And the brown jug that held his cooling drink,
Holds out this world, and in_ her right the next." Suspended from his hand with hempen string,
These remarks show how improper and He forward goes a stranger to_ all grief.
The rustic meal is spread upon the board,
wicked it is for any man, or party of men, to
Which labor makes more grateful to the taste,
complain of others for adopting theological
Than the insipid food the lord receives
opinions for themselves. If it be a duty for

all men to be determined for themselves on
religious doctrines; then it must be a duty
for every individual. It is his duty to adopt
just opinions; if he do not, I may withdraw
my inuence and support from him; I may,by
fair means, endeavor to prevent his propa
gating his bad principles; but him I may
not assail with any weapon but sound argu
ment drawn from the scripture magazine.
It is a duty for every man to form a creed
for himself, but not for others. Every man
has an equal right; therefore 1 am as liable to

the inquisition of my neighbor, as he is to
From tables groaning with luxuriant platc, l 1 r. .

Or the rich sauce which haughty Cains made
Fron melted gemsrf the sweet repast is oer,
I knew that the heart, in the magical round

Oer the owery pathway of pleasure, was led
To forsake the fair wreaths with which virtue is
crownd,
And the joys that her smiles on her votaries shed.
I implored of that Power whose mercy suspends
Andchecks the swift arrows ofpain in their ight,
While submissive my heart to his inuence bends,
\
I might glide through the valley oflife in her light.

The hope was enchantingl prayd that the boon
I had craved from his love, to my heart might be
,1
given,
That the sun ofmy passions might set in the noon
_ Of my youth, and my spirit be tutor'd for heaven,

lgazed and the sun brightly glow'cl in the skv,
The shadows of cvning obscured him no more;
And I thought that the pathway was fair to the eye,
That leads to the regions where troubles are oer.
And harmless chat beguiles the evening hour.
ORLA NDO.
The robe of heaven is deckd with sparkling gems,

Sidereal hosts that roll a Makers praise:
With thundring silence speaking to the soul,
That he who form'd them, only is supreme!

Through the vast void of unconned space,
Obedient to Omnipotence they sail,
And sailing sound his praise; save those that xd
lmmoveable, within their mighty spheres,
A round diurnal run, and multiply
The various creatures of unbounded might!

The peerless moon that sheds her borrowd ray s,
The hour of night t illuminate and cheer;
mine.
lfit be a duty for all men to fOrm religious
That pierced more severe, than was fragrant the

ower.
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"m
\xswnns TO chansons." _
See antea, page 95.
' 1.
'Your rst is gold, which all men strive to find,
A mu'tb will give it form of any kind;

Unite them, and your Goldsmilb plainly view,
A famed historian and a poet too.
~
ll.
A chat! contains the misers rusting hoards,
Em: is Cupid, er the half affords,
1-Caius Caligula, emperor of Rome, who had jew

els dissolved in his sauces.
Aeld s a wide expanse or open plain,

\Vhere many liems are in battle slain;
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Unite them, and your Cbesmeld disclose,
A statesman famed for edifying prose.

LOUISIANA.
O.
Iii a late dispute on the subject of climates

1 honest Irishman who was present, conten
ded warmly in favor of his own country. In

the rst place, said he, the weather there
is much ner; in the next place, we have a
greater abundance of rain; and in the third

place, the days are much longer." This, how
ever, said a bystander, cannot be the case
the whole year round. Arrah, dear honey,
but it is though; and that is not all, the days

are not only longer, but faith," says be, there
are more of 'em."
@baamltlbia.
in his contemplations, to turn his eye ra

ther to the praiseworthy than the blameable,
that is to investigate the causes of praise ra
ther than the causes of blame. For though
an uninformed beginner may, in a single in
stance, happen to blame properly, it is more
than probable that in the next he may fail."
A. P.s attempt is laudable, and some of the
strictures are good; but the performance ap
pears to have been too rapidly executed.
The verses respecting Ireland savor too
much of party politics to be admitted.
If Augustine's animadversions on pronun
ciation really be, as it appears they are, ad
dressed to a particular person, they are alto
gether inadmissible; we disclaim all person
alities.
The Collector No. 3. would have been in
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VOL. I.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 18l0.

BIOGRAPHY.
MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM CUSHING.
During this critical period in our countrys

history, he alone, among those then high in
office in this province, continued faithful to
From the Palladium.
the interests and rights of his native land, in
. \Vhen a man, eminent for his talents, re
opposing the assumption of unlimited power

over the colonies by the legislature of the
mother country. But he never suered this
opposition to sway his judgment in the ad
ministration of justice; and, without sacri
cing his opinions, his conduct was always
vered and beloved for his private virtues, and

conspicuous by having discharged the du
ties of one of the highest ofces of our go
vernment, for a series of years, with honor
to himself and usefulness to his country, has

paid the debt of nature, there can be no need marked by such suavity of manners, that no
of an apology for calling the attention of exception to it could be taken by the tory or
his fellow citizens to his character, or even the whig.
in presenting it to their view as a model wor
The interregnum that occured between
thy imitation. On announcing, with painful the dessolution ofthe provincial government,
N0. 22.
the federal constitution, judge Cushing bent

the whole faculties of his mind towards con
forming the principles of the common law
two our changing circumstances; and he em
ployed himself, with much success, in set
tling our judicial code on a rm basis. This

was, indeed, no ordinary task. It required a
genius, comprehensive as his, to embrace,

at one view, the general system, and at the
same time to enter into an analytical detail;
to perceive the defects of the parts, and pro
vide remedies that should not endanger the
harmony of the whole body of our jurispru~
dence. It is, however, the fate of the law,
that the celebrity acquired by such useful
sensations, the dccease of the honorable
and the establishment of a new one by the
and laborious though honorable exertions, is
William Cushing, we believe the propriety

of the application of this remark to him is
fully evinced. To offer consolation to his
conned within the same limits which bound
private virtues which have embalmed his
provincial congress, was of short duration.

The necessity of reorganizing the judicial de
partment of the government soon become
evident to the members of this congress;
and, pursuant to a previous resolution, judge
memory with their tears, is not, however,
Cushing was, with universal satisfaction, a
our present purpose; but to give a few no
mong the rst to whom the administration

of justice was conded. Mr. Adams, the late
president, declining to accept the appoint
relatives and friends, or to dilate on those
tices of a life devoted, for half a century, to
the service of his country.

Judge Cushing was born at Scituate, in
the month of March, l732-3, of parents dis
tinguished for their virtues, and respectable

by their descent from the rst settlers of the
colony. His father and grandfather had been,
successively, judges of the superior court of
this province, and members of the council.
ment of chief justice, the office was confer

red on the deceased, in November, 1777. By
the learning and integrity with which he

presided on the bench, during the unsettled
state of our country that ensued, the supreme
court attained a character for impartiality and
knowledge, that foreigners, as well as our
own citizens, resorted to it, with the most
perfect condence, for a redress of their
wrongs.
To the energetic conduct of judgeCushing
supported by his brethern, are we, in a great
our juridical instructions; seldom, if ever,
extending beyond the knowledge of its re

spective professors.
At the organization of the federal govern
ment, judge C. was selected, by the immor
tal "ashington, from the multitude of his
brethren, to administer justice to the union

at large, and to add stability and dignity to
our own government. In this extensive
sphere it was that his talents reected the
greatest lustre on himself, and were rendered
the most subservient to the good of his coun

try. And, in discharging the duties of this
station, he continued to employ his undivid
ed attention until near the close of his life,
which teminated on the 13th instant. Al

though nature had, a few years prior to his
death, pointed out to him the propriety of
at that time, in the opinion of his friends,
withdrawing from ofcial cares, yet, owing
indicated his future eminence. Having soon
to that niggardly spirit of economy, which
passed through the preliminary studies, he
was entered a student at Harvard college, measure, indebted for the establishment of a'ords to the ofcers of government falaries
and graduated there in the year 175l. From the supremacy ofthe laws, and the extinguish scarcely adequate to their subsistence, he had
this university he afterwards received the ment of the flames ofa rebellion, which was been unable, during the course of a long of
degree of M. A. and a doctorate of laws. on the point of reducing to ashes the fair cial career, to set apart, from his annual
Destined for the bar, he immediately com temple of freedom, whose foundation had income, a sum sufcient to support him in
menced the study of jurisprudence, under been cemented by the best blood of the he private life. Still, conscious of the impropri
ety of retaining an ofce when his ability to
the direction of that celebrated lawyer, J. roes of the revolution.
Gridley, esq. and, at the expiration of the
Averse from political conflicts, and believ discharge its duties had ceased, and having
usual term, was sworn in an attorney. In ing that the purity of a judge ought to be Waited in vain for government to make pro~
I162, he was called to the degree of bar unsuspected, he ever kept aloof from deli vision for their worn out officers, he had
rister; and after practising. at the bar for a berative bodies, except when chosen a mem- I prepared a resignation of his seat on the
number of years, with great reputation, he ber of that convention which formed out" bench. But the great Arbiter of events anti
constitution; in which he acted as vice presi- l.
cipated his intention, and gave him his nal
was appointed judge of probate for the coun
Placed under a worthy private instructor,

he discovered a precocity of genius which,
ty of Lincoln, and in 1772 he received a com
dent, and exerted his influence in favor of discharge; and, we trust, that he has now
mission as one of the justices of the superi

or court.
its adoption.
'; gone to reap, in heaven, that reward for
From the revolution to the formation of his long and faithful services, which had
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been denied him by his countrymen on earth.

As a judge, the deceased united the learn~
ing of the scholar with the science ofthe law
yer. He sought truth on whatsoever side she
was to be found, alike regardless of the frowns
of the great, or the clamors of the many; be
tween whom, the relative difference, as mem
bers of the state, in his enlarged view, Was
tory tone, why he had concealed the truth of

her being alive so long from his sovereign.
Ferresburgh, struck
with fear
at the
thought of being discovered, was unable for

some time to make any reply; at length sutu
moning up the utmost of his resolution, he
Stanislaus now eyed Fcrresburgh more

narrowly than before, but could perceive no
perturbation in his countenance; this only
doubled his astonishment, and he could not
help thinking that perhaps the count was

wronged by his suspicions.
He now desired to be conducted to Lin
stammered out the excuse that had been

previously determined on, by the advice of halts chamber, that he might see the youth
before his departure and give him some ne
extremely small. He was characterized for Austin.
The king, who was now conrmed in his cessary instructions. Lopez was called and
possessing uncommon patience of hearing,
quickness of perception, and deep investiga suspicions, seemed to be satised with this, Stzmislaus parted from Ferresburgh, who
at the same time determining not to quit the overcome by the agitation of his mind, sunk
tion. Towards the bar, his conduct was cour
teous without familiarity, and dignied with castle, until he had discovered, if it were upon his couch as Austin entered the apart
out austerity. In executing the more solemn practicable, the latent motives by which the ment, to whom he related what had passed
between him and the king.
duties of his oice, in pronouncing the last count was actuated.
Stanislaus now resumed the subject of the
The monk expressed his surprise that
judgment of the law, his manner was pecu
Martix
should be alive, but requested his
marriage.
liarly interesting and impressive.
Since you mentioned your condescending master to be under no apprehensions as no
As an orator his gestures were easy; and
his eloquence was the more pleasing, as it purpose, my noble lord, said Ferresburgh, injury appeared to have been done, and here
was derived solely from nature. He was which I esteem the greatest honor I could they separated.
The king was conducted to the chamber
cquable in his style,which united simplicity obtain, I have heard
And I, count, have heard too, interrup of Linhault, to whom he related the inter
with strength; chaste in his gures, correct
in his thoughts, and perspicuous and smooth ted Stanislaus, that my brave Linhault has view he had with Ferresburgh, and then ad
dressed the youth thus:
in his delivery. And, on all occasions, he betrothed himself to some other fair one."
However
it
may
be
by
me
regretted,
I fear, my noble boy, that nothing but
anxiously avoided that pompous and inated
said Fcrresburgh, it is too true, my liege, to danger would surround the daughter of my
manner of discourse, and those false and stu
died ornaments of speech, with which some
be doubted, and I am convinced that the
endeavor to dazzle an auditory.
princess would never consent to a marriage

when a'cction is not the mutual bond.
Besides these qualities, which rendered
I am certain she would not, replied the

him the delight and ornament of the bench
and bar, he was pressesscd of those which king, but c0me,I have heard the whole
made him beloved in private life. He was ac from Linhaults lips and from Roselles. No
cessible, obliging, generous and disinterest more need be said about it, Linhault shall
ed; and, when business did not engage his never know that any thing of this nature
attention, sportivc and gay which his friends. passed between us."
Ferresburgh expressed his astonishment
But, above all, being convinced of the truth
of our holy religion, he was attentive to the at his sovereigns knowledge of the aair,
performance of its duties: and united in his who soon relieved him from it, by relating
person the true christian with the perfect his adventures in. the abbey, and his subse
quent meeting with Linhault and Roselle.
gentlemen.
*0
Ferresburgh declared his total ignorance of
such a band of desperadoes infesting his fo
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rests, and wondered who the prisoner in the
chamber could possibly be.
A ROMANCE
The captain of this desperate band, my
CIIAPTER V.
noble murdered friend, if brought to the

castle of Sobeiski; therefore, if your search
be successful, bear her to the cottage of

Braubenski, and from thence we will have
her conveyed to Warsaw, her existence pub
licly proclaimed, and establish her in the
honors of her house and name. And if an
union between my gallant Linhault and the
maid were practicable
Linhault interrupted the king by observ
ing, that his highness knew it to be imprac
ticable, and they separated, the king to his
chamber and Linhault to prepare for his
departure.
By a cursed chance Austin passed along
the entry as Stanislaus was speaking with

Linhault, and immediately hastened to inform
Ferresburgh of what he overheard, who no
sooner learned what he had to fear, than be
consulted with his confessor and they deter

as I have already related, on directing me mined that the latter should watch the cot
toward the castle, requested me to tell you tage, and if Thadia were discovered, bear
that Martix still lived.
her to the castle, through an arbor beneath
\Vho! cried Ferresburgh, starting fear the western wing, out of which a ight of
stairs conducted to chambers in the castle
fully from the king, Martix alive!
The king was astonished! And gazing remote and long uninhabited.
You know, count, the object of my visit keenly upon the count, demanded if he knew
The day now began to decline and the huge
to the castle was principally to concert an this Martix.
periphery of the sun to sink beneath the wes
Ferrcsburgh, who saw that all depended tern waves, throwing a fainter tinge upon the
union between my daughter and your son.
Ferresburgh bowed assent.
upon his presence of mind, with a desperate dread summit of the frowning hills.
But," continued the king, there is one struggle regained his composure, and repli
Porteuts of an approaching tempest ap
thing in which I would be satised before we ed to the kings inquiry,
peared in the blackening cast, the moon
further discuss the subject of the marriage.
Too well, my liege; some short time ago forgot to shed hcr silver radiance, and the
Stanislaus then informed Ferresburgh of I was attacked by him, and left him for dead stars arighted, hid their twinkling res.
his newly acquired knowledge of Thadias upon the ground: though I knew not that he
Malda and Roselle were seated in their
QXiBtcncP and demanded. rather in a perem was the leader of a banditti."
cottage anxiously waiting the return of Brau
(Continued)
His visage like the troubled sea,
Uptorn and furrowd with tempestuous winds,
Shifted its hues, now deadly pale, aghast
And horror struck.
Cumberland.
Black lbt] stood as night,
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell.
Milton.
lord, said Stanislaus, after conducting me
M
benski, who as has been said, had gone to the
capital. Roselle had seen Linhault in the

afternoon who informed her of his intended
journey, of which she now informed her mo
ther, expressing great concern lest the ap
proaching tempest might pour its dreadful
fury upon him, and perhaps crush him be
neath its rage.
Do not give way to fears like these, my
dear Roselle, said the good Malda; Hea
good will be defended from their anger.

Then Braubenski, my dear mother, is se
cure."
The tempest still continued in its utmost
rage, when as the castle bell proclaimed the
midnight hour, a loud knocking at the cot
tage door alarmed them for a moment, but
Malda soon recovering, ew to the doorto
admit her husband.
sacred garment of the priest, to catch his un

suspecting victim with the greater ease; and
the devil takes the semblance of the saint to
further his designs; but soon they stand con!
Open, open, cried Braubenski, let
benski; but come, sit you down on either

side of me, and I will relate the adventures
but requested me not to urge him to un
me have shelter from the merciless storm

before I perish.
Malda, upon hearing this, immediately
unbarred the door, and the peasant entered
the cottage, with the rain dripping from his
fold his intention,as all should be explained
fur cloak, which he took off and casting it
ven, that watches over the good, will be his
shield! But what is the purpose of his intend

ed journey to night?"
He did not inform me, replied Roselle,
1'71
aside, threw himself upon a chair.

on his return."
What is the matter, my dear Brauben
A sigh now escaped the bosom of Malda,
drawn forth by the remembrance of former ski, said Malda, what is the matter?
The matter!" cried Braubenski, I dare
years of happiness, when Roselle inquired
the cause. Her mother would have evaded not tell you half of what is the matter.
My dear father," cried Roselle, with
the question, but perceiving the eyes of R0
selle bent on her, replied, that she enter whom? what has befallen?
Ha! my fair Roselle, exclaimed Bran
tained fears for the safety of her dear Brau
benski, if the storm should commence before benski, art thou yet safe, my lovely inno
cent? Come hither, girl, and kiss me."
he arrived at home.
Roselle approached Braubenski, zuid was
Heaven will watch the safety of my fa
ther, said Roselle, I hope he may arrive putting her white arm about his neck, when
fussed, and thus Ferresburg stands.
Can it he? cried Malda.

My Linhaults father?" exclaimed Ro
selle.
I
Thy Linhaults father, replied Brati
I} have met with.
He then placed a chair by the fire for both

Malda and Roselle, and seating himself be,
tween them proceeded as follows.
UBALDO.
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. VII.

Avsunt, away tyrannic sway,
Despotic mans dominion.
Burns.
As I was the other evening sitting at my

door enjoying the pleasant breeze,l was ac.
costcd by an old acquaintance that I had not
seen for several years, who, after having
staid and chatted with me for sometime hand

ed me the following letter as he withdrew,
before the storm; it is nine oclock and the Malda exclaimed, Braubenski!
which I beg leave to present to the public
True, returned Braubenski, putting in his own words.
tempest has not yet commenced.
They sat until ten oclock, conversing of Roselle gently from him, I had forgotten!
Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1810.
the inhabitants of the castle, and expressing forgive me, dear Roselle; now seventeen
Mr.
Gregory
Gravity,
their wishes for the return of Braubenski. years have passed away since you were born,
Sir,
and never yet have these old lips of mine
At length, while the castle bell told the ele
Living in the country, and having no bu
venth hour, the faint glimmer of the light been pressed to yours!
siness of late to engage my attention, I now
Indeed! replied Roselle astonished.
ning ashed around the cottage, and the
Tis true indeed, replied Braubenski, devote a considerable portion of my time to
hoarse rumbling of the distant thunder pro
claimed the commencement of the elemen those coral lips were never formed to feel literature: the Repertory of course under
goes my elose inspection, and at the bottom
tal war. Now the lightning became more the unhallowed press of mine.
Forgive me, my dear father, said Ro of several numbers of one of its papers
vivid, and the approaching thunder broke in
terrible peals above their heads; the patter selle, but wherefore, may I inquire, is this styled The Cabinet, I was pleased to see
your name: as you may suppose, I read them
ing rain beat upon the cottage and swept fu perturbation?
I have a cause, a dreadful cause, said attentively, and perceiving-your intention to
riously across the plain before the eeting
blast, beneath which the monarch of the Braubenski, a hundred fold to watch and be good, I have presumed to address you
upon a subject which cannot fail to excite
woods bent his haughty head; the elements protect you!"
interest in the breasts of the humane, and
Me! ejaculated Roselle.
seemed mingling; lire, earth, air, and water
\Vhat means Braubenski? demanded which is unfortunately much practised by
were active in the conict, while heavens
all classes of society. I mean cruelty to ani
Malda.
artillery added horrors to the night!
The bloodhounds, wife, have scented out mals. I have been in town a few days at the
May Heaven protect the unhappy crea
tures who abide the horrors of this tempes their prey, cried Braubenski, the wolf is house of a friend. On my return yesterday
tuous night!" said Roselle. My dear father, in pursuit of the unsheltcrcd lamb! That from a solitary and reective walk, my eyes
should he but feel its fury, nothing but the damned spirit has betrayed my secret, I can were ungratefully encountered by a poor
arm of Heaven can snatch him from else in not tell; but let them come, ere they shall horse (attached to a cart loaded with stone)
injure thee, Roselle, this arm must fall quite which had sunk beneath the weight of his bur,
evitable ruin!
Heaven protect him! said Malda mourn nerveless by my side, or this old heart forget den; his driver made no effort to disengage
him from his painful situation, but applied his
my benefactor!
fully.
Me! am I in such extreme danger?" said lush most unmercifully, accompanying each
Heaven will protect him! exclaimed
Roselle with animation, these tempests Roselle. 0! let us lly, my father, and seek blow with imprecations equally horrid. The
are the instruments of Heaven to hurl his protection in the castle of Sobeiski; the good poor animal was bleeding copiously, and had
not the countenance of his master been so fu
vengeance on a guilty world! He looses the Ferrcsburg will protect us.
1
rious as to awe me, I might have committed a
The
good
Ferresburg.
muttered
Brau
pinions of their fury and bids them shake
their rage upon the wicked; but surely the benski, 0'. yes, the murderer Wears the rash action, for on my rst approach I ftii
172
i
determined to chastise the one, or liberate

the other.
At length, however, with all the compo
sure I could summon, I asked him why he

treated the horse so badly, he answered me
with an oath that he was his own, and he
would use him as he thought proper, at the

same time observing that if I did not imme
diately leave him he would beat me worse
than he had done his horse.
My determination, which had been skaken
in the beginning by the barbarity of his ap
pearance, his impudence had conrmed and
I was again resolved not to desist until I
saw the persecuted animal extricated, which
by the assistance of some passers-by I at
length affected. Their feelings, I am happy
to say, were perfectly congenial with my own;
all concurred in a sentiment of horror for
the master and pity for the slave. The vil
lain was secured; the horse was, as he had
represented him, his own property, and what

rendered the action if possible still more
base, he was the only means he possessed
of procuring a subsistence.
Although this gross treatment to horses

which I have just exemplied is generally
exercised among the vulgar, yet there is a
rened sort of cruelty exercised by many
and gentlemen whose frequent and reiterat

ed peals of laughter made me imagine there
was something laughably interesting on the
who consider themselves respectable, not
gage in the sport, I paid particular attention

to their conversation, and to my surprise
found them busily employed in the delightful
occupation of tearing almost every charac
ter in the room to pieces. Ithanked my for
tunate stars that as I was a stranger I should
escape being noticed; but I was mistaken,
for presently I heard a lady in a more re
mote part of the circle inquire of the per
son who sat next her if she knew who that
tall fellow was who had just entered the room,
at the same time observing that from the
very different in its effects, though rather

more fashionable in its iniction, and it is
with real concern I say, that the gilded cur

riele and dazzling gig frequently contain
disguised barbarians; but the garb of a gen
tleman is too flimsy to conceal them, and
they merely render themselves the more dc

testable, by endeavoring to veil their dc
formitics in the habit of another, and add the
crime of hypocrisy to that of cruelty.But

respect for your patience, which must by this
time be nearly exhausted, warns me to con
clude. Present my best respects to Mr.
Pcaceable, whose productions I have read
with pleasure, although I have not the honor
of boasting his acquaintance. Hoping your
laudable exertions will be crowned with their
merited success,
I remain yours with esteem,

**
I have nothing to add to the communica
Even such, thought I, are the thanks of tion of my friend. Inhumanity is a subject
pretended friendship; such too often the re too little pursued by writers, and too much
ward we frequently receive for our unre practised by men: yet it appears to me that
mitted exertions in the behalf of a person reason would disarm it of its power, and I am
whose welfare does not interest us; and thus under the impression that its eloquence is
are we trampled in the dust by those whom self-sufcient if our readers will but lend it
we have assisted to raise to wealth and great the sober ear of reection.
ness.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
Cruelty (though in every sense of the word
sufciently so) is not so dreadful when exer
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tapis; and eager to learn, that Iinight en
awkwardness of his bow, she supposed it was
his rst introduction to genteel company.

You may believe, sir, I felt a little queerish,
dgetted on my chair, gave a hem or two,

by way of letting her know I had heard the
compliment she was pleased to pass on me,
and to my satisfaction found that I succeed
ed in silencing her for that time at least. I
was about to withdraw when my attention
was arrested by a shrill exclamation from a
lady who I was told was Miss Polly Pert,
(old nick take all pertness, said I mentally)
La, she exclaimed, at the same time flirt
ing her fan, pray observe that awkward
minx, with what an air she carries it; while
looking at her baby face one would not sup

pose that she is sprung from nothing, and
continuing in an audible whisper, why, her
.._
cised towards a fellow-man; he is endowed
with the faculties of reason, he possesses a

mind capable of conceiving, and a spirit cal
culated to retaliate; he is at least on an equal
footing with his antagonist, he sees himself
insulted, and an internal feeling actuates him
to revenge. But when a poor dumb beast is
made the subject of inhuman barbarity it is
an indelible stain upon the character of man.
Formed for our convenience, and depending
for support on our bounty, is it not ungene
rous, is it not unjust to treat them with ri
gor? Reect on this, ye giddy sons of afflu
ence and pride, and let your severity be
softened into kindness.
The horse being the most noble and the
most useful quadruped, in short the most
absolutely necessary for us, I look upon as
entitled to peculiar care; but our compas
sion should certainly be liberally extended
to all, and we should each of us be able to
say in the elegant and humane language of
Cowper
" Oh envy,
Where wilt thou nd a cavern dark enough
To hide thy hateful visage.
Mr. Editor,
In my opininion a numerous class of man

kind is persuaded it was sent into the world
for no other purpose, than to sneer and criti
cise the errors of its neighbors; and can
scarcely be said to exist without the scandal
loving circle.
I Was led to make the above observation,
by remarking, more particularly than I had

lever done previously, the illiberal sarcasms
thrown out by these amiable beings, upon
every person who had become by their su
periority, their envy, even the company pre
sent were not exempted from the animad
versions which their malicious tongues dc
light in uttering. I had always understood
that scandal was the peculiar province of the
female sex, the ignorant part of it, but this
evening witnessed to the contrary.
It was a social party given by a particular
friend of mine for the purpose of enjoying
I would not enter on my list of friends,
Though graced with polishd manners and ne sense, mirth and gaity in a rational degree. After
having gone through the ceremony of intro
Yet wanting sensibility, the man
\Vho'd needlessly set foot upon a worm."
duction, I took a seat near a party of ladies
father, a few years ago, was nothing but a ped

lar, who carried his wealth and family on his
back through every village in the United
States. For-my part, I am surprised how the
forward creature came to be admitted into
the fashionable circles; but wealth, like cha
rity, covers a multitude of faults. I declare I

cant look at her without feeling a great de
sire to inquire the price of pins by the gross.
Do, my dear Foppington, turning to a well
dressed sprig of fashion who sat near her,
oblige me by making the inquiry. I felt my
blood boil, and had he dared to have done so,
I would have felled him to the oor; but my
apprehensions subsided when he returned
the following answer. I-oh, ludliyou pc
1 trify me! Do you think I would honor her

.with my notice? no, my dear madam," he
continued, at the same time casting a glance

, of approbation in a large mirror which re
ected his own pretty person, and setting his
cravat, I have too great an antipathy to any
thing that ever handled a yardstick, (though

your father was a taylor, said I mentally) and
upon honor would not come in contact with
her for all the precious contents of her fa
thers budget. This was followed by a loud
laugh, while. the poor victim of their rude~
1 7 :3
1m:
regard would at least give such idle gentle

men some kind of comequence in life; and
render them an essential service by defend
ing them from the imputation of folly and
labOTt'OU-s' nonsense if not from ignorance.
fortune to be very handsome, entered into
Considering the insignicant part which
conversation, and when divested of a little such characters act in the world, they would
bashfulncss, which in my eyes rendered her seem when compared with that class of man
more interesting, found her in possession of kind exalted by wisdom and learning to be
a mind in the highest state of cultivation. I creatures of quite a different species, pos
spent a most delightful evening listening to sessing a sensorium of a particular structure,
the tones of her mellow voice.
only susceptable of a kind of triing excite
From the female companions of Fopping ment, that shall just discover their superi
ton, I have already obtained satisfaction; tis ority to the brute creation, while it distin
in the assurance that their unfeeling con guishes them from the rational. Thus that
duct will be despised by every heart fraught regular gradation from the meanest insect
with the milk of human kindness, that up to the perfection of intellectual nature is
pities where it must condemn, is silent with greater uniformity maintained. I mean
where the truth cannot be spoken with that the mighty charm from the ourang ou
advantage to the object, and never while tang to sir Isaac Newton should (reasoning
beholding an innocent being sinking beneath from analogy) be lled up to correspond with
the poisonous shafts of calumny, depresses that beautiful, regular step by step ascent
her still lower by neglect, nor shuns her as we discover in all the animal creation; and
which has been so much noticed and admir
contaminated.
ORLANDO.
ed by philosophers. Hence I have some
~00
times fancied the lowest human being pla
For the Repertory.
tress was almost sinking on the floor with
confusion. I felt very much irritated, but the
object of my ire, not altogether relishing my
contemptuous glances, prudently retired, and
l, feeling for the poor girl, who had the mis
An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
ced upon the back of this manly monkey, fol
As useless when it goes as when it stands;

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Camper.
lowed successively by others leaping upon

the [tile according to their different capaci
ties or intellectual resemblance, until we had
It is not a little amusing to take a peep at

the idle part of the world, merely to disco
ver that triing ingenuity which they are
always exercising to cheat time of what they
call her oppressive burthen: we see some
engaged in all the intricate methods of
arrived to sir Isaac or one of the most ac

complished human characters. And when I
have viewed this great pile in my imagina
tion, I could discover that this space being
lled up gave exactly that nice gradation to
the pile of perceptive beings which seemed
wanting; yet as I could not avoid associating
gambling; some in the more common games
with this vision, the idea of attraction of
of pleasure and the sports of the elds; some gravitations," I thought the gentlemen near
of a ner appetite think themselves nobly the basis of such an edice in a very mljllea
engaged, when always stretching the skin sant situation.
and coloring the nose with the good things
But the subject will perhaps be thought
of the earth; whilst others of a more whirl too serious for irony; I only wish to contend
legig temperament (if the faculty will allow for the dignity of that nature with which we
me such an one) are forever occupied in a are all endowed. The purpose for which man
variety of successful and unsuccessful at is created and trusted with that noble pre
tempts to obtain the distinguished honor of rogative reason is a purpose of the utmost
causing some silly mutation in restless fa importance, it calls for the exercise of every
shion. All, all,
latent power in the soul to t it for its divine
" To ll the void of an empty brain.
destination in a future state of promised
Now, as such useless parts of the commu felicity. Is there then a moment for intel
nity, are incompetentto their own charge, and lectual indolence? Can a life be pleasing to
at a loss to kill time with any advantage to God that is not useful to mankind? No. Arise
themselves or the public; one would think, then, ye children of folly, idleness and wealth,
they become proper objects for the protec from the most disgraceful lethargy; shake
of? your disaection for the present and fu
tion of legal authority; then let some long
headed legislator take the hint, and by a wise ture welfare of the soul, and support that
motion in its proper place, we may have this dignity which the rational creation should
the only useless pan of the species placed universally maintain.
Some writers have expressed a belief that
in some public manufactory and furnished
with mechanical apparatus suited to their the faculties of men are all naturally equal,
dim-rem talents. This kind of compassionate and that the great disparity we every where
discover, arises from education, fortune

habits of life, &c. at the same time others
have contended for an innate difference of

intellect, depending upon a different orga
nization; but however such speculations
may effect us, I believe it is very certain, as
the celebrated Locke has observed, that the
fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and

there is often a complaint of a want of parts,
when the fault lies in a want of a due im
provement of them. The soul, says ano
ther writer, has a certain vegetative power

which cannot lie wholly idle; if it is not laid
out and cultivated into a beautiful garden,
it will of itself shoot up into weeds or ow
ers of a wilder growth." If that class of
mankind whom I have hinted at in this pa
per, and who make so large a part of the hu
man species, would restrict their sensual
pleasures and cultivate this intellectual gar

den, it would indeed change the very aspect
of nature. When we behold such a multi
tude of idle and useless beings upon earth,
who seem possessed of no ideas above those
of sense and appetite, we can but exclaim
O rem/10m! 0 mores! I feel for mankind
when they are thus insulted, and in the em
phatical language of the author of Pursuits
of Literature, I make common cause with
all my fellow creatures, and call upon them

to rally round the constitution of our hu
man nature and to support its dignity.
CENSOR.
-.0._
For the Repertory.
Critique on the Laurel IIill qfDella Lira.

Part II.
The second part of this Poem, begins

thus:
Now aming Ethon draws the orb oflight,
In foaming pride, to its meredian heightt
By this it would appear as though there

was but one horse attached to the chariot of
the sun; whereas according to heathen my
thology and the works of antient poets (with
out which they all vanish) there were sup,

posed to have been four,- viz. Ethon, Phle
gon, Eous, and Pyrois: that idea is therefore

incorrect; but admitting it to be proper,
would not the line read better
Now aming Ethan draws the car oflight,l
for although the sun is allowed to be an orb,

yet the notion of drawing it, in that form,
appears to me rather unnatuml; the meta

phor in this case is not properly completed.
I also think that had the three first words of
the second line been enclosed in a parenthe
sis, it would have rendered the passage clear
er than it now stands.
Repetition, and play on words, in the days
of Shakespeare were tolerated, they might

have been considered as embellishments, for
174
M
which reasons we so frequently see them in

the productions of this inimitable bard; but
they are now universally agreed to be offen
his next line the measure is not entirely

faultless; the same may be said of the forty
seventh, though on the other extreme.
If we neglect a strict adherence to mea
moment honest and sincere, in the next, the

tongue of slander is let loose; and thus the
gues a want of words in the author, when sure, in the true sense of the word, the charm
the same ones are frequently employed with-i of poetry is utterly destroyed: for it is as
out effect, or injudiciously: for such I con
impossible that it can exist without harmony,
sider Della Liras repetition in the ninth and as that the animal frame can be supported
tenth lines, where it is evidently done to without food. It is therefore an object of
primary importance, and the knowledge of
complete the measure:
its absolute necessity should be imprinted on
" Among the "new the meets these roses yield.
0! then I closely search the Closet bowers."
the mind of every commencing candidate
Sweets is also made use of more than for poetic fame. In this respect, Della Lira
once, not far distant, in the foregoing and is frequently censurable, but I attribute it
succeeding verses. There are here several merely to a careless habit, which it is to be
lines, which to speak with candor, I must hoped he will labor to conquer.
call disgusting.
AMATOR POETICIE.
such friends are the worst of foes, more to
sive; and knowing this, it undoubtedly ar
The eleventh one, however, though of a
forbidding appearance, presents a ne idea.
malevolence of the hypocrite is displayed.

This is pusillanirnity of the basest grade, and
be dreaded than the most professed enemy.
The world abounds with them, and they, too
frequently, disturb the tranquility of social

life. Down with such miscreants, consign
them to the den of oblivion and disgrace!

Is it demanded, what are the character~
istics of a true friend? I answer, conde in
that man only, who, amid the changes and

vicissitudes of human affairs, remains, un
moved, the same. Trust him for your friend,
who makes his profession in the time of

trouble as well as in the hour of joy; in short,
conde in no man, who bestows his regard
from selsh motives. A true friend is in

For the Repertory.
Blest bowers, that softly breathe the soul of

owers."
I would here beg leave to mention to

youthful poets in general, the extreme in
elcgance of suffering a word to remain in the
body of a line of the same termination as that
which concludes it.
His eighteenth and nineteenth lines may
with justice be termed handsome; and his
twentieth and twenty-rst are also entitled to
favor: I am, however, by no means pleased
with his twenty-fourth and twenty~fth, and

the introduction of a shr/z/tcrd in the next
line, subjects the author to the same sentence
about to have been passed upon Alonzo re

specting the .dmerican nightingale. I am
fixed in the opinion that the poetry of our
country would gain propriety, and lose none
of its elegance by expelling them both.
His thirty-second and thirty-third lines,
and more particularly the thirty-third, are
extremely beautiful:
" The silver bosom of the sparkling stream."
But the next couplet obscures its lustre,

and thus does Della Lira, as many other
authors, by sudden and unwarrantable de

scents,
Unnerve the vigor of deserved praise.
Placing part of the letters of a persons

name, as he has done in his thirty-sixth and
forty-second lines, is very unfavorable to the
smooth ow of poetry; ctious appellations
would be much preferable. In his thirty

ninth line he disregards the accuracy of lan
guage by applying the term game" to sh;
his lexicon will corroborate the truth of my
assertion here. In his fortieth and forty-rst,

where he describes Lws shing, as en
deavoring to disco vet"
deed diicult to be found; but to be possess

ed of one, is to have drawn a great prize,

'e rejoice in the true possession of a where thousands nd a blank. Let him who
friend, as a gift of inestimable value, an ac
is thus enriched endeavor to cherish that
quisition so rare, that he who enjoys it, does friendship which is so valuable, by recipro
well to make sure of it. The exercise of cating affections. Thus the band of union
friendship to others is often a source of real may be rendered more permanent, the plea
felicity, and there can be no doubt, that a man sures of social life more complete, and the
may have more satisfaction in this way, than happiness of man might thus be consum
when he is the object of another's friendship. mated.
But there are those, who style themselves
The advantages arising from pure friend
our friends, who are only enemies in disguise. ship are truly important, whether exercised
These are numerous, and we should ever be between nations or individuals. It maintains
on our guard against their deceptions.
order and harmony in our concerns with
While the world goes well with us and men, and when well regulated, contributes
fortune smiles around, there are many, who much to health, as well as happiness.
are ready to sit at our table, to make free
That peace and tranquility should pervade
with our glass, and as long as this continues, the earth and stimulate all the actions of
it is well; but when the appearance of things men, it is necessary that the benign inu
is reVersed, when adversity bears hard upon ence of friendship should become univer
us, how altered the scene! They who were sally prevalent. This alone can dispel the
our friends at the feast, are now the revilers horrid clantors of war, and quench the ery
and backbiters of our misfortunes. When thirst for human slaughter.
the gloomy shade of poverty mar our coun Friendship has power to quell the angry storm,
To lull the passions of the jealous breast,
tenances, where are our pretended friends?
With our prosperity they have departed, and To make the world from vicious ways reform
And calm the envious soul ofman to rest.
are no longer the companions of our lives.
T. D. M.
\Ve have tested their friendship, and what is
it? Empty as the air, and dissipated as the
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dew of the morning.
THE
CONTRAST. N0. III.
He who has few friends and that few sin
T0 PI'IY.
cere, is happier than he who with many is
Pity, coeval with Omnipotence,
surrounded by a host of hypocrites.
Come. to my breast thy soothing power impart;
There are some who affect great regard
Do thou eject each harsher feeling thence,
merely fbr the sake of advancing their own
And reign forever m my yielding heart.
interest, without any real desire to benet
others. Such characters are odious and con Forbid my soul the needy to oppress,
Or cause one tear to tremble in their eye;
temptible; we should keep aconstant eye on
their evil machinations, and when afavor
Teach me to raise the wretched from distress,

And ease the breast that heave: the lab'ring Sign!
" A crowded school to please his wellform'd mind.

u
able opportunity offers, we should expose

I cannot agree with him as to the method their treachery to public view.
he has taken of displaying the perfection, or
There are others, who, 'to use an old
proper regulation of the human faculties. In adage, carry two faces; they appear at one
\Vhile bounteous Heaven upon his pearly throne,

Beams from his glorious face thy purest ray; '
Shall man the noble privilege disown,
Or when his God commands him, disobey?
Ah! gentle cherub, let the creature know,
Who deaf to pity scorns the Heavn born power,

That as he treats aliction here below,
And his knife which he plungd in her bosom so

fair,
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The changing seasons, and the verdant mead,
The hills and rivers and the fertile elds.
He rceltingly drew from the wound.

The enthusiastic feelings of her breast,
So Heaven shall treat him at a future hour!

TO CRUELTY.
Hence, dreadful being, whose unfeeling heart,

To mercys moving. bland persuasion deaf;
Ne'er deignd a tear of pity to impart,
Or stoop'd to yield the sinking wretch relief.
The groans ofgrief are music to the soul,
lf thou, destructive cruelty, art there,
Thine eyes in fiendlike joy triumphant roll,
To hear the cries of anguish and despair.
Her lover with desperate courage assaild

The barbarous villain in vain,
Each elfort to rescue her fatally faild,
Oer Henry unarm'd the dread monster prevaild,

And the charming Amelia was slain.
Atid shall the Olympus be so highly famed,

Compared with Vernon, \Vashingtons retreat?
" Lie there!" cried the wretch, with exulting de
light,
" And no more my embraces control."
Or shall Scamander's rivulet be named,

\Vhen we the mighty Oronoke repeat?
Shall Grampian hills and Grongar be renown'd,
Then quickly he vanish'd before Henrys sight,

In the glooms of the forests unsearchable night,
As dark as his own vengeful soul.
Shall Forgusan with water lilies crown'd,

Sing Scotia's rivers gliding through the shade?
Each night to the place where the maids bntcher'd
And shall not here some kindred hard he found,
Hence to thy hell and ll the world no more,

Relentless end, with lifes empurpled ood;
Earth but for thee had neer been stain'd with gore,
Nor monarchs waded to their thrones thro blood!
Glowing with wishes for her country's famc;

And in expostulation thus express
The noble hopes her generous thoughts iname:
And \Vindsors pastoral elegance displayd;
form,
In the grasp of the grave doth repose,
To add soft harmony to rural themes,
And cause the shepherd's tread on classic ground.

Regardless alike of false spirits alarm,
For rue, ifeer I stoop to own thy sway,

Or aid thy power unfeelingly to spread,
May Heaven exile me fromthe realms of day,
And hurl thy ercest fury on my head!
OTHELLO.
Or the ravaging breath of the merciless storm,

Her lover incessantly goes.
Near Eries banks, or smooth Ohio's streams?

A Dyer or a Mickle here may rise;
And as the objects so the verse excel:
Oerthe spot may the doves of affection still mourn,

May the lambkins of innocence play,
Some Burns with Shakespeare to contend the prize:

As " natures master piece is writing well.
For affection like hers \vtll sure seldom return:

Let her sex from her innocence, modesty learn,
Some Alsop or a Dutton may describe,
For the Repertory.

The rude sublime his native country wears:
And shun vice's infamous way.

HENRY AND AMELIA.
Through the night's dismal gl00ms to the realms of

the dead
Poor Henry in agony stole;
The owls screamd portentiously over his head,

On his mind the fell ends of misfortune had fed,
And pleasure forsaken his soul.
Then, ye wicked, no more " vent your venomous

spleen
Niagras falls the Mississippi's size,

And the vast waters that her bosom bears:
'Gztinst the maiden of virtue sincere;

Cast your eyes with regret on this sorrowful scene,
But let him not, through a weak pride, despise

The rural hamlets and the happy swains,
O'er her body no monument left its proud mien,

But her turf claims humanitys tear.
'lHADDEUS.
Where Lahaskeek and Cuttelaussee rise,
And water with their stream. the fertile plains.

But in an age unlearnd and somewhat rude,
His love he once lavishd upon a dear maid,

As mild as the virgin of May,
Oer her checks all the blushes of purity play'd,
He often had rambled with her in the shade
To beguile tedious hours away.
For the Repertory.

RURAL POETRYSPRING.
The jolly boatman down the ebbing stream,
Let this sufce to inspire the youthful mind

With lively zeal to be yet more improved,
And make each useful talent more rened.
J. w.
By the clear moonlight plying on his way,

As chaste as the ower whose delicate hue
Flies the sun in his mid day career,
So the eye of Amelia, sparkling in blue,
Would shrink from a lovers tot- passionate view,
And its lustre be-dim with a tear.
With prosperous fortune to inspire the theme,

His rustic music measures even time,
As in the crystal waves he dips his oar,

And echo pleased returns the tuneful chime,
Though modesty shone in her heavenly air,

Which embarrass'd the diffident swain,
Yet Henry was good as Amelia was fair,

As a suitor he kneel'd, and his eloquent prayer
To resist she endeavord in vain.
Mist with soft murmurs from the list'ning shore.

The lamp of love pursues the day's decline,
And wearied nature seeks a soft repose,
The stars bright shining and the sky serene,
Silence seems listening as the water ows.
His passion he told by the side of a stream,
\Vhich murmurd his tale through the grove,

And when Phebus no more tinged the hills with his
From all around the inspiration comes,

As the Wild breezes of the spring advance;
The opening buds dispense their sweet perfumes,
beam,
Their souls were aroused by the rapturous theme;
But innocent still was their love.

To her heart its warm currents now pleasingly ow
In the channels of life through her breast;
The orbs of her bosom with ecstacy glow,

She fancied long years of new transport to know,
By Henrys affections carest.
Their pledges exchanged, on the cheek of the maid
lobahtlnbia.
Sings a sweet farewel to the parting day.
And trembling light-beams on the eddies dance.

So when the tide oflife serenely ows,
And healths sweet gales the prosperous voyage
To Corrcs/zondenla. Lanetet will be at

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\Vith nature's charms the enraptured fancy glows,

And the gay scenes the poets themes befriend.
The mornings fragrance, the refreshing shade,
The murmuring waters and the cooling breeze,
The lofty mountains and the ri ugh cascade,

The youth seald his vows with a kiss;
A re broke out in Alexandria, on Mon

day evening last, which destroyed between
30 and 40 houses, principally warehouses.
Damages estimated at from four to re hun~
tlretl thousand dollars.
Delight the senses and the fancy please:
When that moment there rushd from an ambushing

shade,
A villain who brandished a murderous blade,
Which nippd the fund buds of their bliss.

His eyes which were gleaming with cruelty's glare
Were ferocious to view when he frownd;
He twisted his hand in Amelias hair
\Vhen the dark shadow of the sailing cloud,

That passes swift along the distant brow,
Or the bleak snow shower comes, and roaring loud,
With a rough blast makes all the forest bow.
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VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE or GENERAL PUTNAM.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, IBM).
No. 2.}.
His disposition was as frank and gene

rous, as his mind was fearless and indepen
John Pope, of Salem, by whom he, had ten
dent. He disguised nothing; indeed, he seem
I764. Some time after, he married Mrs. Gar

diner, widow of the late Mr. Gardiner, of
Israel Putnam, who, through a regular ed incapable of disguise. Perhaps, in the

gradation of promotion, became the senior intercourse he was ultimately obliged to
major general in the army of the Unites have with an artful world, his sincerity, on
States, and next in rank to general W'ash
ington, was born at Salem, in Providence,
now the state of Massachusetts, on the 7th
some occasions, outwent his discretion. Al
with two other brothers, came from the south
time he went to Boston, he was insulted for
of England, and were among the rst set

tlers of Salem.
When we thus behold a person, from the
humble walks of life, starting unnoticed in
the career of fame, and, by an undeviating
progress through a life of honor, arriving at
the highest dignity in the state, curiosity is
strongly excited, and philosophy loves to
trace the path of glory, from the cradle of ob
scurity to the summit of elevation.
rusticity by a boy of twice his size and age;

after bearing the sarcasms until his patience
was worn out, he challenged, engaged, and
vanquished his unmannerly antagonist, to
the great diversion of a crowd of spectators.
While a stripling, his ambition was-to per
though he had too much suavity in his na

ture to commence aquarrel, he had too much
of January, 1718. His father, captain Joseph sensibility not to feel, and too much honor
Putnam, was the son of John Putnam, who, not to resent an intended insult. The rst
children. He lost the wife of his youth in
Gardiners Island, by whom he had no issue.

She died in 1777.
In the year 1739, he removed to Pomfret,
an inland fertile town in Conneticut, 40 miles
east of Hartford; having there purchased a
considerable tract of land, he applied him
self successfully to agriculture.
The rst years on anew farm are not, how
ever, exempt from disasters and disappoint
ments, which can only be remedied by stub
born and patient industry. Our farmer, suf

ciently occupied in building, a house and
barn, felling woods, making fences, sowing

grain, planting orchards, and taking care of
form the labor of a man, and to excel in
his stock, had to encounter, in turn, the ca
athletic diversions. In that rude but mascu

line age, whenever the village youth assem
ble on their usual occasions of festivity,
lamities occasioned by drought in summer,
Although our ancestors, the rst settlers of pitching the bar, running, leaping and wrest
this land, amidst the extreme pressures of ling were favorite amusements. At such gym
poverty and dangers, early instituted schools nastic cxercises (in which during the heroic
for the education of youth designed for the times of ancient Greece and Rome, conquest
learned professions; yet it was thought suf was considered as the promise of future mil
cient to instruct those destined to labor on itary fame) he bore the palm from almost ev
the earth,'in reading, writing, and such ru ery ring.
diments of arithmetic, as might be requisite
Before the renements of luxury, and the
for keeping the accounts of their little trans consequent increase of expense had render
actions with each other. Few farmers sons ed the maintenance of a family inconvenient
had more advantages, none less. In this state or burdensome in America, the sexes enter
of mediocrity it was the lot of young Putnam ed into matrimony at an early age. Compe
to be placed. His early instruction was not tence, attainable by all, was the limit of pur~
considerable, and the active scense of life in suit. After the hardships of making a new
which he was afterwards engaged, prevent settlement were overcome, and the evils of
ed the opportunity of great literary imprOve penury removed, the inhabitants enjoyed, in
ment. His numerous letters, though decient the lot of equality, innocence and security,
in scholastic accuracy, always display the scenes equally delightful with those pictured
goodness of his heart, and frequently the by the glowing imagination of the poets in
Strength of his native genius. He had a laco their favorite pastoral life, or fabulous golden
nic mode ofexpression, and an unaffected cpi age. Indeed the condition of mankind was
grammatic turn characterised his writings. never more enviable. Neither disparity of age
To compensate partially for the deciency and fortune, nor schemes of ambition and
of education (though nothing can remove or grandeur, nor the pride or ambition and av
counterbalance the inconveniences experi arice of highminded, mercenary parents, in-l
enced from it in public life), he derived from terposed those obstacles to the union of con-i
his parents the source of innumerable advan genial souls, which frequently in more polish- ;
tages in the stamina of a vigorous constitu ed
felicity
society
of prevent,
the connubial
imbitter,
state.
or distroy
Mr. Putnamf
all the
tion. Nature, liberal in bestowing on him bo
(lily strength, hardiness and activity, was by no before he attained the twenty rst year of .
means parsimonious in mental endowments. his age, married Miss Pope, daughter of Mr.
blasts in harvest, loss of cattle in winter, and
the desolation of his sheep fold by wolves.

In one night he had seventy ne sheep and
goats killed, besides many lambs and kids
wounded. This havock was committed by a

she wolf, which with her annual whelps had
for several years infested the vicinity. The
young were commonly destroyed'by the vig
ilance of the hunters, but the old one was too
sagacious to come within reach of gunshot;

upon being closely pursued, she would gen
erally fly to the western woods, and return
the next winter with another litter of whelps.
This wolf, at length, became such a seri
ous nuisance, that Mr. Putnam elllClcd into
a combination with ve of his neighbors, to

hunt alternately until they could destroy her.
Two, by rotation, were to be constantly in
pursuit. It was known, that, having lost the

toes from one foot, by a steal trap, she made
one track shorter than the other. By this

vestige, the pursuers recognised, in a light
snow, the rout of this pernicious animal.
Having followed her to Connecticut river,
and found she had turned back, in a direct
course towards Pomfrt-t, they immediately

returned, and, by ten o'clock the next morn
ing, the bloodhounds had driven her into a
den, about 3 miles distant from the house of
Mr. Putnam. The people soon collected, with

dogs, guns, straw, re and sulphur, to attack
the common enemy. \Vith this apparatus.

several unsuccessful efforts were made to
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force her from the den. The hounds came

back, badly wounded, and refused to return.
The smoke of blazing straw had no effect;

nor did the fumes of burnt brimstone, with
which the cavern was lled, compel her to

quit her retirement. \Vearied with such fruit
less attempts (which hadbrought the time to
ten oclock at night), Mr. Putnam tried once
more to make his dog enter, but in vain; he
proposed to his negro man to go down into

the cavern and shoot the wolf; the negro de
clined the hazardous service. Then it was that
their master, angry at the disappointment,
and declaring that he was ashamed to have
ful anxiety, hearing the growling of the wolf,

and supposing their friend to be in the most
imminent danger, drew him forth with such
celerity that his shirt was stripped over his
head and his skin severely lacerated.
After he had adjusted his clothes and had
loaded his gun with nine huckshot, holding
a torch in one hand and the musket in the
other, he descended a second time. \Vhen
he drew nearer than before, the wolf assum
ing a still more erce and terrible appear

ance, howling, rolling her eyes, snapping her
teeth, and, dropping her head between her
legs, was evidently in the attitude and on the

a coward in his family, resolved himself to point of springing at him. At the critical
destroy the ferocious beast, lest she should instant he levelled and red at her head.
escape through some unknown ssure of Stunned with the shock and suffocated with
the rock. His neighbors strongly remon the smoke he immediately found himself
strated against the perilous enterprise; but drawn out of the cave. But, having refresh
he, knowing that wild animals were intimi ed himself and permitted the. smoke to dis
dated by re, and having provided several sipate, he went down the third time. ()nce
strips of birch bark, the only combustible more he came within sight of the wolf, who
material which he could obtain that would appearing very passive, he applied the torch
oord light in this deep and darksome cave, to her nose, and perceiving her dead, he took
prepared for his descent. Having, according hold of her ears, and then kicking the rope
ly, devested himself of his coat and waistcoat, (still tied round his legs) the people above,
and having a long rope fastened round his with no small exultation, dragged them both
legs, by which he might be pulled back at out together!
Be calm, my gentle girl," replied Brau

benski, and think of this no more. Have
not your mother and myself over treated you

with the warmest love?"
You have, indeed, cried Roselle, far
be it from me to accuse you of any want of

affection, but how can I observe so much
mystery around me, and not express a wish

to have it unmvelled?"
Your curiosity is very natural, my dear
Roselle, said Braubcnski, but yet repress
it, at least for some short time."
Since you request me, my father," an
swered Roselle, I will endeavor to obey.
But methinks a greater gloom oerspreads

your mind, than when you left us last; may
I not inquire the cause?"
Believe me, Roselle," said the old peo
sant, struck with the remembrance of former
years, though a frown is often seated on
my brow and a harsh reply may nd a pas

sage from my breast, it was not always so!
Malda knows there was a time when I was
blithsome as the lark.
I do, indeed, rejoined Malda, we once
were
It does not matter now, my dear Malda,
said Braukenski, what we once were; let
(To be continued.)
a concerted signal, he'entered, head foremost,
the recollection of what we are now, check

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with the blazing torch in his hand.

The aperture of the den, on the east side
of a very high ledge of rocks, is about two
feet square, from thence it deccnds, oblique
ly,15 feet, then, running horizontally aboutlO
feet more, it ascends gradually 16 feet tow
ards its termination. The sides of this subter
raneous cavity are composed of smooth and
solid rocks, which seem to have been divi
ded from each other by some former earth
quake. The top and bottom are also of stone,
and the entrance, in winter, being covered
with ice, is very slippery. It is in no place

high enough for a man to raise himself up
right, nor in any part more than three feet
in width.
Having gropcd his passage to the hori
zontal part of the den, the most terrifying
darkness appeared in front of the dim circle
of light afforded by his torch. It was silent
as the house of death. None but monsters of
the dcsart hail ever before explored this so
litary mansion of horror. He, cautiously pro
the sad remembrance of what we have been?

For the Repertory.
My dear father, cried Roselle, you

A ROMANCE.
CHAPTER VI.
Meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile and smile and be a villain!

Shal'rpcarc.
Corruption of the best is worst;
And foul ambition like an evil wind,
Blights the fair blossom of: noble mind. Cobb.
When I left my cottage for \Varsaw,

proceeded Braubenski, I expected to re
turn at least by nightfall, but circumstances
Tis gone, tis gone, exclaimed Brati

benski, hastily drawing his handkerchief
across his eyes, tis gone, and all is forgot

ten! ()1 my poor boy! no matter, in that sigh,
his memory ed'.
The mother could not contain her feel
ings, but at the mention of her son gave
vent to her anguish in a ood of tears.
of various natures in the sale of my produce,
Poor boy! echoed Roselle, and have

I had a brother then, and lived this long,
hindered my departure till after night.

My dear father, interrupted Roselle,
brothers love? ah! my father, where is, what
and never known the fond endearments of a
how could you expose yourself to the dan

gers of the night, as well from banditti as
has become of my brother!
from the storm? Why not remain at \Var

saw all night?
ny, then softening his voice, he continued,
No dangers, answered the peasant,
should have urged me to remain at War

saw! For sixteen years, Roselle, one night,
except that one which nearly had been fatal

he slowly mounted on his hands and knees, to thee, has not been passed by me without
until he discovered the glaring eyeballs of the cottage, where you and Malda rested.
the wolf, who was sitting at the extremity
And wherefore, my father? said Ro
of the cavern. Starting, at the sight of the selle, is there so much danger surround
re, she ghashed her teeth and gave a sul ing our little home, that we should fear to
len growl. As soon as he had made the ne dwell alone for one short night? My dear
cessary discovery he kicked the rope, as a father, I have observed of late a strange mys
signal to be drawn up. The people at the tery accompanying all you say concerning
mouth of the den, who had listened with pain me, I pray you tell me why it is?
ceeding onward, came to the ascent, which
are unhappy, ah! see, may I not wipe the

tear away that starts upon your cheek?
Girl! girl! cried Braubenski in ago

pardon me, Roselle; but come, no more
of this, let me proceed with what I have to

say.
Pray you proceed, my dear Braubenski,"
said Malda, and keep me no longer in sus
pense.
As I have already said, preceeded the
peasant, various circumstances retarded my

departure from W'arsaw until after night."
Heaven be praised for your safety! eja
culated Malda.
I left iVarsaw," continued Braubenski,
as the hammer of the castle clock fell to

pronounce the hour of nine, and before I had
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proceeded three miles from the city, the

moon began to withdraw her light, andl
plainly perceived indications of an approach
ing tempest.
~' Ah! my dear Braubenski, interrupted
his wife, why were you so rash as to'con
tinuc your journey, in spite of your know
ledge of the dangers that surrounded you? A
miracle has saved you!
The sleepless eye of Providence, my
good dame, returned the peasant, is ever
upon his dependent creatures, and happy is

he who trusts himself to the care of Omni
potencc? He can never be wrong whodepends
on the guidance of Heaven! But let me pro
ceedzl had just reached the forests which
surround the castle, when the storm com
menced: the rain fell in torrents, and ming

ling elements rendered the conict awe in
spiring and tremendous! my fur cloak began
to grow heavy with water, when I resolved,
amid the almost impenetrable darkness, to

take shelter beneath a tree and wait awhile
to see if the storm abated."
What a perilous situation you must have
been in," exclaimed Roselle.
I could not,"
continued Braubenski,
possibly see under what tree I should be

most secure, therefore I tried a number, and
under the one, where I received the least of
the heavy rain, I xed myself, and unbur

thening myself of my cloak, wrung what wa
ter I could out of it, and wrapping it round
me, I determined to rest there for some short
time."
Ah! said Roselle, how unhappy should
my mother and I have been had we known
your situation."
near enough to be discovered, that they were

Truro and VVcineet, two faithful servants
of Ferresburgh's lord, and who have been ed to rest, in which state let us leave them
now some months absent from the castle! until morning, and return to Linhault and
Indeed. said Malda, returning at that his adventurous squire.
UBALDO.
time?"
~
(To be continued.)
do
Tis true;" replied the peasant, they
Mr. Editor,
soon approached near enough for me to hear
them, in spite of the howling of the storm."
By giving the following a place in your
Thus," said T ruro to his companion, useful and entertaining paper, you will con
has ended our six months search for the fer a favor on many of your readers, and par
daughter of the murdered Sobeiski!
ticularly on your friend and subscriber, B.
Of whom?" exclaimed Malda starting
For something just and glorious, I trust,"

replied Braubenski, therefore, good Malda,
have patience."
Heaven direct us! returned the good
dame.
Braubenski proceeded:
Yes, replied the companion of Truro,
our search has ended as it begun; I won
der, what our lord will say when he hears

of our fruitless attempt.
Ha! hal hal, replied Truro, hell be
shockingly grieved, no doubtl
llow handsomely, cried \Veinflcet, he
Blindness to the future, as well as to
events that are passing at a distance from
Yes, yes," ansvvered Truro, but he
us," remarked Braubenski, is one of the gave my orders.

I wonder, continued \Vcineet, if
greatest mercies that Heaven has bestowed
upon his creaturesbut to proceed
ever he had any intentioxrof recompcnsing
I had not long seated myself, when there the daughter for his injuries to her father!
appeared full before my view the glimmer
Most assuredly, said Truro with a
of a distant taper.
sneer, he meant to send her to her father!"
I shudder! said Roselle, looking fear and here the villain drew forth a dagger from
fnlly around the apartment.
his belt, and exclaimed, this would have
I could plainly perceive," continued the

peasant, that it approached me, and as l
been her passport had we found her,_and

they both proceeded forward.
was alone and almost unarmed, I arose, and
Too horrible relationl cried Roselle,
getting behind the'body of the tree, resolved
shuddering at the idea that Ferresburgh the
to move round it according to the side it

might advance.
Had you not time," said his wife, to
avoid the danger before it approached near
you?
'
father of her beloved Linhault, was the cause
I had," replied Braubenski, but an ir

count, compelled me to remain, and observz
the persons who bore the torch: judge ul

my astonishment, to nd, when they drew
\
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HINDOOS.
from her seat.

Among the many deplorable superstitions
Braubenski immediately took her gently of this enslaved and misguided people, the
by the hand, and seating her again, said in a following horrible instances are too shocking
signicant tone
to humanity to be believed, were they not
Yes, these honest servants, and doubtless attested by unquestionable authority.
their master knows that Thadia the Heiress
THE BURNING rrr.
of Sobeiski is yet alive!
I have been (says a gentleman in Cal
Merciful Providence! for what are we cutta) an eye witness of a most melancholy
reserved!" cried the astonished and agitated transaction, the sad consequence of the ig
IVlalda.
norance and superstition that reign in Hin
contrives to play the hypocrite; why, even I

at rst believed he wished to restore the
maid to her inheritance.
resistible curiosity, for which I cannot ac
which your fathers story must have created.

The inhabitants of the cottage now retir
of Sobeiskis death.
I followed these villains, continued
Braubcnski, at a convenient distance, and
heard them express their astonishment that
one Mal'tix should be alive, but who this
Martix is they did not say.

'lis very mysterious!" exclaimed Malda,
~ come to your chamber, my Roselle, and
endeavor to calm the perturbation oi mind
dostan. I saw an aged mun throw himself into

a pit ten feet deep, and half full of combus
tibles which had been set on re. This man
had made himself a voluntary victim to pre
serve, as he thought, the lives of his chil
dren, who were at the same time attacked

by a dangerous and epidemical disease.
When this distemper breaks out among
the Hindoos, they believe most religiously
that one of them must die to save the rest.
The poor old man was thoroughly pcrsuad
ed, that the lives of his children could not
be preserved, if he did not oer himself up
as a sacrice for them. I used every argu
ment with himself, with his wife, his bro
thers and his sisters, to convince him and
them of the absurdity of such an opinion,
and the guilt of suicide. But all was in do;

they were all equally deaf to the reasons I
offered: and thinking at last that I intended
to prevent, by force, this hon-id sacrice,
they threw themselves at my feet, and beg

ged, with tears in their eyes, that I would
not oppose the resolution of the old man.
The selfdcvotcd victim being seated on
the brink of the pit, raised his aged hands I
to heaven, and prayed with the greatest fer
vor. After he had remained half an hour in
that posture, four of his nearest relations
helped him on his feet, and walked with him
ve times round the pit; all of them calling

upon Alum and Samrum, two of their saints.
During this ceremony, the women wear tear
ing their hair, beating their breasts, and
roaring in a most horrible manner. The four
relations-at last let. go their hold of the old
man, who immediately threw himself head
long into the ery pit, and not a groan was
heard from him. The bystanders had each a
18G)
M m
spade in his hand, and immediately began to of the right hand, she marked. those near
ll the 'pit with earth, so that the old man her to whom she wished to show the last act
might be said to be both burned and buried of attention. As at this time I stood close to
alive. Two of his children were present at her, she observed me attentively, and with
this horrid spectacle, the one only seven the the color marked me on the forehead. She
other eight years old; and they alone of all might be about 24- or 25 years of age,a
the spectators seemed to be affected: as to time of life when the bloom of beauty has
the women, they returned home with the generally ed the check in India; but still
greatest sangfroz'd possible. Such an event she preserved a sufcient share to prove that
is an object of glory to the surviving rela she mast have been handsome: her gure
tions; and the day on which a wretched vic was small, but elegantly turned; and the form
tim to superstition is thus selfdevoted, is a of her hands and arms was particularly beau
tiful. Her dress was a loose robe of white
day of (rium/zh to his whole family.
flowing drapery, that extended from her
THE BURNING rim-z.
The inhuman practice of burning wo head to her feet. The place of the sacrice
men with their husbands is very frequent at was higher up on the bank of the river, 100
the present day. It prevails most in the yards or more from the spot where We now
Mahratta dominions, and in the countries of stood. The pile was composed of dried
the ancient rajahs, where instances of the branches, leaves and rushes, with a door on
kind are frequently to be met with. Their one side, and arched and covered on the top:
law says, it is proper for a woman to burn by the side of the door stood a man with a
herself with her husbands corpse;" and the lighted brand. From the time the woman
Braminsr teach that those who burn them appeared, to the taking up the body to con
selves with their husbands, shall be exalted vey it to the pile, might occupy a space of
to the Sutlee (or highest sphere) where the half an hour, which was employed in prayer
god Brhima (the supreme) and his parti with the Bramins, in attention to those who
stood near her, and in conversation with her
cular favorites reside.
A number of instances have been given relations. When the body was taken up she
to the public by Europeans who have been followed close to it, attended by the chief
witnesses of the miserable scene. Two cases Bramin; and when it was deposited in the
may give the reader some idea of this bar pile, she bowed to all around her, and en
tered without speaking. The moment she
barous rite:
lst. The rst is thus described by Mr. entered the door was closed; the re was put
Hodges, in his travels in India pa. 8l3. to the combustibles, which instantly amed,
The person whom I saw was of the Bhyse and immense quantities of dried wood and
(or merchant) cast; upon my repairing to the other matters were thrown upon it. This
spot on the banks of the river where the ce last part of the ceremony was accompanied
remony was to take place, I found the body with the shouts of the multitude, who now
of the man on the bier, and covered with
linen, already brought down, and laid at the
edge of the river. At this time (about ten

in the morning) only a few people were as
sembled, who displayed the most perfect
apathy and indifference at the catastrophe
that was to take place. After waiting a con
siderable time the wife appeared, attended
by the Bramins, and music, with some few
relations. The procession was slow and so

lemn, the victim moved with a steady and
rm step; and, apparently with a perfect
composure of countenance, approached close
to the body of her husband, where for some
time they halted. She then addressed those

who were near her, with composure, and
without the least trepidation of voice, or
change of countenance. She held in her left
hand a cocoa nut, in which was a red color
mixed up; and, dipping in it the forenger
1' The Bramins are the ecclesiastics of the coun
uy. successors to the Brncbmmu, who were a
branch of the ancient Gymnosophists, or philoso.
pliers of India.
became numerous, and the whole seemed
showing the least sign of grief or compas

sion. Alas! said she, what further comes of
all human happiness? I am sensible I am
rhrowl'ng myself headlong into hell! Thesc
words struck all the spectators with horror:
she had a christian woman in her service,
who frequently discoursed with her con

cerning the truths of revealed religion, in
order to persuade her to embrace christi
anity, but without success. She having spoke
thus, boldly turned her face to the pile, and
having called upon her gods, ung herself
into the midst of the flames. The second of
these women was the sister of Rays, a prince
of the blood, who assisted at that detestable
ceremony: when he received the jewels from

his sister with which she was adorned, he
broke out into tears; embracing her most

tenderly: she seemed unmoved at it, and with
a resolute countenance, looking sometimes
at the
cried
which
threw
pile, sometimes at the assistants, she

with a loud voice, Sheeva! Sheeva!
is the name of one of her idols, and
herself into the ames, as the rst
had done.The other women followed her

soon after; some of them appeared compos
ed, and others were cast down and bewil
dered. One of them, frighted above the rest,
ran to a christian soldier, who was present,
and begged of him to save her; but he,

stunned with surprise, pushed the unfortu
nate creature from him into the glowing pit,
and retired immediately; but so terried,
that he soon fell ill of a fever and frenzy, of
which he died the night following. What
ever intrepidity some of these women dis
covered at rst, yet, as soon asthey felt the
flames, they roared in a most dreadful man
ner, and tumbling over each other, strove to
gain the brim of the pit; but in vain, for the

a mass of confused rejoicing.
2d. The second instance is contained in a assistants prevented it by throwing upon
them large pieces of wood. The next day,
letter from Father Martin, a Jesuit missi
onary in Madura; inserted in the second the Bramins gathered their bones, and threw
volume pa. 156-7 of Propagation of Chris them into the sea. The pit was levelled, a tem
tianity;" in these words: The prince of ple built on the spot, and the deceased prince,
Marava dying in 1710, his wives, to the num with his wives, reckoned among the deities.
sunrise ALIVE.
ber of forty-seven, were buried with his
Craufurd has the following observation:
body in the following manner.They dig
ged a deep ditch without the town, and in it Some Hindoos, though few, bury the dead;
erected a pile of wood, on the top of which and it is said that among these it is the duty
the deceased was laid, richly clothed and of the widow to bury herself with the body
adorned; when they had set this on re, with of her husband. The religious ceremonies
a world of ceremonies performed by the being performed,she descends into the grave
Bramins, that company of unfortunate wo with him, and taking the body in her arms,
men appeared, covered with jewels, and is with it covered with the earth. In the
adorned with owers, like so many victims countries in which I have been, says he, I
designed for the sacrice. They walked seve have heard of two instances of this horrid
ral times about the pile, the heat of which ceremony!
was perceived at a great distance. The chief
Bernier, also, a French author, speaking
of them having addressed the successor of of this barbarous rite, says, Au lien de
the late prince, resigned the dagger of the brulcrces femmes qui veulent mouriraprs
deceased into his hands, who took it without
la mort de leur maria, ils les enterrent peu
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Mm
5. peu, routes 'ui-ues, jusqu a la gorge, et puis

tout dun coup se jettent deux ou trois des
space, to express the same thing, as all other
kind of iteration, should be studiously avoid
feelingly struck the harp, and the cultiva

tion of that taste in all its variety would, I
sus, lcurs tordent le cou, et les achevent
ed, thus in his eleventh, ri/r/zlz'ng wave,
think, be the most adviseable for him to pur
and in his seventeenth rip/11mg slream;"

d'ctoufferl
Rqection: Who is there that, reading the rst of these expressions, to say nothing
these shocking accounts, does not pity the of its resemblance to the other, would ad
delusion and degradation of the wretched mit of dispute as to its propriety. In his
Hindoo? What friend to humanity, who does twenty-rst line indeterminate letters (the
not ardently wish that these barbarous and bad effect of which Imentioned particularly
horrid rites of superstition were done aWay? in the second part) are again suffered to ap
\Nhat American, who does not feel his heart pear, and a slight defect in its measure is
spontaneously lifted up in gratitude to Hea also perceptible. His twenty-seventh and
ven, for the superior advantages and benets twenty-eighth lines are tender and expres
he enjoys?-the blessings of education and sive:
For dear Lucinda. is his daily theme,
the benign inuences of the gospel, amid
And dear Lucinda is his midnight dream."
the sweets of liberty and independence, and
The
repetition in these lines is more than
under the reign of just, wholesome and equal
pardonablc.
laws!
Had the preposition to have been used
instead of with, the thirty-second line
For the Repertory.
Critique on the Laurel 11511" of Della Lira. would have been very pleasing; but the nest
ideas are hid by grammatical errors, and in
Part III.
Still pleased to praiseyet not afraid to blame,
Averse, alike, to atter or o'end.

Pope.
The same observation I made on the rst
couplet of the second part is applicabie to
the same one in this: one horse is again at
poetry particularly they are totally inexcuse
able. His thirty-seventh line is faulty and

enervated, and his fortieth is in want of a
syllable; if he had employed the word [Iltll

sure instead of joy his line would have
tached to the chariot of the sun, and he is been perfect and the meaning the same.
drawing a blaze, but I beg leave to carry My ideas concerning measure, were given
my remarks rather farther. Della Liras ex fully, in my last.
I must now take leave of Della Lira after
pression is
having made a few conclusive observations
H Mild Phlegon pentively now draws away
and offered him some friendly advice. To use
Beyond our mortal view the blaze of day ."
Reason would at once convince us, that the nearly the words of Condillae on an occa
horses of the sun (if we admit him to have sion not entirely di'erent, I know that my
any) were spirited and ery, and the ancient criticism will be found rather severe, and
poets painted them as almost ungovernable, that perhaps some of the passages 1 con
insomuch that no god but Phebus could demn may nd persons ready to defend
them; but I have proceeded according to
manage them,
my ideas of liberality, and whether justice
" Not even Jove?
has guided me in my decisions, the literary
Yet who so strong as Jove!
world must decide.
Jilil and fit-naive are therefore total
Severe criticism (if just) would be more
ly inapplicable here. But I request to turn
the attention of Della Lira to Ovids second generally acceptable to authors if they could
metamorphosis where he speaks of them but think with the poet,
" He hurts me most who lavishly commends."
fully. The second verse is as pleasing as
the other is improper; and I made a remark But, unfortunately for literature, self-con
on the fth couplet of the rst part, to which ceit is too frequently the attendant of talents,
the third one in this has an equal claim. and many writers at the commencement of
IIis ninth line is defective in harmony and their career, under a false idea of perfection
the allusion not at all beautiful, his eleventh consider themselves beyond the reach of cri
and twelfth are effeminate. Pensi'ue is again ticism and exalted above the need of appli
made use of in his thirteenth line with no cation; thus do they oftcn become a prey to
indolencc or a sacrice to vanity, the intox
less impropriety than before
icating draught of poisonous attery is swal
" The penn'w breeze of night now softly blows
And lulls the winged people to repose.
lowed with eagerness, and at the very time
Mnged [mo/111' is a new appellation for they should have acquired an honorable cc
birds, it is one I never before heard of; it is lebrity, they dwindle into insignilicancc, or
one which cannot be admired. \Vould not are pointed at, as miserable bunglers of poe
trearied warble-rs, be productive of a ner try, and murderers of prose.
But to return to Della Lira, it appears to
effect? In his sixteenth the ear is again of
fended. Using an epithet twice within a short me that his forte lies in sonnets, he has
sue; should my Opinion however not be con~

genial with his own, I cannot expect him to
cherish it, but it is certainly not unworthy
consideration; in them, he frequently exhi
bits
" The force of numbers and the glow of style,
whilst in the species of composition I have

just been examining, I am sorry to say, it is
but seldom I can speak of him so favorably.
Poetry from general conscntis considered
as allied to the divine, and nothing but the
discovery of some sparks of genius which

Della Lira occasionally elicits, and to which
l trust I have given sufcient praise, the
hopes of his impr0vement, and the ardent
desire of seeing it brought to perfection in
my native country, could ever have prevail
ed upon me to have undertaken a task, in
itself so disagreeable; and if I occasionally

cast my eye on other productions in the same
capacity, I hope I will be upheld by the
same principles and actuated by the same
wish.
AMATOR POETICE.
at.
From Theophila to a lady, whose only son, a youth
of great hopes, lay at the point of death; exhort

ing her to patience and resignation to the Divine
Will, under this and every other aiction.
Madam,
It is not that I wonder at, or condemn,
your just sense of the loss you are too like

ly to sustain; but because a calamity, such as
yours, requires every help that can be ap

plied, that I take the liberty of offering my
advice. I know, no woman has more fortitude
than yourself: but, alas! human courage of
itself is not sufcient: you must y to the

Eternal Source ofall consolation, 'tis in him
alone you can nd relief. Your son yet lives,

and while he continues to do so, lay him on
the altar cheerfully with Abraham: resign
him to that fate which seems decreed for him,
and who knows but Heaven may avert the
impending blow, and bid him live, to recom

pense his mothers piety. Keep ever in your
mind this memorable saying of Mr. Pope, that
H In spite of pride, in erring reasons spite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
So that whether your son lives or dies the su

preme and allwise Director of his fate does
it for the best, both for him and you. Let not
then the attering expectation, which his near
approaching maturity afforded you, dwell
upon your mind: think not how happy you
should have been to have seen him rise to all
those honors, and that applause, which vir
tue and benevolence will extort, even in the
most vicious and corrupt age: rather reflect,

that if he is thus early called, it is to rect lu
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blessings more substantial than any this vain

world can give; and that,
Heavn saw him ripe, perhaps tho not full blown,
Therefore thought t to seize him as its own.
Be assured, dear madam, that in all misfor
I have the honor to be, madam, your most

humble servant,
THEOIHILA.
<_-
For the Repertory.

THE CABINET. No. VIII.
tunes religion is our only refuge: Ifwe tru

ly love God, he will either remove the causes
Various; that the mind

Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, may be indulged.
of our complaint, or enable us to sustain them,

in such a manner, as shall more endear us
Cowper.
London, Dec.19, 1752.
My dearest Edward,
Could you imagine the hours of inquie

tude and anxiety, experienced by your mo
ther, since your departure for France, you
would not hesitate a moment to return to her
arms.
From the deepest abyss of misery I now
write to you;-my pen trembles;-Edward
you must bear it, yet how shall I tell you!
Oh! my child, on are fatherless!
There has been for these twenty years an

to him; and I know not whether there is any old trunk lying in my garret, containing a
one virtue more acceptable in the eyes of variety of papers, once the property of a
Heaven, than the well bearing of afictions. young man who lived with my father. A
You now know the dreadful truth; your
Let not then, I beseech you, an immoderate short time ago, having no very important father died suddenly on the last Sabbath
grief overwhelm all those considerations, business on hand, and feeling a great curi
morning, while he was reading prayers to
which are the duty not only of every chris osity respecting the chest, I determined to his family; medicine lost its cicacy;--he
tian, but also of every rational being of what mount the attic story and examine its con had gone to his God, and left your mother a
persuasion, in matters of faith, soever they tents. I lifted the lid; time had sprinkled disconsolate widow, your sister and yourself
may be. And it is a truth, which cannot be every thing with a covering of dust, em
her fatherless children!
denied, that there have been some heathens blem of mortality! Since the owner had him
Edward, your mother groans under an
who, in the point I am speaking of, have left self placed his goods in order, no eye had agony of afiction, she is almost tempted to
'us examples worthy of imitation. Not that seen the inside of the trunk. His books, once pronounce her God unjust! The thorn of
his friends and instructors, were piled in a misery has torn the vitals of her peace; she
I would have you a stoic: to pretend an in
insensibility of pain under the distresses corner by themselves; an innumerable quan is descending into the desolate tomb of her
of mind or body, was the a'ectatien of that tity of letters, neatly put up, and tied round benediction,
husbandif come
you would
quickly
receive
to her.her
philosophy. No; I would have you feel every with a black string, some from his father,
afiction in aproper degree, but let not im
some from his mother, his sister, his friends,
You are now enjoying the gaieties of Pa
patience and afruitless perseverance embit
all who were dear to him, and whom he had ris, suffer them not to contaminate your
ter all your other comforts in life, and harden once known in a distant land, had a share in mind;my child, support the honor of your
your heart against the wisdom of Divine Prov
forming the heap. Upon a large quantity of beloved father; tread in his steps, and leave
idence, from whom only it could proceed. I unimportant papers, I perceived a small roll as sweet a memory behind you; my fears are
cannot forbear, however, observing, that superscribed in the hand-writing of the young alarmed for your safety; return, dearest boy,
while Iam recommending resignation, there man, The story of Edward Stansley, and return; think of your sisterpher hope is in
is a sort of 'it, which has only the show of as I knew this to be the name of the person you alone; should she lose my protection
virtue, but, in reality, is far from being such. who before his death had owned the chest, also, her sensibility and beauty would make
I mean that of relinquishing merely because my curiosity was considerably raised.
her an easy prey to the villainous and design
We know it is in vain to contend with Pro
It
was
a
long
time
before
I
acquired
suf
ing. Poor innocent! she talks only of Ed
Ividence. This enforced, this sullen resigna
cient resolution to disturb the sacred dust ward; she knows he is the same kind brother
tion has in it a great mixture, both of self which had been accumulating for such a that used to play with her when you both
love and ostentation, and cannot be any way length of years. I thought of him whose hand were littlc.My child, suer me not to visit
acceptable to the Deity. Those who practise had last disposed the little treasure as] found the darkness of the grave, where the strings
it,I am apt to imagine, reason with them
it; I reected that that hand had long been of love are broken, and we know not even
selves in this manner: To grieve for whatI mouldering in the earth, and that not avest ourselves, without having rst held you in
cannot remedy, would only hurt my consti ige now remained of him to whom it be these arms, which have so oft been proud
tution; and, ifl appear unaffected, the world longed, but the mournful relics before me. to bear you; without having consigned your
will applaud my fortitude. To bring ourselves
I, had always pitied him who could not sister to your fraternal affection.
'l
i
i
D
57'
to that frame of mind, which can alone dis
weep at the fate of another, and I wept in my
Come to me, my son, as you value the
pose us to such a resignation as I could wish own garret. At length, however, I picked up
to See in every one, we must be convinced a litttc book that lay on the top of the pile, peace of your miserable mother,
MARTHA STANSLEY.
of the innite love God has for mankind; the and having rubbed off the dust, that seemed
innumerable instances which every hour pre to wish to cover it in the same oblivion with
The touching sorrow in the foregoing
sents ,us with, of his care over us; and always its possessor, I found it to be a volume of epistle pleased me much; I drew out another
keep in memory, that we are indebted to him Don Quixote, in French. How often, thought of later date from his sister, to him, in Ame
for blessings superior far to any he delirives I, has his imagination been delighted with rica.
- us of: Immortality! the means of grace! and '.uis effort of Cervantes! How often has he
London, Nov. 9, 1757
Dear Edward,
the hope of everlasting glory! T hese_reec smiled at the conceits of the chivalric Don,
How I rejoice to be the messenger of
tion will certainly render his chastisements .md his ambitious squire! He will never smile
welcome to us, as they are never inicted, ..gain! He has gone to his death bed, and good news! You cannot think what joys you
but either to reform our errors, or improve left another generation of new faces to smile have in store; your own dear Mary has re
turned a perfect goddess, and with aheart:
our virtues. These are remonstrances, which, is he did!
I hope, you have no occasion for, even in this,
I took up the bllllldic of letters, and having which even so long an absense has not cured
the severest trial you can undergo; yet they drawn out one, perused the following from of love to you. Her father and herself had
been wrecked and thrown upon a strange
u ill serve to show with how sincere a regard his mother, dlrected to 'him at Paris:
HILADELPHIA RE'PERTORY.
4
I k is
W
land, but never an opportunity occurred, till dent in college. I know not the author, nor The beams, as they pallidly gleamed on my sighf,
the present, to bring them to England. have I ever seen them in any publication. If
Awakened sensations I could not control.
They now wait impatiently to encircle you they meet with your approbation you will In fancy, Ivicwcd the fair dawning of mom
with their arms; I need not hurry your re confer a favor by inserting them in your va
Enchantingly spreading oer nature its light;
Iisdew wet the rose, nor neglected the thorn,
turn.
luable Repertory.
I.
\Vhose tints by the moisture were rendered
The grief of our mother has nally set
iltflt
HOPE.
tled to the will of Heaven. She is amazing;
1}" cheerful, considering the severe stroke

she has received. Upon your marriage, we
may condently hope to taste years of feli
city, years which we have not yet seen.
Your friends are in perfect health; Mary

presents her love and wishes, but believe,
dear brother, no one can .love you more,-or
more ardently wish to see you again, than

your affectionate sister.
LOUISA STANSLEY.
The letters I had perused, contained the
The song of the lark, as high soaring in air,

Cease, my heart, ah! cease complaining,
Let not grief corrode my breast:
All my cares to Heaven resigning,
Hopes serene, elfulgent ray.
And was it to this end, poor Observer, said
I, that thou didst hang over the sickly ta

per! Is it thus that the world uses those
who labor for its edication! This essay may
have cost thee a sleepless night in its com
Haste, return, celestial guest;

Again illume, with heavenly pleasure,
To whose green banks my eyes with fondness rove.

There in the evening of a summers day,
Ive sat beneath the shady, spreading oak,
a resting place for the spider!

And is this to be the fate of the Cabinet!
Oh! Gregory, are these the honors we may
expect? when thou and I are sleeping in our
tombs, shall our papers be torn for the lining
For awhile, it resisted the fast falling shower;

But its efforts were faint gainst the merciless for'
It witherd, and droopd, and soon dead was the

flower
That gave to the breeze an ambrosial glow.
I thought, that alike were the dawning of youth
And the morning which opend so gay and serene;
I sighd as I ownd, in reection, the truth
That the ruse was sweet friendship that scented

the scene:
That friendship, untried by adversitys storms,
To the innocent soul does pure pleasure impart;

But often it chills and gives place to the thorns,
Whose venomous points wound so deeply the

heart:
And I prayd, that my bosom might neer be the prey
Ofsympalhy feigned, and with selshness fraught,
Cheerd up my scul to hear the words she spoke.

Oft with the merry warblers of the grove,
Fair Delia raised her soft, melodious voice,
That voice which kindles up the tire of love,
And makes th enraptured soul in hope rejoice.

Her converse open, artlcss and sincere,
Her piercing beauty formd t' inspire the heart,

Her sympathy, to drop the gemle tear
There I behold the graces all combined,
To make one pleasing, one harmonious whole;
There nought disturbs the concert of the mind,
But blest serenity pervades the soul.
Oh, Fortune! if my fate be lixd ere now,

If I be destined to hersweet embrace,
Here on truths altar would I make my vow,
That death alone shall eer my love efface. D.
of trunks, and band-boxes? If so, may they,

like the Observer, nd so quiet an obli
-.~_
For the Repertory.
vion as my garret, and be so honorable em

ployed as in covering the endeared remains
of unfortunate virtue.
.
I took The Story, out to preserve it,
and the next time it falls to my lot to ar
range the Cabinet, for public inspection,the
tale of Edward Stansley shall hold a con
Close by her side, whose visage ever gay
On those who feel alflictons keener smart:
fame from its publication; now here is thy
gloom;
[observed how it trembled, the sensitive rose,
And shrank from the storm as foretelling its doom.
position, and, perhaps, thou didst expect some

neglected production, food for the moth, and
Igazed; but a cloud from the westward arose,

And obscured the gay scene with its threatning
Come, sweet Hope, the mourners treasure,
two most interesting eras in the life of Ed

So, when lifes last drama closes,
ward Stansley. I returned the bundle to its
And its brightest scenes decay,
place, and lifting up my head, perceived that
Hopes fair hand shall scatter roses,
the inside of the trunk was entirely lined with
O'er my path to realms of day.
the mutilated pages of an old magazine,
which, perhaps, had once delighted the me
For the Repertory.
tropolis of Great Britain. It had fallen prin
Sweet blow the breezes o'er yon distant hillI
cipally to the poetical department, to do this
Where stands the mansion of the lass I love,
disgraceful business; but looking attentively Gay zephyrs rulc on the gliding rill,
self The Observerf his thirty-eighth num

ber was thus pasted up, and doomed to dust,
and darkness. It contained several ne ob
servations upon the force of custom, which
I may one day communicate to the public.
Most gratefully breathing to heaven her lav,

And the green waving foliage of autumn \VaS'ihtH,
Gently fannd by the zephyrs in amorous play.
Be my sorrows lulld to rest.
See yon morning star that rises,

Leading on the orb of day;
So my bosom recognises
A bosom long with grief oppress'd.
along the lid I discovered in one corner, a

periodical brother of mine, who called him
bright.
TuneFresb and strong tbe breeze is blowing.
The glooms of false friendship oershadow my day,

Nor I in the school of experience he taught! \
ORLANDO.
For the Repertory.
SONNET.
\Vritten at night on the banks of the Schuylkill

When midnight gloom its sable mantle spreads
Oer darken'd ether; when all nature's still,
And not asound is heard, save the soft rill
Of bubbling streamlcts oer their shallow beds:

I love to wander forth, each hill [0 trace,
To nd in solitude a balmy ease,
The iumulis in my bosom to appease,

And draw tranquillity from natures face.
Tis then I think ofjoys that once did please,
Times when my heart no sad aliiiction knew,
My only bliss a beaut'ous fair to view,
Once constantnow as faithlcss as the breeze.
But, Julio! such hlest times from you are gone,
STANZAS.
Extinguish the light! for uncheering its beams
To the bosom illumin'd by friendships warm rays;
And though welcome its glare when through dark
ness it gleams,
Yet the lumen of friendship more vividly plays.
And evry happy moment far has own.

~
JULIO EVERARD.
" tobaaueipbia,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1810.
How welcome the passion. I pensively said,
spicuous place.
PETER PEACEABLE.
To a. soul that is dark and 11. dreary as mine;

And, oh, may its lustre soon brighten my shed,
Nassau Hall, Princeton, Aug. 11, 1810.

Mr. Editor,
The following beautiful lines I have often

heard repeated by a friend and fellow stu
'lO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
And cheer its deep gloom with its radiance di

vine!
\Ve have received from Laneret a second

communication, in which he takes the (i.
berry to denylwholly ever calling the writers
Twas thus,as I gazed on the lamps trembling light,

I thought of a being most dear to my soul;
for the Repertory miserable scribblers or

doggrel poets: but ,he does not, because he
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his rst COlnmlllllCullOH he endeavored to
disparage the poetical department of our
paper by the low and puerile dog and kettle
PROSPECTUS
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at Andover, Massachusetts; the Rev. Arch
ibald Alexander, of Philadelphia; and the

Rev. William Jay,'of Bath, in England. The
latter gentleman is the celebrated Author of
weekly,
DY DENNIS HEAR'IT,
story; nor, that among his observations, several volumes of Sermons, under the title
Assisted by gentlemen of learning and talents.v
as he calls them, respecting our prose wri ofJay's Short Discourses,which have furnish
The
periodical publications of this country are al
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ters, are these his own very words: In the
department of prose, the biography, the let sons in this country, as well as in Great Brit with great ability and are well worthy ofthe support
ters to a sister, and the heiress of Sobeiski, ain.
which they receive. Party politics, however, and fo
_...._.
are the only subjects that have been worth
reign news cngross too great a portion of their con
HEALTH OFFICE,
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September 29, 1810.
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the day, they are ofa nature so fugitive asto render
are searec worth mentioning. Now, surely,
from the 22d to the 29th September.
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a man of the least penetration cannot but per
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were not suliiciently gratied by thus far

humiliating them, he, with one magic touch
of his wand, prostrates them to the very low
est state of degradation, by declaring posi
tively that they are scarce worth mentioning!

If this language be not tantamount to con
sidering, denominating or calling all the
prose writers for the Repertory (except J.
and Ubaldo) miserable scribble indeed, then
it appears to us to have no meaning whate

ver. \Ve therefore think that the construc
tion which we put upon the epithets used in
his N. B. is the only one warranted by his

letter.
Had we been as petulant as Lancrct, we
should not so particularly have noticed either
of his communications: indeed, neither of
them had or could have any thing at all to do

with the flublic, notwithstanding he has headed
them with For the Repertory;" they are ad
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upon the goodness of our generous patrons.

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council and state legislature; such foreign intelligence
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VOL. I.
No. 24.
J
the former, and to cement their friendship
ed. The time for which the colonial troops
with the blood of one of their enemies.
engaged to serve, terminated with the cam
, The object of this expedition was, to ob
paign. Putnam was reappointed, and again

took the eld in 1756.
Few are so ignorant of war as not to know,
that military adventures, in the night, are
always extremely liable to accidents. Cap
BIOGRAPHY.
LEE 0]" GENERAL PUTNAM.
(Continued)
Prosperity, at length, began to attend the

affairs of Mr. Putnam. He was acknowledg
ed to be an indefatigable farmer. His elds
were mostly enclosed with stone walls. His
crops commonly succeeded, because the land
was well tilled and manurcd. His pastures
and meadows became luxuriant. His cattle
Were of the best breed and in good order.
His garden and fruit trees prolic. \Vith the

avails of the surplusage of his produce, fo
reign articles were purchased. Within doors
he found the compensation of his labors, in
plenty of excellent provisions, as well as in
the happiness of domestic society.
But the time had now arrived, which was
to turn the instruments of husbandry into

weapons of hostility, and to exchange the
hunting of wolves, which had ravaged the
tain an accurate knowledge of the position

and state of the works at Crown Point. It was
impracticable to approach with their party
near enough for this purpose, without being
discovered. Alone, the undertaking was suf
tain Putnam, having been commanded to re
ciently hazardous, on account of the swarms

of hostile Indians, who infested the woods.
Our two partisans, however, left all their
men at a convenient distance with strict or
ders to continue concealed until their re
turn. Having thus cautiously taken their ar
rangements, they advanced with the pro
connoitre the enemys camp at the Ovens

near Ticonderoga, took the brave lieutenant
Robert Durkee as his companion. In attempt
ing to execute these orders, he narrowly es
caped being taken himselfin the rst instance,
and had nearly killed his friend in the second.
It was customary for the British and provin
cial troops to place their res round their
camp, which frequently exposed them to the
enemy's scouts and patroles. A contrary prac
tice, then unknown in the English army,
foundest silence, in the evening, and lay, du
ring the night, contiguous to the fortress.

Early in the morning, they approached so
close as to be able to give satisfactory infor
mation to the general who had sent them, on prevailed among the French and Indians.
the several points to which their attention The plan was much more rational; they kept
had been directed; but captain Rogers being their res in the centre, lodged their men cir
sheep folds, for the pursuit after savages

who hadv desolated the frontiers. Mr. Put
nam Was about thirty seven years old in
the war between England and France, which
preceded the last in America. His repu
tation must have been favorably known to
the government, since, among the rst
troops that were levied by Connecticut, in
1755, he was appointed to the command of
a company in Lymans regiment of provin
cials.
.
.
As he was extremely popular, he found no
difculty in inlisting his complement of re
cruits from the most hardy, enterprizing
young men of his neighborhood. The regi
ment joined the army at the opening of the
at a little distance from captain Putnam, for

tuitously met a stout Frenchman, who instant
ly seized his fusee with one hand, and with
the other attempted to stab him, while he
called to an adjacent guard for assistance.
The guard answered. Putnam perceiving
the imminent danger of his friend, and that
no time was to be lost or farther alarm given
by ring, ran rapidly to them, while they
were yet struggling, and with the butend of
his piece laid the Frenchman dead at his feet. I
l'lhe partisans, to elude pursuit, precipitated
campaign, not far distant from Crown Point.
ldefeat of general Braddock, and the splen-;
ing him to be one of the enemy, lifted his
Soon after his arrival in camp, he became
tomahawk to give the deadly blow, when
with whom he was frequently associated in

traversing the wilderness, reconnoitring the
enemys lines, gaining intelligence, and tak
did victory of Sir William Johnson over!

the French troops commanded by the Baron I
Dieskau. The brilliancy of this success was '
necessary to console the Americans for the f
disgrace of that disaster. Here 1 might, in-j
deed, take a pride in contrasting the conduct 1
ing straggling prisoners, as well as in heat
of the British regulars, who had been am-' hedges, amidst a shower of random shot.
ing up the quarters, and surprising the ad

vanced pickets of their army. For these op
erations, a corps of rangers \vas formed from
the provmcials (under Johnson), who hav- i by the side of which they lodged the remain
the irregulars. The rst time Rogers and
repulsed the enemy, and took their general
intimately connected with the famous par

tisan
captain,
afterwards major
Rogers,
cularly at a distance, and posted their centi

nels in the surrounding darkness. Our par
tisans approached the camp, and, supposing

the centinels were within the circle of res,
crept upon their hands and knees with the
their ight, joined the party, and returned
greatest possible caution, until, to their ut

ter astonishment, they found themselves in
the thickest of the enemy. The centincls
discovering them red, and slightly wound
ed Durkee in the thigh. lIe and Putnam had
no alternative. They ed. The latter being
foremost, and scarcely able to see his hand.
before him, soon plunged into a clay pit.
without loss to the encampment.
Durkee, almost at the identical moment,
The War was chequered with various for-; came tumbling after. Putnam, by no means
{tunes in different quarters, such as the total pleased at nding a companion, and believ
Durkee (who had followed so, close as to

know him) inquired whether he had escaped
unhurt? Captain Putnam instantly dropped
his weapon, and both springing from the pit,
made good their retreat to the neighboring
busc'ddui 0!: the Monongahela, With that or {i There they bctook themselves to alarge log,
ing been attacked in their lines, galhuitly" der of the night. Before they laid down. Put
nam said he had a little rum, wnich could
Putnam were detached with a party of these prisoner: I do not consider myself at liberty. never be more acceptable or necessary; but,
light troops, it was the fortune of the latter to swell this essay with reections on events,v on examining the canteen, which hung un
to preserve, with his own hand, the life of in which Putnam Was not directly concern-1 der his arm, he found the enemy had pierc
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ed it with their balls, and that there was
not a drop of liquor left. The next day, he

found twelve bullet holes in his blanket.
In the month of August 500 men were sent
under the orders of majors Rogers and Put
nam, to watch the niotiops ofthe enemy near
Ticonderoga. At South Bay they separated
the party into two equal divisions, and Ro
gers took a position on Wood Creek, twelve
miles distant from Putnam. "Upon being,
sometime afterwards, discovered, they form
ed a reunion, and concerted measures for re
turning to Fort Edward.

As soon as the heavy dew which had fal
len the preceding night would permit the
detatchment moved in one body, Putnam
For the Repertory.

A nosnmrs.
CHAPTER VI.
(Continued)
upon hearing the sound of horses feet; his
termr was immediately communicated to

his squire,u'liosc limbs now began to shiver.
Linhault soon recovered himself, and Flau
Meet it is 1 set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a viilain!
I
Shairpcare.
Corruption of the best is worst;
And foul ambition, like an evil wind,
Blight: the fair blossom of a noble mind. Cobb.
About the time that Braubenski left \var

saw, Linhault and his squire, completely
armed, proceeded from the castle on their
intended journey; and it is more than pro
bable, had they not taken another direction,
being in front, DEll in the centre, and Ro
more directly towards the cottage of the
gers in the rear. The impervious growth of

shrubs and underbrush, that had sprung up
where the land had been partially cleared
some years before, occasioned this change
in order of march. At the moment of mov
ing, the famous partisan Molang, who had
peasant, that they would have encountered

the latter, as well as Truro and WVeinet-t,
the two bravoes of whom we have just been

speaking.
They proceeded but slowly through the
mazes of the forest, until the storm com

been sent with 500 men to intercept our menced, when the intre/nd Flaurice request
party, was not more than one mile and a half ed his lord, in a very importunate manner,
distant from them. Having heard the ring, to return to the castle until the morning.
he hasted to lay an ambuscade at that part of
In truth, my lort," said he, though
the wood most favorable to his project. your lordship knows I fear nothing, yet I
Major Putnam was just emerging from the have had an insuperable aversion to travel
thicket to the common forest, when the en
ling through the woods at night, ever since
emy rose, and, with discordant yells and my great uncle Ludolf Romufski, was caught
whoops, commenced an attack on the right by the heck from his horse by the branch
of his division. Surprised, but undismayed, of a tree.
Putnam halted, returned the re, passed the
In this ml'mer they proceeded but a little

further, when Linhault suddenly started,
ls that true, Flaurice? demanded his
rice, by acommand of his master, turned the
inner circle of the lantern and closed them

in impenetrable darkness.
The sound of the horses approached, and
the young baron was convinced that the ban
ditti were scouring the woods.
Stand close, said he to Flaurice, and
tis probable they will pass without discover

ing us."
Ill stand as close to you, my lord, an
swered the squire, as Ican possibly get.
Draw your rapier, cried his lord, that
if perceived we_ may sell our lives as dear

as possible!
Yes, my lord, returned Flaurice, bless
me, what makes it stick so to the scabhard, it
must be very rusty, orI am suddenly grown

very weak.
-- Cdward! cried Linhault, nota word

above your breath, as you value your life!"
I wont so much as breathe, replied
Flaurice, if it should be my death, for I had
better die a natural death than be hewed to

pieces by these voracious banditti!
Silence!" whispered Linhault, they are
near us. They now listened in breathless
expectation.
we have had a luckless time this stormy
word for the other divisions to advance for lord.

night, my brave friends," said Martix as he
True as death, returned the squire; passed at the head of his troop.
his support. DEll came. The action, though
widely scattered, and principally fought be if your lordship had seen him suspended
\Ve have, indeed, replied the sangui
tween man and man, soon grew general and in the morning dead, and had known that he nary Laupold, I did hope to have slipt my
intensely warm. It would be as diicult as had been saved from the water, just as you knife into the paunch of a fat priest, or a
useless to describe this irregular and feroci snatched Miss Roselle, you would have im purse bearing squire!"
ous mode of ghting. Rogers came not up,but, mediately thought of the old proverb, he that
O! the bloody villain! exclaimed Flau
as he declared afterwards, formed a circular is born to be Inmg will 71816! be drowned; not rice, betrayed by his fears.
le between our party and Wood Creek, to meaning, my lord, Miss Roselle."
What voice was that? demanded Mar
\Vell, well, Flaurice, said his master, tix.
prevent their being taken in the rear, or en
laded. Successful as he commonly _was, his
we will not return to the castle, but let us
I know not, said Lutlolph, but we can
conduct did not always pass without-unfa

vorable imputations. Notwithstanding, it
was a common saying in the camp, that
Rogers always sent, but Putnam led his men
to action, yet, in justice, it ought to be re
marked here, that the latter has never been
known, in relating the story of this days dis
aster, to aix any stigma upon the conduct
of the former.
.
at least endeavor to nd some shelter until

the storm abates; and then we will proceed
on our journey.
soon discover."
.
Martix however forbade them to search,
as the night was too dark and the storm too
Ah! my lord," said Flauricc, we shall nd
tremendous to continue in the woods, and
no shelter like the castle, nor any re like

dame Berthas.
Linhault now commanded Flaurice to de
sist, or if he feared to accompany him to re_
they accordingly departed for the abbey.

The joy of Linhault and his squire, at this
unexpected deliverance, can be better felt
than described; they heard with the most de
turn to the castle.
lightful sensations the distant sound of the

horses feet, which at length died entirely
away. After waiting some time, Linhault
commanded Flaurice to emit the light, and
Flaurice upon this, urged his request no

as.
further, being more airaid of returning alone
T he most stormy ebullitions of passion, than of continuing in the wood. The squire
from blasphemy to murder, are less terric proceeded before with a small dark lantern,
than one single act of cool villtuiy: a still ra while Linhault with his sword drawn, fol
bies is more dangerous than the paroxisms lowed him, endeavoring to observe some
of a fever. Fear the boisterous savage of pas spot where they might avoid at least the
heaviest of the rain.
sion less than the sedately grinning villain.
(To be continued.)
they immediately proceeded to seek a shel

ter from the storm; the rays from their lan
tern striking upon a rock on one side of
the wood, they perceived something which
had the appearance of a cave,
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Upon examination they fout that it was

caused by two rocks rising in a triangular
What! cried Linhault, almost laugh

ing.
'
form, and joining at the top; which aliord
I took them for re at rst, said Flau

rice, but presently a loud roar, that shook
ing a complete shelter from the tempest, in

vited our travellers to take up their lodgings
within: accordingly they entered, and wrap
ping themselves in their cloaks, were in a
few minutes asleep.
During these transactions Braubenski had
arrived at his cottage, as related in the pre
ceding chapter.
'
The morning had scarcely dawned ere

Flaurice awoke, leaving his lord still in the
arms of the drowsy Somnus, and came forth
from the cave. The effects of the storm were
visible in the forest, and every thing pre
sented Flaurice with such an opportunity,
that he could not forbear indulging thatpro

pensity to exaggeration, which we have alrea
dy said was his greatest vice.
When Linhault soon after came from the

retreat beneath the rock, and remarked that
his sleep had not been so sound as his mas

ters, the squire replied, very true, my lord,
but the reason is obvious, because I did not
sleep at all. Indeed!" exclaimed Linhault,

how came that to pass? I slept very soundly,
Ill assure you.
By my faith, my lord, returned Flaurice,
I am surprized at that, considering the
dangers-we were in from the lions!

Lions!"
exclaimed Linhault, what
lions?"
The lions that infest these forests, re
plied the squire.
\Vhy, you did not see one! continued
Linhault in surprise.
You may think so, my lord, returned

Flaurice, but that dont make it less true.
If you did not look so doubtingly I would

tell you the whole story.
I never yet caught you in a lie, Flau
rice, said his master in rather a dhbious
tone.
No, my lord, replied Flaurice, nor
ever shall catch me.

Well, proceed, proceed, said Linhault.
You had, said Flaurice, fallen fast
asleep and just begun to snore, when like a

faithful squire, before he attempts to sleep,
I trimmed my little lantern and took a sur
vey of the apartment."
\Vell," said Linhault impatiently, no
more preamble.
the forest for a mile Ill warrant you, con

vinced me that they were the eyes of a lion!"
Impossible! ejaculated Linhault, but
proceed with this marvellous. adventure, as
speedily as possible!
_
\Vhat could I do, continued the squire,
in this dangerous situation? If I had at
tempted to awake your lordship, it would
all I know I got from him, for I was not in

the castle then.
My Rosellesfather! said Linhault; we
will immediately proceed to his cottage, and
perhaps he can more fully satisfy my
doubts.
I have only been wondering, observed
Flaurice, that your lordship has not pro
ceeded there before this; it cannot be far.
and I am quite cold this disagreeable morn

ing.
' Cold, Flaurice," answered his master,
why I am very wirmf

Very probable, my lord," Said the squire,
having heard how they frighten wild bulls,
I stooped down, and throwing my cloak over love keeps your lordship warm, but 1 as
me, ran towards him back foremost, and in sure you that it takes tire to keep me so,
Well, we will proceed there, then," said
in a moment there was no lion to be seen.
Linhault, yet there is a fearful apprehen
Indeed! returned Linhault, most sur
prising adventure! I know not, Flaurice, sion in my mind, that what I hear may cor
whether to laugh at your folly at supposing roborate my suspicions."
Linhault now folded his arms and walked
me credulous enough to believe you, or to
chastise you for the lie you have invented." towards the cottage of Braubcnski, preceded
0, he! said Flaurice to himself, and by Flaurice, who was better acquainted with
UBALDO.
then addressing Linhault, why, my lord, do the road.
you think it and true? as I live, the groan I
gave at seeing the horrible sight awoke me!
THE LIFE OF MOMUS, JUN
Awoke you! said his lordship, why,
(Continued)
did you not tell me even now that you did
For a long time I was inconsolable; buf
not sleep at all?"
at length my grief wore a milder aspect, and
After you began to snore, my lord," cried I began to reect on what course of life I
Flaurice, *not after you began to snore; but, should pursue. A thousand different plans
bless me, I dreamt all this before! ha, ha, ha! instantaneously opened to my view, and were
why did your lordship suppose I ever really as quickly rejected. A rich farmer iii-the
beheld this? no, no, keep me from seeing neighborhood (with whom I was a great fa
such sights except in imaginaliun!
vorite) wished me to reside with him, and
I shrewdly suspect, Flaurice," replied I had almost agreed to accept his propo
Linhault, that you have told me nothing sition, when a thought struck me, that I
but falsehoods, therefore to prevent your would go to Philadelphia. Having been fre
telling more, I will not question further."
quently in the habit of hearing some of our
Very true, my lord, answered F laurice, visitors describe, in glowing language, its
the best of us in telling strange events, beautiful buildings, friendly and hospitable
may sometimes, if too much cross questiop inhabitants, and, above all, the many means
ed, let out a little of the marvellous."
which presented themselves of quickly accu
I believe you now," said his lord, there mulating a fortune, can it be wondered at,
fore no more. Now to other business: I that it made an impression on my youthful
wish more information concerning Tliadia mind not easily to be eradicated?
of Sobeiski, whom I go to seek. Her, fa
Behold me then, gentle reader, with my
thers murder
- bundle carelessly slung over my shoulder,
have been the signal of both our fates; so
0! San Petro! cried Flaurice, I pray,
; a crab stick in my hand, and a few dollars
my lord, don't ask me a word about it, i '1 in my pocket, trudging along the highway
declare my hair starts erect when I hear it i! (like Jack the giant-killer) with the inten
mentioned! All I know is, that Sobeiski was , tion of seeking my fortune.-I was lif
murdered, and that Austin escaped, and that j teen, possessed of a light heart and a body
our present lord, your lordships father, who capable of enduring cVery fatigue;
Just as I laid down, continued Flaurice, was at the castle ready to take possession,
The world was all before me, where to choose
after I had darkened my light, lest its went on most dreadfully.
My place of rest, and Providence my guide.
beams should betray our retreat."
Ready to take possession! echoed Lin "Twas a ne morning in May; the sun was
A necessary precaution, interrupted hault, ~ what struck -my soul so? tell me just rising; I gave alast long lingering loo
Linhault.
Flaurice, was my father never"at the place of my birth, sighed, and the tear
Well, my lord," proceeded the squire,
\Vhy, my lord, answered Flaurice, peo of regret glistened in my eye; I hastily
just as I had done this, my eyes beheld at ple did saybut old Braubenski, who knows brushed it all, quickened my pace, and in a
the entrance two balls of aming lire!"
all about it, told me it was all impossible; short time lost sight of the village: and then.
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be very sorry for the disturbance, and apo being shipmcked, cannot think of a. storm
logized to the pedlar, alledging as an excuse without beholding the rolling billows, the
that he was very apt to do such things in affrighted mariner and the watery grave with
his sleep, and requested him to 'come to bed which he was once threatened. If these sen
virtuous and benevolent, and that I need only again;-an invitation which the pedlar, fear
sations occur at night, in a dream, he will
arrive at Philadelphia, when thousands would ful of consequences, absolutely refused to feel as though he were really in the sad con
comply with; and, dressing himself, sought ,dition in which he had formerly been ex
press forward and offer me an asylum.
Buoyed up with such hopes, the journey refuge in the garret, where I accompanied posed. He rolls and tosses, till roused by
appeared triing; and before nightfall 1 ar him, and slept undisturbed till morning. his exertions, he perceives that all was a
rived ata village not far distant from the \Vhen discharging my bill, I resumed my dream.
port of destination. A sign suspended at the joumey,~and after a few hours brisk walking,
The midnight excursions of the mind in
door of a neat house pointed out the village found myself, for the rst time, in the city sleep are produced by the association of MOMUS, Junr.
inn, and mm rtremom'r, I entered the door. of Philadelphia.
ideas. It is impossible for an assemblage of
To be continued.
I accosted the landlord, who was a fat jolly
thoughts to have their origin in a dream,
looking fellow, intimating my wish for a
they must be connected with some previous
lodging for the night. My request was ac
occurrence; since all that is in the mind
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ceded to, and I set myself down on the bench
must have enteredthrough the medium of
\VEEKLY REFELCTIONS.
the senses. If we think of spring, we feel
to take a survey of the company. Half a
The scenery of the human mind, though delighted with the imaginary view of verdant
dozen farmers, a black ddler, a travelling
various, presents us with an assemblage of elds, of shady groves, of running brooks and
pedlar, and a man (whom I afterwards un
derstood to be astrolling player) formed this all that is beautiful in nature. The order and the warbling songsters of the wood, and we
harmony of the whole fabric is truly in almost realize the pleasing scenes. The
motley group. The farmers conversed con
cerning their cattle, the produce of their teresting and worthy of investigation. In the emotions which ensue on this renewal of
lands, Ste. The player (who appeared to me contemplation of so noble an object, we are former ideas, must have been produced by
to be non com/zoo menu's) spouted tragedy led to exclaim with the poet,
the gratication which we had often felt on
How mysterious to man, is man.
beholding the simplicity and the beauty of
with great animation, making a number of
damnable faces, whilst the pcdlar and the It is in the superiority of mental powers,_ rural life. We recal to our recollection ob
ddler listened to his rhapsodics with deep that the human race stands pro-eminent to jects that once delighted us, on hearing the
all surrounding beings. In the operations of least mention made of them. This we do ne
attention and amazement.
Supper being amiounced put an end to his mind, man evinces the wisdom of his cessarily, for we cannot stop the current of
conversation for a short time, as every one Creator. While in the ights of imagination, our thoughts a single moment, they pursue
appeared to be more anxious to rat than to he soars aloft to heaven, or penetrates the their steady ight without resistance. Happy
talk. After the meal was concluded, feeling bowels of the earth, his memory, his reason is it that we are unable to arrest the progress
myself rather weary, I took a light and was and understanding, the very nobility of his of our ideas, for if we were endowed with
this power, it would probably be a source of
shown by mine host, the chamber wherein soul, are active and vigorous.
But the power which man possesses of innumerable evils.
was to lie. The player and pedlar were bed
fellows in the same room. The former per renewing ideas, of calling before his imagi
It is said of general. Moreau, tha:~ when
sonage quickly fell asleep, and snored away nation the scenes and actions of former ages, riding near Germantown the rst time,he
at a great rate, much to the annoyance of the is wonderful and astonishing. This operation remarked that such and such a place would
pedlar and myself. On a sudden he ceased of the mind, so useful and important, is the make a good situation for a camp. This de
his nasal music, and with a low hollow voice, source of various sensations and thoughts. claration from a military ofcer, proceeded
as if much agitated or frightened, exclaimed, It is the great telescope which places in our evidently from the association of ideas in his
Ive done the deed, didst thou not hear a view, the most distant objects, in regularity mind.The elevation of the spot, no doubt,
excited the recollection of a similar place on
voice? Dn it, said the pcdlar, supposing and order.
When we hear of battles fought in foreign which he was once encamped. The sur
him to be awake, I wish you would either
go to sleep yourself, or let others rest; here, lands, a long train of ideas follows in our rounding country mighthave reminded him
after I have been toiling all day, carrying a mind; we behold opposing armies crowd the of prospects which he had seen in his native
great heavy pack, and now, when I expected eld; we picture to ourselves the blood land, and this together with his peculiar pro
to have a little peace and quietness, to be thirsty antagonists marching forth to slaugh fession, occasioned him to mark out one spot
ter; the glitterhig sword, the roaring cannon in preference to another for a camp. Many
disturbed by your cursed scraps of tragedy
tis too bad. This remonstrance was but and the deadly rie are arrayed before us. instances and transactions in life might be
little attended to by the tiagedian, who im Soon we sympathize with the falling victims, adduced to prove, that we associate as ne
the dying thousands and their awful groans cessarily as we exist. The greater part of
mediately after began with
seem to sound in our ears. Finally, fancy our a'airs are conducted by this active
" Is this a dagger that I see before me,
points us to the vindictive conqueror, reek power of the mind. It is a faculty of the ut
The handle towrd my hand,
Come let me clutch thee."
ing for vengeance. Then we reect on the nwst importance and it is to the mind, in a
And making a furious grasp, caught the miseries attendant on this dreadful catastro certain degree, what motion is to all matter
astonished pedlar by the nose, who roared phe, which has cast on the mercy of the Disrobe man for a moment of this piLeroga
out so vociferously, that he brought the world, widows and orphans and has produced tive, and you cast a veil over that grandeur,
that lustre of his mental faculties, \vhiCh
whole family into the room. They released a thousand. ills.
A man who has been exposed to the dang renders him superior to thebrutes that pc
him from his disagreeable situation and
with the enthusiasm of young minds, began
to anticipate future days of happinc$ and
bliss. My knowlcge of mankind was princi
pally derived from books; I thought them all
awakcncd his companion, who appeared to ers of the ocean and on the very verge of
rish.
T. D. M.
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Mr. Editor,
I conceive myself called upon, to attempt

a vindication of some observations made by
me, in a former number of the Repertory,
and on which, Censor has thought pr0per to

offer a few strictures. I feel myself the more
urged to this task, in consequence of the il
liberality of some of the remarks of that
writer. But before I proceed further, let me
assure him, that he is no stranger, and that
.1 am disposed to treat him as a literary
friend.
\Vith respect to the authority of Dr. John
JIi/lil cat in intellectu quad non [zrius fuit
dium of the senses, I have learnt to sympa
in serum, is the great bugaboo, which seems

least to accord with Censors conceptions of
things. But there is no truth more sclfcvi
dent, none which rests on a surer basis.
When I behold a fellow being in distress,
by what means do I extend charity towards
him? To say that the object excites sympathy
in me, through a medium diherent from the
natural senses, is as absurd as to suppose,
that divine impressions affect us, in a way
totally unrelated to matter.
thise, and hence, in the same way, have I
become acquainted with the nature of cha

rlty.
When Censor tells us what he means by
spirits, we will answer him relative to

their correspondence with each other. Has
he talked of irreverence? I fear he is culpa
ble in this respect; to say that the spirit of
God, because it is immaterial, cannot act on
undoubtedly a creature of imperfection. Are

we then to receive every thing as indispu
table, merely because it came from the pen great man, is the effect of stimuli acting on
of this illustrious man? This Were to idolize the excitability of' the animal body, and the
the creature and todishonor the Creator. If whole phenomena of disease conrm the fact.
innovation be justiable at any time, if tena The stimuli acting, and the body acted upon,
city in the reception of inculcated' opinions are material; how then can an immaterial
the mind of man, except it be also imma

terial, is an insult to the Deity, and deroga
tory to his omnipotence. The soul is im
mortal, but not because it is immaterial; he
who created all things could easily render
amaterial being immortal. \Vhcn the sa
cred historian says, that this corruptible
shall have put on incorruption, we would
suppose he meant, that immortality would
become an attribute of that which had been
mortal and subject to decay.
I say still, that man holds converse with
the King of heaven through the objects
around him. Was not the homage which Job
paid to his Maker increased on contemplat
ing the wonders of creation? Read his wri
tings and this will appear.
Thus have I ventured to justify the prin
be allowable, and if superstition in our day
ciples I have before supported, and I believe
son, I would beg leave to remark, that if this
eminent character had been free from the

frailtics 01 human nature, then his principles
and his assertions might be received as our
infallible guides. But it was with this cele
brated character, as with other men; his foi
bles were neither few nor small, and he was
Censor dislikes that doctrine, which dis
penses with the immateriality of the soul.

The most eminent writer in the present age
has declared that to suppose immateriality
necessary to immortality, is to strip the
Deity of one of his attributes. W'here in the
sacred page of truth will we look for the
term, immateriality? Let Censor point to the
line, if he can. Examine the phenomena of
life, zuid tell me what is vitality. Is it imma
terial, is any thing immaterial? Life, says a
substance be produced, by the action'of ma
be intolerable, we are bound to assail the

productions and tenets of the wisest of men,
terial bodies? The supposition is absurd, and they are perfectly consistent with the reli
in short, to Oeason about immateriality, is to gious adoration of the Supreme Being. The
even those of Dr. Johnson himself. Shall talk of that, of which we have no concep subject is indeed delicate, but I hope, I have
constituted authority itself obstruct the ad tions.
treated it as though I had been treading on
vancement of knowlege? I hope not.
The mind of man, says an author, is sacred ground. I will now dismiss the sub
The most prominent, erroneous sentiment the effect of stimuli, acting on the brain;" ject from all further consideration, but be
in Censors essay, and from which all his and the progression of understanding from fore I close, let me assure Censor, that he
fallacious reasoning has taken rise, appears infancy to manhood, tends to strengthen the has neither beneted nor injured me, by in
to be, simply, the immateriality of the soul. doctrine. \Vhy is the mind quiescent in sinuating, that my poetical essay, to which
Assertion is not proof, or if it were, per sleep? It is because the brain is not subject he alludes, is tainted with plagiarism.
haps, I might vie with my antagonist on this ed to the influenceof those stimuli, which
HERMINIUS.
Saturday evening, September 22.
point. The days of 'Dr. Johnson are new gone produce ideas, It may, indeed,- be said, that
forever, and though much that he left he
the mind is active in sleepyasin dreams; but
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hind, may be imperishahle,_yet I trust that it has been sufciently proven by the writer
all his errors will ere long sink into oblivion. to whom We have alluded, that dreams are
A TREATISE ON FOPPERY,
To boast of national freedom and'at the same the result of diseased action.
'rnnoanpc/u. AND EXPERIMENTAL.
timeto acknowlege slavery in literature, in
In Censors essay we read, thus we have
By Sober Simpson, Esq.
my opinion, savors a little of inconsistency. an impression ofthe divine agency upon the
It would scent proper in the commence
That a man may~certainly study nature, soul, producing a good action, and yet, ment of this elaborate display of buckish
sound the depths of all sciences, and yet ne through the medium 'of "the sdnses',we are manners, to give the public some apology
glect entirely that devotion which beams to be informed 0f its na't'ili-ei Now, as man for the odd topic now about to be dismissed.
his Maker, is no doubt true; but it is no is a social being, he partnkes of the feelings This shall be done in a few wbrdsthat is
less certain, that theltnowledg'e otisurroundd and sorrows of his 'fellow;h'dfsym'pathiscs
ing objects may call into exercise the fear as necessarily as he exists. I
prompted
and adoration of that God whom we are to exercise charity to a fellow creature, by
bound to a. orship. DitLtlie great Rittenhouse what are called the tics of humanity. His
explore some of the secrccies of nature, distress is cognizable Ito myklsenscs; and this
and did he soar aloft through heavens ex excites in. niyinuindrthat P'sympathypwhich
panse, to unravclthe txrysteries of creation? lcompelsane tot relieve him. If sympathy
he was no less zealous in the performance had not been, bylhabit, a constituent in, my
of virtuous actions, lie was no lcs's'celebiatcd Imind, the sigludqfhdistress could not have
for those christian graces that adorn the hu acted as a stimuluwaud charity Would not
man mind.
-,
have bmetmised. But through the me
to say, that I, "Sober Simpson, havihg esta

blished, by unlimited experience, the most
judicious theory of- foppery that has ever

yet appeared, do conceive it my duty to use
every honorable ell'ort to make it universally

prevalent. There is goo'd reason for this, as
crety one knows how many have heen'cen
sured'after their decease, for having conceal

cd-froni public notice, certainyaluable tracts,
whichrhad they appearcdlsooncr, might have
grc'ady beneted mankindi' This is my" Chit f
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Ah! seek)teligion, there thoult nd

A sov'reign remedy for care,
Sheri should make a greater splash in a
reason for ushering into the world this no

year or two; still I am a stiff fellow, and in a
ble production. Now to my theory.
Foppery is that most valuable art, by which short time, I become well known in the
we are enabled to make the most luminous fashionable world.
Again; foppery makes our external de
display of our abilities and acquircments in
the most advantageous manner. It assists us portment accord with the dignity of human
in making a conspicuous appearance, and nature." Who can deny this? Contentment is
certainly a desirable thing, of course I am a
above all, it is calculated to render us gene
rally knowu in the fashionable world. It happy man; let fortune go as it will, I strut
makes a mans external deportment accord with an air of indifference, wear a composed
better with the dignity of human nature. In countenance, and at least a'ect to be con
short, it is the very polish of ones cha tented. Any man to look me in the face,
would, if he knew my circumstances, say at
raeter.
However correct and plain a theory may once, that man is possessed of a noble mind,
be in itself, yet some stiff-necked anti-logi of exalted dispositions, and it is certainly
cians would rather yield assent to the force true; then who would not be a fop? Say you
of experiment, and as I conceive this to be it is disgraceful? no more of this. I have
the most rational modc ofdeciding a contro given, not only theoretical but experimental
vcrsy, it will be my business in the sequel, proof of its advantages; then let it be more
admired and practised by every one, who
to illustrate my theory by dint of experi
desires to become as respectable in the
ence.
SOBER SIMPSON.
I said, that foppery enabled us to make a world as
luminous display of our abilities, Ste. For ex
op
ample, when I go into a company of ladies,
For the Repertory.
I occupy the greater part of the evening in
A friend almighty, firm and kind,

Forever near.
Art (him a father, hast thou known
The sweets of fond, infantine love;
And have thy darling offspring nwn

-
Stay thy rash hand, and seal; in me

An antidote to ev'ry care;
Before Religion sorrows ee,

And pale despair.
For faithless friendship dost thou mourn,
And swell with grief thy yielding breast;
Cannot thy restless mind return
Again (0 rest!
Still seek and nd in me a friend,
A soothing and mellilluous balm;
At whose approach aiiclions end
In heavenly calm.
Art thou a murd'rer, dost thou feel
The pangs of conscience in thy breast;
Has: thou cmpioy'd thy thirsty steel

To stab thy rest?
Ah! stay thy hand and scorn to die,

Repent, in dust thy crimes deplore;
On Heaven's eternal will rely,
And sin no more.
RELIGION.
desultory chat, about this, that and the other,
as the times, fashions and so forth, and by

reason of my manly spirit, the ospring of
foppery, I compel the company to hear me,
by preventing others from entering into con
versation; and thus I get the name of a smart,
Suggested by reading a solemn and interesting poem

called The Grave. by Montgomery.
Wan phrenzy on her ighty wing.
Spread oer my feverd brain her ame:
I sought the pale terric king,
And death his name!
Dost thou thus weep?

I charge thee look to future_times,
W'hen a bright form came gently by

On ambient air.
Seraphic beauties cloathd her face,
ing to be very studious, what a gure does
Three angels of celestial grace
he cut? He is t to be laughed at, indeed,

while I, with abold front, stretch my cravut
over my chin, frizzle my hair and set my

ruiiie to advantage, at the same time keep
ing the ladies in a hearty laugh at some tough
story. Let any man look here and decide for
himself.
.
In the second place, foppery makes a
Bu; seek for me. and bountcous Heaven

Will raise thy sinking soul; thy crimes
Shall be forgiven.
Dread friend, I cried, with thee Ill lie,

Thou aniedote to dark despair;
that sedate, sullen fellow in the corner of the

room, half asleep, biting his nails and affect
Dost mourn for unforgiven wrongs.

Do dreams of horror rack thy sleep;
And for that Heaven thy life prolongs
clever fellowthat is, with the ladies, and
as they are known topossess so great a share

of understanding I could not fall into better
handsNow, for arguments sake, look at
To worlds above?
Say dost thou mourn for evry ill

That specious may, or latent lie
And life's eventfuljourney lll
Yet scorn to die:
And calm, unruliied, halcyon mien;
Composed her train.
But live. and let Religion cheer

Thy soul, and point to future peace;
Look to the worlds of light. lor there
First Faith. bright saint. whose piercing eye

Can look from earth to heavan profound;
Her fair, celestial tresscs y
On air around.
All sorrows cease.
She spoke, then spread her pinions wide,

And tiles: me with her heavenly breath;
Seraph, I thank thee, I replied,
Next cherub Hope beside her stands,

Attendant on the form divine;
Her golden emblems in her hands
Refulgent shine.
And ew from death.

VALERIAN.
man conspicuous in the world. True, in

deed: as for instance; when I go to the near
est inn and hire a dashing gig to ride in

tandem through the streets, with such an air
With mild, forgiving eye is near;

See on her soft and heavenly cheek'
Sweet peace appear.
. of consequenbe, as to bring the folks (idle

fools indeed) to their windows, to gaze at the
show, while I have the pleasure of reect

ing, that let me be who. I may, my present
condition renders me a conspiciious cha

racter, and the vulgar readily excl-aim, hes
arich ellow, Ill warrant it; and with such
like encomiums as those, it may be fairly
~"'
See Charity, their sister meek,
" Religion is my name on earth.

The seraph cried, to me tis given,
As I am of celestial birth,
To lead to heaven.
Then why complain of Providence,
Since ills inherent must arise;
Come, seekiwith me a recompense

Beyond the skies.
For the Repertory.
REFLECT IONS OF A SOLITARY \VANDERER
No. VII.
Hypocrisy! I loathe thy very name;
And do despise the man, who in thy guise
Does veil a ranc'rous heart; who with fair speeches
Greets him he hates, and plots his ruin while
He decks his face in smiles: pourtrays the pleasures

Which from true friendship spring, the cheering
glow,
A mutual interchange of hearts spreads oer

Being's horizon. oft, alas! too dark;
demanded, who would not be a fop? Again,
suppose I make a great splash in the world.

marry a gay lady, furnish a house in style
and live like a gentleman; no matter if the
Art than a husband, dost thou know
The loss of matrimonial peace?

Let not thy sorrows overowAnd never cease:
Who, guarded, ne'er his thoughts true uttern

gives;
And hides, beneath a fair and virtuous mask,
His minds dark visage, gloomd with cv'ry Vi
I
.
1 And the oak to remembrance Wlll ever be dear,
Vhich does degrade the immortal spirit, from

Her state exalted, to the baser rank,
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\Vith thee lve wandered by the silver stream,

To mark the sound the water-fall has made!
Iwas there to Paulina I vow'd to be true.
Of angels fallen. Nor may I think him worse

i; And must I then leave you? one last, lingering look
But past are all those Joys! those scenes are gone
Who with the poniard, or the deadly tube,

;!
At the once happy mansion, now happy no more,

Adieu then forever, ye scenes of my youth,
1
And welcome despair on some far distant shore.
Attempts my life; for he deprives me not

Of self defence, and open is his aim;
Nor, with pretences fair and specious arts,
Entwines himself as Satan did of old
Poor, faint, broken hearted, the victim of love,
Around the heart, suiting to every turn
I wander afar from the climes of the west,
His dlSPOSIIIOn soft; nor lulls the soul
1' Paulinas departed, no more shall_l clasp,

3
\Viih the fervor of love, the sweet maid to my
il
breast.
1n false security, and grimly strikes
The long premeditated blow of guilt;
And, when his struck, with true satannic smiles,

'Triumphant stalks amid the;uins wild,
And glories in his victims wretchedness:
Last night as I knelt on the green sOdded grave,

i'
Defies that Power, whose potent nod can blast

Empires and worlds, and whelm them all within
The dread abyss of black destructions gulph,

And sneers at retribution But the day
[plucked the wild owerets that ourishd around,
ii I thought of her charms and my heart throbb'd with

I
pain,
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And,wild with despair,l embraced the cold ground.
., Ah! never shall peace this sad bosom inhabit,
Of reckoning. though pospoiied awhile, will come; V

That day will shake this earthly transient sphere
To its foundation. Though man oft will fall
Till death's fatal shaft deeply pierces my breast,

Ah' then, my freed soul all enraptured shall y,
Paulina I'll join in the mansions of rest.
A prey to art, I would not have him close
T. C. Jn.
His heart, and shun all friendly intercouse
"ith fellow men, and misanthropic rail

Against mankind; dedare them villains all,
For the Repertory.

EJACULA'I'ION ON THE MILLENNIUDI.
Because some part do evry vantage take,
For far from hence is x'd thy blest abode;

To brighter joys thy tender soul has own,
And rests within the presence of thy God.

ROSALIA.
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A incri'y author relates, that Piovuno Ar
lotto, a famous Italian priest and a great
traveller, being on the point of embarking
on a voyage, Was solicited by several of his
friends to purchase a variety of things for
them iii the country he was going to visit.
The curate received all their commissions
with great politeness, put the tnemoraiidunis
in his pocket-book very carefully, and protu

ised to oblige every friend. At his return,
they all crouded round him to receive their

purchases; but, to theirsurprisc, he had only
executed one single commission. This par
tiality aii'ronted all the rest, and hemade his
apology iii the following speech: Gentle
O thou, at whose disposal all things lie,
To blast the other's cherished hopes of peace.

The human race were never formed to dwell
In enmity; nor can the varying heart,
Hasten the glorious, long predicted day,

\Vhen the Redeemers kingdom, from on high
Shall come, and oer the earth extend its sway.

\Vithout some genial object to partake
Its cares or joys, be satised: it loves
men, when I set sail, I laid all your mento
randums on the gallery of the ship to peruse

them, that I might put them in order to be .
executed regularly; when suddenly a squall
To pour its sorrows in the pitying breast;

And seek, in sympathy, relief and peace.
Hatred ne'er came from Heaven; tis the huge rock
Then feuds and wars and carnage shall no more

Their dire, infernal trophies spread afar,
arose, which blew them overboard, and it
Contending nations drench in human gore,

And all the goodly face of nature mar:
was impossible for me to remember their

diverse contents.
On which the. bark of happiness is wreckd.

I would be cautious; nor admit within
My bosoms empire, ev'ry man who sought,
But mercy, trhth and lov'e, in concert sweet,

Beneath the gentle reign of peace shalljoin;
And all the human race like brothers meet,
However, replied one of them, you have

brought Mia,
his silks. Very true, says
Piorano; but the reason is, that be enclosed,
in his memorandum, a number of threats, the
With smooth discourse, to gain an entrance there;
And all chant forth the song of praise divine.
I would observe each trait, and then compare

It with my own: for friendship can't exist,
In minds dissimilar, with equal warmth

As those that are alike. In moments cool
He who destroys an inoffensive worm,
Should never be my friend; for, sure, his heart
Must be corrupt; he would not care to crush

A human being, who did bar his path:
But he who leaves his path, through fear alone
Lest he should rob of life some humble insect,
That life his powers could neer restore, him take
And cherish as a tender friend, would 1.

From such an union ows the purest bliss
(Save wedded love) in this suhlunar vale.
It gives to eeting life its avor mild,
Cheers the dull moments and does gently sooth
All real or fancied ills with tones assuasive,
And brightensjoy itself. I love to view

Men dwell in peace, and to each other do
0, may the glorious zra soon arrive
When injured virtue shall receive reward!

And may 1 to that blissful day survive,
And hail the empire of creations ILOrdl
EUGENIO.
For the Repertory.
ELI-IUY ()N THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
Night now has drawn her sable curtain round,

And solemn silence universal reigns;
Nouglit now is heard, no not one inurmuring sound,
nov body to marry them. 'ith your leave,
Sophia dear, on thee my thoughts I bend;
stepping up, and making a how, Ill I'Llkc

two of them!
And while adoring the all ruling Power,

I heave a sigh for thy untimely end.
Such is the precept mild of him who died

To give a faithless unbelieving race
.
Salvation pure and never fading bliss. ST. ORME.
The streams that from my eyes incessant How;

Can they recallv thee from eternal rest!
No' death, grim tyrant of the human race,
\Vitli-fatal shaft has piercedthy tender side;
He viewd thy form, he markd thy beauteous face,
And caught thee to his breast, a blooming bride.
Adieu to the scenes where once fondly I roved,

In the days of my boy hood untainted by art;
In beautys fairest mould thy form was made;
Adieu to the groves, to my sweet native bowers,

Forever I leave you, forever we part.
Humanity thy gentle bosom swayd;

\Vhile peaceful slunibers lulld thy soul to rest.
Yet my sorrow worn heart shall frequently dwell

On the scenes which kind nature unfolded to view,
thousand dollars each; and yet he could nd

Doctor," said an Illbliildli, who Was present,
While thus I pensive sit at midnight hour,
But whatavail these plaitits of grief and woe;

The bursting sighs that reiid my anguislid breast;
THE EXILE.
so light, so that I had the means of remem
bering what he ordered.

a...
A certain rich physician \i'ttslt.tt-ly' coin
plttining in a coffee-house, that he had three
fine daughters, to whom he would give ten
Save cow-bells tinkling o'er the distant plains.
As to themselves they would wish to be done.
For the Repertory.
weight of which prevented it from being cair

iit'd away by the wind with yours, not being
In virtucs spotless robes thy mind was dressd;
@bandillll'a.
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that could be answered by its being continu
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will be but speculationstih, and must remain
50 .till we bet-unit: unfettered by the shackles ,
How oft with thee lve wandered oer the green;
of mortality.
\Ve tluuik Sober Simpson, esq. for his no
With thee Ive sat beneath the cooling shade;
;\'CI treatise on Foppery; we oiilyregrut. that,
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VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
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LIFE OF GENERAL PUTNAM.
(Continued)
Major Putnam, perceiving it would be
impossible to cross the creek, determined

to maintain his ground. Inspired by his ex
ample, the ofcers and men behaved with
great bravery; sometimes they fought aggre
gatcly in open view, and sometimes indivi

'iUully under cover, taking aim from behind
the bodies of trees, and acting in a manner
independent of each other. For himself, hav
ing discharged his fusce several times, at

length it missed re, whilst the muzzle was
pressed against the breast of a savage. This
warrior, availing himself of the indefensible
attitude of his adversary, with a tremendous
war whoop, sprang forward with his lifted
hatchet and compelled him to surrender; and

having disarmed and bound him to a tree,
returned to the battle.

<
The intrepid captains DEll anti Harman,
who now commanded, were forced to give
ground for a little distance. The savages,
conceiving this to be the certain harbinger
of victory, rushed impetuously on, with
dreadful and redoubled cries. But our two
partisans, collecting a handful of brave men,

gave the pursuers so warm a reception, as
to oblige them, in turn, to retreat a little be
yond the spot where the action had com

menced. Here they made a stand. This
change of ground occasioned the tree to
which Putnam was tied, to be directly be
tween the fire of the two parties. Human
imagination can hardly gure to itself a
more deplorable situation. The halls llcw
incessantly from either side; many struck
the tree, while some passed through the
sleeves and skirts of his coat. in this
state of jeopardy, unable to move his body,
stir his limbs, or even to incline his head,
he remained more than an hour, so equally

balanced and so obstinate was the ght! At
one moment,_while the battle swerved in fa
vor of the enemy, a young savage took an

odd way of discovering his humor: He
found Putnam bound; he might have dis
patched him with a single blow; but he loved
better to excite the terrors of his prisoner,
by hurling a tomahawk at his head, or rather,

it should seem his object was, to see how
No. 25.
near he could throw it without touching

him; the weapon struck in the tree a num
ber of times at a hairs breadth distance
from the mark. \Vhcn the Indian had nish
had captured him, and had been absent with

the wounded, coming up, gave him a pair of
mocasons, and expressed great indignation at
the unworthy treatment his prisoner had suf.
ed his amusement, a French has oiiicer, a fered.
much more inveterate savage by nature,
The savage chief again returned to the
even though descended from so humane and care of the Wounded, and the Indians, about
polished a nation, perceiving Putnam, came 200 in number, went before the rest of the
up to him, and levelling a fusee within a party to the place where the whole were
foot of his breast, attempted to discharge it; that night to encamp. They took with them
it missed re; ineti'ecttlally did the intended major Putnam; they (besides innumerable
victim solicit the treatment due to his situ other outrages) had the barbarity to inict
:ttion, by repeating that he was a prisoner of a deep wound, with a tomahawk, in his left
war. The degenerate Frenchman did not cheek. His suli'erings were in this place to
understand the language of honor or of na be consummated. A scene of horror, in
ture, deaf to their voice, and dead to sensibili
nitely greater than had ever met his eyes be
ty,_he violently and repeatedly pushed the fore, was now preparing. It was determined
muzzle of his gun against Putnams ribs, to roast him alive. For this purpose, they led
and nally gave him a cruel blow on the jaw him into a dark forest, stripped him naked,
with the butt of his piece. After this das bound him to a tree, and piled dry brush,
with other fuel, at a small distance, in a cir
tardly deed, he left him.
At lengthhe active intrepidity of DEll cle round him. They accompained their la
and Harman, seconded by the persevering bors, as if for his funeral dirge, with screams
valor of their followers, prevailed. They and sounds inimitable but by savage voices.
drove from the eld the enemy, who left Then they set the piles on re. A sudden
about 90 dead behind them. As they were shower damped the rising ame; still they
retiring, Putnam was untied by the Indian strove to kindle it, until, at last, the blaze
who had made him prisoner, and whom he ran ercely round the circle. Major Putnam
afterwards called master. Haring been-con soon began to feel the scorching heat. His
ducted for some distance from the place of hands were so tied that he could move his
action, he Was stripped of his coat, vest,stock body; he often shifted sides as the re ap
ings and shoes, loaded with as many of the proached. The sight, at the very idea of which
packs of the wounded as could be piled up all but savages must shudder, afforded the
, on him, strongly pinioned, and his wrists tied highest diversion to his inhuman tormentors,
as closely together' as they could be pulled l who demonstrated the delirium of their joy
with a cord. After he had marched, through by correspondent yells, dances and gesticu
no pleasant paths, in this painful manner, for lations. He saw clearly that his nal hour was
many a tedious mile, the party, who were inevitably come; he summoned all his resolu
exceedingly fatigued, halted to breathe. His tion, and composed his mind, as far as the
hands were now immoderatcly swelled, by circumstances could admit, to bid an eternal
.the
had tightness
become intolerable;
of the ligature,
his feet
and the
were so! farewel to all he held mOst dear. To quit
the world would scarcely have cost him a sin
much scratched, that the blood dropped fast! gle pang, but for the idea of home, but for
from them. Exhausted with bearing a'burdtzn 7 the remembrance of those sweet cndearments
abovehis strength, and frantic with torments i of the affectionate partner of his soul, and of
exquisite beyond endurance, he intrcated the i their beloved offspring. llis thought was ul
interpreter to implore, as the last and only ll timately fixed on a happier state ofexistence,
grace he desired of the savages, that they 5: beyond the tortures he Was begining to en
wotLld knock him on the head, and take his ; dure- The bitterness (if-death, even of that
scalp at once, or loose his hands. A French

oicer instantly interposing, ordered his
hands to be unbound, and some of the packs
tobe taken off. By this time, the Indian who
death which is accompanied with the keenest

. agonies, was in a mannerpassed; nature, with
5 a feeble strug ;le, was quitting-itslast hold
;1 on sublunary things; when a Brunch .oicnr
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rushed through the crowd, opened a way by

scattering the burning brands, and unbound
the victim. It was Molang himself; to whom
a savage, unwilling to see another human sa
crice, had communicated the tidings. That
commandant spurned and severely repriman
For the Repertory.

THE I'IEIRESS OF SOBEISRI.
, A ROMANCE.
CHAPTER VlI.
So spake the false dissembler unperceived;

For neither man nor angel can discern
ded the barbarians, whose hellish orgies he

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Austin had now succeeded: the aright

ed mind of the count shuddered at the idea
of being exposed to the world, and this idea
dictated his sudden burst of passion, and not
the conrmed intention of an impenetrable
villain!
The entrance of Lopez now put an end
to the conference of Ferresbnrgh and his
suddenly ended. Putnam did not want for

feeling or gratitude. The French command
Invisible, except to God alone,

.
By his permissive Will, through heaven and earth.
confessor, who were amazed and confound
er, fearful to trust him alone with them, re

mained, until he could deliver him, in safety,
Miran.
And I can teach thee, cons, to shame the devil;
ed at learning from the old man that Flau

rice had returned to the castle without his
into the hands of his master.

The savage approached the prisoner kind
Tell truth and shame the devil.
Sbahprare.
master.
As usual, Icrresburgh and his confessor
met early in the morning to impart their

hopes and their fears to each other, for so
pale a coward is guilt that terror and more
ly, and seemed to treat him with particular

affection. He offered him some hard biscuit,
but nding that he could not chew them, on

account of the blow he .had received from
the Frenchintui, this more humane savage
seldom hope continually distract his mind.

Good morrow to my noble lord, cried
Austin, how fares it with your lordship

after the last nights rest?"
Do not mock me, priest, replied Fer
resburgh, by naming rest; never a mo
ment's rest visits my lacerated bosom! I ne
ver close my eyes in sleep, but dreams of
anguish rob me of repose! Can it be possi
soaked some of the biscuit in water, and
made him suck the pulp-like part. Deter

mined, however, not to lose his captive (the
refreshment being nished,, he took the
Flaurice returned! cried Austin.

Tis true, venerable father, answered
Lopez, and as I can get nothing out of him,

I thought it best to inform his lordship, for
some unfortunate accident may have befallen
our dear young lord."
Your solicitude, good Lopez, replied
the count, is very amiable, and well be
speaks the character of my son.

Ah! my lord, answered the steward,
stretched one arm to its full length, and

bound it fast to a young tree, the other arm
ble, Austin, that such consummate misery
who is there that does not like the brave

and generous Linhault?
Ferresburgh could not forbeara sigh, and
Austin requested Lopez to retire. When the
waits upon a restless conscience?
old man withdrew, Austin thus addressed
extended and bound in the same manner; his
placed under a French guard. The savages,

who had been prevented from glutting their
diabolical thirst for blood, took every oppor
tunity of manifesting tli'eir malevolence for
the disappointment by horrid grimaces and
Ferresburgh:
to pity and penitence, endeavored to con
Be at case, my lord; I will nd out Flau~
vince his lord that the greatest proportion rice, learn the cause of his return, and whe
of his misery was selfcreated, and felt with ther his master pursues his journey alone.
out the least shadow of foundation: but fail Perhaps, disgusted with the fellows fears,
ing in his arguments, and knowing the in Linhault has made him return to the castle;
jury the feelings of Ferresburgh did to the and his refusal to satisfy Lopez is a corro
cause of both, be resolved to arouse his fear. boration of this idea."
Well, my lord, cried he, in a satirical
Tis more than probable, replied Fer
tone, I know of no better way to rid you of resburgh.
Austin now requested his lord to endea
these midnight horrors that disturb you, than
for you to hasten to the king, confess your vor to appear before the king as unconcern
cdly as be possibly could; and Ferresburgh
guilt'
How, monk!" interrupted Ferresburgh. promising, went to receive his majesty from
Implore him, continued the confessor, his chamber.
Austin left the room, and was proceeding
to bring you to the ignominy of a public
accusation, and upon the scaffold, while the along the passage that conducted from the
impatient axe glitters above your head, re apartments of the count to his own, when a
voice from behind arrested him. He turned
quest the pardon of a gaping multitude!
The mind of Ferresburgh seemed now to observe who addressed him and was great
distracted; rage and vengeance beamed fear ly surprised to behold Truro and Weineet.
\Veineet and Truro! exclaimed he,
fully from his eyes, and grasping the hand of
the bloody confessor he feat-fully exclaimed, what, both returned?
Both, both, replied the worthy crea
I understand your sarcasm, wretched
monk! There is a heaven, Austin; Austin, tures.
Well, asked Austin, whose mind ever
there is a hell! but mark me, though that
should be the price of the disclosure, and ran upon purposes of blood and murder,
this stood ready to recieve me for refusal, where lies the pretty serpent? have you
I never would reveal my guilt! No! cried dispatched her?
angry gestures, but they were suffered no
he
mocasons from his feef, and tied them to one
of his wrists; then, directing him to lie down
on his back, upon the bare ground, he
The monk, whose heart was callous alike
legs were stretched apart, and fastened to

two saplings. Then a number of tall, slender,
poles were cut down, which, with some long
bushes, were laid across his body, from head
to foot. On each side lay as many Indians as

could conveniently nd lodging, in order to
prevent the possibility of his escape. In this
disagreeable and painful posture, he remain
ed until morning. During this night, the
longest and most dreary conceivable, our
hero used to relate, that he felt a ray of
cheerfulness come casually across his mind,
and could not even refrain from smiling,
when he reected on this ludicrous groupe
for a painter, of which he himself was the
principal gure.
The next day he was allowed his blanket
and mocasons, and permitted to march with
out carrying any pack, or receiving any in
sult. To allay his extreme hunger a little
bears meet was given him, which he suck
ed through his teeth. At night the party ar

rivedat Ticonderoga, and the prisoner was
with increased vchemencc, sooner
No, returned Truro; wherever she
more to offer violence or personal indignity would I seize a aming torch, re my cas
tle, bury king, .vassals, servants, all in the
to him.
(To be continued.)
devouring element, then rush into the
crawls, the grass is much too high, we can

not nd her.
Indeed! replied the monk in a disSatis
ed tone, then Ferresburghs loudest fear
exists perhaps. Pernicious destiny!
mounting ruin, than own myself the mur
W' ho affects useless singularities has sure
ly a little mind.
derer of Sobeiski.
m
We cannot help it, returned VVein

eet, what bravoes could do, Truro and
there nd Marden, bid him conduct you to

the chamber of the count, and bring Ferres
myself have done: had we found her, this had

assisted to destroy her." And here the vil
lain drew a poniard from his girdle.
burgh to you."
There is not a spot of ground," cried

Truro, within one hundred miles of War
saw or Sobeiski that we have not traversed
in search of Thadia; but all in vain; and af
ter
six months search, we have returned,
and she may, for aught we know, be still

alive."
Destructive fate!" exclaimed the monk,
had you no prospect of success?

None, none, returned \Veineet; and
the further we travelled the less we learned
of the affair.
But yet, good Austin," said Truro, we
have not returned without some information
that may be interesting to Ferresburg.

That is that?" demanded Austin. My
lord has no secrets that I am not intrusted
with."
That may be, father, replied \Veineet,
but we have.
Austin," said Truro, we have met
with Martix."
There is also a strange

tending it, which retains
prisoners, although they
of the disgrace of their
195
kind of fatality at
its votarics willing
are fully sensible
bondage. For this
Here they separated, and Austin proceed

ed to gain the necessary information from reason, we so frequently see drunkards pro
the squire of Linhault.
fess to despise it: what but a sense of the
Ferresburgh had so far succeeded in over shameful impropriety of their conduct could
coming his feelings, as to be able to con prompt them to do this? This rule is so ge
verse cheerfully with Stanislaus, and even neral, that you will scarcely ever nd abac
sat down to chess with him, who, seduced chanalian, who will not speak of the subject
by these specious appearances, forgot his with the utmost contempt.
suspicious, or rather banished them from his
Drunkenness is the forerunner of many
mind, not believing it possible that guilt evils; among which, dissimulution holds the
could wear so mild and unconcemed an rst place, and selfdcstruction ultimately
aspect.
follows it. These ideas are not formed by the
My dear count, said he, I am happier

today than I have been since I entered the
castle."
I am rejoiced, my gracious liege," re

plied Ferresburgh, to nd your highness
happy in my solitary house, and much cha
grined that you should have had any cause
for uneasiness at Sobeiski.
You, my dear count, have been the
caprices of fancy; they are unfortunately

drawn from notorious facts. I see, alternately,
members of the highest and lowest classes
of society become its victims: and when it
has once completely gained the ascendancy,
its dominion is so absolute that nothing but
the most inexible resolution, and'unceasing

industry can devest it of its power: now it
glows with the vehemence of afurnace, des
troying every sentiment of delicacy; and now
it rushes with the impetuosity of a cataract,
sweeping every thing before it; honor, vir
cause, replied the king.

I, my liege! exclaimed Ferrcsburgh in
surprise, in what have I been so guilty as
Indeed! replied Austin, I heard he to give you pain?
tue, pleasure, are all alike disregarded, and
was alive; but where did you meet him, are
Your continual grief for Sobeiski's all alike laid waste. The votarics who often
you sure it was the same Martix?
death, answered Stanislaus, and many stand tottering on the precipice of misery,
That our lord employed to murder cor-at other strange and unaccountable circumstan
to which they have been allured by its de
Sobeiski, replied Weineet.
ces, I confess, have rendered me unhappy, ceitful witchcraft, are sometimes plunged
Bear more caution on your tongue, and made me suspect that you knew more into the gulf of despair; and frequently hur
said the monk, the king is in the castle. of that dreadful murder than you ought to
ried into eternity, with all their imperfec
But where is Martix?
have known."
UBAI.DO.
tions on their heads.
In the ruined abbey, answered Truro,
_._.>__.
\Vhat an awful reection is this! Yet not
about ve miles distant, on the rivers
For the Repertory.
even a regard for their own happiness; nor
banks.
THE CABINET. N0. IX.
the sense of honor or reputation; nor the
Well, let him rest there, said Austin, " Beneath the wreath that decks the owing bowl
fear of appearing unprepared before the tri
self interest will keep him from- harming Fell adders hiss, and pois'nous serpents roll.
bunal of Heaven; nor the knowledge of the
us.
Be not too condent of that," replied the
bloody Truro, youll nd that Martix is
not the villain you imagine."

Indeed! what mean you? cried Austin,
with eager alarm.
Strange things have come to light, re
plied Truro to the monk: you and the
count are most egregiously deceived."
can it be? cried Austin, in what par
cular?
Austin, answered Truro, liad we but
given our word to Martix, we would not
breakit, but we have sworn never to divulge
what We have discovered.
Strange mystery! muttered Austin.

Come, conduct us to Ferresburgh," said
Weincet, we have an arrangement to
make, upon which depends his safety, per
haps his life!"

I am on other business now," replied the
In the cnlirening hour of festal convivi

ality, a person of the most temperate habits
may inadvertently become intoxicated; it is
not my intention to censure unfeelingly a
circumstance of this kind which occurs but
seldom. This would be ungenerous; for the
best of us commit errors at times, for which
we are afterwards penitent; and it would be
grating to the ear of a man of sensibility to
be continually told of faults, which he al
ready knows as such, and which he will
strive to correct. But in the capacity of a
moral essayist, I would consider it as treat
ing my duty with great neglect, were I to
pass over in silence such a subject as drunk
mmma.
I have reected on this subject long, and
examined it minutely; but what allurements
it possesses, or what pleasures it promises,
I have never been able to discover: it does
however, captivate many, some of whom
punishment which awaits them in another

world, is sufficient to deter them from in
dulging in the most detestable of all vices.

And are the foul cnjoyments of a few eet
ing moments to be compared to everlasting
blesscdncss and the unspeakable riches of
eternal duration? \Vhat unaccountable infa

tuation!
Is a man a father? How distressing a spec
tacle to his children to behold a parent, him
to whom they owe their existence, falling
into a state of beastly degradation, at which ~
the mind sickens, and from which a'ection
turns with disgust! Does this behavior cause
him no sad reections in his sober hours?
and has he so completely overpowered the _
silent remonstlances of conscicnCe as to sup
pose himself doing l'ighl? Call he look upon
those children, entrusted to him as a sacred
pledge, without inwardly recoiling with

horror at his own destructive conduct, and
monk, but proceed to the ball, you will sadly experience the truth of our motto.
starting with a'iight from the guilty tinr.
196
M'
ture of his own soul? Is it not his duty to

give them religious precepts, to set them a
good example, to practice their tender years
in the exercise of virtue, and to educate them
in the school of morality? And have these
duties been performed? Ye hoary headed
drunkards, how will you answer this? Think
not that your silver locks will protect you,
for tis to you that I most LIII/llltl.ifall_l/ speak.
The laws of human nature proclaim, that
your end cannot be far distant, and you are
commanded to prepare for it by the laws of
God!
_
Is a man a husband? He must have dis
posed of every sentiment of manly honor,
unfeelingly and unjustly to bring the partner
of his fortunes into a situation, from which
her prudence vainly endeavors to extricate
driving him to distraction, and precipitating

herself into every horror that misery can
imagine, or ignominy devise.
Drunkenness is a vice which requires the
discountenancing frown of respectable so
ciety to awe and check it, and the continued
exertions of all, for its complete suppres
sion. There is no hope I would more wil
lingly cherish, no wish i would feel hap
pier in having fullled, than that such dis
tressing scenes and demoralizing examples
may henceforth become less frequent in our
streets; that we may see fewer drunken men
among the lower classes of society, and a
closer adherence to sobriety in the higher
and more polished circles.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
__...-__
her, and which makes her virtue but the dc
For the Repertory.
rision of her foes. \Vhat must be her opi

nion conecming him to whom she has vowed
ON THE lNlQUlTY OF 'AR.

1* \Var is a game
eternal love? Can she love a monster, who
is laboring to render, hcr unhappy, and who

tramples in the dust every respect due to
himself. to her, and to the world? How dread
ful must be her sensations

siders herself the wretched
helpless offspring, brought
by the voluntary vices of an
when she con

mother of an
into indigence
unreflccting fa
ther! The present scene is portentous; and

she looks forward to the future, with trem
bling apprehensions and dreadful anticipa

tions.
_ _ Is he a son? Let him reect upon the un
merited pangs he causes his parents to suf
fer; those parents whose tenderness pro-'
tected his childhood, who led him, with af
fectionate solicitude, through the various and
dangerous stages of youth, and who now be

hold him arrived at years of maturity but to
ridicule their wholesome admonitions, to
blast their almost realized BXPCCtuLlOl-S ol

happiness, and to bring down their gray
hairs in sorrow to the gravel
I
I have heretofore conned my observa
tions on drunkenness to men,- thcre I trust
its deformities are sufficiently conspicuous;
but oh! how much more horrible dues it ap
pear in a woman! The blush of modesty fades
upon the check; the re of intelligence is
extinguished in her eye; the lillies of inno

cence wither in her mind; and the current
of virtue becomes stagnant at her heart.

Reason aflrighted deserts her throne, and
this disgusting propensity occupies the re
gal seat. How melancholy, how pitialrle is
the picture presented to the eye of the ob
server! He sees the master piece of natures
works converted into a sink of corruption:
he sees her unrestrained desires rush head
long in their course; and he beholds woman,
who was created for the comforter of man,
Which were their subjects WiSt. kings would

not play it.
Cowrsu.
I am very sensible of my incapaciiy'to do

the subject of this essay that justice which
it deserves, yet a zealous disappiobatiom of
a practice so unnaturally nicked, prompts
me to make some efforts in its opposition,
though they should prove only the ctl'orts of

imbecility.--l .hope, however, to adduce the
evidence of writers in my support, whose
respectable testimony shall claim some at
tention from every reecting mind.
That man, possessed of rational facilities,
(and the ccmmonf- '
ofhumanity, should
thus are here in the eld of battle compel

cd to inict upon each other all the wounds
and anguish in their power, as well as to
leave weltcring in their blood, thousands
who have been reluctauitly dragged from
their peaceful homes, where every tie of
consanguinity had endeared their presence.
Ye beasts of the forests, (says Knox,) no
longer allow that man is your superior, while

there is found on the face of the earth such
degeneracy. Morality and religion (says he)
forbid war in its motives, conduct, and con
sequences, and while we are warriors, with
all our pretensions to civilization, we are sa

vages.
In a work called the Complaint of Peace,

tl'anslatCti from the Latin of Erasmus by the
celebrated Dr. Priestley, the defenders of
war have a noble and masterly antagonist.

It is a publication deserving the serious pe
rusal of all the world. 1f (says Erasmus)
there be any one thing inthc affairs of mor
tal men, which it is proper uniformly to can
plodc, which it is incumbent on every one,
by every lawful means to avoid, to doprecatc

and to oppose, that one thing is, doubtless,
war. There is nothing more unnaturaliy
wicked, more productive of misery, more
extensively destructive, more obstinate in

mischief, more unworthy of man as formed
by nature, much more of man professing
christianity. This is language strong and

il'opressive.
To employ murder as the means of jus
tice (says Godwin) is an' idea that a man of
exer hi
era in all those military con
an enlightened mind will never dwell upon
trivanccs, instituted for the destruction of with pleasure. The Fountain of all perfec
his fellow beings, I can but think, casts tion has said, Vengeance is mine, I will
great indignity upon that nature, of which repay. Fighting, as a reparation for either
we so honorably boast. There is some individual or national aggression, appears in
thing in it so repugnant to philanthropy, and reality absurd, because it is equal chance
every other virtue, that though we duly whether the punishment [all upon the offen
commiserate human inrmity, we must view ders, or those ocndcd. Where are the in
it as a wide deviation from the path of mo tellectual powers of man, when right must
ral, and much more of christian duty.
be established by human slaughter? That
The causes of war, (says Knox,) are for man should resort to murder, as the medium
the most part, such as disgrace an animal, of obtaining satislltction for injury, is worse,
pretending to rationality. Two ruling pow far worse than' brutal ferocity. But though
ers take o'ence at each other, with or with
it could be imagined that coercion wasthe
out a cause, no matter which, as the great means of making men wise and good, this
object is to aggrandize themselves by reci assumption, large as it is, would not serve
procal depredations. Taxes the most bur to establish the morality of war. War strikes
thensome are levied, soldiers are collected, not at the offender, but the innocent. It is
so as to leave a paucity of husbandmen, re the business of a soldier (says Godwin) to
views and cncampments succeed, and at last kill those who never oll'cnded him, and who
fteen or tweny thousand men must meet are the innocent martyrs of other mens ini
on a plain, and coolly shed each others blood, quities.
without the smallest animosity, or a shadow
" \Vhen doating monarchs urge
of provocation, during this conflict, the real
Unsound resolves, their subjects feel the scourge.
authors of such inhuman slaughter sit un

molested in their cabinets, or other pla
ces of equal safety. The innocent vic
The author of the Pursuits of Litera

ture has also reprobated the practice under
our discussion. It would seem (says he)
PHILADELPHIA nnrnn'ronv. ~
197
as if war and wisdom might be joined toge

ther, but the sooner the union is dissolved
the better." Paley, in his Principles of
moral and political philosophy" has given
some observations upon revenge and duel
ling," very applicable to our subject. To
both of these writers I refer the reader. I
might mention a number of other authors,
who have opposed war under all forms, and
upon every occasion, as incompatible with
the christian religion, and utterly forbidden.
But it appears to me there wants no such
labor; a little reection upon the nature and
object of our existence, one would think
must soon detect its injustice. \Vho can view
the dreadful calamities of war, and not feel
a virtuous and ardent solicitudc for its total
extermination from the face of the earth?
Is it not the source of miseries and mischiefs
the most dreadful in their nature? Is it not
a crime, which in its magnitude, and exten
sive eects on society,_has no parallel?
\Vell might the poet excl-aim,
" O! for a lodge in some vast wilderness
Some boundless (omiguity of shadeI

Where rumors of oppression and deceit,
Of unsucce<sful and succaaslul war,
Might never reach me more."
Eager for the correction of whatever is
amiss in morals, or tends to lessen the hap

piness of our existence, we are all alike in
terested in establishing ourselves in habits

of virtue, and opposing every species of vice.
It is the incumbent duty of every one, to
determine, by candid inquiry and serious re
ection, the propriety or impropriety of War.
The determination interests us in our wel
fare here, and our destiny in futurity. If we
nd the light of natute, and that principle
which has inculcated peace on earth and
good will to men," at variance with the prac
tice, it is vital to our best~ interest to sup

port, unshalten, the integrity of our belief,
and show to the world, we have learned the
importart lesson.
" To err is human, to forgive divine."
CENSOR.
striking and impressive contrast in the mind

and feelings of the attentive and devout hear
er, I shall proceed to show the causes of
this contrast, and also why (according to a
pious author) the worship in which we
should most resemble the inhabitants of'hea
ven, is the worst performed upon earth.
done of makingr a cri/z'cal stamina/rm of the

various music books extant: the following is
therefore selected for the present number;
the others, according as they may promote
the object of these essays, will all be pre
sented in their proper time and place.
A publication has lately made its appear
ance in this city, consisting of a collection of
I have already asserted, that there are er

rors in both the theory and practice of ottr
church music; but I have only glanced at
some ofthc sources, whence they have taken
their rise, namely, interpolation of the teach
ing professor; infclicitous selection of the
piecs of sacred music. intended for the use

of singing schools and churches. The work
compiler; and injudicious choice of the pre
kind, that ever, I believe, came before the
psalm and hymn tlint's, together with other
throughout, abounds with errors, and alter
ations, of the most whimsical and insipid
ceptor, or leading clerk: these, as they pre public: with a number of the most familiiir
sent themselves, shall be unfolded and ex tunes, the editor has taken the greatest li~
panded as their importance may be deemed berties; and so has he garbled and mutilated
them, that if their authors were now living,
to require.
l. Interpolation of the teaching professor. it is more than probable that they would be
That alterations are made in many tunes, and not a little perplexed to know their own
many in some, is obvious to any one who is works. One tune, in particular, which occu-.
only supercially acquainted with sacred inu pics a whole page, consisting of thirty-two
sic; but that this should be the case, is cause bars_of triple titne, contains, (after having
of deep regret to skilful professors and anta passed under his correcting hand,) no less
tenrs; and particularly so, when the nished than thirty-om- gross and unpardonable vio
Productions of the best masters are mangled lations of the laws of harmony: that part of
and mutilated in such a manner, as to de
the page, where a string of notes is placed
stroy that life and expression which charac next below the principal melody, I presume,
terised the ability of their celebrated com the editor intended to pass for the base; but
posers. Whether from vanity, arising from it bears no more resemblance to the origi
the conviction that he is really capable ofv nal bass, than the Old Hundred does to Den
im/lroving' certain music that has stood the mark. I conceive that it would be doing too
test of time and critical examination; whe
much honor to the thing before me (for it
ther from an apprehension, that unless he has scarcely one feature of legitimate mu
a/s/zear to be able himself to compose, or sic,) ifI were to call it a bass; since it does
detect faults in existing tunes, he will not not deserve the name, unless by a well ap
get a school; whether, from the Money I ming plied pun, I were to Call it indeed a base
principle of having two sources of prot, production of a weak and little mind. The
the teaching of music and the sale of books; original bass, so denominated in the just
or, from whatever cause the practice may sense of the word, abounds in richness of
have taken its rise, certain it is, that almost harmony, boldness of expression, and ma
every one who sets up for a teacher of 5a jesty of movement; but in this mongrel off
crcd music, makes a selection and publish spring, I lind nothing ofthc kind; indeed, it
es a book for himself. Hence has arisen the limps most sadly, and whines most piteous
multiplicity of music books, of all sorts but ly. But the imposition would be more tole
good ones; and hence that multipiicity of di rable, Were not the other parts injured by
versied tastes, which tends to prevent the this ignorant, this truly contemptible pro
o.
introduction of the just principles of melody
duction, made under the pretence of im
and harmony, and even to subvert or de
provement; for, it is by placing this wretch

ed part in the tune, that the number of blun
Fnr the Repertory.

SACRED HARMONY.
pravc what little good taste there yet remains

in the community. Surely, this circumstance ders, as above mentioned, occur; and the
The preceding essays, if they have been is alone sulI-icient to produce a jarring, a piece as it now stands, is a complete jumble
read without prejudice, and estimated by im dissonance and discord, capable of marring, of unmeaning sounds, that border on down
partiality, will have given the candid reader or even of destroying those delightful ele right nonsense. As this is an age, however,
some idea of what sacred music oughtto be, vations of devotional feeling, which the sweet of wonders, revolutions, changes, alterations
in itself; as well as how it ought to be perform harmonious numbers of \Vatts scarcely ever and improvements, it may be supposed that
ed, both in private society and public wor fail to inspire.
the editor has invented a new system ofhar
ship, but particularly in the latter. And since
But I hasten to produce facts, to substan mony, and discovered new laws for the con
the power and effects of divine song, as de tiate my assertion of the interpolation by the struction of thorough bass; and, possibly, if I
scribed in my last, when compared with its teaching professor; and this I shall do in the were to hear this piece performed in its pre
power and effects as exhibited in many of plainest and shortest Way possible, by giving sent st:.te,I might be enabled to acquire
our churches, czmnot but have induced'a literally my memoranda, taken down at the some grand anti sublime ideas upon the
No. V.
198
principles of harmony, that had eluded the
subjects of criticism, only with a view to
research of Handel and Madan. But, seri
render obvious some evident defect, but not
ously, from the generality of the alterations
to tear asunder that which might have cost
through the whole book, I am rather inclined

to believe, that so far from the editors hav
hours of reflection, not to barrow up the

feelings of any one, and thus to deter him
from further advancements on the public
stage. The eye of the intellect like that ol
can meet their approbation, which bears evi'

dent marks of that which is incorrect and
without foundation. The works of a writer,
whose genius can embeilish impropriety, and
whose authority can make error venerable,
are proper objects of critical inquisition."
But the defects of an author, who attempts
the body, is not equally perfect in all, nor
to benet mankind by his literary efforts, and
ing had genius and science enough to inren:

anew system, he knows but very little of
the old rules for composition; for, if he were
well acquainted with them, he must know,
that the pieces thus attempted to be im

proved, are very good, without the ofcious
assistance of his correcting hand: the natu
ral consequence therefore is, that these al
terations were made from mere, downright
ignorance, and a vain desire of appearing as

of some consequence in the eyes of the world.
Lamentable indeed must be the state of sa
cred music in this city, when such paltry
productions as this contains, can be palmed
upon the citize. s, in lieu of the genuine
comp0sitions of the rst masters of the last
century! But, were I even to acknowledge,
that the pieces altered were not originally

correct, (which indeed I am very far from
believing,) surely that can be no excuse for
making them worse; this would be about as
rational an argument, as to say, that because
a man has but one good eye, that that eye

should be knocked out, in order to remedy
the defect in the other.
PHILO MADAN.
0,
For the Repermry.

WEEKLY REFELCTIONS.
There appears to be as great a diversity

in the characters of writers, as we behold in
the human species. And it is, indeed, almost
equally adapted in any to all objects. The

end of criticism is to supply its defects.
Rules are the instruments of mental vision,
which may indeed assist our faculties when
properly used, but produce confusion and
obscurity by unskilful application?
For my own part, I would rather be com
pelled to read the most perfectly bungled
mass, a thousand times, than to take one pe
rusal of furious criticism, or what is often
the ease, of illiberal censure. All have an
to exonerate the human race from slavish

ignorance,
should be handled lightly, or
p.tssed by with perfect indifference. * That a

proper respect should be paid to the rules of
criticism, is very readily allowed, but there
is always an appeal from criticism to na
ture.
We are less apt to search after our own
faults, than those of other persons. If a man
will content himself with examining his own

errors, he will generally nd enough to keep
him engaged. No man is privileged to med
dle with the productions of others with im
punity, except he has himself arisen to the
acme of perfection.
T. D. M.
equal right to be pleased or displeased with

the productions of others, and there are some
criticisms, which in my humble judgment,
display far less good sense, than the essays
which formed the subjects of investigation.
-.0.-__
A man may make a hasty dash in writing,
For the Repertory.
and by that means, disgure a little the vi
NIGHT MARE.
sage of his piece; but when he reads it in
Through
the
gloom
and the fog, now the night
print, it is highly probable, that his error
spirit ies,
will meet the rst glance of his eye. Let a
Her wing by the heavy dews pressd;
busy dabbler in criticism get hold of this And steals to the couch where fair innocence lies,
publication, and he at once meets with ajob,
and xes himselfto work, vainly hoping to

set the literary world on re with the torch
of criticism. Instead of choosing the best
among many good, he is eager to expose a
single error, and seeks not to approve but
to condemn. Of what avail, I ask, are the
emendatory attempts of such a writer? Do

they benet the author, whose composition
is the subject of such criticism? Surely not
impossible to determine, what some persons

design to accomplish by their productions,
merely from a perusal of them. It isnot my
intention at this time to enter into the merits
of any one in particular; but it will be the
business of this essay, toattempt an investi
is frequently discovered by him who com

mitted it. Who then is protted? No one,
nor is any injured. No genius was ever
gation of that class of writers, who hear the
blasted by the breath of critics; the poison,
And with sleep's double signer, quick closes her eyes,

And mounts on her soft-heaving breast.
The spell is begun. Now the night~spirit laughs,

And, silent, makes stronger the charm;
The laboring sighs of the virgin she qua's,
And the spirits of dreams, all afl'righted, she wafts

Round the Virgins inanimate form!
In fancy, she sees the black demon of night
Snatch her, erce. unresisting away;
And howling pursue, thro the shades his quick ight,
And bear her aloft to some brain wildring height,
in all cases, since the error, if any existed,

Then discard to the death-ends their prey.
Down,down, thro' the mists ofthe midnight she fall
In vain her weak arms wide extends:

In vain on the demon of gloomsloud she calls,
The shriek of his laughter her soft soul apjsals,
which if conned would have burst the heart,

No angel of pity befriends.
In the rst place, I would beg leave to in fumes away in empty hisses, and malice is
And now she imagines the murderer's hand,
quire how far criticism, in any form what set at ease with very little danger to merit.
Upon her soft bosom pressd hard;
ever, can be admissible in a periodical pub
I conceive criticism of no utility, except With horror she feels round her neck the drawn
lication, conducted by men of talents and when it aims at prominent errors, both in
band,
learning.
sense and composition; Imean by errors, And hears in his harsh voice the bloody demand,
As he plunges his steel to its guard.
Without derogating from the dignity of any thing in direct opposition to that which
any man as an editor, we presume that ma is generally received and approved. Here it Now the night-spirit conjures th associates of hell,
To murder the peace of her soul;
ny essays are made public, only because may be of some service, since, if rightly
their sentiments are correct, and not on ac
conducted, it might tend to eradicate error The sleeping maid hears them the mystic words tell
count of their purity of style. It is also pos from its source. But this is deduction from Sees them dance round the cauldrons, compose thl
appellation of critics.
dread spell,
sible, that some are received, not for the so

lidity of their contents, but rather for the
manner in which they are written. This be
premises, not granted. We know certainly,
that persons assuming editorial capacities,

should be at least capable of deciding be
ing granted, it follows, that few, if any, pub
tween right and wrong, in most cases, and
lications are wholly correct, either as to form

or sense. Hence, these should be made the
therefore it may be supposed, that nothing

' Dr. johnsou.
While sulphureous ames round them roll.

With horror beholds how their lightning eyes glam,
How they drink the cold blood oi the dead!
Shrinks to hear them invite her their orgies to share,
And now from her bosom her Vitals the} tear,
And the gore round the cauldron they spread!
2
But oh! horrid night for a maid to behold!
Herlove now appears to her view;
His redcheek all pale, and his limbs stiff and cold,
And his side and his breast two black death-wounds
Yet memory oft shall delightedly trace

The deeds that our heroes in battle have done;
And we that survive of the valorous race,
But quick abandon sense and reason,
T. C. Jn.
So to commence my novel ramble,
And his dead lip is icy and blue!
Thro thick and thin, o'er hedge and bramblc, 10

I'll give a little good advice,
To these young authors in a trice,
For the Repertory.
And yells as she ies on the blast!
LORENZO.
ELEGIAC SONNH'I.
Oh! for the time, when from this world set free,
My tortured soul shall y to scenes above,
\Vhere dear Eliza Iin bliss shall see,
Midst heavenly beauty, innocence and love.
And as my honor'd selfis old,
I hope the elder will be told,

And all would hasten if they could,
That which most answers public good.
Then rst ye Cabinet projectors,"
And all ye " weekly" sad reectors,
\Vith others that I too could name,
\Vho doubtless seek the phantom fame,
For the Repertory.

She's gone! the world can now no pleasures bring;
STAN'ZAS 'IO ELIZA.
Ah! long haveI stray'd through the world's mazy
Variety no charms to me impart;

Vain are the summer, winter, autumn. spring,
pleasures,
For nought has power to heal the wounded heart.
BUI'CS
But cease thy plaints, my soul: thyself resign,
To every dispensation from above;
'
30
\i'ill look one moment on a page,

Where serious essays are " the rage?"
And strive to gain the seats of bliss divine,

Where lives Eliza in the realms of love.
Contain'd in the cot, near the front ofthe glade.
25
Can you suppose the twitt'ring world,

In folly s vortex ever \vhirld,
Viewd beauty in all her bright splendors array'd,
But the joys of the throng neer can equal the trea
15
To suit my talents to the season,

And stretch my muse, like gum-elastic,
From Homer's verse to Hudibrastic.
Will ever preserve what they gloriously won.
unfold,
The visions approach lls the maid with alarm,

She starts from his deah-gripe so fast;
The spell is dissolvd It has broken the charm;
The tormentor new leaves her, deliver'd of harm,
189
m
Ah, no' my friends, I sadly wonder,

That some loud peal of mental thunder,
They appear like the sweets of the red budding

If such thy aim, if such thy Conduct be,
blossom,
\Vhose fragrance inhaled, will enrapture the sense;

For a moment instil soft delight in the bosom,
Heaven will be thine to all eternity.
And observations piercing view,
TYRO.
\Vhose radiance seems to gleam from you,
Has never broke the fatal lie,
For the Repertory.
But familiar, no more their aroma dispense.
And ashd conviction on your eye,
TO ESTHER.
40
How false are the visions of youths early morning,
Say, Esther, do you ne'er espy
That all your works youd better cease,
So artlenily plannd, and so eagerly sought!

They-fade like the sun beams the west wave adorning,
And the pleasures obtain'd, oft too deatly are
bought.
When e'er I'm blest with you to be,

Confusion speaking in my eye,
And, in my actions, mystery!
And let your goose exist in peace,

Nor more her plumeless back expose,
To the keen frosts and shivring snows.
Write fun, ye authors, then ye'll thrive;

Or, do you never see me trace,
Can they vie with the souls in affection ensteeping
With pensive mein and downcast eye,
Her cares in the bosoms of those whom she loves?

The rose with the dew of the evening weeping.
And tell these people what is true,
Verdonias Rock, the well known place,

\Vhere oft for you I heave a sigh?
Theyll treat contemptuous it and you.

Desert them all, leave honest diction,
For shameless falsehood, (modest ction!)
Is not halfso sweet as it scents the green groves.

Do you on Schuylkills banks neer view,
Then. Eliza. receive back thy swain to thy bosom,

Who never in thought shall again from thee roam;
50
Level all learning in the dust,
Me, wandring through the cedar grove,
And let your genius go to rust:
Wand'ring alone, to think of you,

To think on her I truly love?
And, as oft as we view gentle spring's rpning hlos

som,
We will feel and acknowledge the pleasures of
home.
ORL ANDO.
_.._
For the Repertory.
45
But if in solid fact you dive,
Then you are safe, but until then,
If fame you wish, forego the pen Or on the trees so verdant there,
Have you not often seen the name,
Now mild Ubaldo enters next,

At mt presttmp1ion somewhat vext;
But fear I know nonhes amiss,
Of Estneit carvedZAh! say my fair,
Does not each day my love proclaim?
And to him I will mention this:
0 yes! for you alone have taught,
PATRIOTIC.
Do vou see the old oak, waving over the brook

Which, murmuring ows at the foot of yon hill?
Though its branches have oft by the tempest been
55
My dear Uhaldo, It'e perused

Now much instructed. now amused,
This you=hfiil heart aitection s glow,

With feelings sweet My breast is fraught,
60
With thrills ofjoy, and shocks of pain,
Such as before I ne'er did know.
'lh ingenious effort of your brain,
And much it; grieves me now to say,
shook,
And must 1, Esther. love in vain!
It does not Sun the present day;
Yet rm and unrooted, it ourishes still.

O! 'ell me that my loves repaid,
Many years has it braved both the wind and the rain,
Theres too good language, too much sense, 65

\Vi'li both of which we could dispense,
For all romances written now,
Should just be writtenyon know how:
That real bliss I yet may gain,
Which furiously heat gainst its rough . rugged side;.
And toe torrents that wildly swept over the plain,
Conferrd by _\ou, dear,l tvely maid! _

JULIO EVERARD.
It, calm and majestic, has always defyd.
In this youve ertd, and that you'll see,

Even such were the heroes whom Washington led; t
They fought 'neath the banner their chieftain un-l

furl'd;
And to victory rush'd over heaps ofihe dead;
For the Repertory.

~Thaiiks to yourself and thanks to me,
But if these errors you can mend,
And mould anew what you have penn'd,
Or in another way arrange,
You ll nd. I think, a serious change.
And now the poets, young and all,
Shall front their ights of fancy fall,
For as Ive said no pleasing matter,
\Vill ever takelilie stupid clatter;
SA'IIRI'Z. NO. I. BY \\.\L'IER 'IUGLB.

And now the comic muse invokd is,
On the foes ofblest freedom swift vengeance they f

htirl'd.
On Princetons fell plains, and on Monmouth's

famed eld,
\Vhere the shrieks ofthe dying re-echoed around,
Each hero, undauntetl, swore never to yield,
Till the standard of Britain was brought to the ,

ground.
'
'
Time It'mttfrbtllCgwlfPHSf! and our fore fathers brave, f
Who valiantly rous'd at the battle's alarms,
;
Have sunk' to repose in the cold. silent grave;

No more will they hear the loved clangor of arms.
In which much [0": often cltik'd is,

And forceful style, and solid logic,
Are dashd completely from my project;
No more Ill tell the dolcftil tale,
Where orphans weep, or widows wail,
No soothing comfort more impart,
To buoy desponding sorrow's heart,
Nor will 1 longer soar sublime
In energetic, manly rhyme,
No more in rm, heroic verse,
\Vill l heroic deeds rehearse,
Nor longer on th' ensangnnted plain,

Record engagements tierce, in vain;
' Near the falls of Schuylkill.
And as a poets greatest end,

ls 0ft to gain a female frientl,
10
I
\ '
To give them pain, ye youths, forbear;

To please them, take the grea'est care.
For though a ladys tender tongue,
On noisy hinges ever hung,
\Vhich as a door doth oft times creak,
And to the ear discordant squeak,
70
7 Us
85
200
When the loud winds contending blow,

And dash it swiftly to and fro;
Resolved unanimously, That it be and it is hereby

earnestly recommended to the churches under their
PROSPEXITUS
Or like the clapper ofa wind-mill,

\Vhich in a storm you neer can nd still,
pastoral care, to observe Thursday. the rst of No

vember next, asa day of solemn Thanksgiving to
God for the various mercies of his providence and
90
OF THE
Or num'rous diums in time of battle,
grace,and to abstain, as far as possible, from all se

weekly,
To fearful foes tremendous rattle:

Yet affectations rigid sway,
cular occupations and pursuits on that day

The denvmiiiations concurring in the resolution
are the following, viz. The Presbyterian. Baptist,

Methodist Episcopal, German Lu'heran, Evangelical
Lutheran Church 'of St. john. German Reformed,
Evangelical Reformed, Moi-avian, Independent
Tabernacle, Associate Reformed, and Reformed
ready very numerous; man)- cf them are conducted

With great ability and are well worthy of the support
Presbyterian churches.

Tears from their checks the blush away,
95
Nor will it let 'lieir tongues pronounce.
Words that would weigh full half an ounce.

Give them no longer sounding stories,
Nor murd'rers' vows, nor heroes glories;
Nor longer let revenge be found,
1n ruthless honor stalking round:
HEALTH OFFICE,
October 13. 1810.
Of sighiiig Neds and dying Kitties,

And they arrayd in sorrows show,
Shall bathe their cheeks in streams ofwoe,
And to the Authors feeling lay,
litterments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia

from the 61h to the 13th October,
105
Such grateful tributes ever pay.

But Time. that dauntless, sturdy cutter,
\Vith grumbling voice begins to mutter,
And bids me cease to pile my lumber,
And make a nis to this number.
My subject, Mr. Time, is freed,
Dina-rt:
ad cb~
Cholera morbns
1
Chiilic
1
110
To your proposal lm agreed,

But when again my pen 1 brandish,
High sounding terms and words outlandish,
Diseasesv
0
0
0
Convulsions
Diarrhoea
Dropsy
O l Locked jaw
1 0
1 0 bmall pox, natural 1 0
1 1 Still born
0 2
l 0 \Vorms
0 1
Debility
Fever, typhus
Iiiam. oflungs
{plianelpbt'm
BIARRIED,
inst. by the Rev. Mr. Addison, Iiililiu C/iaun

cey, esq. of Philadelphia, to Miss Henrietta
Teacklr', of Georgetown.
In this city, on Thursday evening last, by
the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. John B. Lafau
cherie, of Bordenton, New Jersey, .to Miss
Susan M. Allison, daughter 01' the Rev. Dr.
Allison, of this city.
I
2
5
5
10
1
1
80
90
0
0
10
2
20
30
l
90
100
8 Ages unknown
0
0
30
4-0
40
50
Total 29
70
80

JOHN ALL1SON. Clerk.
STATE OF THE THER MOMETER.
October 8
9
10
11
12
13

with a paper, in the form of a literary magazme and

council and state legislature; such foreign intelligence
as may be ma'erialb connected with the atfairs of
our own country; biwgraphy; religious and moral es
I tacle for party politics or personal abuse; but a cabi

2
1
1n the district of Columbia, on the 13th
blt- tracts and literary articles greatly desirable.

19 IO I poetry, ction, wit and humor: with a list of marri
- i ages and deaths, and occasionally the fashions
Total 29

Under
1 year
4 Between 50 and I10
Between 1 and 2
S
70
And sweep before them frighted men.
which the. receive. Pitt} politics, however, and fo
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Shall rush in roaring torrents then,
m1. cb
3 1ntlam nfbowcls l
0 Inam. of liver
1
O Insanity
1
Druiikeniiess
The periodical publications ofthis country the al

the day. they are ofa nature so fugitive asto render
a more permanent repoxitory of state papers. valua
100
But write for them these am'rous ditties,
BY DENNis HEARTT,
9 oclock. 12 oclock. Soclock.

60
58
60
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55
57
53
55
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54
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5;;
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net in which men of talents may deposit the ellu

The publisher Hatters himself that he will be able,

try aiid perseverance will be exerted to deserve the

support of the public so liberally commenced,

chi and London: indeed. such has been the rapidity


rst numbers, in order to complete sets already en
different quarters.
On Tuesday morning last the select and District nl Pei'it.s_vl\'.tiiia, to wit:

common council, in joint meeting, elected
in the thirty fth year of the independence
Robert \Vharton, esq. mayor of the city of tember,
of the United States of America, A. 1.). 1810. Den
Philadelphia for the ensuing your.
nis Heartt. of the said district, hath deposited in this
oice the title of a hook, the right whereof he claims
Oliicial statement of the number of votes

given in the city and county of Philadelphia
and'in the edunty of Delaware, for members
"The Heiress of Sobeiski A romance B\ joseph

Hutton, author ofthe School for Prudigals,Wouutled
Hussar, &c.
of congress.
City. County. Del. Total.
Adam Seybert,
\Villiam Anderson,
]ames Milnor,
Thomas Truxtoii,
Thomas B. Dick,
]ol'in Porter.
2285
2239
2429
2415
2377
728
3442
S425
1174
1166
114-7
1953
549
554
756
75$.7
74-5
462
6276
6218
4359
4.343
4-269
3143
Robert M-Mull'in,
1526
1502
99
3127
The three rst are elected.

*
'_' Conformably to an agreement of the last

year, 116 ministers of several religious denomina
tions in this city met in the Presbyterian Church in

Market street, when it was.

Sbal'speare "
1n conformity to the act of the congress of the
United Sta'es, intituled, " An act for the encourage
ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps.
such copies during the times therein mentioned."

And also to the act, entitled, An act supplementa
r, to an act, entitled, ' an act for the encouragement
of learning. by securing the copies of maps, charts,
and books. to the au'hors and proprietors of such
copies during the time therein mentioned. and ex

tending the beiietsthereof tothe arts I~filesigiiiiig,
engravmg, and etching historical and other prints."
D CALDWELL,
CONDITIONS.
quarto pages, printed with a handsome type on tine
iitle page and index, with at least one handsome

engraving.
The price will be four dollars per aunum; city sub

hers half yearly in advance

and become reponsible for the payment. shall receive
011? COPY gratis.

rst of November, as the rst numbers will then b9
put to press:

tory, after the rst of N~vember next, Will be ex
pected to pay the ditierence.

Philadelphia, September 22. 1810
PHILADELPHIA,

@hilabefpbiawepetfom _.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, IBM.
VOL. I.
have no wife or children to care for, and let
BIOGRAPHY.
the old fellow go home with me." This

(Continued.)
nesse had the desired effect.

Peace at length took place between France
After having been examined by the mar and England, and colonel Putnam, at the
expiration of ten years from his rst receiv
quis de Montcalm, major Putnam was con
ducted to Montreal by a French oicer, who ing a commission, after he had seen as much
treated him with the greatest indulgence service, endured as many hardships, en
countered as many dangers, and acquired as
and humanity.
At this place were several prisoners. Co many laurels, as any ofcer of his rank, with
lonel Peter Schuyler, remarkable for his great satisfaction returned to his plough.
philanthropy, generosity and friendship, was The various and uncommon scenes of war
of the number. No sooner had he heard of in which he had acted a - respectable part,
major Putnams arrival, than he went to the his intercourse with the world, and inti
macy with some of the rst characters in
intrrpreters quarters, and inquired, wheth
er he had a provincial major in his custody? the army, joined with occasional reading,
He found major Putnam in a comfortless had not only drawn into his view whatever
condition; without coat, waistcoat or hose; talents he possessed from nature, but, at
the remnant of his clothing miserably dirty the same time, had extended his know
and ragged; his beard long and squalid; his ledge, and polished his manners to a con
legs torn by thorns and briars; his face gash siderable degree. Not having become in
ed with wounds, and swollen with bruises. ated with pride, or forgetful of his old
Colonel Schuyler, irritated beyond all suf connections, he had the good fortune to
possess entirely the good will of his fellow
ferance at such a sight, could scarcely res
train his speech within limits, consistent with citizens. No character stood higher in the
the prudence of a prisoner, or the meekness public eye for integrity, bravery, and patriot
of achristian. Major Putnam was immediate ism. He was employed in several offices in his
ly treated according to his rank, clothed in own town, and not unfrequently elected to
a decent manner, and supplied with money represent it in the general assembly.
by that sympathetic patron of the distressed.
On the 22d day of March, l765, the stamp
The capture of Frotenac by general Brad act received the royal assent. It was to
street, afforded occasion for an exchange of take place in America on the lst day of Noprisoners. Colonel Schuyler was compre vember following. This innovation spread a
hended in the cartel. A generous spirit can sudden universal alarm; the political pulse
never be satised with imposing tasks for its in the provinces, from Maine to Georgia,
generosity to accomplish. Apprehensive, if throbbed in sympathy. The assemblies in
it should be known that Putnam was a dis-y most of these colonies, that they might op
tinguished partisan, his liberation might be t pose it legally and in concert, oppointed
retarded, and knowing that there were of-i delegates to confer together on the subject.
cers, who, from the length of their captivity, The rst congress met early in October at
had
by his
a claim
happyofaddress,
priorityinduced
to exchmge,
the governor
he had, New York. They agreed upon a declaration
of rights and grievances of the colonists,
to offer, that whatever ofcer he might think together with separate addresses to the
proper to nominate, should be included inl
No. 26.
of irritations on the one part, and supplica~

tions on the other, which preceded the war
between Great Britain and her colonies.
Without digressing to develop the cause,
or describe the progress, it may sufce to
observe, the dispute now verged precipi
tately to an awful crisis. Most considerate
men foresaw it would terminate in blood.
But, rather than suffer the chains (which
they believed in preparation) to be rivettcd,
they nobly determined to sacrice their lives.
In vain did they deprecate the infatuation of

those transatlantic councils, which drove
them to deeds of desperation. Convinced of

the rectitude of their cause, and doubtful of
the issue, they felt the most painful solicitude
for the fate of their country, on contemplating

the superior strength of the nation with which
it was to contend. America, but thinly inha
bited, and under thirteen distinct colonial g0
vernments, could have little hopes of success

but from the protection of Providence, and
the unconquerable spirit of freedom which
prevaded the mass of the people.
All eyes were now turned to nd the men
who, possessed of military experience, would
dare, in the approaching hour of severest
trial, to lead their undisciplined fellow citi
zens to battle. For none were so stupid as not
to comprehend, that want of success would
involve the leaders in the punishment of
- rebellion. Putnam was anmng the rst and
most conspicuous who stepped forth. Al
though the Americans had been, by many
who wished their subjugation, indiscreetly
I stigmatised with the imputation of cowardice,
l he felt, he knew for himself he was no coward;

I and, from what he had seen and known, he
believed that his countrymen, driven to the
extremity of defending their rights by arms,
would nd no diiculty in wiping away the
ungenerous aspcrsion'
As he happened to he often at Boston, he
held many conversations on the subject with
general Gage, the British commander in
king, lords and commons of Great Britain.

In speaking of the troubles that ensued, I
manner, but seeming indifference as to ob-; not only omit to say any thing on the obnox~
chief, and lord Percy, colonel Sherill', co~
ject, he expressed his warmest acknowledge
lonel Small, and many officers with whom
the present cartel. With great politeness in
ions claim asserted in the British dcclara
ments to the governor, and said, there is} tory act, the continuation of the duty on tea,
he had formerly served, who were now at
an old man here, who is a provincial major,;

an". wishes to be at home with his wife and
children. He can do no good here, or any
where else; I believe your excellency had
bettcr keep some of the young men, who ,j
headquarters. Being often questioned, in

case the dispute should proceed to hostilities,
what part he would really take?" He always
the attempt to obtrude that article on the

Americans, the abortion of this project, the
Boston port bill, the alteration of the charter
of Massachusetts, and other topics of uni

vcrsal notoriety;buteven wave all th'scussions
answered, with his country, and that, what
ever might happen, he use prepared to abide
202
as
abide the consequence. Being interrogated
station upon the regulars, who, after march
ing to Concord and destroying the maga

prowess and victories of the British eets zinc,would have found their retreat intercep
and armies, did not think them equal to the ted, had they not been reinforced by lord
conquest of a country which was not the Percy, with the battalion companies of
owner of a single ship, regiment, or maga three regiments and a body of marines. Not
zine?" IIe rejoined, that, he could only say, withstanding the junction they were hard
justice would be on our side, and the event pushed, and pursued until they could nd
with Providence; but that he had calculated, protection from their ships. Of the British
if it required six years for the combined 283 were killed, wounded and taken. The
forces of England and her colonies to con Americans had 39 killed, 19 wounded, and
quer such a feeble country as Canada, it would 2 made prisoners.
Nothing could exceed the celerity with
at least, take a very long time for England,
alone, to overcome her own widely extended which the intelligence ew every where, that
colonies which were much stronger than blood had been shed by the British troops.
Canada: that when men fought for every The country, in motion, exhibited but one
thing dear, in what they believed to be the scene of hurry, preparation, and revenge.
most sacred of all causes, and in their own Putnam, who was ploughing when he heard
native land, they would have great advantages the news, left his plough in the middle of
whether he, who had been a witness to the
over their enemies, who were not in the

same situation; and that, having taken into
view all circumstances, for his own part, he
fully believed that America would not be so

easily conquered by England as those gentle
men seemed to expect. Being once, in par
ticular, asked, whether he did not seriously
believe that a well appointed British army of

5000 veterans could march through the whole
continent of America? he replied briskly,
No doubt, if they behaved civilly, and paid
for every thing they wanted; but, after a mo
ment's pause, added, if they should attempt
it in a hostile manner (though the American
men were out of the question), the women,
picion from the breast of the king, but to

prevent it hereafter; and one I loved so
well! and whom a life of gratitude could not
repay for all his kindness to me! tis too
much, too horrible to think of l"
No more, no more, my dear Forres
burgh!" cried Stanislaus, much affected by

the feeling manner in which the count ex
pressed himself, I pray yoti no more; from
this moment suspicion ceases, and I receive

Ferresburgh spotless to my breast.
Ferresburgh threw himselfupon the bosom
of the king, and expressed his real joy, in
having eradicated so foul a suspicion from
his mind; when Marden entered the room,
and informed him that the domestics, Truro
and VVcinect had returned, and desired to
see him in his chamber.

Ferrcsburgh received this message with
the field, unyoked his team, and, without a mixture of hope and anxiety, and thus ad
waiting to change his clothes, set off for the dressed the king:
theatre of action. But, nding the British had
\Vill your majesty pardon my absence
retreated to Boston, and invested by a suf for a short time? Two of my faithful ser
cient force, he came back to Connecticut, vants have returned from the fullment of
levied a regiment (under authority of the an important trust, and I would not delay
legislature), and speedily returned to Cam
hearing them."
bridge. He was now promoted to be a major
Make no excuse, my dear count, repli
general of the provincial staff, and in a little ed the king, I will amuse myself in your li
time conrmed by congress on the conti
brary, during your absence."
nental establishment
(To be continued.)
Ferresburgh ordered Marden to conduct
his highness to the library, and immediately
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For the Repertory.
hastened to his room, to meet the two bra
voes.
Flaurice had arrived at the castle, in con
A ROMANCE.
with their ladles and broomsticks, would

CHAPTER VII.
knock them all on the head before they had

got half way through.
At length the fatal day arrived, when hos
(Continued)
So spake the false dissemhler unperceived;
tilities commenced. General Gage, in the
For neither man nor angel can discern

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone,
evening of the 18th of April, 1776, detatch
ed from Boston the grenadicrs and light in

fantry of the army, commanded by lieuten
ant colonel Smith, to destroy some military
stores deposited by the province at Concord.
About sunrise the next morning, the detatch
ment, on marching into Lexington, red up
on a company of militia who had just reas

sembled; for, having been alarmed late at
night with reports that the regulars were

advancing to demolish the stores, they col
lected on their parade, and were dismissed
with orders to reassemble at beat of drum. It
By his permissive will, through heaven and earth.

Milton.
And l can teach thee, cons. to shame the devil;
Tell truth and shame the devil.
Sbahpeare.
Indeed, my liege.|n said Ferresburgh,

with apparent composure, though these
words struck like a thunderbolt upon his
sequence of an order from his master, about

three hours after they had left the cave for
the cottage of Braubenski, and meeting with
Bertha, the daughter of Lopez, no one could
get a word from him, until he had related
his marvellous adventures to her.

I did not think that lion was so erce
and strong, as I found he was when I came
in contact with him, said he to Bertha,
when she inquired the cause of his return. ,

What lion do you mean, my good Flau
rice?u demanded the- maid.
Why, havnt you heard of my midnight
startled mind. Can it be possible, conti

nued he, that Ferresburgh, who so long
adventures, since my master and I left the
has boasted of Stanislauss favor, should be

now suspected of such a deed, as shakes his
prise.
soul to think of? Has he, indeed, sunk so
is established by afdavits of more than thirty low in his sovereigns esteem?

persons who were present, that the rst re,
No, no, cried Stanislaus, for while I
which killed eight of the militia, then begin

ning to disperse, waslgiven by the British,
without provocation. The spark of war, thus
kindled, ran with unexampled rapidity, and
raged with unwonted violence. To repel the
aggro ssion, the people ofthe bordering towns
spontaneously rushed to arms, and poured
suspected, I loved you! but in this embrace,

let my suspicions be buried, and let your
generous nature pardon me, that l have
stooped to think you guilty of so diabolical
an act!
And one I loved so well! said Forres
burgb, who saw his advantage, and was re
their scattering shot from every convenient solved, if possible, not only to eradicate sus
castle?" exclaimed Flaurice in seeming sur

Not a word," replied Bertha.
Well, well," returned Flaurice, what a
world is this we live in!"

A sad world indeed! replied Bertha.
And as for that jade Fame," continued
the squire, she's a harlot that may be bought
for any body's money. But for a poor man,

let him achieve what he may, she'll keep
aloof; she must be bought with riches, rank,
or some such foolish thing.

Theres some truth in that," observed
the maid.
PHILADELPHIA REIERTORY.
209
Ill warrant you now," continued Flau

rice, you've heard a great deal about the
adventures of my master Linhault."
" He was benightcd, I
" said Bertha.
" There, there, interrupted
Flaurice,
" just as I said; I dare say, Bertha, you did

not hear a word about me.
Not a word," answered Bertha.
That for the storm," said Flauricc, snap

ping his ngers, I didnt mind the storm,
and used all my eloquence to persuade my

timid master to continue his journey, in spite
of its rage, but all in vain, he would enter
the cave.
That was very wisely done, answered

Bertha. particularly in such a night."
carried there by some of the vassal beasts of

the forest."
Strange adventure! said Bertha.
But what rendered my triumph com
plete," proceeded the squire, was to hear
my master call me brave Flaurice.
This is a strange story, Fltiurice, said
the maid, but you have neglected to tell

me the principal part of it.
So it is." said-Flaurice; " had I been my
Well, continued Flaurice, I had not
lord. and my noble lord been the squire, I

should have had all the praise, when in fact,
it would have been him only who deserved
it."
" Indeed." said Bertha, H which imports,
that it is you only who now deserve it."
" My modesty. replied the squire, wont
let me acknowledge that, but you can draw
the only possible conclusion."
-' Very well." returned Bertha.
H Yet take this into consideration," said
the modest Flaurice, that my lord slept
soundly in the cavern. and did not meet with
a single adventure; I stood the brunt of
every thing that did happen."
. And what did happen? demanded the
maid. what of the lion you mentioned; you
did not see onei"
" Didnt I! exclaimed Flaurice. " then
set me down for the greatest liar in Poland,
thats all. See one! aye, and feel one too,
but Ill warrant his hairy majesty felt me.
Do tell us how it happened, said Bertha.
True woman! cried Flaurice. but
havnt you really heard?
Not a word, answered the maid.
Then, cried Flaurice. " youll excuse
gone many yards from the mouth of the
Have I," rejoined Flaurice, what is
cave, before I trod upon something soft, and
that?"
That every word youve uttered is false,"
replied Bertha.
me, Bertha. if I refrain from mentioning it:
upon turning round, his re-darting eyes,

and a tremendous roar, which he gave, con
vinced me it must have been a lions paw,

and I now perceived the beast in a spring
ing attitude, for day had just begun to peep
above the hills.
How I shake with fear! exclaimed Ber
tha.
\Vhat must I have done, said the squire,
This was a dreadful blow to Flaurice, who

pleased himself with the idea, that he had
completely deceived the daughter of Lopez;

but how could his monstrous absurdities be
credited?
I must confess," said Bertha, I was in
clined to believe you at rst, but your pal
exultingly, in that perilous situation?

\Vere you not dreadfully frightened p:
demanded Bertha, didnt you fly?"
pable untruths soon convinced me; so, my
I never heard of him," replied the maid.

To be sure, said Flaurice, youve not
proached, and demanded to know the reason
good Flaurice, I would advise you to keep

truth on your side, and youll always be be
Afraid! y! echoed Flaurice, hear and lieved.
determineThe lion was in the attitude of
Here Bertha left the squire, ashamed and
springing, when I stepped a few paces off, confounded at his detection. He felt some
and, like king Pepin ofoldI suppose youve thing like remorse, and exclaimed, the girl
is right; ever since I began my career of
heard of him."
fame in this way, shame and confusion only
Never in my life, answered Bertha.
What! cried the squire, not little king have been my reward, and so I'll stand to
Pepin of France, who fought the lion when the truth hereafter, as long as I live.
He was about retiring, when Austin ap
every body else was afraid?
\
an opportunity of gaining knowledge as I

have, but however, youll hear his story ex
actly in mine, so I need not tell it. As I
of his return to the castle.

Thats more than I know," answered
Flaurice, and if your holiness wishes any

information on that head, you must go and
my modesty wont let me: it looks so like
ask my master.
boasting, for a man to become the narrator
\Vhere is he? demanded the monk.

At the cottage of Braubenski, replied
the squire.
What does he there against the com
mands of his father? asked Austin.
Making inquiries,I suppose, answered
Flaurice.
Inquiries concerning what? inquired
Austin, in the utmost perturbation, his coun
tenance changing to a deadly paleur.
said, the lion being in the attitude of spring

ing, I immediately dropped on one knee, and
of his own actions, that I despise it."
placing the hilt of my sword rmly against
" \Vhy," replied Bertha, it does indeed. it, presented the point to the furious beast!
" But then, said Flaurice. " the case is, In leaping, he endeavored to avoid it, but
that unless I tell it, it must go untold; there with one of those electric movements, which
fore as you are so inquisitive Bertha, I fall to the lot of a great military genius to
believe for this once Ill overcome my re perform, I kept my sword's point directly
luctance. and tell you how it was; but you opposite his expanded jaws, and when he
are not to say a word about it."
thought himself leaping upon his prey, he
Not a word. answered Bertha.
received my rapier to the hilt in the throat.
You must know, then,I began Flaurice,
\Vhat anteseape! exclaimed Bertha.
" that my master and I had taken shelter
All owing to my presenceof mind, re
from the pitiless storm. in a cave very much joined llaurice, but you havnt heard all:
after I had e'ectually destroyed my brutal
frequented by lions."
u \Vhat! so near the castle!" said Bertha, antagonist,iI returned toinform my lord, and
both coming to the spot, the blood of the
" I never heard of such a thing.
" Nor 1. till last night," said Flaurice, beast still smoked upon the ground, but no
" and then I discovered it. W'ell. my mas lion was to be seen!"
ter had begun to sleep, and all was silent,
Indeed!" exclaimed Bertha.
he did not even snore as usual. Icould not
We traced the blood about three miles,
sleep; so I seized my rapier. and sallied out continued Flaurice, until we came to a
of the cave in search of adventures.
heap of dirt, beneath which, to the convic
Mercy on me!" exclaimed Bertha, tion of my lord, of the truthof what Iassert
what! in the midst ofgthe storm!"
ed, the beast, still Warm, was laid; doubtless
\Vhat ails you?" asked Flaurice, you
look as white as a ghost."
A sudden faintness seized me. replied

the confessor, but tis gone. I hold it in
command from count Ferresburgh, to nd
the cause of Linhaults unjustiable delay,

therefore I shall seek your master at the
cottage, and gain from him the necessary in

formation.
.
J-Ierethey separated, and the monk imme
diatcly proceeded to the cottage. in search
of Linhault.
L'BALDO.
No little man feels and forgives offencesv
204
m.
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vided [was found deserving, the fair prize
THE CABINET. No. X.
was to be resigned to my arms. A gentleman,

eminent for his literary acquirements, ex
tensive knowledge of the world, and amiable
Night,
Even in the zenith of her dark domain,
Is sunshine to the color of my fate.
Younc moral deportment, was appointed my tutor;

Having closed the trunk, and seated my and with an heart aching at the idea of leav
self in my' study, I turned over the dusty ing Mary, I embarked with him for Paris.
pages which contained the story of Edward
For a while I enjoyed the novelty of my
Stallsley. All that is in it, calculated to ill situation, and agreeably engaged myself in
terest the reader, will be found in the fol examining the many curiosities, which con
lowing detail, which I have given in the tinually passed before my eyes; but in every
retired and contemplative molnent,thc image
words of the writer, as far as possible.
I Was born in the city of London, of an of Mary would rush across my mind, and
ancient, wealthy, and respectable family. My bring with it a regret that I had left my na
sister and myself were the only children of tive land, with a determination to return to
oating parents, who endeavored to rear us it as soon as possible. After four long years
in the love of virtue and religion. As I was spent ill making the grand tour, which were
to inherit the independent fortune of my fa rendered not a little more delightful by se
ther, I was not destined for any profession; veral letters from my Mary, I once more
but he, unlike some, who imagine merit to touched at Paris. There, in a letter from my
consist in gold, had the most particular care mother, I learned the sad history of my fa
paid to my instruction in every uselul sci thers decease; and was conjured to return
ence, and every ornamental accomplishment. immediately to England. I made hasty pre
His endeavors to enlarge and improve my parations, once more to visit that home, now
mind, had all the success he seemed to wish,
the house of mourning and sorrow; which
and my studious disposition was amply gra I had left in the full enjoyment of peace and
tied in the possession of whatever might prosperity.
\Vhat an accumulation of misery did I ex
render me useful to society, and an agreea
perience, upon entering my once happy
ble companion to myself.
My infancy and childhood, passed under home! My father dead! my mother raving in
the protection of the best of parents, were an agony of grief 1 my sister pale and ema
the happiest periods of my life. Then all Was ciated with the gnawings of anxiety! and,
what was not the least of my woes, Mr.
gaiety; not a care interrupted the calm se
renity of my bosom; never did an anxious Beautord gone to America, with his daugh
thought of the future, poison the rosy' cup ter! My brain could scarcely support the
of present happiness. I sailed down the stream weight of woe that bore upon it; I tore my
of pleasure with an easy heart, nor once hair, beat my breast, and instead of endea
dreaded the gulf of misery. A little sister, voring to comfort my mother and sister,
and Mary, the daughter of Mr. Beauford, a gave a loose to the diszracting torment that
friend of my fathers, were the companions devoured my soul. Time, hQWevcr, the sove
of my childhood, and my sports. W'itn these reign balm for diseases of the mind, taught
did I enjoy the pleasures of innocence, at a us the folly of incessant mourning. lvly mo
March, 1758.
Heaven be praised! my Mary has returned

to Englandi I have received a letter from
my sister, stating her arrival, and relating
the cause of her delay. She loves me still!
0! happy, happy thought! Mary still loves
her Edward! This moment of rapture is
more than equivalent to years of anxiety and
suspense. The hour has at last arrived; I go
to meet the object of my fondest wishes; I
have been hitherto lost on an ocean of in
quietude, but the remainder of my years will
I spend in the bosom of bliss, in the arins
of my angel. Ye tardy hours, let your pace
be quickcned! Ye winds of heaven be pro
pitious to a lover! Ye waves of the west,
hear me swiftly on your bosom, carry me to
the haven of my felicity! l goI go
To my grave, thou mightest have add
ed. Here death arrested the expectations of
poor Stanslcy; he took a pleurisy, and died
at my fathers. Thus were the joys of a fa

mily blasted, at the very moment which was
pregnant with expected fruition.

PETER PEACEABLE.
.
For the Repertory.

" Tout homme que recoit une education liberals,
compte, aujourdhui. la chymie par-mi les objets la
plus indispensables de les eludes.
Founcnor.
The importance of chemistry, in its rela

tion to the arts and the comforts of life, has
long been established upon indisputable tes
timony; and to attempt to advance any thing
as a farther conrmation of its utility, would
appear in me presumptive and superuous.
My object is, to call the attention of the art
ist and the friends of science to the oppor

tunities which are now offered to acquaint
themselves with so useful a study. For many
years we have had a course of lectures de
livered particularly for the attendance of
time when the world was new to us all, and ther became calm, and my sister improved medical students. We now have several po
when every thing possessed a charm. In my in health; and as soon as I could settle my pular courses delivered during the winter
childish intercourse with Mary, did the rst affairs, being now ot'age, having business ill evenings, calculated to suit the convenience
buddings of that a'ection appear, which has the American colonies, I trusted myself to of the farmer, the artist, and all who have
an inclination to improve their minds, or
since ripened to the fullest perfection. She the clemency of the ocean.
make a useful acquisition to their stock of
In the usual time, I arrived at Philadel
was the queen of all our plays, and my heart
became hers, long before I knew I had a phia, and Was very cordially received into the knowledge. I feel anxious that my fellow cl
heart to give. Often does the memory of house of a respectable gen.leman, who had tizens should avail themselves of such advan
former times some like the evening sun up
been a friend to my lather, and who, express
tages, for their own benet, for the encour
on my soul."
My love for Mary increased with my age;
and about my seventeenth year, I perceived
that my susceptible heart was not formed to
resist the effect of female charms, inexpres
sibly lovely. My parents discovered, not with
ing the greatest regret at his death, desired
agement of the establishments, and for the

honor of our republic. In Europe, particu
larly England and France, chemistry has re
ceived a very distinguished attention; the
regret, at partiality which was returned on
Mr. Beauford Was to be found; I ransacked
fusing a knowledge of the science through
the side of Mary with equal warmth, though

in a more retired manner. My father consi
dered it proper that I should travel, until I
the continent, from one extremity to the

other, btlt my eyes were never blessed with
the sight of Mary. I returned to Philadel
phia, dispirited and sick at heart.
all classes of people. Mr. Davy, of Londom
became old enough to marry, and then, pro
me to consider his house as my home.
\Vhen I had settled myself, and despatched

the business which had a share in my mo
tives for visiting America, I made the most
diligent search for Mr. Beaufordbut no
arts and manufactures of every kind are daily
improving, from the great assiduity in dif
it is said, has aclass who attend his lectures,
of one thousand persons. Its cultivation is

by no means conned to the male sex; but
w
it is introduced as a branch of education in
lost to all sense either of honor or shame,
to most of their female scminaries; and a

happy circumstance it is, for the reecting
part of the fair sex, that amidst all their la
borious exertion to accomplish the body,
they should be allowed the study of this sci
ence (the source of so much amusement
and instruction,) to accomplish the mind.
In this city, a taste for the science of che
misuy is gradually spreading; but there has
not yet been that liberal encouragement,
which a lecturer would expect from an en
lightened and a popular city. Indeed, the lit
tle encouragement, which in this country has
been given to literature in general, has al
ways been a cause of complaint, and is still
a subject of regret. From many who have
shared our happy independence, it has, it is
lost to all aection towards the wife of his

bosom, and his innocent, though hapless
children. Mark the stupidity of his counte
true, received an honorable attention; but
yet they have a friend, whose bosom throbs
party animosity, and a triing ambition for

political distinction, has paralized the genius
of thousands of our countrymen, who might
have done honor to themselves and their
government, by the cultivation of the scien-r
ces and polite literature. This spirit of party,
which we see so frequently lling the intel
lectual repository of our fellow citizens, is,
I am fully persuaded, a powerful principle
in the suppression of literature in the United
States. It is an axiom in philosophy, that
two things cannot occupy one and the same
place; or in other words, make an impres
sion at the same time, upon the sensorium.
with tenderness towards them; but her hand
nance, the morose aspect of his blood-shot
eyes, his palsied hand, and the leprous tctter

that covers his skin.
Turn now and behold his wife. See her
covered with a thin, tattered robe, and shi
vering over a handful of coals; see her, pale
and emaciated; her eyes dim with weeping,
and her cheeks furrowed with tears. Hap
less woman! who can but pity thee? who can

but mingle his tears with thine? Look nex:
on those dear, suering children. They re
ceive nought but frowns, curses and blows,
from the man whom they had been taught

to call by the endearing name of father:
is too feeble to supply their needs. They

ask their mother for bread, but she has none
to break to them. The storm howls through

the broken windows, and they say we are
cold. She answers them only with sighs.
Alas! she has none to bind up her own bleed
ing heart. And is this the once sensible and
sprightly Silenue, fortunes child, who inhe
rited a large patrimony? The same! How
fallen, how lost! And what has wrought
this terrible reverse in their circumstances?
What has turned this man into a brute?
What has plunged this woman in the deep
All who are involved in the vortex of politi est distress, inasmuch as that hcr tears are
cal contention, and all who are lounging in her meat? What has rendered these children
wealth or indolence, are cordially invited to miserable? What end has poisoned and
For the Repertory,

Dear Caustic,
Few occurrences of my life have IN'Cl}
productive of more real satisfaction, than thzn

which has arisen from our accidental meet~
ing, after so long a separation, at a period
when father Time has brought to maturity
the small growth of down, which erst was
thinly scattered oer our unripened chins;
when the passions have in a great measure

become weakened; in short, when the head
is strewed with the snows of age, and Ill

mind palsied by the pressure of misfortune:
but I will cease prosing, and endeavor to rr<
late to you the vicissitudes which I have en
countered. You may remember with what
regret we parted; you to enter upon the stu
dy of medicine, and I where'er the rovings

of a romantic imagination should lead me.
W'e were friends in the strictest sense of
the name; and it was somewhat surprising to
meet Kit Caustic and Jack Trochaic sepa
rated from each other: but to proceed. You
know that my prospects in early life were
obscured by the death of my parents, my
only friends: this threw me into the protec
tion of strangers, with a stipend barely suf
cient to educate and support me, until I
should arrive at manhood. The many fro
lics and gambols we were mutually engaged
in, and the frequent and severe reprimands
which our irregularities subjected us to,
from our tutors, you are well acquainted
with; I shall, thereforemot recapitulate them.
I took my departure from the university for

B. where, upon my arrival, I entered the
join in the promotion of science, and the in

vestigation of nature. Here is an immense
destroyed the happiness of the whole fa

mily? That cursed end is drunkenness!
ed there till death deprived me of my friends;
eld for the exercise of human intellect; and
Time Was, when Silcnus was a kind husband
and all my hopes of rising in the mercantile
here it is that the most exemplary and dig

nied characters have directed our labor,
as productive of pleasure and improvement
to ourselves, usefulness to society, and honor
and an affectionate father; when his company

gladdened the heart of his wife; when his
little prattlers used to meet him at the door,
and receive his fond caresses. Time was,
to a nation.
when every room inhis mansion wtts gilded
it
Serene philosophy,
Elusive source of evidence and truth!

Without thee, what were unenlightenz! man?
1' A savage roaming through the woods and wilds,
Rough clad. devoid of every finer art,
And elegance oflife.
N.
aw,
..t,~
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in
} SELLLTOR. No. I.
A just reverse of fortune on the drunken! waits.
Would you learn how, like a serpent,

drunkenness biteth, and how like an adder
it stingeth? then contemplate the disgust
ing gure, and deplorable circumstances of
Silmus. Behold this miserable wreck of a
man! He is not yet turned of forty, yet tot
ters in his steps like one of fourscorc. See
hill: weakened in intellect, morose in temper,
with domestic happiness; when he ranked in

society as a useful member and an ornament;
compting house of Messrs. W'. and continu
line, were banished by their dccease. Left
to myself at the age of nineteen, with all the

imprudence and inexperience attached to
that age, it is not surprising that I should
be guilty of excesses. These brought with
them their punishments; for in a short time
I Was deprived of the little money I had sa
ved in the sunshine of prosperity, and in a
and when the eyes that saw him, blessed

him, and the ear that heard him was respect manner reduced to beggary, having no other
fully attentive. But Silt-nu: looked on the possession than my good spirits, which, how
sparkling liquor, while giving its colour and ever, have supported me under every re
temptingly moving itself in the cup; he verse of fortune. Friends I hadnone: what
tasted; he at length tipplcd daily; the habit was to be done? After sejecting many plans
became riveted; he plunged occasionally as impracticable, chance threwme in the
into intoxication, and became at length a way of Mr. B--, at that time manager of
downright sot. His estate is consumed; and a company of Thespians. 1 related to him
of all poor people, his family are among the my situation, and he offered me an engage
most wretched. Dig they cannot, having ment to join his corps, until time should
never been taught to labor; to beg they produce something more advantageous. I
are ashamed. This is nota romance: There need scarcely inform you, I accepted his'
are many families in our country, whose proposal, with pleasure; and was according
(lcplOlublC situation corresponds with this iy enrolled under the banners of Melpomenc.
description.
l entertained great hopes of success; for
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REPEIUIZHR'Y.
when a schoolboy, as you well know, I took

great delight in recitations.
The character of Hamlet was appointed

for my rst exhibition; and the bills having
announced in large letters, that it was the
young gentlemans rst appearance on any
stage, a full house was condently expected,
nor were we disappointed. Our theatre was
safety. [prepared to do as he directed; and, Lin peaceful here, released from ev'ry woe.
in a few moments, was equipped for my Harmless he trod his thorny path of life,
journey. A silk handkerchief contained the Nor waniler'd far from heavenly vmue's track.
whole of my earthly wealth; except a. note
for ten dollars, presented the by the friendly

manager, to whom, previously receiving a
letter of introduction, or rather of recom
mendation, to the Rcvd. Mr. G. whoresidcd
a barn, tted up with a great deal of taste, -in the next county, 1 bade fare-.vel; and
and capable of containing three or four hun- \ trudged oil', as fast as the fears of being
dred spectators. At the appointed time the mobbed impelled me.
curtain was drawn, and the play went on.
JACK TROCHAIC.
(To be continued.)
Rendered condent by the cheering smiles
of my friend, the manager,l boldly entered,
and succeeded tolerably well, until the grave

scene. Here, jumping into the narrow
dwelling of the fair Ophelia, and being
grappled by the throat, in the strong grasp
of Laertes, who was personated by a stout,
athletic young fellow, he squeezed me so
severely, that the irascibility of my disposi
tion got the better of my prudence; and,
unluckily, I thrust my ngers in his eyes,
with so much force, that master Lacrtes
.___...__
For the Repertory.
ltlilLRC'lIONS OF A SOLl'lAltY WAN DERER.

No. Vlll.
How sweet the ties of kindred are twiytt souls
Congenial, when each pulse does \varnily beat
With mild affection. Often has my heart
ney corner of my [ialace like lodgings. The

audience demanded the occasion of the dis
continuance of the play; and, being informed
by some ofcious understrapper, were highly
enraged against me; cursing me for a paltry
me: they would not listen to him; but, with
one voice, demanded my dismission from the

theatre, and threatened to proceed to vio
SIPIDl'l'ATlOXo'. X0. ll.

As the faint re that quivers ere it dies,
\Vithin the hollow bosom of its stand,
The flame of life within its socket plays,

A few revolving moments, and expires!
Or like the sun,we rise in youths gay morn,
The dews of pleasure moisten cvry hour,
We pass the matin of our eeting life,

As if that morn would never nd a close;
But soon like Sol we reach meridian height,
Decline into the paleur of old age,
Till the unwelcome messenger of fate,

Strikes on our ears the dreadful knell of death,
And breaks our brittle bond! Or like the moon,
That now pursues her journey through the skies,

The race oflife is run: rst young like her,
Whose dulcet tones evinced a tender wish,

And fond solicitude for me and mine.
\Ve rise, the creatures of almighty pow'r,

Lifes ying crescent reaches soon the full,
Like the great bard' whose worth is rmly xd,

In the recesses ofeach feeling heart,
\Vhose fame dees the levling hand of time,
That utter for a season in their orbs,
An alien from his country and his God:

And while she taught him, that to err is human,"
His duty whisp'ring, bade him soften grief;
With gentle accents seek to ease his pain,
And win the care worn wandrer back to virtue.

Oh! how I loved him, when the at dread
\Vas issued by th' Eternal's high command,

For my loved parents to depart in peace,
intruder, and wondering how I dared to treat
their favorite actor in the mannerI had done.

In vain did the manager attempt to justify
For the Repertory.
Throbbd with delight, while listning to the voice
roared out in agony; this put a complete stop

to the performance. The actors on the stage And bids him while he mows down showy structures,
Pass on, nor wage with it a fruitless strife.
stood aghast, not knowing how to under
Like him, Isay, "I had a brother once,
standthe scene; but they were presently in (Peace to his errors, to his memry peace!)
formed. For my part, I stood trembling like On whose mild mein fair virtue smiling sat,
a criminal, who is about to make his nal And bade his heart with kind compassion melt,
exit from this worldly stage,- and would have Oer the misfortunes of his fellow men,
given up all hope of theatrical preferment, Nor shun with aspect stern, the hapless \vretch,
to have been s'afely seated in the snug chim
Oh! be his sorrows and his faults forgot,

Buried alike within his mould'ring tomb.
ST. ORME,
And wing their ight to heavens celestial courts,

His care sustain'd me in mine hour of need,
Then falls into the wane! Or like the stars,

And lose their lustre with returning day!
\Vhat then is life! A fading summer ower,
That soon the winter of rude time shall crop,
And blast the fragrance of the falling bloom!

A moment given to adore the God
\Vho spoke us to existence, and whose arm
Formd the expanse of vast creation round,
And then to slumber on the bed ofdeath,
Until the sun shall burst his prisond heat,
And set the world on re! Dread conagrationi

Till the last trumpet shakes the narrow house,
And undulates the billows of the main!
Like the hoarse thunder ofthe deadly gun,
Which shot across the bosom of the stream,
Commands the lifeless body to arise;
When not around a heap of burning coals,

Upon a river's arenaceous banks,
But Willi his angels, round a burning world,
Th' incarnate Son, coeval and alike,
And stnppd the oodgates of my youthful eyes

With tenderness Belovd fraternal ties
How soon ye fled! sunder'd,alas, too soon!
But long as reason in my bosom reigns,
Deep in my beating heart your mem'ry lives.
lence, if he did not comply with their re
Great and eternal as his mighty Sire,

Shall bid th archangel sound the hollow tube,
To rouse the sleeping nations of the earth,
And on expanded wing he takes his ight,
To the four corners of the fear struck world!
Hark! the loud knell proclaims a spirit freed

The narrow tomb shall burst its close connes,
quest, or rather command. After much al

From its frail mansionSeethe body borne
tercation, in which the manager evinced, by
To its cold home, followd by weeping friends,
risking his popularity, his friendship for me,

he was obliged to promise, that I should not
again appear before them. Upon hearing my
sentence, I thought it most advisable to beat
The, son-owing. pay the last sad tribute to
Eugenio's meritBut ah! who willweep

When sad St. Orme shall slumber in the tomb!
Perhaps some rustic hind, who often mark'd
a retreat; but as I went off, chopfallen" as
My pensive wandrings 'long the wave washd shore,

While down his check the unbidden tear would roll,
I was, I could not help giving Laertes a few
And course its pathway, as he sighing view'd,
rcvcngcful glances. Fate, however, never
May close in silent, endless realms of night,

My tearless eyes, and strew the rising mound,
And the cold tenants ofthe silent vault

Shall leave their gelid beds. In that dread hour,
The vast profound shall vomit forth its prey;

And to the blast obedient, evry one
That sleeps within the precincts ofthe grave,

Or on the pearly bottom of the deep,
Shall rise to hear the body's nal doom!
Yes, fear fraught soul, thou musr forever live!
Death that divides thee from thy mortal part,
put it in my power to do more, for we have

never met since. Upon leaving the theatre,
I repaired to the lodgings of the manager,

and awaited with patience his return, which
took place in a short time after. He advised
me to leave the town, as soon as possible;
for my enemies were very clamorous, and

be feared they might endanger my personal
Which marks mortalily's clay cold abode,

W'ith tender owers; and should the travller ask,
Who sleeps enrombd within this humble grave!
\Vhile the deep sigh will from his bosom burst,
And the big tear drop roll adown his face,
ReplyA hapless youth, whose mom of joy
\Vas overcast with misry's sable clouds,
' Cowper.
Leads to another, an eternal world,
iii/here soul and body must forever dwell,

In endless bliss, or ever during pangs!
As the keen arrow on the ambient air,
But passes through and leaves no trace behind,

50 shall the soul the barb ofdeath defy,
And smile secure amid conicting storms!

VALERI AN.
' As from the wing no scar the sky mailm
Dn. Yovno.
For the Repertory.
Verse: addressed to a liumau skeleton.
My lifeless brother. welcome to mine eyes,
Here, o'er thv bones will I my fate peruse:

Here turn aside, while heedless folly flies
In pleasures onward course, and with thee muse.
Poor naked heap! thou dost my pride accuse.

These mould'ring fragments move my inmost soul;
Yet will X not my kindred dust abuse,
For few and short those years which fate may roll,
Ere this now healthful frame shall be like thine, as

foul!
Thy mornings glory open'd to the day,

How proud the hopes thy anxious parents che
rishd!
But stormy death soon swept the ower away,

And in the blast anticipation perishd!
Say. when they bore thee to thy narrow home,
From heaven didst thou behold a parent weep?

Or is the little space of death's dark dome,
Th' unseemly couch where man must ever sleep?
\Vhere is that vital spark which once inspired,
These limbs of thine with life, and health, and
bliss!
Or is thatvame which once this bosom red,
get me a sack." A sack was brought, and

put over the drttnkcn gcust. Away trudged
gus, Dr. Caustic, Capt. Grommet, MomuS

.lunr. and all the train of sprightly corres
the man with his burden, till he came to the

house of a noted resurrectionist; when he
pondents; and hope, as the nights are glut"
knocked at the door. \IVhos there?" said

a voice. l have brought you a subject,
replied the man, so come, quick, give me
my fee. The money was immediately paid,
Mortal! insult not so th' Almighty name,

But let thy conscience home to thee convey,
This truth sublime; tho death may grasp thy frame,
And in the tomb thy mouldring remnants lay;

Yet shall it rise in glory, though the same;
For Gods best work shall suffer no decay,
LIARRIED,
On Saturday, 13th inst. at Charlotte Hall,

St. Marys county, Maryland, by the Rev. Drt
Bowman, capt. William Davis, of Phiindtl
outwittcd, run after the man who had deceived

him, collared him, and cried, Why you dog,
phia, to Miss dfargarrt Zllan'lda Ileig.

In this city, on Thursday evening last, by
the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Francis Ilarlry, to
the mans alive! Alive! answered the
Miss Jane Ford, both of this city.
other, so much the better, ltill him when

you want him,
James Dil-wort/t, of Chester county, Penn. to
On the same evening, by the same, Mr.

Miss Ann Chamberlain, of Delaware county.
DIED,
philllpliia.
TO READERS AND CORRESPON DENTS.
We cannot forbcar the expression of a

wish, that our obliging friends, in the essay
department particularly, would endeavor to
condense the matter of their respective sub
jects, where practicable. Long and labored
essays, whether of a moral, didactic, or even
But in his presence live, in realms of endless day!

LORENZO.
tng long and cold, that they will fat-or us

with some literary treats, to enliven tht~
gloomy cast of the autumnal evening, and to
gheer the friendly circle around the social
re.
and the sack, with its contents, deposited in
the surgery. The motion of quick walking

had nearly recovered the poor victim, who,
before the other had been gone ve minutes,
began to endeavor to extricate himself from
the sack. The purchaser,cnragedat being-thus
(lnench'd in eternal death! Oh! answer this!

Methinks lhear thee now the truth proclaim,
Thro' deaths dark gulf, to speak once more essay;
20,
At Roxbury, Mass. on the 17th inst. Mrs.

Dorcas Dz-arborn, consort of the hon. Henry
Dcarborn, late secretary of War.
In this ~city, on Thursday last, George
Cmn/tbell, csq. attorney at law.
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From the National lntelligencer Extra.
\Vashington, Oct. 20, 1810.

LOsnon'.
Sir,
ofa scientic nature, whatever ability they

Lord tVcllcsley sent me, yesterday, his
display, are in general bttt seldom road; answer to my note of the 25th ult. respect
o.
_Dante, the poet, when at the court of Sig whereas, were the sentiments they contain ting the British and Milan decrees.
nior dell-a Scala, then sovereign of Verona, presented in smaller portions, and with a
I hasten to transmit a copy of it. A copy
that prince said to him one day, I wonder, more attractive aspect, they would be peru shall be sent without delay to General Arm
Signior Dantc, that a man so learned as you sed by every body.
strong.
After mature reection, we are constrain
are, should be hated by all my courtfand
I'have the honor to be, &c.
this fool (pointing to his bull'oon who stood ed to decline the publication of C. C. Bs
WM. PINKNEY.
by him) should be beloved." Dante, highly strictures on the production of T. D. M. in Hon. ltnbt. Smith, &c. tcc. kc.
piqued at this comparison, replied, Your our last: although it may be a truth, that to
(cor-Y.)
Mr. Pinkney's letter to Lord Vellcsley.
cxccllcncy would wonder less if you consider recriminate is just, according to a great
My Lord,
that we like those best who most resemble author, and C. C. B. may have justice on his
side, as he certainly has kcenncss of retort;
I have the honor tostate to your lord
ourselves.
.
yet, his performance might lead to a discus ship that I have received from general Arm
Thc following anecdote lately occurred at sion, which would be as uninteresting to the strong, minister plenipotentiary of the Uni
Boston. A lady having cut an advertisement public, as it might prove useless to the dis ted States at Paris, a letter, hearing date the
out of a paper with an intention to send it to putants.
6th instant, in which he informs me that the
the printer for further information, pinned
The sketch of the life of Jack Trochaic is government of France has revoked the dc
it upon her gown. A gentleman (to whom gratefully received: memoirs of a man, who crecs of Berlin and Milan, and that he has
she was partial) observing that it began with in this country has made poetry a serious received a written and oicial notice of that
To Let, asked a. what [tr-ice, madam? She business, a profession, by which to procure fact, in the following words: Je suis auto
looked at the piece and perceiving his drilt, a subsistence, cannot but excite a great deal rise a vous dcclarcr, monsieur, que les De
of interest: we hope I. T. will give us every crets dc Berlin et de Milan sont revoqucs
answered a! the/wire qfyour Itand, sir.
particular of his singular life, in an honest, et_ qu a (later du lcr. Novombre ils cesseront
*
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-davoir lcureet.
A man siting one evening at an alchouse, round, unvarnished tale."
To Selector, we offer our grateful acknow
I take for granted that the revocation of
thinking how to get provision for the next
day, saw another, dead drunk, on an oppo ledgements, for the handsome contributions the British orders in council of January and
site bench, A thought instantly struck him; he has presented: we shall be highly grati November 1807, and April 1809, and of all
so, going to the landlord, he said Do not ed, and feel additional obligations, by his other orders dependent upon, analogous to,
you wish to get rid of this sot? Aye, to be continuing to furnish us with such accepta or in execution of them, will follow of course;
sure, returned he; and half a crown shall ble favors.
ultd I shall hope to be enabled by your loxd
speak my thanks. Agreed, said the other,
We present our compliments to Dr. Fun i ship, with as little delay as possible, to an
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WM. PINKNEY.
HEALTH OFFICE,
To the most noble

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(corv.)
Lord Wellcsley to Mr. Pinkney.
Sir,
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On-the 23d of February l808, his majestys

minister in America declared to the govern
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earnest desire to see the commerce of the
world restored to that freedom which is ne
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to abandon the system, which had been for
c't-d upon him, whenever the enemy should
retract the principles which had rendered it

necessary.
I am commanded by his majesty to repeat
that declaratimr,and to assure you that when
ever the repeal of the French decrees shall
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IOHN ALLISON. Clerk.
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llllLADELPHIi-i,
at the ofce of the

No. 17. Arch street.
@Binutpbiqgtepefm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1810.
VOL. I.
the orders of general Warren, to entrench
BIOGRAPHY.
(Continued)
Not long after this period, the British

commander in chief found the means to
convey a proposal, privately, to general
themselves upon one of these eminenccs

named Bunker's Hill. Though retarded by
accidents from beginning the work until
near midnight, yet, by dawn of day, they had
contructed a redoubt eight rods square, and
commenced a breast work from the left to

the low grounds, which an insu'emble re
Putnam, that, if he would relinquish the re
bel party, he might rely on being made a ma from the shipping, oating batteries, and can
jor general on the British establishment, non on Cops Hill, in Boston, prevented them
and receiving a great pecuniary compensation from completing. At midday, four battalions
for his services. General Putnam spurned at of foot, ten companies of light infantry, with
a proportion of artillery, commanded by ma
the offer, which, however, he thought pru
dent at that time to conceal from public no jor general Howe, landed under a heavy can
nonade from the ships, and advanced in three
tice.
It could scarcely have been expected, but lines to the attack. The light infantry, being
by those credulous patriots who were prone formed on their right, was directed to turn
to believe whatever they ardently desired, the left ank of the Americans, and the
that oicers, assembled from colonies dis grenadiers, supported by two battalions, to
tinct in their manners and prejudices; select storm the redoubt in front. Meanwhile, on
ed from laborious occupations to command application, these troops were augmented by
a heterogeneous crowd of their equals, com the 47th regiment, the [st battalion of ma
pelled to be soldiers only by the spur of the rines, together with some companies of
occasion, should long be able to preserve light infantry and grenadiers, which form
harmony among themselves and subordina ed an aggregate force of between 3 and 4000
tion among their followers. As the fact would men. But so diicult was it to reinforce the
be a phenomenon, the idea was treated with Americans, by sending detachments across
mirth and mockery by the friends to the the Neck, which was raked by the cannon
British government. Yet this unshapen em of the shipping, that not more than 1500
bryo of a military corps, composed of a mili men were brought into action. Few instances
tia, minute men, volunteers and levies, with can be produced in the annals of mankind,
a burlesque appearance of a multiformity in where soldiers, who had never before faced
anus, accoutrements, clothing and conduct, an enemy, or heard the whistling of a ball,
at last, grew into a regular army! an army behaved with such deliberate and persevering
which, having vindicated the rights of hu valor.
man nature, and established the indepen
It was not till after the grenadicrs had been
dence of anew empire, merited and obtained twice repulsed to their boats, generalWarrcn
the glorious distinction of the patriot army; slain, his troops exhausted of their ammunithe patriot army, whose praises for fortitude tion, their lines in a manner cnladed by ar
in adversity, bravery in battle, moderation in tillery, and the redoubt half lled with British
conquest, perseverance in supporting the regulars, that the word was given to retire. In
cruel extremities of hunger and nakedness that forlorn condition,the spectacle was as aswithout a murmer or sigh, as well as for their tonishing as new, to behold these undisciplinmagnanimity in retiring to civil life, at the
moment of victory, with arms in their hands,

and without any just compensation for their
N0. 27.
er, performed prodigies ofbravery. They held

the enemy at bay until the main body had
relinquished the heights, and then retreated
across the Neck with more regularity and
less loss than could have been expected. The
British, who eected nothing but the des
truction afCharlestown, by a wanton cona

gration, had more than one half oftheirnum
ber killed and wounded; the Americans on
ly 355 killed, wounded, and missing. In this

battle, the presence and example of general
Putnam, who arrived with the reinforcement,
were not less conspicuous than useful. He

did every thing that an intrepid and experi
enced ofcer could accomplish. The enemy
pursued toVVinter Hill; Putnam made a stand
and drove them back under cover of their

ships.
After this action, the British strongly for
tied themselves on the peninsulas of boston
and Charlestown; while the provincials re.
mained posted in the circumjacent country,
in such a manner as to form a blockade. In
the beginning of July, general WVashington,
who had been constituted by congress com
mander in chief of the American forces, ar
rived at Cambridge, to take the command,

Having formed the army into three grand
divisions, consisting of about l2 regiments
each, he appointed general Ward to com
mand the right wing, major general Lee
the left wing, and major general Putnam the

reserve. General Putnam's alertness, in ac
celerating the construction of the necessary

defences, was particularly noticed and high
ly approved by the commander in chief.

About the 10th of July, the declaration of
' congress, setting forth their reasons for tak
ing up arms, was proclaimed at the head of
the several divisions. it concluded with these
patriotic and noble sentiments: In our own
' native land, in defence of the freedom that is
: our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed
ed men, most of them without bayonets, dis- until the late violation of it; for the protec
puting, with the butends of their muskets, tion of our property, acquired solely by the
against
sullen dispair.
the British
Still the
bayonet,
light infantry,
and receding
on their
in i honest industry of our forefathers and our
services, will only cease to be celebrated
selves; against violence actually o'ered, we
when time shall exist no more.
left, would certainly have gained their rear, take up arms. \Ve shall lay them down when
The provincial generals having received and exterminated this gallant little corps, hostilities shall cease on the part of the ag
advice that the British commander in chief had not a body of 400 Connecticut men, with gressors, and all danger of their being re
designed to take possession of the heights on captains Knowlton and Chester, after forming : newed Shall be removed, and not before.
the peninsula of Charlestown, detached 1000 a temporary breast work by pulling up one ' With an humble condence in the mercies
men in the night of the 16th of June, under post and rail fence and putting it upon anoth- ll of the supreme and impartial Judge and Rn
mg
.I.
m
ler of the universe, we most devoutly im

plore his divine goodness to conduct us hap
For the Repertory.
pily through this great conict, to dispose

A ROMANCE.
our adversaries to reconciliation upon rea

sonable terms, and, thereby, to relieve the
empire from the calamities of civil war."

As soon as these memorable words were
pronounced to general Putnam's division,
which he had ordered to bc paraded on Pros
pect Hill, they shouted, in three huzzas, a
loud Amen! whereat (a cannon from the

fort being red as a signal) the new stan
dard, lately sent from Connecticut, was sud
denly seen to rise and unrol itself to the wind.
On one side was inscribed, in large letters
of gold, As APPEAL 'ro Hanna," and on
the other Were delineated the armorial bear

ings of Connecticut, which without suppor
ters or crest, consist, unostentatiously, of
three vines, with this motto, Qui transtulit
auetinrt;" alluding to the pious condence our

forefathers placed in the protection of Heaven
on those three allegorical scions, Knowledge,
Liberty, Religion, which they had been in
strumental in transplanting to America.

The strength of position on the enemy's
part, and want of ammunition on ours pre
vented operations of magnitude from being

attempted. Such diligence was used in for
tifying our camps, and such precaution
adopted to prevent surprize, as to ensure tran
quility to the troops during the winter. In
the spring, a position was taken, so mena
cing to the enemy, as to cause them, on the

17th of March, 1776, to abandon Boston, not
without considerable pecipitation and dere

liction of royal stores.
On the 22d of August, the van of the
British landed on Long Island, and was soon
followed by the whole army, except one bri
gade of Hessians, a small body of British,
and some convalescents, left on Staten Island.
Our tmops on Long Island had been com
manded during the summer by general
Greene, who was now sick, and general Put
nam took the command. An engagement
took place, on the 27th, between the British
army and our advanced corps, in which we
mind, when I tell you, that for aught we
CHAPTER VIII.
0, unexpected stroke! worse than of death.
Milton.
1 will a tale unfold, whose lightest \vord
cautious without anxiety; regular yet not

formal; mild yet not timid; rm yet not ty
rannical, is made to pass the ordeal of honour

friendship, virtue.
rable Ferresburgh, when these dreadful
words broke like a thunderbolt upon his ear.

How! cried be, his eyes glowing with
fury, are my proudest hopes thus blasted,
spheres;
Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
when I supposed them fully gratied! Vil
And each particular hair to stand on end,
lains, ye have deceived me! Ye have betray
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine!
ed me to my foes, and built your safety on
Shah/ware.
Ferresburgh's ruin! Perdition seize you!
My faithful fellows," said Ferresburgh,
Moderate this storm of passion, good my
as he entered his chamber, where the two lord," cried \Veinfleet, you know that we
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their
bravoes waited, and caught a hand from each,
are faithful, and would rush to death to servo
my faithful fellows, may I be happy in your

news?"
fruitless, but we are nevertheless as faithful
Tis a hard question for us to answer,
my good lord, replied Weinfleet, we can

not determine whether our news may make
you happy or miserable in the knowledge

of it.
What mean youi demanded Ferres
you. Our search for Thadia has indeed been

to your interest, as if success had crowned
our great attempt."
I will be calm," replied Ferresburgh;
but come, let me hear your good news, for
this is sure the worst you could unfold! O!

that I had the viper in my grasp, my rage
burgh, somewhat alarmed at the manner of should crush her! But come, your good
his slaves: You speak in riddles, which I news.
am totally unable to solve. Why is this?
We met with Martix, said Weineet.
My lord Ferresburgh, answered \Vein
Indeed! returned the count, then let
eet, we have, in fact, both good and bad me tell you, that you were not alone, for
news, that we could relate, yet rest well as more than you have had the same lucky ad
sured of this, that what the gallant Truro venture: the king has likewise seen him."
and myself could do to procure your case
Ferresburgh then related to the two bra
and perpetual safety, has been done.
voes, the manner in which Stanislaus was
I am perfectly convinced of that," re

turned the count, but come, my brave
friends, quickly relate your good news; that

I know will inform me that Thadia, who long
hate her and her house, as ercely as I hate
made prisoners. But our men, though attack all good, I cannot help but pity!"
My lord fol-bear," cried Weineet, for
ed on all sides, fought with great bravery,
know the truth; your transports and your
and the enemys loss was not light.
pity for the fate of Sobeiskis daughter, may,
(To be continued.)
for aught we know, be premature.
__-.._.
What mean you? demanded Ferres
Who is open without levity; generous
without waste; secret without craft; humble
without meanness; bold without insolenoe;
know, the daughter of Sobeiski may be yet

alive."
No language can depict the rage, horror,
and disappointment, expressed by the mise
\Vill barrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
has been the terror of my life, is now no

more! 0! welcome messengers, that come
to hush my loudest fear! Poor girl, I almost
pity thee, yet there was no way left to save
myself and theel
My lord," said Truro, you will do well
not to give way to these reections, for"
I own that it is wrong, interrupted Fer
resburgh, pity is a passion that I ought to
leave to girls and silly women; but yet in
lost about IOOO-men in killed and wounded, spite of me, it will intrude, and though I
with general Sullivan and Lord Sterling
let no suspicion of our delity arise in your
burgh, inform me of the worst, and let me
be no longer tortured by uncertainty!

Would we could meet your hopes with
ample gratication, my good lord, replied
the hesitating Weineet.
Count Ferresburgh," said Truro, rmly,
attacked, and the strange way in which he

entered the cavern of the robbers, together
with his curious escape, and his encounter

with the stranger conned in the abbey, his
subsequent arrival at the castle, and his sus
picions.
At the mention of the stranger conned
in the abbey, Trum and Weineet started,
and looked at each other in signicant asto
nishment, upon the noticing of which, Fer
resburgh demanded to be informed if they

knew any thing concerning him.
We do indeed, my lord, replied Wean
eet.
Then instantly let me know it! cried
Ferresburgh in alarm.
That must not be, cried Truro.
How! must not be!" said Ferresburgh,
what mean you, Truro, by that expression?
That though our hands are stained with

blood, my noble lord, replied the bravo,
and our souls with crime, we have too
much honor to disregard an oath, particular

ly when twould be to the ruin of abrother
in iniquity!
Still more mysterious, exclaimed Fer
resburgh, what mean you, Truro, by an.
oath?"
PHI LADELPHIA REPERTORY.

a
211
'hen we met Martix," replied Wein

eet, we concluded that if he were alive,
whom we supposed dead, there must be

some strange occurrence connected with his
existence."
Doubtless, observed the count, and
on that account I am under great apprehen

sions!"
Determined to discover, if it were pos
avert the storm of ruin, that we were con
vinced was gathering over your head; and

having sworn, we will not break our oath."
Indecdl" exclaimed Ferresburgh, I
conjure you let me know the danger I am
in; explain your strange, mysterious pro
ceedings."
My lord, we cannot, we have already
and Ferresburgh hastened to join the king

in the library, though his mind was more
discomposed than at parting.
UBALDO.
For the Repertory.
"I know thee to thy bottom; from within
Thy shallow centre to thy utmost skin.
Durban.
sm'd we cannot," cried T ruro, but rest sa
My female correspondent has again favor
sible, continued Weincet, what unac
tised, that what we say is true, and listen to

the plan which Weineet and myself have ed me with a letter, which I submit to the
been devising, for you and us to shun the readers of the Repertory without any apo
logy.
threatening ruin."
Dcar Sir,
fWcll, well, said the count, quickly
By my hopes you strike me with pro
I have lived in a single state for six and
let me know how you succeeded in your at found amazementl" cried Ferresburgh.
thirty years; and you must know, that in this
\Ve cannot tell you, my lord, said time, I have met with as many perplexities
tempt.
At dinner," continued Weinfleet, we VVeineet, in what your danger consists, and vicissitudes, as most of my sex in the
plied Martix so hard, with the owing con but we can hurl that danger from you, and same mode of life. Since my fourteenth year
tents of the goblet, that too much wine be hid it soar on aming wings to heaven."
I have been addressed as lovingly as possi
gan to make him quite loquacious, and we
Still more mystery, cried Ferresburgh. ble by eleven suitors; ten of whom I very
thus gained from him the knowledge of the
" Part of the abbey consists of wood, con
hastily rejected, condent my charms would
most extraordinary circumstance that could tinued the bravo, let but a torch touch the still bring more acceptable offers. The last
have taken place, and what, least of all, we rotten lumber, and instantly the wing is in a poor fellow I kept in a state of suspense for
blaze."
expected to hear!
more than ve years, with a determination
Indeed!" exclaimed Ferresburgh, what
" And what imports this? demanded Fer to marry him (if in the mean time I was not
can this strange, mysterious circumstance resburgh.
better pleased) whenI should have arrived
possibly be? I beg of you to ease me from
That, as to night the whole of the band, at the forty-fth year of my age. It has, how
this terrible suspense, by a speedy relation answered Truro, are going some miles ever, happened unfortunately, that this gen
distant, to attack some noble booty, leaving tleman has long since forsaken me, without
of the whole of your discovery.
countable mystery was connected with the
safety of Martix, we resolved to spend a day
with the band in the abbey."
Excuse us, my good lord, returned
no one in the abbey; about midnight, Wein
Truro, but here we must pause."

ect and myself will re the eastern wing,
Must pause." repeated Fcrresburgh, and buried in the smoking ruins of the crash
ing pile, your greatest danger lies!"
must pause!"
\Ve dare not tell you further," continu
I know not what to say," replied Fer
resburgh, " amazement checks my utter
ed Truro.
Dare not tell me further! exclaimed ance. There is a dreadful mystery'around
the count, starting back, and casting a ter
rible glance upon the bravoes alternately;

what shall prevent me from hearing it?
Vere my fears indeed true? Have you, un
faithful viiiains, indeed betrayed me?"
My lord, cried Weinect, you know
any just cause, though I have heard he has

said, what is utterly false, that I begin to
look old. In such an unpleasant dilemma,

what would you advise me to do? I have been
courted by many, and admired by more; and
by this I estimated my worth. Now I am ne
glected by your sex, and by my own am in
you, which I cannot unfathom, therefore to cessantly charged with the folly and vanity
your faithful loves I trust my safety, and of my conduct, in refusing so many oppor.
what is far more dear to me, my honor.
tunities of changing a situation in which I
Thats greatly resolved, and nobly, an~ am now so impatient. By my family I am

considered as an expensive and useless up
Trust to us, my lord," continued Truro, pentlagc; and, like an antiquated piece of
" nor for a moment doubt that we are faith furniture, they would willingly exhibit me
swered VVcineet.
we are not treacherous to you; and this ac

cusation is as untimely as it is unjust.
ful. \Ve have proved ourselves so, and we
Forgive me, good Weineet, replied will again. We will secure you from the
the count, I know not what I say; I am danger that we know now threatens you, or
distracted with my fears!
in the great attempt we'll perish."
We'll snatch you from distraction, from
Faithful, brave, and generous Truro!
at auction, were it not for want of a prece~
dent to the practice. To alleviate this con

dition, and to attempt to mingle some plea
sures with infelicity, I have seized every
novel, every romance, and all the Works of
destruction!" cried Truro, though we have
cried the count, how much, my friends, ction that libraries could afford; as Well as
solemnly sworn to the cautious Martix, not does Ferresburgh owe to bothl"
indulged in all those amusements and enter
to disclose the circumstances which his in
To night, my lord, secures your safety," tainments, which the ingenuity of females
ebriety discovered to us.

Cursed, cursed chance!" exclaimed Fer
resburgh, wherefore did you commit your
selves, to keep me in this suspense, this ex

cruciating ignorance; or why will you re.
said Truro.
"O! that tomorrows sun had reared his
blushing front," cried Ferrcsburgh, " that I
might hail him the welcome messenger of
unfortunate life, were productive of a mo
mentary enjoyment, though I have never

peace! tomorrow's suni continued he, " to found them to leave in the mind any perma
me that sun may never rise! to mewell be it nent treasure for its pleasant reection in
gard a rash and unthinking asseveration

when my peace is concerned!
so, I do but change acertain ill, for an un
Not only to save our lives, my lord,did
have devised; these, by dissipating for a

while the unwelcome retctions upon an
uncertain, he would have said, but convic
the hours of retireinent, which so frequent
ly disturb a sensual indulgence in a false
we swear, continued Truro, but to pro. tion ashed upon his mind, and he remain idea of happiness.
cure permission to leave the abbey, dint Wt ed silent.
Now, whethe" in this situation, the vacu
might protect you from the danger, and
Iierc ended this mysterious conversation, l ity- of the female mind might be with advan
2 1'2
tage engaged in the study of nature, of phi

losophy, astronomy, or any of your masculine
studies, I shall leave for those who are com
petent to judge; but as few of us have ever

been initiated in such unfashionable inqui
of company, and our tongues all went at

once, like wind mills; the more the merrier.
Vivacity is the most lovely trait in our sex,
and this is the way to show it; better to talk
ries, certain it is, that at this time of life,
always, no matter what upon; if we are si

lent, well be thought stupid directly. A ne
we are not very ready to give them a volun

tary attention. The charge of a tender off
time at Mrs. Alamodes; settled the business

about the fashions; Miss Modeste and Miss
spring would, I must acknowledge, be a
more congenial engagement for me, and I

should suppose, for all others in my condi
tion. \Vhen we have no such pleasures at
command; deprived of domestic charges, Sa
tiated with the fabricated productions of au
thors, and neglected by the world; to what
are we to resort? Iet our sisterhood ex
cite the compassion and sympathy of man,
that they may be pleased to grant us some
share in the pleasures of existence.
After all this honest acknowledgement,
you are not to suppose, that we are the on
ly class in the female world, that nd a dif
ficulty in saturating time with employment.
Miss Flexible, who is mistress of the cere

monies, wears but one; remember to take
one off when I go home. At the other pla

ces, bad husbands and bad servants the to
pic; a general complaint; I hope backbiting
will make them better; if they should hap
pen to hear of it, it will. Miss Peevish Said
her servant would look good humored,
though she was always scolding him. I told
them ours had the impudence to knock me
up one morning, and would often smile in
my face. Mrs. Jealousy said, her husband
went out every night, and left her all alone.
Never worth while to have one, if he isnt
always with you. When I get married, I in

tend to sleep more and think less.
nest skin in the world; says tis because she
never touches it with water. No appetite for

breakfast, I got up so early, no wonder.
Got ready by twelve oclock to go a shop
ping; didnt want to buy any thing, but a
body must have a good excuse to go out;
must be seen, or we'll never be married,
and the street is the best place in all con

science. Every gentleman stared uncom
monly, a sure sign Im very pretty. Went in
to all the shops in Second street, looked about
and asked for whatever was not in the shop;
not every body so witty as I am. Heard Miss

Argent price a shawl at one hundred dollars;
said she wanted one higher; the little man

behind the counter soon pulled one down at
two hundred; she as soon bought it; it Was
the same quality, but no matter; she was in
the right of it; the store was full, and they
all of course asked who she was. I wish I

Was as rich, I would soon be popular. That
a fool and his money is soon parted" is a
very vulgar adage, and only t for vulgar
folks.
Left the shops, and paid six morning visits;
highly delighted at every place; a great deal
For the Repertory.

SELECTOR. No. II.
The younger part of us are, perhaps, as much
more sober years of life. As a proof of this,
regard of yours, Ste.
KITTY CELIBACY,
Miss Kitty has given me so long an episs
tle, Imust omit any observations upon it,
Sangfroid declared the weather required till I get another sheet of paper.
CENSOR.
two petticoats; but it was clearly proved that
perplexed in passing away time, and grati

fying their uneasy and versatile dispositions,
as those among us, who have arrived to the
sir, I shall send you'the memorandums 01
a day, which I have transcribed from the
pocket book of a lady, who is young enough
for any of you.
Memorandums by Fanny Fickle.
Got up at halfpast ten; washed my hands,
but am resolved hereafter, not to wet my
neck and face. There is Miss Cutis has the
dy I know; he has indeed, got my heart so

completely, I shant sleep a wink to night.
Went to bed before one.
There, you have it all, with the constant
" That breast where honor builds his throne,

Thav breast which virtue calls her own,
Nor interest warps, nor fear appals,

\Vhen danger frowns, or lucre calls.
No: the true friend collected stands,
Fearless his heart, and pure his hands;

Let inlel'CS' plead, let storms arise,
He dares be honest though he dies."
Amid all the fascinating powers of honor,

wealth, and fame, or the more rational pur
suits of literature, nothing can appear so tru
ly exquisite, so durable, and so engaging, as

frir nds/u'.
When prosperity attends with all its va

ried charms and lulls us on the downy bed
dining fclt sleepy, and went to bed; got up of ease, when a pleasing retrospect of life
in an hour, and was ready dressed for a par shall fail, and when grandeur is bidding us
ty by six; burnt my face with the curling an everlasting adieu, friendship will guide
tongs; spend the pleasantest part of my life and instruct our course, and, by its alluring
in looking in the glass about two hours a day, powers, engage the mind to virtue. Or, when
to dress myself; cant be so with ugly wo the more awful scene of adversity presents
men though; got to the party before seven; itself to our view, the society of a faithful
what a lively company; there was Mr. Bell
friend will mitigate our woes, and blunt the
vissage, Mr. Simple, Mr. Gallboy, Ste. &c. keen arrows of despair. As friendship is
But unfortunate occurrence, my bishop slip so rarely found, and attery and deceit so
ped six inches out of place; had to leave the common, how pleasing is the situation of
room to place it in its proper position; came him who, when relatives and connections
back, joined in dancing, and immediately the shall fail, has a pleasing intercourse with
exertion dislodged it again, and a gentleman those who will not partially approve, or has
picked it 05 the oor, and clapped it in his tily reject. As friendship is of a nature so
pocket. What a pity nature did not do us pure. it is utterly impossible to purchase its
justice, without all this plague; it made me favors; in this consists the difference be
feel so horrid I had no more fun. Got up to tween friends and acquaintances. The gaudy
go home; Mr. Bellvissage asked me if he pomp of show, and the pageantry of wealth,
might have the extreme felicity of waiting may entice many of the artful and needy, yet
on me. I told him such language was only they are as opposite to friendship, as light to
t to use when he got to heaven; what did darkness. One of the greatest benets re
he mean? Oh! said he I never thought sulting from this divine perfection, is its care
of that," and to close the subject with a dis. for the welfare of its object. A real friend
play of learning, immediately quoted the fol will never suffer him, for whom he enter
tains an undisscmbled regard, ,to deviate
lowing lines:
Went home to dinner before three; after
" Can abody tell a body what a body means,

\Vhen a body meets a body in a bag of beansl
from the path of rectitude; since, however
I asked him where he got this couplet?

He forget who was the author, it had been
cal to friendship for the other to consent
willing the one may be, it would be inimi
Since, therefore, from only a slight investi

gation, the principles of friendship seem so
the lines were from Milton; no matter,1 perfect, and as the practice is invariably pure,
learned that they were from the best, and how much ought we to cultivate in our
the only author he had ever read. This Mr. minds, the genuine and unadulterated ideas
B. is a ne fellow, and admired by every b0 of philanthrophy. Formed by one generous
so long since he had read it; but he believed
hand, and nurtured under the fostering cart
21 S
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M
nancesI have since seen, I have never be
( ation; and shall cheerfully comply with their
of an indulgent Heaven, how abject is the
held one resembling his; pomposity, igno

wish, expressed in the last paper, by making
condition of him, even in the height of af rance and conceit were so equally blended, my future numbers shorter.
uence, who has not one friendly hand to that it was impossible to distinguish the pre
The purport of my last was to show, that
conduct his erring steps! and how truly dominant feature. I looked in vain for that one of the causes of the bad music in our
miserable is the situation of him, who, in the modest, placid, unassuming mien, and gen
churches, and a very material and serious
gloom of adversity, has not one feeling heart tleness of manners, which were so percepti cause too, was the alteration of many of our
ble in our venerable tutor, who was indeed, best tunes, by professing, but unskilful teach
to sympathise in his distress!
No renement of language, or energy of a true disciple and follower of our meek ers, and the dissemination of their false
expression, can convey a feeling of the de Redeemer, and turned away disgusted at the principles of harmony, by the circulation
comparison. The object of my disgust at throughout our city of their books, contain
lights of friendship.
s."
M
length perused the epistle, and after giving a ing their fancied improvements upon ster
[11QF0I the Repertory.
~
9'.
LIFE OF JACK TROCHAIC.

'I
z-J ,Jm . ('(Continued
Met 8. fptiguing walk, [arrived the next

evening at parson G's, and without much
ceremony, for adversity had not yet taught
me those principles of humility, which are
generally its attendants, I knocked at the
door; a little blue eyed damsel popped her
head out, and politely inquired my business;
upon my informing her I was the bearer of
a letter for the parson, which I must deliver
to himself, she ushered me into a neat par
lor, and after telling me, her uncle would
see me in a few minutes, she left me to my

reections. My eyes wandered over the
room, surveying, for Want of better employ
ment, the various articles of furniture it con
hem ortwo, and smoothing down the owing

curls of a well powdered pcrriwig, that he
might impress me with reverential awe,
spoke; \Vell, and so you want my assistance,
Rev. Mr. G. and the idea gave me some

concern; however, I shook off apprehension,
own composing, which, forsooth, they digni

fy by the name of music. \Vhat kind of mu
and as you are strongly recommended, I feel sic is made by the tunes so altered, and also,
disposed to grant it. I perceive, by the letter What kind of knowledge of composition is
you have handed me, that your name is Tro possessed by such professing teachers, was
chaic." l bowed assent, and his reverence evinced in the conclusion of my last num~
proceeded; Trochaic, let me see, why thats ber: I now adduce a few more instances from
a CluSSiCul name, and I suppose you are, as
my memoranda.
others of that name generally are, a scholar. l

In a late publication I nd a short tune,
I replied, that the greatest part of my life which consists of three parts, and contains
had been spent at college; but whether I had thirteen bars of triple time: yet, in this tune,
any pretensions to the title he was pleased short as it is, there are no less than Ilu'rtcm
to honor me with, must be referred to his
superior judgment. This well timed compli
errors, or deviations from the true princi

ples of composition; and should the author,
ment had the desired effect, and was well according to the nature of those errors, add
received. I-Iis features relaxed into a smile, to the tune a fourth part, they would be near
tained: a portrait of a grave looking old gen and he demanded ifI had ever composed
tleman xed my attention; and I could not sermons? Itold him I had not, but that]
avoid reecting, how unprepossessing this was a from. Pshawl" was the reply; he had
droll phiz ofmine, at which you and the rest not time to say more, for a servant entered,
and informed him supper waited. This was,
of our schoolfellows have been so repeatedly
diverted, would be to a man, whose atten
you may believe, pleasant information tome,
tion must be deeply engaged on serious and
important subjects; for such I considered the
ling music, ofa centurys standing, together

with strings of almost random notes, of their
ly double that number.

In another late publication is a selection
.of what are called tunes; but the greater
E portion of them is, in reality,little better than

i
unmeaning rant, full of harsh discords
grating on the ear." Some of them, we are
and after doing honor to the meal, service - informed, were never before published; and,
being performed, I was conducted to myi indeed, it would have been a happy circum
apartment; his reverence telling me at part- ! stance for music and devotion, if they had
could,
friendly
ing, heby
would
proteCtion.
my usefulness,
consider
I wasinreward
glad
whattohim
capseity
make
torhis
myI not been published at the present day. In
bade the foul end avaunt, and waited
ve pages, which I have had the patience,
with patience the coming of his reverence.
in my examination, to wade through, (and
escape, and follow my conductress. Mary; which are occupied by some of these pre
was a lovely girl, andl could not help tell cious new compositions,) I nd no fewer
ing her so; it did not much displease her. than seventy rig/1t errors and violations of
whom I was to look for assistance. So, She was vabout sixteen, andI felt so great a the laws of harmony; the greater part of
young man, without ceremony, he exclaim smart, inicted by the arrows of the mis which is of the most glaring kind, so much
ed, I am told you have a letter for me. 1 chievous little son of Venus, that l have not so, that he who runs may l'ead._,dr
bowed and presented it. He waved his hand altogether forgotten it, even at this remote
Another publication from the eastward,
with solemnity, pointed to a chair, and re period.- Arrived at my chamber, 1 bade my now before me,demands'somc notice, since,
quested me to be seated, while settling his conductress good night, and sank into the if we believe the compilers, it is a work of
spectacles upon his nose, which was not arms of Morpheus, with her beauteous form .intrinsic excellence, because the music
quite so remarkable as the one described by before me, in mental loveliness.
is H reduced to its primitive style. Yet, in
the laughter loving Sterne, he, with appro
JACK 'IROCHAIC.
only one tune of this unparalleled collection,
priate dignity, broke the seal. IIad Hogarth
op-.
consisting of only fteen bars oftriplc time,
been in search of a pair of comical jihiZZt'a,
For the Repertory.
I nd only fmn violations of the principles
to completea group of odginals, he might
SACRED HARMOI'Y.
of harmony: if this is an, intrinsic excel
have found them then, and found them ad
no. Y].
lence, I do not comprehend it.
mirably contrasted. his reverence was a lit
I return my sincere thanks to the editors
The ignorance of some modern compilers
tle fellow, not more than four feet and a halt of the Repertory, for the honor done me, by of sacred music, is surpassed only by their
high, very corpulcnt, and appeared to be admitting my preceding numbers to a sta vanity and assurance. They seem to think
about {idly-(grief age; but of all counte
tion among the useful matter of their publi nothing of tearing in pieces any tune, how
1 7 w
a.
\
Soon after, I heard the sound of a slow and
dignied stepdnoving to the door, which

slowly unclosed, and I beheld the man to
214.
PHILADELPHIA R'E'PER'IURY.
r
A
ever good, then adding a patch here, and a

patch there, of quite a different style, very
often the production of their own fertile ge
nius, and immediately ushering this tattered
garb into the world, sometimes as a new
composition: but, to complete the absurdity,
some of them have been weak enough to set
their own names to such pieces, vainly sup
Can I not nd that healing power

In lsabellas eyes?
Or when loves dark 'ning tempests lour,

And furious whirlwinds rise;
Vhcn the fond lovers shatterd bark
ln wrecks lies scatterd round,
In her mild soul will there no spark

Of sympathy be found?
The dew drop of grace had just moistened a ower,

When the rude hand of death swept the blossom
away;
The once stately bush stood reclined in her bower,
And wept for her o'spring that mouldering lay.
W'hen oer the sad spot, lo! a radiance divine,
Descended to bring the aficted relief;
-' Ah! why for the loss of thy scion repine,
And droop overwhelmed with despondence and
grief."
posing, that thereby they might force their
Will she not stretch her saving hand,
illegitimate productions upon the favor and

patronage of the public. What a precious
And help him once again to land

On hopes unshakcn shore!
Tho dead, thy fair bud in the skies shall expand,

And leaving thy grief, thy embraces and love;
Her smiles, more lovely than the morn,

Than Dions more rened,
With varied charms her face adorn,
Where shines a heavenly mind.
Convey-ed on the pinions ofangels shall stand,

And bloom with the hint in the gardens above?
Bid him despair no more,
sight would it be, if these pieces were figu

red for thorough bass! But, with all their
profound skill, it is hardly to be expected

from them, since such a task would puzzle
the rst masters in the universe. There are
again, other music publishers, who have ta
ken whole paragraphs from different authors

that are characterised by styles as different
as the colors of the rainbow; and who, by
adding and interweaving scraps of their own
composition, have formed pieces of many
pages each, a medley of many styles, all
tricked out with as much taste, judgment,
and skill, as punchinello in a show, with a

garment of the most fantastical cut, and be
siizened with all the variety of colors.
PHILO MADAN.
a..
The artist tries to trace her form,

Her image to attain;
At length subdued by every charm,
STANZAS T0 JULIA,
Oh! could I have known that the lay which I sung
Was fraught with uneasiness, fair one, to thee,
The unlortunste strains should have died on my

tongue,
Ere they wafted one sigh of aiction from me.
How apt is the breast to brood over its woes,
Her angel bosom! (but, 0 queen
Of love, my feelings spare!)
SONNET TO HUMILITY.
Beyond your power my soul safe lives

In lsabells's heart.
Hail, sweet Humility, ofbirth divine,
VALERIAN.
He quits the task as vain.
But hence, unchaste desire, that strives

To win me by your art;
GRAY.
slain!"
For the Repertory.

" A goddess sure she reigns on earth,
They in amazement say;
Declare her of immortal birth,
Her sire the god of day.
Bead VII.
And tastes it as it goes.
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb that was
A mortal is so fair.
THE CHAPLET.
Humility erect: her cell,

Near the course where pleasure ows:
She eyes the clear chrystalline well,
Aiction thy lonely compeer must remain;
But thy soul in the skies with new rapture shallglow,

The sister graces all perceive
Themselves depicted there:
Their ruptured senses scarce believe
There beauty, truth, and grace are seen,

And innocence is there.
For the Repertory.
- Thou knowest that if planted in Zion below,
Yet if she should despise my love,

Nor soft aectiuns share;
If her no kindred passion move,
My soul must meet despair.
Fair emblem of Perfections pattern thou!

And ifmy wound no art can cure,
To awake to regret at the minutest touch,

But the heart that with sympathy soothingly glows,
With tranquillity s beams can illumtne it much.
Nor can pleasure, though sweet, with the feeling!

compare,
Which result from a union of sensitive souls:
A union that steals from the depths of despair,
The sorrowing heart, and its sorrow controls.
Then believe me, sweet maid, iflve caused thee to
sigh,
Our sighs and our tears shall be mingled together,
And sure when united our sorrows will y,

Nor again from our bosoms dear happiness sever
ORLANDO.
I see calm resignation grace thy brow,
And soft benignity around thee shine.

Far from the busy worlds tumultuous noise,
Nor skill a balm apply;

Teach me, 0 Father! to endure,
My fate without a sigh.-
THADDEUS.
\Vhere pagcsntries the heavenbound soul assail,

Thou reign'st serenely in lifes peaceful vale,
Queen of the christian's graces and his joys.
For the Repertory.
Virtue, Faith, Hope, and Charity shall cease;
RESIGNATION.
But thon,when thou a heaven on earth hast shown,
Shalt ever live (when earth and sin are gone,)
_.._
Thy gifts to me, and reign, forever, in my heart.
AMYNTOR.
For the Repertory.
ON lSABELLA.
1 saw hcrzin my heart transxt
The shaft of Cupid stood;

A poison by the urchin mixt
In the garden of Zion that bloomed on the earth,
That solemn anthem strike the ear,

Then, while in grief profound and pain,
In faultring notes the holy strain
Grew a roscbush that spread lovely fragrance

around;
The buds that she bore were of heavenly birth,
Which she nurtured to shed sweet perfume o'er

the ground.
She watched as each opening bloom would expand,
To guide it from thorns that obstructed its way;
Uprearcd by affection each blossom was blind,
And promised her tenderness soon to repay.
Near that form which earth must cover,

And, as in life should love to hear
Thy mournful friends shall sing,
And as with bursting hearts they leave

And tearful e) es,
The spot where hush'd in dread repose

Their Harriet lies
Slumbring secure from human woes,
At rest
Upon our common mother's breast:

Full oft when the night would inveil the parterre,
And shadow the beauties she hoped she should

view;
In sad distress l pine away,

And seek relief in vain.
Should fate, obedient to command divine

Thee to the gloomy grave consign;
Should thy unshackled spirit hover,
Commingled with my blood.

Unused to feel its potent sway,
Untutorcd in its pain,
VERSES ADDRESSED TO MISS H. 5.
On hearing her express a wish that the music of

the 100th Psalm, might be sung over her grave.
Published in the Evangelical lntelligencer for May,

1809.
Triumphant, in the realms of love and peace.
Come, then. 0 sweet Humility! impart
"
For the Repertory.
To the God of the garden she uttered a prayer,

To lead her dear olfspring to bloom as they grew.
Ah! let it bid them cease to grieve;
But, bending to the awful blow,
Submit, reaignd, to Him that laid theelow.

Pleascd with the solemn song,
That rises from the tombs among,
1215
With angel accents in their ears,
ofce." Not so, master, said the country
\Vhisper, wipe away your tears;
man; I have a little bit ofpaper here, which,
Miillin issued a proclamation, oli'ering a W'
if you'll take the trouble of reading, will con

vince you I am right," The ofcer reading
ward of three hundred dollars for the dis
Hope comes upon a seraphs wing,

Consoling thoughts to bring:
She bids you hush eash rising sigh:
Bids you look to yonder sky,

Where we shall meet again,
Freed from evry earthly pain.
But ah! my friend, long mayst thou hear,
in accents solemn, loud, and clear,
The sacred hymn salute thine ear,
The old, when nature wears away,
Sink (willing) to their native clay;

With weary hearts they quit the scene,
(in hope a better life to gain.)
But oh! the young, the gay, the fair,
Still wish to breathe the terrene air,
Eighteen years had rolled away, without hrs
cal, this is a permit; why did you not show
ing able to discover the perpetrators, the

whole circumstance was fast consigning to
oblivion, and justice was apparently slum
bering till the last day, when on a sudden.
it me sooner? Because," said he, ifI had
you would not have carried the liquor so far

for me.
A West Indian, who had a remarkableery
nose, having fallen asleep in his chair, a ne
gro boy, who was in waiting, observed a mus
quito hovering round his face. Quashi eyed
the insect very attentively, at last he saw him
alight on his master's nose, and immediately
y off. Ah, blass your heart, (CKClttmCtl the

negro) me right glad to see you burn your
foot."
While hope illuminates the breast,

And not a pang invades their rest;
While their warm hearts, alive to pleasure,
Move to joys delightful measure,

To them, life's portals open spread,
Disclose to view no object dread;
Pleasure Qfaying debts.
Await th inevitable hour!"
sound policy: Finally, it is the main support
Time round the temples sheds his locks of snow;
of reputation.
lager they bound to tread th' enamelld maze,
Whose charming windings meet their ardent gaze;

And think that peace. and unmolested joy,
Must ever dwell beneath the cloudless sky.
Be youth's sweet pleasures ever thine;
Be youth's sweet pleasures ever mine!
" But vain the wish!" We wear away;

All things around proclaimDecay:
The proudest monuments of power
Time dims the lustre of the brightest eye;

Time chills the dancing tide of youthful joy:
Nature's vast works th' eternal doom obey;
And we must yield to times resistless sway.

A. C. M.
philavtlrbia.
MARRIED,
On Thursday evening, the 25th inst. by the
Rev. P. F. Mayer, Mr. Benjamin Illitc/mll, to
Miss diary Il/Iaaon, both of the Northern
Liberties.
A countryman was stopped by a revenue

oicer, who took from him two casks of spi
rits, and carrying the same to the next, town
(a distance of fteen miles) was desired by
the countryman to stop and leave it at the
first public house. The ofcer replied, N o;
l have seized it, and it must go to the excise
she is said to have made on oath, is to the

which Elizabeth Reeves was murdered, the
accused came to his fathers house, with his
clothes covered with blood, took o'his shirt,
threw it into a wash tub, and washed the
blood off it. That he was for some time af

terwards very restless in his sleep, and
would often make frightful exclumations. In
the dead of the night, soon after the murder
of Miss Reeves, she, the step mother, heard
him groan, and went up into his room and

asked him what was the matter? and he an
swered, that a young woman had just been
in the room, with a lighted candle in her
hand, that he had his face towards her when
1 she rst entered the room, but he turned his
back to her as soon as he saw her. These,
and some other occurrences, had induced
her to suspect the accused of the murder,

and she could not die in peace, without di
vulging what she knew respecting it. The
accused asserts his innocence, and says, that
he can prove that he was in the state of Vir
A thief, having stolen a cup out of a to

vern, was pursued, and a great mob was rais
ed around him. A bystander was asked,
what was
matter?
fellow
hasthe
taken
a cult Nothing,
too much.only a poor
I
hogs? N 0 air, replied she, to the live one.
with strong suspicion of the aforesaid mur

der, on the confession of his step mother,
then at the point of death. The statement
A man on his Way to market with a sleigh

load of dead hogs, observing a little girl
courtesy to him as he passed in the street,
exclaimed, What! do you courtesy to dead
Last Saturday, Charles Breece, late a con

stable in this city, was committed to jail, af'
ter a hearing before the mayor, charged
followingr import: That on the night on
Time stamps his wrinkles on the smoothestbrow;
But. with a sweet surprise,
light shines forth on this deed of darkness,
and a clue is given whereby to trace it.
-.
What pleasure it is to pay one's debts!

Sir T. Littleton made this observation. It
seems to ow from a combination of circum
stances, each of which is productive of plea
sure. In the rst place, it removes that tui
easiness which a true spirit feels from depen
dence and obligation: It affords pleasure to
the creditor, and thereby graties our most
social affection: It promotes that future con
dence which is so very interesting to an
honest mind: It opens a prospect of being
readily supplied with what we Want on future
occasions: it leaves a consciousness of our
own virtue: And it is a measure which we
know to be right, both in point of justice and
Their eager, raptured eyes,

See nought but Eden smiling all around,
Sweet ow'rs that scent the gale, and deck the
ground:
covery of the murderers, but without effect.
his bit qffza/ter, exclaimed, \Vhy, you ras
While living still, and smiling round,

Treading with healthful step the ground;
The bliss of living still enjoy,
And not a care thy peace destroy.
collection of many of the citizens. Governor
Colonel Francis Johnston has been duly

commissioned by the governor, sheriff of the
ginia at the time Miss Reeves was murder

ed. He afterwards admitted, that he was at
home at the time, had read the governors

proclamation, o'ering a reward for the mur
derer, and did not go to Virginia until the

year after. Another man, who was with the
accused at his fathers, on the night of the
murder, and who does not now live in this
state, has likewise been accused, by the same
woman, of being concerned with him in the
city and county of Philadelphia.

murder, and we understand that a stock
buckle, which was found in the hand of the
From the Freeman's journal.
corpse, is marked with the initials of that
THE MURDER OF MISS REEVES.
mans name.
The following circumsttuitiztl account of
On the night of Wednesday, August 15,

1792, a murder, attended with peculiar cir
cumstances of atrocity, was committed on the
body of Miss Elizabeth Reeves, of this city,
the mttrder is copied from Dunlaps Ameri

can Daily Advertiser, and cannot fail to be
interesting at this moment. The almost pro
aged seventeen. The sympathy which pre phctica] remark of captain Dunlap, that the
vailed throughout the city, for the fate of time would come, when the perpetrator of
this unfortunate girl, is still fresh in the re-. this foul murder, although he should take
216
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_,,,
refuge in the hollows of the mountains, or that the unhappy girl had been
tice of the virtuous living, will strike the
, and
then murderedl! from the marks of violence
on her face and other parts.
Surely the earth and sea combined, could
reader as singularly emphatical.
not hide a villain of so deep a die, as he who
in the bottom of the deep abyss, must and

will be vomited up again, to appease the jus
could have committed a crime like this; let

him take refuge in the hollows of the moun
Thursday morning the corpse of a young tains, or in the bottom of the deep abyss, he
woman was found in one of the docks near must and will be vomited up again to ap
Kensington: an inquest sat upon the body, pease the justice of the virtuous living.
but we have not yet learned their verdict. Just as this [la/ier was going to firms, we
From Dunlaa American Daily dvertiser.

Saturdag/,./1ug. 18, 1792.
_Report is, that they brought in, Wtjf'ul

murder by persons unknown: of this, how
received thcfollo'wing:
prentice to a mantua maker, and courted by
HEALTH OFFICE,
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
weekly,
BY Dnr'uls HEARTT,
The periodical publications ofrhis country are al
with great ability and are well worthy ofthe support
reign news cngross too great a portion of their con
intended only to di'use the current information of
On the morning of the l6th inst. the body the day. they are of: nature so fugitive as to render
ever, we shall soon be able to lay the parti of Elizabeth Reeves was found in the dock a more permanent repository of state papers, valua
culars before our readers. In the mean while, next to \Varders wharf, Northern LllicltlCS.
we cannot refrain from communicating such The jury of inquest brought in their verdict, Wlll be an acceptable service to present the public
intelligence as has come within the range of Vlill'uily murdered by some person or per with a paper, in the form of a literary magazine and
our inquiry. Her name is Elizabeth Reeves, sons unitnown, and thrown into the river.
about seventeen years of age, handsome, ap
October 27, 1810.
a young tradesman of the vicinity, to whom
it Was reported she Was shortly to be es Interment: in the city and liberties of Philadelphia
from the 20th to the 27th October.
paused.
Discrun.
ad. cbDinars:ad. cb
In the afternoon of \Vednesday, after her Abscess
1 0 Hives
O 4
I 0 lnam. of stomach I 0
work was done, she had requested leave of Apoplcxy
her mistress, to take awalk to market, to pur
Atrophy
l Inam. of bowels 0
Burns
2 Insanity
chase some fruit; for which purpose she had

obtained liberty, and a small sum of money
Cholera morbus
0 I Old age
Consumption oflungs 6 2 Palsy
2 0
1 0
from her mistiess, who saw no more of her

until yesterday; when, as it has been traced,
Convulsions
Diarrhoea
0
1
-' a boy, being on the fatal wharf at a very early

hour, observed a man heaving stones on
something, which the boy soon discovered
to be the dead body of a. man or woman, he
0
1
2 Pleurisy
O ltickets
1
O
Dropsy
l 0 Sore throat
Dropsy in the brain 0 1 Still born
Drowned
0 .1 Sudden
Debility
2 1 Teething
I 0
0 3
3 0
0 1
Drunkcnncas
0 Worms
Fever, remittcnt
1 Unknown
Fever. bilious
Ill 24
could not tell which; that the instant the man
Fever, nervous
saw the boy, he leaped into a batteau, and

pushed off a few yards to.a shallop, that lay
Fcver, typhus
Fever, puerperal
2
1
0
0
Total 55
convenient, to which he made fast the bat

teau, and then boarding the shallop, the lat
ter put 05' with the tide, down the river,
which was favorable to the design at this

moment.
The body of a female,with gold earrings,

and some other marks of respectability, soon
attracted the notice of the citizens, and the
noise reaching the ears of her mistress and

an uncle, (for the unfortunate girl was an
orphan,) her person was soon ascertained.
A comb which she wore in her hair, was
found at some paces distant, lying in contact

with a mans black cravat, which has been
Under 1 year
9 Between 50 and 60
5
Between 1 and 2
4
60
70
5
5
6 O
70
80
3
5
10
1
80
90
0
10
20
4_
90
100
0
20 30
9 Ages unknown
0
3O 40
5
._
4-0 50
4Total 55
poetry. ction, wit and humor; with a list of marri

The Philadelphia Repertory shall not be a recap
net in which men of talents may deposit the clfs
with such avariery of matter, to render his paper

da and London: indeed, such has been the rapidity
with which the subscriptions have been received thll

rst numbers, in order to complete sets already en

dicrcnt quarters.
CONDITIONS.
Each number shall contain ci ht large medium
quarto pages, primed with a handsome type on n!
paper. At the close of the year will be presented E
title page and index, with at least one handsome
engravmg.
STATE OF THE THERMODIETER.

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supposed to belong to
! Humanity for
bids our proceeding in this horrid recital,
except to mention, that some oicers belong
Proposals are issued for publishing by subscription

The price Wlll be four dollars per annum; city illb_'

scribcrs to pa) quar'erly in advance, distant subscri
bcrs halfgcarly in advance

Anr person who shall procure seven subscribe"
one copy gratis.
ing to the custom house sent 08' a boat, as
LEISURE HOURS;
did several others, after the shallop before
0R
mentioned.
Justice Coatcs took an active part to in
vestigate and discover the perpetrators of
this infernal deed. Professional persons of
POETIC EFF USIONS.
both sexes were brought to examine the
council and State legislature: such foreign intelligence

as may be materially connected with the aliairs of

No.17 Arch street, Philadelphia, previous to the
put to press.
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Rcp'
tory. after the rst of November next, wall b6 63'
BY JOSEPH BUTTON,
Author of the Heiress of Sobeiski, Sue.
pected to pay the dilference.

Philadelphia. September 23. 1810,
Price one dollar
Subscriptions received by the author, No. SOShip

pen street, and at the ofce of the Philadelphia Re
body. and it was the opinion of the women, pertory, No. 1? Arch street.
PHILADELPHIA,

No. 1?, Arch street.
@Wabefpiaweperfm
VOL. I.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ID, 1810. -
N0. 28.
the purpose of issuing orders, encouraging
er in service, and of more experience, any

subject for consolation. The warmth of en
foam, wherever his presence was most ne thusiasm seemed to be extiguishcd. The
(Continued)
cessary. Without his extraordinary exertions force of discipline had not sufciently occu
The unfortunate battle of Long Island, the the guards must have been inevitably lost, pied its place, to give men a dependence up
masterly retreat from thence, and the actual and, probably, the entire corps would have on each othcr. We were apparently about to
passage of part of the hostile eet in the been cut to pieces. When we were not far reap the bitter fruits of that jealous policy,
East River, above the town, precluded the from Bloomingdale, an aiddecamp came from which some leading men (with the best mo
evacuation of NewYork. A promotion of four him, at full speed, to inform, that a column tives) had sown in our federal councils,
majors general and six brigadiers had previ of British infantry was descending upon our when they caused the mode tohe adopted for
ously been made by congress. After the re right. Our rear was soon red upon, and the carrying on the war by detachments of mi
colonel of our regiment (whose order was litia, from apprehension that an established
treat from Long Island, the main army, con
sisting, for the moment, of 60 battalions (of just communicated to le 05' to the left) was continental army, after defending the coun
which 20 Were continental, the residue le killed on the spot. \Vith no other loss, we try from foreign invasion, might subvert its
n'es and militia), was conformably to the ex joined the army, after dark, on the heights liberties themselves. Paradoxical as it will
appear, it may be protable to be known to
igencies of the service, rather than to the of Haerlem.
BIOGRAPHY.
the troops, ying on his horse covered with
rules of war. formed into 14 brigades. Major
Before our brigades came in, we were
posterity, that, while our existence as an in
general Putnam commanded the right grand
given up for lost by our friends. So critical,
dependent people was in question, the pat
division of ve brigades, the majors general
indeed, was our situation, and so narrow the
riotic jealousy for the safety of our future
gap by which we escaped, that, the instant

we had passed it, the enemy closed it by ex
which was posted near Kingsb'ridge, and tendingtheir line from river to river. Our
composed of two brigades. The whole never men (who had been fteen hours under arms)
amounted to 20,000 effective men, while the harrassed by marching and countermarching,
British and German forces, under Sir \Vil
in consequence of incessant alarms, exhaus
liam Howe, exceeded 25,000.
ted as they were with heat and thirst (for
The British, after sending three ships of the day proved insupportably hot, and few
war up the North River to Bloomingdale, and or none had canteens, insomuch that some
keeping up, for some hours, a severe cannon died at the brooks where they drank), if at
ade on our lines, landed in force at Turtle tacked, we could have made but a feeble re
bay. Our new levies, commanded by a state sistance.
The night, our soldiers, excessively fa
brig-adier general, ed without making resis
tance. Two brigades of general Putnam's di; tigued by the sultry heat of the day, their
vision ordered to their support, notwithstand clothes wet by a severe shower of rain, that
freedom, had been carried to such a virtuous
Spencer and Greene the center of six bri

gades, and major general Heath the. left,
ing the exertions of their brigadiers, and of
succeeded towards the evening, their blood
the commander in chief himself, who came up

at the instant, conducted themselves in the
same shameful manner. His excellency then
otdered the Heights of Hate rlem, a strong po
sition, to be occupied. Thither the forces in
chilled with the cold wind that produced a

and their hearts sunk within them, by the
loss of their baggage, artillery and works, in
which they had been taught to put great
the vicinity, as well as the fugitives, resor
condence; lay upon their arms, covered on
sudden change in the temperature of the air,
ted. In the mean time, general Putnam, with ly by the clouds of an uncomfortable sky. To
the remainder of his command, and the or
retrieve our disordered affairs, and prevent
but dangerous excess, as well nigh to pre

clude the attainment of our independence.
Happily, that limited and hazardous system
soon gave room to one more enlightened and
salutary. This may be attributed to the re
iterated arguments. the open remonstraces,
and the condential communications of the
commander in chief, who. though not apt to
despair of the republic. on this occasion, ex
pressed himself in terms of unusual despond
ency. He declared, in his letters, that he
found, to his utter astonishment and morti
cation, that no reliance could be placed on a

great portion of his present troops; and, that,
unless eliicient measures for establishing a
permanent force should be speedily pursued,
we had every reason to fear the nal ruin of
our cause.
Next morning, several parties of the ene
my appeared upon the plains in our front.
On receiving this intelligence, general
Washington rode quickly to the out posts,
for the purpose of preparing against an at
tack, if the enemy should move with that
design. Lieutenant colonel Knowltons ran
gers (a ne selection from the eastern regi
dinary out posts was in the city. After hav the enemy from proting by them, no exer
ing caused the brigades to begin their re tion was relaxed, no vigilance remitted on
treat by the rout of Bloomingdale, in order the part of our higher ofcers. The regi
to avoid the enemy, who were then in pos ments which had been least exposed to fa-l ments). who had been skirmishing with an
session of the main road leading to King's tigue that day, furnished the necessary pic advanced party, came in. and informed the
bridge, he galloped to call off the pickets and kets to secure the army from surprize. ! general- thata body of the British Were un
guards. Having myself been a volunteer in Those whose military lives had been short der cover of a small eminence. at no consi
his division, and acting adjutant to the last and unpractised, felt enough, besides lassi- derable distance. His excellency, wishing to
regiment that left the city, I had frequent tude of body, to disquiet the tranquillity of raise our men from their dejection. by the
opportunities that day of beholding him, for their repose, Nor had those who were old- ,1 splendor of some little success. ordered
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lieutenant colonel Knowlton, with his ran

gers. and major Leitch, with three companies
a very different manner. Some alteration

was made in the distribution of corps, to
their front. and the skirmish, at once, he
the labors and improvements of others, stre
you shall have all it is in my power to give

you; you shall bear a horrid tale.
of Weedens regiment of Virginians, to gain prevent the English from gaining either
Linhault immediately consented and anx
their rear. while appearances should be made ank in the succeeding night. General Put iously followed Braubenski, who passed
of an attack in front. As soon as the enemy nam, who commanded on the right, was di from the back part of the cottage, carefully
saw that party sent to decoy them, they ran rected, in orders, in case the enemy should fastened the door and gate after him, and
precipitately down the hill, took possession attempt to force the pass, to apply for a re proceeded to a sort of avenue formed by the
of some fences and bushes. and commenced inforcement to general Spencer, who com bending bushes of the garden, which led into
a brisk ring at long shot. Unfortunately. manded on the left.
the forest. The peasant entered some dis
Knowlton and Leitch made their onset rather
General Putnan, who was too good a bus tance into this, and then stopped.
in Flank than in rear. The enemy changed bandman himself not to have a respect for
Why all this caution?" inquired Lin
hault; this mystery creates a fearful appre
came close and warm. Major Leitch, having nuously seconded the views of the com
hension in my mind.
received 3 balls through his side, was soon

borne from the eld. and colonel Knowlton
(who had distinguished himself so gallantly
at the battle of Banker's Hill) was mortally
wounded immediately after. Their men,
however. undaunted by these disasters. stim
ulated with the thirst of revenge for the loss
of their leaders. and conscious of acting un
I am thus cautious, my lord, returned

Braubenski, because I would not let even
the winds hear what I have to unfold, for fear
mander in chief in preventing the devasta

tion of farms and the violation of private pro
perty. For, under pretext that the property
in this quarter belonged to friends to the they should hear my story where I would
British government (as indeed it mostly did), not have it go; here, my lord, we are secure,
a spirit of rapine and licentiousness began to at least from mortal sight, and Heavens all
prevail, which, unless repressed in the be
seeing eye, I trust, looks smiling down upon
ginning, foreboded, besides the subversion of us. You informed me, my lord, that the inten
der the eye of the commander in chief. discipline, the disgrace and defeat of our tion of your journey was to nd, if possible,
maintained the conflict with uncommon spirit arms.
the daughter of the murdered lord of these
(To be continued.)
and perseverance. But the general, seeing
domains?
a.
them in need of support, advanced part of
Even so, replied Linhault.
For the Repertory.
the Maryland regiments of Grifth and Rich
I shall not inquire, observed the pea
ardson. together with some detachments
sant, how you gained the knowledge of her
from such eastern corps as chanced to be
existence, when I thought no one knew it
A ROMANCE.
most contiguous to the place of action. Our
but myself, but
CHAPTER VIII.
troops this day. without exception, behaved
I had it from Austin and my father, in
(Continued)
with the greatest intrepidity. So bravely did
terrupted Linhault, but how they gained
0, unexpected stroke! Worse than of death.
they repulse the British, that sir William
their knowledge I am ignorant.
MIMI.
Howe moved his reserve, with two eld
pieces. a battalion of Hessian grenadiers, and

a company of chasseurs, to succour his re
treating troops. General \Vashington, not

willing to draw on a general action, declined
pressing the pursuit. In this engagement
were the second and third battalions of light
infantry, the forty second British regiment,
and the chasscurs, of whom eight ofcers and
I will a tale unfold. whose lightest word

\Vill harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
Make thy twn eyes, like stars, start from their
spheres;
It matters little now," said Braubenski,
but, my lord, although I know your noble

nature, you must assure me, before I pro
ceed, that your motives for undertaking this

search are pure."
Can you, answered Linhault warmly,
believe me so lost to every principle of
Linhault, on arriving at the cottage after humanity as to undertake it for her injury!
he left the wood, informed its inhabitants of You should have known me better.
the peril he had been in from the banditti,
I dare not, do not think so," answered
and taking Braubenski aside, informed him the peasant; but I am about to relate what
of the object of his journey, and his principal for sixteen years no car has ever heard;
therefore, my lord, declare that no earthly
reason for calling at the cottage.
Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the frctful porcupine!
Sbahpeare.
upwards of seventy privates were wound

ed, and our people buried nearly fty who
were left dead on the eld. We had about
forty wounded; our loss in killed, except
of two valuable oicers, was very inconsi
power shall ever urge you to injure the
The peasant started, but after a few mo
derable.
ments recollection, told Linhault that he lovely heiress of Sobeiski.
So Heaven befriend me at my latest
An advantage so trivial in itself, produced, could indeed give him the information that
in event, a surprising and almost incredible he required, and some that he had not re hour!" cried the noble youth, as I shall
effect upon the whole army. Among the quired tending to stop his pursuit of Thadia. keep my vow, to protect her with my life
troops not engaged, who, during the action, Upon this Linhault ordered Flaurice to re against any one who should attempt to wrong
were throwing earth from the new trenches turn to the castle, commanding him to check her.
with an alacrity that indicated a determina his loquacity, nor offer any reason for his
Enough, enough, tis well, returned the
tion to defend them, every visage was seen
to brighten, and to assume, instead of the
return; determining, if he should continue

his journey after hearing Braubeuski, not to
gloom of despair, the glow of animation.

This change, no less sudden than happy, left
be troubled with the fears of the squire.
little room to doubt that the men, who ran
Linhault impatient, could not wait until

their morning meal was done, but requested
peasant, then cease your search, and know
that Thadia is found.
Found! exclaimed Linhault in astonish

ment.
Tis true, indeed, my noble lord, said
the day before at the sight of an enemy, Braubenski to give him the information he Braubenski, Thadia is found.
There is some strange event at hand!"
would now, to wipe away the stain of their promised.
disgrace and to recover the condence of
Not here, my lord, replied the peasant, cried the youth, looking at Braubenski in
their general, have conducted themselves in but if you will accompany me a little way, profound astonishment,
PHILADELPHIAII EPERTORY.
219
m2
I trust that justice will at last be tri

timphant, exclaimed Braubenski, and the
heiress enjoy those honors which were un

timely plucked from her fathers brow by
blood and murder!
Indeed! said Linhault, and did my fa

ther_
'
No, my lord, interrupted Braubenski;
before your father gained it, before So.

bciskis death I left it. But you shall hear,
No doubt the king is just," observed and if a tear- shduld force its way upon my
Linhault, and I am convinced my father
will resign his hopes of greatness in Sobei
skis honors without reluctance.
cheek, I pray you to forgive me.
ceiling in horror, was there a wretch so

lost to every feeling of humanity, as to com
mit so diabolical a deed, such ruthless eru
city?
Tis true, indeed," continued the pea

sant, " the sister of my wife once wandering
with my child, to taste the fragrance of the

balmy morn,a nobleman and train in passing
Linhault, much affected by the manner of the noticed her; the lord took him from her, ca
Your noble nature is deceived, rejoin
peasant.
ressed him, restored her burthen and pro
ed Braubenski, but believe me, gentle lord,
Braubenski resumed his story.
ceeded. Scare had they departed when one
you do not know Ferresburgh; too dear he
Now thirty years have passed, since, at of the train returned and tore him from her
holds these gewgaws, pomp and pageantry the age of twenty my good father procured arms; nor since that hour have I heard one
toeasily resign his right. Pardon me, I would me a happy situation in the castle of Sobei word concerning him, or the inhuman thief.
not for the world offend."
ski: those days, my lord, were indeed happy;
Strange and mysterious! murmured
Linhault made no reply to this observation, but they have own, and nothing now re Linhault.
mains but the cheerless remembrance that
but with a sigh said,
These tears for him! said Braubcnski,

Tell me, Braubcnski, where 'lhadia is they once have been. Here the peasant so the trial is past. Thus much for my
to be found that I may full my promise to could not check the sigh that bursted from own, now for Sobeiskis wrongs.
his bosom.
Be quick, be quick," cried the young
the king.
If it will not tire your patience, an
I pray, Braubenski, said Linhault, baron.
swered Braubenski, I have a tale to tell check these feelings,surely your tale will
" On the very day that my boy was stol
that will make your youthful blood run cold be sad enough to unman me, then do not aid en," said Braubenski, " my lord Sobeiski,
his countess and their infant daughter, just
it by your melancholy retrospections.
with horror.
I sieken with suspense," cried Linhault,
I will endeavor to banish them, said one year younger than my son, left Warsaw
yet dread to hear the fatal tragedy re Braubenski, and proceeded with his relation. for their castle. Ignorant of this, and mad
hearsed, in which, I too much fear, my father There I lived respected and even beloved with my loss, I left the cottage for the city
played a dreadful part! But yet proceed, for by Sobeiski, whose condential vassal I soon to crave assistance from the count to regain
became. Thus I believed my destiny xed, my son once more.
I must, will listen to it.
It may be necessary, observed the pea and had no wish beyond my happy home."
I dread what follows!" said Linhault.
sant, for me to mingle sorrows of my own,
Enviable lot!" sighed Linhault.
" Scarce a league beyond the castle
which led me to discover those of great So
I thought so then, my lord, replied the walls, continued Braubenski, upon the
peasant, and believed my happiness could rivers side (0! how the remembrance
beiski.
What! my humble friend," demanded know no increase: but three years before the shakes me!), the ground was deluged with
the youth, have you experienced a visita dreadful murder of my gracious master, my blood, and lifeless bodies, terribly disgur
tion from the family of sorrow? Alas! I heart bestowed itself upon Malda, then a fair ed, laid scattered around.
thought her acquaintance only extended to and blooming attendant on our beloved mis
Horrible! exclaimed Linhault.
tress.
'
Disfigured as they were, continued
rank and riches!"
My noble lord, replied the good pea
Love is the consummation of all earth Braubenski, I presently discovered the
sant, a few more years of rich experience ly bliss," observed Linhault, his thoughts bodies of my lord and lady scarred with
in this frail world of misery and pain, will strongly reverting to Roselle, for though she numberless wounds. Next day, the only per
convince you that tis not to rank or riches was seldom absent from his mind, he was so son who escaped, Austin, informed all in the
her visits are confined; sorrow is the lot of absorbed in the relation of her father, that castle, that Sobeiski and his train had been
all. Like the hot re, which separates the she had sunk into momentary forgetfulness. murdered by banditti, he only escaping aided
base alloy and leaves the gold rened, does
" I was beloved in return, continued by the friendly shelter of a wood)?
sorrow act upon the human soul. Yet I am Braubenski, and Sobeiski bestowed the
Dreadful deed! cried Linhault.
inclined to think the peasants life is more gentle Malda on me, with this cottage and
Here Austin, who, as we observed, left
secure from wrong and outrage, for he re little domain around it as a wedding dowry. the castle in search of Linhault, entered the
mains unenvicd. But remember, that he who Here we lived, and ere a year elapsed my end of the avenue toward the wood, but perk
stems the torrent of afiction, to follow close wife gave to my hopes a lovely boy. He ceiving Linhault and Braubenski in conver
the footsteps of virtue, when death shall could proceed no further.
sation, he silently passed outside, and placed
burst the prison gates aSSunder and set the
" Wherefore is this? asked Linhault.
himself within hearing, resolving to listen to
longing spirit free, there is, for him, a world
My good lord," answered Braubenski, them.
of bliss, where pain and anguish never can pardon the tears a. fathers fondness sheds
How did my father receive the account
over the dear remembrance of his son.
of Sobeiskis fall? asked Linhault.
intrude.
" Ah! exclaimed Linhault, wiping the tear
There the soul expatiatcs, cried the
" As one in absolute despair, answered'
vouth, and hope assists us to bear the load of sympathy from his eye, you touch me to Braubenski; " but soon after all subsided,
of grief. But proceed, good Braubenski, and the soul; death robbed you of your son?
and Austin was made the condant of You
01 no! replied Braubenski, worse, resburgh."
let me hear your tale."
I was a servant," began Braubenski, in worse than death! my darling boy was Stolen
I long have marked him for the slave
the castle of Sobeiski, when its great and from me by some ruliian hand.
of vice, cried Linhault, and nd Itll not
" Stolen from you! echoed L'inhault, re in my guess. But, 'lhadiagood possessor was alive."
Branbenski, my venerable friend! said
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PHIL A DELPHI A II EPERTORY.
like the roar of a lion. But the instances of trary to the place of his destination; yet pa
his impatience are so numerous, that were I tience will lead him to safety, and exertion
to attempt to repeat the half of what comes crown him with success.
my speed; I listened and it was repeated. I under my own eye, I fear my bounds would
It softens the moments of aliction, and
sweetens the bitterness of calamitous dis
followed the direction of the sound, and at be doubly overrun. It is sufcient to ob
some distance from the rest found a faithful serve, that such is his general conduct; and ease; by exhorting their victim to rely on
female attendant just dying. She cast her that his wife, who is truly an amiable woman, divine aid; and when the thoughts of a longer
eyes upon me, pronounced the name of is deprived by" it, of all the peace and com continuance here fade before him, the hope
fort of her life: all her remonstrances (it is of enjoying that happiness in heaven which
Thadia and expired."
but
few she dares to use) are ineffectual; or this earth cannot aord, causes his mind to
exclaimed
the
young
" Woful relation!
only tend the more to iname his temper, yield itself entirely to the instructions of its
baron.
Creator, and disarms of its horrors the ter
Close by her, concluded the peasant, and draw unmerited abuse on herself.
I have often compared his disposition with rifying grave.
" lay the infant Thadia, and in her side
Patience is,in fact,the standard of the rm,
some cruel hand had inicted a wound. that of an old gentleman, my next door
I.inhault recoiled in horrorI felt her neighbor and my friend; the striking dissi the hope of the weak, the support of the
breast; there was life still in her; I bore her milarity, both in their pleasures and their steady, the pillar of the tottering, the stamp
of the man, and the characteristic of the
home; I healed the wound; you have seen pains, merits investigation.
The regularity of my friend is untroubled christian. He who becomes possessed of it,
her in Roselle!
1 Thanks, good Braubenski," said the by the triing occurrences of the moment; will be happy in the midst of misfortunes;
bloody monk mentall '; and immediately he passes them by with the contempt of a whilst the victim of impatience will be the
philosopher. \Vhilst my neighbor (Mr. D.) victim of misery; his life will be one conti
leaving his concealment unobserved, pro
is in a continual ferment about the most in nued round of hasty determinations and in
ceeded to the castle.
UBALDO.
signicant aliairs, myfriend looks upon large jurious rashness; and he wilt not only be
(To be continued.)
...
and small with equal ease: his life is the life wretched himself, but render unhappy every
of satisfactory pleasure; and the pains he ex one around him. However triing the con
For the Repertory.
periences, are only those which arise from duct of an impatient man may appear, upon
THE CABINET. No. XI.
too great a degree of sensibility.
a supercial view, I do not hesitate to say,
Excite
The excellent effects of patience, I trust, that it is avowedly inimieal to the pleasures
Fallacious hope, or arm th obdurate breast
I searched the slain," continued Bran
benski, but could no where nd her. I was
hurrying back, when a faint groan arrested
\Vith stubborn Patience as with triple steel.

Murrow.
cannot fail to excite admiration; and a wish
impatience of Mr. D. one of our neighbors,
ses the person of indefatigable industry; it

sooths the anguish of disappointment; it
of domestic life, and should be studiously
of becoming possessed of it, must arise in avoided by all those who respect their own
Although that I possess a common stock the bosom of the reective: there is, per happiness, or that of their family.
of patience, has, I believe, never been much haps, no property of the human soul more
GREGORY GRAVITY.
doubted, (which I think my aunt and sister conducive to happiness, in our passage
o
can fully testify,) yet I must confess, that the through this vexatious world. It characteri
For the Repertory.
has almost wearied it out. Owing to his

house being situated directly back of my buoys up the heart amidst billows of adver
aunt's, on a small street, not far distant from sity; it softens the moments of aliction; and
the one in which we reside, we are continu
sweetens the bitterness of calamitous dis
ally disturbed by the impatient behaviour of case.
this bedlamite. Does he come home from
It characterizes the industrious, in the
his compting house for his dinner? If it is steady prosecution of their pursuits; the
not immediately ready, he abuses his wife, greatest labors shrink before it, and the most
beats his servants, upsets the dining table, difcult undertakings are executed by it, as
swearing that he will not be gullcd by their the fancy plays the enchanting part of ade
laying it an hour before they have begun to lightful dream.
cook the victuals; and after having threaten
It sooths the anguish of disappointment,
ed them all with vengeance, if they should by directing the attention of him, who has
ever treat him so again, he frequently leaves been defeated in his projects of worldly va
the house, without having eaten a mouthful. nity, to pursuits of a more constant nature;
Does he send his boy of an errand? If he by pointing out the surest way to arrive at
does not y like lightning, even though he his wishes; by calling his mind to deep re
may have performed his duty in half the usu ection, and arming it with that inexible
al time, yet on his return, he is severely rmness, which will cause him to rise tri
chastised for his indolence. Does he call for umphant above the ridicule of the vulgar,
a candle to light the segars of his company? and the hatred of the malignant.
If his servant does not bring it instantane
It buoys up the heart amidst billows of
ously, he jumps up, leaves the room in a adversity, by cheering its possessor with the
fury, stops him half way, beats the stick expectation of brighter prospects; for, guid
over his head, and singes his face with the ed by the polar star of hope, he resolutely
candle; his oaths he vociferates on all occa keeps his course; and though the tempests
sions, like a professed hand, and his voice is of fear should for a time drive his bark con
SELECTOR. No. III.

It is desirable (says my friend) to be
possessed of a great degree of sensibility.
To feel anothers woe," to taste their plea
sures as our own, undoubtedly has in it
something truly laudable, if not divine; but
it may be a serious question how far our
own happiness is promoted by, or our mise
ry involved in it. \Vhen we view the check
ered scene of existencc,and weigh the pro
portion of good and sinister events, we can

not be very doubtful which scale will pre
ponderate. It must be a fortunate life indeed
in_whieh the evil doth not at least balance

if not outweigh the good; and, so proportion
ed, can a great share of sensibility be a bles
sing, or will it not rather he a misfortune to

possess it?
Questions arise in my mind with facility,
which I am unable to answer, and unwilling
to do so if I could. I fear, however, it must
rather be a misfortune than otherwise, when
misery stares us in the face, which we are
unable to relieve, and others evils are add-
ed to our proper load; but how fortunate if

able to relieve the load of poverty, to prop
the tottering steps of age, to give ease to the
1
bed of sickness, and sooth the aching breast,
future intercourse. Long after our rst ac
or to light the torch of bliss at the eye of quaintance with the inhabitants of Tongata
unaffected cheerfulness, and feel the glad boo, they were considered hospitable; but at
dening and enrapturing joys in the fair ones length they betrayed their sanguinary and fe
folding arms; alike giving and receiving ec rocious character, by repeated acts of per
dy and atrocity.
static bliss.
The people who are the subject of these
But turn the dread reverse, to bear the
load of life, our proper ills, and feel our
remarks, also were considered of an amica
neighbors too; our friends destruction, or ble turn of mind, until, by recent conduct,
his wreck of hope; say, tell me, is it not an they also have betrayed affections more to
be dreaded than caressed.
ill to feel and not relieve?
But farther still, behold the enamoured
heart, still moving to one centre, whence re
pelled by scorn, or what is yet worse, with

equal res returned, but repelled by honor
more than human laws, and ying from its
bliss; the strong remembrance, even when
the re has ceased, imbittcrs life, and again
repeats the sting. But still, when fortunes

penury denies to grasp the blessing in our
reach, the head and heart struggling for vic
tory, rack the soul with their contentions.
Too mean and sordid is the thought, to hold
a transient pleasure by the tenure of an

other's misery and disappointed expecta
tions. Virtue forbids the wish, and Heaven
seals the point resolved.

Then, tell me now, is not your boasted
sensibility an evil, and is not the lethargy of
the soul to be preferred to the ner feelings?

Education strengthens them: then is'not the'
uncultivated cottager happier than we, who
boast advantages over him? Pride, my friends,
On the 7th of October last, which was
shortly after the arrival at the Fejees of the

Favorite, captain Campbell, Mr. Thomas
Smith, his second ofcer, was unexpectedly
made a prisoner by the natives, with seven

others of the ships company, and remained
nine days in captivity; during which interval
he experienced and witnessed horrors, from
his narrative of which the following account
is accurately deduced.
It begins with stating, that on the 7th of
October, he went from Sandal wood Bay
round to the Bay of Highlea, with three
boats, in quest of Sandal wood; one of which,
the ships long boat, he commanded; another,
a whale boat, was under the command of a
Mr. Lockerby, formerly chief oicer of the

American ship Jenny, and the third under
Mr. Graham, who had fortunately returned
to the vessel in time to escape the calami
ties that fell upon the former two. At High
lea he heard that Bullandam, the chief of
the district of Buys, was expected with a
force to make war upon the island of Taf
makes us boast of our advantages; but igno

rance, nay stupidity, if it leads a straighter
fera or Ta'ela, and that it was the intention
road to happiness, is worth them all.
of
the Highleans to aid his enterprise.
_.v._
Thenext morning the two boats prepared
AN ISLAND 0F SAVAGE CANNIBALS.
to return to the vessel, but were cut off by
The following interesting article is copied Bullandams eet of canoes, 140 in number,
from the Sydney Gazette and New South orderly advancing in a semicircle: and nd
\Vales Advertiser, published by authority. ing it impossible to pass them, it was consi
The Fr'je: Islands. To navigation, while dered advisable to bear up to the eet, hop
the inhabitants of regions unexplored are ing by such display of condence to pre
indebted for an intercourse with civilized serve the lives of the crews. \Vhen Within
man, and an expansion of intellect which hail, they were ordered to advance; but the
would forever have continued in a state of whale boat was prevented, by a large canoe
torpor, if not awakened by the suggestion of bearing down and running aboard, cutting
ideas, which such an intercourse gave rise her in two. Mr. Lockerby and the crew were
to; yet no less indebted is the polished hu picked up and made prisoners, and Mr.
manist, whose active mind has, by the love Smith and the long boat's people were made
of science, been incited to measure almost prisoners likewise. The captors'were about
half the globe, but little known until the Bri to dispatch some of the people with their
tish spirit of adventure etched it on the uni spears and clubs, but were prevented by the
versal map. By this most protable and chief, commanding the canoe, until the su
friendly of the sciences, is man to man made perior chief should be consulted. When pre
known, and his extensive species variegated sented to .Bullandam, he proposed to em
by many a contrasted hue and disposition.
ploy them in his intended assault upon 'laf
Upon a rst acquaintance with a barba fere, in which he proposed to himselfmuch
rous people, it is not easy always to deter assistance from their muskcts, and seemed
mine on their character, which, therefore, much disappointed when informed that the
must in many instances, be left to time and powder was spoiled, and the guns useless.
522:
He had no wish, however, to commit any
personal injury on his prisoners; but on the

contrary, showed some attention to Mr.
Smith, whom he respected as an ofcer, and
generally invited to accompany him when he

went ashore, always cndeavoring to sooth his
apprehensions, and quiet his solicitude of
returning with his companions to the ship,
by an assurance that as soon as the island of
Taffere was subjugatcd, and its inhabitants
destroyed, he would employ all his subjects
in procuring wood for the vessel, to which
they should be returned in safety.
On the llth of October, the jttnction of

forces being thoroughly arranged, an im
mense eet of canoes sailed from Highlca,
for the expedition; and having a fresh he..d
wind, the canoes were set to windward by
poles, at the rate of two knots an hour. At

night this formidable armament came to,
round the north east part of the island; and
Bullandani took Mr. Smith on shore, to pass
the night with him; his night guard consist
ing of two men armed with spears and ar
TO\VS.
Early in the morning of the l2th, the

whole of the army returned to their canoes;
which on a signal from Bullandam, set for
ward in complete order, and at about three
in the'afternoon, the eet anchored abreast
of a village in Taffere, the van coming to
close action with a eet belonging to the

island.
The attack was made with arrows at a
distance, and as the canoes of Taere main
tained their position,)thc_v soon closed, when

a desperate and stubborn conict with spears
commenced. The islanders, however, at
length gave way to numbers very far supe
rior, and to escape an otherwise certain des
tiny, all leaped into the water, and swam to

wards the shore, from which a division of
of Bullandams eet wasendeavoring to cut

them off. The canoes were taken possession
of, with only one captive, an unfortunate boy,
who being presented to the relentless chief,
was ordered to be slaughtered, as it was his
detennination that not a single life should be
spared. This ruthless sentence was immedi
ately executed with a club, three blows from
which the youthful sufferer endured, and
then expired: the body was afterwards given
into the charge of an attendant, to be roast
ed for the chief and his principal associates.
The horrors that immediately succeeded the
defeat, the most sensible imagination can but
faintly represent. A massacre was determi

ned on; and as the men had escaped the fury
of their conquerors by ight, the women and
children became the chief object of search;
on which mission a canoe was despatched,
and unhappily the fatal discovery was very
222
Wm
soon made. On a signal from the shore, num

bers landed, and a but was set re to, pro
bably as a signal for the work of destruction
to commence. 'vVithin a cluster of man
groves they had taken sanctuary; many might
undoubtedly have secured themselves by ac
companying the ight of their vanquished
husbands and relatives, could they have con
sented to a separation from their helpless
on shore by the great chief, and here had
thorough contempt of danger, and a heed
again to witness a detestable spectacle. The lessness of pain. Their present conqueror,
bodies had been dismembered of their limbs,
Bullandam, has already become terrible, and
which were suspended on the boughs of trees

in readiness for cookery; and afterwards, part
of a. human leg was offered to Mr. Smith,
who had never broke his fast for ve days.
he ate human flesh he would instantly die.

They were satised with this excuse, and
continued their abominable festivity the
out rcgard to seat or infancy, promiscuously whole night.
On the l5th, the chief in the canoe that
butchered all. Some who still had life and
motion, were treated as dead bodies, which captured Mr. Smiths boat, applied to Bul
bids fair to possess himself of the sole sove

reignty of the islands. But though implaca
ble and sanguinary in his resentment, yet we
are assured that in his disposition strong tra
ces of kindness were perceivable towards all
except the enemies of his arms.
These people are very avaricioiis, and
from the foregoing account must be consil
dered insatiably cruel. Their numbers, no
less than the leading traits in their character,
render them formidable to an incompetent
power of defence; so that in all respects it
becomes the duty of vessels trading thither
ltuidam for the prisoners, and the long boat,
to be no less cautious than at Tongataboo,
children, who were no less devoted than
The offer he rejected with abhorrence; and,
upon the captors appearing astonished at the

refusal, he gave them to understand, that if
themselves. A dreadful yell Was the fore
runner of the assault; the ferocious monsters

rushed upon them with their clubs, and with
were mostly dragged to the beach by one of
their limbs, and through the water into the in order to return them to their ship, declar the natives of which are indeed the less dan
canoes; their groans were disregarded, and ing his intention to demand three whale teeth gerous, as they are less powerful and nume
their unheeded protracted sufferings were and twelve hatciiets for their ransom; but rous.
still more hurtful to the feelings of humani this proposal was not then attended to. Twen
_-_'_
ty, than even the general massacre itself had l ty or thirty men then arrived at the place of
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been. Among the slaughtered were some : rendezvous, each bringing a basket of hu
REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY \VANDERER,
few men, whose age, perhaps, prevented 1man esh, half roasted, which mode Mr.
their flight; but in fact, so sudden and so Smith learned they took to preserve it. The
day of deliverance at length approached from
dreadful was the consternation, that succeed
No. IX.
Where you huge rock, o'ergrown with virid moss,

In frowning majesty oerlooks the wave,
ed the defeat of the unhappy natives of Taf
captivity the most aficting, from diversity
And bidding proud deance to its swell,
fore, as no doubt to paralise the minds of the
of causes, that a man could be exposed to;
Reus its vast summit, the observing eye
wretched creatures, when prompt considera

tion could alone be serviceable in their con
dition. The conquerors appeared to anticipate
with inordinate delight, the festival with
and after enduring it nine days, and tuially Cari view a wide assemblage of sweet scenry:
lasting, he was at length turned over to the' Green hills, and blooming vales. where nature crowns
riblc expectation. Forty two bodies were ex- li

tended on one platform, in Bullaiidams ca- l
noes; and one of these, a young female, ap
pearing most to attract his attention, he de
sired that his second in command would
have it laid by for themselves.
The Tali'erians being wholly defeated and
dispersed, the island was taken possession of I
by Bullandam's forces, which were very nu l
merous. The principal chief invited Mr.
voracious party, a new incident of cruelty Tis on that rock, when, from the western hills,
occurred. One of the unfortunate inhabitants Declining sunbeams spread a fading gleam,
of Taffera had swum from his dlSllCSSttl I sometimes love to sit, and pensive muse.
Then veneration lls my throbbing breast,
island to the main, but was perceived as soon As I observe the vast, stupendous blaze
as he gained the shore, and was in conse Of nature's wonders. which subservient are
quencepursued by a multitude, armed with To man. and for his use; and oft l sigh
bows and arrows, spears and clubs. The pur That this fair world contains so much of wow
suit terminated with the life of the wretched So much dissatisfaction, that, though lovely,
fugitive, whose body presented a new source It has no fountains pure whose lurid rills
Are fraught with cloudless happiness and peace:
of exultation and cannibal festivity.
\Vith bounteous smilesihe hardy peasants toil;

The shelving grot, and gently gliding stream,
1 demand the ransom for himself and six of Tingd with the beamy rays of light; and all
which this sad event had gratified their hor- ,l his companions. But previous to quitting the That can delight the meditative mind.
Smith on shore, as he seemed inclined to

show him favor; and hlr. Smith declared it
to be one of the most beautiful places he had
charge of the chief of Niet, with orders to
On the 16th, Mr. Smith was restored to
his overjoyed shipmates, with all his com

panions except two, one of whom was Mr.
ever seen; the houses, in number about one 1 Lockerby, who were afterwards indebted for
hundred, ranged on the dcclivity of a hill, their rescue, to a determined perseverance
interspersed with cocoa nut, bread fruit, and in the captain, his oliicers and people, which
was highly creditable and meritorious. Mr.

wall of piled stones. The buildings were, Smith, Mr. Lockerby, and all the others had
however, all set fire to by Bullandams order; been repeatedly on the very point of assassi
and Mr. Smith becoming solicitous for his nation, to which these people seem to possess
relief, was informed by the chief, that as soon no kind of repugnance whatever, but on the
as all the victims Were devoured, he should contrary, it appearing their chief object of
other trees; and each house defended by a
be set at liberty, with his companions. The

dead bodies were got into canoes, and the
whole eet left Tali'erc, on their return to
Man cannot on this sphere contentedbe

(And in content true happiness consists)
Though on his head unnumberd blessings fall.
He covets still. and. as his wish is granted,
Siglis still for more; is never satised:
And, though surrounded by attentive friends,
Join: the gay throng that rove in pleasures maze,
Assemblies gay. what time the heart expands,

And opes 115 cells to rapture and delight.
'lhese please awhile, bul quickly lose their zest,
Like a sweet owrei in the tender hands
Of some young boy; he looks, and smells, and smilES,
Till it has lost its fragrant scent; and then
He casts it thence, to wither on the ground.
Yef even here is seen Jehovahs power;
delight. Their determined obstinacy, in ef
fecting every thing they attempt, can alone

be equalled by the extraordinary precision
the main island, where many others joined of their arrangements, which are planned
them in the horrible festivity, which was methodically, and executed with an energy
COIKlUC'tXl with rude peals and acclamations. and calmness that surprise even an Europe
Mr. Smith was, on this occasion also,.taken an; with a strength of body, they possess a
Tis he implants the passions in tho-breast.

\Vhich bid us seek with anxious eagerness
For pleasure? and ris he who disappoints us;
Sliows us how transient and unreal all
Pursuits which lead, we erriiig say, to liliS!
He wills the mind experienced shall become,
' Not sensual pleasure.
M
That it may view in proper light, and know

How false and visionary earthly joysl
.
'Tis autumn now: the north wind rudely blows,

And strips the green clad forest of its garb,
The rustling, variega'ed foliage falls,
True emblem of mans eeting life The spring,
Is childhood; when the fostring arms of parents
Entwine, with anxious care, around the form
Of their young offspring, to protect its life.

Summer is youth, in all his strength arrayd,
Gay as the mom of May; as blythe as gay:
He looks not in futurity: but hastes
T' enjoy the present hour; he knows not care.

But autumn comes. and ripens all his joys;
Which, being ripe, to hoary winter fall
fully before him, Thugut took him for the
king, and began his compliment. Stackel

berg did not hasten to undeceivc him; and
when the Austrian envoy discovered the
mistake, he was greatly picqued and asha
med. That evening, playing at cards with
the king and Stackelberg, he threw down a
card by mistake, saying, the king of ciubs."
You are wrong, said the monarch, it is
the knave." The Austrian, putting his hand
to his forehead, very archly exclaimed, Ah,
sire! pardon me; this is the second time to
day that I have taken a knave for a king!"
Stackclberg, though vcry prompt at repor
An easy prey. So does the peach tree bud,
And shoot its branches forth. and bend beneath
tee, could only bite his lips.
The fruits delicious weight, which mellow: soon.

To give the parent tree relief the blast,
The chilling blast, is blown from the north east:

The wmtry breath withers the frail stems strength;
ST. ORME.
THE STRANGER.
Written in sickness.
Deep in gloom the heavens are frowning,
lobahtlnbta.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IO. ISIO.
BIARRIEI),
At Chcsnut Farm, on Thursday evening

the 25th-ult. by the Rev. Thomas Grant, Mr.
Stacy B. Bis/tham, merchant of Philadelphia,
to Miss .drm IV. Newbold, daughter of Mr.
Barzillai Newbold of Chestereld, N. J.
Fast the dews of evening fall,
Hark! the hells deep tones are mingling

W'ith the watchman's distant call.
At Milton, on the 14th ult. by John MKis

son, esq. Mr. John I'V/tite, millstone cutter,
aged 73, to the amiable Miss Christiana Ere
Paint and weary lies the stranger,

Sighing, sleepless on his bed;
Low upon his hand reclining,

Oft he leans his aching head
merce of the United States, which fact the
president of the United States shall dcclart

by proclamatitm, and if the other nation shall
not within three months thereafter, so rcvokr
or modify her edicts, in like manner, then
the third, fourth, fth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth and eighteenth sections of the
not entitled, An act to interdict the com
mercial intercourse between the United

States, and Great Britain and France and
their dependencies, and for other purposes,
shill, from and after the expiration of three
months from the date of the proclamation
aforesaid, be revived and have full force and
effect, so far as relates to the dominions, co
It falls, like mamand soon is seen no more!
_._
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next, so revoke or modify her edicts as tho:

they shall cease to violate the neutral com
lonies and dependencies, and to the articles

the growth produce or manufacture of the
dominions, colonies and dependencies of the
nation thus refusing or neglecting to revoke
or modify her edicts in the manner aforesaid.
And the restrictions imposed by this act
shall, from the date of such proclamatiotn
cease and be discontinued in relation to the
nation revoking or modifying her decrees in
the manner aforesaid:
And whereas it has been ofcially made
mer, aged 63. Neither of the parties exceeds
known to this government that the edicts of
three feet and a half in height.
France, violating the neutral commerce of

the United States, have been so revoked as
DIED,
to cease to have effect on the rst of the

Slow the lingering tears are rolling,
Pale disease feeds on his frame;
Dimly burns his midnight taper,

Still more dim lifes fading flame.
Nor the soothing voice of friendship,
Nor the hope of honest fame;
Can remove his due despondence,
Or revive his languid frame.
At Richmond, on the 28th ult. coloncl Ed
ward Carringlon, a revolutionary worthy and

a man of sterling integrity.
In North Carolina, bn the lltli ult. .rIU'red
Moore, esq. late an associate judge of the

supreme court of the United States.
At Norfolk, on the 28th ult. commodore
Samuel Barron. In the enjoyment of perfect
present month: Now, therefore, I, James

Madison, President of the United States, do
hereby proclaim, that the said edicts ofFrance

have been so revoked as that they ccascd
on the said rst day of the present month, to
violate the neutral commerce of the United.
States; and that, from the date of these pre
sents, all the restrictions imposed by the
Far from his patethal dwelling,
health, he was seized, while at dinner on Sun
From his kindred distant far;

\Vhere no mothers presence soothes him,
day, with a t of apoplcxy, and expired at aforesaid act shall cease and be discontinued
in relation to France and her dependencies.
one oclock on Monday morning. The death
In testimony whereof, I have caused the
of this great and good man will long be de
seal of the United States to be here
plored by those who have enjoyed his soci
unto aixcd, and signed the some
ety and friendship.
with my hand at the city of Wash
On the 3d uIt. at the house of George Ego,
(L.
s.)
ington,
this second day of November,
esq. in Tulpchockcn township, Berks coun
iii
the
year
of our Lord one thousand
ty, colonel Michael Voyge, a native of Ger
And no sisters fostering care:

Far from scenes of infant pleasure,
(Transient joys forever gone)
Pensive on his couch he lingers,
Still at eve and coming morn.
But, my soui, ah! cease complaining,
Soon these sorrowing days are oer;
Hark! the tongues of seraphs whisper,
" Hush thy murmurs, weep no more."
many, and an ofcer in the American revo
eight hundred and ten, and' of the
tionary war, in the 80th y'car of his age.
independence of the United States
_.-_
COUNT STACKELBERG.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES.
the thirty fth.

JAMES MADISON. '
By the President,
This Russian plenipotcntiary, whose wit
A PROCLAMATION.
R. SMITH, Secretary qfSIaIe.
and pride were almost proverbial, was once
Whereas the fourth section of the act of
employed by Catharine as ambassador to P0 congress, passed on the rst day of May,
(CIRCULAR.)
hnd. Thugut having been sent thither by l810, entitled An act concerning the com
Treasury Department, November 2, l8l0.
the emperor of Germany, was, on the day mercial intercourse between the United
Sir,
of being admitted to an audience by the Po States, and Great Britain and France and
You will herewith receive a copy of the
lishmunarch, introduced into a saloon, where, their dependencies, anti for other purposes,
proclamation of the president of the United
Seeing a man gravely seated, and surrounded it is provided, that in case either Great Bri
States,
announcing the revocation of the
by Polish lords, who Were standing respect tainor France shall before the third of March
edicts of Frunce which violated the neutral
r
MK
t'OniilllCC of the United St..tes,r.r.d that the
waters of the United States, any thing in that
came on board to take command of the ship;

but captain Andrews told them that he must
make the best of his way home, and not
wishing to be detained, he weighed anchor
and proceeded on his voyage to Marblehead,
where he arrived on 'cdnesday evening
law to the contrary notwithstanding.

It also follows, that if Great Britain shall
last, with the three Danie/i custom/muse oi

cera on board!
Boston ajier.
restrictions imposed by the act of May rst

last, accordingly cease from this day in rela
tion to France. French armed vessels may
therefore be admitted into the harbors and
revoked or modied in like manner her

edicts violating the DCIIU'tti commerce of the
Edmund Randolph, esq. has issued pro

posals for publishing a History of Virginia,
from the rst settlement of the colony,
until the adoption of the constitution of the
United Ststes, and, perhaps, to the beginning
of the )Clll l800.
> From. Journal.
United Suites, the third, fourth, fth, sixth,
and Great Britain and France :tnd their de
for us relates to Greet Britain and her dc

pendencies, from and after the said 2d day
of Februury next.
Unless, therefore, you
c' Servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The Collector of the Customs for

the district of
-.-
Interment! iii the city and liberties of Philadelphia

from the 27th ()cmbcr to the 5d November
Diseases.
Ainsmzt
Aneurism
mlv cb.
Dis-cases.
ad. cb
l 0 Fever, bilious
0 1
1 0 lnliam of bowels 1 1
1 Inam of liver
Under
1 year
Between 1 and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
1
1
0
O
0 1
1' U

20 20
Total 40
9 Between 50 sndtio
3
5
2
1
1
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0
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60
70
80
90
20
30
7 Ages unknown
3t)
40
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100
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jOHN ALLlSON, Clerk.
Wc have been informed, that passengers

by the ship Asia from Liverpool, ilaVC ~arri
veil, bringing London papers to the 9th 0i
October, containing OlliClid information to
Ahe British gQVerniiient thut Lucien bonn

Pdllt: with his whole family hud arrived st
Malta.
Pot. and Com. kcp'ster.

tents to render them generally useful; andas they are

the day, they are ofu nature so fugitive asto render
a more permanent repository of stare papers, valua
'
with a paper, in the form of a literary magazine and

November 3, 1810.
Atrophy
from the Said doniinions, colonies and depen

dencies. I am, respectfully, sir, your obedi
which they receive. Party polirics, however, and fo
From these considerations, it is presumed till! it

Will be an acceptable service to present the public
shitll before that duy be ofchdly notied by Burns

0 1 Jaiiiioice
this department of such revocation or modi Cholera morbiis
O 1 Pleurisy
Consumption
oflungs?
l Sore throat
cutioii, you will, from mid alter the said (ls-y,
Convulsions
O 3 Still born
carry into e'cct the ubovementioned sections, Decay
1 1 Sudden
1 1 Worms
which prohibit both the entrance oi British Diarrhoel.
1 0 Unknown
vessels of every description into the harbors Drowned
Dyseiitery
0 2
and waters of the U. Stutes, and the imports Debiliiy
l 0
2 1
tion into the United States of any articles the Fever
growth, produce or manufacture of the do Fever, intermittent 0 1
Ofyhe above there were,
minions, colonies and dependencies of Great
Britain, and of any articles whatever brought
weekly,
hi' DENNIS HEARTT,

HEALTH OFFICE,
pendencies, and for other purposes," Shall, in

conformity with the act rst ubovcniciitioned,
be revived and have full force and e'ect, so
OF THE

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sections of the act to interdict the commer
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, l8l0.
VOL. I.
No. 29.
4::
BIOGRAPHY.
(Continued)
Our new defences now becoming so strong

as not to admit insult with impunity, and sir
states, at this perilous period, when general

Lee (in leading from the north at small rein
forcement to our troops) was himself taken
prisoner by surprise; when every thing seem
ed decidedly declining to the last extremity,
and when every prospect served but to aug
ment the depression of despair, until the ge
public stores, except provisions necessary

for immediate use, to places of greater sc
curity. He queried, whether if a party of
militia could be sent from Philadelphia to
support those in Jersey, about Mount Holly,
it would not save them from submission? At
the same time, he signied (as his opinion)
the expediency of sending an active and in
uential ofcer, to inspirit the people, to en
courage them to assemble in arms, as well as
to keep those already in arms from disband
ing, and concluded by manifesting a wish,
William Howe, not choosing to place too

much at risk in attacking us in front, on the nius of one man, in one day,ata single stroke,
12th day of October, leaving lord Percy, with wrested from the veteran battalions of Great
one Hessian and two British brigades, in his Britain and Germany, the fruits acquired by
lines at Haerlem, to cover New York, em the total operations of a successful campaign,
barked with the main body of his army, with and reanimated the expiring hope of a whole
an intention of landing at Frogs Neck, situ nation, by the glorious enterprize at Trenton. that colonel Forman, whom he desired to see
ated near the town of West Chester, and lit
While the hostile forces, rashly inated for this purpose, might be employed on the
tle more than a league above the communi with pride by a series of uninterrupted suc service.
cation called Kings Bridge, which connects cesses, and fondly dreaming that a period
The enemy had vainly, as incautiously
New York island to the main. There Was would soon he put to their labors by their imagined, that to overrun was to conquer.
nothing to oppose him, and be effected his conquests, had been pursuing the wretched They had even carried their presumption
debarkation by nine oclock in the morning. remnants of a disbanded army to the banks on our extreme weakness and submission
The same policy, of keeping our army as of the DelaWare, general Putnam was dili so far as to attempt covering the country
compact as possible, the same system of gently employed in fortifying Philadelphia, they had marched through with an exten
avoiding being forced to action, and the same the capture of which appeared indubitably to sive chain of cantonments. That link which
precaution to prevent the interruption of sup be their ohj'ectt Here, by authority and ex the post at Trenton supplied, consisted of a
plies, reinforcements or retreat, that lately ample, he strove to conciliate contending Hessian brigade of infantry, a company of
factions, and to exeite the citizens to a reso
dictated the evacuation of New York, now in
chasseurs, a squadron of light dragoons, and
duced general Washington to move towards lute defence of every thing interesting to six field pieces. At eight oclock in the morn
the strong grounds in the upper part of freedom. His personal industry was unpa ing of the twenty sixth of December, gene
ralleled. His orders, with respect to extin ral Washington, with two thousand four hun~
West Chester.
About the same time, general Putnam was guishing accidental res, advancing the pub dred men, came upoa them (after they had
sent to the western side of the Hudson, to lic works, as well as in regard to other im
paraded,) took one thousand prisoners, and
provide against an irruption into the Jerseys, portant objects, were perfectly military and repassed, the same day, without loss, to his
and, soon after, to Philadelphia, to put that proper. His health was, for a while, impair encampment. As soon as the troops were
town into a posture of defence. Thither I ed by his unrelaxed exertions.
recovered from their excessive fatigue, ge
The commander in chief, having, in spite neral Washington recrossed a second time
attended him. Without stopping to dilate on
the subsequent incidents, that might swell a of all obstacles, made good his retreat over to Trenton. On the second of January, lord
folio, though here compressed into a single the Delaware, wrote to general Putnam, from Cornwallis, with the bulk of the British ar
ptu'agraph; without attempting to give, in de his camp, above the falls of Trenton, on the my, advanced upon him, cannonaded his post,
tail, the skilful retrograde movements of our i very day he recrosscd the river to surprise and offered him battle; but the two armies
commander in chief; without joumalizing the the Hessians, expressing his satisfaction at being separated by the interposition of Tren
military manmuvres of the British, in falling the reestablishment of that generals health, ton creek, gcneral \Vashington had it in his
back to King's Bridge,capturing Fort \Vash and informing, that, if he had not himself option to decline an engagement, which he
ington, Fort Lee, and marching through the been well convinced before, of the enemys did for the sake of striking a masterly stroke
'Jerseysywithout enumerating the instances intention to possess themselves of Philadel that he meditated. Having kindled res
of rapine, murder, lust and devastation, that phia, as soon as the frost should fonn ice around his camp, posted faithful men to keep
marked their progress and lled our bosorns strong enough to transport them and their them burning, and advanced ccntinels whose
with horror and indignation; without descri
artillery across the Delaware, he had now delity might be relied upon, he decamped
bing how a division of our dissolving army,i obtained an intercepted letter, which placed silently, after dark, and, by a circuitous route,
with general Washington, was driven before : the matter beyond a doubt. He added, that reached Princeton at nine o'clock next morn
them beyond the Delaware; without painting if the citizens of Philadelphia had any regard ing. The noise of the ring, by which he
the naked and forlorn condition of those 1 for the town, not a moment's time Was to be killed and captured five or six hundred of
much-enduring men, amongst the rigors of ' lost until it should be put into the best pos the British brigade in that town, was the
an inclement season; and without even 1 sible posture of defence; but, lest that should rst notice lord COlllW'ulliS had of his stolen
sketchingthe consternation that seized the 1 not be done, he directed the removal of all .march. General Vliashington,~ the project
226
successfully accomplished, instantly filed 05

for the mountainous grounds of Morris Town.
Meanwhile, his lordship, who arrived by a
forced march at Princeton, just as he had
left it, nding the Americans could ~not,be

overtaken, proceeded
Brunswick...
'
tail their forage, and brat up their quarters,
of these. her father and her mother were no

more; where then could she be more happy
without sustaining a single dis..ster.

(Tcvbe continued.) -
than in my humble cottage!"

.__ No where, replied the baron.
I
*F
For the liepertory'. _ ~ 1 ,
\,
without halting to
On the fth of Janum'y, 1777, from Pluck
emin, general Washington despatched an

account of this second success to general
Putnam, and ordered him immediately to
move with all his troops to Crosswix,for the

purpose of cooperating in recovering the
Jerseys; an event which the present fortu
nate juncture (while the enemy were yet_pa
nic struck) appeared to promise. The gene
ral cautioned him, howu'er, if the enemy
should still continue at Brunswick, to guard

with great circ umspection against a surprise;
especially, as they, having recently suered
by two attacks, could searcely avoid being
'edged with resentment to attempt retalia

tion. His excellency farther advised him to
give out his strength to be twice as great as
it Was; to forward on all the baggage and
scattering men belonging to the division
destined for Morris Town; to employ as
many spies as. he should think proper; to
keep a number of horsemen in the dress of
- the country, going constantly backWards and
:forwards on the same secret service; and last
ly, if he should discover any intention or mo

tion of the enemy that could be depended
upon, and might be of consequence, not to
fail in conveying the inteUigence' as rapidly
as possible by express to head quarters. Ma
jor generalPutnam Was directed soon. after
to take post at Princeton, where he continu
ed until spring. He had never with him more
than a fewlhundied troops, though he was

it nosi'sxcrf.
CHAPTERJX.
As leaps the ruthless tyger on his prey,
And stands exulting in the fearful deed;
Even so the bravoes seized the helpless maid.
He heard. and started at the snund Despair
Lookd palhd oer his visage. and his eye
Shot ery anger; then dissembling, beamd
A gentler look.
I hope you do not mock me! said Lin

hault to the peasant, after he had a little over
come his surprise.
.
Mock you, my lord! returned Brauben
ski, forbid it truth, that I should jest in such
a solemn cause! As I do live 'tis true, Roselle,
on whom you have placed your generous at
_ illuti opme, my lord, said Braubenski,
'you must be weary; let us in, and seek re

flt:_ll_llll'llt._" _
_
_ I _
_ .
No, no," answered Linhault, Ill to the
castle and inform the king of what 1 have

discovered; do you take care of 'lhadia in
my absence.
~ Doubt not my prudence, returned the

peasant.
Farewel, Braubenski," said Linhault, as
he parted from the old man. 1 leave you

almost mad with agony; what late attends
me l cannot tell, but surely Providence has
reserved me for something terrible'."
, _ Talk not so, my lord," returned Brau
benski, nor dare mistrust the righteous
will of Heaven! submitWith virtue tor your
guide, you cannot err.
Here Braubenssi left the arbor. Linhault
fections, believing her the daughter ofBrau

benski, is the true heiress of Sobeiski's house.
The time for the disclosure of this impor
tant truth has at length arrived, in-you she
remained, lostin reection, and near all hour

had elapsed, before he left thevspot where he
had heard _of Sobolskis fearful fate. He,
has an honorable prorector, and to you, my

lord, she looks for justice!"
ther! I Cannot, dare not, sacrice my father,

and yet RoselleMark me, Ill. inform the
Ward the casde, until he Was arrested in his

Way, by arriving at the solitary spot Where
he had passed the preceding night, and cu
riosity impelled him to enter the Cave.
On entering, nothing but the naked rock
puret his eyes, and overcome by the feelings
which the peasahts story had excited, he sat
king, we will, as already consulted between
down to ponder on those bloody occurrences.
Justice! echoed Linhault, shuddering,

and glancing his terried eye upon Brauben-J
ski, justice upon whom? O agony, my fa
us, convey the heiress to Warsaw,,aud then,
then, in a melancholy manner, proceeded to
W'ny hangs this dreadful weight upon
the king must judge; and he is merciful."
my heartr" cried he, I fear, Braubenslu, that
Nobly resolved, and yet with lial love,

exclaimed Braubenski, 0! where the fa
your suspicions are too well founded. My

lulllel envied the honors oi Sobeiski, and to
obtain_ them, murdered him: yes, thus it

ther
. I
nonly at fteen miles distance from the cue
. '_
f No more, Braubenski, I must hear no stands, and I am undone forever."
mys strong garrison at Brunswick. At one more," interrupted Lilihauln. remember,
He had scarce concluded these words,
period, froma sudden diminution, occasioned count Ferresburgh is my father.
when a female form new past the cave; it was
by the tardiness of the militia turning out to
Roselle; in the next moment a bear passed
I own tis true, replied the peasant.
- replace those whose time of service Was ex
Yet tell me, Braubenski, said the youth, after her, the youth thought no more, he ew
pired, he had fewer men for duty than~ he why you neither informed the king, when forward, the animal had overtaken the maid,
had miles of frontier to guard. Nor was the you discovered Thadia, nor placed her under and was upon the point of seizing her, when
commander in chief in a moreleligible situ the protection of my father..
a blow from the sabre of the heroic baron
ation; It is true, that, while he had scarcely
I dreaded, lest in the palace her infancy laid him lifeless at her feet, weltering in his
the semblance of an army, under the speci would not be secure, answered Braubenski, blood!
.
,
. ,_ v
_
ous parade of a park of artillery and the im *f for I doubted not, but he who stole her 1..
Linhault, exclaimedlthp maid, whom
posing appearance of his head quarters esta thers life, had free access there, unsus we shall henceforth, in
her, cgll
blishing at Morris Town, he kept up in the pected, and doubtless, he who had rendered 'lhadia, Linhault, again my .pneserverl
eyes of his countrymen, as Well as in the her an orphan would seek her life.
she could say no more, and sunk upon his
opinion of the enemy, the appearance of no
Your reason was a strong one, replied bosom.
, _
'
contemptible force. Future generations will Linhault.
- My beloved Roselle, cried Linhault,
V
, nd difculty in conceiving how a. handful
I need not say, continued the peasant, ' revive and do not thus afict me; behold,
of men and militia, who were necessitated to that my suspicions deterred me from pla the cruel foe lies helpless at your feet, ahd
be inoculated for the small pox in the course cing her under the protection of the count, I have sayed myself in rescuing you.
of the .winter, could be subdivided and post
The fair Thadia now recovered from her
your father; judge thenof my astonishment
ed so advantageously, as eectually to pro at hearing that he knew she was alive. But, nveakuess and her fears, and-rst castings
tect the inhabitants, conne the enemy,/cur
my lord, I had a stronger motiue than either fearful look upon the expiring animal, then
\
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PHILADELPHIA R EPERTORY'.
22/
a glance of inexpressible joy upon .the de

lighted Linhault, who for a moment forgot
his sorrows, she poured forth the gratitude
of her heart to the enraptured youth.
Thus tears assist the reptile of the Nile,

And thus the ruian while he stabs can smile!
what is the cause of my meeting you in this

place?
Yes, he can wear a face of sanctity, while

blood and murder rankle at his heart.
" Mean youFerresburghi" said Thadia in
am.~.zc.
Linhault had been betrayed by his feelings,
You are the cause, my Linhault," an

swered 'Ihadia, I came to seek for you.
but now recovered himself, and said to Tha

dia,
" For what, my gentle fair?" inquired the

youth.
a When my father left you said Thadia.
u My dear Roselle, have patience yet a lit

tle while, and all shall be revealed to you.
l'Tell me, dear Roselle, cried Linhault,
I'Icre Linhault started, recollection return

ed, and he exclaimed, Your father!
" You speak in riddles," said Thadia.
Which I dare not now explain, replied

the baron, but come, my love, let me con
. Wherefore this strange surprise? dc duct you to the avenue, and there you will
be safe. Be assured that nothing but urgent
manded Thadia.
Linhault recovering himself, replied, A necessity should command my silence.
Linhault here drew the arm of Thadia
sudden feeling seized me, I pray my love
within his, and keeping his sword drawn,
proceed.
conducted her toward the avenue.
Thadia looked astonished, but continued.
Austin, after overbearing Branbenski re
\Vhen my father left you and reentered
into the cottage, he informed us that you had late the story of Thadia's existence in R0
selle, immediately hastened to the castle,and
returned
Truroofand
\Ve'incet,
disguis
to the castle. Wishing to see you, as Well as ed,
for thewith
purpose
carrying
of? the
maid,
not proceeded on your journey, but returned
surprised at your return, after what you had
to communicate to Ferresburgh, the joyful

news, for he was as yet ignorant that Thadia
was discovered
and had resided
years
so near him.
i for sixteen
As the unconscious maid was proceeding
down the avenue, Truro advanced and rude
ly seized her by the arm.

You are going, wrong madam, said be,
your road lies here, pointing toward the
castle.
Thadia, almost fainting, demanded who he
was, and what he wanted.
" I want you, replied he, gruiy, you

must go with us,"
With you! cried she, shuddering.
" There is no time to parley, said the
wretch, assist me, comrade.
Both Truro and \Veincet now had seized

hcr.
Villains! villains! exclaimed the hapless
maid, Oi Linhault, now save me!"
No Linhault was near, and in spite of her

resistance, the rufans bore her off.
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
if any opportunity should occur, cunningly

For the Repertory.
concluding, that if Stanislaus should disco
THE CABINET. No. XII.
ver her before be seized her, all attempts
" To make the scales ofjudgment balance welll
Linhault, " was in consequence of my delay afterwards would be fruitless.
Justice demands the candid parallel.
What was his joy, on approaching the
An attempt to draw a parallel between clas
in the avenue.
" I passed this place, continued Thadia, avenue, to behold Thadia in conversation sical and mathematical literature, that shall
when full before me I perceived the dread- . with the baron. He commanded the bmvoes exhibit the comparative advantages of each,
ful creature that now lies in death before to conceal themselves, and advancing, pla constitutes the present essay.
ced himself behind the arbor, where he had
me. I gave a shriek, and immediately tum
Classical literature, or the study of lan
ing, endeavored to y from his pursuit, but overheard Linhault and Braubenski.
guage, is the peculiar delight of minds form
Once more adieu, my dear Roselle, ed to relish a perusal of works of original
must eventually have fallen a sacrice to his
fury, had not your timely succour saved me said Linhault, I- return immediately to the genius; memorials of which are to be found
cottage, and do not, as you value your safety, amongst all nations. The classical scholar
from his fangs.
Wander
through this forest.
Blest chancel cried Linhault.
roams enchanted through the fertile garden
Thadia promised, supposing that the baron of ction; culls, with a delicate and tasteful
But how could you leave the cottage,
unkind one," said Thadia, without bidding. alluded to the late danger from which he hand, the sweetest blossoms of pocsy; and
had rescued. her, but the real motive of his in the rich enjoyment of the pleasures of
me adieu?"
" 1 did not intend it should be so, my R0 request was, fear lest some of the emissaries imagination, sacrices truth, and sometimes,
of his father might disturb her.
probability. He soars with the poet in his
selle," answered the baron, but when Bran
Adieu my Linhault, said T hadia, as the highest flights of fancy; dissolves under the
bcnski told that dreadful tale, I was not fit
youth parted from her, u and may ituioeence inuence of love, or glows with the martial
to see you."
'
H Ah! that tale!" exclaimed Thadia, my and providence protect youl
enthusiasm of other days; as the lyre of the
She kept her eyes constantly xed upon bard murmurs the soft notes of pity, or
dear Linhault, l have observed that a strange
mystery surrounds my parents, and indeed, the youth, until distance shut him from her swells the heroic strain of. glorious victory.
sight, when heaving a sigh She exclaimed,
\Vith a mind ardent in its thirst after infor
yourself."
o By what mystery am I surrounded, and mation, he turns over the gratifying pages
" Mystery!" said Linhault.
In truth I have," continued Thadia; "and how will these undiscernible events end! I of historic record; as it were by magic influ
have sought you, partly to inquire, what am convinced that I am deeply concerned ence, transports himself into the most re
mote agcs of antiquity; observes the scenes
dreadful cause, what new discovered acts can in them.
Austin now returned to his companions, which then occupied the attention of the
make my father doubt the honor. of the good
and ordered them to advance and seize her. world; ghts with a favorite hero in the bat~
Ferresburgh, my Linhaults noble father.
Linhault, said he, " must now be too tie; and with enthusiastic feeling, thinks he
" Noble. cried the youth, " 0! yes, his
purse is ever ready to assist the indigent, distant to hear her, should she scream. But shares the laurcls of a soldiers glory! The
and beneath the garb of philanthropy, he mark me, no. violence; bear her through the policy of nations is laid open to his exami
avenue, beneath the western wing, and lodge nation; he scans their manners, and bcholds
hides his barbarous purposes!
her safely in the uninhabited chambers.
their works; and his profitable reections are
Thus Satan takes the semblance of the saint,
His purpose to pursue with less restraint;
The bravoes advanced, as Austin hastened assisted by those sages who cultivated the
told me, I immediately left the cottage in
pursuit of you"
And your not nding me, H interrupted
5m
PHILADELPHIA. REPERTORY.
M'
Upon the whole, classical literature is ra

ther usefully amusing, than indis/imaably use
ted to bravery, and taught the exercise of ful: it is more the gratication of genius,
than an instrument to facilitate ordinary
virtue.
Such are the pleasures of the classical transactions; it is better adapted to the dig
plants of wisdom; and who, in the excellence

of precept, and the force of example, anima
scholar, pure, rened, and rational; and great
nied' pleasures of the closet, than to be
is the improvement which, from these plea

sures, may be derived. The mathematician
places his happiness in a clear discovery of
business of the world; and is requisite only
truth; she is the sole object of his wishes;
he pursues her boldly through the labyrinth

of absurd demonstration, and rejoices at last
to be convinced of her infallibility. His plea
sures are those of the understanding, not of
the mcy; his appeal is to the judgment, not

to the assions; his superstructure is found
ed on the immutable laws of nature, and his
only concern is to produce proofs undenia

ble. The mathematician becomes a strict
economist of time; he believes that portion of
it lost which has not yielded something that
may be protable in the intercourse of soci
ety, and is only anxious after that species of
knowledge, which rests its claim to notice
0n the rm basis of solid utility.
By the exertion which is requisite to un
derstand a language, and the time and atten
tion that are necessary to make us acquainted
brought out for common service in the daily

in those professionswhich require the larg
est portion of learning. The mathematics, on
the other hand, enter with propriety into all
situations of life, and are equally necessary
for the trader behind his counter, and for the
man of genius in his study.

PETER PEACEABLE.
For the Repertory.
The design of all law should be, to pro
keener edge, and become better enabled to

prosecute serious inquiry. Mathematics,
while their depth of reason imparts the high
est pleasure which the understanding is ca
pable of receiving, strengthens and adapts it
for comprehending the beautiful order, and
mutual relation of things. From the study of
mote the peace and happiness of society.

This can result only from correctness and
prudence in the punishment of persons, who
violate the laws of the land in which they
live. Hence it is of innite importance, to de
ne the extent of each separate law, with re
gard to each convict sentenced to atone for
guilt. It is also of immense consequence, to
consider, in every case of punishment for the
commission of crimes, whether society will
be beneted or aggrieved, by our particular
decisions.
'
The point which I wish more immediately
to Attend to, is the following, viz. Is it just in
any case, to take the life of any man, for-the
commission of any crime, however great its
magnitude? and is society materially prot
ted by the extinction of the greatest mur
derer?
mathematics, a love of truth is imbibed, and

a habit of reection acquired, the importance
ly discussed already, but it may not be amiss
with every thing important that it contains,

the mental faculties, doubtless, acquire a
of which will appear in every action of life.

Regularity in the arrangement and despatch
of business, correctness in the performance
of duty, and the free use and expansion of
intellect, are the ordinary results of well di
rected mathematical pursuits.

The classical reader, by the exertion of
his power, may collect into one point the
united stock of ancient and modern wisdom.
From this we might hope, that dignity will
This subject I confess has been frequent

to offer a few more remarks on it, since it
involves an important point. Let us for a

moment view the dark stde of the picture.
At the tribunal ofjustice, arraigned for the
murder of a fellow creature stands the de

jected criminal. Nature shrinks from the
horrible prospect, and seems to shudder at
the scene. All the feelings of humanity are
awakened on the occasion, and the unhappy
victim is doomed to die, by the voice of the
be added to the man, and that life will be multitude, before he receives a trial. Shall
conducted by the precepts and example of we palliate his guilt, attempt to remove pre
those worthies who have flourished in all judice from the minds of the people, and thus
ages. But it is a certain fact, that without mitigate his punishment? Alas! he has de
mathematical aid, but a small portion of this graded the vaunted dignity of man; he has
knowledge can be applied in society to ad descended beneath a level with the brute
creation. Away with him, is the general cry;
vantage.
The mind of the mathematician, being ac blood for blood.
customed to the task, easily penetrates the
But let cool, dispassionate reason be our
veil of truth, and seeing an unobstructed Way, guide. Does capital punishment tend to les
pursues it accordingly. The mathematician sen the number of those crimes for which it
can seldom go wrong, because he has been was instituted? Certainly not. It is said to
j act by the force of example; hang the vil
so long habituated to go right.
lain, you exclaim, and it will be the means
of deterring others. But I deny the truth of

this assertion, and experience proves it to be
false.
What is the force of example in London
and other large cities in Europe? Does the
robber dread the gallows? His conduct proves
the reverse of this. in some of those cities,
the villain is sensible, that to steal a shilling,

or the value of that sum, is to forfeit his ex
istence; he knows that death is the penalty,

and what is his determination? In the full
persuasion that he must suer, if he violates
the law, he runs onward to his impending
fate. For the sake of obtaining a paltry sum,_

which could gratify but for a short period,
he yields to his avarice all the happiness
which the remnant of his days might have
a'orded him. Hence we nd the number of
such characters to increase, rather than to
diminish; one execution paves the way for
another, and thus the evil is magnied.
If it were true, that this mode of punish
ment acted by the force of example, this
alone would be a good argument in its favor;

but this is not the case. How much more
rational would it be, to abolish capital punish
ment altogether, and to substitute in its room

imprisonment during life. This would ope
rate, not only for the good of the criminal,
but for the promotion of the interests ofso
ciety. Conned within the walls of a prison,
a guilty conscience would be a continual ac
cuser. Torment like this, for years to come,
would be more dreadful than sudden disso

lution. To have continually before his ima
gination the unhappy victim of his ven
geance, would be more intolerable than the
horrors of a gallows. The one would barrow

up the soul, and render the miserable wretch,
not only an object of dread to those around,
but a terror to himself; while the other would
cast a temporary veil over the turpitude of

his crimes.
Those who advocate the sentiment, that
blood should be shed for blood, do not con

sider the real good of society, in every paint
of view. I have ventured to show, that the
present laws only increase the evil they are

designed to remove. Besides, when a person
is executed, the state is put to some expense
without the least hope of remuneration. But
when a man is conned for life, he can be
compelled to attend to daily labor, and thus,
while he assists to increase the wealth of

the state, he is prevented from doing in
jury to the community, and he is also per
mitted to reect on his past life. But to
cut suddenly the thread of existence of an
unhappy wretch, is to attempt the eradica
tion of an evil, by creating one much more
disastrous in its consequences. To injure
ourselves that we may do injury to another
is the extremity of folly.

I wish I were able to convince the multi
tude of their error. Soon then, might we ex
pect to behold a change in our laws, and I
doubt not, a change in s0ciety at large.
I cannot as I ought, I know not how! But

why do I talk of it? 0, I could smite this
hand from the arm that supports it! Tis
crimsoned now! see, blood drops from it! 0,
would there were no night! night to a mur
derer is an earthly hell! Yet the morning

comes in vain; the sunbeams then only light
HERMINIUS.
upon a wretch, and display a murderer to the
world!
Nor day can bring him peace, nor
For the Repertory.
darkness give him rest! No earthly pains can
SELECTOR. N0. IV.
equal those felt by a murderer! If he lives
The following quotations are selected from long after his crime, he need not be punish
a tale, called The murderer, or the fall of ed in a future world! The very ground I
Lecas, in which Lecas is the murderer of stand on echoes my guilt, for I have stained
Rigaud, and who, by the same instrument, that earth with blood! The light of heaven,
puts an end to his own existence.
the breath of life, all things tell me what I
"0!" says Lecas, that I could forget! have done! Darkness, the season of repose
O that the past could be buried in oblivion! to most men, is a curse to me. 1 hate the
I would willingly forget all past joys, all for light too, for I hate to behold myself! The
" What dost thou mean, friend? demand

ed Prim, " dost thou think that I would em
ploy my melodious organs of speech in car

nal vocifcrationi
" Wheugh! hubaboo!" cried Teady, H but
youre a not: cralure to be sure, jewel.

Harkee, master Prim, if I wasnt afraid of af
moon that saw me do the deed, I cannot look
fronting you, Id be after telling brare your

face a bit of a story."
" Clap a heavy press of canvass on, Tea
dy," says I, " heave a-hcad, another yaw, and
let us have a little more of your lingo. Never
fear an enemy, for I'll stand by you while
Ive a shot in the locker, or while my tongue
can wag.
Will you? cried he, " Och! bless your
mout for (lot. I'll tell you jewel, when my fa
der made rye whiskey out of oak chips, he
used to tell me, Teady, says he, never let
your tongue run too fast, but ka/zc as silent
the remembrance of, so that I might forget upon, without feeling all the horrors of that
as your mother, and her tongue, master
this horrid deed! But that is impossible! 0, night renewed! I am surely the most unfor
memory! thou tyrant, cease to torment me! tunate, the most guilty too of mankind! No
How dost thou aiict the guilty! The inno crimes can equal mine! they stand without
cent look back on thy prospects with de parallel and without excuse!
Grummet, was for all the world like a mill."

" As how? asked I.
Never at rest but when she wanted grist
to Ira/1c a going, replied he, " theres three
things that never stand still, master Grum
mer scenes, which I used to take delight in
light; thou hast pleasures for them, but the

_.a._
guilty meet horrors in their scenes of retro

spection! Remembrance is hell to a murder
er! I would give the world to forget the past,
but that which I most wish to banish is up.
permost in my recollection! Why cannot
memory be ruled! Was it not given to man
as a faculty to serve him, not as a tyrant to

ailct him? Why were we not so formed,
that we might forget whatever gave us pain,
and recollect that only which would bring
us pleasure? Why was memory created in
dependent of the will? Was this wise? Yes,
it was! Twas wise the guilty should be pu
nished by their own reections! 'T was wise
that murderers should have mcmory,it stings
them so deeeply! else, we were all murder
For the Repertory.

To DR. FUNGUS.
round gm! looking at Dolly Grump, who

became, thereupon, uneasy, and began to
Dear Frank,
waddlt about like a porpoise in a storm.
Some unfortunate circumstances, which Only when shes asleep, continued Teady,
(as I send you from time to time the ex wishing to molliiy the old tabby a little, " and
tracts from my journal, though I am fearful then she alnays talks in her dreams.
they may turn out but a dead sort of reckon
This created a laugh from the helmsman
ing to you) I shall write for the perusal of and myself, and even Prim tucked up the
your [zer/urs, and which have prevented me stau'hoard tack of his upper lip, but Dolly
from fullling my promise, to write often, began to vindicate her sex, yet Teady soon
giving an account of my nailing down the proved himsell her match.
Delaware by land, as our friend MFallough
1: By the powers of woman," said he at last,
would say, and of my arrival here: but now, I believe on my conscience you open your
having gotten the weather gauge olia lubber
Cape May Nov. 1, l810.
mout so wide to show your duccm teeth.
ers; none could live in safety; the whole
ly fever and ague, I shall proceed with my.
world would be one scene of blood and con

fusion. \Vhat were laws without the eternal
account.
We had just got under way in the land
Judge, that censures every man? O,misera
packet, I believe, when Iclosed my last lct
blc man that I am! when shollI be at peace

again! Never; never while I bear a hand
stained with the blood of a human creature!
ter; therefore you may consider us as having

left those brace of sharks, the tavern keeper
and his wife, and proceeding down, there
being Prim, Teady MFullough, an old wo
never, till I can forget that I am a murder

er! 0, blood, blood, how dost thou cry for
Vengeance? nor wilt thou long cry unheard.

How heavily dost thou press upon the soul
of him who shed thee! O, dreadful state of .
life, far worse than death! No,.impossible!
Tis most horrible, to-die with the unpurged
crime of murder on the soul! yet the dread
ful day fast approaches, whenI must quit
this earthly scene, and give an account of
all my deeds here done! 0, what a sorry ac
count shall I have to surrender! Now is my
time to repent; I cannot then; yet, even yet,
met,a horses tail in summer, a wind mill in a

storm, and a woman's tongue all the year
man named Dolly Grutnp, and myself, in the
This was enough; Dody closed her mouth

immediately, and remained silent, lor the poor
soul hadnt a tooth in her head.

Come, Teady, says I, let us hear your
story, for you know, Frank, there never was
a son 01 Neptune, bUL what was fond of a

tough rac yarn", and a very good hand at
spinning it.
Well,
M'Fallough, if youre de
coach. We continued merrily along, though termined to have it, whether'I tell it or not,
I was not very agreeably placed between a I may as well let it slip out of a wrong cor
gentle breeze and a north wester, friend Prim ner of my mout, but by the black teeth of my
and old sour crout the woman. It soon ap sweet Shelah OFlanaghan, its all the truth
peared that Teady had been star gazing in a and more too. You must know dat I helped
shower of rain, for he had caught a dlb' in
my father to make whiskey, in the sweet huid
his eye, and began to be .as talkative as an of paratees. He had no other children but my
old tar under the lee of the long boat,opcn self, a cow and three pigs; so as I was
the least wanted, be shipped me till Ame
ing his upper deck battery upon Prim.
" Master Prim, says he, cant you whis rica."
(-1: us a song by way of an anchovy, gra.I
' A sea term forafalse story.
PH] LA DELPHI
A R E P ERTOTIYI
A!
230
And being thought by many wrong
" A land owing with milk and honey, Burst, in obedience to the great command.
0! wondrous work ofall creative Power!
said Prim.
And yet, 0! greater wonder to the mindl
" You may say that, wid your ugly mout," A soul immortal breathed into that frame,
replied Teddy, " well," continued be, u here Destined to live when nature shall decay, '
In giving ladies thus the thong,
She straight inspires my band to scribble

The hapless tale of Poor Fribblc;
and a nice trick I aarvrd her. So one night,
In endless anguish, or in endless bliss!

No chance then of escape, nojsubterfuge;
So that the belles may have a chance

To poise at beaux the laughing lance,
And ifI very much mistake not,
Teady, says she, come walk behind me,
But when the liberated spirit ies,
Theyll conquer if their weapons break not:
to see that no rude fellow insults me.

" That I will, jewel," says I, and make
him feel my andrew farara if he dare."
So, you see, as we passed by an alley, near
From the frail prison of this mortal part,
Yet though theyre not to very stout,

Still they will turn and twist about
Just likei' faith I dont know what,
I went to tmTt'ftt, to one Katey Cut-a-dash,
There is an awful certainty before her;
To shout her anthems in the worlds of light,

To mingle with her horrors! dreadful fate!
Man, dread memorial of thy Maker's might!
'l'hy body with its symmetry of parts,
Lucy. I was after giving him a tip of my
So fearfully and wonderfully formd,
slielalcc, when my mistress said,
Shall fall to dust, as froin that dust it came,

\Vhen in the period of revolving ages,
That animates the else insensate clod,
asked I, " he deserved to be keel hauled."

~- Fttit, jewel, I done nothing at all at all
And gives those fashiond limbs corporeal vigor,

Shall live forever through the dread decay!
uid him, answered Tcady, " but my mis
The mortal tempest that attacks thy life,

Swallows the mansion in its dreadful womb;
got to, and my mistress hating given me her

purse to Ira/re for her, I was afraid she llilglil
ask me for it next day and lose it, sol wttlku
off wit] it that night.
'
You complain, Frank, that my letters are

too long; so I shall ctw- my linwse here, and
The deathless spark implanted in thy frame,
But rst it breaks the prison gates asunder

And sets the spirit free But how shall live?
0! there 5 the dreadful and terric let'.
Come, mournful muse, and touch a solemn strain,
While my pale baart looks fearful at the sound,

And deathlike terror all my breast pervadesi
Thou who art hardnitig fast for endless pain,
Of dreadful ills that wait to catch their prey;

But chief despair sits victor on thy brow,
And all her pallid train conspire to clothe
nas birth day, I have tacked together the Thy parting soul in horror 5 dark apparel;
TO MISS CLEMEN'I'INA CAUS'I'IC.
The sun has now sailed on his voyage ayear more,

Like no other vessel, oer land and oer sea:
And the too lovely Clem, though she lacks of tbrrc
more,
On the tally of age, she may acorc] tbree.
Since ftrst, Clem. I n ood thee, has thirty years rolld;
No jot of regard have I lost, dear. for thee;
I love the: at well, though we both how grown old,

To the ages of tire: rear: and sweetffry rbree.
20
VVi'h whip that crackd like any pistol,

Determined to se' out for Bristol;
And in a dazzling gig and tandem,
2S
Commenced his jaunt at careless random,

Proceeding swift with strange grimacel,
Lest he should miss the coming races.

But I no more will introduce
Unmanly, tea-talk. vile abuse,
30
Nor longer scan his sense nor pelf,

But lrt him answer for himself,
And when he stands exposed to view,
35
And. 0! permit my trembling pen

To
hissolemn
persontone
now"late
and ihen;
Andtouch
lasr in
I
The griewius 'ricks of wayward fate. . . 40
Upon his head exalted sat
A kind of tapering, hay-stack hat, . I
And full two yards of muslin deck
- __, -
(A foot in width) his hollow neck; 1 L,

A aming pattern fornid his vest, i" l'
45
On which a thousand forms impressd,
Di<playd creations evry tribe,
Which here twere needless to describe.

But
my scene
wandring
eyepourtrays,
surveys , V i 5.
The as
vivid
my pen
There is a tram before thy quivring soul,
let you wait for my next letter, to bear fur

ther of my voyage. To day being Clementi
folloning couplet on the occasion.
But to my tale: this Fribble, once,

Whom people call a dashing dunce,
Whose wondrous I'lCk of needful pence
The bold decision leave to you.

And rst, my muse, sublime express
His various parry-colord dress;
know, sure, that he lives just behind the big

church, wid a tower on the top of it, not a
mile from the old market."
And what did you do with him, Tcady?
tress did; she took him home nid her, and

by the powers, I found out soon, where I had
To play this most important part.
Was only cqualld by his Sense,
Let him alone, 'l'endy, he's a good friend The time arrived that earth with all her stores,
of mine."
Calld from the womb of chaos dark and drear,
" Oho, jewel, says I, " if that's the Case, Arose majestic from the abyss profound,
And o'er the wide expanse creation flew!
Im his humble aanianr to command."
H How does thee do, my aware Katey?" Return to dust! Ah. learn from this to feel
said this wolf in aha/Ms clothing, and by all A hunibleness of heart! Art made of dust,
To boast thyself omnipotent as Heaven, '
the snakes in Ireland," continued Teatly, And hurl deance at the frowning skies?
laughing, and taking hold of Prims coat, Soon shall thy body mingle with the clods
be had no more lapelle to his coat than That form the bosom of the lowly vale,
And lie as silent on the ruthless breast
Of death, the angry messenger of fate.
But the eternal faculty within,
The viral ember of immortal life,
15
Mv similcs Ive quite forgot,

And can't contrive one for my heart
Or plunged into the caverns of despair,
the thirteen chimneys in A

street, to be
sure I didn't are somebody say, " histl histl
master Prim, gral Och, but it's truc,dontl
10'
Heaven shuts her blessings on thy darken'd view,

And hell nigrescent on thy blond shot eye,
To catch thee blows her hottest. heaviest re.

0! for a week, a day. or een an hour
To seek for pardon from an angry God!
It will not be! all, all is now too late;
Above the rest in conscious pride

I mark'd a gander stately stride,
Who seemd as though the rest he past
31ml A glance of cold contempt to cast;
So apt his person here appeard,
For that was Peter plain/enough. _

His pantalnons stuck to his skin
Much like old Nick adheres to sin;
His'crooked legs at best displayd,
Which cobbling cork had perfect made,
The gates of mercy are forever closed;

The 'mystic ends in frantic revels dance
Exultingly; armed with ten thousand terrors
They wait to welcome thee to their abodes,
And thou must sink into eternal anguish!

VALERlAN.
.
GABRIEL (iRU h'llVlET.
55
And he so fashionably sneerd,

I thought the rest were nought but ltu',
But that one knee defyd his care,

Which nature formd too large by far,
7 ' And spire of all his buckisb skill
60
65
Too large that joint continued still.

Full many time he mournd his fate,
And curst his leg with frenzied hate,
For the Repertory.
N. B. Give my warm regards to Dr. Caustic.
5', And viewd it oft with looks of scorn,

SATIRE. NO. II. BY 'ALTER 'ICGLE.
. And wish'd he never had been born,

70
Or that (to use his own expression)
" Nature had stamp'd the right impression,
-_.Q._
For the Repertory.

MEDITATIONS. No. 111.
And now my muse again begins

To laugh at follies, weep at sins;'
Again th unpleasant tank commences
For what is life, continued he,
To frame conviction and defences,

" Let us make man, the dread jchovab said;
And instant at the words the stately form
Received its limbs athletic, and to life
" One laughd at follies, one lamented crimes.
Dryden.
" If] a laughing stock must be;

If but that cursed limb were right
Id bless the day I saw the light:
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PHILADELPHIA REPERTOR Y.
231
And as oft as I listen to converse, though sweet
But as it is. or let me die.

Or hide the fault from ev'ry eye;
My broad cloth coat full stuifd around
My carping enemies confound,
And well they hide the shapeless pack
My mother placed upon mv back,
Fatwhich if her I e'eofnrgive
Original Anecdote. A gentleman of the

name of Razor passing, some time sincc,by
As ihe dew drop that falls from the breast of the

rose.
1 will tell, with a sigh, ne'er again shall I meet
a house in Third street, where the maid was

Wahlltg the upper story windows, received
a little of the lucid clemcnt upon his head.
Is not this provokingi said he to a friend,
who just tltcn came up. "0! no," replied
the wit, she was only wetting a Razer."
' \Vith accents that lull d evry sigh to repose.

\Vhen Aurt ra with radiance illumines the east
And releases each ower from its burden of dew,
Invites the wing'd guests to the delicate feast,
r: Ill think so I feasted,sweet fair ones, with yop
- May I that momenteease to live:
85
But for this leg tis all in vain

I strive its greatness tosustain;
-.I
My gendering hopes it Mass to ruin,

jEen as a y is crusltd by Bruin."
Whilst murmuring thus he onward past
Fair Uristol met his eye~at last;
Ind now ambition red the train
Of this young upstart of the rein,
He crackd his tvhip. hishorses ew
And almost scapedthe daringyi'ew,
,
"htls' he on lofty seat erected,
The haughty master fell a'ecied,
Oh! yes, too, when Phebus hir. brilliancy veils,
An unprlnciplcd debtor being informed by

his friends that one of his creditors wished
And screens the red'lip ofeach oweret from view,

When evenings dim mists oer his splendor prevails,
to receive the interest, as he could not ob

tain the principal, he replied, with more wit
l'll remember those moments of pleasure and you.

Then. health to yott all, though we never may meet
than honesty, that it w..s not his interest to
Againpn this ball and my pleasure renew;
pay the _ [triad/tat, nor his [mnci/zlr to pay

the inlet-eat.
'
But memnyy, faithful, those moments so sweet

7 SiluUYQCIi which enchanted tied swiftly with you,
95
'ihtto'via isto.
..-:.t
>.
"ORLANDO.
-.-tv
And seemd to be in greater glory

Than 1 ant in my attic story ('
ihe Repertory.
But all at once (I sigh to tell)'

100
The coursers spurtt'd hisnchildish ttst't'd,

Nor yielded more'to his command,
.,
was tried for witchcraft at the Hcrtford as
Does pity move within that breast,
siics in, England, in the year 1712. The
Compassion sweetly ow,
'judge'who presided at the trial, wishing to

save her life, told the jury that some young
To sooth a soul with grief oppressd,
But tnssd the gig and all its lqad
In the foul bowels of .he wad;

And of that glory which but now,
Seem'd turning round his youthful brow,
Malignant iot'iune nipp'd the hu'd,
And stam'd its lustre'itt the moil
To mitigate my woe?
iOh' Delia. ifthese charms be thine,
v
Withhold'tltein not, i pray;
105 I
women unquestionably possessed the powers
ofwitchctaft, but he believed they always lost

those magical powers when they grew old.
But'let'thy accents, so divine,

+
-
Chase all my fears away.

\Vould Delia lend to Ldmund's cry
His leg was hurt, his head inamed,
A tenderflisttting ear,
Her doubts would far forever y,
And Lwould ne'er despair.
With erceness roved insatiate pain
Thr ugh his distorted curdlntg brain,
the Roman empire to the 14th and 15th

vctttttur , women spent most of their time
alone, almost entire strangers to the joys of
His palsied tongue refused to speak,
social life; and seldom went abroad, but. to

Her tender looks and visage gay,
be spectators of such public diversions and

amusements as the fashions of the times
Her suttl with artle'ss form,

Her sweet discourse and cheering lay,
; 115
would countenance.
Could quell the jealous storm.

0.
= P:
Francis the rst was
My muse no longer will inspire,

But thts young lehu she will raise,
Conduct him from the vulgar gaze, '
.the rst who introduced women, on public
But, ah! she turns from Edmunds call,

. ' 5 ' She ltmks no more on me;
, And Delia, who wasonce my all,
Jim I my readers longer tire, ,
120
days, to court. Before this time, nothing was

to be seen, at any court of Europe, but
Must share anothers glee.
grey headed politicians, plotting the destruc

tion of the rights and liberties of mankind,
And when his shatterd senses mend,

Pursue the story .to its end. .
,
' Change of times. 1"ruin the subversion of
His gig was broke, hishorses la'med,
Sw_tft changing blushes hid his cheek,

His'aex'ter'irm wit out ofplade,
And shame stood stayingin his face.
'Rmt'ity (J It-mm.
An old woman, Jane \Venham by name.
EDMUND AN!) DELIA.
He from his mighty station fellz'
I -.
some happier youth has gain'd her heart,

Must Ldmund now repinel
'
Ohfnol tm';
thoughtdepart;
_ Della can ne'er-be'mine'. ACAN1US.
t .'
_ u7 -
For the Repertory.1 1.4
and warriors clad in complete armor, ready
to put their plots into execution. In the

mm and 14th century, elegance had scarce
ly any existence; and even cleanliness was
hardly considered as laudable. The use of
in:
STANZ t5. ,_
To a party of ladies and gentlemen. with whom the
For the Repertory;
"
author had the happiness ofspending a most agree
able -- halloween.
'- '
\Vell, health to you all. thoitgh we,never may meet
On the elect/1'9};
aged three yeara.
'Thou darling: little. prattlingdtoy! "
Are thy fund parents hopes and joy
'
With sorrowsclouded o'ert'
on horseback, When they came to town, and

in the samcimanncr took them back to their
J.
The magical lessonsnl' famed halluween,

H \
So Eptftlvely taught as we emptted the shells,"
And -he innocent mirth thatarose at the scene;
0f each laddie, unf-tldtng the myckica} spellsq , 'I
How oft we perused the mysterious lore. i
shifts. In the time of Henry VIII. peers of

the rcttlm brought their wives behind them,
And art thou, then,no mote?
Toge~her ignilt where such pleasure Ive known;

Bu' memory/{faithful those rtlioments so sweet,
Shall often recal .wlten_l yt-andEr alone. i

_
linen was not tknown, and the mOst delicate

of the fair sex, in those days, wore woolen
- ,ln'sa'tiate death! 'why wilt thou spare

_ :Nttr charming youth, nor age?
.>
country seats, with howls of waxed linen

over their heads, wrapped in' minttles of
cloth, to Secure them from the cold. Ahd itt
Bttt ntptalike the hoary hair,

'i 'The'infant and the sagel '
' ' Thy'powetfnl sit/lay 'tvasnot in vain,
l
ten-ts, during [i'tc mg 'otlrztnci's the fair,

And laughd and its whimsical vagries defy-d;
By Hymen some bisi. sonic temnintl ro' deplore :
That their stars unpropitious refused them altyitle
,
And Ill say,
...;t'
surrounded
..
'l'ht strength not wasted hero;
to ride in a tit-o wheeled cart, along the dirty
:1.
other-<-3 thy-ugh fair,
__ lvhen (hi-5E8 _a_n_d titedjtneiAnd sweet smiles

moveaFrfu'ndf"
a, .
streets, was reckoned a grandeur of so en
viable a nature, that be prohibited the wives

of his citizens ,{rpnt enjoying it; tutdytthat
Secure .from anxious 14?,
,9 all .tAttdga'm entire 'that bliss above
" These cannot like you from the mind bani h care
And the bounty. with raptui'egcom'pel'to re ound.
Thou'st snatch'd a setaph- from tlte pain

Of this terrestrial sphere
J 0! may he reach tho=e realms of love,
I Lti'lnttuvyiidtg wuslonlygo be had at the shops
He could not share below.
of upotltccaries,;wtiere it. was sold as a cor
'rub'otttts, I
I-Li .Jl ' Judah-t J I' t us'J LI 1|
Q32
_ ...._E _.!!i Ea
1 a..
lDblWltJbla.
'"ican war, it was a Complete wilderness. The
HEALTH OFFICE,
land on which Utica now stands, could have
November 10, 181i).

Interment: in the city and liberties of Philadelphit
GATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1810.

MARRIED,
--At Springeld, Del. county, on Thursday

the 8th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Staughtou, Mr.
HOratjo B. Pennock, to Miss Rachel Carson,
all ofthis city.

On Thursday evening last, by the Rev.
Mr. Joyce, Mr. Charles M'Clenachan, eldest
son of Mr. Robert MClcnachan, merchant,
been purchased, twenty ve years ago, as we

are informed, for a dollar an acre. A small
triangular lot, at the corner of two streets in
the village, part of the same land, sold, a few
weeks ago at the rate of 300,000 dollars per
acre. In the year 1794 there were only tWo

houses in this town; in 1800, it consisted of
several streets, and contained two thousand
inhabitants. We are inclined to think, that
from the St! to the 10m November.

Diseases.
ad. cb.
Burns
0 2
Consumption ofhtngslo 0
Convulsions
0 4
Decay
0 l
Dropsy
3 0
Dropsy of the brain 0 1
Debility
O 3
Eruptions
0 l
Fever, typhus
2 0
Fe't'er, puerperal
l 0
Gangrene
l 0
Diseases.
ad. cb.
lntlam. of lung:
1 0
lnam. of'bowell 0 I.
Old age
2 0
Palsey
l 0
Pleurisy
1 O
Scrofula
0 1
Sore throat
I 0
Syphilis
l 0
-~
24 16
of this city, to the amiable Miss Molly Tho from its rapid improvements, and favorable
mas, eldest daughter of Mr.\'Villiam Thomas, situation for trade, its population since the Hives
0 2
Total 40
last census has trebled itself. The commu
of Lower Merl-ion, Montgomery county.
5 Between 50 and (Q
6
On Thursday, the 15th inst. by the Rev. nication between Utica and Albany is inter Under 1 year
3
70
0
Dr. Rogers, Mr. John Prat, of Lancaster rupted by a land carriage only of siitte'en Between 1 and 2
5
5
70
l
miles, owing to the falls near the mouth of
county, Penn. to Miss Esther Ellet of Ches
5
10
2
80
90
0
ll
the
Mohawk
river.
Baltimore
American.
10
20
11
'90
100
1
ter county.
20
30
men,
30
40
8
8
100
11.0
1
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was lately sent to Europe with messengers

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BIOGRAPHY.
(Continued)
In the battle of Princeton, captain MPhcr

son, of the 17th British regiment, a very wor
thy Scotchman, was desperately wounded in
the lungs and left with the dead. Upon gene
ral Putnam's arrival there, he found him
languishing in extreme distress, without
a surgeon, without a single accommodation,
and without a friend to solace his sinking

spirit in the gloomy hour of death. He visit
ed and immediately caused every possible
comfort to be administered to him. Captain
MPherson, who, countrary to all appearan
ces, recovered, after having demonstrated to
at his return, reported that general Putnam's

army on the most moderate calculation could
not consist of less than four or ve thousand
men.
When the spring had now so far advanced
that it was obvious the enemy would soon
take the eld, the commander in chief, after
desiring general Putnam to give the ofcer

who was to relieve him at Princeton, all the
information necessary for the conduct of that

post, appointed him to the command of a se
parate army in the highlands of New York.
It is scarcely decided, from any document
yet published, whether the prepOsterous
plans prosecuted by British generals, in the
campaign of 1777, were altogether the result
of their orders from home, or whether they
general Putnam the dignied sense of obli partially originated from the contingencies
gations which a generous mind wishes not ol' the moment. The system, which, at the
to conceal, one day demanded in familiar con time, tended to puzzle all human conjecture,
versation, Pray, sir, what countryman are
you? An American, answered the latter.

Not a Yankee? said the other. A full
blooded one, replied the general. By
Gd, I am sorry for that, replyed MPher
when developed, served, also, to contradict

all reasonable calculation. Certain it is, the
American .commander-irr-chief was so pet"

plexed with contradictory appearances, that
he knew not how to distribute his troops
son, I did not think there could be so much with his usual discernment, so as to oppose
goodness and generosity in an American, or, the enemy with equal prospect of success
indeed, in any body but a Scotchmanl"
in different parts. The gathering tempests
While the recovery of captain MPherson menaced the northern frontiers, the posts
was doubtful, he desired that general Putnam in the highlands, and the city of Philadelphia;
would permit a friend in the British army at but it was still doubtful where the fury of
Brunswick to come and assist him in making the storm would fall. At one time, sir \Vil
his will. General Putnam, who had then only liam Howe was forcing his way by land to
fty men in his whole command, was sadly Philadelphia; at another, relinquishing the
embarrassed by the proposition. ()n the one Jerseys; at a third, facing round to make a
hand, he was not content that a British oicer sudden inroad; then, embarking with all the
should have an opportunity to spy out the forces that could be spared from New York,
weakness of his post; on the other, it was and then putting out to sea at the very mo
scarcely in his nature to refuse complying ment when general Burgoyne had reduced
with a dictate of humanity. He luckily be Ticonderoga, and seemed to require a coope
thought himself of an expedient, which he ration in another quarter.
hastened to put into practice. A ag oftruce
It was not wonderful that many of the To
was dispatched with captain MPherson's rc ries were able, undiscovered, to penetrate
quest, but under an injunction not to return far into the country, and even to go with lct
with his friend till after dark. In the evening, ; ters, or messages, from one British army to
lights were placed inall the COllege windows, i
another. The inhabitants, who were well af
and in every appartment of the vacant houses 9 fected to the royal cause, afforded them every
throughout the town. During the whole I
possible support, and their own knowledge of
night, the fty men, sometimes all together, , the different routes gave them a farther faci
and sometimes in small detachments, were lity in performing their peregrinations. Some
marched from different quarters, by the house times the most active loyalists, who had gone
in which MPherson lay. Afterwards it was into the British post and received promises of
of soldiers, came back, secretly, with recruit
ing instructions. Sometimes these and others

who came from the enemy within the verge
of our camps, were detected and condemned
to death, in conformity to the usages of war.
But the British generals, who had an unli
mited supply of money at their command,
were able to pay with so much liberality, that
emissaries could always be found. Still it is
thought that the intelligence of the Ameri
can commanders was, at least, equally accu
rate, notwithstanding the poverty of their mi

litary chest and the inability of rewarding
mercenary agents for secret services.
A person, of the name of Palmer, who
was a lieutenant in the tory new levies, was
detected in the camp at Peeks Kill. Go

vernor Tryon, who commanded the new le
vies, reclaimed him as a British oicer, and
represented the heinous crime of condemn

ing a man commissioned by his majesty, and
threatening vengeance in case he should be
executed. General Putnam wrote the fol
lowing pithy reply:
Sir, Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in your
kings service, was taken in my camp as a

spy; he was tried as a spy; he was condemn
ed as a spy; and he shall be hanged as a
spy.
ISRAEL PUTNAM.
P. S. AfternoonHe is hanged.
Sights of wretchedness always touched
with commiseration the feelings of general
Putnam and prompted his generous soul to
succour the aficted. But the indulgence
which he showed (whenever it did not mili
tate against his duty) towards the deserted
and suffering families of the tories in the
state of New York, was the cause of his be
coming unpopular with no inconsiderable

class of people in that state. On the other
side he had conceived an unconquerable
aversion to many of the persons who were
entrusted with the disposal of tory property,
because he believed them to have been
guilty of peculations and other infamous
practices.
His character was also respected by the
enemy. He had been acquainted with many

of the provincial ofllcers in a former war.
As flags frequently passed between the out
posts dnring his continuance on the lines, it
was a common practice to forward the news
known, that the ocer who came on the visit, Icommissions upon enlisting a certain number papers by them,~and as those printed bv R
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vington, the royal printer in New York, were
into his power, ignorant that the monk had

infamous for the falsehoods with which they already e'cctcd his desire.
aboundcd, general Putnam once sent a pack
Ferresburgh now demanded of Linhault
ct to his old friend general Robertson, with where he had discovered Thadia; the youth
this billet: Major general Putnam presents informed him that he found her at the cot
his compliments to major general Robertson, tage of Braubenski. The king requested
and sends him some American newspapers Ferresburgh to excuse his absence, as he
for his perusal; when general Robertson shall wished to have some private conference with
have done with them, it is requested that Linhault, and was withdrawing with the ba
they may be given to Rivington, in order that ron, when Ferresburgh requested him to
stay, as he himself should leave the room
he may print some truth.
and make preparations for receiving Thadia.
For the Repertory.
'TIIE HElRI'iSS OF SOBEISKI.
A ROMANCE
CIIAPTER IX.
(Continued)
As leaps the ruthless tyger on his prey,
And stands exulting in the fearful deed;
Even so the bravoes seized the helpless maid.
He heard. and started at the sound. Despair
Leok'd pallid oer his visage. and his eye
Shot ery anger; then dissembling, beam'd
A gentler look.
On arriving at the castle, Linhault pro

ceeded immediately to the chamber of the
u Your majesty will pardon my abrupt

ness, said he, u but in such a case, I stand
Destruction has at length overtaken;
me, cried Ferresburgh, when he regained

that his feelings operated forcibly upon the his own chamber, " and death and ignominy
count, but they were not the feelings of joy, stare me in the face! O!hellish chance! Lin
on the contrary, they were'the feelings of hault, thou hast undone me! Curse on thy
hate and disappointed cruelty.
stubborn virtue. 0! no, bless it, my noble
On Ferresburghs leaving the chamber, boy; that saves you from the misery of Fer
Linhault expressed to Stanislaus his asto resburgh! How, how shall I avoid the burst
nishment at the behaviour of his father, udd
ing thunder?"
ing,
He paced the room in extreme agitation,
v I have lately been more than ever con until somewhat relieved by the entrance of
vinced, my liege, that my father, wrth horror . the confessor.
dol relate it! had too great a concern in

Sobciskis fall.
Found! repeated Ferresburgh, shrink
ing in horror and amazement.

Linhault, on perceiving his father, drew
back, and repented his impetnosity, but it

was too late, and placing his inquiring eyes
upon Ferresburgh, replied,
Yes, my noble father, found. Your gene
rous nature no doubt rejoices at the oppor
tunity of rendering justice to the heiress of
Sobeiski.
The eyes of Stanislaus were now bcnt up

on Ferresburgh, who, nding it absolutely
necessary to play the hypocrite again to the

king, answered,
You are right, my noble boy, by my

hopes, the feelings I experience at hearing
of this joyful wonder, cannot be expressed;
they choak my utterance, but the transports
of my heart are great, at the hope of be
holding once more a daughter of my noble
uncle, and I rejoice at the blessed providence
that robs me of the fair domains, which for
sixteen years Ive held.
This was a master stroke. The eyes of
Stanislaus sparkled with delight; Linhault
Here he left the room. It was indeed true,
he hasted thither, and unknowing that any

one was with Stanislaus, entering, exclaimed
lost Thadia is found!
Found! echoed the king.
menade; he therefore wrote his commands
in a note, leaving it with Lopez, giving him

orders to deliver it to F laurice as soon as he
came into the castle, after which he retired
to his chamber, to ruminatc on the occur
rences of the day.

not upon ceremony, particularly as my feel
ings almost rob me of recollection.
king, but, hearing that he was in the library,
with exultation, Thadia, my lord, the long
Fear not for him, replied the king!

Mercy is an attribute of Heaven, and shall
a mortal throw the pearl away? But we reason
wrong, Fcrreshurgh is not yet, and I hope
never will be proved guilty! therefore no
more, but do as I desire.
Linhault now left the king, and proceeded
in search of Flaurice. He could not nd the
squire, for he was amusing himself by a pro
11 Indeed! exclaimed the king, H what

have you heard?
A tale of horror," replied the youth, a
story that petried me with fear, and almost
froze my blood with anguish!"
VVhat mean you? inquired Stanislaus.
Linhault now related the story of Sobei
skis death, in the manner Braubenski had
told him, often interrupted by the king's
sudden exclamatious of horror.
1' rlave you learned the dreadful truth?

demanded the count, as Austin entered the
room.
" What truth?" inquired Austin, I know
one glorious truth for you, my lord.

Then let me hear it, replied Ferrcs
burgh, " I have a tale, which, but to hear,
would strike thee dumb!
II My lord, answered the monk, " what I
have to relate, is for your peace and safety,

Thadias found!
the king, when Linhault had concluded,
Your information is too late, said For

resburgh, that is the dreadful truth I have
to tell! Thadia is found, and in her sove
Heaven will reward you for this noble con
reigns power!
Generous and brave Braubenski. cried
duct! I, as the minister of Providence, will
reward you!
The actions of Braubenski," cried Lin
hault, are indeed worthy of a prince, and

ask a noble recompense!"
~
u He shall receive one," answered the
king, but now, youth, let us concert mea
sures for her further sccuritynl would not

have her brought here, as I informed you
before, therefore, tomorrow she shall be con
It Indeed! returned Austin, then 'tis ve
ry lately, for two hours since Isaw her safe

ly locked within the deserted chambers of
the western wing.
\
What do you say In replied Ferresburgh,

Thadia in my power!
An explanation now took place between
these worthy companions. Ferresburgh rela
ted to Austin, how he 'had discovered Tha
dias being found, and Austin informed his
veyed to \Varsaw, until her security is xed

on a rm basis; you will, therefore, prepare
every thing necessary for her departure; in
lord, how he had overheard Linhault and

Braubenski, and in consequence of that, his
having seized Thadia, and bore her to the
the mean time, send word to Braubenski, to
castle.
excuse her from leaving the cottage to day,

if Ferresburgh should send for her, which
gazed upon his father in mute astonishment, 'tis probable he will do."
" 1 shall obey you in every thing, my
and for once believed him innocent.
But the count, at the moment he spoke liege, answered Linhault, but my fa
thus, was inwardly planning means to get her ther
Ferresburgh overwhelmed the confessor

with thanks.
" You have rescued me from destruction,
cried he, and SM ed my honor, dearer than
my life! yet should she be missed, inquiry

will doubtless be made.
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- The peasant then left the castle, for his thing to hope for himself, he there secureB
cottage, and Linhault having called Flauricc, beforehand, a continuation of happiness for
" Yet, said the count, " we must be and
den! Ha! a thought has struck me: to night informed him of the whole, commanding him who is to be his representative, when
the abbey smokes in ruin; then to night shall him not to sleep, but to be upon the watch un himsclf shall be no more.
Thadia be destroyed! thus, thus shall sink til morning, when he would inform the king,
Happy infancy! tender and innocent age!
my every fear in death! 0! honor and ambi and if he observed any person stirring, to Who would not regret your delicious enjoy
tion, at what a rate I purchase you! No mat come to him immediately. I shall either," ments, free from core! without anxiety, with
said he, " be in the hall, or in the garden.
ter; this night she falls."
out passions, you know life only by two live
UBALDO.
Thats nobly resolved, my lord, cried
ly sentiments, intended for the felicity of the
(To be continued.)
the monk, this one blow will make us both
mind, Hope and Love! WVere ye but consci
secure!
ous of your happy state, could you but guard
They now separated, Austin to his room,
For the Repertory.
yourselves against the illusions which are
and Ferresburgh to give orders for the re
just
beginning to lead your imagination
SELECTOR. No. V.
ception of Thudia; though receiving her in
astray, you would be the image of man in his
Pleasure is a common object; every oneis purity! You would live tranquil under the
form was farthest from his thoughts, yet to
engaged in the pursuit of it, and yet it is but protection of paternal providence and care,
save appearances it Was necessary.
\Vhen Flauricc returned, Lopez gave him seldom overtaken. This must undoubtedly as we live under the ever open eye of su
the note, but alas, he might as well have kept be owing to our mistaking the right road to preme Goodness and Wisdom! What pathe
it, for Fl.-.urice unfortunately could not read, it, for nature does nothing in vain; and when tic scenes, what tender, what animated senti
desire
in _ the ment, does not domestic life produce! A
and would not disturb his lord, nor betray she implanted that general
4
" But not of you," replied the monk.
_' breast of man, she could not Withheld from
mother, fond to weakness! brothers, sisters,
hault were not executed, neither, from the - him the means of gratifying it. The disor
event of Ferresburghs gaining possession of ders of imagination, the illusions 0! self love,
relatives, friends! What a variety of connec

tions! how many little internal occurrences!
how many different situations, which are no
thing in the eyes of the world, but are every
thing to a heart of sensibility! Is there a spot
in our paternal habitation, in which the steps
of a provident goodness are not imprinted,
and consecrated, as formerly in the land of
Canaan, by some monument of a tender and
religious sentiment? Here I have received a
proof of tenderness! there a mark of indul
gence! Here I imbibed pious lessons and
his ignorance, so that the commands of Lin
a
Thadia, was it necessary they should.
Braubenski and Malda waited till near
three oclock for Thadia, when the father,
fearing some accident had befallen her, left
.
the cottage in search of her.
He traversed the woods without any suc
and a false delicacy of sense, are the sources

from which we expect to derive happiness;
and we are astonished when we nd nothing
but fatigue, disgust and satiety. What is it
that we seek in balls, in spectacles, and in

assemblies? This is the sentiment Which We
' hope to nd there, but for which we hope in
cess, till the sun descended the horizon, and
r
shades of night closed round the landscape.
Iv
He then bent his way toward the castle,and
if
several times walked round it, and at length,
,'
near the garden wall, he found a white hand
vain. All the pleasures v\hich cities afford

are without taste or avor. The open air is
as necessary for the dilation of the heart, as
for the expansion of owers, and the hea
vens are the natural canopy of man. What
kerchief, which, upon examination, he found

', would ambition, what would avarice demand!
was Thadias.
i
This handkerchief she had lost, in strug
!
gling with the villains, Truro and \Veincet,
5
as they bore her to her prison.
!
This convinced Braubenski that she was !
Amass round you the treasures of both the

Indies; place at your feet all the crowns of
the earth; unite in your own person every
thing that the most servile adulation can be
stow; indulge in every thing which the most

; venal voluptuousness can purchase, and ima
mined to impart his knowledge to Stanislaus gine, and you will see 'liberias at Caprea,
and the baron. He imparted his discovery to i' tormented with the void within his heart,
Malda, and they both continued to converse ll and wanting a sentiment in the midst of the
in the castle, and he returned home, deter
on the mattertillneartcn oclock, when Brau- 1 l whole world! Nature has placed within our
benski grew more and more uneasy, and de
selves the source of our happiness. The rst
termined to go to the castle at that hour and sentiment which calls the soul out of itself,
acquaint Linhault with what had happened.
that makes it feel, with bounding joy, the
He accordingly departed, and found that beating of the heart, that Whispers to the
the inhabitants had all retired, except Lin heart, that it is not made for itself alone, is,
hault, Flauricc, and the steward. He request lial jziely. \Vhat tender cares solicit it!
ed to see the rst, and informed him of the Desire, expectation, Sac. usher man into
loss of Thadia.
life, under the protectionof paternal tender
Nothing could exceed the horror and de ness. The cares of his infancy, the educa
spair of Linhault, on hearing this, but he be
tion of his youth, his establishment in soci
maxims, which shall ever be for me the ta
bles of the law: I will transmit them as they

were transmitted to me, and with the autho
rity of an example more. Mature age would

be that of the plenitude of happiness intend
ed for man, did he remain obedient to the
inspirations of nature. His knowledge is ac
quired, his experience is formed, the intel
lectual and corporeal being is in its full per
fection. Become the father of a family and a
proprietor, what a delicious source of senti
ments is opened in his heart! what a vast
sphere for his thoughts to reign in! To
isolated man, life is monstrous; and without
interest, his days succeed to each other With

out variety: society produces nothing but
uniform scenes, and even the passions range
in a conned gircle. But for a father, the
education of his children; their progress in
learning; the unfolding of their minds; the

prognostics, whence to form an opinion of
their dispositions; his hopes; his fears; and
came more calm, on learning the probability
ety; these are the kind services which he
of her being in the castle.

"Then she is safe, cried the intrepid
youth. u if in the castle, I am here to guard
he 1'! Return, Braubcnski, nor fear for her se
receives from the father; what 10nd indul

gence for his faults! what active solicitude
in all his cares! The fathers eye foresees
every thing, provides every thing; and plung
the plans which connect the future to the

present, give to man the enjoyment of .the
time when he shall be no more.
Such are the pleasures which nature pro
poses to a wise and enlightened parent, who
feels the dignity of his state,and the obliga
curity!"
ing into distant futurity, where he has. no
tions which he has contracted, by accepting
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m
the august privilege of perpetuating his spe

eies.
"6.
For the Repertory.

Mr. Editor,
The following short piece of advice for epis

tolary writing, from a mother to her son,
on his departure to travel, claims a place

in your valuable miscellany.
G. G.
My Son,
\Vhen we are separated, write often, has

been the expression of most parents; to you
I will say, write seldom, but write long. By
your writing too frequently,I will be confu
sed with iterations; but by writing seldom, I
may expect to be favored with something

solid, and reasonably hope for something
new; your letters will, then, always be re
ceived with satisfaction, opened with avidity,
and perused with pleasure. They must be a

delineation of your travels; in them I will be
interested; and as in your circuit there will
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XIII.

The sacred lowe o weel placed love
Luxuriantly indulge it:
But never tempt th' illicit rm,
Though naething should divulge it.
I wave the quantum of the sin,
The hazard of concealing;
But oh! it hardens a within
And petries the feeling! Bonus.
Charles was the son of respectable and

afuent parents, who had long resided far
from the busy scenes of the metropolis; his
mother died when he was quite young, and
his education more considerably engrossed
the attention of his father. Masters were
provided for the branches his son was in
without feeling a disposition to communi

cate. Do not tell me about the stages, nor
the roads, nor upsetting, unless you have
been seriously injured; such conversation is
puerile. Inform me of the inhabitants and the
manners: describe to me the country as you
pass; the rivers, the forests, the mountains,
the precipices, the rocks, and the cataracts.

Such scenes will inspire you with the true
spirit of composition, and your letters will
be a treasure. As you are a favorite of the
muses, you must occasionally favor me with
a poetical description of any scenes with
which you may have been particularly pleas
ed; but let them be animated; and in poetry
more than in prose, do not begin a piece be

cause I desire it; let each line be expressive,
and let every word convey an idea. Do not

crowd your page with declarations of aec
tion. It is sufficient for me to believe that I
am possessed of it; and if I have it not, I am
happy in the delusion. Do not undeceive

me by a useless repetition, for such is the
garb of hypocrisy, such the smile of deceit;
it will awaken suspicion. Let your epistles
to me breathe the duty of a son, but let
them be penned with the energy of a man.
In your letters to others, do not foot them
with the empty professions of a Frenchman,

nor the despicable pusillanimity of an Italian.
Let them be as your language, rm; and as
your country, independent.
I remain, with affection, your mother,
ELIZA.
ON
A habit of sneering marks the egotist, or

the fool, or the knave, or all three.
heaven; that youth who, but a short time
ago, would have sacriced his life to his fa

thers happiness, had bartered his virtue for
the vile embrace of aharlot: his feelings had
sunk beneath her melting caresses, and she
had enticed him from the paths of morality;
tended to be taught, (when he became old
she had despoiled his soul of that innocence

enough to receive their instructions,) in the which was before as unspotted as the smil
house of Mr. B. and thus was be prevented ing cheek of morn.
from living in a city, which is so frequently
The chaste virtues of the amiable Miss
destructive to the morals of the young and S. were soon forgotten, and the tumultuous
the giddy, the thoughtless and the gay. passions of ungovernablc desire reigned in
Eighteen years had, however, swiftly rolled
their stead. His father, believing too strong
away; the wrinkling father was descending

into age; and the blooming son just rising
to maturity. He was now considered old
enough to distinguish good from evil; and,
after many solicitations, permitted to visit
this city alone. His fathers friends were nu
merous, and he was so much delighted with
the place, that a situation was procured, and
be determined to pursue his intended pro
fession here. At the very age the most sus
ceptible of love, placed in a fascinating scene,
it may be readily supposed he Was frequent
ly enamoured; but a new beauty easily ef
ly in the firmness of his virtue, which he had
be at all times a free channel of correspon

dence between us, never commence a letter
and appearance, together with her manners,

were engraven on his mind; he was yet
young and inexperienced, and he little
thought so fair an outward had such
stuff within. Shall I repeat it? will it be be
lieved! that youth who was once as lovely
as he was kind, and which were both only
exceeded by his obedience to his father; that
youth who supported the ardent hopes of a
too indulgent parent, isolated by the will of
founded with so much care and reared with

such peculiar attention, denied him no sum;
and out of an affectionate respect for feelings,
he never asked him that question which is
so disagreeable to every youth, bow is this
money to be all/iro/m'ated? A sufciency of
cash, and a disposition open, generous, and
unsuspecting, were more than he could sup
port with that dignied propriety, which
would have rendered them secure from the
deception of the artful, and the imposition
of the vicious. He abused them both: the
faeed the recollection of a former, and his
gaming table, in all its forms, was his fre
mind was continually agitated with attering

hopes and distrustful fears. His tender heart
had often been stamped with the sylvan sig
net of elegance; but the deepest impression
it had yet received, was from the amiable
kindness and interesting loveliness of Miss
S. He was one evening walking unaccom
panied, reecting on the airy visions of sub
lunary bliss; Miss S. was xed upon as his
wife; and, if fortune proved propitious, he
was determined to make her the proposal.
Whilst he was in this train of thought, a
beautiful girl passed before him: she moved
quent resort; habits of dissipation became

daily more familiar; and each step to vice
rendered the next one the more inevitable.
He, at length, found himself in a labyrinth,
from which there was no possibility of his
being honestly extricated, without the assist
ance of his father. He had now so frequent
ly abused his kindness, that to him he was
with the grace of a goddess; her form was,
perhaps, a model of perfection; her face had

attained the very acme of elegance; her
smiles were as attering as the deluding
zephyrs of the ocean, which lull the fears of
the mariners but to arouse them to a great
ashamed to turn for relief. His debts of

honor must be paid, and he discharged them
by a mortgage on his soul: he had recoulS
to forgery; and after having ourished, for

some time, on the money thus basely acquil
ed, he ed; but justice overtook him, and 11
was cast into prison, there to remain until his
trial determined the extent of punishment
due to his crime. In the mean time, his fa

ther was apprised of his disgraceful situa
tion; he was his parent still, and nature urg
er sense of their danger. Charles was, in ed him to y to his assistance. He did; but
fact, enchanted; and he went to offer himself he hastened in vain: he arrived merely in
a victim to her destructive arts. She receiv time to hear his last prayer, and to see his
ed him with the smile of pleasure; she existence escape through a wound inicted
breathed in his distracted ear the fatal ac by himself. His strength was nearly exhaust
cents of a feigned affection; and her gure ed when, using all his exertions at the sight
237
PHI LADELPHIA REPE'RTORY.
of his father, he said, in accents which still
emotions for me. My reections were inter
bition were thus contending with each other,
vibrate on my ear, wilt thou forgive me, fa

ther? O! gracious Heaven! dare I expect for
pardon there? Here his words faultered,
rupted by the appearance of Mr. G. and we
and before either gained the victory, I had
sat down, shortly after, to our repast. Little
strolled into the garden, and seated myself
of moment passed, until we had nished our in a bower of honey suckle and jessaiine,
meal and the equipage was removed, for the which had been twincd together by the fair
and having received forgiveness, he ex
pired in the arms of his wretched parent, parson affected a complete system of regu hands of Mary.
I had not remained long in my reective
whose moans of anguish memory yet re
larity; twas then I gathered from his con
peats. After the funeral obsequies were per conversation that he was a bachelor; and that posture, ere I perceived Mary tripping to
formed, this father of unhappiness returned his only relative was the lovely and interest wards me; she stopped, and blushed; but
home; and overpowered by the burden of ing Mary, the orphan daughter of his only quickly recovering herself, presented me
woe, beneath which he had been long bend
ing, he sought another and a better world.
Ye sons of painful pleasure, hear this

mournful tale! Ye advocates for momentary
bliss, if you will but look around you, you
will perceive many of your companions no
less wretched than Charles; and if they have
not yet arrived to the scene of his miserable
end, they may reasonably expect one no less
ignominious. Beware then, 0 ye thought
less children of men; beware, ye youthful
wanderers, of the insinuating behavior of
wicked females; let not their polluted beau
ties entice you to share their wanton embra
ces; for their blush is guiltiness, not mod
esty. Their company is the rst step into
vice, and when you have once'entercd on its
mad career, the difculty of retracing your
steps will only be known when remorse tells
you to return. Too much familiarity renders
us insecure; therefore, the only way to keep
vice from gaining our affections, is to see it
brother, who had, with his dying breath, be
with a bunch of owers, which she said were
queathed her to his care and protection. He

was, he told me, in possession of a hand
some salary; and as be advanced in years,
he thought his faculties became impaired;
or, in other words, the task of composing
sermons interfered too much with his case
and native indolence of mind and body; and
the sweetest the garden produced; and in

deed, sir, she continued, I took care to se
lect them from the thorns. I eagerly seized

the hand that held them, and pressing it to
my lips, drew her on the bench beside me.
Caustic, the remembrance of that scene af
flicts me; it reminds me of whatI have lost:
twas then that, regardless of every obstacle,

kind of amanuensis, upon what he called a I breathed forth the vows of a fervent pas
liberal allowance. To induce me to accept sion, and received from her the sweet assur
it, he told me that the re of genius which ance I was not indi'erent to he r. Twas then
beamed through my classical looking eye that I rst pressed with holy love my lips
lashes, bespoke a mind in the highest state to hers, and she blushingly declared they
of intellectual improvement; and, therefore, should never be pressed by anothers.
JACK TROCHAIQ
the composition of one or two sermons in a
if I did not object, he would retain me as a
month, so far from becoming a task, would
(To be continued.)
only be giving vent to the sparkles of abril

liant and fertile imagination! Wit, what think
For the Repertory.
you of that? Jack Trochaic, who, at one time,
was discovered to be the greatest dunce in
-.~
Friend Editor,
I have the good fortune, or misfortune,
but seldom, and always to look upon it with
the seminary; discerned to be a man of gen

ius, at second sightll The vacant counte
being a married man. I am in possession of
s frown-
nance, which one of our tutors has often, in
a tolerably lucrative business; and, by close
GREGORY GRAVITY.
For the Repertory.
(Continued)
As soon as the rst beams of morning had

burst from the eastern acclivities, I-shook
off the drowsy inuence of Sornnus and de
scended to the parlor; intending from thence
to take a solitary stroll through the garden

and the adjoining demesnes, until his rever
ence, in the plenitude of his wisdom, should
think proper to quit his downy couch and

join in the morning rcpast; imagining, from
the unwieldly state of his person, that some

hours must previously elapse. Contrary to
my expectations, and much to my satisfac
tion, upon my entrance I found the cloth
laid for breakfast. I threw myself on a chair,

and in a few minutes after, Mary Came into
the room. She blushed with such innocent

sweetness, as I paid her the compliment of
the morning, that the chains which the pre
ceding evening had disposed my heart to
receive, were rmly rivetted. But though I
was in love, my passion was pure and disin
terested; and I thought how blest I should
be, could I create, within her bosom, similar
whatever you may be pleased to term it, of
his moments of displeasure, proclaimed the application to it, am enabled to realize sui
mirror that reected laziness and ignorance, cient to afford me not only the necessaries,
was then, in the physiognomical opinion of but likewise many of the luxuries, of life.
the reverend Mr. G. the index of a brain, My temper is mild, and my children are du
little inferior to Pope, Dryden, or any of the tiful and obedient. Possessed of the above,
literary worthies of yorell
who would hesitate to pronounce me a hap
I could scarce refrain from indulging a py man? Anti so I should be, to a certainty,
strong propensity to laughter at his far fetch was there not one principal drawback on my
ed compliments; and the effort to prevent it felicity. My wife, sir, I am sorry to say, is
threw, I imagine, so ludicrous an expression infected with a strange disorder, which, for
into my luminous visage, that his reverence want of a better name, I will term the fu
stopped and started back in surprize: how neral mania. This disease operates upon her
ever, as I preserved my gravity, and pretend in much the same manner as the bite of a
ed a slight pain in the head, he went on to mad dog.
In a populous city, like this, it is natural
inform me that, if I could not content ,my
self with being his amanucnsis, to convince to suppose some must drop off to make
me of the great regard he had for his friend, room for others; and my deary no sooner
hears of a death but she is all agog to attend
the manager, he would procure me the sit
uation of book keeper to an extensive nail the funeral, leaving the children and myself
manufactory, conducted by his particular to shift as well as we can, until her return,
friends, Messrs. M. and R. I thanked him which is generally late in the evening; when
for his obliging offers, requested a short my ears are stunned with a description of
time for consideration, and withdrew. Love
and Mary bade meiaccept his rst proposal;
the procession; who walked as mourners; el

egant coin; age, sex, and name of the de
more honorable situation than that of humble
ceased; new bonnets; Madison hats; shawls;

black lace; calico gowns, dimity petticoats,
copyist and composer to a country parson,
and a multitude of other fruit hagatcllea, far
declared for the other; While love and am
more suitable for'a highying milliners ad
but ambition, which impelled me to seek a
2 ss
rertisement than the apartment of a poor

' mechanic.
The scxtons of the different churches,
knowing my wifes propensity, are our most

constant visitors. My doors are almost brok
en down, in consequence of their repeated
knockiiigs; and we are hourly invited to attend
the funerals of persons, whom we, perhaps,
never saw or heard of before: the Litter cir
cumstance, however, makes very little dif
fritnce; ruin, httil, or shine, go she must,
and not unfrequently returns with violent

colds, rheumatic pains, tzgllC, or some other
comphint, which costs no small sum in the
s-w
t:vi:r, he ought to be at little more cuutious
how he throws out his censiires in the lump,
ut individuals and others, who undertake the

publication of music, and who, it is very like
ly, know more of the principles of hurmony

and the laws of composition, tlinn either he
I'Vhen I ~hink of thy mrij'sty, Lord,

For the Repertory.
I tremble, Icnnnot tell Why;
And yet, when I read in th} uord,
THE CONTEMIL.~\'IIST. No. 1.

Behind the shadowy mists that scarce disccrii'd,
()f sin. from her fangs Would I fly;

Like fiends, vtho thy poience revere,
Sit sullen on the top of yon high mount,
And own thee eternal above,

Let. let me not tremble wili far,
But. ah. let me tremble in love.
The sun with all his yellow train of light,
His just descended; evry insect now,
\Vhcre, through the cheerlcss watches of the night,
her death bed, her only regret would be, she

could not attend her own funeral.
Your distressed friend,

OBADIAH GRISKEN.
Near the sign of the Shrew, Henpeck lune.
In safety, undistutb'd, it may an air

The gladning rays of life refreshing morn;
The birds betakc them to their airy homes,
Or fav'ritc spray; and bark! g2} Chanticleer,
From yonder bough sends forth his evnitig notes;
Now straight replies some bro'her of the race,
Though distant far, his piercing voice is heard,
I' gives the signal for the gen'ral song.
Now, rising full and fair, the soft moon pours
Her watry lustre o'er the dew pressd dale;

For the Repertory.
Mr. Editor,
The weary hamlet sinking to repose,

Congenial silence reigns, save where the voice
Of some unsleeping dog, at intervals,
\Vhcn a man writes in a public paper, his

object ought to be plain to every one; the
scope of his subject ought to appear; and his
end ought to be a good one. Now, I con
ceive, that a writer in your paper, who sub
Howls hollow on the gale, and bold dees
The fearful traveller, who prudent takes

Some circling rout t avoid the angry cries
Of the erce centinel. Now wakeful guilt
Steals from his rugged couch the heavy hour,
scribes himself Philo Madam, has none of And seeking the black glooms of some deep wood,
Broods, trembling, oer the acts of former life,
> these to recommend him; or if he has, his
Acts not yet buried in the gulf oftinie,
essays do not show it. As to the design of But still presented by remembrance keen,
his numbers, it seems to me to militate In all their native horrors: Cynthia's light,
against church music; for he censures all Too bright for crimes so dark, appals his soul;
the books he comes across, one would think He looks around. behold: all nature smile,
merely to gratify some spleen or other; when And sighs to think he neer shall smile again!
he
through
worthy
knows
view
ourthat
city
of advancing
such
and tinion,
books
the
with
are
science
the
circulated
pl'aise
of sa- 1 He views the heavens serene, and thinks of him
\Vho rules above, a God as just as great:
His spirits die; he bends an humble knee,
But madly starting, swears to pray no more!
cred harmony, and, at the same time, the in- ] Nor dares he meditate self murder, there
(crests of religion. Ifthere is any difference I
Appear those crimes, in characters of blood ,
in the merits of the musical publicutions, i

why does he not point it out? and why does I
\Vhich straight consign him to the realms of woe!

Poor wretcli! these torments are thine own; but, oh!
Rich are the stores of mercy! quick away;
he not give the names of the compilers, who i Heaven knows how unfeign d thy repentance is,
have taken the liberties with good musiel " Ask and thou shalt receive!" Christ died for thee!
Ate c-mstraind to believe in a. Godt
They believe, and they tremble, in hate,

\Vliile they bow to thy chasm-ing rod)
Iflike them I believe, most I fall,
A rid like them forever remain
In the horrible realms ofsppal, '
Unpi led, and soul rendiiig paind

Yes. the terrible record is true,
The body most certainly die;
Believing like devils, soul too
With devils forever must lie.
'1 hen, jesus, all crimson'd with gore,
I ii} for a refuge to thee;

Convince me thy body once bore
The sins of my soul on the tree.
VALERIAN.
For the Repertory.
TIIE TRIUMPH OI" GRACE.
O! that the time past would return,

That the days I have lost could be found!
In vain do I wish it, and mourn
That time never more will come round.

Those days which I so have abused.
Have vanishd and left but despair;
And Mercy has purtIOll refused,
For sin drown'd the voice of my prayer,

" There '5 each pleasure with me," she aven'd,
" The soul or the senses can crave;
Her fatal persuasion I heard.
And follow'd the counsel she gave.
Poor \\ retch, that so easily luwd,
Could list to the end as a friend,
How low has she left thee immured

In anguish and grief in the end!
LORENZO.
While despair laceraied his heart:
\Vhen Evander, the good, by his side
many errors in one tune, and so many in an
whether his blame is alwtiys right; und I do

know one book, to which he ulludes, us I
have some reason to suppose, wherein is in
serted the declaration of the compilers, that
4 their harmonies have been approved of by
the best composers." This, Pliilo hlutlan
might have seen, if he had taken the trouble
to look at the end of the book: but perhaps
the old proverb is here veried, none utc
so blind as those who will not see. How
The devils. thy servants relate,
Thus Almeria, disconsolate. Cried,
he speaks of3 When he says there are so

other, why does he not name the tune, and
tell us where to nd it? For my PuI'I, I doubt
But, 0! though these transpicrce my breast,

And tt-mpests of vengeance I fear;
Let thy merciful grace bring me rest,
G. \V. C.
In Vuin do I attempt to reason with her and ! Hm m 'me cure nk'ww ""83"
ments; and I verily believe that was she on
Iermt me, Redeemer, to feel,
That Elijah of old did inspire,

To sufcn my bosom of steel.
And the nil! MIL! (It/Ill? It! me hear.
or his teachers.
end to the upothecury, nurse, or physician. , That ercwhilc gambold in th elTulgent beam,
point out the impropriety of her conduct.
She puys not the least attention to my argu
The whirlwind, the earthquake and re,
For the Repertory.
VERSE-.5
\Vritten on hearing a sermon from these words,
The devils also believe and tremble!
700M, i. 19.
Look inward on every crime
That leads to destruction, my soul;
For now s the acceptable time
To y from sin's Ieart'ul centre].
The day of salvation is now,
The trump of the gospel is blown;

Believe, then, and treiiiblc crt- thou
To the realms of perdition art thrown.
Appeard, sweet relief to impart.
" Forbear, man!" the saint mildly said,

" Thou art hastening fast to the tomb;
Then mourn not for time that has fled,
But improve evry day that s to come;
Hadst thou listend to virtue, 'tis true,
Thy days had been happily passd;

And delightful had been their review,
To fond rctrospectioii at last.
But wiih time that has ed dismiss sin,
And assisted by grace sin no more;
Thy progress to heaven begin,
And learn there 5 still incrcy in store
PH ILADELPHI A B .EPERTO R Y.
He heard and dismiss'd all his dread,
On the same evening, by the same, Mr.
His heart gave the counsel assent;
William Brown to Miss H0120 lulforrl,

daughter of Mrs. Brown.
" I thank thee, Evander," he said,
" By pardnning Providence sent.

Soon. soon now serenity's smile
Beamd bright on Almerios face;
Convinced him, no wretch is too vile
To be saved by all conquering grace.

VALERIAN.
.
An unprincipled debtor being informed

by his friends that one of his creditors wish
ed to receive the interest, as he could not
obtain the principal, he replied, with more
Wit than honesty, that it was not his interest
to pay the principal, nor his [trinci/xle to pay
the interest.
also...
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24-, 1810.
" In peace and plenty live the happy pair,

The souls calm sunshine lighten evry care.
In this city, on Thursday, the 15th inst. by

the Rev. Dr. Blackwell, William M'ilnor,jr.
esq. to Miss Susan Kissclman.

DIED,
At Yarmouth, (Nova Scotia,) on the Elst

ult. Mrs. MARY Scow'r, aged seventy four.
Filial love, in paying a tribute to the mem
ory of the deceased, performs a pleasing,
painful duty; to be bereaved of one dear to
the affections, occasions a sorrow which the
remembrance of her virtues and a scriptural
condence that for her to die was gain,
is alone capable of dispelling: having early
dedicated herself to God, the evening of her
life was sweetened by those comforts which
the religion of the gospel is peculiarly cal
culated to afford; and when the messenger
of death presented the summons, the angel
Various communications, both in prose

and verse, come to us f in such 'a question _of the covenant sustained her; she knew in
able shape," as to induce stron suspicion
whom she trusted; that the blood of Jesus
of further attempts at plagiat'ism'._ -\Ve, there

fore, wish our correspondents would hear in
mind the request we made some months
since, namely, to head their pieces with the
word original,_ or selected according
as they may be: this -will be but doing jus
was efcacious in atoning for sin, and for
tice to,nativo talent, while it will lead to the
cleansing from guilt and pollution; and that,
through his merits, an everlasting rest in the
and give them a merited attention.
_._
Thursday last, the Right Rev. Dr. Cheacreu

was consecrated bishop in this town; and to
morrow the Right Rev. Dr. Flagel will be

consecrated bishop of Baltimore. The Rev.
Dr. Concannon, whose death was lately men
tioned, was to have been the fourth bishop;
and have been consecrated in New York.
Baston Cenlinrl 0f3d law.
*
Jletv arr of tanning. The Lyconiutn new

art of tanning, lately discovered by .l. Gr
\Vood and Benjamin Wood of Vermont, the
sole inventors of the same, for which they

have obtained letters patent from the United
testimony to the faithfulness ol the promises

of God in Christ, and resign her spirit into
States, embrace the following advantages,

to wtt:
Calf skins tanned in 48 hours;
Upper leather,
in 4 days;
Sole leather,
in 20 days;
from Hampton on the 12th inst. bound for after the same is t for the bark; and will
France and England with despatches.
_.
_.-_
shall be thankful for the favors he promises, '
Roman Catholic Church. Four new bish~

oprics have lately been established in the
United States, the whole territory of which
forms a Roman Catholic archbishopric.
On the 28th ult. the Right Rev. Dr. Egan
was consecrated bishop of Philadelphia; on
mansions of blessedness awaited her: in the
General Armstrong, late American minis

ance of their cii'usions, we. would recom
ter
at Paris, arrived at New York on Mon
metxl a little more patience; and we do not
day
last.
think it would do them any harm to think
more and write less: immortal celebrity is
All the vines and cotton within fourteen
not to be acquired by suchnumbers of [zesty
miles of Mount Vesuvius were destroyed on
and careless compositions as are Sometimes
the 12th September by a volcanic eruption.
offered to us.
.
Every thing else within eight or ten miles
Philom-athes is requested to accept our
were also destroyed. The iava in some places
thanks for his communication; it is among
'was one hundred feet deep.
the instructive, and would claim an instant
___._.
insertion, were not our biographical departf'
' Singular case. At the York county poor
ment already occupied: it shall, however, re
house, on the 2d inst. died, of an excessive
ceive a place as soon as convenient, if he
choose to leave it; and, in the mean time, we
weighing one pound nine ounces, and iii cit"

cumference measured sixteen inches. As
some children have an irresistible desire to
eat dirt, and artfully take every opportunity
to indulge a vitiated appetite, it is presuma
ble this disease was occasioned from a habit
of gratifying such pernicious and inordinate
cravings, and that a considerable quantity of
earth or such like substances was taken into
the stomach.
assurance of this, she was enabled to bear
-the hands of her Saviour.

exposure of v the literary thief.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
To those of our friends who have kindly
furnished us with selections, both in manu
The frigate Essex, captain Smith, sailed
script and print, we tender our thanks; their
favors shall oceasionally appear.

To those young correspondents who are
so very anxious for the immediate appear
239
make better leather, with half the cost that
is required to tan in the old way.

Vermont llaslzingtonian.
*
Christopher Hceren, organ builder, at

Gottesbuhren, in \Vestphalia, has invented a
loom, which performs all the operations of

itself. 'ithout the intervention of the weav
er, it sets the treadles in motion, throws the
shuttle, and stops it at the opposite side;
loosens the web, when a certain portion is
nished, and winds the cloth upon the axle

Every thing is kept in proper order; and the
piece of stuii, when nished, smoothed. An
index, attached to the machine, shows at any
'and sihguiar enlargement of the chest and time the number of ellS that are woven.
abdomen, a boy aged ll years. The disease
commenced in his second year, and gradu
This machine has as yet only been exhibited

on a small scale to connoisseurs, and has ob
ally increased till a mortiiication, from'over tained the highest approbation. London [ta/z;
distension of the intestines, terminated his
MARRIED,
_
sufferings. The body was opened in the pre
A remarkably large parabolic lens was re
At Bridgetown, New Jersey, on Thursday sence of the dit-octets and several other gen
cently purchased at Vienna, for the French
evening, the first inst. by the Rev. Mt. Os- tlemen, and a ball, apparently composed of government. It was made at Gratz, in Stiria,
born, Doctor Ada Ogden to Miss Mary earth, resembling a calcareous marlo, taken by Ruspine, a celebrated mechanist,for some
Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown, esq.
from the colon, one of the lower intestines, alchymists. It was not cast, but softened by
*
240
a
heat, and bent over a parabolic mould. Sev

eral pieces were broken before he succeed
cd; so that it cost originally from 800 to 1200

guineas. It is three feet three inches in di
The soil over the bed is generally loose,

meagre earth, free from ledges; and from the
examinations'whieh have been made, the bed
gether by an iron hoop; so as to form a hol

low vessel, capable of holding 80 or 90 quarts
of spirit of wine. M. Jacquin of Vienna, and
may be said to be nearly inexhaustible.

In an analysis of one hundred grains, they
yielded fty six of pure silex, the remainder
was pure clay, a little water, and a very small
portion of oxyd of iron, though scarcely per
ceptible. \Vhen submitted to a strong heat,
several men of science, who witnessed the

experiments, declare, that it burned a dia
it forms into a solid porcelainous mass, with

out fusion, and retains its whiteness.
mond in a few seconds, and fused platina in
It has a great afnity for oil, and it is found

that mixed in equal parts, it even improves
ameter, and of eight feet four inches focus;
composed of two pieces of glass, united to
a few minutes. A button of platina, weigh
ing twenty nine grains, was melted by it, and
the whiteness of white lead, and adds great
made in part to boil. The diameter of the

focus does not appear to exceed four lines.
It weighs 5501bs avoirdupois. London [ta/1.
ly to its power of resisting the action of the

atmosphere. It must, of course, be a Very
useful article in painting.
The proprietors are, Messrs. Dakin, Mus
sey and Farrar. They have applied to the
legislature for an act of incorporation, in
HEALTH OFFICE,
November 17, 1810.

from the 10th to the 17th November.
Disearer.
ad. cb.
Dire/nes.
ad. cb.
Abscess
1 0 Hives
2
Apoplexy
2 0 lnflam. of liver
1 0
Consumption oflungs 6 2 Mortication
0 l
Couvulsions
0 7 Old age
1 0
Decay
l 0 Palsey
1 0
Dropsy in the breast 1 0 Pleurisy
1 1
Dropsy of the brain 0 3 Still born
0 5
Dcbility
1 1
Fever
Fever, nervous
1
I
0
O
Fever, typhus
_._
ago, two men in the town of Monkton in this

state, were digging for iron ore, and, about
four feet from the surface of the ground,

came to a white substance, which, from its
resemblance to white lead, they supposed

would make putty. They accordingly made
favor of which, a committee, we understand,
has already reported, together with the ex

clusive privilege of manufacturing for ten
years.
Total 41
1 year
Between 1 and 2
0
5
2
70
5
10
0
80
10 20
1
90
20 30
7
100
30 40
3
4-0
50
4
3
2
0
0
0
__
Total 41
November 12
13
14
15
16
9 o'clock. 12 oclock. 3 oclock.

50
49
48
50
51
51
51
53
52
52
54
53
58
56
50
trial of it, and found it to answer their best
LITERARY NOTICE.
wishes. They afterwards penetrated the bed

terial to grow more pure, the farther they
went down. Considerable quantities of putty
have since been made and carried abroad for
E. Bronson, the editor of the United

States Gazette, is preparing to republish an
interesting work, which has lately appeared
in England and is there highly spoken of,
entitled Travels in various countries of Eu
sale, and, by those who have used it, it is
rope, Asia, and Africa, by Edward Daniel
0R
preferred to any other. A house in Vergen

nes was also painted with it, about sixteen
years since, and still exhibits a hard coat,
impervious to the weather. Owing to the
Clarke, LL. D. Part the rst, Russia, Tar

tary, and Turkey.
The Edinburgh review for August of the
present year, speaking of this important
work, has these general remarks:
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
about twenty ve feet, and observed the ma
narrow circumstances of the then owners,
and the doubts and scruples of people about

letting a certainty go for an uncertainty, as
they call it, this material was rather talked
of as valuable, than put to the test of expe
riment, though it was still used in towns in
the vicinity of the bed; and it was not till a ,
It is above two years since we express
17
43
48
46
Proposal: are issued for publishing by subscription
LEISURE HOURS;
BY jOSEPH HUTTON,
Author of the Heiress. of Sebeiski, 8w.
Price one dollar.
Subscriptions received by the author, No. 50 Ships

pen street, and at the office of the Philadelphia Rev
pertory, No. 1? Arch street.
ed our anxiety for the appearance of this

work; and we have now to congratulate our
readers and ourselves on its publication. But

what is still more satisfactory, and what, af
ter so many instances of disappointment, we
little more than a year ago, that any ade- ' could scarcely venture to expect, almost all
quate ideas were entertained as to the real ' that we anticipated from the adventurous
properties and value of the urry stuj, as it spirit and known abilities of Dr. Clarke, has
was called. The friends to American manu been fullled; and we have, at least, the
factures will be pleased to hear, that this so great pleasure of seeing before us a book of
long neglected material is now ascertained travels, by a person, we will not say combin
to be argilla apyra, or porcelain clay, and that ing all the requisites of a traveller, or an
a compzuiy is now forming, with a view of swering, in every particular, to what our
manufacturing it into crockery and china fancy might picture as most desirable in this
ware. A very excellent kind of stone ware character, but certainly uniting more of the
is already made, by mixing it with a certain qualications essential to his diicult calling,
proportion of common blue clay. This clay ' than any one whose labors have come under
is found on the eastern side of a hill, rising
70
8O
90
100
110
Washingtonian.
+
19 22
-

Under
.4merican Porcelain. About eighteen years
__
our notice; and, above all, (and it is here
in an angle of about forty degrees, and is de chiey that we would x our commenda
posited in strata, having a variable number tion,) proceeding, in the compilation of his
of degrees, of northern depression, and the journal and the digestion of his narrative,
strata are intersected by veins of pure int upon far sounder views of the nature of his
sand, valuable in the manufacture of int duties, than any of those whom we have hi
glass; int stones are also frequently found. L therto dealt with."

at the oice of the
TERMS or THE REPERTORY.
The price will be fnur dollars per annum; city sub'
bers half \early in advance.
gravmg.
It shall be delivered to subscribers in the city we

one copy gratis.
tory will be expected to pay the difference.
. PHILADELPHIA,
@i'sifabefpbid eperiorp.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER l, 1810.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
(Concluded.)
Late 'in the year, he left the lines, and re
paired to the highlands; for, upon the loss

of Fort Montgomery the commander in
chief determined to build another fortica
tion for the defence of the river. His excel
lency, accordingly, wrote to general Putnam,
to x upon the spot. After reconnoitring all
the different places proposed, and revolving
in his own mind their relative advantages, for
offence on the water and defence on the land,
he xed upon West Point. It is no vulgar

praise to say, that to him belongs the glory
of having chosen this rock of our military
salvation. The position for water batteries,
which might sweep the channel where the
river formed a right angle, made it the most
proper of any for commanding the naviga
tion; while the rocky ridges, that rose in aw
ful sublimity behind each other, rendered it
impregnable, and even incapable of being in
vested by less than 20,000 men. The British,
who considered this post as a kind of Amer
ican Gibraltar, never attempted it but by the
treachery of an American oicer. All the
world knows that this prjoect failed, and
that \Vest Point continues to be the recep
tacle of every thing valuable in military pre

parations to the present day.
In the campaign of I779, which termina

ted the career of general Putnam's services.
he commanded the Maryland line post at
Buttermilk Falls, about two miles below
est Point. He was happy in possessing

the friendship of the ofcers of that line,
and in living on terms of hospitality with
them. Indeed there was no family in the ar
my lived better than his own. The general,
his second son major Daniel Putnam, and
the writer of these memoirs, composed
ters, general Putnams family went into Con

necticut for a few weeks. In December, the
general began his journey to Morristown.

Upon the road between Pomfret and Hart
ford, he felt an unusual torpor slowly pervad
ing his right hand and foot. This heaviness
crept gradually on, until it had deprived him
of the use of his limbs on that side, in a
considerable degree, before he reached the

house of his friend colonel Wadsworth. Still
he was unwilling to consider his disorder of
the paralytic kind, and endeavored to shake it
off by exertion. Having found that impossi
N0. SI.
I receive with great satisfaction; and beg

that you will accept ofa return of my con
gratulations to you on this auspicious event;
an event in which, great as it is in itself and
glorious as it will probably be in its conse
quences, you have a right to participate
largely, from the distinguished part you have
contributed towards its attainment.
But while I contemplate the greatness

of the object for which we have contended,
and felicitate you on the happy issue of our

toils and labors, which have terminated
with such general satisfaction, I lament, that
ble, atemporary dejection, disguised however

under a veil of assumed cheerfulness, suc
you should feel the ungrateful returns of a

country, in whose service you have exhaust
ceeded. But reason and religion soon recon ed your bodily strength, and expended the
ciled him to his fate. In that situation he has vigor of a youthful constitution. I wish, how
constantly remained, favored with such a ever, that your expectations of returning lib
portion of bodily activity as enables him to erality may be veried; I hope they may;
walk and to ride moderately; and retaining but should they not, your case will not be a
unimpaired his relish for enjoyment, his love singular one. lngratitude has been expe
of pleasantry, his strength of memory, and rienced in all ages; and Republics. in par
all the faculties of-his mind. As a proof that ticular, have ever been famed for the exer
the powers of memory are not weakened, it cise of that unnatural and sordid vice!"
ought to be observed, that he has lately re
" The secretary at war, who is now here,
peated from recollection, all the adventures informs me, that you have ever been con
of his life, which are here recorded, and sidered as entitled to full pay since your ab
which had formerly been communicated to sence from the field; and that you will still
the compiler in detached conversations.
be considered in that light till the close of
To illustrate his merits the more fully, the war. at which period you will be equally
this sketch will be concluded with a copy of entitled to the same emoluments of half pay
the last letter written to him by general as any other officer of your rank. The same
Washington, in his military character.
opinion is also given by the paymastcr
Head (Lixaners, 2d June, 1780.
DEAR Sm,
Your favor of the 20th of May I receiv

ed with much pleasure; for,l can assure
you, that, among the many worthy and me

ritorious officers, with whom I have had the
happiness to be connected in service, through
the course of this war, and from whose cheer
ful assistance in the various and trying vi

cissitudes of a compliCated contest, the name
that family. This campaign, principally spent ofPulnam is not forgotten, nor will be, but
in strengthening the works of West Point, with that stroke of time which shall obliter
was only signalized for the storm of Stony ate from my mind the remembrance of all
Point by the light infantry under the conduct those toils and fatigues through which we
of general Wayne, and the surprize of the have struggled for the rcscrvalion and es
post of Powel's Hook by the corps under the tablishment qftlic rights, liberties, and inde
command of colonel Henry Lee.
[Imdem-e of our country.
general. who is now with. the army, im

powercd, by Mr. Morris, for the settlement
of all their accounts, andwho will attend to
yours, whenever you shall think proper to
send for that purpose, which it will probably
be best for you to 'do in a short time.
" I anticipate, with pleasure, the day (and
that,l trust, not far off) when I shall quit
the busy scenes of a military employment,
and retire to the more tranquil WulkS of a

domestic'lifc. In than-or whatever other
situation Providence may dispose of my fu

ture'days, the remembrance of the many
friendships and connections I have had the,
happiness to COnU'nCt with the gentlemen
' It is tobe lamented, that this observation (which
is net a new one) should have received the sanction
\Vhen the army quitted the eld andl
marched to Morristown into winter quan

' Colonel Humphreys.
Your congratulations on the happy pros
pect of peace and independent security, with
of general Washingtons narne. We hppe the peo

ple of America are not, nor ever will be, ungrateful
their attendant blessings to the United States. to the founders of their liberty.
, L
. 5' .l
'
."
242
1
of the army. will be one of my most grate opened, but all within was dark. After much
ful reections. Under this contemplation, ~persuasion, he prevailed upon his wife to re
and impressed with the sentiments of bene main in the chamber, while he explored the
volence and regard, I commend you, my passage; not daring to take the light, lost its
dear sir my other friends, and with them the beams might discover him to some one that
interests and happiness of our dear country. might be about the abbey.
The unhappy female remained in the
to the keeping and protection of Almighty
greatest terror for some time, but upon con
God. I have the honor to be, Ste.
sidering that their case was desperate, hope
G. WASHINGTON.
To the Honourable
Major General Putnam.
Major Putnam died in May l790.

-.e__
For the Repertory.

A ROMANCE.
to admit my body, and not two yards below

I beheld in rapture the welcome ground,
which for years we have neither trodden nor
seen.
Just Heaven! exclaimed the female,

and is it so indeed!
Soon, soon, my Imnia, cried the man,
we gain the liberty we sigh for, and dis
appoint the fury of our guards! Had but Sta
nerved her soul, and she determined to wait nislaus knownbut no matter; Heaven is
the event with resignation, though she had with us; then do not let us fear!"
often arraigned the decrees of Providence
The overjoyed Imnia sunk upon her
during her imprisonment. She gazed through knees, lifted her eyes to heaven, and cried,
a little grated window near the ceiling of the
Pardon, thou glorious Majesty above
chamber,
and
beheld
the
stars
sparkling
in
that
I have dared to distrust thy just decrees,
the heavens.
I
have dared to think thy justice could forget

CHAPTER X.
" Another night," she exclaimed, " has
That shrivell'd end pale Poverty was there,
And want stalk'd frightful oer my cot. Twas then

The tempter met me, threw the luring bait,
And deep perdition followed.
As I do live, my honored lord, 'tis true,
And I did think it writ down in my duty,
To let you know of it.
closed around us in these dreadful walls! Is

there no hope of liberty or life? My child,
my darling child, art thou still blestwhat
would I say! art thou still curst with life?
Have the butchers spared thee? or art thou,
ments, 1 will but go and see if all be quiet,
then return for you, and hear you from these

dismal chambers for ever."
darling one, free from the wrongs a cruel
Here he again left the trembling Imnia,
world would inict, and blest in heaven? Ah!
and proceeded on to explore the darksome

passage once more.
Sbabpeare.
It is now time to return to the prisoners if thou shouldst but liveSurely these gelid
in the abbey, as it is probable the readers
curiosity is a little raised to know more of
them.
\Ve shall therefore say, that the unfortu
nate and his hapless wife, had been cruelly
confined in the abbey for a number of years.
We shall pass over their days and nights of
anguish, their sleepless hours, and fruitless
hopes of deliverance, and relate the occur
rences from this eventful night; I mean the
the righteous cause!

" My dearest Imnia, now be brave, ex
claimed the man, "remain here but a few mo
damps have stolen my reason! why do I call

my child! the murderers hands are crim
soned with her blood! even now I see the
lifted poniard tear her tender breast; her
dying look might have withheld a end, but
see, again he stabs her to the heart, she
bleeds again, she dies!

Here, overcome by her dreadful feelings,
she was on the point of falling, when her
husband rushed from the passage and caught
her in his arms.
My dearest Imnia! he exclaimed, why,
Truro and Weineet, as they had promi

sed Ferresburgh, set out from the castiga
companied by the monk, about eleven oclock,
in order to set re to the abbey; and in a

short time arrived at that part of it where
the rejoiced prisoner had forced a passage
through the wall.
" Midnight comes on space, observed
mained behind.
The husband seized the glimmering ta
Truro."
" And the moon, said Weineet, " as if
afraid to view this dreadful deed, hides hor
pale re behind the angry clouds, and stars
that twinklcd even now, are no where to be
_why did I leave her! softly, she revives."
The hapless female now opened her eyes, seen."
Wouldst thou moralize, good Wein
and
observing
her husband, she fell upon his
bosom
and cried,
I
eet? demanded the diabolical monk.
Ah! art thou here, my love? Even now
" No, but I feel reluctance to commit this
methought the scene of blood and murder ap deed! returned Weineet, " yet no matter,
all is prepared."
peared again before me.
Then die Ferresburgh's fears," exclaim
Forbear, forbear, my Imnia, interrupt
ed her husband, " nor pour a ood of anguish ed Truro, " but see, what means this aper
ture in the wall?
oer my soul!
I did not perceive it before," said the
" Nay, chide me not," returned Imnia,
believe me, I am more composed; but how monk.
per that was allowed them, and proceeded
has our attempt succeeded, is there a hope
Nor I, said Weineet, but no matter,
round the room, followed by the anxious wife. of liberty? 0! no, there cannot be, till Hea
They had felt almost every inch of the wall, ven, indignant, blast these dismal walls, and
and were retiring, hopeless, from their at lay the whole in ruins. '
Truro shall stay and guard it, while 1 re
present period of our history.

The room in which they were conned
was one of the most damp and loathsome in
the ruined abbey. The band were all out, in
search of plunder; the silence was awfully

heightened by this circumstance, and the pri
soners attributing this silence to the right

cause,determined to endeavor to procure their
escape from their connement. Heretofore,
some of the band had been left in the abbey,

but the death like silence that pervaded the
mansion, convinced them that none now re
tempt, when the husband placing his hand
the other wing."

No more, cried the monk, n Ill to Fer
resburgh, and lay his heart to rest."

" His guilty heart! said \Neineet, W
in a kind of aperture, felt something like the Heaven smiles at length upon our hopes,
lock of a door, and upon examination he dis listen: after wandering some time along that comes it, Austin, you never shake with fear
covered the door itself, which he had often dreary passage, another door impeded my and remorse like Ferresburgh?"
I scorn the weakness of the wretch W119
seen during his connement, but supposed progress, which at length gave way, and sunk
it to be part of the wall, the lock being with beneath my efforts, when, far beyond, a glim made me guilty!" cried the monk.
in the aperture above mentioned.
" Made you guilty!" cried Truro.
mer of the stars broke through the parted
Until Ferresburghs gold, said Allah"
The lock being old, yielded to his endea
wall. 1 hastened to the spot, and with little
Vors, and to his unspeakable joy, the door exertion burst enough of the rotten building bought my souls hope, was Austin inno
" I trust not so," retumed her husband,
245
cent. This garb is but assumed, for not a mo

ment of innocence have I passed beneath it.
Now seventeen years of guilt have passed
away, since count Ferresburgh found me
poor and wretched! His gold corrupted me
and won my aid tov murder great Sobeiski.
Poverty, that shrivelled end, stood naked in
my cot, two children and a wife assailed my

ears with ceaseless cries of want! My boys
would ask for bread, and as their meagre
jaws were opened wide, a tear forced forth

by hunger on their cheek, would touch me
to the soul! In this state Ferresburgh tempt
ed me,and I was lost.
'Twns devilish, cried Truro.
Twas a crime, said Weineet, " that
shall erase his name from Mercys glorious

page, and sink his soul to agony and horror!
" How could I see my wife and children
starving? exclaimed Austin, passionately,
but relief had come too late, my darling
boys died, ere the food could reach their
quivering lips; and my poor wife, when I
disclosed my crime, shrieked in despair, and
at my feet eitpired! A tear started into the
eye of the confessor.
" Have done, have done! said Truro,
much disturbed.
" And this is the way, said Weinlleet,
that you came to the knowledge of her ex

istence.
Exactly so, answered Austin, " Ferres
burgh blamed me for not destroying her,

and ordered me to return and plunge them
both into the stream."
" Detested deed!" cried Weineet.
I hastened to the spot for the purpose,
continued Austin, " but found the attendant
dead, and Thadia, by some oicious slave,
conveyed beyond the reach of danger. The peace!

bodies were interred."
Separate from the consolations of religion,
During your stay at the castle, remark' what a soul rending circumstance is death!
ed Truro, " Braubenski must have passed Those eyes which yesterday beamed upon
the spot, and bore the infant with him."
us the animation of affection, to day are clo
H The event has proved it so, replied sed forever! Those lips which moved in sen
Austin, " but no more; Ill to Ferresburgh; sible and lively converse, will never move
we have yet a deed to do of dreadful mo again! That hand which was wont to pre
ment; be true, my friends, and wealth is
sent the greeting of friendship, is cold and
yours.
Here Austin parted-from the bravoes, who
immediately proceeded to their work.
insensible, and will never more be offered

for the cordial pressure! The endear-ments
Do you, Truro," said Weineet, " watch
this aperture, lest it prove a medium of es

cape, while I proceed to light the funeral
pilen
YVhistle thrice," said Truro, " when the
deed is done.I
No, you shall hear the whole, exclaim
ed Austin, "I procured this monk's attire,
and accompanied Pet resburgh t0 the castle;

having previously procured for him the as
sistaice of the bloody Martix. On the day
on which Sobeiski left the capital, I set out
as the confessor of Ferresburgh, to meet
him. I met him about four miles this side
the city, and conducted him to his fate, upon
the margin of the stream!

Terrible relation! cried Weineet.
u \Vhen the slaughter began, continued
Austin, I lied to the covert of a glen, from
whence, when the scene of blood was silent,
I returned to review the spot; there I be

held the murdered bodies of the count and
countess~"
Indeed! interrupted Truro. The bra
voes looked at each other in amaze.
Yes, proceeded Austin, " wrapped in
Weineet now passed round the abbey,

leaving Truro, who presently heard the sig
nal and the abbey began to blaze.
" Tis done! cried the sanguinary slave.
The wretched man who, as we before ob
served, left his wife to explore his mode of

CSCn-PC once more, now appeared at the aper
ture; on perceiving some person, he exclaim
ed,
H \Vhoever you are, if you have a heart
alive to the tender feelings of humanity, O!
man, who, struggling with his opponent, re
was going to nd his chamber in ames!

UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
was leaving the place, when a faint groan
arrested my speed. I sought the object from

whom it issued, and beheld one of the fe
males not yet dead, with the infant Thadia
For the Repertory.
THE CABIN
No. XIV.
side. I hastened to the castle, spread the re
Oh! the last, lastwhat? (cln words express!

Thought reach it!) the llatn'lcnce of a friend!
Youno.
port ofthe murder, at the same time pri
What a transitory vision is life! It is like
by her, who also lived, with a wound in her
of life make their last home in the grave;

nature shudders, and is astounded at the dis
pensations of Wisdom.
This is the hour to try the boasted indif
ference of pretended philosophy. This is the
moment in which the necessity of religion is
demonstrated. How shall the indel recon
cile the decree of Providence to his feel
ings? He weeps! yes, the philosopher min
gles his tears with those of the humble but
condent christian! Well may he weep! The
glory of faith has never illuminated his fro
zen heart; he has examined the holy records
with a mind desiring disbelief, and has not
found it diicult to silence conscience by fal
lacious arguments, and to prove that to be
false, which he most earnestly desired should
be so indeed. Hope and condence, twin
snatch a wretched creature from these dun angels from on high, teach the christian all
geons glooms, and heaven will reward you. the glorious plan of salvation, tell him that
'l'ruro heard this, and cried, " destruction! the hand of Omnipotence is stretched over
he'll escape the ames: How shall I act! my him, and that innite Goodness is concern
sword must aid me now."
ed in his welfare. With these assurances his
Thus saying, he leaped through the aper mind is fortied, and distress, however se
ture, and rushed ferociously upon the old vere, will but give him clearer ideas of the
blood, with their faces horribly disgured, treated along the passage, little supposing he
I beheld them. I could not recognize their
features, so terribly were they mangled, but
their dress too surely pointed them out. I
readers, I had intended to devote this paper

to your amusement only; I had resolved to
prepare, as well as I was able, a feast of wit;
to exert my feeble powers to enliven our
column with my best sallies of imagination,
and to infuse into it every spark of humorI
possess. But death, like the north wind, has
swept away the ower of my hope; he has
torn from me a nearly connected and dear
friend. High and mighty Disposer of all
events, teach me resignation, grant me thy
vately informing Ferresburgh of Thadias the dew drop that falls on the luxuriant rose
being still alive, and requesting to know leaf; the beam of the morning dispels it, it
what should be done."
_ evaporates and is seen no more! Ah! my
perfections of Deity.
Admitting religion to be delusion and
priestcraft, as some have denominated it, I
should consider as a moral crime of the

greatest magnitude, any attempt to banish it
from the world. So soothing are its dictates
in the season of mourning, so heart cheer
ing its promises to every situation in life,
that even death is robbed of half its terrors;
and we only behold its ravages, with hope of

reparation from a divine and adequate source.
If any man should rise, of inuence suliici
ent to banish christianity, how wretched
would be the condition of innumerable peo
ple! In vain would they look to philosophy
244
PHILAI)ELPHIA REPERTORY.
_--_
for consolation and delight. The general cry

would be, ~ life is a scene of trouble and
the tender plaints of misery and injured
panion to leave me in alarm; for she told me

that it was her brute of a persecutor, that
had come to torment her with a renewal of
disappointment, and death promises no re
innocence, will, when under thy influence,

start at a shadow, tremble at an unreal
leasement from misery. If I do not possess

an immortal essence, in death I must su'er
mockery, and imagine the most trivial

sound, a solemn summons of retribution.
his odious courtship, and she trembled, lest
annihilation! dreadful thought! And if I do,
Such, O conscience! is the form in which
believe howfer-ucntly I bestowed my bene
he should surprise us together. You may
thou visitest the child of iniquity; such diction on him whom I considered as an in
the shape in which thou approachcst the vo vader of my rights: but to proceed.
tary of vice. IIow happy then the man, who
Mary had scarcely reached the door of
void of guile, dreads not thy reproaches; the house, when a tall, athletic youth, tricked
who, supported by the consciousness of un out in the extreme of the prevailing fashion,
spotted innocence, enjoys uninterrupted se rushed from it, and before she was aware of
renity and peace of mind; whose slumbers his intentions, clasped her round the waist,
wounds of a. broken heart, and offers a re
pose for the soul, for which it looks in vain are undisturbed by the phantoms of a disor
and covered her with his kisses." Enraged
on the thorny couch of indel philosophy. dered imagination; and who looks forward, to see her used with so much familiarity, I
But when we take a view of the glories that with the ardor of hope and expectation, to ew to the house, and had raised my arm to
the time when the virtues and vices of man level the intruder with the dust; when a
assuredly await the righteous, and think, en
rapturing thought! of an eternity of bliss, the kind shall receive their just reward.
glance from Mary defeated my intention and
soul banishes all doubt, in the pleasure of
awed me into mildness. My sudden and to
For the Repertory.
expectations so great and happy.
him unexpected appearance, was not how
PETER PEACEABLE.
LIFE OI" JACK TROCIIAIC.
ever without its effects. Though possessed
(Continued.)
of impudence as he was, yet he could not,
as
My raptures were quickly succeeded by in my presence, continue his disgusting ca
SELECTOR. No. VI.
I know not but that I may employ eternity

in the same miserable manner in which I
pass my present life! I am distracted with
doubt; hope has fled; lam left to despair!
Oh! what was the purpose for which man re
ceived his being! Christianity heals the
Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it,

The wmds did sing it me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe pronounced
The name of Prospero.
Tempe".
The loss of fortune, dignity, glory, and all

the pageantry of earthly grandeur, is compa
ratively triing, when put in competition with
that of virtue: when the human mind rst
stoops to debasement, and wanders in the
paths of impiety, its progress to misery, al
though gradual, is too fatally inevitable; the
smallest crimes, by becoming habitual, in
crease in time to the crimson tints of atroci
ty; then, 0 conscience! thou most incessant
and excruciating torturer! than never failing

monitor! tis then thine admonitions wound
with remorse the breast of conscious vice;
thou establishest thine awful tribunal on the

ruins of neglected virtue, there to inict a
punishment far more severe than aught in
vented by the ingenuity of man. When lul
led Ill apparent security, and revelling in the
round of transitory pleasure, thine awful
presence intrudes itself upon the harassed

imagination, and bids the lofty sinner reect
on the acts of injustice of which he has been

guilty. The veil of oblivion, which, with all
the precaution of vice, he has endeavored to
cast over his crimes, thou canst in one un
guarded hour remove; his deeds of darkness,
anxious doubts and fears; for Mary, with a
resses; but when she introduced me as a
sigh, informed me that her uncle designed

her for the wife of Mr. F rampton, of the city
of -, who possessed a considerable estate
in the neighborhood. He had, it appeared,
for a long time paid his addresses to her;
but though they were sanctioned and enfor
ced by her uncle, she never had nor could re
gard him with partiality; there was something,
she told me, in his manners so haughty and
presuming, that he frightened and disgusted
her. This information could not fail of ex
citing in me much alarm; which was, how
ever, lessened by her declaring that neither
force nor entreaties should prevail on her to
bestow her hand on any man, unless accom
panied with her affections: " and they are
mine, Mary, I rapturously exclaimed; she
blushed, and acknowledged they were.
1 informed her of the proposals I had re?
ceived of Mr. G. and, without hesitation, she
advised me to accept, the situation with
Messrs. M. & R. alledging as her reason
that I could not live happily with the parson,
whose tyrannical and imperious disposition
rendered him the dread of his dependants,
and the dislike of his neighbors. This advice,
which was in unison with my wishes, I de
termined to pursue; and it was settled be
tween us that as soon as I had obtained the
place, I should return, and release the mis
tress of my affections from the house of bond
friend of her uncles, he eyed me with a

gloomy and suspicious scowl, which seemed
to say, "I shall take care of you." At that
time, his glances were not regarded by me;
but a short time only elapsed ere I was con
vinced I had much opposition to encounter,
from the great inuence he had obtained
over the mind of Mr. G. which was, as I of
terwards discovered, boundless. Nay, I ve
rily believe, that if he had desired the par
son to preach a sermon in defence of athe

ism, he would have obeyed him.
Mary soon after quitted the room; and up
on Mr. G.s entering, I followed her exam
ple, thinking that the brace of honorable

friends would prefer to compare notes, with
out being subjected to the restraint of a third
person: but, some how or other, curiosity
got so far the advantage of good breeding,

that I loitered near the room in expectation
of hearing my name mentioned; nor was I
disappointed: I heard Frampton demand who

I was? and what business I had in the house?
telling the parson that I had roguish leer in
my countenance; and advised him to beware
of me, and to watch me closely, or I would
purloin some of the plate or other valuables:

the parson briey answered his enquiries;
and Mr. Frampton, apparently satised, took
his leave, but not without advising his " dear
friend to get rid of me as soon as possible.
age, for such her present residence was; and I did not fear him as a man who would attack
so cautiously enveloped with the specious

garb of dissimulation and hypocrisy, are fre
quently by thee laid Open to the scrutinising in the possession of each other we should me openly; but the malicious smile that
eye of justice. His most secret recesses thou enjoy that happiness which is ever attendant spread itself in his sallow and forbidding vis
canst penetrate, his every joy embitter, and on a union of hearts, and which we fondly age, as he passed me, convinced me that,
render him who was once hardened in ini hoped was within our grasp. We had just assassin like, he would have no hesitation in
quity, susceptible of the slightest emotions concluded our arrangement, when a boister plotting my disgrace, or effecting my ruin.
of fear. The man who once was callous to ous voice roaring Mary! caused my cont As soon as he had departed I was summotb
..
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g
ed to the presence of his reverence; who, in
in time, becomes odious and disgusting. Or
no very gentle accents, demanded the result

of my deliberations with respect to the pro
pOsals he had made me. I replied that I had
made my selection; and, veiling my true
even admitting that supercial beauty com
his amanuensis as it ought to be fullled;
of mine could do justice to the agonics there
and therefore chose the other. My dissimu
experienced, nor the most enlightened con

ception transcend their extremes.
But, Mr. Helicon, said Kitty Fribble,

why need we look for others? you write
manded our attentions, whilst it lasted, it the but worse of/wtry of any poet of the
could endure but a short period, leaving its day. Your otry ows so smooth, runs just
once vain possessor alike neglected and des-' like oil: I like that [zerdigously Every word
sentiments, Iassured him, it was with the piscd. It might still further be traced, eect almost begins with the same letter. Thus,
greatest regret that, upon consideration, I ually, to the threshold of eternity; but there as I commence one of my fugitive pieces:
found myself inadequate to full the duty of description must be wanting; no eloquence
Rippling rolld the raging river;
lation will be pardoned, when it is consid

ered that I was alone, and friendless, and in
Let this, therefore, suffice; beauty cannot,
a part of the world where a situation of cre in the smallest degree, confer happiness, or
dit and responsibility is not to be obtained excite respect. But
without recommendations from inuential
Virtue has secret charms which all men love,
characters. He told me, it was well; and that
to bring matters to a conclusion, he would
give me a letter to Messrs. M. 8: R., which
I might take to them immediately. He ac
cordingly did so; and, after giving him my
And those who do not choose it, yet approve."
It is replete with delight in this life, and

in the next it wreathes around our brows the
glorious crown of immortal beatitude.
CICERO.
sincere eusions of gratitude, for the kind

ness and attention he had shown me, I bade
him adieu.
JACK TROCHAIC.
For the Repertory.
BEAUTY
" Beauty is but a vain, a eeting good,
A shining gloss that iadeth suddenly;

A ower that dies when almost in the bud,
A brittle glass that breaketh presently;

A eeting good,a gloss, a glass. a ower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
As goods when lost. we know are seldom found,

As fading gloss no rubbing can excite;
As owers, when dead, are trampled on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can unite;
So beauty blemished once, is ever lost,
In spite of physic. painting, pains, and cost."

Personal beauty, when in conjunction with
mental graces, has such an engaging appear

ance, that it impresses a beholder with little
For the Repertory.

TASTE.
A little learning is a dangerous thing,

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the hrainl
And drinking largely sobers us again. Porn.
Mr. Editor,
I am a very clever learned man, and the

sweetest poet of my time: so Kitty Fribble
says; but, though you may think it strange,I
dont believe it is true. I will give you my
reasons; in doing which I shall relate some
conversation that led to it.
I passed the other evening with a few
friends, viz. Kitty Fribble, Dolly Dactyle,
Peter Parnassus, Obadiah Oxymoron, and
Mat Metaphor. Now, sir, do you not think
there was a poetical posse? \Vell, sir, the
conversation turned upon the Repertory.

Miss Fribble declared she liked the Re
less than adoration; but when the radiance per-tory very much; but Miss Dactyle said
of eyes and regularity of features are con she had pronounced it wrong; that it was
nected with no more interesting, more last Repertory; and they agreed to leave it to Me
ing perfections, they generally inspire far taphor: he decided in favor of the latter.
different sensations. Pity alone can predom
Parnassus observed that, of the poetical
inate, whilst reecting that so fair a fabric is department, he most admired St. Orme. I
unposscssed of those qualities, by which only cordially agreed with him, and bestowed a
it could be entitled to our esteem. For al merited encomium on that pensive moralist.
though a specious exterior may a while en Obadiah said he admired St. Orme, yet by
chain the wavering attachment of mankind, no means conned his admiration to one au
it is more through an ideal inference, drawn thor. Metaphor agreed that more than one
from thence, of the renement of the soul, deserved praise, but observed that some like
than any attractive power which that exteri wise deserved censure. " For example, said
or may possess of itself. But granting that he, ll who would have thought of placing a
beauty is endowed with such inuence, why new Paradise among a parcel of tremendous
can it not retain those conquests it has made? rocks, as in Laurel hill? It must, indeed, be
\Vhy is it so impotent, as to grasp our love a new Paradise, for it is as much unlike the
but to lose it? Because from its sammess it old one as a cow 8 unlike a monkey." Met
becomes uninteresting; it cloys in a few aphor by name, and metaphor by nature. This
hours, and sinks in our estimation; and, with
created a laugh; and the ladies all declared
out having virtue for its support, the once Mat was the greatest wit since the days of
valued object of our most tender affections, Beau Nash.
Soon the seas were sunk to silence, 81c."
That is called alliteration, my dear Miss

Fribble, said Miss Dactyle: yes, Iadmire
it: llonging, lingering look; sublime!
And so, Mr. Editor, all admired it; andit
can doubtless be introduced with advantage

into composttton.
Do, Mr. Helicon, said Kitty, " write us
a few warns of this kind.

_
Suspecting that these ladies sacriced
sense to sound, I immediately penned the
following stanzas, to ascertain whether it
were so or no.
TO EVENING.
Silent evening, soft and smoothly,
\Vhile the willow weeps around;

Into wakeful slumbcrs sooth me,
See the sunbeams smile around.
Evening, lo! the lark adorning,
Whistles while the waters war;
And to meet the dewy morning,

See the songsters silent soar!
God of day, divine Apollo,
Leader of the tuneful choir;
In thy smiling train I follow,
Listning to thy lyric lyre!

Now the noon of night commences,
Now the owlet pours his note;
Minstrels of the moon on fences

Mingle many a mellow throat.
Sylvan queen of night, adieu!

Watch me as I waking lie;
And though closed in slumber, view
Pleasure peeping from my eye.
Ever in my sleep a dreaming,
Cynthia, while the sunbeams shine;
Yes, in fond ecstatic seeming,
I shall roundthy born entwine. '

When I had concluded these verses, and
read them aloud to the company, they over

whelmed me with applause. Miss Fribble
declared, the elegant ideas they expressed
were only exceeded by the sweetness of the
numbers. They contained the chastity of

Milton, the re of Shakspeare, the nerve of
Dryden, and the sweetness of \Valler. Pope

was a fool to me, and Goldsmith a ballad
mongcr.
To show that they were justiable in mak
ing these extravagant expressions, I willan
alysc the verses, and display their perfec_
tions.
~
First. \Vakt-ful slumbers by moonlight,
and the sun shining, is an idea of great sub
limity.
246
Second. The lark whistling to the eve

ning'while the songsters are saluting the
morning, is a beautiful poetical license.
Third. The lyric lyre of Apollo is superb,
and his leading the tuneful choir at night is
For the Repertory.
j .,
1' O, hang the cow! why dont she porter give?
The celebrated Robinson of Cambridge By beer and not by milk mankind must live."
" Not so. the good old father Winch replies,
employed a considerable period of his lei
His face a cherubs and a dove's his eyes.
sure from ecclesiastical labors in the culti " Mistress, 1" have some milk, and I could live
vation of a farm. On receiving a signal proof Though Heavn had nothing else but milk to give.
of the generous and faithful friendship of
I knew a widow who wuh one red cow
unparalleled.
,
Brought up six sons; there 5 no such widows now
Fourth. \Vhat think you, Mr. Editor, of Henry Keen, esq. of W'alworth, he present
Milk was the beverage of Paradise.
the owl screeching at midnight, while the ed him with a favorite heifer and the follow Milk, harmless milk, that never genders vice.
minstrels of the morning are mingling their ing lines accompanying it.
Run. judirh, run, your mistress rings for cream!
These are to certifv, good men and true.
throats? Is it not grand?
See there the circle sits that I esteem'
There sits the governOr, like ancient love,
Fifth. The moon being by a gure of That 1 have conveyd the white heifer to you;
To have and to hold for ever and aye.
The man made up of all that mortals love;
speech converted into a sylvan goddess, and
0n condition of nding her good grass and hay.
There sits the queen of all domestic peace;
pleasure peeping from eyes closed in sleep,
Go. gentle Rocker}, serve the faiihful friend,
And there the man of God with looks of grace.
are indeed striking elegancies!
W ho saved your master from the spotted end;
They all are wise. for every one loves cream,
Sixth. Dolly Fribble declared, that the idea Go, milk white messenger. to Walworih go,
E'en tea insipid without milk they deem.
of embracing the horn of the moon while And be the generous Henrys own milch cow.
But whats thy milk and what thy luscious cream,
Decerful cow! there 's magic in the theme.
asleep, was the most superb thing she ever When Godfrey? o's his hat with lowring brow,
And hawks our. - Sir, Ive lost the Rocket cow!
Thy silver uid. manufacturers know.
read, and entirely new.
Ill case his heart by telling him a tale,
Simple and mix'd in many channels ow.
I leave the reader to make his own com Shall make him snicker as with harvest ale.
With milk the baker shortens his hot rolls;
ments upon the fashionable taste, if I may be '1 The heifer. Godfrey, is to Walworth gone,
With milk and rum the vintner lls his bowls;
allowed the expression, and subscribe my To serve my friend; my friend? I have but one:
\Virh milk the plalsterer silvers oer the wall;
self yours, Ste.
November 27, 1810.
HELICON.
For the Repertory.

GALLERY OF FRAGMENTS.
No. I.
See yonder precipice, which rudely hangs
its head oer the wide sheltered lake. On that
For know, my boy, there was a dismal day,

When 1. your master. travelling lost my way:
Forth from a thicker where I dreamu no ill,
A tyger sprang; methinks I see him still!
Fast in his horrid fangs he claspd me roundI
And foaming laid me helpless on the ground.
Ah, Godfrey! had you heard your master's cry;
With milk are poultry whnend for the stall;

With milk the farmer fatvens pork and calf,
And ofa pudding milk 's the better half.
With milk ihe girl stirs up the ploughmans fries,
And makes nice shroveiide pancakes for good boys.
Cheese cakes and custards from the milkpail flow:
Thence curds and whey, passet and whitepot too;
' We heard you, sir, but none of us was nigh.

\Vell. one was nigh, and he a humane man,
Thence well whipp'd syllabub Ind [rifles come.

And mam a knick knack at the farmer's home.
Kind and intrepid. out the hero ran;
the lovely Amarilla her nightly vigils kept Touch'd to the quick K) see my piteous case,
with the loved ghost of Bertrand. Bertrand, The rear of friendship trickled down his face;
the gay, the witty, and the brave, (peace to He stampd his foot and fetch d one deadly blow,
his shade!) adored his Amarilla; but she, The tyger struggled and his hold let go.
alas! enslaved by the silly caprice of the sex, I sprang and fell at my deliverer's feet.
disdained his proered vows, although with And vowd an offering should his mansion greet.
Godfrey, observe. some hundred years ago,
in her bosom there dwelt a flame as bright Before mankind did God. the true God, know,
Men daily oderd to the unknown god
bosom of an anchorite, when his uplifted soul

is placed on heavenly things. The youth be
A cup of wine, or milk, or salt. or blood:
ing led by that dire rage which too oft at

tends disdained love, and hurried on by the
impetuous whirlwind of passion, mounting
By promising to make his oErmg more

But when the God. who lives and reigns above,
Unfolded to his creatures heavenly love;
Magnicent he shone! and thus he said:
I'll take no bull, nor goat, nor wine, nor bread;
the dreary top. The spirits of the lake re

ceived him in their azure arms; and soon by
gentlest wafting rested his corpse upon the
willowed bank. The nymph, when rst she
heard the news of Bertrands death, not all
And, when in trouble, tried to bribe his power
Yet call on me in all your darksome days,

Ill set you free and you shall give me praise."
Ah! Godfrey, gratitudcs a painful thing,
High heaves my heart, some offering 1 must bring:
What can ldo! God will not have it; then
To case my beast, lll force the best of men,
That actor for my God, in my sad scene
auburn locks; and nightly upon the summit Crop his rich herbage, near his garden lie;
of the rock held converse with the shade of Lie full in sight the livelong summer day,
Bertrand. Long did she observe this custom;
And round him when he \valks my homage pay.

Sec, when he comes, his consort by his side,
till one rude boisterous night a mighty

whirlwind rose, and with irresistible force
The best of wives. his virtue and his pride:
-_..-
The wrath that on conviction subsides

into mildness, is the wrath of a generous
.mind.
The soft milk broth-like food for boys at school.
\Vhen doctor Fundlc had spent all his brain:

In vain. to case his patiems racking pains;
A poultire and a clyster milk became.
Performd the cure and stole poor Fundles fame.

Thy staple traic who can e'er explore!
the eloquence of piety, though urged in

heavenly strains, could hinder her from fall The great, the good. the genrous Henry Keene.
Go, gentle heifer, browse beneath his eye,
ing into an ecstacy of passion, tearing her
hurried the fair mournel' into the dread

abyss.
CINTHIO.
And here the broad at hastypudding quakes;

The 811,- page porridge and the gooseberry fool,
Yet what are these. and what ten thousand more,
as heavenly re, or that which reigns in the
the summit of that awful rock, leaped from
Sre here the Hummer) on the table shakes,
'lwice every day your udder fill. nor fail

Gently to bow for Molly and the pail.
She'll milk you softly; dont you kick her down,
Nor whisk your tail against her sundsy gown."

Methinks I see the full froth pail go in,
I see the thirsty heathen Griies grin,
The name of the cow.
1 The cowherd.
Thy weekly butter, and thy daily cheese,

Employ and keep ten thousand at their case;
Thy annual call, thy rich mnnufe, thy all,
Demand a rihuie both from great and small.

Go, universal blessing. Rocket, go;
Long live and preach. and let your master know,

God gave no common blessing when he gave
A COW.
For the Repertory.
STANZAS TO J. S. W.
Oh! believe not my brow is forever oer-cast,
That it never is lighted with friendship's swet

smiles;
Nor always I mourn over moments long past,
And that sad retrospection my pleasure beguiles.

No; man like the morning of April is guy,
But an instant enshrouds or enlighten: his son:
He by turns eiiher sorrow or joy must display,
Scarce ended the one. ere the other 5 begun.
In the moments of happy hilariiys hours,
When the jest and the song and the glass move
around,
Like the brow when encircled with chaplets of
owers,
Mild harmony, friendship and pleasure abound.
For wine, while it cheers and upraises the soul,
A lady then rose: ere she read an acrostic,
The heart with a'ectionate fervor can move,
She moved that no alight should be aimd at miss
To some lovely fair one we empty the bowl,

And vow to be constant to friendship and love.
Caustic,
For, says she and she whisper'd, the matter '3 all
settled,
DISAPIOINTMENT.
But think not that happiness dwells in those revels,
And her father will hear and Im sure hell be nettlcd:

Or faithful the vows those gay hours bestow,
In those hours so blythe are engender'd the evils
Then believe not my brow is forever o'ercast,
Well lose a good meeting room too for our club,

And be cut in the billgllll'l; aye, tbere is the rub,
Besides, in that tile weekly paper, shell quiz us,
So plain that e'en fools in her meaning cant miss us.
At leng'h quite fatigued with their illnatured chat,
Or that pensive I y from the mirth loving train,

To sigh and to mourn over moments long past,
And weep that their pleasures I cannot regain.
I bade Nancy bring up for each lady her hat.

They departed with frowns. and I call'd up papa,
And I thought when I told him hed ne'er cease to
Which tn life's varying current must ebb or must

ow.
ha' ha!
Orlando was never so pensively sad

But a smtlc of sweet friendship from thee could
Says he, Clemmy, you've quizzd them completely I

own.
And the captain to tell now you'd better sit down.
Adieu, dearest Grummet, I hope soon to view
Your visage and wig and yourfancible queue;
I pray that yOtl ever good health may enjoy,
And that draughts of salt water your aches may de
stroy.
CLEMEN'IINA CAUSTIC.
restore,
A smile in the garb of soft sympathy clad,

The tranquilized cast it was clothed in before.
'I'ben continue the friendship you plighted to me
In you-h's early dawn when the spirit was gay,
And my heart eer shall glow with the passion for
thee.
' The Repertory.
Till the sun of my being shall set in decay

ORLANDO
The fair one is false to her word,

I seek her, but seek her in vain;
Can her lip of delight, so adored,
Eer bid me of falsehood complain?
How happy I welcomd the mom!
How bright seem'd the sun to my eyes!
But evening surveys me forlorn,
And her shadows descend on my sighs.
Hope whispers no more to my heart,
That to bless it my idol is near;
Fate dooms us forever to part.
And dashes my bliss with a tear.
Yet, hark! tis the voice of my love!
'Tis the music of Phillidas tongue;
Ah! no, tis a sound from the grove,
Alas! tis the nightingaleo song.
_o.
ANECDOTE OF DR. FRANKLIN.
From Thomass interesting Htstory of Printing,

just published.
Soon after the establishment of his paper,

For the Repertory.
Mr. Editor,
For the Repertory.
Thinking that perhaps some triing effu

TO CAPTAIN GABRIEL GRUMMET.
sions, which may tend to excite the risiblc
I received, my dear captain, your friendly epistle,
Tttcultics into motion, and yet not injure the
Which more musical is than the notes of pas pestle

When beat gainst the mortar with minute precision.
And it made on my heart a much deeper incision.
(Anno l728) a person brought him a piece,

which he requested him to publish in the
Pennsylvania Gazette, now the oldest news
paper in the United States. Franklin desired
that the piece might be left for his conside
morals, may be acceptable to the readers of

ration until next day, when he would give an
your poetical department, I shall from time

to time offer them for your acceptance.
Yours, truly,
RALPH RISIBLE.
In return for your verses my birth day to deck,

I will pray that, for many a slow rolling week,
You may not experience the pangs of the gout;
THE SOT.
EPIGRA.1MATICAL.
The scalding heat of Basss throat,
Tis said for want of whack.
And conquer the ague and fever to boot:

But, to cut now the rife of my compliments short,
A tbimbk of news to your ear 1" report

You remember miss Modish. who once was,tis said,
In love with your worship o'er ears and oer head;
Had nearly burnt the thread bare coat
Completely oil" his backer
Was always admiring the fragrance of tar,

And pray'd that you ne'er might be bemm'd in a war?
Well. she and miss Spangle, who, you know, is no
He took, to pledge for one more drop,

The bed on which he laid him;
.tnswer. The person returned at the time

appointed, and received from Franklin this
communication: l have perused your piece,
and nd it to be scurrilous and defamatory.
To determine whether I should publish it
or not, I went home in the evening, purcha
sed a two penny loaf at the bakers, and with
. Water from the pump made my supper; I
then wrapped myself up in my great cost,
and laid down upon the oor, and slept till
morning, when on another loaf and a mug of
pade.
But landlord Flip refused to stop
And a few dozen more of the same irting brood,
The bed, till Bass had paid him.
In club of sweet scandal agreed to assemble;

And that I love a dirb too I will not dissemblc.
" Good neighbor Bass," the landlord said,

The bed youd better keep;"
" I am not sick to keep my bed,
Together we met in our large dining reom.

Which still has retaind the loved tarry perfume,
Said Bass, " nor want to sleep."
Chose Modish our presidentnay, do not stare

Who fill'd, I assure you, with state your armd chair.
The meeting being organized. bye laws were fOrmd,
And each lady with zeal and with eloquence stormd:
Still Flip refused to take the pledge,

\Vhtch raised the old mans ire;
He vow d the bed behind the hedge
After tearing some characters quite into tatters,

Miss Spangle bethought her of much greater matters.
He next to pledge the Bible took:
He'd heave, or in the re.
She knew not, she said. what mm: rea captain: meant
The landlord still refused.

To take for rum the sacred book
Who told all the world. with their ladies consent,
Of their courtships, and sent from the cape: mourn

ful ditties
Addressd to their Clemmie: and Peggies and Kitties.
In fury now exclaimd old Bass,
Nay ,tlte venomous taunts fell so fast from her tongue,

And she gabbled such atu', that a murmur among
The meeting arose: but a vnice from the chair
'hy landlord, will not my word pass,

Nor yet the Word ofGotI!
Which he had oft perused.

Why, this is very odd!
water, I made my breakfast. From this re

gimen I feel no inconvenience whatever.
Finding I can live in this manner, I have
formed a determination never to prostitute

my press to the purpose of corruption and
abuse of this kind, for the sake of gaining a

more comfortable subsistence.
The following sly trick WZlS put upon the
toll gatherer of the Ashley river bridge, near
Charleston, (S. C.) a few days since: Two
tars, whose months advance was nearly ex
hausted, found themselves, on their arrival
at the bridge, in possession of bttt six cents;
one of them, knowing that their funds were

inadequate to defray the expense of their
passage, advanced in front of his sliiptnate,
Call'd to " order," and all turnd around with a stare
' Rhino.
1' It may be asked how the heat of a mans throat
could burn the coat off his back: nothing more easy:
if I applv that money in the cause of inebriety which
should procure me clothing, it may be justly said,
At words IO wtluual; the president stated
She rhgughl that the subject should not be debated,

Nor persnal invectives thrown out at each other,
And hoped that the ladies Would silence the barber,
To enforce what she said Ftruck her fist on the table,
And bellow'd out " ailence as loudly as able.
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and demanded the price of the voyage? The

reply was, H six cents each." It Do you
charge for luggage?" replied Jack. It No."
Then stepping back, and taking his brother
that the heat of my throat has burn: the coat Of upon his shoulders, he marched over with
all the gravity imaginable.
77m,
my back.
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\Ve should be obliged by receiving a trans

lation of the following lines, from any of our
juvenile readers; they may rest assured, that
the sense is perfect, and the Latin conform
able to grammatical rules.
Malum malus mala malo t male me made
Malum malo mala malo quam pcti majore
dan, and many others, are unavoidably post

poncd.
-.
of Fontaincbleau the 7th of October, the em
peror of France has named M. Lescalier con

sul general to the United States of America.
\Vc learn with great pleasure, that a costly

and extensive philosophical apparatus has
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1810.
been imported by the Bainbridgc, capt. Grey,
for the use of the university of Pennsylvania.
It was selected and shipped through the agen
\Vith the liveliest emotions of gratitude, cy of \Villiam Vaughan, esq. of London, who,
we accept the very friendly proffers of Ralph with the liberality which distinguishes the
Risible; and with the sincerest pleasure we friend of science, has volunteered his servi
introduce him to our readers, whose grati ces on this occasion. Among the articles im
cation we have no doubt will be as much ported are an achromatic telescope on a large
enhanced as ours, by the continuance of his scale by the celebrated Dollond; a voltaic bat
facetious and entertaining treats: he has hit tery; a large electrical machine, with medical
upon the strain so long desired, and touched apparatus and an electrical battery on the new
the string so universally pleasing, with such plan; magnetic apparatus, 80s.; hydrostatic
a judicious and skilful hand that, we fondly apparatus; a universal compound and solar
liaballllbi.
Helicon is classically sweet; and the pre

sent draught from it, if it be not too pure for
those who have been accustomed to the fe
culent rill at the foot of the Parnassian mount,
may be of innite service, for cheering the

Spirits and invigorating the powers of our
young candidates for poetic distinction: while
Helicon, like Horace, makes the doggerel
rhymster and poetaster laugh, at their own
expense; like Horace, likewise, he aims at
rescuing the sublime and noble art of poetry

from the degradation and silliness of modern
fashion, by turning it from sounds to things,
from fancy to the heart. We long for more
of this delicious stream.
It causes regret in us that, from circum
stances unavoidable and not within the reach
of our control, the piece signed A cow,
ed it, would have insured it an immediate in

sertion: we are condent that, with the well
known liberality of that worthy character,

this apology will sufce at present; and we
atter ourselves with being favored with
further communications, whether from the
valuable recollections of one of the best of
from the 17th to the 26th November.
Distal.
Apoplexy
ad. cb.
Diseases.
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Consumptionoflungs2
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Convulsions
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opaque microscope; best table air pump; a
locroscope, &c. &c. These valuable additions

to the apparatus already in the possession of
the university will, it is presumed, enable the;
learned gentleman who has lately been
elected to the chair of natural philosophy to
accompany his lectures with a complete
course of experiments, the want of which
has heretofore been the subject of much and
general complaint. Certainly, without expe
riments, it cannot be expected that a youth
ful student will make any considerable pro
ciency in natural philosophy. It is said that
a thorough regeneration and reformation of
the system of education in the university have
lately been completed by the board of trus
tees, which promise the most benecial con
sequences. The new system is to go into ope
ration at the beginning of the next year.
U. S. Gazette.
has been so long delayed; as its own merits,
but more particularly the very high respect

we bear to the gentleman who politely hand
November 24-, 1810.
By a French decree issued from the palace
hope, the stores ofhis dessert will not be soon

exhausted.
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on
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
BY JOSEPH BUTTON.
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VOL. I.
No. 32.
1
BIOGRAPHY.
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF
\IR. JAMES FERGUSON,
Author of Lectures on Astronomy, Mechanics. 8st.

WRITTEN
BY HIMSELF
As my setting out in life from a very low

station, and in a remote part of the island,
(Great Britain) has occasioned some false,

and indeed very improbable, particulars to be
related of me, I therefore think it the better
way, instead of contradicting them one. by
one, to give a faithful and circumstantial de

tail-ofmy whole proceedings, from my. rst
obscure beginning to the present time,
wh_erein,if I should insert some, particulars
of little moment, I hope the good natured
reader will kindly excuse me.
I was born in the year l7l.0,.a few miles
improve in the science of mechanics. But,

as my father could not aord to maintain me
while I was in pursuit only of these matters,
roof, as if it had been a small weight. I at
and I was rather too young and weak for
tributed this at rst to a degree of strength

that excited my terror as well as wonder:
but thinking further of the matter; I recol
lected that he had applied his strength to that
end of the lever which was farthest from the
prop; and nding, on inquiry, that this was
the means whereby the seeming wonder was
effected, I began making levers, (which I
then called bars) and by applying weights
to them different ways, I found the power
gained by my bar, was just in proportion to
that of the lengths of the different parts of
the bar, on each side of the prop. I then
thought it was great pity that by means of
from Keith, a little village in Bam'shire, in

the north of Scotland; and can with pleasure this bar, a weight could be raised but a very
say, that my parents,.though poor, were re little way. On this I soon imagined, that by
ligious and honest; lived in good repute with pulling round a wheel, the weight might be
all who knew them, and died with good cha raised to any height, by tying a rope to the
racters. V
>
weight, and winding the rope round the axle
As my father had nothing to support a of the wheel, and that the power gained must
large
but hisithily-labor, and the pro be just as great as the wheel was broader
ts arising fromlafew acres of land which he than the axle was thick; and found it_ to be
rented, it was, not to be expected that he exactly so, by hanging one weight "to a rope
could bestow much on the education of his put round the wheel, and another to the rope
children: yet this was not wholly neglected, that coiled round the axle. So that in these
j for_at his leisure hours he taught them to two machines it appeared very plain, that
read and write. And it was while he was. their advantage was as great as the space
teaching my elder brother to read the Scotch gone through by the working power exceed
catechisin,that I acquired my reading, Asha~ ed the space gone through by the weight;
med to ask my father to instruct me, I used,
the book he showed me: and from that time
decayed, my father, desirous of mending it,

applied a prop and lever to an upright spar,
to raise it to its former situation; and to my
great astonishment. I saw him, without con
sidering the reason, lift up the ponderous
and this property I also thought must take
my mind preserved a constant tendency to v
hard labor, he put me out to a neighbor to
keep sheep, which I continued to do for

some years: and in that time I began to stu
dy the stars in the night. In the day time I
amused myself by making models of mills,

spinning wheels, and such other things as I
happened to see.
I then went to serve a considerable farm
er in the neighborhood, whose name was
James Glashan. I found him very kind and
indulgent, but he soon observed, that when
my work was over, I went into a eld with a

blanket about me, layxdown on my back, and
stretched a thread, with small beads upon it,
at arms length between my eye and the
stars; sliding the beads upon it, till they hid

such and such stars from my eye, in order to
take their apparent distances from one an
other; and then, having a candle by me, and
laying a thread down on a paper, I marked

the stars thereon by the beads, according to
their respective positions. My master at rst

laughed at me; but when I explained-my
meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on;
and that I might make fair copies in the day time, of what I had done in the night, he
often worked for me himself. I shall always

have a respect for the memory of that man.
One day he happened ato send me with a
message to the Rev. JohnGilchrist, minis
when he and my brother were abroad, to place in a wedge for cleaving wood; but ter at Keight, to whom I had been known
take the catechism, and study the lesson then I happened not to think of the screw. from my childhood. I carried my star papers,
which he had been teaching my brother: and By means of a turning lathe, which my father to' show them to him, and found him looking
when any'diicultg occurred, I went to a had and sometimes used, and a little knife, over a large parcel of maps, which I survey
neighboring old woman, who gave me_such I was enabled to make wheels and other ed with great pleasure, as they were the rst
hel :as enabled me to read tolerably well, things necessary for my purpose. I then ,1 had overseen. He then told me that the
before my father hadthought _of teaching me. wrote a short account of these machines, and earth is round like a ball, and explained the
some time after, he was agreeably sur sketched out gures of them with a pen, map it to me. I requested him to lend me
prised to nd me_reading by myself, he there imagining it to be the rst treatise of the thiit map, to take a copy of it in the evenings.
upon gave me further instruction, and also

taught me _to write; which, with about three
months I afterwards had at the grammar
School at Keith, was all the education I ever
received. A,
kind that had ever been Written: but found

my mistake when I afterwards showed it to
a gentleman, who told me that these things
were known long before, and showed me a
printed book, in which they were treated of. i
My taste for mechanics arose from. an odd 1 Was however much pleased, when Ifoundl
accident: when about seven or eight years that my account, so far as I had carried it,
of age'ba par-cleft roof of the house being agreed with the principles of mechanics inii
He cheerfully consented to this, giving me

at the same time a pair of compasses, a rule,
pens, ink and paper, and dismissed me with

an injunction not to neglect my masters bu
siness by copying the map, which I might
keep as long as I pleased.
For this pleasant employment, my master
gave me more time tlmnl could reasonably
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expect; and often took the threshing ail
ed, u still, still do they increase! Come forth
out of my hands, and worked himself, while
my sword, and aid me to explore.
I sat by him in the barn, busy with my com

passes, rule and pen.
He hastened towards the abbey, but was
When I had nished the copy, I asked
met by \Veineet, who still bore the torch

that had lighted the burning pile.
leave to carry home the map; he told me I
\Vho art thou? demanded Braubenski,
was at liberty to do so, and might stay two
gazing in apparent pleasure upon this

dreadful conagration!
Weineet turned, and the peasant recog
nized him.
VVeineet! exclaimed he, by what
strange miracle are you here? Some bloody
act must ever wait upon you."
hours to converse with the minister. In my

way thither, I happened to pass by the school
at which I had been before, and saw a gen~
teel looking man (whose name I afterwards
learned was Cantley) painting a sun dial on
the wall. I stopped a while to observe him,
Braubenski! cried \Veineet, after he
and the schoolmaster came out, and asked
me what parcel it was I had under my arm? had a little recovered from his surprise,
I showed him the map, and the copy I had Braubcnski, avoid this scene of death! 'I'hy
made of it, wherewith he appeared tobe very aid has come too late!
Too late!" echoed Braubenski, too late
well pleased, and asked me whether I should
not like .to learn of Mr. Cantley to make sun for what?"
To save the wretched victims from de
dials. Mr. Cantley looked at the copy of the
map and commended it much; telling the struction, answered the assassin.
schoolmaster (Mr. John Skinner) that it was
" \Vhat victims, bloody murderer? de
a pity I did not meet with notice and en manded the peasant.
w Braubcnski, I would spare thy life," cri
couragement. I had a good deal of conver
sation with him, and found him to be quite ed IrVeineet, but leave this spot, or death
affable and communicative; which made me must be thy doom!
1' Death!" said Braubenski.
think I should be extremely happy if I could
Even so," replied the bravo, I would
be further acquainted with him.
(To be continued.)
spare thy age, but necessity has no law.
Therefore retire, or my sword will effectu
For the Repertory.
ally prevent thy ight.
" Thy sword'." cried Braubenski, "I tell
A ROMANCE.
thee, slave, were thy strength Herculean, I
feel so strong in conscious rectitude, so con
CHAPTER X.
H Day, day declines, exclaimed VVein
eet, H day declines apacc, and night comes

on, the dreadful night of death! 0! that pang!
Lost, lost, forever lost! That pangthat pang!
So, it flies, but bears the vital breath along!"
Thus saying, the victim of guilt and homi

cide expired.
>
Braubenski gazed some moments at the
lifeless body, and then raised his eyes tothe
burning abbey.
The abbey, cried he, the abbey on
re, sure Heaven has led me so distant from
my home for some mysterious duty."

His attention Was now drawn to a scene
that redoubled his horror, at the same time
that it raised in his bosom the transports of

hope, and swelled his heart by overwhelming
emotions.
Part of the wing in which the prisoners
were conned gave way, and Braubenski be
held Imnia surrounded by the ames! No
thing can describe his various emotions, for
it was the countess of Sobeiski!
" Powers of bliss! exclaimed he, " tis
she, Imnia, my noble mistress, here conn
ed!"
" Whom do I behold?" exclaimed the ter
ried countess, " Braubenski, O! save me,
snatch me from this fearful situation!

" Ill save thee, noble lady," cried the ge
nerous peasant, " I'll save, or with thee pe

rishi
Throwing his sword away, the intrepid Old
man rushed through the broken wall, into
vinced that Heaven will prosper justice in the midst of the ames; at the same time the
(Continued)
That shrivell'd end pale Poverty was there,
the trial, that I would brave thee to the at
oor above, on which the countess stood,
And Want stalkd frightful oer my cot. Twas then tempt."
gave way; she sunk through, and was caught

u . The tempter met me, threw the luring bait,
" So hot, old man, cried Weineet, thus in the arms of Braubenski, who bore her
And deep perdition followed.
then, I chastise thy insolence!
from the devouring element, and quickly
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"
Come
on,
exclaimed
the
magnanimous
extinguished her burning clothes; the rescu
As I do live, my honored lord, tis true,
peasant, come on; for injured innocence I ed lmnia. found herself in possession of li
And I did think it writ down in my duty,
draw my sword, tutd thou tor desperate guilt. berty and life.
To let you know of it.
Sbahpgan,
Braubenski proceeded from the castle on If my cause be just, fall thou, but if unjust,
She lives, she lives!" exclaimed the en
his return home, but was so wrapped in con be mine the fate deserved!
rapturcd Braubenski, who had paid little at
Since you will have it so, cried Wein
templation, at the scenes which had recently
tention to himself, until the flames had near
passed before his view, and lost in anxiety eet, " this to your heart!
ly burned his fur coat from his back; he then
Here a dreadful combat took place, but at threw it from him, and experienced little or
for the fate of Thadia, whom, he now imagin
ed, was lost forever. Then again, hope would length the righteous sword prevailed, and no injury in any other way.
The rescued countess cotgd not for a mo
nerve his soul, as'he was condent she was the bravo sunk at the feet of Braubenski,
ment believe the reality, but she soon be
in the castle, and could receive no injury, weltering in his blood.
defended by the vigilance of Linhault.

Still these dreadful apprehensions will
not leave me, cried he, " and much I fear
some deed of dreadful die is in agitation!"

In this manner he continued walking, un
til the river obstructed his passage. He now
first perceived that he had missed his way.
He looked about him, to endeavor to learn

where he was, from some of the surrounding
country, when the flames from the abbey
Heaven has at last overtaken thee," cri
came convinced, and thanked the peasant in
ed Braubenski, and now thou meetcst a
the warmest manner for her preservation,

just reward for all thy deeds of blood!
when the recollection of her husband shot
Braubenski, faintly said the expiring like lightning across her mind.
wretch, O! ere I sink forever, bless me
" My Thaddeus, she cried, " my husband
with forgiveness, in thy] name and in Sobei is still exposed to the danger of the ames!
skis!
My noble master!" exclaimed Brauben
" Thou hast it in mine own, replied the ski, u be too alive!"
u Dead, dead perhaps ere this! cried the
peasant, gazing with tearful eyes upon his
victim, and for Sobeiskihe stands before
the throne of heaven, where

struck upon his sight.
" \Vhenco are those ames?" he cxclaim-l will accuse thee."
I hope he never
agonizcd Imnia, ere this the flames have

reached him, or perhaps worse, tne assassins
dagger has been reddened with his blood!"
Braubenski was lost in astonishment and
knew not what to do.
" Fly, y and save him," continued the al

most phrenzicd Imnia, " or plunge me again
into the flames!
" I pray you moderate this anguish," cried
Braubenski, " be calm my gentle lady, give
me some clue to guide me in my search of
great Sobeiski, and Ill preserve him or fall
in the attempt.
After a short time, perceiving the ncccs
25!
By providential Heaven, my lord," an
cover her existence before she was secure.
swered Braubenski, and me its instru
However, he candidly related the whole. \Ve
ment."
shall leave the reader to imagine the feel~
The count, in a suitable manner, expres ings of the father and mother, at the rela
sed his gratitude to the peasant, and request tion of Braubenski, and their astonishment
ed to know the reason of his being there at and horror at the discovery of Fevresburgh's
that time.
villainy.
Braubenski related the cause partially, but
Braubenslti having concluded, they resolv
forbore to mention the existence of Thadia, ed to hasten immediately to Sobeiski, in
lest at that time it should prove too much form the king of what had happened, and
for the already exhausted countess; however, search the castle for the lovely Thadia.
sity of exertion, the countess became more he determined gradually to unfold that joy
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
composed, and informed Braubenski of their ous reality.
efforts to effect their escape, and that the
The countess gazed some moments at the
For the Repertory.
count had parted from her a short time be count as Braubenski concluded, and then ex
fore the commencement of the conagration, claimed,
THE CABINET. No. XV.
to explore once more the means of escape.
Did the re forget its nature to spare
" The relish for novels and romance! may be 66h
Braubenski listened in amaze, and the me this sad loss? Heaven I thank thee, that sidered as the thermometer of the taste and judg
countess having concluded, he seized his ra thou hast not taken every comfort from me, ment of a nation: if it increases, it marks their de
pier, and was preparing to prosecute his de and though my infant fell, has saved her fa cline; if it decreases, it declares their improvement."
termination of nding the count, when Sobei ther!"
\Ve have not unfrequently heard alleged
-- My dearest mistress," said Braubcnski, the disagreeablencss of rendering our neigh
ski appeared above, combating with Truro.
But the scene was now reversed; instead hope still an increase of your joy, there bors' defects the subject of investigation;
of Trum, in the struggle, Sobeiski became may be more in store than you conceive."
the truth of this cannot be denied: but if our
What mean you?" demanded Sobeiski.
the pursuer. He pressed upon the bravo, de
feelings are such on a private review, what
Thou hast raised a hope with these few must they be when we come to condemn or
termined to thrust him into the ames, and
thus, ifhe perished himself, to usher death words," said the countess, "that lifts my vindicate the judgment of a nation? I ap
sinking soul! Do not deceive me, or my an proach the bar of literature, with that dii
to the abominable assassin.
" My Thaddeus, my beloved Thaddeus! guish will be treble!"
dence which becomes only an American, or
What may your mystery import? inqui a man of whatsoever country who has an
cried Imnia.
Braubenslti considered for a moment, and red the count anxiously.
opinion of his own, which he conceives tobe
Stanislaus lives, and still is king," said founded on the laws of justice, and conform
then began to mount the broken wall, to the
assistance of the count, when Providence Braubenski, " I would prepare you for a able to the dictates of reason. I approach it,
ood of bliss, that you may have strength to asone who thinks he has a right to judge,
rendered his assistance unnecessary.
At that moment Sobeiski, wrenched the
weapon from the bravo, the hold ofwhich, du
stem the torrent.

and who would not barter that judgment, for
Great Providence! exclaimed the count. public displeasure, or for public praise.
ring the struggle, he had not once relinquish

ed, at the same time the oor giving way, they
sunk through, and as the falling Tl uro rolled
u And have you doubted, said Brauben

ski, u that he who rescued you from threat
ening danger, could likewise save your
daughter from destruction?"
H Say that she lives!" cried Sobeiski.
at the feet of the countess, his own sword,
guided by the hand of her husband, transxed

his body! He uttered a groan and expired.
In the next instant the fainting countess
was clasped to the bosom of her affectionate
lord, who held her for some moments in
speechless ecstacy,whilc Braubenski wiped
the tears of joy from the furrows of his care
worn cheek. Let the reader picture to him
self the feelings of the count and countess,
who from a connement of sixteen years,
suddenly saw themselves at liberty; and the
transports of a tender and grateful servant,
at beholding his benefactors alive, whom he
had supposed long since placed in the nar
row house of death.
The countess recovered, and the count re
lated his adventure with Truro, after which
he requested to hear how the countess had

been preserved, when Imnia related the
whole.
What, saved by thee, Branbenski!" ex
claimed Sobeiski in joy.
" She does, answered the peasant.

The count and countess rushed into each
others arms.
Kind Heaven accept my gratitude!" cri
ed Sobeiski fervently.
Braubenski contemplated the scene with
delight. I, exclaimed he, I snatched
your infant from the arms of death; I healed
the wound that pierced her tender. side; I

bore her to my home and reared her as my
own.
" Did you do this? cried the countess seiz

ing both the hands of the peasant, u then take
no trivial boon, a mothers blessing! a mo
ther wild with joy!"
-- Conduct us to her, cried the father,
after sixteen years, to clasp my darling to

my bosom! O! tis too much bliss!"
Braubenslti now forcibly remembered that
Thadia was not in his power, and regretted
that his impatience had prompted him to dis
I have noticed, with much regret, the ex

cessive and intemperate love of novels, which
at present pervades our youth of both sex

es, but more particularly the female. I
wish not, as a rigid moralist, to abridge their
pleasures; but the respect and esteem in

which I. hold this part of the rising genera
tion prompt me to say, that if this passion is
indulged to too great an extent, it will most
generally prove injurious to their sensibility,
and. destructive to their happiness. The love
scenes, which are often so exquisitely drawn
as to awaken the senses to ccstacy; the ar
dent embraces ol' the youthful couple, which
would almost thaw the icicles of age; and
the success which the author generally caus

es to attend their clandestine connexions,
serve to iname the disposition, and arouse
the passions: while the unreserved disclo~

sure of her a'ection, by some novel hero-e
ine, tends to banish that modesty which is
its chief ornament, and which should be ever
dear to the sex.

I speak thus pointedly of the female por- .
tion of society, because, as 1 before observed,
they are in a greater measure addicted to
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this kind of reading; and,owing to the ner The labors of the moralist will be looked and I determined never again to permit the
texture of their feelings, are likely to receive upon with frigid indifference, and mortify
deeper impressions from it. This may also ing contempt: he will, perhaps, retire with
be in some degree attributed to their more disgust from his praiseworthy avocation; and
sedentary lives: for the youth of the male thus will morality be neglected, and religion
sex very soon mingle in the busy pursuits despised.
I consider the youthfulness of our coun
of the world; and the actions of their infan
cy, whether corporeal or mental, fade from try, and have made the necessary allowan
their recollection, or display themselves in ces; but I consider her as an individual
colors so dim as to render their consequen maiden rising to maturity in the bloom of
ces, if likely to produce good, to be but lit unreecting beauty, and the tenderness of
tle relied on; and if evil, to be as little dread undetermined youth; and if she is not brok
ed: whilst those of the other, as their engage cn by her preceptors of her evil practices
ments are but of a triing nature, are sub while young, when she has proceeded fur
ject to the disagreeable feelings which such ther in age, she will lose her docility, and be
productions rarely fail to excite, and consign come so headstrong in her behavior, that it
ed to the pangs of sensibility, and the tor will be almost impossible to effect a refor
mation.
\
turings of fancy.
It shall not be my endeavor, nor is it my
In short, it appears to me that the taste
wish, to prove the evil tendency of all no for light reading and frivolous employment,
vels, or romances; for I do not suppose it: which at present overspreads this country,
there are many calculated to instruct the and is daily increasing, even now threatens
young, delight the middle aged, and gratify her moral and scientic character, and will,
the old. But in admitting thisI do not ahan if there are no means taken to repress it with
don my opinion, nor shrink from the post I in proper bounds, soon destroy her literary
am pledged to defend; for there is no rule, fame. Therefore,
however general, without an exception; nor -" Ye guardians of the rising age,
can it be reasonably advanced, that the good On whom the pleasing. arduous task devolves,
performed by one novel, counterbalances the
evil committed byan hundred. I agree that

the profession of the generality, perhaps all
of their authors is to do good; and, however
different in my belief as to the effects, I am

charitable enough to suppose, that the most
of them are undertaken with such an inten
tion. But if, from false judgment, they ope
rate contrary to their desires; if the author
blindfolds the man,- is their remorse suicient
to do away the ill effects of their works? and
what other atonement can they offer?
I shall not, however, dwell longer on the
phantoms of imagination, or the heroes of
To take up infant genius by the hand,
And lead it on to virtue; you, I say,

On whom a nation looks with anxious hope,
Cast your inuence in the early stage
Of lifes career, ere yet the opning mind.
By custom led. unguardedly, adopts

Maxims injurious to its future peace.
'Tis yours to check the wild unruly play
Of wayward passions, and instil betimes
Sage precepts worthy of the name you bear."
GREGORY GRAVITY.
For the Repertory.
(Continued.)
I met Mary near the garden gate, and in

important duty. These productions, too ea a few words acquainted her with the late oc
gerly devoured, so completely overload the currences. She was much gratied at the
mind, that it cannot digest the more sober compliance of the parson with my wishes,
food of philosophy, or of logic; and if it is and besought me not to forget returning as
persisted in, we may reasonably expect to see soon as possible, and fervently prayed for
the more solid branches of literature gradu the success of my application to Messrs.
ally forsaken, and the snow bleached tree of M. S: R. I promised to do as she desired,
science fall to decay. The manly, the rm, and pressing my lips to hers, sighed out my
the majestic poetry of Homer, will be buried farewel and left her. Artless and affection
in neglect, he will be forgotten, zuid his ate Mary! I exclaimed, as I turned into the
works unknown. Even the greatest poets of path that led from her residence, " may Hea
our own language will cease robe remem ven abandon me if ever I desert thee, or seek
bered, or respected; their works will be giv to take an undue advantage of thy unsus
en to the wind. The sacred page of history pecting youth. My former gay and fashion
will be scattered regardless on the earth; and able principles vanished before such unspot
the grandeur of those nations, whose only ted innocence and simplicity; and I felt that
romance; but proceed to prosecute my more
existence is now cherished on its bosom, like

the pillars of Palmyra, will
n In one heap of ruin moul'dring lie."
the seeds of virtue which had been implant
inuence of vice over them to predominate;

the love I felt for Mary was fervent as sin
cere, and as innocent as rened; no wish for
selsh gratication reared its warring crest

in my bosom; all, all was tranquil, and feels
ingly alive to the sweet and impressive whis

perings of hope.
With a heart at ease, I pursued my way
across the country, to the residence of, if my
hopes proved propitious, my future patrons.

My purse, like my mind, was light,- and I
had, in the words of an author whose name
I cannot at present recollect, a plentiful

lack of cash, and not overblest with an ex
tensive wardrobe. However these circum

stances, which at another period would have
appeared misfortunes almost insurmounta

ble, gave me now no uneasiness; and I trudg
ed cheerfully along, upheld by the gay anti.
cipations of an ardent imagination.
Twas near twilight when I arrived at the
place of my destination, and having knocked
at the door, was preceded to the parlor by a
servant, and introduced to the",presence of
Mr. M. who it appeared was the principal
actor in the rm. I bowed and presentedmy
letter, which he attentively perused, thus

giving me an opportunity of surveying him.
He was a man apparently thirty years of age,
tall and well formed, his countenance open
and very prepossessing; the traces of good
humor and sincerity were visible; but with
all these pcrfections, I could not avoid fan
cying that no small share of credulity was at
tached to his character: this idea experience

veried. At length he nished the perusal,
and with an encouraging smile bade me wel
come to his house. He requested the to be
seated, a piece of politeness he had before
neglected, and rung the bell for refreshments.
He then adverted to the contents of parson
G.s letter, and professed himself glad at my
opportune appearance; said they had defer
red or neglected procuring a clerk so long
that he had intended to write to the city of

for one; thanked me for saving him the
trouble; and, after a few necessary inquiries
respecting my capability, he concluded, much
to my satisfaction, with engaging me at a
salary of seven hundred dollars per annum,
which far exceeded my most sanguine exs
pectations.
.
I entered upon business the next morning,
and my conduct gave so much satisfaction

that my generous employer, rightly suppose
ing it would be an object to me, advanced

the amount of my half year's salary. This
was an acquisition, and I employed part of it
in procuring wearing apparel; and after hav

ed in my breast, though obscured by my late ing reduced the routine of business, which
dissipated revels, were not totally destroyed, was formerly complicated, to a complete syse
m
tem of regularity, I requested leave of ab

sence for a few days, to glad the heart of my
Mary with an account of the brilliancy of
my prospects, and to make her my own for
ever, at least till separated by death. My re
quest was granted, and leaving my baggage
and the greatest part of my cash as pledges
of my return, I flew on the wings of impa
tience towards her residence. Fancy in live
ly colors pourtrayed the glance of approba
the occasion, and concludes with an illiberal
posers, and their vitiating hotchpotch of
reection: this, however, I should, at pre
music, which has done a greater disservice
sent, pass by in silence, were it not calcula

ted to give wrong impressions to the reader,
and mislead his judgment.
G. W. C.'s charges are, that I have no
specic object in view in my essays; that
they militate against church music; that I
censure all the music books that fall in my
to the cause of religion and piety, in this
way; that I have found fault with music pub
tion, which would beam on me from the soft
lishers for altering tunes, and because I have
expressive eyes of Mary, and dwelt with de

light on the pure and affectionate embrace
with which she would greet me. I had ad
vanced several miles on my journey, and was
quite absorbed in meditation, when my re
verie was disturbed by a faint and apparent
ly stied shriek: I listened; again twas re
pested, when rmly grasping in my hand a
stout sapling which 1 had selected as a com
panion in my journey, I followed in the di
rection from which the shrieks appeared to
proceed, and in a few minutes discovered a
carriage advancing rapidly along an adjoin
ing road; again the half stied cry Was re
peated, and I sprung across an intervening
not named them, or the books, or the tunes,

he doubts whether my blame is right; that I
eld and met the coach, the driver of which
I commanded to stop. The only reply he

made was a cut at me with his whip, which
by stepping aside I avoided, and returned
the salute with so much effect and good will,
throw out my censures in the lump against

those who probably know more of the prin
ciples of harmony and the laws of composi
tion than either I or my teachers.
A few general remarks will contain a suf
cient answer to these charges, as well as to
similar objections that may arise in the minds
of my doubting readers. In the rst place,
Mr. G. W. C. ought to have read the essays
carefully from the rst number; this would
faced indelity; and which will require a

long lapse of years to do away or remedy
the evil. It will then be seen, so far from
my throwing out censures by the lump,
against those who know more of the princi
ples of harmony and the laws of composition
than either I or my teachers, that genuine
merit, both in the compilers and composers,
'will receive the deserved tribute of just com
mendation; and that whatever may be the
depth or extent of my knowledge in music,

no exception, cavil or objection can be made
to that of my teachers and instructors, among
whom are Beford, Pepusch, Calelara, Lotti,
Gasparini, Luther, Croft, Bailey, Rameau,

Rousseau, Ravenscroft, Purcel, Vento, Ge
miniani, Corelli, Martini, Lampe, Galliard,
Malcolm, Wargan, Marpurg, Alessandri,
latti, Green, Haydn, Avison, Hayes, Brown,
Bach, Handel, Arne, Carey, Clark, Giardia
ni, Madan, Burney, Arnold, Heck, Miller,

&c. It is by the principles laid down by these
great masters thatl am guided, and by their
rules of harmony that I am governed, in
judging of the various music of our day; and
ject which, it will be seen, he does not un
derstand. Surely politeness or common ci the united voice of mankind, through suc
vility would induce one to listen with atten cessive generations, has established their well
tion to a clergyman or orator, until he had earned celebrity upon an imperishable foun
nished; and reason would dictate the pro
dation.
PHILO MADAN.
priety of waiting, with patience, until a sub
ject were closed, in order to take a compre
A gentleman overtaken by a shower took
refuge in the hut of a Spanish cottager. He
found the landlord in the only dry corner of

the hovel, sitting very philosophically,thumb
ing his guitar. Why dont you thatch your
house, sir!" inquired the stranger. Because
sir, it rains, answered the cottager. But
why not thatch it in dry weather?" " \Vhy

then, sir, (replied he, still playing on) there
is no need of it."
A young Beau, boasting his conquests
over the female heart, exultingly exclaimed

I have subdued the hearts of one hundred
indi'erent women of extinguished reputa
'
9,
I10
books, what tunes, and what circumstances,
SACRED HARMONY.
No. VII.
country, than the practices of dissolute cler

gymen, or even the daring erontery of bold
have shown him the motive and the object of Kimberger, Shield, Morley, Pergolesi, Scar
them. But, at all events, he ought to have
had a little more patience, or politeness, or
both, to wait the conclusion of the design;
in which case he might have saved himself
the mortication that will result from his too
hasty appearance before the public, on a sub
with my cudgel, that he was driven from his

seat, and narrowly escaped being crushed by
the wheel. I then succeeded in stopping the
carriage, and advancing to the door a pistol
was thrust through the window and snapped
in my face: fortunately for me it missed re,
and ere the act could be repeated I struck hensive view of the whole, and thus know
it from the hand of the owner, and opening where to apply objections: at any rate, pa
the door, who should leap into my arms but tience, in the present case, will be requisite
Mary? I clasped her to my breast with rap for the sake of doing justice; for the subject
ture,and looking into the carriage discover is indeed a copious and an important one,
ed, in the person who had attempted my life, and there are many more volumes of music
the odious Frampton: he was rumaging to bring forward, exhibiting almost innume
among his baggage: I disengaged myself rable errors, to point out which, in an ample
from Mary and collared him, just in time to manner, would require not a few essays on
prevent him from again attempting my life; ly, but many volumes. It will be soon enough
for he had loaded another pistol for that pur to enter into particulars, when I shall have
touched generally on the multiplicity of such
pose.
JACK TROCI-IAIC.
(To be continued.)
music books as teem with the indigested and
jumbled productions of our modern compo
For the Repertory.
sers. It will then be seen what persons, what
s l.
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Many unpleasant circumstances had-oc

curred to interrupt the chain of my obser
have contributed to the depravation of the
lPbantlpbta,
public taste, by the introduction of sing-song

tunes, jigging airs, and playhouse shakes
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1810.
vations on church music; and just as I was and ourishes, into the solemn assemblies,
in hope that I should be enabled to prosecute the meetings for social devotion, and the do
Passmsu'r's Masssee.
regularly the ensuing series of numbers, I mestic circle. It will then be seen with what
am again interrupted by G. W: C. with ques view the miserable bookmongers have cir
tions as unreasonable as they are unjust. culated their mutilated tunes, their newfan
The author appears to be rather warm on gled harmonies approved by the best com
' The president of the United States this

day communicated by Mr. Ed. Coles, his pri
Washington, December 5. 1810.
vate secretary, the following message to con

gross:
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Fellow citizens of the senate, and
of the house of representatives,
The embarrassments which have prevail

ed in our foreign relations, and so much em
ployed the deliberations of congress, make
it a primary duty in meeting you, to commu
nicate whatever may have occurred, in that
branch of our national affairs.
feet of interrupting our neutral commerce.

And this further justice to the United States
fect the rights and welfare of the Union. In
is the rather to be looked for, inasmuch as
terposition required for the occupancy of the
the blockade: in question, being not more

contrary to the established law of nations,
than inconsistent with the rules of blockade
formally recognised by Great Britain herself,
could have no alledged basis, other than the
The act of the last session of congress, plea of retaliation, alledgcd as the basis of
F concerning the commercial intercourse be
the orders in council. Under the modica
tween the United States and Great Britain tion of the original orders of November l807,
and France and their dependencies" having into the orders of April 1809, there is in
invited, in a new form, a termination oftheir deed scarcely a nominal distinction between
edicts against our neutral commerce, copies the orders and the blockades. One of those
of the act were immediately forwarded to illegitimate blockades hearing date in May
our ministers at London and Paris; with a l806, having been expressly avowed to be
view that its object might be within the ear still unrcscindcd, and to be, in effect, com
ly attention of the French and British go prehended in the orders in council, was too
distinctly brought within the purview of the
rerun-tents.
By the communication received through act of congress not to be comprehended in
our minister at Paris, it appeared, that a the explanation of the requisites to a com
pliance with it. The British government was
knowledge of the act by the French govern
ment, was followed by a declaration that the accordingly apprised by our minister near it,
Berlin and Milan decrees were revoked, and that such was the light in which the subject
would cease to have effect on the rst day of was to be regarded.
On the other important subjects depend
November ensuing. These being the only
ing between the United States and that go
known edicts of France, within the descrip
tion of the act, and the revocation of them, vernment, no progress has been made, from
being such that they ceased at that date to which an early and satisfactory result can be
violate our neutral commerce; the fact, as relied on.
In the new posture of our relations with
prescribed by law, was announced by a pro
clamation hearing date the second day of No those powers, the consideration of congress
will be properly turned to a removal of doubts
Vember.
It would have well accorded with the con which may occur in the exposition, and of
ciliatory views, indicated by this proceeding difficulties in the execution, of the act above
on the part of France, to have extended cited.
The commerce of the United States, with
them to all the grounds of just complaint,
which now remain unadjusted with the Uni the north of Europe, heretofore much vexed
ted States. It was particularly anticipated, by liccntious cruisers, particularly under the
such a conjuncture, I did not delay the in~

territory west of the river Perdido; totwhi'eh
the title of the United States extends, and to

which the laws, provided for the territory of
Orleans, are applicable. \Vith this view, the
proclamation, of which a copy is laid before
you, was confided to the governor of that
territory, to be carried into effect. The le
gality and necessity of the course pursued,
assure me of the favorable light in which it vi

will present itself to the legislature; and of
the promptitude, with which they will sup
ply whatever provisions may be due to the
essential rights and equitable interests of the
people thus brought into the bosom of the
American family.
Our amity with the powers of Barbary,
with the exception of a recent occurrence at
Tunis, of which an explanation is just re
ceived, appears to have been uninterrupted,
and to have become more rmly established.
With the Indian tribes, also, the peace
and friendship of the United States are found

to be so eligible, that the general disposition
to preserve both continues to gain strength.
I feel particular satisfaction in remarking
that an interior view of our country presents
us with grateful proofs of its substantial and
increasing prosperity. To a thriving agricul
ture, and the improvements relating to it,is
added a highly interesting extension of use

ful manufactures; the combined product of
professional occupations, and of household
industry. Such, indeed, is the experience of

economy, as well as of policy, in these sub
stitutes for supplies heretofore obtained by
foreign commerce, that, in a national view,
Danish flag, has latterly been visited with
that, as a further evidence of just disposi

tions towards them, restoration would have
fresh and extensive dcpredations. The mea
these novel blockade: which have a like ef
ulterior events, which might essentially af
the change is- justly regarded as of itself

more than a recompense for those privations
been immediately made of the property of sures pursucd in behalf of our injured citi and losses resulting from foreign injustice,
our citizens, seized under a misapplication zens not having obtained justice for them, which furnished the general impulse requi
of the principle of reprisals, combined with a a further and more formal inteposition with red for its accomplishment. How far it may
misconstruction of a law of the United States. the Danish government is contemplated. be expedient to guard the infancy of this
The principles which have been maintained improvement in the distribution of labor, by
This expectation has not been fullled.
From the British government no commu by that government in relation to neutral regulations of the commercial tariff, is a sub
nic..tion on the subject of the act has been commerce, and the friendly professions of jeet which cannot fail to suggest itself to
received. To a communication from our mi his Danish majesty towards the United your patriotic reections.
nister at London, of the revocation, by the States, are valuable pledges, in favor of a
It will rest with the consideration of
congress, also, whether a provident as well
French government, of its Berlin and Milan successful issue.
Among the events growing out of. the as fair encouragement would not be given
decrees, it was answered, that the British
system would be relinquished as soon asthc state of the Spanish monarchy, our attention to our navigation, by such regulations as
repeal of the French decrees had actually Was imperiously attracted to the change, de will place it on a level of competition with
taken effect, and the commerce of neutral veloping itself in that portion of W est Flo foreign vessels, particularly in transporting
nations have been restored to the condition rida, which though of right appertaining to the important and bulky productions of our
in which it stood, previous to the promulga the United States, had remained in the pos own soil. The failure of equality and re.
tion of those decrees. This pledge, although session of Spain; awaiting the result of ne eiprocity in the existing regulations on this
it does not necessarily import, does not ex gociations for its actual delivery to them. subject operated, in our ports, as a pre
clude the intention of relinquishing, along The Spanish authority was subverted: and a mium to foreign competitors; and the inwith the orders in council, the practice of situation produced, exposing the country to convenience must increase, as these may be
multiplied, under more favorable circum
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stances, by the more than countervailing

encouragements now given them, by the
laws of their respective countries.
Whilst it is universally admitted, that a
'well instructed people alone can be perma
nently a free people; and whilst it is evident
that the means of diffusing and improving
useful knowledge form so small a proportion
of the expenditures for national purposes, I
caxmot presume it to be unseasonable to in
vite your attention to the advantages of superadding, to the means of education provid
ed by the several states, a seminary of learn
ing, constituted by the national legislature,
within the limits of their exclusive jurisdic
tion; the expense of which might be defray
ed, or reimbursed, out of the vacant grounds
which have accrued to the nation within those

limits.
Such an institution, though local in its le
gal character, would be universal in its be
necial effects. By enlightening the opin

ions; by expanding the patriotism; and by as
similating the principles, the sentiments and
the manners of those Who might resort to
this temple of science, to be redistributed,
in due time, through every part of the com~

munity; sources of jealousy and prejudice
would be diminished, the features of nation
al character would be multiplied, and great

er extent given to social' harmony. But,
above all, a well constituted seminary, in
the centre of the nation, is recommended by
The fortications for the defence of our

maritime frontier, have heen prosecuted ac
Even among nations whose large stand

ing armies and frequent wars afford every
cording to the plan laid down in 1808. The other opporttuiity of instruction, these estab
works, with some exceptions, are complet lishmcnts are found to be indcspensable, for
ed, and furnished with ordnance. Those for the due attainment of the branches of mili
the security of the city of New York, though tary science, which require a regular course
far advanced towards completion, will re of study and experiment. In a government,
quire a further time and appropriation. This happy withoutthe other opportunities, semi
is the case with a few others, either not com
narics, where the elementary principles of
pleted, or in need of repairs.
war can be taught without actual war and
. The improvement in quality and quantity without the expense ofextcnsive and standing
made in the manufactory of cannon, and of armies, have the precious advantage of uni
small arms, both at the public armories and ting an essential preparation against external
private factories, warrant additional con
danger, with a scrupulous regard to internal
dence in the competency of those resources,
safety. In no other way, probably, can a pro
for supplying the public exigencies.

vision, of equal efficacy for the public defence,
These preparations for arming the mili be made at so little expense, or more con
tia, having thus far provided for one of the sistently with the public liberty.
objects contemplated by the power vested in
The receipts into the treasury during the
congress, with respect to that great bulwark year ending on the 30th of September last
of the public safet '; it is for their considera (and amounting to more than eight million:
and a half of dollars) have exceeded the cur
tion, whether further provisions are not re
quisite for the other contemplated objects of rent expense of the government, including
organization and discipline. T0 give to thisE the interest on the public debt. For the pur
great mass of physical and moral force theI pose of reimbursing at the end of the year
efficiency which it merits, and is capable of l 3,750,000 dollars of the principal, a loan as
receiving, it is indispensable that they should authorised by law, had been negociated to
be instructed and practised in the rules by that amount; but has since been reduced to
which they are to be governed. Towards an 2,750,000 dollars, the reduction being per
accomplishment of this important work, I mited by the state of the treasury; in which
recommend for the consideration of con there will be a balance, remaining at the end
gress the expediency of instituting a system,
of the year, estimated at 2,000,000 dollars.
For the probable receipts of the next year,

the eld, at the public expense, and for a and other details, I refer to statements which
tion emanating from it would contribute not given time, certain portions of the commis will be transmitted from the treasury, and
less to strengthen the foundations, than to sioned and noncommissioned ofcers. The which will enable you to judge what further
adorn the
structure, of our free and
system
of government.
I happy instruction and discipline thus acquired, provisions may be necessary for the ensuing
would gradually difl'use through the entire years.
Among the commercial abuses still com body of the militia that practical knowledge
Reserving for future occasions, in the
mitted under the American ag, and leaving and promptitude for active service,which are course of the session, whatever other com
in force my former reference to that subject, the great ends to be pursued. Experience munications may claim your attention, I close
it appears that American citizens are instru has left no doubt, either of the necessity, or the present, by expressing my reliance, under
mental in carrying on a traic in enslaved of the eicacy, of competent military skill, the blessing of Divine Providence, on the
Africans, equally in violation of the laws of in those portions of an army, in tting it for judgement and patriotism which will guide
humanity, and in deance of those of their the nal duties which it may have to perform. your measures, at a period particularly calown country. The same just and benevolent
The corps of engineers, with the military ling for united councils, and inexible ex
motives which produced the interdiction in academy, are entitled to the. early attention ertions, for the welfare of our country, and
force against this criminal conduct, will doubt of congress. The buildings at the seat xed by assuring you of the delity and alacrity
less be felt by congress, in devising further by law for the present academy, are so far with which my co-operation will be afforded.
means of suppressing the evil.
in decay as not to afford the necessary ac
JAMES MADISON.
In the midst of uncertainties, necessarily commodation. But a revision of the law is re-t
connected with the great interests of the U. commended, principally with a view to a
The Charleston City Gazette of the 2lst
States, prudence requires a continuance of more enlarged cultivation and diffusion of of November states, that the intendant yes
our defensive and precautionary arrange the advantages of such institutions, by pro terday received six thousand (iOliul'S from the
ments. The secretary of war and secretary viding professorships for all the necessary Philadelphia committee appointed to collect
of the navy will submit the statements branches 'of military instruction, and by the and remit money for the relief of the sufler
and estimates which may aid congress, in establishment of an additional academy at the ers by the late re in our city, with the
their ensuing provisions for the land and na seat of government or elsewhere. The means promised likelihood that b_etween two and
val forces. The statements of the latter will by which war, as well for defence, as for of three thousand dollars more wouiu be col
include a view of the transfers of appro fence, are now carried on, render these lected.
priations in the naval expenditures, and the schools of the more scientific operations an
Three hundred dollars have been remit'
indispensable part of every adequate system. ted to Charleston, for the benet of the suf
grounds on which they were made.
the consideration,that the additional instruc
which shall, in the rst instance, call into
256
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ferers by the late re, by Messrs. Warren
and Wood of the Baltimore and Philadelphia
it may be said of Mr. Hopkinson, that he

deserved well of the society, and of all his
Theatres; a part of which was contributed

from the private funds.
fellow citizens.
New- York, Dec. 3. On Saturday last the

castle on Governors Island was named Cas
tle \Villiam, under a salute of 17 guns. On
May 6, 1810, at Longbuckby, England, in

the 90th year of her age, Mrs. Anne Stung/t
pains of death would be very violent, the
daughter thought it best to withdraw, desir

ing a person who had the care of her, to call
her immediately, if she asked for her. But
before she could retire, she heard her begin
to speak, and praise the Lord in the follow
ing words: Bless the Lord, 0 my soul,
and she continued in praise and devotion
nearly a quarter of an hour. She then said,
I think I shall not live more than three hours.
After a few weak struggles, she fell asleep
in Jesus.
She died at Longbuckby, in the county of
Northampton, Lords day morning, hiay 6,,
1810, and was buried in the baptist burial
ground there, by the side of her husband, .
who died triumphantly in the mouth of April,
DIED,
ton, the grandmother of Dr. W. Staughton,
pastor of the rst Baptist Church in Phila

Collation to the mayor and corporation of delphia.
She was born of pious parents, in the year
this city, general Armstrong, and a number
172]. In early life it pleased the Lord to
of military and naval officers.
call her by grace. At about the age of l8
We understand that the imperial society she was baptized, on a profession of her
which occasion colonel \Villiams, gave a
of naturalists, established at Moscow, under
faith, in the river at Stony Stratford, the ice
the auspices of the emperor Alexander, have

elected professor Barton, (if Philadelphia,
one of their members.
being broken for that purpose. She was es

tablished iu the truths of the gospel, and
though the subject of many trials, her faith
was steady and unshaken. She walked close
Extract ofa letter from a very respectable clergy. ly with God for 70 years, and was peculiar
man in Philadelphia. to :he editor of the Provi
for her ferveucy and constancy, in closet de
dence (Rhode Island) Gazette, dated November
votion. At the commencement of her last
16, mo.
a'liction, the following passage was much in
On Tuesday evening last, the literary her mind, and which she often repeated to
and many other citizens of our metropolis visiting friends: I know in whom I have
were entertained with an oration, or annual believed, and am persuaded that he is able to
discourse, before the society or academy of keep that which I have committed to him
Fine Arts, by Joseph Hopkinson, esq. mem against that day. She said that her faith was
ber of that institution, and one of the trustees steady and her mind composed. She was not
of our university. The performance obtained on the mount, as she expressed herself, nor
the universal plaudits of a crowded, brilliant
1780.

from the 24th November to the lst Dccember,_1810.
Diseases.
ad.
Apoplexy
2
Burns
I
Consumption of lungsS
Convulsionl
I
Diarrhoea
l
Dropsy
2
1
=> Drowned
Dysentery
0
E Fever, typhus
1
yet cast down. The fear of death seemed to 1

and attentive assembly. .He spoke of the nar be quite removed, except once, she expres 1
r0w minded policy of English writers and scd some uneasiness at the idea of passing .
others with respect to our growing country, through the dark valley. She bore her alic
conning himself to Philadelphia in particu tions with christian patience, intreating for
lar. Like a true master workman, he intro
resignation to the Lords will; being much
duced comparisons with respect to our city supported by that precious passage, All
just before the revolution, immediately after, things work together for good to them that
and what now exists. He mentioned our dai love God." She said she never enjoyed the
ly papers, nine in number, exclusive of oth comfort of so many promises in her life be
er news papers, and the various periodical fore, but she never needed,them so, much.
publications besides, with their ornamental
and rich engravings. He assured us that in

the present year, 1810, exclusive, asI un
derstood him, ofthe publications before men

tioned. upwards of 500,000 volumes would
At one period, the enemy seemed to be per

mitted to disturb her a little, and she said,
How if I should be wrong at last? 0 that

the Lord would give me some promise to lay
hold of. Her daughter encouraged her as
Ball. blag.
_..__
HEALTH OFFICE,
December 1, 1810.
cb.
0
0
l
3
0
0
0
I
0
Diseases.
ad.
Old age
3
Pleurisy
I
Sore throat
0
Small pox, natural 0
Still born
0
Syphilis
l
Worms
0
Unknown
1
Fever. inammatory l 0
I-Iives
0 2
Inam. of bowels
Mortication
cb.
0
0
1
l
B
0
I
I
39 I5
_
0
I
Total 37
" f
Under 1 year
Between 1 and 2
. 5
5
10
10
20
2O 30
II Between 50 and 60
1
60
70
l
70
80
I
80
90
1
90
100
3
'
30
40
40
50
1
2
1
2
2
-
Total 37

9 oclock. 12 oclock. Soclock
November 26
37
4-3
47
27
41
4-2
41
28
29
42
36
4-5
45
43
41
issue from the printing presses of this city: well as she was able, and she repeated in the
30
4-4
44
45
December 1
41 I:
48
46
that at the close of the American war we fervor of devotion,
had but one engraver resident among us; a
Guide me, O thou Great Jehovah,
TERMS OF THE REPERTORY.
fewycars after, two or three more, and that
Pilgrim through this barren land;
The price is four dollars per annum; city sub
now there were sixty, and that even more
I am weak, but thou art mighty,
Hold me with thy powerful hand.
would
nd inencouragement.
outlines are
too
feeble
pourtmying theMy
excellencies
of I
bershalf vearly in advance.
This Was the last faint attempt the cue
his descriptions. T he general expectation is, my made to_ distress her mind. A few days ry Saturday, and forwarded to those in the country
that the discourse will be, as it ought to be, before her departure, she spoke but little; by the earliest conveyance.
Any person who shall procure seven subscriber&
ublished." The president of the institution, complained she could not keep her mind
and become reponsible for the payment, shall receiv
George Clymer, esq. at the .close of the dis xed on any thing long; still praying for
one copy gratis.
course. conferred handsome diplomas on f patience, and longing to depart and be with
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Reper'
teen of our rst artists in sculpture, painting, Christ. The day before her death, being in tory Will be expected to pay the difference.
engraving, Ste. The whole was an engaging great pain, she said, dear Lord,-cut short
Inixtulu of the useful with the pleasing, and ' these days, if it .be thy blessed will; but not
PHILADELPHIA,
.
' It has been published, and is now for sale at the my will but thine. be- donelv
~No. 1?, Arch street.
bookstore of Messrs. Bradford and lnskeep.
. Being much fatigued, and fearing the
.1
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a-l'u':..-i"."~lii 17"" 1' '\ .' a
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VOL. I.
I
we
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1'5, taro.
he was gone; so I left them and went to my

fathers. He had made me a present ofGor
dous geographical grammar, which, at that~
'~
ism: JA mas rnneoson,
time, was to me a great treasure. There is
Althorof LecturesonAnmnmny, Mechanics, he.
.iinmirr- . MRITTBN nr- arm. a) -
~ no gtire of a globe in it, although it con
"l huWg-(cm'lnuedd
uibtas
tains a tolerable description of the globes,
Us. I'then proceeded with the map to the mi
and their use. From this description I made
nister, and showed him the copy of it. While a globe in three weeks at my fathers, hav
we were conversing together-,1aneighboring ing named the ball theneof out of a piece of
.entleutu, Thoras,_Grant, csq. of Achoy wood; covered them .with paper and gradu
naney happened to come in; and the minister ated them; and was happy to nd that by my
immediately introduced me to him, showing globe (which .was the rst I ever saw) I
. -him what I had done.He expressed great could solve the problems. Butnhis wasnot
af'ord me bread, and I could not
satisfaction, asked me some questions about likely
Ahe construction of maps, and told me that if think of staying with my father, .who I knew
ALwwkl go and liveat his house, he would fullwell could not maintain. me in that way,
1, order, his butler.~Alexaoder Cantley, to give as it would be of no service to h'mtyandihe
me_a great deal of instruction. Finding that had, without my assistance, handsb'dleimt
ichis-Cantley was the man whom I had seen for all hiswork. .eU tie-{Hired 0th! "I
faccot's'r or 'rnr-z urn or
rpninting the-sun dial, and of whom I had al
I then went to a miller, thinking it would
ready conceived a, veryhigh opinion, I told be a very easy business to attend the mill,
1quine Gmnt,,thet I should rejoice to-be at and that vI should have a great deal .of lei~
his house b51500 lastho-titm..was expired sure time to study decimal arithmetic and
for which I was engaged with any-present geometry. But my master-(beingtoo fond of
materre very politely oeredtoiput one vrippling at an ale, house, letit themdholeuire
in $11Y'.Pl,:b8 this! declined. . that
of the mill to me,rand almost Module for
a 1; iWlienYthe_timepf my servitude was'out, want'of-iictuals, sothat I :wasiglad'l .when I
,1 lei't my good master, and went to the gen could , havefa. little .oatitneabmixedi With cold
Memans house, where I quickly .foqnd 'my water-.10 eat. I was.engagediforla~.yebn in
I .self withzamost humane, good tmily. Mr.
N0. 33.
c
"BIOGRAPHY.
'
K
------*II_~4
.thio-nnnliSenvioerat- theiend: 0% which Heft
was not able, and had seen me working the
last fortnight as much as possible with one

hand and arm, when I could not lift the other
from my side. And what I thought was par

ticularly hard, he never once tried to give
me the least relief, further than once bleed
ing me, which rather did me hurt than good,

as I was very weak, and much emaciated. I
then went to my father's, where I was con
ned for two months on account of my hurt,

and despaired of ever recovering the use of
my left arm. And during all that time, the
doctor came not once to see me, although
the distance was not quite two miles. But my
friend Mr. Cantley, hearing- of my misfor
tune at twelve miles distance, sent me pro
per medicines and applications,.by means of
which I recovered the use of my arm; but

found myself too weak to think of going into
service again, and had entirely lost my ap
petite, vso that I'could take nothing but a
draught of milk,-oncea-dny-, for many weeks.

In ordertdamuse'nriyseln thislow-state,
I _made_ a wooden clock, the ame of which
wasa'lsoof "Wood; and it kept time pretty

well. The bell on'wliichthe hammer struck
the hours, was the neck of a broken bottle.

then 'no idea how any time keeper
could go but by a weight and a line, I won
dered how a watch could go in all positions,
Cantlcy the bullcltum'on becameimy :fl'ildi ll'nnvandr utmediinhaimery weak state to and was sorry that I had'litever thought of
.1 isndieontinsed. so till his death'iieuvas the
myil'athersm .4" #11 ({Qmlluv a .
Kt-u...
most extraordinary man that I erertw'as ac- i :Soon after 'Ishad mecqnerednmy fermer
quainted with, or, penhaps eyer shalltsee; [di strength, a neighboring fatheresn'ho practi
he was acomplete- master ofmrithlmtic. # sad as a physician'inlh'at pdotoi ithe .country,
,goed mathematician, a'muterviof- pmsicion came to my fathers, wanting to have; me as
Ovc ry ; known instrumenteempt - the. lain-p, ia'laboring senvant. :My latheriodvisedme to
understood Latin, French and. Greek, lct go tordootnr Youngymllilig me that the doc
-rblootkoattresuely well,.iand;oould.-ewen pre :tor- would instruct mein that part ol'- hislm-i
lcl'ibe. M1 physician updnmaymngerm' ,oeca- siness. This he promised toido, which-was
He'wassvhat {is generablyxalled (f a temptation to me. But instead of poribzme
telnugbtmbut Igthink =he .mightuwiith.imilch ing his promise, 'heltept- mew tyie'ry hahd
greatttipropriety, have heemtenmed'God laboryand never oncelshQWed mefoneiof'liis
, Almightys scholar. He immediately -began'-' books. - All his servantscoinplaincrl that he
to teach me decimal arithmetic, and algebra, was the hardest master theyh'atl oyer- lived
{or I
already learned nulgar arithmetic -with;'and it-waslmy'misfoqtwnmto be enga.nt my Llcisuneihours. He then proceeded to1 gedwyitll hinvfor'half'atyoura Bill it"theend
I, test-dime, the elementstof geometryybut to of three months, I was so much ohwhu'ought, i
askingMr. "Candeyhnfho could very e'asily

have informed me. But happening one day
to see a gentleman r'i'de' by'my fathershouse

(whic'h'was close by ~a public road) I'Qsked
him what oclock it then was? He looked at
'l-riU-IWato'h
and told-me. As lhe'did thit with
so inch~good nature, I begged ofhim' to

show md the inside df'his Watch,-and though
'he time an 1entire1 strangenhe immediately

1 opened the watch and put: it into' my hands.
Iisaw the spring box with p'art'of the chain

round it, and asked him what- 'it'was- that
made the box turn round, he told me that it

turned 'round- by a steel sprin
witliini it.
Having then never seen member spring
mm that at iny-i'dtl'ters" gulilIdClt,' _1~ asked,

how aspring withinh BbXcOtlld tum 'thc
_ vany(imzxpreasible gill-'lfyjllitl'ds 11 Was begin that I was almost disabledmhicli-obtliged me ! !box so often round as to'wlnd'all' the chain
ln'mg-that'braneh of sciencc,.hc'left:Miri!Gnantl mdcavehim; had new so-unjustas to give " upon it. Heanswered,jdiat thespr'ing was
ment. tothe late earl of-Bife'syacsenral' :me hocking at Hill-OI {the time/I 'ltttdtbeen 5165,5514! n; 'Mt omlchd Hi W' fasten
amnilcs dimtThelWdhfalhlIYJliwu then with, hemmed-did; not mailman?- ed 16 new; arise when t'hebther end
WWM
" m'sh "M''Wt- 1L the inactivate-Boise: the axis was
Mwpmaaiiontme do stay, after
258
fixed, and the box was loose upon it. I told of my unfortunate adherents, youll pardon
him I did not yet thoroughly understand the me!
matter; well, my lad, says he, take along thin
My gracious master," exclaimed the
piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast, Peasant, . let my curiosity rather be repres
upon his brow, and sudden starts alarm u I

as if some terrible idea labored in his mind.
This I observed, and on demanding the cause
received a look from his dark eye that can
between your nger apd thumb, and wind it~f sedJhan you relatewhat will give you the never be forgotten!"
round your nger: it will then endeavor to_ least pain."
Your tale is already terrible," said Brou
_'!.No, no,.' replied the count, H. it mustbe benski.
unwind itself; and if you x the other end of
..
_
it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it told, and who more worthy to be informed
" My suspicions were now in some mea
to itself, it will turn the hoop round and than you, my brave and faithful friend.
sure roused," proceeded Sobeiski, " and I
round, and wind upa thread tied to the out
Bra benski acknowledged the condescen ventured to inquire for what purpose he had
side of the hoop. I thanked the gentleman, sion of his lord in calling him friend, and requested us to trace the rivers banks, to
and told him that I understood the thing re listened attentively, while Sobeiski thus be enjoy the evening scenery, when now not an
ry well. I then tried to make a watch with gan:
observation escaped his lips?
wooden wheels, and made the spring of
On the fatal day, on which we left War
Count Sobeiski," he replied, " there is
whalebone; but found that I could not make saw for Sobeiski castle, I received an affec
a dreadful secret laboring here, and con
the watch go when the balance was put on, tionate letter from Ferresburgh, expressive tending passions distract and lacerate my
because the teeth of the wheels were rather of his gratitude and love, and informing me bosom!"
too weak to bear the force of a spring sul that he would be at Sobeiski to receive me,
" Strange alteration!" observed I, what
cient to move the balance; although the and would send his servant to escort me."
can be the secret that thus tortures your bo
wheels would run fast enough when the ba~
" Indeed!" interrupted Braubenski. He som?"
lance was taken off. I enclosed the whole in could not forbear this exclamation, at the
Tis too terrible," replied he.
a wooden case, very little bigger than a break
thought of Ferresburgh's addressing Sobei
A companion in grief, answered I, " a
fast tea cup: but a clumsy neighbor one day
ski in such a style, at the very moment he
looking at my watch, happened to let it fall;
was plotting his destruction.
and taming hastily about to pick it up, set

his foot upon it, and crushed it all to pieces;
which so~provoked my father, that he was
almost ready to beat the man; and discoura
ged me so much, that I never attempted to
-' That fatal servant-" exclaimed the

countess.
sympathetic friend, can sooth the agony that,

rends us, be it ever so excruciating. Come,
relate the circumstances that alict you"
" To you! interrupted he, starting, " to
you! never, never!"
Was Austin, continued Sobeiski, the
villain who betrayed us. We parted from the

king, who promised soon to visit us at $0
make such another machine again, especial; beiski, and proceeded homeward, anticipat
ly as l was thoroughly convinced I could ing the pleasure we should enjoy at behold
never make one thatwould be 01' any real ing Ferresburgh, as we had not seen him for
some time before. But alas! we were deceiv
use.
.
v (To be continued)
ed, and now find the very wreteh we longed
0&
_
to embrace, was thirsting for our blood!
vFor the Repertory.
1- Detested ingratitudel" cried Braubenski.
" We met the deceitful monk, proceed
ed the count, about three miles from War
saw, and were charmed with his insinuating
address, so muchso, that he persuaded us to
A ROM-ANCE
CHAPTEB XI.
Season your admiration fora while,
Until I relate this marvel to you.

C
Sbahpearr.
forsake the common track, to enjoy. the de

lightlul scenery, as he said, and trace the
One bore a beaming torch, the other held
A dagger, whose terrific blade was cased

In clotted gore.
' 1 's
As the count, countess, and Braubenski

proceeded towards the castle, the latter ex
pressed a desire to know by what strange
river's banks.
Abominable slave! ejaculated the pea
sant.
Too soon," exclaimed the countess,u we
repented our rashness, too soon the fatal

consequences appeared! Ah! cease, cease,
and happy providence1 his noble master had my Thaddeus, my soul can never hear the
been rescued from destruction, and how he
terrible recital!
it . -...
.11
" You will not nd a heart," said I, u more
ready to sympathize with you, nor an arm

more ready to assist you."
H-" You, you," he exclaimed, " too soon will
know the dreadful secret! You, you too soon
will repent your temerity'.
Ha!" cried I, " shuddering at my own
idea of the man, and contemplating the
change that had taken place in him since the

hour we met. There was left him no time
to reply, before the shrill sound of a whistle
seemed to strike to his soul, and lled us all
with fear and astonishment!"
II.
" Dreadful harbinger of destruCtiori!" cri

ed Imnia.
-' Austin," proceeded the count, " seemed

for a moment lost in thought, and the chang
ing appearances of his face plainly showed
that the perturbation of his mind was terri'
bly great!"
-'" 'Tis done!" heat length exclaimed,
his done, and fate has conquered!" H
" Thus saying, he drew a- small whistle
from his belt, and his eyes glaring with fury,
. had remained so longburied from his king'
an My beloved Imnia, answered the count,
~ and country.
Wall isipast, why then should the relation of he answered the sound we heard!
these dreadful circumstances aectyottthus
'- Terrible, terrible! exclaimed the pea
forciblyl I beg of you be calm."
sant.
-' Proceed, proceed, returned the-Count

" I now perceived his treachery, conti
ess, - 1 will endeavor to attend to your ad nued Sobeiski, though I suspected not Fer
.monitiond :1 ,nr no' r -" l ..
i t resburgh, but supposed him deceived. I
Sobeiski continued. \un
. I l - . - might have taken vengeance, but my asto
, wAs we proceeded, methought the atten' nishment disarmed me! . Austin, when he
|counp,.by
tion of Austin
degrees,
beganbecame
to lessen,
distant
and and
his fob committed this last act, stood. are: if life had
Alas! said the count, 'tis a melancho
ly tale, and the remembrance _ awakens the

anguish I experienced atthe dreadful mo~
mcnt of; our base attack by thehtnifeeling
7.
_, Martix and his desperate gang. . .

ie
" A melancholy tale, indeed,", sighedythe

_ countess, -' that chillsmy. soultothiakofl"
"Yet tis a_.b;ief.;pne,'~ cried Sobeiski,
1 t and so, my fsiiful rsubwskh rrvrshalb

bear it. If sites}:
Ceased to vibrate atghis heart, and a deadly
,biddingywhe a dreadful frown would lower paleness overspread his courted-tee."- v
" Dreadful effects of guilt!" observed

Braubenslti.
" Perceiving the danger, said the count,
u The bodies being greatly disfigured,

ansWered Sobeiski, " was the cause of your
not discovering the imposition, which Mar
my attendants, who had not heard a word tix humanely, if I may so call it, used to de
of the discourse between Austin and myself, lude his employer, and to save my life and
but alarmed by the sound of the whistle, pre that of my countess.
pared for their defence, and formed a deter
mined band around the countess and myself.

Now, Braubenski, I proted by that kind
ness, with which I had Heated my domestics,
for now they sacriced themselves for me!

" Brave and grateful fellows'." cried Brau
After, as we thought," cried the count
ess, " he had deprived us of all that made

our lives desirable, our only and beloved
daughter!
has pleased Providence _to establish him.

This inclination for shifting the scenes of life
is universal; and from a knowledge of its 0pe~,
rations upon the human mind, Pope has ob
served with propriety of satire, that
" Man never in but always to be blessd!
Nothing is more worthy of practical con

sideration than what is contained in the coma
mon saying, that to be content is to be Ira/Ifly.
benski, 0. how my heart wishes I had been
I recovered from the effects of my wound,
When we compare the scenes of rural ele~

gance depicted by the poet, with the busy
streets and noisy monotony of a city, the lat
there!
Austin now suddenly darted forward,
and my countess from the swoon into which

her distracting fears had thrown her, we
found ourselves in the dismal chamber from
The man of warm imagination exclaims,

Who is he that prefers the imprisonment
continued Sobeislti, and left us, when pre
sently the bloody Martix and his sanguinary

horde rushed in upon usl
0'. here, here, cried the countess, let
us draw a veil over the fearful circumstan
ces that succeeded!
" But you shall bear, continued the count;
our melancholy tale is neara close. When
which the ames, and your timely aid, so late

ly rescued us! An old woman, whom they
called Beatrice, was attending on us, and en
1' I can, indeed, my noble master, answer
of an unwholesome town, immersed in care,

and surrounded by the votaries of wealth, to
For the Repertory.
the freedom of nature, the dignity of philo

sophic retirement, and the society of the
children of simplicity, whose bosoms are as
pure and unadulterated as the air they
breathe? or who is he that relishes the paltry
productions of art, when the beauties of cul
tivated nature, and the grand display of her
wild sublimities, are open to his inspection?
Where is the man who chooses the articial
Walk of a city, with no other view than naked,
THE CABINET. No. XV.
uninteresting walls, to the shady avenue,
1' Whether, in the present state of society, is the

country or the city life, best adapted to promote the
purposes of man'screationi"
whose opening prospect presents the cheer

ing sight of elds abounding in the plenty of
deavoring to accelerate our recovery, and

upon thats taking place, rung a small bell
" No," cried Sobeiski, n all shall now be which she had pendent at her side, and im
told'. You can think, Braubenski, what my mediately Martix entered, followed by two
feelings must have been at that dreadful mo or three of his band, and ordered the woman
ment, my helpless wife and darling infant to withdraw.
UBALDO.
exposed to the diabolical rage of an unfeel
(To be continued.)
ing bandittil"
ed Braubenski, -- and my soul now feels ae

verely at the thought!
The shock was dreadful! continued the
count, " but with the courage and discipline
ter, doubtless, loses much in the comparison.
the year, and of hills whose summits seem
lains! But how, my lord, was I deceived in
should be cherished, added to the charms of
beholding, as Ithought, the bodies of the
poetic description, may be traced to that in
to kiss the heavens?"

But the man of sober judgment and sound
reection easily distinguishes between the
real pleasures of the country and the solid
advantages of a city. He estimates the proper
value of rural simplicity, and is also acquaint
ed with the improvements of a town. He ob
serves the same difference, though in a far
less proportion, between the country and a
city, that he beholds between the barbarous
and civilized states of society.
Cities have justly been denominated the
nurseries of science. A great city is the dc
pository of the arts, and is productive of
whatever is useful and ornamental in the
world. It should not be forgotten that in ci
ties we are to look for those elegancies
of civilization, courteousness and urbanity,
which sweeten life by improving the disposi
tion of mankind. With respectto rural sim
plicity, I believe it will be found that, allow
ing for the disproportion of population, there
is nearly as much depravity to be found in
country ignorance, as among the improved
inhabitants of a town.
To the good man, it will be no inferior
consideration, that cities present a wider eld
countess and yourself, lying upon the ground,
nate disposition of man, which leads him to
for the exercise of virtuous benevolence, and
of veterans, my little band received it, and
In attempting to decide upon the question
hurled death at every stroke, from every
before us, our minds are liable to be biassed
hand! Nor was Imyself inactive! I engaged
by calling up the charms of country scene

ry, as described by the brilliant imagination
of the poet, in colors the most glowing, pre
sented by the hand of irresistible expression.
their leader, and justas my rapier was about

to cleave his head asunder, an arm, unseen,
struck me from behind, and I fell senseless

upon the ground!"
When absent from rural objects, and we con
Then, then, cried the countess, my
template through the medium of poetry

despair was complete! Our attendants fell their ideal perfections, imagination rejects
around the body of their beloved lord, whom every inelegant circumstance, and nothing
both they and I imagined was no more! Then remains but the enchanting and the agreea
I beheld the female who bore my lovely ble. The wild ower that springs unnoticed
'l'hadia, felled with the darling innocent in from its humble bed, is imagined to be
her arms, upon the bloody eld, and saw the
adorned with colors not its own, and to emit
assassins dagger pierce the infants side! I fragrance which it does not possess. The
could no more, but sunk senseless by the lofty forest is arrayed in ner green, and the
winding rivulet murmurs a music more bar,
body of my husband!
" A few servants, as I afterwards learned, monious, than nature has bestowed on either.
continued the count, " were not at this time The majestic river is contemplated with
slain, and an order was given by Martix, to waves of silver and banks of green enamel.
stop the slaughter, but a bloody villain of Every quality of natural objects is height
the band, unsatiated with the murder, heeded ened by the touch of fancy; all is exaggerat
it not, and savagely slew the whole!

-- Dreadful and unparalleled relation! cri
ed Braubenski, cruel and remorseless vil
ed, and of course, all is delightful.
The proper cause why notions, with res

pect to rural scenes so unreasonably exalted
upon the rivers bank, and covered with your entertain more pleasing ideas of almost every that in them there is no difculty in visiting
situation, than the particular one in which it the temple of the Most High, where he may
blood!
PHILADELPHIA
follow the dictates of conscience in his ado
iiillaml- pleasure, inquired where .MnT'rt
.As -I before observed, we Were happy, but.
ration of the Supreme Object of all homage.
chaic was, and why she. did not call on him
alas! it was of short duration. Having occa- 3
to release her, and proceeded to treat -her

with, rudeness; she attempted to shriek for
help several timesybut he partly prevented
her, and it was in one of those, attempts that
sion one morning to leavo the compting

room to speak with Mr. M. who generally
wrote in the parlor,vl was surprised upon
my entrance to behold my old enemy, Mr. 1
PETER PEACEABLE.
'
For the Repertory.
urn or JACK 'lROCllAIC.

(Continued)
- " -
I wrenched it from his hand, and gave him

so hearty a salute with my oaken disciplina
rian, that he fairly bellowed for mercy. I
kicked the cowardly assassin out of the coach,
and the driver coming up, i ordered him to
mount his box, and immediately drive to "";
be obeyed; and after assisting Mary into the

carriage, and seating myself by her side, 1
had the satisfaction of leaving the redoubta
ble Mr. Frampton, foaming with rage and.
disappointment, to trudge his way home with
sensations innitely more filming than those
that predominated at the outset of his expe
dition; the coachman, in imitation I suppose
of his late worthy employer, once or twice

attempted to be refractory, but the sight oi
the pistol I had recovered from the aforesaid
gmttrrnan, and which 1 had, perhaps fortu-.
nately retained, awed him into obedience.

We arrived soon after at "'5 and telling
the driver to stop at the most genteel ion

the place afforded, he accordingly drew up
before the door of a neat looking mansion,
and we were ushered by the obsequious land

lord HO :1. tolerably well furnished apart
ment, which he modestly assured us was the
most comfortable one for ten miles..round.
Providence, who et'er is the protector and Frampton,in closecOnve'rsation with Mr. M. '
guardian ofimwcencc, sent a deliver-er in the ff As his eye met mine, he started as he'had
person of the happy 'lroohaic. Where Emmy. sedhla'basii'isli, but quickly recoveringhim
ton
nor-ant;
washowever,_as
conveying we
her,had
shedefeated
was entirely
hisplans,
darted a glance of exultation atone,
which plainly told i had cve 1y thing to dread
the consideration was unimportant.

1 . from his malice; that his most- implacable
After partaking ofa repast which our-well hatred would never coas pursuing me. i re
bred landlord, with a profusion of bows and torted with interest his glances, and inmy
apologies for detaining us so long, hadsot countenance/he read so "proud a deance,
before us, i made her acquainted with'every he could scarce-contain himself.
circumstance that had occurred since. we
JACK TROCHAIC.
I..'
-.o..:R I . .l' '2
parted. She rejoiced at my success, and with
a bewitchiug smile assured me, she was hap
' ""8'RGRED' HARMONY.
L. ' \)
N0. VIII.
py. 1 obtained her consentto our immediate
marriage, and we were united in the indis
From the eastward a late publication of
solubie bandsol~ matrimony.
.
music has made its appearance. The work
l hired a anall cottage, and furnished it may, indeed, with propriety be called ori
neatly, not extravagantly; lor we dctcrnunod ginal in one sense of the word, for the melo
not to'cxceed our income, nor involve our
dies. and harmonies are entirely new. The
selves in debts, which perhaps might subject author, as well as those who have aided him
me to the fangs of a merciless creditor. Ma in these compositions, deserve great ap~
ry Was an excellent manager, and our l1.tle plause; theywill therefore befobliged to me
home soon assuniedvdieappearaucc, and it for thus publicly noticing this darling 08
was so, of order and regularity; we were spring of native genius, in order that, by
comfortable and concerned. We had a little bringing- it forward into public view, its me
garden, which the former'occupatlis- had not ts my begunrally known and appreciat
neglected, it; wastheretorc inja line SMQ cl ed, Could thenhmadnda singing society,
cultivationu Mary delighted inllnwors, and
Ordering refreshments, he politely madehis the, windows and mantel of ,our cottage _Wero.
exit, and Mary and myself were once more adorned with the-sweetest the season plOClll
left alone. I requested her to explain the ced. I attended regularly to business, which
manner she became entrapped into the pow only detained .mc from ten o'clock in the
er of Frampton, and felt no little- anxiety morning till twoin the afternoon. 1 had, ol
while she was relating it. She said she had course, much leisure time on my hands,
tied on her bonnet early in the, morning, and which was alWays spent with Mary in read
strolled along the road which leads to *", ing or rambling through the adjoining coun
in expectation of seeing or hearing from try. She had not received a nished educa
me. She had not proceeded. far, when she tion, and l delighted to direct her studies,
was surprised to see a carriage draw up close to explore with her the many airy ights cl
beside her; and on the door ying open, Mr. poetic fancy, and also descend to the humble,
Frampton leaped from it, and catching her but. oftentimes equally as pleasing pathway
in his arms, forcibly lifted her into the car of prose. A twelvemonth elapsed in those in
riage, and jumping in after her, the horses nocent andrational amusements,or rather pur
set off at full speed. When she had recover suits, ere we were sensible of its revolution.
ed from the surprise his unmanly conduct The sun in each morn freshly woke us to joy,
had thrown her into, she remonstrated with
him on his cruelty in thus tearing a helpless
Nor left us unchanged when n roll'd down the west."
And here, my friend, could 1 close my nar
female from her home, and separating her;
rative, twere.wcll. Those months were the
from her friends, and insisted upon being

immediately released; this was refused with
a sneer, and a remark, that as he had for a
happiest l have ever enjoyed; and I never

recal them but my heart throbs with sensa
tions of painful regret, and sighs o'er the re
long time made use of persuasion and in membrancc of " joys departed never to re
treatics to induce her to become his, in vain, tum, and the sweet retirement of my hum
he was now determined to compel her to ac ble cottage. Pardon, my friend, this digres
cede to his wishes, adding, with a bitter taunt,
sion; tis a tribute due to the virtues of my
that she Was in
departed Mary.
power, and subject to his
ora choir of singers, or-any company, that

jv'ore capable of doing justice to. such a work,
In the perlorming of the music it cut-dos,
how would the public mind be enlightened
on the sublime science of music, and the
public car delighted with the entertainment!

But, I much question Whether such a com
pany could be l'ounddn our city, though pos
sessed of a population of 100,000 souls. And
the reason is
enough; for the music is
set to solemn words, and the harmonies and
melodies are of a style so totally different

from all the styles in which European mu
sic is written, that a company of singers, as
well as the auditory, must possess an uncom- -.
mon degree of gravity, and a perfect com
mand of their risible faculties, or the scene
would not be such as would become the sc

riousness of the hymns which are set to mu
sic by these original composers: for, whether
these authors (for they are many) have re
ally formed new theories of melody and har
mony, or whether they have not, the melodies
and harmonics of this book are so very dif
ferent from those to which our ears have
been accustomed, that they could not fail to
give us such sensations as would naturally
excite our risibles.
But, let us now test the justness of this
261
M
by the book itself: I have run over

a considerable number of the tunes; and I
nd by comparing them with the systems

of the theory of harmony which are univer
sally established in the states of Europe, and
every where received by amateurs of unvi
tiated taste, that there are generally from ve
to twenty ve gross errors, or violations of
the principles of harmony, in a single page.
As to the melodies, I can scarcely nd two
bars together which, according to the prin
ciples of the art, form a just melody; and in
many instances they are as grossly errone

ous as is conceivable; while they are as far
removed from just principles, if possible, as
the north pole is from the south.
And now, reader, what results are likely
to ow to practical psalniody and devotional

worship by an extensive circulation of such
books.F Ifsuch the fountain, what must be the
stream?
PHILO MADAN.
0
For the Repertdry.

ANECDOTIANA.
Shipwreck'd and faint, whom the rude sea has cas'
said to have cried out, Amyntas and Mele

tus can kill me, but they cannot hurt me!"
On some huge rock, and left him scarce slive
Pierre Du Terrail, Chevalier De Bayard,

being mortally wounded in retreating from
That scarce existence animates her form.
the imperialists, he placed himself under a
Our communications will not be literally

anecdotes, that is, something never before
Yet does her converse pleasure me: she smiles.

And says, that though she's now impbverisli'd
tree with his face towards the enemy, saying,
She hopes for better days, and wealth, and can;
As in life I always faced the enemy, so I
[join the wish. but pray twill be in heaven.

Her wheel's dull hum resounds at midnight hour
When all is still, except the whistling wind,
would not in death turn my back to them.

Anne De Montmorency, a peer, marshal,
and constable of France, being wounded at
the battle of St. Dennis, a cordelier attempt
ing to prepare him for death, when covered
with gore, he replied in a rm tone of voice,
do you think that a man who has lived

nearly eighty years with honor, has not learn
Which wafts the sound far o'er the swelling \\ a. '

And is more dismal than the night hawk's shrlrl But yet, to me, the sound is musical;
It suits my pensive mind. for in it seems
A plaintive something that can penetrate

The musing breast, and swell it with regret
She and the stranger, whom I mentiond ers:
As being nurtured by a grateful maid,

Are the sole neighbors of the low roofd hut,
ed to die for a quarter of an hour?"

HISTORY.
When Frederick the great of Prussia or
In which I sometimes rest, save yon gay villa

Where wealth's proud sons in luxury repose
dered his secretary to read to him, what,"
said he shall I read? Will your majesty

hear me read history?" "No, no," replied
the king, '_' no history, there is no truth in
that."
Charles V. had so little condence in his

tory, that in calling for any particular one,
No. I.
Communicated by Valerian.
She is so poor, so aged and inrm,
he would say, bring me my liar!

These ideas are founded upon prejudice;
On downy pleasure's lap: unknown to them

The cares and sorrows ofthe humble poor;
Nor do they seek to know!
Tis she alone,
That will permit my entrance to her cot;
For she does love to tell of happier years,
And tedious dwells upon some compliment
\Vhich has been paid her equipage and beauty
Beauty! I scarce could think she eer was fair,
That dimpling smiles once playd around her mouth,
Now toothless and discolord; or that re
to say that all history is unworthy of perusal,

E'er ash'd from lhOS sunk eyes now dim with age.
undoubtedly betrays a weak and ignorant But yet it might be so: beauty is eeting,
mind. Doubtless, parts ofprofanc history are And morn resembles clothed in dazzling rays,
Ilublia/ted; but they will be principally of an

cient date, and selected from books that are more marvellous relations, but for this to The brightest rays that Phebus self can spread;
smrcc. Nevertheless, original matter, if we condemn the whole, is indeed preposterous. But soon a sable curtain veils its splendorl,
meet with it, shall not pass unnoticed.
Cicero has said, that history is the light Obscures its brilliance, and its glory's gone!
ST. ORME.
roan-runs.
of ages.
__._
When the executioner went behind Je
For the Repertory.
rome of Prague, (a celebrated martyr in the
For the Repertory.
THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK.
cause of christianity) to set re to the pile,
REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY VANDERER.
A
come here," he cried, and kindle it be

No. x.
fore my eyes: for if I had dreaded such a

sight, I should never have come to this PiuCC,
when I had a free opportunity to escape.
The re was kindled, and he commenced a
hymn, which was soon ended, by the ames
bearing his spirit on steeds of re, to glory
in the skies.
'Tis night again: I welcome its approach,
O'er the rich farm yard bent his way,

To store whateer his search might nd
Although il shrouded comes in cheerless gloom.

Gloom suits the melancholy wandrer's soul,
Against the winter's piercing wind;
And well accords wnh mine. I love to hear
Across the elds rrmnrseless blew,
The stately branches of the rm x'd oak

V
Rustle to th midnight breeze Each leaf that falls,
Reminds me of the eetingness oflife;
And, as it wafts conviction to my breast,
And Clouds on earth their burthens threw.

A peacock tall, with angry eyes,
The little laborer espies;
And thus the emmet he addressd,
While proudly waved his plumy crest:
" \Vhv art thou in m) passage found,
Vile tenant of the barren ground!
Dare those presump'uous eyes of thim
Behold m\ various plumage shine?
Mr. Laurence Sanders, who was execut

ed on the 8th of February, 1555, when he
That all must fade before Death's with'ring breath,
came to the place, fell on the ground, and
I sigh that man. creation's noblest work,

Must fall, and mouldcr, like the leaf in autumn;
prayed; and then arose, took the stake in his

arms, and kissed it, saying, welcome the
cross of Christ, welcome everlasting life!"

Well might he have added, " the eternal God
The sport of every wind, till crush'd to atoms

Blasted and then forget: but he descends
To rise in happier Iealms! No light is seen,
Save Ihat which ghmmers from yon wretched cot,
i.
In which old age a sunless shelter nds.
is my refuge, the everlasting arms are under

neath me!
Anaxarchus, the philosopher, having sharp

ly reproved Nicroceon, and being ordered
by him to be beaten to death with iron mai
lets, said, strike 'on, strike on: thou may'sl
break in pieces this vessel of Anaxarchus,
PABLE
An emmet, on one lovely day,
Industlious still its wither'd habitant,

An ancient dame whom fourscore years have seen,
But they have seen her better clad than now.
And scornl'ul passd the emmet by.

" Nay, be not angry," said the ant,
There '5 room as much as you can want;
She once was fortune's child: upon her cradle,

As she sweet sleeping lay, the bandied goddess
Tis all the privilege I crave

A little nourishment to save,
By
humble ambothi
work, ereweak
winters
Or when]
and cold,
old."
Flowrs ndrous scatter'd; and did seem to think
N0 been too great to be on her bestow'd.

Bur now, so uciuating is the tide
Out, miscreant, out, and clear the way,

Lest I should Crush thee to decay!"
Then proudly raised his head on high,
The peacock
turnd his head,
but Anaxarchus himself, thou canst not
touch!"
The great Socrates, when persecuted, is
Oflifc. which one time ows obedient to

Our wishes, and the nexr does dash destruction
Then do not pine of work," he said;

" I 'd have you know, my ragged neighbor.
Upon our dearest hopes: like the poor seaman,
I get no sustenance by labor;
'
262
m
Around the farmer's well stored stable
Poor poultry pick as they are able,
While I admitted am within,
And sink luxuriously to chin,
Amongst both loads of corn and wheat,
Where at my leisure I can eat.
A fair outside will have a friend

Until the world itself shall end "
To whom the ant with upraised eyes,
Tutor'd in wisdoms school, replies:
" Tis true you are most wondrous fair,
And strut the yard with haughty air;
But yet remember, oft within

The beauties of a painted skin
A heart dcform'd, unfeeling, lies,
That every gentle virtue flies!

It may be so, my friend, with you,
For stranger things than this are true.
Your beauty gains you many a friend,
Yet let that beauty once have end,
Il'hen will you to your sorrow nd
That your deformity of mind,
(No longer hid by beautys art)

Will meet contempt from every beam
And he who gazes in surprise
Upon you now, with pleasant eyes,
Will wonder how his heart could be
Deoeived by such a wretch as thee!

Unable or unwilling then
To toil from morn till night for grain,
0! take me under thy control,

The noblest blessing thou caust give!
Snatchd from the cruel fangs of hell,
1 shall behold thee face to face;
And my exulting spirit swell
_.
Newton, Mitchell, Cutts, Pitkin, MKirrr,
Seybert and Bibb.

0f Clairru. Messrs. Root, Butler, R. Brown,
Stanley, Gholson, Goldsborough and Shaw.
W Electiom. Messrs. Findley, M. Clay,
An anthem to redeeming Grace!
Sturges, Troup, Taylor, Van Renssalacr and

VALERlAN.
Taggart.
Of Public Lands. Messrs. Morrow, Good
EDMUND.
win, Ely, Boyd, Gold, Cobb and MKee.

0f the District of Columbia. Messrs. Van
Horn, L. Alston, \Vcakly, George Smith, J.
In that department of our paper which is

devoted to information respecting the legis
lature of the Union and of Pennsylvania, it

will be perceived from the present number,
C. Chamberlain, Tracy and Breckenridge.

0f Poo! Oices and Pool Roads. Messrs.
Rhea, Thompson, Dcsha, Stanford, Troup,
Calhoun, Morrow, Davenport, Chittenden,
Key, Whitehill, J. Smith, Potter, Wilson,
that it is our intention to give only so much Seaver and Hufty.

as may be of public concern, or general inte
OfRe-uisal and UnnishedBusineaslidessrl.
rest; the nature and limits of our plan pre
cludes our doing any thing more.
Southard, Jackson, and Witherspoon.
OfAccoumc. Messrs. N. R. Moore, Tur

ner and Keenan.
We give the following note publicity,with

out hesitation and without comment: we know
that the author, on whom it more particularly
bears, is able, willing, and ready to give it a
proper answer.
Philadelphia, Dee. 6m, 1810.
When every friend relentless flies,
For want the wretched Peacock dies!

Go then, and while you yet are young
The yard and meadow search among,
For what may sinking life sustain,
When age brings feebleness and pain!"
The peacock heard this sage advice,
And looking humbler from his eyes
Requested of his lowly friend,
To let him in his search attend!
VALERIAN.
Mr. Editor,
Monday, December 10
On motion of Mr. W. Alston, the house
resolved itself into a committee of the whole

on the state of the union,
Mr. Macon in the chair.
The resolutions of Mr. Root, offered on
Friday, were read, and after some amend
Be so obliging as to inform us, whether ments and modications were adopted, as

you do consider the communication of Ralph follOWs.
Rieible, inserted in your paper of the lst inst.
l.Resolved, That that part of the presi
as original, and have so profusely bestowed dents message on the subject of our foreign
your praise accordingly, and under an ex relations, be referred to a select committee.
pectation of the same, or whether you know
2. Resolved, That so much of the presi
of its being selected verbatim.
dent's message as relates to that part of West
Respectfully yours,
Florida acquired by the cession of Louisiana,
THE PUBLIC.
For the Repertory.
be referred to a select committee.

MARRIED,
dents message as relates to the encourage
On Thursday evening, the 6th inst. by the. ment of American manufactures and naviga
-.
HYMN,
On hearing a Sermon, by the Rev. Dr. Shn,
from, To the blood of s rinkling that speaketh
better things than that o Abel.
Hebrews, 12, xxiv.
Blood with a voice of thunder cries,
A. when the angry tempests frowns
Blood could transpieree the distant skies,
And call the eternal anger down!
Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Jose/2h Homan to

tion, be referred to the committee of com
Miss Catherine Evans, both of Chester coun

ty, Pennsylvania.
On Saturday evening, the 8th inst. by the
same, Mr. Philip Townsend to Miss Mary
Worrell, both of Delaware county.
When rst the surface of the world,
Was staind with blood, though once so fair;
On Thursday evening, the 13th inst. by
On murderous Cain Jehovah hurld,

The fearful vengeance of despair!
Int 0! no harsh despairing sound,
The owing blood of jeans cried!
But pardon issued at each w0und
\Vhcn the Redeemer groand and died!
merce and manufactures.

dents message as relates to the institution
of a national university, be referred to a se
lect committee.
'
the same, Mr. John Her-m to Miss Esther dent's message as relates to the violation of
Williams, both of Delaware county.
laws interdicting the slave trade, be referred
On Monday morning last, by the Right to the committee of commerce and manufac
Rev. Bishop White, Mr. David Stevens, of tures.
Savannah, (Gem) merchant, to Miss Theresa
Care, daughter ofPeter Care, esq. of this city.

Ere the last quivring ember ed,
~.
While he hung bleeding to the view,

" Father, forgive my foes," he said,
" For ah! they know not what they do!
Then in his side, the cruel spear,
The still more cruel Roman, drove;
Did streaming mercy thence appear,
The dying token of his love.

Speak. blood of jeans, to my soul,
And bid a dying sinner liver
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, December 7.
The standing committees are:

Of Ways and Illeans. Messrs. Eppes,W.
Alston,Talmadge, Montgomery, Bacon, Smi
lic and Johnson.
'
6. Resolved. That that part of the presi

dent's message relating to the land forces
and fortications, be referred to a select com
mltte.
7. Resolved, That that part of the presi.
dents message in regard to the militia, be

referred to a select committee.

dents message as relates to the corps of en.
gineers and the military academy, be referred
Of Commerce and Manufactures. Messrs. to a select committee.
On motion of Mr.Bassett, the following
resolution was added.
Resolved, That so much of the message of
the president of the United States as relates

to the navy, be referred to a select committee.
On motion of Mr. Bacon another resolu
tion was added, as follows.
Resolved, That so much of the president's
message as relates to the defects which may

be found to exist in the provisions of the act
concerning the commercial intercourse be
tween the United States and Great Britain
and France, be referred to the committee of
foreign relations.
The committee rose and reported the re
solutions: the house immediately concurred,
and ordered the necessary committees to be
appointed.
On Thursday, the 6th inst. the message of
his excellency Simon Snyder, was delivered
He again invites the attention of the go

ncral assembly to the constitutional injunc
From among the voluminous mass of do

cuments accompanying the message of the
tion that the legislature shall provide by
president, we have selected the following.
law for the establishment of schools through
which appear to us particularly interesting.
out the state, in such manner that the oor

From the secretary of state to Gov. Claiborne.
may be taught gratis," a subject which he is

condent an enlightened and patriotic legis
lature must view as extremely desirable as
it regards the peace, harmony and happiness
of society, and secures the stability of our
republican institutions."
Under this head,
he suggests the necessity of revising and

amending the laws for the suppression of vice
and immorality, evils which in a great mea
sure spring from ignorance.
In his observations respecting the judicia

ry system, he particularly adverts to the
act for regulating arbitrations; under which
right and justice may be administered with
out sale, denial or delay, and he trusts that
the truly christian principle inculcated in

to both houses of the general assembly of the act may be extended and perfected."
He calls the attention of the legislature to
Pennsylvania; the length of which precluding
its insertion, we present our readers with its the further supplement (0 an act for offering
compensation to certain Pennsylvania claim~
prominent features.
After some observations respecting our ants of lands in Luzeme county, passed April
foreign relations, his excellency leads the
9, 1809, with the view that there may be an
consideration of the legislature to the only

legitimate and effectual defence of a free
people, the militia; for it is an important
trtith that for a nation to preserve her in
dependence, she must be not only courage
ous, but also armed, disciplined and united,
appropriate remedy for the omission of an
equitable provision contained in that further

supplement.
Legislative attention is requested to the

Pennsylvania purchase of lands on lake Erie,
amounting to 202,l87 acres; of which only
and since the permanence of our institu
"9,807 acres and seven perches have been
tions and the independence of our country

can only be secured by a well organized, well
armed, well disciplined and well appointed
disposed of and appropriated by the state.
He then takes occasion to point out how the

state has been defrauded in the judicial in
militia, he solicits their attention to such a vestigation of land titles.

revision of our
system as may effect
ually callforth the energies of the freemen
He states that the health law will require

serious deliberation, as it is believed to be
defective, and will shortly expire by its own

of the'commouwealth.
He next adverts to the improving of our limitation; and for information he refers them
roads, the navigation of our rivers and the to the letters to and from the Lazaretto phy
cutting of canals," as important objects to sician and the communication of the board
which attention is also required by sound of health on the subject.
policy, as the certain means of giving spring

He states that he has invested in the stock
to industry, in agriculture, manufactures and
of the bank of Pennsylvania $369,200, being
commerce;" concluding with the observation, the amount of 923 shares at par; and $2l,61 l
that to be really independent, we must be in stock of the divers turnpike companies
able to manufacture for ourselves, at least all enumerated in the act for the improvement
those articles which are necessary to our of the state; as well as performed the other
comfort and convenience." As connected duties required by the last legislature.
with this subject, the contemplated connex
After mentioning that the increase of our
ion of the Waters of the Susquehannah and revenue, combined with our resources gene
Schuylkill, by canals,|the special attention of rally, exhibit means present as well as future
the legislature of Pennsylvania is invited; commensurate with the most extended views
the motives to which is this weighty of internal improvement generally; he closes
consideration, that the union, harmony and with an assurance that he will heartily and
happinessof thepeoplc are best promoted by zealously cooperate with the general assem
a mutual interest and dependence, a facility bly, in such measures as are calculated to
of exchanging their produce and manufac promote the interest and advance the happi
tures, and afrequeucy of intercourse."
- nessof the people of Pennsylvania.
Department qfetate,
October 27, l8l0.
Sir,
From the inclosed proclamation of the

president of the United States, you will per
ceive his determination to take possession
of the territory therein specied,in the name
and behalf of the United States: the consi
derations which have constrained him to re
sort to this necessary measure, and his di
rection that you, as governor of the Orleans
territory, shall execute the same. Of this
proclamation, upon your arrival at Natchez,
you will, without delay, cause to be printed

as many copies in the English, French and
Spanish languages, as may be deemed ne

cessary, and you will cause the same to be
extensively circulated throughout the said

territory.
You will immediately proceed by the near~
est and best route to the town of Washington
in the Mississippi territory. From the secre
tary at war you will receive an order to the
ollicers commanding the several frontier
posts, to a'ord you such assistance in passing
the wilderness, and in descending the west
ern waters, as you may require. And, as dis
patch is very desirable, you are authorised,
in case your horses should fail, to procure
others at the public expense. After having
made at Washington the necessary arrange
ments with gov. Holmes, and with the com.
manding ofcer of the regular troops, you
will without delay proceed into the said ter
ritory, and, in virtue of the presidents pro
clamation, take possession of the same in the
name and in behalf of the United States.
As the district, the possession of which
you are directed to take, is to be considered
as making part of the territory of Orleans,

you will, after taking possession, lose no time
in proceeding to organize the militia, to pre

scribe the bounds of parishes, to establish
piirish courts, and nally to do whatever your
legal powers applicable to the case will war
rant, and may be calculated to maintain or
der, to secure to the inhabitants the peacea

le enjoyment of their liberty, property and
religion, and to place them, as far as may be,
on the same footing with the inhabitants of
the other districts under your authorityf As

far as your powers may be inadequate to
these and other requisite objects, the legis
lature of Orleans, which it is understood will
soon be in session, will have an opportunity

of making further provisions for them, more
especially for giving by law to the inhabi
said treaty in the same extent that it had in
people inhabiting the same, are invited and
the hands of Spain, and that it had when
enjoined to pay due respect to him in that
being desirable that the interval of this pri
France originally possessed it.

And whereas the acquiescence of the
United States in the temporary continuance
unavoidable necessity of the case.
If, contrary to expectation, the occupation of the- said territory under the Spanish au
of the territories on the part of the United thority, was not the result of any distrust at
States should be opposed by force; the com their title, as has been particularly evinced
manding oicer of the regular troops on the by the general tenor of their laws, and by
Mississippi will have orders from the secre the distinction made in the application of
tary at war to afford you, upon your appli those laws between that territory and foreign
character; to be obedient to the laws; to
vation should not be prolonged beyond the
maintain order; to cherish harmony; and in

every manner to conduct themselves as
tents of the said territory a just share in the

representation of the general assembly; it
cation, the requisite aid, and should an addi
countries; but was occasioned by their con
tional force be deemed necessary, you will

draw from the Orleans territory, as will gov
ernor Holmes from the Mississippi territo
justice of their cause; and in the success of
(Signed)
R. SMITH.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the territory south of the Missis

sippi territory, and eastward of the river
Mississippi, and extending to the river Per
,dido, of which possession was not delivered to
the United States, in pursuance of the treaty

concluded at Paris on the 30th of April, 1803,
has at all times, as is well known, been con
.sidered and claimed by them, as being with
in-the colony of Louisiana, conveyed by the
they will be protected in the enjoyment cf

their liberty, property and religion.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the
seal of the United States to be here
unto aixed, and signed the same
with my hand. Done at the city of
(1.. s.) Washington, the twenty seventh day
ciliatory views, and by a condence in the
candid discussion and amicable negociation

ry, militia in such numbers, and in such with a just and friendly power.
proportions from your respective territories,
And whereas a satisfactory adjustment, too
as you and gov. Holmes may deem proper. long delayed, without the fault of the United
Should, however, any particular place, how States, has for some time been entirely sus
over small, remain in possession of a Spanish pended by events over which they had no
.force, you will not proceed to employ force control; and whereas a crisis has at length
arrived subversive of the order of things un
against it; but you will make immediate re
der the Spanish authorities, whereby a fail
port thereof to this department.
You will avail yourself of the rst favora ure of the United States to take the said ter
,ble opportunities that may occur, to trans ritory into its possession may lead to events
.mit to the several governors of the Spanish ultimately contravening the views of both
provinces in the neighborhood, copies of the parties, whilst in the mean time the tranquil
president's proclamation, with accompanying ity and security of our adjoining territories
are endangered; and new facilities given to
letters of a conciliatory tendency.
To defray any reasonable expenditures violations of our revenue and commercial
which may necessarily attend the execution laws, and of those prohibiting the introduc
of these instructions, the president authorises tion of slaves:
Considering moreover, that under these
you, having due regard for economy, to draw
for a sum not exceeding in any event 20,000 peculiar and imperative circumstances, a for
bearance on the part of the U. States to oc
dollars.
From the condence which the president cupy the territory in question, and thereby
justly has in your judgment and discretion, guard against the confusions and contingen!
he is persuaded that in the execution of this cies which threaten it, might be construed
trust, as delicate as it is important, your dc into a dereliction of their title, or an inward.portment will he temperate and conciliatory. bility to the importance of the stake; consi-.
Such a line of conduct towards the inhabi dering that in the hands of the United States
tants is prescribed as well by policy as jus it will not cease to be a subject of fair and
friendly negociation and adjustment; consiIK (
You will, it is expected, be fully sensible dering nally that the acts of congress, though
of the necessity, not only of communicating contemplating a present possession by a for
every important event that may occur in the eign authority, have contemplated also an
progress of this business, but of transmitting eventual possession of the said territory by
a letter, whatever may be its contents, by the United States, and are accordingly so
framed as in that case to extend in their ope
every mail to this city.
ration to the same: Now .be it known, that I,
I have the honor to be, 8m.
By the President of the United Smes of America.
peaceable citizens, under full assurance that
of October, A. D. l810, and in the
thirty fifth year of the. independence

of the said United States.
(Signed)
JAMES MADISON.
By the president,
R. SMITH, secretary of state.
HEALTH OFFICE,
December 8. 1810.
from the lst to the 8th December, 1810
Dinar.
ad. cb.
Dimmer.
ad. eb.
Cholera morbus
0 1 Inam- stomach I 0
Consumption oflungs 0 Insanity
I 1 0
Convulsions
' 2
Diarrhoea
Dislocations
Dropsy
1 0 Small pox, W
0 I Still born
0
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JOHN ALLisoN. Clerk.

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_ STATE 1 THE THERMUMETER.

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TERMS OF THE REPERTORY,
The price is four dollars per annum; city ,sub'

JAMES MADISON, president of the Unit
bers half vearly in advance.
ed States of America,in pursuance of these

weighty and urgent considerations, have
It shall be delivered to subscribers-in the city eve

deemed it right and requisite, that possession

should be taken of the said territory, in the
and
become reponsible for the payment, shall receive
name and behalf of the U. States. William C.
one copy gratis.
C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans terri
Printers exchanging wlth the PhiladelphiaReper'
tory, of which the said territory is to be tak-. tory will be expected to pay~the dill'erence.
"
en as part, will accordingly proceed to exe

cute the same, and to exercise over the said
territory the authorities and functions legal
ly appertaining to his olce. M thegood
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PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and published by nmaluemw
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No. 17, Amhatreet- v - A 111'
@Pljifabdpbiaceperbm
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, mm.
VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
A SHORT ACCOUNT or THE LIFE or
MR. JAMES. FERGUSON,
Author of Lectures on Astronomy, Mechanics, 80c
wiur'rmr av HIMSELF.
(Continued.)
As soon as I was'able to go abroad,I car

ried my globe, clock, and copies of some
other maps, besides that of the world, to the
late sir James Dunbar, of Durn, (about se
ven miles from where my father lived,) asI

had heard that sir James was a very good in.
tured, friendly, inquisitive gentleman. He
received me in a very kind manner, was
pleased with what I showed him, and desired

I would clean his clocks. This, for the rst
time, I attempted, and then began to pick
up some money in that way about the coun
try, making sir James's house my home at
his desire. Two large globular stones stood
on the top of his gate; on one of them I paint
ed, with oil colors, a map of the terrestrial
globe, and on the other a map of the celesti

al, from a planisphera of the stars, which I
copied on paper from a celestial globe be

longing to a neighboring gentleman.
The poles of the painted globes stood to
wards the poles of the heavens; on each the
twenty four hours were placed around the

equinoctial, so as to show the time of the
day when the sun shone out, by the bound
ary where the half of the globe at any time
enlightened by the sun was parted from the
other part in the shade: the enlightened parts
of the terrestrial globe answering to the like
enlightened parts of the earth at all times.
So that whenever the sun shone on the globe,
one might see to what places the sun was
then rising, to what places it was setting,]
and all the places where it was then day orl

night, throughout the earth.
During the time I was at sir James's hos-
pitable house, his sister, the honorable the!
lady Dipple, came there on a visit, and sirl

James introduced me to her. She asked me '
whether I could draw patterns for needler
work on aprons and gowns. On showing me i
some, I undertook the work, and drew seve- ,
ral for her, some of which Were copied from:

her patterns, and the rest I did according to
my own fancy. On this I was sent for by;
other ladies in the country, and began toL
ney I got for such drawings; out of which I

had the pleasure of occasionally supplying
the wants of my poor father.
Yet all this while I could not leave 05
stargazing in the nights, and taking the pla
ces of the planets among the stars by my
abovementioned thread. By this I could ob
serve how the planets changed their places
among the stars, and delineated their paths
on the celestial map, which I had copied
from the abovementioned celestial globe. By
observing what constellations the ecliptic
passed through in that map, and comparing
No. 34.
acute judge; and consequently a very t per

son for showing me how to correct my own
work. He was the rst who ever sat to me
for a picture; and I found it was much easier
to draw from the life than from any picture
whatever, as nature was more striking than
any imitation of it. Lady Dipple came to his
house in about half a year after I went thi

ther; and as they thought I had a genius for
painting, they consulted together about what
might be the best way to put me forward.
Mr. Baird thought it would be no diicult
matter to make a collection for me among
these with the starry heavens, I was so im
the neighboring gentlemen, to put me to a
pressed as sometimes to imagine that I saw painter at Edinburgh; but he found upon tri
the ecliptic in the heavens, among the stars, al, that nothing worth while could be done
like a broad circular road for the suns appa among them. And as to himself, he could not
rent course; and fancied the paths of the pla do much that way, because he had but a small
nets to resemble the narrow ruts made by estate, and a very numerous family.
cart wheels, sometimes on one side of a
Lady Dipple then told me that she was to
plane road, and sometimes on the other, go to Edinburgh next spring, and that if I
crossing the road at small angles, but never would go thither, she would give me a years
going far from either side of it.
bed and board at her house gratis, and make
Sir Jamesshouse was full of pictures and all the interest she could for me among her
prints, several of which I copied with pen acquaintance there. I thankfully accepted
and ink: this made him think I might become her kind offer; and instead of giving me one
a painter. Lady Dipple had been but a few year she gave me two.
weeks there, when William Baird, esq. of
I carried with me aletter of recommenda
Auchmeddin, came on a visit: he was the tion from the lord Pitsligo (a near neighbor
husband of one of that ladys daughters, and of squire Baird's) to Mr. John Alexander, a
I found him to be very ingenious and com painter in Edinburgh: who allowed me to
municative; he invited me to go to his house pass an hour every day at his house, for a
and stay some time with him, telling me that month, to copy from his drawings; and said
I should have free access to his library which he would teach me to paint in oil colors, if
was a very large one; and that he would fur I would serve him seven years, and my friends
nish me with all sorts of implements for would maintain me all that time: but this was
drawing. I went thither and stayed about too much for me to desire them to do; nor
eight months; but was much disappointed in _did I choose to serve so long. I was then
nding no books of astronomy in his library, lrecommended to other painters, but they
except what was in the two volumes of Har would do nothing without money. So I was
l'iss Lexicon Technicum, although there quite at a loss what to do. In a few days after
were many books on geography and other'sci this I received a letter of recommendation
ences: several of these indeed were in Latin, from my good friend squire Baird, to the
and more in French; these being languages Rev. Dr. Robert Keith at Edinburgh, to
that I did not understand, I had recourse to whom I gave an account of my had success
him for what I wanted to know of these sub |among the painters there. He told me, that
jects, which he cheerfully read to me; and it if I could copy from nature, I might do with
was as easy for him at sight, to read English out their assistance, asull the rules for draw
from a Greek, Latin, or Frenck beck, as from ing signied but very little when one came
an English one. He furnished me with pen to draw from the life; and by what he had
cils and Indian ink, showing me how to draw seen of my drawings brought from the north,
with them; and although he had but an in he judged 1 might succeed very well in
think myself growing very rich by the mo-i different hand at that work, yet he was a very
drawing pictures from the life, in Indian ink
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on vellum. He then sat to me for his own

picture, and sent me with it and a letter of
recommendation to the right honorable the
lady Jane Douglas, who lived with her mo
For the Repertory.

A ROMANCE.
I have sworn, you shall not trouble my

CHAPTER XI.
(Continued)
employer morqythough when I took that
Season your admiration for a while,

Until I relate this marvel to you. Shah-Penn.
you in this retreamntil your death or_minc
ther, the marchioness of Douglas, at Mer
chiston house, near Edinburghi Both the

tnarchioness and lady Jane behaved to me in
the most friendly manner, on Dr. Keiths ac
count, and sat for their pictures; telling me
at the same time, that I was in the very

room in which lord Napier invented and
computed the logarithms; and that if I
thought it would inspire me, I should al
ways have the same room whenever I came
to Merchiston. I staid there several days, and
drew several pictures of lady Jane, of whom
it was hard to say, whether the greatness ol
her beauty, or the goodness of her temper
and disposition, was the most predominant.
main conned within these dismal walls to

wear a life of wretchcdness and grief ?
" Theres-n0 alternative! replied Martix,
'
'
One bore a beaming torch, the other held

A dagger. whose terric blade was cased
In cloned gore.
Count Sobeiski," said he, you doubt
less know me well ere this, therefore I need
oath, I determined not to kill, but to secure
release me from my vowl Here then, my
lqrshrss must am..undl-qas or other is

no more!"
- Remorseless wretCh! cried I, here,
here is my IlakCCi bosomhbury your thirsty

poniard in my heart, and ' quench it in my
blood! but do not say we must remain for
ever in this gloomy cavel."
make no apology for my intrusion.

_
" Too well I know you, desperate man!"
cried I, My bleeding servants and my
" I have said, my lord, returned he, and
slaughtered babe, nay my own life nearly de as I have said, so must it bet
.
stroyed, have made you too well known to
u Then welcome gloomy walls,"- said I,
me! But the vengeance of offended Heaven while. I linger with you, but death will
will, ere long, be hurled upon your head!"
quickly rob you of my solitary company!"
She sent these pictures to ladies of her ac
As a robber, I will not ask forgiveness
14 Nay more, my lord, said Martix, and
quaintance, in order to recommend me to
them; by which means I soon had as much for my attack upon you," said Martix, " nor let your prudence tell you how necessary it
business as I could possibly manage, so as will I deny that I was hired to assassinate is to accede to my request, I would wish you
not only to put a good deal of money in my you, and that Austin was the villain who bri and the countess to divest yourselves of your
bed me!
_
_
apparel, and dress in garments which I will
own pocket, but also to spare what was suf
" How! exclaimed I, while my beloved procure.
cient to help to supply my father and mother
How, exclaimed I, " must I submit to
in their old age. Thus a business was provi Imuia threw herself upon my bosom, have
you but spared my life in the encounter, have such degrading actsl,
dentially put into my hands, which I follow
you suffered me to behold my vassals slain
" Base slave! cried Braubenski, indig
ed for six and twenty years.
Lady Dipple being a woman of the strict ..round me, but for the savage pleasure of nantly.
The count continued.
est piety, kept a watchful eye over me at plunging your poniard at leisure in my bo
" Indeed, my lord, said Martix, were it
rst, and made me give her an eXact account som? must you yet glut your insatiatc rage
at night, of what families I had been in deliberately, with the blood of my innocent not absolutely necessary, I would not require
it of you; it is necessary to deceive our em
throughout the day, and of the money I had wife? Detested homicides!
Here the inhuman Laupold that had dis ployer, and what can the loss of these gild
received. She took the money each night,
desiring I would keep an account of what I regarded the orders of h'lartix, rushed for ed trappings be to you in this dreary man
had put into her hands; tclling me that I ward, to commit the dreadful act of assaSsi sion? These clothes we will place upon a
should duly have out of it, what I wanted for nation, when a blow from Martix arrested male and female of your slaughtered train.
Found disgured, and with your gannents on,
clothes, and to send to my father. But in less him.
Begone, villain! cried the captain of the it will be concluded that you are no more,
than half a year, she told me that she would
[henceforth trust me with being my own robbers, " twice already have you disobeyed and all inquiry ceases.
n We felt the force of this remark, and
banker; for she had made a good deal of pri me, but worst of all your bloody soul could ne
ver
suffer
a
helpless
victims
tears
to
touch
it.
conceiving
a fond hope that one day we might
vate inquiry how I had behaved when I was
out of her sight through the day, and was This, count Sobeiski, continued he, turning obtain a release, the countess consented, and
quite satised with my conduct.
_ to me, " this is the slave who dared to dis leaving the garments we now wear, the ban
During my two years stay at Edinburgh, obey me, when I gave orders to stop the dit' retired, while we complied with his de
sire.
I somehow took a violent inclination to study slaughter."
Heaven reward him, cried I, as his
" Since that hour, continued the count,
anatomy, surgery and physic, all from read
ing books and conversing with gentlemen on merits deserve, for vengeance is not in my we have made many ineffectual attempts to
escape."
these subjects; which from that time put all power!"
In
Fear
nothing,
count
Sebeiski,
rejoined
Justice will soon reach the villain Mar
thoughts of astronomy out of my mind, and
I had no inclination to become acquainted Martix, no harm can reach you here. I tix," cried Braubenski.
" I would not have it so, said the count,
with any one there, who taught either ma could not take your life, but here you must
remain
forever!
if
he can be prevailed upon to quit his pre
thematics or astronomy: for nothing would
" This fell like a thunderbolt. My count sent life, for he has used me kindly."
serve me but to be a doctor.
ess
started from
my breast, and in an agony
Sobeiski now related his adventure with
(To be continued.)
of despair,
reechoed,
v
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the person whom the robbers conveyed out of
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce
Forever! forever!
_
the abbey, through his chamber; and was, the
What he has publicly taught when convicted
" Forever! replied the robber, in a solemn reader may naturally suppose, astonished,
of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy,em and, I thought, a'ecting voice.
when Braubcnski informed him 'twas the
Bandit, cried I, u have you preserved king, and related the adventure of Stanislaus
braces truth, though with the sacrice of fa
with the band.
_me for a fate like this? must I forever re
vorite opinions.
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Braubenski now made Sobeiski acquaint

ed with the conduct of Linhault, and the
impatience of the weight that hangs upon it.

\Vhat of my Thadia, what of Austin?
Nothing of Thadia, my lord, replied
count and countess expressed their grati

tude, declaring that whether the event prov the squire, but a great deal about Austin.
ed Ferresburgh innocent or guilty, the youth I am sure the diabolical monk is upon some
should receive their daughter, if they were terrible errand!
Have you seen him to night?" inquired
so happy as to recover her.
Linhault,
with earnestness.
On arriving at the castle, they found it in
I have indeed, my lord," replied Flatt
confusion, and Braubenski requesting to be
conducted to the king, received no answer,
for all stood transxed with astonishment at

beholding their beloved lord, but when the
peasant declared him to be alive, and Sobei
ski spoke to them, joy succeeded to asto
nishment, and their shouts of transport rung
rice, and not half an hour since.

Tell me how, when, where? cried Lin
hault impatiently.
Here, on this very spot," answered Flau
rice, but, my lord, you shall hear; after you
commanded me to be upon the watch, I de
subsided, Marden informed them that the
termined not to close my eyes, (for if there

is any thing, my dear master, that can make
king had been aroused about midnight by
a man brave, its gratitude,) so, my lord, I
I-laurice, who had requested him to hasten
drew my sword and sallied out of the castle

into the garden. As I was sauntering along,
I heard footsteps behind me. I was a little
through the castle. After the tumult had
to the avenue beneath the western wing, as

his master, Linhault, had sent him in haste
afraid, I confess, and youll confess, my lord,

with the request to his majesty.
Sobeiski suspecting something was the presently, that I had cause to be. The foot
matter, requested Braubenski to accompany steps advanced very fast, and as I did not
him, and together with him and the countess wish to meet any body just at that moment,
I made bold to step into the bower.
hastened to the avenue.
Well, well, interrupted Linhault,~'quick
During the transactions at the abbey, a
scene of a different nature had taken place ly, quickly!
I had not been long there," continued
v .I
near the castle.
When Linhault gave Flaurice orders to be Flaurice, when I saw Austin pass with a
on the alert, he entered the hall and sat small lantern, and a villain disguised, with a
down by the fire, ordering Lopez to remain drawn dagger in his hand!
sometime with him, and after sitting there
" Indeed!" cried Linhault, starting.
Tis true, my lord, said Flaurice, "I
a short time, started suddenly from his chair,
and hastily proceeded to the garden, disturb followed them at a convenient distance, until
they stopped at the avenue, beneath the west
ed with fears for the safety ofThadia.
He seated himself on a tuft of grass, and ern wing, and entered into conversation; I
gave way to all the feelings which. the situ then returned to inform you, and hearing a
ation of his father, Thadia and himself might noise again, I very prudently jumped into
be supposed to inspire, when a noise in an the arbor again, and am glad to nd it your
arbour near him aroused him from his con lordship.
templation. He drew his rapier and exclaim
This is very strange! said Linhault.
ed, H \Vhos there?
No, my lord," said Flaurice, " not so, I
Flaurice, for it was him, knowing his mas
am convinced theres death dealing round us;

ter's voice, answered, Tis I, my dear lord, that avenue I told you of, I know covers a
tis I, and immediately sprung out of his ight of stairs that conduct to chambers long
uninhabited, and in one of which, I am sure,
concealment.
" Is it you, my dear master? continued if Miss Thadia is in the castle, she is con
he, I thought may be it was that diabolical ned.
Austin, and I hid myself in the arbor to keep
Ha! it may be so indeed!" cried Lin
clear of his dagger!
.
hault.
" \Vell, well," replied Linhault, " tis not
And doubtless, my lord, said Flattrice,
Austin, but your master; therefore dismiss that disguised rufan is conducted there by
your fears, and tell me immediately what Austin to despatch her!
How! cried Liuhault, murder her! 0!
has happened."
" Such a discovery! ejaculated Flaurice. how Ill tear the slave! Quick, conduct me
Of what! demanded Linhault, impati to the spot, ere this, perhaps, his poniard
drinks her blood!
ently.
The faithful squire went before his lord.
The greatest," continued-Flaurice, "since
the priest blew himself up with gunpowder! Convinced of his having performed a meri
n Flaurice, said his lord, as you dread
my heaviest displeasure, instantly ease my
should have courage enough to attack the

assassin of Thadia himself.
UBALDO.
(To be continued.)
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XVII.

What is honor! A word.
Straxsrzltaz.
VVearied in my pursuits after this phan

tom, I am at length persuaded of the justice
of the description of Falsta', for it would
seem that honor is at present air indeed.
There is so much profession to it, with so
little justice; so many acts committed under
its auspices, and so great a respect evinced
for its power, that were we to judge from

report, we must consider it a giant, but if
we scrutinize it with care, as it is now un
derstood, it will dissolve before us like the
mist of the morning. If, however, we cannot
discover it in [ITO/177.6 crsona, we can at least

look to its eccts, and of these there is per
haps none more melancholy than that of du
ailing.
There is something in its appearance so

hostile to happiness, so degrading to human
nature, that did we not ourselves observe the
reverse, we would be ready to suppose, that

all mankind would exclaim, with the same
emotions of horror, go, monster, to thy na
tive hell! but instead of this, we see it hail
ed by persons who profess to honor: and dis

guiscdly introduced into society as the dc
fender of character: we see it courted by the
great, admired by the humble: we hear its
praises echoed by persons who profess to
believe in a futurity, and who blazon their
faith, hope, and charity abroad. What are
their reasons? To defend their honor: to pro
tect themselves from the sneers of the world,
to establish their courage, to consolidate

their reputation: and how? By the blustering
inhumanity of a bravado; by tearing happi
ness from the bosoms of many, and even by
disregarding lifci
If a man think he is insulted, he should
beware of too hasty a conclusion; if he know
himself to be so,he should pardon the aggres
sor; he should make allowances for the im
petuosity of his disposition, by not giving
way to his own: the rst would be a princi

ple of christianity, the latter an indication of
good sense. If this were the case, duelling
would be much less frequent; it would not
happen at all: but as it is, how often do we

see one man have an enmity at another, the
dying embers of which he is continually dis
turbing, and which he uses every endeavor
to kindle into a blaze: each word his enemy

makes use of is weighed in the false balance.
torious action, his bosom swelled with con
of premeditated hatred, and each action is
scious pride, and he really thought that he observed by the distorting eye of resolute
268
PHILADELPHIA REPERTO RY.
revenge. He at length nds an opportunity

for calling him to the eld, which, had he
For the Repertory.
For the Repertory.
_SELECTOR. No. VII.
To that Noun of Multitude who signs himself

The Public.
not been on the alert, he never would have
Phmbus, weary with his diurnal course,
discovered, and in which no one can perceive

an insult but himself. Here is a man sum
had dismissed his tired horses from his cha

riot, shining with ambient gold, and reclined
his head on a downy pillow to repose. His
steeds strolled under the Hesperian quarter
moned to battle, with, perhaps, not a single

sentiment of dislike in his bosom, and con
formably t0 the laws of this murderous 'praC

tice, he is condemned in the defence of his
own life, to seek that of his antagonist. How
distressing his situation! how dreadful the

state of his mind! He is demanded satisfac
tion for a fault he is unconscious of having
committed, and required to make atonement
for a crime that never stained his breast.

Yet he is an advocate for honor, and although
he leave a wife and family in distress, he
cannot consider their miseries equal to its
protection. It will be said in his favor by its
advocates, that " the feelings of man are ten
der, the idea of cowardice thunders through
his soul, and in its loud career, ' the small
still voice of conscience" is too often lost."

And is conscience, then, of such a small ac
count as this? Are the ties of human nature
to be thus deliberately broken asunder, the

order of society thus maliciously deranged,
and the commandment of Heaven thus scorn
fully disregarded? Is a murder, committed
under the name of duelling, to be sanctioned,
even praised, when if it were considered as
a murder, its perpetrator would be subject

to punishment, and looked upon with horror?
" Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summers cloud,
Without our special wonder!"
In the above example I have shown the

power of the challenger: but it must also be
observed, that a man possessed of the same
principles, may provoke a challenge from
one who is not his equal in corporal strength,
and who ies with avidity to the pistol, as
his only means of defence. I consider either

of these men no better than a cunning trai
tor, a deliberate assassin, or a disguised mur
derer, and as such, think they should be treat

ed by the law.
Seeing the probable imposition of both

characters, in this detestable performance, it
it is permitted at all, it is plain that the ill

effects of duelling can only terminate with
itself: and I blush for my fellow men, when
Ithink it has been so long countenanced,
and to many so fatally pursued.
'
GREGORY GRAVITY.
Who, at the relation of some unmerited
misfortune, smiles, is either a fool, a end,

or a villain.
Numerous Sir,
Ha! ha! ha! youll excuse my tittering a

bit; but it be so silly, your taking myself for
I. You know Riaible's my name, and riaible,
of heaven, plucked ambrosia for grass, and I assure you, is my nature. Most of the hu
renewed their wonted re with celestial food. man family, those wlio know say, come into
The shield of Cynthia was full, she had ari
the world crying, but your multinominal ma
sen from the east, and dispelled the sable jesty may rest satised that the Riaz'blcs al
mantle of dusk. The bright evening star had ways come into the world laughing, and as I
resumed his seat, and the whole concave sky am one of the family, of course I am always
appeared as a .vast amphitheatre, adorned laughing, ha! ha! ha!
with the most beautiful gems of Arabic. The
Now sir, I am a true disciple of Demo
grand, sublime appearance of the heavens, critus, who was, your sage highness knows,
the solemnity of the place, the gentle warb a philosopher that laughed at the follies and
lings of a neighboring brook, conspired to errors of mankind, and, est hominis error-e,
impress on my mind the existence of Jupi Ihope therefore that youll pardon my laugh
ter, and to induce repose. I threw myself on ing at yours. And on the contrary I advise
a couch, and Morpheus condescended to you to imitate Heraclitus, who wept for the
touch my eyelids with his wand, and there, inconsistencies of Others, and wee/z for your
own. I recollect somewhere to have read
Appeared the following vision.
Methought that l beheld, decked in white, that " a sense of our own ignorance is the
the most elegant gure in creation. Iwas rst step towards knowledge; I hope, sir,
convinced that she was the o'spring of the you have proted by the maxim, and taken
gods; or that she was the joint production the rst ate/1, though the foot Til cannot
of heaven and of earth. Her pl.-.cid counte be observed in your erudite note. It is very
nance was more smooth than the owing of easy, sir, to be an egotist, but believe me,
the gentlest stream; her lips more beautiful very difficult to become a 1mm of crudiu'oa.
than a cluster of wild grapes; her axetlhair, When you are about penning another note,
moved by the cooling zephyrs, owed be recollect that Dr. Blair in his Lectures on
nind her like that of a swimmer, when borne composition says, that crs/licuizy is one of
on the face of the curling flood; in one hand the rst things to be attended to. If these
she held the aming Egis of Minerva, in valuable books are not in your collection, I
will lend you an edition for a short time.
the other, an olive branch, with this inscrip
-1 have read of afrog, who, inuenced by
tion, Peace and friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none. On a sud envy, a most rancorous weed, once attempt
den all nature was convulsed, the beautiful ed to swell himself into a bull. Will this do,
sceneiy of the heavens, those illuminations brother? said he to his companion. No.
of earth, were shrouded in black, and lostin Well, will this? Not quiteWell, this then?
darkness. I heard a rumbling noise at a short --Alas! he burst in the attempt, and sunk
distance, and beheld one through the gloomi into native nothingness.
Now sir, for the sake of example, we will
ness of the shade, rushing more furiously
than a lioness, when deprived of her young, make a frog of you, and suppose you squat
or thedesolating hurricane; her countenance ted in some envious quagmire, creaking forth
was more dreadful than the agitated deep, your venom; then presumptuously endeavor
when ruied by a storm, or those dismal
ingto swell yourself into the public, like the
avenues that lead to Tartarus; her eyesash frog your namesake into a bull,- and what is
ed with the love of slaughter; and her hands the consequence? what do we see? A silly
were distained with the blood of thousands. puff, in venting which, like your illustrious
I was struck with astonishment; and while
rcclcccssor, you have-burst, and must sink
reecting on the contrast of the two gures,

-'ne heavens opened, and a voice proclaimed
" She. who held the branch in her hand is the
Genius of Columbia. It is Liberty. Nourish
her as the handmaid of happiness. She with
the threatening hand is Despotism. Her
into insignicance, where we shall leave you

and miserable innuendoes.
But sir, though you have not swelled your
hands are stained with the blood of mankind,
sooth, in one point of view we are guilty,
after we have noticed your diabolical hints
self into one, you have at least made a very
great bull, in accusing us of plagiary; yetin
Who pretends to little when he might use sacriced at the shrine of intolerance. Avoid for in order to send it to the press, we copied
sume
much,
his own
importance andI
oppresses
not,feels
is truly
respectable.
her as the bane of society. My dream ended,
it, though not verbatim, from our book of
and I awoke.
manuscripts. But sir, you have accused us
of a monstrous literary theft! and yet sir, we
are at a loss to know what your note means,
for like other communications from the sus
fret-tell source, it is difcult to be understood.
\Ve cannot exactly-recollect, in what num
ber of the Tickler, (for it was never pub
lished in any other paper, except as copied
from that,) you must have seen our Sot, in
serted over a different signature and under
a different heading; but if you will be good
enough, and honest enough to let us know
sign himself The Public; thus one man an
The warbling ock, the lowing herd,
swering for thousands! If this were permit

ted, nothing could appear without being con
demned and executed by the [Juli/Zr, for any
Unite. and with a mutual zeal conspire
production; even Pope, has had his censu
To speak the greatness of creative power.
And will vain man. prompted by base desires.

And new ush'd, ever attering hopes, dare m.
rers; and if their voice were to be consider
The being of: God in question? Let him

Be mute and still, while all creation round,
ed as the voice of the public, the works of
In loudest accents speaking, utters forth
this poet, nay his memory would be covered

with obloquy. \Ve instance this, merely to
prove the absurdity and impropriety of such
assumptions.
what number it was in, we will procure a
Had you openly accused me, and men
certicate from Mr. Helmbold, the editor, tioned where you had found the piece in
not to convince the self elected representa question, I should have thought myself ob
tive of the public, but to convince the Imb ligated to banish suspicion from your mind,
lz'c themselves that their representative has but fearing to make an open accusation, you
oerstepped the modesty of nature. We have thrown a hint too obvious to be mista
think, however, that the following extract
' 26$)
ken, and of course deserve ridicule, and not
from the note addressed to us in consequence a serious reply from
RALPH RISIBLE.
Its Maker's praise W'nh patient eloquence,

It bids us know, that nought was made in vain,
Nor aught without a cause.

i
'
'
As evening shades draw nigh, the humble swain

Retiring happy from his daily toil,
Fast omvard trudges to his distant cot.

Contentment sweet, and health, of blessings this
Most blest, pervades his rustic family.
Their homely meal more pleasure gives the taste,
Than the rich daimies that the great enjoy.
The little group, whose plump and ruddy cheek'.
And sparkling eyrs bespeak their happiness,
Strangers alike to sickness and to care,
Remote from sorrow, dwell in sacred peace.
of our application for a certicate, will satis

fy every unbiassed mind.
" I have not a le at hand, of the third
volume of the ' Tickler. If you can desig
For the Repertory.
Their lot how envious, how supremely blest!
STANZAS TO \VALTER SCOTT, ESQ.

On perusing his Lady of the Lake.
Enters the eld of battle, blood and carnage,
nate the number in which it was published,
All hail to the minstrel whose soft swelling numbers
I will give you the certicate you require.

Yours, Ste.
G. H.
Like ourselves, Mr. Helmbold thought

that the certicate would look awkWard with
out specifying the number, that any one
might refer. \Ve do not know that it Was
published in the third volume, however, you
must know, and upon your speaking out like
a man, we pledge ourselves to present the

certicate to the public.
We do not pay sufcient deference to your

opinion, great noun of multitude, or signal/il
ing many, to take the trouble auraelvea, but
if you wish further satisfaction, you can have

it, by taking a jaunt down to Gloucester, and
inquiring for Mr. Shivers Cousins, the gen
While man, infatuate man, with blinded zeal,
His prospects gloomy, and before him nought
Meleuous ow and with feeling combine;

Fair heallh to his heart, and most tranquil his
slumbers.
While the harp of the north shall repose on the
pine
Silent may it remain

Till the minstrel again
Wander the hills of Parnassus among:
\Vhen it wakes at his touch,again

His fame shall sound through each glen,
Walter of Sco'ia, the child of the song.
On the wmgs of renown, oer white foaming ocean.
His genius has sail'd, and his merits are known;
And his harp. while it pleases, yet lls with emotion
The bosom subdued by its soul melting tone.
And their cherishing care

The blOom of his laurels shall ever prolong;
In the groves of the west
tleman who, in humble prose, told us that
' Shall his name be imprest,
Walter of Scotia. the child of the song.
We cannot close, without a few more re

marks on your note. In the rst place, we
sincerely hope we may never see the Sot
exemplied in your honorable self, and ad
vise you never to say who is not the author
of a piece, until you ascertain who really
\Vhen the sweet brow of Julia lowers,
I sooth mv sorrows with a quid.
The owers of poesy bloom on his crest,

They sweetly expand, and their fragrance around
spread,
The shafts of the critic to waft from his breast.
Oh! again wake the lyre
Which the bosom can re,
Applause extort even from apathys tongue;

While each far and near glen
Shall reecho again
Walter of Scotia, the child of the song.

ORLANDO.
For the Repertory.
RURAL REFLECTIONS.
Far from the busy world, and cares of life,
Beneath a shady oak, I sit, alone,
Unseen by man, to meditate and ponder

On fair creation's works; how sweet the employ!
Pensive I muse on all surrounding heaven,
considers deliberately how he has laid him

While nature, deckd in living green, looks gay.
self open in his rash assertion. Nay, he ab

solutely deserves censure for presuming to
THE (Hill) 01" TOBACCO.
When chilling disappointment sours,

And from my view all pleasure 's hid,
When cursed ennui racks my mind,
.~
us too severe upon their self created advo

cate, when they, nor he himself, when he
requesting us to give it a place in our Laugh

iana ( ifwe may be allowed the expression)
acknowledging,r that it had been before pub
lished in the Freeman's Journal.
RALPH RISIBLE.
Be his temples with chaplets of laurel surrounded,
1'0; lest, as in the present case, the Othello
(if we recollect right) of the Tickler, should

prove to be the Rot/1h Risiblc' of the Reper
tory.
We are convinced the public will not think
A correspondent, for whom we have a very

great esteem, has handed us the following,
The sWeer smiles of the fair,
part of the anecdote relative to the bed, and

who was close by us when we wrote the
piece in question, in the year 1806, on board
the ship Asia, somewhere near the Cape of
Goad Ho/ie.
Bur trouble and distress: the humble swain,

Far from the din of war, and killing care,
Is happy; all his tondest hopes are blest;
His cup of health and peace is full; his heart
With conscious bliss and gratitude o'erows.
HERMINIUS.
._._
For the Repertory.
With eager haste the boy I hid

Hand me the roll, and quickly nd
Sure source of comfort in a quid.
When the rude winds houl oer the plain,
And rains beat on my humble shed,
I neither heed the wind nor rain,
.
But calmly chew my precious quid.
Perhaps some friend may pensive say,
When of this weary life Im rid,
" Here lies poor Dick. he 's turnd to clay,

Gone are the pleasures of his quid.
DICK DOWLAS
Mr. Gurrow, examining a witness, asked

him what his business was. He answered, a
dealer in 01:! iron. Then, said the counsel,

you must of course be a thief. I don't see,
replied the witness, why a dealer in iron must
Her face how lovely, her attire how fair!
necessarily be 'a thief any more than a deal
How grand, how beautiful the rural scete!
er in brace.
270
my
sources from which that revenue was deri
10008118111110.
ved during the year 1809.

MARRIED,
It is ascertained that the nett re venue

arising from the same duties, has, for the
three rst quarters of the year 1810, exceed
ed 7,500,000 dollars, and it is believed that
it will not, for the whole year, fall short of
current expenses and interest on the debt ac

cruing during the same period. But the pay
ments to be made on account of the principal
of the debt in order to complete the annual
appropriation of eight millions of dollars,
On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Phi

lip F. Myers, Mr. Jose/1h Pyle, merchant, of twelve millions.
amounting to more than 5,100,000 dollars,a
Chester county, to Miss [Mary Bur/tart, of
necessary. The receipts and disbursements

for that quarter are therefore estimated as
follows:
this city.
On Thursday evening last, the 20th inst.
by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. .Mark Sim/mon,
of Chester county, Pennsylvania, to Miss

Jl/Iary Dietz, of this city.
Also, Mr. James Simpson, to Miss Eliza
Lees, both of Philadelphia county.

" Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers,
We who improve his golden hours,

By sweet experience know,
That marriage rightly understood

Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below."
C.
At Pcrth-Amboy, on the 19th of Oct. by
the Rev. William Mills, Mr. Uzzialz Cod

dingmn, aged about 70 years, to Miss Jemi
ma Ftood, of \Voodbridge, aged 28 years;
making only the small difference of 42 years
in their ages.
DIED,
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Jose/1h Ker, in

the 62d year of his age.
loan rst negoeiated for 3,750,000, and after

wards reduced to 2,750,000 dollars, became
The sales of public lands north of the ri

ver Ohio, have, during the year ending on
the 30th of September, 1810, as appears by

the statement
amounted to 159,000 acres,
and the payments by purchasers to 610,000
dollars.
The same statement shows that the total
amount of sales, from the establishment of
Receipts into the treasury from the ordi

2,500,000
narv R'CVCIIUC
Proceeds of the loan receivable on Slst of

December 1810
2.750.000
Balance in the treasury on 1st Oct. 1810 3,460 000
the land ofces in the year 1800, to the 30111

September, 1810, have amounted to 3,168,000
acres, which have produced 6,681,000 dol
lars; of which sum 1,646,000 dollars remain
due by purchasers. The sales in the Missis

sippi territory, being (after deducting expen
ses) appropriated in the rst place to the pay
8,710,000
Expenses, civil, military and
naval, estimated
1,570,000
Interest accruing on the do

mestic debt
ment of 1,250,000 dollars to the state of
500,000
2,070,000
Payments on account of the public debt,

in order to complete the annual appro
Georgia, are distinctly stated.

priation 0f eight millions, and including
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

1. Year ending on the 30th of September 1810.
The actual receipts into the treasury,
during the year ending on the 30th

of Sept. 1810 have amounted to $8,688,861 17
Making. together with the balance in
the treasury, on the lst of October
1809, and amounting to
5,828,936 01
the reimbursement of 81st Dec. 1810,

on the six per cent.and deferred stocks.
and that of the same date. of3,751,125
exchanged six per cent. stock
4.640.000
6,710,000
Probable balance in the treasury on 315:
December 1810
2.000.000
At Rutland, Vermont, on Sunday the 2d
inst. the hon. Israel Smith, late governor of

that state, in the 52d year of his age.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, December 12.
The following letter and report were re
8,710,000
an aggregate of
The outstanding revenue bonds, after de

ducting the expenses of collection and allow
ing for bad debts, will not probably, on the
Civil department, including miscellane
lst of January 1811, fall short of eleven mil
ous expenses, and those incidental to
the intercourse with foreign nations 1,249,200 06 lions and a half of dollars; the actual receipts
for the year 1811, on account of the sales of
Militia and Indian de
5.171
1 have the honor to enclose a report, pre

pared in obedience to the act entitled " An
act to establish the treasury department."
I have. the honor to be,_very respectfully,
lands, may be estimated at ve hundred thou
2,514,523 75
1,674,735 50
sand: and it is presumed that the portion of

the revenue arising from importations sub
sequent to the present year, which will be
Interest on the public debt
received in 181 1, will be more than suicient
Total current expenses
8,174,358 22 to pay the debentures payable in that year
Payments on account of the principal
The actual receipts into the treasury during
of the public debt
2,884,409 24 that year may therefore be estimated at
Navy
Treasury Department,
December 11, 1810.
3. Year 1811.
The disbursements during the same year

have consisted in the following items, viz.
partments
ceived from the secretary of the treasury:
14,517,797 18
__
4,189,259 25
2,735,898 91
3 12,500,000
Amounting together, as will appear
sir, your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The honorable,
The speaker 01' the house of representatives.
Estimating the expenses of governmenl

more in detail by the statement (E.)
for the year 1811, not to exceed the amount
to
11,058,767 46 actually expended during the year ending on
And leaving in the treasury on 30th
the 80th of September 1810, that is to say
of Sept. 1810 a balance of
3.459.029 72
REPORT.
Expenses of a civil nature, both domestic

and foreign
1,240.000
14,517,797 18
1n obedience to the directions of the act
Military and naval departments
4.190.000
Supplementary to the act entitled An act
It therefore appears that the actual re
to establish the treasury department, the se ceipts into the treasury have exceeded the
5130.000
cretary of the treasury respectfully submits current expenses of government, including And adding thereto the interest on the
public debt, estimated at
2,550.000
the following report and estimates:
therein the. interest on the debt, by a sum of
ve
hundred
thousand
dollars:
the
expenses
REVENL'E
The aggregate of the current expenses.
The nett revenue arising from duties on had during the preceding year exceeded the
exclusively of the payments on account
merchandise and tonnage which accrued du receipts by a sum 01 thirteen hundred thou
of the principal of the debt, would not
ring the year 1808, amounted to $10,348,000

The nett revenue arising from the same
sand dollars. The difference arises, not from
an increase in the receipts, but from a dimi
sources, which accrued during the year 1809, nution in the expenses, particularly those of
amounted, as will appear by the statement
(A.), to
$6,527,000
The statement (B.) exhibits in detail the

several species of merchandise and other
the military and mm] (iCpulllllClN-S

2. Last quarter of the year 1810.
The receipts tor that quarter will, it is believed, be more than sulhcient to defray the
exceed
The payments on account of the principal
of he debt will be applicable to the an
nual reimbursemens of the six percent.
and deferred stocks. to the reply ment
of the loan of 2,750,000 dollars e'ected
this year. and to the reimbursement in
7,980,000
271.
part of the converted six percent. stock;

and must, in order to complete the an
nual appropriation of eight millions of
dollars, amount to
other mode. It is reimbursable on the last

day of December 1811, with a reservation
that the bank may, in case of a non-renewal
5,450,000
Making for the whole amount of the ex

penditures of the year 1811
13.430.000
of its charter, demand an earlier payment on

giving three months notice. This condition
may, if enforced, save some interest to the
public, and can produce no inconvenience,
or about one million of dollars more than the re
ceipts for the same year.
the 2d day of February next, if a revocation

shall not have taken place before that day.
But this may have taken place and not be
known on that day in the United States. It

the collectors abstain from seizing merchan
dise imported after that day, until the fact
shall have been ascertained and the edicts
as there will be no greater difculty in effect shall have been revoked, the merchandisr
ing a new loan (if necessary) in the middle will escape forfeiture, and the law during
than in the latter end of the year. The do that period will be inoperative. If they seize
cuments F. G. H. I. show both the object and and the edicts shall have been revoked, the
the terms of the loan.
seizures will have been illegal, and the col
From what has been stated, it appears that lectors will be liable to personal suits. This
no other provisions are necessary for the inconvenience may be remedicd'by a provi
If therefore this estimate could be relied

on, an authority to borrow one million of dol
lars would be sufcient to enable government
to pay all the current expenses, and to reim
burse nearly four millions and a half of the
principal of the debt, leaving at the same titne year 1811, than a continuance of the addi sion, directing, that during that period it shall
in the treasury a balance of two millions of tional 2 1-2 per cent. duty, commonly called be the duty of the collectors to make sei
dollars, a sum not greater than what under the Mediterranean Fund, and an authority to zurcs, but that the goods shall be restored
existing circumstances it is elligible to re borrow a sum, probably much less, and cer to the parties on their giving bond with sure
serve. But a deciency may take place in the tainly not greater than the amount of the ties for the value.
receipts if the amount of debentures should principal of the public debt which will be
3. No exception has been made by the act
exceed what has been estimated; and the ex
reimbursed dttring the year. But as in con , in favor of vessels which have sailed for the
penses for the military and naval departments formity with the act of 1st of May 1810, the British East Indies prior to the presidents
(which, according to the estimates of those importation of articles the growth, produce proclamation; and the short period of three
departments, and exclusively of the sum ne or manufacture of the dominions, colonies months from the date of that proclamation to
cessary for fortications, amount to 4,916,000 and dependencies of Great Britain will be the day when the law is to take cect will
dollars) may be greater than the amount ac prohibited after the 2d day of February next, occasion forfeitures or heavy losses in cases
tually expended dttring the year ending on if that nation shall not, before that time, so of bona de American property in England,
the 30th of September 1810. In order to pro revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall paid for or ordered prior to the proclama
vide for these and other unforeseen contin cease to violate the neutral commerce of the tion. It seems in every point of view eligible
gencies, the propriety of authorising a rel0an United States, some provisions appear ne that cases clearly foreseen should be provi
not exceeding in the whole the amount of the cessary for the purpose ofsnpplying the de ded for by law, instead of being left to exe
principal of the debt reimbursed during the ciency in the revenue arising from that cutive discretion.
same year, is respectfully submitted.
4. It is believed that an abandonment by
cause, and of giving to that measure all the
the United States of their share of the pe
efcacy of which it is susceptible.
ruaLtc nen'r.
The probable defalcation in the revenue nalties and forfeitures which may be incur
It appears by the statement
that the
payments on account of the principal of the cannot, for obvious reasons, he at this time red, and the distribution of these, according
public debt have amounted during the year estimated with any degree of precision. The to the circumstances of the case, amongst
ending on the 30th day of September 1810, experience of the ensuing year can alone af the collectors, the other custom house oili
to 2,884,000 dollars; and during the nine ford suliicient data for a permanent and de i cers, the inspectors who heretofore have had
years and a half ending on the same day, to tailed plan adapted to the state of things, and . no share, and the informers, would insure a
near 37,700,000 dollars; exclusively of more calculated to ensure perseverance in the sys~ l greater degree of and and vigilance in de
lhuli six millions of dollars paid in conformity tem as long as may be thought proper. But ' tecting and preventing infractions of the. law.
5. Some additional provisions will be ne
with the provisions of the convention with in the mean while, it appears essential to lay
Great Britain and of the Louisiana conven the foundation of such plan and to guard in cessary to enforce the law on the northern
time against any great decit in the receipts frontier of the United States, amongst which
tion.
Taking the calender year 1810 by itself the of the year 1812. it is believed that under ma be reckoned, the erection of some new
principal of the debt actually reimbursed will existing circumstances it would be suicient ; col cction districts, particularly on the river
amount to S 163 376 dollars, viz.
to render those receipts equal or nearly equal I St. Lawrence and in the eastern part of the
to the current expenditure, including therein state of Vermont; an increase of salary to
Annual reimbursement of six per cent
and deferred ocks
1.412.251 the interest on' the public debt, and estimated the collectors in that quarter, inasmuch as
at about eight millions of dollars: and with a under the nonimportation, that part of their
Reimbursement of the six per ccnt.ex~
compensation which is. derived from fees
view
to that object, a considerable and int
changed stock
3.751.125
tnediate increase of the present duties on will be considerably reduced, and that whitlt
arises from commissions altogether lost; and
5,163,576 importations is respectfully suggested.
From which deducting the loan from the
It is not less important that the act should an authority to the armed force of the Uni
bank of
2.750.000 be free of legal diiculties and of well found~ ted States to make seizures. And it must be
ecl objections, and that it should be enforced added, that the peculiar situation of those
Leaves for the actual decrease of the debt
by every practicable means. On that subject districts will rcnde r condemnations extreme
during the year
2,413,376 the following observations are submitted.
ly difcult, unless the obligation be imposed
The loan authorised by the act of last ses
1. The l..w of lst May, 1810, has neither on persons claiming merchandise seized
sion had at rst been negociated in the latter expressly dened the edicts, the revocation of there to prove that the same was legally im
end of May, for 3.750,000 dollars; but the which is expected, nor made a notication ported.
All which is respectfully submitted.
expenses having proved less than had been by the president the evidence and the sole
ALBERT GALLATIN.
supposed, it was by mutual consent reduced evidence of the fact. It follows that in case
in October to 2,750,000. With that object in of an unsatisfactory modication ofher edicts Treasury Department, December 10. 1810.
view, in order that no greater sum should by Great Britain, the decision of the question
The letter and report having been read,
be ultimately borrowed than might be nc itself, whether the nonimportation be actu
so much thereof as relates to the revenue
cessary, and also in order to avoid as long ..lly in force or not will be left to the courts. was referred to the committee of trays and
as practicable an increase of stock in the whence delays and embarrassments will arise
market, and that of a more permanent spe which will considerably impede the opera means, and so much as relates to the act
respecting commerci..l intercourse, 8tc. to
cies of debt, as temporaty loan from the bank tion of the law.
of the United States, was preferred to any
2. The nonimportation is to take place on the committee of foreign relations.
DOCUMENTS
Accompanying the message of the president

of the United States to congress, respect
ing \Vest Florida.
intention to subjugate us, as they would an

invasion of their territory by a foreign ene
my. 4th. The emperor of France has invited
the Spanish Americans to declare their inde
(Continued)
pendence, rather than remain in subjection
Extract of a letter from governor Holmes of the
to the old Spanish government; therefore an

acknowledgement of our independence by
the United States could not he complained
of by France, or involve the American go
Mississippi Territory, to the secretary of state,

dated October 17, 1810.
The enclosed letter I have been request

ed to transmit to you.
To the Hon. Robert Smith, seeretary of state for
the United States.
vernment in any contest with that power.
5th. Neither can it afford any just cause of
qualied pardon for all deserters now resid

ing within this commonwealth, together with
an exemption from further service in the
army or navy of the United States.
A loan of 100,000 dollars is solicited of the
American government, to be reimbursed at
3, 6 and 9 years, from the sales of public
lands. This loan may be made by the secre

tary of the treasury immediately, without
committing the government or making it
known to foreign ministers at \Vashington.
In order not to embarrass the cabinent of
the United States and to receive rst, through
their own- condential agents, their wishes
and views with respect to us, it is deemed
prudent to defer the departure of our envoy
already named, who will be despatched imme
complainrto Great Britain, although she be

the ally of Spain, that the United States
The convention of the state of Florida should acknowledge and support our inde
have already transmitted an oicial copy of pendence; as this measure was necessary to
their act of independence, through his excel
save the country from falling into the hands
lency gov. Holmes, to the president of the of the French exiles from the island of Cuba,
and other partizans of Bonaparte who are the diately on receiving information that such a
United States, accompanied with the expres
measure will meet the approbation of the UV.
sion of their hope and desire, that this com
eternal enemies of Great Britain.
monwealth may be immediately acknowledg
Should the United States be induced, by States.
We pray you to accept the assurance of
ed and protected, by the government of the these or any other considerations, to acknow
United States, asan integral part of the Ame ledge our claim to their protection, as an in our respect and high consideration.
rican Union. On a subject so interesting to tegral part of their territory, or otherwise, we
By order of the convention.
the community represented by us, it is ne feel it our duty to claim for our constituents
(Signed)
JOHN RHEA,/ireridmt.
Baton Rouge, Oct. 10, 1810.
cessary that we should have the most direct an immediate admission into the union as an
zuid unequivocal assurances of the views and independent state, or as a territory of the
HEALTH OFFICE,
wishes of the American government without United States, with permission to establish
December 15, 1810.
delay, since our weak and unprotected sitti our own form of government, or to be tmitcd
ation will oblige us to look to some foreign with one of the neighboring territories, or a
from the 8th to the 15'h December, 18l0
government for support, should it be refused part of one of them, in such manner as to form
Diseases.
ad. cb.
Disemerad- cb.
1 0 Inam. brain
0 1
to us by the country which we have consi a state. Should it be thought proper to an Asthma
Atrophy
2 0 Inam. stomach 0 2
dered as our parent state.
nex us to one of the neighboring territories, Consumption
oflungs? 1 lnam bowels
2 0
\Ve therefore make this direct appeal or a part of one of them, the inhabitants of Convulsionl
0 10 Inam liver
2 0
1 1 Mortication
1 0
through you, to the president and general this commonwealth would prefer being an Decay
Diarrhoea
1 0 Palsey
1 O
government of the American states, to soli nexed to the island of Orleans, and in the Dropsy in the brain 0 2 Small pox, natural 0 1
cit that immediate protection, to which we mean while, until a state govemment should Debility
1 0 Still born
0 1
0 1 Syphilis
1 0
consider ourselves entitled: and to obtain a be established, that they should be governed Fever. typhus
Fever, puerperal
1 0
-
speedy and favorable decision, we offer the by the ordinances already enacted by this Fever, inammatory l 0
23 32
1 0
following considerations: ist. The govern convention, and by their further regulations Gout
Whooping cough
0 2
Total 55
ment of the United States, in their instruc
hereafter.
4
Hives
0 1
tions to the envoys extraordinary at Paris, in
The claim which we have to the soil, or
Sir,
March 1806, authorised the purchase of East
unlocated lands, within this commonwealth,
Florida, dinning them at the same time to

engage France to intercede with the cabinet
of Spain, to relinquish any claim to the ter
titom which new forms this commonwealth.
2d. in all diplomatic correspondence with
American ministers abroad, the government
of the United States have spoken of West
Florida as a part of the Louisiana cession.
will not, it is presumed, be contested by the

United States, as they have tacitly acquies
ced in the claim of France or Spain for seven
years, and the restrictions of the several em
bargo and nonintercourse laws might fairly

be construed, if not as a relinquishment of
their claim, yet at least sufcient to entitle
_ the people of this commonwealth (who have
They have legislated for the country as a part wrested the government and country from
of their own territory, and have deferred to
take possession of it,in expectation that Spain
might be induced to relinquish her claim by
amicable negociation. 3d. The American go
vernment has already refused to accredit any
minister from the Spanish Junta, which body '
Spain, at the risk of their lives and fortunes)

to all the unlocated lands. It will strike the
American government, that the monies aris
Under 1 year
Between 1 and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
SO
4O
20
3O
40
50
0
5
4
9
90
3
1
1
0
100
O
Total 55

JOHN ALLlSON. Clerlt.
December 10
11
ing from the sales of these lands, applied, as
they will be, to improving the internal com

munications of the country, opening canals,
was certainly more legally organized, as the Ste. Ste. will in fact be adding to the pros
representative of the sovereignty, than that perity and strength of the federal union.
now called the regency of Spain; therefore
To full with good faith our promises and
the United States cannot but regard any force engagements to the inhabitants of this coun
or authOrity emanating from them, with an try, it will be our duty to stipulate for an un
2
70
7
70
80
0
80
90

41
43
46
35
38
85
12
81
31
32
13
36
40
35
14
31
:38
33
15
29
36
34
TERMS OF THE REPER'I'ORY.

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VOL. I.
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and where in the ecliptic (in my scheme) to
BIOGRAPHY.
a saonr ACCOUNT or 'rna use or
MR. JABIES FERGUSON,
Author of Lectures on Astronomy, Mechanics, 80c.
No. 35.
setting the example himself, and sending
place these intersecting points: this was in subscription papers to others. I then return
the year l739.
ed to Edinburgh, and had the rotula plates
engraved there by Mr. Cooper. It has gone

squire Grant of Achoynaney, in the year through several impressions, and always sold
WRITTEN av HIMSELF.
1730, I had read, that on the rst of January very well till the year 1752, when the style
(Continued)
1690 the moons ascending node was in the \vas changed, which rendered it quite use
At the end of the second year I left Edin tenth minute of the rst degree of aries: less. Mr. Maclaurin received me with the
burgh, and went to see my father. Thinking and that her nodes moved backward through greatest civility when I rst went to see him
myself tolerably well qualified to be a physi
the whole ecliptic in 18 years and 224 days, at Edinburgh. He then became an exceed
cian in that part of the country, I carried which was at the rate of three minutes ele ing good friend to me, and continued so till
a good deal of medicine, plasters, Ste. thither. ven seconds every twenty four hours. But as his death.
But to my mortication, I soon found that all_ I scarce knew in the year 1730 what the
One day I requested him to show me his
my medical theories and study were of little moons nodes meant, I took no further no orrery, which he immediately did. I was
use in practice. And then nding that very tice of it at that time.
greatly delighted with the motions of the
few paid me for the medicines they had, and
However, in the year 1739, I set to work earth and moon in it, and would gladly have
that I was far from being so successful as I at Inverness; and after a tedious calcula seen the wheel work, which was concealed
could wish, I quite left at? that business, and tion of the slow motion of the nodes from in a brass box, and the box and planets above
began to think of taking to the more sure January 1690 to January l740, it appeared it were surrounded by an armillary sphere.
one of drawing pictures again. For this pur to me, that (if I was sure I remembered But he told me he never had opened it, and
pose I went to Inverness, whereI had eight right) the moons ascending node must be I could easily perceive that it could not be
in 23 degrees 25 minutes of cancer at the opened but by the hand of some ingenious
months business.
When I was there I began to think of beginning of the year 174-0. And so I added clock maker, and not without a great deal of
astronomy again; and was heartily sorry for the ecliptic part to my scheme, and called it time and trouble.
a
having quite neglected it at Edinburgh, the Astronomical Rotula.
After a great deal of thinking and calcu
\Vhen I had nished itI showed it to the lation, I found that I could contrive the
where I might have improved my know
ledge by conversing with those who were Rev. Mr. Alexander Macbean, one of the wheel work for turning the planets in such
very able to assist me. I began to compare ministers at Inverness, who told me he had a machine, and giving them their progres~
the ecliptic with its twelve signs, through a set of almanacs by him for several years sive motions, but should be very well satis
which the sun goes in twelve months, to the past, and would examine it by the eclipses ed if I could make an orrery to show the
circle of twelve hours on the dial plate of mentioned in them. We examined it together motions of the earth and moon, and of the
the watch, the hour hand to the sun, and the and found that it agreed throughout with the sun round its axis. I then employed a turner
minute hand to the meon, moving in the days of all the full moons and eclipses men to make a suicient number of wheels and
ecliptic; the one always overtaking the other tioned in these almanacs; which made me axles, according to patterns which I gave
at a place more forward than it did at their think I had constructed it upon true astro him in drawing; and after having cut the
last conjunction before. On this, I con nomical principles. On this Mr. Macbean teeth in the wheels, with a knife, and put
trived and nished a scheme on paper for desired me to write to Mr. Maclaurin, pro the whole together, I found that it ansWered
showing the motions and places of the sun fessor of the mathematics at Edinburgh,and all my expectations. It showed the suns mo
and moon in the ecliptic on each day of the give him an account of the methods by which tion round its axis, the diurnal and annual
year perpetually; and consequently the days I had formed my plan, requesting him to motions of the earth on its inclined axis,
correct it where it was wrong. He returned which kept its parallelism in its whole course
of all the new and full moons.
To this I wanted to add a method for show me a most polite and friendly answer, (al round the sun; the motions and phases of the
ing the eclipses of the sun and moon; of though I had never seen him during my stay moon, with the retrograde motions of the
which I knew the curve long before, by at Edinburgh) and informed me that I had nodes of her orbit; and consequently, all the
having observed that the moon Was, for one only mistaken the radical mean place of the variety of seasons, the aitl'erent lengths of
half of her period on the north side of the ascending node by a quarter of a degree; and days and nights, the days of the new and full
ecliptic, and for the other half on the south. that if I would send the drawing of rotula to moons, and eclipses.
\Vhen it was all completed, except the box
But not having observed her course among him, he would examine it, and endeavor to
the stars long enough by my above mention procure me a subscription to defray the that covers the wheels, I showed it to Mr.
ed thread, so as to delineate her path upon: charges of engraving it on copperplates, if Maclaurin, who commended it in the pre
my celestial map, in order to nd the two op I chose to publish it. I then made a new and sence of a great many young gentlemen who
posite points of the ecliptic in which her or- ' correct drawing of it, and sent it to him, who attended his lectures. He (lt'bll'Ull me to read
bit crosses it, I was altogether at a loss how soon got me a very handsome subscription by them a lecture on it, which I did without he
At lastI recollected, that when I was with
w
" \Vhat brings you here, demanded Aus
His last dying accent alarmed and roused
sitation, seeing I had no reason to be afraid

of speaking before a great and good man who
was my friend. Soon after that I sent it a pre
sent to the Rev. and ingenious Mr. Alexan
tin, " at this late hour?

Monk," said the youth solemnly, what
brings you here? I come to shelter innocence
ricc to follow him with the lantern of the

monk, he entered the avenue. All was si
der Irvine, one of the ministers at Elgin, in
from wrong, but thou, I fear, art come to
lent and nothing to be seen.
Scotland.
wrong that innocence! Yet beware!
She is not here, cried the youth, she

has perished, vainly calling upon Linhault to
defend her!
I then made a smaller and neuter orrery,
of which all the wheels were of ivory, andI

cut the teeth in them with a le. This was
done in the beginning of the year 1743; and
in May that year, I brought it with me to
London, where it was soon after bought by
Dudley Rider.
I have made six orrcrics since that time,
and there are not any two of them in which
" Ha!" exclaimed Austin, am I threat
ened by thee, boy!
Linhault from reection, and ordering Flau
I know thee, monk," replied Linhault,
Give not way to these reections, laid
I know thee treacherous and bloody, death

dealing traitor! Slave, where is my Thadia?
where is the heiress of Sobciskii If thou hast
killed her, 0! how I will tear thee!"
Flaurice, perhaps she lives, and is still in
Rash boy!" cried the diabolical monk,
the chamber.
Haply so, indeed," answered Linhault,
we will proceed thither, and if too late our
aid, let her assassin dread my fatal rugel"
hear to copy one thing of that kind from an
retire and leave this dreadful scene ofdeath

or thou mayst share the peril!
Of death! replied Linhault. u then our
He now hastened forward, but as hastily

retreated.
Peace, peace, whispered he to Flaurice,
other, because I still saw there Was great
fears were too true, and she s no more! But
let us withdraw awhile, the wretch de
room for improvement.
vengeance is within my grasp! Thou base

and bloody mockery of Heaven,vwe meet
scends, and, eyes deceive me not, my liv

ing Thadia with him. Heaven, I thank thee!
upon a dreadful lay! Since thou hast been
she is now secure. Fly, Flaurice, to the eas
the wheel work is alike; for I could never

_-.o-
tle, ring the alarm bell, amuse the king

sword. I give thee equal chance; draw and and instantly conduct him hither.
Flaurice obeyed and was out of sight in an
defend thyself, for by my hopes I swear, Ill
A ROMANCE
instant. Linhault now hid himself behind the
either kill or else be killed by thee!
CHAPTER XII.
Ha! art thou indeed so brave?" exclaim avenue and Waited a t opportunity to put
Forward he rushd . but vengeance was behind!
ed Austin, casting of? his monks attire and his design into execution. Presently the dis
Dreamless of ve the guilty villain stood.
guised ruian descended and came from the
appearing drest as a robber, o, dishonor
And met destruction while he hoped revenge.
able trappings, off, and show me as I re avenue, conducting Thadia who trembled
O'. my too guilty heart! a parricide!
with fear.
ally ant!"
Cover me mountains. hide me from myself,
Whither wilt then lead me?" demanded
Tremendous villain! cried Linhault,
And one eternal night encircle time!
starting at the metamorphosis, I now can she, there is murder in thy looks, unfeel
The young baron and his squire had not kill thee with a lighter conscience!"
ing man! thy eyes glare deadly! release me,
proceeded any considerable distance from the
Boy," said the faultering monk, quit for I will go no further. 0! merciful Provi
spot where they met, before the avenue ap this spot, swearing never to divulge what dence, wilt thou forsake me! O! Linhault,
peared; but ere they reached it Linhault thou lmst seen or heard, and I consent to why art thou not here to save me in this
heard the light footstep of some person spare thy forfeit life!
dreadful hour!
stealing very cautiously by them: presently
Pale coward! cried Linhault, thy guil
Linhault half drew his sword, but hesita
he stopped and demanded in a low tone who ty heart now shrinks from the encounter and ted on perceiving the assassin let full his
was there. Linhault was at a loss for a reply. trembles before the sword of justice!
arm, which he had raised to strike, upon' tho
Receiving no immediate answer from the
Afraid of thee! exclaimed Austin, of exclamation of 'lhadia. The youth hoped by
baron, the person said again,
delay to discover who he was.
~ '
thee, thou beardless warrior! Let this con
Truro and \rVeineet, are you here, lads? vince thee how I fear and hate!
Yet, yet have mt~rcy,.cried Thadia in 9.
that s quickly done. Well, how fares it at
So saying, he drew his rapier and rushed stipplicating tone, you will not surely kill
the abbey?"
upon Linhault, who was prepared to receive me; I, that have Ynever injured mortal crea
At the abbey! said Linhault mentally, him, and parried his thrust with consummate ture; a poor peasant girl; then kill me not,
what scene of blood can have been exhi art, while Flaurice stood gazing in terror and but let me fly to ease an anxious father's
bited there!"
admiration of his masters bravery. The con sorrows."
'
No answer! cried the passer by, who ict was erce. Linhault fought conscious
Thou shalt," replied the villain in a hollow
goes there? Speak, or expect immediate of the goodness of his cause and animated voice which Linhault could not recognize.
with the hope of revenging Thadia; while
Then loose your hold, cried Thadia,
death!
Linhault, who found he could not evade an Austin was encouraged by despair and the thus on my knees I conjure thee by the
answer or pass on without discovery, replied, hate he bore to Linhault. At lepgth Austins feelings of humanity, to protect, not murder
A friend if your intention be honest, sword broke as he thrust forward, and he me! As you now treat my prayer, so'may the
but if blood and ruin be your business here, received Linhaults to the hilt in his breast. Avenger of the innocent treao thine-when at
I am your deadliest foe!
Die, unrelenting villain! cried the noble his throne thou pleadest for mercy'
Linhault! cried the monk, for it was youth, and in the graVe be all thy crimes
Here the castle bell interrupted Thadial
him, "Linhault!" cried he again, turning forgiven and forgotten!"
and alarmed the ruian. He seemed agitated
the inner circle of his lantern and emitting
'l'hadia" exclaimed the dying wretch, with contending emotions.
it quivered on his lips, and he sunk in death,
a ray of light.
Hark! what sound was that? cried the
Yes, monk, returned the baron, it is with eyes xed and glaring, a fearful spec
maid endeavoring to escape, heat-est thou
Linhault."
tacle of disappointed fury!
not?"
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so cruel as to kill her, perhaps thou hast a
275
'
The ruian listened for a moment, and
ol' Linhault, and pressing her to his breast
perceiving that no time was to be lest,

be seized the arm of Thadia more fierce
ly, threw her from him, raised his dag
ger to strikebut vengeance was behind.
Linhault rushed forward, seized his lifted
said, Sweet maid, receive a fathers fond
arm, wrenched the weapon from it, and with
Herculean vigor hurled the villain from his

Thadia. The maid stood gazing in astonish
ment.
Villain!" cried Liuhuult, the period to
thy crimes draws nigh; Heaven grows wea
ry of thee, and nature groans beneath thy
that close disguise and let us see if we can

recognize the features."
Day began to dawn as this order was ex
embrace, for I will guard thee with paternal

care!"
ecuted. ()n beholdiug the face, Stanislaus
Thadia would have knelt, but catching her groaned and sunk into the arms of an attend
again to his breast, and overcome by his feel ant, forit was Ferresburgh!
ings on having the offspring of his friend in
How shall we express the agony of Lin
his arms, the king dropt a tear upon her lovely hault! I have slain my father! he exclaim
cheek. The various emotions of the whole ed, and fell senseless on the body!
need no description, for they can be better
UBALDO.
felt.
The arrival of Sobeiski, his wife and the
peasant, who, as we have already observed,
For the Repertory.
arrived at the castle and were conducted to

THE CABINET. No. XVIII.
the avenue by Marden, created new astonish
one of us must fall!"
The
writing
of letters enters so much into all the
ment.
It
was
some
minutes
before
Stanis
The murderer seized the hilt of his sword,
hesitated, then drawing it stood upon the de laus, who was the only one at the avenue who occasions of life, that no gentleman can avoid show
ing himself in compositions of this kind. Occurren
fensive, while Linhault attacked him with knew the count, could express his surprise
ces will daily force him to make this use of his pen,
determined resolution; who perceiving that and joy, and then did it only by rushing into which lays open his breeding, his sense, and his
his arms and exclaiming,
he only partied his attacks, cried out,
abilities, to a severer examination than any oral dis
Submit and take tliylife, resist and diel
course.
Lock.
Sobeiski and alive!"
Submit! muttered the villain, and be
This was a stroke of electricity. Sobei
Few persons consider the necessity of be
gan to press upon Linhault, then throwing skit" reiterated all except the agitated Tha ing able to pen a handsome epistle. if they
away his sword he rushed upon the point of dia.
can set down their idies in any English, they
the barons, and received it in his left side.
My father. ' exclaimed she.
have done all to which their ambition aspired:
He fell, and Linhault caught the rescued
Thy mother tool cried the countess, and if they can relate to a friend the particu
rushing into her arms.
Thadia to his heart.
lars of an occurrence,they imagine they have
Linhault! .cried she as he printed a kiss
My mother!" shrieked Thadia with joy; acquitted themselves of all that can be re
upon her lovely cheek, Linhault again my she could no more, but fainted on the bosom quired in a letter.
of the countess. When she recovered So
preservcrl"
An elegant literary correspondence, how

Yes, my beloved, Linhault," cried the beiski clasped his long lost daughter to his ever, is a source of instructive entertain
baron; there lies the assassin! thus periSh heart, and tears of delight traced each other ment. It is valuable. because it informs the
down his sorrow furrowed cheek.
all my Thadias foes!"
mind, enriches the imagination, pleases the
But why should we attempt to delineate a fancy, and imparts to the manners that aa
Thadialexclaimed the maid starting up,
scene which the most glowing colors of lan bility, and insinuating grace, which at once so
Thadia!
Her surprise can be better conceived than guage are incompetent t0 pourtray. Let the pleasurably seize upon the faculties, and at
related, when Linhault informed her of her reader imagine a fond and even doating pa
tract us towards him who possesses them.
rent, separated in her infancy from the Its productions reect upon their authors
birth.
The mystery is developed," cried she, daughter of his aections and supposing her an honor which is enviable. They mark the
and I no longer wonder why my life was no more; let him then imagine he sees that noble character of a scholar and a gentleman,
sought. Unhappy parents, clasped in the parent enfolding the long lost daughter in and wherever they are seen, exhibit to the
arms of death before my infant heart could his arms, in all the ecstacy of paternal feel reader specimens of the nest taste, the fruits
ing, while tearful delight glistens in his eye, of a well informed mind, and the most ele
feel your tenderness!"
The king, Flaurice and attendants now ap and then imagine what we should say, ima gant and useful accomplishments.
gine more than we could say, descriptive of
pearcd.
Nothing more plainly distinguishes the
load of guilt! Come on, defend thyself, for
Flaurice," said Stanislaus, your tale is
wonderful."
But it is also true, my noble liege," re
plied Flaurice, behold my brave master.
Stanislaus astonished, beheld Linhault sup
the event.
'
A partial explanation now took place. Lin

hault was presented, on the very-spot, to the
count and countess, who received the dim
dent youth with expressions of gratitude, and

porting Thadia, while at a little distance lay renewed the promise they had made to Bran
the bleeding wretch who lost his life through benski, to bestow their daughter upon the
the youths anxiety for the safety of Sobei deserving baron. Linhault was delighted; but
his delight was soon turned to grief, when
ski's daughter.
Stanislaus expnessed his surprise, that in all
Behold, my liege, the heiress of Sobei
ski,t exclaimed the boron, snatched by my the confusion at the castle, Ferresburgh had
not appeared.
arm from death!"
However," continued he, let us hasten
" Gallant youth, generous Linhaolt," re
plied Stanislaus, who shall repay this debt thither and listen to your, no doubt, strange
adventures, Sobeiski. Some of you," pro
of gratitude?
My own feelings," replied the youth.
ceeded he to the attendants, raise that life
The king received Thadia from the arms less wreteh and bear him in; vhut-first remove
true gentleman than a polite and elegant

letter. 'l'o neglect the rules of good writing
when we possess them, is an unpardonable
trespass on the good nature of our corres
pondent, and he Would be perfectly justi
able in returning a reply in the Chinese,
Russian, or any other language, which would
most puzzle our wits to comprehend.
I consider a letter as the mirror of the
writers mind: ifhis understanding has been
cultivated; if he possess the fire of genius,
and genuine politeness; I shall be presented
with an epistle perspicuous and regular in
all its parts, replete with interesting matter,
judiciously chosen, and pleasingly expressed,
and can immediately form a correct estimate
of the abilities and accomplishments of its
276
PHILADELPHIA. RE'PERTORY.
m
dence, is mutual improvement; and to effect

this, we must require an easy simplicity of
tautology, grammatical blunders, and insipid writing, and turn our attention to such things
communications, I throw it by, and determine only as are worthy the consideration of ra
not to employ my faculties in decyphering tional minds.
PETER PEACEABLE.
the language (if it deserve the name) of a
For the Repertory.
man who has either intended to insult by a
wilful departure from decency, or whose
ANECDOTIANA.
mind is in the rough of vulgarity, and has
No II
never received a polish from the hand of
Charles V. even in his celebrated retire
liberal science.
To write letters is by some, considered ment, could not conquer his disposition to
as an easy task, requiring but a trifling share tease mankind; and one day, when he had
of study, and no particular attention to the with great difculty awakened a young monk
choice of matter or words. To such, it may to attend matins, the monk replied, It is
be observed, that there are few volumes of very strange, sir, that after you have broken
letters which can be recommended to the the peace of the whole world, you should en
student in that department of literature. deavor to disturb the peace of a poor monk."
Chestereld proposes to his son the letters
Louis XII. of France, that excellent mo
author. But if I receive a sheet of incompre

hensible trash, full of solecisms, incessant
of madame Sevignc as the best model; for,
narch, used to say, that if honor were by

nishcd from the face of the earth, it should
tenance for a time. The king, James the se

cond, offering indemnity and reward to such
as discovered those who harbored the rebels,
the wretch whom Mrs. Gaunt prot'ected, be

trayed his benefactress! He was pardoned
and rewarded for his treachery; she Was burnt
alive for her kindnesssll O! prostitution of
power! 0! brave spirit of justice!
Forgiveness. What great matter, said
a heathen to a christian, while he was most
unmercifully beating him, " what great mat

ter did Christ ever do for thee?" to which
the christian, in the true spirit of his profes
sion replied, Even this, that I can forgive
you though you use me thus cruelly!"
Dr. Mather was so careful to improve
every moment of his time, that, lest visitors
should prolong their stay, he wrote over his

study door, in large letters, BE SHORT.
says be, they seem to be extcmpore con

versations of two people of wit, rather
than letters, which are commonly studied,
though they ought not to be so. For my
own part, as to style and language, I would
recommend the earl himself.
As letters are generally written upon fa
Richlieu, on condition that he should write
No one salutes me With I. smiling face:
the history of his administration; telling him

that he could never bring his mind to sacri
ce his pen to attery.
No spot have I that i can call my home,
miliar subjects, to be elaborately ne is as
LHIIICT fell one day, (which was often the
still nd a place in the bosom of a king.

Salmasiua refused a pension from cardinal
much to be avoided as carelessness. They
case,) into a great passion with the excel
should neither be 5611' and aukward, nor too
lent Melancthon, who replied thus:

Luther. whose power all other things confess,
licentious, but written in aneat style, which

may be acquired by industry, and a careful
attention to the rules of writing, without any
great powers of genius, or fancy. It is al
ways concise and agreeable, and well adapted

to the communication of our ideas by letter.
Egotism, the foible of weak minds, is as
disgusting in writing as in conversation. Men
in general are not so interested in what
relates exclusively to other people, as to
require from them a minute and patticular
account of every trifling circumstance that
a'ccts them. If a question is asked by your
correspondent relating to yourself, answer
it; but never dwell upon any concatination
of events by which you did so and so, of little
importance when it waa done; or which intro
duced an observation of yours, which may
be received by your correspondent only as
a pitiful attempt to say a smart thing.
It surely is unnecessary here to mention
the importance of writing at least a fair and
perfectly legible hand.
If your letter relate not to particular busi
ness, give full scope to your imagination;
grasp every pleasing object within its reach;
and let judgment decide on those most
pleasing to your friend. Do not fall into long
details of uninteresting occurrences, nor seek
to surprise by transmitting the tale of detrac
tion to distant parts.
In line, the object of literary correspon
Learn your imperious passion to repress.
Anminondaa,
the celebrated
Theban,
For the Repertory.

THE WANDERER. ,A SONNET.
T08! by misfortune, through the world I roam;
Forlorn, neglected by the human race.
Once I was happy as yon soaring bird,

That ies aloft and carrols in the air;
My wants and wishes my dear parents heard;
Sweet was their solace and my bliss their care.
But, ah! they re gone, and now no more I view
The kind attention, and the cheering smile,

That met me oft; then happiness I knew,
And various pleasures did my hours beguile.
when any presents were sent to him, used

But now, alas! from place to place I roam,
to observe, H if the thing you desire be good,
Without a friend, a shelter. or a home! TYRO.
I will do it without any bribe, even because
his good; if it be not honest, you cannot
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bribe me to the commission."
To a ower plucked from the tomb of Hamlet by a,
Xerxes, king of Persia, being offered by pucnts hand, and sent to his daughter inAmericz.
Pythius, a Lydian, the enormous sum of
Little ower! and didst thou wave
1,700,000 pounds sterling, refused the offer,
with thanks; and yet, when Pythius request

ed of him, that out of ve sons that were in
the army, to leave him one, the king was so
enraged, that he ordered the eldest son to

be killed before the fathers eyes! This was
O'er the spot where Denmark weeps;

Didst thou ourish on the grave
Where the immortal Hamlet sleeps!
Sure, then, pity may be found,
Warm spirit! een on northern shores;
When owers blossom on that ground,

Which evry feeling heart adores.
The same Xerxes who humanely reected,
at the head of his numerous army, that of

so many men, in one hundred years time,
there would not be one remaining; on which
account he could not forbear weeping at the

uncertainty of human affairs! " He might
have reected, says the excellent Buck in
his miscellaneous works, on the reproach
es he deserved for being the instrument of
hastening the fatal term to millions of peo
ple, whom his cruel ambition was going to
sacrice in an unjust and unnecessary war.
Monmoutk's Rebellion. During this fear
ful time, a certain person, knowing the hu
mane disposition of one Mrs. Gaunt, ed to

her house, andfound concealment and main
Though twas a parent's hand that tore thee,

From thy kindly charge away;
Thou witheredst in the hand that bore thee,

And sunk in screw to decay.
Flower, and wouldst thou rather die,
Than cease to mark poor Hamlet's rest;

And bask in Celin's 'livning eye.
And ourish on her gentle breast!

There thou might'st have drank the shower
Of pity for thy Hamlet shed:
And never once repined, sweet ower,
For having left thy native bed.

No gaudy leaves did ever grow
Thy little tender stem around;
Thine was the simple garb of woe,
Thy natal spot is ballowd ground.
2; 7
-
Many the owers that still Wlld grow,

O'er Hamlet's turf and dew drops weep;
Many the Zephyrs that will blow,

In mtirmur's soft and guard his sleep.
Celia, witherd ower, shall keep thee,
And all thy sacred blossoms save;
In feeliiigs tears she oft will steep thee,

And still remember Hamlet's grave.
LORENZO.
For the Repertory.
TO RALPH RISIBLE, ESQ
I perceive that you have published Dick

Dowlasss Pleasures of a Quid, and in con
sequence ! send you a few lines on his death,
which happened in the following manner:

Dick had a practice of keeping his quid in
his mouth eating, drinking or sleeping, and
one night unfortunately swallowed it. It had
a purgativc effect and by morning reduced
him almost to a skeleton. His roll was out,
his performances. In Spain. he narrowly knocked off his horse, by two footpads, 0n
escaped being burned; in Germany, the the \Vcst Chester road, near Hamilton vil
peasants would have beaten him to death (a lage, who took from him nciir eight hundred
circumstance totally unknown in that coun dollars; it is said, from the appearance of the
try) especially at Freyburg, where he teased contusions received by Mr. Robins, upon
them rather too much. In another place he his breast, they might have been done by the
renewed the miracle of Balaam's ass. A point ofthe muzzle of a gun, violently thrust
peasant, unable to get forward with his slug against him. The injury he received from
gish donkey, fell unmercifully upon the poor these villains has prevented Mr. Robins, we
animal, which at once opened his mouth, and
thus addressed his master: Has not God

Almighty created us all equal? It is time
for us at length to change our parts. De
scend then,atid let me mount thy back." The
peasant, who in the whole course of his life
had never heard any but two legged asses
speak, was excessively terried, spring from
his seat, and ran away, rmly convinced that
his poor donkey Was possessed with a devil.
m
Mmelllbia.
and he too weak to go for another; but per

ceiving one of his old soldiers sticking against
the wall, quite dry for want of use, he made
an effort, reached the spot, and seized it with
avidity; but, alas! it stuck in his throat, and
lifeit choked him! As these verses suc
On Monday evening last at the seat of Mr.

Samuel Burling, by the Rev. Dr. Hams, Mr.
David Higginbolliam, of Milton, (Vii-g.) to
Miss Mary E. Garnguea, daughter of Ben
jamin F. Garrigues, of Philadelphia.
Droop dealers in tobacco, sigh and mourn,

In grief let evry shnpman hang his head,
highly respected for his eminent virtues, his
Your shops no more shall tvitness his return

To purchase, for poor Dick, alas! is dead!
integrity, and independence. He has lled

many public appointments, and always with
honor to himself and with advantage to the
the end of his roll brought on the end of his
MARRIED,
hear- from getting home.

-.
Earthquake. Extract of a letter, dated St.
Michael (Azores) Aug. 24. On the llth of

August, at ten, P. M. slight shocks of an
earthquake were felt at intervals of a few

minutes for four hours. Between two and
three a dreadful rocking was experienced
through the whole island; several houses,
unable to resist its violence, were thrown
down and many others were greatly damaged,

and such persons as sought safety in the open
air were dashed to the ground. On the 12th
at mid day, a hollow rumbling sound was
heard, the clouds gathered, and the wind was
hushed into silence; the rocking returned,and
in a few minutes after, the village of Cozas,
situated on aplain, comprising 22 houses,was

swallowed up, and in the spot where it stood
ceeded his in the Freeman's Journal, I should
a lake of boiling water gushed forth. About
be obliged by their insertion in your ~ Laugh
32 persons, it is calculated, have lost their
iana.
SAM. SORRUVVFUL.
'
nun),
lives
by this awful and calaniitous event, and
On Friday the 14th inst. at York, the Hon.
Elegiac lines on the death of that ingenious lover of
cattle
and property to a considerable amount
Cyrus Gnin, judge of the United States
tobacco, Dtcit Dowutss.
destroyed.
court for the district of Virginia. He was
Oft have 1 view'd him, with supreme delight,

Open his box and chew the fragrant Weed;
country.
0f: have beheld him, kind and gentle Wight,
Send for a soothing quid with utmost speed.

But he no more shall bless my raptured sight,
Nor shall his breath. :0 meet, perfume the air:
George W. Erving, esq. is appointed spe

cial minister from the United States to the
court of Denmark.
His eyes are closed. his quid is worn outright;
No more does he for its loved pleasures care.

And must these eyes behold his teeth no more,
'hicli when he laughd e'en ebony outvied;
Neer see him sit. when loud the bleak winds roarI
An not worthy American seamen. While

the frigate Constitution, captain Hull, was
coming down the Delaware, :1 young seaman
accidentally fell overboard and was drown
ed. A subscription was opened on board
From the National lntelligencer.
ovit SOUTHERN raori'rinit.

The following is an extract of a letter from
a gentleman of high respectability and intel
ligence in Mississippi territory, dated No
vember 28. ltlhas been calculated that gover
nor Claiborne would reach Natchez on the
29th; so that we may expect, at an early day,
to receive information ofthe manner in which
he has been able to execute his instructions
in taking possussion of the territory west of
the Perdido.
Enclosed you will receive a copy of a

letter from Don Vincent Folcli, gov. gene
Ah me! '- I could have spared a bev er man,"
the frigate, for the relief of his mother, ral of the Floridas, by which you will perceive
For time like he could chew so long a quid;
a poor widow, living in Philadelphia ; that our trade in this quarter is released from
Full half a yard he in his mnuih would clam,
when the sum of one thousand dbl/01's was the burdens under which it has hitherto been
And then, contented, shut the precious lid.
subscribed by his ship mates which they had oppressed.
Repose, poor Del, in peace: thy joys are dead;
requested the honorable secretary of the navy
\Ve are annoyed with another Burr pro
But in each shop shall live thy much loved name:
to have stopped from their pay and to be paid ject against the Spaniards. It is headed by a
There ever travller hind the doors may read,
Dial Douala Debtor, and spread wide thy fame. over to that unfortunate woman. THE BRAVE Mr. Kemper, of Baton Rogue, and Mr. lien
ARE ALWAYS sensuous.
U. S. Gaz.
SAM SORROWFUL.
nedy, a lawyer, of this place. They have in
"o
veiglcd many of our uninformed citizens
West Chester. Dec. 26.
across the national boundary, where they
An extraordinary person has sprung up
Robbery. Some evening lust weak as Mr. have, a few days since, raised their standard,
at Paris, in the person of a Mr. Comte, a
ventriloquist, whose life, according to his James Robins of this county, was returning and are preparing to attack the town of Mo
And ope his b0! and anxious care deride.
own account, has often been endangered by fromPhiladelphia home, he was assaulted and bile.
978
5
Sir,
In conformity to the wishes of the govern

ment of the United States, as expressed by
their secretary at war, in his letter, a copy
Scriptures, by standing types, two of which
have been completed, and a third is in the

press. By this mode of printing, a provision
is made for successive editions of the Scrip
to the zeal and suggestion of certain corres

ponding members of the British and Foreign
Bible Society. Its objects are. the circulation
of the Scriptures, and the distribution of Re
of which you have presented me, and in con tures, at a small comparative expense, in ligious Tracts; but by a fundamental rule of
sequence ofnegoeiations which I have every proportion to the demands for them.
its institution, each object will have its sepa
Thirdly, In promoting a large distribuvion rate fund, and a distinct account of its income
reason to belieic are now pending between
his Catholic Majestys and your government, of the French Protestant Bible in various and expenditure. The connection of the Brit
which, I am fully persuaded, will speedily parts of France and Switzerland, by provi ish and Foreign Bible Society, with the soci~
place the Floridas in the possession of the ding copies for this purpose. To render the ety at Stockholm, is of course restricted to
latter; I hereby declare, that from this date circulation more extensive in future, a set that part of its object which respects the
no dutieswhatsoevcr shall be levied or col of stereotype plates for a French Bible is now circulation of the Scriptures. To promote
lected at this place, or within this district, preparing in England for the use ofthe Ger this object, two several grants of 3001. have
(including Pcnsagola) on any vessels, goods, man Bible Society.
been made to the society at Stockholm. An
or merchandize, belonging to any citizen of
Fourthly, In promoting an edition of 4000 addition of the New Testament by standing
the United States, or their territories, or any copies of the old Testament in French, un. types has been completed; a second, of 4000
person residing in either, or passing to or dertaken by a member of the Bible Society copies, has been begun; and an edition of
from the Mississippi territory:
the entire Scriptures is now in the press.
at Basic.
In consequence of this friendly step, which
Fifthly, In promoting two additions of the
The sum of 2501. has also been remitted
the Spanish government gives as an unequiv New Testament, for accommodating the to the same society for an edition of the New
ocal proof of their desire to maintain a. good wants of the Mountaineers in the Grisons, Testament in the dialect of Lapland, under
understanding with the United States, I hope in their peculiar and distinct dialects. That the immediate superintendance of the bishop
that their government will employ its forces in the Romanese has been completed, and of the diocese.
to dissipate the troubles fomentcd and pro was received with extraordinary joy by that
If the establishment of associations for
tected by their citizens.
poor people.
promoting the circulation of the Holy
May God preserve you many years.
Scriptures may be considered among the
BIBLE socua'rv AT annua
(Signed)
V. FOLCH.
This society was also constituted on the most benecial effects produced by the Brit
Mobile, November 25m, 1810.
precedent, and by the recommendation and ish and Foreign Bible Society, its other pro
Capt. E. P. Gaines.
pecuniary encouragement of the British and ceedings on the continent of Europe, with
-.
Foreign Bible Society, under the auspices of a view to the same object, are not decient
BIBLE SOCIETIES.
We are indebted to the politeness of an persons of high rank, and with the express in utility and importance.
ici-zummc new Tes'rasnas-r an) BIBLE
obliging correspondent for the following approbation of the king of Prussia, who as
sisted its funds by a donation.
Three thousand copies of the Icelandic
pleasing article of information, recently re
The
efforts
of
this
society
have
been
di
New
Testament have been printed at Copen
ceived from England; which, we have no
rected
to
two
important
undertakings,
the
hagen,
at the expense of the society, and a
doubt, will be generally acceptable, and par
ticularly grateful to the lovers of Divine printing editions of the Scriptures in the very considerable part of the impression had
Bohemian and the Polish dialects.
been sent to Iceland previous to the com
'lruth.
The
Bohemian
Bible
has
been
completed,
mencement of hostilities. The sum of 3001.
Extract from the " Summary of the proceedings of
and the whole impression, with a very tri has also been voted by the society, in aid of
the British and Foreign Bible Society.
ing exception, has been circulated among afund raising in Denmark for printing the
EUROPE.
Among the effects produced on the con the Protestant congregations in Bohemia whole Bible in the Icelandic dialect; but the
tinent of Europe, by the example, inuence and Silesia.
execution of this work has been unavoidably,
The Polish Bible, consisting of 8000 co but it is hoped temporary only, interrupted
and operations of the British and Forcign
Bible Society, the establishment of societies pies, with 4000 extra New Testaments, is by the continuance of the war.
having the same object may be regarded as now in the press, under an engagement with
TURKISH new rns'rnunn'r.
one of the most benecial and important,
a printer to complete the whole by Midsum
These are as follow:

GERMAN mam: SOCIETY.
This association, originally established at
Nurenburg, and since advantageously trans
ferred to Basic in Switzerland, was formed
at the recommendation of the committee of
of the British and Foreign Bible Society, ac
companied by the promise of a pecuniary
mer, l8l0. By intelligence from Berlin. da

ted the 10th of March 18 10, it had then been
The missionaries deputed by the Edin
burgh Missionary Society to Karass on the

borders of the Caspian Sea, have been for a
considerable time engaged in preparing a
Version of the New Testament in the Turk
ish dialect, which is vernacular among a pop
ulation of nearly thirty millions, extending
from the banks of the Wolga to the shores
of the Euxine. To enable them to print 5,000
copies of it, the society has furnished, at its
own cost, a proper setof types and the neces
sary paper, which have reached the place of
their destination.
GOSPEL or sun MATTHEW in T8: camwcx
nurse T.
A donation from the society, with the pro
advanced to the beginning of the prophecy of

Daniel.
Both these works have been promoted by
ample contributions from the British and
Foreign Bible Society, and could not, indeed,
have been accomplished without its assis
grant on its incorporation. The funds of the tance. The society has since granted its
society have since been liberally applied, to aid for the purpose of printing a Bible in the
language of Lithuania, at the recommenda
aid its operations, in printing,
First, an edition of 5,000 copies of the tion of the Bible Society at Berlin.
German Protestant New Testament; these
cvanosucu. SOCIETY AT STOCKHOLM.
were immediately disposed of, at the very
This society, which has been lately incor
moderate price of ve pence each copy.
porated under the sanction of the king and
Secondly, Three editions of the entire privy council atStockholm, owes its origin mise of further aid, has induced the minis
27 9
MM
ters of the United Brethren at Sarepta, to Young Mens Bible Society, and another
begin a translation of the gospel of St. Mat under the designation of the New York Bi
thew into the Calmuck dialect; and it is con ble Society.
dently hoped, that they will extend their
connec-ricu-r, nassacncsc'r'rs, AND
labors to the whole of the New Testament.
\I '
_ scw Jenscv.
_
From the preceding statement, it appears, - Bible societies have been established in
that the society has contributed to promote, these states respectively; and information of
in Europe, editions of the Scriptures, or por a Bible Society for the district of Maine
tions of them, in the German, Bohemian, has also reached the committee.
Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, Laponese, Ice
The pecuniary assistance of the British
landic, Calmuck, and Turkish languages and and Foreign Bible Society has been granted
to the societies of New York, Connecticut
dialects.
ASIA.
and Massachusetts, to aid their operations
The eld for exertion in Asia, is most ex
in the circulation of the Scriptures.
tensive; and the operations of the British and
No direct communication having been yet
Foreign Bible Society with respect to this por received from the New Jersey Bible Society,
tion of the globe, have been proportionate.
no steps have been hitherto taken towards
To promote the translation and publication aiding its funds.
of the Scriptures in the dialects of India, the
society has actually remitted 2,0001. to Ben
.
gal, and is further under engagements to
DOCUMENTS
supply the sum of l,000!. annually for three Accompanying the message of the president
successive years.
of the United States to congress, respect
Editions of the Scriptures in the follow
ing West Florida.
ing Oriental dialects, are now preparing in
(Concluded.)
India: Hindostance, Mahmtta, Bengalee, Ma
layalim, Persian, Sanscrit, and Chinese. Of
these versions, some had previously issued

from the missionary press atSerampore on the
banks oftheGanges,independentlyof the aid of
the society. Copies of the New Testament in
Sanscrit, and of the four gospels in Hindos
tanee, printed by the missionaries, have been
presented to the committee.
AMERICA.
That the inuence of the British and For
eign Bible Society should be felt in Ameri
ca, was naturally to be expected; and it has
accordingly produced the formation of a
BIBLE socuz-rv AT PHILADELPHIA.

The origin of this society, as stated in an
Address by it, to the American public, is
unquestionably to be attributed to the exam
ple offered, and the efforts made by the Bri
tish and Foreign BibleSociety.

Its immediate object is the distribution
of the Scripmrcs in Pennsylvania, and in
those portions of the states of Jersey and
Delaware, which are contiguous to Pennsyl
vania, but with an ulterior view of produ
cing similar establishments throughout the
several states of the American Union. The
British and Foreign Bible Society has en
couraged its operations by a donation of 2001.
It has also complied with an application at
the society at Philadelphia, for copies of the
Scriptures in \Velsh, Gaelic, French, and
German, at the cost price, for the purpose of

inimediate distributions.
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new YORK.
Two societies have been estabishcd at this
place: one under the denomination of The
By the Representatives of the People of West

Florida, in convention assembled,
A DECLARATION.
It is known to the world with how much

delity the good people of this territory havr
professed and maintained allegiance to their

legitimate sovereign,whilc any hope remain
cd of receiving from him protection for their

property and lives.
Without making any unnecessary llin0\'.|~
tion in the established principles of the gov
ernment, we had voluntarily adopted certain
regulations in concert with our rst Magis
trate for the express purpose of preserving
this territory, and showing our attachment
to the government which had heretofore

protected us. This compact, which was en
tered into with good faith on our part, will
forever remain an honorable testimony of our
upright intentions and inviolable delity to
our king and parent country, while so much
as a shadow of legitimate authority remained
to be exercised over us. We sought only a

speedy remedy for such evils as seemed to
The Convention of West Florida. to his excellency endanger our existence and prosperity; and
were encouraged by our governor with solemn
the governor of the Mississippi territory.
promises of assistance and cooperation. But
Sir,
We, the delegates of the people of this those measures which were intended for our
state, have the honor to enclose to you an of preservation he has endeavored to pervert
cial copy of their act of independence, re into an engine of destruction,by encouraging,
questing that it may be forthwith transmit in the most perfidious manner, the violation
ted by you to the president of the United of ordinances, sanctioned and established by
States, with the expression of their most con himself as the law of the land.
Being thus left without any hope of pro
dent and ardent hope, that it may accord
with the policy of the government, as it does tection from the mother country, betrayed
with the safety and happiness of the people by a magistrate whose duty it was to have pro
of the United States, to take the present gov~ vided for the safety and tranquillity ofthe peo
crnment and people ofthis state under their ple and governmentcommitted to his charge,
immediate and special protection, as an intc~ and exposed to all the evils of a state of anar
gral and inalienable portion of the United! l chy, which we have so long endeavored to
l aVert; it becomes our duty to provide for our
States.
,
The convention and their constituents of own security as a free and independent state,
Florida, rest in the rm persuasion, that the i absolved from all allegiance to a government
blood which ows in their veins will remind 1 which no longer protects us.
the government and the people of the United i
W'e, therefore, the representatives af0re~
have
States,
been
thatacknowledged
they are theiraschildren,
such, by that
the most
they said, appealing to the supreme Ruler of the
world for the rcctitude of our intentions, do
solemn act of the congress of the United solemnly publish and declare the several dis
States; and,that so long as independence and tricts composing this territory of \Vcst Flor
the rights of man shall be maintained and ida to be a ran-1r. asn mocresnes'r STATE,
cherished by the American union, the good and that they have a right to institute for
people of this state cannot, nor will not, be themselves such form of government as they
abandoned or exposed to the invasion, vio may think conducive to their safety and hap
lence or force of any foreign or domestic piness; to form treaties; to establish com
foe.
merce; to provide for their common defence;

The convention beg you to receive for and do all acts which may of right be done
yourself, sir, and to assure the president of by a sovereign and independent nation. At
their high respect and consideration.
the same time declaring all acts within the
By order of the convention.
said territory of West Florida, after this date,
(Signed)
JOHN RHEA, President.
by any tribunal or authorities not derivin
Baton Rouge, Sept. 26, 1810.
their powers from the people agreeably to th'c
280
provisions established by this convention, to
been a just regard to honest settlers) will,
be null and void; and calling upon all foreign nevertheless, be a sufcient pledge to the
nations to respect this our declaration, ac
knowledging our independence, and giving
us such aid as may be consistent with the
laws and usages of nations.
This declaration made in convention at the
inhabitants of \Vest Florida, for the early and

continued attention of the federal legisla
ture to their situation and their wants.
These observations will apprise you, sii,
town of Baton Rogue, on the twenty sixth
of the sentiments of the president, as to the

propositions in the memoral in relation to
day of September, in the year of our Lord
the vacant land in West Florida, and will en
one thousand eight hundred and ten, \Ve,

the representatives, in the name aforesaid,
and on behalf of our constituents, do hereby
able you to make, when necessary and pro

per, suitable explanations to the people of
solemnly pledge ourselves to support with

our lives and fortunes.
By order of the Convention.
(Signed) . JOHN RHEA, President.
(Signed)
Axn. STEELE, Secretary.
mind that the president cannot recognize in
that territory.
November 15,1810.
R. SMITH.
(Signed)
His excellency David Holmes,
Governor Mississippi.
reasonable expectations, therein indicated, in
relation to the vacant land in that territory,

it is deemed proper to lose no time in com
municating to you and to governor Claiborne
the sentiments of the president on the sub
ad. cb.
Dice/nelad. ob.
1 0 Whooping cough 0 2
Cholera morbus
1 Hives
Consumption oflungs-t
I Inam. bowels
1 0
Convulsions
Diarrhoea
4- Insanity
1 Old age
I
3
0
0
1
0
0
Dropsy of the breast l

Drowned
0
Debility
l
0 Small pox, natural 5 2

1 Still born
0 l
2 Syphilis
2 0
0
-
Fever
Fever, typhus
Fever, puerperal
Total 41.
28 l8

the convention of West Florida any indepen
dent authority whatever to propose or to form Under 1 year
Between 1 and 2
2
6O
70
a compact with the United States.
5
4
70
80
5
10
0
80
90
I am, sir, with the highest respect, your
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 17th of

October, enclosing the memorial of the con
vention of West Florida. To repress the un
from the 15th to the 22d December, 1810
Direaaer.
Atrophy
You will, however, keep in
most obedient servant,

Mr. Smith to governor Holmes.
Department of State,
HEALTH OFFICE,
December 22, 1810.
3
1
2
I
10 20
2
90
100
0
2O 30
12
Unknown
0
30 40
2
40
50
2
Total 41
0,-
LITERARY NOTICE.
C. Norris and Co. and E. C. Beals, of Ex

eter, N. H., propose publishing by subscrip
tion an elegant edition of Orlando Furioso:
translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ari
osto; with notes. By John Hoole.
Le Sage gives the following character of
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jeet.
The right of the United States to the ter
ritory of West Florida, as far as the river
Perdido, was fairly acquired by purchase and
has been formally ratied by treaty. The deli
very of possession has, indeed, been deferred

and the procrastination has been heretofore
acquiesced in by this government from ahope,
patiently indulged, that amicable negociation
would accomplish the equitable purpose of
the United States. But this delay, which pro
ceetlrd only from the forbearance of the Uni
ted States to enforce a legitimate and well
known claim, could not impair the legality
of their title, nor could any change in the
internal state of things,without their sanction,
howsoever brought about, vary their right.
It remains, of course, as perfect as it was be
fore the interposition of the convention. And
the people of \Vest Florida must not for a
moment be misled by the expectation that
the United States will surrender for their
exclusive benet what had been purchased
with the treasure and for the benet of the
whole. The vacant land of this territory,
thrown into common stock with all the other
vacant land of the Union, will be a property
in common for the national use of all the peo
the poet.
He possesses all the elegance of lan

guage; his verses are strong and sonorous;
his descriptions admirable and often sublime.
Ariosto, whether serious or pleasant, is eve
ry where entertaining,and preserves adegree
of majesty even in his pleasantry: he is the
only author that has found out the art of
blending the serious with the comic, and the
LEISURE HOURS;
0R
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
BY JOSEPH BUTTON.
Author of the Heiress of Sobeiski, kc.
Price one dollar.

Proposals are also issued for publishing
THE
heroic with the familiar; by which means he
HEIRESS OF SOBEISKI.
is truly original, and such an original as no
A ROMANCE.
one has yet successfully imitated.

The following is the summary of the opin
ion of that celebrated wit and illustrious crit
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I have more than once found my appetite ex
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The
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VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
A SHORT accouu'r or The urn or
moons orbit, yet the moons motion must be

in a line that is always concave toward the
sun: and upon making a delineation, repre
R. JA MES FERGUSON,
senting her absolute path in the heavens, I
Author of Lectures on Astronomy. Mechanics, Etc.
found it to be really so. I then made a sim

ple machine for delineating both her path
and the earths, on a long paper laid on the
oor. I carried the machine and delineation
to the late Martin Folkes, esq. president of
the royal society, on a Thursday afternoon.
He expressed great satisfaction at seeing it,
wnrrrnu BY museum
(Concluded.)
I hada letter of recommendation from Mr.

Baron Edlin, at Edinburgh, to the right ho
norable Stephen Poyntz, esq. at St. Jamess,
who had been preceptor to his royal highness
the late duke of Cumberland, and was well
as it was a new discovery; and took me that

evening with him to the royal society, where
known to be possessed of all the good quali

Iit'S that can adorn a human mind. To me I showed the delineation and the method of
his goodness was really beyond my power of doing it. When the business of the society
expression; and I had not been a month in
Londonwhen he informed me that he had writ

ten to an eminent professor of mathematics,
to take me into his house, and give me board
and lodging, with all proper instructions to

qualify me for teaching amathematical school
he (Mr. Poyntz) had in view for me, and
would get the settled in it. This I should
have liked very well, especially as I began to
be tired of drawing pictures, in which, I con
fess, I never strove to excel, because my
mind was still pursuing things more agreea

ble. He soon after told me he had just re
ceived an answer from the mathematical
teacher, desiring I might be sent immedi
was over, one of the members desired me to

dine with him next Saturday at Hackney;
telling me that his name Was Ellicott, and

that he was a watchmaker.
I accordingly went to Hackney, and was
kindly received by Mr. John Ellitiott, Who
then showed me the very same kind of deli
neation, and part of the machine by which he
had done it, telling me he had thought of it
twenty years before. I could easily see by the
color of the paper, and of the ink lines upon
young gentleman and ladys astronomy, at

small treatise on electricity, and my select
mechanical exercises.
In the year 1748, I ventured to read lec
tures on the eclipse of the sun that fell on
the 14th of July in that year. Afterwards I
began to read astronomical lectures on an or
rery which I made, and of which the gures

of all the wheel work are contained in the
sixth and seventh plates of my mechanical
exercises. I next began to make an appara
tus for lectures on mechanics, and gradually
increased the apparatus for other parts of ex
perimental philosophy, buying from others
what I could not make for myself, till I
brought it to its present state. I then entirely
left off drawing pictures, and employed my
sell in the much pleasanter business of read
ing lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hy
draulics, pneumatics, electricity and astrono
shows the time of the rising and setting of

the sun, moon, and stars, and the position of
out of his private purse, allows me fty
it, that it must have been done many years
before I saw it. He then told me what was

very certain, that he had neither stolen the
thought from me, nor had I from him. And
from that time till his death, Mr. Ellicott was
Poyntz, that I did not know how to maintain

my wife during the time I must be under
the masters tuition. What, says be, are you
a married man? I told him I had been so ever
since May, in the year 17 39. He said he was
sorry for it, because it quite defeated his
one of my best friends. The gure of this

machine and delineation is in the seventh
plate of my book of astronomy. Soon after
the stile was changed, I had my rotula new
engraved; but have neglected it too much by
not tting it up and advertising it. After
this I drew out a scheme, and had it engrav
ed, for showing all the problems of the rotula
He then asked me what business I in

tended to follow? I answered that I knew of
none, besides that of drawing pictures. On
this he desired me to draw the pictures of
I was emboldened to go on, in publishing my

astronomy, mechanical lectures, tables and
tracts relative to several arts and sciences,the
my: in all which my encouragement has been

greater than I could have expected.
The best machine that I ever contrived is
the eclipsareon, of which there is a gure in
the thirteenth plate ofmy astronomy. It shows
the time, quantity, duration and progress of
solar eclipses at all parts of the earth. My
next best contrivance is the universal dialling
cylinder, of which there is a gure in the
eighth plate of the supplement to my me
chanical lectures.
It is now thirty years since I came to Lon
don, and during all that time I have met with
the highest instances of friendship from all
ranks of people, both in town and country,
which I do here acknowledge with the ut
most respect and gratitude; and particularly
the goodness of our present sovereign, who,
ately to him. On hearing this, I told Mr.
scheme; as the master of the school he had

in view for me, must be a bachelor.
No. 36.
except the eclipses, and in place of that, it
the stars for any time of the night.

pounds a year, which is regularly paid, with
In the year 1747 lpublishetl a dissertation out any deduction.
his lady and children, that he might show
them, in order to recommend me to others; on the phenomena of the harvest moon, wi.h
To the preceding account of Mr. Fergu
and told me that when I was out of business the description of a new orrery in which
I should come to hitn,and he would nd me there are only four wheels. But having never son's life, it may be proper to add, that he
as much as he could; and I soon found as had a grammatical education, nor time to was elected a member of the royal society of
much asI could execute: but he died in a few study the rules of Just composition, 1 acknow London, without paying the usual lees ofad
ledge that l was afraid to put it to the press; mission. This honor, never before conferred
years after, to my inexpressible grief.
Soon afterward, it appeared to me, that al- 1 and for the same cause I ought to have the on aBritish philosopher, was reserved lor
though the moon goes round the earth, and same fears still. But having the pleasure to such foreigners only as were distinguished
that due sun is far on the outside of the; ndthat this mytirst work was not itl received, by their philosophical and literary attain
982
Egg.
ments, and strongly marks the estimation in
For the Repertory.
which Mr. Ferguson was held by that learn

ed body. His lectures on experimental phi
losophy were frequently honored with the
THI". HEIRESS ()F SOBEISKI.

A ROMANCE. ,
reclined his head upon the bosom of Brau

benski.
Some of you, said Stanislaus, H bear

hence this wretched baron, and await our
(Concluded.)
presence ofour gracious sovereign, who took
great pleasure in conversing with Mr. Fer

guson upon scientic subjects, and (listin-_
guishcd him by numerous marks of his royal
favor.
\Vhile he was thus enjoying, in the eve.
ning of his days, the respect of philosophers
and the favor of his king, he was aficted
with a lingering illness, and closed his use
ful and honorable life on the 16th of Novem

ber 1766, in the sixty sixth year ofhis age.
Mr. Ferguson possessed a clear judgment,
and was capable of thinking and writing on
philosophical subjects with great accuracy
and precision. He had a peculiar talent lor
simplcfying what was complex, for render
ing intelligible what Was abstracted, and for
bringing down to the lowest capacities what
was naturally above them. His unwearied as
siduity in the acquisition of knowledge may
be inferred from the great variety of his pub
lications; and when we reect on the very
unfavorable circumstances in which he Was
educated, and the little assistance which he
received from others, we cannot fail to won
der at the style in which all his works are

composed. In his manners he Was affable
and mild; in his disposition communicative
and benevolent. He Was characterised by
none of those peculiarities of temper, or ec~
centricities of conduct, which we generally
observe in literary men. if Mr. Ferguson had

my foibles they leaned to virtues side; and
even his wonderful simplicity of character,
which in a state of articial manners, is too
apt to be regarded as a failing, and subject
CHAPTER X".
Forward he rushd.but vengeance was behind!
less man should die this deatli,_than live a
Dreamless of fat: the guilty villain slood.
life of misery and shamel

The king could not help feeling some
thing like resentment against Ferresburgh,
for his accumulated treachery; but this soon
disappeared, and fearful lest he had would
ed the feelings of Linhault, he endeavored
And me! destruction while he hoped revenge.

O! my too guilty heart! a parricidc! ,
Cover me mountains. hide me from myself,
And one eternal night encircle time!
O! woful act! cried Stanislaus, H O!

by every method in his power, to obliterate
dismal cloud that dims our day of joy!"
VVretchcd Ferresburghl" said Sobeiski, the remembrance of these really harsh w'ords.
gazing on Ferresburgh and Linhault, un
The attendants now raised the body of
happy Linhaultl how my heart bleeds for Ferresburgh, and Marden placing his hand
upon the barons breast, exclaimed,
voul
" There's life still in him.
Every one expressed his horror and regret
" Then there is hopel cried Linhault, and
at these untoward circumstances, but the
grief for the brave and virtuous Linhault rushed to support the reviving Ferl'csbulgh.
was far more poignant than for the timeless After a few moments more, the unhappy
fate of the guilty Ferresburgh, who seemed victim ofambition recovered strength enough
by this last act of cruel treachery, to have to speak.
deserved his death, though not from his son.
" Why do my eyes swim thus? he ex
Every attempt to take Linhault from the bo claimed, hal it ashes on my mind like
dy failed, until the voice of Thadia recalled lightning! This is the wound that lets my
spirit out, and furies seize her!
him from hisstate of insensibiiity.
Look up, my father! cried Linhault.
Ahl rise, my Linhault, rise!" cried she,
" Art thou here, my noble boy! said Fer
kill me not with beholding this excessive
grief, my love!
u My Linhault, said Thadia, taking the
-- No,
no,
cried Ferreuburgh, your
burning hands of the youth in hers, " will sword has been too keen, and 1 must die!
Weep not for thatbut where is the king? I
you not know me and be more composed?
u Must we not part? said Linhault, rising teel the struggle at my heartsoon, soon the
and gazing in her face with earnestness.
vital ember dies, and leaves me cold in death!
Part1" returned the lovely maid, " who
shall pronounce that cruel sentence, to rob
heighten the respect in which he w-as con
me at once of happiness and life!

" Ol matchless excellencel" cried Lin
our author, there is still more to admire.
hault, but no, you never, never can receive
The anxieties and changes of his eventful

life never eaced the religious impressions
of his youth, but rather Strengthened those
principles of duty which the piety of his pa
rents had early implanted; and conrmed him
in the belief of those peculiar doctrines of
to your arms a parricide, like the wrctcheu

and guilty Linhault!
" But one unwillingly, one ignorantlyl an
our faith, which are the surest foundation of
resburgh, " come, give me one embrace, and
" Who dares to think or talk ofl0ve in this then l'arewel loreverl
Ah: my hither, my father! cried the
distressing hour?" cried Linhault, raising
youth, " yet, yet, look up to hope!
his head from the breast ol'Ferresburgh.
cd to ridicule and scorn, tended only to
stantly held. In the religious charactCl of
further orders. Come, young lord, this grief

must be repelled, twere better that the hip
Yet ere that come, I would unfold something
important to the king.

I "Unhappy man! aaid Stanislaus approach
lng, 1- accept your sovereigns pardon!
" Thanks, thanks, my noble liegel" Cried
Ferresburgh.
" And as thou hast so deeply meditated
wrong against Sobeiski, said the good countf
swered Thadia, yes, my Linhault, thou art
let his forgiveness, and his wifes, mitigate,
free from blood, and if thy heart still hold
if possible, the pangs of death!"

"Sobeiskil" exclaimed Ferresburgh, didst
thou escape then? Oue crime, at least, is
lifted from my sinking soul: Hal speak, wast
thou my loudest fear that lived within the
Roselle as dear as once it did, Thadia is
yours! And here the maid turned her in
moral practice, and best tted to inspire usv quiring eyes upon her parents, who, under
standing her, renewed their protestations to
of the present life shall interest us no more. the youth, conjuring him not to think so abbey! Wast thou conned there?
With such a character, and under such deeply ol'the unfortunate event, as it WAS en
' I was," returned the count.
impressions, Mr. Ferguson lived and died; tirely unintentional, and happened in the de- '1 To save my honor and secure my peace,"
and while we respect his talents and admire lence of injured innocence.
proceeded Ferresburgh, " the villains red
his virtues, may it be our rst wish to imi
"01 theres the pang! exclaimed Lin the abbey, and when the mounting blaze re
tate his eitaunple, and follow in his steps.
hault, " had my father died guiltless, had he juiced my sight, I led thy daughter hitherto
lelt his name unsullied to his son, my-griei uespatch her!" and here Ferresburgh related
He, who is good before invisible witnes were not so great, but" and here he paus~ the manner in which Austin had seized ThB-I
ses, is eminently so before the visible.
ed, cast a piteous look upon his lather, and dia and conveyed her to the castle.
with happiness itllti hope, when the concerns
1
:2
.r,
" Unhappy, guilty .man!" cried Sobeiski,
" Proceed, proceed, Ferresburgh," cried
as he brought the countess forward to bestow the king, " be quick, thy cheek grows pale
her pardon on the dying victim of ambition. with death!"
I need not say, my noble lord, said Fer
l stopped the girl continued the ago
resburgh to Sobeiski, that the merciless nized Ferresburgh.
banditti of the abbey were hired by me to

" And robbed her of her charge!" inter
assassinate you, and who slaughtered all your rupted Braubenski.
train and, asl thought, yourself! But as few
Old man,what means?" inquired the king.
moments now remain of fading time, and vast
cried the
peasant.
I IHear,
took hear!"
the blooming
infant
in my arms,
eternity expands her fearful jaws before me,
let me employ those moments to unfold a proceeded Ferresburgh, " and soothed him
with caresses! I thought he resembled him
truth, as yet unknown to all!
Quickly relate, Ferresburgh! cried the I lost, and returning him in agony to his
nurse,I continued my way. Scarce had I
king.
-My noble boy!" said Ferresburgh to his left the spot, when my fell heart, growing
familiar with guilt, conceived the fearful pur
son.
" W'hat would my father? said the youth, pose of seizing her infant charge, and rear
give me your last command, and whatso ing him as my own!"
e'er it be, consistent with my honor,l will
All were astonished.
perform it!
How, my lord!" said Linhault, starting.
" Thats true, indeed! answered Ferrcs
I sent a villain to secure the babe," went
burgh, " but come, Ill give thee one shall on lerresburgh, he tore the infant from
cost thee little pain! Forget me and my guilt the weeping maid, and conveyed him to the
castle! Ever since he has been as my own.
and marry with your Thadia!
" That will be impossible!" returned Lin I found out who was his father, but 1 could
hault, your kindness to me will forever live not part with him! Behold him there, young
within my memory, but for this, my lord, l Linhault and the son of old Braubenski."
own my will to obey you!
Thus saying, Ferresburgh, enfeebled, sunk
1' Boy, boy, did you know half, cried Fer
resburgh, " you would bless your WC-tPOlt for

my death, and cover my memory with 0510
quy!
Never, never!" replied the youth.
" No more," said Ferresburgh, but at
into the arms of the attendants, and Linhault
rushed to his father.

Son, son! my father!" was all they
could utter.
- Just Heaven, how fathomless thy ways!
exclaimed Stanislaus.
The tnuisports of the father and son now aba
tend to my words. When rst my wedded

love gave to my expectation a pledge of her
ted a little, and the hapless Ferresburgh cried,
a'ections, my soul was guiltless of a thought

of wrong! But cruel fate soon robbed me ol
H Now hear me inthe ame of life qui

vers within the socket, and in a moment
my boyhe died, and the fond mother soon must be extinct for everlpardon, thou good
followed the beloved o'spring to the grave! but offended Majesty of heaven0; that
I cannot tell What end rst planted in my dreadful groan! hark! it Was Sobeiski! Mar
breast that greater end ambition! I thirsted tix, strike home, and bury all my fears!
for your blood, Sobeiskid'orl envied you your liends, loose your liold-aear not my spirit
with your burning fangs! Soft, soft a while
glory, your happiness and wealth!
And did I ever deserve this from you? --swell bosom, break heart, and welcome
everlasting anguish!" He could no more,
asked Sobeiski.
" No, no," cried Ferrcsburgh, " but you
The flying spirit bore the laboring breath,
And left the body in the arms of death!
were ever my greatest friend and benefactor:
For some moments the spectators stood in
How did I repay youZbut let me proceed,
ere death arrest me! 0! what a pang was silent horror and amazement, at'length So
therelUpon the fatal day on which I des beiski exclaimed,
patched the bluntly Austin to decoy you to
Farewel, Ferresburgh! may the door of
destructionhere let me pause, to inquire mercy in the skies be opened to receive you,
and we meet you at her throne, to renew
his fate."
He fell by my hand, my father! return the pardon that we here bestow!
ed Linhault.
The body of l-erresburgh was now borne
-' Surely, thou art the instrument of Hea
before, while the beholders of his end fol
ven!" replied Ferresburgh, " but to proceed
lowed in melancholy procession, and soon
-On that fatal day, I left my home for So
after, the miserable victim of passion was
beiski castle, to learn the pleasing news of interred with all possible secrecy.
its great owners fall! near to this spot I met
The transports of the gentle Malda on be
a maid who bore a blooming boy!"
283
r
Linhault in nding a mother, were so su

preme, that no description can reach, no hu
man felicity exceed it.
Our history is now drawing to a close.
The day after the interment of Ferresburgh,
Sobeiski again declared his intention of be
stowing Thadia upon Linhault, though now
a humble peasant.
" Never!" cried Stanislaus, shall the heir
ess of Sobciski be wedded to a peasant!

" How, my lord! cried Linhault.
To Linhault she shall be wedded," pro
ceeded the king, but no longer a peasant,
for here I create him baron of Ferresburgh,
which title has become extinct by the death
of its guilty possessor!
All present expressed their joy and admi
ration of Stanislauss conduct, and after a
short time, tributary of respect to Ierres

burgh, Linhault and Thadia were united.
The peasant Braubenski celebrated the hap
py event by one of those rustic fetes, which

the peasantry of Poland delight in, similar to
that which led principally to the events that
followed. Linhault and his bride continued to
reside at Sobeiski castle, whither Brauben
ski and Malda were removed, and made hap

py in the company of their children, till their
innocent spirits ew to a better world.
Shortly after the marriage, Stanislaus and
Sobeiski visited that part of the abbey which
had escaped the ames, and was still the
abode of Martix and his troop, and offered par
don to all the banditti who would forsake
their way of life, and enter into the army.
All accepted the proposal, except some of
the most daring and sanguinary, who were
soon after taken, and received their merited
chastisement; among whom was the bloody
and remorseless Laupold. Martix, for his

kindness to Sobeiski, was created a captain,
and distinguished himself in the wars that
afterwards desolated Poland, in which wars
he was slain, after having twice saved the

life of Sobeiski.
_
Joy began once more to ring through the
chambers of Sobeiski castle, and peace to

reign within the bosom of its inhabitants.
'lhus, virtue is ever retvarded, and thus,
vice will ever meet the reward due to its
enormity. Let the reader who admires the
virtue of Linhault and his Tbadia, endeavor
to imitate them, convinced, that though the
sun of prosperity may be hid for a while he

hind the clonds of adversity, it soon shall
burst to its meridian splendor, and shine
with redoubled lustre on the humble v0tary.
Let the reader who peruses with horror
the history'of Ferresbttrgh, consider how one
crime leads to the commission of many, Which
never fail to 'meet a just reward. Let him
holding Linhault as her son, and the joy of likewise consider, that providence often
I
284
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i 1
thwarts the murderer's purpose, and hurls third day after, saw us on the road to the ci
his vengeance without permitting the wretch ty of "2 Two hundred dollars was the sole
to enjoy the endlike pleasure of executing amount of our capital in specie, and we ima
his will. Let him beware how he admits the gined that would be sufficient to support us
passions to rule in hisjbosom; let him not until I obtxined a situation. After a fatiguing
rest in imaginary security, but be ever on journey, we arrived at the place of destina
the watch against those foes to a peaceful tion, and I had the good fortune to procure
a neat and commodious mansion, for, com
conscience.
and the mob at a short distance pursuing
paratively, a low rent, to which I conduct
darted through an alley, and put an end to
If sure reward awaits each virtuous deed,
me, threw his arms round me in order to

detain me; but rendered desperate, I shook
him off with such force that he was unable

to rise from the ground where I had thrown
him. This was a fortunate circumstance, for
while the crowd, who came up almost imme
diately, were employed in assisting him, I
JACK TROCHAIC.
ed my affectionate Mary. We were accom further pursuit.
\Vho would not virtuous be, to gain the meed!
(To be continued.)
panied by a servant girl, who was so much
But virtue still can boast a greater claim,
Than the unwelcome recompense of fame;
attached to Mary, that she insisted upon fol
For the Repertory.
May every breast this nobler motive own,
lowing us. I could not refuse her intreaties;
And worship virtue forbarrel] alone!
SACRED HARMONY.
and though our scanty income did notjustify
UBALDO.
No. IX.
the continuance of an additional expense,
yet the recollection that she would lessen the
If it had not been my intention to give an
For the Repertory.
weight of culinary affairs, which otherwise impartial examination of music books, with
LIFE OF JACK TROCHAIC,
would have been troublesome to Mary, over the view to guard the sincere inquirer against
(Continued)
came every other consideration.
the miserable stu' under the name of mu
After devoting a day or two to repose, I sic, that is calculated to dcprave the public
After nishing my business with Mr. M.
I hastened home to prepare Mary for the un sallied forth, determined to accept the rst taste, the subject of the present number
pleasant information; she sighed when she situation that chance, or my lucky stars, would have been passed by in silence, as be
heard it, but quickly recalling her native should favor me with a glimpse of. I had not ing beneath criticism. It is well known to be
rmness and resolution, she joined with me wandered far, when a notice, stuck in the the principal part of the business of criticism
in concerting measures for our safety, for we window of a large gloomy building, Lnformed to point out and display the beauties of a
readily believed that the malice of our ene me that a clerk was Wanted. I eagerly work; but in the present wretched thing, un
my would not long remain inactive. The plan rapped at the door, and demanding an audi der the name of a singing book, there is
we xed upon, as the most easily accom ence with the gentleman, received admis
not a single beauty for which the compilers
plished, was to proceed to the city of *, sion. 1 found the great man writing at his have any merit; nay, so far from deriving me
where I thought employment equally advan desk, from which I could scarcely induce rit, they have deserved a harsher term for
tageous with the situation I at present held, him to raise his eyes; at length he came for daring to intermix with the jumbled produc
could without trouble be procured; yet we ward and inquired my business. I informed tions of their own whimsical fancies, and
could not refrain from regretting the proba him, that in consequence of the notice on his without acknowledgment too, parts from ap
ble necessity which would compel us to window, I applied for the situation of a clerk; proved authors, in a mutilated state. It is a
he eyed me very suspiciously, and demand subject of lamentation to every lover of good
abandon our humble dwelling, where, hum
ble as it was, we had enjoyed so much hap ed a reference for character, Ste. This was music, that this book was introduced; as by
what I expected, and replied, that as l was its deceitful preface it was well suited to
piness.
We were not allowed to remain in sus a stranger in the city, it was impossible to catch the unwary, and by the intolerable
pense with respect to the machinations of comply with his request, but in the country hotchpotch of all cords but musical ones,
Frampton, for upon my entrance into the -he interrupted me with a loud laugh, and it has done an incalculable mischief to the
compting house on the succeeding morning, when that had subsided bade me begone cause of sacred music and solemn wor
I was met by Mr. M. who without any pre about my business, and modestly told me, ship, a mischief which will require a lapse
lude, presented me the balance which was that I would not suit him, for independent of of years to remedy. Some consolation, how
ever, arises from the consideration, that
due to me, for the services I had rendered my being a stranger, he could plainly per
as it is the nature of artice and cunning
him, and with chilling coldness informed me ceive rogue" written in my villainous coun
that he no longer needed my services. In vain tenance. My blood boiled in my veins atthis to overshoot their own mark and consequent
did I request an explanation; he would give insult, and without reecting upon conse ly defeat their own purposes, these great
me none, but advising me to correct my vi quences, I felled the brutal author of it to the masts-rs are daily falling into disesteem and
cious propensities, quitted the room, and im oor, with my oaken friend, which I con neglect: and why? Because their tunes have
mediately following his example, I returned stantly made my companion. Several persons about as much of the principles of music as
to Mary, and acquainted her with my dis alarmed at the noise occasioned by his fall, their declarations have of modesty and cor
mission.We were totally ignorant of Mr. M.s rushed into the apartment, and attempted to rectness. According to their plan, there is
meaning, respecting my evil propensities, surround me; but placing my back against nothing so simple and easy as not only to
but did not hesitate to attribute my disgrace the wall, I kept them at bay, until roused to learn to sing, but to read music as it ought
to the villainy of Frampton. I swore to be a sense of my danger, I determined to effect to be, almost at sight, and that too without
revengcd on that unmanly scoundrel, should a retreat; accordingly knocking down the the assistance of an instructor; when it is, or
chance ever throw him in my way. How I fellow that stood nearest to me, who block ought to be well known to every person who
succeeded, the subsequent pages will inform ed up the passage to the door, I ew through ' has paid proper attention to the subject, that
it, and in a little time distanced my pursuers, to give the names of the notes of a tuneand
you.
'
We thought it needless to remain where who, with amob, raised ahue and cry after to give the tune, are two very di'erentthings;
we were, and immediately employed our me, though not without obstruction. A gen for a person might be able to repeat with ro
selves in packing up our little property; the tleman who was passing, seeing me scamper, lubility the name of every note in a tune, and
*6,
PHILADELPHIA 'REPERTORY.
m
yet know no more of that tune, or of the prin

ciples of music, than he who could rapidly
call over every letter of the alphabet con
vievved with a partial eye, and their affection
the present, it will be sufcient to say, that

in one single page alone I nd no fewer than
fteen errors or violations of the legitimate
this light, he will appear suiciently detest
rules of true composition; and indeed there
wretched daughter, for pitys sake! One word

of comfort. [own my fault. Though I love
cheating a trade, and enriches himself on the
spoils, underhandedly taken from his neigh my husband, yet I still reverence my father.
Oh! had you known the many hours of mi
bors; when we see him one who makes it
sery
I have endured, laboring under your
his business to defraud the wealthy of what
curse, a fathers curse! Not one look? Not
they have honestly, perhaps laboriously, ac
one paternal look? Oh! I have deserved
quired; and to lead away the innocent and un
suspecting,in the same inevitable path to ruin? Have mercy, Heaven! Bless my father! Hark!
My mother calls. Away! I come! She smiles
Gaming is intimated and supported by one
upon
me! She does not curse her daughter!
of the most despicable passions of the human
Hark!
she calls again! Mother, I come!
soul, avarice,- and executed by one no less
For the Repertory.
is mistaken for rigor.

In whatever point of view we consider play,
No. II.
tained in a certain sentence of Latin, on any it cannot be productive of good: it robs us of
Away, away; I-Iwill not hear you." - lia
science, would understand the meaning of our time, by causing us to employ it in a
thcr, have compassion; oh! regard your sup
such sentence, or the nature of the science manner which never can be useful to us in
pliant child as formerly, when you called me.
life, and on which we cannot fail to reect
concerning which it was written.
your
Emily, the supporter of your declining
But, a captious querist (for there are ma with sorrow. If we consider it as gambling,
age
and
the soother of your sorrows." Ah!
ny such) may ask, what have you to say of its pernicious effects must be obvious, and
too true; you were, indeed, my only joy, my
in
fact,
view
it
as
we
may,
the
reection
will
the execution of the work? I answer, a great
only comfort; now my curse, my torment.
always be disagreeable, and the retrospect
deal I could say; but, as the music in gene
Favored by the night you insidiously quitted
ral is in so wretched a style, as to insure it unpleasing.
your
paternal roof, with whom? with a vil
oblivion upon the prevalence of a correct
A gameeler is dened by the almost in
taste, I shall not hasten the precipitancy of fallible Johnson, one who is viciously ad lain; a seducer of your honor; a destroyer of
its declension, by pointing out the almost nu
dicted to play. The correctness of this si my peace! Your ihnd and tender mother has
merous errors with which it abounds: for lences dispute, and if we look upon him in already fallen a victim to her childs disobe
is one tune would bafe all the masters in

the world to tell, either by their own rules,
oPthose contained in this book, whether it
be in the major or minor modehow absurd

and ridiculous for men to pretend to render
intelligible, that which they themselves do

not pretend to understand!
More of this by and by.

PHILO MADAN.
o.
able, without doubt; but will he not seem

more so, when we look still further forward?
dience, and IBut away, wretched girl! I

cannot,'will not listen to you." Do not curse
me, my father; let me hear you bless your
when we consider him as one who makes
Iimify, my love, said he, overpowered with

For the Repertory.
disgraceful, cunning: it is a vice in itself, if
THE CABINET. No. XIX.
we consider it singly; but it is a greater one

if we reect on its attendants, and on its
And will example justify a vice? No: the custom

Ofmy lord. or of the cit that apes him cannot excuse
a breach of law, nor make the Gamer-m": calling re
putable.
Ed. Moore.
with it, hand in hand; dishonesty is one ofits
To that ignorance which gives birth to

many other malpractices, may be, in a great
measure, attributed the vice of gaming. The
person whose mind is unenlightened by sci
ence, and unpolished by literature, dreading
those hours which ever linger on the indo
baleful consequences.
Drunkcnness goes
members, inseparable from it; quarrelling

and bloodshed are often its companions, and
we not unfrequently nd it the cause of du
elling. \Vhoever pursues it to its greatest
extremity, will sooner or later be expelled
from all genteel society, and concealed from
the view of his former companions, in the
mantle of poverty, be sunk into ignominious

lent, must have recourse to some manner of unhappiness. The only thing, i believe, ever
alleviating the miseries they inict. He strug advtuiced in its favor, is the circulation of mo
gles; and at length supposes he will effectu ney which it issaid to occasion. To this I reply,
ally escape them, by mixing in company and that is not so great as is generally supposed,
frequenting scenes of swaggering riot, and for the larger portion of it is boarded up by
rearing dissipationz" but alas! this refuge is the most accomplished of these villains, and"
too often the horde of villains, who, from in
terested motives, lead him into inextricable
the small sums that are kept scattered among
the others, through motives of policy, are

mazes, and then desert him in the height of mostly employed to discharge the wretched
his despair.
wages of carnal intercourse, and mental pros
Gaming is frequently begun by the young titution; and can there be a good result from
as an amusement, and tolerated by the old as this?
innocent; the rst object is pleasure, but
After the most mature deliberation, I can
this pleasure suddenly degenerates into pain; not but severely censure too frequent an in
and those parents, who, fearful, or sensible
dulgence in cards, whether at the social board
of its consequences, condemn a fondness for

card playing, are regarded by their offspring
as enemies to youthful satisfaction, and un
favorable to harmless delights. They are
of friendship, or of hospitality: and must per;

sist in my opinion, that it is at the same time
a cloy to pleasure, and a foe to happiness.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
the feelings of a parent, I do not curse you.

Revive, my daughter, and bless me with
your smiles, you have my warmest forgive
ness. Did you not hear her? She grows
impatient. Farewel, father! lid-ward! Oh!
my heart." The father sunk on the bosom of
his penitent and lifeless (laughter; and ex
hausted nature at the same moment releas
ed him from terrestrial shackles; and they
now lay united in the silent grave.
CINTHIO.
ADDRESS OF THE CARRIERS
OF THE
PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY
TO THEIR PATRONS,
On the commencement of the year 1811.
Once more round the monarch of light has earth
roll'd her,
And now on her tally must score a year older.
Philosophers say evry year she must run,
And nearer and nearer approach to the sun;
Until the last day, when so near she has gotten,
She burn: like a building old, tottring and rotten.

While gazing at nature we cannot but say,
All things appear hastening Fast to decay;

But most of all man, for the earth has now stood,
As Heaven did decree, ever since the great ood,
Full four thousand years, and her ruin before,
For aught we can tell, may stand four thousand more_
Though earth stands so long, yet it plainly appears

Man seldom or ever exists eighty years:
A ower he appears, is cut down like a ower,

A frail, eeting blossom is he of an hour!
286
PHILADELPHI A. R PIPER/FURY.
m
How many have ceased now to strut nntlfret here,
Or those that have arr-titted andfretted last year:

And ere eighteen hundred and twelve shall come
round,
How many now living shall sleep in the ground!
You say, why thus moralize! tis a sad caper,
And not at all relative now to your paper.
Tis well. you may think so: for arguments sake,

Somrremarks,by yourlt-ave gentlereader,well make
This truth on the Bibles pure loaves doth appear.

Time was when the earth had not nttmbertl one year:
A book all possess, by experience compiled,
Says truly, each man in his time was a child;
Had each silly trick that an infant possesses,

But all otter/001'?! by a parents canines-.
" 7a: pleased with a straw, with a feather was
tickled,"
By tries affected till tears oft have trickled.
We will not be certain. perhaps there are some.

yVould know what well give them the year that s
to come;
Sooth we, lest perchance we should say what we
don't do.
Wont say what we will, but will say what we wont do.
Our columns shall never, depend oti it, nurture
The demon of vice to the downfal of virtue:
And that pure religion by which we must live,
No wrong nor abuse from our press shall receive.
Neer, ne'er shall our columns exhibit a feature
\Vhich tends to defame or to mislead a creature.
Aiid all politicians from us we debar,
\Ve'll be none ourselves, nor abuse those who are.
Thus much. friends, we wont do, be patient until

'lime, time shall unfold to your view what we will.
'lojutlge from what has been, kind patrons, we trust,
You'll strive to be ge'iruua, although you are just.
Till age cameiwiih wisdom, at least solid sense,

Now think on the Carrier, who, frozen or warm,
And told him with these it was time to dispense.

Titus onward conducted by timel to be sure,
More wise he became, as his age more in .ture.
Like earth when as yet she'd not number'd one

year,
Een so does our paper, kind reader, appear;
Contented his duty to you doth perform;

Delivers the budget, and waits at your door,
To welcome a trieperhaps he is poor!

He knows that to hear him you never refuse,
Arid asks you to givejust as much as you choose.
.
An aged son of Afric's hapless race.

Sunder'd, perhaps, from all his heart held dear,
From parents, children, and a tender wife,
By worse than savage hands, more barbrous far
Than sanguinary wolves that howl for prey.
His hands were claspd. his eyes on heaven were xd

As if t implore an end to all his woes.
Hed feebly sued the landlord for relief,
But vainly sued; engaged in nobler acts,

Dispensing wisdom mongst the list'iiing crowd,
He drove the wretched negro from the door,
Though scarcely able to stipport his frame,
So worn was he with misery and want;
And while he silent sat and mourn'd his fate,
Two well dress'd youths did ever and anon
Discharge on him front the oerlooking window,
A bucket's contents. and did loudly laugh
As he would shiver, for it falling froze.
And he wnuld sigh, and raise his heavy lids,
\Vhich seetitd fast closing in an awful sleep,
And throw oii them such looks of mild reproach,

That would almost have touchd a marble breast
And made it heave with pity; yet did they
Relentless Still pursue their brutal sport,
Scuff at his dress and call him knave and thief,
As if he were not human like themselves.
Your numbers will tell you tis true, when we say,

ere not a year old till the ensuing May.
For the Repertory.

REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY VVANDERER.
As you have done formerly, we have run wild,

For as you have been. is our papera cbiltl:
\Veve haply those trie: an infant poescuer,
But hope that you'll .rmotber them all iii60788888.,
No. XI.
Rude winter now, with all his boistrous storms, .
Waves his dark sceptre oer the leaf strewn plains,
Two vig mus peasants bore the sulfring man,
Whose garb,late verdant,speakshiswithring might.
And as we've endeavord to please you, in truth,
Hark! how his roaring Winds do ruthless rush

Adown the snow clad side of yonder hill:
Shaking, with force resistless. you old oak
That long has braved the whirlwinds ercest
strength.
It bends reluctant, like some warlike chief,
But vain the task! his knell of death was rung!

He turnd his dying eyes, and on me threw
A look of gratitude, then pressd my hand
To his pearchd lips and drew his nal sigh.
We hope you will pardott the failings of youth.

For error has been in the world long prevailing,
And show us the youth who has not got his/ailing.
But let us be civil, yet not at faults wink;
.iome write in a hurry and afterwards tbiitlt.
And some, a great failing, their number not small,

They write a great deal, but they don't think at all!
Voluminous works at a little expense,
.\ quantum of matter, btit lacking of sense.
On whose bold brow the gleamy helmet sits,
Those, too, who do think and then afterwards write

The language their preceding ponderings indite,
Have no triing failing, this is, I maintain,
Too partially viewing the child of their brain;
And thinking, like parents, this thing cannot be,
We read it, and read it, nor fault can we see.
Our columns. in truth. we from this can defend,
The vengeful steel; he combats fierce, till spent
While proudly dances oer the brazen front

The crimson plume, ensign of high command,
Ctrcled by foes who aim at ev'ry point
1 bade them cease, and hastening to the inn,
Who on a warmth imparting couch was laid,

And ev'ry needl'ul 'care admiiiisterd;
I saw him decently ititerr'd, and wept
Oer his unhappy doom, though be was black.

And oft amid the evenings shrouding gloom
Do sit and ponder on his chilly grave
Hard hearted men, who callous to the tearl
Which sorrows children in big drops do shed,v

Ye that to them your charity deny,
Your fellow creatures how shall ye implore
Or dare to ask from heavens almighty Lord, i

With toil and wounds,his heart, unconqtier'd, bursts.
So fell the oak.--l stirrd the dying embers

That faintly glowd upon my humble hearth,
And closer drew towards the cheerful blaze.

While ever and anon the blast would rush
Adown the chimney with its whirling noise,
That saving clemency his love bestows.

ST. ORME.
_-.._
For the Repertory.
MEDITATIONS. NO. IV.
Faults, faults we can see, though perhaps we cant
And warring shake the ancient moultlring hut
mend:
Yet if you, like parents, will nurture our child,
Though sometimes with incorrect essays defiled,
To its foundation. I felt not then dismay'd;
Sure never error was more gross than this,

That earths rotundity. and all that live
As I reclined upon my homely couch,
Upon her huge periphery, or shoot
As when soft zephyrs did in am'rous sport
Their growing essence from the fruitful soil,
'ell, patrons, endeavor to render her pure,
Play round my temples; but twas then I felt

And sighing mournd the bosom retiding fate
Of povertys sad sons, who cheerless stray'd
Came by the hand of chance. What then is chance?
\Vith heads uncot'erd in the merc'less storm.
For even as she, so the-world will grow older:
Fatigued at length, I left the lonely hut

And bent my steps along the rivers banks
The vital ame that nourishes our life,

And all the strange variety we feel
Ofjoy and sorrow, happiness and ill?
Well then, if she live to the age of a man,
To the emporium of important news.
Can that which nothing is but name, contain,
Full four score of years from the day she began,
Deep in yon vale, now render'd bleak and bare,

But lately deck'd with natures richest robes,
And give at pleasure and withhold at will,

The very essence of existence? No.
Thou to thy closet or thy couch retire,
And keep long vigils with reflection deep;
Or to some lonely and sequesterd shade;
You know shell be avian a: g: gratin mnvurc:

And if she should not to oblivion he hurld
Until she shall grow full as old as the world
Yet that cannot bethus we ne'er shall behold her,
ln wisdom progressive, why certainly she

'loo sapient to live any longer will be!
Contented shell give up the ghost and expire,
And we to retain her no longer desire;
Lest she to the vent/ii age quickly may fall,

To ll you with anger and us with appal!
Of this we are sure, from the day she began,
She'll live, by your leave sits, at; longu: rbe can.
To you all she looks. as the greatest of friends,
for on you her very existence depends;
The village inn with gilded sign appears

'1" invite the weary wandrer to repose.
Each swain inquiring seeks the cheerful hearth,
Ideal. nothing but a powerless name!

What is it gives and what is it withholds
Anxious to learn, as posthoy winds his horn,
Call home the guilty wand'rings ofthy.soul,
The wondrous tidings from the busy world.

The landlord, too, a politician struts,
And to his gaping hearers doth unfold
Let no rash bias hang tipon thy mind,

And contemplate the First Great Cause of all!
His well filld budget, various arid most strange.
Full often she hopes, and believe her sincere,
As I did pass I heard a piteous sigh,

And on a stone, close by the outhouse door,
To wish you, as now, sits, a happy New Year!
Beheld a half clad, ahivring wretch recline,
View each creation in its proper light,

And all those idle chimeras will disperse,
Thatlure but to destroy, harden for hell!
Then man. where now thou but beholdstachance,

A Deity will blaze and thou adore!
IWHLADELPHLAREPERTOR Y.
The proud philosopher declaims aloud;
Dxlly 'hy God, and laugh to scorn his power!
Do this, and thou shalt liebe what indeed?
Marry a. great philosopher shalt be!

One who looks in=o nature's very womb,
Listless. his pinion still he plles,

Still heedless, round destructionies,
Pauses awhile, in happt gaze,

Now drops into the fatal blaze!
From thy mistake mankind may draw,
Knows all things, wherefore this is so and so!
In life, a great and useful law;
The world shall think thee some superior soul,
May learn to know, 1' all they behold,
And after death. forever thou shalt sltine

In works voluminous that tend to burst
The social bond asunder! After death!
Must death then be the end of thee? alas!
That glitter: much may not be go! ."
Mighty philosopher! what, couldst not thou

That oft hast plunged in natures secte parts,
And learned the rst and only cause of all!
What.couldst not thou, whose mind had built a
world,
Keep in a little life? so small a space

Dees thy power, yet thou canst fashion worlds!
Couldst not preserve the vital spark within,
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237
vegetable creation are unveiled and admired.

Our sons collect entertainment from the Lin
nean page, andthe female mind no longer
satised in rearing tltc beautcous flower
" With tender hand,
LORENZO.
From its rst opening bud,"
is desirous and prepared to determine its

class and its order, its scientic name and
--._
A mason at Brecon, a short time since,
was ordered to erect a totnb stone, on which
its synonyma.
For the introduction of this order in botanical pursuit, the public is indebted to the
luminous writings and instructive lectures
he inscribed the age of the deceased at 89.

His friends, nding the real age to be 90,
insisted on his adding another year. This the of our countryman, Dr. Barton. This able
ingenious Wclclimttn accomplished, and the professor has been prevailed upon by seve~
stone now actually bears aged 891 1 l a few rul gentlemen and instructors of youth in
years short of that veteran antcdiluvian Ma our city, to assist in raising the edice whose
base he has so well succeeded in laying. He
Bu.- must it be extinct in death? 'loo true,
thusalcm.
Alas! alas! for all thy deep research,
hats a yolume in preparation, and in the

course of the ensuing summer expects to be
able to complete it, in which the elementary
to her hands, struck it on the face, and after principles of botany will be familiarly illus
uttering many execrations against it, placed it trated. The work is intended to be of a con
___._
Thou hast not found the means to shelter life
From the cold press of fate! the haughty foe

Levels the deadly shaft and ushers death!
This is the end of all thy labord life.
Nor this alone in realms thou st not explored,

Hell is preparing all her deadliest rage
VALERIAN.
For the Repertory.
ODE TO NEW YEAR.
When the head of Cicero was broughtinto

Anthony's presence, his ttife Fulvia took it in
between her knees, and opening the mouth,
venient size for the usc of seminaries, and
tore out the tongue which could almost have

softened cruclty by its cl0quencc, and spitting
upon it with contempt, pierced it several
timcs through with her bodkin!
for parlor perusal.

A publication of this nature is muclt to be
virtue. The path is, indeed, less elevated
From war's alarms and famine free,

No woes of horrid aspect near;
Old friends collect with jovial glee,
And gladly hail another year.
lDbilalltlrbia,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1811.
The cheering wine ows freely round,

Each drinks good health in evry glass;
Theirjot-ful hearts with mirth abound,
And thus the gliding 'rnoments pass.
Though times are dull and money scarce,

Like freemen they remain at case;
Opposing armies crowd the eld,

We re" securr from age to age
While freedoms seep-re is our shield.
Here plentys waving banner stands.
or: equal rlgh's and laws prevail,
And vile HpplE\$l0nS cruel bands,
The sons of freemen neer assail.
Then hail with jm the new born year,
\Vlttch brings no terrors with its birth;
Ma; each succeeding age appear.

With equal pleasure, peace and mirth.
HERMINIUS.
_._.
For the Repertory.
than that in which Dr. Barton is habituated

"to more; but genius loscs not a leaf of its
lluurels by descending the vale of general
utility.
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDESTS.

.-
The reply of the person who subscribes

himself the public is inadmissible: we
have declared, in our prospectus, that the
Repertory shall not be a receptacle for [ter
For glittering 3 Id is but a farce.

sonal abuse,- and have also, in ournotcs, hint
When once compared with health and peace.
' ed that it shall ttot be the vehicle of illna
Though distant nations madly rage,
wished for; it will, witltottt doubt, contribute
greatly to the diffusion of knowledge and
Extract from the " Summary of the proceedings of

the British and Foreign Bible Society.
(Concluded)
PROCEEDINGS WITHIN 'rnr: UNITED

KINGDOM.
The transactions of the British and F0
reign Bible Society within the united king
tured insinuation, or intempcrutc invcctivc.

\Ve regret that the fullment of our duty dom, are of too miscellaneous a nature to ad
to one class of our readers should have giv mit of such an arrangement in abstract, as
en dissatisfaction to another; we allude to will communicate an adequate idea of their
the insertion of so much political matter to nature and extent. Thcy unty, however, be
the exclusion of that which is more generally generally noticed under the following heads:
entertaining: but as it is our intention to pre
1. Assistance afforded to other associations
sent only the most important articles of a po having the same object.
litical nature, there will be ample room for
The sum of 5000!. in addition to a former
further contributions of our obliging corres grant of 1.001., was presented last year to the
pondents, to give a new zest to our literary Hibernian Bible Society at Dublin; the sum
dessert; their reception shall be marked with of 1001., in addition to a former donation ofthe
the usual indulgence and candor.
same amount, has also been granted to the
The favors of our old friends, though (it: Cork BibleSociety; and a grant of the same
'r0 .t FLY,
laycd, are not neglected; the communica
sum has been made to a committee of the
That perished in the ame of my candle.
tions of our new ones shall receive their me
Bible Society at Ulster. These associations,
rited attention.
as well as the Naval and Military Bible So
Ga} intruder. uttering thing,
Forever bus. on lht wmg;'

+
Around the taper's tempttng blaze,

For the Repertory.
Wildly that winds in devious maze,
Pleased in the sombre shades of night,

To find so soft. so fair at light,
Beware. or in that lambent ame.
Soon shalt thou land a death of shame,
ciety, the Sunday School Society, and the
Wigan Bible Society in Luncoshire, have
Amid the perpetually incrc.tsing proofs of been accommodated with copies of the Scrip
the growth of science, its friends must be
tures, at the cost prices, to a very consider
gratied, with the taste our youth has acquir

ed for botanical studies. The charms of the
..hlc extent. The Philanthropic Society has

received them at reduced prices; and copies
288
have been furnished gratis to the Londoi=

'Female Penitentiary, to the Refuge for, the
Destitute, and to the Female Penitentiary
at Bath. Bibles and Testaments, at half the
This zeal has displayed itself in the es

tablishment of . various associations and so
cieties, and the principal aitn of all is, the
same as that of the parent institution, to
HEALTH OFFICE,
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Diorama.
ad cb.
Diseases.
arl. cb.
cost prices, have been granted for the ac promote the circulation of the Holy Scrip Apoplexy
1 0 Mortication
l 0
O I Pleurisy
1 0
commodation of schools in various parts tures. Of these various associations and Cholera morbus
Consumption oflungs8 2 Sore threat
0 1
societies,
some
have
received
assistance
of Ireland; and a very considerable supply
Convulsious
I 2 Small pox, natural 1
1
0 3
has been committed to a. humane and chari from the British and Foreign Bible Society, Dropsy ofthe breast I 1 Still born
1 O
table association at Cork, under the designa while others, and by far the greatest part, Dropsy in the brain 0 I Sudden
Drowned
I 0 Unknown
2 O
I 0
- tion of the Indigent Room Keepers Society. have aided its funds by their contributions. Diisentery
I 0
25 18
IV. Editions of the Scriptures printed by Epilepsy
II. The supply of copies of the Scriptures,
Fever ty hus
1 l
the
society.
either in whole or in part, in various lan
Iniiamv o bowels
.3 0
Total 38
47.306
guages, for sale or distribution, according to English, various editions, Bibles
Jaundice
1 0
Testaments
101.158
the circumstances of the several cases.
AT HOME.
To the Sunday schools in Ireland.
The convicts at Woolwich, Portsmouth and
Sheerness.
The prisoners in Newgate and other goals

throughout England.
The Refuge for the Destitute, the London Fe
male Penitentiary, and the Female Peniten

tiary at Bath.
The poor in hospitals and workhouses.

The su'erers by the great re at Chudleigh.
Welsh Bibles
Iestaments
Gaelic Bibles
Testaments
French Testaments
20 000
30.000
20.000
10 000
18.000
Spanish
ditto
10.000
Portuguese ditto
5.000
Italian
ditto
Dutch
ditto
Danish
ditto
Mohawk version of St. john's Gespel
Esquimaux version of ditto, (to which a ver
5,000
5,000
5,000
9,000
German soldiers and seaman at Margate, Gos

port, Guildford, Dublin, and other places.
The sea fencibles on the Essex coast.
The naval and military hospitals, and for sale, at
sion of the gospel of St. Luke will soon be

added) for the use of the Esquimaux on the
coast of Labrador
1,000
reduced prices, at the several depots.

The crews of revenue cutters and of the post
ofce packets.
reign Bible Society has also determined to
French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and other pri

s ners of war.
ABROAD.
To Southern Africa, for the benet of the converted
Hottentots.
Paramaribo in Surinam.
Demersrav
The cost of Labrador, for the Esquimaux Indi

ans.
The West Indies, for the use of the Christain
negroes.
The Island of Sark, Jersey, Madeira, Sicily,
' Malta, Dominica, Bermuda, Jamaica, Guad
alope, Martinique, Trinidad, Antigua, St.
Thomas, and Prince Edwards.
l'he British solders at the Cape of Good Hope
The committee of the British and F0
6 Between 50 and 60
3
60
70
I
70
80
0
80
90
3
90
100
7
Unknown
8
3
.
Total
2
4
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0
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STATE OF THE TIIERMOIHETER.
December 24
25
26
27
28
29
9 o'clock. 12 oclock. 3oclock,

42
44
4-3
40
46
44
30
32
81
36
42
40
42
4-5
46
44
48
48
print an edition of the New Testament in

the Irish language, from the version of bish
op Bedell; which together with a Manks Tes
LEISURE HOURS;
OR
tament, from the authorized version, and a

modern Greek Testament, are now in the
press.
The English and Welsh Bibles and New

Testaments are all printed by stereotype,
under the direction of the university at Cam
bridge.
The total of Bibles and Testaments issued
by the society, exclusive of those printed
on the continent, are as follows:
From the institution of the society to Feb. 16, 1810:
Bibles
71,116
Testaments
151.787
and on various foreign italiOns.

The army, navy, and European inhabitants in the
East Indies.
The inhabitants of New Feundland, Canada,
New Brunswick, and Nova SCOlia.
'lhe settlers at Van Diemena Land, Sierra
Leone, and Goree.
Under 1 year
between I and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
20
30
30 40
40
50
Total
222,898
The preceding facts will enable the public
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," Persons holding subscriptions to the

to estimate, in some degree, the benets
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which haw resulted from the institution of
the British and Foreign Bible Society. It will
appear from this brief outline of its history, bers half yearly in advance
The French at St. Domingo.
The Spaniards at Buenos Ayres and in Old that the society has already been an instru
It shall be delivered to subscribers in the city evo
Spain.
ment oi communicating the words of eter ry Saturday, and forwarded to those in the country
The Portuguese at Rio Janeiro and in Portugal. nal life to cottages and prisons, to kindred by the earliest conveyance.
The Poor in Gallicia, Alsace, and Mecklenburgh.
and aliens, to the poor and alicted, in our
The Finlanders at Stockholm.
own
and
foreign
countries;
and
when
it
is
The poor German colonists on the banks of the
one copy gratis.
considered that the sphere of its operations
Wolga
The colonists at New South Wales.
is pregressively enlarging, the excellence tory Will be expected to pay the difference.
III. The active zeal excited by the insti and utility of the institution must be obvious
tution of the British and Foreign Bible So
ciety in various parts of the united kingdom,

' for the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures.
to all.
y.
' N. B. 3,000 were purchased for distribution

besides.
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VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
. 37.
upon his tongue. He had a soul, great, dis
life of a country gentleman, deriving its most
exquisite relish from reection upon the past

Written during the Revolution, by Dr. Smith, of dangers and past services, he gave full scope
Philadelphia.
to his philosophic spirit and taste for rural
The general hadreceived a liberal educa elegance. Self satised, and raised above
tion in Ireland, his native country, before he vulgar promotion, he devoted his time to
went into the army, and Was indeed endued sweet domestic intercourse with the amiable
with talents which would have led him to partner of his heart, friendly converse with
eminence in any profession. His own he men of worth, the study of useful books, and
studied with felicity, which soon distinguish the improvement of his favorite villa. Nor
ed his military abilities: but war and con from that happy spot did he wish to stray,
quest having no other charms for him than until he should receive his last summons to
happiness more than terrestrial.
as the necessary means of peace and happi
But when the hand of power was stretch
ness to mankind, he still found leisure in the
MEMOYRS OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY.
midst of camps, to cultivate an excellent taste
ed furth against the land of his residence, he
had a heart too noble not to sympathize in

its distress. From that- fatal dayand oh!
ernment and the rights of mankind; looking that it had never found a place in the vo
brward to that time when he might descend lumes of timelfrom that fatal day in which
into the still scenes of private life, and give the rst American blood was spilt by the hos
a full ow to the native and acquired vir tile hands ol British brethren, and the better
genius of the empire veiling her face in an
tues of a heart rich in moral excellence.
About eighteen years ago he had attained guish, turned abhorrent from the strife of
the rank of captain in the seventeenth regi death among her childrenI say, from that
ment under general Monckton, and stood fatal day he chose his part.
Although his liberal spirit placed him
full in the way of higher preferment; having
borne a share in all the labor of our Ame above the local prejudices, and he consider
rican wars, and the reduction of Canada. lll ed himself as a member of the empire at
fated region! short sighted mortals! little did large; yet America, struggling in the cause
he foresee the scenes which that land had of liberty, henceforth became his peculiar
still in reserve for him! little did those gene country, and that country took full posses
rous Americans who stood'by his side,think sion of his soul, lifting him above this earth
they were assisting to subdue a country, ly dross, and every private affection. \Vorth
which would one day be held over us as a like his could no longer be hid in the shades
greater scourge in the hands of friends, than of obscurity, nor permit him to be placed in
that inferior station with which a mind, great
ever it was in the hands of enemies!
He therefore chose America as the eld in humility and self denial, would have been
of his future usefulness; and as soon as the contented. It was wisely considered that he,
blessings of peace were restored to his coun who had so well learned to obey, Was ttest
try, and duty to his sovereign would permit, to command, and therefore, being well as
for philosophy and polite literature. To these
he added a careful study of the arts of gov
he took his leave of the army, and having
soon connected himself by marriage with an

ancient and honorable family in the province
of New York, he chose a delightful retire
ment upon the banks of Hudsons river, at
interested, affectionate, delighting to alleviate
distress, and to diffuse happiness. He had an

industry not to be wearied out; a vigilance
not to be imposed upon; and a courage, when
necessary, equal to his other abilities.
But still, with few new raised men, of dif
ferent tempers; ill supplied with arms and

ammunition; worse disciplined; unaccustom
ed to look cannon in the face; to make or
mount a breach; in such circumstances, I
say, and in the short space of an autumn and

winter campaigndn rigorous northern climes,
to achieve a work which cost Great Britain

and the colonies the labor of several enm
paigns, and what was a sacrice of innitely
more value, the life of the immortal; this cer
tainly required a degree of magnanhnity be

yond the ordinary reach, and the exertion of
the highest abilities of every kind.
The command and conduct of an army
were but small parts of this undertaking.

The Indians were to be treated with, restrain
ed, and kept in temper. The Canadians were

likewise to be managed, protected and sup
ported; and even his own army in some de
gree to be formed, disciplined, animated, ac
customed to marches, encampments, dan
gers, fatigue, and the frequent want of ne

cessaries.
Camps, of all worldly scenes, often exhi
bit the greatest picture of distress. The sick
and the wounded, the dying and the dead, as
well as the wants and sufferings of the liv
ing, all these call forth the most tcndcrfccl
ings, and require of a general, that to the

courage of a soldier, he should unite the ut
most bencvolence of a man.
Our general possessed these united qua
lities in the highest lustre; of which there
sured of his own heart, he resigned himself are numerous testimonies, not only from his
to the public voice, nor hesitated a moment own army, but from the prisoners, English
longer to accept the important commission

freely offered to him, and with the rmness
of another Regulus, to bid farewel to his
a distance from the noise of the busy world. peaceful retirement and domestic endear
Having a heart distended with benevolence, ments.
and panting to do good, he soon acquired,
This was a work, in all its parts, suited to
without courting it from his neighbors, that the genius of Montgomery. He had a head
authority which an opinion of superior ta and heart which equally pointed him out as
lents and inexible integrity never fail to u. t guide in such an undertaking. He un
derstood, and could well explain the bles
create.
_
In this most eligible of all sittntions, the sings of s free government. Persuasion dwelt
as well as Canadians, now among us.

When his men labored under fatigue,
wanted bread and other necessaries, had their
beds to make in snow or deep morasscs,
they were ashamed to complain, nding that

he was willing to share in the execution of
I whatever he commanded; and the eXulllpiC
l which he set to others, did more to inspire
l patience, obedience, love of order and disci
piiue, than the most rigid exercise of power

u could have done. The inuence of his ex
290
PHILAI)I*.LPHI A REPERTORY.
ample was still stronge. r, as it did not appear

to be the effect of constraint or political ne
cessity, but the amiable expression of a sym
pathising soul, leading him to condescend to
all capacities, exact in his own duties, and
great even in common'things. I-lis letters,

condential as well as oliicinl, were a full prool
of this.
Our encampment is so swampy, I feel,
says he, eXceedingly for the troops; and
provisions so scarce, it will require not only
despatch, but good fortune to keep us from
distress. Should things not go well, I trem
ble for the fate of the poor Canadians, who
have ventured so much. \Vhat shall I do
with them, should I be obliged to evacuate
this country? I have assured them, that the
united colonies will as soon give up Mass..

chusetts to resentment as them.
From the National Intelligencer.
OF 'EST FLORIDA.
Complaints have been made by the edi
tors in the United States that scarcely any

accounts exist of \Vest Florida. The reasons
are obvious to those who are acquainted with
the country. Little has been written on the
subject, because the subject itself is a bar
ren one. Florida presents but little interest
ing to the eye of the traveller, or of the po

litical economist. Few have visited it gene
rally; and the few that have visited it have
seen but little worthy of communicating. In

fact there is scarcely any such thing as th
velling in West Florida, except in the dis
trict bounding on the Mississippi. As most

of the settlements lie on the water, they are,
generally speaking, approached by Water on

ly; and yet it is a country of immense int
portance to the United States. The district
at present attached to the Mississippi terri
tory, called the district east of Pearl river,a
district twice as large as Pennsylvania, and

containing, perhaps, a greater proportion of
good land, is Watered by rivers which nu
their way to the gulf of Mexico, through the
sand hills and marshes of East and West

Florida. At no very distant day, therefore, it
may reasonably be Calculated, that one mil
lion of American citiZens, (to say nothing on
those who live on the Waters of the Missis
sippi) will find the possession of Florida es
sential to their happiness. Of how little mo
ment soever, therefore, Florida may be, con
sidered in itself, yet its relative importance

is great enough to account for, and to justily
the curiosity which exists concerning it.

West Florida may properly be consider
intercourse between them. The western dis

trict, called new Feliciana, which has lately
undergone a political revolution, compre
hends the country lying between the Mis
sissippi and Pearl river: and the eastern dis
pally poor, and principally from Georgia

There are also a few settlers, chiey Ame
ricans. upon 'I'ansippahoe, which discharges
itself into lake Ponchartrain: and there are
some Ftrench inhabittuits on the Chefuncti
trict, or West Florida proper, comprehends
river, still further to the east. The other
the country lying between Pearl river and

the Appalachicola. Pearl river, below the
American line, is a boundary rendered almost
necessary by the nature of the country. It
not only spreads over the country in differ
streams whichrlln into lakePonchartraiu are

Castain Bayou, B..y0u Lacombe and Bayou
Boucfouca. -There ace probably. .four. or ve
families on caelrol those creeks, who are ge
nerally French, and depend, as well as those
on Cheliincti, less on the cultivation of the
ent channels near the sea, but it has exten
sive swamps nearly impassable, set/oral miles

up the country, besides a considerable ex
tent of that kind of at, wet pine lands, which
are known in North Carolina and some other
places by the name of poccooson lands. Hence
the next neighbors on the opposite sides of
the river, distant perhaps not more than
twenty miles, have been obliged to go a
hundred miles round to see one another. A
soil, than on raising cattle, and preparing

lime, tar,piteh and turpentine for the mar
ket of New Orleans. The distance across the
lake from those settlements to the Bayou St.
John, is about ten leagues.
The country between these water courses
is generally the poorest kind of pine land:

\ and even a view of the beauties of the lake
late extension of settlements, however, has
in some degree reduced this inconvenience.

The western district, or New Felici.-.na,
is, in point of soil, by far the most valuable; l
l
and its position between the American set .

tlements in the Orleans and Mississippi ter- 3
ritories, renders its tenure by a foreign pow
er peculiarly inconvenient to the United
States.
Commerce suffers less by it than public
justice, and consequently the public morals
and public order: for in all ages the exist
ence of a sanctuary for criminals has alWayst
produced the greatest encouragement for !'
crimes.
is denied to all except to a few who might

have pleasant habitations on its margin fora
space of live or six miles adjacent to the
mouths of Chel'uncti and Castain Bayou. On
the west, the lake is principally bounded by
cypress sWanip, and on the east by marshes,
the soil of which is too loose to admit of be
ing travelled over. This kind of soil, il'it can
be called soil, this uninhabitable country, con
tinues on by the mouths of Pearl river to
within a few milesof the bay of St. Louis.
From beyond Bouclouca, there are no set'
tlements till you reach Pearl river itself and

its tributary stream the Bogue Chitto. Here
Dr. White, a member of congress from the
state of Tennessee, after having resided a
The eastern district of West Florida, short time near Natchez, attempted to form
though the most poor, is however by far the a settlement about uvelve years ago: but the
most interesting to the American nation, as Indians drove the new settlers away; and that
without it tut immensely valuable and exten- i ingenious and worthy gentleman buried him
sive tract of country will be dependent for self ne..r the mouth of Pascagola,_but n.dly
its prosperity on the pleasure of a foreign revived for a. short period and ended his days
in a situ..tion more congenial with his talents,
monarch.
The reputation of that part of New Feli as a judge at Atacapa, in the territory ol'Or
ciana, which lies adjacent to the Mississippi, leans. After the expulsion of Dr. \Vnite and
has long been deservedly high; and the lands his associates, no one ventured to attempt
upon Thompsons creek and the Bayou Sara the settlement of the country, till within the
ire regarded as among the most valuable last four years: and there are new again es
which bound upon the waters of that river. tablished a few families on Bogue Chitto and
The settlement is rich and populous and on the west side of Pcarl,river. The low lands,
consists princip..lly of Americans. The ri or swamps, as they are c..lled, of both those
vers Amite and Ticfaw, which discharge streams, are extensive: but those of Pearl ri
themselves into lake Maurepas, but which ver, below the mouth of Bogus Chitto, are
may be considered as connected by the lb too subject to inundation ever_to support a
berville and the Bayou Manrhac with the considerable population. As you emerge
Mississippi, as they are by the Manchac pass from the river swamps, you enter a VaSl pine
with lake Ponchartrain, are also said to be
forest, which, with only occasional interrup
bounded by considerable bodies of fertile tions at the several Water courses, stretches
lands, though the high grounds at a distance over the whole of West Florida. The staple
ed as divided into two districts, and indeed, from the rivers are of little value. Those ri
production of the agricultural part of this
it actually is so divided by the Spanish gov vers have of late years been much resorteu province, it is needless to mention, is cotton:
ernment, so that in fact there is little or no to by numerous bodies of emigrants, princi
but it is said that the sugar cane can be cul
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tivated with advantage in the lower part of

the settlement on the Mississippi.
The main part of New Feliciana and of
the province generally, is, however, at the
present day of little value, but for its timber
and pastor-age: and the latter, though it has
nutriment sufcient to keep the cattle in good
order almost all the year round, seems to
want that peculiar succulent quality which
is favorable to the production of milk and
the prots of a dairy. As to the population
Such reections as these were naturally

followed by an inquiry into the great pur
pose of my existence. Ever since I arrived
to manhood, cares and sorrows have been
my portion. But these I am willing to en

dure in common with the rest of mankind,
provided in the end there may be some re
compense for years of disappointment and
veXation. l reected on the attributes of De
ity, I remembered the mercies of God which
mass of it is adjacent to the Mississippi, and

if the calculations be accurate which have
are daily tasted even by the most wretched

son of mortality, and was convinced that the
innite goodness of Providence could never
prompt him to inict upon his children so
lately been made as to the number of men
many trials of mind and body, without some
capable of bearing arms, it is probable that
wise intention of subduing them to himself,

and nally receiving them to the enjoyment
of that felicity which is the portion of the
ever blessed inhabitants ofparadise.
But there are rules of conduct indispen
sable to those who would meet the last and
greatest gifts at the Almighty. These rules
have a tendency to root out every faVm-ite
of the western district of West Florida, the
there are in the whole district at least l5,000
souls.
For the Repertory.
THE CABln ET. No. XX.

"l'ls greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
To ask them what report they bore to heaven,

And how they might have borne more u Home news
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YOU:.O
On the evening of the day which introduc

ed the present year, I very calmly seated
myself before the re in my study and in
tended to give myself up to those reections
on passed life which are sometimes far from
being dis..greeable. I began to revolve in
my mind the circumstances of early youth;
vice, and to lay open the natural weakness
of the human character; to exhibit sin in its

own deformity," and to set forth the charms
of virtue, arrayed only in the simple orna
ments of sincerity and truth. This it is which
arights the human soul, nursed in trans
grcssion, and languishing with indifference;

and yet to practice these gospel precepts is
the chief end of man," that a suitable pre
paration may be made against the coming of
called-up the remembrance of my former that year, which shall usher us into our last
companions, and felt once more those de and narrow homes.
lightful sensations, which accompany the aC'
Such reections as the above present no
tions of careless infancy. The happy hours thing novel. They tell the dull, but impor
when a father beheld me with joy, and when tant tale, that man is mortal. Although they
a mothers knee sustained my little frame; comprise the best interests of man, they are
when I clung to the caresses of the latter. considered as uninteresting, and very many
and enjoyed the entertaining conversation of try to get rid of the iorture of thought by
the former, all, all ms with thrilling sensibi converting new yrars day, a proper season
lityi reected on my mind. I brought up the for solemn recollection, into a time for noisy
recollection of those spots where the prin mirth and disgusting licentiousness, One day
cipal scenes of my younger years were aet at least, might be very properly devoted to
ed; remembered the beauties of my favorite resolving upon future plans of more correct
walks, and pictured the delight I experien life, and in thinking upon the warnings of.
ced while reading some childish tale under the tomb.
'
the shade of a towering tree, or by the side
I have always looked upon it as a duty,
of a refreshing rivulet. I pursued the history which every man owes to his Creator and to
of my life a little further. I beheld my ten himself, to inquire at the close of each day,
der Paltllls laid low in the silent tomb, no into the business of it; and have always con
companion of my early happiness now in the sidered the day which introduces anew year
land of the living," except a few, tottering among the number of Gods mercies, as a
in the winter of life, and verging towards solemn call to examine the past, and to de
that everlasting home, which has been in all termine on the future. if every season of this
ages the nal lot of mortals. I beheld myself kind were improved to the CXLCllt which it
almost alone in the world, surrounded Only ought, the dominion of immorality and vice
by those whom I had not known at a time would be diminished in the world, and reli
when would have endeared them, and a pros ~gion and virtue would pl'oportiouably in
pect of soon quitting the stage of life for a Gnu.

succeeding generation.
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For the Repertory.

No. III.
Solitude! thou hast lost thy power of
charming," said the weeping Emma, as she
Was bedewing Edwins urn with the tears of
love.
No more with pleasure do I sit on the

foot of you oak, and listen to the sweet notes
of the feathered choir, as I was wont when
Edwin lived. Alas! my Edwin, will you no
more lead me to the shady bower? Will you
no more take upyour pipe to Emmas praise?
Peace, ye birds! Edwin no more echoes your
melliuous tones in mild symphonic song.
Droop, hang your heads, ye owercts of the
eld: no more will ye be plucked by Edwin's
hand, to grace his Emmas hair. Sighs, as
soft as the gentle zephvrs, stole from the
fair mourners heart. Why bursts the in

trusive sigh? Why falls the unavailing tear?
\Vill these recal my Edwin front the tomb?
Ah! no. Would to heaven" she paused;
yet it must be. The heaving bosom pants
for ease, the streaming eye is lled with
pe..cc. Edwin! shall I leave thee? It is on
ly for a moment: then shall we meet and
Pnlt no more. She arose, and sweetly spoke
.t fond farewel. Mild breath of spring! fan
lightly his grave. Feathered songsters of the
air! perch on the weeping willows, and in
plaintive strains sing his many virtues. Foot
of the passing stranger! rest a while at his
tomb. Children of the ner feelings! give a
tributary tear; let it fall on Edwins urn. Hush!
all is silence; the songsters of the Vale are
mute; the lambkin sports not on the mead: '

all are hushed to repose. Though silence
universal pervade, and solemn stillness rules
around, yet methinks it is the language of
eloquence, the praise ofmy Edwin. No long
er can we warble the soft notes of love; no
more can we frolic on the green, for Edwin
sleeps in the dust, and his Emma is sad!

Stop: Sol shrinks from the embritces of the
day, and hides his face behind the western
hills. I will hasten and seek some sequester
ed spot, near Edwins last mansion. At morn,
noon, and eve, will i visit the sacred abode;
bathe the tomb with my tears; and oft kiss

the garment that shielded his remains: then
pcnsively retire, and hide my inward grief
from the world, unknowing the cause of my
1 woes. Ton solar re rolutions have since pas

sed away; the village swains press Emma to
love, as she is loved. Tears forbid utterance:
sne mswers them not; but Waving her snow
white llalld, true as the needle to the pole,
it points to Edwins urn.

a..
Clh'lkllo.
Who makes quick use of a moment is a
PETER PEACEABLE.
genius of prudence.
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For the Repertory.
ANECDOTIANA.
No. III.
MUSIC.
Although music may be, and has been
prostituted to the worst of purposes, it ought
The duke of Burgundy died of grief on

the seventh day after the decease of his
duchess.
PATIENCE.
Bishop Cowpers wife, fearing that he
the necessity of profound meditation, and an
might injure his health, when he was com
God into seurrility and abuse, to advance in

palliation of his crimes, in mitigation of his
punishment. Does he plead ignorance? The
delightful soother of the wearicd mind. The
piling his dictionary, one day, took all his

notes, which he had been eight years col
lecting, and burned them. \Vhen she ac
quainted him with it, he only said, Woman,
thou hast put the to eight years study more.
POPULARITY.
7
When Phocion made a speech that was
applauded by the populace, he asked, have
I not said something foolish?"
Lord Manseld, in his speech on Wilkess
heart dances at the sound of the lyre; fresh
trial, said, I do not affect to scorn the opi
not, on that account, to be considered as an
evil. Wise and good men have found it a

pleasing recreation from business, , or the
labor of study.
Socrates, when far advanced in years, learn
ed to play upon several musical instruments,

and took great delight in it.
Dr. Knox says, that music is the most
awful preparation, to meet that bOUlllt from

whence no traveller can ever return," what
has that wretch, who has denied a betieeent
Creator, and turned the ordinances of his
plea itself carries with it, evidence of accu
mulated guilt? Does he rely upon any good

deeds he may have done? Those deeds were
not entered into for virtue's sake, and there
fore cannot be reckoned upon virtues roll.

Upon what, then, canst thou depend? Upon
nought but unbounded repentance; that will
appease the anger of a justly offended Deity;
that alone, through the blood of a blessed
Redeemer, will rescue thy soul from those
nion of mankind. I wish earnestly for popu

lat-ity; I will seek, I will have popularity; unceasing, incxpressible torments, the inhe
once more, like the sun after a mist, in the that popularity which follows, and not that ritance of all who die in their sins.
which is run after. It is not the applause of
CICERO.
blue expanse of azther.
a day; it is not the huzzas of thousands, that
THE MINISTER nsrnoven.
For the Repertory.
A certain minister, who attended more to can give a moments satisfaction to a rational
the pleasures of hunting, than to the souls of being: that mans mind must, indeed, be a
SELECTOR. No. VIII.
his people, was once pursuing a hare, with weak one, and his ambition of a most do
What is, then, this secret instinct, that
some companions. Puss had given him the praved sort, who can be captivated by such makes us in love with the future, and con
slip, and a quaker happening to pass by, the wretched allurcments, or satised with such stantly draws the mind to the time at which
Nimrod preacher rode up to him, saying, momentary gratications.
we have not yet arrived? It is Hope! Hope
<0.
Obadiah, have you seen the hare? Hast
carries its insolving rays into the recesses of
For the Repertory.
thou lost him, friend? replied the quaker.
a dungeon; smiles on the pillow of the sick;
ON ATHEISM.
Yes,truly, returned the preacher. If I
and watches night and day at the door of the
Were the bare," observed Prim, I would
Behold, frail man, the works of Omnipo indigent. The Creator," says the author of
run where thou wouldst never nd me. tence! And durst thou presume to dispute the Hemiade, has placed us two friendly
\Vherc the dl is that? asked the minis their origin? View the chrystal heavens, il beings, constant and amiable inhabitants of
ter. W'hy," returned the other, I would lumined by the beams of the sun! or the pale the earth; our supporters in peril, our trea
run into My etudyll" Have we no hunting moon revolving in her sphere, spreading her sures in indigence; hope and fear, the foes
silver lustre oer the earth! or the traversing of care.
ministers now a days?
planetary orbs, which through the sky se
PASSIONS.
Religion makes hope a virtue. Paganism
The inuence of the passions upon the rene, twinkle in splendor! or cast thy eyes has made it a divinity. The poets represent
human frame is indeed astonishing. Many beneath, and mark this world, (whose pages it as the sister of sleep, which suspends our
instances are recorded of sudden death by by thy vileness thou dost blot) those won sorrows, and death that ends them. Pindar
derous evolutions of Omniseience. Compare calls hope the nurse of old age." It sus
receiving joyful tidings.
Pliny informs us that Chilo, the Lacede the noblest pageants formed by art, with even talnS us in every period of life; it blossoms
tnonian, died upon hearing that his son had the smallest of all nature's works, the boast in every season, like the myrtle that pre
of historians, those pyramids of Eg_. pt, whose serves its vel'dure through the year. It is not
gained a prize in the Olympic games.
Valerius Maximus tells us that Sophocles, towering height, and spacious billk witnal, without reason. A certain author says, hope
in a contest of honor, died in consequence of .astonish mankind, will; the weak ant, who .nakes us live. The human mind is essen
culls a store from summers bounteous hand, tially active; when it ceases to hope, it begins
decision in his favor.
spirits animate the veins; the clouds of de

jection are dissipated, and the soul shines
a..
It is recorded, that an ancient matron, who,
from want to shield her, in the winters rage,
to languish. It has been observed, that a.
while she was in the depth of distress, from

the tidings of her son having been slain in
then their sublimity is rendered up, and their

proud beauties" vanish into nought. Know
sentiment is more or less permanent in pro

portion to its violence: nothingis more ect'
battle, died in his arms, in the excess of joy,
Ihcntt thy meanness, nor dare to question
ing than surprise, anger, fright. Nature,de
\tpon his safe return.

A gentleman, condemned to death by Hen
ry VIII. received a paidon a few hours be
with impiety Almighty power! W'herelore

doubt? Thyself, with demonstrative energy
doth prove the falsity of thy belief. And still
thy base assuming spirit doth aspire to argue
against the Great Supreme of all, tempting
sirous that hope should be extinguished Only

with life, has made it a milder sentiment.
Most of the passions are like the burning
rays of the meridian sun. The illusions of
fore the time xed for his execution, and
immediately died for joy.
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Excessive grief has also been frequently

the cause of sudden death.
Plautius looked upon the dead body of his

wife, threw himself upon it, and immediate
.Iy expired.
hope are the beams of the moon, shining
mildly in the night. Hope makes upon the

that vengeance fall, tenfold in 'wrath, anu soul the same impression that green color,
sink thee to perdition. For when time, that which is its symbol, produces on the sight.
unerring messenger of Death, on his swilt But what gives a peculiar charm to hope,is
his vengeaneell Avauttumistaken mortal, lest
wing, shall nod thee to the tomb, and evincev

the tender melancholy that always accompa
\
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I laugh at your fury, your dangers deride
nies it; the comparison between the present

and the future; the privation of the good, and
And feeble, sunk down on the ground!
,.
And why sinks sir Blattleburgh thus in despair?
the perspective of its enjoyment, produces
Said a voice that came murmuriiig by;
a mixture of sadness and joy that takes en

tire possession of the soul, and lls it with
Will this ever conquer Palmira the fair!

For shame! cease thy sorrow, thy anguish forbear,
delicious sensations. How often in the times
Nor heave that hold breast wnh a slglll
of revolution and civil discord, have victims

been given up to the sword by the very per
Come, shakeoff this lethargy, rouse thee, hll knight,

Let tliy soul be as blithsome as mine;
See Palmira the lair thy embraces invite,
For twelve y ing hours shall not speed their ight,
sons on whom they had heaped favors? When

so many unfortunate beings have been be
lire Palmira, I swear, shall be thine!
trayed by their friends and abandoned by
their relatives, what an aecting spectacle to Who art thou,said the lord.and unclosed his wan eye,
behold Hope, still stretching out her htuid!
Thus disturbing the night 5 solemn gloom?
Hope alone remained at the post of friend I charge thee to leave me despairing to die!
1 am one, said the voice in a hollow reply,
ship; at its voice the doors of eternal bliss

ew open, and the scaffold became the lad
Who mourns thy deplorable doom!
But now from his grasp sunk Palmira away,

The chamber around was illumined like day,
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. See the phantom the scroll to his terror display. *1 5'

99! As his stature gigantic he rcard!
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l The paper unfolded, O' dreadful to tell,
Ah! why did sir Blatileburgh sign!
He shriek'd while these words made his bosomto

swell,
Seal Wilb blood rbattby wul witb lb: m'e: abai.

tltiicll,
And Palmira the fair .iball be tbiru!

That was 1, the Palmira you claspd in your arms.
Roar'd the sprite with satirical air;
And now have you, knight, unsuspecting of harms,
On the couch of your luxury rifled her charms,
And answer me, was she not fair?
I saw that your passion would lead you astray.
Thus encouraged, presented the scrolk

der of heaven! But if hope has sometimes Sir Blaitlcburgh darting a terried gaze,
The spirit immortal you barter'd away,
Strove
to
y
from
the
horrors
around;
consoled the unhappy, it often becomes, by
Palmira the fair was the price l'd to pay
mistaking its objects, a source of care and But chaiii'd were his feet, as he stood in amaze,
For noble sir Blattleburghs soul!
On his terror struck eye burst adim lambeiii blaze,
sorrow. Nothing is so nearly connected with
From an aperture broke in the ground!
ll WJhen like that Palmira [came to your bed,
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.
I,
despair as foolish expectations. Hope does
Scarce the noon of the night passd away,_
The ame as it rose from the spot appeard blue,
not always take reason for its guide: it fol
And a form, of an aspect benign,
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1 Ere the maid to your couch you triumphanily led,
lows more easily the imagination, which al Slow rising. majestic, the aperture through, '- 7 ; Your embraces eluded, then lllllllllly Hedi >391!
And thus she returns for her prey!
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ways atters its portraits. Hope also often Held a scroll,part utiloldcd,w hich show d to the view,
deceives itself, from want of experience, for
-" And Palmira lbejair rball be home!"
experience is only acquired by a knowledge

of the past,and hope knows only the future.
Thus our hopes are often no more than the
dreams of the night; and we resemble the
glass man in the story, who overset his for
tune with a kick of his foot, and awuke from
his reverie to disappointment.
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Shall be mine! cried the knighgshall Palmira be mine?

I swear, cried the sprite, on my soul,
Ere twelve hours are past, shall Palmira be thine,
And thou shalt enjoy her, consent but to sign,

Unseen, the contents of the scroll!
Unseen! cried the knight, and renewd his alarms,
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BLATTLEBURGH AND PALMIRA.
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Thefollowiiig relation is intended to show,
Perhaps tis the price of my soul!

II
Shall Gondibeit lay in lalmiras bright arms, b-i
Roard the phantom, and banquet iincheck'd on her
charms,
Or, Will Blattleburgh now sign the scroll?
Now lightning struck horror to Blattleburgh's soul,

As it darted around the herce ash;
The muttering thuiiders commenced their hoarse roll,
The thick; batter'd roof sunk beneath their congl,
And brolte with a horrible crash!
.
,uls
woiri'
And now through the gap, lo! the furiea in view,
Appeard with a terrible y'elli,
Again through the chamber a taper burnt blue,

They, Blattleburgh, come, said the phantom, for you,
For Blattleburgh, shouted the horrible crew,
, 1r,
_ With us, a companion to dwell! .
,5.
And now as the senseless sir Blaiileburgh lay, 5,-,.

_ ,H
Young Gondibert wed her! now perish the boy,

'l'ranspierced with despair at the sight, ,1 *
when passion has taken possession of the
Death and Hell tor his ruin combine!

They seized Wllh demoniac pleasure their prey
soul. how easy" it is to be allured into the
Though tbar were the price of the heavenly joy,

And through the crushd ceiling they bore him away,
commission of the most atrocious crimes to And tbi: stood exuliing, my soul to destroy,
To regions of fathomlcss night!
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Yet Blattleburghs ready to sign!
Obtain the object of our desire, and with What
Now soon was Palmira sir Gondiberts bride,
blind avidity we rush forward, without in The phantom, as fear fraught sir Blattleburgh stood,
The priest quicltly blest the young pair, 1,
And gazed With a Wild, vacani stare;
quiring for a momeiii, the consequences of
Though evry device has: sir Blatilebuigh tried,
Pierced his arm, from the orince issued the ood,
our haste.
Come seal the agreement, sir klllglll, With thy blood, Sugges.ed by love, or by hate to divide
Sir Blaitlehurghyigbarm'd with Palmira the fair,
Long strove her aeciions to gain;
Full of-en he utterd his griefto the air,

0ft the night would disturb with his cries ofdespair,
As to win her he wood. but in vain!
That gives thee Palmira the lair!
Tis done,the dread compact in seal'd. said the knight,

Tis done! said the tiend in (ilagulSt';
And when shall the maid my embraces invite?
Ask'd the lord, and the phantom while taking his
Young Gmidibert fetterd the heart of the maid,

She plighted her faith to be his;
ight,
Soon, soonl in wild triumph replies.
The youth from Palmira the fair!

VALERIAN.
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For the Repertory.
,s-p.
STANZAS 'IO GLORMON.
l strayd through ilie bowers to minstrelsy dear,
AndM on theharps that melodiously mg,
The marriage some unforeseen accident stayd,

Though Gondibert chided the cause that delayd
One fast. eeting moment his bliss!

Sir Blaitleburgh olt, when beneath the blue wave
Sunk the sun, would away to the shore;
A: wild as the wind beaten sea would he rave,
While the sea mockd his sorrow, his anguish would

brave.
1ft
And drown his despair with its mar!

Thus terrible. once he the ocean deed,
Which then in dread majesi. fnwndi
Ride tempest: on whirlwmds,sir Blattlcburgh

cried,
Lord Blattleburgli hastend his couch to resume,

And think on the blessing so near;
How soon would he tarnish Palmiras sweet bloomi

W hen lo! a faint taper illuniined the room,
And he saw his Palmira appear!

Hg sprang from his couch. caught the maid in his
arms,
Bpt one, erst most t'uiielul to soul and to ear,
On' the bough of a willow neglectcdly hung. i

.sq.
The breeze swept its chords, a soft murmur arose,
And seem'd the neglect of ihe barn to deplore?

The murmur s0 mournful soon sunk to repose,
And the breeze, though it sighd, wak_d its music
wi
no more.
Bore thither again her sweet frrmt
And Blattleburgh revelling now in her charms,

Thought not on 'he phantom, forgot his alarms,
Nor heeded the gainermg storm!
Twas Glormons; the minstrd. whose numbers so
sweet
I
i
Y 11", .12'.
Have often awakend torraplture the soull
Whose sirains [taught with feeling: .with softness

Now night had pass d onward to noon on her way,
. 1,4
._,
replete,
Yet eeting the moments appeardi

0ft the heart from its grief: imperceptibly stole.
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PHI LADELPHIA REPERTO R Y.
2 94
:=====:__
Ah! why, 1 exclaimd. hangs this harp on the tree?
'Why hushd are its breathings in silence profound!

ls its master no longer from pensiveness free,
Or does care lure his muse front its magical round!
If aiiction has strewn oer his pillow its thorns,
And veild the brigltt sun of his fancy itt gloom:
Oh! soon may his harp leave the bough where it

mourns,
And the ow'rets of health waft to him their per
fume.
For the Repertory.

TO RALPH RISIBLE, ESQ.
It brings the tears into my eyes to see that

you have published Sam Sorrowful's olcgiztc
lines on my friend Dowlass, for Sam has left
a stain on Dicks memory by saying that ha
dt'ed in debt. This animudvcrsion has arous
ed Dick's ghost, and I trust that you will
publish the following in your, as it ought to
But then, thought 1, how will our readers stare,

To see old Peter Peaceable appear,
Dressd in a owing robe of spark'ling rhyme;
Will they not cry, '- The fellows lost his wits,
To take upon him such mischievous ts!
Tis time to close the Cabinet, high time!
" What impudence!" the poets too, may say,

" Tis time to throw our silver pen away,
\Vhcn dotards take to manufact'ring verse;

And sit them down, so amrnus, to compose,
Soft, sighing sonnets to their mistress nose,
So again shall his harp breathe its numbers around,

And the bosom once more with its sweetneSs
_ subdue;
be styled, Cryiana, to inform the public that
Dicks score is wilted of.

PETER PITIFUL.
Nor you, subscribers sweet poeticfeetlere,
Again shall his brow with fresh garlands be crown'd,

Entwined for the laureat,and moisten'tl with dew.
AROUET JUN.
The night it was dark and the way it was drear,

No mortal was stirring, the church yard was near.
When I came from the ale house where long I had

been,
\Vith some jolly fellows to spend a gay e'en!
For the Repertory.
And make the press their icy stu rehearse!"

Be not alarm'd, too apprehensive readers,
In lieu of all your rhyme, a precious load!
Old Peter Peace-able has at him down,
With pure ltitettlhns, just to wear the town,

And you, with this remuneration ac'e
- PETER PEACEABLE,
STAXZAS.
Alone did Orlando his pathway pursue,

On the banks of a stream, and most dark was his
.___._
For the Repertory.
As 1 passd by the stone wall a thunder bolt fell,

And I heard in the church yard a terrible yell;
ELEGIAC SONNET,
I loukd to behold who the horrid yell gave,
way;
The moon veiid her light; not a star met his view;
All was silent around, save the roar of the spray.

He thought of the days of his youth that were ed,
When his heart not one thtob of atction had
known;
When mirth. by the hand of gay thoughtlessness led,

Reignd over the bosom so truly its own.
The friend of his gambols arose iii his mind,
And ev'ry fond scene to his boyhood most dear,
Row scatterd afar, like the leaf by the wind
01' autumn that leaves the dark forest so drear.

He sigh'd; twas-the tribute to memory due,
Then he thought how delusively gay were the

joys
~
Of this being, so transiently fair to the view,
When 1 saw Dicky Dowlass come forth from the
On Emma's welcoming me to Philadelphia with a

smile
grave!
Hast thou ne'er seen Spring's childthe primrose fair,

A cap made of Spanish tobacco he wore,
And his body with nocatoche snuii' was spread o'er;
Twixt his lips a segar that was six feet about,
While a monstrous large quit! pushid his lanthem
jaws out
Now under each arm hed a keg of pig-tail;
And thus he exclaimd, - Peter Pitiful, hail!
Nay, wipe oil' the tear of distress from thine eye,

And do not to think of my destiny cry."
Appalld at the spectre a loud scream I gave,
Expand its tender bottom !0 the day;

Then smile, as it imbibed the genial air,
And joyous,hail the vivil'ying ray.
When, soon, alas! some angry. wintry cloud,
Athwart the skies an envious gloom would spread,
Chill its young bres all its prosperh shroud.

And scatter hail. tempestuous round its head!v
Even so, has joy d the scion of mv hope,
When Emma, like the sun, complacent smiled,
Even so arose its brightest prospects up,
And askd of poor Dowlass what he wish'd to have;
For all that your Peter has got to bestow,
Till dash d by fear, and by despondence wild:
You shall have if youll only rest quiet below."
And. as the sun gives owers and clouds their birth,
" Alas! he replied, " my poor ghost is dis'ress'd,

And till one thing is done 1 can never have rest;"
"' Tell me quickly, what is it, I cried, and youll sec,
The bop: her goodness cheers, is blighted bv her
Eer cloudless content the erce foeman destroys.

Not long was his soul thus absorbd in pale grief,
For a ray of complacency smiled on his heart;
The accents of tenderness, fraught with relief,

From the lipsofa sylph, the sweet balm did impart.
She had heard of his lays, oer his sorrows she
mourn'd.
And the dew drop of sympathy fell from her eye;
The re of grief in his bosom that burn'd
\Vas quench'd by her tear, he was soothd with
her sigh.
Because I departed- so much in his debt;

Now this is a thing I would scornd to have done,
Oh woman! so lovely, so soothingly kind,
591'! well on yourngen and wipe aj'my score!"

PETER PlTlk'UL.
But you know that of cash, my dear Peter, ld none.
if danger his terrible countenance show'd,
By perils encompass'd, if thou art but nigh,

Though uneven and rugged and fearful the road,
Thy presence impels us each fear to defy.
Oh! blest be the sigh, and the tear drop that falls
From the bright eyes of woman, so dear to the
soul!
'
May it ever relieve the full heart of its woes,
And the inuence of somw forever control!
Orlando has left the dark pathway of care;
But he ne'er will forget his oblations to pay;

To tell. that a desert, if woman be there,
18 Heat though unknown to the beams of the day.

ORLANDO.
From the Evening Ledger.

A country damsel briskly rode
Up to a grocers door;
Dismounted quickly, tied her horse,
And steppd into his store.
But now I would settle, and for this great end,
She bought; and, to remount, sprang on
I pray you go visit Rappee as a friend,
A tierce, whose head fell in;

She stood amazed. surrounded by
Molasses to the chin
And while he is busy meat you to the door.
I thought before, the grocer cry'd,
Thou dearest delight of the soul melting mind,

How thy name with warm transports enraptures
the ear!
EDWIN
_._
That I will perform it whatever it be."

Says he, I I left Peter Rappee in a pet,
I The daystar of bliss to illumine our sphere,
worth!
Thar
For the Repertory.

To the Readers and Correspondents of the
Repertory.
Delighted much, Ive feasted for some time,
Upon the weeklt treats 0t tasty rhyme,
Which our young poets, pillur~ of the nation!

For readers and the writers of dull prose,
Have had a deal of trouble to compose,
And neer till now, thought of remuneration.
madam, you were neat;
But wife or widow now, or maid,

Ill warrant you are sweet.
Drawn out with tierces knocltd-in head.

Away the damsel rode,
.
And s'reams of sweetness, as she went,
From all her body owd.
" There is another and a better world."

humans/mu: occunntss'ce.
And all at once it poppd into my head,

Old prosing moralists wrll neer be read,
Such as grave Greg'ry and the peaceful Peter;
While lines so abort. and so ltl-dlUllS ow,
And all good critics readily allow,
That poetry than prose by far is sweeter.
Grmtadius, a physician, and a man of emi'
nence in piety and charity, had in his youth

some doubts of the reality of another lifc- 6
Saw one night in a dream a young man of!
celestial gure, who bade him follow him
PHILA DELPHI A REPER TORY.

Tlm apparition led him into a lTlnglllCClll
city, in which his ears were charmed by
of the days occupation; in course of which,
melodious music, which far exceeded the
they drew out their dirks, and wiped from
most enchanting harmony that he had ever

he..rd.To the inquiry from whence proceeded
those ravishing sounds, hisconductoranswer
ed, that they were the hymns of the blessed in
the handles, clotted blood and hair. Madam
29 .5
cups, they talked about the bloody business
' anemone.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 181 I.

O. sat with them, undismayed by their fright
ful deportmcnt. After drinking several bot~
So diicult is it to carry on, for any length
tles of Champaigne and Burgundy, these sav of time, any publication, without some typo
heaven, and disappeared. Gennadius awake, ages begun to grow good humored and seem
graphical errors, that those which may have
and the impression of the dream was dissi ed to be completely fascinated by the amiable been discovered by the intelligent reader, in
pated by the transactions of the day. The and hospitiable behaviour of the fair landlady. the Repertory, we trust, his candor will ex
following night the same young man appear After carousing till midnight, they pressed cuse and correct; we hope they will have been
ed. and asked whether he recollected him? her to retire, observed they had been treated found to be but few and trivial. There is,
The melodious songs which I heard last night, so handsomely, they were convinced Mons. however, one erratum in the XI. No. of St.
answered Gennadius, are now brought again 0. had been falsely accused, and was no ene Orme, which, in justice to that worthy and
to my memory. Did you hear them, said the my to the good cause,- they added that they admired poet, we wish to present corrected
apparition, dreaming or awake? I heard them found the wines excellent, and after drink in these words, (line 22.) As lranouil I re
in adream. True, replied the young man, and ing two or three bottles more, they would clined upon my couch, &c. which at once
our present conversation is a dream; but leave the house, without causing her any renders the sense complete, and gives the
where is your body. while I am speaking to reason to regret their admission. Madam O. intended force to the sentence: to err is
you? In my chamber. But know you not that with all the appearance of perfect tranquility human," says the poet; but we hope we
your eyes are shut, and that you cannot see? and condence in their promises, wished her shall never be ashamed to confess a known
My eyes, indeed, are shut. How then can unwelcome visitors a good night; and after error.
you see? Gennadius could make no answer. visiting her children in their rooms, she threw
The smoothly owing stanzas of Arouet
In your dream, the eyes of your body are herself upon her bed, with a loaded pistol in jun. are poetically sweet to us, and we think
closed and useless; but you have others with each hand, and overwhelmed with suppres
cannot fail to excite kindred sensations in the
whichyou see me. Thus, after death, although sed agony and agitation, slept soundly until lovers of the muse of sensibility; we trust
the eyes of your esh are deprived of sense she was called by her servants, two hours they will be soothing and grateful to the
and motion, you will remain alive, and capa after the wretches had left the house.
feelings of our respected, though long ab
_..
ble of sight and of hearing by means of your
sent friend, to whose merits they owe their
THE PIOUS nocus. A FRAGMENT
spiritual part. Cease then to entertain a doubt
birth, and to whom they are addressed as an
Have you ought more whereof your con
of the great truth of another life after death!
honorary tribute. It is perhaps nnccessary
By this occurrence,Gennadius airms that he science should be purged? said the venera to say, that we shall feel happy in being fa
became a sincere believer in a future state. ble father Ahseini, addressing a kneeling sin vored with further effusions from the pleas
ner at the confessional. Yes, holy father, re
.._'
ing pen of Arouet jun.
.1) '
plied the penitent, I have committed the foul
.lnecdote from Carr's Stranger in France.
For the satisfaction of our subscribers,
The hotel ofmadam O. was visited during sin of theft; I have stolen this watch, Wlll you nearly all of whom wished to have the Re?
the reign of Robespierre, by a party of those accept it? Me! exclaimed the pious priest, pertory from the beginning, we announce
murderers, who were sent for from the fron me receive the fruit of viilanyl how darest _, the completion of the rr/Iub/icalion of the
tiers which divide Francehfrom Italy, and thou to tempt me to the cOnnntssion of so ijiru 811 numbers, which (as promised in the
who were, by that arch end, employed in abominable a crime? Go instantly, return the , prospectus) has been done', in order to meet
all the butcherics and massacres of Paris, watch to its owner. l have already offered y the demands consequent upon' the rapid in-_
entered the peaceful village of la Reine in it to him, replied the culprit, and he refused crease of the subscriptions: decient les
search of Mons. 0. His lady saw them ad to receive it again; therefore, holy father, I may, therefore, be made complete, and a few
vancing, and anticipating their errand, had \t beseech you to who it. Peace wretch! rejoined new subscribers supplied from the beginq
just time to inform her husband of their ap h Anselm, you should have repeated the offer. ning, if application be made without delay.
pro..ch, who left his chateau bya private door, i; I did repeat it, holy father, but he persisted
and secreted himself in the house of a neigh .in the refusal! Then I must absoive thee'
MARRIED,
bor. hladum O. with perfect composure, went 'i from the sin thou hast committed. The puri
On New Years evening, by the Rev. Dr.
out and received them in the most gracious ,, lied catholic had scarcely departed, when the Rogers, Mr. Jose/ll: Taylor, of Chester coun
manner. They sternly demanded Mons. O. astonished lather disctn'cred that his own ty, to Miss 1l'Iary H'camn, of Delaware coun
She informed them that he had left the coun I: watch had been stolen from the place here ty, Pennsylvania.
try, and after engaging them in conversation, it had been deposited near the contessionary.
On Saturday evening, the.5th inst. by the
she conducted them into her drawingroom,
same, Mr. Dennis Kain, to Miss P/lrbe Ro
and regaled them with her best wine, and
An Irish seaman aboard a merchant ship gen, both of this city.
made her servants attend upon them with having had an accident with the tea kittle,
unusual deference and ceremony. Their ap went to his otccr, and scratching his head, thesame, Mr. Edward Edwards, to Miss
pearmcc was altogether horrible. They wore Arr-ah now, will your honor be pleased to [Mary Paiaz, both of Delaware county, Penn
'
i
leather aprons, which were sprinkled all over tell. me whether a thingJcan be said to be sylvania.
+.
with blood; they had large horse pistols in
their belts, and adirk and sabre by their sides.

Their looks ware full of ferocity; they spoke
a harsh dissonant PaLOiS language. Over their
lost when one knows where it isi '_No,

Pat," replied the officer. W'hy then, by Ja
sus, sir, your my kettle is sale, for it is at the
ult. Mrs. Margaret Smith, in the 80th year
bottom of the sea."
of her age.
DIED,
At Arncystown, Nrw Jersey, on the 7th
296
, M, H!!! E! ,5
PHIL ADELPHIA
,
,
At an election of oicers of the Ameri

can Philosophical Society, held at their hall
on the 4th January 18H, the following of

cers were chosen:
unrnn'ronr.
.
governor would without hesitation deliveriup

HEALTH OFFICE,
Mobile to any oicer of the United States,
January 5, 18l1.
who would receive possession of it.
Ninional Intelligencer.
President, Thomas Je'erson.
Vice Presidents, Caspar \Vistar, Benjamin

5. Barton, Robert Patterson.
Serretaries, Thomas C. James, Thomas
'I'. Hewson, Nathan Chapman, B. Allison.

Counsellors for three years, Adam Scy
bert, Jonathan B. Smith, James Gibson, J. H.
Brinton. l
.
Curators, Zaccheus Collins, J. R. Smith,
Robert Hare.
Treaau', John Vaughan.
Conacllors by former elections.
For two years, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Jo
nathan \Villianis, Mahlon Dickerson, W'il

liam White.
For one year, Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin
Rush, William Tilghman, Nicholas Collin.
.
Sociely of Artists of the United States.
Secretary, Thomas Sully.

*
Upwards of twelve thotIsand tons of ship

ping (exclusive of schooners and sleeps)
were launched from the banks of the Mer
rimaCk river, during the year lBlO.
il'igilnli the 29th December 1810, to the 5th January
-.-
Dimmer.
mlv cb.
Cancer
2 U
l O
zerland, in the Indiana Territory, the Swiss 1 Chtlic
emigrants have made, during the last season, Consumption oflungs 10 2
Convulsions
0 3
American Virzcyurda. 3V8 learn that at Swit
nearly three thousand gallons of wine. Time,

however, is necessary to bring their vine
yards, as well as their wine, to any degree
of perfection.
Since they purchased of the United States
the land which they nowpossess, some or
the company returnulto their native coun~

try, to bring from thence the remainder 01
their property and a grea er variety of vine
slips; but, owing to the peculiar situation 01'
that country, they, as yet, have not been able
to accomplish their return, which has very
much retarded that rapid cultivation of the
grape, which would- otherwise have taken
place.
Dropsy
Diurnaad.
Insanity
1
l'alsey
1
Pleurisy
~
1
Small pox, natural 1
0 Still born
Dropsy of the breut 2 0 Unknown

Fever
Fever, nervous
1
I
cb.
O
0
l
0
1 O
0
0
-
25 IO
Fever, puerperal
1 0
--
Whooping cough
0 2
Total 35
lnam. oi bowels
l 0
Under 1 year
7 Between 50 and GO
3
Between 1 and 2
2
60
70
I
2
5
O
70
80
2
5
10
0
80
90
0
10 20
1
90
100
0
20 30
7
Unknown
0
30
40
8
_
40
50
4
Total 35
The attention which, we understand, they

At the annual meeting of the Society, held
on the 2d inst. at the Academy of Fine Arts, habitually bestow upon their vineyards, will
the following gentlemen were elected ofcers render them more and more important with
each succeeding year, and ere long, will en
for the current year:
able them to supply a great portion of the
President, George Clymer.
Nat. Intel.
Vicr Presidents,William Rush, Rembrandt western country with wine.
Peale, B. H. Latrobe, George Murray.
Treasurer, John Valla'nce.
December 31
January
1
2
9 oclock. 12 o'clock. 3 o'clock:

28
31
32
22
26
26
30
34
32
28
32
32
45
28
37
29
43
29
42

THE SONNAS.
Extract from the Notes attached to Dr.

Morse's Sermon before the Society for pro
pagating the Gospel among the Indians and
others in North America; a work'which has
been much approved of, and cannot be too
LEISURE HOURS;
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
BY JOSEPH BUTTON,
Author of the Heiress of Sobeiski, M
Price one dollar.
generally read and admired.

f In the Caucasion Mountains, not far from

The
the Black Sea, is a people called Sonnas, from

their country of this name, amounting to about
200,000 souls, inhabiting 60 villages, some oi
A ROMANCE.
their homes; Col. Kcmper, John Caller, and
which are towns of 900 houses. These peo

ple acknowledge Jesus Christ to be their only
King and Saviour. They pray that God would
Price one dollar.

Subscriptions received by the author. No. 505115;)
pen street, and at the ofce ofthe Philaddphla Re
J. P. Kennedy have been arrested and bound

over by the civil authority of the United
bless them for Christ's sake, observe the sab

bath, have priests who baptise their children,
Our information from the Mobile, on our

southern frontiers, is down to the 12th De
cember.
Kcmper and his officers have returned to
States.
On the evening of the 10th ult. an attack

was made on a small body of Kempers men,
about thirty in number, by the commandant
at Mobile, with about one hundred Spaniards.
Bee. The commandant surprized them abou
l l oclock at night, getting between the cen
tincls and these few troops be'l'ore he was
discovered. Kempers party was completely
muted, four or ve killed, three wounded,
and seven taken prisoners, with their little
all of military stores. The Spaniards lost two
men killed, and four men wounded.

it was reported at Mobile at the lust dates.
that a number of troops were on, their w..y
lrom Baton Rogue to Mobile.
It was the general opinion there, that the
I I
and administer the sacrament of the Supper.

They believe in a future judgment. They
are said, some of them, to labor under deep
convictions of sin, and to pray night and day.

They consider their preservation, and the pre
servation of christianity among them, as a mi
racle. They inoculate their children for the
small pox; have gardens inclosed with stone
walls, and abundance of fruit, and live in har
mony and comfort. [This is an ofcial docu
ment from the Rev. Mr. Bruntons letter
lrom Karass, Tartary, Feb. l806.]
&
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scribers to pat quarterly in advance, distant subscri
bers half \early in advance

It shall be delivered to subscribers in the city eves
ry Saturdav, and forwarded to those in the country
by the earliest conve) ance.
.
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Primers exchanging with the Philadelphia Roper

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PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and Published by Dennis Beam,
' @iljifabefpia@epertm
VOL. I.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 19. um.
The Canadian expedition is one of those

measures, which the enemies of American
smuoms or GENERAL \iow'rnovmtv.
Written during the Revolution, by Dr. Smith, of peace having rendered necessary, will now
striv eto misconstrue into hostility and of
Philadelphia.
(Concluded)
fence. But when authentic proofs were ob
These sentiments were worthy of a heroic tained, that a people professing religion, and
soul, and of the faith he had pledged to those subjected to laws. different from ours, to
people. Nor is he less to be venerated for gether with numerous tribes of savages, were
instigated and preparing to deluge our
his tender regard towards his own army; in
stead of making a merit of his own abilities frontiers in blood, let God and the world
(which were in deed more than ought to be judge whether it was an act of offence, or
mentioned in this place) he often seeks to rather, whether it was not mercy to them,
conceal them; ascribing any little fault or to ourselves, to the whole British empire, to
tardiness in his young troops to their want use the means in ouriower of frustrating
of experience in forming, to their duty, to the barbarous attempt.
constant succession of bad weather, and the
Indeed there was benevolence in the whole
like; still encouraging them to nobler efforts plan of his expedition. It Was to be executed
in future. And ifany impatience of discipline not so much by force as by persuasions; still
appeared, he nobly attributes it to that spirit appearing in the country with respectable
of freedom which men, accustomed to think strength, as might protect the inhabitants
for themselves, will even bring into camps from the insults and vengeance of those who
were striving to make them lift up their re
with them.
His principles of loyalty to his sovereign luctant arm to. the shedding fraternal blood.
(whom he had long served, and whose true It was further wished to kindle up the ex
glory consists in healing those streaming piring lamp of liberty among them; to open
wounds) remained rm and unshaken. Love their eyes to its divine eulgence; and enable
to our brethem whom we must oppose; the them to raise their drooping heads, and claim
interchange of good oices, which had so its blessings as their own.
His own superior military knowledge he
intimately knit the bonds of friendship be
tween them and us; the memory of those has been known to sacrice to the general
better days in which we fought and tri voice, rather than interrupt that union on
umphed together; the vast fabric of mutual which success depended; and when a mea
happines raised by our union, and ready to sure was once resolved upon by the major
be dissolved by our dissentions; the annihi ity, however much contrary to his own ad
vice and judgment, he magnanimously sup
lation of those numerous plans of improve
ported it with his utmost vigor; disdaining
ment in which we were engaged for the glo
ry of the empire; all these considerations that work of low ambition, which will strive
conspired to render this contest peculiarly to defeat in the execution what it could not
abhorrent to him and every virtuous Ameri direct in planning.
can, and could be outWeighed by nothingr
His perseverance and conduct in gaining
earthly, but the unquestionable love of liber possession of St. Johns and Montreal have
ty, and that duty which we owe to ourselves already been the theme of every tongue, and
and our posterity.
need not be mentioned in this place. His abi
Hence,as appears from his papers, even in lities in negotiation, the precision with which
N o. 38.
securietyall these, I say, did honor to him

self, and to that delegated body under whose
authority he acted.
Having approached those plains, which
the blood of Wolfe hath consecrated to death'
BIOGRAPHY.
the full triumph of success, he most ardcntly the various articles of treaties and capitula
less fame, our hero seemed emulons of his

glory, animated with a kindred spirit. The
situation of his army pressed dispatch; snows

and frost only quickened his motions. He
hoped by one successful stroke, before the
arrival of succors to the garrison, to com
plete his plan, and save the future effusions

of much blood. He further attered himself
that his success, ifspeedy, might have some
inuence upon parliament in hastening a

reconciliation. He understood that maxim of
Folard, no obstacle should break our reso
lution, when there is a moment between a
bad situation and a worse; this sentiment he
expresses in his last letter with a spirit of

modesty and a sense of duty, as well as the
danger attending it, which ought to be his

glory: I shall be sorry to be reduced to this
mode of attack; because I know the melan
choly consequences. But the approaching

severity of the season, the weakness of the
garrison, together with the nature of the
works, point out too strongly to be passed
by. Fortune often baies the most sanguine
expectation of poor mortals. I am not intoxi
cated with the favors I have received at
herhands; but I think there is a fair prospect
of success.
0 thou swift winged messenger of des
l
,tlUCLlOli, how didst thou triumph in that
lmoment! the stroke that severed Montgom

'ery from his army deprived them of more
than a member. It f.tClId the tale, and
struck the whole body with a temporary

death. As when the forked lightening darting
through the forest,amid the black tempc~t of

night, rends some towering oak, and lays its
honors in the dust, the inferior trees, which
it had long sheltered from the storm, stands
mournful around; so stood the astonished l
bands over their fallen chieftain! nor even l
him alone, but over others, in their prime p
joined his worthy friend General Schuyler tions am expressed, the generous applause
in praying that Heaven may speedily reunite he gives, not only to every worthy effort of
us in every bond of affection and interest; his own oicers, but to the commanding of of glory, pr0strate by his side.
and that the British empire may again become cers and garrison of St. Johns, his noble
Such examples ofmagnanimity lled even
the envy and admiration of the universe, and declaration to the inhabitants of Montreal, adversaries with veneritinn and esteem. For
ourish till the consummation of earthly that the continental armies despise every getting the foe in the heroes, they gathered
act of oppression and violence, being come up their breathless remains, and committed
things.
for the express purpose of giving liberty and them to the kindred dust, with pious handss
In his letter of November &
i
1
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PHILADELPHIA REPERTOBY.
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and funeral honors meet; so may your
bay, and is not in its natural state either habit
ble land, which with the necessary improve
own remains, and particularly thine, 0 Carl
table or tillable.
The bay of St. Louis is a handsome situa
ments would produce an immense quantity

of rice.
From the town of Mobile to Pensacola,
ton, be honored should it ever be your fate

to fall in hostile elds! or if, amid the various
chances of war, your lot should be among
tion, and the shore of the pass of Christianne,
a mile or two beyond it, is bold and com

the prisoners and the wounded may you be manding, but the land at neither place is
distinguished with an ample return of that of any value. There are probably ten or f
benevolence which you have shown toothcrs! teen families,chiey French, round the bay
such ofces of humanity, softening the sav of St. Louis, and about four or ve, chiey
agc scene of war, will entitle you to an honor heretofore of French fme negroes and mulat
which all the pride ofconquest cannot bestow; tos at the pass of Christianne, which in the
much less a conquest over fellow subjects. summer and fall has of late been accustomed
Contending for the common right of freemen. to receive an accession of inhabitants from
after crossing the bay, it is about 70 miles
through adesart almost uninhabited. There

are two families onlyon the road. There are
two small settlements near the sea coast. At
Fish river near the lower end of the bay on

the east side are four families, and at Bon
Secours, still lower down, there is a similar
settlement: and going northward from thence

to the American line, there are about 18
New Orleans,invited to that airy situation by
families more on the east side of the bay
by the prospect of health.

From the pass ofChristiannc to the bay of
OF WEST FLORIDA.
(Concluded)
Biloxi, a distance of 24 miles, it is a very
\Ve shall now proceed to give a sketch pleasant ride along the beach, and, if you
of that part of \Vest Florida which lies east can procure any means of crossing the bay,
of Pearl river. The swamps of Pearl river it may be Continued fteen miles farther
are extensive and fertile as well on the east to the mouth of Pascagola. There are about
as on the west side of that stream: and the a dozen families at the bay of Biloxi and
river itself, after some large rafts are clear about 16 or IS on the Pascagola, within a
ed away which now obstruct the navigation. few miles of the sea, and there are no more
will probably, in moderate freshes, admit the between that river and the neighborhood of
passage of small schooners, some distance Mobile, a distance of about 55 miles, except
above the American line. At a ford near the two families at a place near the sea cost cal~
line, it is scarcely more than ancle deep in led the Bayou Batrie. To the northward of
a dry summer season: but it was not till with the places we have mentioned, as far as the
in three or four years that the existence of American line,thcre are no settlements, ex
such a ford was known even to persons re cept about [8 families up the Pascagola:
siding on the river. The timber in the low nor does the country exhibit any species of
grounds of this and other considerable rivers improvement whatsoever. Even the roads
of \Vest Florida, are oak (of which several through the province are nothing but mere
species are evergreens) gums, bays, laurels, Indian paths, and the scattered settlements
magnolias, cotton wood, ash and cypress. exhibit but slight indications of the existence
Bodies of cane of a gigantic stature are of of a government. It is about four miles across
ten so compact as to be nearly impenetrable. the several branches of the Pascagola and the
They are from a half inch to an inch and a intervening marshes, intersected by bayous
half or even two inches, in diameter, and and cut o's, and from thence, the level open
from twenty to forty feet high. The same ob pine woods, extending to Mobile, for many
servations apply to the swamps of Pascagola miles so at as to be covered with a thin
and Mobile, but all those rivers, as well as sheet of water in the rainy season of the
the other streams where the water is nearly year.
Mobile stands at the head of the bay of
still, are infested by the alligators or Ameri
can crocodiles, which are destructive to the the same name, and the ckle disposition of
smaller animals, as hogs and goats, when its river, (rst uniting in one grand body,
they approach the places of their conceal near Fort Stoddart, and after rolling with
majesty towards the ocean for the space of
ment.
and river Mobile, and fteen families on
From the National Intelligencer.
the western side. From Pensacola to the

Appalachicola, the eastern limit of West
Florida, it is an uninhabited wilderness, and
the same may be said as to East Florida till

you approach the settlements adjacent to
the Atlantic ocean. No tribes of Indians
inhabit West Florida, but the Indian title
has not been extinguished to more than one

third of the country between Mobile bay and
Pensacola, nor to any part of the province
east of Pensacola. The Seminoles who are
united in the Creek confederacy, reside in
East Florida. As to the population of Mo
bile and Pensacola, it is not easy to estimate
it accurately: but it is probable that Pensa
cola does not contain, exclusive ofthe soldie
ry, more than two thousand, and Mobile
probably not more than four hundred. The

story, which has circulated so generally, of
Pensacola being lately taken possession of
by the British, is destitute of the slightest
foundation. The whole population of West
Florida east of Pearl river may probable
amount to about four thousand souls. The
American district cast of the Pearl rivet
contains about eight thousand inhabitants.
Previously to the establishment of the
American boundary by Mr. Ellicot, under
the treaty with Spain, the whole formed
one district: and the similarity of their in
terests and the intimate connection sub
sisting between the people on the north

and south side of the line, clearly indicat
ed an union under one government, which,
The population of the eastern as well as
six miles, dividing into two channels, and
on the cession of Florida to the United
of the western bank of Pearl river, is very

inconsidcrable. From the American lint
to the mouth of the river, it is probably be
dividing again at six miles farther, but after

wards uniting; and yet nally falling into
the bay by three channels) fully justies the
name of Mobile, given to it by the .French.
States, must become permanent. Nointcr'
tween 70 and 80 miles, as this is one of the
widest parts of Florida; but in that distance

there are not 20 families. The next water
course east of Pearl river is Benasouah,
where there is a family or two; but the sea
coast is uninhabitable from Pearl river, till
The town is on the western channel, and is
about three leagues distant from the eastern
channel which is connected with the apposite
side of the bay.

The islands, formed by the different bran
you approach the bay of St. Louis, a distance ches of the Mobile river, are on an average
course whatever exists between the peo

ple of West Florida, residing in the eas
tern and western districts: and the same may
be said with regard to the American settle

ments on the Mississippi and those in the
eastern district, excepting that very slighf
and articial connnection, which results
from' the circumstance of the district e35!
of Pearl river having been included within

about 8 miles wide and about 85 miles long, the general boundaries Lof the'Mississippi
nued marsh from Castain Bayou almost to this and contain considerable quantities of valua temtory.
of about ve and twenty miles as it is a conti
m
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XXI.

Fly ye virtuous fair,
The dire contagion as you prize your peace.
He shut your ears, and lips in silence closed,
\Vhen whisperd slander steals across the room,
Nor ever dare to make anather's fame
The mean diversion of your social hours.
E. WARREN.
In entering on the subject now before me,

I am fully aware that I am in danger of caus
ing the ladies to rise up in arms against me;
not from a consciousness of their guilt, but
from the knowledge of the insults they have
already received from our sex, and the ap
prehension of being overwhelmed with more.
I confess their appearance, even in the im
perfections of fancy, is rather subduing, and
although I am bachelor enough to despise
their frivolities, yet I am not so phlegmatic
as to be insensible to their elegance, and un

moved by their persuasion; but to dispel
both their fears and my own, I must inform
them, that I am about to endeavor to display

slander in its liro/u-r light, and to show (tis
all I can in their defence) that they are not

the only ones who indulge in it.
Slander is originally the offspring of envy:
it is a vice which may be truly demonstrated
mean and little minded. If we consider a per
son more accomplished than ourselves, in any
thing whatever, can we suppose that by de
tracting from their merits we add to our mm?
or is the judgment of the world so vitiatctl
as to bestow on others the laurcls they have
lavished from more deserving brows? Does
envy point to beauty as desirable? can all the
malignity of selshness persuade us that by
decrying it in another, it will appear more
amiable in ourselves? I look upon slander
not onlyas a proof of weakness of intellect,
but also of depravity of heart: and when I
hear the character of an absent person de
famed, I feel an indignation not easily to be
repressed, and a contempt for the one who
undertakes it, which would not perhaps arise
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company, and Im sure, Mr. Gravity, (said

a pert Miss the other evening, who sat next
me) there is nothing more disgusting than
to see a girl prancing before gentlemen in
such a ridiculous manperf in fact so far
from hearing of any one who was perfect,
there was not a name mentioned but its pos
sessor had many faults. This happened at
itself, that there chanced to more into the

vicinity of my fathers residence a family
which, though in low circumstances then,
had once made a figure in society. The eld
est child wus a daughter, a year or two young
er than myself, with whom my sister, by
means of the girl's cousins, contracted an in
timate acquaintance. I often heard my sister
di'ercnt places, and in different circles,

which rendered it still worse, for it showed
speak of her, but never with dispraisc, which

caused me to think favorably of her, and list
it to be the more general. Neither were their
en with delight whenever she was spoken

of. Even to her name I had attached the idea
but the characters of several gentlemen were of beauty, it was Eliza. The circumstances
handled with equal severity.
of the family not placing her beyond the
After having heard this, who wonders that rcich of my hopes, corresponded to my wish
I Was disgusted at female folly, and illiberal es; and I was already cnamoured of her,
ity; but upon casting my eyes on the male even before I had heard her speak a single
sex, Ifound so much of it there that I was word, or seen a single feature of the adora
obliged to say nothing in censure of the ble object.
other, lest it should be retorted on my own.
In a short time, the family moved into our
One man is the enemy of another in the own neighborhood. This was agreeable to
mercantile world, he immediately does, or at my wishes, and the cause of increasing my
least is too apt to stigmatize him with the regard for the daughter. The rst time I
epithet of rogue,- he is his enemy in religion! ever saw her, which was by accident, she
and he calls him a hypocrite; he is his rival made by no means a favorable appearance;
in oratory, and he condemns his voice and and, though it may appear curious, the sight
gesture; in physio, and his skill is question of her as she then was, made no impression
able; in law, and he is wanting in counsel; on me in either way. I still regarded my
he is his adversary in politics, and his whole Eliza as much as ever, and thought little of
party are ragamuins and villains, all their the girl I had seen, though, in reality, I well
attacks entirely conned to their own sex,
candidates are ignorant, dishonest, and every
way incapacitated for the ofces they desire;

and thus for a mere difference of name in
opinion, they are loaded with shameful cen
sure and unmerited reproach.
In truth there is so much of it in each,
that one has no right to upbtaid the other;
therefore, when any gentleman condemns
the chattering of tea party scandal (as it is

called) in the female sex, let him not entire
ly forget the conversation of his,own. For
my part, I consider it so prevalent, that were
I asked what vice was the most practised in
civilized society, I would say in the words of
Shakspeare,
knew her to be the same person.

After this I had frequent opportunities of
seeing her in a better trim, and began in
some measure, to get acquainted with her.
All this contributed to heighten my regard
for her, and increase the kindling ame; for
she was, indeed, not and of the most ordina

ry of her sex. But the tyrant, whose power
I began to feel, as though he wished to be
more sure, was slow in rivetting his chains.
I loved her, and sought opportunities of per

fecting our acquaintance. At length I began
to think seriously ofthe matter, and to frame
to my mind ideas of conjugal happiness. I

laid plans for our settlement in life, contri
Til llanlltr,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue

on any other OCCasion.
Ou'venoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath
Notwithstanding
myI high
respect for the
ladies, and the dislike
_
feel for those satlr_
_R'd
I 6 onth e PM t'mg wm
'ds, an ddthbl
o
e le
All corners of the world Kings, queens, and states,
1515
Maids. matrons, nay the secrets ofthe grave,

Who stab with Juvenal, and sting with Pope," This impious slander entels
ved our humble habitation, xed the spot on

which it should stand, and regulated, in my
mind, all the affairs of our family coonomy.

I had chosen the bower under which I would
reveal my passion, and where we would
swear eternal constancy, and had even xed

the day of our marriage, which was to be
~
much of this kind of conversation in their
the moment that I should arrive at the age
For the Repertory.
society. I was at rst unfavorably impressed
of twenty one. I could not bear the idea of
concerning them; I was ready to pronounce
In the days of my youth, (for I once was a longer delay; and even those few years it
the whole sex as slanderous, and to desert young,) I was singled out by the fates as an seemed to me would be an age. Indeed, what
it forever. The dress of one young lady was object of their cruelty, and doomed by them I so earnestly wished, in time I rmly be
condemned as immodest; the address of an
to suffer the pains of a most tender, though lieved; and had an angel from heaven dc
other as ungenteel; the companions of Miss whimsical passion.
clarcd to me that I should ever marry an
such a one were improper, and Miss what
It was at a time when the tender passion other person, I could not have l)(li(\'t d him.
dye call her, was entirely too froward, she had just began to disturb my breast; when .
.\i'tt'l I h..d been ZCAIlnliZLc'tl wizh hut"
yet I must acknowledge, that l have heard
GREGORY GRAVITY.
was too fond. of'pnshing herself into mens 5 it iookctl only for an object on which to x H about fteen momhs, my father detormf- H'
300
W%
they are put in possession of the beloved ob present situation prevented her close appli'
ject, when,to their sad disappointment, they cation to her needle; yet had not those 0b
discover that the amiable qualities which st..cles intervened. where could she have
maining near the object of my affections; but they expected to wed, instead of being real, procured employment? I could not bear that
all to no purpose. I was obliged to go with existed only in a distempered imagination.
she should proceed from house to house so
BERTRAND.
liciting, from unfeeling wretches, the means
the family. ,Finding that I must go, I tran
scribed the lovers adieu," from a poetical
of a temporary subsistence.
For the Repertory.
author, intending to leave it with my darling
I had sallicd into the street and was deep
LIFE OF JACK TROCIIAIC,
as a pledge of my passion, which I had not
ly plunged in unpleasant meditations, when
(Continued)
some person in the hurry of passing, or per
courage to reveal! l delayed the delivery of
It
was
dark
e'er
I ventured home, being haps intentionally, jostled me so rudely that
the verses until the morning of my depar
ture, when I found that I should have no op fearful of observation. I regained it, however, I had nearly fallen to the ground. Upon re
portunity of doing it myself; I therefore without molestation. Finding Mary much covering myself I recognised in the aggres
thought of entrusting it to a girl with whom alarmed at my long absence I wished not to sor the end who had been the destroyer of
I was more intimately acquainted, but lo, render her more uneasy, and disguised the my happiness. Maddened at the sight, I
though her prospects were far greater than cause; she appeared satised, but intreated darted after him, but eer I could overtake
those of the girl of my heart, possessed not me not to absent myself so long again with him he entered a large house and saved him
the least share of my aection. But, alas! out informing her that such Was my inten self from my vengeance. I would have forced
when I gave her the paper, I had not pow tion. This I promised, and internally thank myself into his presence, but upon my near
er to tell her for whom it was intended; of ed my good genius who had guided me from approach I discovered it to be the residence
course, she thought it for herself. My feel the clutches of the mob, and at the same of the wretch whom I had beaten some time
ings, after this sad mistake, may he more time determined to be more cautious for the since for insulting me. I retired; for] knew
that I should, if I put my intention into ef
easily imagined than described; especially as luture.
Day after day was spent in fruitless and fect, only afford another triumph to the de
the verses were taken for my own, and im
unavailing attempts to procure employment; testable villain.
mediately made as public as the wind.
and
I had the mortication to witness the de
As I withdrew my attention was attracted
About two months afterwards, I returned
by a large paper which a man was pasting
to \V on business, and on Sunday went to crease of our little fund, without any possi
church. It was then that I felt the violence ble means of replenishing it. My applications on the corner of a street. I stopped to peruse
of my passion more than ever. I sat almost were every where rejected; all pitied, but it, and found that it announced the arrival of
directly opposite my full one, but a little dis none were willing to employ in a situation a company of comedians. A gleam of hope
tance from her. The speaker and hearers of responsibility a person whose character darted athwart my soul. I inquired the re
were alike disregarded by me, my attention was totally unknown, who could not procure sidence of the manager, flew to him and of
was rivctted solely to the beloved object, the a single voucher to attest his honesty. Thus fered my services; but again my evil stars
tender thrills which ran through my frame, were the hopes I had so fondly cherished predominated. The manager, upon learning
almost overpowered me; I was lost in a com nipped in the bud; the pleasing visions of my situation, was sorry he could not engage
plete reverie, nor did I ever think of the domestic happiness vanished, and left me me; the company was already increased be
wretched and gloomy. This change Mary yond the necessary number; and to make
spectacle I must have exhibited to the sur
viewed with surprise and affliction. I Was any further addition to it, at least for the
rounding multitude.
I believe this was the last time I ever saw not wont to be sad; but now my forboding present, was impossible. He concluded with
her face; but, for a long time after, she Was heart seemed to whisper, my happiness was advising me to write a play, which if worthy
never forgotten in my prayers, nor could her at an end, and my attempts at cheerlulness he would have performed, and I should share
the profits. I hesitated; I had no dependence
name be mentioned in my hearing without were feeble and constrained.
I had concealed from Mary the frequent on my own abilities. though parson G. had;
putting me to the blush. At length I became
more reasonable; I grew sick of my folly; disappointments I suffered, an. Was obliged but the manager telling me that, to convince
to confess that I hadI not ben successful; and
me of the sincerity of his offer, he would
betook myself to study, and nally succeed
ed in completely ridding myselfof the chains to her repeated inquiries, attributed to that present me with twenty dollars, determined
circumstance the change in my disposition. me, and I eagerly closed with it. I engaged
under which I had so long languished.
She
tenderly reprOaehed me for my want of to write a tragedy, to nish it in a month,
I now for the rst time discovered, to my
and received the money.
shame, that the girl possessed no uncommon condence, and proposed writing to her un
Elated with this timely supply I returned
excellence; that it Was mere force of ima cle, to afford us some relief, until lot'tune
gination that lled my mind with such ex should favor me with employment. Poor and home and acquainted Mary with my expec
alted notions of her beauty and accomplish humble as l was, I could not blOOK the IdCn t..tions; I need not tell you. C..ustic, she par
ments; that having once xed my heart upon of applying to a man of his character; but ticipated in them. Fortune scented once
her, every thing was construed in her favor, the recollection of my own inability to sup more to smile upon me, and I applied my
port a family, especially as Mary promised self without intermission to the task I had
and served to increase the illusion.
The effect which it wrought on me was an increase to it, alarmed me, and When l engaged in. All went smoothly on; my play
great. It made me for a long time sick of gave my assent to the letters being sent, 1 progressed and was nearly nished; I read
love; and warned me to avoid, ever after, quitted the house with a determination not the rst four acts to Mr. D. the manager, and
to return without money. Fortunately 1 had he was quite delighted with them.
tampering with so whimsical a passion.
How often, have we reason to believe, are paid my landlord in advance, and had there
One morning as Mary and I.were sitting
young and inconsiderate persons led away fore notning to fear from that quarter. Mary's writing, for she assisted me to to transcribe,
by fancy, until their chains are riveted, and l constitution was naturally delicate, and her a letter was brought in by our little girl,
to move to a place about an hundred and
twenty miles distant. I endeavored, by every
means in my power, to x some plan of re
30 l
4
m
which upon opening we found was from

patson G. In the most uncharitable language
he abused his niece, and thundered his ana
themas on my devoted head, and nished his
merciful epistle with informing us, if he

saw us starving he woulhnot do aught to
prevent it. Mary was much affected at the
language of her unfecling relative, and it
was some time ere I could restore her to her
wonted composure.
This repulse only stimulated me to pro
ceed in my work with greater rapidity; for
I was determined to let his reverence know
that our starving or living did not depend
on his will. The next day I completed and
carried my tragedy to Mr. D. He approved
of it, and ordered it in rehearsal, and in a few
days after announced in the bills that a new

tragedy by Mr. Trochaic would be presented
to the public, with all the paraphamalia en
I'rely new.
JACK TROCHAICa
For the Repertory.
ANECDOTIANA.
No IV.
FEARFUL JUDGMENT.
In the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire,

England, lives Mr.
. Some years since,
previous to retiring for the night, his wife,
whom he expected would soon become a
mother, was reading that portion of inspired

history which relates to the sons of the gi
ants. their having six ngers and six toes on
each hand and foot. She asked if he believed
it; to which he answered, No, I believe it to
be a dnd lie. This expression weighed

heavy upon his mind; and when the travail
of nature was past, and he was told his wife

had given birth to a son, he inquired if it
were one of the sons of the giants. Upon
examining the infant, it was foundO! ter
rible vengeance of offended Omnipotence!
to have air toes and six nger: on earlifool
and hand! The gentleman upon whose au

thority we relate this, and on whose veracity
we can rely, not long since was in company
With the youth upon whom the power of
Heaven was thus manifested.
'riw'rn.
Petrarch adhered to truth in every situa
ation. Cardinal Colonna, in whose family he
resided, wishing to know the Cause ofa quar
Thebes, was so great a lover of truth, that
swer to G. W. (3., page 253, it appears, cvi'
he scorned to lie even in jest.

LEARNED resumes.
dently, that the superior advantages of in

struction, in the science of music, which he
Of lady Jane Gray it is recorded, that in
has so happily enjoyed, above what could

have possibly been obtained in this country.
dependent of her skill in the Latin and Greek

languages, she was so well acquainted with
show than he must he an European; for not
Hebrew, as to be able to satisfy her mind as
a fth part of those authors (a catalogue of

whose names he has given in that number)
can be found in America; and could they be
obtained, it would require a long life wholly
and arduously devoted to study in order to
become master of them.
As Ihilo Madan has not been so obliging
as to comply with the reasonable request of
G. \V. C. in pointing out the erroneous
to the correctness of the translation of the

sacred writings.
Mary Cunitz was one of the most remark
able women of the sixteenth century. She
understood Polish, German, French, Italian,
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. She was skilled

in history, physic, poetry, painting, and mu
sic. These were her amusements; her studies
were principally the mathematics, more par
ticularly astronomy, and she was ranked
among the rst astronomers of her time.
She was born in Selisia.
HUMILITY.
Aristippus and JEschines having quarrel
led, Aristippus came to him, and said, 1E5
pieces, and the authors of the hotch potch
music, as he calls it; and as I am not able

to ascertain whether or not his censures are
aimed at any of my publications; yet (as he

lashes without mercy) I think it my duty to
ward off the shafts of this critic in time, be
fore the public mind be warped against me.

chines, shall we be friends? Yes sir, answer
For I must confess that these strictures have
ed he, with all my heart. But recollect, said awakened my attention to a revisal of my
Aristippus, that I being older than you do publications. But, upon a fair examination, I
make the rst motion. Yes, replied Eschi cannot discover any just reason to suppose
nes, therefore you are the worthier man; for that his criticisms have fallen on any of them.
I began the strife, and you began the peace. Indeed the greater part of the music I have
King Agathocles would be served in published these last twelve years is Europe
earthen vessels, to remind him of his father, an, and is published from the compilations of
who was a poor potter.
the best European masters, and not from
\Vellegis, archbishop of Mcntz, was the those spurious publications in which the
son of a wheeiwright. He hung wheels and music has been altered by ignorant men, and
the tools of his fathers profession about his from which most of our American compilers '
bedchamber. writing underneath them, \Vel have taken it, and have charged me with ma
legis, Wellegis, remember thy original!"
king the alterations, and by this means have
Of the Rev. Mr. Fletcher it is said, if he injured the sale of my books. I have not
overtook a poor man or woman on the road made a new bass to any of the pieces which
with a burden too heavy for them, he did not had a vocal bass already made. The piece
fail to offer his assistance to bear a part of called Lisbon, composed by Dr. Arnold, has
it, nor would he easily take a denial.
an instrumental and not an vocal bass in the
STRANGE PRAYER.
English publications. 1 made a voeal bass
Dr. Dodd, in an oration delivered at the
dedication of Freemasons llaii, Great Queen
street, bondon, May 23, 1776, addressed the
to it, because we have no instruments in our
schools and choirs. You will nd it in my
Art of Singing, part third, page 16. But Phi
Deity thus: ~ Consuinmate Arcnitect and

wonderous Geometrieian, direct us to make
lo Madan does not, evidently, refer to that

piece in any of his numbers, forl believe he
the blessed volmne of thy instructive 1500111

the never erriug aquurc to regulate our con
would be puzzled to nd so many errors in

one page of it as he has stated. I can also
duct; the com/mas, Within \inqse circle we
say, that I have not been guilty of patching
shall ever Walk with salety and peace; the
a piece of music from different authors of

infallible [dumb/inc 0t reetitude and ti utn." various styles, like a coat of many colors.
This was indeed the prayer 01 a mason.
, But if Philo Madau's remarks have been for
rel which arose in his household, resolved to

swear every one, which he proceeded to do;
but coming to Petrarch, who presented him
self to take the oath, the cardinal said, As
I Observed in your paper some numbers ;

on sacred music, by lniio Madan. 'Ine wri
to you, Pctrarch, your word is sufcient.

Cyrus being asked what was the rst thing
Sir,
me, I will thank him to point out the pieces .

and the errors fairly and candidly, without
, reserve.
_ANDHE\V LAW.
January 12, 1611.
a..---
ter of these IIUHIUCI'S appears to have a par
he ever learned, answered, To speak the
The most abhorred thing in nature is the

ticular antipathy against an American pun face that smiles abroad, and flashes fury
truth."
lications, for ne censures and condemns an
Epaminondas, the illustrious champion of of them as they tan in his way. In his an
when it returns to the lap of a tender help
less fapiily,
502
PHILAD EL'PHIA REPERTQRY.

For the Repertory.
Yet so must fade and perish human greatness
i Before the power of heavens almighty King,

REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY 'WANDERER.
1 Who. when the earth and moon and stars
No. XIX.
Loud roartl the midnight blast! the patter'ing rain

Did rudely on the inouldering castment beat
And roused me from my meditative mood;
My taper, half extinguish'd, dimly burnd,

And ever and anon a paley gleam
Did quivering glance upon the gloomy wall.
Shall sink in chaos, and the glorious sun

Cease to emit his brilliant beaming rays,
Shall ourish. and in blooming vigor view
, His own high will in their distruction wide.
ST. QRMB.
The expiring taper seem'd most like the hour
._._.
For the Repertory.
When meagre death did it around the couch
ON THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
Of frail mortality anti strove to quench
\Vith noxious dews the uttering vital ame.

The contrast did the fatal scene revive
\Viihin my mind, as fresh as were it then

Before my aching sight, 'when my last friend
Did wing from earth his ight, but not a struggle
Contracted the meek victim's placid brow,
Save what arose from the sad recollection
In the year 1806!

Celestial grandeur, heavenly mystery, hail!
Creation views thee with attentive awe;
The voice of psalms. the simple song of praise.

\Vith dove'like wings. peace o'er yon village
broods,
The dizzying mill wheel rests; the anvils din

Hath ceased; all, all around is quietness.
Less fearful, on thisuy the limping hare
Stops and looks back and stops, and looks on man,
Her deadliest foe
But chiey man the day of rest enjoys,
Hail, Sabbath! thee lhail the poor man's day.
On other days the man of toil is doom'd
To eat his joy-less bread lonely; the ground
Both seat and board; screend from the winters cold
And summers heat. by neighboring hedge or tree:
How long oer half the globe shalt thou prevail,

Oer natures face this wonderous veil to draw!
Can thinking minds trace this unusual scene;

Can souls enlightend heavens new aspect know;
That in this world his loved St. Orme would be

Alone and friendless; yet did not the spasm
Can critic eyes gaze on this sight serene,
Occasion'd by his anxious fears for me

Continue long; for well he knew that Heaven
Cynthia, pale queen, though nightly thou appear,

No prospects wonderous thy mild beams display;
Yet hast thou power, though humble be thy sphere,
To hide the lustre of the god of day.
\Vhich in its love and wisdom doth ordain

And check, in proper season, all they griefs
To which mankind are born to undergo,
Oermounts the mist, is heard. at intervals,
And not reect from whence the causes ow!
\Vhile thou obscurest Sol's resplendent rays
But on this day, embosorn'd in his home,

He shares the frugal meal with those he loves.
With those he loves. he shares the heart felt joy

Of giving thanks to Godnot thanks of form,
A word and a grimacebut reverently,
With cover'd face and upward earnest eyes
Hail, Sabbath! thee I hail, the poor mans day;
The pale mechanic now has leave to breathe
The morning air, pure from the citys itOkG,
\Vhile, wandering slowly up the river side,
He meditates on HIM whose power he marks
In each green tree that proudly spreads the bough,
Would not, as long as I did ask its care,

Darkness presides which e'er was thine to chace;
Forget me; so he spake and bade me hope.

A smile celestial playd around his mouth
So great her inuence, oer the earth she strays,
And clothes in mourning natures smiling face.

A: he'informd me we should meet again,
Sh0uld meet above to separate no more.

He graspd my hand; and then without one sigh
His soul. impatient of her frail connement,
Burst from her mortal home and ew to heaven.
to
it
it
it
How welcome must the awful hour of death
Be to that man who is prepared to meet
The lenient Judge, the Ruler ofihe world;
Who not upon his virtuous deeds relies,
But with repentance casts the wildering weight
Of his transgressions on his Saviours breast.
llope sweetly spreads to his expectant sight
Her azure wings; and glowingly portrays
The rapturous scenes of love and beaming glories
Which the throne surrounds;_then softly whispers
Perhaps he may a crown celestial share.

Nor is the whisper vain; for Heaven itself
Doth promise bliss to those who will repent
And in its love and clemency believe.
What greater voucher of that promise than
The great Jehovahs sending his loved Son

That he to us might minister and save.
Thus do I muse at midnights silent watch,
When sleep suspends the energies of man;

I love to listen to the whistling winds
l'hat murmuring sweep around my rustic ahead.
.Mournful the murmurs areand oft I think,
With bards of yore whose lays do touch my soul,
That disembodied spirits shrouded sit

Amid the gloom, and ride upon the blast;
And as they sigh through yonder leaess ehns
They seem to be, to my too sombre soul,
The hunt 0f ages past, forever gone,

Arid bid her oftrecal the faded race.
\Vhen my tired feet have pressd some rustic mound,
The only vestige time has left to tell
A heart once beat, l've sadly mused and sigh'd,
That breasts which once did tbrob and warmly glow;
And were perhaps more rich in virtue's wealth,
Should lay so low, nought but a heap of dust.

Vanish like mists before the solar rays.
Let the presumptuous atheist wisdom hear,
Nor longer boast, by chance heavens orbs conjoint

Turnd be his heart; oh may his soul revere,
And own the wonders of a Power Divine'
How many years shall roll on, wingd by time,
Or in the tidy dewbent owers, that bloom

Around its roots. and while he thus surveys,
With elevatedjoy, each rural charm,

He hopes, yet fears presumption in the hope,
That Heaven may be one Sabbath without end.
_._.
1n the Gentlemans Magazine is the fol

lowing pleasantry, at the expense of a canal
company in England.
Ere mortal eyes a scene like this behold!
How many hearts that glow with thought sublime

Will cease to beat, in death's dark caverns cold!
Now, gentle Cynthia, from our sight thou'st. own,

And sought the place assignd thee from thy birth;
Gloom too has ed, and you bright orb. the sun,
With splendor shines o'er the admiring earth.
ROSALIA.
*
THE SABBATH,
BY JAMES GRAHAM!
How still the morning of the hallowed day;
Mute is the voice ofrural labor, hushed
SOUTH-HAMPTON CANAL
South-Hampton's wise sons fouridthe'river so'large,
Tho' twould carry a obi/2, twould not carry a 6m
But soon this defect their sage noddles supplied,
For they cut a snug ditch to run close by its side;
Like the man. who contriviiig a hole thro' the wall,
To admit his two cats, the one great, tother small,
Where a great bale he made for great pm to pass

through.
'
And a little bale cut for his little cut too!

--_.__
SATIRE.
Inventions. Any person who inspects the

The ploughboy's whistle, and the milk maid's songs. very extensive list of patents taken yearly
from the ofce of our secretary of state,
The scythe lies glittering in the dewy wreath
Of tedded grass, mingled with fading owers,
will be prompted to believe that inanimate
That yester morn bloomed, waving in the breeze;
matter has acquired the power of voluntary
Sounds the most fatnt,attract the ear, the hum
motion, and that wheels and screws are driv
Of early bee, the trickling of the dew,
ing into disuse their old coadjutors, bones
The distant bleating, midway up the hill.
and muscles. The ingenuity of our coun
Calmness sits throned oti yon unmoving cloud,
trymen has so fairly domesticated the me
To him who wanders oer the upland lees,
The black birds note comes mellower from the dale; chanical powers and the laws of chemistry,
And sweeter from the sky the gladsonie lark
that tiny man may have his cheese toasted,
\Varbles her heaven tuned song; the lulliiig br00k

Murmurs more gently down the deep worn glen.
his apples pared, his coffee ground, his pud

ding boiled, and his beef roasted, all by dint,
While from you lowly roof, whose curling smoke

not of hard labor, but of contrivancc. No
' The author being in the habit of amusing her
self wiih poetic ell'usions, her mother, just at the pe
thing iii the mechanical way need be dispair

ed of, when we hear ofmcchanical machines
riod of the greatest obscuration of the sun, address
ed her, " Now, my daughter, there is a ne suhject for cultivating corn and beans, for setting
for your pent" she seized the idea, and in a short tiorses ears, for writing with two pens, and
time presented to her mother these few eqttempora for raising water by a perpetual motion! In
ry stanias.
the common progress of improvement, we
80:3
may anticipate for our readers in 1820, the
following
scmsrrtnc saws.
Mr. Strapper,of New York, has complet
ed his portable shaving apparatus, consisting
of six pair of razors, with a grindstonc for
putting them in order, a score of brushes,

and a perpetual fountain of l'. ther; the whole
comprised in the compass of a nutshell, and

so regulated by internal clock work, as to
attach itself to any gentlemcns face and
shave him without his knowing it.
A distillery has been erected in the state
of Vermont, for the purpose of extracting ar
dent spirits from brickbats and old blue stock
ings. Report speaks highly of the quality
of the liquor obtained from these economical
materials.
The streets of Washington were lighted

for the rst tlmenlast week-with glow Worms
and re bugs. Five hundred of these insects
being conned in every lamp, emitted so
brilliant a light (hiring the whole night, that
people in their'houses did not know when the
sun rose. The breed of glow worms is now
found to be much improved by admixture
with the humble bee or apis terrestris. Ex
perimentsivith the photometer show that
those which are five eightbs blooded emit in
the space of an hour three rays and a half
until she was well. As it happened the aguc

returned no more: and Holt having continued
a week, now called for his bill with as much
courage as if his pockets had been lled

with gold. Ah, God bless you, sir, says the
woman, you are nothing in my debt Im sure;
I wish I was able to pay you for the cure
you have performed on my daughter; and
if I had had the happiness to have seen you
ten months ago it would have saved me forty
pounds in my pocket. Holt, after some slight
altercations, accepted of his ueeks accom
modation as a gratuity, and rode away.

It happened that many years afterwards,
when he was one of the judges of the kings
bench, he went a circuit into the same conn
try, and among other criminals brought to

trial, there was an old woman that Was char
ged with witchcraft. To support this charge
several witnesses swore that she had a spell
with which she could cure such cattle as
were sick, or destroy those that were well:
in the use of this spell, they said, she had
been lately detected; and it having been seiz

ed upon her, was rcady to be produced in
court. The judge then desired it might be
handed to him. It appeared to be a dirty
his own wine, he sent for this slave, and ask
ed him insultingly what he thought of his

prophecy now. The slave only answered,
multainter pocula ct labra cadunt." Scarce
had he spoke, when nctvs were brought
that a huge bozir was laying his vineyard
waste. The king rose in a fury, attacked the
boar, and was killed without ever tasting
the wine."
Salem Gazettr.
The people of Zurich have an old custom
which they probably derived from the wis
dom of their ancestors. If married people,
in spite of remonstrance, persist in a desire
to separate, they are conned for some
weeks, in a chamber of the council house,
in which there is nothing but a small bed. a

stool and a table. Their food is served in
one dish, with one plate, one knife and fork,
and one spoon. Change of place, privation,
and the sociability that arises from the ne
cessity of mutually aiding each other have
times round with packthread; these coverings
frequently before the time of probation ex

pired, so reconciled them to each other, that
they have renounced the thoughts of parting
he removed, with great deliberation, one af
and have lived peaceably together till death.
ball, covered with rags, and bound mtuiy
ter another, and at last found a piece of

parchment, which he knew to be the same
Boston Anthology.
(
which he had used as an expedient to sup
ANECDOTEOPJUSTIGE HOLT.
ply his want of money. At the recollection
Lord chief justice Holt,.who had been ve of this incident, he changed color and sat
ry wild in his youth, was once with some silent. At length recollecting himself, he
of his raking companions, on a tour into the addressed the jury to this effect: Gentle
country: theyhad spent all their money, and men, I must now relate a particular of my
more than the full blooded.
work, prophesied that he, the king, should

never taste the wine produced in it. The
king disregarded his prophecy, and, when
at an entertainment he held the cup full of
'
aftcrmany consultations what to do; it W'aS'
life which very ill suits my present character,
resolved they should part Company, and try and the station which I ll: but to conceal
their fortune separately. Holt got to an inn it, would aggravate the folly for which i
arthe end of astraggling vlthige, and putting
-I.
The following instance ofpresence of mind

is recorded in the Paris papers. The wife of
a peasant near Rennes, who had disposed of
a hog at a fair there for twentyone crowns,

was \vaylaid on her return home by one of
her neighbors, who compelled her to give
him the money. To increase his booty, he

ordered her to strip herself of her clothes,
expressing at the same time his determina
tion to throw her into a deep quarry full of
ought to atone, endanger innocence, and
water, on the brink of which the robbery
a good face on the matter, ordered his horse countenance superstition. This bauble, which
tobe well taken care of, called fora room, he you suppose to have the power of life and
spoke a supper, and looked after his bed. He death, is- a senseless scrawl, which'I wrote
took place. The woman entreated that he

would turn his back whilst she Was undres
sing, and upon his compliance instantly rush
cd upon him and precipitated him into the
quarry, where he was drowhed.
then strolled into the kitchen, where he saw
with my Own hand, and gave to this Woman,
a- young girl, about thirteen years old, shiver whom you accuse as a witch. He then re
ing with an argue; he inquired of his landla' lated the particular circumstances of the
dy, a widow, who the girl was,vand' how long transaction; and it had such an effect upon
she had been in; ,the'good woman told him the mind of the people, who now blushed
she was her daughtepyapdvonly child; and that at the folly and cruelty of their zeal, that
she badbeen ill. near a. year, notwithstanding judge Holts landlady was the last person
allttheassisamoe she/wald-procere from phy. that was'evcrtricd for witchcraft in that
sic, at an expense which had almost ruined country.
'0.
her. He shook his head at the doctors, and
-.
Two geptlemcn of Bath having a differ

ence, the one went to the others door early
in the morning, and wrote Scoundrel upon
it. The other called on his neighbor, and

was answered by a servant, That his mas
ter was not at home; but if he had any thing
bade the woman be under no further concern,
"Many things fall out between the cup and the lip ."
for thather duughtenshoulduever have anoth

er fit. Ho- thins 'W-note a few unintelligible
mie-ia-eourt W-noerapoilpurehment
which had been the direction to a hamper,
and roliilig it- up, ordered. t-lhtail: :sb'wlld be
bound upon the girlfsd'wristmml remain there
This proverb has been supposed by some

to take its origin from one of Penelopes
to say he might leave it with him. " No,

no, says he, 1 was only going to repay your
master a civil visit, as he had left lu'a name
at my door in the morning.
woocrs being shot as he was going to drink.
_.
But Ainsworth has it thus: A king of Thrace

VVho is respectable when thinking himself
had planted a vineyard, wheh one ofhis slaves, 'alohe and free from- observatimr'uli be so
whom
moehoppressed inm'vcry lfeforethc eyeoeurthe wet-ME! 1
1
vbahtlrbia.
received by the last western mail, contains

the following article: From Florida. we
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19,1811.
learn, that Baton Rouge and New Feliciana
NIARRIED,
were taken possession of by governor Cloi

borne, without opposition, and the troops are
On Monday evening lost, by the Rev. Dr. returning to their cantonments. At Mobile,
Abererombie, Mr. .Mzzham'el Hood, printer,
it is expected, colonel Cushing will have
to the amiable Miss Rut/z iVIFarlaua', both warm work.

i
.
of this City.
A letter from Port Gibson, Mississippi
territory, to a gentleman in \Vilmington,
The frigate John Adams, we understand,
Delaware, dated December 20, says, Go
will be desp..tched by the government for vernor Holm'es, wi h a considerable, force,
Europe by the rst of February at furthest.
on his Way to the fort of Baton Rouge, has

been taken prisoner by the conventionalists,
The Tennessee Gazette of December 28, | and conned."

_._I
NEW ADDITIONS TO BLODGETS ECONOMICA.

BY THE AUTHOR.
Annual Statements, viz.
Territories of the United States
acres
In 1808.
In 1809,
1,280,000,000
1,280,000,000
persons
5,636,050
5,810,000
Slaves
ditto
1,127,000
1,145,000
Freed persons of color
ditto
153,600
160,000
Free persons
Births
ditto
365,000
390,000
ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto
houses
number
ditto
170,000
6,753,052
195,000
3
1,330,000
23
5_8
190,000
5,955,000
202,591
3
1,375,000
25
74
Improved lands
Averaged price, cultivated
acres
cents
40,300,000
530
40,950,000
630
Ditto
ditto
230
230
Deaths
Total population
Total increase, yearly
Persons to each mile
Dwelling houses
Colleges
Academies
in their natural state
Horses
horses
1,350,000
1,400,000
Horn cattle
cattle
3,450,000
3,660,000
Toll bridges
capital
5,009,090
5,600,000
ditto
men
9,200,000
1=250NO
11,500,000
1,290,000
100
150
Turnpikes and canals

Militia
HEALTH OFFICE,
January 12, 1511.

from the 5th to the 12th jniuary.
Diseases.
ad cb.
Diieaotl
ad. cb.
Apoplcxy
0 Inam 0t liver
Cancer
0 jaundice
l 0
Caries
Catarrh
Cholic
l 0 Palsey
0 1 Pleurisy
l O Sore throat
2 0
0 1
0 1
'
Consumption oflungs4- 2 Small pox, natural 3

ConvulsiOns
,3 4 Still born
Dropsy of the breast 1 0
Debilny
1 1
18
Fever
Fever, scarlet
0
0
l
1
5
3
2)
Total 38

Under 1 year
10 Between 50 and ('10
1
Between 1 and 2
0
60
70
1
2
5
5
70
80
2
5
10
2
80
90
0
10 20
3
90
100
0
20 30
4
Unknown
0
30 4-0
4
40
50
6
Total 38
9 oclock. 12 oclock. 30 clock.
January
48
52
53
8
9
'19
52
52
58
5
58
10
34-
34
33
11
$4-
37
36
12
' 35
38
37
Proposals are issued for publishing by subscript!
LEISURE HOURS;
'
OR
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
BY JOSEPH HUTTON,
Author of the Heiress of Sobeiski, 84c.
Price one dollar.

THE
Navy of the United States
vessels
Seamen
Tons shipping
Imports
Exports
insurance companies
seamen
shipping
50,000
1,227,000
55,000
1,250,000
dOllulS
ditto
capital
36,000,000
22,433,000
17,900,000
54,000,000
52,200,000
18,600,000
Averaged labor per day
cents
70
7Q
Ditto
ditto
100
100

A ROMANCE.
Price one dollar.
Subscriptions received by the author, No. SOShip
pen street. and at the allies ofthe Philadelphia Rt
wheat per bushel
*,* Persons holding subscriptions to the

Revenue
Expenditure
Metallic medium
(1011?!
17,060,661
7,773,473
ditto
16,762,702
13,867,22 6
ditto,
20,500,000
20,000,000
Banks
number
92
Bank capital
Bank notes circulating
Nominal public debt
dollars
ditto
ditto
51,500,000
18,509,000
93,119,694
54,000,000
19,000,000
93,119,694
Sinking fund and reimbursements

Cash in the treasury
ditto
ditto
39,337,637
9,941,694
53,994,136
3,848,056
Custom house bonds
ditto
10,897,296
9,600,000
ry Saturday,and forwarded to those in the country
ditto
2,500,000,000
2,510,000,000
2,865,572
5,981,310
3,008,982
6,337,093

and become reponsiblc for the payment, shall tectivf
Total valuation United States

Public lands sold
Proceeds public lands
-,
acres
dollars
NATIONAL runes, viz.
Lrieurc Hours are requested to return then!

to the publishers by the rst opportunity
95
scribets to pat quarterly in advance, distant subsl'

bers hali vearly in advance
It shall be delivered to subscribers in the city "1'
one copy gratis.
Actiue sinking fund

4500 lots in Washington city
Western public lands
ditto
ditto
acres
25,114,849
1,500,000
250,000,000
21,597,968
1,500,000
250,000,000
Louisiana lands, above
ditto
400,000,000
' 400,000,000
4- ,
TERMS or THE REPERTORY

The price is four dollars per annum; city 5119'
9Tb: addition of Louisiana in 1504, is from vague estimate, the bounds being yet undenedt
N. B. Deduct sinking fund and reimbursements from nominal debt tond the net debt
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Relm'

tory W111 be expected 10 pay the difference
4
PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and published by Dennis Hunt,
@Bihbdpljiaweperforp. '
SATURDAY- JANUARY 26, is! l.
VOL l.
No. 39.
teemcd and cherished. May his excellent ex

was zealously employed in setting on foot in ample produce, upon many of his fellow citi
literary institution similar to the celebrated zens, a salutary inuence.
.-..-.
Athenaum ofLiverpool. He had already made
For the Repertory.
considerable progress in the arrangement of a
He who reads
plan, which we hope will soon be offered to
c.-re. When visited with his laSi sickness, he
BIOGRAPHY.
sxc'rcn or The Ltrr. or
BENJA IN DOUFILAS PERKINS.
From the (New York) Commercial Advertiser.

Mr. Perkins was born in Plainlield, Con
necticut, in the yt ar 1775; and graduated at

Yale College in l794. Having nished his
academic course with reputation, he went to
England, where he devoted several years

pritcipJly to literary and scientic pursuits.
\Vitha mind thus richly furnished he return
ed to his native country in the autumn of
1803, and fixed his residence in this city.
Very soon, the characteristic benevolence of
his heart was displayed in acts of kindness
and of charity. Very soon, be exhibited an
example of public spirit, a zeal for the pub
lic welfare, which secured to him the esteem
of the wise and the good. To be fulll, was
the summit of his ambition; to be uslful,
the public, and which, we doubt not, will re
ceive their prompt and liberal support.

He was not only one of the trustees of the
Free School,but also a member of the Aboli
tion SOciety, a director of the African School,

one of the governors of the Hospital, and a
Incessantly. and to his reading brings not

A spirit and judgment. eq-Ial or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains;
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself,
Crude or intoxicate. collecting toys
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

Micron.
very useful member of the Historical Society

In our literary pursuits we are frequently
of this city.
arrested by the productions of authors, which
In his manners, he was mild and affable; in instead ofadding to the stock of useful know
his disposition, cheerful and uniform; in his ledge, are only calculated to perplex and
intercourse with his fellow citizens, frank, h0
disturb the mind. An ambition for fame or
notable and discreet; in his morals, exempla some frivolous motive has induced writers of
ry; and in religion, we trust, undissembling every age to neglect the sober investigations
and devout. As a husband, he was unusally
attentive and kind; as a father, aectionate;
as a friend, attractive and sincere. In him,
indeed, the whole' class of social and mo
of truth and rational inquiry to surprise man

kind with fanciful theory and eccentric hy
pothescs; the reader, if possessed of a lively
the highest source of his enjoyments. He

was emphatically the friend of the oppres
sed and the poor. In forming and maturing ral virtues appeared to be eminently com
plans for the promotion of their benet, his bined.
'
active and ingenious mind was ever occupi- : While in Europe, be attached himself to
ed. His schemes were, generally, judicious the soeiety of Friends. The human mind, it
and practical; and calculated on a scale ot is well known, is prone to extremes; and it
extensive and permanent utility.
has often been remarked, that he who chan
Among the ocicts of his benevolence and ges his religious opinions, 'who renounccs one
assiduous attention, that distinguished orna denomination to unite with another, becomes
ment of our city, the New York Free school, a morose and uncharitable bigot. Such, how
ought to be particularly noticed. To his ex ever, was not the fact with our departed
ertions, in a great measure, are the public friend. Although conscientious in the reli
indebted for the establishment and the pre gious principles he had'lately embraced; yet
sent prosperous situation of this important possessed of enlarged and liberal views, he
and valuable institution. It Was principally regarded the pious and the good, wherever
formed by his hand; it grew up under his he found them, with charity and lriendship.
culture; it became the object ol his fond By his amiable manners and his correct de
regard; and to promote its interest, his ef meanor, he had acquired in the society of
forts were laborious and unwearied. Al Friends, an inlluence beyond his years; and
though much is due to the inuence and had his life been spare.l, he would, probably,
exertions of his associates in the board of have soon become one of the most valuable
trustees, yet they will be the rst to pro and esteemed members of that numerous and
claim the fact, .l..t, in the multiplied details respectable fraternity.
of forming, and maturing, and managing the
Such is but a faint outline of the life and
institution, he was preeminentiy active and character of Mr. Perkins. But, he is gone.
A righteous Providence has taken him away,
efcient.
Possessed of the talent and the disposition , in the midst of his usefulness. He has left
to be useful, he did not limit his attention tol behind him, a deeply alilicted widow, and
a solitary object. The great interest of sci-y two infant children. By them, by their con
,and obscurity upon the earth as the sun does

light. Did this personage grace the present
day of nutr'rt-ious conjecture and chemical
ence,ol the arts, as well as the cause of hu- nexions, and by a very numerous portion 01
mantty, claimed and received his fosteringl our community, his memory will be long es
rest-arch he would soon be alarmed at his

ingenious position; now the philosopher and
imagination, tired of the common and irk
somc path of useful study, seizes with avidi

ty these pleasing novelties which, instead of
beneting society, are not unfrequently the
source of error in morality and religion, at
the same time they impede the progress of
science and philosophy. It has been the la
bor of more than one philOsophcr (for so we
must call them) to attempt to reason us out
of our belief in the Supreme Being; a sub
ject upon which humanity could never dream
of incredulity, unless instigated by~that ge
nius which must ever deviate from vulgar
belief to acquire popularity, though it should
be by indulging a perverted imagination at
the expense of reason and judgment.
Another philosophc r has written a work in
which he attempts to prove there is nothing
in existence, but that all we suppose to be is
a deception occasioned by our ideas. \Vhal
an expanded mind, that could make all the
world ideas! Another, \\ ho could also think
way different lrom the vulgar, declares the
labsence of the sun is not the cause of night

ior darkness, but that there are certain tene
briticious or dari. stars that r..y out tl'.n'l.hess
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cliymist,determined to frighten ifnot imprOVe
Nothing appears to be a more singular and
the human mind, declare the sun, so long
preposterous task, than the exertion of ge
considered the splendid luminary ofour earth,

to be neither the source of light or head!"
\Vhen he retires beneath our horizon we to
be sure nd ourselves involved in darkness,
and we welcome his return as the cause of
day! we also concentrate his rays with the
lens and produce a phenomenon very much
nius and talents in persuading us to disbe

iievc that which is essential to public wel
fare and individual happiness. Religion alone
can regulate the human character so as to
make us useful in society or happy in our

selves. W'here is the substitute that can give
us equal advantages in the eldpf libertinu
like burning, which our senses always tell its ism and indelity! Champions offer us none.
is accompanied with heat! but this is all vul
\Ve can but consider the writings of this
gar observation. \Vc come next to the un

equaled attention which the learned have
given to the geology of our earth; it would
be an endless task to attempt to enumerate
the numerous speculations of men who have
thought it of vast importance to inform us
the manner in which the Divine Architect
formed our globe. In a late volume on che
mistry we have twenty different theories of
geology, which in all probability had cost
each of the speculatists many years of ardu
class of authors, as the production of men
ous study; and for what? can such conjec
tures ever lead us to demonstrative truth?

or supposing this possible, will it prove to
be a practical lesson, by which we can set
about manufacturing worlds at pleasure?
Were we indeed to believe some of thes\e
meddling philosophers, we might not only tlo
this, but with wonderful improvements upon
the original plan! But for a proper estima
tion of this class of the literati, I refer the
reader to the History of New York by Dei,

drick Knickerbocher, who has thought it
very necessary to inform us how this earth
who, for the most part, are ambitious of ap
pearing singular in belief, or rather disbeliet,

and eccentric, though in nonsense. There
is," says a heathen author, I know not how,

in the minds of men a certain presage of a
future existence; and this takes the deepest
root and is most discoverable in men of the
greatest genius and most exalted souls.
No ingenuity of reasoning can deprive the
reecting mind of this rational belief, and on
religion it rests as the anchor of safety. it
is the source of the greatest happiness in
this life, and the only basis upon which we
can found our hope of felicity in the next.
1 shall close this heterogeneous essay with
a quotation from a much admired though
anonymous writer: The want of discretion
and prudence has ruined more men oi learn
ing than time would allow me to mention;
withoutthis sobriety of intellect, nothing is
strong, nothing is great; without this pru
dence, without this discernment of time and
us in the gloom of adversity, and when the

rays of prosperity shine propitiously around
us, a friend enables us to enjoy their benign
inuence with higher satisfaction.
Friendship has been dened by Mr. Addi
son to be a'strong and habitual inclination
in two persons to promote the good and llaP
ness of one another. What a ne view of
human nature have we here! Two mix-do
humanized by the habitual practice of vir
tuous inclinations, working together for the
good of both. It is by such exercises that
man approximates to his Creator, and be
comes worthy to enter on a state of the most
perfect and endearing friendship.
Acute observation is necessary to the elec
tion of an useful friend.The human mind is
an intricate labyrinth, and that man must be
possessed of no ordinary degree of penetra
tion, who is perfectly acquainted with the
many windings with which it abounds. Self
interest is a very prominent feature in hu
man nature, and actuates in a greater or
less degree the mind of almost every man;
we must, therefore, search for him whose
ideas are most enlarged and we shall nd him

best capable of entertaining a pure and dis
interested friendship. We must be assured
that he has an affectionate regard for our
person, founded on a perception of conge
niality in disposition and sentiment; for to
live in friendship is to have the same desires
and the same aversions.
Actions, not words, should inuence one
circumstances and the habit of regularity, in the choice of a friend; for correct princi
ples need not the glare of language to dis
was, or might have been created, that we without an attention to the decenciesof so
play them more advantageously.
should not doubt of its existence, and this ciety and of commonlite, and 01 the princi
If you are searching for a friend rst ask
being granted, he could safely assure us that pies by which all men, however gilteu', must
somewhere upon its i'otuntlity we might nd indiscriminately be conducted, all our at yourself, whether you would feel equal plea
the city of New York! There is a maximum tainments are nothing worth; they will never sure in acting towards him as you would
if I may so call it in philosophy where hu procure us esteem or respectabiiity among have him to act towards you. Too much must
man intellect is compelled to stop her inves men; the world will but smile ..t such scho not be expected; friendship cannot subsist
CEASUR.
without a reciprocal exchange of good otii
tigations. Divinity has wisely limited the lars.
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ces; and unless we feel a disposition to per
powers of the human mind and taught us
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form the duties as well as to enjoy the plea
the very necessary lesson of humility by
sures of friendship, we should never make
proving our meanness tuid imbecility when
THE CABIN ET. No. XXII.
an attempt to enter into the sacred bond.
compared with a Being possessing innite
Poor is vhofn'emllen master of the world;
But if we experience a wish to promote the
A world in purchase for aiend, is guin
power antl consummate goodness. Here the
Yooxc.
happiness of another person, and nd him
dignied philosopher will check his inquisi
Man is a social being. His lot is east in a worthy of our tenderest concern, let the holy
tive mind, and instead of indulging himself
flame be cherished, the object in view is
in useless and presumptive speculation, he world chequered and uneven; he is conse
great, for
is clothed with awe and reverence. He knows quently led to depend upon his fellow mor
" A friend is worth all hamd we can run."
the stupendous works ol'Omnipotence are tals for much of that happiness which he
Almost unbounded condence is the very
past nding out. It is here reason coin may expect in this imperfect state of being.
mands him, cease to inquire, ihat he may be. In the ocean of life an universal calm cannot soul of friendship. lt cements the parties to.
be expected. The horizon will sometimes gether by mutual obligation, for either holds
gin to adore.
'What has been a still more surprising ex blacken; the clouds of danger will accumu the dearest secrets of the other. Here we
ercise of the learned, than any we have no late around us, and the torrents of mis may see the necessity of caution in the choice
ticed, is the numerous attempts that have fortune will burst upon our heads. in this of a bosom companion: if we make a hasty
been made to rob mankind of their religion. state of despair and wretchedness what re election we may be deceived in the charac
' This was original with Descartes, and is now
taught in the ch) mical chair of this university.
lief do we nd in the solace of friendship!
ter of the person; we may expose the secrets
The advice and comfort of a friend support of our soul to one who will use them tohis
mum nmrnrlr R nrnn'ron Y.
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own advantage, or betray them to others; and

We may render our days intolerable by the
bitter recollection of a rash and absurd mea
sure.
There are secrets, however, which ought
never to be divulged even to our best friend.
Human nature is frail, and it is impossible to

tell how soon the tide of virtue may be per
verted into the channels of vice, and we be
come the sport of the_winds and Waves.
Choose a friend who is rather above than
below you in point of knowledge. From in
tercourse with him, you may gather the
fruits of his reection and study: and as the
mind is prone to imitate whether the exam
ple be virtuous or vicious, by constantly hav
ing his virtues before you, you may nally
become virtuous yourself.
The most benevolent candor should al
ways be observed tOWards a friend. Desire
him to point out your faults, and gently in
timate to him his errors. Let good breeding
always be exercised, and never permit gen
tlemanly politeness to degenerate into coarse
and intimate vulgarity.
Be not too hasty in passing judgment on
your friend. Consult with him on all things
coolly and dispassionately. If you mistrust
his integrity, tell him so in an open, ingenu
Ous manner, and give him an opportunity of
defending himself. You should be as jealous
of your friend as of yourself, be being, as it
were, a part of yourself; and if he be a wor
thy condant, he will esteem it a happiness
that you take so much concern in his wel
agonies of death, a poor fellow mortal, who

once vigorous and gay, now weak and mis
erable, turns upon his solitary bed, without
a friend to administer to his necessities, or
alleviate his sorrows. Once rcvclling in af
uence, surrounded by convivial companions
and gaily enjoying the good things of this
life; now pale and dejected, deserted and
poor, stripped of all his tinseled grandeur.
Mark the lanquor of his eye, that eye which
once beamed vigorous with gay health; see
the pale quivering lip, the cold trembling
and unmanly. Does poverty compel you? Re

member that honest industry may always nd
employment, and that strict integrity is sure
to be rewarded; that the life of a gamestcr

is not an honest life, because pregnant with
many disastrious consequences and entirely

dependant upon fraud and chicanery for suc~
cess.
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ANECDOTIANA.
No. V
hand; hear his incoherent ravings: Oh,
A clergyman had frequently contemplated
Heavens! wifechildrenall, all, alas! and

health and fortune gone!" Wife did he say?
the following text of our Lord, Blessed are
Yes; this wretch once had a wife, and once
he knew the sweet solace of her kind affec

tion. But hear his history: Blest with apart
ner, whose heart susceptible of the tenderest
ties, claimed his undivided affection; with a
the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

He prayed earnestly that he might fully un
derstand it, which prayer was answered in
the following manner. One day wandering

in the elds in a meditative mood, he was
fortune adequate to obtain the comforts and
interrupted by the voice of joy and praise

from an adjacent cot. Curiosity led him to
conveniences of life; but with a disposition
the window, and he beheld the tenant, a
naturally light and volatile, which even asu

perior education could not steady; were the
circumstances of his early life. His talents,
though great, (and if properly applied would
have proved him the man of merit) were
perverted to the meanest purposes. Seduced
by the attering solicitations of pretended
poor woman, with but a cup of water and a

piece of bread; her eyes and hands were
raised to heaven, while with joy she ex
claimed, What! all this and Jesus Christ
too? The trie that the righteous may

have is better than the riches of the un
godly."
friends, he became the associate at the bil
A poor woman once heard a sermon in
liard room and the card table. He admired which the use of dishonest Weights and
the easy life of gambling, and would often measures was exposed. With this she was
try his hand in a little innocent amusement. much a'ected. The next day, as was his
Soon, however, nding himself master of the custom, the minister called on the woman
science he thought no harm 'in risquing a among the rest of his hearers, and inquired
fare, as to consult with him, not merely for trie. Those trzrs frequently repeated, what she remembered of his sermon. Iliave
your own benet, but for his best interests sometimes successful and sometimes not, a bad memory, replied she, but one thing I
as frequently called his intentions from his remembered; I remembered to burn my
1150.
" Judge before friendship. then conde till death
family, the sweets of which he left for the Mist
In admonishing your friend never let him precarious life of a gambler. Now become
-FALSE nonon.
imagine that you wish to wound his sensibi an inmate of a tavern and a professed game
Timogenes could smile when a man ridi
lity, but that your sincere desire is to pro ster, his family neglected and contemned for culed his Maker, and at the same time run
mote his happiness. The reproaches of the delusions of chance; mark the conse a man through the body who spoke ill of his
friendship should be well timed and Seldom. quence: Oft did he stake his last dollar, and friend.
From what I have said it may, perhaps, score another glass; oft did he return to his
Timogenes murdered a fellow creature in
appear, that a condent chosen with discre neglected family peevish, fretful ancbsoured a duel, who spoke ill of Belinda, a lady whom
tion, is greatly calculated to promote the with disappointment. But what was the coni Timogenes seduced and afterWards abandon
pleasures of existence. I shall conclude with mencement of his misery, compared to his ed to Want and infamy.
the following pleasing observation on the present situation! Well may he rave with
Timogenes, after having ruined several
subject of the present essay. Friendship," madness. That wife whom he now so bitter tradesmen that trusted him, sold his estate
says a writer, becomes effective in harmo ly laments he left to combat with a frowning to satisfy his creditors, but like a vain oflm
nizing families to distant generations, when world. Those children too, ivhoin he. left in nor, disposed of all the produce of the sale
vainfather
to pine
in penury,
whilst
he the
wretch to pay off his [zlay debts, or his debts qf In
the spirits of those who rst formed the Sn ed
i staked
his all
against
a gamblcrs
cred contract, are reunited in the bright
nor.
mansions of progressive felicity, and their coin," and consi'giied them with their wretch
'rnue uoson.
ed mother 'to beggary or starvatiqnl
bodies sleep in the silent tomb.
In 1746, during the War between England
Say, ye gamblers, is not niisery the bon and Spain, the ship EliZabeth, of London,
PETER PEACE-ABLE.
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sequence of vice? and, is not that vice the captain \Villi.nn Edwards, in coming through
most to be shunneduhich is most harmful the gulf from Jamaica, was obliged,thmugla
SELECTOR. No. 1X.

Behold in yonder hovel of misery, stretch
to happiness? You cannot excuse your at

tachment to gambling. All your pretentious
ed upon abedof sickness, writhing in all the
are false and puerile; they are inconsistent
stress of Weather, 10 pm into the Havanna.

The captain went on shore, told the reason
of his coming, and surrendered his shipls
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a prize. No sir," said the governor, if

we had taken you approaching our shores in
hostility, your ship would have been a prize
and your people prisoners; but when dis
tressed by tempest, you seek in our ports for
Safety, though your enemies, being men, we
are bound by the laws of humanity to relieve
you. We cannot even against our fees take
advantage of an act of God. Unload your
ship, stop the leak, trafc as far as necessary
to obtain sufcient to meet the expense, you
may then depart; I will give you apass as far
as the isle of Bermuda; but if after that you
are taken, you will be a lawful prize. The
ship departed and arrived safe in London.
This act deserves to be handed down to the
latest posterity.
Luxum'.
During the reign of Edward IV- of ling
land, 1470, George Neville, brother to the
earl of \Varwick, entertained most of the
manager went forward and requested to be
was not much, but he had bestowed it like
heard in vain; the cry was, no Trochaic, no
the widows mite on a person who was to him

almost a stranger.
scenes, but now appeared. The clamor in
Some time after my convalescence be en
creased, and it was evidently a conspiracy to tered into a detail of occurrences during my
injure me. In the most boisterous of my op insanity. I I0 told me that Frampton had with
posers I recognized Frampton; he was stand difficulty been rescued from the power ofthe
ing in the pit near the orchestra. Conviction grisly monarch, with the loss of his leg,
ashed upon me; Frampton was the fomenter which had been broken when I assailed him
of the opposition. Furious at the idea of his in the theatre, and which had since, in spite
again triumphing over me, I rushed forward of medical aid, been obliged to be amputa
and sprang with all my force upon his breast. ted. Hc added, that his estate was all swal
He sunk beneath my weight, and I fell with lowed up in the vortex of dissipation, and he
him. He knew me not,but instinctively grap now lived in the world unpitied and despised,
pled with me. I was eager for his life, and with scarcely the common necessaries of life.
pressed my hands so rmly round his throat I lamented his miseries, and sincerely forgave
that he writhed, gave a groan, and in a few him the injuries he had heaped upon me.
minutes he Would have ceased to exist. At
Mr. D. conducted me to the tomb of my
this juncture I was forcibly torn from his departed Mary and her little innocent. He
almost inanimate body, by the friendlyD. had erected a plain and modest marble over
play. vI had stood shivering behind the
be rescued me from the mob, and conducted
their loved remains. I bathed it with my tears,
nobility and clergy, when his bill of fare was
me home. Fool that I was! my face bathed
and felt my heart surcharged with gratitude
300 quarters of wheat, 350 tuns of ale, 104.
in blood, and with my clothes torn,I arrived

thither, and found Mary in the agonies of
in mine hour of need. As we were returning
tuns of wine, 1 pipe of spiced wine, 80 fat
to Providence, who had given to me afriend
death. Some oflieious neighbor had viewed from the melancholy duty, a crippled wretcll
the scene at the theatre and reported it to accosted us, and in broken accents implored
her with a thousand exagerations. She,over relief. It was Frampton, but oh! how altered!
2000 chickens, 4000 pigeons, 4000 rabbits, powered by her fears, had given birth to a I hastily threw a piece of money into his
204 bitterns, 4000 ducks, 200 pheasants, 500 dead infant, and as I entered the room where remnant of a hat and passed on. I have never
partridgcs, 2000 woodcocks, 400 plovers, 100 she lay, frantickly shrieked my name, and since beheld him; but have understood that
curlews, 100 quails, 1000 egrets, 200 rees, starting up threw herself on my breast and a barn in which he had taken up his lodg
breathed forth her last sigh.
400 bucks, does and webucks, 1506 hot ve
ings was consumed by re, and he fell avic
Here all remembrance fails me; my senses tim to the ravages of that destructive ele
niun pasties, 4-000 cold ditto, 1000 dishes of
jelly. paited, 4000 dishes jelly, plain, 4-00 cold lied, and for ten years I remained the hapless ment.
_
.
custards, 2000 hot custards, 300 pikes, 300 inmate of a mad house, where, as I have since
I visited, in company with Mr. D., the
breams, 8 seals, 4 porpusscs, 400 tarts. At been informed, I was placed by the humanity apartment in which I had spent my years of
this feast, the earl of 'Warwick was steward, of Mr. D. the violence of my malady render
insanity; it was unoccupied; I examined it
ing such a step absolutely necessary. He bu closely; the walls were covered with detach
the earl of Bedford treasurer, and lord Hast
ings comptroller. There were 1000 servitors, ried my wife and child and never ceased his ed verses which bespoke the wanderings 0f
62 cooks, and 515 menial servants in the attentions to me.
the authors mind. The following, which I
At length reason again dawned upon my transcribed, is the most ighty and will serve
kitchen. After all he died in the most abject
and unpiticd poverty. What a proof of the soul; I awoke as from a dream, but could as a specimen. As the production of a ma
uncertainty of human affairs!
not conjecture where I was. I softly articu niac, no apology is necessary.
oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1204- wethers, 300 hogs,
300 calves, 3000 geese, 3000 capons, 3000
pigs, 100 peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kids,
-_I.0
tated Mary, and the keeper entered. I will
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not fatigue you with recounting the methods
LIFE OF J ACK TIIOCHAIC,
resorted to to continue my dawning ration

ality; sufce it to say they were successful,
owing to the indefatigable exertions of Mr.
D. Generous man! I cannot refrain dropping
a tributary tear to the memory of departed
\Vho is it, who is it that rides on the whirlwind,

His brow in the garb of wan wildness arrayd?
(Concluded)
As the time approached that was to deter

mine my fate, I became uneasy and agitated;
the manager perceived my fears and did all
in his power to encourage me. Alas! my
fears were soon to be veried, and the cup
of happiness which I had scarcely raised to
my lips, was to be dashed forever from my
qu? "ering feeble grasp and shivered into
atoms.
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_y _ I
At the time appointed the 'curtain drew

up betorc a numerous audience, and the play
attempted to go on; attempted only. for the
loud and reiterated cries of off, off, which
resounded from every part of the house,

rendered the performance impossible. The
\Vho is it that follows liim.~raging behind?

'Tis Ruin. who \vields"he unp'nying blade
worth; he was, in the language (if an admir
His voice is louder than the war of ocean:

Fierce is the rolling of ns bloodslmt eyes:
His breast more agitated than the darkling "150"
Of you black cloud that o'er the suns face ies
ed hard, at man, take him for all in all, I
Tis Phrenzy; now he raves, and now is silent;
I'neer shall look upon his like again." At
Hark! the low sigh bursts from his laboring bfea"
this period he was far advanced into the vale
Now droops his head. now fury rears her crew
of years; his silvery locks and open counte
Sooner than he yon mty rock is pliant.
nance, on which the smile of benevolence

delighted to dwell, commanded respect and
Hark! how he clanks his chains: he scowls upon me?

Away, gaunt end hie to thy native hell'
admiration; added to which the extensive in-
Why burns my brain! I feel, I trembling fed (hm
In thy rude grasp my'shivering senses dwell
tellectual powers he possessed rendered him

adored by all who knew him. He was now Hark! he is gone; but why stays Ruin he"?
Whv glares he on me with his blasting eye?
retired from the cares of the busy world, and i
My lips are parcli'doh! for a balmy with
lived upon the interest of his earnings; it
My heart will burstI cannot heave & ligh'
PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY;
30 9 .
I resided with Mr. D., for he never would
permit me to leave him, until death deprived

me of his friendship. He intended to have
left me the little property he possessed,
which would have supported me in my old
age; but fate decreed it otherwise, andl was
again doomed to encounter the frowns of the
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RESPONSE-103 ROUE'I JUN.

Fond bard, who, with friendliness soothing and
dear,
Dost touch the ne chord to so tender a strain,
A heart that is wont to be heavy to cheer,
I sigh that I hear thee, yet list I agaiu.
l.
The joy his verses gave below:
And join with him the tuneful choii, 4

T0 praise upon 01' angelic I) re.
The love that set thy spirit free,
The love that groand on Calvary.
VALERI AN
For the Repertory.

world, more destitute than at my rst en
trance. I will not tire you with enumerating

the adversities I have since experienced; suf
ce it to say, I have grown grey in misfor

tunes, and have barely existed by consum
For the music of song has its wonted control,

And the past comes again with the sound ofthelyre;
When the freshness of health freely breath'd
through my soul,
And my hopes were high-plumed, and my passions

on re.
ing the midnight oil in literary labors, and

had not your timely interference prevented
it I must in all probability have ended my
days of wretchedness in a prison. Perhaps
the blow has only been suspended, and may
yet fall with redoubled violence to crush me.
Thus have I related to you the history of my
life. I have not been free from error, and
shall leave you to make your own comment

on it; and I pray you, when you speak of me
nothing cxtenuate.
piness
Adieu;
is that
the you
prayer
mayof
enjoy
your
health
bankrupt
and hap
(in
happiness) friend,
JACK TROCHAIC.
From my apartments in the attic story.
For the Repertory.
No. IV.
Too cruel Edwin, cannot the agonisizzg
pangs of my bleeding heart move thy pity
or thy love? cried the frantic Julia, whilst
Ah, child that I was! with the caprice of will,
How then with the muse did I wanton and toy!

Content that the wild tone of feeling could ll
The coldest of bosoms with fondness and joy.
But, alas! the gay hope, th0ugh by genins self
form'd
SATIRE NO. III. B\' \\'.-\I.'IER 'IIRCLF.

Again, good readers, I appear
After a silence long and drear.
And hope you will not scout me quire
From your offended worships sight,
If not, and you are all agreed,
I, in my story, will proceed,
To your forgetful mem'ries call

Poor Peter Fribble's hapless fall,
And bowing to the rules of sense,
\Vhcre I then nish'd, now commence.
A tavern was his last retreat,
On the world's generosity, ies like a dream;
Where high and low as equals meet,
And what is its friendship! The bubble unwarmd,

That glitters and bursts on the curl of the stream.
The wealthy comer oft befriended;
Whose host with lib'ral arms extended,

Or the low wretch, the grovling, mean,
Yet, despising the meed which the \vorld'qgmigltt

give
Or refuse. as her bascness or pliantasy taught,
I would live with the harp, but to die did I live,
But, alas! can I die? I can picture to thought
A scene to avert which these bands would not stay
The harp to tear peacemeal and strew oer the wild;
Away with the joy ofthe minstrel! away!
Ye hopes, ye dear hopes that so mockd and beguiled.
I will he like the lone little streamlet that su-ay'd

Through the vale till the heat of the summer came
on:
That was seen by the travller who paused in the
shade,
And when he came back on the mon-ow was gone.
10
1.)
If but a sign of cmb were seen,

Or where the drunkard sits at ease,
Whom fancied fears no longer seize,
(Untroubled by his scolding wife
The plague and sorrows of his life,
And careless quite to fall among
The battling clangors of her tongue.)
20
Where, free from high ambitions plan _

But gingling money makes the man,
Peter was there, but through his soul
2:7
Distracting terrors ercely roll,

The thoughts of home his mind appal,
He fancied still his shameful fall,
And mad conceit with magic trace
Wrote ridicule on every face,
30
O! jenny, jenny, crietl pour Peter,
her aged father, bending with years and ac

cumulated woe, hung over the miserable
couch, where extended lay the faded form

of his once lovely child. Tears of anguish
stole down
his hollow cheeks, anti grief
thoaked his trembling voice as he strove to

comfort her aiicted soul. She grasped his
hand; steadfastly gazes in the old mans face
and seems to recognise those features; her
disordered mind imagined her seducer; a
hollow groan burst from her sickened bo
som, and disappointment Was strongly de
picted in her countenance. Nights sable.
wings had overspread all nature, all Was si-i
lent as the tomb; on awornt eaten chair, be-
side the bed, a glimmering taper threw its;

light around the abode of misery and de-l
spdr. A faint ray rested on the face of .lu
lia, discovered her eye sunk and rolling in
the wildness of her distraction. At this mo
ment a voice is heardthe old man crawls
to the doorEdwin enters, ies to the dy
ing Julid-she raises her head, smiles and

txpires.
CIN'I'HIO.
Can he love truth, who can take a hnave

to his bosom?
Adieu to the joy of the minstrel! adieu!

Kind bard whom the gentle of heart shall approve:
My harp string is tum-less, nor dare I renew
A course that would mad me, and wrong whom I
love.
GLORMON.
For the Repertory.
TO MISS M--Y RL,

On lending her the works of Cowper.
Thy lips than honey far are sweeter,
But thy provoking smile of scorn

Plants in the rose ofjoy a thorn,
And 0! Idread to meet the rally
Will view my actions with amaze.

No more my gig will scower along,
At your request, my lovely friend,
And part the giddy, stupid throng,
I now the works of Cowper send.
In cold neglect it now shall fly,

Nor longer x the wandering eye."
Delightful bard, where chaste and sweet,

The eye his flowing numbers greet.
Nor to the eye alone confined,
But passing through it to the mind;

To which a blissful treat is given,
And antepast of distant beaten.
No sillv tales of Cupid drawn,
No water nymph, no sylvan fawn
Distaiu his verses, pure they roll,
And pour delight 'upon the soul.

'Iis Heaven within them reigns supreme,
Eternity is all their theme.
0! when the} meet your anxious sight,
May you receive as much delight,
As they gave me when all my heart
Perused the beauties they impart;
And may you when the body dies,
Meet the sweet poet in the skies;
There let his blessed spirit know
'55
Of thy sharp wit's unceasing' sally,

The pangs I feel, will never cease,
Farewel to pleasure and to peate,
No more," thought he, the vulgar gaze
40
Whilst thoughts like these his mind dcstrest; 45

Sad discontent disturb'd his breast,
And as throughout the room hed pass,

He feard to View the tell tale glass;
The labring sigh he ceaseless heaved,
No blissful hope his soul relieved
.50
No glowing visions pleased his mind.

To wan despair twas more eonstgud.
joy. Fancy could no more pursue
But like an owl to midnight ew,

And on his cheek no more was seen
5.3
The blush of health, inc'\ns'ant queen!

The soothing spirit heald his arm,
Tlte_erds of sorrow could no: charm;
When in a kind of stupid dread.
'
He threw him careless on his bed
a lo
There let him rest; but hear Zitil. sound

W~hich loud reverberatcs around,_,
I
.A
==r===
While pity for some heaved with anguish her breast,

Oh! I felt that her heart was entwined with my
own.
Now trembling view his chamber dool,

Which long stood motionless before,
And yielding to his giant strength

Before hint stood exposed at length
How blest were my fortune, l silently said,
His grim faced host; now leter raved

And his ill manner'd landlord braved,
" How dare you." cried he, rushing in,
Break my repose with such :1 din!
To dwell with a maiden so fair and rened;

Twere bliss, though I lived iii cold poverrys shed,
In mt-rtalitys loveliest vestmenrs enshrined.
70
You might have knockd, 1 think, at least
But Hymen, who beams upon millions his light,
Will never the rays of his torch shed on me;
Yttil dirty, filthy,lousy beas'."
Rosalia has wed; nought but sable robed night
(Now all these words, however vile,
And care now remains, sad Fluranthus, for thee

AROUL'T IUN.
Are truly in the buckish style,)
Mr. Editor,
I solicit a place in your useful paper for

the following very significant and beautiful
lines, written by the justly celebrated Dr.
Beanie and evidently intended for himself;
tncy (to use the strong language of the ele
gull sir 'iiliain Forbes) unquestionably de
rive an additional value'froin that cit-cum
stance.
Yours, Ste.
H. G.
EPITAPH ON
Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul
Here leaves its mouldering tenement of clay,
Leave me this instant, go lsay,
76
Or for your rashness you shall pay."
" And for your lodging: so shall you,"

Cried the rm host with piercing view,
\Vho by the bill of his expenses
Restored his guest his wand'rtng senses.
80
"Landlord," said he, "pray whats your haste?

1 rst a bit of dinner taste,
And then discharge my debt, and go

Where I will not be treated so."
_.__
For the Repertory.
POE'IIC SELbCTOR.
No. I
THE TOMB 0F ELLEN.
Like thee. havr labor d in the stormy strife:
'l'h y heart is dead to loves control,

If feeling never nursed with dews
Yet, for a while. 'gainst passions thoughtful blast
The rose of passion in thy soul;

85
For this is Pity s holiest shrine;
The lilies that surround the dead

Would shrink from such a hand as thine.
Discharge itnow, no more lll house ye,

For you have calld me, dirty, lousy,
But if thy breast with ardor Warm
Else to the jail lll instant send you,

For here there a no one to befriend you."
90
" Forgive," cried Peter, " what I've said,

Ina turn'd brain sir, it was bred,
Like thee I once have stemm'd the sea nflife;

Like thee. have languishd after empty jyls
Stranger! if by worldly views,
Turn from this grave thy tread,

The landlord cried, " may I declare,
By brandy. whiskey, gin, I swear
Safe, where no cares their writ-lining billttws r011,

No doubts bewilder, and no hopes betray.
Beats to the thrilling glance of beauty;

lfthnu hast knelt to Woman's cltarm
With all of love's enraptured duty,
Been grieved for tries, and amused with toys.

Ler steady reason urge the struggling oar;
Slut through the dreary gloom. the mom at last

Gives to thv longing eye the blissful shore.
Forget my frailties. tbmt art also ail,
Forgive my lapses. for time! mai"stfall;
Nnr read, unmoved, mv artless. tender tale
[was ai'end. 0 man. to lbee, to all.
_.._
SINGULAR ANECDOTE.
And that curst tongue which did displease you

I'd almost clip sir, to appease you "
" No more of this," return'd the host,
95
" Theyre but pernicious liest at most,

Your tears and prayers alike shall fail,
Or pay me, or prepare for jail."
100
l05
And in a gloomy prison pent,

Pull 0ft with rm determination,
Projected plans of reformation:

But here I'll cease, nor spin my tale
Be) end the limits of my scale,
(For love and pity seldom sever)

Aud pour the sighs to passion dear,
Where Ellen sleeps, alas! forever!
Sweet maid within thy gentle breast
Affection bloomd, oh, how sincerely!
Fribble replyd, I speak with sormw,
The money 1 must go and borrow,

With such revenge no longer burn,
For! will instantly return,
And if one spark of honor's here,
You have no more, dear air, to fear."
Twas all in vain, iojail he went,
Then, stranger, pause and linger here,
And why did fate, with frown unblest,

Break a fond heart that loved so dearly.
For cold beneath the Atlantic wave
Her lover found an icy pillow,
No ower to deck his lonely grave,
N0 death shroud but the foammg billow.
its useless sure to tell his woes,
His hapless nights disturbd repose;

Nor need Ieither tell about
How his poor father got him out.
But like our modern love tale bubbles,
Leave him in midst of all his troubles.
was probably indebted for his life. You
The spirit of the mom had sigh'd,
revive," said the venerable old man; fear
Delighted oer the rose's bloom;
not; yonder house is mine; I will support

you to it: there yoti shall. be comforted." Sir
H. expressed his gratitude. They walked
gently to the house. The friendly assistance
of the venerable old man and his servants
But sorrow came with withering stride,

And swept its beauty to the tomb.
The following most extraordinary event

happened in Lincolnshire, last autumn, and
may be relied on as an absolute fact:
The violence of a fall deprived Sir Henry
F. of his faculties, and he lay entranced seve
ral hours; at length his recollection returned;
he faintly exclaimed, where am I? and
looking found himself in the arms of a vein
erable old man, to whose kind ofces Sir H.
Stranger, if love awakes your sighs,

gAnd love and pity seldom sever)
Pause where that rose of beauty lies:
restored Sir H. to his reason; his bewildered

Where Ellen sleeps, alas! for ever!
QC lAVlA.
11
For the Repertory.

ELEGIAC SONNET,
For the Repertory.
On hearing of Emmas intention of residing in

Philadelphia
BALLAD STANZAS.
0b! bright was the dew drop that dwelt in her eye,
Which beamd through the gem with a luminous

bean-i,
But as mild as the breath of the summer eve sigh,

When the moon faintly tinges the wave with her
As the poor, weary, sea beat mariner

Arrives in prospect of his native h me,
And. suddenly, tempestuous billows roar,
And threat to whelm the vessel in the foam;
Arduous he strives to combat with the wave,
And the long wish'd for harbor to attain
gleam.
He views his destriy in the watry grave.
Her voice was as sweet as the nightingaleit song,

Which softly awakens the ear of the night;
And the accents that thrillingly fell from her tongue
Spread over my bosom a glow of delight
For, though he strive and wish'tis all in vain!

So 1, on passion's sea for sixteen years,
Who bore the adverse winds and tempest's frown,
faculties were reorganized: at length he suf

fered no inconvenience, except that occa
sioncd by the bruise he received in the fall.
Dltincr was announced and the good old man
entreated Sir H. to join the party; he accep
ted the invitation, and was shown to a large
hall, where he found sixteen covers; the party
consisted of as many persons, no ladies were

present. The old man took the head of the
table; an excellent dinner was served, and
rational conversation gave a zest to the repust.

The gentleman on the left hand of Sir H.
asked him to drink a glass of wine, when the
old man in a dignied and authoritative tone,
at the same time extending his hand, said,
Though brought in sight of all that life endears,
No! Sir H. was astonished at the singular

She spoke of the bards, and her language expressd
The sense of a mind to their harmony known;
Laying his hand earnestly on his heart.
Must be trom eapectation's height cast down;
Long may I view my part of bliss and love,

But never shall my soul its sweets domestic prove!
EDWIN.
ity of the check, yet, unwilling to offend, re

mained silent. The instant dinner was over,
the old man left the room, when one of the
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company addressed him in the following

words: By what misfortune, Sir, have you
ding, the Doctor and Sir H. passed the even

ing rationally and agreeably.
been unhappily trepanned by that unfeeling
-.
man who has quitted the room! 0 Sir! you

will have ample cause to curse the fatal hour
that put you in his power, for you have no
prospect in this world but misery and op
pression; perpetually subject to the capri
cious humor of that old man, you will remain
in this mansion for the rest of your days; your
There lately happened in the neighbor

hood upon the Order, an event which is
considered as an infliction of the divine ven
geance. A woman, concerving that her
life, as mine is, will become burthensome;
husband, who was a soldier in the Prussian

service, had been killed in the battle of Jena,
in 1806, married another man. It turned out
that her husband had been only wounded,
and, driven to dispair, your days will glide
and taken prisoner by the French. A cure
on, with regret and melancholy reection,

in one cold and miserable sameness. This,
was soon effected, and the soldier, on recov
ering, joined one of the Prussian Regiments

which at that time entered into the service
not mine only, but the lot of every one you ofthe French. After serving upwards of three
see here since their arrival at this cursed years in Spain, he was discharged, and re
abode!" The pathetic manner that accom turned suddenly to his native country. On
panied this cheerless narrative, and the sin reaching his old habitation, he appeared to
gular behavior of the old man at dinner be greatly rejoiced to nd his wife alive.
sworke in Sir Hs breast sentiments ofhorror, She received him, according to the statement
and he was lost in stupor some minutes,when of several young persons who were at the
recovering, he said, By what authority can door, when the old soldier arrived, with eve
any man detain me against my will? I will ry mark ofaection, which so long an absence
not submit; I will oppose him force to force might naturally be supposed to produce. It
if necessary. Ah, Sir! exclaimed a se is probable that she did not avow the new
cond gentleman, your argument is just, but matrimonial connection she had formed. Af
your threats are vain; the old man, Sir, is a ter partaking of some refreshment, and giv
magician; we know it by fatal experience; do ing .. 1 account of his adventures and escapes,
not be rash, Sir: your attempt would prove he complained of being overcome with fa
futile, and your punishment would be dread tigue. His wife advised him to retire to rest,
ful." I will endeavor to escape, said which he did. She immediatsly conceived the
Sir H. Your hopes are groundless, rejoin horrid plan of instigating her new husband
ed a third gentleman; for it was but tillcc to dispatch the unwelcome visitor in his sleep.
months ago, when in an attempt to escape, I After a short interval passed in devising the
broke my leg. Another said he had broke~ means, and providing against detection, they
his arm, and that many had been killed by f.Jls accomplished their objects by strangling the
in their endeavors to escape; others had sud
poor man, and put his body into a sack.
denly disappeared and never been heard of. About midnight, in conveying it to theOdcr,
Sir H. was about to reply, when a servant en the weight of the body burst the sack, and
tered the room, and said his master wished one of his legs was protruded. The woman
tp see him; Do not go, said one. Take set about sewing up the rent, and in her
my advice, said another; for Gods Sake hurry and confusion, sewed in the same
do not go." The servant told Sir ll. he had time the skirts of her accomplicc's coat.
nothing to fear, and begged he would follow Having reached the bank of the river, and
him to his master; he did, and found the olt. making a great effort to precipitate the body
man seated at a t..ble covered with a desert as far into the stream as possible, he was
and wine: he rose when Sir H. entered the dragged fronrthe clcvatcd ground he had
room, and asked pardon for the apparent chosen, into the river with the corps. He
rudeness he was under the necessity ofcom contrived partly by swiming, and partly by
alas! has been my lot for fteen years; and
mitting at dinner; For," s..id he, -I an.

Dr. \Villis; you must have heard of me; 1
conne my practice entirely to cases of

insanity; anti as I board and lodge insane
patients, mine is vulgcrly called a mad house.
The persons you dined with are madmcn
throat, as not to leave any doubt that the
man had been murdered. The man and we

man on being charged with the crime. made
a full confession, and were immediately con
signed to the officers of justice, and commit

ted to prison.
-.
We are enformed that a poor man, neat

this place, having lost a Cow, which had been
the principal dependence of his family, a

number of his neighbors assembled ostensi
bly with a view to sympathize with him, and
to relieve him from his loss. While they
each in their turn, were vociferous in expres<
sing their sorrows at the poor mans misfor

tune, a French gentleman (who is as well
known for his liberality and nobleness of spi
rit, as for his genteel address and deport
ment) came up, and thus alternately accost
ed them, you are sorryand you are sor

ryand you are sorry!--Pray now rwcu
are you sorry? For my part, I am sorry TEN
DOLLARS!" at the same time tendering the
money to the poor man. The reader is left
to imagine the confusion of his very sym/Ia
lhizing nrigliborr; however being irreisti
bly overpowered by such a noble example,
they contributed to make up the poor mansv
loss on the spot.
Morrz'ato'wn atr.
-._
Dr. Linegar, titular Archbishop of Dublin,

about 50 years since, was a man of lively
parts and very communicative; he happen
ed in a large mixed company, to be introdu
ced to a Mr. Swan, a gentleman of a cynical
turn, whose practice it was to attempt to
raise a length at the expense of some one in

company. They sat near each other at table,
where the doctor engaged attention by his
sprightly manner. Mr. Swan, to silence him,
addressed him, Mr. I forget your name. Li
negar, Sir, returned the doctor. I ask your
pardon; I have the misfortune scarce ever to

recollect names; youll not be o'ended, if. in
the course of conversation, I should name
you Dr. Vinegar. Oh, not at all, Sir, (instant

ly replied the doctor) I have the very same
defect, and it is possible, though now I name
you Swan, 1 may by and by think you a

Goon. The laugh was offcctUally turned
treading the bottom, to keep his head above against the cynic, who never attempted a se
water, for several minutes. The woman not cond sarcasm that evening, but slunk away"
considering how important it was to keep as soon as he decently could.
silent at this critical moment, lled the air
with her cries, and brought to the spot seve

ral peasants, who at the hazard of their own
.-
A certain Hibernian lady hada custom

of saying to a favorite little dog, to make
him follow her, Come along sir." A wtuki
be witty gentleman stcpt up to her one d..y,
was unwilling totell you this before dinner, lives, extricated the drowning man from
fearing it would make you uneasy; for al his perilous situation. Their surprize at nd
though I know them to be perfectly harm ing so large a substance attached to him was and accosted her with, 15 it liit, mac. hi,
less, you very naturally might have had ap great, but much gre..ter when they found you called? Oh, no Sir, said she. uith
prehensions." The supptise of Sir H. on that it was a dead body. On inspection there great composure It was another 1111/1/15; I
hearing this was great: but his fears subsi was found such marks of violence about the spoke to."
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512
4:_
The following are Mrs. Graham's receipts for dura

ble dyes.
{@btlatlpbia,
January 1). 1811.
10 on: SCARLET.
One pound of Maddcr (fresh gathered
from the 12th to the 19th January.
from the garden) will dye two. pounds of
Dimmer:
ad cb.
Dimmer.
ad. c6.
. New London, jan. 15.
On \Vednesday morning last, the United
wool. The wool must be washed clean, then

States schooner Revenge, of fourteen guns,
boiled about fteen minutes in strong alum

captain Perry, in proceeding from Newport
water. The madder is to be boiled in thin
to this port unfortunately struck on Watch
bran water, (the bran being carefully strained
Hill reef in Rhode Island, and in a few hours
from the water). The wool dripped from the
~went to pieces. The sails, rigging, six can
j alum water, and put in the bran Water, must
non, and almost every article of value were
be boiled fteen or twenty minutes; and
saved, The remainder of the cannon, it is
washed out in soft soap suds after it is cool.
said, will he got up without much diiculty.
* By leaving out the alum, it dyes a good
At the time the Revenge struck, the fog
brown color.
was so thick that the jib boom could not be
TO MAKE A CRIMSON COLOR.
seen from the quarter deck. There was a
To two gallons of the juice of poke ber
branch pilot on board.
' ries, when they are quite ripe, add half a
__.._
'
l'lxtract from the highly valuable notes ac

.companying Dr. Morses late sermon, deliv
ered before the society, in Boston, for pro
pagating the Gospel.
\Vithout pretending to a precise know
dedge on the subject, we. reckon within the
limits of the United States, at least thirty
Missionary Societies of different discriptions
and denominations of Christains; and fteen
HEALTH OFFICE,
,
SATURDAY, J.\ NL'ARY 26, 18M.
gallon of strong vinegar, made of the wild
crab apple, to dye one pound of wool, which

must be rst washed very clean with hard
soap. The wool, when wrung dry, is to be
1l put into the vinegar and poke berry juice,
I and simmered in a copper vessel for one
i hour; then take out the wool and let it drip
l awhile, and spread it in the sun. The vessel
i must be free from grease of any kind.

I
To MAKE AN ORANGE conon.
Bible Societies; the latter, all instituted with

in the last three years, and three fourths of
them within the last year.

Theological institutions have been estab
lished at New York, (1805) by the Associate ,
Reformed Church; the stated number of
students from 10 to 15. Also, at Andover,
in Massachusetts, (1808) the whole number _
Take a quantity of touch-me-not, gathered

on the stems, and bruise it well in a wooden
mortar. On layers of touch-me-not and wool
alternately, pour rain water or soft water
from a spring, until they are covered; let it
stand twenty four hours; then have ready a
strong lather of soft soap and wash it out,
and put it immediately in the sun to dry.
Salmon color may be made by using hard
soap instead of soft. These colors brighten
by washing.
Touch-me-not is found in low places;
of students since admitted between sixty and

unruly. And at New Brunswick, New Jer
sey, (i810) by the Dutch Reformed Church,
which is just commencing its operations.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, at their meeting in May last, resolv- ' the- stem is pale green, and the ower near
ed on founding a similar institution some? ly of the colour that it dyes. It grows as
high as six feet.
where within their bounds, and are collect
_.._
ing the necessary funds for the purpose. Be
Consumption oflungsg
l Small pox, natural 4
b'
Convulsions
2 Still born
Dropsy
Epilepsy
1
1
0 Syphilis
0
Fever, nervous
Pleurisy
Rheumatism
Sore throat
0
1
l
0
1
1
0
1
1 0

18 17
Total 35

Under
1 year
detween l and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
20
30
30
40
40
50
6 Between 50 and 60
2
2
60
70
1.
4
70
80
1
2
80
90
0
l
90
100
0
8
Unknown
0
4
2
Total 35

jOHN ALLlSON. Clerk,
9 o'clock. 12 o'clock. 3 o clock.
january
14
30
33
29
15
30
31
31
16
80
32
32
17
39
4-9
40
18
26
2
24
19
30
32
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VOL. I.
LIFE OF
BIOGRAPHY.
LIVIA DRUSILLA.
The characteristic of the Roman nation

was grandeur: its virtues, its vices, its pros
perity, its misfortunes, its glory, its infamy,
its rise and fall, were alike great. Even the
women, disdaining the limits which barbarism
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 18l 1.

general ofthe troops, resolved to avenge his
death, and to succeed, if practicable to his
power. But turning their arms against each
other, Antony was defeated, and corrpclled
to y for his life; while Lepidus,distinguish

ed by his birth and bravery, succeeded to
the command of the army, and, in his turn,
disputed with Octavius the victory.

These struggles terminated in a peace, in
to their sex, emulated the heroism and da
which the celebrated trumvirate, composed
ring of man. Ambition is the passion and by the contending rivals, deluged Rome with
scourge of republics; where every thing is the blood ofits citizens. From this partition
possible, every thing will be attempted: it Lepidus was afterwards expelled by his more
is the glory of human nature, that necessary poWerful competitors: Octavius possessed
only can bound its efforts.
himself of the government of Italy, while
Livia Drusilla descended from one of the Antony marched into Asia to hold the pro
most illustrious families of Rome, whose ori
vinces in subjection. But between Octavius
gin was even more ancient than that of the and Antony, ambition, which abides no com
city itself. Her father Livius' Drusus Cali petition, sowed the seeds of dissension while
dianus, being of the number of those proscrib the kingdom split into factions.
ed by the trumvirate, entered precipitate
Tiberius, the husband of Livia, espoused
and ignorance had, in other nations, assigned
'p
No. 40.
Tiberius, returned to their country. Livia,
in the pride of beauty and the full maturity

of her powers, accompanied her husband
back to Rome.
The charms, the talents. the magnicence.
and the vivacity of the wife of Tiberius, at
tracted all hearts: even that of Octavius be
came sensible to her fascinations: his admi
ration Was too fervent, and his attentions too
marked, long to escape observation. A bril

liant entertainment which he pretended to
give to his friends, deceived no one; the ob
without rusticity; she softened by courtesy

the awe which she delighted to inspire. In
the rst bloom of her youth, she was espous
ed to Tiberius Claudius Nero, a patrician
ject of this gallantry and splendor was appa

rent: Livia rcceived the homage of the
courtiers as the goddess of the feast. Ambi
tion was in the soul of Livia the predomina
ting passion, which the station and moderate
fortune of her husband had hitherto checked ~
and restrained. Octavius to rank and splendor
added attractions yet more persuasive: he was
in the prime of life, distinguished for his
the cause of Antony; whom he hastenedto talents, for the graces of his person, the
join on the side of Sicily. In this voyage, or sweetness of his manners, and the majesty
rather ight, in which. a thousand perils of his deportment; for spirit, vivacity, and
were encountered, Livia, with her infant, courage. The vanity and the heart of the
accompained her husband. The troops of wife of Tiberius combined to betray her prin
Octavius, informed of the design of Tiberi
ciples: she remained not long inexible to
us, endeavoured to intercept him, with a the solicitations of her lover. Octavius, infa
view of sacricing him to the vengeance of tuated with the charms of a new object, dis
their chief. Following him closely, they covered in the temper of Scribonia (with
had nearly overtaken him at Naples; but the whom he had already contracted amarriage)
darkness of the night, and the prudence of an insupportable evil, to rid himself of which,
he divorced her on the very day on which
the fugitives, in avoiding the great roads, en
abled them to elude their pursuers. After she presented to him a daughter.
Wandering through Sicily and Achaia, they
Having thus violated the laws of humanity
arrived at Lacedmmon, whence they were and decency, his passion became a little scru
obliged to depart suddenly, during the night, pulous; availing himself of his power, he mo
and, crossing the woods, to expose them destly requested Tiberius to resign to him
of her own kindred, a man of talents, learn
selves to innumerable dangers: they were
ly into the measures of Brutus and Cassius;
and after the battle of Philippi, to avoid fal

ling into the hands-ofthe victors, terminated
his own existence. To dignity of birth, bril

liant talents, and high cultivation of mind.
Livia added the charm of beauty. Lively,

penetrating, sagacious, subtle, she read with
facility the characters of those who approach

ed her, and rendered them subservient to
her purpose: to a soul active, haughty, and
aspiring, she joined elegant and insinuating

manners. Proud of her descent, she affected
the republican severity of character, yet
ing and courage, whose merits had been re often surrounded with ames, which even
warded by Julius Caesar with the ponticate; once singed the robe and hair of Livia, as
an oiiice among the most considerable in she sheltered her child in her arms.
Rome. To this distinction, the command of
In the mean time a new revolution took
the colonies destined for the different towns place in the a'airs of Rome. The death of
in Gaul, was added, as a recompense for his
Fulvia (the wife of Antony), who had been
conduct and valour during the Alcxandrine instrumental, by sowing jealously between
war. A son on whom the name of his father, the triumvirs, in kindling the war, prepared
had been bestoWed, and whose infancy was:
his wife. In what degree Livia inuenced
her husband on this occasion is not known;

or whether the resignation had in it more of
policy or generosity; but it is certain that

the lady, though then in the seventh month
of her pregnancy, became the wife of Octa

vius.
By the Roman laws, women were forbid
den to contract a new marriage within ten
the way for negotiation; while peace was months after the dissolution of their former
marked, with disasters, was the fruit of this cemented by the marriage of Antony with
Octavia, the sister of Octavius.
marriage.
The assassination of Julius Caesar proved' ' Nuptial festivities succeeded to the calam
engagement. But to the passions of a despot,

law opposes a feeble restraint. Apollo and
a prelude to civil commotions.*0ctavius
consulted, and a college of ponti's summon

ed to remove cry scruple. To the master
ities
of civil discord: the exiled nobles,
Casar, his adopted son, and Mark Anthony,; among the most distinguished of whom Was
the oracles were, to preserve appearances,
314
Ii-
of the world, gods and priests were equally

propitious: the doubts of Octavius were re
For the Repertory.
nicent entertainment, at which the complai

sant Tiberius was an invited guest, crowned
his wishes and his triumph. The bride, on
this occasion, sue red a temporary confusion,
How many shrink into the sordid hut
Of cheeriess poverty.
v}
Youno.
from the blunt simplicity ofa bu ffoon retain
I
When the chill frdwn of winter congeals
ed for the amusement of the company. Livia
being seated by her new consort, and Tibe the rivulets, and the angry north wind howls
rius on the opposite side of the table Are o,ver the mountains; when the shrouded
you in your place, madam? inquired this sun fears to encounter the tempest-ladenhd
privileged child of nature; or ought you clouds, we look on nature with a wondering
not rather (pointing to Tiberius) to sit by eye. \Vhere are now the opening buds of
spring, the odorous blossoms of summer,
your husband?
Three months after the elevation of Livia. and the rich luxuriance of the autumnal
she was delivered of a son, Claudius Drusus harvest? Where are now the shadowy gar
Nero; who was sent by Octavius to Tiberius ments of the lofty sycamore or the thick
his father. The Roman people, affecting to foilage of the bending willow? \Vhere the
fair lily and the fragrant rose?Alas! the
believe the infant the son of Octavius, spor
tively jested on his fortune. With him every fruit is rudely plucked by frosty-handed
thing was said to prosper: even Nature chang Boreas, the harvest waves no more along the
ed her laws in his favour.

About this period new disputes, which
threatened the power and authority of Octa
vius, broke out at Rome; his prosperity suf
fered a reverse; his navy was twice defeated
by the adherents of Pompey; into the hands of
whose lieutenants he had himself nearly fal
len: half his eet was lost on the coast of Si
cily. Had the discretion of Pompey seconded
on this occasion his good fortune, the ruin
of his rival had been complete. The heart of
elds, and the sycamore and willow cease to
lend us their once refreshing shade: no

longer do the welcome offerings of the
genial spring rise under our feet, nor does
the brown village maiden meet us with a
smile as she was wont when lightly tripping
oer the green meadow, and the owery
plain. No more do the majestic oaks bow to
the warm zephyrs ol the south, nor do the

merry songsters of the wood tune longer
their delightful notes: the oaks stripped of
Livia, on these disastrous events, sunk in their wide spreading foliage, stand rm, un
apprehension, while her imagination was bending to the tempests that assail them, and
haunted by the most terrible forebodings: the enlivening welcomers of spring have
signs, prodigies, and presages of calamity, own us for a warmer clime. A solitary
formed the only subject of conversation at red-breast occasionally moves us by her
R0me.. In this season of superstition and ter
ror, anew augury gave a turn to the feelings of
Livia: on her way to her country villa, a hen,
holding in her beak a small branch of laurel,
was dropped by an eagle into her lap. It was

agreed by the diviners, that this accident,
overruled by the gods, portended the future

glory of the wife and posterity of Octavius.
A prediction so auspicious to her hopes
and to her ambition, was received by Livia
with transport, and liberally recompensed.
The hen and the laurel branch became also
the object of her care. From the former a
numerous progeny was produced, that gave
a name to the village in which they were
hatched, called, from this incident, The
Village of Chickens." The latter, it is said,
having been planted and cultivated, supplied,

at the end of a few years, the wreaths with
which the victors were crOWned at the
games.
(To be continued.)
0
The shameless atterer is a shameless knave.
sometimes rejected with nothing, and some

THE CABINET. No. XXIII.
Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,
And reigns tremendous oer the conquer'd year.
s
s
a
r
Sore pierced by wintry winds,
moved, his conscience reassured, and a mag
me brother. When my tale is heard I am

times I rcceive a mouthful, given in lan
guid compliance to my mournful prayer:
necessity overcomes my spirit, and poverty
tramplcs on my pride, else would I spurn
their gifts, and what is coldly offered, as
coldly would refuse; it was not so with me
once, but boasting ill becomes me now; I am
a beggar weak and aged." Cover thy head

old man, for the snow beats on thy gray
locks, and the tears freeze upon thy cheeks.
Wilt thou assist me? Follow me old
man.
Cold, cold indeed, is the charity of earth:
cold, as the snowny marble which envelop:
her. And what is friendship now? When the
hour of distress scowls upon our destiny;
when misfortune assails us with the perse
verance of a foe, it too often dissolves like
the baseless fabric of a vision," and the
boasted assurances of assistance it has so

often given us in the hours of prosperity
are either forgotten, or disregarded. Well
have the common friends of the world been
compared to the leaves of trees, that show
much appearance of love in the prosperous

season of summer, but in the winter of ad
versity fall like them to decay.
When we. reect on the regularity of the
seasons, the proper appriopriation of each,
and the wisdom of the all bountiful Creator,
we are lost in admiration! if we indeed

adore him; if we profess to follow the path
he has prescribed us, happily has the reign
of winter been ordained, for it gives us an
opportunity of evincingour respect for God

by extending our banificence to man. The
tender mournfulness, and the mute attention houseless beggar is a fellow mortal, and if
of the night is sometimes disturbed by the he has ever been our companion or superior
in the days of the most ourishing prov
hoarse screaming of the owl.
How changed the scene! how sad the al perity, the more is be entitled to our com
teration! Now behold yon conspiring clouds miscmtion now; for when poverty ap
which thickly overhang us. The genius of proaches, all animosity should cease, and
the tempest precedes them, riding on the whether our enemy or friend, we should not
rapid chariot of the furious blast, and the withhold the hand of liberality tosnpply the
mingling snows descend obedient to her necessities of nature. and if no more noble
command. See you you hoary-headed man principle live in our breasts We should re
bending hitherward his steps? he is aged and member, that we may yet be poor, and the
infirm; his mind is unsettled; hear him talk
great law that says
ing to the winds, and supplicating mercy of
" In life's disastrons scenes to othersydo
As you would wish by others done to- you,
the unmindful storm. Poor old man didst
thou give all to thy children, and have they should actuate us to relieve the unfortunate
for thy kindness turned thee out to starve: from a situation in which we may ourselves
No! no! children are not so thankless, they be some day immersed.
cannot be so cruel! but can man be base
\V inter howls on! and may the loudand
enough to refuse thee the humble pittance angry blast still inform us of our own frailty;
of a meal, pr to deny thee ashelter in a time may thy complaining echoes remind us of
like this? But he approaches nearer. Tell the cries of misfortune, and the groansof
me, old man, art thou poor? Alas! I am; I wretchodness; for the winter of nature is
have no children, no friends; the rich man
avoids me, and the poor man will not call
emblematical of the Oh! season of poverty!

GREGORY GRAVITY.
315
Mm
long ago, such prodigious swarms wasted
rate a reform of them, and a consequent im
the country in Galway, in Ireland, that in

summer, trees and elds appeared equally
provement of the public taste: for being in

strumental in so good a cause, I can cheer
fully bear all the hard names and illibcral
epithets that l may incur from the interest
For the Repertory.

ANECDOTIANA.
No. VI.
as bare as in winter. Let the man who he
holds the meancst creature of God, learn
\l'e insert with pleasure the ve follow
to revere the divine power. Egypt has felt

ing anecdotes, communicated by a friend, on and God only knows what individuals and
whose esteem we set the highest value, and: nations may yet feel how successfully he can
for whose talents we enter-thin the most' employ the neglected, the despised insect
profound respect.
VALERIAN.
or reptile, for the accomplishment of his
It is naught, it is naught saith the buyer; but righteous designs of judgment and mercy.
when he is gone his way, then he boasteth- BATTLE or MARATHON.
Prov. 20. 14
Immediately after the battle of Marathon,
AUGUSTINE,
in which Miltiades with asmall force routed
Relates that a mountebank had promised the prodigious army of Datis, an Athenian
the ci'izens of Carthage to discover to them soldier still reeking with the blood of his
their most secret thoughts, in case, they enemy, quitting the ranks, ran to Athens to
would come on a day appoiined to hear carry his fellow citizens the joyful intel
him. Being all met he said Vili vultis ligence of a complete victory. Arrived at the
emere, et care vendere. You wink to (mg: magistrates house, he could only cry out
cheap and sell dear. Every mans conscience Rejoice, rejoice, the victory is ours, and fell
pleaded guilty to the charge; and the down dead at his feet. This illumination, I
mountebank was dismissed with mirth and believe, thou art encouraged to anticipate.
applause.
W'hen thou art falling in death, thou shalt
have occasion to sing Rejoice, rejoice, the
HERODOTUS,
Mentions that he saw in Asia Minor, from
one sea to the other, monuments of the
victories of Sesostris. In several countries

was read the following inscription engraven
on pillars; Sesostris, king of kings and lord
of lords, subdued this country by the power
of his arms. The eye of faith looks with
condence to the erection of far other me
morials. It xes on the period when the
missionaries of the cross, shall in every land
have occasion to inscribe JehovahJesus
KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS,
hath conquered the whole earth by the
power of his grace.
ovnn'rnuow or SENACEHERXB.
The overthrow of the forces. of Sensce
herih is acknowledged by Herodotus; but it
is curious to observe in how absurd and
victory is mine; through the blood of the
Lamb, it is mine!
ANAXIMANES.
A happy example of the wisdom of apoor
man delivering a city, may be drawn from a
passage in the history of Alexander.
To punish the rebellion of the inhabitants
of Lampaseus, he determined to destroy
their city. Anaximanes the philosopher and
historian, who had been at one period a
tutor of Alexander, came to sue for the place
of his nativity. The monarch suspecting his
design swore, by the gods, he would newr
grant his request. Introduced into his pre

sence, Anaximanes says, I am come, 0:
Alexander, to request the favor, that you
will totally destroy Lampaseus. The king

was surprised; and by the ingenious evasion
fabulous a manner he accounts for it. He the city was saved.
says, a prodigious number of rats entered
is. BOUGlE-R,
the enemies camp, and by gnawing to pieces
Who was a protestant, was once solicited,
all their bow-strings and the thongs of their by one of the kings of France to conform to
shields, rendered them incapable of making the Roman Catholic religion, and promised
the smallest defence. Sethon (the Egyp
as a reward, a commission or a government.
tian prince, who had been invited by Heze Sire, replied he, ifl could be induced
kiah to assist his armies) on his return home to betray my God for a marshals staff, I
ordered a statue of himself to be set up in might be induced to betray my king for a
the temple of V ulcan, holding in his right bribe of much less value.
\
_-_
hand a rat and the wordsissuing from his
mouth, Let the man who beholds me, reve
rence divine ower!" God, who for the de
stmction of the Assyrians employed an angel

oras some think the lethiferous wind called
the Saniiel, can effect the greatest devastar

tion, by.,the Weakest means. He can hiss for
his lly; he can send abroad his caterpillar,
or his cankerworm. Of the latter insect, not
For the Repertory.
ed, the weak, and the wicked.
From my
friends in di'crent parts of the city and else

where (forl am blest with many) l nd that:
it. proportion as interest, mom-y interest, has
been the primum mobile with the makers of
music books. the abettors of those makers
and the purblind advocates of a aingsong
and playhouse church music, some have
arcled not to have read or heard of Philo
Madan; others who had read him exhibited
a similar acclalitm in denying that they

knew what he meant; while a third with a
very natural cffrontery but quite as aiclcd

a fortitude declared that they did not care a
straw for such strictures, for they knew that
their friends would stick by them in every
thing they might choose to publish: and yet
all the while have these redoubtables been_
seen to smart under the secret twinges of
apprehended attacks of their own darling
friends. \Vhence else could have proceeded
the obstacles thrown at different times in the
way of the regular prosecution of the intend
ed series? W'hy, in sooth, some of these ca.
villers, who have about as much patience as

penetration, and as much penetration as they
have harmony in their compositions, cannot

see why Philo Madan should not come to
the point a: once, and not keep the reader
in suspense by dwelling so long on the ex
amination of the various music selected and
original with which we are familiar. Very
true, good sirs, you cannot see, or rather
(to retort in the words of one of you, which
is certainly fair play in this case) you dont

wish others should see or know why I have
prosecuted such a plan: but recollect, that
the unprejudiced will see, and many actually
do see the true reason, namely, that when I
undermine the foundation of your dearest
hopes, by exposing the false basis of your
spurious fame, all your beloved superstruc
tures and fond anticipations must inevitably
fall. No wonder, therefore, that you should
be so tender; you well know where you may
be wounded, and very naturally wish that

the sword that is brandisiled about in so ma
ny directions may be again and speedily rc
turncd to its scabbard. However, to show you
that I am not that wild, unthinking, or un-
feeling creature which you take me to be, I

am willing, in compassion to your wounded
'1 confessitdoes mtdisplcase me, that my feelings. for the present, to make a digres
apparently insignicant numbers have exci sion from an examination of particular books
ted somewhat of that public attention to the to that of particular mun; it is consistent
multiplicity of music books of modern ma with my plan, and was accordingly provided
nufacture, which may be calculated to ope for at my outset.
SACRED HARMONY.
No. X.
:5 16
PHILADELPHIA REP ERTOR-Y.
But as a previous step, I wish just to no

tice a recent publication in the Repertory
signed by Andrew Law; in which appears a
malevolent glance at me as being an Euro
pean, I suppose he means an Englishman.
\Vhat then? beCause I am taken for an Eng
lishman, am I not capable of reasoning? or,
cannot my arguments have weight? Is all

knowledge of music exclusively conned to
Americans, among whom Mr. Law stands so
conspicuous? I trust not. It is the first time

in the course of a long life, that I have found
nationality to have any thing to do with mu

sic, or any other liberal art, and for the ho
nor of the independence of thinking, guaran

teed by our free political institutions, I hope
it will be the last. Pray, may not an Eng
lishman happen to be right as well as an

Americanhmd if so, is his judicious investi
gation to be contemned merely because he
is an Englishman? How much this looks like
the intolerant spirit of certain._rigid religion
ists,
Some think on Calvin Heavens own spirit fell,
Another deems him instrument of hell.
Of Mr. Law, however, or of his party, I
have nothing at present to say; because pro

perly speaking he had nothing to say or do
with me at least in this stage of my examina
tion: what I have to say of his composition

will not be till towards the close of my
strictures; and then (notwithstanding the
eminent attitude he bears in this country) I
shall treat him with as much freedom of
stricture as I have done the rest. He and
my opposers will then nd that I am not an
Englishman, that I am not an European, but
the objects of the globe, its simplicity would three centuries past, will hesitate for a mo
have placed it within the comprehension of mcnt to admit, that in all probability the day
the weakest mind. Then indeed the human will come, when the veil which now ob
family might have passed their days without scures, will be drawn aside, and the dark
much anxiety, the powers of the soul would caverns of nature be illuminated with the
have required but little exertion. To the full blaze of day. Many discoveries might
savage whose mind is an uncultivated forest, be mentioned to prove what has been as
whose pursuits are accomplished by the aid
that l (as was my father before me) am a

native citizen zy the United States, a title
which for real dignity, is far superior to what
a George or a Bonaparte could confer.
My next number will have for its object
a piece that commonly goes by the name of of min. In the mineral kingdom, examine
the Judgment Anthem."
how plentifully she has offered us sub
PHILO MADAN.
stances the most necessary to our con
venience.
For the Repertory.
Such innite variety in nature could not
Serene philosophy on angels' wings,
The heights of science and of virtue gains,
Where all is calm and clear; with nature round,
Or in the starry regions, or the abyss,

To reason's and in fancy's eye diplayd:
The rst up-tracing from the dreary void,
The chain of causes and effects to Him,
The world producing essence, who alone
Possesses being.
Tuoumg.
was, no doubt, to furnish a source, an in
exhaustible fountain, to which the capacious

mind of man might often repair, to drink
full draughts of the owing stream.
The circumstances were well remembered

by several respectable persons who were
living but a few years since. The particulars
It has been said, that ambition leads us too
were related by the clergyman of the island
far in such pursuits, that the operations of of Guernsey, where the facts happened, and
nature are placed beyond our reach. But I are as follows:
much; this reaching, over-reached. So far
nal end of their creation. It has been asked, is it from being conrmed by fact, that the
why the mass of matter was not homogene very reverse is supported by strong testi
ous, why it should have been so immensely mony. No man, who will compare the
diversied. If unity in form had pervaded
To the editor of the Repertory,

Sir,
'
The following story, extracted from the

Gentleman's Magazine for 1781, may not be
have been designed merely for the grati unacceptable to many of your readers, if fa
cation of the wants of man, surely not. It vored with a place in your useful Repertory.
In the contemplation of the innite variety

of objects, which enter the composition of ask, who is so wise, as to have learned so
the universe, we are led to inquire the
serted, but these are known too well al
of the inferior powers of reason, a homoge ready, to need a repetition, and they are
neous state in the material world would have rational stimulants to impel us to employ
been all-sufcient. But man was not born to our faculties for the attainment ofknowledge.
live a savage life, nor to terminate his ex
Some would be ready to oppose me, by
istence in the herds of savage barbarity. The declaring that such an attachment to na
noblest of Creations works was not destined tural phenomena, tends to destroy that at
to roam oer natures wide domains, in com
tention to religious worship, which all owe
mon with the brutes, the inferior order of as a common debt. But it would be useless
beings. Blest with faculties expansive and a to attempt a refutation of this assertion,
mind capable of progressive improvement, since every day's experience proves its fal
man was intended to be a grand surveyor lacy.
of the objects around him, and thus through
How then, it is asked, are we to obtain
an extensive medium to contemplate the such knowledge? the answer is easy. Such
author of all things.
information may be acquired by any one,
" Unlike the Indian, whose untutord mind
who is disposed to enter a path, which,
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind,
though beset on either side with thorns,
the rational soul exploring with ardor the terminates in a beautiful garden, the frag
obscurities of nature, admires them as a rance of whose owers gladdens the heart
great focus, in which the rays of creative of the weary traveller. Such a path is the
science of chemistry. The knowledge at
Wisdom are so eminently concentrated.
Shall man be silent, inactive, unmindful tainable from this science is not only of
of the events which transpire around him? great extent, but it is durable and satisfactory.
The profound operations of nature, so per It is not a solitary star, that twinkles for
fectly inimitable by art, are sufcient to awhile and then becomes dim, it is not a
stimulate and rouse from lethargy the almost storehouse, whose treasures are soon ex
paralysed mind of man. Behold her in the hausted; on the contrary, it is a little globe,
grand phenomena, which she daily presents whose circumference has neither beginning
to our view! See her in awful grandeur in nor end, a stream whose waters are ever
the eruptions of volcanic re, and behold owing. It is by an acquaintance with
what she eects, when the earth, by a seem
this science that we are enabled to enter the
ing repulsion in its particles, is rent asun great laboratory of nature, to unfold her
der! View her still further, when from the mysterious processes, and thus to command
partial evaporation of some distant ocean, an intelligible view of the sublime prespect.
she furnishes our land with copious showers
HERMINIUS.
About the year 1726, John Andrew Gor

dier, a gentleman'of French extraction, and
of considerable fortune, in the island of
Jersey, was upon the point of marrying the

daughter of a wealthy merchant of Geurn
knowledge of the present day with that of sey; but, on a sudden, he was lost. to his
PH] LADELPHIA REPERTORY.
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friends and relations, as well as to the young

lady who was to have been his bride; and,
notwithstanding the most diligent inquiry in
both islands, with every possible search that
could be made, not the least intelligence
could be obtained, either of his death or his
retreat.
It happened, however, that after a time,
when all discourse concerning him had sub

sided, his body was accidently found in
Guernsey, by some boys, in traversing the
the rst approach of Mrs. Gordier, and it

was with difculty that she was brought to
herself. The mother was curious to know
every little circumstance that attended the
last interview of the young lovers, and of
all that had passed since the discovery of the
murder of her son; and the young lady Was
no less earnest to prolong the conversation,
but her ts returned at almost every period,
and she could only say how tenderly they

parted, and with what ardency she expected
his promised return the next day. It was no
the friends of both families very cordially

interposed, and endeavored to reconcile tln
mother by a cool examination of the cir

cumstance that occasioned the unseasonahle
heat.
.
(To be concluded in our nCXt )
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For the Repertory.
SELECTOR. No. X.
Learning is the life ofreason and the light

of nature, where time, order, and measure,
square out the true course of knowledge;

where discretion in the temper of passion,
the poor lady in this weak state, dying, as brings experience to the best fruit of aller
have been with difculty, that the body she plainly perceived she was, of a broken tion; while both the theoric and the prac
heart; and the company present could not tic labor in the life of judgment, till the
could be made to enter it.
This discovery, with the evident proofs of forbear vehement execrations against the perfection of art show the honor of under.
standing. She is the key of knowledge that
murder, alarmed the two families; the former author of this double distress.
inquiries were renewed; not the least light,
Mrs. Gordier, all on a sudden burst into a unlocketh the cabinet of conceit, wherein
either to countenance suspicion, or to ground ood of trears, on seeing a jewel pendent to are laid up the labors of virtue, for the use
conjecture, could be gathered to trace out the young ladys watch, which she knew her of the scholars of wisdom; where every gra
cious spirit may nd matter enough worthy
the murderer; and all that could be done, son had purchased as a present to her be
was, to pay the last duty to the remains of fore he left the island of Jersey. The violence of the record of the best memory. She is the
the unfortunate youth, by solemnizing his of her grief was observed by the young lady, school mistress of wit, and the gentle gOVern
funeral with all the marks of unaffected who had just spirits enough to ask her the or of will, when the delight of understanding
immediate cause. Being told that the sight gives the comfort of study. She is unpleasing
sorrow.
The mother of the young gentleman re of a jewel, the presentation of which to his to none that know her, and unprotable to
mained inconsolable; and the lady, to whom he beloved was to be the pledge of their mutual none that love her. She opens her treasures
was to have been Wedded, pincd in secret for happiness, revived in her mind her irrepara to the travellers in virtue, but keeps them
the loss of the only man in the world whom ble loss, the young lady was seemingly struck close from the eyes ofidleness. She gives ho
she could love. She was, indeed, courted by with horror and astonishment at the decla nor to virtue,grace to honor, reward to labor,
a young merchant; but though she was, in a ration, and, touching the jewel, as with an and l0ve to truth. She is the messenger of
manner, constrained by her parents to admit expression of contempt, sunk into the arms wisdom to the minds of the virtuous, and
his addresses, she was inwardly resolved of her weeping visitor, and without uttering the way to honor in the spirits of the gra
a single word, except only M. Cl-a-r cious. She is the store house of the under
never to give him her hand.
standing in the practice of memory. She
The mother of Gordier, who never ceased breathed her last. The manner of her ex
to ruminate on the catastrophe which had piring seemed to involve a mystery. All makes age honorable and youth admirable.
befullen her son, was not a little solicitous present were astonished. The confusion In all ages she hath been, and ever will be,
for the welfare of the young lady, whom she which her death occasioned, stopped for the darling of wisdom, the delight of wit, the
looked upon as her daughter in law, and awhile all further utterance; but when every study of virtue, and the stay of knowledge.
whom she regarded with the greater tender means had been used to restore her, without Knowledge is a collection of understanding
ness, as she heard how severely she was being able to bring her to life; and when the gathered in the grounds of learning, by the
affected by the sudden disappearance of her effusions of sorrow, poured fourth at her instruction of wisdom. She is the exercise
death, had for a while ceased, all present of memory in the actions of the mind, and
intended husband.
Some years afterwards, being told that the began to speak what they thought of her the employer of the senses in the will of
young ladys life was in danger, she resolver! behaviour in her last (lying moments. Mrs. the spirit. She is the notary of time and the
to cross the sea that divides the islands. ix. Gordier, who was totally unacquainted with trier of truth. She is the pleasure of wit,
order to afford her every consolation in her the soft and delicate temper of the deceased, and the paradise of reason. She is the
power, by condoling with her, sharing hex could not help dropping some unfavorable enemy of idleness anti the maintainer of
griefs, and thereby endeavoring to alleviate expressions concerning her manner of leav labor. She clears errors and cannot be
the sorrows of her heart. As attendants in ing the world, which she thought plainly in deceived; corrects impurity and will not be
her voyage, Mrs. Gordier took with her a dicated a knowledge of the murder. The corrected. She converseth with the best
beloved brother and an only surviving son. l..dys parents, who were present at the last capacities, and communicates with the
When they arrived, thcywere advised by a'ecting scene, red with indignation at the soundest judgment; dwells with the divinest
the apothecary, who attended the young insult offered at the unspotted innocence of natures, and loves the most patient dispo.
lady, not to surprise her with an unlocked their darling child, could not help resenting sitions; ller hope is akind of assurance, her
for visit, till she was prepared by degrees to the ungencrous interpretation put upon the faith a continual expectation, her love an receive it; but, notwithstanding all the care last closing moments of her blameless life. apprehension of joy, and her life the light
that could be taken, the sight of the mother A scene of trouble and mutual reproach of eternity.
beach, with two wounds on the back, and

one on the head, thurst into a cavity of a
rock, whose mouth was so small, that it must
brought to her mind the full remembrance

of the son, and the shock was too great fol
small concern to the aficted mother, to see
_Q_
ensued, which is easier to conceive than to

relate. \Vhen the commotion, however, was
her weak spirits to bear,- she fainted upon a little abated, and reason began to take place,
\I
All allectation is the vain and ridiculous

attempt of poverty to appear rich.
3W.
m
For the Repertory.
Can joy not one beam of complacence afford

To illumiiic the heart that so feelingly glows?
T0 HOMER.
Hail mighty bard! who cherr'd with warmth divine

On glowing canvas traced the lengthening line,
Oh! yes; though delay'd the soft lumen of peace

Shall revisit that bosom and cheer it again:
\Vhere Greeks or Trojans conquering in their turn,

Now freeze with fear and now with courage burn
And health with her bland and eiilivening breeze

Shall smile and expel the remembrance of pain.
Let me behold upon thy lasting page,

The niaidens. ltriltillrSS, or the hero's rage,
lit fanri s rambles new the elds of Troy,
Thou shalt be like the " stream;" when the traveller

returns
Glory to him who reigns on high,

Redeemer of mankind his names
Glory to him, my soul reply,
And sing the praises of the Lamb?

Till in the skies a nobler song
Shall every facultv employ;

Antl sounds of hope forsake thy tongue,
Lost in eternal shours of joy!
He shall point out the spot where it once loved to
Now sreep'd iii wte, and now illum'd with joy;
For the Repertory.

glide,
Where either host with man opposed to man,
To furious con-.est led tliembattliiig van.

Now in the front see dread Achilles stride,
His blood staind falchion aming at his side,

Now through the ranks behold with forceful sway
The pietceless hero hew his sanguine way:
Whilst godlilte Hector with his noble train

Essay his fury to repress in vain.
[Ah generous Hector! all thy deathless toils,
Of conquering fame th iiisatiate foe despoils,

By false Minerva. (unprupitious power!)
And shall tell, while its absence he fervently mourns.

How lucid it ow'd eer the fountain was dried.
TU \\'il\"lER.
Proud monarch of ice coverd brow,
He shall say that its waters were cooling and sweet,

That they gently refreshd the warm glow of his
How (old and how cheerless tliy reign;

Though smiling with vetdure dost thou
soul,
And conclude, with a sigh, " nc'er before did he
nieet
\Vith a stream whose soft murmurs his sympathy
stole."
Adieu for the ininstrelf though a stranger, unknown,
DcCiHIQd to combat in a luckless hour,

1 can feel and the pangs too of sorrow deplore;
Whose treacherous smiles to his revenge ordain

Yet this tribu'e is due to his merits alone,
The noblest victim he had even slain,

But o'er the laurels which thy brows intwine
Bright rays of glory shall unceasing shine,
EOen though should Time in clouds of night descend

Their piercing beams its gloomy veil shall rend,
And sighing angels whom thy woes relate
Record thy honors on the book of fate.]

Can fierce Achilles prone to jarring strife,
Leave baftles' din for dear domestic life,
Or seek with joy the evening's tranquil shade

To court the converse ofthe blue eyed maid;
He whose stern frowns to frighted foes declare

The dreary front of ' agonisiiig wan'
Let me no more behold his ery eye
iVhose vivid lightning mocks the blazing sky

But gently steal where thy enchanting lays
In melting mildness murmur Helens praise;
Or in delight by great Scamanders side
View the bright bosom of its heaving tide,
Or gaze astciiishd where majestic rise
Troy's tottering turrets tottring iii the skies;
And 1, will invade his retirement no more.
AROUET JUN.
_..._
For the Repertory.
Relentlessly wither the plain!

Yet welcome, dread Winter, to me,
Ordaintl by in;- God. I receive,
With heart full of gratitude, thee

As one of the blessings hed give!
How we from th) potence can draw
Conclusions that teach its our doom;
How learn to revere the just law,

That bids us prepare for the tomb;
Of the seasons that vary the year,
And alter the dress of the eld;
How lovely does Spring first appear,
What verdure and foliage yield!

'l'O ORLANDO.
Hail bard divine! whose glowing strains pourtray

Each genrous feeling of the human breast;
To tnee, the debt of gratitude I pay,

Whose soothing numbers lull'd my cares to rest.
0 couid 1 tune like thee the mellow reed,
On fancys Wings ld pierce the ambient air;

To cull sweet owers to deck thy honor d head
Would be my greatest, best and only care.
Accept, dear friend, these rude and untauglit lays,
Spontaneous offspring of a heart sincere;

May calm contentment ever gild thy days,
And be thine eyes " unsullied with a tear."

OC'lAVIAN.
Next Summer, with mirth in her band,

And warmth beaming bright from her brow;
Comes pleasantly, sweetly and bland,

Ingrafting the seed on the bough.
Then Autumn sedately attired,
Then ripeiid abundance to bear,
A: ardently call'd as admired.
Comes breathing her fragrance on air.

Till on thy cold car, from the north,
With snowy steeds. thou comest apace;

Sweet Autumn drivest forceably forth,
And rearest thy throne on her place
Thence scattering thine anger around,
Thy for; all nature appals;

The verdure retreats from the ground,
I_.
Or careless wander in the fragrant grove
With Trojan ny mphs to share ecstatic love;

Then raised to transport by the gift divine,
Chace thoughts of woe beneath the clustning vine,
Or to the sense the potent spell infuse

Of the great offririgs of thy soaring muse.
'lhy wondrous genius roused with equal re
The wars erce trumpet, or th enlivening lyre,
With equal skill awoke the tender lute,
The sounding clarion or the soothing ute,
When all thy notes in echo to thy song
And the oak's leafy foliage falls.

For the Repertory.
HYMN.
Composed for the occasion and sung at the institu

tion of the Baptist Harmonic Society, january 28.
When the incarnate jeans came,
Sin and distruction l0 dispel;
Tendure the cross. despise the shame,
And save our sinking souls from hell!
Thus first comes the spring of our youth,

Delighted and void of all fear,
And ardently wishes in truth
The summer of twenty were near:

We know not, till autumn reminds,
That that season of pleasure is past;

And busy reection now nds
The winter of death coming fast. \
In torrents pourd, or gently ow'd along.
Before the crown of thorns was made,

0r purple robes his body bore,
Yet deeply considered, the whole

Of life but a Winter appears;
The heavenly herald shall from shore to shore

Convey thy name till earth shall be no more,
Ere Judas had his God betrayed,

Or deathiul pangs his body tore!
That soon must be oer, but the soul
Till blasting ruin on its front appear,

And hurl it headlong from its shivering sphere.
The proffer'd tribute then no more refuse
Of a scarce edgd and unaspiring muse,
Which dares its ight on trembling wing to raise,
~To chant the glories of thy well earnd praise.

THADDEUS.
Before the cross itself was reard,
Or Hebrews -' arm-w bim " cried:

Before the angry nails appear'd, 0r cruel spear had pierced his side!
For the Repertory.
Jesus around his humble board

An anthem to Jehovah sung;
His wand'ring sons obeyd their Lord,
And sounds ofpraise exaulted iuiig!
TO GLORMON.
Must lorrow then reign o'er a mind so well stored
And tn- ich'd with thegems that fair science be
stews?
Dear, dying Lord, we now would raise,

A song of honor to thy love;
And humbly imitate the praise;
That echoes round thy throne above!
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The tempest of death never fears.

But still there's a winter for her'
The thought, 0! my soul. neer dispel;
The records of truth do aver
That winter eternal in hell!
Redeemer, thy mercy alone,

Can save me from horror like this;
0! look from thy heavenly throne,
And tutor my spirit for bliss.
So when life's fading winter shall y,
My body lies cold in the tomb;
My soul to a spring in the sky,
Shall hast- forever to bloom.
VALERIAIY
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For the Repertory.
A MORAL TIIERMOMETER.
Showing the (facts of Teln/tetglzm'c and 1!:

QUERY.
Sir,
A piece of cloth a factor had,

Offull ve thousand Flemish ells;
For 4250 guineas he
Unto a friend this package sells.
He gain'd as much on evry yard
As he paid for an English ell;
In New York currency. I pray,
What rst this cloth did cost him, tell.
]. H.
An answer is requested.
_..._
The annoyance which we often suffer from

the nocturnal excursions of itinerant grin
ders of music, is truly distressing. The fol
lowing imitation of the Scottish dialect, taken
from the Boston Anthology, must, we think,
be gratifying to our readers.

TO A HAND ORGAN.
Out on your noise. ye blastit wight,
That breaks my slumbers ilka night,

Grindin your tunes for ery spite
Through thick and thin!
Yed make a Christian swear outright
temperance;
The following Epigram from Martial, ap
\Vater, milk and water, and small bccr,

peared in an early number of the Repertory.
produce health, wealth, serenity ofmind.
It is the 49th of his iv Book.
reputation, long life and happiness.
Flentibul Heliadum, &c. Sic.
Cydcr, wine, porter, and strong beer,
In order to a perception of the beauty of taken only at meals, and in moderate quan
the point of the epigram, it should be re tities, produce cheerfulness, strength, and
mcmbered that the Heliadcs are the daugh nourishment.
'
ters of the Sun and Clymenc. The catas
Punch, grog, and brandy and water, pro
trophe which befel their brother Photon so duce idleness, and sickness, and debt.
a'ected them, that as they stood weeping on
Drums taken in the morning, produce
the banks of the Po, they were changed into dropsy, palsy, and consumption, and lead to
poplars and their tears into the nest am rags, hunger, the hospital, the poor house,
ber. It is proper also to observe, that when or a jail.
Cleopatra ed from the battle of Actium
Drums during the day and night, produce
into Egypt, she shut herself up in a magni apoplcxy, madness, and suicide, and lead to
cient sepulchre which she had built, where the gallows.
she perished by the bite of an asp. The fol
.
lowing translation is offered for your ac
JimhrohagyDoctor Leydtn, in an es
ceptancc.
say on the languages and literature. of the
While each sad poplar precious amber weeps,
Among the boughs th' unconscious viper creepsi
To hear your din
The reptile pausing on the Heliad bloom,

Sure ye must be some smoutie ghost
Wonders and dies, the concrete drops his tomb.
Let loose frae hells infernal coast;

Insidious queen! thy monument resign
Vipers have nobler sepulchres than thine.
Ane of auld Clooties muckle host,

Au yelpin choir,
Sic as he keeps to skelp and roast

Wi' brunstane re.
VALERIAN.
Indo Chinese nations, published in the 10th

volume of the Asiatic Researches, states,
the horrid custom of unthropophagy among

Batta tribes of Summatre. This is. not con
ned to prisoners of war, and to persons
condemned for crime, as was formerly be
lieved, but, when a man becomes inrm, and
-.
weary of the world, he is said to invite his

A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF BABYLON.
Did ye but ken the pangs I feel

To lay and list your cursed squeel,
own children to eat him, in the season when
Ye wad na grind another peal

Sae harsh and deep:
But gang in pirie to the deil,
An' let me sleep.

There is na music in your din,
Nay sic a discord ye begin,
Wi tortured tune;
ilfj'illlllki be a deadly sin,
' ' l ' I
Ye'll rue it soon.
To please the deil. auld Orpheus played,

An' for his wife i' ddlin paid.
On dolphin's tail Ariou rade
The billmvs ltripill.
Baith drew the oaks frae hill to glade

By dull o' pipin.
But ye wad do things greater still;
Your noise would drown a rumor mill;
Ye'd scare the woods and split the hill,

Sae great your power,
An' ony mortal Wight ye'd kill
circumference, fteen on each side. The walls
in a funeral dirgc, the import of which is,
were 87 feet thick, and 350 high, on which
the season is come; the fruit is ripe; and

it must descend. The victim then descends;
were built 316 towers, or according to others,

250, three between each gate, and seven at
Ye jar the very windows in

'
The word Babylon signies confusion, or salt and limes arc cheapest. He then ascends
mixture. It was the capital of Chaldea. A a tree, round which his friends and offspring
famous city, built four square, sixty milc'a in assemble; and, as they shake the tree, join
In half an hour.
lfpilgrimage in holy shrine

Wad stap your unro g'mtin whine,
Or souse ye in the Red Sea's brine

For aye to sleep;
Right soon Id make'thc penance mine,

An think it cheap.
But ifye heed nor prayer nor spell,
And winna stap that croaking yell
For a poor hard can sing or tell,
each corner. There were one hundred gates,

25 on each side, all ofsolid brass. From these
run 25 streets crossing one another at right

angles, each 150 feet wide, and 15 miles in
and those that are nearest and dearest to him

deprive him of life, and devour his remains
in a 50lcmn banquet. This account was giv
en to Dr. Lcyden by the Battas themselves.
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length. A row of houses faced the wall on
every. side, with street of 200 feet wide be

tween thcm and it. Thus the whole city was
divided into 676 squams,.each of which. was
four furlongs and a half on every side. All

around these squares, stood'the houses front
ing the streets, and the empty space within
A ducl was fought a few day since in Corn

wall, when both combatants fell at the rst
re!. a catastrophe imputed to the extraordi

nary conduot of the second (for there was
but ouc,) who assisted on the occasion. It.
scents the parties, a commercial amba-sador
i from London, and a gentleman of the neigh
sericd as gardens and other needful uses. lborhood, being ilush'd with the Tuscan
The prophet calls Babylon, the golden grape and in high blood," quarrellcd; and in
city, Isaiah xiv. 4. The glory of kingdoms, the impatience of their valor, having no other
the beauty of Chaldeas excellency. Chap. arms at hand, proceeded to the w0rk ofdcath
xiii. 19.
with a single musket. The toss af a dollar
Rome is called Babylon, on account of which gave the rst re- to one, xed the
its resemblance of it in magnicence, pride, other as his fatal mark. The single second,
idolatry and wickedness, and in its appoint charged the musket; and in thc delivering
mentto litter destruction.
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it, with elevated muzzle, purposely pulled

the trigger, when both combatants fcllat
THE GENEROUS CREDITOR.
the sound! one over a precipice, the other
" lowe you a .irubliing," criel Frank in a petl

" Never mind it," says Tim, " Iforgr'wyou-tbe debt."
into the mud; and the gentleman to whom

we owe our account. says, he left the former
Or any boon;
I'll lg if brickbats can avail

To change your tune.
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friend, of the plan, we think must greatly

facilitate the study of that useful language.
S. \Voodhull, Dr. Frederick .4. Filter, of
By the help of this work persons, whose
Philadelphia, to Miss Rebecca B. Smith, of
pecuniary means will not allow of the at
New Jersey.
tendance of a teacher, yet whose minds
On Thursday evening, the 26th ult. by the thirst after knowledge, will be able to ac
On the 27th ult. by the Rev. George
Rev. Dr. Staughton, Mr. llilliam .4/1/210gate,

4'9 Miss Diadrma Thorn, all of this city.
Lovers, yc well may envy them,
\Vhom such fair joys adorn;

His hand receives a diaa'em
And she has lost a thorn.
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ing France, a box of engravings, 81. valued
quire a competent information of the Greek;
which consideration alone must render it of

the greatest utility to mankind. Works of
this stupendous nature require the strongest
support: we therefore hope, and condently
believe that the labor of the author will not
have been in vain.
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at the ofce of the Philadelphia Repertory.
station to accept any gift; but he received it

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to her honor. In testimony of the esteem

and affection he bore her, Augustus caused
BIOGRAPHY.
Lil-8 or LWLA DRUSILLA.
to be erected in Via Sacra,1' on the ruins
(Continued)
ofa magnificent house belonging to Pollio,
Livia seemed to behold in an important

naval victory, gained by the fleet of Octa
vius over that of his competitor, the predic
tion of the oracle veried. This advantage
was followed by the death of Pompey, who, a
and pulled down for the purpose, a stately
short time after, fell by the blow of an as
sassin. The triumph of Octavius was sullied

by cruelty: many of the most distinguished
characters of the republic, victims to his
jealousy, perished under the hand of the
executioner. By his liberalitics, he concilia
ted the favor of the troops; while of the
ted his engagements, paid with his life the

forfeit of his imprudence.
Peace thus restored to the empire, and
the sovereignty confirmed to Octavius, he
the most amiable and exemplary: it was even

behaviour towards her in private was the believed that he would be called to the sue.
most respectful and tender, while on all oc cession, from the esteem manifested for him
casions he showed great deference to her by the emperor. Marcellus, nephew and
opinion and judgment.
son in law to Augustus, and presumptive
Her unbounded complaisance seemed to heir to the crown, yielded not in merit to the
merit from her husband these distinctions. sons of Livia, who with their mother, regar- '
Less tender than ambitious, less delicate than (led his claims with a jealous eye. But his
subservient to his gratications, she showed death, in the ower of age, an event not un
no displeasure at his frequent indelities; attended with suspicious circumstances, re
she even affected to respect in his mistress,
and shows, with a guarded freedom, that,

while it precluded censure, conciliated af
fection. Without prudery or coldness, she

was accustomed to assert, that a sensible
woman required for the preservation of her

chastity no external forms. It being propo
returned in triumph to Rome, where ho
nors were showered upon him by the senate sed to punish with death the wanton frolic
and people: he was created consul, tribune, of some young men who had appeared un
censor, and chief ponti: the appellations clothed before her, she opposed the sangui
also of Augustus, and of the father of his nary decree, by saying, that on a chaste ima
country, were bestowed upon him: the gov gination a naked man produced no other
impression than a statue. Politics were her
ernment assumed a new form, and the re
public was sunk in a monarchy. Liberty had pursuit, and government her talent: she ob
taken its everlasting ight; the senate was served and read men; while, by an impene
subjugated to the monarch; the laws were

enfeebled, and in their place was established
the sovereign will of an individual: the glory
of Rome was extinguished for ever. The
provinces followed the example of the capi
tal; the new empire was every where ac
knowledged, and the friendship of the em
peror courted by foreign powers. Livia par
ticipated in these honors, to which others
more personal were added. A town was built,
on which
her nameI was bestowed; her
panegyrie was pronounced in the senate, and

the most splendid titles conferred upon her.
By the poets she was celebrated as a godq
(less; while temples and altars were raised'
' Livia.
cious vices; while Drusus, to the courage

and talents of his brother, added a conduct
portico, which he dedicated to his wife. His
honors tendered him by the senate, he ac towards whom she preserved a polite and
cepted only the privileges offered to Livia courteous demeanor, the person of her hus
and his sister Octavia, to whom the power band: nor did she claim,from this indulgence,
of disposing of their estates was granted, and any personal license. Without pretending
whose persons, like those of the tribunes, to austerity, she participated in all the honor
able amusements of her rank: she appeared
were pronounced sacred and inviolable;
The victory over Pompey was followed at the assemblies, diversions, races, games
by the defeat of Antony, who, having viola
ries of Livia, were rccompensed with costly

triumphs.
'
Tiberius united to great qualities atro
trable veil, her own sentiments were covered.
Availing herself of the foibles of her hus

band, she obtained over him an entire ascen
dency: the sovereign of the world Was the
moved this formidable obstacle to the ambi

tious projects of the empress.
Augustus, sensibly aected by the fate
of his nephew, experienced, not long after,
a new subject of anxiety in a conspiracy
against his life and power, formed by Cinna,

grandson to Pompey, who had engaged to his
party several of the most considerable among

the Roman citizens. The plot was however
betrayed by one of the conspirators. Alarm
ed at the magnitude of the danger he had
escaped, and perplexed respecting the con
duct it would be proper to pursue, the em
peror hesitated between the peril of provok
ing by severity a new revolt, or of giving
by clemency future impunity. In this state
of suspense, rest ed from him, while he
became a prey to the most cruel disquietude.
Livia, who had shared in his prosperity, af
forded him in the season of his distress con
solation and sympathy. She reminded him
that accidents of this nature were but the
consequences of his distinguished fortunes;
that glory and success must invariably be
pursued by envy; that it was not possible for
a prince, however wise and equitable, to give
dependant of a woman; who, assuming a universal satisfaction; that the great, who
held it as their privilege to make unlimit
gant proofs of homage and submission. Her ed demands, would suer no denials; that by
ambition, unsatiated by personal honors, refusals even the common people were ir
required for its gratification the aggran ritated; and thatin all governments malecon
dizement of her offspring, and to this her tents were to be found, who by changes he
projects uniformly tended. Upon her two ped to advance their interests. To these an
boundless power, exacted the most extrava
sons, Tiberius and Drusus, the chief oth
guments she added exhortations, conjuring
ces and employments were lavished; by him to banish his apprehensions, double his
them the armies were commanded, and personal guards, and to set the conspirators
their services, exaggerated by the emissa at deance.
1 Sacred Street.
The emperor in reply to her reasoningr
PHILADELPHIA Il/EIEIl' ORY.
522
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insisted on the danger of trustingthe officers
may be proper to observe, that the country
of his palace, even those who boasted loudest
is a dead level, till you come within a mile of

Lewistown, when emerging at once from a
of their loyalty and zeal. Against a foreign

and open enemy, it was, he alleged, not dif
ficult to guard; but against bosom traitors
the Ridge, or Natures Great Turnpike,

running due east eighty miles, with this
mountain on your right, and the lake on the
forest of gigantic oaks, you nd yourself on

the brow ofa hill, where opens to your view
a prospect, the most beautiful and sublime
which the mind can conceive. Here lake
Ontario first presents its boundless bosom to
the eye till it meets the distant horizon be
yond, immediately before you, and almost
under your feet, on opposite sides of the
left, through an extent of at country, but
river, are Lewistown and Queenstown;

where commences, at the foot of the moun
pression. Indeed it is like asolid pavement.
for both of which she averred, gentle altera
tain, an immense champaign, which extends
tives were rather to be chosen than caustics

and corrosives. \Vith admirable precision
to the lake in front, and to the cast and west,

as far as the eye can stretch, intersected by
as to leave its surface nearly all the way a

horizontal plane. In one place it runs
through a low sunken marsh, about half a
mile wide, where the Ridge is thrown up
twenQy or thirty feet high, is about eight
there were no measures of safety, but in

rigor and extirpation. Livia combated, with
equal eloquence and success, these san
galinary notions. llaving described the true
policy of a magmmimous conduct, and the
advantages to be derived from clemency,
She illustrated her principles by a compari
son between physical and moral maladies,
:she distinguished and marked the different the river; which is boiling and wheeling
shades and gradations of guilt, to which she and foaming through its narrow channel, on
added a lively picture of the desperation that the left, and stretching away before you,
might be produced by harsh measures, con till it gradually widens, slackens, and sub
trasted by the probable effects of a generous sides into a placid stream, which, moving
majestically along, till it empties into the
forbearance.
By the force of her reasoning and the lake, leaves the village of Niagara and the
gram of her manner, she triumphed over American fort on the right, with Newark
the determinations and soothed the anxiety and that of the British on the left. The
of her husband. Cinna was summoned into banks of this great outlet of the lakes are un
the imperial presence, informed of the dis der high cultivation, and seeming alive with
little above the level of the waters. It is

generally from six to ten feet high and from
four to eight rods wide. It is nbcd of gravel,
such as is found on the shores of the lakes
intermixed with small shells, and so rmly
compacted, that the hoof of a horse, or the
wheel of a carriage, makes but little im
\Vhere the land is low, the Ridge rises, so
rods wide, and as straight as a line could be

drawn. The Ridge is generally covered with
large spreading oaks, whose foliage protects
the traveller in summer, from the rays of
the sun, and frequently affords this thinly
covery that had been made, reminded by the
farms, and ocks and herds, while industry
inhabited country a temporary shelter from

the inclemency of the storm. Here is little
underbrush to be seen: the earth is covered
with rich herbage, and nature, as if to give
variety and interest to the prospect, here
emperor of the many services conferred

"upon him, and mildly reproached for his in
gratitude. A confession of his guilt having
by these measures been extorted, and a free
pardon granted to him and his accomplices,
he was appointed consul for the ensuing
year. Shame and compunction, as the em
press had forscen, produced on the minds of
the conspirators the most salutary conse
quences: the magnanimity of Augustus ef
fected what severity had vainly cssayed, and
gained him the hearts of the Roman people.
Livia, whose counsels the emperor sought
not to conceal, shared the popular benedic
tions, and conrmed her sway over the mind
of her husband. For the advancement of her
sons, her darling project, this influence was
principally exerted.
is plying the oar and lifting the sail, on the

bosom of its waters. This wonderful combi
and there presents an extensive lirairie, or

natural meadow, covered with wild grass,
nation of such immense objects, opening at
which varicgates and beautics the scene.

The waters of this lake once spread over
(To be continued.)
once upon the view, while the tremendous

roar of Niagara falls is still thundering in
your ear, and the solid mountain trembling
beneath your feet, is calculated to produce

emotions, which no pen can describe. The
mind is absolutely overwhelmed for the mo
ment, and lost in amazement, in contempla
ting such a scene of beauty, sublimity, and
grandeur.
The descent of the hill to Lewistown be
low, which by turnings and windings among
the rocks, is made gradual, is about one hun
dred and seventy feet; being the perpendicu
lar height of the banks of the river, from the
falls to this place. This hill was probably
this Ridge, and a vast extent of country
now covered with timber, it is evident, from

its being so nearly on a level with them;
from the hill before mentioned; from the
dead level of the land; and (what places it
beyond all doubt) from the soil, which is

found to be alluvial.
The inquiry will naturally arise, How
was this Ridge formed?" It has no appearance
of having been the work of man, nature alone
could accomplish so grand a design. It has

been supposed, by some attentive observers,
that this was formed by the waters of the
lake, that when they were receding from
It their ancient limits, they here made a bold

stand,and, in process of time, threw up this
THE RIDGE ROAD, OR NATURAL TUBNPIKE. to left, as far as the eye can reach. And at Ridge, by their foaming fury. But can
In a tour, which I took, in the months of its base, from Lewistown below, commences this be true? Instead of being left straight,
May and June last to the falls of Niagara, I
would it not have often varied its course and
' Her: were once the falls of Niagara. They
had the pleasure of seeing the great curiosity,
commenced at the brow of this mountain. By the been some time indented by bays? But this
*0
once the boundary of lake Ontario.
stretches along, in a circular line, from right
called the Ridge Board, or Natural Turn
pike; and I was the more agreeably surpris

ed, as I had never before heard of it, although
I had resided within thirty miles of it for

twelve years.
The western end commences at Lewis
town, on Niagara river, seven miles below
the great cataract and the same distance
from the American fort. In passing from
constant attrition ofthe waters, 2 channel has been
question is submitted for naturalists to de
cut through solid rock till the caramel has retreated
cide.
about seven miles towards lake Erie. It stillcontinuel
to retreatv and may one day disappear. after drain

ing lake Erie. and leaving only a rapid river be
tween lake Ontario and Huron. Above the falls the
river is from three fourths to a mile wide; below,
for seven miles through the channel cut in arock, it
is not more than fty or siiny rods, in any place.
Truly, indeed, eculd Knickerbocker says, Nature
Whalaingtom'an.
'_*
Know, the great art to love your enemy
consists in never losing sight of man in him;

humanity has power over all that is human;
the most inhuman man still remains man,

and never can throw off all taste for what
becomes a manbut you must learn to
lake Eric to lake Ontario, by the falls, it works on a prodigious great scale in thil country." wait
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Sic onmia fatis,
In pcjus ruere. ac retro sublapsa referri!

Non aliter quam qui adverso vix liumine lembum
Remigus aubigit: si brachia forte remisit,
Atque illum in przceps prono rapit alveus amni.
VIROIL.
The following letter is from one who de

sires that the world in general may make as
good an account of a bad thing, as the au

thor thinks he has done.
Mr. Peaceable,
My father was formerly a parson, who

supported a small family in the country by
the stipend which he received for his labors
in the pulpit. While I remained under the
eye of my father, I acquired a reputation for
adisposition quiet and ino'ensive. The only
thing that troubled my parent, was the little
attention I appeared calculated to give to
was a letter of advice, and his good wishes

for my future welfare. Heaven help the sons
of country clergymeu! thought I. To drown
the cause of my aliliction, I began to haunt
the tavern, and having established a charac
ter for bad memory, my comrades were
easiiy induced to believe that I had forgotten

the necessary cash, and generally were so
good as to discharge our expenses them
selves. Thus did I make the rst use of a
natural deprivation, and as I was always es
teemed for apparent generosity, and loved for
amild and agreeable disposition, my company
Was much courted, and I never was the loser.
Wheneverl borrowed of a friend, my miser

able memory pleaded an excuse for keeping
him so long out ofhis money; to my bad facul

ty of retention have I been indebted for many
a twelvemonth's use of borrowed silver.

Soon after, a relation of mine dying, be
queathed me a handsome sum, which has
learning, owing to the treachery of the worst

of bad memories, that scarcely retained a
single day, the ideas communicated by my

father in an hour's hard teaching. So it was
in all my other affairs; I invariably forgot
the purport of the errands on which I was
despatehed, nor could I ever recollect where
I had last put my spelling book, when called
upon to say a lesson.
Yet in the end I found all this forgetfulness
to turn out much to my advantage; for some
other child was sent on business which it
was known I never could perform, that
spared me many a frosty journey; and by

losing my book I not unfrequently escaped
the dreaded lesson.
Finding so many sterling advantages in a

bad memory, it is not very wonderful that I
should take very little pains to improve it.
At the age of fourteen I was sent to Phila
delphia and apprenticed to one of the me
chanic arts. In this situation my bad memory
was not so serviceable as in the former part
of my life, but as I forgot blows almost as
soon as any thing else, beating (I cannot call

it correction) became tolerably familar, and
my master growing tired of such violent and
useless means of persuasion, and desparing
of improvement, kept me at the lowest

drudgery of the shop, rarely disturbing my
humble and contented quiet, by entrusting
to my care any thing which he esteemed
important.
After spending seven years in learning to

dirnothing, I found myself in the world with
no support but my own exertions. Having

little or no knowledge of my profession, I
Wethrown into despair at the idea of getting

my own bread.'My'father could do nothing
foi me': his own familyconsumed'whatever
he could make, and upon entering into my
twenty-second year all I received from him
of Flora, as they lighty waived their heads
and ttemulously nodded to the breath of

summer. Sols genial warmth pensive
kissed away the tears of evening that
glistened on the humble turf: lively picture
of sympathetic benevolence, wiping the pearls
of sorrow from off the pale face of distress,
and leaving not a chrystal wanderer behind!
Sweet musing silence reigned, and hushed
the murmuring noise which nature cannot
quell. Hark! the soft stillness is disturbed,
and meditation interrupted by a voice more
harmonic than the melody of Philomel. Me
thinks it is the pleasing tone ofsome sylvan
deity, the hallowed note of some guardian
sylph; but no! a form appears to view; it is
natures loveliest portrait. Alas! grief had
left the traces of its pencil on the counte
nance of the fair secluder. Such was the
thought of reason, nor did she think in vain.
Hermitissa entered a gloomy grot; a grotto
formed by the hand of time; there art never
dared to intrude, nor pompous decoration
spoiled the beauteous work. At a small dis
tance the eye of curiosity spies an urn, the
supported me a long time, principally by the

advantage I have taken of a bad memory.
If a tradesman demand the amoun. of his
bill which he had rendered some months
before, my treacherous memory prevents sad mausoleum of some hapless youth, who
my knowing any thing of the matter. Intake doubtless had fallen like the fragrant oweret,
it a point to forge! providing myself with once the valleys pride: but nipt in the bloom,
necessaries, merely to give my good na ere the dew of life has left its leaves, lo, it
tured friends an opportunity to do me akind sleeps forgotten on the ground. Child of
oice. I have forgotten to relate many clever mortality! hast thou seen this lesson en
things which I have done, but I hope to graved on the bosom of creation? then apply
have the pleasure of transmitting to you it to thyself. ()ft did Hermitissa, with the
shortly some nobler deeds that I exec! to melting eye of dovelike pity, ken the urn,
do: and all shall proceed from a bad memory. and as oft did she turn her eyes towards the
In short, I have no reason to be dissatis placid canopy of heaven. There was ex pres
ed because nature deprived me of a trouble sion, there was piety, there was sentiment in
some and expensive faculty, the want of the scraph beaming look. It emplored the
which has procured me many a favor, and merciful Author of being, for one tender
has been the principal source of that quiet mercy, to mitigate affection. The prayers-of
virtue and innocence in distress, Revelation
which I have enjoyed through life.
assures
us, are heard. I'Icrmitissa turned her
Your humble servant,
eyes from heaven to the verdant sod; the
JEREMIAH SURFACE.
I venture to predict that all the plans of smile of content bloomed on her cheek; and
Jeremiah will eventually be frustrated. If it this the soliloquy that she breathed: Parent
should so come to pass, I hope he will ex of all! thou good Supreme! thy will be done
hibit his usual candor in giving us the cir with cheerfulncss by those whom thou hast
cumstances. In the mean time I cannot re taught the lesson. This have I learned at
frain from observing, that it highly becomes thy benignant hand; thou hast clothed me
us to indulge no loose habits which at rst with aliction, and her power hath drawn
have apparently no vicious tendency, lest me to this solitude, where misfortune keeps
they should nally degenerate into rank ini the school of wisdom. May the volatile and'
quity; and that every faculty of the mind young, who dance in the giddy circles of
should be cultivated, lest the weakness that gaity, learn from hence that happiness is not
proceeds from it, lead us into greater and the lot of mortals. Adversity throws his darts
promiscuously, and sooner or later those
more dangerous weakness.
may
be pierced, who now how at the shrine
PETER PEACEABLE.
of pleasure, and think felicity their own. At
I For the Repertory.
this she heaved a gentle sigh; it said, alas!
SELECTOR. No. XI.
my Corydon! the lonely cot is left: but olt
Soft breathed the zephyrs of gentle morn; the look reverts behind, till you rising hill
they sported with the russet leaves of the hides the urn from her view; and Hermitissa
venerable oak, or whispered to the children is lost to my eye.
For the Repertory.
Smerdis, because he could draw a stronger

bow than himself or followers.
ANECDOTIANA.
No. V11.
Gommunicated by Valerian.
DRUNKENNESS.
drunken man is undoubtedly the
greatest beast among all the creatures which
Caligula, that monster of Rome, slew his

brother out of envy, because he was a beauti
ful young man.

Mutins, a Roman, was so noted for his en
vious disposition, that Publius, one day ob
serving him to be very sad, said, Either
Omnipotent wisdom has formed. Let it be

remembered however that he was not thus
some great evil has befallcn Mutius or some

formed by his God; but generally, from a per great good happened to another!"
Aristides of Athens, so remarkable for his
sistence in this abominable vice, the man is
attachment to justice, when tried by the peo
lost in the beastly drunkard!
ple, was accosted by a peasant, who wished
.Eschines once commended Philip of Ma
to vote against Aristides. Has he done you
cedon, as a jovial man who would drink very
any wrong, asked Aristides, that you are
freely. Demosthenes, who was present, an
for punishing him in this manner? No;
swered, That is indeed a good quality in a
replied the countryman, I dont even know
sponge, but not in a king!
him; but I am tired and angry with hearing
Bonosus, who set up for a share in the R0
every body call him the Jar!!!
man empire, being defeated in a decisive en
resonance.
gagemenrdiung himself. W'hcn the army saw
The Rev. Mr. Cochlan, asked a lady,
him, it was said, the thing banging was not a
\Vhether she knew any thing of Christ?"
man, but a bottle!
Alexander the great, at Babylon, drank to
the health of twenty guests and then pledged

each in separate cups, after which, he called
for the cup of Hercules, which held a vast
quantity, and drank the whole to the health
of Proteus, and afterwards pledged the Ma
cedonian in the same tremendous bumper!
He then sunk upon the floor. This hero,
says Seneca, unconquered by all the toils of
prodigious marches, exposed to the danger
of sieges and combats, to the violent extremes
of heat anti cold, here lies subdued by intcm
perance, and struck to the earth by the cup
of Hercules! Alexander was seized with a
fever which terminated in a few days in his
death.
EARLY RISING.
Frederic II. of Prussia, ruse very early,
but. as he grew old his sleep was often
broken in the night, and in consequence he
would sleep beyond his usual hour in the
morning. This grieved him and he gave
orders to his attendanst upon no considera
tion to su'er him to sleep longer than four
o'clock. One morning a. page who had been
but a short time in his service came to his
bed and awoke him. Let me sleep a little
longer, said the king, I am still fatigued.
Your majesty has given positive orders,

replied the page. But one quarter of an
hour more, said the king, not one minute,"
answered the page, it has struck four and

I insist upon your majestys rising. \Vell,"
a view, if possible, to relieve her mind, by

diverting her affection to a new object; that
as many jewels have the same appearance.
that purchased by Gordier, and that pre
sented by Mr. Galliard, might probably not
be the same. Mrs. Gordier very readily ac
; quiesced; and, having had time to recover
her temper, fell again into tears, and, in the
most affecting manner apologised for her

late intliscretion, adding, at the same time,
that if it was the jewel purchased by her

son, his picture was artfully concealed within
it, which, by opening, would put the matter
beyond a doubt. The sister, nor any of. the
family, has ever seen it open, and knew no
thing of such a contrivance. Young Gordier in

a moment touched a secret spring, and pre
sented to the company the miniature enclosed,
most beautifully enriched. The consternation
was now equal to the discovery. The mystery
was unravelled. It was instantly concluded,
that the horror of the murder must have
she answered, Yes sir, I remember once to struck the deceased, and the detestation of
have seen his picture!"
the murderer overcame her. The contempt
Farmer V. once said to a minister, Sir,
with which she Wanted to spam the jewel
you preach a great deal about faith, and say a

good deal about it; pray, what is faith? The
minister answered, what is your idea of it?"
He replied, I suppose it to be the ten com
mandments. Farmer was a Pope.
from her, and her desire to declare from

whom she received it; all these circumstances
concurred to x the murder on Mr. Gal

liard, who having been formerly her father's
clerk, the last word she attempted to utter
A minister mentioned to a Mr. (1, during was now interpreted to mean the Cl-a-r-k.
his last illness, the necessity of the inuence
The clergyman who was present, and who
of the Holy Ghost. I suppose, said the gave this relation, being the common friend
dying man, that the Holy Glmsl was a good of Galliard and the family where he now
man, who lived a great while ago!"
was, advised moderation and temper in the
INFIDELITY.
pursuit of justice. Many circumstances, he
Voltaire when on his death bed said, said, may concur to entangle innocence in
Doctor, I will give you half of what I am the snares of guilt; and, he hoped, for the
Worth for six months life! Sir, you cannot honor of human nature, that a gentleman of
live six weeks, answered the physicianN'ol so fair a character as Mr. Galliard, could
taire replied, Then I shall go to hell, and never be guilty of so foul a crime: he there
you will go with me! Soon after he expired. fore wished he might be sent for, on the
ow
present melancholy occasion, rather as a
Errractfrom the Gentleman's Jllag'azinc.
(Concluded)
Young Mr. Gordier recollected, that he had
heard his brother declare, that the jewel in
mourner, than as a murderer; by which
means the charge might be brought on by

degrees, and then, if innocent, as he hoped
he would appear, his character would stand

question was to be presented to his bride on fair; if guilty, care should be taken that he
her wedding day; and, therefore, as that had did not escape. He added, in support of his
never happened, his mother might be justi counsel, that a man, once publicly charged
ed in her suspicions, though, perhaps, the with murder, upon circumstances as strong
lady might be innocent. The sister of the as the present appeared, though his inno
deceased calmly replied that she believed the cence might be clear as the sun at noon-day
warmth that had happened to be founded on to those who examined him, yet would never
a mistake, which she thought herself happy again be able to redeem his character with
in being able to correct. The jewel, she said,
the world, let his whole life after be ever so
replied the monarch, you are a brave lad:
which her sister wore, was not presented to irreproachable.

had you let me sleep on, you would have
her by Mr. Gordier, but was a present to
The greatest part of the company seemed
fared ill for your neglect..
her some years after his unhappy death by to approve of his advice and reasons; but it
anvv.
Mr. Galliard, a very reputable merchant in was visible, by the countenance of Mrs.
Cank'rous her teeth; her heart was gall
And a sharp venom blister'd all her tonge! Ovrn, Jersey, who had very assiduously paid his Gordier, that she, in her own mind, had pre
Cambyscs of Persia slew his brother addresses to her, encouraged so to do, with judiced him guilty. However, in conformity
PHILADELPHIA REPERTOR i.
to the advice that had been given, Mr. Gal
Iiard was sent for, and in a few hours the
the Jew was in custody who had murdered

young Gordier, remorse and the fear of pub
messenger entered, accompanied by Mr.
lic shame, seized Galliard, and, the night
Galliard in person. The old lady, on his preceding the day on which he was to have
entering the room, in the vehemence of her
passion, charged him abruptly with the mur

der of her son. Mr. Galliard made answer
coolly, that indeed he well knew her son,
but had not seen him for many days before

the day of his disappearance, being then out
of the island upon business, as the family in
whose house he now was could attest. But
this jewel, (said the mother, showing him
the jewel open as it was) is an incontestiblc
proof of your guilt: you gave the deceased
this jewel, which was purchased by my son,
and was in his possession at the time of his
death. He denied ever seeing the jewel.
The sister of the deceased then confronted
him; and taking it in her hand, and closing
it, This jewel, (she said) you gave to my
But ifhere rest my trembling pen,

For who has power to tell
If conquering grace avoid her when
The spirit ies, what seas of pain,
I quick succession, rush amain,
confronted the Jew before a magistrate, lie

was found dead, with a bloody pen-knife in
his hand, wherewith he had stabbed himself
in three places, two of which were mortal.
A letter was found on the table in his

room, acknowledging his guilt, and conclud
ing with these remarkable words: None but
those who have experienced the furious im
pulse of ungovernable love will pardon the
crime which I have committed, in order to
obtain thc incomparable object by whom my

passions were inamed. But thou, 0 Father
of mercies! who implanted in my soul those
strong desires, wilt forgive one rash at
tempt to accomplish my determined pur
pose, in opposition, as it should seem, to thy
Almighty providencc.
And sweep her down tohell!

VALERIAA
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T0 )I.>\R\',O.\"IIIE DEATH OF HER MOTHER
Fair mourner, let thy sorrows cease,
\Vhich dim those radiant eyes,
'liy weep a mothers endless peace,

And bliss " beyond the skies."
Though Death, in awful horror dress'd,
Cause sinners to dispair,
It has no terrors for the blest,
But wafts them from all care.
Then let not grief corrode thy heart,
Or nip thy beautys bloom,
" Let gentle sympathy impart -_
Soft solace to thy doom.
pressed her to accept it; she refused it: you
tragedy of J ulian or the Italian Lover, written

by captain Jephson, author of the Count of
For this resistlcss fate has torn

A parent from thy side,
She on the wings of seraphs borne,
May now its powers deride.
pressed her again; she returned it, and was
Narbonne, Sac. Etc.
Freed from this vale of woe, and strife,
sister in my presence, on such a day (nam

ing the day, the hour, and the place) you
not prevailed on to take it, till I placed it to

her watch, and pursuaded her to wear it.
He now betrayed some signs of guilt; but,
looking upon it when it was closed, he
owned the giving it, and presently recollect
ing himself, said he knew it not in the form
it was first presented to him: But this
trinket, (said he) I purchased of Levi the
Jew, whom you all know, and who has
travelled these islands for more than twenty

years. He, no doubt, can tell how he came
by it. The clergyman now thought himself

happy in the counsel he had given; and, ad
dressing himself to Mrs. Gordier I hope,
4
.2. 0
madam, you will now be patient till the affair
has had a full hearing. Mr. Galliard is clear
in his justication, and the Jew only, at pres

ent, appears to be the guilty person: he is
now in the island, and shall soon be ap
prehended. The old lady was again calm,
and forced to acknowledge her rashness,

owing, as she said, to the impetuosity of her
temper, and to the occasion that produced
it. She concluded with begging pardon of
Galliard, whom she thought she had injured.
Galliard triumphed in his innocence,
hoped the lady would be careful of what she
said, and threatened, if his character suffer
ed by the charge, to refer the injury to the

decision of the law. He lamented the sud
den death of the unfortunate young lady,
and melted into tears when he approached
her bed. He took his leave after some hours
stay, with becoming decency; and every one,
even the mother, pronounced him innocent.
It was some days before the jew was

found; but when the news was spread, that
On this story, it seems, is founded the
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THE DEW DROP.
I saw upon the tender spray,
A glittering dew drop stand;
The cast scarce show'd thejoyful day,
Exempt from every pain,

In regions of immortal life,
Triumphant, she doth reign.
Then let not grief corrode lliy breast,
Or nip thy beautie's bloom,
Let gentle sympathy impart"
Soft solace to thy doom. LOTHARIO.
I viewd and clieckd my pensive way,

\Vhile morning breezes round did play,
Reviving cool and bland.

A while I gaze. and touch the leaf,
The trembling dew drop ies;

Man's life, though I, is just as brief,
For to the peasant or the chief,
In vain would we impart relief,

If fate commandshe dies!
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l'ZLEGIAC SONNET.
\Vriiien when "I a low state of health
As some ill-fated victim ofdespair,

Prey (O the hectic fever of the mind,
Emaciaied, pale, Wilh cankring care,
Expects in death alone relicftond;

When reason, better genius! standing by,
Like it in lifes gay morn are we,

As thoughtless and as fair;
No distant dangers we can see,
Him snatches from the promontory's brow,

Invites IO bliss beneath abrighier sky,
And warns him not to tempt the waves below
Our only wish is ihen to be,

Tolive in mirth and revelry,
$0. with disease, I stand upon the brink

That time devides from dread eternity,
That health and peace impair!

But like the am drop on the spray,
When fate decrees our doom;
The touch of death we must obey,

Fly from this busy scene away,
And the frail body mouldring lay,
Within the cheer-less tomb!

Yet as to-morrow morn again
The dew drop shall arise;
So passd the night of death and pain,
The soul defies th impotent chain,
Born for new life, with cold disdain,

From the dark tomb she ies!
And if the dew drop bland, of Grace,
Regencrate that soul,

In her bright eye delight we trace,
She flies to occupy her place,
;.,,*Where love and joy and peace embrace
While countless ages roll!
Pain, sorrow, gloom, all urge me on to sink

In the abyss,--and be from troubles free:
But hope, to Emma soon directs my eyes
For her Ipray to liveand sickness instant ies
EDWIN.
For the Repertory.
TO AMKUS.
Dear Amicus, pray why is thy pen laid aside,

Say why does thy critical genius deny
To lash the proud fool, the ingenious to guide,
And the maxims of richer experience applyl
We will nor insult thee so much as to say
We think lhou surpasses: Longinus of old;

Yet still we in jIISlICC this tribute would pay
Thy works a great share of his judgment unfold!
With love. when thy critical notes we have read,
For learning's bright treasures, our bosom his
warmd;
llll'Li-UJELPHIA REPERTORY.
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They always have greatly instructed the head,

And often the heart with new wonder have
charmd.
A reading profound thro' the whole of them shines,
Of all this group Louisa most

35
In fashion's glittring labrinth lost
Seem'd deaf when serious thought would warn
And always turntl from it with scorn.
(Reader, with your permission sir,
To catch the close error a keenness of sight;
With these a rich fund ol soundjudgment combines,

To lead the youngtyro, if docile, aright.
Again let us give thy productions a place,
Productions which candor must ever admire;
The restwell leave to talk of her.
40
As she bedazzles more than all
A nd by her cracking hick'ry re
And our attention seems to call;)

The camhric dress of texture fine
Displays with elegance divine
45
For niaideiis waists are very tender)
New life and vigor there acquire,

The lady cameand here I'll leave her,
Nor with her story longer grieve het"I
But having placed her under shelter
Let her remorseful conscience pelt her.
Ye ladies clothe in winter waim
And disregard the howling storm,
And to th' admiring ravishd view

Her sylph-like foot presents a shoe
\Vhich to the mind recals again
50
Nor let the love of beauty tend

To hasten beauty to its end
Thus simple Walter would advise,
Our columns with pure erudition to grace,

The velvet gure, modest, chaste,
And youth with a passion for learning inspire.

PHlLO CRITICUS.
Her heaving breasts, her tapring waist,
(Perhaps by corsets formd more slender,
-.~
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TO OCTAVXAN.
Friend of my soul, whose soothing lay imparts
A brilliant beam of friendship to my breast!
Thou long hast dwelt deep in my heart of hearts
The sandals light, of Dian's train.
And now delighted we behold

Her airy locks of streaming gold,
\Vhich with a kerchief coverd oer
Inspire with admiration more
Then all the braided labors seen
On Paphia's nymphs, 0r Cyprias queen.
E'er shall thine image on it be impressd.

In earlier days together we have strayd
And equal shared in boyhood's thoughtless play,

Together sought the cell of wisdoms maid,
Together breathd with pride our rstborn lay.
For in its verse sincerity resides;
Think then my heart can number thee among

The dearest few that in this heart presides.
I wish thee health, thou knowest the wish sincere;
May peace too ever in thy bosom dwell,
\Vith ev'ry joy of this sublunar sphere;

And now lbid thee and the muse farewel.
ORLANDO.
Vexatious disappointments lay,

The dusty street she little thought
Vith woes so imminent was fraught,
Nor in her long and cold career
Did fancy's faries paint a fear.
Here I would stop, nor would I tell
The sad mishap that her befel;
But since her story I began
No pain shall thwart me in my plan,
110
115
120
And ifye do so ye are wise.
55
THE FOLLY 0F ATHEISM. AN ODE.

BY mt. niutwnt.
I amfearlly andmonderfillly mode.
Dull atheist! could a giddy dance
Thus she sets out, but in her way
Think then how welcome to my soul thy song,
Her path she could discern no more,

When from her hospitable door
A good old dame of ancient manners
Displayd true friendships real banners,
And bade the tearful maiden enter
From the cold grasp of piercing winter,
60
Of atoms lawless hurled,

Construct so wonderful, so wise,
So harmonized a world?
Why do not Arabs driving sands,

The sport of every storm,
Fair freighted eets, the child of chance,
65
On gorgeous temples forml

Presumptuous wretch! thyself survey,
That lesser fabric scan:
Tell me from whence th immortal dust,
Nor mild esteem, nor forceful love
_.._
My solid resolution move,
Nor steal one knot that decks the thong
Of my chastising tavr-like song.
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SATIRE N0. 1V. BY WALTER WIGGLE.
Now since old winter comes apace,
With tott'ring step and wrinkled face,
\Vith frosty brow, and sunken eye,
Looks from the portals of the sky,
And breathes around the snowy blast
O'er the rich town, and dreary waste,
A lively female friend to see

And take a social dish of tea;
5
l'our forth a torrent of debate

About the changeful ways of fate.
Be mild benevolence my theme?
0r shall I tell the omen'd dream?
Or pain the melting maiden 's form
Exposed too thoughtless to the storm?
\Vhere trembling Cupids shivring play
And in her bosom nestling lay,
Chid the too slow retreat of day,

She thought of scandal as she past
10
15
For on the carpet she would bring

How such a one bought such a thingI
And of th extreme imprudence talk
Of Miss Elizas evning walk.
Thus was this mind of outside fair
And thus employ'd in falsehoods wtles
(Her face arrayd in specious smiles)
To think of many a like perfume
20
Or to the eye her charms reveal

As oer her cheeks they blushing steal,
And rap the sense in wild amaIe,

Or light the soul with passions blaze.
But now observe yon giddy throng 25
Of green-aged virgins skip along,
Who the lose net, or crimsond shawl
To catch each passers longing eye;
80
85
Didst thou then bid the bounding heart

Its endless toil begin?
Or clothe in esh the hardning bone,
Or weave the silken skin?
Who bids the babe, to catch the breeze,
90
Expand his panting breast;

And with impatient hands, untaught, .
The milky rill arrest?
Orwho with unextinguishd love
And freezing frowns her spirits numb,
Along the rugged paths of life
Descending snows her face assail,
The motherss bosom warms,
95
To hear it in her arms?
Loud howls the blust'ring northern gale,

A God! a God! the wide earth shouts,
Her cobweb shawl it ercely tore,
A God! the heavens reply;

He moulded in his palm the world,
And hung it to the sky.
Her locks were now divine no more,

Her checks were turn'd to livid hue,
100
Her countenance was wolul wan,
00
Say, didst thou wrap the bre woof3

Or mould the sentient brain?
Thy ngers stretch the living nerve!
Or ll the purple vein!
To scent Maria's drawing-room;

But hoary winters visage grum
Her shivring lips were purpled blue,
Across their shoulders careless haul,

\Vith lab'ring negligence they try
\Vhat, when the embryo speck of life,

The miniature of man,
Nursed in the womb, its slender form
To stretch and swell began?
Stored with such valuable ware,
()r where with t' sly ensnaring art
They wound her palpitating heart,
And hailed the new-born day?

75
As sweet Louisa on her way
And studied phrases of bonibast,

Repeated names of English lace,
What this was sold for, at what place;
The god, the reptile man?

Where wast thou, when this populous earth
Front chaos burst its way.
When stars exulting sang the mom,
Twas afternoon the hour of four,

Or rather less or rather more,
It sure cannot be thought surprising

If I again commence advising,
And like a feeling cenror monmt,
From the warm re, or shelter'dforum,
70
Her heart was sick, her pulse was gone,
Each charm that modesty can show,

The ne turnd uncle, arm of snow,
Her fiery kerchief high in air

A signal seem'd to ragmans fair,
Ben the bare bosom they display

To the broad stare of open day.
Her throbbing breasts the wind had chilld, 105
Her eyes with dust were plenteous till'd,
Let us make manlWith beauty clad,

And health in every vein;
And, reason thrond upon his brow,
Step'd forth majestic man.

Around he turns his wond'ring eyesI
All nature's works surveys;
PHILADELPHIA REP ER'I DRY,
.3. Is
c wasp:
to the core of his heart, and actually math
EFFECTS or scnrntzr.
him more wretched than a street beggar. The I
An attorney being greviously amictt-d
reader will remember the shocking sequel. with the gout, which confined him several
Here it is plainly seen, as in a glass, that weeks to his chamber, launched out intn
no condition in life can give contentment all those cxtravugances of passion which
l to a man whose mind is totally out of order. generally attend that excruciating disorder
v1;.x. > .A___t
Admirer the enrth the skies; himself!
And tries his tongue in praise.

Ye hills and vales' ye meads and woods!
Bright sun. and glittering stars!
Fair creatures, tell me, if you can,
From whence and what I am."

\Vhat parent power all great and good,
Do these around me own;
Tell me,Creation, tell me how
'1" adore the vast Unknown
An ape, alien, a fox. and an ass,

Exhibit man's life as it were in a glass.
How apish are we, till twenty and one;
As strong as a lion, till forty be gone;
" He may be rich,

0r decked with regal honors; but ifjoy
His pain was so excessive, that, though at

all other times he was not addicted to pre
Be absent from him, if he tastes it not,
funeness of speech, he upon this occasion

exercised his tongue in the most bitter in'
vectives, cursing his leg, and wishing the
d-l and [1! would rid him of it, rather
than to undergo such torture and pain. A
chimneysweeper had been that day directed
Tis useless grandeur all, and empty shade

Here too is seen the insatiable, restless,
HUMAN LIFEv
.I..,
tormenting nature of avarice, and also a

striking specimen of its horrible effects
among men. \Vhut availed it to Ahab that
he was decked with gold and silver, that he
to come and sweep the kitchen chimney: he
was clothed in purple, fine linen, and fared
Al cunning as foxes. till three score and ten;
'e then became asses. and are no more men.
THE DEAD COBLER.
Death at a coblers stall oft made a stand,

And always found him on the mending hand;
At last came death in very dirty weather
And ripp'd the ran! from off the upper leather.
He pla 'd the cobler a trickand pray what was't?

The eohler call'd for his oral. death brought hislart.
EPITAPH.
Here lies I
Killd by a sky
Rocket in my eye
In the year for-ty.
ON THE TORMENTS OF AVARICE.
" And he laid him down upon his bed and turn
ed away his face, and would eat no bread.
1 Kings xx. 4.
And whence all this tormenting disquie~

tude? Was he sick? No. Was he bereft ol
dear friends? had a sore calamity, of any
name or nature befallen himself, or his fam
ily, or his kingdom at large? No. The man

had no earthly trouble to build a grief on.
It was now ood tide with his affairs. When
this t of vexation seized him he had very
lately obtained two signal victories over the
Syrians, his most powerful enemies, and at
that very moment was in the highest eleva
sent his boy before him with a message

sumptuously every day? \Vhat did it avail that he would immediately follow: the boy
him that he bad man servants and maid ser in order to prepare for his masters coming,
vants, that he dwelt in a palace, sat on a got up the chimney to observe the state of
throne, ruled a kingdom, and had every it, but in coming down he mistook his course,
comfort and luxury the world could aord? and came down the chimney ofthe chamber
what did it all avail him when avarice had where the attorney was sitting cursing his
got full possession of his heart? This tor gouty leg. To account for the boys mistake,
menting demon made him completely mis' it must be observed, that both kitchen and
erable, notwithstanding all his wealth and
grandeur; and it hurried him on, as it has
hurried on many thousand others, to robbe
chamber chimnies had the some funnel to

convey out the smoke. The boy seeing the
attorney, made his obeisnnce in his way, and
ry and murder.
said, your servant, sir; my master is coming
Finally, we here learn the necessity of immediately. The attorney, forgetting, or
checking all inordinate cravings, of repress, probably being unacquaintcd with the cir
ing and extinguishing all improper desires cumstance of the chimney being to be sWept,
of worldly gain, and of being content with thought that the imprecation be had uttered,
the circumstances in life which providence had really called forth the devil; and he
has allotted us. The divine command Thou was so agitated with the idea, that, forgetful
shalt not covet, imposes a restraint on one of the disorder he labored under, hc jump
of the most powerful and fatal propensities
of the human heart: nor can we lay any
claim to real virtue, or reasonably expect
tion of prosperity and power. Why then was

king Ahab so sad, so extremely disconsolate
and vexed at heart, that he laid him down
upon his bed, and turned away his face and
tcllects, but whose conduct had always been
that," replied the Laccdemonian, but any
inoffensive. It happened one day that the

mad man met him on a narrow causeway,
goose can."
and having a large stick in his hand, when

would
eat no bread?
Because, forsootb
his neighbor Naboth had refused to sell

him a triing piece of land, a little vineyardl
Ahab was sovereign over millions of people;
he had ample personal domains, his cup
was full, he had laid up stores for himsell
in vast abundance. Yet he wanted more.
Casting a greedy eye upon his neighbour's
vineyard, he must needs have it for a garden
of herbs," and the refusal, though accom
panied with substantial reasons, stung him

' Auwdingwbia M.S. copy.
ed o his chair, and, to the astonishment of
all the family, went down into the kitchen

as if the gout had never visited him: but
happiness in the life to come, or contentment what is most extraordinary, he has never
in the present life, if we knowingly permit since been in the least troubled with it,
ourselves to overleap this sacred barrier.
-_.
Con. Courant.
A stranger came to Lacedemon to see
the city, who had acquired the habit of
use To nuts.
A person of the name of Mann in his standing on one leg. Exhibiting this trick
walks used frequently to meet a gentleman to a Spartan, he told vaunlingly " You could
who was known to be disordered in his in not preserve that posture so long. I know
he came up to Mr, Mann, he made a sudden

stop, and xing one end of the stick on the
ground, while he held the other with both
hands, sternly pronounced, Who are you
~ir? The other not at all alarmed, and willing

to sooth his assailant by a pun, replied,
H'Vlfhlif, Jam 0 double man: Man by name,
and man by nature. Are you so, sir, says
YANKEE STRATAGEM.
The following is a good thingwhethcr

true or false; and, at least may be considered
as highly descriptive of the character of the

people to whom it relates. We have never
seen it in print. it was communicated some
weeks since.
Bat. Ev. Post.
During the revolutionary war, two brothers
from one of the eastern ports were com

the insane person; Why 1am a man beside manders of privatecrs; they cruised together
myself,- and sue me will ght you two; Upon and were eminently successful, doing great
which he knocked Mr. Mann into the ditch, damage to the enemy and making much
money for themselves. One evening being
and deliberately walked 08'.
328
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in the latitude of the shoals of Nantucket,

but many miles to the eastward of them,
they spied a large British vessel, having the
appearance of a merchantman, and made
towards her, but to their astonishment,
found her to be a frigate disguised. A very
some of his machines are already engaged
light breeze prevailing, they hauled off in
dren, would be able to earn a living, and
HEALTH OFFICE,
February 2, 1811.
for the state prison, to be used by the

criminals. would not this be a valuable ac
quisition to this city, by being introduced
into the Almshouse or other convenient
places, where many of the inrm and chil
different directions; one only could be pur diminish the burthen on the community.
JV. Y. E-ue. Post.
sued, and the frigate gained rapidly upon
him. Finding he could not run away, the
acnxnzo TO DEATH.
commanding ofcer had recourse to strata
The late shocking instances of females
gem; on a sudden he hauled down every
sail, and had all hands on deck employed having been burnt to death renders the know
with setting poles, as if shoving the vessel ledge of a discovery lately published by sir
off the bank! The people on board the frigate Richard Philips, in the Monthly Magazine,
were amazed at the supposed danger they for their total prevention, of the highest
had run, and to save themselves from being consequence. He deduces from the principle
grounded, immediately clawed off and left of the ascension of re that ladies ought to
the more knowing Yankee to make him lie down as soon as they discover their clothes
self scarce, as soon as the night rendered on re; that the progress of the ames will
it prudent for him to hoist sail in a sea two by that means be instantly checked, and may
be easily and deliberately extinguished
hundred fathoms deep!
without any fatal injury, as usual, to the head,
face, bosom, and throat. He proves his prin
ciple by the following experiment; he took
saronnav, FEBRUARY 9, 1811.
two slips of printed cotton, a yard long, and
on lighting one of them at the lower end
ERRATUM.
The word Young, subscribed as the author and holding it perpendicularly, it was con
of the motto to the last number of the Cabi sumed to a cinder in the fth of a minute,
net, should be rendered Thomaon: the intel and the volume of ame was so great as to
rise nearly two feet. He then lighted an ex
ligcnt reader will correct it.
actly similar piece of cotton, and laid it hori
zontally on a pair of tongs, so as to lie hol

from the 26th January to the 2d February.
Discrun.
ad cb.
Dina-res.
ad. cb.
Abscess
1 0 Inam. oflungs
1 O
Apoplexy
l 0 lnam. of stomach O 2
Cholera morbus
0 2 Inam ofbowels 0 2
Consumption oflungsT 1 Old age
1 O
Convulsions
0 3 Pleurisy
2 O
pbauclpbia.
Decay
Diarrhoea
l
l
1 Sore throat
0
0 Small pox, natunl 0
2
1
Dropsy
2
0 Still born
l Ulcers
2
1
Dehiliiy
Epilepsy
2
1
0 Unknown
(I
1
0
_ _
Fever, nervous
22 21
Fever, inammatory 1
Whooping cough
0
Hives
0
0
1
2
0
O
Total 43

Under
1 year
Between 1 and 2
2
60
70
2
5
2
70
80
5
10
1
80
90
10
20
2
90
100
20
30
6
Unknown
2
3
1
0
1
0
30
4-0
__
40
50
Total 43
JOHN ALLlSON. Clerk.

STATE OF THE THERMOIWETER.
9 oclock. 12 o'clock. 30clock.
January
February
28
29
30
34
32
28
37
35
30
33
33
32
31
1
33
35
40
44
88
42
37
38
36

LEISURE HOURS;
on
M A RRIED,
On the evening of the Slst of January, in

Williamsburg, Virginia, by the Rev. John
Bracken, Mr. Robert Scott, of Georgia, to
Miss Susan R. illadis-on, daughter of bishop
Madison.
mronrss'r IMPROVEMENT
We are informed that Daniel French
'(machinist and engineer) of this city, has
invented a very useful improvement in the
art of weaving. The machinery is very
low, and in this situation it was ve minutes
burning, and the ames at no time ascend

ed an inch in height, and might have been
extinguished by the thumb and ngers.
This plain and easy experiment ought to be
read in the presence of the females of every
family.
POETIC EFFUSIONS.
BY JOSEPH BUTTON,
Author of the Heiress of Sobeiski, Ste.
Price one dollar.

THE
A ROMANCE.

AM) PRINTING IN GENERAL,
Price one dollar.

pen street, and at the ofce of the Philadelphia Re
simple in its construction, and cheap to
*,* Persons holding subscriptions to the
build, and may be moved with the hand,

water, or any other convenient power. Mr.
French has one of these machines in opera
tion at his works in the village of Green
wich. It is put in motion with the hand, by

turning a crank, which communicates mo
tion to all parts necessary to perform the
work, which it does with despatch and neat
FEMALE EDUCATLON.

GEORGE BOOTH.
HAS OPENED
A Select Academy for Youngr Ladies,
Museum, corner-of Lombard and Third streets(a very
healthy and pleasant situation)In which will be
It shall be delivered lo subscribers in the city eve,
taught, faithfully and correctly, all the branches of
learning essential to a good English education; par
ticularly Reading, \Vriting, Grammar, Arithmetic,
ness. All the attention necessary is to mend

threads and supply the shuttles with yarn,
and may be worked by children or decrepid Geography, History, Moral Science, Rhetoric, Com
persons, who may thereby get a comfortable position, Etc. according to the most approved Au
living. This machine is constructed to weave thorities.
@Terms of Tuition six dollars per quarter for
several pieces at once of narrow stus, such whole daysand four dollars for half days.
as webbing and narrow cloths of various
kinds, and will be a valuable acquisition to pupils will have them ready to commence on Wed
our infant manufactories. \Ve understand nesday the 13th instant.

and become rcponsible for the payment, shall receive
one copy gratis.

PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and published by Dennis Heartf,

___
' @Bifabelpbiatpebr .
*
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, Hill.
VOL. I.
li
No. 42.
the younger had also been promoted to the
phy in vain cssayed to allay. To alleviate the

sorrows ofthcirqueen, the senate compliment
ed her with the privilege granted by the laws
to the mother of three children. Augustus,
whom the merit and virtues of Drusus had
sincerely attached, shared in the grief of his
wife, whose hopes now centred wholly in
Tiberius.
As the emperor advanced in life, Livia
employed all her interest to prepare the way
for the succession of her elder son. The
ascendency which, by her talents and by her
consulate, when his death gave to the heart

ofa mother, and to the ambition of aqucen,
arts, she had acquired over the heart of her

husband, appeared to be boundless: she suc
her example.
a sensible shock.
Previous to this event a triumph had been
decreed to the elder; who, after subduing
ceeded in every attempt, yet she used no vio

lous, were politic and secret. The untimely
shortly after this catastrophe, prevented his

grandson from beneting by the change in
his sentiments. Even this event passed not
lllyria, had. subjected the Germans, who
death of the children of Julia, grandsons to
without conjecture; it was rumored, that
were beginning to revolt from the yoke of

Augustus. No expense was spared by the
empress to do honor to the victories of her
son, in commemoration of which a magni
cent temple, dedicatcd to Concord, was
erected on the capitol, in which an altar was
raised, by the direction of the empress, and
consecrated to Augustus: a piece of crystal,
weighing l'ty pounds, was among the rich
and curious materials by which it was adorn
ed; also a basin of gold, containing a root of
Agustus, and heirs to the empire, seemed
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF LIVIA DRUSILLA.
(Continued)
The second marriage of Julia, the widow
of Marcellus and daughter of the emperor,

opposed, by the birth of two sons, the most
formidable obstacle to the views of the em
press. Solicitous to raise her sons to the

chief posts in the empire, Livia had already
procured for the elder the place of tribune;
lence; her measures, though little scrupu
sentment of a master whose secret he had

betrayed, resolved to avert, by a voluntary
death, the disgrace which seemed to await
him. On his return home, having reproachcd
his wife with her indiscretion, and related to
her its consequences, he declared his reso
lution not to survive the emperor's favor.

It is I," replied she, that am the guilty
person, it is therefore just that I should ex
piate my imprudence. Having thus spoke,

she plunged instanly a dagger into her
breast, and Maximus, in despair, followed
The death of Augustus, which t00k place
dirges the songs of triumph.

Having struck terror throughout Ger
many, he had carried his victorious arms to
the banks of the Rhine, which he was pre
paring to pass when death stopped his
career. In an age of fable, when the marvel
the fate of the emperor had been precipitat

to awaken, in the minds of the nation, some ed by poisoned gs, presented to him by the
suspicions: the elder expired suddenly at empress. Surmiscs thus atrocious ought
Marseilles; the younger at Lycia, on his not to be lightly admitted: the temper of the
return from thc'war of Armenia, where he times, and the envy which pursues exalted
had received a wound from an unknown hand. stations, are suicicnt to account for their
A posthumous son of Julia only remained, origin: a heart susceptible as that of Livias
whom Augustus adopted in conjunction with to maternal tenderness, could scarcely be
Tiberius, and shared the empire between insensiblc to the claims of conjugal all'cc
them.
tion: the condence and tenderness display
Livia, dissatised by an arrangement which ed by Augustus towards her in his last
gave to her son a divided power, omitted no moments, when he charged her never to
opportunity, by plausible insinuations, to forget their union, renders her guilt but little
alienate the heart of the emperor from probable.
Agrippa, his grandson, and nally to pro
The decease of the emperor was for a
cure his exile to the isle of Planasia. This t time kept secret, Tiberius being absent from
measure produced murmurs among the peo iRome: on his arrival, his accession, with
ple; distrust was also excited in the mind of ,the declaration of the death of his predeces
Augustus, who, with grief and surprise, re isor, took place together. Livia appeared in,
ected too late on the misfortunes of his consolable for the loss of her husband, to
family. In the rst emotions of a vain re
whose memory she paid every honor: she
pentance, he determined to visit in secret sought to pursuade the people that he had
the banished prince, with whose tears, on been more than mortal, and procured for
their meeting, he mingled his own. This in him the allOIIIC'OUiB, a ceremony by which the
terview was conded but to one person, names of illustrious persons were placed
Fabius Maximus, who, unable to keep the among those of the gods. In compliment to
lous mingled with every event, it was re
secret from Martia, his wife, it was by her
cinnamon, of considerable magnitude, from
which a liquid distilled in drops, and gradu

ally hardened into a substance.
Similar honors were meditatcd by Livia to

Drusus her younger son, whose achieve
ments in the eld had covered him with
glory, when, amidst the splendid prepara-il
tions for his reception, the news of his death i
reached Rome, and converted into funeral
the empress upon this occasion, Atticus, a
ported that a spectre, in the form of a woman, imparted to the empress.

senator, swore that he beheld the spirit of
had appeared to the conqueror, by the side
Livia, in whose heart a fatal jealousy Augustus ascending towards the heavens:
of the river, and, sternly reproving his am-l rankled, reproached her husband, on his for this ridiculous perjt'y he received from
blUOI), informed him that his victories andf return, with his conduct; lamented the loss Livia a magnicent present. 'l'emplcsand
his . life had already reached their latest' of his condence, and the odious light in altars were raised to the new deity, to whom
period.
l which his distrust must place her with his priests and priestesscs were consecrated:
The empress was, by the death of her son, successor. Maximus, informed of what had among the latter the empress was herself
overwhelmed with aliction, which philoso'; passed, and incapable of supporting the re enrolled.
3 30
W
By the will of Augustus, Livia was asso

ciated with her son in the government, and
adopted into the family of the Julii, whence
she assumed the name of Julia.
The new reign was commenced by a
sanguinary act: Livia had not forgotten her
distrust of the exiled prince, who expiated
by his death the crime of being an impedi
ment in the way of her ambition. The
tragedy was imputed to the commands of
the dying emperor, and a detestable dupli
city added to cruelty. The empress notwith
standing her guilt, acquired by her address
an unlimited power over the minds of the
people, who conrmed to her the appella
tion of ler/ter of her country, while they
proposed to add to the titles of Tiberius,
that of TI! Son of Livia, implying that he
derived new glory in his illustrious mother.
It was even designed that, by a novel pri
vilege, an altar of adoption should be dedi
because motherly affection has endeavored greatest and most useful victory a man can
to persuade him of his error, and wished to obtain is over his passions.
set him right; because paternal love has tom
I shall conclude this essay by a short ex
the blindfold from his eyes, and displayed tract from the much and justly admired
his faults to his own perception. Such is the tragedy of Pizarro, written by KetZebue,
beginning of a passionate mans career; such where, in the dialogue between the tyrant
his early behaviour in private life; such his and the noble Peruvian, just after he had
respect for domestic happiness. Stored with proved the greatness of his soul by sparing
such a mind as this; possessed of such hor the life of his inhuman foe, his pleas for that
rible sensations; the chief character in the of Elvira are answered' by Pizarro, I can
tragedy of his parents misery, he rushes on face all enemies that dare confront meI
the stage of society, madly brandishing the cannot war against my nature. For which he
drawn dagger of family wretchedness. His is thus elegantly and forcibly rebuked by
position inspires the spectators not with the magnanimous Rolla, which is peculiarly
pleasing admiration, but with hatred; he per applicable here. Then, Pizarro, ask not to
forms his part, not amidst the applauses, but be deemed a hero; to triumph over ourselves
overwhelmed with the eondcmnations of the is the only conquest where fortune makes
world. Thus in the bosom of his family he no claim. In battle, chance may snatch the
is a scorpion; in the eyes of mankind he is laurel from thee, or chance may place it on
their detestation, and in the hours of sober
cated to the empress. But Tiberius, affect
thought, he is his own. And is this an in

centive to give way to so detestable a fail
ing moderation, and jealous of her power,
ing? is this capable of exciting one enviable
declined these honors, nor would suffer the
thy brow; but in a contest with thyself, be

resolute, and the virtuous impulse will be
the victor.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
sensation to imitate so miserable a being?

SELECTOR. No. XII.
He is perhaps unmarried; and will he be able
THE CRIMINAL.
to gain a sensible and amiable female with
" And now, which way were I turn or look,
a recommendation like this? To attain the
Scenes of incessant horror strike my view.
object of his wishes, he must either alter his
I hear my famishd babes expiring groan,
I hear my wife the bursting sigh renew!"
real conduct, or pursue a path different from
his common one; he must turn hypocrite.
Ah! cruel fortune, thou hast driven me to
cations.
\Vhat though the senseless jargon, and this! Ah! my father! thou wilt not relieve
To be concluded in our next.
fawning pretensions of seductive gallantry my wants, because I wedded the woman of
declare this character to be the common my choice and not of thine. Once was I
garb of a lover, yet the man of true honor, stiled my fathers darling, the son for whom
For the Repertory.
would despise a subterfuge so base, and he only lived; and yet, for acting once con
THE CABINET. N0. XXV.
scorn a stratagem so cowardly; he would by trary to his will, he banished me from his
'With juster thought esteem it nobler
his regular behaviour evince his merit, and presence, with a pension barely sufcient to
To gain one friend, than crush a thousand foes,
Boast that" thou reig'nst despotic oer" thy pas wish to be judged of his worth by himself; support life: that pension now has ceased;
he would behave at all times as if he were for what reason I am totally ignorant. An
axons,
conscious of doing right, nor fear the ob amiable wife and two children are perishing
And hold mans proudest conquest isha'mael
M. G. LEWIS
servation of open enemies, nor mercenary for want, and unless I bring them some
The man who inconsiderately follows the friends. Not so the slave of passion; his thing, they cannot exist. I went to my fathers
dictates of ungovcrnable passion, is not to be mind must be in a continual ferment, lest house, with an intent of informing him of
courted as an acquaintance, nor desired as a he should be discovered one of its subjects, our wretched condition: I sent in my name,
friend; for he who has not perseverance and his tongue briddled, lest he should com he would not see me! Must my babes starve?
enough to repress his anger on any occasion, mit himself. If he succeed, woe will be the they are young, and my wife lies ill; and I
would neither be pleasing in the one capacity, unaltered portion of his wife; the slave of his am a wretch for thus joining her to poverty!
nor amiable in the other. Numerous are the follies, she will fear to offend him, and even Here am I alone on this dreary heath; and
examples of the force and danger of passion, in that terror he will nd offence. Thus, if what have I brought with me? a pistol
(I allude more particular to anger.) I have he live single, his company will be shunned charged with death. What light was that?
seen it break out in children, and rage in by the learned, and odious to the ignorant: my fears transform every thing into enemies;
men; I have seen it exercised towards a if married, his behaviour will be the punish
it is the sun! why dost thou shed thy beams
parent, and a wife, unrestrained by duty, ment of his wife, and the sorrow of his chil
on one, whom dire necessity hath made the
and unqucnched by love. And, can any thing dren. In all stations, whether public or fee of man?
be pictured to the imagination more dread private, domestic or otherwise, he will fre~
Here am I, plunged yet deep in this
ful, than to see a son rise against a parent, quently appear ridiculous, and sometimes forest's gloom, like the insidious serpent
or a brother, trampling on respect, forget hateful. Therefore, a man who has been un thirsting for his prey. On man, on a being
ting obedience, and sacricing feeling to fortunate enough to receive such a temper formed like myself, am I to avenge my want
bursts of fury, and declarations of revenge? from nature, if through the remissness of his of bread? My family must live; despair, do
Revenge! for what? Because fatherly kindness parents it should grow up with him, should what thou wllt! Hark! what noise is that?
has crossed him in some project detrimental at least restrain if he could not entirely con sure it resembled a horses tread. 'Undone
to his well doing, his pleasure, and his peace; quer it, and strive never to forget that the man, what fate hath bid thee pass this way?
household of his mother to receive any aug

mentation. Livia, whose soul ambition in
flamed, unable to suppress her indignation
at this conduct in a son who owed to her his
elevation, made him bitter reproaches, which
served but to draw on herself other morti
PHILADELPHIA REPER'IOIIY.
m
He approaches; how unlike me. Serenity is blood from my conscience, as I can this in
pictured in his countenance. He little thinks, jury from my face, I would this moment
that like the harmless bird who ies into take your life!" -The youth struck with the
the fowlers snare, he is hastening to de strongest sense of his misbehavior, sunk on
struction. Oh! my wife! my children! Stop, his knees and begged forgiveness. lIe that
traveller!" A moment for reection! O in is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
nocence forever lied! my children are satis and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that
ed, and I am miserable. O! God of nature, taketh a city."
Heavenly Henry, as the Rev. Philip
hear my cries! I would ask of thee forgive
ness, for oh! the deed of yesterday hangs Henry was usually called, used to say that
heavy on my soul. What have I done? I in every quarrel the fault generally lay on
stopped the stranger, and asked his purse: both sides, and of course each should forgive
he refused. I clapped the murderous weapon the other. A woman making a complaint to
to his breast, and demanded it; he hesitated.
In-imagination I viewed my family perishing

for food. I could not wait; the int struck;
the stranger fell; and, O! earthhide me in
thy bosom; wretch! how do the words
escape my lipsI beheld my father. Alas!

I returned while yet conscious innocence
held thine eyelids closed, the deed Was per
petrated. Oh! my Ephemia! thou knowest
not the extent of my villany! If thou didst,
thou wouldst shun my sight, and think me
a devil that had assumed the form of man.
\Vhat crime is worse thanbut stop, thy
feeble frame cannot now stand the shock.
Summon all thy fortitude, soon will the awful '

tidings sound dreadful in thy ears.
For the Repertory.
ANECDOTIANA.
No. VIII.
rnoranrrr.
An archbishop! who is or was an elector
of Cologne, one day swearing very hard,
asked a peasant who appeared to wonder,
what he was astonished at? To hear an
archbishop swear," replied the man. I
swear, returned the elector, not as an
archbishop, but as a prince. But my lord,

said the peasant, when the [lrince goes to the
devil, what will become ofthc archbisho/I?"
Mr. Romaine once heard a man call upon
God to damn him! Mr. R. took out half a
cream, and offering him it said, My friend
Iwill give you this to repeat that oath.
How, sir!" answered the man, do you
think I would damn my soul for half a

crown? You did it just now/hr nothing,
replied Mr. R. and I did not suppose you
would refuse to do it for a reward!" How
must this return have struck home to the
conscience of the o'ender!
FORGH'ENESS.
3 31
Peter the Great, would often listen at
tentively for a short time, while one person

was speaking ill of, another, and would then
interrupt him. Is there not," he would say,
a fair side also to his character? come, tell
me what good qualities you have seen about
him.
.
The Rev. Mr. Pearce, of Birmingham,
some interesting memories of whose life

have been published by Mr. Hellings of this
city, was a man of a very charitable spirit.
Two of his friends from a distance being at
his house, one,during the temporary absence
him, that her husband in this and the other of the other, spoke something to his disad
instance was unkind, concluded by asking vantage. Mr. Pearce put a stop to the con
what he would have her do? \Vhy, truly, versation, by answering, He is here: take
answeled he, I would have you go home him aside and tell him of it by himself; per
and be a better wife, and you will nd him a haps you may do him good.
Augustine, had a few lines written on his
better husband!"
Dr. Hough, bishop of Worcester, was re table, intimating that whoever attacked the
markable for his forgiving disposition and character of the absent were to'be excluded.
evenness of temper. Some gentlemen who What a pity such a motto is not more popu
visited him desired to see a curious weather lar at present: slander is the common table
glass, which the bishop had purchased, and talk.
.-
accordingly the servant was ordered to bring
it; who, in delivering it, unhappily let it fall,
For the Repertory.
and crushed it to pieces! the gentlemen ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN THEIR TIME.
proceeding to apologize for the accident Being an address by one of the young ladies to her
which their curiosity had occasioned. Be
associates in JMr. Bassetts academy.
under no concern, said the bishop smiling,
Solomon, the wise preacher of Israel,
I think it is rather a lucky omen; we have while guided by the spirit of inspiration,
had a dry season hitherto, but now I hope when contemplating on the works of God
We shall have a little rain, for I protest I said, to every thing there is a season, and a
never saw the glass so low.
time for every purpose under theheavens,
INATTENTION,
and after enumerating a series of events
During divine service, is as unpardonable which took place according to their appoint
as it is sinful. As Mr. Nicol], was once ed time, pronounced thcm all beautiful in
preaching, he observed several aldermen their seasons; every one calculated to an
fast asleep, and immediately sat down. Upon swer their respective ends, agreeably to
his silence and the bum which arose, they the eternal designs of him, who controls
awoke and stood up, supposing service was them all in innite wisdom.
concluded, The sermon is not yet done,"
And though some partial evils seemingly
said he, but now you are awake, I Ito/w you result from the vicissitude of those things,
will listen more attentively!" so saying he yet we may rest assured, that on the whole,
continued.
the greatest possible good is nally pro
Dr. South, chaplain to Charles II. was once duced.
preaching before the court, when sleep
Unaided by the spirit of inspiration, Wt
gradually took possession of his hearers. are capable of seeing throughout the works
The doctor stopped preaching and called out of nature, irresistible evidence of the eternal
to lord Lauderdale three times. His lordship power and godhcad of their Author.
stood up, and South requested him not to
\Vhatever part of creation we survey,
snore so loud lest he should awake his has the appearance of being formed to an
majesty!
swer some important end; all the changes
Bishop Abott, once nding his hearers in to which they are subject tend to the same
attentive, calmly took out his testament, point, and it was in a view of those, that the
and began to read Greek; which soon re~
Sir Walter Raleigh, was very injuriously called their wandering senses.
matedbyarash young man, who challenged ;
sunnnn.
him and upon his refusal spit in his face!
A Persian soldier, was once overheard by
The knight, of known courage and honor, his oicer reviling Alexander the Great, and
wise man was led to exclaim, all things are

beautiful in their time, they all answer the
designs of their Maker. The constitution of

our minds is happily adapted to these
changes; we are struck with wonder, and
taking out himlnnkerchief, made this reply: ;well admonished. Sir you are [mid zog/il are pleased with variety which our eyes
Young man, if Iwould as easily'wipe your 1against Alexander, not to slander him!
every where behold,
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2.:
In the variations of the seasons are dis
another world; may we then in a most lively

sense, feel and see, how that innite wisdom
things remaining beautiful in their time.
TO FRANCIS FUNGUS, M. D.
country, with as much expedition and good

will as the best of them. War over; came to
Philadelphia; again opened shep, and has
rubbed along so far tolerably easy; but nd
ing his mental faculties some what impaired
by long service, now reluctantly bids adieu
to the literary world for ever.
Around the polar regions, where the sun has
Lord bless me! I exclaimed as I came

to the last column of poor Jack Trochaics
words with you. \Ve have been long ac
with the variegated hues of the aurora bore

alis and the superior brightness of the stars.
melancholy history,
quainted, and if a certicate, importing you
tions; we are now capable of the most rc
l am waxing old, and in the course of nature

cannot reasonably expect to exist much
played indiscribahle beauties; when the sun

has declined from our northern hemisphere,
and nature is left to sufl'era temporary death,
when the earth is mantled in a white robe,

and verdure disappeared, yet we behold all
ceased to shine, the heavens are beauticd
hath appointed all things, tnOst beautiful in

their time.
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what
distresses and
Before I resign my pen, Frank, a few
misfortunes assail us poor devils in our are in possesion of a treasure, more vzduable
pcrigrinations through this vale of tears; we than all the mines of Peru and Mexico, an
No place is left so destitute, that the ob
servations of the inspired penman, cannot cannot calculate on a state of perfect security honest, warm, and cfectiorzate heart, can
with propriety be applied; no place where even for one moment; should we be enable render you any service, call upon me; thats
the all wise Creator hath not bestowed some to satisfy our hunger to day, ten chances to all. Yours, 81c.
peculiar fawrs. \Vhcn the sun again returns one, we dine with duke Humphry to morro-w.
CHRISTOPHER CAUSTIC,
from his wintry retreat, where he has been Fortune," (as the old song suys,) is a At the gilt Fuguss'head, No. 30, Mushroom street.
to diffuse through southern clinics their slippery jade," and though we may think
we have secured a rm footing on the
share of heat and vegetation, when
For the Repertory.
top of her wheel, if perchance it incline
TEMPLE OF REFLECTION.
"is genial rays dissolves the snow,
either one way or the other, maugre all re
And gentle rills the rules ocrovr,
No. I.
The springing grass the hills adorn,
sistance, down goes poor Pilgarlic, and
ox man'rn.
And bleating herds to graze return,
some more fortunate votary hops into the
Step aside, vain mortal! cast thine eyes on
when our waters are again unloosed from vacant situation. But alas! the triumph is but this emaciated gure, and then reect on
their icy bands, and our ships ride on their of short duration; another whirl, and 05' he thy transitory life. Look yet closersee!
surface, how delightful the scene! how pleas slides with the same celerity in his turn. the smile is no longer seated here. In how
ing, if I may so express it, to see nature Such is the instability and uncertainty of all short a time has this chance happened; a few
experience her annual resurrection. No less human a'airs. Thrice happy is the man, hours since and he sported in the sunshine
pleasing and useful are the e'ects of sum who blest with a moderate competence can of health; his gaiety was equal to thine. He
mer, in which all things are maturing, and snap his ngers in the face of the world, and had measured full twenty years, and many
'
more appeared in readiness toswell the num
preparing for the arrival of autumn, which cry, who cares."
The more I consider the subject, Frank, ber. Dost thou shrink back? nay, start not!
crowns the year with the fruit of all its labors,
and affords a rich supply for the inhabitants the more l am convinced, this is a miserable tis thine own picture thou art viewing. Ere
of the earth; at the same time evincing that bad world; yet since it is the best we are long and thou wilt be likened unto this
the order of nature is most wisely arranged. likely to command at present, we must odious mass. Perhaps thou mayest not again
After giving some flight to my imagina endeavor to make the most of it, and our behold that bright luminary which consti
tion, permit me, my dear associates, to prime duty should be to mutually aid and tutes the day. Ah! 'twas but yesterday that
apply what we have been contemplating to assist each other; let it be reduced to this, this now inanimate substance was in the full
ourselves, and draw the comparison. Do we he who has a superuity of the good things exercise of every living faculty! He had
not behold a striking analogy in the succes of this world, certainly should be compelled laid down a plan for future life, but lived not
sion of the seasons, and human nature? are to scatter a few handfuls now and then to put it in practice. While he Was guring
not our lives subject to similar changes? and among his less successful neighbors. Why, to himself the many days of uninterrupted
through lifes various stages, cannot we dis
what is the matter with old Caustic, you pleasure that seemed within his grasp, the
cover something beautiful? 'c are now in will probably exclaim, it is seldom he gets dread summons arrived, and scarcely was the
the full bloom of youth; now the springs of into such a moralizing strain, I wonder awful packet opened, before the victim was
life are all active, and obedient to our voli
ALON SO.
where it will end. Ill tell you what, Frank, made sure.
lined, scnsative and mental enjoyment. ll
we may rely on the experience of others,
our minds are now more susceptible of re
ceiving impressions than at any other age.
Then let us devote this period of life,to the
acquisition of useful knowledge and virtuous
principles; so that when we pass through the
other seasons of our days, we may be quali~
longer, therefore you may consider this as

the last dying speech of Christopher Caustic,
apothecary, kc. who was born in the state of
Massachusetts, on or about the year 1774-5
intended by his parents for a physician, but
for want of funds compelled to ourish a
pestle and mix up cathartics, 81c. under the
lied to discharge all the social duties, and in direction of old Ichabod Bolus, of the re
our turn be useful members of society, and nowned city of Boston; got married; went
when with us the more pleasing scenes of into business; but war breaking out, shut up
life are past and the dreary winter of age shop; embraced the cause of liberty and in
approaches; when all the verdure of spring dependence with ardor and enthusiasm, and
and summer are departed, may we then be (though he says it himself,) made ready,
prepared to hear with joy our summons to presented, and red, at the enemies of his
For the Repertory.

ODE TO MELANCHOLY.
Queen of the pensive mein, whose mystic charms

Steal slowly o'er the meditative mind;
Bland pleasure of her owery Wand disarms,
And wastes her fragrance on the sullen wind.
'lo thee all hail! whether thou strayest afar,
'Neath parching sunbeams, or in stilly shades;
Lighted by Luna, or some twinkling star,
Thy victims soul thy influence still pervades.
Dwellst thou in domes where costly splendors shine,
\Vhere evry face is clothd in halcyon smiles,
Or is the cottage of misfortune thine,
\Vhence peace has ed, expelld by sorrows wiles.
Say, dost thou roam when ev'ning shadows fall,
'bcrc yonder pile its mouldering turrets rem
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The wintry blast, that autumns foliage scars?
0r sittst thou on some rock's impendent steep,
To watch the screaming sea bird wing his ight,

'hile the hoarse murmur of the swelling deep
Pierces the dull and slumbi-ing car of night!
Dost love to listen to the mournful lay,
As it reverb'rates through the hollow shore?
View lightnings gleaming o'er the billowy way,
And calmly hear the distant thundcrs roar?
Or hiest thou through you abbcy's gloomy aisle,
Search my heart; the feeling there,

'hich thy goodness cannot. hear,
Banish, say thoust died for me,
Jesus upon Calvary.
J ovial, his harmless whip he'd crack,
Banish sorrow from my heart,

Ilid the world and I to part;
So when death shall close these eyes,
And in dust my body lies,
I shall, on the wings of lOvc,
Pleased would we see thee at thy play .1

Thy joyous trick's admire.
And thee, goodnaturd, ride.
When we would draw at close of day

Round social evninga re;
But now when seated all appear,

Poor dog! it gives me pain,
'Ihy little playmates sad, to lwar.
All wish thee back again.
Borne to deatliless bliss above,

Find that thou hast died for me,
Jesus upon Calvary.
To the damp vaults, and on some niouldcriug grave

Sit, deep absorbed in meditations, while
Oh, my poor playful dog! may the}

Evn in thy virtues shine;
And boast, when comes their final day .
As clear a heart as thine!
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9,
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YALEIHAN.
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Low sleep the relics of the mighty brave?

RETIREMEXT.
Or dost thou hover round the awful couch,
On which is stretchd mortalitys frail form,

Dost mark him shrinking from the withring touch,
Of chilly death, with horror and alarm?
Lovest thou to linger with the weeping train

That slowly follow the insensate clay?
To hearthc sobbing mourner low complain,
ith sighs and tears, the last sad tribute pay.
Pale pensive power! I must thy pathway tread,
'hcre'er thou roam'st, with beating b0som bare;
Midst the riotous world I no pleasure can nd,

\Vhcre wealth points the glittering way,
But love undiaturbd by unthinking mankind,
Oer the beauties of nature to stray.
SONNET. TO MISS MARIA KR.
Sweet is the gentle breath of May,

Whose fragrance charms the sense,
SWct-t is the new approach of day,
With gracious providence.
How sweet ofthe owry deckd wreath of the year,

The odorous breath to inhale,
How sweet the soft notes of the songster to hear,
As he sighs on the love breathing dalc.

9
How wondring we look on yon wood cover mount,

Whom: head seems to threaten the skies,
On some cold rock like thee recline my head,

And breathe my plaints to the unconscious air.
lIow delighted we bathe in the chrystalline fount

hence you murmuring waters arise.
0ft did I view thy wild dcspondent mein,

And often pitied, though I shunnd thine eye;
But vainly shunn'd, thou didst approach \mSeen,
And on my temples breathd thy sickly sigh.
With what horror impressd, do we view from yon

rock
The lightning which fearfully glares,
And how awfully list to the earth trembling shock,
Which the fiery wingd thunderbolt bears.
Fair is the lilly of the bower,

In modest state reclined;
(Thus beauty, IIWIICHI of power.
Still more attracts the mind.)
But sweeter, fairer, is my love;

As modest, chaste, and pure;
And never, shall my fond heart r0ve,
'hilst claims like hers endure.
Then dont reject thy tender swain,
And thus his breast surcharge with pain.
Hail, pale eyed queen! whether thou roamst afar,
Neath parching sunbeams, or in stilly shades,

Lighted by Luna, or some twinkling star,
By the otfrings of spring, we are silently told

That from somethingr eternal they came,
In the cloud frowning tempest his strength we be
Thy inuence still thy victims soul pervades.
DAMON.
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hold, MONTALDO.
And tremblingly honor his name.
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For the Repertory.

HYMN.
Mighty Saviour, lend an car,

And my supplication hear;
Send thy spirit, God of love,
From thy glorious throne above;
Holy Ghost, descend and bring
Pardon on thy healing wing;
Whisper thou hast died for me,
Jesus upon Calvary.
All my wretched soul within
Is but overwhelming sin,
Blasphemy and fatal scorn
Often have this bosom torn;
But do thou thy grace impart,

That alone can cleanse my heart,
.-\nd proelaini thoust died for me,
Jesus upon Calvary.

Grant, 0! Lord, the boon I crave,
To reections like these, how enchanting to yield,

As we bend on humilitys knee,
And resign every thought from weak mortals con
ceald.
0! Father of Merck-s, to thee.
BIALANTHON.
No. lI.
ON THE DEATH OF A FEMALE FRIEND.

Inscribed to friendship be this plaintive verse;
To friendship, ever sacred, ever dear:
Revered the black procession, mournful hearse.
The sigh be hallow'd, hallowd be the tear!
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For the Repertory.
Mr. Editor,
.
Though great her siiei-iiig in this vale below.

Yet, who c:ui think'her gentle spirit ed,
i \Vithout indulging all th exeess of woe,
Please to insert in your paper the follow- '

Without lamenting oer the untimely dead.
ing tribute, to the memory of an honest' '01 why lament, if worth like hers approved,
fellow.
A heart so tender, and a soul so kind,
ON MY DOG.
Poor faithful dog! my humble friend,

From life and pain thuurt free;
My muse will not disdain to lend,
A song of praise to thee.

No boast of ancestry was thine,
No puppy pride of blood;
Yet still in memory shalt thou shine,
The honest and the good.
Only thou my soul canst save,

Yes, Redeemer, thou alone,
The virtuous bosom virtue loves,
Take, and make me all thy ovm!

Ah! does not thy word declare
None too vile for grace to spare?
Yes, then say thoust died for me,
Jesus upon Calvary.
\Vhereer fair virtue be;

This tear rejoices while it proves,
What virtues dwelt in thee.
True I pray not as I ought,

But thou knowst my evry thought,
All my wants are known to thee,
All my grief and misery!
POETIC SELECTOR.
! From all the miseries of life removed,

A deep sincere regret is aim: to nd.
Yet on her tomb a votive llllt I'll raise
'I extoll her mrckness, and her virtues praise.
UC'I'_\ \'l .\
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For the Repertory:
A lOliTICAL FLIGHT.
\Vi'ittcn in a high state of health. Addressed to r
It'ousled (loose.
Brown art thou now, and pensive is thine air,

As thou dost rest in silence on the dish!
When tlireatning danger hoverd near,

Thy voice proclaimd alarm;
Hath filld the midnight thief with fear,
And saved from midnight harm.
Say, didst thou long ncath iron age despair

'lhat thou art lender is my only wish.
How often oer thy patient back,
From cook, to greet some cpicurcan mind
Did little Henry stride;
Didst thou then long expect relief to find,

Though not emaciated was thy form;
And death of all his natural pangs disarmi
PHILADELPHIA REPERTURY.
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Thy dnoms pronounced; thy better genius" near

Snatchd thee-from off the promontorys brow,
Bade thee upon this festive board appear,
Moistend in sauce that, smoaking, oats be
low.
Lo! arm'd with knife and fork, in either hand,
1 ready stand thy youth or age to try;

Hunger, not sorrotr, issues the command,
And I must eat, or else, alas! must die.
Th inviting meat now sever'd from thy sides,

Emma the tit bin with her Ned divides.
NED GANDER.
Famd Avas walls Messutu's name shall own,

Where haughty splendor guards the Birman throne,
Thy hills, Tibet, shall hear, and Ceylons bowers,
And snow-white \vaves,t.hat circle l'ekins towers,
'here, sheathd in sullen pomp, the Tartar lord,

Forgetful, slumbvrs o'er his idle sword:
oer all the plains, where barbarous hordes afar,
On panting steeds, pursue the roving \var,

Soft notes ofjoy th eternal gloom shall cheer,
And smooth the terrors of the arctic year;
Till from the blazing line to polar snows,
Through varying realms, on titles of blessings ows,
Then shall thy breath, celestial Peace, unbind
The frozen heart, and mingle mind with mind;

With sudden youth shall slumbring Science start,
And call to life each long forgotten art,
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ACROSTIC.
ltetrace her ancient paths, or new explore,
When the breath of Boreas blows

lnto tempests, gelid snows
Nearly fair creation shroud,
Tumbling from the pregnant cloud,

Ev'ry drooping ower complains,
ltaging restless winter reigns!
vacuums.
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GRANTS PRIZE POEM.
\Vhatever difference of opinion may be

entertained relative to the points so long in
dispute, between our Government and that
of Great Britain, one thing, at least, must be
acknowledged, by religious men ofall parties,
I that no nation has done so much as the Brit
ish, to extend the light of science and to

diffuse the rays of evangelical truth, among
those benightcd people, who sit in the re
gion and shadow of death. Their Illinionary

and Bible Societies have done honor to hu
manity and religion; and the happy effects
of their liberal exertions, have been exten
sively felt and acknowledged. Who can say,
but that the desolation and the calamities,
which have been carried into the East, by

European arms, may be more than expiated
by the diffusion of the benign inuence of
the Gospel, and by the rich con solutions
which ow from the [tract which is in Jesus.
A Poem has lately appeared in England,
on the Revival of learning in the East. It
was written by a Mr. Grant, and obtained the
prize of sixty pounds sterling, ocred by
Mr. Buchanan for the best production on
that subject. It is a rich, nervous, and glow
And breathe to wondring worlds her mystic lore.

Yes, it shall come! Een now my eyes behold,
ln distant view, the wish'd for age unfold.
Lo, oer the shadowy days, that roll between,
A wandring gleam foretel th ascending scene!
stream,
New realms from thee shall catch the blissful
the adjacent galleries and porticos; but as

he was still extremely anxious for the pre
servation of the sanctuary, be caused the
re to be extinguished, and appeased the
clamors of his troops, who loudly insist
ed on the necessity of lazing it to the
ground.
The prediction of Christ, however, was
hastening to its accomplishment. and the
boast of Judea was soon involved in the
threatened calamity; for, while Titus was
0h, human Essence, mixd with Godhead, hail!

Powers, Princedoms, Virtues, wait thy sovereign
call,
And, but for Thee, exists this breathing all.

Then shake thy heavens, thou Mightiest, and de
scend,
While Truth and Peace thy radiant march attend.

With wearied hopes thy thousand empires groan,
Our aching eyes demand thy promisd throne.
0h, cheer the realms, from life and sunshine far!
011, plant in Eastern skies thy sevenfold star!

Then, while transported Asia kneels around,
\Vith ancient arts and long lost glories crownd,
Some happier Bard, on Ganges margin laid,
Where playful bamboos weave their fretted shade,
Shall to the strains a lofticr tone impart,
And pour, in rapturous verse, his glowing heart.
Stampd in immortid light on future days,
Through all the strain his countrys joys shall blaze;
The Sanscreet songbe warmd with heavenly res,
And themes divine awake from Indian lyres!
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VERSES
wan-Tex 1.\' rue rlnsr LEA? or A oral-r.

Blest is the man who, by temptation tried,
Serene and undisturb'd his moments ow;
lie does no wrong, and therefore feels no woe:
What though adversity, with powrful sway,
Cloud for a time the sunshine of his day,
And oer his head, while lifes horizon lours,
Afiction, darkling, all her tempests pours;
Wide and more wide the heaven-born Light shall
on re, and the ame soon communicated to
reposing in his tent, a Roman soldier threw

a lighted torch into one of the private
apartments adjoining to the most holy place.
The whole north side was immediately en
veloped in ames, and the Roman troops
began to carry off all the costly vestments,
1f wisdom makes this holy law his guide;
Shall Truth divine her tearless victories spread;
On the seventeenth day ofJ'uly, A. D. 72,

the diurnal sacrice was interrupted, for
the rst time since its restoration by Judas
Maccabeus; and on the twenty-eighth of the
same month, Titus took possession of the
I outer court of the temple. He then caused
the gates of that famous structure to be set
Dej
d Is ma, lift thy downcast eyes,
An
the hour, whose faithful steps for thee,
Through Times pressd ranks, bring on thejubilee!
Roll back, ye crowded years, your thick array,
Greet the glad hour, and give the triumph way.
Hail, First and Greatest! inexpressive name!
Substantial Wisdom! Goo with Goo the same!
Oh, Light, which shades of ercest glory veil!
ing composition, and closes with the follow-l
Be these thy trophies, queen of many isles!

On these high Heaven shall shed indulgent smiles.
First, by thy guardian mice, to India led,
JERUSALEM DESTROYED.
0h, doom'd victorious from thy wounds to rise,
ing beautiful and prophetic lines.

""dslu'ngtom'an.
Calm is his breast; with conscious virtue warm,

He hears, unmoved, the fury of the storm:
and utensils, while- Titus, who had been
awakened by the noise, contemplated the

sanctuary with inexpressible admiration and
lamented his inability to stop the spreading
conagration.
A horrid massacre now ensued, in which
prodigious numbers of the inhabitants ytf~

ished, while others rushed, in a kind of fren
zy, into the midst of the flames, or precipi

tated themselves from the battlements of
their falling temple. Six thousand persons
who had been deluded thither by a false
prophet were involved in. this dreadful ca

lamity: and the victors continued to mark
their progress with re and sword, till they
had utterly destroyed the whole of the tem
ple, except two gates and a part of the court
which had been formerly appropriated to the
use of the female worshippers.
Meanwhile Titus made great preparations
for attacking the upper city, and on the
eighth day of September the warlike engines
played with such irresistible fury upon the
zealots, that the place this soon taken by
assault. At this melamcholy juncture the in
cendiaries who had-involved their country
in ruin, ran, like madmen, towards Shiloah,
in the vain hope of breaking through the

wall of circumvallation; but they were vi
Taught by these glowing precepts from on high,
gorously repulsed by the Romans, and ob

liged to hide themselves in the common
Learns bow to live, and having livd, to die.
sewers, while their unfortunate brethren
theme,
0
Unwonted warmth the softened savage feel,

Strange chiefs admire, and turband warriors kneel,
The prostrate East submit her jewelld pride

And swat-thy kings adore the Crucifyd.
"ho censures with modesty; will praise

with sincerity.
John and Simon, the two great leaders of the

rebellion, were dragged from their hiding places,
and sent, in chains, to Rome, where they received
' The \Vhite River.
the due reward of dieir'abominable crimes.
335
were either cut to pieces or reserved to
wasted, and to teach his servants a lesson
grace the victors triumph.

of economy and frugality; for" continued
A. D. 73. When the dreadful work of the gentleman, if the servant had been in
massacre and pillage was nished, Titus dulged in wastinga candle match, she would
issued out orders for the entire demoli~ take the liberty of throwing away things of
tion of the city, with all its edices, tow greater value. But if all the servants and the
ers, walls and fortications, except a whole family, be taught to observe the
small part of the western wall and the tow strictest rules of economy in all things,
ers of Phasael, Hippicos, and Mariamne, much in the course of a year may be saved
which were prudently left to give an accu for charitable purposes. Thus, by a prudent
rate idea to future generations, of the ama economy in saving small things from being
zing strength of the city, and the great ex wasted, I am ever supplied with a su-iciency
ertions 01 its conqueror.
to meet all charitable demands in the liberal
Titus, having thus executed the vengeance manner which you have witnessed. It is
of God upon this polluted capital, returned hoped, that every reader will take his friend
in triumph to Rome; and the subsequent ly hint, and go and do likewise.
destruction of three fortresses, by Lucilius
Bassus, terminated at War, in which one
million four hundred and sixty two thousand

Jews were either slain or taken prisoners.
Of those who escaped assassination by sub

mitting to the Romans, eleven thousand
perished for want, either through their own
despair, or the negligence of their keepers;
and ninety seven thousand were exposed to
ght, like gladiators, in a public amphithe
atre, or to be devoured by wild beasts.
Such was the awful catastrophe of a city
and nation which had rendered themselves
obnoxious to the wrath of heaven, by a long
succession of crimes, and which, in the lan
guage of our blessed Redeemer, had dis
regarded the day of their visitation.

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ECONOMY.
A young king of Persia taught wisdom by a

shepherd. '
Behram, son of a Persian monarch, suc

ceeded to the throne of his father at a very
early period of life; and, instead of consult
ing the happiness of his subjects, devoted
all his time to pleasurable pursuits. The vize r,
to whose care the administration of public
a'airs was intrustetl, shamefully abused the
condence which was reposed; for conceiv
ing he should never be called upon to give
an account of his conduct, the public money
was lavished, and the people cruelly abused.
The oicers who were under him, inuenced
by such example, and fearless of punish
ment, committed the greatest crimes: the
troops were ill paid; the administration ol
justice was unattended to, and at length his
return 1 expected li'om him was, that he

would defend my ock from the wolves; but
he has basely formed a league with the in
vaders, and, instead of becoming a guardim
to the defencelcss, he has become a sharcr
in the spoil; and now justly suffers for the
crimes he has committed. But I have al
ways heard that the misfortunes of the mu],
titude will fall upon the head of those by
whom they have been oppressed."
These words instantly struck the youthful
monarch; and he was convinced that he had
erred in submitting his government to the

vizer's power. He instantly examined more
closely into the grievances of his subjects;
and the consequence was, that the vizer was
condemned to share the fate of the shop,

herds dog.
-.-
A sssiovs "ment.
A laborcrs daughter who had been in
service from her childhood, when weary,
would be frequently wishing to be married,
that, as she emphatically termed it, she
might rest her bones. Hymen at last listened
to her prayers, anti a neighboring clodhop
per led her to the altar, nothing lot/z. Some
time afterwards her late mistress, meeting .

her, asked her, YVell, Mary, have you
rested your bones yet? Yes indeed, re

plied she with a sigh, I have rested myjaw
bones.
*
An Irish sailor, as he was riding, made a

pause. The horse in beating of the flies,
caught his hind foot in the stirrup. The
The following anecdote will set the sub

ject of economy in a very striking point
of view: At the time when the London
Bridge was building, or repairing, the gen
subjects began to revolt. The king, alarmed
tlemen, who were soliciting subscriptions
into the re, a match of brimstone, after she
vent the threatening evil, desired to be ac

quainted with the cause of their complaints.
This appeal to their grievances, on the part
of the sovereign, induced his counsellors to
describe the oppressions which the people
had endured; but fearful of exCiting the re
had used it, in lighting a candle. The re
sentment of the vizer, they had not courage. hemisphere? Yes, my son,emphatically he
to carry on the work, called at the door of a

wealthy gentleman; and just as they were
entering the door, they heard the gentleman
scolding at his female servant, for throwing
at the idea of the disaection of his people,

began to feel apprehensive of the loss of his
sailor, observing it, said, \Vhy, how now,
crown; and determining, if possible, to pre
of; for, shiver my timbers, if I am going to

ride double with you.
ections of the gentlemen standing at the
to tell their prince that he had been the

door, were as follows: \Vell, if this man cause. One day, when the king was walk
is so much afraid of losing a match of brim ing without the pageantry of royalty, and re
stone, we shall most certainly lose our labor ecting upon the likeliest method of redress
in showing him our proposal. They how ing his peoples griefs, he perceived a
ever presented their subscription paper, and shepherd, at a short distance, in the act of
he put down against his name the generous hanging his dog upon a tree.
sum of a hundred pounds. The gentlemen
\Vhat has that poor animal been guilty
Dobbin? If you are going to gel on, I'll get
James Bosw'cll, requested his father's (the
lord presidents) opinion of the immortal

Dr. Johnson, and whether he did not think
him a erfctf constellation in the literary
is, the urea major, the great bear.
*v
An authors wife having occasion to call

at a booksellers, and being pressed to sit
down, Mr. Vamps wife, who was in the
room, either through pride or bashfulncss,

never opened her lips the whole time. A
gentleman present, taking notice of such
strange behaviour, asked the lady, in a
then told this lilieral donor what had been of P inquired the Persian monarch, whose whisper, what it could be owing to? Oh!
their reections when standing at the door heart was really tender and humane, to my dear sir, (said she, very smartly,) you
and hearing him scold at his serveut, for
mating the match of brimstone. The gen
tleman replied, that it was not for the val
ue of the match that he scolded at the ser
vant, but it was to manifest his displeasure
at seeing any thing, even a candle match,
deserve the fate which seems to await him?"

He has abused the condence I reposed in
him, (replied the shepherd;) and for that act
you must allow he merits death.l bred him

up from a puppy, and have always treated
him with the greatest kindness, and all the
know, a title page has very few words."
Dr. John Wilkins, a man of uncommon

talents in the reign of Charles ll. has been
laughed at, together with his chimeras; but
even these appear to be the chimeras of a
P'IlII. ADELPHIA. R EPERTORY.
336
man of genius: such was his attempt to show l} I have read a paper to the Royal Society
the possibility of a voyage to the moon, in I on the oxymuriatic acid, which is now in the
a conversation with the dutchess of New lpress, and of which I shall do myself the
castle, hcr grace asked him, Doctor, where honor of sending you a copy.
My principal conclusions are:
am 1 to nd a place for baiting at, in the
1. That the oxymuriatic acid (as it is im
way up to that planet? Madam," said he,
properly
named) is a simple body, belong
of all the people in the world, I never ex
pected that question from you. who have ing to the same class as oxygene.
idly. That it combines with pure inam
built so many castles in the air, that you
mable
bodies in the same manner as oxygene;
may live every night at one of your own.
forming compounds which have properties
HEAIJIII OFFICE,
February 9, 1811.
Interments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia,

from the 2d to the 9th February.
Diseases.
ad. eh.
Diseases.
all. viiv
Angina pectot-is
Atrophy
1- 0 Old age
I O Ileurisv
1 0
I 1
Burns
0 Rheumatism
\Convulaiom
0 1 sun born
0 4
' Decay
0 1 Teething
Dropsy
0 Unknown
analogous to acids and oxides, but which i Dropsy of the breast 1 0
lpbahtlrbia.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1811.
DISCOYI-IRIES IN CHYMISTRY~
Errriments
on the distinct nature and
character ofthe oz'ymuriatz'c acid, and on its

fwculiar relations to other bodies, have been
lately made by the celebrated professor Da

vy, of the royal institution in London. This
gentleman read a memoir ofhis researches
into these matters before the Royal Society,

some time ago, and as his name has been
frequently introduced into our gazettes, it

may be interesting to our readers to peruse
a late letter of his, which David B. \Varden,
esq. communicated some time since to pro

fessor Mitchill, of New York; inasmuch as
it contains some of the most extraordinary

developments of modern science, to wit, a
new oxygene (or second acidifying princi

ple) and recent opinions touching the doc
trine of phlogiston.
Aha-Intel.
i are certainly two acidifying[wind/11cc kno'wu,

i and others may be discovered.
I shall at all times be happy to receive

I did myself the honor of sending you a any communications with which you may be
few lines about two months ago, in which I pleased to honor me; and remain, sir, your
thanked you for the able paper on the ana obliged and obedient servant,
H. DAVY.
lysis of the great meteoric stone. Your com
munication has been published in the Phi
losophical Magazine.
In the same note I required you to have neatly and correctly executed, on reasonable terms,
the goodness to correct an arror in my last
Bakerian lecture, as to the specic graility
FEMALE EDUCATION.
ofsulphurated hydrogcne, which I rated too
low. \Vithin the last month I have weighed
Sir,
gives 33 5-l0 grains for the 100 cubical

inches.
\Vallaston has lately read a paper to the
GEORGE BOOTH.
HAS OPENED
A Select Academy for Young Ladies,

t Museum, corner of Lombard and Third streets(a very
Royal Society on a new species of urinary
healthy and pleasant situation)-In which will be
concretion which he names cystic oxide.

l taught, faithfully and correctly, all the branches of
I have been pursuing my inquiries eon learning essential to a good English education; par
ccrning the alkaline metals, and endeavor-
ticularly Reading. \Vriting, Grammar, Arithmetic,
ing to gain precise results upon some objects Geography, History, Moral Science, Rhetoric, Com
position, &c. according to the most approved Au
which I had only slightly touched upon in
thorities.
my former communications. I have two or
Qj'Terms of Tuition six dollars per quarter for
three decisive experiments against the idea whole daysand four dollars for half days.
of Potassium and Sodium being hydrurets;

and a great mass of facts in favor of their
being bodies as yet undccompounded.
0 l
20 15
differ from them in being decomposable by Foyer
Inam. of brain
0 I
water.
Inam. of stomach I 0
Total
35
Sdly. That its afnities for many bodies Insanity
1 0
are stronger than those of oxygene.
\Of the above there were,
1
7 From 50 to 60
1
4thly. That muriatic acid has lor its basis Under
1
60
70
1
hydrogene, and this gas (Scheeles gas, for From I to 2
2
5
3
70
80
l
to call it oxymuriatic acid is to create con
5
IO
0
80
90
0
10
20
490
100
l
fusion) for its acidifying principle.
20
30
9
100
110
0
5thly. That phosphorus, sulphur, tin, arse
30
40
5
-
nic, and many other bodies are acidied by
40
50
2
TOtaI 35
By order of the board,
this gas, and that. they form acids capable of
JOHN ALLISON, Clerk
forming peculiar compounds with alkaline
matter.
6thly. Ammonia neutralized by the com
February 4
37
39
38
pound of phosphorus and oxymuriatic acid
5
37
4-0
39
gains xity; and the combination has cha
6
36
39
35
7
34
36
35
racters analogous to an earth, and is not de
8
39
41
39
composable by intense ignition.
9
32
34
33
The phlogistians supposed one principle
of inammability; the anti-phlogistians one
LEISURE HOURS;
principle of acidity, or solution: but there
0R
lmidon, August 7, 1810.
this gas with great care, twice. The average
Consumptionoflungs7 1 Small pox, natural 52 2
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BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF LIVIA URUSILLA.
(Concluded)
.by the slanders raised against her, nor would

have them included in the accusation. This
conduct, though in itself specious, and far
from reecting discredit upon Tiberius,
No. 4.3.
and who, in justification of himself, had even
resolved to produce them in the senate.

Agrippina, collecting the ashes of her
husband, and placing them in an urn, re
An incident occurred soon after by which

her haughty spirit was severely humbled;
seems on a comparison with his character,
tumacy of her favorite, and invcighed against
esteemed for his virtues, his courage, and
were stied by their authority, and the voice
the senator, whose behaviour she construed

into disrespect towards herself. Tiberius,
in this conjuncture, affected to take part
with the fair o'ender, against her uncourte
nus creditor, but suffered his interference
his magnanimity, adored by the army, and

revered by the people. ~Agrippinm grand
daughter to Augustus, whom he had espous
of justice silenced by their inuence.
turned to Rome with the mournful deposit.

The people went out to meet her, and, join
ing the cavalcade, mingled with hers their
grief, while to the remains of their be
loved hero they were scarcely restrained
acknowledge her debt, Iiso had recourse ating, Livi -., in securing to this favored son from paying divine honors, the emperor and
to the authority of the prtetor; who cited a throne to which her intrigues had raised his mother, on this solemn occasion, had
the favorite to appear before him. Secure him, plunged deeper into guilt and blood. not the tcmerity to appear: dreading the
of the protection of the empress, and intox Those princes whose personal merit, or public indignation, and the discovery of
icated with pride, Urgulania refused to obey, whose ainity to Augustus, gave them their satisfaction in the success of their bar
and insulting the laws of her country, obli pretensions to the empire, were uniformly barous project, they immurcd themselves
ged the practor to come and take her de persecuted or exterminated. Among the within the palace. Agrippina in vain solicited
positions, while, at the moment when it was most distinguished of these was Germanicus, of the senate vengeance on her husbands
proper for her to appear before the magis grandson to the empress, son to Drusus and murderer, whose cause was by Livia openly
trate. neglecting the summons, she repaired Antonia, a youth of great promise, distin espoused. The triumph of Tiberius and his
to the palace. The empressjustied the con guished for his civil and military capacity, mother was complete: the cries of humanity
to have originated in his desire of repressing

her favorite, Urgulania, a Roman lady, the pretensions of the empress, rather than
had received the loan of a sum of money in an honorable liberality
Notwithstanding a behaviour thus humili
from Piso, a senator: the lady refusing to
ed, was not less beloved and respected by
Liviayat the summit of an eminence to
which her steps had been traced in blood,

exacted and enjoyed a homage the most
profound: the altars of the gods received a
worship less fervent: new honors were lav
ished daily upon her: to her was allotted
the high privilege of taking at the theatre
a seat among the vestals. To have inquired
into her pretensions to this dignity would
have been no less imprudent than fruitless.
The eyes of the vulgar were dazzled by
her magnicent presents to the temple of
the gods, more especially to that of Jerusa
the nation. Conscious of worth, of superior

to be obstrtmted by so many delays, that powers of mind, of high birfh, and unblem
Livia, to avert the mortication of seeing ished reputation, she disdained to pay the
judgment passed against her favorite, was homage extorted by Livia, to whose pros
constrained to pay to Piso the sum demand perous fortunes the venal herd crowded to
ed. Nor was this the only occasion in which sacrice. Agrippina, with a noble pride,
she experienced the neglect ofa son, for stood aloof, and refused the tribute axacted
whose advancement she had steeped her from her. A mortal hatred, from this cir
cumstance, seized the bosom of the empress,
soul in crimes.
Farilia,gmnd niece toAugustus, had gross in which, roused by jealousy, sentiments
ly calumniated both the emperor and his mo- . of vengeance secretly festcred. The talents, lem, whither she sent vessels of gold, while
ther: she was also accused of tainting the the great qualities, and dangerous popularity her liberality was considered by the priests
blood of the Caesars by a licentious life. The of Germanicus, had not been overlooked as an undoubted proof .of her virtues.
Tiberius beheld with dissatisfaction the
charges against her were heavy, and affected by the emperor, who conspired with his
the honor of the throne: a severe punishment mother to rid himself of a rival. Emissaries boundless ambition of his mother: fond of
was accordingly expected to follow. Tiberius, are seldom wanting to approve and assist power, yet averse to pageantry, the osten
when consulted by the senate on these accu the crimes of princes: Germanicus perished tation of Livia inspired him with disgust:
sations, replied coldly, That the penalty of in Syria, where he held the command of he dissemhled nevertheleSs his vexations,
the personal conduct of the delinquent (con the army, a victim to his merits, and the till he preceived that the empress, not con
tented with the pomp of empire, grasped
victed of adultery) was already determined by jealousy of a tyrant.
the Julian law; that to what concerned himself
Solicitous to escape the abhorrence due at the substance of absolute dominion. His
he was perfectly indifferent, nor would he to a crime thus atrocious, Tiberius, on displeasure was openly manifested on the
have it made a crime to speak ill of him. receiving news of the catastrophe, affected dedication of a statue, near the threatre of
To that part of the accusation which re all the marks of sorrow, an hypocrisy which Marcellus, to the memory of Augustus,
spected Lit ia he made no immediate answer, cost him little, and which as little availed whose name was preceded, in an inscription
excepting that which his countenance ex-i him: his secret orders for the destruction of composed for the occasion, by that of Livia.
pressed, and, on the following day, he dc-l Germanicus had been seen .in the hands of Too indolent to assert his privileges, or
clared in the scnate,that his mother passed I Piso, who administered poison to the prince, unwilling to break with his mother, this in
388 \
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*
cident determined him on retiring from
ment on the almost unfathomable dephth be

court, 'where he held only the shadow of low! or while beholding some distant volcano
sovereignty, to the island of Caprea, in belch forth its flaming entrails, spreading
which he abandoned himself to a dissolnte ruin and devastation upon the country around!
life.
Bulk is always necessary to the sublime
Livia, in the absence of her son who had
thus pusilanimously resigned the reins of

government, held them with vigour and
effect: she maintained to an advanced age

her inuence undiminishcd, and preserved
through life the soundness and strength of

an originally admirable constitution. She
was accustomed to attribute the vigour of
her health, perhaps erroneously, to the wine
of Pezzino, and a preserved reot which
she ate daily.
She was more than fourscorc when she
felt the approaches of death, an account of
which was sent by express to the retirement
which had been paid to her when living,

were decreed by the senate to her memory;
but these Tiberius, under a pretence of
moderation, absolutely prohibited; nor would
he su'cr the apotheosis to be granted to
consequence.
Disdaining to
betray the
sacred honor of a Roman, he took no ad

vantage of favorable circumstances, but
heroically braved Carthaginian torture, and
in natttral objects, for unless the mind be ' fell a victim to Carthaginian depravity! There
lled with the greatness of the object, it can

never experience any great emotion. The
component parts of a large object must not,
however, be disposed in perfect symmetry
of form, for the feeling then will likely be
that which is derived from the contempla

tion ofa beautiful object, but the more irre
gular and wild the object appears, so much

the stronger will be the feeling imparted.
A certain degree of obscurity is also
highly favorable in constituting the sublime.
\Vherc there is an air of mystery, imagina
tion has fuller license, and creates a thou
of the emperor; but Tiberius, on various sand fanciful images. \Vhen we visit the
pretences, excused himself from paying mouldcring walls of a iuined monastery,
the last duties to his mother.
while the shades of evening are closing
The empress expired, after a long and' around them, we look with reverence upon
prosperous life, and was entcrrcd in the? the ancxentpile, and almost fancy we can
mausoleum of Augustus: her funeral pet-l perceive the shades of those who formerly
negyric was pronounced by her grandson inhabited the venerable place, gliding along
Cains Caligula. Honors, similar to those
he knew that his own death would be the
is a tradition among the aboriginal inhabi-

tants of North Americanthat the great and
good spirit protects the stranger in a distant
land. Sublime idea! which would have arisen
only out of that hospitable disposition, which
the son of the wilderness exercises towards
the sojounier at his dwelling.
But providence has not afxed pleasures
to the _ contemplation of sublime objects

I without their uses. \Vhen we are accustom
\ ed to sublimity, the mind naturally receives
' an elevated cast. It therefore, becomes the
duty of man to regard those things only

which are in themselves great, that he may
have aprospect of raising his ideas to worthy
actions, and learn habitually to despise what
is mean and disgraceful.
PETER PEACEABLE.
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the desolate aisles, and vanishing in the 0b
scure distance! At the hour of midnight

should the swelling tones of some solemn in
strument unexpectedly fall upon the ear,
the sublimity of the music would be greatly
heightened by the mystery attached to it. In
the manes of his mother.
the rst moment of surprise we might sup
Lives of the Roman empresses, by Monsieur dc pose it to be the harmony of the celestial
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choir, permitted to be heard for a few 1110
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ments to inspire some idea of the happiness
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of heaven!
THE CABINET. No. XXVI.
In architecture, the gothic structure is
Causa latet, vis est notissima. Ovxo.
best calculated to excite sublime sensibili
One of the distinguishing superiorities of ties. The heaviness and strength of that
the human soul over all the other works of order ll the mind with serious and awful
God, is its susceptibility of receiving elevat emotions. These emotions, however, must
ed impressions from surrounding objects. in some measure depend upon the purpose
This susceptibility, by proper attention, may to which the building is appropriated. It is
be improved into the most rened taste. obvious thata structure intended to be a re
Thence spring the delicate pleasures of cul ceptacle for gold, and for the transactions of
tivated imagination; pleasures distinct and the business of trade, cannot mum in the
exquisite, whether we study the productions soul such feelings, as if it were consecrated
of genius in the ne arts, or contemplate to the solemn purposes of devotion, and
nature in the simplicity of her OWn orna erected to receive the remains of illustrious
and departed worth.
ments.
But the most pleasing and useful in
The pleasures derived from the contem
plation of a sublime object is of the most stances of greatness are to be found in the
superior kind. The mind is not permitted to rational character. There we may discover
rest in admiration merely; every feeling is the best representation of the Divinity, and
rouzed into action, a tumultuous joy agitates not unfrequehtly do we behold heroic deeds
the bosom, and we are lost in awful wonder. of men, worthy the performance of a God.
Such is the emotion experienced when we Elevated by the sublimest patriotism, the
stand upon the summit of some lofty moun soul of Regulus towered far above a servile
tain, and cast the eye in wildering amaze fear of death, when he used every effort 0!
" This root is mentioned by Pliny under the his eloquence in advising his country to
persist in measures for her welfare, although
name of elicampane, or enula compana.
ANECDOTIANA.
No. IX.
IMPROPER PRINTS.
It is impossible to refrain from smiling at
the curious representation of angels, devils,
8m. in old devotional books. But it is still
more ridiculous, if not profane, to
draw
gures of the Deity. To see Him conned

to a person, who pervades all things, must
naturally have a tendency to contract our

ideas of his Omnipotence, and is of course
sinful.
I can both understand and admire as a

poetical gure, says, Dr. Knox,
O! thou my voice inspire
Who touchd Isaiahs hallowd lips with re:
but to see the engraving in some bibles,

of an angel from heaven with a blacksmiths
tongs, burning the prophets lips with a
live coal, is as ridiculous as it is improper.
Commentary of Revelations. In a book of
this nature there is an enormous gure of
our Lord, in which the engraver has literally
copied Revelations, i. and iv: by making his

hair like aeece of 'wool; lu's eyes/{amiss of
re! his legs and fee: like [tillars of br088;"
and absolutely placing sewn stars in his

right Iumd; out Q/lu's maul/1 too proceeds
many waters and at 811071) too edged sword!"
A bible, printed in this city, has a plate
exemplifying one of the parables of our

Lord, in which one of the parties has a long
beam [irojeaingfrom his eye, and the other a
little do! representing the more!
M
The virgin Mary is represented in an an

cient book as being crowned by an angel, and
God the Father assisting at the ceremony!
John Honeywood wrote a treatise called
the Spider and Fly. It contains seventy ,.
seven chapters; at the beginning of each the

author is represented, either standing or
sitting before a table, and a window near it,
\Vhat can he do more than another man? i! ignoble views; after every ardent wish; after
asked the monarch. He was answered, lle u pursuing every attering object, we nd the
cannot do so much!" Hang him then, re- i issue of them all; here from servile bondage
plied James, for he should not live who g and oppressions iron hand, rests the wretch
can eat as much as twenty men, and cannot . ed negro, whom chance had made a slave;
do as murh as one!"
1 here he forgets his galling state, and with
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nienns.
SELECTOR. No. Xlll.

It
is
a
pure stream that swells the tide of
Artgen, a painter of merit, being offered
by the celebrated Francis Floris wealth and sympathy; it is an excellent heart that in
terests itself in the feelings ofothers; it is
rank suitable to his worth, declined it, say
ing, That he found more sweets in his a heavenlike disposition that engages the
affections, and extorts the sympathetic tear
.poverty, than others did in their riches."
Epaminondas, though one of the rst for the misfortunes of a friend. Mankind are
heroes and men of Greece, was such a dc
spiser of riches, that when he died, he did
ever subject to ills, inrmities, and disap
pointments. Every breast at some particular

not leave suicient to pay the expenses of period, experiences sorrow and distress.
Pains and perplexities are the long lived
his funeral.
plagues
of human existence: but sympathy
The pope, asked a certain cardinal, why
is the balm that heals these wounds. lfa
he did not stop the mouth of Luther with

person who has lost a precious friend, can
find another who will feelingly participate in
man beast does not regard money!
his misfortunes, he is well nigh compensated
rowan or IMAGINATION
for
his loss. And delightful is the task, to a
A man in a burning fever, leaning over
feeling mind, of softening the painful pillow
his bed, pointed to those who were near
of the sick, amusing the thoughts of the
him, to let him swim in that lake and then
unhappy, and alleviating the tortures of the
he should be cool. The physician humorcd
aiicted. How satised is the conscience of
the conceit: the patient walked carefully
money, his eminence replied, That Ger
about the room, seemed to feel the water
rise gradually to his neck, and then saying

he was cool, was found really to be so.
The prince of Bourbon, once fancied

himself a bare, and would suffer no bell to
be rung in the palace, lest it should drive him
to the woods! At another time he declared
he was a plum, and standing in the garden
insisted on being watered! At last he con
ceived that he was dead, and refused all
nourishment, for which, he said, he had no
farther occasion. This would have proved
fatal, had not two friends disguised them
5 39
his lordly ty-ant sleeps equally accommo
! dated. Here the oppressed and the injured
moulder together; here sleep the meanly

savage and the riotous profuse; here lay
prostrate in the dust, the degrading relicts
of soaring mortals. Ought we not then to
remember the transcient vision of terrestial
greatness, and act so as to be prepared to
pay the momentary loan of Heavens great
and bountiful lender.

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ALONSO.
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CONTEIWPLATIONS.
No. I.
When ye have lifted up the son of man, then

shall ye know that I am He.
Jahn viii. 28.
The text which we have quoted, was

spoken by our Lord to the Jews after he
had rescued the adultress from their phari
saic indignation. \Vhen to the conscience of
every accuser, he thundered, let him that
is without sin, cast the rst stone at her,
and when, beginning at the eldest, they all

went out even unto the last. Some of the
him, who can reflect that he has added a
crowd proceeded to question our Lord,;and
comfort to the unfortunate, and a smile to
amongst numerous inquiries demanded who
the clouded features of the discontented.
he was, Even'tbe same that I said unto
What can afford more rened enjoyment,
you from the beginning; and when you
than to walk by the side of an unhappy
have lifted up the son of man, then shall ye
friend, in the cooling shade, and hear him
know thatI am HeHe that said to Moses
repeat the history of his misfortunes, count
from the blazing bush, say unto the chil
over the number of his troubles, and kindly
dren of Israel, I am that I am! then shall ye
drop a tear of pity and condolence when his
know that I am He! The Messiah that
heart bleeds? Sympathy is a tender passion,
Moses and the prophets declared should
the offspring of renement, fostered in the
come in the fulness of time, to lay down his
bosom of friendship, and nurtured by love,
life as a ransom for many; not to give you an
compassion and benc volence. A mind fraught
earthly kingdom, for my kingdom is not
with sensibility is never destitute of this
selves, and were introduced as the spirit of
of this world," not to hurl Tiberius from his

friendly sensation; and a good heart, however
his grandfather and marshal Luxembourg;
who after some confab concerning the

shades, invited him to dine with marshal Tu
renne. He followed them into the cellar,
and made a hearty meal. During this turn
of the disorder, he always dined with some
noble ghost in the cellar.
GLUTTONY,
Is an abominable vice, and is deservedly
detested in all countries by the virtuous and
good. It is a French proverb, that the g'lut
ton digs his grave 'wirh his leeth; the kitchen
disquieted, will feel its consoling inuence

with thankfulness.
'hen sorrow presses on the mind,
throne, and free the guilty Jew from the

yoke of Roman power; but to give new life,
to regenerate the polluted heart, if ye
would believe that I am He! if not I go my
Tis sympathy the pain can nd;

"lis kind to heal the wounded heart,
way. I am not forced, it is with my own
art
consent; 1 have power to lay down my life

and take it again; did I not think proper to
submit, I could at any time command legions
of angels! but how then should prophecy
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be fullled? how then; hear it 0! sinner, and
TEMPLE 0F REFLECTION.
No. Ill.
is his shrine, the cook his [Hitsl, (he table his
stand amazed at such glorious love! how

hadst thou had a beam of hope to light thee
through this dark vale of tears? despair had
altar, and his stomach his god. A glutton
sunk thee to hell, and everlasting horror
T0 drop a tear is friendships part.

Come then with me thy sorrows join,
And case my Wot-s by telling thine.
ON A BURIAL onouun.
Here is the last stage of lifes journey;
may be reckoned among the monsters of here is the collective rendezvous of suer
ing mortals; here is a safe retreat from the
nature.
To king James I. a man was presented, barbed shafts of malice, from pointed perils.
who could eat a whole slice/z at a meal! and from miserys rod. Here, afternoble and
had been thy only companion! but now,

whosoever will let him come! Jesus the
Saviour of the second birth, has died. and by
his death purchased redemption for th
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PHILADELPHI A REPERTORY.
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though no longer eclipsed by his superior

beams, the stars in terror refused to twinkle!
the cross; I am progressing towards the when the people observing these protentous
consummation of my glory; and when I signs, smote on their breasts and returned,
am nailed to the cross, while the blood it was veried in their consciences! It Was
ows from my hands and feet, through accomplished when the centurion that watch
which the cruel nails are driven, then shall ed the crueied Redeemer, in terror exclaim
ye know that I am He! then my expanded ed, Truly this was the son of God! It is
arms in emblem are opened to embrace the veried still, for wherever the blessed and
world; then will I draw all manner of men blessing doctrines he taught are introduced,
unto me! The Jew shall forsake his false the change they accomplish proves them all
adoration; the Greek despise the messen divine! they pour the balm of alleviation on
ger of his Jupiter, and look to the true God our sorrows; they heighten the enjoyment
of wisdom and omnipotence for salvation; of our innocent pleasures, the felicity of our
the Chinaman shall demolish the Pagoda of joys: they shed the dew of content upon our
his Jess, and the Hindoo refuse to worship souls, and build a rm foundation of happi
the unconscious stream of Ganges! Then ness in another, an eternal world! under the
shall I go to the skies, from whence I came. influence of these doctrines
and of which I am undisputed Lord, when
The soul uneasy and conned from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
ye have lifted up the Son of man! then
Let us all meditate upon the life and suf
shall I go to prepare a place for my people;
then shall the mighty chorus gladden the ferings of our dear Redeemer, and may his
reverberating heavens! descend, descend, powerful grace compel each of us, to ex
e'ulgent cloud, and bear the Alpha and claim with the voice of faith, Lord I believe
VALERIAN.
Omega to his dazzling and eternal throne; that thou art He.
convolving vapors disperse before the ma
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jesty of heaven, and open your everlasting
vilest sinner, if he believe that Christ is

the true Messiah! I go my way; I go to
0*
gates, 0! ye skies, to admit the Lord of
TRANQUILLITY. AN ODE.
Sweet spirit of tranquillity!
glory! XVhen ye have lifted all, 0! ye un

feeling Jews, it has been your sole employ
to destroy, to Head me down and stone me,
but I shall be lifted up, and the son of God

be gloried even in death! Then shall ye
know that I am the very God! This pre
diction was fullled when the graves were
torn assunder; when the bodies of the dead,
amazed at the mighty murder, burst from

their gelid beds! when the vail of the tem
ple was rent in the midst! An author has
observed that the vail of the temple being
rent, Was beautifully emblematical of the de
struction of the Old Testament economy and

the establishment of the New. Under the
former, the priests only were permitted to
pass into the holy of holies! but now Jesus
has passed into the holiest of all; the vail of
the temple is rent in twain; the mystery is
now developed, and whosoever will, let him
come and partake of the sacrice on the
altar of the Lamb that was slain, without
money and without price! This prediction
was accomplished, when he cried to the re
pentent thief, this day shalt thou be with

me in paradise! 0! wonderful Omnipotence,
that could raise thus the dying soul and
snatch her from the verge of Hell! It was
accomplished, when having cried out he
gave up the ghost; when the earth quaked
and the frowning rocks were torn from

their foundations; when the sun, afraid to
look upon the barbarous massacre, hid his
refulgent glories in clouded darkness, and
Religion's latest, loveliest child,
The bliss of souls from bondage free;

In sober garb, with accents mild,
0h! tell thy peaceful tale to me,
How many a \vorldling worn with care
Disquieting his soul in vain;
Whose bubble phantoms burst in air,
Voluptuous luxuries to gain,
Might nd the all of life in thee,
The purest ame religion feels,
Sweet lamp of innocence is thine:

Whether forlorn the pilgrim kneels,
0r courteous at the symbold shrine,
Tis but of small avail we see,
Since thy bright essence we descry
Far hovring o'er the vast abrupt;

And there we could delighted be,
Consorted with tranquillity.
BY RICHARD NISBETT, Mariner
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For the Repertory.
ST ANZAS
To the Female Hospitable Society of Philadelphia,

While some on nature muse, and natures God,
And oer creation cast their thoughts abroad,
While these with fancys false delusive eye,

Scan the wide ocean, or the starry sky;
Be this my theme, my ever soothing lay,
That cheers the heart, and bids despair away:
'Iheir virtuous e'orts let me aim to tell,
Who love to seek alictions dreary eel],

Who go where poverty and sorrow reign,
'lo wipe the falling tear and soften pain.

Blest female band, may heaven your cause defend.
Success and blessing all your toil attend;
You mark the orphans but, the widows door,
You clothe the naked, feed the hung-i y poor,

Resign your resides, and forsake your home,
Steer through rude winters blasts to yonder dome,
There you behold the son of sickness lie,
Meagre his face and sunken is his eye,
On him, disease his heavy hand had laid,
And no kind friend has gone to lend his aid,
0n you he looks, and with a grateful eye,
lIeeps on your head his blessings, with a sigh;

Thus some reward you, and though some refuse,
And all your acts of charity abuse;
Still follow on, the generous work pursue,
Heaven bless your days, and bless y0ur offspring
'00.
Thus as lifes journey hastens to an end,

And hoary heads the. vale of life descend,
Peace will attend your last, declining days,
And weeping orphans cry aloud your praise.
HERMINIUS.
_.._.
For the Repertory.
THE rEOLIAN LYRB.
All around deep shades impending,
Shook from midnights dusky wing;
Hark! the night breeze gently bending,
Kisses soft th enamourd string.
'ithout thine aid, tranquillity.

Like those sounds mysterious rising,
Tell me, 0 fair one, whence thou art,
So coming, without book or psahn;
From what piu'e nnuis'ion didst thou part,
Near some desolate old tower;
And the rustic ear surprising,

Breaking fOILII at midnight hour;
Soft efliux of eternal calm:

And no reluctant guest, we see,
To those, who seek tranquillity.
Vain are ambitions attring toys,

They end in dismal dreams at best:
Vain is the churchmans rattling noise;
For vain the pulpits thumpt, or prest,
Or, when fairy hosts assemble,

And to vales and streams repair;
As through mazy dance they ramble,

Such the sounds that ll the air.
So the flow, and soft the motion,
And posied with tranquillity.
Music whispring oer the wire;

Soothes the bosoms wild commotion,
Angry passions all expire.
The handmaid thou to all the powers,
\Vondrous chords! by turns inspiring
With which kind heaven endows the mind,

he seek thee not on banks of flowers,
High wrought phrenzy, mnrinring woe;

Hear my raptured soul inquiring,
Whence those trancing powers ow.
Unless the bosoms meek and free,
For fear the serpent lurks behind:

It is through sterner lore we see,
We sip thy charms, tranquillity.
It is to rein the foolish eye
From turning round to vice corrupt,
'Tis the spirit gently sighing

In the freshend breeze of night;
Pouring love in cadence dying,
0n the ear of fond delight.
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m
M
Now the gale in passion swelling,
actions, that every admirer fancied be per
Speaks aloud the varied strain;
ceived the marks of mutual passion. Num

berlcss were the offers she rejected, con
Love the rude embrace repelling,

Mournful now it sighs again.
To each sound my soul responsive,
Thinks oer joys of other days;
Thinks of friends long lost, and pensive
hlinglcs sorrow with her lays.
nd expecting constant homage from one

she regarded as the rst of mankind, she
gave up her charms to the cnamourcd mon
scious of the superiority of her claims; hcr arch, forgetful of her duty to her husband.
charms only drew new admires, and diffused ofthc long uninterrupted tranquillity she had
her character of being difficult in her choice. enjoyed in his arms, and of the little pledge
Danger and opposition had peculiar charms of their mutual affection which had been
for Chateaubriant, who was bred a soldier,
Gale of night! thy utmost daring,

\Vill it touch thy stubborn love;
Or thy lonely voice despisiug,
Murmring soft, her pity move?
Then, oh! thus thy feeling sorrow
I to Celia will rehearse;
From thy sweet complainings borrow
Sound persuasive, forceful verse!
lcft behind.
And even from fame he found a desire of

The count soon found his miseries com
seeing and addressing so celebrated a beau pleted; it was easily seen that this wife had
ty. He had expected much before he had now transferred all her affections to the
seen this most accomplished of the sex, but king, wherefore, in the most conrmed des~
on the rst interview, he found, that an pair he again returned to his country seat,
amour, which he had undertaken from pride, and there, in xed melancholy, ruminatcd
was now grafted upon his hcnrt; he found redress or revenge. The king soon sent
LORENZO.
himself incapable of resisting so much merit him an account of the success of his law
both of mind and person, and offered him suit, made him some considerable offers of
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self and his fortune at her disposal.
POETIC SELECTOR.
promotion at court, and did all that lay in
No. III.
llis merit was no less pleasing to the la his power to soften the severity of his tem~
on THE DEATH OF MISS MARY L-.
dy, she found him perfectly suited to her per, but in vain; he still preserved his inflex
When solemn thoughts assail the feeling heart,
warmed idea of a lover, her consent was ihlc hatred both to the king and the object
On transient life, and deaths unerring dart,
soon obtained, the nnu'riugc was celebrated of his former affections. He ranged from
\Vhen fresh examples urge the subject home,
with the utmost magnicence, and for three appsrtment to appartmcnt in his castle, in
And busy fancy strives in vain to roam:
years
they lived in happiness and harmony order to nd relief, but every object only
\Vhen dying groans and piercing cries ascend,
not to be expressed. To unite their hearts brought to his remembrance his former
From a fond parent and endearing friend;
Then terrenc grandeur pail the aching sight,
more closely, she soon made him the father happiness, and her present pcrdy. In short,
And steadfast gloom usurps the vivid light!
ofa most beautiful girl, and nothing now he was resolved upon sssassinating both the
At such a time ig'noblc pride expires,
appeared, but what promised succeeding king and his wife, and, lastly, to conclude
And fair religion lights her sacred res.
years of uninterrupted pleasure and tran the intended tragedy, by suicide. \Vith these
Alas! shes gone forever from our sight,
quillity. An excess of love often gives rise gloomy resolutions, in a peasant's dress, he
Her eyes expressive seal'd in endless night.
to jealousy, and this passion they both felt one duy met the king alone as he was hunt
Unpitying death destroyd her vernal bloom,
And markd with iron hand, her early tomb.
in turn, as the nobility which were enter ing, and coming up to him, lifted his po
Such virtue claims the ardent meed of praise,
tained at his country scat, gave either him niard at his breast, fully resolved to indulge
And sacred stamps the consecrated lays.
or
her occasion. These slight clouds upon his revenge at the expense of his life, when
Alas! how few can boast her spotless fame,
the departure of their guests where blown the eminent loyalty of his noble house,the re
0r leave like her a fair unsullied name.
away, and only served to encrease their mu nown of those brave ancestors who died in the
'
OCTAVIA.
tual passion, by a new reconciliation.
eld of battle for their king and country, now
HISTORY OF Till-1
This was the manner in which they lived, rushed into his mind and checked his pur
COUNT OF CHATEAUBRIANT.
till a law suit obliged our enamourcd hus
pose. You see me now, cried he sternly to the
From a Latin manuscript.
band to repair to Paris, in order to solicit king, prepared for justice; you here behold a
In all the kingdom of France, there Was Francis the rst, who at that time reigned in much injured subject with revenge in his hand
not a prouder or a braver man than Chateau
France, to redress his grievances. 'lhe char
but my father and my grandfather bled for
briant. He had fought many campaigns, and acter of this monarch is too well known to your family; and though you have degenerated
even at the age oftwcntyvc, cduld count ve he insisted on; he loved women more than from your ancestors, you shall this moment
hundred wounds, which he had received in glory, and his greatest pleasure Was in con
nd me worthy of mine. Keep your life to
different parts of his body; the antiquity of triving their attainment. He had long heard be a terror to your old faithful followers,
his family, the various misfortunes they en of the beauty of the countess of Chateau and the jest ofthosc that hate yau. Hsving
dured for their unshaken loyalty, his own briant. and longed for nothing more than to spok thus he dropped the ponitu'd and fled
natural warmth, and a large patcrnol inher see her. He intimntcd his desires to the away instantly to the house of one of his
itance, all contributed to cncreuse his vir
count, who at one glance saw all the suc
former domestics, where he was sure of
tues and his vices, and to make him cceding dangers, and modestly declined scnd
refuge and safety. The rashuess of his at
generous and viliant, but at the same time ing for her, as he perfectly knew the kings I tempt was instantly known over the whole
haughty and unforgiving.
amorous disposition. The king however in
kingdom, immense rewards were offered
Mademoiselle dc Foix, was the most sisting upon his design of seeing the lady, for upprehcnding him alive or dead; and the
charming woman of her time; at the age took post himself for the castle of Chateau
most cruel tortures prepared by the courts
of twelve, her beauties dawned with capti briant, and in a few days the husband was of judicuturc; but his old servant, still faith
vating lustre, but when arrived at fteen, surprised at seeing his wife at court with
ful to his trust, preserved the secret at the
their brilliancy was insupportublc. Her un out his knowledgc or direction. 1 shall leave hazard of his life. The voluptuous monarch
derstanding was excellent, or her beauty to romance the description of all the arts the was at rst struck with the erceness and
was such as made it seem so: she a'ccted king made use of to turn her from virtue; severity of the soldiers rebuke, but upon re
melancholy in her behaviour, and had such it is said she resisted for some time, but at turning to court, the flattery that he found
an exquisite sensibility in all her looks and last dazzelled with the splendor of a court, there and the charms of his dear countess,
PHILADELPHIA R'EPE'RTOR Y.
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soon erased out every impression but that along with them on their passage into ano
ther and a better.
ofplcasure. The most sumptuous entertain
They were now rmly resolved to die.
ments were provided for his favorite mistress; i
it was at this period that all the poets, But what mode of death should they adopt?
They made choice of the most horrible; ol'
musicians, and every other minister ofren
ed pleasure which had before their resi starving: accordingly they waited, in their
dence in Italy, now crossed the Alps and solitary and deserted appartmcnt, their dear
brought new amusements. One hour he dcliverer death, in his most ghastly form.
could court her in the gure of Hercules.
Their resolution, their fortitude were im
when they saw that their child had left the

bed and their embr; ces.
Nature did her ofce. Their friend Pto

cured them strengthening broths, whiclTliP
put to their lips with the utmost caution,I Q .

did not leave them till every symptom (if!)
stored life was fully visible. Titus ivi L
they saved.
This transaction made much noise in Pa
another he would assume the character of moveable.

They locked the door, and began to fast.
Alexander; he Was now a Buchanal, and
soOn after a Cupid, and all to give a variety \Vhen any one came and knocked, they ed
to the sameness of love. His court was no trembling into the corner, and were in per
petual dread least their purpose should be
thing but one continual scene of feasts, pa
geants, maskings, and debauchery: the coun discovered. Their little son, who had not yet
tess drunk with pleasure, gave a loose to learnt to silence the calls of hunger by arti
every folly; her giddy heart danced with cial reasons, whimpering and crying, asked
unboding satisfaction, she felt new worlds for bread; but they always found means to
of bliss in the arms of her gay youthful quiet him.
It occurred to one of Boissys friends, that
monarch, and he was completely happy in
it
was
very extraordinary he should never
hers.
nd him at home. At rst he thought the
ris, and at length reached the ears of the
family were removed; but, on being assured

of the contrary, he grew more uneasy. He
It is her happiness to be ignorant of

all that the world calls pleasure; her glory
AN'ECDOTF. OF BOISSY.
Perhaps it may not he unserviceable, called several times in one day: aIWays
again to relate the following affecting anec lnobody at home! At last he burst open the
dote, as an instance of the elfects of a false door. Oh! what a sight!
He saw his friend, with his wife and son,
pride, and a barbarous example of parental
lying on a bed, pale and emaciated, scarcely
lore.
Boissy, the author of several dramatic able to utter a sound. The boy lay in the
pieces, that were received with great ap middle, and the husband and wife had their
plause, met with the common fate of those arms thrown over him. The child stretched
who give themselves up entirely to the arts out his little hands towards his deliverer, and
of the muses. He labored and toiled un his rst word was, bread! It was now the
remittedly, his works procured him fame, third day that not a morsel of food had en
.
but no bread. Hc languished, with a wife tered his lips.
The parents lay still in a perfect stupor;
and child, under the pressures of the extrem
they had never heard the bursting open of
cst poverty.
But melancholy as his situation was, he the door, and felt nothing of tl : embraces
lost nothing of that pride which is peculiar of their agitated friend. Their wasted eyes
to genius, whether great or small; he could were directed towards the boy; and the ten
not creep and fawn at the feet of a patron. derest expressions of pity were in the look
with which they had last beheld him, and
He had friends, who would have administer
ed relief to him; but they were never made still saw him dying.
Their friend hastened to take measures
acquainted with his real condition, or had
not friendly impetuosity enough to force for'their deliverance; but could not succeed
without difculty. They thought they had
their assistance upon him.
Boissy became a prey to distress and des already done with all the troubles of the
pondency. The shortest way to rid himself world; and were suddenly terried at being
at once from all his misery seemed to him to forced into them again. Void of sense and re
be death. Death appeared to him as afriend, ection, they submitted to the attempts that
as a saviour and deliver-er, and gained his
were made to restore them to life. At
affection. His tender spouse, who was no

less weary of life, listened with participation
when he declaimed with all the warmth of
poetic rapture of deliverance front this earth
ly prison, and of the smiling prospects of
length their friend hit upon the most eica

cious means. He took the child from their
arms, and thus called tip the last spark of pa
ternal and maternal tenderness. He gave
futurity; and at length resolved to accom

pany him in death. But she could not bear
to think of leaving her beloved son, of five
years old, in a wand of misery and sorrow;

it was therefore agreed to take the child
the child to cat; who with one hand held

his bread, and with the other alternately
shook his father and mother; his piteous

moans roused them at length from their
deathlike slumber. It seemed at once to
awaken a new love of life in their hearts,
marchioness do Pompadour. Boissys deplo

rable situation moved her. She immediate
ly sent him a hundred louis dors, and soon
after procured him the protable place of
comtrolleur du Mcrcurc de France, with a
pension for his wife and child, if they out
lived him.
-.
The following female character is trans

lated from the French. However highly
colored the portrait may appear, it is not
without a living original.
is to live in the duties of wife and mother;
and she consecrates her days to the practice

of the social virtues. Occupied in the gov
ernment of her family, she reigns over her
husband by complaisance; and over her do
mestics by goodness. Her house is the
residence of religious sentiments, lial or
der, peace, sweet sleep, and good health.
Economical and studious, she prevents want
and dissipates the evil passions; the indigent

who present themselves at her door, are ne
ver repulsed; the liccntious avoid her pre

sence. She has a character of reserve and
dignity, that makes her respected; of indul

gence and sensibility, that makes her loved;
of prudence and rmness, that makes her
esteemed. She diffuses around her a mild
warmth, a pure light, which vivify and il
lume all that encirclesher.
Happy the man who possesses such a wife,

and can justly appreciate her worth; hap
py the children who are nurtured by her
care and modelled by her counsel; happy the
domestics, who wait her commands and en
j0y her benevolence; and happy the society

who holds in its bosom a being worthy ofa
better world.
Tis not the tincture of the Skin."
The following verses from the pen of

Sclcck Osborn are founded on the story of
an English gentleman and lady, who were
on their passage to the East Indies, in one
of the vessels ofan English eet. For some

particular reason they left this vessel, and
went on board the admirals ship, leaving
two young children in the care of a negro

servant, about eighteen years of age. In a
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violent storm, the ship containing the two

children was fast sinking, when a boat arriv
ed from the admirals ship for their relief.
picking blacltbei Pics, and c..tcuii.g lmlulls
saucy Waves that throngcd and pressed to

rob him of his prize. He brought him safely
where this populous city is now situated. He
to the shore, and sunk exhausted at the
remembered the arrival of William Penn,
The crew eagerly crowded to the boat, but mother's feet! \Vhat a scene for a painter! and used to point out the spot where the
the hegro lad nding thcrc Was only room
1. :- himself or the two children, generously
\Vhat a subject for a poet! To complete the

picture, see the father give freedom to the
put them on board, and remained himself on
slave who had saved the life of his son, and
the wreck, which, with the generous boy,

was immediately engulphed in the ocean.
see the grateful community throng to dock

with the civic wreath the cap of liberty of course of his own life, covered with woods
him who had preserved the life of a citizen? and brushes, the receptacles of wild beasts
Demo. Press.
and birds of prey, afterwards become the
seat of a great and ourishing city, not only
, the rst in wealth and arts in America, but
.4 Loo/ring Glass fora Slanderci'.
equalled but by few in Europe.
Vice hath not, I believe, a more abject
He saw splendid churches risc upon mo
slave; Society produces not a more odious
Tremendous howls the angry blast!

The boldest hearts with terror quake!
High o'er the vessels tottering mast
The liquid mountains fiercely brake!
Each eye is fixd in wild despair,
And death display 5 his terrors there!
Now plunging in the dread abyss,
They pierce the bosom of the deep
vermin, nor can the tlcn'l receive a guest

more worthy of him, nor possibly more wel
Now rise, where vivid lightnings hiss,
And seem the murky clouds to sweep

Tliro the dark waste dread thundexs rollI
And horrors chill the ati'righ'ed soul!

See on the deck young Marco stands,
(Two blooming cherubs by his side,
Entrusted to his faithful hands;
A mothers joy, a father's pridc,)
Though black his skin as shades of night,
His heart is fair, his soul is white!
Each to the yawl with rapture ies,

Except the noble generous boy:
Go, lovely infants, go," he cries,
And give your anxious parents joy

No mother will for Marco weep,
\Vhen fate entombs him in the deep!
Long have my kindred ceased to grieve,
No sister kind my fate shall mourn
No bosom friend wait my return!
He saidand sinking sought the happy shore
'here toil and slavery vex his soul no more.
cabin stood in which the adventuer and his

friends were accommodated on their arrival
in the new world.
He saw the same spot of earth in the
rasses, where he used to hear nothing but
the creaking of frogs; great wharfs and ware

houses where he had often seen savages
come to him, than a slander-er. The world,
I am afraid, regards not this monster with

half the abhorrencc which he deserves; and
I am more afraid to assign the reason of
this criminal lenity shown tOWards him; yet
it is certain that the thief looks innocent in
the comparison; nay, the murderer himself
can seldom stand in competition with his
guilt; for slander is a more cruel weapon
than a sword, as the wounds which the for
mer gives are always incurable. One method,
indeed, there is of killing, and that the basest
and most execrable of all, which bears an
exact analogy to the vice herc exclaimed

against, and that is poison: a means of re
venge so base, and yet so horrible, that it
draw their sh from the riVcr; he saw that
river afterwards receiving ships and incr

chandizc from every part of the globe, which
in his youth, hadnothing bigger than an
Indian canoe.
He had been the subject of many crowned
i heads; but when he heard of the oppressive
iand unconstitutional acts passed in Britain,
he brought them all, and gave them to his
grandsons to make kites of; and embracing
the liberty and independancc of his country,

after seeing the beginning and end of the
British empire in Pennsylvania, and after
triumphing in the establishment of freedom,
he died in November, l182.
---a
was once wisely distinguished by our laws
The
following
extraordinary
story is copi
from all other murders, in the peculiar
cd
from
the
Cork
Advertiser
of
last week:
severity of the punishment. Beside the dread
Avessel
arrived
in
our
harbor
last
Sunday
ful mischiefs done by slander, and ~the base
'0 think our readers will not be diso ncss of the
.is by which they are c'cct from Quebec, under peculiar circumstances,
bliged if to the above we add an affecting ed, there a:' other circumstances that highly which we understand to be the following;
circumstance, somethingr similar, which hap aggravate its atrocious quality: for it often while on her passage the crow niutined, and
pened almost under our own eyes in the state proceeds from no provocation, and promises determined on murdering the captain. On
of Pennsylvania. In the year 1803 a son of itself no reward, unless some black and his being apprized of this horrid design; he
James Silvergood, about 12 years of age, infernal mind may propose a reward in the begged for a short respite to prepare himself
was bathing in the Susquehannah a few thought of having procured the ruin and lbr eternity, to which they with difculty as
miles below Sunbury.The river was unusu misery of another.
sentcd. He was accordingly, permitted to re
ally high, and the lad was swept by the ood
Shakspeare hath nobly touched this vice, tire into his cabin,and in the interval allowed
into the impetuous current; he felt that his when he says
him he contrived to secure himself under what
most vigorous efforts would be fecblcucss
is called the scuttle. After the limited time
itself, opposed to the overwhelming weight \Vho su-als my purse, steals trash; tis something, had expired, the inhuman wretches repaired
of \vatcrs which bore him from the shore.
He shrickcd loudly; his screams pierced the
ear of his mother, she flew to the rivers
bank, and saw her son oating away with

the current. Two laborers stood beside her.
The one was a white man, the other a black.
The wretched mother tore her hair and im
nothing,
"lwas mine,tis his, and hath been slavebothoulamls;
But he that lches from me my good name,

Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed."

*
El)\\'.~\ltl) DRINKFJQ.
to the cabin to accomplish their diabolical
purpose, but nding the cabin windows open,

land not discovering their intended victim,
1 they concluded that he had thrown himself
into the sea. 0n the arrival ofthe vcsscl here,
a revenue oicer went on boafd, and was told
plored assistance. He will die, said the
Edward Drinker was born in a cottage in by the mate, the ringleader of the mutiny,
1688, on the spot whore-the city .of Phila. that the captain, in a fit ofinsanity threw him
lwhite man. t If he does, said thetnegro, l

will die with him." He plungtd into the river
delphia, which .was inhabited at the time of self overboard, and was lost; and while he
was telling the story, the captain, to his infi
his birth, by numerous tribes of warlike In
bu'tetting the Waves with lusty sincws, be dians, together with a few Swedes and Hol nite consternation, made his appearance. It
is scarcely necessary to add, that the villains
seized thc sinking boy, in one hand he landers.
bore him and- ,with the other dashed the
This ancient man has often talked of have been taken into custody.
.v
Ti
lDbllBIIBlDbiH.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1811.
At the late anniversary meeting of the

Medical Society of the state of New York,
served for upwards of half an hour, although

the temperature of the room was about thir
ty degrees above the freezing point. Indeed
the ice might have been kept for a very
long time had it not been taken out of the
receiver for the purpose of throwing on it
portions of the potassium which at the in
a prize medal, of the value of fty dollars,

was adjudged to the dissertation of Doct. stant of contact took re and burned holes
John Stearns, of Albany, on the topography, in it.
The ingenius author of this excellent ex
geology, mineralogy and medical history of
periment means, it is said, to spply it in the
the country of Saratoga.
great scale to the uses of life.
Gfusgo'w Sentinel.
INTERESTIXG DlSCOVI-ZllIES.
We have received the following commu

nication, from the secretary of the Philoso
On the 19th oi September, oetweeu the

hours of ve and six in the evening, a lumin
be purused with general satisfaction.
ous meteor appeared in the south, and about
The universal interests, exited by pro
the distance ofa quarter of a league from the
fessor Davys discoveries, and the curiosity
small commune of Brezean in the Meuse;
raised by the beautiful experiment of pro
persons who attentively examined it assert,
fessor Leslie, both lately noticed in the
that it was nearly a quarter of an hour in col
public papers, are owing, not more to their
lecting, oating over the place where it Was
philosophical importance, than to the aston
rst seen, and that when all its parts had unit
ishing nature of the result.
ed, it appeared at once as a very considerable
mick.
Burns
Cancer
(Tatarrh
2 0 lnmn. of bowels
1 0 Pleurisv
O 1 Rheumatism
1
2
0
O
2
2
Consumption oflungsfi (I Sore throat

(fonvulsions
0 6 Small pox, natural 0
Decay
1 1 Sudden
Dropsy
2 1 TeethingDropsy of the breast 1 0 Ulcers
Dropsy in the brain U 2
1 U
0 l
I O
Fever
22 22
Gangrene
Innm. of brain
0 I
1 0
Under
Total
44
Ofthe above there were,

1
9 From 50 to 60
From Im 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
20
:30
30 4-0
40
5
5
I
2
5
5
60
7t)
80
90
100
70
80
90
100
110
2
2
0
0
0
.
50
4By order of the board,
Total 44

STATE OF THE TIIERMOMETER.
spread terror amongst the inhabitants of the
46
32
37
.29
33
36
village, who believed their houses would be
14-
38
4O
38
15
16
46
30
46
30
4-3
28
burnt and they themselves perish. This globe

was accompanied with afrightful noise, which
was heard at the distance of more than a
league and a half, and sometimes resembled
LEISURE HOURS;
the rolling of a rapid chariot; at others, the

noise of rain violently agitated by the wind.
Potassium, as the rst are termed, has been It was followed by a very thick fog, and carri
the principal means employed by this cele ed up from the ground every thing that it met
brated chymist, in making his subsequent in its paSsage. ln crossing a river it absorbed
discoveries. Any increased facility, in pro water, which afterwards soon fell in rain. It
uable improvement.
Professor Leslies process for e'ecting the
congealation of a mass of Water in a warm
- room, without the aid of ice, or any cooling
mixture or expense of materials, has been
exhibited by the doctor. It consists in pla
cing two vessels under the receiver of the
air pump, the one containing water, the
other any subsistancc very attractive oi
moisture. The weight of the air being re
moved by working the machine copious
evaporation begins to take place from the
water. Were there nothing under the receiv
er but this liquid, an atmosphere of vapor
would thus be formed, by whose pressure
farther evaporation would be prevented: but
the other substanceabsorbs the vopor almost
as speedily as it rises. Hence evaporation
and its invariable eect, the production ol
cold, so vigorously as to convert the water
into ice, spicula: of which are seen shooting
beautifully across. hi the present case, a
considerable cake of ice was formed and pre
Diseases.
1 0 Inflam. of stomach 0
37
32
33
globe of re; taking a northerly direction, it
curing it must, therefore, be deemed a val
ad. cb.
February 11
12
J
The extraction from Potash of a metal,
v/hich though possessed of lustre, malleas

biiity, and the other metalic properties, is
lighter than water, and takes re when
liquid state, or that of ice, is certainly a most
unexpected and extraordinary fact. Analo
gous metals have been obtained by Mr. Da
vy, from the other alkalies and the earths.
Diseases.
Apoplt-xy
EXTRAORDINARY METEOR.
phical Society, which we are persuaded, will
touched with this substance, either in the
HEALTH OFFICE,
February 16, 1811.
lnterments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 9th to the 16th February.
wandered for some time near the village.

One thing certain is, that the roof of a house
was thrown down, which is the only trace it
has left. It was accompanied and followed by
an abundant rain, much lightning, and loud
claps of thunder. Continuing in the same di
rection,it suddenl_. turned to a column of re,
which, with the fog, rose towards the heavens.
This made many persons believe the fog Was

smoke. It remained about a quarter of an
hour in this state, a quarter of a league to
the north of the village, and a short distance

from the forest of Beauleau. This column
now sunk a little, and at last it suddenly dis
appeared, leaving a thick fog, which had no
smell. This phenomenon lasted three quar

ters of an hour, and travelled over the space
of half a league.
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No. 44.
him a letter of advice for the direction of

his travels: but by not observing an excellent
maxim in it, he incurred great danger by
Mr. John Milton was descended from a disputing against the superstition of the
flimily of the town of the same name in Ox church of Rome, within the verge of
fordshire, and was born in London, Dec. 9. the Vatican. Having employed his curi
in the year [608. His father was by profes osity about two years in France and Italy,
sion a scrivener, and lived in a reputable on the news of a civil war breaking out in
manner on an estate which he had himself England, he returned, without taking a sur
acquired, for his father had disinherited him, vey of Greece and Sicily, as at his setting
out the scheme was projected. At Paris the
on account of his renouncing the commun
married Mary the daughter of Richard

Powell of Forest-hill in Oxfordshire: a gen
tleman of estate and reputation in that coun
try; and of principles so very opposite to his
son-in-law, that the marriage is more to be
wondered at, than the separation which en_
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE or JOHN MILTON.
sued, in little more than a month after she
had cohabitcd with him in London. Her de

sertion provoked him both to write several
treatises concerning the doctrine and dis
cipline of divorce; and also to make his ad
dresses to a young lady of great wit and
beauty: but before he had engaged her af
fections to conclude the marriage treaty, in
a visit atone of his relations he found his
ion of the church of Rome. By his wife,

Sarah Caston, he had three children; Anna,
lord viscount Scudamore, ambassador from

king Charles I. at the court of France, in
a daughter; Christopher, whom he trained

to the law; and John. Christopher adhered
to the royal cause, and in the reign of king
James II. by too easy a compliance with the
doctrines of the court, both religious and
civil, he was knighted, and made a judge.
But John, the subject of the present es
say, was the favorite] of his fathers hopes;
troduced him to the acquaintance of Grotius;

who at that time was honored with the
same character there by Christina queen of wife prostrate before him, imploring forgive
Sweden. In Rome, Genoa, Florence, and
other cities of Italy, be contracted a famili

arity with those who were of the highest
reputation for wit and learning: several of
whom gave him very obliging testimonies
hwho 'to cultivate the "greaf genius which oftheir friendship'and esteem, which are
early displayed itself, was at the expense of printed before his Latin poems. The rst
a domestic tutor: whose care and capacity of them was written by Manso marquis of
his pupil hath gratefully celebated in an ex Villa a great patron of Tasso, by whom he
cellent Latin elegy. At his initiation he is is celebrated in his poem on the conquest
said to have applied himself to letters with of Jerusalem. It is highly probable that to
such indefatigable industry, that he rarely his conversation with this noble Neapolitan
was prevailed with to quit his studies be we owe the rst design which Milton con
fore midnight: which not only made him ceived of writing an epic poem: and it ap
frequently subject to severe pains in his pears by some Latin verses addressed to
head; but likewise occasioned that weakness 'the marquis with the title of Mansus, that
in his eyes, which terminated in a total pri he intended to x on king Arthur for his
vation of sight. From a domestic education hero: But Arthur was referred to another
he was removed to St. Pauls school, tov destiny!
complete his acquaintance with the classics, I
Returning from his travels (in 1640) he
under the care of Dr. Gill: and after a short found England on the point of being involv
Stay there, was transplanted (at the age of ed inblood and confusion. It seems wonder
15) to Christs College in Cambridge, where ful that one of so warm and daring a spirit,
be distinguished himself in all kinds ofaca as his certainly was, should be restrained
tiemical exercises. Of this society he con-i from the camp in those unnatural commo
unueda member until he commenced mas- tions. I suppose we may impute it wholly
ter of arts: and then leaving the university, to the great deference he paid to paternal
he returned to his father; who had quittcd! authority, that he retired to lodgings pro
the town, and lived at Horton in Bucking, vided for him in the city: which being com
llamshire; where he pursued his studiesl modious for the reception of his sisters sons,
11 Unparalleled assiduity and success.
and some other young gentleman, he under
hfter some years spent in his studious, took their education: and is said to have
retu'etnent, his mother died: and then he: formed them on the same plan which he af
PPQWilcd with his father to gratify an inch-3 terwards published in a short tractate inscrib
"won he had long entertained of seeing' ed to his friend Mr. Hartlib.
foreign countries. Sir Henry Wotton, at that
In this philosophical course he continued.
Ema provost of Eton College, (1638) gave without a wife to the year 1643; when he
ness, and reconciliation. It is not to be doubt

ed but an interview of that nature, so little
expected, must wonderfully affect him: and

perhaps the impressions it made on his im
agination contributed much to the painting
of that pathetic scene in Paradise Lost, in
which Eve addressed herself to Adam for

pardon and peace. At the intercession of
his friends who were present, after a short
reluctance he generously sacrificed all his
resentment to her tears.
--Soon his heart relented
Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight:
New, at his feet submissive in distress!
And after this re-union, so far was he
from retaining an unkind memory of the

provocations which he had received from
her ill conduct, that when the king's cause
was entirely oppressed, and her father, who

had been active in his loyalty, was exposed
'to sequestration, Milton received both him
and his family to protection, and free enter
l
tainment, in his own house, until their af~
fairs were accommodated by his interest

in the victorious faction.
For he Was now grown famous by his po
lcmical writings of various kinds, and held
~in great favor and esteem, by'those who
had power to dispose of all preform-ems in
the state. lt is in vain to disscmble his en
gaging with a party combined in the dest'. u c.

tion of our church and lilouatxhy. Yet, it' av
ing the justication of a misguided sinct' lity
to be debated in the schools, may I prt's' ime
to observe in his favor, that his zeal, dis
tempered and furious as it was, does not 4p.

pear to have been inspired by self-interest.
34-6
-,
'
2::
ed views? For it is airmed, that though he

lived always in a frugal retirement, and be
fore his death had disposed of his library

(which we may suppose to have been a va
luable collection) he left no more than f
teen hundred pounds behind him for the
support of his family: and whoever considers
the posts to which he was advanced, and
the times in which he enjoyed them, will,

I believe, confess he might have accumulat~
ed a much more plentifulfortune: in adispas
sionate mind it willnot require any extra
ordinary measure of 'candour to conclude,
that though he abode in the heritage of op
pressors, and the spoils of his'rountry-lay
at his feet, neither his conscience nor his
' .
honor, could stoop to gather them.
A commission to constitute him adjutant
general to sir \Villiam \Valler was promis
ed; but soon superseded by Wallers being
laid aside, when his masters thought it pro
per to new-model their army. However, the
keenness of his pen had so effectually re
commended him to Cromwells
esteem,
that when he took the reins of government

into his cum hand, be advanced him to be
Latin secretary, both to himself and the
parliament: the former of these preferments
he enjoyed both under the usurper and his
son: the other until king Chares II. was
restored. For some time he had an apartment
for his family in Whitehall; but his health
- requiring a freer accession of air, he was
obliged to remove from thence to lodgings
which opened into'St. James park. Not long
after his settlement there, his wife died in
child bed; and much about the time of her
death, a gutta screna, which had for several
years been gradually encreasing, totally

extinguished his sight. In this melancholy
condition he was easily prevailed with to
think of taking another wife; who was Ca
tharine the daughter of captain \Voodcock
of Hackney: and she too, in less than a year
after their marriage, died in the same on
fortunate manner as the formerhad done;
and in his tiventy third sonnet he d0es ho
nor to her memory.
.\
(To be continued.)
_v.-
expect any
favor from the~ crown; and
therefore he prudently absconded till the

act of oblivion was published; by which he
was only rendered incapable of bearing any
office in the nation. Many had a very just
esteem of his admirable parts and learning
who dctcsted his principles, by whose in
tion to the improvement of the mind and
are possessed of weak capacities, from their
For the Repertory.
Yt'SCil'llnCC to the brute creation, like them
Exploded fancies that in vain deceive

While the mind nauseates what she cant believe.
with their 'departure'from this theatre of
I have just met with a modern work upon

moral science written by Farsyth of Edin
to the great mass of mankind is away un
singular and interesting; the reviewers I

obsenc seem to have found some rlii
culty in forming ajudgment upon its merit
or demerit; they say it is sensibly written
and is a pretty thing, but as it is not altogether
correspondent with what they must sup
reasonings shouldbe so ready to reject the

comfortable doctrine of 'the christian faith,
upon which all capacities can rest, from the
most consummate evidence of its truth with
the fullest assurance of afuture reward for
s virtuous life! Men reject miracles and facts
established by them because they say they
do not understand them, they are opposed
to their reason: cannot the Deity execute
uy thing out of the course of nature to an
swer'best his wise purposes? must we be
lidvei'iiothing'but what we can fully under
standiand reconcile with our feeble reason
existence, are lost in eternal oblivion: this
pleasant and unsatisfactory doctrine. It is

burgh, which is in many respects novel indeed singular that philosophers in their
port as the only orthodox faith, that of

their national church, there must of course
be some hesitation in forming an opinion, least

it should receive unsound eulogy. Libraries
have been swelled with the multitude of
These private calamities were much volumes which writers have issued upor
heightened by the different gure he was
likely to make in the new scene of affairs,
which Was going to be acted in the state.
For, all things now conspiring to promote
the kings restoration, he was too conscious
of his own activity during the usurpation, to
tercession his 'pardon passed the seals; and them that regulation of the human character
I wish the laws of civil history could have which is most rational and best corresponds
extended the benet of that oblivion to the with our ideas of the dignity of our nature.
memory of his guilt, which Was indulged to Now nearly all writers have agreed in direct
his person! 116 tanri faciuoris immrrnims aut ing us to practice that conduct which shall
extilissc, nut non vindicamfuisse, 'uidz-aturr. a'ord us the greatest portion of happiness;
Having thus gained a full protection from but our author under consideration contends
the government, (which was in truth more there is no such thing as happiness to be
than he could have reasonably hoped) he obtained in this world, and that the only and
appeared as much in public as he formerly ultimate object of our existence is to im~
used to do; and employing his friend Dr. prove, to strengthen and constantly exalt
Pagct to make choice of a third consort, on the intellectual faculty; he contends that
his recommendation he married Elizabeth men who have sought happiness by the in
the daughter of Mr. Minsbul, a Cheshire dulgence of passions, by descipline and piety
gentleman, by whom he had no issue. Three and in every other way have all been disap
daughters by his rst wife were then living; pointed; to prove this he mentions the book
the' two older of whom are said to have of Job, his sufferings, the writings of Dr.
been way serviceable to him in his studies. Johnson, &c. The only evidence upon which
For, having been instructed to pronounce our belief in a future existence rests, he
not only the modern, but also the Latin, says, depends upon the perpetual suscepti
Greek, and Hebrew languages; they read bility of the human mind to improvement,
in their respective or' inals whatever au its constant thirst for knowledge and gradual
thors he wanted to cargult; though they un advancement towards perfection without a
derstood none but their mother tongue. This possibility of arriving at it in this life; but
employment, however, was too unpleasant this was long ago offered as a powerful
to be continued for any longer process of argUment of the souls immortality by the
time, and therefore be dismissed them to celebrated Addison, though our author takes
'receive an education more agreeable to their no notice of it as original with that writer,
he believes those persons who pay no atten
sex and temper.
the world to teach mankind the prop-:1

application of his intellectual faculties and
the ultimate object of his existauce. Many
smile at such exertions as frivolous and un
worthy of notice, trusting to their own pas
sions and reason to convey them properly
through life; but when we see them vary so
frequently in their judgment of what is the
proper object of pursuit in this life. or what
is as frequent seeming by their conduct to
care nothing at all about it, we feel convinc
ing'powers? \Vhat do we understand? We

know not how we exist; we cannot compre
hend nor never shall, how the animal fluids
are secreted and prepared from one homo

genious mass; how the body is supported
and nutrition effected is perfectly unintelli
gible to us. We know that an impression

upon the organ of sight produces vision, and
the science of optics is perfectly intelligible
to us. The object is painted upon the retina
ed that moral science and metaphysics are of and we perceive its form: and what is this
vast importance to mankind if they can teach principle of perception, this intellect? We
know nothing about it. Men err much from
reasoningfrom analogy; they draw conclu
sions upon things they do not and cannot
understand from certain data and premises
with which they are familiar and which are
easily understood. To prove this erroneous
I need only mention as an illustrulion that
application have done honor to our nature;
what would that individual deserve of a na

tion or rather of his Maker, who should by
some unthought of Herculean energy, seize
the attention of such deluded mortals, and
engage them in pursuits worthy of them

selves, and honorable to a community. But
astronomers have proved the moon to have
I write in chimericul
no atmosphere; then from our knowledge

of the animal economy we might from anal
ogy immediately conclude she cannot be
inhabited, as respiration and the atmosphere
are essential to animal life. But is it not pos
sible for Omnipotence to adapt in a thousand
ways, human beings to enjoy life in the ful
lest perfection without respiration? We can
dream of no such potency; to their own in~

clination, to their free agency, we must
have no idea of it from analogy, but we can
eld of sience, to claim the attention of the
readily believe it possible:
347
wildness, we
Call
leave them; they have volumes upon vo
lumes, with all the intellectual labors that

the most giganticlmind can ask to rouse
them into action. What then remains to be
done?
There are not wanting novelties in the
slatu 9210. He supposes hydrogen to he a

cause or as much a sint qua non of acidity
as oxygen, yet as there are acids in wnich
neither oxygen or hydrogen can be detected,
or not both united, we are about as much in
the vocative as we were before, and admit
ing hydrogen as another cause of acidity

unless it can always be proved to be pl'LN nt
in an acid, it gives us little or no illustra
tion upon the subject. \Vc Want facts and

experiments upon this.
Is not the presence ofoxygen, in different
proportions, the cause of that variety of
colors which we discover in the various
objects of nature? and does not the dierent

colors produced by the dyers, depend upon
the afnity which the different coloring
youthful student. There are the experi matters have for oxygen? light has a great
ments of Davy, and a number of other afnity for oxygen, hence we may infer the
Wisdom,
ehymical philosophers, who are every day change of colors, which so frequently oc
As if ought was made in vain, or not for admit" - unfolding some new and useful fact in this curs by exposing cloths to the sun or light.
ble ends.
department of science, and who is not in
Is there not reason to suppose oxygen,
Presumptive intellect would seem unwil terested in every acquisition to our know the electric uid, galvanism,8cc. are all one
ling to acknowledge ignorance of any thing, ledge of nature? who is not charmed with and the same principle under different forms
which relates to the human mind; but hu
every intelligence he receives, of the rich or differently modied? iVe know that the
mility will teach us to remain in patient economy in the great laboratory of creation?
atmosphere is cemposed of oxygen and
hope for a state in which the soul shall be who can view them in one instance without
nitrogen, and we know that from the air
tted to receive a continual accession of that feeling a glow of gratitude to the omnipo
composed of these, we can at any time ob
wisdom in afuture existanee where felicity tent Author, whose omnisciencc and beni tain the electric uid; it would appear then
shall crown every etiort in its progress to cence is felt stronger and stronger, as the
it must exist in these gasses as a part of the
perfection. Eye hath not seen nor hath it mind becomes acquainted with his'works,
atmosphere. The electric uid will excite
enttred into the heart of man to conceive and feels the magnitude of his power. But
combustion, oxygen is essential. to it. The
those 1hings which God hath in store for to return to professor Davy, we must ob
electric fluid will increase the growth of
them that serve him.
CENSOR.
serve, that should his labors be continued vegetables, so will oxygen; they both have a
q..
and his experiments unattended with fal highly stimulating effect upon the animal
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lacy, the science of chymistry, (the aspect system. If aman could be insulated in a
It would be pleasing to some of the readers ofwhich is already changed) must receive a jar charged positively with the electric uid,
of the Repertory, to nd its columns more total renovation. By that most energetic Would he not be as highly stimulated and
frequently made a vehicle for essays upon agent of analysis the Galvaic uid, the live aslong as in a jar lled with oxygen
scientical and philosophical subjects; what elements of water have been separated, gas?
numbers of young gentlemen of leisure are metals Obtained from alk-alics, earths, &C-'
It requires, it is true, very different means
there, that could give it adouble interest by where they vere never suspected, and a to accumulate these uids,aud the one may
their labors? but this labor is the dreadful variety of substances, both uid and solid, be retained over water and in substances
enemy; why stupidly kill ourselves, say they, subjected to decomposition. \Vhen we see through which the other would soon esr pe
with literary exertions when there is no com- I this, we can but feel an ardent wish that by its conducting property; butthis does not
pulsion, who will thank us? we have been I such a powerful, such an astonishing agent prove them different agents, they may still
scdulously
of our parents
toiling
and for
tutors,
years
andbythat
the iscommand
enough; ! should be better understood. Its use and be the same principle in diii'ercnt combina
importance in the phenomena of nature. tions which change their properties, and the
now let us begin to enjoy the world and 1; rests much in obscurity; should ii with phenomena attending them. It has often been
leave the rugged and disgusting paths of l electricity (for their identity is clearly prov aquery when exciting the electric machine,
science. Thus resolved do many young \ ed,) receive that attention which their seem
what is the nature of this uid, what is its
men, possessed of strong powers of mind, ing importance demand. their application to source and what is its use? \Vhcn will busy
join in with bancful and malignant com the arts, to medicine, Etc. will in all proba and inquisitive philosophy solve the question.
pany; forget the seeds of future usefulness bility prove singularly useful. and mark a
'*
N.
__O~
that Were just carefully sown at some semi 5. splendid erain the annals of science and phi
'For the Repertory.
narv, and now run into the practice of every hwophy. 1 should be miich gratied to nd
vice. and the indulgence of every passion that this subject and chymistry in general, claim
ANECIJOTlANA.
N o. X.
can subvert the human character, and irra the attention of some of the correspondents
diene for ever evt ry incentive to noble and for this PalXI'. There is the subject of
Communira'tt ti. by Valerian.
vvntv. \ nir. How often have I seen this scirlity claiming attention, upon which the
canns.
ex.
v I '- 1.1 in genius and talents of professor in this university has just-pub
Mr. Dod a minister of the gospel, being
the rst magnitude, that .might by proper lished some speculations, remains much in once in gay con-puny, \i'us teqncsted to t ~
" Let no presuming impious railer tax Creative
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gage in a game at whist, when he arose

and uncovered his head. The company in
But avarice starved him. Within a few days

of his death, no importunities could prevail
quired in astonishment what he was going
upon him to buy a few pounds of meat, to

to do. To crave Gods blessing, he repli make a little soup. Tis true, said he,
ed. They returned, we never ask a blessing I should like the soup, butl have no appe
on these occasions. T hen," answered the tite for the meat; what then is to become of
christian, I never engage in any thing that that? At this time he had round his neck
I cannot ask God's bless-ing on.
a bag containing 800 assignats of 1000 livers
Mr. Romaine was once addressed by a cachll At his outset in life, he drank a pint
lady, who expressed herself much pleased of beer which served him for supper, every
with his discourses, and who told him she night at a house much frequented, from
could comply with his doctrine and give up which he carried home all the bottle corks
every thing but curds. You think you could
he could come at: of these, in the course
not be happy without them? said he. No of eight years, he collected as many as sold
sir, I know I could not, replied she.
Then madam, returned Mr. R. They
are your god, and they must save you! This

terrible and just rebuke is said to have
issued in her conversion.
READING SERMONS.
Mr. H.
having heard Dr. M.
preach, the doctor afterwards inquired
how he liked his sermon. Why sir," replied
Mr. H
, I have liked it and admired it
these twenty years!" The Doctor looked
confused and astonished. Upon that shelf,

proceed Mr. H.
, You will nd it ver
batim! Mr. H.
was, unfortunately for
the Dr. :1 Bookseller! a dangerous hearer

for a dealer in old sermons.
As Mr. ---was reading a discourc, in
tended to excite his hearers to gratitude for

an inter-val afne weather, the rain was
for 12 Louis dors, a sum that laid the foun
dation of his future fortune.

Mr. Vandille ofParis, remarkable for his
avaricious disposition and immense riches,lost
his life by his parsimony. Having contracteda
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THE CABINET. No. XXVlI.

But thou! 0 Hope! with eyes so fair,
'hat was thy delighted measure!

Still it whispered promisd pleasure,
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail.
COLLINS.
The following number having been acci

dentally mislaid since the latter end of the
past summer, I now beg leave to present to
our readers: it appears to be the production
ofa person who had suffered himself to fall
into a dangerous dcspondence, which might,
and would eventually have led him to ruin,
had he not been aWakened from his lethargy
by the reviving accents of celestial hope.
The termination of his narrative will prove
the success of his exertions, and will I atter
myself be an incitement to others to pursue

the same path which has extricated him
severe fever, for the rst time he sent for a
surgeon to bleed him, who asking half a livre
from his unhappiness.
was dismissed. He then sent for a barber

who undertook to open a vein for three
pence a time; but the barber telling him
that he must be blooded three times, he ask
ed what quantity of blood he must take at
once. About eight ounces, answered the
barber. That will be nine penceto much,
too much!" says the miser, I have deter
mined upon a cheaper method; take as much
at once as you intended to take at three
times, and that will save six pencell This
being done, he died in a few days, leaving
The other day, from the pleasantness of

the weather and the misery ofmy own reec
tions, I was induced to wander on the res
all his vast treasure tr; {he king, whom he
continually descending in torrents from the

had made his 50131 heir. Thou fool, this night
bursting
clouds.
I A minister
having found a sermon written
mantic, but to me the melancholy borders

of the Schuylkill. The sun had just attained
his meridian height and his heat being rather
oppressive I retired to a delightful arbor,

WhlCh, being formed in the sportfulness of
nature, was unstinted by vitiated taste and
unrestrained by the regularity of art. It was
hung round with the most lovely owers

and paved with moss covered rocks. In it
Ifclt my soul elevated above the world, and
in the height of a happiness to which I had
thy soul Shall be required of thee; then whose long been a stranger, fell unconsciously into
by some person, years before, during a Shall those things be which thou hast pro a deep slumber. The fairy train of fancy,
[Iltlguc, read it one Sabbath morning to
his congregation. Towards the close, hav
ing very severely reproved vice, he added,
vided?
cmuu'rv.
It was a common saying of Julius Cesar,
for these vices it is that God has visited you
that no music was so charming in his ears
and your families with that cruel scourge

the plague, which is now n/irrading every
as the requests of his friends, and the sup
wherein this town! Upon this all the peo

ple were so terried and astonished, that
the chief magistrate was obliged to go to_

the pulpit, and ask him, for Gods sake sir,
ardon the interru/ztion,hnd inform me when:
the plague is, that I may endeavor to [irr
wnt itsfurlhcr sjzreadingl" The preacher

replied, The [llagut, sir? I know nothing
about thefllugue, whether it is in the town or
not it is in my homily l"

AVARICE.
O! cursed lust of gold! when for thy cake,
The fool throws up his intercst in both worlds,
First starved inthis then damned in that to come!

BLAIR.
Mr. Ostervald, a well known banker, died

in Paris, December 1790, actually of want,
though he possessed a fortune of 125,000
pounds sterling and left it all at his death.
unuffrighted by the magic wand of Morpheus,

danced through my brain in lively succes
sion and in their sportive wildness thus do
ceived me.
I thought the leaves of life had been tum
ed over to their commencing page; I wasnn
infant,and I was happy; year rolled after year
till arrived at seventeen l began the project
of my future life; I prosecuted it, and my
twenty fifth year saw me a favorite of for
tune and in possession of an amiable, an
almost angelic wife; the cherubs ofaffection
lisped by our knees, and the soft murmur
plication of those in want of his assistance.

it Would be well for many who profess to be
christians, did they imitate more closely this
pagan.
A merchant, having lost by one ship
wreck to the value of one thousand five
hundred pounds sterling, ordered his clerk
to distribute one hundred pound among poor
ministers and people; observing, that if his ings of love had lulled us into tranquil se
fortune was going by one thousand five hun curity. In these golden moments of unsus
dred pounds at a lump, it was time to make pecting bliss we were assailed by misfor
tunes which we supposcd as unmeritcd as
sure of some part before it was all gone.
A gentleman, when at the point of death, they were severe; but we had yet enough
was asked by his presumptive heir, where left to support us in an humble sphere by
his fortune was, he replied, That it was in
the/tacketa qftht idt'gf7ll1" What a consola
tory reection in a dying hour!

Q.
We see more when others converse among

themselves than when they speak to us.
the exercise of moderate labor, we retired
from the expense (which we were now no

longer able to bear) and the confusion of
the city, and in a small house at a short dis
tance from it, surrounded by a few acres,
sought to forget our former aluence; we
PHILADELPHIA REP ERTOR Y.
=======
did so, or at least we were no less happy

than when we enjoyed it. But, still unsati
ated,
it knows of no alloy, sorrow ies before it, And bower-s of woodbine formd a fairy scene
and lhe threatening mien of fate is disarmed So sweetly rural, that it scemd the famed
by my single remembrance of half its power, Archadia of yore, where shepherds breath'd,
therefore as thou valuest thy own life cher In tuneful strains, the music of their pipes.
At evenings tranquil hour Ive often sat,
ish inc, and I will not be parsimonious of my
0n yon sod seat, now vcild in robes of snow,
favors. My name is Hofie."
And listcnd to the murmurs of the brook,
Thus having spoken the smiling seraph 'I'hat rolls transparent oer the pebbled base.
disappeared. Lost in amazement at the unac Until the village clock proclaimd the hour
countable kindness, and sudden departure Of midnight. The tours as they reechod
of my heavenly guest, I gazed around in Through the groves, broke the frail thread
of wakeful funcy's dream, dispelld the gel}.
search of her again, her form had faded
And oh! too fond, delusive chimeras,
from my eyes but its image was engraven My wandering thoughts indulgedjoys vainly
our foe persecuted us even here,
and the sure attendant of unremitted misfor
tune, poverty stared into our cottage, and

the smiling troop of pleasure deserted us,
we mourned in afiction, and sighed in the
bitterness of our hearts. We reproached our
selves, we almost reproached heaven, we
were wretched without consolation, without

friends; for who is he that befriends the
poor? who is he that seeks the miseries of

others to alleviate them? who is he that will
share his food with the hungry, his raiment
with the naked, his riches with the needy?
ask the unfortunate and they shall answer
thee. My dream had now brought me up
to my present situation. In the height of
my wretchedness, and the last stage of my
despair, methought the heavens of a sudden
grew bright and the velvet curtained clouds
canopied over my head, when there appear
ed descending as on the wing of impatience,
a sylph like form; she was decked with sim
plicity, her countenance was mild, her eye
animated but modest, her every feature
faultlessly elegant and her auburn hair un
bound, oated on the zephys that were pas
sing by. She stood upon the clouds with
on my heart, and as I saw the azure clouds,
Here too with Cowper I have silent laid,
earth, rolling voluminous to close the open
Neath yon old oak that overhangs the stream.

And time and objects passd unheeded by.
I love that bardhis muse so richly fraught
With the bright gems of elegance and strength,
ls yet so feeling, pensive, and rened,
I almost doubt th existence of a man
Who could unite such talents in one mind.
we had ever before been in possession of;
and too much overjoyed at the sudden alter

ation of my fate, I awoke.
Wherefore, said I (yet in the ecstacy ofmy

joy) did I despair? can it be, that this angel
has deceived me? no! her account of my past
life was correct, and may her predictions of
scending to the earth she advanced towards my future days be also true? I arose front the
me with a step of rmness, and a smile of bank on which I had been so long in such
composure; she took my hand with the enchanting converse, the scales of error had
familiarity of friendship, and addressed me fallen from my eyes; and convinced of my for
mer folly, I hasted to that home on which I
to the following effect.
Man of sorrow, said she, the bloom had so often looked upon with sensations of
of youth seems fading on thy check, the horror: I hastened to it with pleasure. The tu
wrinkles of care have already furi'owed thy l mult in my bosom of struggling resolution
brow, and thy countenance bespeaks the and trembling distrust, was at length appeas
ed, and though I cannot say that I ever ex
aliction of afeeling heart. But, man of sor
-sow, be not dismayed; although the golden pect to arrive at that eminence iu the world
suh of fortune does not now illuminc v'thy on which I was once placed, yet I have the
passage through the mysterious windings of comfortable certainty of being able to pro
this world, do not despair, it may not yet cure a sustenance for my family during my
have arisen unto thee, that which thou hast life and to leave shelter for them when I
shall be no more; for, i
.
already taken for it was perhaps but a de
Man wants but little her below
ceitful meteor, and happiness may yet be
Nor wants that little long.
thine; wake from thy sleep of drowsy melan
Innis!
choly and strive to banish gloomy recollec
GREGORY GRAVITY.
tions and unwelcome fears, spend not thy
'
time in useless cotnplainings, nor waste the
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whence thou mayest never be_able to return.

Thy lot is but the common lot of man; tis
true they are not all poor like thee, but few
are the visages that are cheered with content.
Strive then to deliver thyself from thy pain
ful situation and let thy exertions be con
tinual: but recollect that thou consider-est
my remembrance thy dearest treasure, for
plannd.
seemingly unwilling to shut her from the

ing they had given her to regain that place
to which her-most delightful counsels tend,
I inhaled the inspiring odor that her breath
had left upon the air and her reanimating
inuence was transfused into all my senses.
Icherished her remembrance and grew rich;
uncontaminated pleasure attended me, and
I found my wife, my infants and myself in
the midst of a more divine happiness than
her face raised towards heaven; she remain

ed in this position for some time, then de
vigor of thy manhood in the habitation of

sloth, she will lead thee unto miseries from
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REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY 'ANIH'IRER.

'
No. XIII.
.
on have Imarkd as pcnsirt-ly I strayd,

In the vicinity of Schuylkills stream,
A modest mansion shelter'tl from the rays,
The sim meridian glances thwsrt the earth,
By poplars tall; which, eer the chilling fiosts
0f hoary winter scatterd oer the plains
The witherd leaves, were crownd with foliage
green;
I could not read of his tame favrite hare,
But ever and anon the silent tear

\Vould gush and moisten the insensate page
Peace to the memry of departed worth!
Be the cold tomb that holds his sacred dust,
Forever cherishd by the warmest beams

The summer sun imparts to cheer mankind!
Beneath that roof Adelbert peaceful dwells
\l'ith four companions who coequal share
"is love attentive, they his sisters fond.
In early life deprived by natures God,
Oflove parental and its festring care,
The sisters cherishd with maternal fondness
Their younger brother, who an infant was
When left an orphan; as he grew in years,
They msrkd with joy each dawning virtuous trait,

And careful strove to banish from his heart
.Each erring thought; that virtue might have space
To bloom and sway the sceptre of his breast.
They taught him pity, that he might relieve
\Vith modest bounty, not that ostentation
Which reigns too often in the heart of man,
His fellow beings wretched and in want.
They taught him to accord his gifts to each,
Proportionnbly as each did merit,
Lest being- lavish to nnworth objects,
He should deprive the worthy of their due;
Ilut neer to cease though he should frequent view
That bounty misappliedhis charity.
And bade him show to all mankind that mercy
\Vhich he, when summond to the awful bar,
On that (In-ad day, when God shalljudge the world.

And issue his omnipotent :nvards,
Should then implore of his Creators justice.
And if they were successless in their task,
The soil they cultivated was yet grateful;
And for themselves they treasured up a store,
Of fervent lore within his youthful heart;
That it will neer but with his life decay.
They still reside together, and he strives
'ith gratitude and fondness to repay
Their anxious care falLl tenderness to him.
ST. 012MB;
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THE hlIDNlGH'I \VANDI'IILER.
Hark! the distant thunder rolling,

While the tempest howls nfsr,
And the midnight wandrer strolling,
The tender ivy round their branches twined,
Guided by no glimmering star,
PH ILADELPHIA REPERTORY.
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Oer the mountains top hc rambles,

In the valley low descends,
Nought around but thorns and brambles;
Far away-from home and friends.
Has fall'n to decay-and the rose scented bower,

\Vhere we've sat by the light of the evening star,
\Vith Weeds is o'ergrown and the nightshades rank
ower,
But the Schuylkill still wafts its white foam from afar.
'No rnelOdious songstcr chirping,
All is still and silent round,
Save the frightful owl whose shrieking,

Makes the hollow woud resound.
N'o teint twinklings of a tnper,
Issuing from a friendly dome,
T1)I'(\li'0 the weary wandrer,
Travelling from his native home.
While the storm is still increasing,
No kind host unfolds his door,
And the ercer north wind beating,
Ilowl around him but the more. ,

Now the wandi-er looks for morning,
As he trudges oer the. plain,
Views with joy the distant dawning,
Onward moves and looks again.
As the gloom of night disperses,
Opning day at length appears,
And the sky serene discloses,
And the Weary wandrer cheers.
Nature all around is blooming,
All is pleasing to the sight,

Vcrdant elds and trees pet-fuming,
Give new pleasure and delight.
HERMINILS.
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STANZAS.
Breathe again with thy ute the enrapturing num
bers'.
They remind me of melody pensively dear,
That awakend each feeling from apathys slumbers
And told it that soul thrilling music was near.
They recal the loved years when so thoughtlessly
roving,
Soon as Phebus the gates ofthe east should unbar,
And peep from the hills and the darkness removing,
I strayd on the banks of the Schuylkill afar.
Adieu, sweetest scenes, ye exist now no longer,

Save when memory rescues from ruin your groves,
But each tint as it glows makes the retrospect
stronger,
And embiters the membrance it feeling loves.
Adieu for the spot where my infancy ourishd,
Now shrouded in glooms which its lovchness mar,
But eer shall it be by fond memory nourishd
'hilc I breatheand the stream too that rolls
from afar.
MONTALDO.
For the Repertory.
SA'IIRE Nu. V. BY \VALTER \VIGGLE.
Since time has not yet dared to alter,

The blooming phiz of modest Walter;
Nor wrinkles yet usurpd that face,
Once the wreathd throne of smiling grace.
Some beings of the female sex,
Who oft his peaceful temper vex,
And call him oft a lovely beau,
Determined a few nights ago
(For their convenience, that was all,)
To take poor Walter to a ball;
But lthc nonsense will not tell,
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The music strikes, and all advance
Tenjoy the pleasures of the dance:

All did I saylthen I Was wrong,
For by yon re I see a throng,
Of minx-eyed rakes whose careful gazes
Pursue the dances mystic mazes,"
Now one exclaims, Jack, see you there,
Yon little dcar with golden hair,

See you that eye she casts around,
65
With sudden glances, yet profund,
Observe her ruddy color'd lip,
Their nectar how I long to sip!
Ifany art that I possess,
However practised to excess,
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Or modest praise, or vile palaver,
Can nught avail, next dance Ill have her."
She, Tom?" quoth one, may my tongue blister,
If many a time I havnt kissd her."
You kiss her! Jupiter and Juno!
75
Its all a lie; that Well you too know,
There is not fairly, in good sooth,
In half you say one word of truth.

Call me a liar, John! by Jov'e,
By Mars, by Neptune, and by love,

10
The dirk. the buttons that I wear,

Most unreserved and rm I swear,
They thought beneath his giant am,

They. were protected from all harm;
And proudly disregarded both
The dashers laugh and drunkards oath;
You shall comply with my demand sir,

And for your insolence shall answer;
Meet me to-morrow at a Word,
15
How Jane ha! had! when Sally fell;

Nor how Miss Sarah raged and outed,
Nor any thing at all about it,
But quick proceed, and setbcfore ye
The lustrous subject of my story.
The ballroom cnterd, we behold
The glitt'ring chain all gilt with gold,

And topus seals of' vast dimension,
Would sometimes steal enraged attention;
The bauhle sparkling in the breast,
\Vith my gun on my shoulder I rambled each
So since for fame each poet sings,

Well pass from shadows unto things,
And as I write for young and old,
Some shall be seen and some he told.
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Or now with pistol or with sword,

Come sir, I beg that we retire:
A midshipman be called a liar,
And not resent the insult gave
To Neptunes trident, and the wave?
, Away with such a foolish notion,
Remember Im a child of ocean!
Poor John all shivrlng, push'd too hard on,
E Beggd Tommy Blusters humble pardon.
l
So ends this strife, and divers others,

Oflike disasters, noises, pothers,
95
Of the weak foplings gaudy vest,

And many paltry accents smote us,
'ith many a glaring thing beside,
Beneath a poets slightest notice.
And wandered the rocks and the green woods Serve to expose their coxcomb pride. .
Thus some would qual'rel, some would caper,
among;
But now the ladies, charming creatures,
Some come to blows, 's'ome end in vapor,
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'ith blue bells my hat and my game bag adorning, Of graceful forms and lovely features,
30 hilst I in this strange dwelling cast,
[Whilc the rock and the green wooda reechoed Like the vast suns expanded light,
Did nought hut view things as they past;
my song;
On my rst motion struck my sight,
Till slow elevens drowsy hand,
And at eve when the soft beams of moonlight were I viewd their dress, their pumps, their spangles,
Put all the ladies at a stand.
playing
Their frowningr fun, their smilingr wranglea,
Now some young bloods began to boast
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0n the streams tranquil breast, and the grots Their heaving breasts in gentle motion,
35 How some had won, and some had lost,
shining spar;
As bashful zcphyr moves the ocean,
How some had handsome partners gaind
0n the waves glassy surface my little skiff laying,i And lovcs rich (limond I could spy
And some were pleased, and some were pain'd,
i I sung while the cataract niurmur'd afar. '
t
In each young maidens meaning eye.
Some in the nights adventure and,
' Then care to my lightbounding heart was a stranger, But things I could relate a million,
, And some were merry, some were mad;
11.
40 Then having cut-st, and swore, and fought,
The joys of to day l imagin'd to morrow
Was I not atoppd by you cotillion;
So my attention I mustturn,
Would blossom as freshlythat naught could cn
And foul disgrace upon them brought,
From teaching you myself to learn,
danger
And lld with clamrous noise the hall,
And then to all the tale impart,
_
My bliss, or its dawn be ensln'ouded in son-0w.
(0! shrune for any public ball!)
'lo please the head and pain the heart '
Hut ed are those dreams and the chill heavy pres
Ulillin'ful of a ghost, or gypsy,
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But
rst
the
mirror
I
will
place
4st
The} staggtvitl off what they call tipsy,
sure
Has
Ofruined
time which
the scenes
with structures
of my innocent
of men
pleasure,
is at war, So as to show yon lady's face,
I with my damsels went soon after,
And change th unreal prospect still,
Myselt in i.hou,,ht,but they in laughter;
But the stream of old Schuylkill st'll swells from That you may view them all at will.
And having told them of the shame,
I
And yet that plan upon review
l
Atxd to every heroauame,
afar. 50 That had l is skill display-'d that night,
I'm very fearful to pursue,
The
which
ivy grovm
long had
roofdescended
of my fore from
fathers
hither
dwelling,
to son, >
1 If young the reader, he will prize it,
In vulgar 1 r. a s or in light,
If he be aged, hell despiSe it;
And bltlll;,i_i wm home with gallant care,
And where the faint glow of existence rst \velling .
I sought my own and left hom there.
My bosomtime from it it's rst sigh was won. I " To teach the head and mend the heat. Pore.
morning,
as!
!
For thelllepertory.
l.
'rnr. woosnsn LARK.

The sun had not yet tinged the sky,
Dear youth, I cried, who speechless stand,
And view this lifeless bird;

Reection thy unfeeling hand,
Might surely have deterred!"
When from my silent couch I hied,

T enjoy the fragrant scene:
Where the purerills meandring' tide
Divide the lively green.
The lurk his morning anthem sung,
The meadows round Were gay;
His vocal lyre the sparrow strungI
Perchd on the bending spray.
Ilis clear bob-white the patridgc too,
Salntingr thus the day,
Forth from the distant thicket threw
And joind the early lay.
The self same God that fashiond thee,

From whom thy spirit came;
Commended this poor bird to be,

And shaped his ner frame!
His law forbids thee to destroy
The life thou canst. not give;
Go then, and henceforth, thoughtless boy,
Let all his creatures live!
.~
Thy soul, though in the silent ground

May sleep this lark so fair,
Must, at thy death, in heaven be found,
And stand a judgment there!
Men, gracious God, thy praise opposed,

And bid them sing no more!
For from the fowlers deadly gun,
The fatal summons ies;
The warblers pleasing task is done,

.He utters and he dies!
A shot, which struck the unconscious mark,
With startled ear I heard;
l turnd and saw the ying lark,

W'ho left one wounded bird!
Behind the little creature ew
And struggled hard for life;

{But fell astno'w more nem- I drew,
Still panting in the strife!

The fatal marksman too drew near,
Give me the lurk? I cried;
He lookdmethought be wiped a tear,

As faintly he replied:
Yes, gentle stranger, take the bird,
And strive its life vto save;
Those looks too loudly have averred

TWas-wrong, the wound I gave!
From the damp ground I took the lark,
Whom. deathful struggles paind;
Strove to revive the feeble spark
Of hfe that yet remaind!
But, ah!" cried I, sweet bird no more
Thy little throat shall sing;

Thy neck is torn; no more shalt soar,
For shattered is thy wing!

Thy plumes grow dim, no powr of mine
Assistance now can gin ;
Can bid them with elfulgence shine,

Ur native lustre live!
,Soon must thou quit this lahring' breath,
Thine eyes have lost their re;
And in the vapor cold of death,

They shot dy must expire!
.No deathlpsstspirit from the skies,

Doth in thy bosom lie;
\Vith thee, when thy poor body dies,

ho spirit too inu'st die!"
I spoke, the tremblers breast was still,
Ilia flutteung pinions cease;

jiis body now all oer grows-chill;
He dies and i. at peace!
a wretched vagabond without a friend upon

earth to comfort or assist him? your pardon,
old Nevers is still faithful, he stays by me
while you have abandoned me. And yet you
had no cause to leave me thus. I loved you,
you know I loved you, and you were indeed
charming; the rst week of our marriage how
many kind things did you say! you whisper
ed your satisfaction in such accents, I hear
the charming sounds this very _moment.
\Vretchcd creature! how can you live after
having used me so inhumanly? My family
YALERIAN.
is as good and older than the king's, my

HISTORY OF THE
COUNT Ol" CHATEAUBRIANT.

I listend, thus reection rose,
That c'en while birds adore,
betray? how can you now indulge every lux

ury, and torture invention for new pleasures,
while your husband is starving, while he is
The elds Were wet with dew:
Aurora scarce unclosed :her eye,

The morning to renew!
351
fortune procured us every real happiness

life could bestow, my person too was said
From a Latin manuscript.
to excel, and in nothing have I been re
(Concluded)
puted a fool, but in the excess of my passion

for you. My happiness here, and my salva
tion hereafter are quite destroyed; suicide
is dreadful, yol lm resolved aind I will face
'it all. Sure my God will not use me like
mankind, sure he will have pity upon me.
Yes,
pit made me will have pity on me,
and
'e the from this miserable world to
In the mean time the unhappy Chateaubri

ant led a life of precarious solitude and com
plicated misery; the poor man with whom he
lived was, by his fall, reduced to beggary, yet
3 even wretched as he was he would share the
l hard earned meal with his master now grown
lllS friend; he begged by day and returned
' to his master by night with his scant sub
! sistence. In this state of anxiety and distress
his bosom. Pardon, pardon, pardon, O my
Saviourl see my pangs and pity my inrmi

ties. Thou vile wretch! behold to what thou
hast brought me, from hopes of heaven
' covered, _and_hc niellknew the towns that down to hell youhave sunk me; my fame, my
were prepared for him if found out; but life loyalty, my family are at once destroyed, my
at last grew painful to him, he now saw his ancestors will disown their base descendant,
wife entirely anothcrs, his fortune gone, and my very countrymen hasten to blot me
himself and his family stigmatized as trai from remembrance. And yet I cannot hate,
tors, and all the world up in arms to receive my heart is respondent only to softer affec
him wherever he should be known; inshort, tions. Dear soft deluded excellence! O for
he was resolved to die, and to leave a world one tender embrace at parting! O for one
where he found only one instance of truth of those soft languishing looks, you every
and honor. Unsheating his sword therefore, hour lavish on the king, which in justice are
ulttl sitting- down at a table before he cxe my own! for all the hours of happiness I have .
cutcd his fatal purposeyhe wrote his fuithless received from thee receive this my last ac
; our soldier'toiledon ~for twa years, avoiding

lday light as_a.corti_iin ,means of being dis
countess the following letter; which asit is
knowledgement. I shall soon be dead, at least
accounted by some a ne instance of true

pathetic simplicity, this induced me to give
the pr-rcding story, altered from Vanillas,
in order to introduce it with propriety.
remember youn poor husband with pity;

while all mankind accuse my pride and my
temerity, at lCaSl do you speak a kind word
Madam,
in my tvor, for methinksl would not llJVB
the last person of our noble family and
This letter will probably nd you. inthc name the only one that bus disgraced it.
CHA'I'EAUBRIANT.
arms of his majesty revelliug in pleasurr.
__._
and looking passionately upon him witn
Extraordinary z'nsmnce of Gratitude.
those eyes tlut once looked kindly upon me;
(lizzcr,thc llnmecid.-, or son of Burmec,
I remember the day we were married you
said you loved me; succeeding days no way vizier and favorite of Aaron litm'llld, fth
diminished our aection; our little daughter caliph of the race of the Aha-asides, suffered
too was pleasing, you seemed to love the death (nith all his family. to the amount of
pretty innocent; but ,she is dead and has left forty persons.) by order of the tyrant, for
me. Ungrateful, false, barbarous woman! pursuing the dictates of nature, contrary
how could you involve us all thus in wretch to an unjust order: being beloved by the
edness? how could you hang on that neck, people for the benevolence of his adminis
or kiss those lips, which you intended to tration, his death was long lamented.
s
352
PHILADELPHIAREPERTORY.
m
Aaron, olfended by the lamentations of

the people, forbade, under pain of death, the
name of the vizier to be mentioned. An
aged man, however, braving the edict, dared
to recite, even at the palace gate, verses in
praise of the Barmecide. \Vhen brought into

the presence of the sultan for this o'ence,
he inquired sternly the motives of his prc
sumption. Gra/ilude, replied the prisoner;
Giatfer was my benefactor. The caliph
appeared struck, and virtue, for amomcnt,
revived
in his heart.
1 will, said he,
henceforth be thy benefactor; substitute

my name for that of the vizier. Having thus
said, he presented to the old man a superb
cup of pure gold. Oh, Giafi'cr, exclaimed
the man, it is still to Hire I am indebted,
even for this; though thou art now no more,
I yet receive thy benefaction; how shall 1 be

made to forget thcel
.-
Remarkable anecdote relating to the im/ltdC/l

ment rjLofdullbizby.
In the reign of Charles 11, the lord trea

surer Danby was itpeached by the commons
of England of high treason, andot r mis
demeanors. Previous to the enamition of
the earl, at the bar of the upmrr. house,
Buckingham had cajoled several pee __who
wards earl of Straord, ran down the duke
of Buckingham, and you all know What he

came of him. Sir Harry Vane, he ran down
the earl of Straord, and you all know what

became of sir Harry Vane. Chancellor Hyde,
he ran down sir Harry Vane, and your lord
ships know what became of the chancellor.
Sir Thomas Osborn, now earl of Danby, ran
down chancellor Hyde; what will become

of the earl of Danby, your lordships can best
tell. But let me see the man that dare run
the earl of Danby down, and we shall soon
see what will become of him.
This being pronounced with a remarkable
droll tone, the duke of Buckingham, both
surprised and disappointed, exclaimed aloud,

The man is inspired, and claret has done
the business. This stroke of humor, how
ever, could not take o the impression
which the orator had made on the house.

Such a train of executions, unexpectedly
thrown before them at that critical juncture,
produced such a charge in the treasurers

favor, that though he was expected to be
sent to the tower the same evening, he was
permitted to return home, and sleep quietly
in his bed. The king granted him a full
pardon, and the storm in a very short time
subsided.
February 23, 1311.

Inter-ments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 16th to the 22d February.
Diacmec.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
ad. ch
Asthma
Burns
1 0 Inam. of bowels
0 1 Old age
2
1
Cholic
Consumption of lungs 1 1 Rheumatism

1
Convulsions
01 30 vStill
Smallborn
pox, natural 02
Decay
0
S
5
0 Pleurisy
Dropsy in the brain

Eruptions
Fever, typhus
l-ever, puerperal
0
1
1
1
3 Worms
0
0
0
Fever, scarlet
1
0
0 .1
-
15 20
Total
35
Under
9 From 50 to 60
From 1 to 2
70
70
80
5
10
20
30
10
20
80
40
3
3
6
2
80
90
100
90
100
110.
1
0
0
50
40
Total 3 5

February 18
19
20
30
20
26
33
22
32
29
19
30
21
28
30
29
22
2:3
15
26
15
3'2
17
39
_.._
were in the treasurers interest; and, among
the rest, had assailed on his weak side the

Welch earl of Canarvon. On the day of the
pbanpbia.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1811.
trial, the duke invited the last mentioned
nobleman to asumptuous banquet; and, hav

ing halfintoxicated him with wine,easily per
HEALTH OFFICE,
'
MARRIED,
From the 1st January 1810, to the lit January
1811, there died in the city and liberties of Phila

delphia, 1036 adults, and 1000 children. The fol
lowing are the deaths in each month of the above
period.
On Monday evening the 18th ult. by the

Jdullr.
Child.
Tot.
suaded him to go to the house, and speak Rev. Dr. Rogers, Mr. Benjamin lVort/z to January
82
67
14-9
February
82
70
152
in behalf of Danby, thereby hoping to ren
Miss Phebe Taylor, both of Chester county, March
87
40
127
der his cause ridiculous. Canarvon, who had Pennsylvania.
April
96
56
152
never made a speech in parliament before,
On Thursday evening the 2lst ult. by the May
99
65
164
hastened to the house with a full resolution
68
79
147
same, Mr. John Callehel to Miss Sara): Ali! June
to display his talents in such an important
63
129
192
101', both of Montgomery county, Penn July
affair. The business was no sooner opened,
August
91
178
269
sylvania.
September
91
82
173
than he stood up and made the following
._._
October
104
89
193
haranguc:
Coal mines continue to be discovered and November
86
66
152
My Lords; I understand a little of Latin, worked in various parts of the United States.
December
87
79
166
but a good deal of English, and not a little This is of the more importance, as wood is
of the English history; from which 1 have becoming every year scarcer and dearer in
Total. 1036
1000
2036
learned the mischiefs of such kinds of pro the neighborhood of our large cities and
towns; and were it not for these subterra
secutions as these, and the ill fate of the pro
TERMS or THE REYERTORY.
nean resources, a serious decency of fuel
secutors: I could bring many instances, and must be generally felt in a few years. The
those very ancient; but, my lords,l shall go neglect of farmers to plant their vacant scribers to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub
no farther back than the latter end of queen elds with some thrifty trees to supply the scribers half yearly in advance.
Elizabeths reign, at which time the earl of consumption and destruction which their to every Saturday, and forWarded to those in the
rests
experience,
is
notwithstanding,
unwise
Essex was run down by sir Walter Raleigh,
and your lordships very well known what as it concerns their own interest and culpa
ble .as it regards the public comfort and con
became of sir W'alter Raleigh. My lord Ba vemcnce.
con he ran down Sir \Valter Raleigh, and m ceive one copy gratis.
your lordships well know what became of
pertory will be expected to pay the dierence.
my lord Bacon. The duke of Buckingham,
he ran down my lord Bacon, and your lord
PHILADELPHIA ,
ships know what happened to the duke of
at the ofce of the
Buckingham. Sir Thomas Wentworth,efter
Printed and published by Dennis Heartt',

No. 17 Arch street.
VOL. I.
SATURDAY. MARCH 9, Hill.

herself; and not long after her triumph, came her own executioner. Nor is it unwor
thy our observation, that though, perhaps,
no one ofour English poets hath excited so
many admirers to imitate his manner; yet I
think never any was known to aspire to
emulation: even the late ingenious Mr. Phi
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
(Continued)
\Ve now come to take a survey of him in

that point of view, in which he will be looked
on by all succeeding ages with equal delight
and admiration. An interval of above twenty
years had elasped since he wrote the mask
lips, who in the colors of style, came the
nearest of all the copiers to resemble the

great original, made his distant advances
with a lial reverence; and restrained his
ambition within the same bounds which Lu
cretius prescribed to his own imitation.
of Comus, LAllegro, Il Pensoroso, and
Lycidas; all in such an exquisite strain!

that though he had left no other mon
uments of his genius behind him, his name
had been immortal. But neither the inrmi
ties of age and constitution, nor the vicissi
tudes of fortune, could depress the vigor
of his mind; or divert it from executing a
design he had long conceived of writing an

heroic poem. The fall of man was a subject
which he had some years before xed on for
a tragedy, which he intended to form by the
models of antiquity: and some not without
speech in the fourth book of Paradise Lost,
ver. 32. which is the address of Satan to the
sun. \Ve're it material, I believe I could pro
duce other passages Which more plainly ap
pear to have been originally intended for
the scene. 'But whatever truth there maybe
in this report, it is certain that he did not
begin to mould his subject in the form which
'it vnow bears, before he had concluded his
controversy with Salmasius and More; when
he had wholly lost the use of his eyes; and
was forced to employ in the oice of an
amanuensis any friend who accidentally paid
him a. visit. Yet, under all these discourage
ments, and various interruptions in the year
;
l
i
I
1669 he published his Paradise Lost; the'

noblest poem, next to those of Homer and
Virgil, that ever the wit of man produced

in any age or nation. Need I mention any
other~ evidence of'its ine'stimable worth,

than that the nest geniuses who have suc
ceeded himhave ever esteemed it amerit
to relish, and illustrate its beauties? \Vhilst
the critic who-gazed, with so much wanton
malice, on the nakedness of Shakespear
when he slept, after having formerly declar
ed war against it, wanted courage to make
.
;
.
i
his attack; flushed though he was with his .

conquests over Julius Caesar and the Moor: l
which insolence his muse, like the other
assassins of Cresar, severely revenlged on !
was a light brown: the symmetry of his fea

tures exact; enlivened with an agreeable air,
and a beautiful mixture of fair and ruddy,
which occasioned the Marquis of Villa to

give his epigram the same turn of thought,
which Gregory arch-deacon of Rome had
employed above a thousand years before, in
praising the amiable complexions of some
English youths, before their conversion to
christianity. His stature (as we nd it mea
sured by himself) did not exceed the middle
size; neither too lean nor corpulent: his
limbs well proportioned, nervous and active;
serviceable in all respects to his exercising
Non ita eertandi eupidus, quam propter amorem

Quod TE imitari aveo, quid enim contendate hi
rundo
Cycnis?
the sword, in which he much delighted; and

wanted neither skill, nor courage, to resent
And now perhaps it may pass for ction,

what with great veracity I airm to be fact,
stitutions. In his diet he was abstemions;

not delicate in the choice of his dishes; and
that Milton, after having with much diiculty
strong liquors of all kinds were his aversion.

Being too sadly convinced how much his
prevailed to have this divine poem licensed

for the press, could sell the copy for no more
than fifteru pounds, the mum oLwhich
valuable consideration depended on the
sale of three numerous impressions. So
unreasonably may personal prejudice affect
probability, say the play opened with that
NO. 45.
an affront from men of the most athletic con
health had suffered by night studies in his
- younger years he used to go early \livltlutu

later than nine) to rest; and rose commonly
before ve in the morning. It is reported,
(and there is a passage in one of his Latin
elegies to countenance the tradition) that his
the most excellent performances!
fancy made the happiest ights in the spring:
About two years after, together with Sam
son 'Agonistes (a tragedy not unworthy the but one of his nephews used to deliver it as
Grecian stage when Athens was in her glo Miltons own observation, that his invention
ry) he published Paradise Regained. But, was in its highest perfection from Septem
Oh! what a falling off was there! Of which ylber to the Vernal Equinox: however it was,
I will say no more,than that there is scarcely ;the great inequalities to be found in his
a more remarkable instance of the frailty composures,are incontestible proofs that in
of human reason, than our author gave in isome seasons he was but one of the people.
prefer-ing this poem to Paradise Lost; nor lVVhen blindness restrained him from other
a more instructive caution to the best wri :exercises, he had a machine to swing in, for
its, to be very diident in deciding the lthe preservatidn of his health; and diverted
himself in his chamber with playing on an
merit of their own productions.
And thus having attended him to the six organ. His deportment was erect, open, affa
ty-sixth year of his age, as closely as such ble; his conversation easy, chearful, instruc
imperfect lights as men of letters, and re tive; his wit on all occasions at command,
tirement, usually leave to guide our inquiry, ,facetious, grave, or satirical, as the subject
would allow; it now only remains to be re irequired. His judgment, when disengaged
corded, that in the year 1674 the gout put from religious and political speculations, was
a period to his life at Bunhill, near London; just and penetrating; his apprehension.
from whence his body was conveyed to St. quick; his memory, tenacious of what he
Giles Church by Cripplegate, where it lies read; his reading, only not so extensive as
interred in the chance]; but neither has, nor his genius, for that was universal. And
wants a monument to perpetuate his memo having treasured up such immense stores
ry.
_
of science, perhaps the faculties of his soul
In his youth he is said to have been ex grew more vigorous after he was depriv
tremely handsome: the color of his hair ed of his sight: and his imagination (n..' :
354
rally sublime, and enlarged by reading ro
of admiration and gratitude. Fruition left
mances, cf which he was much enamored
them nothing to ask, and innocence left we know it to be necessary to elfect the
in his youth) when it was wholly abstracted
them nothing to fear.

But with guilt enter distrust and discord,
mutual accusation, and stubborn selfdefence;
they regard each other with alienated minds,
and dread their Creator as the avenger of
their transgression. At last they seek shelter
from material object, was more at liberty to
make such amazing excursions into the

ideal world, when in compOSing his divine
work he was tempted to range

Beyond the visible diurnal sphere
signed for use, regularity pleases because

intended purpose. Variety is highly favor
able, though not absolutely necessary to
beauty in gure. Trees and flowers are in
stances to display the effect of variety.
Motion is beautiful in itself, provided it
be of the gentler kind, for the dashing of a

With so many accomplishments, not to in his mercy, soften to repentance, and melt cataract, or the violent agitation of a large
have had some faults and misfortunes, to be in supplication. Both before and after the fall, tree in a storm, belong to the sublime. Ob
laid in the balance with the fame and felicity the superiority of Adam is diligently sus jects in motion are preferred to those in rest;
of writing Paradise Lost, would have been tained.
the reason I presume to be because in a
(To be continued.)
too great a portion for humanity.
mon'ng object, the eye is continually pre
\Ve shall conclude our life of this great
0-
sented with an agreeable variety, and not

For the Repertory.
man with a criticism on his two great

works, Paradise Lost and Regained, by the
pen of Dr. Johnson.
I am now to examine Paradise Lost; a
poem, which, considered with respect to
design, may claim the rst place, and with

respect to performance, the second, among
THE CABINET. No. XXVIII.

Causalatet, vis est notissima.
OVID.
The emotion felt while contemplating a

beautiful object, is distinguished from those
and motion, yet those three often meet in
excited by sublimity, as being of a gentler

and more lasting kind. Beauty lulls the
objects which we denominate beautiful.

Thus in some animals we are at once pleased
with a variety of agreeable colors, elegance
of gure,and gracefulness of motion. Beauty
then becomes more complex, and as the
three different principles operate on the
the productions of the human mind.
mind into a soft and pleasing serenity with
The subject of an epic poem is natural

ly an event of great importance. That of
Milton is not the destruction of a city, the
conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an
out exciting any wild or tumultuous feel

ings. It differs from sublimity by being ex
tended toa far greater variety of objects; as
almost any thing that alfords pleasure to
the eye or ear, is denominated beautiful.
It may be proper to observe here, that the
terms beauty or deformity are not applied
to show any real perfection or defect in the
objects around us, as it is obvious that the
h"man mind might have been so constitut
ed as to be pleased with what now disgusts
it, or indifferent to objects that now afford
empire. His subject is the fate of worlds,

the revolutions of heaven and of earth; re
bellion, against the supreme king, raised by

the highest order of created beings; the over
throw of their host, and the punishment of
their. crimm.the CIPntinn nf a up! rare nt
reasonable creatures; their original happiness
and innocence, their forfeiture of immortality,

and their restoration to hope and peace.
In the examination of epic poems much
speculation is commonly employed upon the
characters. The characters in the Paradise
Lost, which admit of examination, are those
of Iangels and of man; of angels good and

evil; of man in his innocent and sinful state.
Among the angels, the virtue of Raphael
is mild and placid, of easy condescension and
free communication; that of Michael is re
gal and lofty, and, as may seem attentive to

the dignity of his own nature. Abdiel and
Gabriel appear oecasionly, and act as every
incident requires; the solitary delity of
Abdiel is very amiably painted.
The other chiefs of the celestial rebellion
are very judiciously discriminated in the

first and second books; and the ferocious
character of Moloch appears, both in the

battle and the council, with exact consist
ency.
To Adam and to Eve are given, during
their innocence, such sentiments as inno
cence can generate and utter. Their love is

pure benevolence and mutual veneration;
their repasts are without luxury, and their
diligence without toil. Their addresses to

their Maker have little more than the voice
suffered to tire with the same unvaried re

presentation.
Though I have endeavored to assign
separate principles of beauty to color, gure,
it the highest satisfation.

I believe it will be found impossible to
assign the essential cause of beauty in all
objects. Every beautiful object is so formed
as to be suited to certain principles in the
human mind, and hence is raised that emo
tion which causes us to determine its
beauty. This being the case, the only Way
to settle correct ideas of the subject is, to
mind, the motion excited is of a more ele
vated nature. A rich natural landscape of

extended fields covered with verdure, dis
tant woods and mountains, streams that wind
through the dark shade of the grove mak

ing music as they flow, a ock grazing on
the green slope, the rural cottage embower
ed among trees, contrasted with the stately
and elegant mansion of an opulent gentle

man, presents the largest and most delight
ful assemblage of beautiful objects any
where to be found in nature.
But the most complex, and to us the
most interesting instance of beauty is the
human countenance. There are displayed
the combined graces of color and gure,
but its principal source of beauty lies in
that mysterious expression which conveys
an idea of the qualities of the mind. The
human countenance is sometimes capable of
exciting sublime emotions, when the mind
is occupied with agrcat idea, and every feel
ing, pity, contempt, anger, grief, joy, See.
by turns are exhibited in this intelligent in
dex of the soul.
In my next I shall consider novelty and
imitation, as they afford pleasure to taste, in
order that those friends, at the request of
whom I was induced to draw up these brief
remarks, may have a condensed view of the
most prominent observations of the best
writers on these subjects.
PETER PEACEABLE'
enumerate the several classes of beauti

ful objects, and to point out the peculiar
and separate principals of beauty in each.
Color has been determined to be the
simplest instance of beauty, and the only
cause why pleasure is derived from it seems
to be, the peculiar formation of the eye,
which makes it receive certain modifica
tions of the rays of light with more plea
sure than othcrs. Dr. Blair thinks associa
tion of ideas may inuence the pleasure we
derive from colors, as we are better pleased
with green, because we know it to be the
prevailing color in natural scenery.
The next instance of beauty is gure.
Regularity is the first source from whence
"o.
is derived the beauty of gure; and is pleas
The generous man never recounts, mi
ing because it suggests the idea of pro nutely, the actions he has done; nor the
priety in the construction. In gures de
prudent those he will do.
PHILADELPHIA REPE RTORY.

I
2
-.
For the Repertory.
don professor might have obtained the alca
In ; former number of the Repertory, I lics in a purer state than we usually nd

made a feeble attempt to excite a more
general attention to scientic pursuits, and
it is to be hoped that the engaging and pro
table investigations of natural phenomena,
will one day become the pleasing topic of
universal discussion in the enlightened part
of the community. Happy 287:1! may its
splendid morning soon arise and cheer the
dark abodes of ignorance and the dreary
haunts of savage barbarity.
I am happy to find in some of your corres
pondents, a wish to promote the diffusion of
science and useful knowledge. Some of the
remarks of a writer in the last number of
the Repertory are truly interesting andought
to receive their merited attention. His con
jectures, though altogether hypothetical, are
certainly entitled to the consideration of
every scientic mind. I would however, beg
leave to correct a mistake, which though
apparently of little importance, should not
escape us, as it leads to the inculcation of

an error in science. 'here merit is due,
let it be bestowed; if this maxim had been
attended to, I am sure that Mr. Davy, how

ever great his zeal ih natural pursuits, would
not have received that unbounded applause,
which many have heaped upon him. That
Mr. Davy has detected, by means of galvan
ism, metallic bases in the earths and alca
lies may be true; but, the assertion, that
them, but that he decomposed them, so as

to demonstate a metallic base, ought not to
be credited as true, until after experiments,

concluded by different chymists shall have
decided the controversy.
It is a lamentable truth, that the science
of chymistry seems to be forever uctuating.

Theories, like empires and kingdoms, rise
and fall, and are succeeded by others, whose
destiny, is to flourish for awhile, then tum
ble into ruins and share the fate oftheir pre

decessors. What are we taught by this sad
lesson? It proclaims to us that the laws of
nature are xed and unchangcable, but that
the genius of man is not at all times capable
of prying into her recesses, to gain a correct
knowledge of her unknown processes. 'Where
are the fanciful conjectures of the ancient
philosophers? Alas! they have departed
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interests of society, is not a dillicult task
It may be acquired, and it is only necessary,
that the indolent faculties of the mind should
be roused into action for the accomplish
ment of so desirable an object. How strong
then is it, that so protable a science, one
so interesting, should be treated with such
indifference. They know not half the mental
pleasures which may be enjoyed, who are
strangers to the delectable walks of the
chymist. This pleasing reflection should
stimulate us to enter the lists of science.
Let us endeavor at all times, to pursue
nature in her meandering paths, let us pry
into her hitherto impenetrable recesses,
with perfect assurance, that our labors will
not be ineffectual. Then may we look for

ward with pleasing anticipation, to that hap
py era, when the obscurities of science
shall be obliterated in the lustre of perfec
tion, when the intervening darkness that
with their authors, and like them have van
now obstructs our views, shall be lost in the
ished forever! Perhaps this allotment of hu

manunderstanding is both advantageous and
necessary. For if the theories of men, who
are now no more, had been perfect and un
altorable, the genius of succeeding ages
would have slept in idleness and case.
To look back no further than the days of
bright eulgence of that light, which correct
Aristotle, let us behold the fate of the ele
reason alone will one day furnish, then let
us enter the stately fabric of science, and

though some of its apartments may be im
penetrable, let us behold with admiration the
wisdom of its architect, smile at its magni

cence and tremble at its grandeur.
HERMINIUS.
mentary theory of that great man. From a
O.
chaos in science, he formed that famous
For the Repertory.
system which acknowledged the existence

of but four elements in Nature. Plausible
in its aspect and intelligible in its nature,
it bid fair to survive the storms of criticism
ANECDOTIANA.
such bases were not before suspected to ex

ist, is absolutely incorrect. Of this, any man
may easily be satised, by turning to La
voisiers chapter on the Earths; he will learn,
and to be coeval with time. But, how soon did
that the base of these substances was sup it fall from the eminence on which it once
posed to be metallic, almost twenty years stood! Attacked on every side by enterprising
ago. That one of the alcalies, potash, was
genius, it was unable to withstand its assaults,
No. XI.
SCRIPTURE msarruen.
A person rebuked another very jocosely
in the words of our Lord, on account of some
business in which he was engaged, taking a

more favorable turn than was expected. O
not a simple body, had not escaped the no and yielding little by little, its foundation de
tice of American chymists, and we nd that cayed, its walls tattered, and long ere this
the late professor of chymistry in the uni it has fallen, shall I say, to rise no more.
versity of Pennsylvania, several years ago Here let us pay a ti-ibute to its memory, by
decided by experiment, that 9xygen entered erecting a monument to the uncertainty of
thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou
into the composition of Potash.

'
But as respects the experiments and dis
be lled with the spirit. Some times, in

drinking a small glass, he would say, Take
heed that ye despise not one of these little
onesll
Isnsstoxanr swan'rz.
theory.
I could now say with the great Chaptal,

coveries of Mr. Davy, I would beg leave to that the denomination of elements should
remark: That any thing which tends to be e'accd from a chymical nomenclature,
change the established order of science and as it is not probable that we shall ever know
subject it even to a revolution, ought not to the real elements of nature. Indeed it is
be received on hasty conjecture. The nature , unnecessary jthat we should advance thus far
of the galvanic uid is so imperfectly un iin knowledge, and it would be extremely
derstood, that no one, however wise, has injurious. To make us acquainted with all
doubt?
A notorious drunkard, would often drink
half a pint of neat Hollands atone time,

saying, Be not drunk with new wine, but
This famous promulgator of the gospel

of Jesus among the heathens at 'l'aujorr
and other Asiatic countries, well deserved
the name of the apostle of the East. He ac
decided, as to its real nature. How then, I
the operations of nature, would be no less,
quired such a character among them, that
ask, can we bestow implicit faith on the
than to arrest us at once in the improvement
happening to fall in among a lawless han
result of experiments, founded on processes, of our minds. Our admiration would be ditti, they suffered him to pass unmolestcd,
extremely uncertain; especially, when their satised, by having all its objects in presses saying, Let him pass; he is a man of God!
tendency, if true, must be to overturn the
sion and thus our desire for knowledge
The tyrant Hydcr Ally, refused to nego
great fabricgf chymistry? -The observations

of an eminent chymist. in this city are in
would cease to stimulate us. To gain such

information as will be sufficient for all the
time with others in a certain treaty, but

said, Send me Swartz; send me the dais
my opinion worthy of notice; that the Lon
purposes of life and for the promotion of the tian missionacy, said this follower of M
PHILADELPHIAREPERTORY.
356
homet; I will treat with him, for him only
that time lost to himself, his family, and to
can I trust. \Vhen the late Rajah of Tan
the world: his congregation at the Old Jewry,

jore, lay on his death bed, he desired to com
in expectation of his recovery, delayed for
mit his son, the present Rajah to his care, some time to fill his post; yet at length, all
but the christian like his master, refused all hopes were over, and Mr. Samuel Chandler
earthly grandeur. 7hen this truly great man was appointed to succeed him in l725. This
died, which event took place some few years double misfortune affected him at rst in a
since, the young Rajah shed a flood of tears manner little different from distraction, but
over his body, and has written to England afterwards sunk him into a settled melan
for a monument which is to be erected at choly. He quitted the duties of his function,
and would not be persuaded to join any act
Tzuijore to the memory of his virtues.
of worship, public or private. Being urged
INFLUENCE or THE PASSIONS
Pliny relates that Chilo the Lacedemo by his friends for a reason of this extraordi
nian, died upon hearing that his son had nary change, at which they expressed the
utmost grief and astonishment, he told them,
gained a. prize in the Olympic games.
I Aulius Gellius, mentions an extraordinary after much importunity, that he had fallen
instance of the effect of joy,in Diagora, who under the sensible displeasure of God, who
had caused his rational soul gradually to
had three sons, who were all crowned as vic
tors in one day; the one as a pugilist, the other perish and left him only an animal life in
as a wrestler, and the third in both cases. connnon with brutes: that though he retained
The sons carried their father through an the human shape, and the faculty of speak
immense concourse of spectators, who ing in a manner that appeared to others ra
threw flowers upon him and appluadcd his rational, he had all the while no more notion
glory and good fortune, in having such an of what he said than a parrot; that it was
offspring. But amidst the acclamations of therefore profane in him to pray, and incon
the people he died in the embraces of his gruous to be present at the prayers of
boys.I),
others;" and, very consistently with this, he
rowan or THE mamas-nos.

Dr. Rush has related an anecdote of a man
considered himself no more as a moral a
gent, or subject of either reward or punish
ment. In this way of thinking and talking he

unalterably and obstinately persisted to the
end of his life, though he afterwards suer
ed, and even requested prayers to be made
for him. Some time after his secession from
the Old Jewry, he retired to Shepton Mal
let, his native place: and though in his re
tirement he was perpetually contending that
his powers of reason and imagination were
gone, yet he was as constantly exerting both
with much activity and vigor. He amused
himself sometimes with translating parts of
the ancient Greek and Latin poetsinto Eng
gination than by letting him see that the lish verse; he composed little pieces for the
who conceited himself a goose, and insisted

upon going up into a loft of hay, where he
sat picking himself, like one of those
creatures cleaning her feathers.
I have heard of a persons fzuicying him
a teapot, and being very apprehensive he
should fall from the table and break.
Fienus, who wrote upon this subject, re
lates a singular instance of one whose delu~
sion represented his body so large, that he
thought it impossible for him to get out of
the room. The physician, fancying there
could be no better way of rectifying his ima
thing could be done, ordered him to be
FM
use of children; an English grammar and
carried out by force. Great was the struggle; spelling book; an abstract of the Scripture
and the patient no sooner saw himself at the History, and a collection of Tables, both in
outside ofthe door, than he fell into the same metre; and with much learning he brought
agonies of pain as if his hopes had been all together, in a short compass, all the The
broken by being forced through a passage male of the Greek and Latin tongues; and
too little for him, and died immediately after. also compiled a dictionary to each of those
Simon Brown, a dissenting minister, was works, in order to tender the learning of
born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, both these languages more easy and com
1680. Grounded and excelling in grammati pendious. Of these performances none have
cal learning, he early became qualied for been made public; but what showed the
the ministry, and actually began to preach strength and vigor of his understanding,
before he was twenty. He was rst called to while he was daily bemoaning the loss of it,
be a pastor at Portsmouth, and afterwards were two works composed during the two
removed to theOld Jewry, where he was ad last years of his life, in defence of chris
mired and esteemed for a number of years. tianity against Woolston and Tindal. He
But the death of his wife and only son, which wrote an answer to \Voolstons fth dis
happened in 1723, a'ected him so as to de course on the miracles of our $aviour in~
prive him ofhis reason; and he became from j titled, A t rebuke for a ludicrousrintidel,
with a preface concerning the presecution

of such writers by the civil power. The pre
face contains a vigorous plea for liberty,
and is strongly against prosecutions in mat
ters of religion; and, in the answer, \Vool
ston is as well managed as he was by any

of his refuters, and more in his own way,
too. His book against Tindal was called, A
defence of the religion of nature and the

christian revelation, against the defective
account of the one, and the exceptions a

gainst the other, in a book intitled, chris
tianity as old as the creation; and it is allow
ed to he as good a one as that controversy
produced. He intended to dedicate it to
queen Caroline; but as the unhappy state
of his mind appeared in the dedication, some
of his friends very wisely suppressed it, as
sure to defeat the use and intent of his work.
The copy, however, is preserved, and, as it
is a great curiosity, we here present it to

the reader.
Madam,
Of all the extraordinary things that have

been rendered to your royal hands since
your rst happy arrival in Britian, it may be
boldly said what now bespeaks your ma
jestys acceptance is the chief. Not in itself,
indeed is it a trie unworthy your exalted
rank, and what will hardly prove an en
tertaining amusement to one of your ma
jestys deep penetration, exact judgment,
and ne taste, but on account of the author,
who is the rst being of the kind, and yet

without a name. He was once a man, and
of some little name, but of no worth, as his
present unparalleled case makes but too

manifest; for, by the immediate hand of an
avenging God, his very thinking substance

has, for more than seven years, been con
tinually wasting away, till it is wholly per
ished out of him, if it be not utterly come to
nothing. None, no not the least remem
brance of its very ruins, remains; not the
shadow of an idea is left, nor any sense, so
much as one single one, perfect or imper
fect, whole or diminished, ever did appearto

a mind within him, or was perceived by it.
Such a present, from such a thing, however

worthless in itself, may not be wholly unaccep
table to your majesty, the author being such

ashistory cannotparallel: and ifthe fact, which
is real, and no ction or wrong conceit, ob
tains credit, it must be recorded as the most
memorable, and indeed astonishing, even in

the reign ofGeorge II. that a tract, composed
by such a thing, was presented to the illus
trious Caroline, his royal consort needs not

to be added. Fame, if I am not misinform
ed, will tell that with pleasure to all succeed
ing times. He has been informed, that your
majestys piety is as genuine and eminent
Lb
M
as your excellent qualities are great and

conspicuous. This can, indeed, be truly
known to the great Searcher of hearts only.
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STANZAS.
Hast thou not seen the morning dawn
He alone, who can look into them, can dis
And spread its cheering light around,
cern if they are sincere, and the main inten

tion corresponds with the appearance, and
your majesty cannot take it amiss, if such
an author hints, that his secret approbation
is of innitely greater value than the com
mendation of men, who may be easily mis
taken, and are too apt to atter their superi
Gilding the variegated lawn,

And beaming warmth upon the ground;
'hile nature joyous at the sight
Of so much beauty smiled with pride;
But ah! oer the approach of night,
Obseured with glooms, she wept :uid sighd.
So I have seen a lovely fair,
Loudly he shrieks, the mother hears

The anguish ofber darling boy;
And soon upon the shore appears
Alas! the waves all hopes destroy!
She sees the stream his body bear,
Her groans of horror pierce the air
She tears her hair, in wildest grief,
The fond dcstracted mother raves;
In tearlcss phrenzy calls relief,
'lo snatch her darling from the waves!
The white man stands the stream beside.
The negro two beholds the tide.
The sweetest bud that bloom'd neath heaven,
ors. But, if he has been told the truth, such
a case as his will certainly strike your ma

jesty with astonishment, and may raise that
commiseration in your royal breast, which
he has in vain endeavored to excite in those
of his friends, who, by the most unreasonable
and ill founded conceit in the world, have
imagined that a thinking beingr could, for

seven years together, live a stranger to its
own powers, exercises, operations, and state,
and to whatthe great God has been doing in
it and to it, if your majesty in your most
retired address to the King of kings, should
think of so singular a case, you may, perhaps,
make it your devout request, that the reign
of your beloved sovereign and consort may
be renowned to all posterity, by the recovery
of a soul now in the utmost ruin; the resto
ration of one utterly lost at present amongst
men. And, should this case affect your royal
breast, you will recommend it to the piety

and prayers of all the truly devout who have
the honor to be known to your majesty:
many such,doubtless,there are; though courts
are not usually the places where the devout

resort, or where devotion reigns; and it is not
improbable that multitudes of the pious

throughout the land may take a case to
heart, that, under your majestys patronage,
comes thus recommended. Could such a
favor as this restoration be obtained from
heaven by the prayers of your majesty, with
what transport of gratitude would the recov
ered being throw himself at your majestys
feet, and, adoring the Divine Power and
Grace, profess himself, madam your ma
jests most obliged and dutiful servant,
SIMON Bnows'.
A complication of distempers, contracted
by his sedentary life (for he could not be

prevailed on to refresh himself with air and
With fragrance mild perfume the air,

The sighing breeze of gray-eyed even.
But! have seen her fade and die;
Beauty and virtue often sever:

Dim is the lustre of her eye,
Can health recal it? never! never!
" Beneath its rage," the white man cried.

Too soon alas! hell sink, hell die'.
Die! brave Amalac loud replied,
If he must perish so will I!
He said, and rush'd the youth to save,
Or with him nd a wat'ry grave?

Boldly he seized the sinking boy,
'eep, beauty weep, the sighs of pain,

Arise to heaven oblations sweet:
As the warm earth receives the rain,
With healing balm their dews replete.
Triumphant bore him from the harms:
And now the mother, wild with joy,

Received the rescued in her arms!
Amalac lookd exulting round,
Then sunk exhausted to the ground
And though the ower is witherd now,

Has lost its heavenly essence mild;
Above
yon archd
cerulean
brow,
I It blooms
no more
to be deled.
FLOREXZO.
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For the Repertory.
The affecting story, of which the following

is a paraphrase, was published in a preced
ing number of this paper, as an extract from
the Democratic Press. For the information
of those who may have neither leisure nor
inclination to refer, we would say that the
Soufson, the happy parent cried,

And drew him closerto her breast;
Mother," the little Charles replied,
His swelling soul denied the rest;
Blest hour! rcvivd Amalae Cllkr
\Vhile transport glistens in his eyes'
The feelings which then filltl his heart.
The muse attemptsnot to unfold;
\Yith such the virtuous would not part,
In barter for Peruvia'a gold!
The conscious pride, delightful g'uesti
That reignd transporting thro' his breas'
circumstance happened in the year 180_3

near Sunbury. A lad of about twelve years of
age, while bathing in the Susquelnuinah, was
carried away by the current. A white man
and a negro beheld his perilous situation.
But see the father now repays,

\\'ith rich reward Amalae's love;
Peace now shall end hisjoyful days,
And peace await him far above!
No more neuth burning suns he toils,
For freedom on the negro smiles!
He will die, said the white. If he does,
See them,his cap ofliberty,
said the negro, I will die with him. He

plunged into the river, rescued the boy from
a dreadful death, brought him, gave him to
the daspairing mothers arms, received her

grateful thanks, and from the enraptured
father his freedom.
Adorning with the civic wreath,
'ho saved a citizen from death!

A new-born joy within Amalac reigns,
While grateful numbers join to burst his
chains?
YALHIHAX.
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For the Repertory.
The sun meridian lustre tlu-cw,
Along the round and smiling world;

Bland the reviving breezes blew,
And Susquehannah's water's curld,
When Charles, his infant form to lave,
Descended to the proucnt wave.
\YINTER THOUGHTS.
'hen from the black and thrcatning west,
The wrathfnl tempest blows;
My swan skin waistcoat warms my breast,
But not my nose.

When from the east, both loud and dread,
But soon JEolus angry breath,

exercise,) brought on amortication, which
Across the river rudely blows;
put a period to his labors and sorrows about

the latter end of 1732.He was, unquestiona
bly, a man of uncommon abilities and learn
ing. His management of Woolston showed

him to have also vivacity and wit; and, not
withstanding that strange conceit which pos
sessed him, it is remarkable that he never
appeared feeble or absurd, except when the
object of his frenzy was before him.
Charged with the swift and liquid death,

The surging white-cappd billows rose!
The youth's distracted looks declare
His trembling fear and pale despair!
In vain his feeble arms he plies,
To reach the distant, friendly shore;
In vain each skilful art he tries,
Mockd by the torrents fr-atful roar!

'hile stronger now the current ows,
And fainter every erl'orts grows!
The winds come charged with snows;

The broad umbrella guards my head,_
But not my toes.
And underneath though widely spread,

The wind the cold still throws;
And, strange effect! the end makes red,
Of my poor nose.
When to the rain the snows do yield,
A soaking current ows:
Nor can my strong suw'an-ows shield,
My fearful tors,
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0! when shall genial spring appclr,
And blush the fragrant rose;
\lhcn winter cease to ll with fear,
My naked nose.
\l'hen frowning skies no longer shed,
Their rains yet scarcely froze;
'ith c\r_v step m_\ feet do tread,
'
To chill my toes.
\t-t lift- is but a winters day,
And trut- tis, such ofthosc as
\re doomd to travel long this way,

Must bear cold noses.
And wherefore should a m01tal weep,
To feel this winters snows;
Though they be full 2. fathom deep,

\
To freeze his toes?
Death shall another clime unfold,
Ocr all the grave shall close;

No longer shall his toes feel cold,
No nor his nose.
NAIRELAV.
For the Repertory. t

THEATRICAL.
.\ lad tother day, Sammy Harrow by name,
With poke full of rhino from Woodbury came;
On Wednesday was met by a friend in the way,
With whom, in the evening, he went to the play.
Belles Stratagem rst, Ella Rosenburgh after,
Made Sam cry at times, and at times burst with
laughter;
_
No soul could enjoy more than he did the sight;
He went from the theatre full of delight!

At Market street ferry poor Harrow next day,
lnssd the mornin extolling the last evenings play;

Some person then present of Sammy inquired,
which, most of the two that were play'd, he ad
mired.
A brighter crimson turns his glowing cheek:

His broad eye kindlcs, and his glances speak.
50 roll the clouds from some vast mountain's head,
Melt into mist, and down the valley spread;
"is crags and caves the bursting sunbeams light,
And burn and blaze upon his topmost height;

Broad in full day he lifts his towering crest,
And re celestial sparkles from his breast:
Eve too, how changed! No more with baby grace
The smile runs dimpling oer her trackless face,
As painted mcads invite her roving glance,
0r birds with liquid trill her ear intrance:
ith downcast look she stands, abasht and meek,
Now pale, now rosy red, her varying check;
Now rst hcr uttering bosom heaves a sigh,

Now rst a tear stands trembling in her eye;
For hark! the youth, as love and nature teach,
Breathes his full bosom, and breaks forth in speech.

His quivering lips the winged accents part,
And pierce, how swift! to Eves unguarded heart!
\'or woman taught the smpathy of smiles;

Vacant and sad his ray-less glances roll,
Nor hope nor joy illumes his darkling soul;
\h. hapless world that such a wretch obeys!
Ah! joylcss Adam, timugh a. world he sways!
But edthey meet,--they gazc the now born
pair;
Mark now the waking youth, the Wondring fair.
Stu-c a new soul that moping ideot warms,

Dilates his stature, and his mien informs!
given three cents to save his benefactor from

prison or from the halter.
These observations and instances are not
intended to throw cold water on charitable
dispositions, not to discourage bcneccncc
and courtesics; but' purely to prevent their

misapplication. One who Would be true to
himself, respectable in character, and really
useful to his fellow beings, must establish

and maintain a xed resolution, not to be
persuaded out of a thing that he. knows to be

right and best, or importuncd into a thing
There are some, and persons too of that he knows to be imprudent. He must
amiable qualities of mind, who have been resolve so far to be master both of his time
ruined in their curcumstances and in char and money, as that no importunity shall pre
acter too, rather for want of resolution to vail with him to spend the one or hazard the
act up to their own ideas of prudence and other, contrary to the sober convictions of
propriety, that from any inherent disposition his own mind.
Con. Couranr.
to run into imprudent and ruinous courses.
Their hearts are warm, and their temper so
ENORMOUS SNAKE DESTROYED
yielding, that they hardly know how to re
We had not gone above twenty yards
fuse any demands which are made upon through mud and water, the negro looking
their time or their purse.
every way with an uncommon degree of vi
M
loves neither cards, nor incbriat vacity and attention, when, starting behind
ing liquors, nor night-watchings; yet often me, called out Me sec snakec!" and in
he turns night into day, and day into night; effect there lay the anitnal, rolled up under
~.
_-._
often he sits at the card-table, from even to

morn; often he drinks to excessand does
all this not of choice, but as it were on com
pulsion. Unfortunately he has fallen into

familiar acquaintance with men who really
That truly I did like Ben Strangleem well;
Yet poor soul, though so many misfortunes beset love this wretched kind of life, and has not
her,
fortitude enough to withstand their impor
Indeed, sir, I liked .\"elly Ozumbrigvs better.
tunitics. Meanwhile he is disgusted with
RALPH RISIBLl-l.
this way of living, and with himself. Every
.
now and then he resolves to turn over a new
lkscription of Adam, before the formation of Eve;
leaf. He will no longer make himself mi
Love nursed not him with sweet endearing wiles,
tuned, entreated, and supplicated. R

was overcome. He endorsed the note, and
was undone; and this too for a worthless
ungrateful wretch, who scarcely would have
THE FRIEND.
Says Harrow, Im sure youll believe when 1 tell,
and of their rst meeting.

From Lucy .fik'inr Epistles on "'omcn.
See where the worlds new master roams along,
Yainly intelligent and idly strong;
Mark his long listless step and torpid air,
llis brow of densest gloom and xt infantile stare!
Those sullen lips no mothers lips have prest,
\or drawn, sweet labor! at her kindly breast;
No mothers voice has touched that slumbering ear,
Xor glistening eve beguilcd him of a tear;
desperate. He instantly refused, and gave

his reasons. The other importuncd. He rc
fuscd again; and again the other impor
serable to please others, not he. This lau
dable resolution lasts till some one of his

comrades comes in, and insists on having
his company the next night; and then he

yields to the importunity, nndaway he goes.
A
gives away much, but with little
credit to himself, or benet to community;
for he gives to im/mrtunily, not to desert.
the fallen leaves and rubish of the trees;

and so Well covered, that it was some time
before I distinctly perceived the head of

this monster, distant from me not above six
teen feet, moving its forked tongue, while

its eyes, from their uncommon brightness,
appeared to emit sparks of re. I now rested
my piece upon a branch for the purpose of
taking a surcr aim, red; but missing the
head, the ball went through the body, when

the animal struck round, and with the facility
of a scythe mowing grass; and by ouncing
his tail, caused the mud and dirt to y over
our heads to a considerable distance. Of this
proceeding however we were not torpid
spectators, but took to our heels, and crowd
ed into the canoe.
I now found the snake a little removed
from his former station, but very quiet, with
his head as before, lying out among the fal
Thc idle and the worthless, knowing his

weakness, besiegc him with their importu lenleaves, rotten bark, and old moss. I red
nate requests, and cngross his charities.
at it immediately, but with no better success
R
was requested to indorsc a large than the other time: and now, being but
note. His heart at rst rccoilcd as it were slightly wounded, he sent up such a cloud
with horror. He well knew that he ought
not to do it, either in reason or conscience;
of dust and dirt, as I never saw but in a whirl

wind, and made us once more suddenly re
that the sum wasso great as would ruin him

if he must pay it; and that the circumstan
ces of the applicant were precarious, if not
treathaving once more discovered the

snake, we discharged both our pieces at
once and with this good effect, that he was
359
now by one of us shot through the head.

David, who was made completely happy by
this successful conclusion, ran leaping with
with a. pure white in the middle. Its head is

broad and at, small in proportion to the
body, with a large mouth, and a double row
and a ushed and jovial countenance; she

was attended on the one hand by a troop of
joy, and lost no time in bringing the boat
of teeth; it has two bright prominent

is covered all over with scales, some
the size of a shilling; and under the
near the tail, armed with two strong
train of wanton youths and damsels, who
rope, in order to drag him down to the ca

noe; but this again proved not a very easy
undertaking, since the creature, notwith
ing its being mortally wounded, still continu

ed to writhe and twist about in such a man
mer as rendered it dangerous for any per
son to approach him. The negro, however,
having made a running noose on the rope, af
ter some fruitless attempts to make an ap
proach, threw it over his head with much
dexterity; and now, all taking hold of the
rope, we dragged him to the beach, and tied
eyes;
about
body,
claws
like cock spurs, to help it in seizing its prey.

It is an amphibious animal, that is, it de
lights in low and marshy places, where it lies

coiled up like a rope, and concealed under
moss, rotten timber, and dried leaves to
seize its prey by surprise, which, from its

immense bulk, it is not active enough to
pursue. When hungry, it will devour any
animal that comes within its reach, and is
him to the stern of the canoe, to take him
indifferent whether it is a sloth, a wild boar,
in tow. Being still alive, he kept swimming

like an eel; and I having no relish for such
a shipmate on board, whose length (notwith
a stag, or even a tyger; round which having

twisted itself by the help of its claws, so that
standing, to my astonishment, all the negroes
danced, half naked, to the softest musical

instruments; her name was Intemperancc.
She waved her hand, and thus addressed the
croud of diseases: Give way, yet sickly

band of pretenders, nor dare to vie with my
superior merits in the service of this great
monarch. Am not 1 your parent? the author
of your being? do not ye derive the power
ofshortcning human life almost wholly from.
me? who them so t as myself for this im
portant ofce? The grisly monarch grinned
a smile of approbation, placed her at his
right hand and she immediately became his
principal favorite and prime minister.
_.'-
the creature cannot escape, it breaks, by its
The varieties in sleep are so numerous

terrible force, every bone in the animals and the ludicrous results so generally ob
body,which it then covers over with a kind

of slime or slaver from its mouth, to make
be twenty two feet and some inches; and its it slide; and at last gradually sucks it in till
thiekness about that of my black boy Quaco, it disappears; after this the Aboma cannot
who might then be about twelve years old, shift its situation, on account of the great
and round whose waist I since measured the konb or knot which the swallowed prey oc
casions in that part of the body, where it rests
creature's skin.
The negro David having climbed up a till it is digested; for till then it would hin
tree with the end of the rope, let it down der the snake from sliding along the ground.
over a strong forked bough, and the other During that time the .rlboma wantsno other
negroes hoisted up the snake, and suspend subsistence. I have been told of negroes
ed him from the tree. This done, David, with being devoured by this animal, and am dis
a sharp knife between his teeth, now left posed to credit the account; for, should they
the tree, and elung fast upon the monster, chance to come within its reach when hun
which was still twisting, and began his ope gry, it would as certainly seize them as any
rations by ripping it up, and stripping down other animal. The bite of this snake is said
the skin as he descended. Though I per not to be venomous; nor do I believe it bites
ceived that the animal was no longer able at all from any other impulse than hunger.
declared it to be a young one come to its
half growth) I found upon measuring it to
to do him any injury, I confess I could not
cooks and bacchanals, and on the other, by a
Steadmans Expedition to Surinam. Vol. I- p- NO
served, that it may be perhaps considered

superuous, to add any farther instance of
peculiarity; but as the following is known
only to few, and the translator, being inti
smately acquainted with the subject of it,
able to vouch for its truth, he trusts the rea
der will excuse, at the same time that he

may derive some amusements from the
triing claim on his attention. A respectable
farmer, now considerably advanced in life
who has been a somnambulist from his in
fancy, and who in his nocturnal, rambles has
committed many an innocent robbery on his
motherss larder to the no small diversons
of his youthful associates, not many years
ago, rose in the night, dressed himself com
pletely, and to the inexpressible terror of his

lady, seized the bed with her in it, carried
it in his arms into an adjoining room, and

I
carefully placed it on the hearth; after this
without emotion see a man stark naked,
COURT OI DEATH.
black and bloody, clinging with arms and
wonderful exercise of his muscular strength
Death, the king of terrors, was determi
legs round the slimy and yet living monster.
he walked out to a house at some distance
This labor, however, was not without its ned to choose a prime minister: and his occupied by one of his servants, roused him
use, since he not only dexterously nished pale courticrs, the ghastly train of deseases, up, and in so distinct and particular a man
the operation, but provided me, besides the were all summoned to attend; when each ner ordered him to set 06' immediately in
skin, with above four gallons of ne claried preferred his claim to the honor of this il the waggon, with certain produce of the
fat, or rather oil, though there was wasted lustrious ofce. Fever urged the numbers farm to a neighboring town, and there
perhaps as much more. \Vhen i signied he destroyed; cold Palsy set forth his pre await his arrival, that the servant did not
my surprise to see the snake still living after tentious by shaking all his limbs: and Drop hesitate toohey. The gentleman then return
he was deprived of his intestines and skin, sy, by his swelled unwidely cat-case. Gout ed to his affrightcd lady, quietly undressed
Caramaco, the old negro, whether from ex hobbled up, and alledgcd his great power himself, and passed the remainder of the
perience of tradition, assured me he would in racking every joint; and Asthmas inabil
night in bed. Upon awaking the next morn
ity to speak was a atrong, though silent ar ing and discovering to his unfcigned astonish
not die till after sun set.
This wonderful creature in the colony of gument, in favor of his claim. Stone and ment that his eyes were directed up the
Surinam, is called bomba. Its length, when Cholic pleaded their violence. Plague, his chimney, he demanded of his wife how and
full grown, is said to be sometimes forty rapid progress in destruction; and Consump why the bud had been placed in such a
feet, more than four feet in circumference; tion, though slow, insisted that he was sure. situation! The irritability of his temper is
its colour, is a greenish black on the back, In the midst of this contention, the court so great on these occasions,that any at
tempt to impede or contradict his inclina
a ne brownish yellow on the sides, and a was disturbed with the noise of music, dan
dirty while under thebelly: the back and sides cing, feasting and revelry: when immediate tions would be attended with the most dan
wet-t f1
being spotted with irregular black rings ly entered a lady, with a bold lascivious air, gerous consequences.
360
lqLADELPHLKREPERTOR3 o
Im
' Srong at Religion.

He who treats sacred things with any de
gree of levity and scorn, is acting the part,
perhaps without his seeing or knowing it, of
a public enemy to society. He is precisely

the madman described in the book of Pro
verbs who casteth rebrands, arrows, and
death; and saith, am I not in sport? \Ve shall
hear him, at times, complain loudly of the
undutifulness of children, of the dishonesty

of servants. of the tumults and insolence of
the lower ranks; while he himself is, in a
great measure, responsible for the disorders

of which he complains. By the example
which he sets of contempt for religion, he
becomes accessary to the manifold crimes
which that contempt occasions among others.
By his scufng at sacred institutions, he is

encouraging the rabble to uproar and vio
lence, he is emboldening the false witness
to take the name of God in vain; he is, in
effect, putting arms into the hands of the

highwayman, and letting loose the robber on
the streets by night.
Mr. Editor,
Never was there a young lady so anxious

for a letter from her lover, as I was for
your Repertory of to day. At length it came,

and without waiting to dry it, I hastily turn
ed it over and over, in hopes that the signa
ture of Philo Madan would arrest my atten
tion, but alas! it contained no essay from that

gentleman. Gracious! l. exclaimed, he must
he certainly dead, or sick, or the bank char
ter must so have engaged his attention, as

to have prevented him from performing his
promise; or perhaps the words of the anthem
may have brought to his remembrance, college.
the awful day of retribution, and he has
_
thought it better to seek an interest with the
HEALTH OFFICE,
Judge, than to spend his time criticising a
March 2, 1811.
performance, which has excited devotion in lntcrments in the city and liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 23d February to the 2d March, 1811.
many a pious soul.
Philo Madan may rest assured, that not
all. ch.
Ih'uaser.
O
0
0
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opinion.
6 Mortication
A. 13.
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Joel Barlow, esq. has been appointed by
the president of the United States, by and
with the advice and consent of the senate,
We are happy to become acquainted with minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraor
Florenzo. We can sec in his stanzas a. dinary to France, vice general Armstrong,
luxuriance of fancy, a beauty of expression, resigned.'
-.
and a ow of numbers, that cannot fail to
Russelville, Ken. Feb. I.
please. \Ve shall esteem ourselves obliged
On Friday evening last, a Mrs. Bog-an,
by his continued correspondence.
wife of Samuel Hogan, in the Georgia set
The communication of Lansane, in its
tlement in this county, was shot through
present state, is too incorrect for publica
tion; yet as we can perceive, amid the crude
Diseases.
Abscess
1
Apoplexy
2
exists in that author, he will nd it extreme
Atrophy
1
ly difcult to persuade those, with whom the Cholie
1
piece is a favorite, to coincide with him in Consumption of lungs 8
withstanding all the faults that he may say
Saturday evening, March 2d.
pbaahtlllbl'a.
jcct; but that it gives me an opportunity of

pledging myself to this company that after
the nett expenses I have necessarily incur
red in the premises, shallbe defrayed, every
cent shall be devoted to that institution
which this lottery was intended to benet."
No sooner was this last word pronounced
than the clappings of applause resounded
from every quarter of the hall. Approbation
and satisfaction was universally proclaimed.
Mr. Pryce was surrounded by congratulators
and the scene was as pleasing to the com
pany as the event is interesting to the
the body, as she was sitting by the re in

her own house, by some person from
mass, many traces of genius, which it is our without: on Monday following a person by
professed aim to encourage, if he will favor the name of John \Vebb was taken up on
us with an interview, it may possibly ter suspicion and immediately confessed himself
minate with advantage to him.
guilty, and that he was hired to commit the
\Ve should be extremely happy to re act by her husband; they are both in goal
ceive further communications from our old in this place to stand their trial at April
and approved correspondents, Dr. Fungus, court next. The woman is still living. but in
Caustic, Clementina and Grommet. \Ve a very dangerous way.
wish our friends would remember that it is
Wilmington, Feb. 28, 1811.
impossible for the mind of an editor to fur
nish matter sufficient for his paper, be its
On Tuesday last the drawing of the \Vil
resources over so great, and, that in conse
mington college lottery was concluded in the
quence of the paucity of the resources of presence of a numerous concourse. The tick
our mind, we stand in greater need of their et,entitled to the 5000 dollars, was the pro
pcity of the Rev. \Villiam Pryce, who was
assistance.
Some of our poetical tyroes, whose efforts present on the occasion. and who, as soon as
have not been inserted, must not in conse its fate was announced, rose and pronounced
quence lay by the pen; we assure them, we the following address:
shall be ever ready to encourge, and if they
Gentlemen,
will permit the necessary alterations, we
It appears, at the close of this lottery,
shall be happy to gratify their laudable am that I am in possession of the fortunate ticket.
bition, and present them to the million.
I rejoice in the result: not that I intend de
\Vhy sleeps the pen of Amicus.
l riving any pecuniary advantage from the sub
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PHILA DELPHIA ,
Printed and published by Dennis Heartf,

No. 17 Arch street.
@Piiabdp)ia@@eperforp.
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, um.
VOL. I.
No. 46.
with his own genius, and to know what it was

that nature had bestowed upon him more
bountifully than upon others; the power of
displaying the vast, illuminating the splen
parts of a vulgar epic poem, which immerge

the critic in deep consideration, the Para
dise Lost requires little to be said. It con
books, might doubtless be spared; but

superuities so beautiful, who would take
away? or who does not wish that the author
of the Iliad had gratied succeeding ages
with a little knowledge of himself? Perhaps
no passages are more frequently or more
attentively read than those extrinsic para
graphs; and_since the end of poetry is plea
tains the history of a miracle, of creation and
sure, that cannot be unpoetical with which
redemption; it displays the power and the

mercy of the supreme Being; the probable
all are pleased.

After the scheme and frabric of the poem,
must be considered its component parts, the
sentiments and the diction.
The sentiments, as expressive of manners,
or appropriated to characters, are, for the
greater part, unexptionably just.
Splendid passages, containing lessons of
morality, or precepts of prudence, occur
seldom. Such is the original formation of this
fancy without the censure of extravagance.

The appearances of nature, and the occur
rences of life, did not satiate his appetite of
greatness. To paint things as they are, re
quires a minute attention, and employs the
memory rather than the fancy. Miltons de
light was to sport in the wide regions of pos
sibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his
mind. He sent his faculties out upon dis
covery, into worlds where only imagina
tion can travel, and delighted to form new
modes of existence, and furnish sentiment
and action to superior beings, to trace the
counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of
heaven.
But he could not be always in other worlds:
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
(Concluded)
Of the probable and the marvellous, two
therefore is marvellous, and the marvellous
is probable. The substance of the narrative

is truth; and, as truth allows no choice, it is,
like necessity, superior to rule. To the ac

cidental or adventitious parts, as to every
thing human, some slight exceptions may
be made. But the main fabric is immovably
supported.
It is justly remarked by Addison, that this
poem, that, as it admits no human manners
till the fall, it can give little assistance to

human conduct. Its end is to raise the
ally and perpetually interesting. All man thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures.
Yet the praise of that fortitude, with which
kind will, through all ages, bear the same re
lation to Adam and to Eve, and must partake Abdiel maintained his singularity of virtue
of that good and evil which extend to them against the scorn of multitudes, may be ac
commodated to all times; and Raphaels re
selves.
Of the machinery, by which is meant the proof of Adams curiosity after the planetary
occasional interposition of supernatural motions, with the answer returned by Adam,
power, another fertile topic of critical re maybe condently opposed to any rule of
marks, here is no room to speak, because life which any poet has delivered.
The thoughts which are occasionally
every thing is done under the immediate
and visible direction of heaven; but the rule callqd forth in the progress, are such as
is so far observed, that no part of the action could only be produced by an imagination in
could have been accomplished by any other the highest degree fcrvid and active, to
iwhich materials were supplied by incessant
means.
Of episodes, I think there are only two, 'study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of
contained in Raphaels relation of the war in Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his ;
poem has, by the nature of its subject, the

advantage above all others,that it is univers
did, enforcing the awful, darkening the

gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful; he
therefore chose a subject on which too much

could not be said, on which he might tire his
he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of
things visible and known. \Vhen he cannot

raise wonder by the sublimity of his mind,
he gives delight by its frrtility.
\Vhatevcr be his subject, he never Fails

to ll the imagination. But his images and
descriptions of the SCCXN'S or operations of
nature do not seem to be always copied from
original form, nor to have the freshness,
raciness, and energy, of immediate observa

tion. He saw nature, as Dryden expresses
it, through the spectacles of books; and on
most occasions calls learning to his assist
ance. The garden of Eden brings to his
heaven, and Michaels prophetic account of learning, to throw into his work the spirit} mind the vale of llnna, where Proserpine
the changes to happen in this World. Both of science, unmingled with its grosscr parts.
was gathering flowers. Satan makes his way
He had considered creation in its whole through ghting elements, like Argo be
are closely connected With the great action;
one was necessary to Adam as a warning,
extent, and his descriptions are therefore
tween the Cyancon rock; or Ulysses be
the other as a consolation.

To the compleatness or integrity of the
design nothing can be objected, it has dis
tinctly and clearly what Aristotle requires, a
beginning, a middle, and an end. There is
perhaps no poem, of the same length, from
which so little can be taken without ap
parent mutilation. iierc are no funeral
games, nor is there any long description of
a shield. The short digressions at the be
ginning of the third, seventh, and ninth
learned. He had accustomed his imagina

tion to unrestrained indulgence, and his con
l ceptions therefore were extensive. The char
Iacteristic quality of his poem is sublimity.
tween the two Sicilian whit-pools, when he
shunned Charybdis on the Iarboald. The
mythological allusions have been justly cen

sured, as not being always used with notice
He sometimes descends to the elegant, but 3. of their vanity; but they contribute variety
invest
his element
himself
is the
with
great.
grace;
_Hc can
but occasionally
his natural ,9 to the hul'llih, and produce an alternate
exercise of the memory and the fanty.
llis siinilit-s are less numerous, and more
port is gigantic loftiness. He can please'
when pleasure is required;but it is his pecu- {; various, than those of his predecessors. But
liar power to astonish.
i he does not conne himself within the limits

He seems to have been well acquainted of rigorous comparison: his great excellence
7361
PHIL ADELPHI AREPER TOR Y.
is amplitude; and he CR1)'..litls the adventi

tious image beyond the dimensions which
the occasion required. Thus comparing the
shield of Saturn to the orh of the moon, he
crowds the imagination uith the discovery
of the telescope, and all the wonders which
the telescope discovers.

01" ill.) n~oral sentiments it is hardly praise
to afrm that they exceeded those of all
other poets; for this superiority he was in
debted to his acquaintance with the sacred
writings. The ancient epic poets, wanting
the light of revt latiOn, were very unskilful ,

teachers of virtue: their principal characters
may be great, but they are not amiable.
The reader may rise from their works with
a great degree of active or passive fortitude,
and sometimes of prudence; but he will be
able to carry away few precepts of justice,
and none ofmercy.
Of human beings there are but two; but
those two are tlie parents of mankind, vener
able before their fall for dignity and inno
cencc, and amiable after it for repent
ance and submission. In the rst state
their affection is tender without weakness,
and their piety sublime without presump

tion. When they have sinned, they show
how discord begins in mutual frailty, and
how it ought to cease in mutual forbearance,
how condence of the divine favor is for
feited by sin, and how hope of pardon may
be obtained by penitence and prayer. A state
of innocence We can only conceive, if indeed,
in our present misery, it be possible to con

ceive it; but the sentiments and worship
proper to a fallen and offending being, we
have all to learn, as we have all to practise.
The poet, whatever he done, is always
great. Our progenitors in their rst state
convcrsed with angels; even when folly and
sin had degraded them, they had not in
their humiliation the port of mean suitors;
and they rise again to reverential regard,
when we find that their prayers were heard.
As human passions did not enter the
world before the fall, there is in the Paradise
Lost little opportunity for the pathetic; but

what little there is has not been lost. That
passion which is peculiar to rational nature,
the anguish arising from the consciousness
of transgression, and the horrors attending
the sense of the divine displeasure. are very
justly described and forcibly impressed. But
the passions are moved only on one occa
sion; sublimity is the general and prevailing
quality of this poem; snblimity variously
modied, sometimes descriptive, sometimes
argumentative.
The defects and faults of Paradise Lost,
for faults and defects every work of man

must have, it is the business of impartial
criticism to discover. As, in displaying the

excellence of Milton, I have not made long
quotations, because of selecting beauties
there had been no end, I shall inthe same
general manner mention that which seems
though the arms of the contending angels are

evidently material.
Such are the faults of that wonderful
instruction, retire harrassed, and overbur

dened, and look elsewhere for recreation;
lain. He is looked upon by all as an object

of contempt; his infamy is trumpeted
we desert our master, and seek for compan

ions.
Another inconvenience of Miltons design
is, that it requires the description of what
cannot be described, the agency of spirits.
He saw that immateriality supplied no iuia
ges, and that he could not show angels act
ing but by instruments of action; be there
fore invested them with form and matter.
throughout the world by the Hermes of ex
performance Paradise Lost; which he who
can put in balance with its beauties must be

to deserve censure; for what Englishman considered not as nice but as dull. as less to
can take delight in transcribing passages, be censured for want of candor, than pity
which, if they lessen the reputation of Mil for want of sensibility.
ton, diminish in some degree the honor of
Of Paradise Regained, the general judg
his country?
ment seems now to be right, that it is in
The plan of Paradise Lost has this incon many parts elegant, and every where in
venience, that it comprises neither human structive. It was not to be supposed that the
actions or human manners. The man and wo writer of Paradise Lost could ever write
man who act and suffer are in a state which without great effusions of fancy, and exalt
no other man or woman can ever know. The ed precepts of wisdom. The basis of Para
reader nds no transaction in which he can dise Regained is narrow; a dialogue without
be engaged; beholds no condition in which action can never please like an union of the
he can by any effort of imagination place narrative and dramatic powers. Had this
himself; he has, therefore, little natural poem been written not by Milton, but by
curiosity or sympathy.
some imitator, it would have claimed and
It has been therefore said, without an inde
received universal praise.
cent hyperbole, by one of his encomiasts,
_..-_
that in reading Paradise Lost we read a book
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of universal knowledge.
THE CABINET. No. XXIX.
But original decience cannot be suppli
\\'ith what author t_\- and show of truth
ed. The want of human interest is alWays
Can cunning sin cover itself withsl.
felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which
Salutsrssnr.
the reader admires and lays down, and for
There is perhaps no vice so generally
gets to take up email]. None ever wished practised, and at the same time so univer
it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty sally despised as Hypocrisy. Is a man a hy
rather than a pleasure. we read Milton for pocrite? he is immediately considered a vil
This, being necessary, was therefore defen

sible; and he should have secured the con
aggeration, and his company is proclaimed

to be dangerous and disgraceful, but how
many of these very persons who are the
most industrious in circulating reports con
cerning the bad behaviour of others do we
see superciliously bending to them when
they meet, and pouring consolation in their
ears for their undeserved loss of character:
this is the too common sincerity of the world;
this is the manner in which these comforters
sistency of his system, by keeping immateri proceed in their nefarious designs, and thus
ality out of sight, and enticing his reader they smile, and murder while they smile.
to drop it from his thoughts. But he has an
Hypocrisy is asserted by a celebrated
happily perplexed his poetry with his philo author to be a homage which vice pays
sophy. His infernal and celestial powers are to virtuez a melancholy, and convincing
sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes ani proof that the majority of mankind are
mated body. When Satan walks with his vicious, for by far the greater part bow to
lance upon the burning niarle, he has a body; the shrine of virtue in the garb of deceit.
when in his passage between hell and the It is only used to serve the ends of the wick
new world, he is in danger of sinking in the ed, and to frustrate the intentions of the
vacuity, and is supported by a gust of rising good. It is the veil which conceals all kind
vapors, he has a body; when he animates of villainy, the mask which gives congruity
the toad, he seems to be more spirit,that can
to the features of the seducer, which gilds
penetrate matter at pleasure; when he starts with the appearance of a'ection the coun
up in his own shape, he has at least a deter tenance of the traitor; the instrument which
mined form; and when he is brought before sometimes blunts the edge of justice, and
Gabriel, he has a spear and a shield, which sheaths from discovery the blood-stained
he had the power of hiding in the toad, dagger of the assassin.
.
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M%
The incentives to it are almost as nume

rous as its votaries, thirst after power causes
the great man (in the common mockery of
the term) to call it to his assistance, he feigns
equal balance of uncrring justice commands

nosy mpathy till it be exacted to the sin
cerity of repentance, we may, we should be
subjugated by that appeal, and in making it
a detestation of tyranny, a love for his coun
to an offended world, the punishment of the
try, and an eager and irresistable desire to

plant in it the standard of liberty interwoven
with the laurels of peace; he ascends the
throne with professed unwillingness, con
hypocrite would be complete. As a vice, hy

pocrisy should be kept at an awful distance,
for though its possessions may be for a mo
ment of supposed benet,yet it is most gene
rally, sooner or later, stripped of its disguise,
and its votaries are held up as spectacles to
prove the danger of embracing it, and the
hatred it justly ensures.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
demning royalty, he renders his people mis

erable, whilst he swears he esteems their
happiness more than his own life, and he
exercises his sceptre with the sway ofa ty

rant whilst he professes eternal hatred to all
despots. Is it not hypocrisy that disguises
the black designs of unforgiving revenge
when he approaches his victim with the
borrowed smile of complaisance, hails him
with the assumed voice of love, and whilst
he lulls suspicion with the studied accents

of soothing friendship, meditates the destruc
tive blow of death? Is it not ungrateful hy
pocrisy that triumphs over the meckness
of conding innocence, and laughs at the
ruined reputation of unsuspecting worth?
It is subservient to the groveling desires of
insatiate interest, being employed as the
means of procuring wealth, a worldly honor;
for which reason it is so often to be found
among the despicable minions of the great,
whose minds weakened by the vanity which
surrounds them, pay the loathed tribute of
unmerited respect to their superiors through
the hope of being invested in the dazzling
garb of wealth, thinking, (I fear too truly)
ap
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ANECDOTIANA.
No. XII.
CHARITY.
A poor man within a few miles ofLondon,
who had a wife with six children, was seized
on for his rent. While the unhappy wife
was shreiking in vain for mercy from un
feeling law, a person came by and inquired
into the cause of her distress: upon being in
formed, he paid the debt amounting to
eleven pounds and immediately departed.
He was himself a poor tradesman of Lud
gate Hill.
BLINDNESS.
Henry Moyes, blind from his infancy, by
the ardor and assiduity of his application,
and by the force of a genius to which noth
that the world neer holds him guilty, who ing is impenetrable, has not only made him
self master of the languages, but is deeply
succeeds. '
One of the most powerful allies of hy skilled in geometry, optics algebra, astro
pocrisy, is attery, but the man who would nomy, chymistry, and all the other branches
basely endeavor to raise the merits of an of natural philosophy, as taught by Newton,
other in his own esteem, merely through and received by a wondering world.
motives of sclfaggrandizement, or specula
It is said that Blacklock the celebrated
tions of designing villainy, should ever be poet, saw the light but ve months: besides
shunned as a monster, and blotted from the having made himself master of Latin, Greek,
Italian, and French, he Was also skilled in
record of mankind.
Beware of the wiles of the Hypocrite, ye natural philosophy.
.lohn Metcalf, a blind man of Manchester,
children of simplicity, and avoid his invidi
England, vcry lately followed the occupation
ous attacks, for remember that though
of conducting strangers through intricate
Presuasions self is seated on his tongue,
roads during the night, or when the tracks
30 soft, so sweetly soothing ow his words,
Behind that screen a poisnous serpent lurks,
were covered with snowl!
ith fangs outstretched, impatientto destroy.
roncr: or EXAMPLE.
Could hypocrisy always be discovered
One of the most eil'ectual ways of doing
in its true light, its power to injure would good is by showing the way, not by directing
be taken from it, and as a viper when dcs~ to it. Who would not laugh ata drunkard for
polled of its venomous weapon, we would preaching sobriety, and despise the debau
look upon the crawling reptile with the se chees eulogy upon morality.
curity of fearless contempt; our feelings
Julius Caesar never said to his soldiers:
Would not be softened by commiseration for lte, go on; but Venite, come on; or
its su brings, nor sorrow for its unhappiness; follow me. So the great Author of christianity
our hearts would not melt at beholding its has not only left us the record of the way
misery, because it has deserved it; and the to heaven, but himself became our examplar.
Two architects were candidates for build

ing a certain temple at Athens. One har
rangued-the crowd very learncdly upon the
different sorts of architecture, and showed
them in what manner the temple should be

built. The other arose when he had done
speaking and only observed, that what his
brother had spoken of he could do!" and
thus at once he gained the cause.
Lord Peterborough, more famed for his
wit than his religion, when he judged with

Fenclon at Cambray, was so charmed with
the piety and virtue of the archbishop, that

he cried out at parting, if I stay here any
longer, l shall become a christian, in spite
of myself."
FILIAL AFFECTION.
A gentleman of Sweden was condemned
to suller death for certain offences commit
ted in the discharge of a public oice which

he had lled for a number of years. His son,
a youth ofabout eighteen years, was no sooner
apprised of the predicament of the author
of his being, than he flew to the judge who
had pronounced
the fatal sentence, and
prayed, that he might be su'ered to die for

a father whom he adored and whom he could
not survive. The magistrate was astonished,
and could hardly be persuaded that the
youth was sincere in his request. But being
at length convinced that he wished to save
the life of his father at the expense of his
own, he wrote an account of the whole affair
to the king, who immediately dispatched

back the courier with orders to grant a full
pardon to the father, and to confer a title
of honor on his incomparable son! This

mark of royal favor however, with all hu
mility he begged to decline; and the motive

for the refusal was not less noble than the
conduct by which he deserved it was gene
rous and disinterested. Of what avail,
cried he, could the most exalted title he
to me, humbled as my family already is in

the dust? alas! would it not serve as amonu
ment to perpetuate in the minds of my
countrymen the direful remembrance of an
unhappy fathers shame! The king actually
shed tears when'this speech was repeated to
him, and sending for the youth to court,
immediately appointed him to the office of

his private contidenti.-.l secretary.
'rnn rL/t'rrmtek nernoven.
One of his courtiers once complimented
Alphonso V in the following words: Sire,
you are not only a king like others but you
are also the brother, the nephew, and the
son of a king." \Vcll, replied the mon

arch, what do all these vain titles prove?
that I hold the crown from my ancestors,
without ever having done any thing to de

serve it!
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REFLECTOR. No. I.
There is not perhaps a greater truth, and
at the same time a more paradoxical fact,
than that a man is frequently deterred from
doing what his judgment convinces him is
right, and his principles tell him is his duty,
by an apprehension that he will be less
thought of in the world for following the
dictatestefJtis own conscience, and laughed
at for daring-to act differently from others.

Singular and improbable as it may seem,
that a man should be so blind and infatuat
ed; and thus to sacrice his own conviction
'to opinions which he knows to be improper:

experience convinces us of the existence
of the fact and observation daily furnishes
melancholy proofs of the assertion. There
is perhaps but little danger that the conduct
of a man, who has arrived at an age when
ardor is tempered by reection, and pre
judice has given way to judgment, being
naturally influenced by the fear that he will be
less esteemed for acting conscientiously: but
a young man just stepping into active life,
is extremely liable to fall a victim to what
may implicitly be called false shame. Unac
quainted with the ways of the world, a stran
ger to the complicated machinery of the
ety of his concurrence he is unwilling to

brave their ridicule and ashamed to continue
his adherence to virtue. Tints induced to act
in direct opposition to his own ideas of pro
priety, he either by silent acquiescence or
open support, becomes the advocate of vice.
To point out an evil is doing a benet to
society; but to point out an evil which ex
ists and prescribe an antidote to obviate its
injurious e'ects is rendering society a much
more essential service. To enable us to act
with rm independance when the ardent
ambition of youth is assailed by ridicule;
the adopting a system by which to regulate
our conduct through life appears to me to
be eminently calculated. In the moments of
cool reection, when the mind is perfectly
free from the bias of pleasure and reason
maintains her empire over our passions, we
are able to discriminate with accuracy be

tween what is correct and what is improper.
l-orl what is friednship but a. namevt- ff

A c nu-m that lulls to slee :
is - i
l
A shade that follows wealthpand amt-if???
And leaves the wretch to weep"? , JR, .
t
I must now nd some solitude; and per

haps close the evening of my life in the lap
of penury: but stop, methinks some kind
power bids me not despair; though I have
deviated from prudence, I never have from
virtue.
Notwithstanding this reverse of fortune I
may yet be happy; the rcctitude of my heart
shall be my consolation: Here she paused
Yesl it must be so.
To morrow, at Auroras
dawn, when the feathered songsters are

chaunting forth hynms of gratitude to the.
supreme Author of the universe, I
will
commit myself to his care, and quit this

place forever, and endeavor to blot out the
remembrance of the part I have acted in it.
The ruddy messengers of morn had just
unbarred the gates of light, when Euphra
syne bid adieu to the place of her birth. The
If at this time we set down deliberately and

with a view to our future welfare and respec
tability in society, adopt certain regulations melody of the birds, the softness of the air,
resolving to make them the general rule the universal stillness that reigned around,
of our conduct; and forin a code of laws by spread a serenity over her mind, and calmed
which to test the propriety of our future all her sorrows. She stopped to take a
actions; there is but little danger of our be
survey of all her steps, and the surrounding
ing either inuenced by bad examples or landscape. How happy, exclaimed the fair,
led astray by the allurements of pleasure. are the inhabitants of that lowly cottage,
human character, he enters into life unap
A set of resolutions thus adopted; an indi now enjoying the sweets of balmy slumbers.
priscd of the temptations he will have to vidual constitution (if I may so eXpress my This is a felicity the virtuous only knowl
encounter, unprepared to resist the allure
self) formed on such principles, is attended Sleep on, yc children of innocence, and
ments of pleasure and ignorant of the misery with incalc ulable advantages to ayoung man. may your repose be uninterrupted! She
which attends the indulgence of vice. Anx
It affords a beacon to guide him through nished her ejaculation with a sigh, and
ious to become known in the world ambition the tempestuous scenes of life; it is a friend walked slowly forward, till she arrived at a
leads him on: his education has perhaps been to whose advice he can have access when little village, where she inquired the way to
such as to implant in his breast a love of assailed by temptations, and a shield under the next; and with the small remains of her
virtue, and he fancies he will make himself the shelter of which he may rest secure fortune, purchased a cottage. The lofty elm
eminent by displaying it in his conduct; his against the encroachments of vice or the overshadowed her dwelling, and the lovely
acquaintance now becomes general and in stings of adversity. It was to a regulation evergreen crept around her door. Here, the
discriminate; among the number there are such as this, that \Vashington owed his once gay Euphrosyne, that lately shone in all
some who follow vicious pursuits as a pro talents and perhaps America her indepen the circles of the bean monde, was obscured
fession and who are in consequence anxious dance.
SIMON FRIENDLY.
as in a shadowy vale; but in the vale, she was
to place others in the same situation; their
convinced that happiness does not dwell on
Q.
conversation is to him unintelligible, for he
the summit of grandeur.
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has as yet never been initiated in the techni
cal terms of vice; he therefore feels lost in
sELECTOR. No. XlV.
acrnaosvus; on Tue FAIR REFORMED.

their company and to relieve himself from
How unhappy are the fair, who, from
a situation which is embarrassing and dis
agreeable, is induced to enter into their mistaken notions of happiness, seek the
views and follow their pursuits; when he alluring paths of pleasure! Dcluded indeed!
mrkes this resolution it is with an intention Here a sigh burst from her bosom, at the
of walking but a short distance in the paths recollection of past folly, and a tear fell from
of pleasure, but having once entered he nds its orb, and rested on the check of the fair
himself unable to retreat, his companions Euphrosync. Cease, said she, the dew drops
laugh at his scruples and ridicule every dis of contrition, what avail they now? Are not
position which he manifests to return to his the years of dcssipation own away like the
former steady habits. He at rst makes some sun beams of the morning, without one
faint hesitating opposition to their advances, reecting moment? They sported till my
but reiterating attacks conquer his resolu fortune was exhausted; and friends with for
tion; and though convinced of the impropri tune ed.
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FALLERY OF FRAGMENTS.
No. V.
The eve was damp and chill; daritness
veiled the face of the sky; the deep roared,
and the mad billows lashed the rugged beach.
Theodore was seated on a cliff overlooking
the sea shore: his face was pale and emacia
ted; his hair hung in wild disorder and he
was beating his breast in despair.
.
The remains of his departed Maria had
been just committed to the dust. Distracted
he had followed the hearse; and after the sad
ceremony of interment, had sat bathing the
grave of his consort with many a tear. Despa
ration had driven him hither; in melancholy
transport he exclaimd: My fair one, my
beloved, the idol of my soul, the pride of
\Vere lost! all lost!-art not afraid he cries,

Een now the swelling seas the ship oerwhelm!
ith sweet composure, No, the child replies,
nature, is gone. is ravished from me! Roar
So on the ocean of this mortal life,

Where fiercest storms of sin and passion rage,
louder, ye sras! ye winds howl! pour down

ye rains, a deluge! groan, ye elements in
concert with my woe!" He paused with un
uterable anguish. Spent with complaint he
reclined his head on a rock, and fell asleep.
The gale strengthened; the rains descended
in torrents; the seas boiled with fury; hoarse
thunders rumbled, and keen lightening burst

from the heavens. Theodore, the shivering
Im not afraid; my fathers at the helm."
Where reason, truth and error are at strife,
And powers of darkness the dread contest wage;

Where tempests of afiction ever rise,
And clouds of gloomy sadness ever roll;

'here suffering virtue in prostration lies,
And oods of sorrow seem to sink the soul,
Thrice blest is he, who by experience knows,

Though ruin dire this scene of things oerwhelm,
Or change what may, his safety and repose
Are sure, his heavenly Fathers at the helm.
and almost expiring Theodore, once more

awoke, and cast his eyes upwards. At that
instant a bolt from the impending cloud, com
missioned by indulgent fatc, closed them
forever in death.
ClNTl'llO.
AMY NTOR.
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(I; C: U:
The thirsting fancies to allay

Of his fastidious neighbors?
Or on the passing tempests brow
To beone moment posted,
Or in the re of critics, now
Be infamously roasted
0! Peter, Peter, turn in time,
To sober judgment bending,

Avoid your fault, and y from rhyme
Before tis past the mending.
And for the friendly part I take,
You sure will not abuse me;
For think dear sir your names at stake,
And thinking thus, excuse me;
Nor let the paltry, jingling sound
Of tasteless verse enchant you,
Or through your lifes revolving round,

It ceaselessly will haunt you
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T0 JULIO.
My Julio, when the favring sun
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Again shall bid the owcrets bloom;
\Vhen icy winter's course is run

And nature bursts her transient tomb.
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N0. 111.
When gentle spring her roscate hues,

And balmy breeze refreshing brings;
or Tnr. nose.
This morning it unfolded its beauties to
\Vhen oer the fields her robes she strews,
And the long silent warbler sings;
the eastern sun; it exhaled its rich perfume;
I beheld the beautiful ower with pleasure.
Shall we together gaily stray

Along the winding streams green side,
And as we tread the dewy way
List to the music of the tide!
A person passed my window, and, no doubt,
to please me, plucked it from the stalk; he

gave it me; I placed it in my bosom. It
fadedit died awayand when evening
came it was no more charming.
Vain man! in this ower thou mayest be
hold an emblem of thyself. Thou in the
morning of thy days wast amiable. But when
thou hast arrived at mature ago, then thou
wast severed from unsullied innocencezthen
thou didst imbibe the vices of the age. As
How sweet to rove by Lunas beams

Oer scenes whose charms the heart enslave;
\Vhile through the high toppd foliage gleams

Her paly light upon the Wave.
To mark the river roll along,
And view the distant lessning sails.
To lie-.u' the pensive ship boys song
Which oer the stilly stream prevails.
the ower lost its crimson hue, thou wast
I know thou lovest the moonlight e'en,
fast loosing thy hold of virtue. And as the
I know thy bosom throbs with pleasure,

Like mine, to bail each lovely scene
rose had entirely faded, so rectitudc, inte
Still let the Cabinet exist,

Be there your strength exerted,
To its support my friend assist,
Nor shamefully desert it;
And if I haply you reclaim,
\Vhoever shall have read it,
Give Peter all his due of fame,
But Gregory that credit

Were prosin'g moralists indeed,
And folly's laugh,well brave it,
For who could see his country bleed,
Nor strain a nerve to save it:
And if Ive rescued from disgrace
That honorable station,
I, for my efforts in this case,
Ask n0 renumeration. I
I
GREGORY- GRAYl'll .
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POETIC SELECTOR.
No. IV.
EULOGY 0F THOMSON, THE POET.

Hail natures poet! whom shetaught alone
'lo sing her works in numbers like her own;
Sweet as the thrush that warbles in the dale,
0f natures wild orsimple treasure.
And soft as Philomelas tender tale.

She lent her pencil too of wondrous power,
Then, .Iulio, when the summers breath
To catch the rainbow, orto form the oWer
grity, innocence, and every amiable virtue,

became strangers to thy heart; and left thee,
Entirely, a man ofthe world.
ALONSO.
Again shall bid the grotto bloom,

And twine it with a verdant wreathe,
Shall we together gaily roam.

FLORENZO.
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hiY FATHER IS AT THE "ELM:
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On hearing an anecdote to the above purport,E

impressively introduced by a justly admired
preacher into his sermon
Behold you ship, by storms and tempests driven,
Rocking, and reeling o'er the vast profmlnd,

While angry oceans surges dash towards heaven,
And horror and dread ruin rage around.
OUT A VIA
On It-It'r Prucmble having turnrrl [me-I.

The other night from trouble free,
As I reposed at leisure,
A l'n t-ly ode was handed me,
in true pindaric measure;
The lilll'S from sparkling, turned to ame,
And ashd in vivid metre,
The heart-sunk marrincrs, appall'd, aghast,

Now here, now there, in wild confusion ee,
"
Despairing to survive the furious blast,

Their graves expecting in the billowy sea.
When looking down I spyd the name

Of peacealile old Peter.
Then in my mindthis thought arose,
Nor care I who shall known it,
Gone
His een
eyeballs
the hope
glaring
of hope,
with distraction
one of the wild,
crew,
Flies to the cabininstant met his view,
llaying, and perfectly composed, a child
Of many mingled hues: then, smiling, said,

(But first with laurel crownd her favorites head)
These beauteous children, though so fair they shine,
Fade in my sraaom, let them live in thine
And live they shall, the charm of every eye,
Till nature sickens and the seasons die.
Can he have left good solid prose

To turn a frothy pot-t?
To frisk, and utter for a day,
By dint of midnight. labors,
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T0 RI-ZBELCA.
Oceasioned by having receiied from a gnulv
man her breast pin, unknown to her, which n a;
returned accompanied with the following lines

0h! could lthus purloin thy heart,
The stealth to thee tuiknowr,
Firmly transxd with cupids dart.
With it Id neer consent to part,
But \t'uu' it :u my own.

Tilllm-e thy virgin breast inspire,
To It} inpathy incline,
Till love shall gain thy heart entire.
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If on the plain the boy might chance

To lose like Louis, king of France,
Thy breast shall glow, with sweet desire

To sooth the cares of mine.
Let it not be: undaunted rise,
Unfurl hopes banners in the skies,

And with great genius dazzling pen,
llis precious little napper.

Then I should never misery know,
But let me nd again my seat,

(Tavoid the suns expiring heat,)
Fixt in you distant dull bog;
Where. not a thing disturbs my mind,
But now methinks I hear'a clatter

Like fty thousand rattling coaches,
0! tell me Echo whats the matter!
A tinkhng cow-bell slow approaches.
SATIRE. N0. VI. BY "ALT'ER \YIGGLE.
I think when I began this series,

(I do this to prevent all queries,)
Those regions when the light they see,
As all receding shadows ee,

135
Be 10st in wonderecn at you.
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And in the hollow of you stump

To hear the bumble-bee.
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Whilst loudly singing in the sky

The charming crows triumphant y,
TO MARY.
\ou tell me, Mary, with a tear,

That all our hours of bliss are over.
And bid me, as I hold you dear,
And turkey-buzzards sail;

Whom with their soft, mcinuous notes
Forget that I was once your lover.

10
Wed think would almost split their throats,

And overload the gale.
That fortune with malignat joy

Still seeks our kindred hearts to sever;
And oer the world our rights assert,
15
0! what a dear poetic ground

llas nature tormd us here,
Where all to please the eye is found,
And a l to SOOUl the car.
And gently charge your faithful bov,

To y from grief, and you, forever.
Ah! tell me, Mary, can he y,

And leave his dearest hopes, from hither;
That thus" bcdaubs us, and our rhymes;
Therefore to keep on solid ground,

To view the pleasing prospect round,
I'm now determined to begin

20
Nor longer be connedin town

To hunt the fashions up and down,
But like the poets of our day
Oer verdant meadows take my way;
And when occasion seems to suit,
Like concert of the drum and ute,
\Vill on the for extending view

How elegant to see;
Though too,Wc oft frequent its trees

The heads of giddy men to please,
Another plan from what Im in,
130
And now the little shes jump,
I say, Ithink, I did not mention

My muse should never make ascension;
\'ct oft we grovel in the dirt

Tis regularity sometimes
And cast their undiminished light

To regions of the darkest night,
\Vhere science fair has not yet quell'd
The sway dark ignorance has held.
Except a creaking bullfrog.
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125
A nations rise, a nations doom,
Of all the race of mortal kind,
nosuuo
\Vhose cup is Helicons sweet fountain;
Upon the lasting rolls of fame;
'here spite ofjarring tempests force,

And spite of times impetuous course,
Though hatreds viprous breath assail,
And poison utters on the gale,
In blazing myriads theyll illume
Be taken for a show.
To me it yields no sweet,
In steady gaze its beauties cloy,
And of effect its hues destroy;
_
Thou only canst my thoughts employ,
Or make my bliss complete.
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ith boldness each inscribe his name
Or to the town, 0! sliarneful slur!
But unlamented, take this toy,
If it might chance to suit her pleasure

Above the hudibrastic measure
Now well you know we poets all
Are apt to rise, and apt to fall,
And oft get lost upon the mountain
Above the envious reach of men,
And down the throat of a great cur

Both soul and body go;
Delighted with thy charms,

Then peace and joy would ceaseless ow,
l'ncheckd by strife or pallid woe,
Unmovcd with deep alarms.
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Among my hudibrastic jingle,

A dill"1~ent composition mingle,
For on one side the shot house erce

Its lofty from distrusttul rears
As though it soon would tumble;
(New this well place to arts accomig)
But hear you through you lofty mount
'lhe falls illnatured grumble?
Condemnd to part he knows not why;

Condemnd to rave he knows not whither.
Yet thy loved memry, dearest maid!

Whereer he strays hell fondly cherish;
It shall not for a moment fade
Nor but with his existence perish!
"Iwas nature made yon hideous hill,

She did not make, say What mouse?
And though she formd you murmring rill,
She never fortnd the shot house.
ALFERD.
The following song was written for the occasion,
by the author ofthe School for Prodigals, and sung
by Mr. Hardingc on Mr. Cones benet night, 22d
of February.
'Twas thus in philosophic mood,
My rambling humor I pursued,
More fitted for the aim, that now

And sage reections drew;
Is hovring oer my thoughtful brow;
30
So here I break into the road,
And straight commence a dashing ode.

.l contemplative Ode, mitten 011th: borders of the
Schuylkill.
When the tempest of war filld our land with alarm,

Who guided the battle and managed the storm,
Despising the danger, the toil and the pain?
"he 'Washington rst of all heroes and men.
Then let the trump of fame
When quickly in this earthly air,

The vanishing Parnassus
O Schuylkill! on thy owery banks

With what mad pleasure have I strayd,
How oft have fancy s gayest pranks
Been cut beneath thy odrous shade.
Left me a prey to mortal care,

Among a set'of asses.
She loves upon thy foaming stream;

Rapt in some sweet, poetic dream,
'Io ride on Neptunes nag;
And through thick forests or like places,
With Naiads, Dryades, and the graces,
To caper it at mg.
\Vith which, or far more trifling themes

The press almost incessant tecms;
0! how I long to spend the day

With such a jovial train;
THE TRIBUTE OF GLORY.

TuneTart- qf Columbia.
Such as, how long has this been made?

I wonder did the ood pervade
The mountains that l iew?
Resound aloud his name,
Thus shall this faithful picture end

0fodes on Sehuykills borders penud,
For would a poet write apiece,

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He mixes straight with Schuylkills geese,
And with them dives, and frisks, and utters,
Like wallowing ducks in muddy gutters.
0, Shame! ye Philadelphian youth,"
Unwilling murmurs blushing truth;
110
Ist thus the varied verse you write
But in the rear lore must not stay,
0n river, or on plain.
For if he on the lucid wave,
Should loitcr his soft limbs to lave,
Hes caught by some dread snappert
To fall in black oblivions night,

To let the modest veil of time
From laughing ages hide their rhyme,
And all your works in memory rot
Before your bodies are forgot.
And home far in the air, the la)

The tribute of glory
To Washington pay.
When despomlrncy rcignd at our armys defeat,
And honor and glory both secmd to retreat,
Who then rose majestic our country to save?
"Iwas Washington! he taught to hope and be brave.
Then let the trump of fame, kc.
\Vhen victory followd the efforts of war,
And her sons all exultingly mounted the car,
Scard oer with the wounds which in battle they
bore,
Twas \Vashington led them triumphant before!

Then let the trump of fame, &c.
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Great Warren and Mercer your shades hither bend,

And thine, brave Montgomery, exulting descend;
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To list while the loud blowing clarion shall hear
The praises of Washington high through the air!
Then let the trump of fame, Etc.
cautiously appointed. But love is not easy

to be deceived. Maria, the sister of ll. and
the betrothed of H. received the fatal intelli
Should bloody oppression attempt to obtain
gence; hastened to the ground, and arrived,
Her rule oer Columbia, relentless, again,
but in time only to hear the shot, and receive

The patriot ame every bosom would re,
a bleeding lover in her extended arms. The
For thy genius great Washington still should inspire.
lead past through his lungs; he instantly ex
Then let the trump offame, 8w.
pired. The senses of Maria are lost; she
4,
Rcma'rkoble trails in the character of
American Indians.
said my landlord, "a few balls back, involv

ing in its consequences circumstances out of'
the common, and rather'of the melancholy
kind. A dispute took place, in my house,
between two young men, who had been the
most intimate friends, so much so that one
of them, Mr. ll. who wits my neighbor, has
to be married the Sunday after the ball and
the dispute, to the sister of the other, Mr. B.
who lives but a small distance up the town.
The ties to be formed from this intention,
former intimacy, and the interposition of love
and friendship, were all of no avail: to gh'~
they were determined; place and time were
dit still maintains his post; the weapon of

death still extended, and the robber had not
human being since! I can show her to you
yet stooped to raise the booty which lay at

his feet. A pump, with the handle frozen in
a horizontal position, was found to have
men, whose- faces presented to his disturbed
The balls were frequently. followed by imagination pictures of erce banditti. Six
duels. That ball was thought a mild one, hundred dollars, thought he why did I
which did not produce from ve to three of bring it'with meWand to-prticecd alone! but
the tsuennnsmtr stuns k'ind happened,'
and,momtrum Imrrcndum. the terrice ban
knows no person; she has not spoke to a
One Indian happened to kill another. The to morrow; a slender tall gure, her head
brother of the deceased called upon the and bosom covered with a black veil; her
murderer, and seeing a woman and children motion quick, and her air disturbed. She
in his hut. asked whose they were? The passes every day in her way toa favorite
murderer declared them to be his family. grave and returns with an appearance still
The other then said, though his brothers more dejected and broken hearted. But the
blood called for revenge, yet as the chil poor maid will soon join her lover, and leave
dren were young, and not able to provide a world, in which she imagines she has no
fortheir mother and themselves, he would friend. I could hear no more, the Virginian
remain deaf to these calls for a while; and himself was moved. I ordered a light, and
so left them. Belonging to the same tribe, gained my chamber, cast myself on a bed
they continued to live sociably together un to_ rest: yet not before I cursed the ferocity
til the eldest son of the murderer killed a of manners which reigns in this place, and
deer in hunting. So soon as the brother of which caused the eternal wretchedness and
the deceased was informed of this, he again misery of an object so amiable and interest
called on the murderer, and told him, that ing as mylandlords Maria. It is-intolcrable;
his brothers blood called so loudthat it it is- infamous. Farewel, you can account
must be obeyed, especially as his son, hav for my abrupt conclusion."
ing killed a deer, could support the family.
_.
The murderer said he was ready to die, and
Tnr. ROBBED.- A FRAGMENT.
thanked the other for so long a- delay: on
[The following article is selected from the Ca
which the wife and children broke into tears. binet, a weakly literary sheet, published in Bos
The murderer reproved them for ' their ton, hy Mr. J. Beleher. The story is said to be
weakness, and particularly his son; saying founded on fact, and his afforded much amuse
to him, didyou shed tears when you killed ment to the public.]
the deer? and if you saw him die with dry
" The wearied animal can proceed no
eyes, why do you weep for me, who am further." said the Doctor, as he stopped his
willing to suffer what the custom of our na horse at the turnpike inn. He entered the
tion renders necessary? With an undaunted bat-room, inwardly cursing the bad roads,
countenance he then called on the brother which-prevented his l'caClling Salem before
of the deceased, to strike; and died without night, and seated himselfby the blazing re.
Gloomy 'wnere' his meditations, which be
a. groan!
I
'
came more; horric ut the entrance of two
--w.
l
>
From Ashes Travels in Virginia.
steed. Speed thee, Rosinante, and bear thy

master beyond the reach of danger." T be
welcome glare of light soon flashes on the
Doctors cycs. Assistance- is procured, and
and a full pursuit of the robber is com
menced. They reach the scene of villainy;
been mistaken by the sapient doctor, for a

murderous highwayman.
A countryman from the wilds of Cumber
land, several years ago, came to London on
some business respecting his uncles af
fairs who had died intestate, and had left
two young children without a guardian or

executor. Before departing from home the
man had got advice as to the mode of con
ducting himself, but not being much versed
in the technical lore of the inns of court,
had substituted in his mind expressions

more familiar. On knocking at the door of
the civilian to whom he had been recom
mended, the gentleman himself came to ad
mit him; when the Cambrian accosted him
as follows: Pray, sir, does there a civil vil
lain live here? What! says the other,
do you come to insult me? Yes, sir,"
said the countryman, I came on purpose;

my uncle is dead dcteated; he has left two
young infdz'ls, and I am come to see if I can
be their executioner!"
V
._._.
The dialogue between Pyrrhus, King of

Epirus, and Cineas, his prime minister, is
full ofinstruction, and sets forth the restless
spirit of man: What, sir, do you propose

in this expedition against the Romans? says
Cineas. To conquer all Italy, answers
Pyrrhus. And what next? says the coun
sellor. _ Then we will transport our forces
into Sicily, and make that kingdom our own?"

replied his majestf" AM what expedition
perhaps they thaynotbe robbers; perhaps will you go on after that?" Then, adds
they may" not overtake me; at any rate I will the enterprising hero, Well sail to Africa,
proceedawlkfter' an inspiriting'draught, the and subdue that part of the world. And
joumey is recommenced, and tremblingly what, continues the statesman, \ remains
alive is the doctdrito'cacli little noise. Hal to be done then.- -t~ Why then, then, says
a robber;-and with the deadly weapon aimed the monarch, we will sit down and be
at that head, which had so often 'directed merry over our bowls. And what." an~
the councils of the commonwealth. And swerS his minister, hinders us form doing
shall a life so precious to the nation besti that new?
criced for a little pelf? Shall one fell blew
deprive the country ofa hero and statesman?
A person,on meeting his friend, congratu
No. Take my money, but spare my life; lated him on his lately coming into possession
exclaims the son of Galen: and cuSt his pock of a landed estate. " There was such a re
et book at the ruflians feet. He Waits not port, replied the other; but you may res:
for reply but applies the lash to the jaded assured in was groundless"
_
least hesitation, he answered, 114 multiplied
support the father and procure the boy a
by 30: 380 multiplied by 9: 19 multiplied by

180: 228 multiplied by 15: 684 multiplied by
5: 57 multiplied by 60: 4-5 multiplied by 76:
38 multiplied by 90: 342 multiplied by 10:
114.0 multiplied by 3: 36 multiplied by 95.
The verses of Alfred possess a good de
gree of merit. There are an easiness of These he answered in the above specied
numbers and a sweetness of expression in time his tongue moving faster than in ordi
nary conversation. By a young lad he was
them that please us.
Simon Friendly is cordially welcome to asked a question like this: what is the dif-
the columns of the Repertory. His rst essay ference between 40 times 5 and 5 times 4c:
is upon a melancholy fact, that mankind The words were scarcely uttered, before
generally enter into the follies of each other he answered, Nothing. \Ve requested
lest each at the other should laugh. \Ve him to say what were the 3-4 of 40 more
agree with Simon in pronouncing this a 17, which he could not answer. This proves
false shame, and sincerely hope that his en that he is unacquainted with fractions; but
deavors may succeed in eradicating the when we requested him to multiply 40 by
S and divide by 4 adding seventeen, he an
evil.
Lotharios address to a friend is reserved swered in an instant, 47. Some one present
requested an answer to a question like this:
for our next number.
Though Gregory has put ona deal of satire we do not recollect the gures, but it was
in his verses, he does not appear to have lost of the same nature, and of equally as large
his gravity. Circumstances that will not amount, multiply 5680 by 395, divide by 47
again occur, have delayed the publication of and add 1368. In the space of one minute,
he answered this question correctly.
this piece until the present number.
By a gentleman of the philosophical
Rosarios attempt, though juvenile, is not
without merit. \Ve trust to his poetical ear society he was overheard multiplying each
for our excuse in altering a few lines. \Ve gure seperately; which at the same time
would observe that poetical essays selected proves that his method of calculation is en
from a daily paper perused by perhaps all tirely his own, and that his memory is as
our readers, cannot fail becoming insipid tonishingly retentive. Indeed without the
by a republication. \Ve therefore decline most powerful memory it were impossible
inserting the Maniac.
vii, for him to answer the very difcult propos
Amyntors Version of the anecdote related sitions that have been made. It appears to us
by the Rev. Dr. S. on Sunday last, is chastely that his mental powers are in the greatest
vigor before dinner, and we think that the
poetical, and correctly exhibited.
\Ve are extremely happy in having to fathers permitting him to enjoy more ex
notice so many correspondents this week; ercise, would contribute greatly to the im
it looks as if they had aroused from their provement of his wonderful qualications.
little more decent an appearance: it would be
.lpbillllllllbi.
slumbers, determined that the Repertory

should exist, at least, another year. Our sub
scribers, however, will recollect that their
We observed, on the day we saw him, that
more agreeable to the company and more
advantageous to pecuniary matters. \Vc

hope that this infant will continue in our
city for some time yet, to give an oppor
tunity to all to witness his surprising capa
city; nor do we think it will lessen the
fathers purse, as the room is continually
full.
HEALTH OFFICE,
March 9, 1811.
Interment: in the city and liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 2d to the 9th March.
Diseases.
ad. eh.
Dixon.
dd- 0)..
Cholic
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v1 0
Consumption oflungs 7 0 Small pox, natural,.0 1
Dropsy
1 0 Stone
1 0
Dropsy of the breast 1 0 Still born
0 6
Fever, typhus
Hives
l
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Hemorrhage
Inam. of stomach
0 l
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1 0
Pleurisy
0 2
fifth
The astonishing
ZERAH COLBURN,
Vermont Calculator.
\Ve had heard a great deal of this truly

wonderful boy, and expected upon visiting
him, to have seen a Jedediah Bjuxton in
miniature,nor were we disappointed; for his
unimproved mental powers are indeed strong,
his perception clear, his penetration re
exhibited proofs of their not being so easily

obtained by knitting his brow, biting his lip,
and becoming vexed. This is not at all
0 1
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so $.75,
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From 50 to 60 I,
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ity order of the board,

JOIIN ALLISON, Clerk.
STATE OF THE THERMOMETER. '
9 o'clock. 12 o'clock. 3 oclock.
March 4
50
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Ghecks, Cards, Handbills,

company, his answers became slower, and he

COMMUNICATION. p3,
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Old age
when his examination began, he was able to

solve very ditiicult problems, incredible for
aid is necessary, in order to procure alilace a child of six years of age, but that continu
in which to insert the communications of ing him too long in calculation, and being
worried with difcult questions from the
our correspondents.
VALERIAN.
_-.-_
.tlit: m at the ofce of the

it? a .
tr'w'
PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY. was
V' TERMS or THE Pisa-110mg};

way; but it should be a lesson to the father?
94:?3113'; P
not to continue the exhibition too long at
one time, and to the admiring beholders, to every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
strange, as it would affect any one the same
offer but one question at a_ time.

Those who have not witnessed this unac
countable faculty in a mere infant, who, we

5,- ~
and become responsible for the paynzpn, shall re

markably quick, and his answers pertinent
\
4;
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understand,can
neither
read
nor
write,
may
and just. But his power of calculation al
most exceeds belief. To prove this, we will be inclined to doubt the correctness of the pertory will be expected to pay the difference. relate some questions which he answered. above statement: such we would request rst
_
i .1
. .
He was asked what different numbers mul .to see him and then offer an opinion. It may
m: rnmnntrnmhmma
tiplied together would produce 34-20? 111 not be unprotable to mention here, that we
Printed and published by Mnnis'Hctu-rt,
:he. space of half a minute, and without the think the receipts at his exhibition would
1 this] No. 17 Arch street. .._ M1
@Bihbtfpiageperfttm.
VOL. I.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 181 l.
No. 47.
Nicocrates, though not yet fully convinced
designs.and requested, that when she should

deliver the king into his hands, he would
severity, and even urged her, by every per immediaply arrest him as a tyrant and an
suasion in his power, to forgive what had past, usurper. For this service, she promised
and to receive him once more into her favor. him, as a reward, magnicent gifts, and a
But Aretaphila, to whose former purpose present in money. Leander at rst made
vengeance for her su'erings was added, re some objections to the interview, which the
sisted the prayers and caresses of the tyrant, address of Aretaphila having succeeded in
and resolved, by other means, to accomplish removing, they set forward together, unarm
her designs.
ed and unattended, to the Lybian camp. As
One daughter had been the fruit of her Leander approached the place, and perceived
former marriage: this young damsel, who Anabus at a distance, his heart again mis
was approaching to womanhood, and who giving him, he would have retreated, or at
inherited the beauty of her mother, was least have waited for a guard. But his
tutored by Aretaphila to ensnarc the heart mother-in-law, with a mixture of persuasion
of the tyrants brother, a young man of and rebuke, urged him on. Should he now
lively and susceptible passions, who had go back, she told him, he would be brand
been but little accustomed to resist the al ed for cowardice and perdy, as a man who
BIOGRAPHY.
of the innocence of his wife, repented of his
THE LIFE OF ARETAPHILA.
Aretaphila of Cyrenc, who lived during
the reign of Mithridates, was the daughter

of Aeglator, and the wife of Phaedimus, both
nobles of high rank. N icocrates, having

usurped the government of Cyrene, and put
to death many of the principal men of the
city, caused also Phaedimus, the husband of
Aretaphila, to be slain, and forcibly espoused
the widow, of whose beauty he had become
enamored. Cyrene groaned under the

cruelty of the tyrant, whose temper was
erce and inexorable. To Aretaphila only,
whose charms appeared to have subdued the
ferocity of his nature, he was tractable and

kind. She mourned nevertheless the con
straint of her person, and the distress of her lurements of pleasure. Leander, the name
country, and continually meditated on the of this youth, was entangled in the toils
prepared for him, and at length prevailed on
means of its deliverance.
The citizens were executed daily, their Nicocrates to permit him to espouse the
property seized, and their habitations laid mistress of his affections. The bride, under
waste. Destitute of friends whom she could the direction of her mother, insinuated into
trust, and intent on freeing Cyrene from the the mind of her husband a distrust and
tryanny under which it suffered, Aretaphila aversion to his brother, whom, by arguments
determined to administer poison to the and entreaties, she prevailed on him to
usurper; and, with this view, made proof of dcpose. The usurper fell beneath the agents
various kinds of drugs. In the course of of Leander, who, having on this occasion
these experiments, some circumstances ex taken counsel with Aretaphila, mounted the
posed her design to suspicion, when Calbia, vacant throne. But without strength of mind,
the mother of Nicocrates, a woman of a bar and corrupted by power, he imitated the
made no account of his word, and who was

incapable of a generous condence. Once
more, when on the point of meeting the
Lybian, he started and hesitated; when Are
taphila, seizing his hand, boldly dragged him
forward, till she delivered him up to Anabus.
The tyrant was detained in the camp,
under a strict guard, till the friends of Areta
phila, and the citizens of Cyt'cne, arrived

with the stipulated presents. The people.
when informed of what had past, ocked in
crowds to the camp of Anahus, where they
prostrated themselves at the feet of Areta
phila, and, with tears of joy, acknowledged
barous and implacable disposition, vehement
vices of him whom he had dethroned, and
her as their saviour and queen. After their
ly insisted that she should be put to the tor

ture. The fondness of the tyrant opposed to
a measure so violent some delay, during
which Aretaphila, by plausible pretences,
sought to remove his suspicions, and to allay
his ange r. She declared, that the drugs found
in her closet, and which were produced in
evidence against her, were merely to com
completed the misfortunes of the suffering
transports had in some degree abated, they
Cyreneans. To the advice of Aretaphila, proceeded to deliberate on the measures to
pose philters, for the preservation of his af

fection, which she feared to lose through the
envy and devices of her enemies. Whatever
folly there might be in this conduct, shelI
whom he had placed in a department of be pursued. Having received from the Ly

authority in the state, he no longer paid re
bians the person of Leander, they conducted
spect, while he went on to fill up the mea him back to the city, where he was sentenced,
sure of his crimes.
with his mother Calbia, to death. Leander,
Aretaphila, disappointed in her son-in-law, fastened up in a leathern bag, was cast into
and still anxious for the deliverance of her the sea, and Calbia burnt at the stake. it was
country, practised secretly with Anabus, a then decreed, that to Aretaphila the admin
prince of Lybia, whom she solicited to in istration should be given, while a council
vade Cyrene, with a powerful army, for the should be chosen for her assistance among
purpose of freeing it from its oppressors. At the principal nobles of the city. This honor
pleaded that it could not be deserving of l the same time, she insinuated into the mind
death. The distrust of Nicocrates was not]: of Leander suspicions of the loyalty of his
removed by these excuses, and he at length , nobles and captains, and persuaded him to
consented that his beloved Aretaphila should make peace with Anabus. She herself un
suffer the rack, in the presence of Calbia, dertook to affect an interview between them,
his mother. Calbia sought in vain, while in and dentrously prevailed on Leander to ac
this situation, to extort from the unhappy cord with her plans. In a conference with
victim a confession of the truth.
I' the Lybian prince, she informed him of her
was declined by the heroine, who, having
liberated her country from oppression, pre

terred to the cares of the government the
privacy of a retired lilo, and returned to her
domestic habitation amidst the prayers and
blessings of the people.
Too much gravity argues a shadow llllhll
570
m
1
having formed us to derive from itour most

durable enjoyment.
Butt-very work which God has perform
cd is made subservient to some useful pur
pose. It is the duty of man to search out the
end, and apply himself to full it. it seems
that Providence in giving to novelty an ap'
pear-nice so attractive, intended by this
means to engage us in the pursuit of useful
knowledge. impelled by the lore of novelty
we toil to unbar the massy gates of science.
that we may be permitted to enjoy the in-,
tellcctual feast within. But one attainment
only the more disposes us to the acquire
ment of others, so that we are constantly in
.iprogressive state. To youth, which is the
proper season for application to learning,
Providence has awarded a large portion of
curiosity which gradually diminishes in pro
portion as it becomes less necessary.
Frivolous minds not unfrequently direct a
love of novelty to improper or absurd pur
suits. Instead of being actuated by curiosity,
ions which havc been long established; than

seek after truth with the labor an inquiry
would require. And history furnishes nume
circumstance of life is, in the end, proved to
as a laudable motive for improvement in
rous instances, where the most ridiculous
be consistant with the plans of divine super

intendance, anti the various dispositions of
time and things are found unerringly to
harmonize for the general benet of the
universe. Could our feeble powers 'dive
more deeply into the nature of mind, and
comprehend the subtle essence of which it
is composed, doubtless we should then have
clearer ideas on the subject of Deity.
The pleasure we derive from novelty is
innitely more lively, but far more transcient
than that which beauty affords. The whole
clrarmlies in the acquirement of a new idea;
if a new object be presented to the sight, we
do not pause with the eye of criticism to
discover its particular beauties or blemishes,
but enjoy it for a few moments with rapture,
though we may soon be forced to acknow
ledge that it is ugly and disagreeable. So
eager is the mind to expand its knowledge,
that an object the most deformed, if it only
be new, we contemplate with the greatest
pleasure. The mind is unable to bear for a
long time objects of sublimity, they weary
after a certain period; a literary work on
tirely sublime would be a nuisance, afford
ing neither pleasure nor instruction to the
reader. Novelty excites a momentary emo
tion, but soon loses its attraction if the ob
ject have not more solid claims upon our
attention. But the pleasure of beauty is last
ing: a traveller in a ne country may enjoy
for a whole day with unsatiatcd satisfaction
the delightful scenes which surround him,
and the next day, will enjoy the same scenes
with almost equal pleasure. Hence the wis
dom and goodness of Providence in extend
some noble science, they waste time in col theories both in physio and morals have ex
lecting and examining unimportant remains isted for ages, until some person with an
of antiquity, without any other end in view unusual degree of energy in his character,
than the supreme delight of gazing upon and an ardent mind which disdained the
some fragment which once was handled by narrow and circumscribed limits of public
the cooks of Augustus or Heliogcbalus. Such opinion, by an investigation of facts, dissipat
ed the clouds of ignorance which indolcnce
persons should remember that
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Causa later, vis est notissima.
Ovrn.
it is, without doubt, characteristic of a
great mind to turn its attention inward upon

itself, and by contemplating its various
faculties and reflecting upon their different
use, more thoroughly to know its own nature
and the nature of that divine Mind which
produced it. This exercise has a tQndcney

to enlarge the sphere of the in ellectual
powers, and to give that elasticity thought
which enables it to comprehend the most
extensive and intricate reasoning, and to
separate with philosophical discerntrrem the
splendid delusions of sophistry, from the
immutability of unadorncd truth.
The more we examine into the organiza
tion of the universe, the more are we con
vinced of the existence of a great First
Cause. Every event is an indispensable
link in the grand chain of government; every
ing beauty to almost every object in nature,
our information, than an inquiring curiosity,

which induces us to scrutinize whatever
comes within our observation. Combined

with an independent way of thinking, which
forbids our receiving any thing for a fact,
which on an accurate examination our rea
son does not convince us has been proven.
The rst, by stimulating our industry fur
nishes subjects for the exercise of judgment:
while the latter prevents us from being im
posed on by the specious appearances, and
adopting too hastily the opinions of others.
There is an indolent supinencss attached to
the human character, which it is extremely
difficult to shake off, and which opposes a
strong barrier to our improvement. 'e
would rather receive as incontrovertible and
established facts, what has been handed down
to us by our ancestors, and by a passive ac
quaintance, show our concurrence in opin
All useless science is an empty boast."
had suffered to accumulate; and by a strict
Imitation and description are not unfre
inquiry, rescued truth from the ruins of pre

judice. An obstinate adherence to our own
opinion, and a predetermined hostility to
whatever is opposed to it; is as little to be
commended, as an unhesitating concurrence
with every new suggestion, for egotism and
ignorance are almost inseperably allied;
and we may, with much justice, question
the judgment of a person, who has the
vanity to believe he only is correct, and is
sanguine enough to think the whole world
is in an error, while he laughs at the sugges
quently confounded as synonimous terms;

but there is a wide difference between them;
imitation is a natural representation of the

original presented to the sight, as a statue
or picture; description is the raising of a
just conception of a particular thing in the
mind by some arbitrary signs, which are
not in themselves like the thing described,
as words and writing.
\Vc are pleased with a good imitation of
some natural object, as we should be with
the original itself, to which is superadded

our admiration for the genius that could
mould so excellent a resemblance, and for
the art he has displayed in his performance.

\Ve enjoy the description of some agreeable
scene because it enables us to present to
tion of his being himself mistaken. But,
when a subject is proposed to rrs, to doubt

until a careful examination satises us of
the justice of the opinions formed by others,
and to hesitate until our judgment is con
vinced, and we can concur positively, or op
our imagination, though not to our imme pose with confidence, is always calculated
diate sight, a view of the circumstances to produce a correct decision.
There are some men who appear wise
described. Sculpture is purely an imitative
art, poetry, when it is not dramatic, may be by retailing the sentiments of others, and
without giving themselves the trouble to.
denominated a descriptive art.
ascertain whether they are correct, think
PETER PEACEABLE.
q..
it a sufficient proof of their truth, to quote
the name of some great literary character

as their author. Such persons are too indolent
REFLECTOR. \Yo. II.
to judge for themselves; they rely with im
There is nothing more calculated to im plicit condence on the information they
prove thc mind, and extend the sphere of obtain from books; and would believe the
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despair, or triumphing in the fullness of joy.

It is impossible for me to express the pre
to be obliged to those great men, that after sent disposition of my soul, the vast uncer
they had obtained their object of enlighten tainty 1 am struggling with; no words can
ing the world in physics and morals, they paint the force and variety of my apprehen
did not publish some ridiculous theories, sions; every doubt wears the face of horror,
founded in prejudice, that would have tend and would perfectly overcome me, but for
ed to involve such characters in supersti some faint beams of hope which dart across
tious ignorance. A veneration for men who the tremendous gloom. \Vhat tongue can
have rendered such essential services to utter the anguish of a soul suspended be
society is commendable, they deserve our tween the extremes of innite joy or eternal
gratitude and their names will be immortal misery.I am throwing my last stake for
while a taste for literature exists. But even eternity, and tremble and shudder for the
the sanction of such names ought not to pre important event. Good God! how have I em
vent our inquiries into the truth of their ployed myself i what enchantment has held
theories; and I should think highly of the me? in what delirium has my life been past?
man who could assign a good reason for what have I been, while the sun in its race
differing in opinion with sir Isaac Newton. and the stars in their course, have lent their
Public opinion has been generally con beams, perhaps only to light me to perdition?
sidered a criterion to which we might resort I never waked till now; I have but just com
for the decision of every question, but ex menced the dignity of a rational being; till
perience convinces us that public opinion this instant I have had a wrong apprehension
is frequently formed on very erroneous prin of every thing in nature: I have pursued
ciples; and the many important discoveries, shadows, entertained myself with dreams: I f
which have been made, and are every day have been treasuring up and sporting myself!
making; are convincing proofs, that the with the wind. I look back on my past life,j
forallsome
memorials
of infamy
man who always thinks with the majority and
guilt,but
it is
a blank,
a perfect
vacancy.and]
II
will frequently nd himself in error. On the
opinion of a well informed friend we may might have grazed with the beast of the
place much reliance; and if he be a person eld, or sung with the winged inhabitants of
of integrity we will rarely have cause to re the woods to a much better purpose, than
pent consulting him; but the man, who with that for which I have lived; and oh! but for
rm independence,makes his own judgment some faint hope, a thousand times more
the test by which to determine the propriety blessed had I been, to have slept with the
of every action, and, while he examines clods of the valley, and never heard the
the opinions of others,places acondent re almighty at, nor wakedinto life at his com
liance on his ability to discriminate between mand. I never had a just apprehension of
right and wrong, will scarce ever be found far the solemnity of the part I am to act till
from the truth. It enables him to acquit him now. I have often met death insultingly
self with propriety in every situation; it on the hostile plain, and with a stupid boast
gives him a habit of concentrating his deed his terrors, with a courage as brutal
thoughts, of properly appreciating his own as that of the warlike horse. I have rushed
talents; and enables him to call together into the battle, laughed at the glittering
his reasons on every occasion. We should spear, and rejoiced at the sound of the
never by a hasty determination hazard an trumpet, nor had a thought of any state be
incorrect conclusion; but reason should be yond the grave, nor the great tribunal to
called to our aid, and when we have weighed which I must have been summoned.
Where all my secret guilt had been reveald,
with deliberation, we should decide with
most improbable statements if made by a
Newton or Locke; and we ought perhaps
promptitude.
SIMON FRIENDLY.
Nor the minutest circumstance conceald.
CINTHIO.
nun-O
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THE rotcv or A mrssrnur Lire.
37 I
guish upon the face, but he feels it not, no!

lets it disturb his own
He has not to
stem the billows of afiction that overwhelm
the bosom of his hapless brother of the world,
therefore his peace is undisturbed, his haps
piness is undiminished. He cannot behoEd

each anguishing feeling of the soul, for deep
in her closest recesses it remains, destroying
his peace. When he beholds the rich and
honest trader, by sudden reverse of fortune
reduced to penury, and proting by those
laws which his country has formed for his
protection, the stranger is too apt to say,
he has broken full handed, and the most
agrant injustice has drawn down ruin on

many a poor tradesman, whose little all was.
happly, in his hands. Nothing canlbe a more
consummate act of basencss than defrauding
those who depend upon their daily labor
for their support, but bankruptcy, under the
foregoing circumstances, is not that base;
ncss. But perhaps while his name is cover.
ed with obloquy and himself held up as a
mark for the nger of scorn, the unfortu
nate but not unjust bankrupt,

Raekd with honest passions, droops
In deep retired distress.
Perhaps the cries of the child for bread,

which his failure has made it impossible for
the father to procure, agonizc his soul, emo
tions of the most poignant anguish, rankle

at his heart, and the thought of those who
sulTer by his fall, gives a vital stab to his
repose! His heart knows its own bitter

ness, but the stranger feels it not, nor does
he feel for the unfortunate! no tear of sympa

thy bcdews his check, but the rude frown
of anger distorts the visage when he beholds

him! Perhapsnay, start not stranger
perhaps thou art meditating the very act
with which thou hast unjustly accused him,
and the next report of the day is, that he
who was so vehement in his abuse of the
late trader is himselfa bankrupt! But how
different is thy situation? he is really poor,
he is really a bankrupt, whilst thou an one
but in name. Thy pride had been humbled
hadst thou delivered up all to thy creditors.
therefore thou hast defrauded them and
enriched thyself! livery heart knoweth its
own bitterness. Then comes on thy agony
of soul; but from different motives than thy
upright neighbors? Conscience makes no

stir within him, but thy bosom is the empire
Before you receive this, my nal state
There needs no argument to prove the of her tyrannic sway! He weeps that others
will be determined by the Judge of all the truth of this proverb, for it is sufciently! have suffered by his misfortunes, thou la
earth; in a few days at most, perhaps. in a attested by every mans experience. Every mentest in fear lest thy guilt and perjury
few hours, the inevitable sentence will be heart knows its own sorrows, every breast should be discovered! He mourns for others,
passed, that shall raise me to the heights of knows each latent pang that pierces its re but thou art aficted for thyself! A quiet con.
happiness, or sink me to the depths of pose. But the stranger disturbeth not his science assists him to withstand the torrent
misery. While you read these lines, I shall joy, adds the text. That is, the stranger , of misery, while thine disturbed, assists the
be groaning under the agonies of absolute perceives the outward marks of inward an l threat'ning tempest! The thought of having
Every heart knoweth its own bitterness.
Socomm
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unjustly censured him, racks thy mind and

increases its agony! Thou meetest him but
durst not look upon his face, lest a glance
from his pale, but honest eye should strike
new terror through thec! llc, conscious
of no crime. walks erect nor dreads the
glance of his creditors, whilst thou, abashed
with guilt, couchest thy head, afraid to see
or. to be seen! His feelings are indeed acute,
but thine are almost insupportable! the
beams of day are hateful to thy eyes, and
the darkness and silence of the night alone
is welcome! even then thou canst not rest!
slot-p ies from thy wakeful eyes, or if by
chance her soothing bands are drawn across
thy senses, it is no sleep to thee, for dreams
they were rst laid. They never scour their

pewter, their knives are of the same color.
In these inns they make you pay largely

and send up ten times as much as you can
eat. The soup like wash, with pieces ofliver
swimming in it. A plate full of brains fried
in the shape of fritters. A dish of livers and
gizzards, a couple of fowls (always killed
after your arrival) boiled to rags without the
least kind of sauce or herbage. Another
fowl just killed, stewed as they call it. Then
two more fowls or a turkey roasted to rags.
All over Italy on the roads, the chickens
and fowls are so stringy, you may divide the
breast into as many laments as you can a
halfpcnny-worth of thread. Now and then
we get a little piece of mutton or real, and
generally speaking it is the only eatable
morsel that falls in our way. The bread all
the way is exceedingly bad and the butter'
of anguish disturb thy rest! He pities thy

depravity and this adds another pang to thy
tortured bosom! O! distraction! thou art now
pitied by the very man, whom, a few days
before, thou didst shun, didst traduce. Now so rancid that it cannot be touched or even
guiltlcss poverty triumphs over aluent guilt! borne within the reach of your smell. But
Now thy heart knowcth its own bitterness what is a greater evil to travellers than any
grievous indeed to be borne. These are some of the above recited, are the innite num
of the circumstances which serve to prove bers of gnats, bugs, eas, and lice, which
the truth ofthe observation, that e very heart infest us by day and night.
'
knoweth its own bitterness, and the stran
v.
gerdisturbeth not his joy. Let us therefore
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learn, though we at the moment may be free

ANECDOTIANA.
from trouble, to pity and sympathize with

_
No. XIII.
a brother in misfortune, and not without

candid judgment condemn, since we may

the next moment he plunged into the same
HUMAN NATURE.
state, perhaps more deserved, and then will
Lo! this only have I found that God made man.

upright but they have sought out many invantions.
the bitterness of our hearts be more poign

ant.
VALERIAN'
9.
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S"EET ACCOMMODATION.
Sononox
Xenophon, in his Cyropzcdia, informs'us

that a young nobleman of Media having
yielded to a temptation which he was con
dent he had suicicnt fortitude to withstand,
confessed his weakness to Cyrus, and told
him that he found he had two souls; that
A late traveller in Italy writes thus to his

one, which inclined him to do well had al
friend:
Give what scope you please to your ways the superiority when in his princes
fancy, you will never imagine half the dis presence; but that the other which led him
agreeablencss that Italian beds, Italian cooks, to do ill, generally got the better out of his
and Italian nastiness offer to an Englishman. sight. Any one who thinks himselfinnocent or
At Turin, Milan, Venice, Rome, and per
haps two or three other towns you meet with
good accommodations; but no words can

express the wretchedness of the other inns.
No other beds than straw, with a mattrass, .
And next to that a dirty sheet, sprinkled with

water, and consequently damp; for a cover- !
ing, you have another sheet as course as
the rst, like one of our kitchen jack-towels,
with a dirty cnvcrlid. The bedstead consists

of four wooden forms or benches. An Eng
lish peer and pecress must lie in this inan
ncr, unless they carry an upholsterers shop
with them. There are by the bye no such
things as curtains; the walls are bare, and
the doors have never yet been washed since
attaches no weakness to his character, does

not know himself.
very 't! who has saved me, it was Pontius

Pilate!!!" This was the extreme ofignorance,
and yet, misguided mortal, Iontius Pilate
may be said to have acted his part, though
unintentionally, in thy salvation; for had he
rescued the suffering Jesus from the cross,

what, 0! sinner, what had been thy fate?
unless a Saviour had died, thy perdition
had been certain! learn then that thy salva

ltion is the work of Omnipotence and that
however a Judas may have betrayed, a Herod
may have mocked, or a Pilate permitted the

murder of the innocent, at the same time
that they were gratifying the malignity of

his hearts, they were but fulling the com
mands of God, and the predictions of his
prophets.
An elderly woman heard the doctrine of

the new birth, insisted on in a sermon from
second Cor. 5. and 17. Upon leaving the

place she was overheard to say, well this
cannot be true; for the wise man says, there
is nothing new under the soul!
PROFANITY.
Louis IX. actually checked a priest, who
having prayed for the health of his body, was
proceeding to implore mercy for his future
welfare. Hold, hold, cried Louis, you
have gene far enough for once. Never be'

tiresome in your addresses to God Almighty,
stop now and pray for my soul some other
time!
A man in France once said, let God

give me all the good things of Paris, secure
me from the monster death, and he may
keep his heaven to himself, and welcome!

0! thou lover of sensual gratication, amid
all thy revelry the thoughts of the monster
death, of an unseen eternity would intrude!
but ifthc thought had power to shock thee,
how will the reality overwhelm thee! think
of it and be wise!
An Italian having his enemy in his power
told him there was no way to save his life,
but by denying and renouncing his Saviour.
Tho timorous wretch, in hopes of mercy,
did so; when the other immediately stabbed

him to the heart, saying I have now full
A person was once talking to Dr. Cheyne, and noble revenge, forI have killed at once,
a Scotchman, about the excellence of human both soul and body. Dark and inscrutable
nature, Hoot, hoot, mon, replied he, are the ways of providence, but into thy
human nature is a rogue and a scoundrcl, hand, 0! God, we commit the government
or it would not always want laws and reli of the universe thou hast formed, convinced
gion for its government.
that thy wisdom cannot err.
resonance.
Missioi'w.
A lady in England once asked a poor mans
Anthony Magliabechi, born at Florence,
daughter, If she took any thought about was remarkable for his memory. A gentle
her soul. I never know I had a soul!! man by way of experiment, is said to have
replied the girl.
lent him a manuscript he was going to print;
A countess of England asked a lady; and coming some time after it was returned,
\Vhethcr she knew who it was that must with a melancholy face. pretended to have
save her? she replied, Yes, madam, I know lost it, he requested Magliabechi to recollect
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PHILADELPHIA B EIERTOR Y.
as much as he could; upon which he wrote
the whole verbatim exactly as he had read it!
John Willis, D. D. declares that on the

night of the 22nd December, 1669, without
light, pen, ink, or paper, or any thing equiva

lent, he did by memory extract the square
root of s00,000,000,000,000,ooo,ooo,ooo,000,
000,000, which he found to be 177,205,080.
756,807,729,353, and committed it next day
My poor dear papa has for some months

past been harmssetl with a siege from an old
enemy, who in spite of the warm reception
he experienced, directed his attack so judi
ciously in the least guarded position of his
opponents fortress, that all attempts to dis
lodge him have hitherto prov'ed ine'ectual;
however he has been so frequently bafed
and defeated, that we do not despair in
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The soothing and consoling sigh,

The silent tear, delightful omen!
The sympathetic soft reply
Are thine to give, oh! lovely woman.
Say then Maria shall the wreathe
\i'hich friendship wove and you apprmcd.
Br sullicd by misfortuues breath,
And lose the fragrance both have lovcdl

Oh! no. it shall not, in thine eye
I read thine answer, and oh! never
to writing.
Henry De Mesmes had such a memory,
eventually compelling him to retreat; in
plain language, papa has been aficted with

that he could repeat Homer from one end the gout in the stomach, which has rendered
him so peevish and morose that if I were not
to the other.
Jedediab Buxton, of whom we shall re a perfect heroine, I should sink beneath the
late some anecdotes in our next, went once pressure of calamity. Papa loves to be what
to see Garrick play Richard III, and declar he calls pleasantly comfortable, or in other
ed he had auccecdcd in counting the words words to enjoy the good things of this
world, and the certain consequence is con
he spoke in the whole course of the play!
nement to his apartment, whither as in
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on sou-runs.
Oh solitude! how sweet are thy charms!
to leave the busy world, and retire to thy
calm shades, is surely the most extatic
pleasure that a contemplative mind can

enjoy. Then, undisturbed by those who are
fond of splendor, and who prefer pomp and
case to solid pleasure, it may enjoy that
peace which is rarely to be found in the
courts of the great. Solitude affords us time
duty bound I am required to attend and re

main with him: which, although I feel every
desire to alleviate his pain, has been pecu
liarly irksomc during the late ne weather.
I have been so distressed, my dear sir,
I have not seen asingle acquaintance either
male or female for almost an dge. Miss
Modish left her card ofinvitation to a grand
ball, all the world were invited, and I was
obliged, to my great mortieation, to re

main at home, and nobody took the trouble
May I again inhale thy sigh,

If I deceive, nor love thee ever. FLOIIEX'ZQ
:
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SOXNET TO IIOIE.
Hope, cheering instinct, sent by bounteous heaven,
'lo bless his creatures in this world of grief;

who, though their prospects be but rough, uneven,
Look forward still for future, kind relief.
Dearly I love thee, though as I advance,
Thou ist and lcadst me tremblingly along;
So the fond lover in the mazy dance,
I-ollows his mistress through the gazing throng.
Long have I traced thy steps whet-oer thou'st own.
Shall no enjoyment all my toil repay;
Still must I hope for blessings never known,
Still follow thee in thy delusive way?

Yes, still my soul is with this truth imprest,
Man never is, but always to be blest
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to give me an account of it; I am convinced
that unless I am speedily permitted to re

view this WOll( and enjoy again the plea
for reection, and the objects around us,

sures it affords, for solitude has no charms
To sing to thee wi Scotias lyre,

An if I fail,
incite us to contemplate and adore our

great Creator, who has, in his innite good
ness, created and endowed us with reason;
for me, I shall be worn to a skeleton of my

former self, the roses give place to the
It ant because [don't desire
I may prevail.
lilies, and I be food for worms. Your dis
who taught us that it was him alone, whom

we ought to fear, love, honor, and obey. In
tressed correspondent and friend,

CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
If I should fail theres no remand,
The theme I sing ina excuse will plead,

For suyely that tis true indeed,
I-u \veel ye lien,
.\l:t 100 and gratitude exceed
All words ma fricn'.
solitude tho contemplative mind enjoys a

\ ariety of pleasing sensations, which improve
it, and render it alive to all the various
beauties which we nd displayed in the
great book of nature. Blest solitude! may I
never forget the advantages which may be
derived from devoting a part of my time to
thee, but continue sensible of thy great
value.
ALONSO.
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P. S. Captain Grummet has been visited

by his old friend, rheumatism, but means, I
understand, shortly to conclude his interest
ing story.
I pray the mighty God to spread,
As through lifes thorny path ye tread,
Ilia meikle hounties out-e. your head,
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In sweet array,
S'IANZAS 'IO MARIA.
.tn"kecp you fra among the dead

For many a day.
Maria, friendships tender \vreuthe

Has early twined our hearts together;
And we inhaled her zcphyr breath,
Shall it be so perfumed forever.
Mr. Editor,
Your sensible and polite note to the family

compact, has not passed without attracting
my attention and commandiin,r .my approba

tion. I know not what excuse can be made
by doctor Fungus and captain Grummct for
their long silence, or that any is necessary to
you who, excuse me sir, I mean not to at
ter, are so well calculated to discern the in
stability or changeability of the human mind;

at all events I must een leave them, to de
fend themselves.
TO MY FATHER.
1 do declare ma honord sire,

Rab Burns has set me a on re,
01 must the wreathe when wintry storms,

That howl through life, my steps pursue,
Droop and deserted 11 its charms,

And cherishd be no more by you.
My hoary sire fu' Well Iken,

The times when you ha been my frien'
Most needfu, in my youth twas then
You watch'd my years
.tn enlnt'd my infant terrors, when
\\'i meiklo fears.
My little breast tumultuous beat;
'ith the its fresh and verdant hue

Shtdl fade not, but be ever nourishd;
And mem'ry will delight to trace

The pleasures past, with us that ourish'd.
I: there a bliss so trudy dear,

Or an emotion half so street,
A pearl more lucid than the tear

That ows when genial bosom: nit-ct?
\
You nursed me in the summers heat,
An well 1 Icon you found a seat,

In winters ire,
In a swett home compact au neat
'
'cll stowd \vi fire.
Ingratitude is mt-iltle keen,

More sharp because it is not seen,
But wcel l ken this clooty en
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Is far fra Inc;
A lial, gratefn heart Iween
I ha for thee
0! in that sad an aufu day,
\Vhcn fate shall ('a' my sire away,
Although his mortal body may

Lie in the ground,
(Mwrclly slumber to decay
_
r
In vaults profound:
We may command the thoughts and style,

But to apply them we forget, the while.
Now, be it said with much sauvity,
Ill tell you once for all, good Mr. Gravity,

That I'm determin'd to be wond'rous clever:
By writing odes Ill consecratc my name,
And cut a foot path to the house of fame
Success to poet Peter, now, or never
.
Wheneer the-joy ful trumpet crics,
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And ca's the sleepers to arise,

T the sweet saint wha upwards ies
TAB I-OX CHACE.
May he be found;
Wi choirs scraphic yond the skies,

God's praise to sound.
VALERI AN.
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ODE llY PETER PEACEABLE.
A wolf, says Plutarch, like all wolves, a glutton,
Peeping one day into a but, by chance,

Saw sevral shepherds oer a leg of mutton,
Making their hungry masticators dance:
Lord! cries the wolf, how would these gem'mcn
stare,
if they should catch me dinning on such fare!
Thus Gregry blames the poetry of Peter,
And tells him so, forsooth, in rhyme and metre!
"hat? Gregry, so accustomd to advise,

And let us know, in prose, that thou art wise,
Canst thou not bear of rhyme a little bit?
Shall I forever plod the same dull road,
Nor read nor write a sonnet nor an ode;
Never on Pegasus broad saddle sit!
\Vhosc strength, alnek! is almost worn away,
For 0ft theyve splud him on the ery way,
And made the poor soul gallop up Parnassus;
So slowly now he scales the hill of song,
And moves with such a sorry trot along,
One might think he transformd to an ass is.
But truly Gregory, 'tis very strange,
r)ccasionally you would not exchange,
.\ serew-braind essay, for a pretty poem;
And recollect my friendly sage,
To publish poetry is all the rage,
That they who happen to have wits may show em;
Our modern youth now perch themselves on high,
In gloomy cocklofts where no light can enter;
There dolcful sigh and sob, and sub and sigh,

For her in whom their amrous wishes centre;
In mornings hour when undisturbd I rove,
For the Repertory.

And unu-k the beauties of the infant day,
When joyful warble-rs breathe anew their song,
Whose sounds melodious oat upon the breeze,
Persuasive silence lifu; my thoughts to heaven,

Or murmuring accents break their calm repose;
.\Iild meditation with serene embrace
In languid softness woos me from the world,
And gives my senses to her solid joys.
Soft sighing zephyrs, tranquil as my soul,
lIeavd the chaste bosom of the swelling deep,
And gently ruled its unsettled waves.

The cattle grazing in the verdant vale,
\Vith thoughtless pleasure lookd contented round:
The lively squirrel on the spreading oak,
In chattring clamour mounts its lofty top,
And as a ship which breezes gently waft,

And ocean bears irregular along,
, So was he waving in the liquid air.
. But in yon thicket hear the huntsmans horn,
* Hear the shrill cry that rises on the wind,
\Vhere the swift hounds the parting fox pursue
From the dark bodes of yonder distant wood,
Now see him bounding through the marshy glade,

Now see him scowr along the level plain,
And in his course the severd air comimx,
; Like closing ocean from the parting keel;

'hilc men ferocious, urge their coursers on,
Infuse new spirit in their lagging hounds,
And claim the cruel honors of the day.
Now panting rcynard feebler drags along
The wenried form, the. hounds new vigour gain,
And rush impetuous on their sinking foe,
Great truths at least, perhaps not new,

For in this strange and perverse nation,
Great truths are rather out of fashion;
And though we hear them cvry day,
ks soon as heard they die aWay,
No. V.
o s will R.
Thou source of guilt and all distress,
Detcsted war! whate'er thy plea,
The votarics of the Prince of Peace

No fellowship can have for thee:
But when to introduce again
Oppression's harpies slavery's chain,
And superstitions glozing crew;
\Vhen, to perpetuate vice and we
Thou biddst the streams of crimson ow,
hat words inventcd yet can paint the abhormCe
due!
Sweet muse of history! as thy art
The lamentable scene displays,
I see the workings of thy heart,

I feel the lightning of thy phrase:
0h? hide it, hide it, muse sublime,
Where the keen eye of future time

The dismal record ne'er may nd:
Nor in the number of the year
Let that opprobrious day appear,
When freemcn joind the leaugue of courts against
mankind.
OCTAVIA.
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For the Repertory.

TO A FRIEND.
With a copy, of the \Vanderer of Switzerland.
'orn with fatigue he yields himself their prey,

Exhausted, fainting near yon oaks black trunk.
While you, with curious eye rove oer each page,

Of street Montgomery, painting wars deep rage;
llis erce tormentors urge by ercer man,
Mark the expression of each tuneful line,

Which woes records and at these woes rcpine:
All, that the weary wander'er fails to tell,
Rush on the victim of their ruthless ire.

O! shameful blot, O! blaekning foul disgrace,
(lift of eternal love, was planted here,
Your bright imagination speaks full well.

\Vakes every feeling when the widow mourns,
Sighs for the oppressed,and the oppressor acorns.
\Veeps at poor Switzerlands untimely fate,
Bowd from her glory to a humble state
Like Rome, left lingering at the. stern award,
In the close regions of the tranquil mind?
Once more she turns, again she wields the sword;
0! wild disorder in the human soul,
Or il it thus that feeling leaves her throne,
Whatcer of worth it may enclose;

Continue to unfold to view,
POETIC SELECTOR.
\Vho vainly ies their unprovoked approach;
Gregry thy scrapie surely must be sham,

For I, thou sayst, a frothy poet am,
As lIoracc very plainly shows it.

As for the Cabinet We shall expose,
ALCONDO
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It is for this that through creations range

The mighty Maker plans of pleasure formd
And sound braind poets miserably bad,
Which stamps on thee in more dctested shame

But in the east the golden sun appears,
Rises cillgent from the watery mass
And darts oer earth his recreating rays;
Natures glad scenes by his approach revived
Breathe a new fragrance through the ambient air,
The huntsman shameful of his piercing rays,
Turn withdisgust from their unhallowcd sport,
And having robbed him of their paltry spoil,
They leave their victim bleeding on the plain.
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Then suddenly the trap-door raise,

And in the face of heaven they chaunt her praise.
The snowy sheet quick hears a melting sonnet,
\Vhich soon the maid on her piano thruins;
And when the Repertory comes,
Th admiring world beholds the thing upon it!
I hope, the att'ringtcrm I maynot lose it;

Dogs, when theyre frothy, are accounted mad,
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EM
For brutes unconscious as for thinking manl
'98 it for this that reason, glorious boon,
And gives the rein to pleasures rude control!

0! cruel pleasure that delights in wrong!
Man, man, if nature in thy bosom still
Can lull thy passions to an endless rest.

bet raging cruelty no more appear,
No longer share the chacea bloody joys,
Nor more pursue the tenants of the wood,
\Vho breath their beingin a mild retreat,
Ordaind by heaven to be their sweet abode.
No longer fright the placid nymphs of morn,
With dogs rude howlings, from their sweet repose,
Dogs whom unthinking of the woes they heed
Pursue from habit the destructive chace,
Still struggling with her foes, still overcome,

l At length she falls, unheeded to her doom.
& Not that all Switzers sons fell in the strife,
' Some lived, but ah!-'twas ignominious life,

Livd! and alas! unmindful of their good,
Knelt to a despot, on their fathers blood;
Cringing, they ownd the ruthless tyrants laws,
Careless of God, their country, and its cause.
LOTIIARIO.
om
COVPER, THE POET.
The following humorous letter of the

above admired author, (writtn previously to
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2m
he publication of the rst volume of his Po
cms,) will show the facility of his rhyming

talents.
To the Rev. John Newton,
My very dear friend,

I am going to send, what, when you
have read, you may scratch your head, and

say I supposc,theres nobody knows, wheth
rat me. I did not ask you, sir, said she,

what you would not have; I asked what
you would have. Let me see then, said

he, assuming a look of vast importancc,
have you got such things as eggs in this
here country? on being answered in the
afrmative, he ordered eggs and coffee;
and do you hear, added he, pulling out

er what] have got, be verse or not. By the his gold watch and handing it to her, boil
tune and the time, it ought to be rhyme; but the eggs with my watch. Yes sir, answer
if it be, did you ever see, of late or of yore, ed she and went out. In a few minutes she
returned with his watch and his eggs in a
such aditty before?
plate,
having literally obeyed his orders and
I have writ Charity, not for popularity,
but as well as I could, in hopes to do good; boiled all together. What do you mean by
and if the reviewer should say, to be sure this? vociferated he, you have ruined my
the gentlemans muse wears Methodist double case English vatch, capped and
shoes; you may know by her pace, and talk jewellcd, with a horizontal wheel, and a
about grace, that she and her bard have lit patent lever: was there ever such stupidity!
tle regard for the taste and fashions, the \Vhat put it in your confounded head, to
ruling passions, and hoydcn play of the make such an Irish Bull, as to boil my
modern day; and though she assume a bor vatch? I am of opinion, sir, said she
rowed plume, and now and then wear a tit that it was you that made an English Bull,
tering air," tis only her plan to catch, if she in supposing me so ignorant as not to know
can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way; how to boil eggs without a watch. The
by a production on a new construction, she cockncy nding he was bit, paid for his
has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all breakfast, and departed not quite so wise,
that may come, with asugar plum." His in our idea, as he had entered.
opinion in this, will not be amiss; tis what
I intend my principle end; and if I succeed,

and folks should read, till a few are brought
to a serious thought, I shall think I am paid
for all I have said, and all I have done; though
I have run many a time after a rhyme, as

for as from hence to the end of my sense;
and by hook or by crook, write another book,
if I live, and am here another year.
I have heard before of a room with a
oor, laid upon springs, and such like things,
with so much art in every part, that when you
went in you were forced to begin a minuet
pace, with an air and a grace, swimming
about, now in and now out, with a deal of
lutl, puti, puff, puff, a colon:

Six pu's, a period.
'
A pause with the segar kept in the mouth,
represents a dashlonger or shorter in con
tmuance.
\Vith the underlip raise the segar almost

against the nosr, for an exclamation! And to
express great emotion, even to the shedding
of tears,only raise, as before, the scgar so as
to touch the end of the nose. For an inter

rogation? it is only necessary to open the
lips, and draw the scgar round to the corner
of the mouth.
Taking the segar from the mouth and
knocking the re from the end, is the con
clusion of a paragraph; and throwing it in

the re, is a nal and stylish pause.
Never begin a story with a half smoked
segar; for to light another while smoking, is
not only a breach of politeness, but interferes
with the above system of punctuation, which
destroys all energy and harmony of expres
sion.
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auccno'rc or LOUIS xxr.

This monarch was one day entertaining a
select party of his cont-tiers with the relation
A countryman who had dropped from his

cart a keg of rum, rode back a few miles
in hopes of nding it. On his way he met
an Indian, whom he asked if he had seen
ofa circumstance, which
0 had announced
as extremely laughable. But on the entrance

of prince Armagnac, he suppressed a ne
rcpartee, which constituted the merit of the
story. The whole circle felt themselves dis
appointed, which was seldom the case when
his majesty promised them entertainment,
and were therefore surprizcd. The king ob

served it, but said nothing until the prince
departed. Now, gentleman, Ill make you
laugh, said he,and accordingly gave them
the anecdote unmutilatcd, which produced

in a high degree the promised effect, You
writ,in a rhyming t, what will make you
see, subjoined Louis, here was an oblique
dance, and as you advance, will keep you

still (though against your will) dancing
away, alert and gay, till you come to an end
stroke that would have affected the prince,

and I suppressed it to prevent his being
embarrased; for I would rather lose the repu
a keg of rum on the road? The Indian

laughed in his face, and addressed him in
the following words:-\Vhat a fool you
are to ask an Indian such a question. Do
you not see that I am sober? Had I met
with your keg, you would have found it
empty on one side of the road and Indian
Tom drunk and asleep on the other.
A Butcher who had purchased a calf, sat
with it on a horse at a public hoitse door; on
which a shoe maker, remarkable for his droi
lcry, observing, and knowing that the butch
er had to pass through a wood, offered to
the landlord to steal the calf, provided he
would treat him with sixpenny worth of grog

The landlord agreed, and the shoemaker sct
tation of the best ban mo! that was uttered,
do, crc Madam and you are quite worn out than gaveamoments pain to any individual.
with jigging about, I take my leave; and here An example worthy the imitation of all who
you receive a bow profound, down to the aspire to the character of really ne gen
ground, from your humble me.
7. C.
tlemen.
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Pulf, puff, a semicolon;
_.I
state, ina gure of eight, without pipe or

string, or any such thing. And now I have
of what I have pennd; which, that you may
0f the theory of punctuation in smoking, the

following system is recommended:
A simple pu', serves for a comma,
OR and dropt one new shoe in the path near

the middle of the wood, and another near a
quarter of a mile from it.

The butcher saw the shoe, but did not
think it worth getting down for; however,
-.'
when he discovered the second, he thought

AN ENGLISH BULL
A cockncy travelling in the north of Ire

land stopped at an inn in a small country
town and ordered breakfast. The landlady
asked him what he would choose to have.
I rent have any of your potatoes and her
rings, answered he, I am an Englishman,
GRAMMA'HCAL snoxtss.
As smoking is an innocent indulgence.
and as it is customary with people of all
classes to relate stories, or the news of the
day, with segars in their mouths; and as the
generality of smokers make an aukward ap

pearance, in consequence of their ignorance
the pair would be an acquisition, and accor

dingly dismounted, tied his horse to a hedge
and walked back to where he had seen the
rst shoe. The shoemaker, in the mran
time unstrapped the calf, and carried i'

across the elds to the landlord who put i'
in his barn.
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'i he butcher missing his calf, went back to

the inn and told his misfortune, at the same
time observing, that he must have another 5
calf cost what it would, as the veal was bes- l
A little learning is adangerous thing,
PROSPECTUS
or 1"}! a
Drink due) or taste not the Pierian spring;
These shallow draughts intoxicitc the brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again. Pore.
Veritas appears to have sipped the sur

poke. The landlord told him he had a calf
av OREDIAH oncn.
face only of the Picr'ian elm-ing, and in con

Varietys the very spice of life,
Cowrcn.
in his barn which he would Sell him; the
sequence of the intoxicating quality of aha!

butcher looked at it, and asked the price.
The landlord replied, give me the same as
you did for the calf you lost, as I think it
full as large. The butcher would by no
means allow the calf to be so good, but
agreed to give him within six shillings of
what the other cost, and accordingly put
the calf a second time on his horse. Crispin
10w draught: from thence, conceives he
knows something, when in fact, his essay is

nothing more than a few desultory remarks,
generally incorrect, and some assertions res
pecting chymistry, which he is not able to
support. \Ve are condent a publication at
this essay, would neither add to our repu
tation nor the author's. We would recom

elated with success, undertook to steal the
mend to Veritas, to peruse a beautiful little
calf again for another sixpenny worth,

which being agreed on, he posted to the
who are disposed to favor our infant undertaking,
piece called the Hill of Science; in which

(,cm'us by his eccentric ights retards his
woods and hid himself; where, observ
progress to the summit, and is soon out
ing the butcher come along, he bellowed
stript by .rl/I/Ilication.
so like a calf, that the butcher, conceiving
()ur correspondents will oblige us by
it to be the one he 'had lost, cried out in joy
letting us have their communications as early
Ah! are you there! have 1 found you at
as possible in the week, as haste in the pub
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lication overlooks errors, which a little more
into the woods. Crispin taking advantage of

time would not fail to observe.
the butchers absence, unstrapped the calf,
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Bl'OGRAPH Y.
E 01 THE DIRP. UP 1 \RLBORUUGH.
By a Medical Student from South Carolina.
John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, a

prince ofthe holv Rormr empire.ono of the
ablest statesmen and politcst courtiers, as
well as one of the most illustrious heroes
and accomplished generals thatany country
has produced, was the son of sir Winston
Churchill, who was distinguished for his
monarchical principles during the reigns of

Charles the rst and second. John Was un
der a clergyman. When he was twelve years
old, his father took him to court, where the
beauty of his person, the brilliancy, of his
understanding, and the modesty of his de

portmcnt, commanded general observationt
He became page and favorite to.' the: duke
of York, and in the year 1666, was presented
with a pair of. colors in the guards; His

rst military. service was at' the siege of
Tangier. From this time? he devoted himself
to the profession of arms, and commenced
that brilliantJand uninterrupted career of
military glory which has-procured for him
one of the highest niches in the temple of
fame and rendered his name as deathlessas
the annals of history. Upon his return-to
England, he continued his attendance at

court, and received from the king as Well
as from the duke, repeated marksof' kind
ness and'favor. He gained an interest with
the fair sex, yet with so much prudence as
to excite the jealousy of no one. In the year

l672, Mr. Churchill was advanced to the
rank of captain of grenadiersin the regi
ment of the duke-of 'Monmouth, who with
manded a body of English auxiliaries'in the
senicc of France. In all the actions of this
campaign which humbled the pride of the
Hollander-s, captain Churchill was engaged.
At the siege of Nimeguen, he so distinguish
ed himself as to command the attention of
the great Turenne, who, by way of distinc ,
tion, bestowed on him the name of they
handsome Englishman. For his conduct l
N0. 48.
preservation of his life by his bravery. This

good fortune which smiled on Churchill in
his 22d year, attended him in all his succeed
ing military undertakings. The laureis which
he plucked on the continent, intitled him to
preferrnent at home. The king accordingly
promoted him to a lieutenant colonelcy, and
the duke of York made him gentleman of
the bed chamber and master of the robes.
As a courticr he acted his part with great
wariness and kept himself aloof from being
involved with the contending factions. In
1679 be accompanied the duke of York to
the low countries, and in the following year
prince of ()ringe. He was apprised of Chur

chills disloyalty, but so rmly did he rely
on his fidelity, that he gave no credit to the
report till Churchill, the duke of Grafton and
some other ofcers withdrew from the kings
quarters and went over to the prince of
lic business, and for a-considerable time did
were then exhibited againist the earl, yet.
Orange at Axminster. By his advice, prince

George of Denmark and the princess Anne
took the same step. Lord Churchill was

received by the prince of Orange with re
spect, and in the following year, was present
ed with the earldom of Marlborough. He

assisted at the coronation of the prince of
Orange, and soon after was appointed to
to Scotland, where he received marked command the English forces which were
attention from the nobility. During his atten
sent over to Holland to form a part of the
dance on the duke, he was honored with army of the allies. At the battle of \Valcourt
the command of a regiment of dragoons, he gave a display of his military talents, and
and shortly afterwards married Miss Sarah in the following year acquired fresh glory
Jennings, a lady of great beauty and good to his reputation by his services in Ireland.
connections, then an attendant on the prin
The following campaign he passed with king
cess, WhO'aftttl'WurdS Was queen Anne. In William on the continent, where he exhibit
the spring of l682, he was shipwrecked with ed great sagacity by penetrating into the
the duke of York on a passage to Scotland, enemys designs of besieging Mons, in which
and obtained a signal token of the dukes the Dutch deputies were deceived. \Vhile
regard in his solicitude to save him, while he was advancing by rapid steps to the pin
_a great part of the crew and several persons nacle of fame and of fortune, he received a
of distinction were suffered to perish. In message, without any previous warning,
the same year he obtained other prefer that the king had no farther occasion for his
ments. On the accession of James II. to the services. This sudden deprivation of all his
throne, he was sent cmbassador to announce employments, was followed by his com
the event to the court of Francc,and in ashort mitment to the Tower, on a charge of high
time afterwards was raised toan English peer treason. No evidence was brought against
age with the title of baron Churchill of Sun him; he was bailed,and the principal author
dridge. Through the whole of this reign, of the accusation being convicted of per
lord Churchills conduct was regulated by 'jury was banished, and the earl, cleared. It
the principles of prudence. He avoided pub is generally believed that though no proofs
not declare his sentiments respecting the
politiesof the day. At length, however, when
it wasimpossible for a man of his rank and
weight to remain any longer neuter, he form
ed his dccision and joined in inviting the
prince of Orange. To obviate the charge of
ingratitude, it is generally believed he had
declared to the king, that if he made any
an illicit correspondence had been carried

l
o
e
on between him and the exiled king With a
view ofaffecting his restoration to the throne.
It is certain that during the life of queen
Mary, Churchill kept at a distance from
court,*and attended, with his lady princi
pally, to the princess Anne, whose inuence
probably prevented inquiry from being made
attempt to overturn the established religion, into his conduct. After the death of Mary,
at Maestricht, he received the thanks of the i he would desert him; he never dissembled his Churchill was made a privy counsellor, and'
king of France; and the duke of Monmouth, zeal for the church of England, and had been in 1698, was oppointed governor to the duke
in relating to his father what had happened: taught from his infancy to regard it with the of Gloucester. On this occasion the king
during. the attack, acknowledged that he ' greatest reverence. James, however, had no very handsomely said to the earl: My lord,
was indebted to captain Churchill for much doubt of his integrity and entrusted him with make him but what you are, and my 'ne
of his glory, forhis safety altogether, and the the command of 5000 men to oppose the phew will be allI wish to see him." He
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continued in favor during the remainde for

the reign of \Villiam and received more than
once the most unequivocal marks of that
princes regard.
In 1702 Anne ascended the throne ofthe
He lookd, and on a melancholy throne

A maniac gure sat reclined, alone;
Her eye was vacant, her dischevelld hair
In Honing ring-lets quiverd on the air;
The passions waiting on her dread command
In mute obedience round the cavern stand;
Envy that restless end of ill was there, _
And love and hate and hope and pale despair;
British empire, and the earl of Marlborough
was raised to that height of power and great

ness which left no subject in Europe his
equal. He attained to every honor to which
lIe back recoild, then threw a fearful glance,

And askd her name, her name was wildRomance!
She graspd her pencil, seized the magic book,

And as she wrote the frowning forest shook;
She bade the poet here her lines convey,
And he obedient now presents his play.
He but as genrous as youve been before,
the ambition of a subject could aspire, and
he gained lucrative appointments for his

friends. He was created a duke, had a pen
sion granted him by the queen during her
life, and received the thanks of parliament
for his conduct abroad. But the radiance
which this series of good fortune di'used
Tis all he asks, nor does he merit more.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.
Fernando, count of Ardennis.

Count St. Alme.
Ilenrico, his son.
around him was, for a time, obscured by
the loss which he sustained in the death of

an only son, a youth, while at Cambridge.
Idumeo, spirit of the wood.

Ottomar, captain of banditti.
Rodrigo, Fernandos condant

Lewis, squire to Henrico.
The duke, however, sought and found re
lief in the active performance of the high

duties of his station. To follow this great
and illustrious general through all his cam
paigns, in which it is said he never drew his
sword but victory obeyed its motions, to de
tail the actions by which these campaigns
have been rendered famous on the page of
Petro.
Sapona,
Panuco,
robbers.
Martin,
Louisa, former countess of Ardennis.
Itosalva, daughter of St. Aime.

Cecilia, a foundling.
Jeannette.
Agnes.
Vassals, servants, Ste.
history, would be to extend the limits of this
sketch beyond what is intended. It will not
Scene lies in Normandy.
do, however, to pass over them in silence.
For the Repertory.
ARDENNIS:
on THE SPIRIT OF THE \VOOD
A TRAGEDY m FIVE ACTS.
By Ubaldo.
ram-"nee.
The following tragedy was written some
time since, and offered to the managers of
Enter Rosalva.
Ros. Unkind Cecilia! who shall now attend

\Vhile I relate the story of my griefs!
Whither has she flown? my heart will surely break
Nothing so soothing as a friend in sorrow;
If grief is told, the burthen'd heart grows light,
And kind condolence softens cvry pang.
0ft as I wept my woes unto my friend,
Ive felt my soul relieved from all her pains,
Butnow sureharged I sink beneath the weight,

And am the slave of anguish! ah! Agnes,
Dost thou not feel thy bosom lld with woe,
At fair Cecilias ight!
gnes. No, my kind Iady'
Roz. Did thy heart, girl, but need a friends, like.
mine,
To beat responsive to its evry pang,
Twould break with agony!
Jig-nee. All loved Cecilia;
But if she should elope with lady

Lewis. Agnes!
Ros. Whom, whom, Agnes! Icharge thee speskb
gnes. Why Jeannette.
110:. But yet theres more in this, than thou dif
cloa'st.
I pray thee speak; if thou canst but surmise
One clue that may direct me to Cecilia,
Upon thee lll bestow such recompence

As thou canst not conceive
Agnes. I cannot tell.
Ros. Speak thou, Lea'is, by thy love to Henr'icq
seen?
Ros. Unhappy brother!
Agnes. I have seen the bed where lady Cecilia

lay, and I am sure there were two slept in it
Le'wir. Agnes, beware, I charge you: dare not taint
Cecilias fame; for if my lord Henrico
the New Theatre, who, with a politenes and
partiality which they have invariably shown

to native productions, accepted it; but their
engagements preventing its representation
Should hear you utter such a word as that,
His rage would know no bounds!

.ignes. I do but say but what my lord St. Aime
bade me.
Lewis. Indeed!
.Ignes. Mind, Agnes, says he, tis plain two have
lain in Cecilias bed; therefore if you wish to gain
this season, the author, with a view to ren
der it more correct, and in hopes that it may

afford some gratication, thus introduces it
to the public.
PRO LOG U E.
A grateful author ventures here once more,
One who has shared your genrous smiles before:
my favor, endeavor to make it be belie ed, that
He enters trembling, and with timrous tread,
As tracing through the regions of the dead!

A virgin tragedy now - sks a smile,
The welcome mced for all its fathers toil!

'lhough now Ive come I don't know what to say,
About our author, or about his play.
0! now I have it,-some short time ago,
And bursting thunders rattled ocr his head;
A sudden ush transpierccd the youth with fear,

And sounds of anguish seemd as bursting near;
New in a cavern opening to his view,
mand.
ACT FIRST.
Scene rst. A room in the castle of St. Jime- Enter What mean these sudden and ambiguous words!
There hangs :1 mystery on your expressions,
Lewis and .flgvtea.
That I will fathom. What mean
Lewis. 'hats this we hear, Agnes?
> Leads. Kind lady,
.Ignes. Alas! the day!
I know of nothing, that could guide the search
Lewis. Can it indeed be true that the lady has I fain would lead for fair Cecilia.
ed?
'
gnee. Nor I.
Jig-ner. If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I
Has. Nor I; I would I did!
would not have believed it.
Lezuir. But see, my master,
Lem's. And pray, Agnes, what Is it you have The lord Henrico, comes.
(To be continued.)
_-..._
As once he traced the dreary forest through,

The lightning round its purple terrors shed
.llgnea. By her countenance she seems already t0

know the story.
Lewis- Say nothing, Agnes, of our lords com~
lI
she has tied with some one who slept with her all
night.
Lea-is. Can it be possible!
Jlgnes. True, my lord, says I, but then no one
slept in Jeannettes bed, and no doubt they slept
together, and this morning ed.
Lewis. Nothing more probable.
.Igner. Tis no matter, says my lord, do you,
as I bid you, and so I did.
Lewis. Good Agnes, you shall be well rewarded
for this condence in me, you have probably saved
the lord Henricos life.
Jgnes. Then I am sure, Lewis, I shall accept no
I dread the consequences of thy grief!

Agnes and Lewis, do you retire awhile.
[Exit Lewis and lip.
Enter HenricoL
lien. Good marrow, sister; come and grieve with
me,
For even now I parted from my father
Raa. And have heard
llen. are heard! heard what, my sister! [the sighs.
I pray thee speak; hang not thy head in grief;
Tell me what wrings thy gentle heart with sorrow,
And if my sympathy can heal the wound,
Surely thou knowst my fond fraternal love,

\Vould rush to death to serve thee.
Ros. Kind brother! [taking his hand]
There is a load of grief that labors here,
\Vhich if related to some tender friend,
Would be relieved. Wilt thou then be that friend;

For now I need one!
llenr. Who but Henrico
Should share the sorrows of his sisters heart!
Roa- It shall be so; but tell me, Henrico,
And yet I almost fear to ask it of thee;

I know thy sense of honor is so closet
\\"ilt thou condemn or pity me?
other reward.
A feeble taper burnt a ame of blue:
Hear. For what?
Lewis. But see the lady Rosnlva.

Roe. Alas! for love!
'
PH] LADELPHIA REPFR-TORY.

J
"cur. What! for love condemn thee!

'ho dares commit such sacrilcgc as that!
Roz. Sacrilcgc!
Ilem. Yes, against heaven, Rosalva.

'hat is there that exists and does not love!
Lovi is the vital ember of our being;
The erce hycna prowling through the forest,

The venomd adder, crawling in the grass,
And. wily crocodile, whosc cunning tears

Flow but to lead his victim unto death;
The angry lion and the lundless tyger,

That feel no touch of pity for a foe,
Are tamed by love.
Ros. This is enthusiasm.
llmr. What warms the creeping insect into life!
Tis universal love, that hung the world
On her huge axle; bade all nature rise,
And from the waste of chaos nature sprung.
Love bade each blushing ower spontaneous grow.
Search all creation in her spacious round
And show me one that does not live to love,
Then I'll condemn thee.

Rm. But until then never?
Hair. Never! for, 0! when Iforgct to love,
My heart must surely then forget to beat!
Rot. Not the soft ame that warms the turtles
nest,
Not innocence herself can be more pure,

Than is my love.
llenr. Then never blush for it.
Ros. Scarce one sad year has spent its rapid ight,
Since through th' adjoining forest of Ardennis,
I was returning from the oceans shore,
\Vht-re I had wanderd to enjoy the sight,
hich gilds the Western circlet of the world,
When the broad sun is sinking from our sky;
\Vhile the seas ery billows as he sets,
Alli-ct the soul with awe and admiration!
HmrThere was too much imprudence, my Rosalva.
Proceed.
Rot. So long I loiterd on the shore,

That ebr I reachd the' forests frowning front,
Gray twilight had retired unto her bed,
_=
That my poor heart took pity on his love,

And loved him in return!
Ilem'. Twas very sudden!
Bus. 0! had'st thou scen|his noble form, Henrico,
Bent as he prayd me to return his vows.

Thy heart would sure have melted!
Ilrnr. Strange suspicion
Ilenr. Where is she then?

There was a time when not a moment passd,
But thou and my Cecilia spent together;
Has any cruel accident occurr'd

Jo separate your loves?
Has. No, not our loves.
Ilcn. Then tell me, sister, where Cecilia is.
Has. I would I knew.

Hen. A thunderbolt trzipicrced me!
Ros. This morning \\ hen I hastcnd to her cham
But end thy story, my Rosalva

Ros. Now,
\Vhen my too yielding heart confessd I loved,

He placed me on a hoary oaks felld trunk;
Then trimmd the torch and led me to the castle.
As his tall body bent to kiss my hand,
He prayd me to remember Ottomar,
And bade good night. Too well I have rememberd;

()n my weak heart indelibly is stanipd
379
M
her,
As is my custom, to salute my friend,

No friend I found, but this paper. [producing in]
Hen. Give it me. [reads]
Fate urges me, Rosalva, and I y
Forever from St. Alme and fromIlenrico!
His image!
Ilenr. Ottomar! I know not why,

But yet, Rosalva, Im constraind to think,
Hes one of those destructive robbers who

Infcst the fort-st of Ardennis.
Roe. Robber!
[Leta itjllll.
The shafts unerring and the pang is mortal!

Hold, hold, my heart, nor burst with cruel anguish!
Ros. Nay, take comfort, brother!
llenr. Who talks of comfort?

By all my pangs I swear, who but essays
To throw one glance of comfort on_my grief,

Is my foe!
Ros. Oh! dear IIenrieo!
Henr. Too sure I fear well nd it, dear Rosalva:
Therefore if it be so
Roa. No more of him!
Ill tear him from my heart, nor deign to give
One moments thought upon a robbers love!
Ilenr- But come,
Ill to my horse and seek her.

Ran. Brother! brother!
Henr. I should not find her, then farewol sibtcr!
For by the dire excess of grief I fee],
If I find her not I will ne'er return!
R00. Deprived of my Cecilia and of thee,
Of Ottoman
Hem. Sister! of Ottomar!
But mark me, in my search for my Cecilia
I'll not forget to look for Ottomar.
Ros. My gentle brother, in the midst of grief.
For thy lost happiness, canst thou bestow
One thought on mine?
Hcnr. Thy happiness alone,
Is all that now can interest my soul.
Henr. Nobly resolved!
R01. Away these fears! they wrong him.

That piercing eye could never sanction wrong;
That manly form neer held arobbers heart,
Nor could the heart that manly form contains,
Ffer swell with cruelty or rapine. No,
My life upon his honor!
llenr Be it so;
I tl'uely hope that my suspicion wrongs him,
For thou must renounce him if it does not.

lt'oa. Now, dear Henrieo, I would task thy love.
Henr. \Vhat means Rosalva!

Roe. Haste thee to Ardennis,
Search thou for Ottomar, and if we wrong
The gcnrous knight
No more, but come.

Roe. And heaven grant thee success! [Brenna
Scene Second. The hall. Enter St. .Ilme.
Ilenr. I know the rest, Rosalva,
If he is honest thou shalt be his

[for Brother,
Darkness let fall her sable curtain quite.
How shall I thank thee for this condescension?
Henr. Twss rash!
Ros. Now fear, that pale companion, seized me, But yet my fathers towring thoughs of birth,
Bury my hopes beneath their dreadful weight!
I trembling gazed around; when a faint light,
At distance bursting through the gloom profound,
llem'. That is the steep, that still obstruCts my
way.
Diffused its feeble beams; nearer it came,
Because Im what he calls our houses prop,
And ere, my tongue expressd a cry of fear,
An uncouth ruian seized me by the arm!
I should look proudly to a noble union!
Birth, birth, Itosalva, is an empty sound!
Rapine and blood were stampd in why feature,
Which the faint light emitted from his torch,
Sunk fur beneath the level of a hind
Enabled me to see. Rudcly the villain
"ere he, though sov'reign of the world, if guilt
Gazcd upon me!
\Verc dark companion of his treachrous soul!
Henr. I would I had been there!
And he, raised to the princes rank, whose heart
Ros. Vainly I plead for mercy! the bandit,
With virtue proudly swells! Yes, by my hopes,
Seized me and bore me toward his dark retreat,
Though but a hut repell'd the beating storm,
When a brave chcvalier approaching fast,
I could be happy with Cecilia! een now
Bade him unlosc his hold; the wretch refused,
I left my father high in wrath against Illt,
When his kind sabre cleft him to the earth!
Because I urged my suit.
I fell; he raised me in his arms, and bade me
110a. Cecilia! 0!
Inform him whither he should lead me home.
Hour. Eternal powersl-what. mean
He scarce had xd his eyes more closely on me,
Those bursting sighs, and tears that wet thy check?
'hen with surprise he calld me by my name!
Torture me not by this suspcncc, Rosalvii.
Henr. Indeed!
0! Icould rush on danger, smile in death;
Ros. Scarce I recovcrd from my wonder,
But-to remain in doubt of what we love,
When sinking at my feet he breathd that love,
Ti| worse than both; it is a treble death.
Which long in secret he had felt, he said
Then, sister, speak: does Cecilia live
So soft and so pursuasive did he plead,

lies. I hope,
which, with my gratitude, so touchd my breast,
Henrico, that she does.
And when I enterd in the dismal wood,
Sl.JIIme. O! noble girl! her ight endears her to me,

llut my fond schemes of aggrandizement yi-t
May all be marr'd! But how then to avoid it?
Surely dissiniulation now were guiltlcss,
When my own happiness and Ilcnricos honor.
Depend upon it: spotless as the sun,

I know Cecilia; know she only ed,
Urged by her gratitude, to save my peace.
But see, Henricos here; now aid me gnilr.
Enter Ilem'iro.
Hear. Dost-thou not see in what a little tin-r,
Sorrow has changed me?
8!. . 71m. 0! my darling boy,
How my heart bleeds for my Cecilias ight!
Ilenr- Ah! had my fathers heartbefore but thought
His harsh denial of Cecilias self,
To be Henricos wife would force her hence,

He never would have utterd it!
St. .Hlme. Henrico!
Dost thou accuse me of unkindncss, boy?
Thou knowst thine and thy sisters happiness,

Have been the objects I have kept. in view,
Since rst my fond paternal eyes beheld
The infant pledges of their mothers love!
Ilcnr. Grateful,I own they have, but parents oft
Mistake the road that leads their children happy .
When birth and peerage point a different trark'.
With Cecilia
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St. Jllmc- I'll hear no more, never
Shall Cecilia be thine!

Htm'. Then hear me, heaven!
By all the pangs that rend me now, I swear,

This hand shall never press within its grasp,
The bridal gift of any one, but hcrs
'Who has myheart! my father, tis Cecilia.
St. Jilme. Ungrateful boy!
Hcnr. Ionly come, my lord,
To ask permission to pu c my fair.

Although thou sayst she shall not be my wife,
Surely thoult not deny her still a home.
St../Ilmc. How! a home! no, go seek her, Ilcnrico.
Ere this she must be safe, and will elude
And morc,Lewis, to heap my heaviest vengeance

On her seducer.
Lewis. On her seducer!
llellr- Yes, the villain who this morning fled with
her.
Lewis. She! Cecilia with a man!

llmzr. Yes, with a man!
The slave that revelld in her charms all night,

Then forever bore her from me.
Lewis 0! heavens!
Ilene A heartless villain! with him she has eloped,
Who found apassage to her heart and bed

Lewis. Cecilia and Jeannette together ed,
And slept last night together.
Ilenr. llow, Lewis?
The vigilance oflove Ihopc. (ll-side.) A word

Before we part; thou knowst tis seventeen years
Since in the centre of Ardcnnis wood
Commanded her, if questiond of Cecilia,
I found Cecilia, as I wanderd through;
To say she had cloped with her companion,
Scarce could her infant strength support her frame,

\Vhile weeping and unconscious of her danger
She strayd.
Henr. Ido, but never heard it all.
81. .lllme. A glittring bracelet from her neck was
Whom yotu' too jealous heart, sir, has conceived,
hung,
Around her tender frame, was tied a string,

By which it struck me she had been let down,
From some great height.
Ilenr. Indeed! twas very strmtge!
Lewis. I learnd from Agnes, that our lord to day,
hearted that I am never suffered to seek my

chamber till I have heard the whole adven
tures of the night. But this is not the worst
part of my punishment; I could, I think, put
up with this cross, however great, was it not
for the preamble of their follies; for, after
having been engaged a full hour in their

dressing room, fearing some pin should be
misplaced, they bother each other, their
mother, and myself so much about their aps
pcarance, that I not unfrequently leave the
room, in order to avoid their teazing.
School they are yet constrained to attend,
(you know Mr. Gravity, although it was not
the case in our childhood, that, to enter into
company, a school girl is now considered
Was really a man.

Hear. I do perceive,
But, good Lewis, let it pass. Get our horses.
(Erit Len-is.
Tis strange my father should stoop to artice
And deceive me; I linger here too long;
Dangers surround Cecilia; let me y,
The sun already sinks into the west,
And hastens to his setting. (Eric)
(To be continued.)
one of the ttest subjects) but I believe they
For the Repertory.
be even then, I should not be so much pro

voked, but youthful as they are (neither be
ing more than sixteen) they leave the com
panions of their infancy, and soar in their
conversation to men who would consider
them mere children. Could they but think
so, I am condent that practice would be
completely quelled', if they are told so, it
serves but to stop them for a moment, and
the very next time they get upon the sub
ject, they pursue it with the same alacrity.
They all went the other evening to take
tea with some of their young friends; the
accustomed preparatory manmuvres were to
me equally dreadful, and the succeeding ones
attend it only through restraint, for the

library of their father is but seldom graced
with their presence.
I have another fault to observe in them,
which I have no doubt will apply to many
other daughters as well as to mine: which
is, their invincible love of chattering about
men. Were they young men of their own
Stu/11111:. I took her home, and strove in vain to
nd
The parents, who thus barbarously gave up
Their infant daughter to the care of chance.
Henr. Twas barbarous indeed.
St. Jllme. With studious care I \vatchd her from
her infancy.
age or near it, however disagreeable it might

THE CABINET. No. XXXI.
Misses should learn to walk before they caper.
Philadelphia, March 18th, 1811.
To see her, all my kindness thus forgetting,
Fly from my roof I fear with infamy. (Hem-{co starts.

llenr. Thou art my father. (Rt-straining himself,
8:. .dlme. What dost mean Henrico?
Henr. But that thou art my father, good my lordl
My sword had reach thy heart for that expression,
SI. .Ilmc- Indeed!
Ilenr. By heaven! had any man beside,
But dared to charge Cecilia with dishonor,
My thirsty sward had scarch'd his evry vein,
Until it found the life drops of his heart.
She ed with infamy! 0! she s as pure
As the sweet dews that wet the thirsty grass,
hcn morning sheds her early fragrance round.
St. .dlme. Indeed, sir! well then, we this morning
Mr Gravity.
Sir,
Your experience in the ways of the world

has been long known to me, and it is that
alone which prompts me now to ask your
advice respecting a grievance under which
patience has become exhausted, and which
repetition renders intollerable.
I have sir, three daughters, for whom in
the formation of their persons and their

faces, Nature has done enough, but this
comlincss is exaggerated by their obliging
llattercrs to such surpasing beauty, that I
found,
really believe they consider themselves the
That two had lain together in her bed,
most
perfect of beings; each one thinking so
And also, they this morning tied together.
(Exit hastily. much better of herself than her sisters as
Hem'. Why, there s enough! ruin can do no more! (happily) to exclude the indulgence of the
Burst, swelling heart, fate now has done the deed; slightest sentiment of envy from them all.
Surely thourt made of some obdurate stuff,
But what is the consequence think you
That grief dees, or at this wrong to love,
Mr. Gravity of their entertaining this opin
Thy strings would crack, and death destroy my
ion of themselves? what, but their gadding
anguish.
about from party to party, and from ball to
But yet I will pursue her, save her yet,
still more so; for they returned home with
such a load of stuff about the gentlemen to

whose names and characters they had been
introduced, the beauty of one, the accom
plishments of another, the ne teeth of Mr.

such acne, and the piercing eye of his friend,
together with several as faulty as these were.
perfect, and a thousand other tries, such as
preparatories for the next ball, and the for

mation of a party to go to the theatre, each
one suicicnt to weary the mildest dispo
sition in the world, that they quite over
ball, till I am almost wearied to death in powered me. I thought I had been too re
If not too late my tender aid may come,
From conscience and perdition.
fullling a practice, which from the time I miss. I saw them growing up in the way of
I
Enter lieu-is.
first had one, I have regularly observed, of vanity and folly, and believed that I neglected
To horse, Lewis.
seeing all my family retire before I do my my duty if I did not endeavour more strenu
Lewis. To horse, my lord? but whither?
self. No hour is too late for them to be from ously to regulate to the scale of reason, their
Hear. \Yhere chance directs.
home, and the bell that rings to me the un ungovernablc wishes. I do not mean merely
Le-wiu. And for what, my good lord?
welcome
hour of midnight elevates their to keep them from their performance, but
Ilenr. Dost thou not know that my Cecilias gone:
spirits as much as it depresses mine; so that to change the temper of their pursuits, and
Lewis. I do, my lord.
Hear. To seek her, then, we gov
, dlwhen they do return they are alwaysso light engage their minds in such a manner as to
IWHLADELPHLkR EPERTORY.
381
learn them to despise them. You know the

power almost every child has over its
mother, and therefore I look upon them
as more particularly entrused to me. Re
proof has become tiresome, and not being
able to conceive any other method of for
warding my designs, I have taken the liberty,
Mr. Gravity, for the reason above stated, of
applying for advice to you. I hope, sir, my
boldness in making it, will be excused by
the importance of my request.
Yours very respectfully,
SOLOMON SOBER.
it differs from their present situation, with

a heartfelt smile.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
For the Repertory.
SELECTOR. No. XVI.

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY.
Though perils did
dead appland him for his seclusion from

the temptations of a dishonorable world.
Religion will shed her glories around his
head; and meliorating his mind to a pensive
resignation, will sublime his soul to such a
purity, that when he dies, all he has to re
sign of earth, is breath. On thy soft bosom,
Abound as thick as thought could make them, and

Appear as horrid in forms; yet my virtue,
As doth :1 rock against the chilling ood,
Should the approach of the wild river break,
And stand unshaken.
We are inheritors of sorrow; and he who
hlr. Sober's request is perfectly excusa

ble, and if I did not endeavour to satisfy it,
I should forfeit my right to public esteem,
has not felt that, knows not the native gran
since I have publicly declared my intention
feel we are more than earth; it is when adver
to be useful. The levity Mr. S. speaks of is

too general an error in the youthful daugh
and there, in the conversation of his books

and heaven, he hears the words of the
deur of his soul. It is not, when reclining on
the voluptuous couch of prosperity, that we
pensive queen, the widowed matron rests her
sorrowing head: thou wipest the scalding

tears from her sad eyes, and soothest her
into peace. To thee also ies the unhappy

maid, who breathes a hopeless love: wander
ing amid the mazes of solitude, far from the
world, and the dear object of her fond aec
tion, she subjugates the wild agonics of her

passion to thy mild inuence: a tender phi
lanthrophy lls her breast, by rendering
others happy, she heals the bleeding wounds
sity drags us from the blandishments of pleas

ure, that the immortal spirit within us exerts
ter, and the forbearance he evinces as great her power; revealing to 'our astonished eyes of her lacerated heart! though, sometimes,
a one in the indulgent parent. But it is a duty the gorgeous magnicence of the splendid the sigh of tender reflection will heave her
he owes to himself and his child, for every fa world, in all its intrinsic littleness and folly: bosom; a tear to her luckless fate will trem
ther when necessity requires it, to be stern; and leading us into the rugged path of life, ble in her eye, and her disappointed heart
and never suffer his o'spring so far to abuse shows us how to prove ourselves worthy of sickcn at the illusive happiness of the world;
his kindness as, to be allowed to follow every immortality, by undauntedly combating the yet, in the shades of retirement, she breathe;
shadow that glides by them with alluring air, opposing powers of vice, malice, and mis the prayer of resignation, becomes the pro
for they may and will lead them into danger, fortune. The satellites of riches naturally tectress of the aficted, and dies the death
perhaps to ruin, and the affection of the tend to harden the heart, aud make it in of a saint. Thus, virtue is like some per
parent at his having permitted it by unwary different to the happiness of any but itself. fumes, which are most fragrant when burnt
tenderness will be no less poignant than the Led early in life into the gay garden of plea or bruised, for posterity best discovers vicq.
wretchcdness ofthc child.
CINTHIO
sure, where a bright sun forever blazes in but adversity, virtue!
Nothing is more. dangerous in young the sky; nature and art unite in the closest
girls than to let them get full of the ideas of concord to render the scene beautiful and
For the Repertory.
women, it inates them with vanity, and the bewitching to the senses: the magnificent
ANECDOTIANA.
emptiness of unfounded pride triumphs over stores of the cast are poured before them;
N0. XVI.
their weakness.
the most sumptuous garments of the world
Communicated by Valerian
Having been consulted in private on the are thrown at their feet; their board is load
FORWARDNESS.
same subject, I can with the greater ease cd with the most delicious viands, served
Nothing so ill becomes the young as the
recommend to Mr. S. a remedy, which has in dishes of refulgent gold and silver; Arabia assumption of consequence, before men of
more than once been found successful.
wafts her most spicy gales to revive them, age, wisdom, and experience.
Anthony Blackwall, the author of Sacred
Let his daughters be despoiled of the and harmony warbles her most entrancing
feathers of their folly, and when they leave sounds to sooth them to rest, they feel of a Classics Defended and Illustrated, had the
school, let their mother as the superintend superior race to the chances of fortune; felicity to bring up many excellent scholars
ant to their industry see that they attend to and spurn the supplicating son of misery in his seminaries at Derby and Bosworth:
their needle work, and housewifery; and as from their gates. They have not an idea of one of whom being afterwards patron to
the administrator to their pleasures, let their {his sorrow, therefore they know not how to the church of Chaplain in Surrey, presented
father clothe himself in resolution and stod pity them. But let him turn from the man
him to that living. Blackwall having occu
fastly denying them too great an indulgence sion of insolence, to that of temperance and sion to wait upon the bishop of the diocese,
in any unimprovlng amusement, instruct misfortune, there he will nd the softened was somewhat pertly questioned by a young
them in literature, both as it relates to the soul of a brother, ready to sympathize in chaplain, as to the extent of his learning.
usefulness of history and the satisfaction his woes, and pour the nssuaging balm of Boy, replied the aged veteran, I have
derived from more glowing species of comfort into his breaking heart. A man thus I . forgotten more than you ever knew!"
At a meeting of ministers, a question of
composition. Their pleasures will then be rendered proof by the mischances of life,
more solid, and these national and neces and unhappily by the unkindness and inglati moment WllS proposed to be tit-bated among
sary pursuits, become in a short time de tude of those who once stiled themselves ' them. Upon the rst starting ofit a condent
lightful. They will, when old enough to his friends, struggles against the storm if young~ man arose, and said, Truly 1 hold
court reection, bless the kindness of their he have a wife or children to protect, till, it so." You hold it sir, answered a grave
parents for crossing their caprices and (con overcome with exertion, he sinks into the minister: it becomes you 10 hold your
trary to their then unripened designs) guid arms of his Maker, a martyr to his aection tongue."
A Clergymun, who had just left college,
ing them to that bliss from whose summit and his virtue. But if he be alone on the
they can look upon their former danger, as earth, he retires to some deep solitude, present a petition to the king of Russia.
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requesting a certain employment. As it was

an office of consequence, the king was of
fended at the presumption and importunity
ofthe youth, and instead of answering the
A person who had heard of his astonishing

powers, met him once accidentally, and in
order to try him asked the following,r
questions. \Vhat is the area ofa eld 423
petition, wote undeaneath, 2nd Book of
yards long and 383 broad, he answered in

two minutes, the true product 162,009. He
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SATIRE.N0.VIL BY WALTER \VIGGLE.
Weary, and sad with toils of day,
I went last evening to the play;
was then asked how much the eld contain
To pass the heavy moments by,

And learn to live, or learn to die;
But lest I unto foul-mouth'd slander,
ine the quotation, but to his disappointment
ed, and in eleven minutes, he replied 33
My honest reputation pander,
and vexation read: Tarry at Jericho till

your beards be grown.
noonn'rns TAIL PlCE
As many of our readers have perhaps
never seen an account of this extraordi
nary production of that extraordinary man
and distinguished ornament to society, we
acres 1 rood, 35 perches, 20 yards and a

quarter.
He was once
asked
how much
would
occupied
by 3,584brocoli
plants,land
setlin
lrowbe
s,
I think it meet, by Venus face,
Samuel, chap. x. verse 5." and returned it.

The clergyman, full of hope, ew to exam
3 feet assunder, and the plants 7 feet apart,

in a regular plot of ground. In half a hour
And every merry little grace,

Iloweer to do it I am loth,
To take a sort ofplayers oath,

Before my fame is quite undone,
That as folks say I went for fun;
And evil notion m my head;
The rst idea of this piece is said to have

been started in company at his own table.
My next undertaking, said Hogarth, shall
be the end ofall things. lfthat is the ease,
returned one of his friends, your business
rovr-znrr.
Poverty is no disgrace unless it be brought
on by extravagance, dissipation, and folly.
Upon the house expend our rage,
will be nished; for there will be an end of

the painter. There will so indeed, an
sorted to the public places, to recite his

verses for a morsel of bread.
John Milton, the immortal author of Para
swered llogarth, sighing heavily, and

therefore the sooner it is done the better.
Accordingly next day he began, and, as the re
port says, worked with diligence,and seemed
apprehensive he should not live till he had
Homer, whose memorials of genius will

remain forever, was poor and blind, and re
A broken bottle: an old broom, worn to the
a play book open with cream omnea- stampt

in the corner: an empty purse: and a statue
of bankruptcy taken out against nature. So
far so good, cried Hogarth, nothing re
mains, but this, taking his pencil in a sort
He went out, as is reported, almost naked,

in the rage of hunger, and nding a gentle
man in a coce house, asked him for a shil
ling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and

Otway, going away, bought a roll, and was
choaked with the rst mouthful.
INSOLENCE.
It was a law among the Athenians, that
those who had been brought up to no employ
by their parents should not be obliged to
keep them if they came to want in their
old age, which all other children, if legiti

mate, were.
Pray of what did your brother die?"
said the marquis Spinola one day, to sir
Horace Vere. He died, sir, replied he,"
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That one was right and one was wrong.

But as I know our city ladies
All vow how poor :1 poets trade is,
And branding them with scorn, and shame, 25

Ill in a scientic urry,
that could denote the end ofall things: viz:
mouth, the last whiff of smoke going out:
And call the graceful, wretches vile,

, And swear in spite of sense or song,
sell that work for IO 'pounds, being too poor

to print it on his own account.
Otway, the celebrated poet, is said to
have died in want, or as related by one of
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Or vent our venom on the stage;

On some uncouth performers smileI
"ill brand a critic with the same,
his biographers, by swallowing, after a long

fast, a piece of bread which charity supplied.
Stump: the butt end of an old relock: a

cracked bell: a bow unstrung: a crown tum
bled into pieces: towers in ruins: the sign post
of a tavern, called the worlds end tumbling:
the moon in her wane: the map of the globe
burning: a gibbet falling, the body gone, and
the chains which held it dropping down:
Phocbus and his horses dead in the clouds:
a vessel wrecked: time with his hour glass
and scythe broken, a tobacco pipe in his
So in our modern critics fashion,

ell work ourselves into a passion,
dise Lost, was also blind, and was obliged to
completed it. This however he did in the most

ingenious manner, by grouping every thing
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This I have sworn, nor had vice bred
nearly he answered 2 acres, 1 mod, 8 perches

and a half.
will give a brief relation of the matter.
Desert this topic in a hurry;
And hoping n thing will impede me,

Go where the greatest noise may lead me, 30
Ye mincing damea respectful, high,
In silence I will pass you by,
And in the upper boxes rear,
Ilowcer unnerving be my fear,
'With mien majesticnl and bold

The nymphs of Cypria behold.
O paint! at night how great thy sway!
But how it vanishes in day;
Before it imperfection flies,
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And articial beauties rise,
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And, mighty paint! thy plaistering will

The wrinkles of the visage ll.
- Thus vice when most distinctly seen,
Appears gay pleasurcs liveliest queen,
But when by modest virtue placed,
She looks confounded, is disgraced:

And veild from sight, attempts in vain
ller former inuence to gain.
But mark yon crowd of foppish lads,
Whom, out of sight of angry dads,
That never tremble to condemn
The numroua faults they nd in them,
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Come hither to bestride their hobbies,
of prophetic fury, and dashing o the si

militude ofa painters pallet broken: Finis,
exclaimed Hogarth, the deed is done, all
is now over. it is a well known fact that
he never again took the pallet in his hand.
It is a circumctance less known perhaps,
but lubSOlUtCl) true, that he died about a
year after he had nished this extraordinary
Tail Piece.
MEMORY.
.
Jedediah Buxton, was a poor illiterate
English peasant, who died a few years ago.
He was remarkable'for his self taught know
ledge of the proportion of numbers.
of having nothing to do. Alas! sir, said

Spinola, that is enough to kill any general
of us all."
Varia Servilius, descended ofa Przntorian
family, was remarkable for nothing but in
dolence and sloth, in which he grew old

and odious, insomuch that it was said by such
as passed his house, Hic Van'a situs ear,
Here Varia lies! Thus speaking of him not

only dead, but buried to all intents and pur
poses of rational existence.
Indolence is placed sometimes among the
beauties of heaven; it is rather one of the ter
tures of hell!
And spend whole cvnings in the lobbies;

Hey, Jim, whats going on below!"
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Upon my soul I do not know.
Stop, stern old Simon comes this way;

Pray, Mr. Simon, what's the play?
of me you learn not, come you here
On follys base your fame to rear?
Or do you ignorance affect,
In hopes by it to gain respect?
If so, contemplible, and base,
Ilidc from my sight. your shameful face,
In other cars your folly pour,
Nor dare to interrupt me more."
No sooner had he left this throng,
(Though while he staid, with phizzes long

And tumbling folly's stupid stare,
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And quivring lips, and bristling hair,

They safely kept themselves aloof
Andheard the old mans just reproofz)
Than they began like cowards do,
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To curse old Simon black and blue;
And swore with oaths the most profane,

lfhe at them would dare again
The weapon of his wit to level,
Theyd sond him hopping to the devil.
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I-ate has its way, or right, or wrong;
Just then old Simon came along,

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And having heard their threatnings bold,
Forgetting quite that he was old,
And that they were beneath him far,
Quick set himself upon a par;
Took up his cane, and with a frown,
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Tumbled the largest, sprawling down.
And so the others did it seems,

For from their brains, their deep laid schemes,
The blow on Jimmy's brain had banishd, 91

And like the ghosts in Dick they vanishd
I much suspect that some will say,
" I thought sir you were at the play,
Pray if you were my thirst assuage, ,
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nd tell us something of the stage."
Not skilld in criticism much,
Upon it lm afraid to touch;
I comprehend thus in a word,
Whence the comical muse in due season" propels;

To frighten her sister, the sad one, with thunder-s,
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And with it all your queries fall;
I did not see the play at all.
If such perversions foul, disgrace
This once instructive, useful place;
And though with pain the charge I view,
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I tremble when I fear tis true;
Let theatres to dust be turnd,
Their nupolluted ashes urnd,
And where they once majestic stood,
Performing evil, meaning good,
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Kind sir, since it has thus befel,

Will you your candid judgment tell;
The answer from myself is due,
But I request it air, of you.
lleedless, of honor, fame, or truth,
And in the maze of follies found!

Gay, only where the festive board,
With tempting vice allures the eye,

Where Bacchus spreads his juicy hoard,
And soon destroys each virtuous tic;
There thou mayst read the uncoverd page,
How artful vice crept slowly on;
Then left the unhappy wretch undone:
Mark all its steps from youths career,
From jovial mirth to pressing woe,
The quick gradations view with care,
And, own that mans his greatest foe.
One thing in life I have observed,

That from the gen'ral rule some swerved,
And though the world is now so wise,
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Still folly in it will arise;
Even here when one would sure suppose
The rules of fashion each one knows,
We nd there are a few, that will
Put foolish questions to us still,

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Tis thus this question 1 disarm
Of half its seeming poWer to harm,
Make a low bow to those that ask,
And thus acquit me ofthe task:
Good folks, it seems youre unacquainted
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With the morality untainted,
That always rules the smoky air
That h0vers round a city fair.
it then is meet I let you know,
When to the theatre we go,
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(Except a few who have no leisure,
To give to such substantial pleasure;)
We seldom think a plays before us,
Or hear the actors v 1icc sonoro'us,
But up and down the lobbies walk,
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And roast our skins before the re,
Get drunk, for thats more pleasant far, 135

01' puff o'carc in a cigar.
Think you in such a scene ofjoy,
The stage can eeu our thoughts employ,
Or that a single wish would try
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To make us lay such pleasure by,
To cast a cold look towards the curtain!
That thou breathest hard fumes, like a short-winded

nag?
llave the ladies, sweet creatures, excited thine ire,
Or the blustring midshipman that sat by the re,"

I protest now thy temper seems nativcly bad,
And thou must be insane since thy pleasures are
mad),
In surprise I am lost as thou varyst the scene.

Oh, Schuylkill, how honord thy flowery banks,"
And Im sure couldst thou speak, thou wouldst
murmur thy thanks
To\\iggle, who loves oer thy loud foaming stream.
0n sea-horses to ride in a poetic dream.
Then suddenly leaves the poor beasties" in peace,
And eagerly ies to a ock ofdull geesea
With them (Mr. Wiggle, ob, ahame,) how he flut
ters,
And hallmvs their joys in a few muddy gutters."

That Schuylkill whose water majestic and bold,
"hich thousands adniird, as proudly it rolld,
Whose name on the annals of genius inscribed.
Should now with a gutter your notice divide.
0h, soild are the wreathes that adorn'd mount
Parnasus,
Since del'd with the breath ofthis genius, mongsi

asses."
Bpt now let me pause,forl hear something giggle,
That, more than half the ills of life,

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Which mentally roaring, more heightens the

wonders.
Why Walter what ails thee, thou comical wag,
Thy talents" so various, thy satire so keen,
Hast thou eer seen the thoughtless youth,

Walking in dissipation's round?
And cry, torture no more my beloved Walter
Are thus invokd by' follys cry,

Vexation, sorrow, pain and strife,
And spend the time in social talk;

And now and then we just peep in,
And chuck a lady neath the chin,
Then to the coffee room retire,
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Let virtue, at the scene amazed:
See on their ruins brothels raised,

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Grew firmer xd from age to age,
But heres a fashionable man,
You do me honor sir, indeed,

80 to it I will straight proceed;
And the whole troop of sad weekly reectors.
0h, vast is that mind, most capacious its cells,
ILL HABITS.
Since he forgot, well all agree
They might forget as well as he;
Whom if he s willing, doubtless can;
You cannot think it, I am certain.
My answer then so long deferrd
\Vith mirth must live, with folly die.

Vain is the pleasure, vain the joy,
That mingles with the owing cup,
Vain to the helpless o'springs cry,
Or to a tender wifes fond hope.
All, all is pain and anguish tee,
That springs from foolish giddy mirth,
Wiggle?
Ceasejeering his muse; and your vagaries cease now,

And bestow on the gosling some moments of PCCt'
now.
But eer l depart from the eld of the muses,
I hope you'll perceive your advice ndt abused is.
For fun you have wishd, l obey you, and giggle,

And remain the obedient of wise Walter Wiggle.
CLEMENTINA CAUSTlC.
Which virtuous ties can thus undo,

~.~_
And thus to misery give birth.
nnmuxws.
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For the Repertory.

Familiar Efn'atlc to lValtz-r H'iggle', Esq.
Mr. \Viggle lm yours; but excuse me sweet wig-ht
If I laughas your comical muse, meets my sight,
To think how derangd the sad implements lay,
That weave mournful ditties alooffrom the day.
To begin with your satire, lll touch number one,
And the others that please me; the rest let alone)
I must sigh when I read that " no more you will soar
On energys wings" and with manliness roar,
Anecdote of Vcnct, the celebrated painter of

Sm Pieces.
This artist, eager in the study of nature,
made several long voyages in his younger

years, in order to observe the various scenes
which the changeful elements exhibit. In

one of these excursions, undertaken merely
for the love of his art, a most violent gale of
wind arose, when Venet, without attending
Desert the fair fields of sense," logic, and reason,

And alter your " talents, so rare, to the season."
to the perils with which he Was surrounded.

desired one of the sailors to lash him fast to
some of their rigging. Soon after this request
To the season dear \\'atty, your pardon I crave,
was granted, the storm increased, attended
I knew not that winter such merriment gave;
with thunder and lightning, and with every

circumstance that could add to the horror
of the scene, a consternation and terror sat
on every countenance; but in the young pain
To give our young authors a " little advice.
Though modest and bashful thou'rt surely unkind, ter every emotion was lost in that of admi
To dispense triing gems from thy doubly. stored ration, which so wholly engrossed his atten
But I plainly perceive, though [cannot tell why sir,

\That each generation grows wiser and wiser.
But hold thou art going thou sayst in a trice,
mind.
A mind which could solve for the publics own good,
Enigmas much harder than knots of pine wood:

Can reform all theerrors, " of cabnet projectors,
tion, thatdie every now and then exclaimed
in the most enthusiastick terms, Good

Heavens! what a noble scene.p!
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PROSPECTUS
dergone a little necessary correction are laid

before the public.
The composition of Timothy Soigneux is
too incorrect, and the subject of his essay too
frivolous for publication.
We have received the eleventh number of
KEEN masons.
A gentleman of pious habits was con
stantly in the practice of prayer to God. His
little son had once inquired what he was
doing, to which he answered, Talking
with God Almighty. Some short time af
ter, the gentleman married a lady of a dif Philo Madan, which came too late for inser
ferent disposition, and amid the turmoil of tion this week, but we shall, with a great
pleasure and the attention to worldly con deal of satisfaction, introduce it to the pub
cerns prayer was entirely neglected, per
lic in our next.
haps forgotten! His son, one day, looking
We publish Ciementhms epistle to Wal
earnestly in the fathers face, said, Papa, is ter l-Viggle, because we are certain it can
Gm! .Jlmiglity dead? The father, astonished,
not offend, and believe it will please. \Vc
replied in the negative, and demanded the

cause of the inquiry. Because, replied
shall be happy to receive a reply to the fair,
the child, I never hear you talk to him

(my "1017'!"
contest will be amusing.

r.-
Variezys the very spice of life,

Cowzzn,
nnris having bccn made with respect no the edito
rial part of Uus, pqier, some alterations Will conse
qucntly n-he PLlCtt in the conducting of it. As these

w.ll add conskluably to me expense of the publi
cauon, an increase of the mbscniptiun list will be re
work, with a due regard to our personal illerest
and the eatislarnouot our readers. Thosc therefore
who are. disposed to favor our infant undertaking,
and who feel an interest in thus promoting the
from the satiric Walter, as we think the
cause of virtue and literature, will use theirendea
MARKED;
W]? in AN INFANT.
An examii... . .ool, i.ace, some timt
vours to support. our attempt, for whichv we shall

be grateful.
0n the commencement of this publiCation,
we contemplated regularly inserting the pro.
ceedings of our national and state legislature, and
a summary of- foreign intelligence; but this having
_ been disapproved of by a large proportion of our
patrons, we shall in future insertonly- such-as may
Agrceable to our rst pmposals, the Philadelphia
l Repertoryshall be areccptncle fon- biography; rc
;lig'ious and moral essay essays. on scientic and
, entertainingsubjectsipoetry, ction, wit and humor;
:with a regular list. of marriages arch deaths:
Since the conclusion. 06 the Heimas of! Solubiski,
no, novel or rommmehasappaamds-yobitumot our
On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. I

Dr. \Villiam Staughton, Mr. Jacob Stein
since, in an academy in this city; in tin
burgh to the amiable MissEli'za Cam,,_all of

cow'se of which it happened that the lulil
class in geography was on the oor about
1 Oclock. We have got almost to Hunga
this city.
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HEALTH OFFICE,
ry, said one of the students. Almost, re
Manch 23., 1811.

plied an infant spectator pertly. by the

time you get to Hungary, I suppose youll '
want your dinners." This created a laugh

among students and auditors. You may'
from the 16th to the 25d March.

Diseased
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Casualties
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laugh," continued the wit, but Ifeel as
if] was there already."

Decay
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em the Castle ofAltenheim,.a tale, by
where he was, tell me where God is, and
Our paper shall have. nothing-to do with-theolo
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in his face and answered, Tell me where he
Fever
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BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Compiled by a Medical Student from South

Carolina.
The business of 1704 was signalized by

the duke's masterly execution of his own
plans of pushing to the Danube. After a
march of fty days from the frontiers of

Holland, he arrived, unexpectedly, before
the lines of Schellenburgh, defended by
20,000 men. He attacked, and after an ob
safety. It is not possible to enumerate all

the popular triumphs of the duke of Marl
borough on his arrival in England. The
more substantial expressions of the nations
gratitude consisted in presenting him with
of the empire.
In l706 the French under the command
of the elector ofllavaria and marshal Ville
the honor and manor of Woodstock, and in roy opened the campaign by passing the
the erection of amagnicient palace for his Ducle, and cncamping between Tirlemont
residence! The next campaign produced and Judoigne. By great exertions the duke
nothing of much importance, on which ac of Marlborough was enabled to meet them.
count discontents began to arise in England. Having been joined by a body of Danes, and
The duke employed the latter end of the learning that the enemy was marching against
stinate resistance forced them. This success year in visiting the courts of Berlin, Hanover,
brought on the famous battle of Hockstadt, and Vienna, where his capacity for negotia
or as it is more generally called, the battle tion was equally useful for the common
of Blenheim, fought August 2d between the cause, as his military talents had been in the
allies under the duke of Marlborough and eld. By a perfect self-command and a
prince Eugene, and the French and Bavari habitual exercise of all the facinating arts
ans commanded by marshal Tallard and the of good breeding and politeness, he acquired
elector of Bavaria. Nothing could have been a most extraordinary power in conciliating
more complete than the victory on the part opposite tempers and in associating clashing
of the allies. Ten thousand French and Bava interests. The emperor of Germany pre
rians were left dead on the eld of battle;
thirty squadrons of horse and dragoons per

ished in the Danube; thirteen thousand were
thousand six hundred tents, and twenty three

barrels of silver. Of the allies about four
thousand were killed and double that num
ber wounded and taken. During the battle
the duke of Marlborough rode through the
hottest of the re, giving orders with that
equanimity and deliberation which were pro
minent features in his character. On the next
day he visited marshal Tallard who had been
taken prisoner. He told that general be was
sorry that the misfortune, which it was his
lot to experience, should have befallen one
for whom he had the highest regard. The
marshal complimented him on having van
quished the rst troops in the world; the
duke replied that as those troops had been
beaten by his own, the marshal should have
said the second. By the battle of Blenheim
the pride of Louis XIV. received a check
from which it never afterwards recovered,
'and from this period may be dated the com
mencement of that reverse of fortune which
embittered the latter years of the life of that
ambitious monarch. The French were pur
sued till they crossed the Rhine. Landau
was taken, and France trembled for its own
him, he advanced with his army, early in the
morning of the 10th May, in eight columns.

towards the village of Ramillies to give them
battle. On the following day the French
generals perceiving the allies so near them.
took possession of a strong camp, their right
extending to the Tomb of Hautemout on
the Mehaignc, and their left to Auderkirk;
the village of Rumillics being near the cen
ter. The confederates began the attack by
forcing the village of Ilamillies and dislodg
' This palace was afterwards called the palace

of Blenheim. Miss Priscillia 'akeeld, in her
made prisoners; one hundred pieces of can Family tour through the British empire, thus de
non were takcn, with twenty four mortars, scribes it:
three hundred colors and standards, three
sented him with the principality of Mindel

heim, which accompanied his title of prince
Having pretty well satised their curiosity at

Oxford, Mr. Middleton proposed setting out on
the following morning for \Voodstoek, near which
stands the princely palace of the duke of Marlbo
rough, built at the public expense and named
Blenheim as a memorial of his signal victory over
the French at Hockstadt or Blenheim, in Germany.
The day being remarkably ne it was determined
to proceed without delay to the park and gardens
belonging to Blenheim.
They entered through a prodigious grand
triumphal arch erected by the duchcss of the great
duke, as he is called by way of distinction, to the
canal- Thc boys felt the strongest intercstjn observ

ing the pillar on which the victories of the duke of
Mnrlhorougharc recorded. Louisa, who Was thutday
nine years old, was delighted to pass her birth day in
such a paradise, no part of which pleased her so well
as the flower garden, screened from every wind,
and almost concealed from every intruder, by a

thick plantati in of tall 1'05, and lled with a collec
tion of aromatic owers ol'di'crcnt odors, varic
gated hues, from all climates. (in t-Illt'llHb" the

house they passrd through it superb arcade to a
grand hall which is as high as the roof. At the top

of the colonadt-s is a reservoir which supplies every
part of this immense building with water. The
whole structure, though mag'ldiiccnt, is considered
memory of her husband. No sooner had they passed
heavy by connoisseurs of architecture. The tapestry

and pictures, with which many of the numerous
the portal than astonishment and delight were ma'rk
apartments are hung, represent the battles won by
ed on every countenance; amultitudc of objects, at the duke; others are adorned by the works of the
once new and beautiful, burst suddenly on theirvicw. , rst masters in painting on other subjects, which,
The palace, the park, the canal, and the magnicent with a profusion of superb looking-glasses, rich
bridge thrown across the canal, winding in so many gilding, and every other ornament which luxury
directions, and varying so naturally its appearance, can devise, form a curious and beautiful assemblage
that it is dicult to be persuaded that it is only a of the works ufurt, and a ne specimen of the
canal, are all disposed with so much art as to form the change produced, by the ingenuity ofinan, on the
principal ornaments of the grounds. The line walks, rude materials furnished by nature. 'lhclibmry ac
groves, and vistas are contrived to terminate with i cords with the other parts of the palace in magni
some agreeable object. from one ispcrccived a vil
cence. It is supported by surerb marble pillars,
loge church; from another a temple or an antique , is 200 feet long, and containstldiwo volumns. In the
statue; and, through the opening of a third, :tp- ; time of the Saxons, 'oodstock was the scat ofa
pears the curling smoke of some rural cot. Catharine royal palace, inhabited for a time by Alfred, and
was charmed with a beautiful] fountain, representing was afterwards a favorite retreat of llcnry' l .
underthe for'msof river gods, the Nile, the Rhine, the - who built apalacc for fair Rosamond in the recesses
Danube, and the Tiber; and placed in the middle ofa ; of a woody labyrinth- It is now an inconsiderahlu
spacious basin, that receives the waters ofthe grand i town, known chiey by its vicinity to Nenhchn.
386
Irig the enemys infantry from among the

hedges of Franquenies. The Dutch and
Dz'nish horse charged with great vigor,
but were so roughly handled that they began
to give way. The duke perceiving this, or
dered the body of reserve to sustain them;
in the mean time, he himself attempted, to
rally some of the broken squadrons in order

to renew the charge. \Vhile doing this, his
own horse felI and he was surrounded by
the enemy. In this perilous situation he
must have been either killed or taken; but
a body of infantry, discovering his fate, rush
ed to his relief and he was rescued. \Vhile

remounting his horse, the head of colonel
Brienfield, who was holding his stirrup, was
carried off by a cannon ball. Before the rein
forcement arrived, the best part of the French
musketeers was cut in pieces. All the troops
posted in Ramillics were either killed or
taken. The rest of the-French infantry be
gan to retreat in tolerable order, under
cover of the cavalry of their left wing, which
were formed in three lines between Ossuz
and Anderkirk; but the English horse ful'
ling itnpctuously on these, they abandoned
their foot, and were terribly slaughtered in
the village of Antlcrltirk. The enemy now
gave way on every side. The horse ed three
different ways,rbut were so closely pursued
that few escaped. The pursuit was continu

ed till 2 o'clock in the morning of the fol
lowing day. The French lost fteen thousand
men. The battle of Ramillies was attended
with the immediate conquest of all Bmbant,

Antwerp and its territory; Loubainc, Mech
len, Brussels, Ghent and Barges, submitted
without resistance; and Ostend, Mcnin, Den
dermonde and Acth were added to the con

quests of the year. The city of Paris and
the whole French empire were overwhelm
ed with consternation. Louis affected to bear
his misfortunes with calmness and compo
sure, but the constraint under which he was
obliged to maintain his feelings, had such an

effect on his constitution that he was oblig
ed to undergo frequent venesections. At
his court no mention was made of mili
tary operations, and all was a scene of for
lornncss, silence and gloomy reserve. On
account of the successes of the duke of
Marlborough, a bill was passed in parlia
ment to settle his honors on the male and
female issue of his daughters.
'0
\Vhenever a man undergoes a considerable

change, in consequence of being observed
by others; whenever he assumes another
gait, another language, than what he had
before he thought himself observed, be ad
vised to guard yourself against him.
For the Repertory.

ARI) ENNIS:
OR THE SPIRIT OF THE \VOOI).
A TRAGEDY is rtvs .\c"rs.

By Ubaldo.
ne'r SECOND
Scene First. foren near the castle of .irdenm'c. J1
lo-w entrance to a come i: seen through the lreea,
To die by famine! but indignant heaven

Sent me its minister to seek and save her.
Jlrtlen. And didst thou!
Idwneo. Who can withstand the call of heaven!
Deep in a dungeons awful gloom I found her,
Deep in that dungeons gloom she still remninl!
There shall she rest protected by my arm,
Till justice shake Fernando from his holdl!
Jlrrlen. 0! let me y to save her!
"upended from the ceiling within, ebly burns a

Idumeo. Presumptuoua man!
small lamp. The lightning is seen at intervals dart
ing Ihrough the charm of the rocks, which are

(OUCICII by freon. Thunder. Enter Ardennia.
rdemua. Whither have I wandered! the warring
elements
Contend with heaven! It is an awful night!
The lightning ashes, and the thunder shakes
The trembling spheres; the clouds look big with
Thou fly to save her? thy intent is known

To Heavens all seeing eye! thou wouldst but save
her,
As the lion saves, at leisure to devour!
llark! again I hear, tis more than fancy now,
Arden. By heaven!
Idumeo. Swear not by heaven! for hem'en beholds
Thy black designs! but mark me well, Fernando;
The countess is my care; ordaind her safe guard.
['11 hover oer thee like a hateful plague,
And if thou dare but meditate a wrong,
Ill blast thee with my breath!
Jlrden. She is secure, [going]
Idumeo. But, Fernando, thy ears have yet to hear,
The rightful lord of these domains
vlrden. Is dead!
And not the restless wind. Why burns you light

Amid the solemn darkness of the wood?
Ill explore.
The only heir of proud Ardennis lives!

To search for him, commissiond by high heaven.
showers,
And the world rocks in terror on her axle.

Terrible guilt, how dost thou unman me!
My fearful servants in the mist of night,
Have separated from me--hark! what noise!
It was the wind, rattling the leafy honors
0f the oak, whose huge trunk dees the storm.
[Draws his sword and is ml-vancing towards the

cot-e, when, with a dagger in his right ham!
and his left pointing to a woumlz'n his breast,
Jtlumeo appear: at the entrance. Fernando

cram-1
Idumeo. Forbear!
.Irtlen. Idumeo! 0! my heart!
Hence to the grave.
Itlumeo. Nor day nor night, Ardennis,
Will I ere cease to haunt thee with my visits
Until
.irrlen. Hence, hence, dissolve that fearftd vision,
Disturb not nights tremendous glooms, not let

The livid paleness of thy hollow eye,
Strike me quite through, for, 0! to me
Theres hotter vengeance from thy feeble glare,
Than in the forked shafts of heaven's red lightning!
Avaunt thee or mysword
Itlumco. Sooner thy sword,
Shall fell the oak or cleave the rocks firm base;
Sooner extended oer its awful bed,
Thy sword the mighty ocean shall divide,
Than nd a sheathe within my breast!
v
Jrrlen. Let this
[dd-ounces, hesitates.
Convince thee, that I
\\'hy should I attempt
With mortal weapon to transpieree a spirit?
Idmneo. The secret pannel and Ardennis death,
Have made thee master of these large domains;

But mark me!
.Hrtle'n. Thou dost rivet my attention!
My fearful heart would make me y and shun thee,
But my frail feet their wonted aid refuse,
Chaind by a fate that hovers oer my being,

And binds me to behold thee!
Idmneo. Mark me well.
Thou knowst the countess of Ardennis
.llrden. Lives?
Illumeo. She does!
Jlrden. Destruction! tis now six long weeks,
Since I conveyd her to a dismal dungeon!
Idumeo. And there thy wonton cruelty consignd
The mistress of this proud and rich estate,
Idumeo. Believe it not1 for I, Idumeo, tell tbee,
I came, and in a daring youth beheld,
The lawful ospring of dead Claudios son!

Arden. Indeed!
Idmrwo. Known by a scar upon his brow,

And by his likeness to the dead Alberto!
Jlrtlen- Thou'st left the dreary mansions of the'
dead,
To tear the crown of greatness from my brow,

Torn from Ardennis while my murdrous hand,
Was reeking with his blood! raven of hell!
0! thou hast eroakd a secret on my ear,
That drowns the voice of safety! tell me where
This adder lurks, to crawl upon my peace,
And I will worship thee, will vow allegiance
To the dark angel, whose command thou bearst!

Idumeo. No deamon do I serve, but come, Fer
nando,
To say I will not cease to haunt thy presence,

Till thou resign thy title got by fraud,
And the true heir shall hurl thee from thy pride,
To leave thee grovlling in thy native dust!
rden. Thy words are terrible, but not prophetic!
Idumeo. So sure as heaven assists the just intent,
So surely are my words prophetic, count.
The dapplcd gleams upon the orient sky,
Proclaim the morning; remember me, farewell
l/Irden. 0! yet I charge thee stay, Idumeo, stay!

~
[Illumoo dilGPPCGIm]
Eternaljustice! whither has it own!
Wast not fancy? did I indeed behold
His angry ghost? tis plain my crimes have waked,
The silence of the dead, and heaven hurls down
The terrors of his ire.

Rodrigo. My lord! [Withcun]
.qnlm. Whose voice?
Rod. Bear up the torches. [Without]
v Jrden. Tis Rodrigos sure.
Rod- ! heard a voice, and the sound was this way.
Enter Rodrigo.
Jlrden. Rodrigo. I
Rod. Have we then found you, good my lord
Praised be heaven, our fears were groundless!
Jrden. Rodrigo,
PHILADELPHIA R nrnhTonv.
m
Even now did you notsee a gure pass you!
Bod. When, my good lord!

Arden. Some short time ere you found me.
Rod. My lord, we did, and thought it had been
you!
Arden. Me, Rodrigo!
Rad. Petro calld but it returnd

No answer.
Arden. I saw ithere are my servants7

Rod. They must be near.
.llrden. Are they armd, Rodrigo?
Rod. \Vhen we discoverd we had lost your
lordship,
We hastend to the castle and exchanged

The hunters brittle spear, for heavier weapons.
My lord, they come.
Enter Petra and attendants with torches.
Jrden. By my fears, it shall be so!

Wherefore need I fear a dead mans prowess?
Ill force the cave and tear the secret out!
Rodrigo, seest thou that cave!
Rod. What cave, my lord?
Arden Where burns yon taper-ha! it is extinct.
Bad. I pray thee, my good lord, lets to the castle.
Thou lookst not well; the horrors of this night
Have so affected thee

Arden. Tis true than sayst; [Seizing [lid hand]
The awful horrors ofthis night, Rodrigo,
Have quite unnerved my soul!
Had. I pray, my lord
Arden. But come, Rodrigo, the day breaks apaoe,
Mark well this spot, and when the blaze of noon,
Drives the banditti which infest this wood,

To shrink from danger in the secret gIOom,
\Vell search this spot, force ingress to their cave,
And drag the lurking villains forth tojusticc;
No more they shall infest our fair domain!
[Ereunt]
Scene Second. .Iinotherpart oft/12 wood, enter Cecilia
followed by Jeannette.
Cecilia. Thanks to your friendly covert, ye rude

rocks,
That from the storm has kindly sheltered me!

Jean. Lady Cecilia.
Cecilia. Farewel, a long farewel,
My noble, kind and genrous benefactor!
How eet to me have the long years appear d?
Adieu, Rosalva, and thou too Hem-ico
0! cruel love, thou tyrant of the soul,

How hast thou forced me friendlcss thus to roam!
Jean. 0h! madam, do not say so! thy Jeannette
\Vill follow thee through all the world, unless
Thy cruelty forbid.

Cardin. How can I think,
0f making thee companion of my exile,

It must not be; return.
Jean. Wilt thou return then!
Cecilia- I. 0! thou art mad, Jeannette, to ask it;
Honor and gratitude forbid.

Jean. Honor!
Cecih'a. Yes, honor and gratitude! shall I be there
To blast the fairest prospects of St. Aime,
\s I must surely do if] return!
Jean. I understand you now, dear lady.
Cicz'h'a. Indeed!
Jean. When he shall nd that his Cecilia has tied,
He will go mad with grief.

Cecilia. Thinkst thou, Jeannette,
Thinkst thou one tear will glisten in that eye,
Which has sooften beamd with love upon me!
Will it not rather settle in afrown
Of anger, that I ed from his protection?
Jean. 0! no, his grief will prey upon his peace,

Unknowing where his dear Cecilia is,
Of all the dangers that surround her, twill
Kill our noble lord! then think thee of
Rosalva too, who lives but in her friend.
Henrico and Cecilia must not meet:

Jean. \Vhereer thou go'st Jeannette will folio
thee.
But \vhitlicr,m_v dear lady, must We travel
Cecilia. Alas! Jeannette, I know not, do not may
Jean.I do not like this forest; let us hence-I
V
Cecilia. Wound not my heart with such a thought,

Jeannette,
0! thou wilt break my rm resolve, and tread

On all my courage, dare I venture there
Methinks I see St. Alme oerwclm'd with anguish,
And hear Rosalva mourn her absent friend,
Seeking in vain a patient car like mine,

To listen to the story of her love.
Methinks
Jean. The lord Henrico in despair
Cecilia. Ha! tis there, Jeannette, tis there hangs
all my danger.
Jean. Indeed!
Cecilia. Indeed. That name has roused exertion.
Cecilia. Come, let us further then.
Jenn. I follow, lady. [.Ereunti]

Cicilia. 'ho are these, Jeannette! I shake. with
terror. ['VI'IIIMILJ
Sapmm. Hoa! Panuco, Martin. [Wither/L]
Pnnum U Jfartin. Here, here. [Without]

Supona. A spy, a spy, there's danger lurking
[Cecilia screams-J,
Ottomar. [Without] Unmanly cowards, hold! or

by my soul
Ill tear you peace meal, and around the wood

Scatter your mangled limbs! Offer aninsult
To unprotected women? hence, ye curs,
Yes, though, Jeannette, I doat upon I-Ienrico,
Or Ill chastise your cruelty, begonc.
Though he reigns victor o'er my conquerd soul,
Scene changes to the entrance of the rut-e as bQl/t.

and Otloznnr enters conlhtcting Cecilia jbllauwl In.
Jeannette.
But for Henrico I were not now here,
A hapless wandrer in this dreary forest;

Not knowing whither to direct my steps,
Or where to seek for shelter or protection.
Jenn. Can it be possible!
Cecillia. It is too true.

Jean. I know the lord Henrieolovcs thee, lady,
And would not for the world alict thy heart
\Vith cruelty.
Cecilia. Ah! ifhe loved me not,
'Iwere little matter how my soul were touchd;

My love and gratitude to good St. Alme,
Would lend me courage to repel my passion;
In my own breast to stie evry pang,
And be content in agony.
Jenn. But why,
My gentle lady, most this be!

Cecilia. Oh! Jeannette,
Honor forbids me to remain and hear,
Though my frail heart acknowledges its Weakness,

Henrico paint his sufferings at my feet:
In all the impassiond tones of ardent love
Conjure me to take pity on his pangs,
\Vhile I am conscious that Henrico's hand
ls destined for another.
Jean. Can it be!
Cecilia. It is indeed too true, and I am lost.
Jelm Surely his father, when he knows his love

For thee, my lady
'
Cecilia. What is Cecilia
To th heiress of De Virole's noble house?
Dependent on the bounty of the count,
Snatchd by his kindness from the jaws of fate,
When my unfeeling parents left their child
An infant object of some stranger's care,
Shall I, who do not know from whom I sprung,
Dare thwart the darling prospects of St. Aline!

No! though my heart should break!
Jenn. But when he knows
Henricos peace is linkd around Cecilia,
He will relent and bless her.
Cecilio. Hell detest her!
Jean. Never!
Cecilia. You do not know my benefactor,

\Vhateer his virtues be,yet svrice prompts
His choice.
Jean. Indeed!
Cecilia. Darling nobility,
0! how thy gaudy trappings lure the soul,
I-or thee the good man oft becomes a end;
But come, let us still wander; faie has-decreed,
Be not dismayd.
Cecilia. 0! sir, tell me to whom,
Whose heaven directed hand, I owe my rescue?
Ottpmm'. [Confused] That I cannot now; but you

are safe, madam.
1 Whom do I behold? the lady Cecilia!

Cecilin- How! am I known to you, sir knight
Ottoman To you
Though unknown, I have before beheld vou.
Tell me lady, how does the fair Rosalva?
Cecilia. Ila! can it be? it strikes me.

Ottmnar. \Vhat mean you!
Cecilia. Canst thou he he who saved her from

destruction.
Ottoman [Bo-w: respectfully/J
Cecilia. Brave and genrous man, how shall I tell
thee,
How much thy image has impress'dher mind?

Ottoman Indeed!
(.eciba. Never I fear to he expelld.
OttwnarJIclig'htful sounds, come, madam, fear no
danger,
Soon shalt thou return and tell ltosalva,
My soul but lives with her?

I
Cecilia. Oh! never, never!

Oltomar. How!
Jmm. Lady, lady, pray you do be cautious.

[drills to Cecitaf]
Cut/ta. I trust your honor for protection, knight
()ttomar. Nor shall that condence be e'er be
tray'd;
This way.
Cecilia. [Starting from MIL] That dreary cave
My fears are true,
And thou art a robber!
Ottonun'. Yet I am guiltless,
And by the majesty oftruth I swear,
No harm shall reach thee.
Cecilia. I shake with horror, bandit;
And yet there is a nobleness about thee, Which makes me condent, thou wilt not wrong
A helpless female.
Ottoman No, by my hopes of love,
A studied wrong has never staind this heart,
Nor ever has this honest sword been drawn
Against the innocent, nor would I shed

One drop of guiltless blood to buy an empire.
Cedlia. I trust thee then: beside,my bosom feels
An impulse it has never felt before._
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088
Ottomar. Perhaps one day thoult find that Otto

mar
Is not the villian he appears; but come,
I hear the sound of footsteps, let us haste.
'ecilia. 0! if thou betray mc-
Ottomar. My heaven indignant,
Blast my pernicious soul, and mercy shut
ltelentlessly her ears when at her throne
l kneel for pardon!
Cecilia. Dreadful ahjurationl
But come, there is indeed a sound of feet;
\Iow, Ottomar, to thee I trust my life,

\nd Heaven so deal with thee as thou with me.
.
[I'lreunt into the 012110.]
lfuler .VIrdenm'a, Rodrigo, Petra and .llttemlantlr.
Rod. I thought me not mistaken, good my lord;

50 Well! mnrkd the track that we pursued:
A nd see here is the entrance of the cave.
. inlm. [Jparn] How this may end Iknow not; I
feel impelld,
l-ale cries out pursue, and something must be done:

A dreadful mystery the cave contains,
'l'hut now must be unravelld. Follow me,
And whosoever dare oppose your way,

Let your good weapons cleave him to the ground. .
[Drama and emit into the carej'ollowml by (lief
attendants. .lflcr a short inter-r0], a clash
of arnm is heard: enter Jlrdmmis and Otto
mm in single ght. Ottomm' retreats, at

length his rwunl breaks, and when rth-unis
i8 about to strike, his eye rests on IlhLlIICO
who entersfrom among the rocks. .Irdennis

starts bark and Oltomnr stands astonished
gazing upon Idumeoj
ItllInlLO- Again we meet, dctested homicide,

And I arrest thy murdrous arm, beware!
Thou Ottomar, now follow me and hear,
What yet thy heart has never hoped to learn.

Ottomar. I will, though death were in the path,
go on.
[Emit ldumeo fallen-ell by Ottomar. .inh'mu'r
.vtuIld-ipetl'ied, and when Idumeo (Ill-(l 0t
tamar disappear, the curtain fallen]
o.
For the Repertory.
THE CABlNET. No. Xxxn.

Feureux qui sait priscr la mediocritc;
Flt qui de ce trisor satisfait pour la vie,
Loiu a la fois du faste et do in pauvrete,
Xexcitera jamais in degout ni lcnvic.
The other evening as I amused myself

with looking over those numbers of the Ca
binet which have already appeared, I was
surprised to nd that we have cpmmunica
tctl only a single dream to the public dur
ing our whole course. Among periodical
cssnyists it has been a custom time imme
morial, to acquaint their readers with what
pusscs in their imagination during sleep, as
well as to present them with their waking
thoughts for their instruction or amusement.
N ow, in the dreaming way, no mun can be
more consistent than myself; for the tem
tion, I immediately joined his train. We'prod

ceeded a considerable way before the goal
of our destination appeared in view. At
length, after a great deal of toil and circum
spection, a neat and modest mansion rose in
minuets around my bed; no clovcn footed our sight. Over the door was written in large
deamons from the regions of brimstone, dare plain letters the Hall of Competence. Re
suffocate me by Making my nose, or paper doubling our labor as the prospect of its
colored ghosts disturb the serenity of my cessation grew more distinct, we soon had the
repose, by whizzing through the key-hole, satisfaction of entering the house, and were
and making wry faces in the dark. But I immediately, as a refreshment after severe
sometimes follow fancy in her moonlight toil, invited by the mistress of the mansion,
excursions to the temple of instruction, and whose name was Good Management, to par
gather precepts of wisdom for the past, the take of an elegant and and plentiful, though
not ostentatious and profuse entertainment,
present, and the future.
As I sat thinking on the subject, trying which displayed great taste in its arrange
to discover some suitable dreaming topic, ment but admitted no superuous decora
whether the cabinet I had been reading was tions. Every part of the edice was formed
more soporic than ordinary, or whether my for comfort and convenience, and the most
predetermination to dream had any inu dignied and rational hilarity beamed from
ence, I know not, but in a few minutes I the eyes of all its inhabitants. After our rc
fell back in my arm chair, and very much past, Discretion rose from his seat at the
to my satisfaction was introduced to the head of the table; and commanding our at
tention thus addressed us.
if T}
following vision.
I thought an almost boundless plain ex
My happy friends! by adhering to my
tended itself bcfore me. It was entirely co counsels you have at last arrived at the hall
vered with people, the greater part of whom of Competence. In this house you will nd
appeared to be exceedingly busy. I looked every thing which may conduce to your fe
around for some timc, undetermined which licity without corrupting your heads or your
way to proceed. I was, however, very anx hearts. Virtue is the deity we here adore:
ious to escape from that part of the plain you will nd ample opportunity for exercis
on which I now stood; it being covered with ing your benevolence by assisting those who
a multitude of wretched mortals, the sub (are coming after you to attain the blessings
jects of poverty. Some of them were endea you now enjoy. If you are not happy in this
voring to rid themselves of their compan mansion, you may condently believe that
ions by making great exertions to get near you can be so in no other situation. At this
er to the furthermost part of the plain, to moment a door directly opposite to that at
wards which the whole crowd was pressing; which we entered was thrown open. Our
but a vast number seemed contented with conductor pointed to a superb fanc, which
the squallid misery of their situation, and was easily discernable from where we sat,
had no desire to escape the' tyranny of po and proceeded. Behold yonder the temple
verty, their iron master. I importuncd se of Aluencc! its proud spires glitter in the
veral persons who seemed to understand the sun and challenge our admiration; but
customs of the place to be my guide in so Here a number of my fellow travellers rush
good a concourse, but all were too much ed out, totally smitten with the gaudy ap
occupied in waiting on themselves to at pearance of the edice and soon disappear
tend much to me. I at length perceived a ed in the crowd. But," continued our
grave though cheerful old gentleman who guide, the happiness it offers is delusive;
was closely followed by a small number of its plcasures are transitory and void of sa
travellers. They moved slowly along, but tisfaction. Those brilliant walls enclose a.
owing to their industrious patience in avoid race of mortals who are the slaves of Fash
ing by circuitous routs the many bogs ion, a power who wears a countenance of
which impeded their progress, and with smiles, butruins substantial comfort by ex
which the plain was covered, sometimes left acting a rigid adherence to her tedious re
far behind numerous companies led on by gulations.The hall of Competence possesses
imprudcncc and avarice, whose followers all the real advantages of the temple of Af
bauchee, thatI have frequently been able

to treasure up the events of my dreams very
much to my own advantage. When I lie
down on my pillow, no hobgoblins with sau
cer eyes of ame presume to dance their airy
in the order of their zeal, were not unfre
quently betrayed into quagmires from which

perate habits in which .I have persevered they rarely escaped without much loss of
from my youth, have so purged my brain of strength. Admiring the countenance and
those shadowy incongruities which infest cheerful manners of the grave gentleman,
the sleeping hours of the drunkard and de and having learned his name to be Discre
uence, but permits a more natural enjoy

ment of its various blessings.-I heard no
more of the speech. My attention was at.
tracted by a fanciful gure having rather a
feminine appearance, standing in the door
which led to the temple of Afiiuence, I ad
385)
Vanced towards her. I thought her grey eyes
the point of a large stone, with the shock
were the most penetrating I had ever seen.
and excessive pain of which, I awoke.

PETER PEACEABLE.
Instead of a pincushion and scissors, she

were by her side various implements for the
purpose of dexterously opening drawers,
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sealed papers, Ste, her voice Was rnost mu
sically persuasive; and her nger was con

stantly pointed towards the temple of Alu
ence. Her name was Curiosity. Come,"
said she, let us examine for ourselres and
see if what that old gentleman has told us

the true; let us at least learn how things are
managed in the temple yonder, and then we

shall be better satised with our residence
here. I instantly followed the female, and
after some diieulty arrived at the fane.
The walls were of the purest gold, but
nevertheless exceedingly slender, and the
whole building appeared to rest on very un
stable foundations. The scene within was
the richest eyes ever beheld. The inhabi
tants clothed in robes of gold embroidery,

adorned with the most precious stones, and
their faces covered with a certain dust that
gave them a blooming appearance, rioted
in all the luxuries of the table, which could
SACRED HARMOMY.
No- XI.
It will be recollectcd that, at my outset,
in order not to disappoint the reader, I did

not promise to give regular essays, nor yet
to observe a periodical regularity as to the
appearance of what I might offer on the
badly understood theory, and the more per
verted practice of sacred music in our me
tropolis, consequently, A. B. and all who
may feel the degree of impatience manifest
in his note some time since, have no just
ground for blaming the tardiness of my
appearance. That it did not proceed from a
deciency of materials, he will have abun
dance of reason to perceive in the sequel;
and that due justice may be done to the
concluding paragraph of his note, it shall
employ a considerable portion of a succeed
ing number.
There is not, perhaps, a subject so great,
so sublime, so awful and so diicult for the
conception of man to embrace, or his power
to describe, as the day ofjudgment.
scarcely support the loads of costly viands

that were heaped upon it. I understood that
the inhabitants had reversed the order of
nature; that they slept during the day, and
under cover of the night gave a loose to every
That day for which all other days were made,
Great day of grand decision and despair.
species of extravagant merriment and life
destroying dissipation. They reposed on 7e see the energies of many poets sink
couches of the most luxuriant structure, beneath the mighty pressure; the attempt
which, to my inexpressible horror, frequent ed descriptions of even Watts and Young
ly sunk under them, and sometimes were only show us how far the theme transcends
precipitated into a gulf which yawned be the nest imagination, the boldest gures
low. In this dismal abode of wretchedness and the most exquisite painting. It is said
there were many mortals who had once en that deistieal writers of the rst rate talents
joyed the pleasures of the temple above, have made it the subject of their essays at
and who were now incessantly, and in the poetic sublimity; among whom stands the
most ungenerous manner, reproached for
their misfortunes, by those to whom they

had formerly been equal. The thickest paint
could not hide the ravages of disease in the
countenances of those who were still in the
king of Prussia, who, although he believed

not in revelation, observed to Voltaire, that
he had chosen the day of judgment as being

by far the greatest subject that could possi
bly seize the human mind, for the alone
temple, and the continual fear of falling purpose of calling forth every latent energy
into the dreaded gulf lled their bosoms with which nature had gifted him.
If such sentiments as these have truth
with the most distressing care.I was dis
gusted. Is this, said I, the temple of on their side, we shall see how they will ac
Aluence! how many are there who despise cord with that something before us call
the solid happiness of the hall of Compe ed Judgment Anthem;" if these sentiments
tence, and waste their strength by endea be true,'it will be evident that the language
voring to reach this splendid but miserable of such an anthem ought to be in consonance
sense, of every mind that, is not warped by

inveterate prejudice, or enchained by stub
born ignorance.
Whcthcr what goes by the name of the
Judgment Anthem was the manufacture of
one or more, it exhibits nothing but the
botching of an unexperienced journeyman,
or the more rude essay ofan uninformed ap
prentice; and it is not of much consequence
to know its source: but when we see it copied
into various publications edited by men who
profess to have taste in composition and skill
in music, and sought for with avidity and sung
with apparent enthusiasm by different socie
ties impressed with religion and actuated by
devotion, what can we think? But, objects
some caviller whose warmth of temper ban
ishes the coolness of reection, what have
you to say against the hymn, it is taken

from excellent poets. I know that; but how
is it taken? Why here, forsooth, is what is
calleda hymn or anthem made up of frag

ments of three hymns jumbled together in ,
such a manner as to make a perfect hotch
poteh, though two of them in their original
state and taken separately are sublime and
beautiful: it brings to my views the image

in Nebuchadnezzars dream; it has all the
heterogeneousness of that images compo

nent parts, withouta particle of it cohesive
ness. Or, perhaps, I might with stronger
propriety say (as the anthem is neither Eng
lish nor common sense in its present form)
it is not unlike a French or Italian Haste
quin, who, while he appears to be deep in
thought and aiming at something great,
loses his dignity by his particolored, patch
ed and pyebated dress, belittles his subject
by his illtimed grimaces, and nally sinks
into neglect and contempt, because people
want something more solid, nervous and
rational. Reader, look at this anthem; ana
lyse it; and see if the manufacturer of it and

the writer of the music are not worthy to go
together. They accord well in taking the
chariot, by which is guratively represented
the Lord of glor , riding on the awful day
of judgment in the clouds of heaven: I say
they take the chariot and cast it almost to

the ground; then whirl it round, like a boy
would his top; then toss it up into the air,

and whirl it round again two different ways
at the same time (what can not genius do!)

round and round and round again; and then
place! I looked around for the female who
with the grandeur, sublimity and awfulness
letting it rest for awhile as it were in com
had enticed me to enter the walls of the
of the subject, and the music ought to keep

pace with the language in majesty of move
ment and fulness of harmonic expression:.
on the rst of these I shall at present make
passion to the feelings of the personage wit h

in, they set to the whirling again, and at length
a few observations, submitting, as I have
good reader, at this representation, as though
temple, but she had disappeared, I turned

my face towards the happy mansion I had
left, and in my unusual exertions to put
myself once more under the protection of
nish the expressive scene by leaving him

at rest on the ground! Start not nor stare,
Discretion, I fell and struck my knee against already done and always shall do, all that I I myself had conjured it up; you will nd that
say to the good sense, that is the common the authors have far outdone my picture; and
23,90
PHILADELPHI A
ifthere be impiety or profanation in represent

ing the great Judge of all, as hearing a part
in something like a Whirligig puppet show,
let those poetry mongers and music mongers
look to it, the sin lies at their own door,
But lest I should trespass upon the privi

leges of other correspondents, further obser
vations intended for this, shall be incorpo
rated with the ensuing number.
PHILO MADAN.
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Answer to the Familiar Epistle with which
Miss Clementina Caustic has deigned to honor her
REPERTORY.
For no ladies, sweet creatures have tortured my

breast;
And let your kind fears for my happiness cease,

When I tell you the midshipman" left me in peace.
My nature from you has sustaind an attack,
That would put common patience Im sure to the
rack:
,
Andthugh I would leave out self praisaif I could,
I must say that my temper is natively" gnarl.

For was it not so, I would get mad outright,
And revenge all my ducks" you have put to the
ight.
But to show Clementina how great my respect
(And woe be to him, that your words would ne
glecl;)
For the advice I receive, and for you the fair giver,
Even hogs, when I get them, shall roll in the river.
As you have observed (Walter too fears their death,
unworthy servant.
Sec Rep. page 38;].
My dear Clementina, like the rich sir George

Airy,
he loved a fair wit as we bards love a fairy,
I mean by his fancy, you sweet little kitten,

With your pleasing good nature I long have been
smitten;
And though by the beautiful spots on your skin,
You have neer had a chance hardy \Valter to win,
Yet I vow and protest, without any demurring,
You have naild down his thoughts, by your musi- \
cal purring.
But not quite so young as the ladies admire,

Nor yet quite so old as to quench all his fire;
He saw Llementina as lovely, as cheerful,
And yet to address her, poor 'alter was fearful.

But since in the way of her sex she's begun
To pour on my muse a whole volley of fun;
I accept of the challenge, and here I declare
Though old age should come on, to stick up to the
fair;
And in spite of old (irummet, eat up with disease,
Address the kind damsel as much as I please.

Your pains, charming girl, have touchd nearly a
heart,
Unaccustomd to use fawning atter-ys art,

And truly lscaree knew what I was about,
When I read the sad tale of your 1, and his gout.
To think that you still must keep close in the house,
And be mewd from the day like a terried mouse,
Set my brain and my stomach in such a wild pother,
That the cholie seized one, and the head-ache the
other.
'
llut since youve come out in so lively a strain,
l begin now to think 1 :un Walter again.
Methinks, Clementina, your thoughts were es
tranged,
Or your faculties surely were sadly deranged,
\l'hen through the whole winter youve never been
grave,
Yet knew not that winter such mcrriment gave,
And declares they were never parehd up by his

breath.)
The sprouts of Parnassus seen drooping and wild,
And her laurels and lilies are sadly deled:
But mind not, Clementina, the asses nor mules,
For theyre perfectly harmless, nor startle at fools

That near to its foot will forever repose,
But ascend it and pluck the desirable rose;

While her nymphs, if she have them, your brow
Have made bold to embrace in satirical rhymes;

And, 0! you have sullied your humorous page,
In vain he rears them; for a single blast
Crumbles the basis of his vaunted deeds

And hurls them to a. level with the ground.
And hail you the lilly-crown'd empress of morn.
(live my warmest respects to your worthy old father, So ages pass and scarce a stone remains,
One poor memento of transactions proud,
And tell him I hope that his gout he may lather,
To tell the inquirer, such and such things were
And bestowing on it all the woe that is due,
,Upon that ancient bench encircled round
Give ease to himself, and give freedom to you.
A. thought has now struck me, that you may suppose By cypres trees, I listless lay and muse
How many eyes now closed in solemn night
A wish for a wedding my verses disclose;
Have gazed enraptured on this lovely scene;
0! no, my dear girl, Ill write letters, and ryhme,
How many cars have heard the rustling breeze
But talk about marriage at some other time:
Mournfully whisper through these close twined
Ill pay my addresses just like an old friend,
boughs,
To your wit and your powerful spightliness bend,
Wit-h deep attention: and how many breaths
And when I have seen you, if we should agree,
Have been awakend by the pensive lay,
Who knows but success may alight upon me,
'Findulge
like me in retrospective views!
And raise me to joysor, to miserys summit,
Altho you have written so much to old Grommet: Fit spot for meditation this indeed
\\'here cvry object does with strength reeal
But now to cenclude; your familiar epistle
What mankind were in earliest stage of life,
At rst I confess, made my modesty bristle,
When freshly blooming like you villa gay,
Yet I thank you, for having so candidly said,
The verdant vallcys pridethen quick compares
That youre wearied quite out with the life of a
will adorn,
It with this dome decayd; and tells us still,

maid;
It gives me some hopes if to court I should choose,

That youll not turn your back on my suppliant
muse:
But since a long letter no reader endures,
As you started, Ill end;Clemcntina Im yours.
"AL'IER \VIGGLE.
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REFLECTIONS ()F A SOLITARY WANDERER.
On yonder steep a ruin rears its front,

And frowns majestic oer the vale below:
Threatning the trav'ller as he slowly treads
By transforming to winter, what I meant an age;
His weary way, with terrible destruction;
But by this you have proved what your sweet self The old walls seem to tremble as the blast
hath sung,
Howls loudly round them with its wildest force.
That the elder are not near so wise as the young.
They were perhaps the once serene abode
I always have heard that een dogs of the chace,
0f dove-eyed happiness and sWeet content:
Have breathed with hard fumes at the end of And mouldringtraces of their former beauty,
a race,
Do yet. remain to greet the observing eye,
And surely the man that to good luck would run,
And tell it of the mind and taste rened
Must not breathe too slow on the foot path of fun.
Ownd by the architect who sleeps indust.
59 my dear little Caustic, let, jealousy rest,
d Behind a hothonse, now in ruins too,
As I, in my akelclies ofrs/lion: and timer,
A grove of cypres mournful, shades the scene '

Through whose thick boughs the sig'hing blee 13
is heard
In plaintive murmrings, which inspire the soul
\Vith feelings pensiveyet with sweetness fraught
A garden too could not escape the power,
The potent power of time's destructive mu;
\\here once delightful shrubs and owrcts blool'n'd1
To scent the morning zephyrs playful breath,
Is now oergrown with noxious weeds which seem
To trumph in the odorous shrubs decline.
Within a paling in the centre x'd,
The form which erst possessd this once fair spot,
Beneath a slab of marble silent rests:
Cut off in manhoods prime, and from the joys
Which are attendant on connubial love.
Two infant daughters slumber with their sire
I-our fatal days divided them on earth
And in high heaven united them forever.
The tall grass waves in silence oer their heads;
No friendly being strewn their tomb with owers!
None bathe the marble with a'ection's tears.
I love to wander in the silent groves,
And gaze upon the rooess ruins, there
To ponder on the futile works of man,
Who rears stupendous monuments and domes;
Still more impressively, succeeding years

\Vill rob us'too of vigrous manly strengl,
And leave us but the wreck ofwhat we were;
Blast cvry charm that once COIIld joy and Please,

Dim those bright eyes with ne expression fraught
And beaming with intelligenceI could weep
That this fair work must be oerwhelmd in ruin
And leave no vestige of itself behind.
But yet awhile lifes precipice I tread
With erring feet, some few short days and then,
With scarce a friend my obscquies to grace
Nor one to hear my memry in his heart,
St. Orme shall fall and wander wild no more:
So fares the insect as it utters round
The condles blaze in mimic sportiveness,
Too near it ventures and is ever lost.
ST. ORME.
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TO HEALTH.
I Sweet, rosy spirit of the moimt,
That loves the keen and bracing air;
Bright priestess of the crystal fount,
0! deign to hear an humble pmyr.
391'
F
In shady groves or alleys green,

At breezy morn or eve serene,
No more my faded form is seen.
here zephyrs kiss the lucid wave,
That chastely bashful shrinks away,
No more my feeble limbs I lave,
Nor sp0rt with thee in frolic play.
No more in shady dell retired.
My soul by some fair beauty red,
I sing, by thee and love inspired.
Some little bird that utters by,
I see thee perchd upon his wing;
0! how Ive longd with him to y,
And pardon and love from his brow gently beam

ing,
Bade me swell the sweet anthem of
Jesus in mine.
His bounteous grace sweetly whisperd and told me,
Oh, sinner for thee I this misery bore;
To cleanse thee from guilt on the cross there be4
hold me,
While to the ground,from my body, is streaming
the gore;
Which pardoning mercy exhibits before thec thus:
Though now I oer death reign forever n'ctorious,
In the mansions of blessing eternal and glorious.
So wishd for, but so lost to me.

I hear thee in the freshen'd breeze,
That skims the pine-clad mountains o'er;

I watch thee in the waving trees,
That skirt the streamlcts grassy shore.
But ah! to fell disease a prey,
That tears my ling-ring life away;
0! goddess, hear my suppliant lay
Jesus is thine.
'
l wept at the sight, and his love quite subdued me,

I sunk to the dust ovcrwhelmd with the view;
It restored my faint soul, and in grace it rencwd
me,
That conquering grace which alone can renew.
My soul, when no more to his sufferings cleaving,
I-ast, fast the kind arms of his mercy was leaving;
He snatch'd me from ruin, that soul thus re
trieving,
Jesus is mine.
0! cool this fever of the brain;
Arouse then my soul and his goodness relating,

Then in the vale or on the mount,
Or at Hygeias favrite fount,

Small time my happiest moments count!
LORENZO.
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For the Repertory.
IIYMN.
Ah! long had I strayd a poor exile from Jesus,

Despair reignd supreme oer my terried soul;
In bondage to him who in extacy seizes
Delusions, to lure us beneath his controul
Not then could my soul, when despairs rolling
ocean,
O'crwhelmd me with grief and terric emotion,
Prostrate her before him in humble devotion,
Nor swell the sweet anthem of

Jesus is mine
Like the prodigal son from his father that wanderd,
Pull oft from the path of submission I ew:
But oh, when the fast eeting moments were squan
derd,
No compunctiuns that wounded my bosom I

know.
But 0, who can sing ofhis goodness who reigning
Get all, nor the vilest of sinners disdaining,
In mercy my \vand'ring affections regaining,

Jesusis mine.
\Vith accents of love ll thy stammering tongue;
Till joy in the skies the sweet echo creating,

Lead angels to join in the heaven-born song;
And when from the grave to the skies thourt
impelling,
To receive in the mansions of glory a dwelling,
There millions of scraphs their anthems are
swelling,
Shalt thou swell still the anthem of
Jesus is mine.
VALERIAN.
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For the Rapertory.

Fain would I strike the harp to kings,
And give to war the sounding strings;
But lo, the chords rebellious prove,
0n the spear, from the wound in his side, it was
gleaming;
in the writings of the celebrated antiquarian

Dug-dale. It was made on the bequeathing
of two villages in England, by the famous
John of Gaunt, to sir Roger Burgoyne.
I John of Gaunte,
Do geeve and do graunte,

To sire Roger Burgoyne,
And the heircs of his loync.
Sutton and lotton
Until the worlds rottenv
q..
BEES.
The produce of bees is more protable
than the generality of persons may be in
clined to imagine, and the time bestowed
on them is seldom uselessly employed. A

French bishop, being about to make his an
nual visitations, sent word to a certain curate,
whose ecclesiastical benece was extremely

triing, that he meant to dine with him, at
the same time requesting that he would not
put himself to any extraordinary expense.
The curate promised to attend to the Bi
shops suggestion, but he did not keep his
word, for he provided a most sumptuous
entertainment. His lordship was much sur
prised but could not help censuring the
conduct of the curate, observing that it was
highly ridiculous in a man whose circum
stances were so narrow, to launch out into
such expense, nay, almost to dissipate his
Ye Hugs, and sons of war farewell;
uneasy on that score, my lord, replied the
And ncc the loves the long require,

To \e us I Rsign the lyre.
Tu" thus (0! nymph:) with attic tongue.
curate, for I assure you that what you now

see is not the produce of my curacy, which
I bestow exclusively upon the poor. Then
you have a patrimony, sir, said the Bishop.
No, sir. You speak in riddles; how do
Ofytii\ the gay Anacreon sung,
A hard beloved of me,
entire income in a single day. Do not be
And h i the poets spell can blame?
Perhaps, o '1 Greece could boast a dame,

With evry charm like thee.
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HARMONICA.
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aPPM;
Pale death, though his conquering powers were
ended,
Triumphantly reignd oer the God of us all.
The blood from the pores of his hands down was
streaming,
o.
The following very singular, yet very
And tremble with the notes of love.

In vain I quarrel with my lyre,
In vain I change the rebel wire:
Boldly I strike to war again,
But love prevails through all the strain.
0ft, since not master of the spell,
'
\Vith grief on the cross, I beheld high extended,

A form that transpierced my poor heart with
May no obtruding cares, such bliss infest,
No cruel wrongs disturb thy peaceful breast;

X0 ckle nymph thy youthful heart inspire
With ill fraught love, or uncontrould desire;
No cursed temptation lure theqto betray,
Or prompt thy steps in error's paths to stray:
llut virtue in thy soul ev'te her power,
And shew fresh beauties, each succeeding hour.
LOTHARIO.
forcible last will and testament, is preserved
0, health! displace this sickly hue,

My checks with thine own rose imbue,
And let me follow in thy train.
A quiet conscience, an uncloudcd brow:
Then swell the sweet anthem, for
And make the woods melodious ring.

The tribes of nature blessd with thee,
Enjoy that peace, that harmony,
__
you then to-" My lord, I have a con
vent of young clamscls here, who do not let

me want for any thing." How! you have
a convent! I did not know that there was
one in this neighbourhood. This is very
strange, very unaccountable, Mr. Curate."
LINES TO J. P. LC,
On his leaving Philadelphia.

Adieu, my friend, may thee each joy await,
That thou couldst wish, or fancy contemplate;
Not transient joys, that have a short liyed reign,
But those whose sweetness ever will remain,
Which yield an antepast of heaven below;
You are jocular, my lord. But come,
sir, I cntreat that you would solve thc en

igma; I would fain seen the convent. So
you shall, my lord, after dinner: and I pro.
misc you that your lordship shall he satis
ed with my conduct." Accordingly when
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dinner was over, the curate conducted the
answer a three fold purpose: render them
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pied by bee-hives, and pointing to the latter,
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The note addressed to Alfred, from Messrs.
which gave us our dbner; it brings me in
aboutl 800 livers per annum, upon which I live Coale and Hewes, the former editors of the
very comfortably, and with which I contrive Companion, is a sufcient evidence of his
to entertain my guests genteelly." The sur being the author of the verses to Mary,
prise and satisfaction of the bishOp at this published in our 47th number.
discovery may easily be conCeived. The
sequel of the story informs us that after
MARRIED,
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wards, whenever a curate made application
On Thursday evening last, by the Rev.
to his lordship for an improved living, he Dr. Rogers, Mr. "illiam Merlecr, of Balti
would only reply Keep bees, keep bees. more, merchant, to Miss Hannah Thomas,
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A Husband and wife, who quarrellcd ra Philadelphia County.
observed; This; my lord, is the convent
ther more than man and wife usually do,
which the reader will believe was bad

enough, were on the eve of separation; when
the good lady, affecting to fall sick, told her
spouse that she believed she should die,
and to put on the best face to the world,
thought she had better stay and end her

days in their old house; which he, good
We understand that Mr. Smith has re

signed the post of secretary of state, and
that James Monroe, esq. of the common
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easy old man. full readily assented to; and
IIEAIIIII OFFICE,
very seriously asked her, whom she would

advise him to marry when she was gone.
This was too much. Marry the devil!
replicdshe in great warmth. Marry the
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devil? No, my love," answered he; no, that

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VOL. I.
once at Frankfort with the electors of Mentz,

Hanover and Palatine, about the operations
of the ensuing campaign, he was mortied
LIFE OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
in being unable to infuse into them such a
Compiled by a Medical Student from South Carolina.
spirit of zeal as was necessary for the suc
(Concluded)
cessful issue of those operations. On his re
Marlborough had now risen to the zenith turn to England, he had the still farther mor
of his glor;. In the campaign of 1707, he tication of nding his dutchess supplanted
had to combat with the celebrated duke of in the affections of the queen, by anew and
Vendome, by whom he was so w'ell watch more obscquious favorite. This favorite was
BIOGRAPHY.
ed, that he was unable to gain much advan
Mrs. Masbam, a kinswoman of the dutchess,
tage over him. The Campaign was spent in
by whom she had been raised from indigence

and obscurity. The presence of the duke
reclaimed the attentions of the queen for a
useless exertion, and the contending armies
retired to wintcrquarters without having ef

fected any thing of importance. In April the
duke of Marlborough set out from the Hague
for Leipsic, with a letter from the queen of
England to Charles XII. of Sweden, who
was then in the heart of Germany. The con
duct of this monarch had been so involved
in mystery, that the allied courts were alarm
ed, and the duke of Marlborough was ap
pointed ambassador to him, as the most pro
per person for penetrating into his designs.
He found the Swedish monarch, in his ori
ginal character, not simple, but sordid in his

appearance and economy, savage in his de
portment, ferocious, illiterate, stubborn, im
placable and reserved. Marlborough, with

that elegant and fascinating address which
was so peculiar to him, assailed the Swede
0n the side of his vanity, the only point at
which he was accessible. Sire, said he,
I present to your majesty a letter, not

from the chancery, but from the heart of the
queen my mistress, and written with her
time; but the impression was made which at
length put an end to his consequence.

In the campaign of 1708 the French, under
the dukes of Burgundy and Vendome, were

defeated in the battle of Oudenardc, by the
superior skill of prince Eugene and the duke
of Marlborough.
Lisle was invested, and,
after a siege of some months, together with

its citadel, surrendered. Marlborough reco
vered Ghent, Bruges, and other places,
which had been taken by the French at the

commencement of the campaign. France
was now obliged to set on foot a negotiation,
and the duke of Marlborough, who had so
often met and defeated her generals in the
eld, was appointed the queens plenipoten
tiary and went to Holland. The prelimina
ries proposed by the duke, in which the in
terests of the allies were duly regarded, were
such as the French minister could not agree
to, and the war was again renewed. The
No. 50.
had been made between his dutchess and the

queen.
The duke of Marlborough, in conjunction
with prince Eugene, opened the campaign
of l7l0, and conducted it against marshal
Villars. In this campaign the towns of Do

way, Bethune, Aire, and St. Venant, were
taken by the army of the confederates. The

victories of the duke on the continent could
not, however, prevent the machinations of

his enemies at home. The queen had dis
missed the earl of Goddolphin, and called to
her counsels men inimical to the views of
the duke. They wished and expected his
resignation; but either through private inte
rest, or a desire of being absent from ascenc
of things in which he could take no part,or,
perhaps, from aregard to the welfare of his
country, he dissembled his indignation, and
again met his rival Villars. In this campaign
he maintained his superiority, but his suc
cess was neither very brilliant, nor of ma
terial importance. His inuence at court was
now entirely gone. Marlborough, who but
a few months before had been so highly ex
tolled and caressed by the representatives of
the nation, and whose name had been borne
on the pinions of Fame to the remotest cor

nersrof the civilized world, was now become
the object of parliamentary hatred and cen

sure. That hero who had won so many bat
tles, subdued so many towns and territories,
encountered and surmounted so many dith

culties and dangers; who had humbled the
pride and disappointed the ambition of
duke of Marlborough had now to contend ,Francc, secured the liberty of Europe when
own hand. l-lad not her sex prevented her with marshal Villars, a general of great ex i it was on the point of being subverted by the
from taking so long a journey, she would perience and skill. The battle of Malplaquct sceptrc of Gallic domination, and chained
have crossed the sea to see a prince adored was fought on the Slst of August, and was victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few
by the whole universe. Icsteem myself hap one of the most destructive actions of the weeks turned into an objm t of contempt and
py in assuring your majesty of my regard, whole war. It cost the allies 18000 men, in derision. He was ridiculed in public libels,
and I would think it an honor, if my affairs killed and wounded. The city of Mons was and reviled in private conversation. Instan
would allow me, to learn under so great a taken, but the purchase was reckoned dear, ces were every where repeated of his fraud,
general as your majesty, what I want to know even by those who were the advocates of the avarice, and extortion; his insolence, cruelty,
in the art of With Charles was pleased; he war. The English nation, long accustomed ambition, and misconduct; even his courage
professed particular regard for queen Anne, to victory, began to lose its relish for tri was called in question, and this illustrious
E well as for the person of her ambassador, umphs in which it *had .no real or apparent general was classed among those who wal
and declared he would take no steps preju interest. The War became unpopular; the low in the lowest depths of human degene
'dicial to the grand alliance. The duke of tories were loud in c'lamors against it, and racy. As he did not resign the command of
Marlborough, as was just said, had attained the hero of it was slighted. His winter visit, the army it was taken from him. Some
to the zenith of his glory; but the good for though attended with public boners, was in members of the house of commons charged
tune which had hitherto Attended him, be auspicious to the expectations he had fos him with peculation, but with no just foun
m-BOW, at times, to desert him. At a confer. tercdaodb'found'thtaaa'mpanablebnach dation. They were jealous ofhis power, and
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PHILADELPHIAR EPERTORY.
..,
Arden. \Vell,
were determined to keep no terms with the
man who had been so long and so deserved No matter now, Rodrigo, but yet learn,
There is a dreadful secret labring herc,
ly regarded as the rst personage in the na \Vhich, ne'er to mortal car, has been reveald,
tion, and who, whatever might have been Perhaps when I have summond up resolve,
his failings, merited the esteem and venera Ill barrow up thy soul with the recital!
tion of his country. In the winter of 171). he No morc;your tale.
Rod. Since we attockd the cave,
paid a visit to the Low Countries, where he
was received wtih the honors due to his high You told me, there were possibly alive,
character. In two years he returned, and on The son and daughter of Ardennis.
.irllen. Ha!
the accession of George I, was again sum One I know lives, the other too I fear;
moned to court, and enjoyed the smiles of
royal favor. He Was reinstated in the su

preme command of the army, and his advice
was taken and acted on in the suppression
of the rebellion of INS. This was the last
public business in which he took a part. His
mental faculties began to droop, and he at
length experienced those foilings which are
so htnniliating to the hunum mind, and
which induce the state of second infancy.
0! that the serpents were within my grasp!
ROI]. I speak not yet, as certain of the truth,
Pity begone, thou bubbling infant, hence.
."lrdc- "Cll.
Rod. Pctro, my lord, inquisitive as usual,
I'rctended love to the deluded maid,
She must not live, or else Ardennis falls.

I-all! no, that will I not! is it for this
Well, his daughter I suppose?

Rod. Not his daughter.
.irrien. No.
A TRAGEDY IN rive were.

By Ubaldo.
Rad. From what] heard of I'etro,
A quick suspicion nshd across my mind;

The maid I further question; threatend her,
And she disclosed her mistresscss designs.

[.rrlcmu': pace: the stage.]
.drilennia. When shall I shake these terrors from

my soul?
Now every breath that shakes the forest leaves,
(Jan ll with terror my too guilty heart.

Tis plain, I live within the reach of ruin!
Justice seems now to draw hcr :mgry sword,
And much I fear my full alone will sheathe it.
.inlen. I must see her; if she live, Im insecure.
Rail. Now, what I ground my strong surmise upon,

Is this, upon her arm the maiden wears
A shining bracelet, the exact resemblance
of that we parted from the countess arm-
Arden. The countess! [Starting]
Rod. Yes, my noble lord, Louisa.
.imlen. Oh! good Rodrigo, there again I fall!
'ldumeos spirit murdcr's my repose;

\l'herc e'cr I fly, the tlu'eatniug ghost pursues,
That form which in the forest we beheld,
And thunders vengeance on my startled car!
That she, who for six Weeks has been conned,
The voice of conscience, fearful and more dread
Amid the horrors of a dungeons damps,

In hopes that famine would deny my sword
The shedding of her blood, is still alive;
The countess!
Roll. Louisa still alive, my lord?
'Ihan bursting thunders or the cannons roar,

Disturbs my bosom with its ceaseless cries.
Vt'hos there? Rodrigo?
Enter Rodrigo.
Rodrigo. It is, my lord.

.lrilen- Tell me, Roth-igo, why Im thus disturbd?
RorL I pray you, pardon my intrusion, sir,
As I have news of moment to impart;
And thought it better to disturb you thus,

"ban by delay keep back, what you, Im sure,
in be rejoiced to hear.
.frtlen. Then say it. quickly.
Rail. Since first your kindness raised me from
distress,
\ouvc laid the secrets ofyour bosom bare,

Aitd stoopd to take Rtxirigo as a friend;
Nor think, my lord, this grateful heart forgets
It owetits being to your gmdneus.
The ghost ofdend ldumeo, has informd me,
'
Ive been so deeply guilty? murderd all

That stood between ambition and myscl
Was it for this, my dagger sought his heart,
\I'hose restless spirit haunts my peace? blasting
My hopes, my darling hppes! the countess too,
Her mother, both exist! I scarce dare enter
Again within that dungeons awful gloom,

For there, I meet again Idutneos-ghost.
Rodrigo.
Ire-enter Rodrigo.
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R011. A foundling.
duh-n. Ila! what is it thou sayst?
R01]. Reard by the bounty of the noble count.
.Qrden. How learnd you this?
Oil THE SPIRIT 01 Till. \YOOI).
'
Jrdeu. The daughter lives,
A lady and her female servant.
ARDENNlS:
There was s time when I could smile at danger,
Cecilia. 'hom? but tell me who I am
That we had rescued, from the erce Banditti,
For the Repertory.
Enter .Irllemu's.
Arden. I say, away!

CeciBa. Cruel, ungenmus man! ['I'lwy bear lm-nj'.
.ilrden. Go on,
ACT THIRD.
Within the secret chamber.

Cecilia Heavens! my lord
.rlrden. Didst thou say found, Rodrigo?

Rod. Aye, my lord,
I think I have already told your lordship,
He died at Windsor on the 17th June I722,
Sl-ene First. l'/|e lml! In the mule 0f Jrzlnuu'l.
And her, and her attendant too, conne
Jrden. Let her not speak, away with her, tis she!
in the 73d year of his age, leaving behind

Rod. This morning, eer the. sun had risen,
him a numerous posterity by his four daugh They left the castle of the count St. Alme.
.Ii-zleu. St. Alme resides not distant from our
ters, who were married into families of the
castle;
greatest character and title in the realm.
R. B. F. I know him, but not intimately, Rodrigo;
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Resides within that bosom. [Apartj

Jrden. Death! Rodrigo! [Discovers Cecilia.)
Down to thy dungeon, blast not thus my eyes.
Cecilia Why is this? wherefore this storm of pas
sion?
My lord, what meanst thou? debtor to thy kindness
For my rescue from the erce banditti
vii-den. 'ithin there.
Enter Rodrigo and Petro
lforl. 8 Petra. My lord- .
.lnlen. Seize that treachrous girl,
But if I do not err, the daughters found.
And gaind the secret of their early ight.
'
Jrdrn. Yes. No matter, my soul now nicditates,
A dreadful deed! Imust behold this girl;

Go bring her hither. [ea'it li'wlrigo.] Perdition
threatens me!
The waves are troubled, the tempestuous sea
Of vengeance swells its angry ood to drown me!
[Enter CiciliaJ
The countess still exists!
('itih'u. Ha! the cotuttess.
,
What guilty frowns are settled on that brow! [Jparh
Jrden. Ardennis, thou art not secure, while one
Of the rank stock of murdcrd Claudio lives.

Cecilia. 0f murder'd Claudio!
.Oh! should my fears be true, I villaini heart
R011. Here, my lord.

.irrlen. My faithful fellow,
Theres danger lurking near mc,and thou knowst
We should not let the serpent crawl too long,
Lest it should turn and sting us.
Rod. True my lord.
.lrden. Art thou my friend? [ Grasping his hand]
Rod. Your servant, good my lord.
. rth-n. Art thou my friend?
ROII- My lord, you know I am.
Bound to obey your cvry great command,

Though it should bid me, leagued with danger,
Haste to the verge of death, to death itself.

.2111. Thy dagger has lost nothing of its cdgei
Can it stab sure as it was wont to do?
Is not thy :Lrm unnerved?
n0". Tis not my lord.
Arden. 'I'hinkst thou :1 victims groans could
touch thy soul?
Rod. Not if that victim were my masters foe.
Jrdm. Foe! hark ye, Rodrigo; all hell combined,
Were not so formidable as that foe.

Rod. If my impatient dagger, can but nd
A passage to his heart, he dies.
.irden. She dies.

Rod. A woman!
Jrdeu. Art thou but half a murderer?

Rod. Sure it were cowardly to kill a woman.
.irden. Not if that Woman be my deadliest foe!
Dost thou forget from what a state ofmilry
I snatch'd thee? and darst hesitate, base slave,
To do a deed of blood, when I command?
Bad. I oWe you much, my lord; my soul revolts

Ago-inst my will, but yet Ill do the deed.
Arden. Tis well: now hasten to my chamber,
there
Ill meet you presently: beg-one!
Roll. Tis Well. [EII'L]
Arden. I will not rest until my fears are oer.
[emit]
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Of all thy present beauty shall remain.

Jean. Pray, dear madam, do not talk so sadly.
Cecilia. I talk but truth, thus must it be with all!
Scene Second. The secret chamber. .4 room painted

entirely black: on a sliding pannel in the back scene,
a deaths hemlisportmyed. . large arm chair is pla
ceil near the scene, on one side the skeleton, in which
Cecilia is seated, in a melancholy altitude. Jeannette
Thou silent monitor, let me more near

Peruse thy lineamt-nts.
[She (IlllBlllhCS Io contemplate the hear], and
is leaning on oneu'lle qfit, with a small lamp in her
upon touching it, the punneljh'es 0151'". She
hand.
Cecilia. "Ardennis thou art not secure, while one
starts back.
Eternal powers!
Of the rank stock of murderd Claudio lives.

Should I be one of slaughterd Claudios seed,
And in his powr! theres horror in the thought!
Jean. Lady, for what are we reserved?

Cccillin. I know not.
A secret pannel in the wainscot placed,
With blood and death this count is too famili:r.',
And that dread gure, doubtless, drawn to show
And [may be the victim of his crimes.

Jeannette.
Jean. Madam.
Cecilia. It grieves me to the heart,
What spot the spring contains! what can this mean?

I will search out.
What meant the villain by those lllttlflll words!
R011. Iwait, astonishd! ,
Jrrlen- Thou knowst me bloody, but not half
it so,
To share my luckless fonune.

Jean. Pray you, lady-
Thatl should bring some mystery to light,
Notto conunand me hence, if you remain,
Twere sacrilegc to taint my soul with fear!
Which in the secrets of this castle lies,
All dark and comfortless, give me the lamp.

Jean. For heavens love, lady, do forbear.
[Git-es her the lamp]
Cecilia. How far,
A gloomy dungeon seems to reach below!

[will explore it by this ight of stairs.
.lcrm. Lady, if you go Were lost.
Cecilia. Lost if we stay.
Jean. 0! heaven!
Cecilia. Nay, fear not, heaven will protect us.
Who casts his hope upon the arm of heaven,
Will never want for succor, mercy there,
Sits on the throne ofjustice to protect
The guiltless.
Jean- Oh! if they should murder us.
Cecilia. Why ifthey should, they cannot kill the
Yet heaven may lead us from the dreadful gloom,

To liberty: for often have I heard
Ofsccret passages beneath the earth.
Jean. It may be so, indeed.
soul,
Cecilia. Come boldly, then

Hark! hark! methought I heard a voice.
Jenn. And I.
Cecilia. Haply some su"rcr in the dungeon's
gloom.
Countess. [from the dullgeom] 'hen shall I quit
this load of weary life,
And sooth my agonies in deaths embrace?
Cecilia. Hark! again, a Womans voice.
He started; doubtless Ibore resemblance,
To some one, whom the grave has long since held:

He talkd of blood and murder-
Jean. Blood and murder!
He means to murder you.
Cecilia. Perhaps he does.
Hung in the gable color ofhis soul,
Tis amply congruons to a deed ofblood!
[-S'm'wying the chamber.]
Perhaps twas here, my father or my mother,
And if I can't alleviate thy woes,

Ill share them with thee.
[H.reunt through the [launch]
Or haply both, received the fatal blow.

Jenn. And see, dear lady, as if it were intended,
This should indeed be made the house of death,
.frden. I dread to see her!

Has your purpose cooldl
Rod. It has, my lord
here,
For Im convinced she is Albertos daughter!

Now to accost her:
['lums and direct?" her to be gone :1

Escaped, by all my hopes.
Rod. Escaped! ha! the panncl, my lord
.Rrden. The pannel! [Recoib'ng.]
Rod. Aye, tis open, doubtless through it they ed.
Still dost thou thunder on the startled mind;
" Behold, vain man, the period of thy crimes,

See here the loathsome aspect thou must wear!
That socket, which now holds spiercing eye,
Must soon be sightless as my hollow front,
Those bones, now coverd with thy yielding esh,
Jrden. Your ann, Rodrigo! I thrust him down it!
Ere long must he as naked as my own;
Must crumble into dust, and not a voltage
'
Jralen. I would not. have you make a half stroke
'ell might the dying wretch with thee hold con

verse;
For though that skeleton is tongueless now,
For other blood! soon as the count rccoverd,

He thankd me for his life, my birth he learnd,
My fortune and my hopes; with grateful eye

Then bent a glance upon me, bade me cheer,
And vowd to take my fortunes on himself.

Rod. 'Twus greatly generous!
I left my loathsome hut,'for but it was,
Cecilia. Ioor sufferer, I come,
Cecilia. Thou solemn friend,
Jrden- You shall hear: but let me hasten,
My soul's skin to murder, and now pants
Such goodness and such condescension toward me.
This were a spot well suited to the act;
A skeleton is painted on the wall.

Cecilia. Gracious heaven! where!
Jean. Behold.
I
[Cecilia gaze: at in]
A happier prospect; to save this Claudios life,

When a huge boar had fastend on his arm.
ROIL You saved his life?
Jrden. And murderd him, Rodrigo!
From the very arms ofdeath I rescued him,
To bloat his body with destructive poisonv
Rod. Poison!
.lrdcn. Mark, low I paid
Countess. Cruel Femando,
Could thy dark malice nd no other means

To rob me of my life, but famine?
Cecilia. Hearst thou?
Jean. I do.
Enter .lrvlemiis, followed by Rodrigo.
Which I by blood and murder have obtuind.

Rod. lly h'n death.
.irdcn. Aye, fellow, by his murder!
Snatch'd_ from the jaws of infamy and famine,
In which my cruel and relentless fate,
Ilunged me, my birth a binds! poverty
The meagre-jawd attendant at my home!
(Jhancc, in this state of wretchedncss, bestow'd
And if we die, 'tis immaterial how.
Tis but the body feels the daggers point,

And but the body quivers at the wound.
As the keen shaft upon the yielding air,
But passes through and leaves no trace behind,
80 shall the soul the stroke of death defy,
And smile secure, amid the mighty ruin.
I told thee when this count beheld my face,
thou knowst,
Of the dread crimes Ardennis has cor-unied!

Thou art comp IlOll of my guilt, and shalt be
The share-r of my secrets too! hold them
Itml. Dear as my life, and faithful as' myself!
.Qrden. Tis well; I trust thec:4istcn to my tale.
[was dependant on the noble bounty,
Of Claudio, former lord of these domains;
[Looks in]
Jean. \Vhat! prisners, lady?

Cecilia. I fear tis so, indeerL
Rut nnacquaimed with the cause of it!

Now, if my resolution faulter not,
Ill tell thee rst of my extent of guilt!
In that dread sepulchre theyre both secure,
Tis but a spacious tomb; therefore, no haste,
But let us on the verge remain awhile,
Cecilia. \Vhat should we fear) if heaven ordain
Indeed, indeed, twill break my heart to leave you.

Cecilia. Alas! I fear Jeannette, we must remain,
'bat oer our inclination to depart.
which
Thou art about to do a deed of blood,
To tell a direful tale.
Jean. 0! heaven, my lady, do not.
My faithful girl, that I have brought thee here,
Rod. We'll follow her, my lord.

rden. Yet hold, an hour has now arrived, in
Red. Fox-bear, my lord, be seated in this chair.

.Hrden. 'Tis smeard with blood! away!
Rad. My lord, 'tis not.
rden. In that same chair my benefactor died!
But I must be rm.
Compared to that proud castle, which was destined

To be the scene of all my joy and guilt!
I left my home, my parents and my friends,
And was received companion to his son.
Rod. That was indeed most kind!
$771,871. His name Alberto.
As brothers for awhile we lived together,
L'ntil one day, 0! fatal day for him,
For mortal enmity has since that day,
Filld all my soul against his noble house.
One day, this Claudio, us We wamlerd through
The adjoining forest, as our custom was,
When the cool fragrance of mid summers eve,

Invited recreation. there declared
Fernando heir to allhis vast estate,
If his Alberto died without an issue.

RolL What goodness!
Jlrilen- Now, the purpose of my heart
"as bent, that he should die, without an issue.
Rod. Good heaven!
_
.irden. But my bold designs were blasted!

For on the day that followd this, Alberto
Drew me aside into his secret chamber,
And here confessddestruction to my hopes!

Confessd,thst be had privately been msrrtul.
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And that a son and daughter crownd his joy.

Rod. That was unlucky.
Jrden. My revenge was roused,
But yet! tamed the fury in my soul,
Sootbd all his terrors, while I sought his life,
And bade him hope for peace; for well we knew,
His fadicr's malcdiction would attend

The knowledge of his secret; which I swore,
Inviolate
een while
Thclruin to
ofkeep,
his children
and lplannd
himself.
Rod. Twas terrible!
.drden. By my designs, old Claudio
Obtaind the knowledge of Albertos union.
ROI]. What followd?
villlt". 'hat but ruin could have followd?
Alberto qucstiond, he confessd ihc tmth!
His wife, a village girl, his fathers care

Resolved to shelter as his son had wedded.
Rail. But he
sirrlen. And children were espell'd the castle!

He left it with them, but what place received
The exiled youth, to me was never known.
Bod. Twas barbarous!
.llrden. Meanwhile his hapless wife,
Than whom, the rose bud blushing to the morn,
When wet with fragrant dew, was not more fair;

'as in a chamber in this castle kept.
Rod. 0! what a wretched destiny!
.drden. Tis true.
One crime is ever followd by another,
The angry father might again releut,
Where lost Alberto and his offspring were,

He then no more, the secret was secure.
I touchd the spring, and bya sudden movement,
Thrust him through that pannel.
Rod- 0! dreadful deed!
.rlnlen. And as he fell Iaimd a deadly blow,
He caught my dagger as it pierced his breast,
And tumbled with it, to the dungeons base.
I had reported, that old Claudio died
In strong convulsions, at the news received
Of young Albertos death; Well the story took,
ith fashiond sorrow to the vaultl bore
My benefactors corpse! as all well knew,
To Mr. Gravity.
In the productions of the younger part of

our countrymen, there are perhaps more in
congruities than in those of any other nation.
If I am asked for what reason, I reply, be
cause they forget they are the inhabitants
of a. new world. All poets are apt to be led
away, by the unrestrained excursions of their
fancies, to scenes which, only existing in
their imaginations, are no where to be found:
of this I do not complain, but when We hear
a hard of America, pouring forth his melan

choly strain amidst the ruins of an ancient
monastery, in a country where none ever
existed, and ip a place which has not been
I was adopted heir to all his honors,
Amid applauses, did I take possession.

Rod. Tis wonderful!
Jrrlen. Until when parted from you
In the wood, I thought not of Idumco.
inhabited long enough to admit of the decay
'Ihcre rst his restless spirit crossd my way.

12ml. But the countess?
Arden. Aye, there he been too guilty;
I have already told thee she was fair,
of its solid foundations, it is peculiarly un

pleasing. llow unaccountable must be the
wanderings of their ideas, when they lose
themselves in the perplexing windings of a
Grecian labyrinth, and pass with the inhabit
ants of the Archipelago through submarine
Beside, if she became l-ernandos wife,

And dead Albertos heir should eer be found,
He could not hurl me from my pride; therefore,
Long time I strove to gain the countess love,

But strove in vain; at length the holy war,
Gave her a long, long interval of rest,
Till I returnd, and urged my suit again;
She still persisted and Ithreatcnd vengeance;
Blood was my sole resource, and I resolved
To marry or to murder her, for she
caves of coral, and scenes of mysterious en
chantment; or when they are on the turrets

of a lofty tower, as majestic and as dreadful
as once were those of the warlike Troy, on
the almost uninterrupted level of the shores
of the Delaware. Such absurdities give rise
Twas therefore right that he should be removed.

Now this Alberto had a faithful friend,
Who with him ed, his banishment to sham;
His name Idumeo; through his means I got
l-ull many a letter, for Albertos pardon,

But which my bloody purposes kept back.
Rod. Indeed, my lord'
Jrden. And ere the last one came,
A slow consuming poison, from my hand,

Old Claudio had received! Idumco came,
But gave me not, as heretofore, the letter.
Roll. No!
Jrdm. But askd the aged count to speak with.

l dared not to refuse, or else suspicion
Might have tuit'athomd all my deep laid plans!
Wasting beneath the poison I had given,
Claudio received him in that very chair.
Had That chair, my lord! [starting] how cow
ardly is guilt.
.lmlen. 0! hadst thou seen his agonies while
Must be dead or mine, if I would be secure.

I did not perpetrate this bloody deed;
But still more cruel, now six weeks have passd,
to no associating thoughts, the mind rejects

them at once; but when our poets mourn
Since I consignd her to that very dungeon,

Into which ldumeo fell; there I thought
Famine had blasted all my fears in death,
But this Idumcos spirit found her there,
And ministerd reliefYour part begins;

They both must die, the mother and her child,
This by your hands shall fall, and that by mine.
[Looks into the dung-com]
How dark and gloomy is the depth below!
No more, fate cries aloud and Tobey;
No shrinking now, with conscience or with fear;
TO THE OWL.
Come on, Rodrigo, death or peace awaits!
0, thou softly breathing owl,

Cheer us our dark path along;
Deep, shall a little blood, our danger drown,
And bid us rest scoure for all our lives.

Rail. But what can drown the voice ofconse ience?
vildtll- Blood!
[Exeum through the fnmuel.
Lend us thy melodious howl,
Charm us with thy darkling song.

Tis thou canst sooth the lovers soul,
0r wild revenge in him awaken;
And to thy musics sweet control,
Submissive, yields the maid forsaken.
reading
My soul almost relented at the sight.

The letter gave assistance to the poison;
The passions all were roused, the venom workd,
And death relieved him from his lingering pangs.
Rod. Surely, my lord, no crime could have been
greater.
Jrden. None, none! but twas ambition urged me,
Ilad Ibecn left within the humble sphere,

Nature formd me but to move in, my soul
Had never panted for the steeps of pride:
But raised to grandeur, then ambitions god
Urged me to travel up the glorious mount,
And sprinkled oer my giddy path with blood!
I seized the letter when my friend expired;
My eye, like lightning, ashd oer its contents;

1 askd ldumeo, as he kneeld by Claudio,
if he had knowledge of the dreadful scroll!
He told me no: a glance ofthought more eet
.Flew threw my mind; ldumeo only knew,
with plaintive Philomel," we are always

brought to the recollection of the dismal
Owl; for that is assuredly the only nightin
gale of our country.
Excuse me for being led into the celebra
tion of this neglected, or inisuumed songstcr;
it is a spontaneous effusion, to which no
thing but his inspiration could have given
birth.
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THE CABINET. No. XXXIII.
True ease in writing springs from art, not chance,
Seductive passions in the breast,

'llu' melting measures silent keep,
And on the brain thy power imprest,
Would make the gayest fall asleep.
As those move easiest who have learnd the dance.

Po r 2.
We make no hesitation in giving the fol

lowing a place in our Cabinet: the justice of
its strictures, and the severity of its satire
on a practice foolishly prevalent, have each
an equal claim to our favor: and we hope
that Mr. Thorn will not stop here, but con
tinuc to spur on to propriety, those who
have wandered so far from the way. The
key of The Cabinet is hung within his
reach, and we respectfully hope. that he
may use it whenever he feels an inclination.
Then never cease, in love to mourn,
For thy cats head is formd for folly,

Thy days in woe will ever run,
Thy nights be wrappd in melancholy.
Alas! David, that thou art not a better
poet! if thou wert, what a subject is there

here for thy pen! how exalted is the idea of
seeing an interesting owl seated in the hol
low of an ancient oak, blinking away the dam
zling inuence of the sun, or sleeping
m
throughout the live long day; and how no

ble is the opinion he impresses on us, of his
courage, when, even like the redoubtable
lovers of former times, and other countries,
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097
tinkling numbers of lascivious desire, our

poetry should rise to the sublime, and par
take of that rmness which alone can ensure
its duration.
DAVID THORN.
the cable of your tongue, to spare the gam

mon of Miss Grump. Youre as sharp as a
strong current setting on a lee shore, and She.
looks of as many colors as a dying dolphin."
Och! bless your ugly sea terms, replied
Teady,gony thing to please you. I was once
going tull sea myself, gra! but while I went
up stairs to tie up a dirty bit of canvass,
they sailed away from the wharf an' left me
in the garret.
Tcady now declared he was used to driv
..
he scours the forests in the dead hour of mid
night, regardless of any thing that may ap
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proach him, to pour his sorrows into its at
TO DOCTOR FUNHUS.
tentive ear. Ye poets of America, wherefore
My Dear Frank.
will ye still persist in transplanting other trees,
I received your loving letter, informing
and other birds to your happy clime, when
you have such a nightingale of your own to me that the editor of the Repertory had
celebrate? \Vherefore will you tell your called upon you for the rest of my log-book,
doleful tales of hapless despair to a foreign and now, that you may gratify his desires,
I hereby address you another extract.
Philomcla, when you have one whose sym
I shall now, having invented an infallible
pathising accents are better suited for your
currfor
the gout and rheumatism, and having
relief, and the cavity of whose decayed abode
in solemn wretchedness will answer groan tried it successfully upon myself and Other
atienta too numerous to mention, I shall now,
for groan?
But, again to be serious: we see enough I say, clap on a heavy press of canvass and
to convince us of the talents of our country, proceed with my story.
When MFallough concluded his history
in the force, and ingenuity of some of its
compositions; to the solid dealer in prose Prim gave a sort of a groan, and just then,
she proves herself though young in years, passing the skeleton of a dead horse, which
Tcady declared was an old maid devoured
yet in experience old; for the libraries con
tain almost every information he can desire, by gnats, Dolly Grump gave a kind of a
from the most ancient, to the productions of wheeze, which plainly showed that her mun!
the present times; and for the indulgence nerves were affected, and turning to the
of the poet, there need surely be no greater Irishman, she cried, It is a great shame,
incentive than the variety, elegance, and that such molahauns as you, were not kept
grandeur of her scenery, for it pattakes of at home, digging turf, and not sullered to
all; and since in the works of art we have shatter the nerves of a lady of quality like
only attained that degree which secures con me, with your low jargon!
Quality, re-echoed Tcady, by all the
venience and comfort; it becomes the more
proper (as it must ever have been the most snakes in Ireland, and divil a one is there
flying about, likea ring tailed monkey swing

ing upon a lee backstay, nith her coats
puffed with wind like a PaldCllUIE, or a water
spout full of electric uid.
delightful,) for him, to contemplate the in
there; but they must be of a monstratious bad
Tcady came down, lumpus, in the creek,
nitude and sublimity of the works of Om

nipotence. Let him view the mountains, rocks
and rivers, Heaven has so bountifully scat
tered among us; let him climb with fearful
astonishment the Alleghanys frowning pre
cipices, or descend the rapid current of the
Missisippi; let him bend his steps towards
our regions in the south, and from the tower
ing eminence of the Andes view the world,
as it were, pictured beneath him; let him
look upon the extending horizon; contem
plate the increasing luminaries ofthe rmn
ment; and wonder at the storms mingling
harmlessly at his feet, whilst his adventurous
fancy soars on the wings of the tempest, for
what can be better calculated to inspire him
quality, ifthey cant bear the smell ofa horses4 and Obadiah was thrown completely into the
dead mummy, and that's a mare, gra!"
mud on the other side. He came down head
This exasperated Dolly, who thereupon, foremost, and his broad hat served as a kind
lost all command of herself, and declared by
ing passion Md be forgotten, and above
until we came to a narrow creek, which
MFallough declared the horses should leap,

or he wouldnt give a thirteen for em. Ac
cordingly he gave them the whip, which in
creased their speed, like a logger in a squall,
but suddenly starting on the edge, the check

threw us from our seats, and the carriage .
completely turned the turtle with us.
W'hata tempest! the main royals,l mean
the curtains of the COuClt, ew, and poor
Dolly Grump, seizing hold of the nearest

one to save herself from the water, kept
of basin, in which he stuck, with his legs in
the noble blood of the Grumps, that if he the air, like Manfrudi upon the tight rope.
did not know how to treat a lady with politer
The driver was thrown on the neck of
ness,he had better leave the coach! Friend,
continued she, turning to Prim, wilt thou
permit me to dip the summits of my digits

(thereby meaning her ngers, 1"rank,) into
thy elegant receptacle of odoriforous atoms
to satiate the cravings of my olfactory nerve!"
which in plain terms, my dear cous: meant
give me a pinch of snu'.
By the hill 0' Hoath!said Tcady, but
thats a language, that my swatc cars never
with the divine sensations of a poet, than saw before! pray mistress Grump, what do
objects such as these? Or if his genius be of you call it?
The belle lettres, you goose," answered
the milder kind, since we possess no song
ster of the night, let him turn his attention Dolly.
Bell weathers! replied MFallough,
to those that cheer as in the day.
The American, particularly the youthful well Ive heard of a goal being a bell
poet, should reect on this, nor longer excite weather, but by the latchet of the Popes
our laughter by his praises of that nightin sandal, I never heard of a goon'a being
gale, which thought instantly converts into one."
_
an owl. The perishable matter of intoxicat- -
ing six horses, ever since he was born, and
in spite of the rcmonstrances of Prim, and

the doleful cries of Dolly Grump, be dis
placed our land pilot, and seating himself at
the helm, drove us as if he wore a press oi
canvass in the monsoons.
We went snug enough for a little while,
Come, come, Tcady, said I paul the
Windlass of your jaws, and clap astopper on
one ofhis horses, and as for myself, I came
souseinto the puddle, as naturally as a toad

upon his siool.
After some time, some of the humane
w-rrckc'rs coming to our assistance, we were
extricatcd from our disagreeable situation.
As the recollection of our disaster, creates
laughter till my lungs are shaken, I shall

now conclude this extract.
As I am now near the meridian of. health,
and shall soon return to Philadelphia, pre
pare my charming Clcmcntina for that happy

hour, in which the gazettes will teem with
Married, on Thursday evening last, by
the Rev. Nebuchaduezzar OSpliceem,

Capt. Gabriel Grummet, aged 66, to the
amiable and accomplished Miss Clementine
1 say Thursday, because the ladies prefer that
evening, so that they may go to church on the fol
lowing Sunday, without trespassing on an ancient
custom.
398
PHILADELP HIA
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Caustic, aged 53, daughter to Christopher

Caustic, Esq. apothecary and man midwife.
Yours, &c.
GABRIEL GRUMMET.
" Richmond, October 10th.
l have been, my dear 8-7, on an excur
sion through the counties that lie along the

eastern side of the blue ridge. A general
description of that country and its inhabitants
__omay form the subject of a future letter. For
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the present I shall entertain you with the
Mr Editor,
account of a most singular and interesting
Sometime between the years 1793 and adventure.
1798, a young gentleman took up his lodg
It was one Sunday, as I travelled through
ings at a boarding house in the town of Rich the county of Orange, that my eye was
mond in Virginia. He wastbc unfortunate caught by a cluster of horses, tied near an
victim of a constitutional disease, which ap~ old ruinous wooden house in the forest, not
peared to be rapidly undermining his health far from the road side. Having frequently
and hurrying him to the grave, from the seen such objects before, in travelling
bondage of which he was cndeavoring to through these states, I had no difficulty in un
liberate himself by travelling. He secluded derstanding that this was a place of religious
himself as much as possible from society; worship. Devotion alone should have stopped
but the anti..bleuess of his disposition, the me to join in the duties of the congregation;
elegance and correctness of his department, but, I must confess, curiosity to hear the
the concinnity of his address,and the thought

countenance, attracted the attention and won
the respect and esteem of those who were
preacher of such a wilderness was not the

least of my motives. On entering, I was
struck with his preternatural appearance.
He was a tall and very spare old man; his
so happy as to enjoy with him the few mo.

ments which he devoted to social intercourse
head, which was covered with a white linen

cap, his shrivelled hands, and his voice,
ful, resigned melancholy which dwelt on his
faces'of the Jews, the staring, frightful dis

tortions of rage and malice. \Ve saw the_
buffets; my soul kindled with a ame of in
dignation, and my hands were im'oiuntarily
and convulsively clenched. But when he
came to touch on the patience, the forgiv
ing meekness of our Saviour; when he drew
to the life, his blessed eye, streaming in
llis residence in Richmond was short; and

he left it without communicating to any per
were all shaking under the inuence of a

palsy, and a few moments convinced me,
son the least detail of his history. After his that he was perfectly blind. The rst emo
departure, a bundle of papers was found in tions which touched my breast were those of
the room he had occupied, which, on ex
mingled pity and veneration. But, oh! how
amination, appeared to be a series of letters soon were all my feelings changed! the lips
written by a young English nobleman, while of Plato were not more worthy of a prognos
on a tour through the United States, to a
tic swarm of bees, than were the lips of this
member of parliament in England. These

letters Were immediately published in a
Virginia newspaper, and some of them
holy man. It was a day of the administration

of the sacrament, and his subject, of course,
Spy. It is surprising that a work of so much

merit should be so little known; that a plant
of such rare beauty should put forth its
was the passion of our Saviour. I had heard

the subject handled a thousand times, 1 had
thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I
suppose that, in the wild woods of America,
1 was to meet with a man whose eloquence
would give to this topic a new and more
leaves, and unfold its blossoms, in the eld
sublime pathos than I had ever before wit
shortly afterwards came out in a small 8vo.

volume, under the title of The British
of science, but attract so seldom the atten nessed As he descended from the pulpit
tion of the wandering botanist! The letters to distribute the mystic symbols, there was,
are written with a pen of a peculiar form and in his air and manner, a peculiar, a more
elegance, and by a hand of no common than human solemnity, which made my
energy. Having left the little volume in a blood run cold and my whole frame to
distant state, 1 am unable to furnish you shiver. He then drew apicture of the suffer
with any other specimens than the following ings of our Saviour; his trial before Pilate,
extract from one of the letters, describing a
his ascent up Calvary, his crucixion, and
venerable minister of the gospel in Virgina,
his death. I knew the whole history, but
since deceased, and the father of a lady, the
never, until then,.had I heard the circum

stances so selected,so arranged, so colored!
it was all new; and I seemed to have heard
amiable consort of an amiable clergyman in

this city. The letters have since been gener
ally ascribed to \Villiam Wirt, esq. of Virgi
it for the rst time in my life. His enuncia
tears to heaven, his voice breathing to God

a soft and gentle prayer of pardon to his
enemies, Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do;" the voice of the
peacher, which had all along faltered, grew
fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being

entirely obstructed by the force of his feel
ings,hc raised his handkerchief to his eyes,
and burst into a loud and irrepressible ood
of grief. The effect is inconceivable, the
whole house resounded with the mingled

groans, and sobs, and shricks of the congre
gation. It was some time before the tumult

had so far subsided as to permit him to pro
ceed. Indeed, judging by the usual, though
fallacious, standard of my own weakness, I
began to feel very uneasy for the situation of
the preacher. For I could not conceive how
he would be able to let his audience down
from the height to which he had raised them
up, without impairing the dignity and
solemnity of his subject, or perhaps, shock
ing them by the abruptness of the fall. But
no; the descent was as beautifuland sublime,
as the elevation had been rapid and enthu
siastic. The rst sentence with which he
broke the awful silence, was a quotation
from Rosseau: Socrates died like a philo
sopher, but Jesus Christ like a God!"
(To be ceneluded in our next.)
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TllE TRAVELLER. No. I.
How poor is be, though gorgeous wealth surround,

With glittering folly, his imperial dome,
Who through creations noblest scenes can pass,
Nor feel the throb of pleasure at his heart.
When the gay traveller in his smooth career,
On either hand beholds the genial spring,
Scatter her roses oer th enameld plain,
And give to nature her forsaken garb;

When oer the meadows, clothd in grateful green,
He views the herd: in lazy slowness move,
Their nerves unstrung by tranquillizd content,
Or when he views them bounding oer the hills,
Or pour in wild pursuit upon the vale,
In mute delight, he looks upon their joy.
But when on some tremendous mountain placed,
Where giddy danger herns the traveller in,
And precipices dread, around him thrown,
Seem frowning death on evry varied side,
lia, who has made himself so well known
tion was so delicate, that his voice trembled
by the part he has acted, and the celebrated

speech he delivered in the trial of Burr, and
who, it has been pretty clearly ascertained,
on every syllable, and every heart in the

assembly trembled in unison. His peculiar Amazement, terror, admiration seize,
phrases had that force of description, that the Revolving swiftly through each hurried sense,
And lift him imperceptibly to heaven.
original appeared to be, at that moment, Now he from danger once again released.
acting before our eyes, we saw the very Utah on the awful eminence with joy;
is the same with
the young Richmond
stranger- Yours respectfully,
F.
And foaming catracts dashing through their rocks,

Mingling in mad confusion as they fall,
And cvry frowning precipice around,
Which once struck horror to his inmost soul,
When danger threatned, seem to him secure,
Dark, dark and comfortless the space within, ,

_\ud, mingled with the darkness, shriek: of horror
She rush'd into my fondembrnce,

.
_
Her silence answerd yer.
VALERIAX
Flung their tremendous anguish to his Soul;

There, solitary forms, whose haggard brows
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\Vcre wrinkled with despair; whose faces showd
The voice of nature whispering to his ear.

Can beauty, conquriug beauty, tormd to win,
lhat hangs in blossoms on the maidens cheek,
Hid from these scenes yield him such pure delight?
Can power, can afuence, or can avarice self,
Whose iron horrors petrify the soul,

50 dim perception in the searching mind,
'lhe inward pangs of the distracted soul,

And from whose eyes comding care lookd wan.
Eugenio gazed; then, in amazement, nskd
One whose xd look was fasten'd on the ground;
\Vhilc to and fro with hurried pace he trodr;
" What place is this? who then his head upraised,
S'IAXZAS.
Now while the moon, pale mistress of the night.

Edidgent beams on yonder trembling wave,
Come wing th excursivc mind in timrous ight.

l-rom natures cradle, unto natures grave.
Nay,
Now
further
soar aloft,
than the
nowgrave
search
ourthethoughts
dark abyss;
can
And, bursting groans that shook the dismal scene,
And cast such languid shadows oer the eye,

That it would tire, at such a scene as this?
it cannot be; for though the mockry, art,

Painted with harlot smiles, at rst allures;
Though gaudy fashion with her dancing throng,

Braced tn immodest elegance, combine
With all the citys enervating sports,
To plant new pleasures in the human breast,
"lis only nature that is still the same.
She knows no change, though age succeeding age,
And season, season, strive topluck her owrs.
What though old winter in his freezing course,
For some few months, to answer wondrous ends,
Makes her in inactivity repose;

Still the returning spring, with fresh delights,
And sportive graces laughing at her side,

tiirds with gay wreathes the renovated year,
Dispel: the clouds that fell from winter's brow,
And all his icy fetters melts away.
Ye slumbering mortals, who supinely lay
0n pleasures bosom, or on sorrows straw,
With voice more dismal answerd This is hell!

Hell!--said Eugenio, why tis said in hell,
Flakes of hot lava and sulphurious re,
In biu'ning oceans, lure the hapless soul."
0! who can paint the look hells yictim gave
Fear struck Eugenio, as a dirt-fill shriek
Of mightier anguish, and dismay he broke,
And with the smile of ngonized despair,
He cried: wouldst thou behold a soul in helli
And what is learnd? a vast eternity

of hell in torture, and of heaven in bliss.
And art thou yet so doubtful in thy choice,

Still undecided as respects the read?
Rouse from thy error, sinner, and rejoice,
Proclaim a Saviour, and obey a (ind
LU'lllAltlt)
0,-
Look here." He spoke, and from his bosom tore,
The soldiers and chimney sweeps in Lon;

don bear to each Othel a great antipathy. lt
chanced one day, a soldier neat trimly
drest was walking ucar Hyde Park, going
to parade. One of the black coated gentry
Its feeble covering. 0! horror on horror;

What a sight was there, for now tremendous ames
Burst from his breast, where lay the hell conceal'd.
What awful feelings lld Eugenio now;
What doleful terrors trembled at his heart.
He begg'd permission to return to earth;
leave he procured, but when the clock proclaim'd
came softly behind him, intending to daub
his rcgimcutals. The man of war, how

ever, aware of his intentions, urued round
and gave him the retort corteous in so hand
some a style that he laid him prostrate. The
fellow, disappointed, grtlmbled, Get out,
you dd lobster." Lobster," exclaimed
the soldier, you infernal black rascal, you
only want boiling to make you as red as i am.
The hour of twelve, he hither should return.

Now hunt the bands of sleep, he \\ eke, he rose,
And when the sun had reachd meridian height,

'l'orn by conicting feelings he expired.
House from your idle dreams ofjoy, or woe,

And cast your thoughts onhappiness around,
To natures blessings, and to natures (Sod!
YALI'IRIAN'.
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LAURA, on we axn so.
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>
Said gentle Laura when I sigh,

THE VISION IN HELL"
Where crowded London lifts her lofty spires,

The worlds metropolis, Eugenio lived.
In all the vice of luxury he rcvelled,
Nor dreamd the swift career must quickly end,
When death looks frightful to the guilty soul.
Fatal unconsciousness! but one dread night,

When from her dusky cell black darkness ew,
And drew her doleful curtain o'er the world;
He sunk in sleep, but his excursiVe mind,
"lis no, I would express,

hen silent and with down cast eye,
Then understand me, yes.
'hen, seated on the turf below,
A hill, whose base lookd gloomy as the grave.

Rattl'ing the carriage roll'd, the thund'ring sound
Belches his fury, like the cannons roar,
Must I, to gain the blissful boon,
Now down the hill Eugenio safe arrived,
Gazcd in astonishment; an iron gate,

Strong, broad, and tow'ring from the darkeud valc,
Whose massy hinges grated on his ears,

While opening to admit him, there appeard.
' The anecdote, from which this version was
male, is related by the celebrated Mr. ltyland, fa

ther to the present Dr. Rylsnd, of Bristol, England;
Singular Passage in the LU? of Sultan
JIINIOU.
Amrou, Sultan of (iaznn, engaging in a
I thus addressd my fair,

Must hopeless sorrow ever ow,
Must Strephon still despair?
Art thou as ckle as the moon,
That scarce a month is true;
Bursting their direful force, the sound is heard,

And fearful nature from the centre shakes.
was bribed to give over. .
war with lsmacl Saiman, Sultan of Karllma,
Stanlcd his trembling soul. so when Strombalo

0r like ten thousand thtmdcrs all at once,
and when 9lbs. had been swallowed, the outer

_._
And thus his vision ramThe bounding steeds,

Which his weak efforts, from the chariot front,
Him and the chariot bore, resistless, down
undertook to devour a. leg of pork, weighing

lQIbs. Some heavy bets \vere depending,
The stars nocturnal brilliance shed,
Reach'd the deep bosom of eternity,
vainly cndeavord to restrain, with rage,
wager, ate l4lbs of boiled cabbage; and

another, determined to outvic him in gluttony
The moon, by whose unconscious light

The lover tells his tale;
Now beamd from full meridian height,
Pale splendor oer the vale:
Each danced within its sphere;
Perch'd on the cypress overhead,
The spat row charmd the ear:
Rebellious to repose, passd transcient time,
"Kli- a well authenticated fact.
_.I
A short time since, a man, for a small
'
Forever, ever \voo?
Up to the silver orb she raised,

Her soft, cerulean eye;
Then in my anxious lace she gazed,
And answerdwith a sigh!
0! happy hour, does that mean no,
l-lnrapturcd now, I cried;
Shall Strephon all his fears forego,

'ill Laura be his bride!
A blush suffused her lovely face,
My trembling hopes to bless;
.p,_
had the misfortune to be taken prisoner.

The conqueror ungcncrously conned
his captive in a citadel, where he was close
ly and narrowly guarded. The prince, over
whelmed with fatigue, and not having eat
any thing all day, begged of his guards that
boy would give him some nourishmemt.
They brought him a morscl of meat, to be
dressed at the same re at which the unfor
tunate Sultan warmed hmisclf. Whilst Am
rou waited impatiently till his supper was
ready, :1 little dog, not less famished than
himself, happened to snatch away the pit
tance, and immediately made off. The sul
tan, whosc rst motion was to pursue
the thief, soon perceiving himself stopped
by a chain, laughed very heartily. The
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VOL. I.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE or ELIZABETH BURNET.
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of sir Richard
Blake, knt. (of an ancient and respectable
family), and of Elizabeth, daughter of Dr..
Bathurst, a physician of eminence in London,
was born November 8th, l661. At eleven
years of age she displayed a passion for the

ological inquiries, and read with great ap
plication the books that were put into her
bands, which falling short of the vivaeity
and sublimity of her conceptions, failed to
satisfy her mind. Her friends, observing

the effect produced by her studies, checked
this presage of genius, by discouraging the
condence of the youthful philosopher in
her own penetration and powers.
Having been educated in great privacy
and retirement, she was, in her eighteenth
year, married to Robert Berkley, of Spetch
fey, grandson of sir Robert Berkley, a

judge during the reign of Charles I. This
connexion was principally affected through
the inuence of Dr. Fell, bishop of Oxford,
who was guardian to the young man, and
entrusted with the care of his education.

Dr. Fell was accustomed to declare, that
the most essential service he had ever per
formed for his pupil, was in promoting his
marriage with this lady.
admiration, and conciliated the esteem of the ham: Dr. William Lloyd, the successor of
family of her husband. Her conduct is per bishop Stillingeet, likewise treated her
haps still more worthy of praise, since her with singular marks of attention and respect.
moderation originated not in indifference In 1693 she become a widow by the death
to the subject in dispute; but while tena of Mr. Berkley, who was interred with his
cious of her own opinions, she judged pro ancestors at Spetchley
During her widowhood, she prosecuted,
perly, that their effects upon her character,
her temper, and her manners, would not with a more undivided attention, her former
fail to prove their best recommendation. A pursuits and occupations, while to the pro
residence in the country afforded her much testant relations of her deceased husband
leisure, which she improved by study and she was a kind and benecent patroness.
by exertions of benevolence. Books, the of Her income, which was liberal, and managed
ees of devotion, the instruction of the poor, with strict economy, enabled her to gratify
and the cares of her family, fully occupied the benevolence of her heart. She kept at
and divided her time. Beloved and respect Spetchley an hospitable table, to which
ed by all who surrounded her, six years the neighbouring clergy Were more parti
thus glided away in studious and tranquil cularly welcome: to those whose circum
stances were narrow, she made presents of
retirement.
During the reign of James, when the ap books, and even assisted them with loans of
prehensions 'of the Protestants daily receiv money, to be repaid when in their power,
ed increase, Elizabeth prevailed on her hus without taking for the debt any security.
Mr. Berkley having in his will bequeathed
band, after the death of Dr. Fell, whose in
uence, opposed to that of the relations of a large sum of money, to be raised out of
Mr. Berkley, had hitherto kept him steady his estate, for the erection of an hospital at
to his principles, to quit England and pass Worcester, his widow did all in her power
over to Holland. They accordingly made towards its complication and establishment:
the tour of the Seventeen Provinces, in beside which she took upon herself several
which, on account of their family and con charges, in relation to the affairs of her
nexions, lthey were received with distin husband, beyond what was required of her
guished kindness. Letters had, without by the laws, in the payment of debts and le
their knowledge, been transmitted to Brus
sels, Ghent, and Liege, and to the Catho
Elimbeth, on coming into the family of lics dispersed through the provinces, re
her husband, found his mother, a woman commending Mrs. Berkley'more particular
of exemplary life, to be a zealous member

of the church of Rome. This circumstance
led her to attend more particularly to the
subjects in dispute between the Catholics
and the Reformers, that she might the bet
ter be enabled to guard herself and her
husband against the argument and insinua
tion of the Romish clergy. The mother of
her husband, who was deserving of his res
No. 51.
ly to their notice as a women whose piety

and virtues had, notwithstanding her errors,
almost entitled her to the character of a
gacies. Having engaged M. Berkley, du

ring his lifetime, in the establishment of
schools for the children of the poor, she de

voted large sums aftor his deceasc towards
their increase and perfection.
saint. After their tour through the provinces, ,

For the Repertory.
they xed at the Hague, where, esteemed

ARDENNIS:
and caressed by persons of the rst talents
OR THE SPIRIT OF THE 'OOD.
and rank, they continued to reside till the,
A TRAGEDY xx P!\' .\c'rs.
period of the revolution, when they return'
ed to their native country, and their seat at
By L'baldo.
pect, held great inuence over his mind; a Spctchley.
ACT FOURTH.
circumstance which rendered Elizabeth,
In this retreat Mrs. Berkley resumed her Scene First. The border: oftheforee! qfJrdcnnie; on
whose penetration and sagacity were superi former manner of life, and improved hourly
one side, the mine of a castle: the buck scene re
or to her years, particularly careful and de in every laudable acquirement. Her virtues
presents these-a, in violent agitation. The moon ap
licate to avoid any discussions or reections and talents procured her the approbation
pears fullled and very red, with her point down,
jtut above the wares, behind which, as they rise, l/lL
which might tend to produce disgust, disturb and friendship of the most respectable per
at intervals (lispjn-urr. Enter llhllMD, llawetl,
the family harmony, or wound the feelings sons of the country and times, among whom
cautiously, by Ottoman
of either party. The discretion and good may be named Dr. Stillingeet, bishop of
Ottomar. Perturbed spirit, if some dread com
sense with which she conducted herself, in Worcester; also the dean of that church Dr.
mand,
a situation thus critical, procured her just William Talbot, afterwards bishop of Dur Thou bringst me from avenging heaven, declare!
402
Already hast thou told a tale of woe,
Enough to make this bosom swell with anguish,
Ottomar. Down, terrible surmise!
[They advance a-w steps]

Thou sacred vault that hold'st a fathers bones,
And cv'ry passion of my nature mount,
Aroused by horror!
Idumco. Didst thou shake at that?
How will thy heart then bear to learn a tale
0f treble anguish?
Otlamur. Can that be possible?
Idmneo. The sound of an approaching footstep,

warnd me
To check pursuance of my tale, and haste
To some retired spot: heres a solemn scene!
Here we are more secure from mortal sight!
But tell me, Ottomar, and tell me truly,
llas thy young sword e'er streamd with human
blood?
Otrmuar. \Vith human blood!
IIIIUIILG. I mean of innocence.
Ouomar. If after death, immortal spirits know
The secret thoughts that live within our breasts,
Thou canst but know this youthful heart abhors
The trade of blood! that force compels me, now,
To wear the villains outside, while my soul
Remains untainted! never yet has blood,

Save once, or innocent or guilty staind
My sword.
Idmneo. But once?
Soon will 1 burst thy stony doors in twain,

And force thee to yield up the dear remains!
Yet, intelligent spirit, tell me how
My unknown fathers bones became entombd
\Vithin that castle?
Idumco- Listen to me then.
Ottomar. Not een a syllable of what thou sayst,
Shall scape my observation.
Idumeo- [have told thee,
How young Ardennis from his fathers wrath,

Fled to a castle in this dreary forest.
Ottomnr. Thou hast.
Idumco. Behold it then, for there it stands.
Ottomar. Indeed! was he my father then!

Idumea. lie was,
'
Ottama1-.Treacherous Fernando!
ldumeo. Yet hold, awhile;
There's not a deed of guilt of blackest hue,

But is familiar with Fernandos soul!
Yet thy father, Ottoman
Ottomar. My father! [acn'onalely]
Idumeo. Fell not by l-ernandos hand
Onomar. Then by whose?
But name the villain that I may pursue
Idumeo. Hold: far beyond thy reach the murdrer
Ottamar. Yes, dread spirit, but once!
When a base ruflian seized a helpless maid,

I tore her from his grasp, and with my sword,
Cleft him assunder. By
IJumeo. Yet hold thy oath:
If heaven decree thy arm the instrument,
To hurl its vengeance on amurderers head,
Dare not to question the decrees of heaven.
Onomur. Far be such sacrilege from Ottomar.
lies,
Closed in the arms of death Alberto sleeps.

Ottomar [starts] You said, before, my father was
'
Alberto.
Idmnea- I did indeed! he fell by his own hand.
Ottoman By his own hand! what dreadful cause
could urge?
Idunwo. Grief now is vain, then turn thy thought
to vengeance!
If heaven reveal its will, though death await,
ldumco!
To check my efforts in the great attempt,
Otlamar. 0h! he in the dimgeons gloom
I will gofearless side by side with peril;
Expired.
'ill pluck the traitor from the grasp of safety,
ltlumcu. Tis true indeed, Fernando thought
Or perish in the trial.
lduineo in the dungeon died.
Idumea. Thy heart is warm!
Ottoman Died he not!
[In artmziahmena]
Then follow me awhile, and Ill unfold,
Jilumea. Listen: when Fernando plunged his dag
\Vhat yet remains of my distressing tale.
ger!
Oltomar. Yet stay, lll follow thee no further, ghost. As he cast
ldumeo through the pannel,
For aught I know, thou art a kindle-ss end,
The villain miss'd his aim! he fell unwounded,
And would but lead me to perdition! speak!
Except from the sharp bruises he received,
The night is congruous to thy dirt-ful tale;
As down the dark abyss the traitor thrust him.
The \vaining moon hangs down her In) stic points,
Oltumar. Indeed!
Riding in blood above, the angry wave,
Idumeo. A while he lay insensible,
She looks portentuus'. all conspire to make
Until returning life ll'd cvry vein;
This spot, the safest for thy dread recital.
"lw:.s then he found himself within adungeon,
Illumeo. Too well this spot is stampd upon my
With not a ray of hope to cheer the darkness.
mind,
'
,
Ottomar. "lwas damnable!
in be forgotten! see'st yon frowning turrets?
Ottomm'. That look majestic oer the roaring sea,
He found himself beneath a starry sky,

Just at the entrance of your gloomy cave.
Ottoman Can it be possible! is that the castle,
From which my grands-ire drove his hapless son,
And this the one that shelterd him!
Idumea. It. is 80.
Ottomar. And does the cave in which the band

reside,
Under the castle of Ardennis lead?

Idumeo. That dungeon, into which ldumeo fell,
Is no great distance from your secret cabin;

But nor Ardennis, nor his servants knew,
'hen they attackd the shelter of your band,

It was so near his castle.
Onomar. Wondrous strange!
But end thy tale, mysterious spirit, end!
How must Idumeos soul have glowd with rapture,
When he beheld the planet coverd sky,
And felt the fragrant atmosphere's cool breath,
Fanning his fainting body! how his heart
Must then have swell'd with gratitude to heaven,
By whose assistance liberty he gaind.
Idumeo. But gaind to lose it for a longer time.
Ollomur. lndeed!
Idumco. Too true! soon as surprize was oer,
And joy and gratitude, that bounteous heaven
Had led him from the very womb of earth,
Idumeo hastend hither to convey
To young Ardennis this Fernandos treachry!

To tell him of his fathers death, whose end
[have already told thee of, that now

No obstacle existing to his love,
He might regain his wife, his large domains,
Hurl down Fernando to his native meanness,
And he most happy.

Ottoman "hat luckless chance
Could now prevent this glorious consummation!
Surely the evil spirit that protects
His mortal votarics, was hovring near,
To forward their designs.
Idumea. This spot he gaind;

Where a large Turkish corsair lay, some distance
From the strand, and eer ldumeo could obtain,
A friendly shelter from their barbarous rage,

Four indels had landed from their barge,
And bore him, in despite of his resistance,
To their vessel.
Ottomar. I see it all, ldurneo
Ncer returns, my hapless father in despair,

Commits the awful crime ofsuicide.
IIIGHIBO- Not so: that dreadful crime he did com
mit;
But twas not the delay the messenger
ldumeo met with, that nerved his murderous arm.
Ottomar. Indeed!
Idumco. In vain he searchd around,
Ilium. The indels ldumeobore,

To nd some outlet to the direful prison;
Yet seem, as time, with angry hand had shaken
To
linger for near sixteen long, long years,
As instant death awaited the attempt,
Their rm foundation; bid them ready stzuid,
To nd a passage through the room, from whence A life of bondage! during that sad time,
To topple down and crush the frighted earth?
Often he strove tescape the cruel toil,
The treacherous Fernando cast him down.
Idumeo. A deed of terrible account was done
Odomar. Too surely; once again within his pow'r, But strove in vain; till Providence ordaind,
A vessel from the shores of France arrived,
Within those gloomy walls.
'lhe murdrers dagger would not miss its aim!
Ottomar. 'hat direfuldeedl
Tannoy the daring traitors to the Cross;
ldumea. ldumeo raved in anguish and despair,
Iilumea. Approach 3 ct nearer and behold the spot;
And would have dashd his brains against the wall, And mooring off where poor ldumeo labord,
Hope nerved his soul; and on one dreary night,
Behold afathers grave!
To end at once his misery and life;
Ollmnur. [starting-.1 .-\ fathers grave!
When his relentless keepers ebriate lay,
But overruling Providence, ordain'd
0! tell me where the dear deposit lies;
He ed, and plungingin the billowy sea,
His fate far otherwise! rst to the right
What hallowd spot contains the precious charge,
Swam to his native barquc! his tale he told
lle
urged
his
steps,
until
the
dungeon
wall
That I may wrap my tears of blood upon it.
0f slavery and Woe; the genrous master
Idumea. Thy tears of blood indeed! behold yon lmpeded further search: then to the left,
Gave him security and safe return
And as he walk'd no wall upreard its barrier.
pile,
Unto his native soil.
He
wandcr'd
as
intricate
windings
led;
In that huge monument, thy fathers body
Ottomar. Sure heaven conducted
And
after
passing
through
its
silent
hall,
Moulders to dust.

The most strange destiny of that stange man,
For some great end.
Illllleo- I am rejoiced, thou offspring of Al

bertos,
He hastend hither; by a secret way,

Enterd the castle; traversed evry room,
But all was silent as the narrow grave;
Then to the dungeons down beneath he sped,
For not a solitary vault was there,
To nd thee guiltless in the midst of guilt.

Ottonuu. Invincible necessity impell'd
The former captain of this daring hand,
To live by plunder! Though his soul abhorrd
The dreadful trade! he often would instil
The principles of virtue in my mind.
To him unknown, in vain he sought Alberto,
Now some time since, after his usual lecture,
But as he traversed through the drear abode

Ottomar. He met his mouldering body.
Idumeo. He did indeed.
Beside it lay some papers which he seized,
And bore to day-light to peruse, for
The pale glimmer from his feeble torch,
There, quite precluded overlooking thcm.
Oltomar. These papers then
Idumeo. Explaind the mystery;
While a big tear stood trembling in his eye,

He put this casket in my hand, and bade me
Not search for its contents, till happy chance
Gave me some hopes of nding out a friend,
Who could support me in attempts to gain
Llama. Scarce had he landed, ere
Told the contents of the tremendous letter,
Which, though Idurnco, I have told thee, carried,

He knew not what it held; that letter told
His father, ere he should receive the scroll,
The young Alberto would no more exist.
Ottomar. 0! terrible to tell!
Idumeo. Nay more, disclosed
That he had lowrd his children from the castle.

Ottomar. Ha!
Idumeo. Some nobleman, wandring on the chase,
He saw bear his daughter with him: his son,

hom from another window he had lowerd,
A noble chevalier then passing by,

W'ith a long train of his attendants, took
And bore him with him.
Ottoman That was Otomarl
That was the way the gallant captain told me,
In which he found, and reard me as his son.
Idumeo. Idumeos grief is better felt than told!

He secured the papers, hastento the spot
\Vhere aged Ardennis died, and through your cave,
In which he saw you sleeping, knew you there,
By your resemblance to the dead Alberto,
And on your brow indelible a scar,
My birth right; such a friend Ive found in thee,
Search the contents

[Gives the Casket to Llumea, who opens it,
takes out a paper, and/ind: folded in it,
the miniature of a gentleman suspended by
a ribband]
Itlmneo. Albertas counterpart!

Ottomar- Can it be possible!
Ithtmeo- 'hats this I read
My noble Ottomar, this miniature,
I found suspended from your infant neck:

The back will open,
[lthmtco opens t't.]
This is certain proof!
The child, with whom this miniatue is found,
ls rightful only heir, of count Ardcnnis-

Ottoman All seeing heaven, thy deeds are always
just!
Idumeo- Yes! here I trace the features of my
friend.
Ottomar- Give me the precious legacy, Idumeo;
[Itlmneo gives it him]
Thou sacred image of a murder d father,
\Vclcome to my heart! [lines it] blest be the happy
hour,
Enterd the castle, in the dungeon found,

'here sixteen years before hed been conned,
In which thy lineaments were rst portrayd,

And blcst the art that bids our early years,
Unsullied by the touch of n'mc, thus live
In bloom! how open is that brow, how bright
The piercing lustre of that godlike eye!
0! thou shalt live forever near my heart!
[Puts it in. his bosom]
Ottomars mother, and Albertas wife.
But come, I pant, Idumeo, to embrace
\Vhich now you wear, received in infant years;
Ottomar. Boiuiteous Providence! did'st thou say

my mother?
Idmneo- He spoke not to her, therefore knew not
then,
How she became conned in that dark dungeon?

But like the spirit of the lost Idumco,
Long thought dead, did he behold hcr anguish
Ommmr- Unhappy mother! doubtless_l"rnando
Was the relentless villain who conned her.
Joumeo. This morning, coming from that dun
geons gloom,
'here he had been to see the hapless countess,
lie was astonishd to behold Fernando,
ho took him for the spirit of Idumeo,

ldumcos self!
[l'hrows dart-11 the dagger]
Ottoman What can this vision mean! "
Idtanco- Dispel thy fear, thou likeness of my
friend,
And see Idumco living.
Ottomar. Heaven, I thank thee! [kneels]
Thou dear companion of Alberto's griefs,
~Corne, let me hold thee to my heart, my second
father,
Ive known no other, then my fathers friend,

Claims and shall have my lial veneration!
[They embrace-1
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Im
My mother! the hand shall force the dungeon

Ithrmco. Hold, that must not be: as dead ldumeo,
Ill lead thee to her, should we be discover'd,
I am sufcient for thy safety! this

[l'alcing up the dag-ger- ]
Shall unnerve the murderer! Well concert some
means,
To bring you back your birth right and domain,
No more of that banditti!
Ottoman I submit,
But let me haste to sooth amothcr's sorrows.

Itlumeo. I fear I-emando meditates her death!
This morning, when I told him that she lived,
He startedisaid that six long weeks before,
He had conveyd her to the dungeons gloom;
And thought that famine had consumed her life,
But I conveyd her food, for just two days,
Had she been in the dungeon, when I found her.
Ottomnr. What! two full days without refresh
ment there?
Inhuman monster!
Idtuneo- By me shes been preserved,
Although she thinks it was Idumoos ghost

Administerd relief! happiness awaits,
Once more to throw oblivion on her griefs,
And bid her wake to son

Ottomar. Ha! but my sister!
By my hopes it strikes me now! should Cecilia
Found by a noblemanshe must, she must!

Oh! if be wrong her, Ill have double vengeance!
Come, come, my friend, for very much I fear,
My sister lives within Fernandos power.
Idumeo- Indeed!
Ottomar. I will explain as we proceed.
We may be yet too late to save her! come. [Eramb]
Scene Second- Jnollxer par! of the forest, stage wry
dark, enter llmcqfob'o-wed by Lewis
Lewt'a. I pray you, good my lord, wander no fur

ther,
This wood is so impervious, we may lose
Our horses, wandring through its gloomy mazes.
lien. Trouble me not! have you secured them
both?
Lewis- Fast round the body ofa sapling oak,
lvc wound the reins of each.
Hen. Now let us wander;
Ill search in ev'ry corner ofthis wood!
How solemn is this gloom! not even a leaf
ltattlcs to the farming breeze! no beast of prey,
Prowls through the wood impatient to devour,
Disturbing silence with his awful roar!
But to his solitary lair retired,
Buries his fury in the arms of sleep.
Lewio- There is a horrid stillness in the night,
That chills my heart with fear.

Hen. This were a season,
In which the guilty breast might shake with terrori

The skies look frowningly upon the earth,
Which by the silence that invests the time,
Looks as it feard the elemental strife

The heavens do threaten! innocence is bold,
But coward guilt abhors the silent hour,

And fears to turn his mental eye within,
Lest busy conscience spread her diary there,
And point to evry crime! come storms and thunder!
Ride sweeping tempests on the whirwinds pinions!
Ye bear no terrors neath your angry wings,
To shake them on my soul.
Lewis. My lord, Ilenrico.

Hen. Art thou afraid, Lewis?
Lewis. No, my good lord,

Though fearful odds should brave me to the front:
But theres a something in this dreary wood,
Inipresses me with terror.
Hen. Well,no more.
We will proceed, though hope quite ies me now,

And pale despair sits brooding at my heart!
Come good Lewis: esteem me not wiltind(
Because my anguish makes me speak thee harsh,

I do not mean severity.
Lewis. My lord,
You are indeed unkind, to call such goodness
lly so harsh a name.
Hen. Well, well, thou art faithful,
As is the sun untothe anxious world!
[EaetmL]
Lewis Heard you not the sound of feet? [without-J

lien. Methought Itlid.
It was but fancy, Lcwis, let us proceed. [without]

Panuco. Twas more than fancy, ield thee or
thou dyst!
11m. Not to a single foe! the darkness hides thee,
But if thou art not cased in compact steel,
My sword shall reach thee.
[Re-enter Ilenrt'co and Panuco in jig/it,
Lewis drives lm-tin nrrou the stage.
Lewis. Lie there, thou villian! [without]
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Enter Otlomar.
Orlomar. The clash of swords! hoa! cease there,

cease this rage!
[He interpolea, Panueoies, and in the dark
ness, Henrico and Ottomar engage]
Hen. Thouart the stoutcst bravo ecr I met,
Or yield thee or die.
Ottomar. Yield to thee, stranger!
Ottamar. And has my impious hand dared lift it
And cover him in vengeance?

Hen. Come Lewis,
sword
Against the brother of Rosalva! knight,

I pray thee to forgive me, sooner my life
Id yield a sacrifice to rescue thine,

Than bring it into hazard.
Ilen. Nobly said.
It grieves me to the soul to nd thee thus,
I For thou hast been companion of my grief,

ii And shalt be too the witness of my joy!
i!
ii
If thou hast lost thy fury for the ght,

y!
ii
Desist thou rst and Ottomar will follow.
Hm. What! Ottomar! Lpmues.)
Who's there?
Vi
Enter Lewis.
Since happy chance rst brought me to Rosalva, ii
Len-is. Tis my lord.
Strange things have happend, I became their .
I've sent two bravoes to the silent grave,
captain
Muttring their curses on my better chance!
To save my life, for as their captain's son,
Ilen- The glimm'ring twilight sheds a feeble . I lived with this banditti.
Hen. As his son,
beam
v
Of matiu lustre oer the solemn gloom!
But not so!
[The stage become: a little Lighten]
Ottomm. Tis true; when their leader died,
This bloody gang then forced me to their head,
And art thou Ottomar!
ButI have kept my conscience free from guilt,
Ottamar. I am, young knight.
From blood my hands! and now will soon be placed
Hen. Why then, alas! my busy fears were true!
In such a situation, as to claim
I pity thee, unhappy man!
Rosalva honorably for my bride.
Ottomar. Tis friendly
Hen. Indeed! with honor! thy hand to mine then.
'Io pity one who asks not for thy kindness!
I trust me to thy word she shall be thine.
Hen. Art thou not captain of a band of robbers,
Ottomm'. Soon Ottomar, the dread banditti's
ho while the sun is up, retire within
I
leader,
Their caves security; but when the night
When to his birth right he shall be restored,
Lets down her curtain oer the drowsy world,
Leap on the passing traveller and seize,
Perhaps, his little all, with eager haste?

Ottomnr- I am the captain of this band, Ottomar.
Hen. How could so soft a ame as love be kindled,
And live where all the ercer passions burn?

()llomut'. 'l'hou dost not know my character you
sir!
For though I wear th exterior of a robber,
There is no thirst for blood or rapine here,

But love as pure as ever warmd the heart
Of mortal man, is inmate with my soul.
Hm. Indeed! a robbcrs heart!
Ottamm. Aye, a robbers!
But one whose sword has never streamd with blood
of innocence! whose mind has ne'er conceived
One thought of wrong! tis only love reigns here.
llen. And dost thou love Rosalva then?
()tlomar. Rosalva!
llow camst thou to light upon a name,

On which my soul with rapture hangs?
Hen. And dost thou
So dearly love this yielding maid?
Ottomar. So dearly!
Dearer than life or all that it affords.
Hen. Then know llosalva never shall be thine.
()ttamur. What shall prevent her?
Hen. l!
Ottomar. 'Ihou prevent?
Were thou Goliath towring in the vale,
()r like the Grecian breathing death and terror,
Surrounded by his myrmidons of war,
Id brave thee to the front to gain Rosalva.
Hen. Now do thy might,l live to guard her from
1';
Will hail Rosalva countess of Ardennis.

Hen. Did I hear aright?
Ottmnar. 'lhou didst, Ilenrico
But it begins to break upon my mind,

I know what magnet brought thee to this wood:
Cecilia
llen. Knowst thou where she is conceal'd!
Ottonutr. 'Iho lovst her then?
Hen. Love her, distraction!
Ottomm'. She shall be thine.

"en. Be mine!
Ottmnar. Her brother says it.
llom. Ardennis sister! all my fathers scruples
ill ee before that word! where is she, count?
Otlomar. I fear within his powr who now usurp:

My birth right!
11m. Fernando of Ardennis?
Ottoman llc.
Hen. I partly know him; he shall yield her up,

Or I will force her from him.
Ottomar. That for me
Remains, llenrico: come let us hasten,
My fathers friend impatient waits, to lead me
By a way unknown to this Fernando,
Into the castle.
Hen. Then well hear her thence,
THE CABINET. No. xxxn'.

What conscience dictates to be done,
0r warns me not to do;

This, teach me more than hell to shun,
I'hnt, more than heavn pursue.
Porn.
The elegant author of the lines which

constitute our motto seems to trust very
much to the inward monitor as a guide
through the dubious mazes of life. It is, in

fact, a light which, if properly attended
to, seldom deceives; it is a light which re

ceives its splendor from reason, and the im
mutable principles of reason alone should
inuence the actions of man.
Conscience may be dened, to be that dis
tinguishing principle, placed by heaven in

the breast, which teaches us to respect vir
tue and to abhor vice. The degree of sensi
bility, however, which conscience may pos
sess, must depend considerably on our
knowledge. Every human being, doubtless,
feels the existence of conscience; but it is
obvious, that the man whose ideas have been
enlarged by reading and reection, has a

more delicate perception of right and wrong
in all nice cases, than he whom circumstan
ces have conned within the limits of narrow

thought. I do not pretend by this, to assert
when a man follows the dictates of his bo

som, and in doing so commits an improper
action, that, as relates to himself, he has
done wrong; I only say that his information

was not sufcient to afford him an opportu
nity of viewing the act in its proper light,
and, therefore, that notwithstanding his in
tentions were excellent, his conscience, for
want ofknowledge, was not able to direct
him properly, as respects the good of society

in general.
A clear conscience has often, and with the
greatest reason, been recommended as the

chief source of real happiness. Behold the
Ottomnr. It shall be so, if heaven but prosper us, man who rests in unbounded afuence; who,
And drag the secret villian to his fate!
impelled by the gust of predominating pas
There yet remains a story to be told,
Shall freeze thy youthful blood with horror! come, sions, rushing to the alluring enjoyments of
dissipated pleasure: whose bitter smiles
0n the way I will relate what dire mischance
Ilas brought me to this state.
Hen. There is a mistry
About thee I am curious to unravel.

Ollomdr. It shall be nnveild.
Hen. Come, then, let us hasten.
Hm. Yes, a brothers, Henrico.
For the Repertory.
Restore her to my father, and bestow

Rosalva as the willing bride ofOttomar.
lilees
A brothers arm shall hold her from thy grasp.

Ottoman A brothers!
[EreunL]
Ive heard the story of thy love, brave Ottomar,

And would I could requite thee as it merits!
But dare not give my sisters hand to him,
\i'hose trade is blood.
Ottomar. You mistake, brave Henrico;
Cased in the armour of sunounding darkness,
Lewis No noblcr boon I ask or could obtain.
Ottomnr. That we may take the villain unprepared,

Burst like the smotherd earthquake underneath
him
cover with the mask of joy,a heart ravaged

by the anguish of remorse, say, is he happy?
Ah! no, how vain his attempt to deceive him

selfmoments will intrude that display to
his astonished mind the insufciency of all
the pleasures that wealth can procure or im
agination conceive, to induce that calm sc
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renity in the bosom which relieves the heart

and satises the affections.
Happiness erects her temple on the basis
of virtue, and every man who would nd her,
must search for her in his own breast. In
the discourse. Never before did I understand

what Demosthenes meant by laying so much
stress on delivery. You are to bring before
you the venerable gure of the preacher;
his blindness constantly recalling to your re
but beautiful character which he drew of

our learned countryman, Sir Robert Boyle.
He spoke of him as if his noble mind had,
the peaceful shades of some wild solitude,
collection old Homcr, Ossian, and Milton,
the man of virtue will examine the recesses
and associating with his performance, the

melancholy grandeur of their genius. You
are to imagine you hear his slow,,solemn,
called him, in his peculiarly emphatic and

impressive manner, a pure intelligence,
the link between men and angels.
This man has been before my eyes almost
of his heart, and if the voice of a soothing

conscience be heard there, he will disdain to
exchange the exalted felicity of conscious

rectitude, for that boisterous mirth which
may destroy the delightful emotions he en

joys. Oh! happy men who are actuated by
the purest motives in all your actions, whose
hearts are encircled by the milk of human
even before death, divested itselfof all inu

ence from his frail tabernacle of esh, and
well accented enunciation, and his voice of ever since. A thousand times, as I rode along,
affecting, trembling melody. You are to re
I dropped the reins of my bridle, stretched
member the pitch of passion and enthusiasm
forth my hand, and endeavoured to imitate
to which the congregation were raised, and
his quotation from Rousseau; a thousand
then the few minutes of portentous, death times I abandoned the attempt in despair,
like silence which reigned throughout the and felt persuaded that his pccular manner
kindness, and whose souls are in unison house; the preacher, removing his white and power arose from an energy of soul
with the harmony of virtue; for you the handkerchief from his aged face (even yet which nature could give, but which no hu
wildest desert has its charms, your happi wet from the recent torrent of his tears) and man being could justly copy. In short, he
ness is independent of external objects, your slowly stretching out, the palsied hand seems to be altogether a being ofa former
which holds it, begins the sentence: So age, or of a totally dilferent nature from the
bosoms are the sanctuary of bliss!
crates
died like a philosopher," then pausing, rest of men. As I recal, at this moment,
\Vicked men, when they desire to indulge
rasing
his other band: pressing them both several of his awfully thinkingattitudes, the
every impious gratication, look upon con
clasped
with warmth and energy, to his chilling tide with which my blood begins to
science as their greatest enemy. They cn
deavor by running all the course of infamy breast: lifting his sightless balls to heaven, pour along my arteries, reminds me of the
to stie the friendly admonisher within their and pouring his whole soul into his tremu emotions produced by the first sight of Grays
bosom. Iniquity then becomes habitual and lous voice, but Jesus Christlike a God! introductory picture to his Bard:
they vainly suppose themselves incapable If he had been in deed and in truth, an an
On a rock whose hmghty brow
of feeling an emotion of remorse; in the silent gel of light, the effect could scarcely have
l-rowns oer old Conways foaming ood,
watching of their nightly hours, when sleep been more divine. iVhatevcr I had been able
Robed in the sable garb of woe,
1th haggmd eyes, the poet stood;
is a stranger to their pillow, they look over to conceive of the sublimity of Massillon and
the events of past life with trembling horror: the force of Bourdalonc, had fallen far short
at bed of sickness surrounded by the pains of of the power I felt from the delivery of this
simple sentence. The blood, which just be
death, will extort from the despairing wretch
fore
had rushed in a hurricane upon my
the real state of his murdered hopes. Every
crime will stand before him to deter his ap brain, and, in the violence and agony of my
plication at the mercy seat of heaven: Ah! feelings, had held my whole system in sus
then an evil conscience with her serpents of pense, now ran back into my heart with a
anguish shall devour the vitals of his peace, sensation I cannot describe; a kind of shud
dering, delicious horror! The paroxism of
and clog his soul with a burden of guilt,
blended pity and indignation, to which 1
when most it should be prepared
had been transported, subsided into the
To wing its way,
deepest self abasement, humility and adora
To the bright sunshine of eternal day."
tion. I had just before been lacerated, and dis
Conscience should be cultivated as our ten posed by sympathy for our Saviour as a fel
derest friend. A friend that points out our low creature, but now, with fear and trem
faults and shows us how to mend them. Con bling, adored him as a God.
science is to some the torment of existence,
If this description should give you the
to others the most precious consolation: to impression that this incomparable minister
somewho have abused its warning voice, it had any thing of shallow theatrical tricks in
thunders the dread tidings ofendless punish his manner, it will do him great injustice.
ment; to others who have obeyed its dictates I have never seen, in any other orator, such
it softly whispers everlasting peace,
an union of simplicity and majesty, he has
PETER PEACEABLE.
not a gesture, an attitude, or an accent, to
which he does not seem forced by the senti
O.
ment he is expressing. His mind is too
For the Repertory.
serious, too earnest, too solicitous, too digni
ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY PREACHER.
ed, to stoop to artice. Although as far

Concluded.
removed from ostentation as a man can be,
I despair of giving you any idea of the effect yet it is clear from the train, the style, and
produced by this short sentence, unless you substance of his thoughts, that he is not only
could perfectly conceive the whole manner a very polite scholar, but a man of profound
of the man, a well as the peculiar crisis in eruditiou. I was forcibly struck witha short
Loose his beard, and hoary hair

Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air
And with a poets hand, and prophet's re,
Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Guess my surprise, when on my arrival at

Richmond, and mentioning the name ofthis
man, I found not one person who had ever
before heard of James \Vaddell.
~43.
F0r the Repertory.

Every heart knoweth its own bitterness.
Soaonos.
Our last essay offered some few remarks

on the truth ofthis proverb, but by no means
the only ones that can be made. We could
never enumerate all the instances of this
fact, for innumerable are the ways in which
every heart knoweth its own bitterness."
Yet let us select another, and behold the fond
mother watching with the utmost care the
expanding beauties of her child. She views
him, like the rose,
When the sun blushes on the cheek of mom,
opening her sweet store and expanding her

bloom. Each playful motion imparts plea
sure to her heart, and every infantile trick
is beheld with delight. She perceives him
just beginning to discover the powers of
mind which bounteous Heaven has bestowed
upon him, and anticipates the happiness she
will enjoy in him, when he arrives at matu
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mm
rer years, when every grace of the person is

in full bloom and every faculty of the mind in
, full vigor. But while the mother in anti
cipation is enjoying this full feast of felicity,
the hand of sickness is laid upon her boy and
the leperous touch tarnishcs his beauties.
The rose fades into the lily, and the spark
ling of his eye is lost in the palcur of dis
ease. The appearance of health vanishes,
and the meagre emblem of mortality lies
lifeless in her arms. The grisly messenger
of fate has received his command, the prison
ambitious schemes of earthly honor and

cmolument, while the poor mother walks,
Thinking, In all the bitterness of grief,
of the loss she has sustained. Each follows

unconcerned, little thinking that perhaps,
Bcsidcs my brain is not so very fallow

As you, my worthy Peter, seem to think,
the next one home to the grave may be his
own offspring, and that, when in that case

his heart feels its own bitterness, he will
need the consolation, which his unfeeling

bosom now denies the mother. Nay, thou
mightest think, that the next carried to the
vault of death, would be thyself, for
bars are broken, the door is forced, and the
uttering spirit takes its everlasting ight

to the bright throne of mercy in the skies.
0! now, what anguish seizes on the soul
of the doating and distracted mother! her
\Vhen rst the rugged path of verse you chose,

And made your muses tender fetlocks bleed,
It would have been a handsome thing indeed,
To have disgraced with such a subject, prose
()n yonder frail memorials of the dead,
Thy span of time unthinking mortal sec;

The grave next opened may become thy bed,
The stone next sculpturd may be done for thee:
For I have rambled round the very brink

Ofthat same fountain which you poets say,
Though long time since, did once upon a day
Spout muddy water in each murky head
Ofthosc that do not in its quicksands sink,
Ive heard that too much gravity looks shallow,"

And would you have me look so my dear-friend,
When I so much in search ofwisdom spend.
Now weighing justly what I just have said,
And due attention to the subject giving,
I am as conscious as thatl am living

After the race or lost, or won, is past,
You'll say old Gregory was right at last.

then would the retrospect of life startle
heart knows its own bitterness, and only the
thee; then would self examination take place; His genius is too watchful to be turnd away,
mother that has experienced thev aliction, and if found prepared for the momentous
By ev'ry little jostling at the arm,
can tell her feelings! she bends over the and eternal change, thy soul could put off And though the laughing little miss may say
object of her love and regret, and sheds the the garb of mortality with a smile, could
0! what a curious soul this old chap seems,
To write in verse against a verses charm,
silent tear of sorrow on its Clay cold visage! look forward to the moment, when she
' her grief is not loud, for it has its scat deep should be clad in the robes of everlasting I nd thathc has not yet gone astray,
But follows reason, and her charming beams."
in the bosom! there it holds despotic sway, peace, and join the choir of those who are
there it
Could Gregory hear from lofty prose to view

accounted worthy to resound their anthems,
His friend stilting all round the town on verse,
'ln'spcrs the o'er fraught heart and bids it break. in singing glory and honor and praise and
Or in so rm a style his shame rehearse?
ller cye speaks her anguish but her tongue power unto Him that sitteth upon the throne,
No, on my honor that would never do,
Here, I must beg the reader to observe,
is silent! At length her hopes and expecta and unto the Lamb world without end! But
Lest he should think that from the truth I swerve,
tions, blasted now by death rush forcibly shouldst thou nd thyself unprepared, and
Which (to my knowledge) I have never done,
upon her! then comes on the tempest of the king of terrors just at handterrible
That
Peter as a few lilies back was found,
affliction! And art thou gone my little one; thoughtlthen indeed would thy heart know
Never once mounted till the second round,
its
own
biztrrnesa,
and
horror
and
despair
shall those eyes never more beam playful
But had the course as l have shown
on thy mother; shall those once fair arms, reign supreme within thy bosom.
Thus Peter Peaceable will I conclude,
VALERIAN.
now cold in death, no more be thrown
Nor ever more upon your ground intrude,
'around my neck while thy lips imprint the
_.
> Unless as now, my poney run away,
kiss of infant pleasure on my cheek; shalt
And drive my rmest resolutions all to wreck.
For the Repertory.
thou no longer slumber on my bosom, while
Now Peter, all that I have gotto say,
Gregory Gravity the moralist, again addresses ls if this accident should happen me again,
my anxious love preserves thee from dis
turbance? never, never! are all my expec
his colleague Peter Peaceable in the most loving

and polite manner possible.
tations thus destroyed? all, all! and even thy

emaciated body must soon be torn from my Screw-brain'd old Gregory mounts again his Fig;
I must confess the creature is in years,
embrace, and be conveyed to the silent
But yet so willing the good soul appears
mansion of death! 0! burst heart with this
To run a race with Peter up Parnassug
agony! too surely thou art conscious of thy That though hes got a badly splinterd leg,
own bitterness, burst then and ease this war
As lhave life I cannot hold him in;
That you with all your might and main

Will pray,
_
That grave old Gregory may not break his neck
t
_._
For the Repertory.
T0 \YAL'I'ER IGGLE, Esq.
And much twill puzzle any one topass us

I've perused, Mr. Wiggle, your answer polite,
of grief!"
If I could hold him,on my honest word,
And laughd while I lead itI did by this light.
But while the mother is thus bewailing
However galling might appear the slur,
For, oh! thy invention is wondrous and strange,
her afiction, and perhaps the check of a
This race should be at least, sometime deferrd. And wide is the pond for thy fancy to range.
friend or two is wet with a tear of sympathy
You call me a " kitten, beware lest I scratch
But Peter, as he did not care a pin
for her sufferings and regret for her loss, the
And leave you your delicate visage to patch.
To send both Pegasus and Gregory to pot,
But that, I suppose you will say, would be rude,
many are standing unconcerned spectators Gives to his hobbling jade the whip and spur,
And resemble the deeds of some whimsical prude;
of this a'ecting scene, waiting only for the
And off start the old racers like a shot.
With your wot-ship's concurrence to pass that Ill
moment to arrive when the cofn is to be Now up they go, about an equal pace,
I
'lill Peter by a little kind of twist,
carried to the grave yard, and to be deposi
And your letter glance over as pleases mine eye.
Set-ms
to
have
got
the
better
of
the
race,
ted in the narrow house, to hide the body
How smoothly you write! one would think that you
And thrown poor Gregory quite out the list
from the view forever! They disturb not
didnt
their joy on account of the mothers grief;
they cannot feel for her.

\Vhen following the corpse to the doleful
vault, perhaps they are engaged in talking
of the ordinary concerns of life, or planning
But he is in a riding-humor now,

And let me tell you though he hates this fun,
My honest Peter, since you have begun,

He hopes the privilege you will allow,
Nor from his right will dare purloin,
9f paying you in your own coin.
Bestow on each line the fourth part of a minute

But, la! I expected a compliment fair,
And my muse to a hammer you rudely compare.
It has nail'd down your thoughts, that is, checkd
the wild course
u 0f your fancy luxuriant, and what is still worse.
407
Disorderd your slomnch, 0h! vulgar the theme,
To relate to a lady, at lilly crown'd queen.

Nay, the outrage extended as high as the brain,
'hich Was raekd, as you say, by the head ache,
with pain.
I can scarcely believe itbut, indeed sir, I vow
You compliment badly, or satei'ise now.

How unkind you are, Walter, my parts to abuse,
A mason used to be appointed, on the co again; the people stared; and the pat-son was
ronation day of the emperors of Constanti left in future to the unmolested enjoyment
nople, to present them several pieces of of his own fancies.
marble; at which ceremony they used these
words:
lpbaatltlbia.
Elige ab his saxis, ex quo, invictissime Caesar,

Ipse tibi, tumulum, me fabricare velis.
To a eat you compare me, to a hammer my muse.
Since its so, are you well? pray exeuse the rude
question,
For you found it, I guess, rather hard for digestion;
It gave you the cholic, sweet delicate boy;
Well, I hope you some moments of care may enjoy.
" Your pains, sapient youth, have touch'd nearly
a heart,
Unaccustornd, I mm, to the sense of the smart:
But if pity can sooth, I declare you have mine,

And when you are better, pray drop me a line.
0h! 'nltcr, thou bowest st vanitys shrine.
For instance, I only sddressd thee a rhyme
To be sure twas polite, and you calld me, "sweet
kitten,
And supposed, with your phiz, I was mortally

smitten;
But arouse thee, vain wig-ht, from thy deep dreams
-awake,
I shall send thee, and shortly, a piece of brides

cake.
I
Had you not told me your passion in language so
plain
I should never have dreamt that you gdowd with
the ame.
But I pity you, and would sdn'se you to smother
Your penchant, or transfer it from me to another.
let not disappointment your may check prey on,
Nor the pangs of rejection your gay spirit weigh
dew".
Sometimes think of me, but as only afriend

he does to your wit and your sprightliness bend.
Captain Grummet you mention; pray, 'alter, take
care
Choose, sir, from which of these various;

specimens of stone you wish me to construct

your tomb.
Our friend Thaddeus Shipwreck, shall

very shortly nd a safe harbor in the co
_.
Mr. Franklin relates, um being with a1
lumns of the Repertory.

Philomcl, on the death of A. G. Y. does
party of his friends caught in bad weather not sing sweet enough for us. \Vc are ex
upon one of the West India islands, he took
tremely sorry that a writer who has made
shelter in a public house kept by a foreigner:
so many attempts to please us should have
upon their desiring that more wood might failed, but at the same time we assure him
be brought to the re, the man ordered his
that we are actuated by no motives, but our
sickly wife to go forth in the storm, and

fetch it! while a young negro wench, his
slave, stood by, doing nothing! upon being
asked why he did not send the girl rather than
his wife? He replied, that wcnch is worthl
80!. and if she should catch cold, and die, it
would be a great loss to me; but if my wife
dies, I can get another, and perhaps money
into the bargain!
duty to the public.

The two rst verses of Aspasio possess a
good degree of merit, but in the last_ ()1
what a falling oil'is there!" We would men
tion, for the use of Aspasio, and some other
correspondents, that sometimes concluding

a line of Iambic poetry (particularly when of
an clegiac nature,) with a Trochec, is a great

deformity, if not a gross impropriety. '0
shall endeavor to alter the last verse of the
piece before us, and insert it in order.
-._
A clergyman, in the west of England, was

St. Auberts Ode to Solitude has some
much harrassed by his parishoners for omit
ting the Athanasian creed at the stated sea poetic merit, mixed with many incongruities.
sons. Not one of his parish, except John, \Ve shall take the liberty of altering some
(his clerk) coincided in his opinion. The of the lines, and present it to the publicJVc
would thank him to tell us if it be original,
complaints of the ock were at length con
and
request him, as well as our other cor
veyed to the Diocesan, who issued his bull,
respondents again, to head their communi~
You meet him not soon, for hes wroth, I declare, commanding the offender to read this ob
He says youve abused him; you touchd him, that's noxious part of the service. In this dilemma, cations, original or selected.
certain,
the parson goes to an organist in the neigh
-.__
So let me advise you dont draw up the curtain;
bourhood,
and after much importunity, gets
Nay so great was his rage that he swore he would
DREADI-UL MURDER.
soon
Mend his goose quill to tickle the silly baboon."

But be not alarmd; he shall never molest
Your quiet, I vow, and without any jest,
his friend to set the creed to music, for]

himself and John, in two parts. You know
Early on Monday morning last, we were
(said he) I am ad fox hunter; set it to a jolly attracted, by the sight of a numerous crowd
I hold myself, 'atty, sufcient to lather

And share you, without aid from him or from father.
So you wish to persuade me your temper is good?
As you say, Id believe you, indeed, if I could;
hunting tunc. This being done, the parson

and the clerk made themselves perfect in
their respective parts. When the day arrived '
on which this creed was appointed to be;
But thanks to that temper, whether sour or sWeet,
used, the whole parish, to a man, were at!
of people in South above Third-streets. \Ve
hastened to the spot and found a man mur

dered in} the most shocking manner. His
face was disgured with blood, which pro
ceeded from a fracture in his skull, which,
That I from your worship such clemency meet.

And thanks to yourselffor so much of res/Met
You pay to advice, not a few would neglect;
And if farther youd wish to oblige the fair giver,
Roll" your ducks and your hogs and yourself
in the river.
Mr. iggle, farewell; in your poetic dreams,
When you scamper through puddles and loud
foaming streams,"
Clementina remember, she bids thee adieu
For awhile; and extends it, ye muses, to you.
CIEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
church, hoping to enjoy the humiliation of1

the poor par'son, thus compelled to swallow"
the bitter potion in the face of the audience.
The service had now procedcd, in order, to
the creed in question. The congregation

were silent, their mouths gaped with expec
tation, next follows (says the parson) the
creed of St. Athanasius,appointcd to be said
or sung: and, by the grace of God, Ill sing
it. So now John, (turning to the clerk) mind

what you are about, here goes. Upon which
it is remarkable, that a murder committed
he and John set up their pipes, and rattled

away, pell mell, most merrily, from one end
of the creed to the other. The church rang
in Southwark, is as rare :1 thing, as a re

or a robbery; and yet in Southwark there
are neither lamps nor watchmenl! the
nightly guards of our city cannot surely bl'
-_.s.
The motto of Ludovicus Vives was ocu

Ium in metam, x your eyes on the goal.
it appeared, had been shattered by a blow

from a brick-bat, part of which remained in
the wound. An inquest was called, and gave
their virdict, we understand, wilful murder.
The man this hurried from time to an aw
ful eternity, by the cruel hand of a remorse
Iess murderer, is named Robert MCall, and
is brother to Mr. Andrew MCall, a respect
able tobacconist in \Vilmington.
It is worthy of mention, end is as true as
408
doing their duty, when a wretch may mur

der an unoending citizen, an incendiary
may re the mansion of the unconscious
sleeper, close to their very boxes, or the
the hip joint, and lodged in the skin of the

left posterior; leaving the contents of the
barrel in its course through the limb. For
months Mr. Hopkins languished under an
PROSPECTUS
o r T n r:
BY OBADIAII ODED.
shameless thief force the door of the peace

ful habitation, and escape loaded with the
spoil. These are facts worthy the notice of
our police ofcers.
_-.-
extremely painful and dangerous wound, and

his life was long held in suspense. He is

now recovered so far as to be able to get
about with the help of crutches, but must be
a cripple through life.
Extract of a letter from the Rev. Mr.

Chamberlain, a Baptist Missionary at Rebo
both, India, to the Rev. Dr. Staughton, of
this city.
My Dear Brother,
Since I wrote you last I have been in

formed that Mr. Maylin went in the Glea
ner. The itIOIs were sent to him, but there
was some objection made to taking them

on board the ship, and whether they have
gone or not, I have not yet heard. The
mere destruction of these poor gods, is not
a matter of importance, for they could soon
be replaced by the trunk of a certain tree,
with the help ofa carpenter: but the circum
stance most interesting is, their demolition
USEFUL INVENTION.
A very useful machine for dragging or

raising great weights, has been invented by
Joseph Lefever, of Strasburg, Penn. The
minds of men, till there be not the shadow
of an idol known or worshipped in the

world.
Illa. Il'lz'ss. Illag.
-.
BEVARB OF OLD GUN BARRELS.
Cowrcn.
wheel is kept in complete motion by a pen

dulum of 50 Bqrs. wt. with which has been
dragged 2,000 wt. on the ground: and it has cause of virtue and literature, will use their endea
raised l,000 wt. perpendicularly over a vours to support our attempt, for \vhieh we shall
be grateful.
pally, by winding a rope round the shaft of
the wheel; 300 wt. has been raised on the
end of a four feet lever xed in the shaft,
all which is kept in motion by the strength

of a man's hand. These machines are likely
to be useful in the making of canals.

was the effect of the word of God. So may
it triumph in its sacred inuence over the

ments having been made with respect to they edito
quently take place in the conducting of it. As these
HEALTH OFFICE,
April 13, 1811.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
all. ch.
Apoplexy
1 0 Locked jaw
1 0
Cancer
Repertory shall be a receptacle for biography; rc

t1 tertaining subjects; poetry, ction, wit and humor;
With the second volume We shall commence the
publication of the Propitiation, a poem, in six books,
by Valerian.
0 Mortication
Casualties
1 0 Palsy
Childbed
1 0 Pleurisy
Consumptionof lungs 3 2 Sore throat
3 0
4- 0
0 1

Dont meddle with that gun, Billy,

said a careful mother: If it should go off
it would kill you. It is not charged, mo
Conwlsions
0 4 Still Born
0 2
ther, says \Vill. \Vell! but may be," says Fever,typhus
1 0 Unknown
3 0
of the second. We shall then present to our read
the good old woman, it will go off, even l'lmmorrhage
1 0
ers the Castle of Altenheim, a tale, by Ubaldo.

if it is not charged. But there is no lock Inaxn. of lungs
0 1
20 13
on it, maam. Oh! dear Billy, I am afraid lnam. of stomach 0 1
0 1
Total 33
the hollow thing there, the barrel I think Inam. of bowels
0f
the
above
there
were,
they call it, will shoot if there is no lock.
Under
1
6 From 50 to 60
2 For all politicians from us we debar,
That the fears of the careful mother were
From 1 to 2
3
60
70
3
well founded, and that there is danger in an
2
5
2
70
80
2
CONDITIONS.
old gun barrel, even without stock or lock,

5
10
80
the following statement will prove. Mr Jo

seph H. Hopkins, of Litcheld, on the 25th
10
20
20
30
2
5
90
100
of August last, took an old gun barrel,
3O
40
4O
50
5
2
which he purchased ve years before in

Hartford, among old iron, for the purpose
90
100
110
0
0
Total 33

of converting it to some use in his mechani
cal business. He put the breech of it into

his forge, with an intention to extract the
breech pin. \Vhile heating, he thought he
heard a hissing noise in the barrel, and sup

posed it was caused by water in it. To satis
fy himself more fully, he raised the muzzle
STATE OF THE THERNIOMETER.
April 8
9
46
60
03
63
54
64
IO
62
65
65
1I
l2
13
48
38
45
49
42
54-
45
40
50
to his ear, and directly replaced it in its
former position. An explosion instantly took

place, when a ball of more than an ounce
weight was discharged from the barrel. It
entered Mr, Hopkins left groin, passed
through the lower part of the ossilium, near

It shall he delivered to subscribers in the city
No subscription will be receh ed for less than a
Cheeks, Cards, Handhills,


at the ofce of the
PHILADELPHIA ,

N0. 1? Arch street.
@Bifabefpbiaweperfom
VOL. I.
employments and duties which solicited

and occupied her attention, she found
leisure to continue the studies of her closet;
and having completed the performance
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF ELIZABETH BURNET.
(Concluded)
before alluded to, suered herself to be
She had great facility with her pen, in

which she took delight, and which she had
early employed in various kinds of compo
sition. It was during her widowhood that
prevailed upon, by the 7 joint solicitations
she wrote the rst sketch of a work, after
wards published under the title of a ./I

Illa/zed of Devotion. This performance,
intended for her own use only, consisted of
such principles and directions as she had
adopted as the rules of her conduct. She re
mained a widow near seven years, when she
gave her hand to Gilbert, lord bishop of
Salisbury, to whom she bore two children,
of her husband and her friends, to con
sent to its publication. The approbation

which was bestowed upon the work induced
her, after revising, improving, and adding to
it from papers in her possession, to print a
second edition, at her own expense, for the
purpose of bestowing the copies among those

whom she thought them likely to benefit or
instruct. A third edition of this work was
.
No. 52.
to the customs suited to her station and rank.

In 1707, her constitution, originally de'
licate, rapidly declining, she was recom
mended to the Spa for the recovery of her
health, where she appeared in some degree
to revive: but in January l708, being seized
with a pleuritic fever, she sunk under it.
Her death was resigned as her life had been
exemplary: she expired on the 3d of Feb
ruary, 1708-9, and was buried at Spetchley
near her rst husband, according to a promise

made to him during his life.
I
c..
For the Repertory.
published after her death under the follow

ARDENNIS:
ing title: A Method of Devotion: or, Rules

for holy and devout Living; with Prayers on
on Tue srnuT or run wOon.

A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
who died in their infancy. The bishop had a

family by a former marriage, who found in
his second wife an affectionate and exem
plary mother, and who returned her kindness
and care in their educatiom with that at
several Occasions, and Advices and Devo
tions for the Holy Sacrament. Written by

Mrs. Burnet, late wife of the right- reverend
ACT FIFTH.
fatber in God, Gilbert, lord bishop of Sarum.
Scene First. The mouth of the carve a: before. Enter
To which is added some account of her life,
Irlumeo, Ilenrico, Ottomar, and Lewis with a torch.
tachment and respect which were so justly by T. Goodwyn, archdeacon of Oxford, 8vo,
her due.
By Ubaldo.
011mm. be but Idumeo could have done this
good?
Lond. 1713.
lien.
What good, brave Ottomar?
A
constant
journal
was
kept
by
Mrs.
The bishop, sensible of her interesttin
Ottomar. The band, from plunder
the welfare of his children, and conding in Btu-net of her life; every evening she devoted
And blood and murder has Idumeo won.
her integrity and prudence, left his family, some time to the recollection of the past day,
Hen. Indeed!
by will, under the sole care and authority of with a view of avoiding in future any errors
0130mm: Naymore, has pledged his sacred Word,
their step-mother: and further, to prove his into which she might have fallen. Though To gain their pardon from our king.
111101160. NO doubt
sense of her value, and his trust in the rec 1 without learning, she possessed an acute and
titude of her principles, he settled upon her active mind; theology continued to be her But Ctzur de lion, when he hears thatI
Stand forth their advocate, will pardon all!
self, previous to their marriage, the whole favorite study, to which, by the circum
The gcnrous monarch loves a noble soul,
of her own property and estates, binding stances of the times and of her own situation, And more true pleasure would it give his heart,
himself to consent to whatever disposition she had been more particularly led. She also To hear that one had left his trade ofblood,
of her fortunes she might, at her deeease, made some progress in geometry and philo Than to see thousands expiate their crimes
think it just to make. The only uSe which sophy: but she valued knowledge as a means Upon the scaffold. \Vhat more noble can be
Mrs. Burnet made of this liberality, after al rather than as an end, as it had a tendency to Than guilt repentant on the path to virtue.
Hen. True, brave ldumeo: Ottomar has told me
lowing a certain moderate sum for her board enlarge and purify the mind. By the au
A tale of strange and terrible occurrence.
in the family, was to extend the circle of her stcrities of her piety, which was exalted to My father shall see all succeed. Ottomar
bounties. Having allotted for her own ex enthusiasm, she injured her constitution; To his birthright honorably restored,
penses a fth part of her income, which she but, in her zeal for speculative opinions, she And good Idumeos interest succeed.
rarely exceeded, she employed the remain never lost sight of candor and benevolence: St. Almes the bosom friend of gallant Richard.
Idnmeo. I know St. Alme, a brave and courteous
ing four fths in acts of benevolence and she considered the regulation of her con
knight,
mercy. Besides other charities, one hundred duct and the purity of her life as the best
0ft side by side with Richard has he fought,
children were educated at her expense in evidence of the sincerity of her faith. Her And with Idumeo, noble Richards brother.
general manners were unaffected, cheerful,
and about Worcester and Salisbury.
Oltamar and lien. Brother!
By her second marriage the circle of her and conciliating; severe to herself and candid
Idumeo. \Vith young Alberto educated,
acquaintance was necessarily enlarged; per to others. Without external pretence or Our youthful hearts with sacred friendship glond,
sons of the rst rank and merit courted her ostentation, humility, modesty, and kindness, And when his father drove him from his home,
were her peculiar characteristics. In what I left the splendors ofa royal court,
friendship; while she made use of her in
To share his misery; the rest is known.
creasing iniluence and interest to extend her was indi'erent, she avoided singularity, and
Ottoman Where shall we 100k for friendship like
means of doing good. Amidst the various conformed with moderation and simplicity
to this?
410
Idumeo. Now then, a dreadful errand! but remem

her,
No more of blood, if any be required,

Than stern necessity, brave friends, may ask.
,=:=
Cecilia. What meanst thou?
The feeble voice that struck my car before,
Venting its moans around this gloomy hall;

OrI was certainly deceived by echo
Bearing my words through circumambient horrors
Countess. That bracelet.
[Gazing atone on Cecilia's arm]

Cecilio. What of this bracelet?
Ottamar. No more.
Jean- It was no more.
Countess. Tell me, I conjure thee, tell me, who
Idumeo. Then follow me and I will lead
Cecilia. How terrible this darkness!

But een this darkness is most welcome now,
art thou?
Cecilia. I would I knew.
If it but save me from Ardennis rage

omueu. Hark! Ardennis! approach mysterious
Coimteas. How!
\Vhere suWring innocence demands rcdrcss.
[Ea-cunt into the cave]

Scene Second. The dungeon On one side 11 dark pac
mge; on the other the Countess is seen lying on a
little straw: a baaket of provisions and rt jug of
water beside her.
Ceciba. I am ignorant
being,
To whom I owe existence, or for what

This count, who boldly rescued me, but now,
If thou dost suffer from Fernandos guilt,

Approach and join a fellow sull"rer here.
Cecilia. I cannot be deceived, it is the same!
Catmtemi. Now once again all hail! ye mystic

Be it what it ma_ , I will unfathom it.
glooms!
Countess. Oh! ifthy hcart eer felt for others woes,
Still, hopeless am I in this loathsome prison?
Or thy soul groan beneath oppression here,
\Vhat dreary change is here! my lost Alberto,
Come mourn with me, who like thyself conned
I-mm thee and from a palace to a dungeon!
By curst Ardcnnis, linger out a life
Guilty Fernando, much do I suspect _
Of wrctchcdness and grief.
Thv bloody hand deprived my lord of life; '
[Cecilia approaches her, followed by Jeannette]
Anil yet, unblushing murdrer, thou \vouldst wed
Cecilia.
If a compeer,
His widowd wife. 0! when the day shall come,
In all thy sorrows and in all thy wrongs,
As sure the day must come, that justice, on Lhcc,
Shall vent hcr lingriug ire, how will thy conscience Can solace thy unhappy destiny,
Tear thee for this deed! lifes period must be near, Heres one will share thy cvry hour of grief,
And call for justice on Ardcnnis' head.
For though suicicnt to sustain the spark
Countess. So young and yet the object ofhis hate,
Of feeble nature, yet I loathe all food;
Then welcome death and case my burthcnd heart.
Or art thou, say, the object of his love,
Ilut by his cruelty imprisond here,

Because thy virtuous soul disdaind his passion?
Cecilia. Though Im within this count Ardennis
Cecilia. Cimmcrian darkness is not more pro
power,
found,
Twas merely chalice, or heavens directing hand,
Than is this dungeons gloom.
That led me to thy prison! better here,
Joan. Lady, forbear;
Than in the presence ofthis castles lord;
Theres horror lurking in each chasm we see.
For 0! his brows voluminous of murder!
Cecilia. 'here will this long and dreary passage
Countess. I pity thee, unhappy maid, that thou,
lead!
'
'
So young and beautiful art doomd to be
[Every time they speak they approach nearer-.1
The victim of his treachry.
Countess. [rising on her arm] llark. sure. I heard
Cecilia. Thanks tothy kindness,
the distant sound of voices.
I will in like return thy sympathy,
Jenn. Doubtless twill lead us to more danger,
For well Iknow a friend in grief can case
[Cecilia appears at (I distance, in the passage,
followed by Jeannette, with the lamp.
lady.
Countess. Again! I cannot yet distinguish clearly
Our anguish.
Countess. Lend me but thy hand, sweet maid,
Well nd the hapless suffrer if We can,

And shed with her a sympathetic tear.
Countess. Still they come nearer; tis a womans
voice;
llas he more victims in these caves of terror?

Ah! we will vcnt our fruitless grief together,
And waft our prayers for deaths relieving hand.
[Sinks down]
Jean. I pray thee,lady Cecilia, let us again
Haste to the secret chamber, nor pursue,
In spite of heavens rcmonstrancc, our intent.
CeciIiu. Not till I've found the wretched soul

whose cry
Struck through my heart, ere yet we had descended.
Therefore no more, if pale thy soul with fear,

Take thou the lamp and back retrace thy way,
Itnsh to the lions fangs and leave me here.
Jean. No, to death Ill follow thee!
[Enter Cecilia and Jeannette from the [lounge]

Counters. Stranger, hither,
'
If you would see a wretched prisoner, lnthei
Bend your wandring footsteps.

Cecilio. Surely I heard
For when rst his eye gazed on me

C'ounteas. He started!
You bore resemblance to Ardennis house,

Which his too bloody hand has made no more.
Cecilia. Ila! it strikes me: whilc one of the rank
stock
of murdered Claudio lives, Im insecure.
Countess. Ofmurderd Claudio! did he then mur~
der him?
0! deceitful villain!
Cecia. Wherefore is this?
Counters. My beartis panting with extatic hopes,
No, such bliss can never be in store for me.
Cecilia. What meanst thou!

Countess. But tell me how thou camst possess'd
Of that incstimablc treasure, maid,

Which circles round thine arm? my feelings tell me,
But hope may lead those feelings far astray.
Speak!
Cecilia. Twas found upon me.

Countess. Found upon thee?
Cecilia. When good St. Aline rst saved me, in

the wood,
This bracelet was suspended from my neck:

Doubtlcss placed there by my unfecling parents,
When left by them to wander through the forest.
Countess. O! my full heart! all speaks her to be so.
And I will rise! these limbs quite worn with grief,

Refuse to bear me up; 0! lovely maid
Powers of heaven! what likeness is there here!
Countess. \Vhen these fond eyes last saw my

hearts dear lord,
I never knew but one with eyes like thine,
As piercing as the sun! I pray assist me,
I gave him that rich present.

Cecilia. Gracious heaven!
I fain, dear maiden, would peruse thee further,

For if nor eyes deceive me, nor my heart,
'lhou artallied to me.

Cecilia. Sure these cold damps
Countess. If in some dunk, lugubrious dungeon.
thou
Should nd a parent, would thy heart then feel
Resentment for a parent's cruelty!
Have robbd thy mind ofieason.

Countess. Alas! no.
'loo sensible I am of wrong, too well
I know Fernando meditatcs some crime,
(in'lim 0! heaven! resentment!

Countess. I can hold no longer,
When such an eye as thine is bent upon him

Cecilia. Lean on me,I will support thee, su'h-er,
While my weak limbs will bear thy weight and mine.
Countess. Nature cnfcebled
I bear resemblance to some foe of his,
Call not thy parents cruel, cruel girl!

'Ihat bracelet once belongd to me.
Cecilio. [starting] To thee!
\\'hat thev do utter, for my Sense ofhearing
These diiligcon damps have now Well nigh de

stroyhl.
Cecilia. There is a solemn horror in these vaults,

lmprcsscs me with awe! come, good Jeannette,
From the fell grasp of an enraged Banditti,

Should thus conne me; and. yet now methinks,
by
this load
of
sorrow,
Refuses to sustain my bruised limbs.
[Risen Cecilia supporting her.]
Cecilia. Ah! what a wretched bed, 0! cruel hand,
That could consign thee to this loathsome spot.

Countess. Twas Fernandos; let. me kiss the hand
[Takes (.ecilia: hand.)
Cecilia. Forbear!
Counters. What do I sec? 0! hope deceive me not,
Let not my bosom feel the dear delight,
To see it blasted in its opening bud
Thou darling pledge of lost Albertos love,

Come to my arms!
[Cecilia starts back]
Cecilia. What did'st then say? thou dost not.
0! thou canst not mean it! yetah! do not
Drive me quite mad with an excess ofjoy.
('ounteu. Each circumstance and my prophetic
heart
Proclaim thou art my daughter.

Cecilia. Mother, mother!
[Rushes into her arms]

Comteae. Heaven I thank thee! after seventeen
years
Of cruel exile from her mothers arms,
To clasp my daughter to my anguishd heart,

ls too much bliss.
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Cecilia. A ood of extacy

Drowns the faint cries ofjoy my tongue would utter.
Blessd be the hour [ed from good St. Alme,
And bless'd the moment that] entcrd here,
Countess. No hope,
But in the never failing aid of heaven.
[rdcttnts, without]
.ltrden. Rodrigo, how this gloom casts oer my
Countess. For I am weary of the burthcn, but

Ifthou art not callous to all feeling,
Ah! spare my child! behold me at your feet,[k-uecI.-r.]
Let my blood sntinte your cruel rage!
For I have found my mother! [Embraces her again-1

But this dungeon
Art thou the countess?
soul
Horror most profound!
Countess. Alas! they come indeed!
' Countess. I am. Fernando,

In cruel rage, conned me in this cave,
'Io heavens unfailing aid I trust me now,
For bythe horrors of this cave lswear,
And surely heaven, since Im preserved thus far,

Will not desert me in this dang-mus hour,
When guilt presumptuous searches for my blood
Ci-cilin- To heaven I trust!
Ill not survive her.
llow shall I bear the liglituiug of their eyes,

When they shall ash upon old Claudios murd'rer!
Our blood shall blot thee from the page of mercy,

And this most cruel murder, weigh thee down
To endless agony!
Jrden. One way remains,
And onlyonc, to save her life and thine
Counri-ss. 0! name it then! to rescue her from
Hoping that famine would destroy my life.

Cecilia. Treachrous villain! does no hope exist
0f eeing from his powr! methinks my hands,
In a dear, helpless mother's cause, would know
Herculean vigor, separate the rocks
That bar her liberty, and force a passage,
Through the earth's vast bosom!
Countess. Vain thy \veak aid.

These cruel walls defy all mortal force:
Nothing but the avenging arm of heaven,
Seen in the homing thunderbolt, can burst
Their pondrous strength! nought but the wrath of

justice,
Could hurl down vengeance from her dreadful seat,
Upon Fernando's head!
Cedha- Together, then,
Well trace these gloomy halls, till welcome fate,

Release us from them! thou Jeannette retum,
And tell the traitor I have found my mother,

Thy life he seeks not, but if we return,
A hand, more cruel than the hand ol'fiimine,
'ould usher death.

Jean. No, my dear mistress, no!
Ifthou remain within this dreadful dungeon,
So will Jeannette; nothing but death shall part us.
Countess. Afl'ectionate girl! \viltthou then partake
The bitter cup which we perforce must drink!
Jean. Ive often drank the cup of happiness,
Administerd by fair Cecilias hand;
And shall! leave her now in misery,
Nor taste the poisou'd draught no.

Counteu- Come, my child,
Some eeting moments yet, ere the base villain,

Llay discover thee ed from his power!
Now, doubtless, she has found the girl to be

Her daughter! well, it is no matter now,
They both must fall, or Im undone forever!

[They Implode/n]
Countus. Why is Fernando in this tomb ot'horror?

Is it to view her misery and grief,
Conn-ten. Yes, now methinks, indeed,
Ile nestled in his breast a poisond serpent.
Countess. Itis, Fermuido.

So help me mercy as Ikeep that vow.
ridden. loisond! [starting]
Countess. Or dost thou come,
To tcar my new tbund daughter from my arms,

And make Cecilia tenders of thy love!
Jrden. Countess, your scorns'ill timed, for know,
I come
Counteoo. Upon a bloody business'- in your eye

I read ourlamentablc fate! for there,
Heart breaking cruelty relentless glarcs!

.tlrdt'n. Blood is my business! we thou knowst
Could my blood streaming on his dudgeons blade,

Lousia,
But quench his thirst for more-

Cecilia. 0! hold, the gtoan,
_
The piercing groan thy dying heart would burst,
"ould thunder death to mine!
Countess. \Ve"ll die together.
Death may divide our bodies for a time,

But soon shall our invulnerable souls
Meet far beyond the reach of pain, in heaven.
Cecilia. In heaven we meet! 0! what a cheering
thought!
'
That though we suffer in this vale of tears,
There is another, better world to come.
Countess. Now tell me
Jean I hear the sound of feet, Madam.

Ccdlia- 0! heaven! and has the blood hound
track'd so soon,
The spot where innocence is hid?
No hope of peace but in l-ernandos absence,
Than be the partner of a murdrer's bed.

.lrtlen. Is this thy rm resolve!
Countess. Yes, to turn and sting, Fernando!
By death, but turn his rage from thee, my child;
death,
He has deserved it; for in raising thee

From thy estate of wretchedness and poverty,
.Hrilen. 0! how she unnevves me! [apart]
Countess. Could I,
Countess. Then well together

Meet th' assassins arm
I would do \vonders.
Who owes her sorrows and her wrongs to him?
Cecilia. But no foul dishonor!
.vlllltflli Countess.
.tlrden. Consent to be my wife
Countess. Dost thou seek anguish now, Fernando?
Cecilia- 'l'hy wife, Fernando?
Come glut thine eyes and take thy bloody ll,
i Jnleu. Be but mine,
For heres sufficient ccn to satiate thee.
Rush in my arms the fears that rack my bosom,
JIrden. I need not tell thee, what ere this thou best all my honors tumble from my crest,
knowst,
Thou and Cecilia may be happy still
That mortal enmity inhabits here,
Countear- These dungeons, man, have coold the
Against dead Claudio and his hated house.
ame of love;
Countess. Has cruel Claudio or his hapless house,
Nay, sooner would I linger here till death,
Deserved this hatred from Fernandos heart?
The comfortlcss abode of grief and horror;
rilen. Yes, deserved it all.
With no companion save my awful fears,
Cecilia- Ha!
Cecilia- O'- my mother, haply he comes,

To plunge his dagger in thy heart!
[Falls on her bosom]
Which weep to sit there! let me fall, Fernando,
.Irdcn. Together be it!

[The countess throws her arm around Ceci
Sink both my fears and be my soul at peace!
lias her/r, who leans her head upon her
('ouutesn. 'Ihen welcome fate! but mark thee now.
mothers shoulder. Jeannette statute terri
Fernando,
ed near them- .Enlet' Arthritis and Rat!
And know my dying words prophetic are!
rigs.
I When from her mortal tenement of clay,
Jlrdcn. Lo! where my victims stand.
Thy uttring soul shall wing her deathless ight,
Countess. There is no doubt but hell pursue thee

here,
,
Then let us spend those moments, to relat
By what strange chance, or providential cause
We meet.
('scilia. No, I am heiress to Ardennis house,
"Iis Imay pluck those honors from thy brow,
Through crimes Itravelld to obtain my power.

Cotmtess- 'loo well I know it!
Arden. Canst thou then suppose
That I, who bought them with my innocence,
\\'ho paid a mighty price for my huge honors,

Will eer resign them but with life!
Cecih'o. Honor!
0! prostitution of that sacred word!
Honors are tarnishd on a villeins brow,
And there, unable to retain their mein,
They blush with shame

Countess. I understand, Fernando,
That thou art not secure while lcxist.

nk". 'ell, tis even so
Counters. Then take my life.

Cecilia. Mother!
Jlrden. It is enough! I've parlied with thee,

countess,
And made the only offer that I dare.

I have gone on too far in guilt to shrink,
0r listen to the childish voice ofpity;
Therefore no more; or say thou wilt be mine,
Or death is ready.
Countess. Why then, welcome death!
Jrllru. Foolish woman!
Cecilia. Mother, within thy arms
Ill meet the murdrers steel.
.Ertlm. Now,brave Rodrigo,
Thou knowst what is to follow, seize that girl,
And yield Lousia to my burning rage.
('ecilia- Mother!
('ozmtess- Daughter! 0! my undone Cecilia!

[Jrdenm's hears the cmmtcss to one side of
the stage, ltllll Rodrigo Cecilia to the
other.
'
Jean. 0! take my wretched life but spare my

mistress.
[Ktleals to Rodrigo who throws her of, she
attempts to approach ulrtlemu's]
wh'lk- Approach me and thou dyst![to Jeannette-:1

Now, good Rodrigo.
[Jr they prejmra to strike, Idmneo mu! He'nrt'co
imddenly dart from the Passage: the former
, advances to the centre qf the stage, between
Jrdenm's and Rodrigo: the dagger in his
412
right hand, while his left [mints to the

annual: he gazes on .nle'nnis. The latter
seizes Cedlia from Rodrigo who ies
through the passage. rdemu's releases the
countess. ('ecilia sinks into the arms of
licorice-1
rrlen- Eternal powers! ldumeo, hells combin'd
Cecilia. Henrico!
Hen. My Cecilia!
Cmmteu. Idumco,
But death or dreadful vengeance left me now!

( Theyght, Fmumdo falls.)
Ottomar. Down to the silent grave, and tell them
there,
'
Dead Claudios issue and Albertos con,
llas hurld his vengeance on thee.
Countess. Son!
(She sinks, Idumeo supports her.)
Cecilia. Brother!
.tirzlen. The night of death comes on apace!
pardon,
0! all ye injured, pardon andO! horror! (daea)
Kind. spirit, heavens sweet messenger ofgood

(Oltamur ies to his mother and clasfm her
Idumeo- Heavens vengeance hovers oer thee,
lost Fernando,
There is but one way now to shun the ruin.

#11118". Prophetic spirit, tell me, what is that!
in his arms.)
Ottoman Mother, countess!
Countess. Son of my lost Alberto!
Ottomar. Look up, my mother, see thy prostrate
IIIUMBO- Resign thy honors got by blood and

foe
fraud,
Sue for her pardon for thy cruel wrongs,
Lies cold in death.

Coimteu. He dying askd for pardon;
And yield the rightful heir his legal claim.
Thou host it, hapless soul; be all thy crimes
Countess. The rightful heir!
Buried in death and in the gravelforgotten.
alrden. Though all the host above
Yet how do I behold my long lost son!
\Vere leagued to wrest these glorious laurels from
Idumeo. At present, countess, that must be with
me,
held;
Not all combined should tear them from my brow.
Let us but leave these scenes of dreadful gloom,
A soul resolved can combat thee and heaven.
And all shall be explaind. Thy sister, Ottomar.
Idumeo. Then to the proof; behold Idumeo here.
[Casts away the Jagger, and draws his sword-:1
Comltcax. Idumeo living!

Jlrrlen. Destruction!
Cecilia. \Vhat is this?

Ilen. My dear Cecilia, all shall be explaind.
Be calm.
Idumeo- No more the spirit of Idumeo,
But see that same I dumco living here,
Thy blasted hopes have long considerd dead
By what strange providence Ive been preserved,
Ottomar. Sister!
(.eci'lia. Brother! (main-ace.)
Ouomar. Not now we rst have met,
llut now we meet no more to part, Cecilia.

Countess. To thee, Idumeo, let us render thanks.
Illllltleo. To hcivcn be rendcrd thanks and not to
me.
been bothered these two years. Peter handled

him so severely, and so justly, that I do as
sure you, it immediately occurred to me,
that I had nota much better right to trouble
the readers of the Cabinet with the history
of my family, than Peregrine had to pcrplex
us with that of his plans. This has for along
time withheld me, but as it was never my
intention to make either my aunt or sister

drudgcs to the entertainment of the Cabinet,
I 11m resolved not to forego'my original in
tention of occasionally recording some of the
chit chat of our re-side. It is under these
impressions that I now put forward Miss
Dinah Gravity and her niece, upon the stage.
\Vell, Gregory, said she the other
evening, as we were in social conversation,
I have always found you pretty much what I

would wish you to be, but as your tender
aunt I do now and then think it my duty to
tell you of actions that you sometimes com
mit, which I conceive improper. Now, Gre
gory, one of these faults (and I dont know

but it is the worst of all) is, that you some
times go to the play, an attendance upon
which you well know, is incompatible with
the duties of a christian. The company you
see there is of the bascst kind, and the be
haviour throughout of the most indecent. I

know your nature is mild and inoffensive,
but you should recollect that in the general
confusion
a theatre always represents, you
it boots not thee to know; suliice it, then,
Countess. Take this found embrace,
might chance to be jostled into a dispute
I live, and with a word can blast thee, count.
And be Cecilia thine.
(Embrace. him.)
While there is hope of mercy thou relent,
which you would despise, and in which you
Ilen. Thus on my knees
Nor call dotm treble vengeance on thy head.
might get yourselfnialcrially injured. It has
.lrrlen. Rage, rage has chaind my tongue, and I thank thee for the boon.
(lineela and kisses her hand.) often been to me a cause of considerable
dumb surprize.
wonder how you could join with such a
My Cecilia. ( ies to her.)
But yield to thee, llllll own myself a villain?
group
of vagabonds, or take any pleasure in
Cotlltle-vr.
Let
none
hereafter
Heavens
decrees
'lhou dosthut mock meal will perish rst.
their society, or their amusements. If you
mistrust,
I blush that thou hast juggled me so long.
Nor dare to doubt that providence is just.
would but entirely give up that occasional
I see thouhast undone me, treachrous slave,
Though clouds of sorrow dim their early day,
But vengeance still shall gild my closing hour.
resort, I think you would nd many advan
Soon peace shall drive those lowring clouds away;
Guard well, thy heart, for if my faithful sword
tages
which you do not now dream of.
Swcctly emerging as their moments run,
Can reach its core
It has always, since my recollection, been
Shall rising pleasure gild their setting sun.
Idnmeo. I will forgive thee all.
Curtaiuills. a rule to girls, (I mean unmarried females.)
For injured innocence I draw my sword,
young or not, to join with the older people
And thou for treachrous guilt, now heaven bejudge,
in an attack when the defence was thought
If the just cause I advocate, fall thou,
For the Repertory.
to be but a weak one; and accordingly here
Butif unjust, be mine-the fate deserved.
began Priscilla;
.qrden. Come on. (t/wyght.)
THE CABINET. No. Xxxv.
(Uttmnar, followed by Lewis will: the torch,
Yes indeed, brother Gregory, you know
Some there are that will condemn a coin
rushes from the Passage with his sword
drawn. He beats down their blows.
Ottoman Hold off your blows!

Cecilia. llow, Ottomar!
Hen. Be calm, my love, strange matters come to
llut, countess, behold the lord Henrico,
His son, who saved thy lovely daughters life,

And who, by love thus urged, has come in search
Ofhis Cecilia.
As bad, before they weigh its value:

Tis not well.
I have not much doubt that long ere this,
my kind old aunt and worthy sister are

light.
quite forgotten. I ask the reader's pardon
Ottomur- My arm, Fernando, better nerved for for my apparent neglect, in not having made
war,
them better acquainted: my reason for hav
Than good Idumeos, dares thee to the combat.
ing been guilty of it, is simply this: a con
If not unmand with guilt, Ardennis heir
siderable time ago my friend Peter wrote a
Dees thee to attack.
number of the Cabinet on egotism, and as
Countess. Ardcnnis heir!
,Qrden. By what dread power, thou too hast been the ttest subject he could possibly have
chosen he. mentioned one Peregrine Pea
preserved,
] know not; but come on, there is no hope
cock with whose nonsensical stuff we have
father never went himself, nor would he ever
let any of us go while he lived, he said the

plea. was so abominable," Aye, resumed
my aunt Dinah, and your grandfather, my
father, bless him,thc good old man, gave the

same instruction to his children, always pur
suing it himself. Gregory, you have wander

ed from the regulations of the family, and I
am sorry for it; for my own part I would not
go inside of a theatre for the whole world,

for if I did, I should never expect to livein
happiness, nor (lie in peace.
I am much concerned, my good aunt, to

M
see you treat this subject so warmly, and I

must say so ungenerously. You condemn
those who frequent the theatre, without
knowing who they are; you condemn the
amusement it affords, without knowing what
it is; and you rcvile the place without ever
having entered it; you plead against it, as an
inheritance from your fathers, and wish me
to forego a pleasure, because my father from
a misconception, did it before me. Aunt
Dinah, is it agmet of morality, to abuse at
man from report, or to shut your ears from
the conviction of his innocence? Is it a tenet
of morality to endeavor to break down the
barriers of rational and pleasurable improve
ment, without knowing by what means that
Gregory, I am sure you know this is all

gibberish to me. \Vho would not (con
tinued I, for I had now got warm in my de
fence,) wish to imitate the actions of the
sincere and virtuous? who does not hate the

base practices of fawning villains, and turn
from them with disgustful contempt? who,
does not pity the injured and the oppressed? l
and who does not pant for a participation in
the glories of the real hero? for all these are
ties of his mind, and indeed to every other

qualication which keeps him from dcss
cending to the nature of a beast, than luxu~
ry, the effects of which may be divided into
two parts, almost inscparably annexed to
each other: viz. gaming and drunkenness.

The rst I shall describe is that of gam
ing. This species of vice being very extra

ordinary in its nature, pervades every class
of people with equal influence, as they, when
placed before us, and we are left to choose.
once engaged in it, will still persevere, even
Are the sensations we have here experienced

to vanish with the fall of the curtain?are we
when the gulf of ruin lays open to receive

them. It is the school where all highway
to return from a representation of the most

unsullied virtue, in which we are also shown
the true degradation of vice, just as we went?
men are nursed: it is the school where the
improvement is to be forwarded? or is it a
tenet of morality to endeavor to take the
are we to permit our memories to lie dor
bread out of the mouth of a citizen, because
to be thought of? It is not
mant? and are actions like these, never more
that citizen contributes to the happiness of

I declare, Gregory, said my aunt, your
his fellows? Should we do nothing but that conversation was never so wild and unintel
which has been done by our fathers, where ligible before; you must have a raging fcver;i
fore, then, do we endeavor to advance in the do you not feel unwell?" He looks quite
arts and sciences. Because my father from sick," added my sister Priscilla.
Itis not my intention, proceeded I, to
a xed habit rejects the use of an imple
ment of a far better construction than the attempt to purify the walls of the theatreI
old one, merely because it was new, is it any from the corruption that in all places, more
reason that I should do the same, after I have
41f
principles of lying, cheating, robbery and

murder are instilled into the mind. This
vice is the more dangerous, as it is deceit
ful and contrary to every other species of
luxury. It flatters its votaries with hopes of
increasing their wealth;
so that avarice
itself is so far from securing us against its

temptations, that it often betrays the more
giddy part of mankind into them, promising
riches without bounds, and those to be ac
quired by the most sudden, as well as easy,

and indeed pleasant means. But yet it is
despised by every person who has any re
or less, adheres to them, for that would be gard for his own welfare, or that of his
folly; but you are extremely wrong in taxing family. But there are others who are its
all its frequenters with the name of vaga great votaries, and these are the very men
bonds, nothing can be more improper, and that are the bane of society; for by it they
Iliave seldom known you to run headlong are dashed headlong into the gulf of ruin,
into so great an error. It is the school for misery and want, where rather than die by
polite instruction, and if it be attended by [hunger they would resort to things of a
practically experienced its convenience and

efcacy?
It is impossible to defend any thing
against the injuries it has sustained from
those that know nothing of it; and therefore
the diieulty of making you comprehend it,
some blockheads who will not learn,
considerably weakens my argument.
The stage has ever been looked upon should that cause it to fall into disrepute? Is
by all nations as their rst amusement; and a church to be left vacant because it cannot
it was once even the vehicle to contribute be cleansed of hypocrites? or are we to aban
to feeding the superstition of a people by don every kind of innocent satisfaction be
the mysteries of religion; such profanity cause it may be perverted into evil? I trust
I do not advocate, nor do I refer you to those you will say no. Here I abruptly nished. I
ages of black barbarity (for what else can we saw she was not, could not be convinced
style them,) when theatres were the slaugh that she was wrong, but my aunt did not say ,
ter-houses of mankind. I speak of them as another word. GREGORY GRAVITY.
they are; rened by the progressing civili
..
zation of the world, from pictures of cruelty
For the Repertory.
to those of the most rened and the most
ON LUXURY.
delicate pleasure. I speak of them as an
epitome of that world, capable of awakening
In surveying man with a contemplative
the sensibility and arousing the passions; the eye, as formed, by his Creator, void of every
former in favor of virtue, and the latter in
vice, we nd him grand to a degree of ex
imical to vice. \Vho does not feel his heart cellence, far from being easy to be describ
expand at the generosity of a Felix or a ed by the most ingenious pen. Degrade him
Casey? who does not feel it recoil at the one step, we there nd him verging towards
subtle villainies of an Iago? who does not description: one step lower, we there nd
feel his senses sicken at the inhumanity of him easy to be described by the most indif
a Richard, a Dionysius, or a Pizarro? ferent pen, as susceptible of virtues and
who does not sympathize with, the suffering vices. If a person be of so despicable a
Ophelia? who does not feel himself raised character, as to wish to follow the path of
almost above mortality by the godlike virtue vice, his mind must be the abode of crimes
of the patriot Gustavus? who does not 0f 10 most disgraceful kind, and none is
have my aunt stopped me with, Now, more injurious to his health, to the facul
most criminal nature; even to robbery, mur

der, and suicide itself.
\Vhen the gamcster sees himself the ob

ject of abhorrence to his friends; when their
bitter reproaehes assail his ears, and he feels
those reproaches are deserved, he sinks at
once into all the horrors of self-loathing,
and the bitterness of mental misery, and as
when once he has entered into the labyrinth
of vice he can seldom return, but is led on
through corresponding vices to destruction;
so the feeble mind of the gamester being

unable to bear those feelings, he falls a vic
tim to his folly and'pcrhaps puts an end to
his miserable existence. \Vhich is thus de
scribed by an ingenious author:
Fond fool, who thought in gaming to be blest,
Once pure and innocent, now guilt, so thick

Clogs thy foul soul with thoughts of what thou'st
bccn,
As leads thee to end life and woe at once

Come, fatal tube, the gamesters last resource,
And lull contending passions to repose.
Having thus in as brief a manner as pos

sible described the bad effects of luxury as
exemplied in gaming, let me now consider
that, if possible, more dctested vigg, drunk.
mnesa, which is genemiiy considered as th'
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second luxury of the vulgar: and of all the
vices to which we are exposed none is so dis
graceful or contemptible! How strange it is
that man, the pride of reason, should descend
to a character so derogatory to the dignity of

his nature, so repugnant to every dictate of
reason, and which places him so nearly on a
level with the beast, and the love of which
prevents him from being of service either

to himself, his country or his friends! He
neglects the duties of his family, leaves un
cultivated a genius which, if improved by
application and study, might make him a
bright member of society: and burics in
oblivion and inebriatiou every natural idea.
In a breast where drunkenness is a con
0! he is not ofsoul so rude,

\Vho haunts the shades of solitude,
Tinspire a languid. mind

Fatigued by virtucs great employ;
Who loves the intellectual joy
Of sober thought, relined.
Or I freely declare that Id cease to pursue,

What detracts from my fame, and heaps honors on
you:
For you drive me, and lace me so snugly about,
That I fear from this hobblc I neer shall get out.
Deep in some grovc's sequestered breast,
But be that as it may I will atter your pride,

Although I so soon have some cake of the bride'."
For i know very well that girls will be the same,
He lulls the cares of life to rest,
Still panting, or married, or single, for fame.
In fancy mounts the sky;

Impelld by thought, his transports grow
Superior to this world below,
And pierce innity.
Like Tully, he forgets mankind,
Who all their dearest pleasures nd
In revelry and show;
The muses, there, he loves to woo,
Or, in :1 retrospective view,

Himself he learns to know.
stant tenant, all religion, every tender tie of
nature, every sense and faculty of the mind

are totally extinguished. By some, drunken
ness is considered as a crime, but of the
most tempting nature, for by them it is

looked upon as a cloak for crimes of the
most disgraceful kind. By its votaries, to be
immersed in the intoxicating fumes of wine,
is considered a source of the greatest plea
sure. By others its effects are consider
ed as the Lethe of forgetfulness, in which to
drown the cares of the world, and the me
The mind alone can furnish joy,

Unmixd with follys base alloy,
0r pleasures gross, or rude;
0 give me to enjoy it free,
(Kind heaven I ask the boon ofthee!)
In peaceful solitude.
too;
(A lady a thing of this kind towpose,

Is some what indelicatcI shou d suppose,)
Now although 68 a regular practice of mine,
To awaken myself those sensations divine

That arise from a beard nicely shaved to the skin,
And riot so sweet oer my lips and my chin,
Yet people will differ in things the most common,
Some choose them a Francois, some may choose a
woman;
But when they have sway, theyre so apt to defy,
That lthink there is danger in letting them try.
But your husband that will be, is growing so old,
That hes pleased with these little vagaries, Im
told,
So that when you are married, and go to Egg

For there the mind is mind alone,
And all its wishes are its own
Harbor,
You may save captain Grommet the price of a
ST. AUBERT.
barber;
For the Repertory.

STANZ AS.
lancholy which must naturally seize on the

Oh! friend of my youth I will never forget,
minds of those who have been the perpe
While the current of life warmly ows round
trators of deeds the most criminal that
my heart,
disgrace humanity. Having thus described Thy kindness; nor eer can acction the debt
the bad effects of luxurious incbriety, and
You said in your last,-yes, swcet creature '6: true,
That my heard you could lather and shave form:
Of love which I owe thee, its value impart.
\Vho there being scarce, demands more for his work

Than justice would think of, for shaving a Turk.
Think not,haughty fair one, to scourge me with pain,
At your words, with sharp thongs, and your looks
of disdain,
For although you can wish (a ne wish on my sunk)

That I with my hogs in the river should roll,
Yet I tell you that I, long before I would dot,
Or thus vilely degrade the bard into the brute,
\Vould renounce all your sex, or in some pond

in some measure the effects of luxury as Forget thee, oh! heaven, how futile the thought,
would plump
When
thy
image
so
deeplyis
stampt
on
my
soul;
composed of these two vices, let me now
Your father, thereaptain, and you at a thump.
give a nishing stroke to my subject with No, gratitude whispers by thee I was taught,
the lines of the elegant Goldsmith:
And thou'lt live, the rude swells of my breast to

control.
\Vhy, Miss (.lementina, have you got no shame,

To say that my entrails are torn with loves ame?
If I but one moment could think it were true,

Oh'. luxury, thou cursed by heavens decree,
If ever a prey to erce passions wild sway,
Id jump in the sh pond to quench it, with you;
llow ill exchanged are things like these for thee.
l rove from the pathway of virtue And peace;
Tie a stonelo my neckaye, Id make me a sop,
How do thy potions with insidious joy,
Do than like a ministring spirit delay
Till aloud. clap of thunder bring me to the top.
Diffuse their pleasure only to destroy.
My speed, nor till safe let thy watchfulness
You desired, 1 think, that when I was quite well,
Kingdoms by thee to sickly greatness grown,
cease.
I would drop you a line, the glad tidings to tell,
Boast of a. orid vigor not their own;
\lhy then, know, Clementina, I never was better
At every draught more large and large they grow, Then,lady, believe not I eer can forget
A bloated mass of rank, unweildy woe:
Thy kindness, while life spreads its glow in my Than now, while I write this consolative letter;
But since 65 no honor in fancy to delve,
Till sa ppd their strength and every part unsound,
breast,
For time gives the signal to re off twelve,
Down, down, they sink, and spread their ruin Nor eer can my grateful affection the debt
And as I again feel a twitch in my head,
round!
Of love, which I OWe thee, its value impart.
Ill bid you farewell, and retire to my bed.
C.
AROUET, JUNR.
\VALTER 'IGGLE
*0.
._
For the Repertory.

SOLITUDE.
\Iay fate forever me divide
From him, around whose heart no tide
Ofgentle feeling swells;

But whom misanthropy devours.
Amid the glooms of cypress bowers,
Where melancholy (lWL-lls.
For the Repertory.
For the Repertory.
TO MISS CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
THE SAILOR BOY.
\Vell, well, Clementina, I nd tis in vain
To engage in a contest whose weapons the brain;

(Or where it is rather the vast magazine,
Which supplies all the wants of that dreadful
machine,
That \Valter long since bath with ccstaey sung,
The sun in the west his last rays now displayd,

And danced on the breast of the billony way;
He seemingly lingerd, his absence delayd,
To kiss the clear wave and inwantonness play.
Serene was the ocean and lovely to view,
Who meanly thinks hes born to keep
"lis a pen in your hand, in most womens a tongue.)
An useless, dull, monastic sleep,
With one of a sex so renowd for its use,
A living death" on earth;

Hateful, and hating, creeps away
From tedious lifeand none to say
\Vhere the eld that we take is the eld of abuse.

Thus, my struggles are vain; but politeness de
mands
That an unanswerd letter lay not on my hands,
His virtues or his worth.
As waftcd .Eolus the bark oer the wave;
And the welkin arrayd in ethereal blue,

Assurance of transient tranquillity gave.
Henry stood on the prow and he silently gazed

On the deep, and remembrance a tear eauscdl0
start
415
From his eyes, as it told him how distant were

placed,
The beings beloved and revered by his heart

They are few in this world, the poor sailor boy said,
Nor father nor mother are anxious for me;
at the foot of the case, that it came within

the statute of frauds, and a prosecution would
lie against the party. Ajunior barrister was

the only one who denmrrcd upon the question
of change, all the rest sucred their judge
They are numberd, alas! with the mouldcring dead,

And their Henry is tossdon the turbulent sea.
Though they rest in the tomb not alone am I left,
Like a lonely link severd from natures vast chain;
Nor yet of a'ections sweet tear drop bereft,
The kindness of sisters will soften each pain.
Whose arms will,to welcome me,fondly be spread,
And their fears will be hushd as they clasp me
ments to go in default, and their client levied
Will fade, and no traces of sorrow remain.
But to this the defendant has put in a dila

tory/11m, and given leg bail.
Loud. Pa/z.
blew;
He sighd and obcyd, for his heart was notlight,

And fancy still turnd his dear sisters to you.
Heaven guard you, he said, soon again may we meet;
Pond hope seemd to cheer and his spirits renew;
He thought of the soul thrilling kiss that would
greet
His return, and he breatbd, with his blessing,
adieu!
,MONTALDO.
_
Some years ago there resided in this city,

a merchant by the name of J. P., remark
able for his absence of mind and eccentri
city. A gentleman in Baltimore having sent
him a consignment, drew on him repeatedly
before the goods were disposed of. Mr. P.
at length grew tired of this importunity, and
the following laconic epistle was the result.

Philadelphia,
lobwlrbia.
Thus pensive he mused till the shadows of night

Fell fast and the boatswain his shrill whistle
T0 READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
Alexis on Anger cannot appear. The essay

possesses no originality of thought, no har
mony of language, and the composition is

very incorrect.
\Ve cannot publish Gonzalvos lines to
To moulder there:
Died on Friday morning, the 19th inst.

Mr. George Thum, aged seventy years three
months, after a lingering illness of 10 months,
during which, he suffered the most excru
penetrating by the power of an approving
the superiority of Mr. Cooke.

There is nothing more disagreeable to an
refusing the effusions of their fancy, but we
know we are performing a duty to the pub
lic, and we believe we are conferring a fa
vor upon Florian, when we say his Ode to
Spring cannot be inserted.
Notwithstanding our opinion of St. Au
berts Ode to Solitude, expressed in our last
number, we believe he possesses a fruitful
mind with no little taste for poetry. Having
made a few alterations, which his poetical
car will immediately perceive were neces
sary, we introduce his verses into our co
lumns with pleasure.
The essay of E. C. on Luxury, contains
some fatal truths, not badly expressed. The
subject is treated with great brevity, but as
having no other paper to pay the fee.

we doubt not the authors intentions, wc
The clerks of the learned council in every cheerfully publish any thing that may have
case save one, readily gave him the difference
And strikes us to the silent tomb,
so gross an insult to Mr. C.s understanding

as some of the lines contain, though devoid
of all poetical merit; second, because we
think that our readers would never forgive
us, for calling the elegant and admired
Cooper, a mere murdering elf! although,
editor, than to damp the ardor of youth, by
lar, eminently skilled in the law, not only
a tendency to impress the mind with detes

tntion for those banes to society, gaming and
drunkenness.
gave him the change, but added his opinion
We cannot suffer this last number of our
in bank notes; and one gentleman in particu
Casts all around a sweet perfume,
Till deaths drear winter brings our doom,
tiating tortures of body; but amid the strug
A piece of shar]! practice was played Oh"

one day last week on some gentleman of the
robe. A strippling in casting about for game
thought the gentlemen of the law would af
ford a novel eld of action, upon whom few of
his own profession had hitherto ventured to
attempt any manoeuvres, because not so easily
sham check on a banker, apologizing for
OBllL'AltY.
Life, like a rose in early bloom,
Sheds fragrance through the air,
Mr. Cooke, the justly celebrated actor, for

two sound reasons: rst, we would not offer
in some characters, all must acknowledge
made out ve ctitious cases for the conside

ration of council, and waited upon ve of the
lumen practitioners at the bar, severally and
successively at their chambers, presented to
each his case for an opinion, endorsed witha
five guinea fee, and for the payment of which
he tendered to each a ten or fteen pounds
The title page, index and engraving for

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The rst number of the i2cond volume.
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Our haste in putting the last number to

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his mental eye, rendered clear and
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in the year 1763. In that glorious and ever
memorable
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level with the other nations of the globe, he
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from whose rapacity and cruelty, himself and
family suffered materially.
He served with distinguished gallantry in
many of our severe campaigns, particularly
that in which happened the hard fought
and destructive battle of Brandywine; and
nally, saw his struggle crowned with suc
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in full splendor upon his adopted country. H.
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VOL. II.
BIOGRAPHY.
LlFE OF MAHOMET.
There are but few persons who have not

heard of this famous impostor; and as few,
perhaps, who have perused his biography.

As it will, no doubt, be interesting to many
of our readers, to know by what specious
artices be spread his doctrines over so great
a portion of the globe, and made himself
adored as the prophet of ,- God, wehavc se
lected a brief account of his life.

Mahomet was born at Mecca in the year of
Christ 569. According to the eastern histori
ans, he was descended in adirect line from

Ishmael. Kedar, or as the Arabians call him
IGdar, after his father Ishmaels death com

muncated his name to the greatest part of
Arabia Petraea. He was succeeded in his au
thority and pOssessiops by his son Hamal;
Hamal by Nabet, and Nabet by _Salaman. After
No. l.
succeeded by his son Amni, surnamed Ha- of the Jorhamites. This well is by the.
alarm, or one that broke bread, on account Arabs called Zemzem; which some derive
of his singular generosity during a famine from her calling to Ishmael, when she.
at Mecca. Having amassed great sums of spied it, in the Egyptian tongue, Z0111, Zcm,-
money, he took a journey into Syria, where i. e. Stay, Stay; though others ascribe itto
he purchased avast quantity of meal, which a different origin. The water of this well,
he made into cakes and divided with his which is on the east side of the Caa'ba, and A
own hands amongst the people of Mecca. covered with a small building andcupol'a, is
He likewise killed a prodigious number of highly reverenced; being not only drunk
camels, with which be fed them, and relieved with particular devotion by the pilgrims, but
them in the time of their distress; and nd
also sent in bottles as a great rarity to most
ing that the soil about Mecca was so barren parts of the Mahometan dominions.
as to produce no fruits but what was com
Abdalla, the father of Mahomet, was a
mon in the deserts, and consequently no younger son of Abdal Motalleb, and remark
corn or grain, which the Mcccans are able for his beauty. In his twenty-fourth or
obliged to bring from other-places,_he ap twenty-fth year, he married Amina,\the
pointed two caravans to set out yearly for daughter of Waheb, the son of Abdal Menaf.
that purpose, the one in summer, and the She is represented as the most'beatitifidmru
other in winter; by means of which, the city' dent and virtuous lady of her tribe; and con
was amply supplied with provisions of all sequently the most worthy of such an extra
kinds. The provisions brought by them were ordinary pcrson as Abdalla. He died young,
distributed twice a year; and Hashem, by and in his fathers lifetime, left his widow
his prudent conduct, raised the glory of his and infant son in very mean circumstances;
Salaman came A] Homeisa, then A] Yasa, people to the highest/pitch; insomuch, that
whose son Odad was succeeded by Odd the all the neighbouring great men and heads of
father of Adnan; flounting ten generations tribes made their court to him. Nay, so
forward in the same line, We come at last to great veneration is the memory of Hashem
Fehr, who seems to have distinguished him held in by the Arabs, that from him the
self by some glorious actions, as he was de family of Mahomet among them are called
nominated Koreislx, on account of his bravery. Hashemiles; and he who presides over Mecca
He is to be considered as the root of the and Medina, 'who must always be of the
politest and most celebrated tribe __of the race of Mahomet, has to this day the title of
Arabs. He had three sons, Galeb, Mohareb, the Chief or Prince of the Hashemites.
and Al Harcth. From Mohareb the Banu
Hashem died at 'GaZa in Syria, and was
Mohareb, denominated likewise Shriban, succeeded by his son Abdal Motalleb or
took their origin; from Al llareth, the Banu Mateleb, He is said to have been extremely
Al Khoioj, and from Galeb, in a direct line, affable and easy of access, as well as just
the impostor Mahomet. Galeb was the and generous to a great degree; so that, in
father of Lowa; and he of Cash, whose son the beginning of the month Ramadan, he
Morrah had for his immediate descendant' entertained the poor upon the flat roof of his
Kelab the father of Kosa. It was this Kosa who house, and afterwards supplied the fowls of
aggrandized the tribe of the ,Koreish, by pur the air and wild beasts of the field with pro
chasing the keys of the Caaba from Abu Gab visions of various kinds, which he ordered
shan. By this he not only aggrandized hisl tribe,
his servants to leave upon the summits of
1 bqtbecame the prince of it himself. He was the neighbouring mountains. The well which
~succeeded by his second son Abd Menaf, to, God showed to Hagar in the wilderness is
whom the- [zrb/rlxe/ir light, which is said tol said to have been miraculously discovered
have manifested itself in his face, gave the , to Abdal Motalleb, about ve hundred years
his whole substance consisting only of ve

camels and one female Ethiopian slave.
Abdal Motalleb was, therefore, obliged to
take care of his grandson Mahomet, which
he did, not only during his life, but at his
death enjoined his eldest son Abu Taleb to

provide for him for the future. Abu Taleb
was extremely kind to his nephew, and in
structed him in the business of merchan

dize; for which purpose he took him into
Syria, when he was but thirteen years of age,
recommending him to Khadijah, anoble and

rich widow, for her factor; in whose service
he behaved so well,that she married him,
and thus raised him to an equality with the

richest in Mecca.
'
Though Mahomet "had probably formcd
a design of introducing his new religion,

pretty early, he did not think proper to
avow it till the fortieth year of his age.
The grand article of his faith was, the unity

of the divine nature, which he pretended was
violated by Jews and Christians no less than
by the Pagans; for which reason, he resolved
to make an attempt to rescue the world from
gm-~ Of'primogeniture. Abd Menaf wasl after it had been lled up by Ann-u prince the ignorance and superstition which pre
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A-l
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vailed at that time. This reformation he in
(khalrf) successor, or vicar; therefore show
The wisdom of nature, to use a common
tended should begin in his own family; and

therefore, having retired with his house
yourselves submissive and obedient to him.
hold to a cave in Mount Hara, near Mecca,
ing, telling Abu Taleb that he must now pay
he there opened the secret of his mission to

Khadijah; acquainting her that the angel
Gabriel had just appeared to him, and told
him that he was appointed the apostle of
God. He also repeated to her a passage
which he said had been revealed to him by
the ministry of the angel, with an account of
many prodlgies which happened at his birth.
This pretended revelation was received by
Khadijah with the greatest joy; and in a
kind of ecstasy she immediately communi
cated the good news to her cousin VVaraka
obedience and submission to his own son.Not

withstanding this repulse, however, Maho
phrase, displays itself wherever, and on

whatever part of her works we attentively
cast our eyes. In the clothing of animals
we see it richly displayed. To each she has
given a vestment adapted to its particular
circumstances of habitude and climate. The
At this speech all the company fell a laugh
met was so far from being discouraged, that

he began to preach to the people in public.
They heard him with some patience till he
began to upbraid them with the idolatry, ob
stinacy, and perverscness of themselves and
their fathers; which so highly provoked

them, that they openly declared themselves
his enemies, except some few'who were con
vcrted. The prophet was now protected by
elephant, the rhinoceros, the lion and other
inhabitants of the torrid zone and of the

latitudes bordering thereon where a blazing
sun and a heated atmosphere constantly pre
vail, either have no clothing at all, or so
little as to be oppressive neither by its quan

tity nor its quality. But the reverse we nd
in the regions which stretch towards the
the authority of his uncle Abu Taleb; who, pele. The Eider duck, which is destined to
Ebn Nawsal, who being aChristian, could however, was earnestly solicited to persuade swim in the icy seas and to build its nest
write in the Hebrew character, and was his nephew to desist, and at last threatened among the rocks and bleak cliffs of the
pretty well versed in the scriptures both of with an open rupture in case he could not north, is armed with a species of down,
the Old and New Testament. He very readily prevail on him so to do. This had such an which at once keeps in its internal heat and
came into her opinion, swore by God that effect upon Abu Taleb, that he advised his is impenetrable by water. For the-beaver
what she said was true, and that Mahomet nephew not to push the matter any farther; also she has made a similar provision. His
was the great prophet foretold in the law by representing the great danger he and his life is spent among rivers and lakes under a
Moses the son of Amram.
followers would otherwise run: but our pro cold and frosty sky, but he is clothed with a
Mahomet nding his rst step so success phet was not to be so intimidated, and told thick vesture of for which secures him from
ful, as VVaraka was a very considerable per his uncle plainly, that if they set against the effects of cold and prevents the contact
son, began to entertain great hopes of ac him the sun on his right hand, and the moon of water. This fur is of two kinds, one long,
complishing his design. He next converted on his left, he would not abandon his enter coarse and still, the other short, ne, silky
his servant Zeid, to whom he gave his liberty prize." Abu Taleb, therefore, nding him so and compact. This last is what the hatter
on the occasion, which afterwards became rmly resolved, used no further arguments, esteems so highly, which forms a consider
a rule to his followers; and then Ali the son but promised to stand by him to the utmost able branch of the trade of Canada and the
of Abu Taleb,though at that time only nine or of his power: so that notwithstanding the coast of Labrador, and on account of which,
people of his tribe came to a determination the avaricious rapacity of man has compelled
ten years of age. This last, however, mak
ing no account of the other two, he used to to expel both Mahomet and his followers, he the innocent proprietor to forsake the haunts
_ call the rst of believers. The next person found a powerful support in his uncle against which it formerly possessed and retire to
the rivers and lakes of less frequented re~
he applied to was Abu Bccr, a man of very all their machinations.
To be continued.
cesses. Every thing in nature has its pecu'
considerable authority among the Koreish.
"o.
liar use; and the author of the S/zectacle de la
He was easily gained over and by his in
For the Repertory.
.Naturc, ingeniously supposes, that while
uence several others; so that Mahomet now
the short fur of the beaver is intended to se
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BEAVER.)
made his misssion no longer a secret. To
Abu Beer he gave the name of .rll Saddik,
The beaver is the animal called by na cure the animal against the inclemency of
or the faithful witness; because he not only turalists by the name of Castor Fiber. It is surrounding elements, this in its turn is pre
vouched for every thing he said, but greatly from thirty to forty inches in length, from served by the long fur from being soiled
inecased the number of his followers. Ma twelve to eighteen in height, and from fty by dirt and other extraneous matter.
homet likewise complimented him with the to sixty pounds in weight. In shape it some
The gradations of nature, says Gold
title of .4tik, or rmer-ow,- intimating there what resembles the rat, but has a broad, smith, are imperceptible; and naturalists
by, that he was certainly saved from hell re. at, squamous, naked tail, of an oval form. tell us that all animated nature forms but
Having given out that he was commanded Its colour varies according to the climate in one chain, one uninterrupted series of exis
from heaven to admonish his near relations, which it dwells; in northern latitudes it is tence, one bond of relationship and union.
Mahomct directed Ali to prepare an enter dark and sometimes black; it is also found \Ve need only to take a view of life around
gray and white with variegations of brown us to be convinced that this is true. We will
tainment, and invite to it the sons and de
scendants of Abdal Motalleb. He intended and black spots; among the snows of Canada nd the great divisions of animals, viz. man,
to open his mind to them; but Abu Taleb,
it is of a chesnut hue, and in the country of quadruped, bird, sh, insect, and even vege
one of Mahomcts uncles, making the com

pany break up before the prophet had an op
portunity of speaking to them,he was obliged
to invite them again the next day. Having
DOW proposed the matter, he asked which
of them would become his wazir, prime
minister, on vicegerent. This was accepted
the Illinois of an olivacious brown. The table, gradually disappearing in each other.
beaver is the only animal belonging to the Comparing man and brute together, the dis
class 1Wammalia which has a web spread be tance between them is so great that the idea
tween the toes of the hind feet only, bearing of a connexion seems absurd. It is true that
a resemblanpe to those of the duck. With between the internal structure of their
these feet, in its aquatic expeditions, as with bodies, the conformations, composition, adap
oars, it propels itself through the water, tation and uses of their bones, muscles, blood
while with its broad at tail, as with a rudder, vessels, and organs severally, some anaIOg-y
it directs its course.
does exist; but man even in the most de
by Ali; upon which Mahomet said to him,
- This is my brother, my deputy, and my
'3
based state, preserves a countenance erect

and elevated towards the heavens, his steps
are guided by the lights of reason and the
moral faculty, his mind is tted for the en
joyment of pleasures higher than sensual,

and in other respects is so different that he
appears too far removed to admit the idea of
a relationship with the brute: he neverthe
less is related to him; he is but a link in the
chain of existence. In the climes of the tem

perate zone we behold him in his most per
fect state; if we advance towards the pole
we nd him degenerating into the diminu
tive inhabitant of Lapland, Borandia or Sa
moird Tartary, whose mind is contracted in
proportion to his body; or if we proceed to
the burnt regions of the line, we nd him
gradually Sinking into the Mexican, the
Hottentot, the Negro, and, .at length, the
rude inhabitants of the island of Borneo,

where he degenerates into his fellow native,
the owrang outang or wild man of the

woods. The owrang outang is the rst of
brutes, but he is neither man nor quadruped;
he stands interposed between them, he is
the rst in the genius Simia or tribe of apes.
In ascending this tribe we behold the
quadruped gradually rising till it appears in
its full form; in descending it, we descend
the order of links which connects man

with four-footed animals. The same order
of things we observe in the other great divi
sions of animated existence. Between the bird
andyjuadruped we see thefying squirrel, bat,
Sac. interposed; between the bird and sh,
the ying sh; between the quadruped and

sh the ottar, the morse, the beaver, &c.
municates with the ocean through the chan

nel of the St. Lawrence, are places into which
man has seldom extended his footsteps. In
these unknown recesses, thousands, perhaps
millions of beavers sport at their ease appre
united to an amiable and beautiful woman.

I remember the dear lady, said Editha.
One day, continued the count, when
we together were scouring the forest in the
chase, we were checked in our speed by
hensive bf danger from no enemy but the the cries of distress. We listened and they
bear or the wolf, who aware of the security were repeated. \Ve hastened to the spot
they enjoy in their aquatic habitations sel from whence the sounds had issued, and near
dom attempts to molest them; here they the foot of a shattered oak,we found a child
build their houses, indulge in the sweets of wrapped
piteously.in a wretched mantle, screamintrI
domestic life, and propagate their species for
the supply of the future necessities of their
Unhappy innocent! said Editha.
enemy man. Among the unfrcqueuted rivers
I would have received him, continued
and lakes of Scandanavia, Russia and Poland the count, and reared him as my own, but
they are still sometimes seen, but from the DArinhault seemed forcibly struck with the
other parts ofEurope they have long ago dis appearance of the infant and insisted upon
appeared; we havc no accounts of their be taking him to the castle, accordingly, he
ing in Great Britain later than towards the was borne thither by the attendants. That
end of the twelfth century in the reign of same youth is now DArinhault, prince of
Henry II. when some were discovered on the Pandolfo."
lakes among the mountains of Snowdon.
Indeed, my Lord! exclaimed the gov
erness.
'
_O.-'
You shall hear, proceeded Altenheini.
Two or three years after this event, DArin
For the Repertory.
hault visited me, to congratulate me on the
CASTLE OF ALTENIIEIM,
birth of my daughter, which event had then
OR
taken place. He informed me, that his hopes
THE NIYSTERIOUS MONK.
of an heir had expired, as his princess was
A TALE.
in an ill state of health and that he had dc
CHAPTER I.
tcrmined to adopt the foundling of the wood:
Tu'as strange, 'twas passing- strange,
Twas pitiful, twas wouderous pitiful!
SHAKSPEARE.
How could he gaze upon that beauteous form,

Nor feel his soul with chaste affection warm.
And," said be taking me apart, should
my young Montaldo, for that is the name

I have given him, should he live, and your
Amelia reach the bloom of life and years

The sun had sunk beneath the western of womanhood, let our houses be united by a
ocean, the mist of grey twilight had retired marriage between them.
I was grateful for the honour, and so
from the landscape, and the moon arose at
tended by her twinkling train, when Ferdi lemnly promised, that shouldI outlive him,
nand, count Altenheim, and prince of the holy and Montaldo and Amelia exist, at a proper
Roman empire, ordered the governess oi age I would see them united, he promising
The beaver is allied to the sh in its fondness

for water, in having a scaly tail, the taste of
which is said to resemble the peculiar avour
of sh, and in having a membrane spread the fair and beauteous Amelia, his daughter,
between the toes of its hind feet, similar in to attend him in his study.
appearance and use to the ns of the scaly
Editha, said be, when they were seat
inhabitants of the ocean.
ed, I have sent for you, to communicate
Beavers are inhabitants of northern something of the most serious and interest
ciimes, and are found in the belt lying be ing nature.
tween the thirtieth and sixtyfth degree of
My Lort, replied Iiditha, let me
north latitude, but are most partial to the hear your commands, and you know I shall
higher latitudes of that belt. They begin obey them.
to increase in number about forty degrees
Those too you shall know, my good
north of the equator, and to decreaSe about Editha, rejoined Ferdinand, but rst lis
thirty south of the arctic circle. They former ten to a brief tale which I shall relate.
ly delighted to roam through the back parts Twenty seven years have elapsed, since I
of nearly all of the United States, from the became acquainted with the noble D'Arin
district of Maine to the Carolinas, but from hault, prince of Pandolfo.
these retreats they have all, excepting here
I am anticipating a rich repast, inter
and there a few solitary wanderers, been ex rupted Editha, a rich repast, my lord, in
pelled and have retired to places where man your story.
Then you will be disappointed, answer
is not seen to penetrate. Those vast unex
plored tracts of country which lie to the ed Ferdinand, but listen and dont inter
west of the Mississippi, and West and north rupt me; We became bosom friends, and
of the extensive chain of lakes which com soon after, 1 had the pleasure of seeing him
the same, should I die before him.
Did you, my lord! cried Editha, tremb

ling violently.
I did, returned Altenheim; and that
was the reason why I kept her from court

that no suitors might put me to the unpleasant
necessity of a denial. About a year after this
my countess died, leaving me no issue but
my daughter; and in about nine years suc
ceeding that catastrophe, contrary to all ex
pectation, the princess of landolfo, was de
livered of a son, in giving birth to whom, she

left this world and an alicted husband.
I remember that mournful event, said
Editha.
One day," continued Altenheim, Mon
taldo had taken the young prince into an

adjoining wood to enjoy the refeshing breezes
that played through its leafy foliage. After
being absent about two hours, he returned
alone, disgured with blood, and a wound
gaping in his right arm,"
(i
ant-W
"
_-_--L
That the mind of the great Milton may

have rst conceived the idea of inferna
agents, is certain, but that if Milton had
dispensed with them,I should have refrain

ed from introducing them, I will not so
readily allow; for the propriety, nay almost
absolute necessity of using them, occurred
to me while considering the probability of
my being svcrely treated for following him
so closely.
I have adopted rhyme for the sake of
brevity and because I wished to make my
poem different from any other on the same
subject, in that point of view, and though
there is an analogy, unavoidable, from the
Id sound thy triumphs, Calvary, afar,

15
As blows the clarion victory, in war.
Hail! holy spot, where our Redeemer bled,
Like the meek lamb, to slaughter rudely led:
\Vhen his bare side the Roman javelin tore,
The blood of Jesus bathd thy summit o'er!
20
By thee, crouds wondered, as the trembling ground
Attested, then, a God receivd the wound!
llail Calvary! a sad and sacred sight,

To re my lays thy inuence I invite;
Thy awful grandeur on my numbers beam,
The world,-beguiling idol of thy soul,

Is all devoted to the tyrant, power;
To form his joys the genial planets roll,
To speed his conquests ies the rapid hour,
Tis but to die mortality is born,
_
Not struggling folly breaks the dread decree:
Then cease the common destiny to mount,
Nor wish creations laws reversed for thee.
25
The sun that sets again shall gild the skies,

The faded plain reviving flowers shall grace;
But hopeless fall, no more on earth to rise,
And ll my soul with the eternal theme;
The transitory forms of human race.
Teach me to sing thy everlasting cause,

And show the hellish murder as it was!
But 0'. what muse, if all the soul were red,
Could paint his anguish when a God expired; 30

The shock she felt, the thundring groans could tell,
No more on earth: but see beyond the gloom,

Where the short reign of time and death expires;
Victorious oer the ravage of the tomb,
Smiles the fair object of thy fond desires.
That nature utterd, when her monarch fell;
similarity of the foundation, yet I am certain
that the mechanism of my fabric will be

found materially different from Paradise Re
gained or from Calvary.
v
That my eort will bear a comparison
with Miltons or even Camberlands I am
not so vain as to hope; but that I have done
my subject all the justice that my poor abili

ties would allow, I can positively afrm, and
having submitted it to a classical friend of
profound erudition, for his correction and
revision, I send it into the world, hoping,

that if any writer should honour me so far
as to mention me in the same critique with
hen, with a cry, he pourd his latest breath,

And hushd his mighty agony in death!
While death is struggling with our fainting heart,
\Vhat fearful anguish does his rage impart?
36
The soul surcharge d, ejects the woe-born sigh,
And tears gush, ceaseless, from the pallid eye!
Yet what the torture when a mortal dies,
To that he felt, who made men, earth and skies! 40
\Vhen groaning with our guilt, I thirst," he cried,
Tasted the hyssop, for his creatures died!
Yet rise, my muse, on venturous pinions, rise,
And pass the distant portals of the skies;

Plunge though the secret terrors of the tomb,
VALERIAN.
\Var for awhile no more his terrors hurld,
And famed Augustus ruled the peaceful world.)

(To be continued.)
For the Repertory.
LINES BY A LADY.
Say, dear Emilia, what untried delight
Ilas earth, deceitful, transcient, to bestow,
THE PROPITIA'IION.
BOOK I.
ARGUMENT.
Jdieu to the .Eolu'an shades.- (pvacution to Culvm'y:

The lkllfl'! q/ the subject: J brief introduction,
which marks the period at which the poem commences
But wish not your anguish again to renew:

But your muse is so languid you seem in distress.
I would wish to impart some relief to yOur head,
And Pa says, he thinks you had better be bled,
Pray have some adviceI am sure that fOHFbIjin
Is unsettled, or else you my meaning, so plain,
Could not have misconstru d nor mistaen for a beard,
And I question if one on your chin has appeard,
That meaning which was, let me tell you sir, wit
But you and it,\Valter, are quite opposite;
Porno man in his senses could ever suppose
That a f lily crowned queen wduld take you by
the nose.
I disdain to remark on the rest of your letter,
Tis unworthy my noticeabsurditys better
And none as they cannot forbear to exclaim, '
\Vith the lady whom calumny strove to defame,
Most impotent and lame is the witless conclusion,
Which rcdounds to the poor authors shame and
confusion.
Dear Wiggle, farewell, youre a good natured
night,
At last Im convinced of the truth I now write,
Your satirical essays return and pursue,
By me undisturbed, modest Walter, adieu.
be observed with indifference, or treated with
rontrmpt.
Adieu, adieu, remember me."
Nor would I, indeed, your sage worship address,
50
In fearful pangs and friendlcss grief expire!3
Now had the wheels of time his chariot rolld,
Till th hour arrived by prophets long foretold,
When, to the wondring swains, the Saviours birth,
Should be proclaimd, to bless the hapless earth;
(\Vhieh seemd prepared the glory to enjoy,
55
For men had ceased each other to destroy;
sure of the wise will lead me to correct my

errors, not retard the ight of my muse,
while the virulence of the hypercritic will
Eorthe Repertory.
TO WALTER \VIGGLE, Esq.
Search evry spot the glorious song to swell;

And paint the pleasure of deluded hell,
When on the cross she saw the true Messiah,
labour, that I could or would uish to re

ceive, I frankly acknowledge; yet the cen
ORSINA.
*
Down to the mansions of eternal gloom;
either of the before mentioned authors, he
That the eulogy, of the learned and the
\.
To virtues hand its cultivations given;

Formd by her care, the beauteous plant shall rise.
And ourish with unfading bloom in heaven.
Once more, Mr. Wiggle, I courtesy to you,
45
will consider the difference that must exist

between a tyre of twenty four and a scholar
of forty or fty, groaning, I may say, beneath
aload of learning.
good, will be the noblest recompence for my
The seed of life, below, imperfect lies,
That checks thy active spit-its nobler ight,

And bounds its narrow view to scenes below?
Is life thy passion? let it not depend

On uttering pulses and a eeting breath;
In cold despair the fruitless wish must end,

That seeks it in the gloomy range 0. death.
CLEMENTINA CAUSTIC.
-.
}Eonisn shades, and fabled ny niphs divine,

That in the ancient song superior shine,
Whom Homer wood his numbers to inspire,
And touch his soul with true poetic re;

I new forsake your amm-anthine bowar,
5
Where I have lingered many a pleasing hour;
Where I have often sung the syivan scene,
Nectareous fragrance, or its foliage green.
A power more glorious claims my ardent song,
10
To whom our worship and our praise belong
0'. had I but that muse of sacred fire
Which sung the fall of man and heavens dread ire,
Sung the great ransom, mercy paid, to save
~ Rebellious man from an eternal grave;l
1 Itebcllious man from an eternal grave.

Not that eternal sleep, which some represent death
to be, but that eternal banishment from the bles
signs of heaven, which the volume of eternal truth

portrays.
2 As blows the clarion victory, in war.

As the shrill trumpet speaks the hour of victory
so did the d ving groans of Jesus. resound his con
quest over sin and hell, and proclaim redemption
to a guilty world.
3 In fearful pangs and friendless grief expire.
Where was the friend at that hour? in the disci
ples? " they all forsook him and ed. Was it the
presence of his father? Jesus cried, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?
For the Repertory.
"
ST AN Z AS.
0h! say, is the tear that you shed for me now,

Produced by emotions delightful and dear?
Was the shade that just gleamd on thy mild beam
ing brow,
Occasion'd by pleasure commingling with fear?
The tear drop to me is the sweetest, the dearest,
That mounts to the eye from the bosoms soft
throne;
And the sigh of dear friendship to me is sincerest,
When heavd at the shrine of aeetion, alone!
Ob, friendship, how hallowd, how lucid thy beams!
Like the soft star that guides, on his wearisome

way,
The travller, through darkness, that drearily
streams,
With hope. the wild fears of his breast to allay.
motto is, and ought to be, variety." The

DRYDEN as!) 'roxson.
\Vbcn Dryden nished his translation of editors are bound to render their paper
Virgil, after some deliberation with himself,
he sent the manuscript to Jacob Tonson,

requiring for it a certain sum, which he
mentioned in a note. Tonson was desirous of
It illumines his path and inspires his breast
possessing the work, but meanly wished to
With fond expectation, bids fancy far roam,
avail himself of Drydcns necessities, which
To the scenes of his love, of his happiness blest,
And lessens the distance twixt him and his home at that time was particularly urgent. He
therefore informed Dryden, that he could
Oh, eer, in this vale of aliction and tears,
May the soft beams of friendship illumine our not all'ord to give so much for it as be de
manded. In answer to this, Dryden sent the
morn
With the soul soothing rays, from the heavenly three following lines to Tonson, whom they
spheres,
were meant to describe:
And the ower of life never harbour athorn
MONTALDO.
\Vith learing look, bull-faced, and freckled fair,

With two left legs, with Judas coloured hair,
And frowzy pores that taint the ambient air.
palatable to as many tastes as there are rea

ders, if it were possible: that we have on
deavoured to do this, we are sure; that we
have succeeded, is not so certain. Ifa reader

does not admire a romance, let him pass it,
and if he nd a portion that suits his taste,

consideration for the gratication of others
should induce him to remain satised. If he
like not the deep, let him pass to the shallow;
for the serious should not expect all solidity,
nor the volatile that it should be all gay.

\Vc are extremely happy in introducing
Orsina to our readers. Judging from the
STANZAS.
asked if Mr. Dryden had said any thing
beautiful ower that adorns the columns of

our present number, we must say, that her
mind bids fair to become a rich parterre of
poetry.
The land of my home.
more. Yes, sir, answered the bearer, he

said: Tell the dog, that he who wrote these
The verses of Celadon, are not destitute

of merit, we shall reserve them for a future
will write more like them. Tonson imme

diately paid the money which Dryden had at
rst demanded for his Virgil.
number.
J. \V. P.s account of the manners and
customs of the inhabitants of the republic
of \"alois, appears to us too uninteresting.
\Ve have received the rst number of
the Budget by Will Versatile; and can only
say that, ifhe gives us what he pomiscs, he
will indeed be a valuable correspondent."
\Ve shall reserve his rst essay until we
receive one or two of the following num
bers, and should his Budget not become a
Budget of Blunders, or be in any other
way insipid, we shall publish its contents.
Had T. B.s communication only animati
-.
For the Repertory.
\Vhen they were delivered to Tonson, he
Adieu for the plains where in boyhood I roved,

And adieu for the maid that with me used to stray,
Your remembrance ye groves of my country be
loved,
Still glows on my soul as I roam far away.
Do ye ourish and bloom, as luxuriant and fair,
A certain deacon belonging to a church

As in days when l viewd and reposed in your
in this state, having had the misfortune to
shade?
.
Does the shrub still as sweetly impart to the air, lose his wife, attempted immediately uflCl
Its aroma, as when neath its green boughs ] laid? ' his spouses exit, to strike 11]! a match
Flows the streamlet as bright through the lily deekd with his maid, whose name was Patience.
vale,
.The priest of the village coming in a short
Is the cataracts murmur yet mournful and sweet? time after, to consult the bereaved husband,
Does the Redbret Stiubreathe his WM notes on it told him he must have patience to support
the gale, I
And the wave and pale moonlight in soft kisses l, him in his troubles Ah! (said the deacon)
l have been trying her, but she seems to be
meet?
verted upon his subject generally, we should
rather o.
The streamlets I love and the scenes I adore,
Are still in the beams of their loveliness drest,
And, Oh! may they ourish, till time is no more,
Though their banks neer again by my footsteps

be prest.
In the cottage that stands near the dark winding dell,
\Vhere the woodbine and willows with fondness
entwine,
There, baply, a breast for the wandrer will swell,
And for him breathe apower at sinceritys shrine

Oh, haply the scions we placed in the earth,
And named them the Albert and Rosa of both,
\Vhich we tended till nature awakend to birth
Maturitys blossoms, and smiled on their growth;
Perhaps, now my absence they droopingly mourn,
Perhaps now they wave to the low breeze there
leaves,
In soft rustling numbers they ask my return,

And reecho the sigh Rosas soft bosom heaves.
have had no objection to publishing it, but
by being too pointed he has made it clash
PHILADELHIA,
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDEN'I'S.
On issuing the rst number of the second

volume of the Repertory, and looking back
upon the last year as well as forward on
that which is to come, the importance ofthe
task forcibly impresses us. We doubt not
but we shall be censured by some for our
matter and our manner; yet the conscious
ness of having endeavoured to please the
various taste of our readers and to extend
the inuence of morality will be to us a
source of pleasing reection.
We have heard it given, as an objection,

But vain is the sigh and her tear of regret,
Sad Albert must never behold ye again;
But neer can his heart her dear kindness forget
Nor the scenes ofhis love on her dear native plain.
Loved land of my fathers, forever adieu!
Forever I wander, from happiness roam,
But lifes latest sigh shall, devoted to you,
.(t blessing implore for the land of my home.
AROUET JUNIOR.
that our paper is made a receptacle for

novels and romances. That we have publish
with our prospectus, for nothing personal

can be admitted into the Repertory.
L.s fragment is too incorrect.
Subscriptions and communications will be
received at this oicc and at the bookstore o'l'
llcllings and Aitlten, No. 11, North Second
street.
-.
New York, May 20.
Distrersz'ng Conagration. Perhaps a more

distressing scene, than the one exhibited to
our view yesterday morning, has not been

witnessed in this city since the close of the
revolutionary war. The re commenced about
10 oclock; and, the wind being high, the
ames spread rapidly and raged severely un
till 12 oclock. From tbd best information
we have been able to collect, it appears that
about one hundred dwellings were destroy
ed one romance is, indeed, true; but that it

contained one unjustiable sentiment, or one
ed, and about one hundred and fty families,
expression that could offend the ear of piety,

morality, or modesty, we do not believe.
We can scarcely think any one serious in
making this an objection to a paper, whose j
most of them in indigent circumstances,

were stript of their babitations, and thrown
upon the charity of their fellow citizens for
shelter and for immediate subsistence.
M
A method of taking o'tlie the im/zression of Qlbs. This tooth is 8 inches long, 8 inches
leaves, jzlants, We. in a correct and er/zedi
wide, and 4 inches thick. One of its prongs
tious manner. Take half a sheet of ne wove will hold a gill; and it is equal in weight to
paper, and oil it well with sweet oil: after 96 horse teeth, or 160 0x teeth. It was found
it has stood a minute or two, to let it soak
in Sciota Salt Lick, state of Ohio, 5 feet
through, rub off the superuous oil with

a piece of paper, and let it hang in the air
below the surface of the earth. N. H. Cent.
to dry. After the oil is pretty well dried in,
cum-z ron 'rne wnoormo coven

Take one fourth of a pint of sweet, or olive
-.
take a lighted candle, or lamp, and move

the paper slowly over it in a horizbntal di
oil, the same quantity of common
rection, so as to touch the flame till it is
cut them ne and simmer them moderately
perfectly black. \Vhen you wish to take off

impressions of plants, lay your plant cares
-fnlly on the oiled paper, and lay a piece of
clean paper over it; and rub it with your
finger equally in all parts for about half a
minute: then take up your plant, and be
make it palatable: half a table spoonfuls por

tion for an adult: if taken four or ve times
a day, it will in a few days remove this dis
tressing disorder.
Whig.
careful not to disturb the order of the leaves;
and place it on the book or paper on which

you wish to have an impression. Then cover
it with a piece of blotting paper, and rub it
with your nger for a short time, and you
will have an impression superior to the nest
engraving. The same piece of black paper
will serve to take off a great number of im
pressions: so that when you have once gone
through the process of blacking it, you may
make an impression in a very short time.
The principal excellency of this method
is, that the paper receives the impression of
the most minute veins and hairs; so that
you may take thegeneral character of most

owers much superior to any engraving.
The impressions may afterwards be coloured
leeks,
0*
An Irishman, on board a ship laying in

the Downs, was ordered up to grease, or to
use the sea term, to slush the royalmast.
of a room, it will vegetate freely and abun

dantly for many years.
{P A similar plant, vulgarly called air
ower, was brought to this city by captain
May 18, 1311.

lnterments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
Diseases.
Apoplexy
Cholera morbus
ad. cb.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
1 0 lnam. of brain
1 O
0 1 Inam. of stomach 0 1
Consumpsion oflungs 5 0 Old age

1 0
Decay _
0_ Small pox,natural 0 7
1 Still-born
0 3
1 Unknown
1 1
19 15
Total
34
0
0
-.
A Philadelphian passing through a large

village inquired the name, Brandywine
was the reply, ah! exclaimed he, theres
Under
1 year
From 1 to 2
7 From 50 to 60
3
60
70
1
3
1
7'0
80
10
80
90
10 20
90
100
100
110
some s/zirii in that.

.
Two travellers (strangers to each other)
FLORAL cuulosrrv.
A new plant, called titltndron, (says the her, one of them observed, that for the pro
New York Mercantile Advertiser) has been motion of a better acquaintance he would
imported into England from the island of be glad of the honour of knowing with whom
Javazit is unequalled for the beauty of its he was to sleep? The other replied his name
owers and strength of its perfume, and
possesses the singular peculiarity of deriv
ing no nourishment from the earth or water.
Suspended on a wall, or from the ceiling
HEALTH OFFICE,
By someimeans his foot slipped and Teague, Dropsy of the breast 1

with his slush pot, fell. He perceived one of Dropsy in the brain 0
Drowned
3
the lanyards loose, by which he might have Debility
1
saved himself, but wisely rejected it, saying, Fever, bilious
1
No, no, jewel, my hand might sli/i, be
Fever, puerperal
1
1
sides, I should be brought to the gangway, Gout
Hives
1
for dropping the slur/i tub!"
pany, they were necessitated to become

fellow lodgers. On retiring to their cham
--.-
A silly fop in company with lady F-,

wanting his servant, cried out, ~ where is my
blockhead? Upon your shoulders, re
plied the lady.
two or three hours; add honey sufcient to
met at a tavern, which having much com
according to nature.
learned dogmatical scholar. Nothing more

common than a knavish gamester. Nothing
more despicable than a prince who is guilty
ofa lic. Nothing more ridiculous than an
amorous old man or woman; a poor person
who is proud; or a bully without spirit.
was Peck. The rst rejoined, it is written,

that four [zecka make a bushel! Peck then
requested the same favour of his bed-fellow,
who answered that his name was Cilley;
the former rejoined, it takes but one silly

to make a
fool.
Farmers Cabinet.
+
At one of the masquerades lately given
at the Margate theatre, a gentlemari who
20 30
4-
30 4-0
40 50
4-
Total
34

STATE OF THE THERhIOhIETER.
May 13
9 oclot/r- 12 oclock- 3 oclock.

63
70
69
14-
72
72
15
70
72
98
69
16
17
18
66
70
70
68
68
74
67
66
72
TERMS or rm: asaanronv.

No subscription will be received for less than a.
Barnes, in the Minerva, from Monte appeared in the character of a Jew, came up
Video. It is frequently met with in that part to an oicer and asked to purchase his sword.
of South America; and seems a harsh tuft The oicer indignantly replied: Be care
of pale green, but almost sapless blades. It is ful sir, that sword willght itself. The hu considered as subscribing for the next.
~ found generally adhering to rocks; but vege morous Israelite rejoined: That is the sword
tates if snspendedin the open air out of con
and become responsible for the payment, shall re
that justls you.
tact with earth or water. Fresh buds appear
on this air-ower within a few days.
runs or socia'rr.
_.-v
Bolt. Whig.
There is not a more intolerable nuisance

in the world, than an inquisitive, intermed
MAMMOTH TOOTH
On \Vednesday the 3d inst. was exhibited
in this town a Mammoth Tooth, weighing
dling false friend. Nothing more forihidable
_.
than an opulent scoundrcl, and an avaricious
judge. Nothing more disgusting thanahalf
PHILADELPHIA ,
Marshal street, between Fourth and Fifth, near
St- Marys church.
I.
@iifabtfpjiafteperfqtg.
Cowman.
VOL. II.
SATURDAY. JUNE 1, l8 1 1.
No. 2.
BIOGR APHY.
LIFE OF MAIIOMET.
Mahomet now entered upon his apostolic

function with uncommon dilligence and ap
plication; and soon gained over his uncle
Hamza, and Omar Ebn Al Khattah, a per
son very much esteemed, and who before
had been his violent opposer. Notwithstand
ing this success, however, the Koreish con
tinued their opposition, and came to a reso

lution to proscribe all who embraced Ma
homents doctrine. In consequence of this
resolution, the Aloslrms, as his followers
were called, were now treated with such
severity, that they found it no longer safe to
recourse to magic, inehantments, and diabo

lical illusions. In short, they gave him at
gained over a few, yet at last the lower

sort of people rose against him and obliged
last so much trouble, that he was obliged to him to return to Mecca. This refusal, though
change his habitation, and seek a new asylum
for himself and his companions. This he

found in the house of one Orkam, which
was advantageously situated on a hill called

Saz. Here he converted Orkams family,
and the house was afterwards held in high
estimation by the Moslems.
The two factions into which the tribe of
Koreish was divided, subsisted for ve years,
when they were put an end to by avery strange
accident. Mahomet told his uncle 'Abu
Taleb, that God had manifestly showed his
disapprobation of the covenant entered into
it greatly discouraged the new converts,

did not in the least abate the zeal of Ma
homet: on the contrary, he continued to
preach boldy to the public assemblies at the
pilgrimage to Mecca, exclaiming against
idolatry, and particularly against the worship
of two idols Allat and Al Uzza, to which the
tribes, especially the women of that of Tha
kif, were very much addicted. By this the

prophet was often exposed to great danger:
however, he gained some converts, and
amongst them six of the inhabitants of

Yathreb, of the Jewish tribe of Khazraj; who,
against them, by sending a worm to eat out
on their return home, failed not to speak

every
word
of
the
instrument
except
the
much in commendation of their new religion,
the fth year of his mission found themselves
obliged to fly into Ethiopia,where they were name of God. \Vith this particular Abu l and exhorted their fellow-citizens imme
kindly received by the Najashi or king of Taleb immediately acquainted the Koreish; diately to embrace it. The converts of the
that country, who refused to deliver them up offering, in case it proved false, to deliver tribe of Khazraj are by the Arabs called AZ
to those whom the Koreish sent to demand up his nephew to them; but ifit should prove Jnsar, A! .dnsarii, 0r .dnears; that is, assist:
them. At this refusal they were so ex true, he insisted that they ought to lay aside ants, favourers, supporters, kc. because they
asperated, that they came to a resolution to their animosity, and annul the league they assisted and supported the prophet when he
suppress effectually the new religion which had made against the IIashemites. To this was pursued to the very brink of destruc
had now made a considerable progress. In they acquiesced; and going to inspect the tion. They rst met Mahomet on a little hill
order to this, they entered into a solemn writing, found it to be as Abu Taleb had called .41 .dkabab, where a temple stood, and
league or covenant against the Hashemites, told them; the words In thy name, 0 God, where they rst took an oath to exert them
and the family of Abdal Motalleb in particu being the only ones which remained. On so selves in support of their new apostle and
lar, engaging themselves to contract no remarkable a proof of the divine displeasure, his religion. An uninterrupted friendship and
marriages with them, nor to have any man- . the league was immediately annulled, and harmony reigned for a long time amongst
nor of communication with them otherwise; all acts of hostility between the two parties the members of the Jewish tribes of Khazraj,
continue in Mecca; nay, several of them in
_
Koreidha, and Nadir, whose great progenitor,
After this memorable event Mahomet E say the Arabs, was Aaron the son of Amran.
Caaba. Upon this the tribe became divided remained with his uncle Abu Taleb, who l Mahomet therefore insinuating himself into
into two factions; and all the family of lla survived the reconciliation only about eight lthc good graces of the Ansars, they readily
shem, both Moslems and unbelievers, re~ months. The same year also died Khadijah, iembraced his religion, and proved of very
paired to Abu Taleb as their head; except' Mahomets wife. Iler'dcath, as well as that ' considerable service.
only Abdal Uzza, surnamcd Abu Laheb, the of his uncle, proved a great detriment to
The next remarkable thing recorded of
son of Abdel Motalleb, who, out of hatred his affairs; for the Koreish, notwithstanding Mahomet is the invention of his night-jour
to his nephew and his doctrine, went over the former reconciliation, began now to pro ncy to heaven. This is probably intended to
to the opposite party. After this the authority secute him with more violence than ever. supply the place of miracles. The absurdi
of Abu Taleb was scarce suicicnt to pro He was therefore obliged to fly for shelter ties contained in that relation, however, are
tect Mahomet from the fury of the Koreish; to Al Tayef; which he chose on account of so great, that when be related it to his uncle
who, according to Al Jannabi, made frequent its being the residence of his uncle Al Abbas, Al Abbas, and 0mm Hanna the daughter of
attempts upon him; sometimes endeavour whose protection he imagined he would be Abu Taleb, they endeavoured to dissuade
ing to destroy him by force, at gother times | able to secure. In this, however, he found him from making it public. This advice he
by secret wiles and machinations; nay, to. {himself mistaken; and though he staid a was so far from following, that he relatpd
compass their end, he tells us that they had 1] month in the city, during which time he the whole to Abu Jahl, one of his most in
and, to give this the greater weight, they re
duced it into writing, and laid it up in the
ceased.
10
i
insults, as heartily as they would do their

and placed the story in such a ridiculous own wives and families. They then asked
light to the Koreish, that they were on the him what recompense they were to expect
point ofinsulting him; several ofhis followers if they should happen to be killed in his
also left him; and the whole design had pro quarrel: he answered, Paradise; upon which
bably been ruined, had not Abu Becr vouch they pledged their faith to him, after Ms
homet had chosen twelve out of their num
ed for his varacity, and declared, that, if Ma
homet a-irmed it to be true, he rmly be ber, who were to have the same authority
lived the whole. This declaration not only under him that the twelve apostles had under
retrieved the prophcts credit, but increased 1 Christ.
veterate enemies, who ridiculed him for it,
it to such a degree, that he Was sure ofmak
ing his disciples swallow whatever he pleased;

and on this occasion it is said by some that he
gave Abu Beer the name of the fai/lljid wit
ness, as we have already related.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BEAVER.

(Concluded)
and in rows respectively as their lengths, as

the principle piles of support; between them
brushwood and smaller stakes are inter-~
woven and the intervals lled up. In driving
the stakes into the earth several beavers
take hold of the sharpened end and descend
with it to the bottom, while others keep the
other extremity immoveable and by pres
sure x it in the earth. By this means thy
succeed in building a dam of from eighty to
one hundred feet in length, two feet thick
at the summit and ten or twelve at the base,
having one of its sides perpendicular and
the other on a gradual descent. But in order
The beaver in its native state, like the
to render it an impenetrable barrier to the
(To be continued.)
For the Repertory.
do all required of them, Mahomct sent one
water which as yet continues to insinuate

through
the interstices, they have recourse
ing kind, is a gregarious animal. Averse
from blood-shed and strife; possessed of a to a certain stiff tenacious clay, which they
disposition formed for friendship, mild, be transport on their tails and with it overcast
nevolent and industrious; weak, timid, and and complete their fabric. If we compare
unable of itself to withstand the attacks of the magnitude of the work, says Goldsmith,
enemies, it seeks the society of its fellow with the strength of the articer, it will
of his disciples, named lasab Elm Omair,
beavers, with them enjoys the blessings of appear enormous; but the solidity with which
home with them, to instruct them more fully
it is built is still more astonishing." These

precautionary measures being taken and ex
ecuted, they have laid the foundation for
In the twelfth year of Mahomets mission,

twelve men of Yathrcb, or Medina, of whom
ten were of the tribe of Khazrai, and two of
that of Aws, came to Mecca, and'took an
oath of delity to the prophet at the hill Al

Akaba. When they had solemnly engaged to
sheep and other quadrupeds of the unoend
the social compact, and the security which

in the grounds of their new religion. Masab the strength of multitude seems to a'ord.
being arrived at Medina, with the assistance For the purpose of building and organizing
of the new proselytes, gained several others; they begin to assemble about the close of
and acqainting Mahomet with the success of spring in groupes of from one to three and
his mission, desired leave to form a congre
four hundred. The place they appoint as
gation of Moslems at Medina. This the pro their general rendezvous is the margin or
phet readily granted; in consequence ofwhich, bank of some retired and shady lake or
_the new Mosleins regularly assembled, to the river. T0 this place they resort from all
number of forty persons, in the house of Saad quarters, and they make it the site of their
libn Khaithama. The next year Masab re future habitatiods. They have invariably been
turned to Mecca, accompanied by seventy found to build in the water, but why they do
thrce men and two women of Medina, who this naturalists have given no other reason
had professed Mahometanism,besidesscve
than that they are amphibious. For their
ral others who were yet unbelievers. On purpose it is necessary that the surface of
their arrival they sent immediately to Ma the water where they build should be quiet.
homet, and offered him their assistance, of If they x upon a lake, therefore, the assist
which he now stood in the greatest need; ance of art is dispensed with; but if a river,
for his adversaries were by this time grown like the miller who reserves the water of his
so powerful in Mecca, that he could not rill for future use, they proceed to build a
stay there much longer without imminent dam across the stream so as to form a dead
danger. He therefore accepted their pro water in the place where they intend erect
posal, and met them one night by appoint ing their mansion. For constructing this
ment at the hill Al Akaba. At this interview dam they prefer the most shallow part,
he was attended by his uncle Al Abbas; who, they next single out a tree of a considerable
though then an unbeliever, wished his ne height about twelve or eighteen inches in
phew well, and made a speech to the people of diameter; this they immediately assail with
Medina; wherein he told them, that as Ma their teeth, and with so much expedition and
homet was obliged to quit his native city and indefatigability are their operations con
seek an asylum elsewhere, and as they had duted that in a short time they level it with
obred him their protection, they Would do the ground. After having lopped off the
well not to deceive Ihim; and if they were branches, they transport it by rolling to the
not rmly resolved to defend, and not to be water to serve as the principal beam of
tray him, they had better declare their minds, their causeway. They next cut down trees of
and let him seek for protection somewhere smaller diameters and divide them in pieces
else. Upon their protesting their sincerity, of different lengths so as to suit the differ
Mahomet swore to be faithful to them, a part ent elevations of themound. These are
of the Koran being read to all present, on sharpened at one end and are driven perpen
condition they should protect him against all dicularly into the earth, at certain intervals,
future proceedings. Their next object is the

erection of their houses. These are either
circular or oval in form, two or three stories
high and built on piles sunk into the earth

near the margin of the water. The walls are
two feet thick and are carried perpendicu
larly to the last story, where they are in
curvated and at length terminate in a dome.
In plastering their houses the beavers use
their tails as trowels, and so nice is their
workmanship that the hand of man can

scarcely exceed it. The houses are strong,
substantial, impenetrable by rain and im

moveable by the most impetuous winds.
They are supplied with three apertures, one
of which opens towards the land, the next
towards the water, and the third through the
top of the dome in order to prevent the in

habitants from being shut up when the
others have been obstructed by ice or snow.
They are also divided into apartments in

proportion to the number of stories. These
are kept remarkably clean and nice, the
floors are oversprcad with the leaves of
aromatic
shrubs,
and the
slightest dirt
which may accidentally have been brought

in is immediately conveyed awzfy. A settle
ment of beavers generally consist of from
fteen to twenty-ve cabins, and each cabin
is occupied by from ten to thirty tenants, all
of whom live in the greatest concord and
harmony.
Their villages being completed about the
beginning of September, these singular ani
mals look forward to the future, and, pro
vident like the ant and the bee, begin to lay
ll
in stores against the rigors and poverty of from the tyranny of man and the molesta
winter. Their food in summer consists of tion of enemies, where they enjoy the smiles
fruits, plants and the bark of tender trees, of prosperity and peace, that the beavers dis
but in winter they are obliged to be content play these singular abilities. No sooner does
with less delicate fare. For this reason they misfortune begin to assail them; no sooner
cut down small and tender trees and strip off does the huntsman begin to make frequent
the bark from others. These they divide visits to the places of their abode, or some
into pieces of convenient size, convey them other mishap befal them, than, unlike
to their storeyards, of which each house has man, the sparks of whose genius are struck
its proper one, and pile them up regularly out by the collisions of misfortune and ne
in masses ten feet in depth and thirty of cessity, becoming suspicious, forboding of
square horizontal surface. \Vhen they have ill, and imbecile, they lose their elasticity of
eaten out their stores, which their accuracy
mind, lay aside their former habits, relin
in calculating and proportioning to the

number ofinhabitants seldom suers to be
quish the desires of social life, and become

solitary vagrants among the forests. Melan
the case, or when these have become dry, choly, indolent, and improvident for the
insipid, and unt for their longer support, future, they undergo manifold inconveni
they make excursions into the woods, collect ences, and have so little of cunning or
all the provisions they can nd, and re sagacity left as to be unable to avoid the
most obvious dangers. 'The huntsman or
plenish thnr magazines.
Life with other animals, as well as with wolf comes upon them and they fall easy
F.
man, is a scene in which pleasure and pain, victims to destruction.
and pain and pleasure alternately prevail.
o.
lior the Repertory.
The beavers having now experienced some
of the pains, toils and inconveniences of life,
CASTLE OF ALTENHEIM,
it is time that the scene be reversed and
on
they enjoy some of its pleasures, comforts
THE MYSTERIOUS MONK.
and conveniences. Shortly after having con
A TALE.
eluded their labours they enter the connubial
CHA PTER I.
state, indulge in the sweet dalliances oflove,
Continued.
and in about four months are enlivened by
Twas strange, twas passing strange.
Twas pitiful, twas wouderous pitiful!
the warm affections of parents in beholding
SHAKSPEARE.
their offspring playing around them. These
How could he gaze upon that beauteous form,
are generally two, sometimes three, seldom
Nor feel his soul with chaste affection warm.
four in number, and are able towards the
middle of spring to shift for themselves.

Released from the care of nursing and in
vited by the genial warmth of the season,
The castle of Altenheim was situated on

the Albon, a little river branching from the
VVeser which empties itself into the Ger
man ocean. The building was of gothic struc
ture; the towering pile impressed the soul
with veneration and the frowning turrets
seemed to look down terror on the amazed
beholder.
they desert their habitations fora time, issue

forth into the surrounding country and re
gale themselves on the choicest fruits and
vegetables which it affords. Towards the
commencement of autumn they return from
The only inhabitants of this venerable
these excursions to provide against the building, now its master had left it, were,
austerity of approaching winter and to re the young and beautiful Amelia and the
pair the damages which their cabins may youthful and no less engaging Florival, a
have sustained in their absence.
page, whom Altenlieim, struck with his
In contemplating the beaver we are struck beauty and graceful manners, had received
with the wonderful operations of mind and , from his mother, a poor peasant that inhabit
the ingenuity which it exhibits. Ve see it, |cd a cottage on the domain of the castle,
in miniature, acting the part of the architect the old governness, and several unnecessary
in planning, the mason and the carpenter in servants who were retained as much in
execution, and the arithmetician in calcula
charity, as for the appearance of a splendid
tion; nay, in building a dam across a current household.
of water in order to stop its course and form
Florival had been the constant attendant of
a quiet surface in a particular spot, in form Amelia, shared in her pleasure and was griev
ing this dam on one side perpendicular and ed for her childish afflictions. Left entirely
on the other on an inclined plane, in order to follow the inclination ofher heart, Amelia
to oppose a greater resisting force to the would rise early to enjoy the fragrance of the
current, we discover the secret workings of morning, and listento the harmoniousanthems
the mind of the philosopher. But it is in a of the feathered songstcrs or trip through
state of nature, in distant solitudes, remote the dewy grass across the spacious eld,
and pluck the spontaneous productions of

nature from the emblossomed spray; in all
which she was attended by Florival, who
seemed to anticipate her commands, for her

wishes were, sometimes, not uttered before
they were gratied. No dangers could in

timidate, nor difculties impede his way,
when he was pursuing the gratication of

his fair companion. Often when fatigued with
their delights they would rest beneath the
spreading foliage of the oak, and her head
supported by the tender Florival, Amelia
would_rccline upon the grass until the eas
tle bell summoned them to return. Some
times they would bear the most delicate
productions of the castle to Minda, the
mother of Florival, and heedlcss of the sum
moning hell, would partake of her homely,

but wholesome breakfast.
The morning after the departure of Alton
heim, the shades of night had just retired and
the the beams of the sun had not yet drunk
dews from the summit of the hills, or sip
ped the fragrance ofthe elds, when Amelia

and Florival forsook the couch of rest and
hastened to enjoy the beauties of the infant
day. Lightly they bounded over the elds, and
plucked as they went, the wild owers still
glistring with dew. Not suffering the
slight obstruction of a hedge to turn them
from their course, Florival leapt over it rst,
and Amelia followed him; but her foot catch
ing in the furze, she stumbled, and though
standing on the edge of a steep, Florival

determined to save his mistress at the ex
pense of his life. She came headlong from
the hedge, and must inevitably have precipi
tated herself over the brow of the hill, had
not the undaunted youth placed himself he

fcr her. He at rst expanded his arms to
receive her, but in an instant remembering
that should the force with which she fell,
throw him from the hill, she must sink also,

he stood rm; and Amelia falling against him,
cast the youth headlongd own, but came hcr~
self securely, and with little injury, to the.

ground.
Nothing could exceed the agony of her
soul on perceiving the brave youth who had
risked his life to preserve hers, laying
senseless in a little rirulet at the bottom of
the hill. She raved and tore her hair, and
was upon the point of casting herself down,
when she perceived two peasants raising the

lifeless Florival and supporting him in their
arms. After a few minutes he seemed a little
[0 recover, and presently she beheld him on
his feet supported by the peasants. He
lives, he lives, my dear Florival lives! cried
the cnrapturcd maid, as she rushed round
the hill, and was in an instant beside the

bruised youth.
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Dear and generous Florival, said she,
I cannot hear any thing, answered the
of the castle,) she recalled the wandering
as she received his head upon her bosom.

Dear Florival! murmured the youth.
For me you have suffered this, con
tinued Amelia, and I shall never forgive
myself for having been the cause of your
misfortune.
maid, that does not relate to Florival, I
senses of Amelia, who raised her eyes,

streaming with tears, toward Editha and
feeble articulated:
Must I indeed be married to Pandolfo!
Alas! my dear lady, said the governess,
I fear tis too true, I fear it is the determine,
nation of count Altenheim.
No, cried the maiden, regaininga rm
must instantly go and inform my dear father

of the affair.
Stop my lady, cried the governess,
what I have to tell does relate to Florival.
Indeed! said Amelia returning.
And if you wish to see your father,"
Florival seized her hand with fervour, then
suddenly recollecting himself, let it fall,and continued the old woman, you must follow
him to Dusseldorp.
said:
My father gone to Dusseldorp! ex
If I have saved your life, it is a sufficient
reward, but no doubt the noble Altenheim claimed Amelia, andI know nothing of it!
will thank me for the safety of his daughter: but to visit whom?"
The young Prince Pandolfo! answered
suffer no unpleasant sensations on my ac
count; if I were now to die I should be Editha.
And what can be the purpose of his
happy, for I could not perish in a nobler
visit, demanded the maid, that he should
cause.
Amelia was astonished at his manner, but depart so suddenly?
To escort DArinhault to the castle,
could not forbear exclaiming, Noble, dis
interesting Florival! I pray you," continued replied Editha.
Here!" exclaimed Amela.
'
she to the peasants, bear the dear youth
gently to the castle, and you shall receive
But come into this arbour," said Editha,
I will relate the circumstance, and then
my thanks together with a rich reward.
full my lords commands.
Dear youth! sighed Florival again.
Terror was seated upon the visage of
As to the reward, madam, said one of
the peasants, we wish no other than the Amelia, and an unusual tremour shook her
conscious pride of having done a good action; fair frame, as she followed the governess,
but if there is another reward equal to that, seated herself upon the grassy sod within the
it is your thanks and the satisfaction of hav arbour, and had not the fresh breezes of the
ing assisted the good and universally belov morning played revivingly through the leafy
mansion, she would have fainted with dread
ed Florival.
Generous men! cried Amelia, but is ful anxiety.
Be quick, be quick, Editha, said she,
it possible, that any one can love Florival
lest the anticipation of your tale should
as Well as I?
Powers of bliss! cried the youth, for render me unt to hear the actual recital!
getting his wounds, starting up and gazing
Let me conjure you, my dear lady,
returned Editha, not to give way to feel
stedfastly in the face of Amelia.
For the rst time she blushed at the glance ings of this nature, for believe me, what I
of Florival; he perceived it and immediately have to relate will require all your fortitude!
withdrew his hand and begged to be carried
Gracious powers! exclaimed the age
to the castle. When Florival was gently nized Amelia.
But listen,lady, proceeded the govern
placed upon the couch, Amelia ew to Edi
tha to inform her of the accident, and pass ess, and let me, at least, discharge my duty
tone, and a determined resolution, I will
not sacrice myself to the cruelty of an am

bitious father! I will refuse to marry DArin
hault, let the consequences be what they may.
They would indeed be ruin! cried
Editha, let me conjure you, my lady, to
forsake that resolution; it would exasperate
your father, and instead of preventing would

only hasten your marriage.
You are right, Editha!" returned Ame
lia, alas! Iam undone! no,I will tell Pan
dolfo that I cannot love him, and if his soul
contain one spark of honour, he will with
draw his suit and leave me happy.

That is more wise, said the governess,
but very much I fear twill all be rain, the

promise of Altenheim was solemnly given!
therefore my dear lady come to the determi
nation calmly to submit, should your efforts
prove ineffectual, in softening the obduracy
of your fathers inclinations.
Submit! cried Amelia, wildly, 0! you
are mad to say so, sooner would I forsake

my father and wander a fricndless outcast,
sooner y with Florival, than murder my
repose with DArinhault!
You forget, my lady, said Editha, that
your marriage with Florival would bring

dishonour on yourself.
Dishonour! interrupted Amelia, I
had almost wished thee dumb for that one
word Editha! dishonourcd! dishonoured in
deed with Pandolfo, but with Florival, never!
his bosom is the shrine of virtue and of hon
her high, but well merited encomiums upon to the count of Altenheim.
'
our. But be my fate what it may, I will never
the gallant youth, who had been the means
She then related to Amelia the story she marry Pandolfo.m
To be continued.
of perserving her life at the hazard of his
own.
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She met the governess in the garden,
and throwing her arms around her neck,
exclaimed:
Ah! my good Editha, I have been seek
ing you this morning, to impart something
which you will be rejoiced to hear!"
And I, my good lady, answered Editha,
have been seeking you, to impart some
thing that I am sure you will mt be rejoiced
to hear!
\Vell then, replied Amelia, dont let
me hear it now; rst let me tell you about
Ylorival. She then related the adventures

of the morning.
\Vell now hear me, rejoined Editha.
had heard from the count, and concluded by
-.
informing her of the reason of his visit to

For the Repertory.
Dusseldorp, and his commands to herself.
THE CABINET. No. XXXVII.
She had scarce concluded before Amelia
The man who meanly sinks beneath his load,
sunk into her arms, exclaiming:
O! Florival, I never knew, till now, Reproaches heaven, and gives a tacit lie
To sapience innite.
that I indeed, do love you!
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The colour fled from her cheeks, her
What! fly for ease,
lips grew pale, and her eyes lost their wonted From transient ills to self inicted death!
brightness, as she fainted on the bosom of Is this the boasted reason ofa man? E. \VARREN.
\Ve perceive on every hand crimes or
her governess.
Tis as I feared, sighed Editha, and offences committed by man against man,
subjected to punishment, but in our survey,
her peace is destroyed forever.
She now perceived the situation of Ame we will perceive one which spends its fury
lia, and shrieking loudly for assistance, (for on its perpetrator, that cannot be punished
which however she calld in vain, the gar by the laws, and which is too often, and
den being remote from the habitable parts too wantonty committed; I mean Suicide.
PHILADELPHIA REPE RTO'RY.

This action, I will admit, is frequently
committed by persons in a deranged state of
mind. It will be said that all arguments to
prove the unjustiableness of it in this case
are useless, but I must answer that this is
incorrect. We are not to consider the actual
state of mind in which the man performed
the act, but to examine the circumstances
that led to its performance. \Vas it love?

was it lust? was it friendship? was it hatred?
was it honour? was it infafny? was it libe
rality? was it avarice! It is alike unjustia
ble in all. Has a man been slighted in his
love? wherefore add to slight contempt, and
instead of endeavouring to render himself
worthy of respect become an object of pity?
Has he been foiled in his lustful attachment?
wherefore take away his life because he

was providentially prevented from heaping
lgnominy on guilt, and infamy on innocence?
Have his friends deserted him? where
fore forsake himself when there is the
greatest necessity for his uni-emitted exer
tions and indefatigable attention? Has hatred
inamed his disposition? wherefore wreak
the vengeance intended for another on him
self? Has the phantom honour like the illumi
nated spirit of the marshes, led him astray?
wherefore abandon hope in a time of such
need, and y for protection to the arms of
ruin? Has he been unjustly involved in
infamy? wherefore was a conscience placed
within him but to direct him aright? and
if he be supported by the knowledge of his
innocence, why heap by his last act irrctriev
able and tinmerited disgrace upon himself?
Have his coffers been drained by judicious
liberality? wherefore repine at the sacrice
of his own pleasure if he has thereby made
others happy? Is this the spirit of a christian?
Has he been pinched by the griping hand of
Avarice? wherefore in the fear of dying take
away his life? and should we not blush in
the renement we pretend to have arrived
least deviation from which, subjects his bra- l

very to impeachment. \Vould not a soldier
placed upon guard be punished, and would
he not deserve it, were he to adandon his
post to the power of the enemy? A man who

puts an end to his own existence is equally
criminal; when we are reared in the grati
cation of abundance and nourished on the
bosom of pleasure, are we to be praised for
possessing that which all would equally en
joy? Therc is no bravery in this, for there
is no probability of danger: but when we are

surrounded by miseries and misfortunes;
when we hear them with unexhaustcd forti
tude, then are we courageous indeed; and in
the same proportion as we sink amidst them
For the Repertory.
THE PROPI'IIATION.
soon I.
Cont'unied.
ARGUMENT
Description of the night on which our Lord's birth

was proclaimed; the shepherds tending their
ocks: suddenly the heavens are wrnpt in melod} ,
and the spirit of God descends in a blaze ofglory.
annuncistion ot the birth of Jesus: a Voice from
the cloud commands the angels to descend, who
obey, led on by Gabriel, singing, glory to God
in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward
men. As the day breaks the choirs ascend, and
the swains hasten to behold the new born Sa
viour. Apostrophe to the nations.
are we cowards.
The sun declining, sought his \vatry grave,
It is cruel for a man to emigrate into a

distant country, from his wife and family,
but innitely more so, to abandon his exis
Beneath the boundless surface of the wave,
And smooth as peace, were now the seas and skv;
The silver moon her wonted journey held,
accepted, but with ourexit from this world,
that hope is extinguished, I had almost said

forever, but
Reason an idiot here must ever prove.
And beamed their lustre oer the silent night.

The twittring sparrow left the bending spray,
Nor poured with tuneful voice the mellow lay;
But Philomel with new felt rapture sung,
While her sweet notes on air responsive rung. 70
Such was the eve, when, in their smiling fields,
I will however say that the pangs of separa

tion experienced by the widow and the
father-less are nearly as great as if of this
we were certain. What then can be more
Until the reign of silent night should end;

Till in the west her beauties shrunk away,
cruel and ungenerous, than to leave a family
and the bright orient blushed with early day;
whose whole dependence perhaps was cen

tred in this selsh mortal who has murder
ed their pleasure with himself.
When from above they saw new glories shine,

While heaven was lld with melody divine.
Celestial songstcrs, through th astonishd air,
Shouted the sounds of triumph from afar!
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Each ofthe peasant tribe in wonder hears
The voice of transport shake the distant spheres
But to conclude, it is absolutely unlawful,
not towards the regulations of his country,

for they can take no cognizance of the act,
Whose fruitful globe spontaneous blessing yields,

The watchful shepherds stood, the ocks to tend
Each sees, amazed, with growing cluencc, beam
The dreadful beauty of the blaze supreme!

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laws of heaven, for if we rob ourselves of Backward recoiling, as the choirs appear,
that which it only can bestow, we pilfer from They stand, overwhelmd with awe and trembling
fear;
its sacred stores, and stain its altar with the
When in a stream of glory, from above,
blood of guilt. By thus doing we leave the

dominions of time unbanished, and seek un
Descends the spirit of the God of love!

Terrors increased, the wondring swains inspire,
As in the air, they view the gleaming re;
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But a loud voice that shook the distant sky,
_, In heavenly accents bade their terrors y;
I-ear not, but let your reeds be tuned to joy,
And songs of triumph every swain employ;
bidden the kingdom of eternity. And if we
thus weakly bend beneath earthly misfortunes

how can we expect to be rewarded for our
rmness in heaven.
'
In this crime we are not to consider the For know, these signs in heaven and earth
good qualities of the man who committed To show the person of a God is near.
0f Appius Claudius U. C. 282. we nd it
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but it is worse, it is a trespass against the
tice which originated almost in Roman bar
was then common in Rome. This boasted
tence; for in the rst there is a hope of

again meeting which unceasingly offers it Through the vast void by bountcous heaven impelld
self to the distressed, and which is readily The twinkling stars seemd dancing in delight, 65
at, to let in the bare idea of following a prac

barity, for at the time of the self-destruction
60
The winds all listles let their pinions lie,
renement is, it appears, unreal. But to leave

that out of the question,the act is both cow it, nor to make any allowances on that score
ardly and cruel. Cowardly, because by it a whatever: we are to consider it simply as a
man evinces a fear of impending calamities, crime, and that his good and evil qualities
and a dread of danger which may seem ap are equally balanced before this last act: it
proaching, and which his imagination paints then remains to investigate the act alone.
as already present, multiplying by the un
All our observations on this subject to those
limited tablc of distrustful fancy terrors which

should never have been thought of and hor
rors which never may arrive.
I look upon a man in this life, as a centinel
placed upon his duty which he considers
himself bound by honour to perform, and the
who have fallen its victims are useless, in
I hope it is not useless to endeavour to pre

vent others from pursuing the same course,
and to call the reection of the living to the
probable miseries of the dead.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
appear,
90
Jesus, the Saviour of the second birth,
Has now desended to the guilty earth

Hark? let the sound assail your ravishd ears,
The God incarnate, for his church appears;

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And, let not tears of sorrow dim your eyes,
The infant Jesus in a manger lies!
Wrapt in the binding clothes the mortal wears,
The God of mortals and of worlds appears!
He, who ere time his rst beginning knew,
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Let there be light, exclaimed, light quickly ew,

From her dark prison, oer the waste of night,
While wondring seraphs gazed with new delight!
He now consents, thy nattn'e to adorn,
Borne by his virgin mother, to be born!
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Let songs of triumph through the skies be hurld,

And the glad echo reach the wondring world!
Dcscend, ye heavenly songsters, to prolong
Though now ininfancy the God appears,

Soon growing wisdom shall outstrip his years:
The lovely strains that well the glorious song;
That infant arm could crush the guilty world!

But ab! a milder fate the Saviour brings,
The son appears with healing on his wings;
He comes the messenger of joy and peace,
To bid your sorrows and your crimes to cease. 190
Whole hosts of angels, on your golden lyres, 115

Resound the deed that all your spirits res!
Till wafting mortals catch the inspiring ame,
And shout through earth the Saviours loud acclaim!
\"lrile the sweet sound, on oating pinions ies
Through the vast regions ofthe spacious skies, 120
Throw the loud anthem down to distant hell,
And even now, if his revenge were hurld,
So fade mankind; then let not him depart
Unblest and protless, but in ftdlment

185
0f incumbent duties, that when the frosts,
The wintry frosts of ripend age descend,

We may look back, with satisfaction, oer
Ilis quickend lapse, and be prepard to view,
The awful glories of an unknown world.
I
Son of the song, why are thy numbers hush'd,
For the Repertory.
Where dreadful guilt and black perdition dwell;
Those glowing strains, that in my younger days,

With pleasure thrilld this throbbing heart of mine
I oft peruse, when midnight streams around,
REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY W'ANDERER

Until the ends start fearful at the sound,
And groans of disappointment burst around,
That (brist has fromhis heavenly honours ed, 125
Down to the earth to bruise the serpents head!
So spoke the voice of terrible command,

When lo! obedient, hosts of angels stand;
Led on by (iabriel, messenger divine,
\\ hose plomy wings with tenfold lustre shine! 130

As the bright orbs that twinkle in the sky,
\\'l.en the suns spll odours from creation y,
The starry gt u.s that shed their sparkling light,
And darkend silence veils creations face,
Dear to my heart are evenings pensive shades,

\Vhen Luna, rising from her limpid bed,
Sheds her pale beams along the silent vale.

I love to wander then, to stray alone;
My spirit takes the evenings tranquil hue,
And calm becomes like yon unruled stream.
Reection then, on airy pinions soars,
And views with pity mans unholy deeds:
Nor do I e'er forget myself to place
The thoughtless race among, who time misspend.
The loved effusions of thy cultured muse.

Amyntor, how I love those lays of thine,
And mourn thy absence from the muses' bower
If a poor solitary wanderers wish
Could urge thee once again, as thou wert wont.
To sing, the Dessert" might again revive!
Sing thou, oh! minstrcl; let the wanderers heart

Be cheerd once more, thou son of soothing song.
ST. CHAIR.
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Led by the moon, the peerless queen of night;
So looked the train, so Gabriel shone before, 135
'ings more sublime, and brighter arms he bore.
Glory to (Ind, their choir exulting cries,
Glory to God, the answering air replies;
0n earth be peace, and toward degenerate men
Goodwill from heaven. chaunt forth the choir again:
The gracious sound on airy pinions y,
141
Good will to wards men, reverbratcsthrongh the sky.
The listning swains the heavenly concert join,
And shout the praise of majesty divine;
145
Each tunes his mellow reed in joyful lay,
And songs of triumph usher in the day.
The rising sun his glories now unfurld,
And spread his golden streamers oer the world;
As the bright train to opening heaven arose,
And the sweet songs in soothing distance cloae. 150
So sung thechoir when heaven, with matchless hand,
Time, whose unheeded, but unerring sands,

Swift wing then ight, with follies crimsond oer;
Moments of life which never can return.

How prodigal is man! he views the dawn
0f beamy day with gloomy apathy,
Nor think, tomorrow may behold his form
Extended lifeless m the mournful bier
0f awful death, those thoughts possess not him
One little hour; or if they do, in spite
of his resistance, he beneath them writhcs,
And mourns the loss of his gay spirits ed.

When will ye wakcn, 0. untboughtful race,
To the true value of unheeded time!

Ne'er till the body is bent down with age,
When strength, and youth, and active powers decay;
Then will you learn to prize, with misery's care,
Each golden sand, remorse will torture then,

And retrospection be a bitter draught.
First fashiond ocean and markd out the land;

So when the mighty workmanship was o'er,
The sounds of wonder pierced the skies no more.
Still with new songs the swains their reeds employ,
And ll the air with mingling strains ofjoy,
156
As in delight, they bend their willing way,
To where the lord of life and glory lay!
There, but a manger forms the lowly bed,
On which mankind's Redeemer rests his head; 160
Perhaps some straw, upon th unfecling boards,
A pitcous safeguard for his limbs affords:
There stood the virgin mother, anxious by.
Tears of regret fell glistuing from her eye,
'hile the reputed father heave-s his breast,
165
\Vitb fears perturbed and with grief distrcst!
Ilaste, haste ye wondring nations and adore
Love such as neer was manifest before;
Behold your monarch in a manger laid,
'
By whom the wonders ofthe world were made! 170
Then ye, no longer dazzled with the glare
\Nho, when the ocean round resistless rolld,
Ilis fury conquered and his waves controlld,

He, who could bid the huge round earth appear,
Calld from the womb of chaos dark and drear;
\Vho, while his angels shouted in amaze,

Fashiond the sun and kindled all his blaze!
175
~Who bride the moon, when evening shuts the day,

with silver radiance cheer the mournful way,
And hosts sidereal beam their borrowd light,
To aid the lustre of the orb of night!

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Hunibly he comes, to free you from their thrall,
And strike the hosts of hell with strango appal!
of giddy pleasure, view existence right,

Too late perceive that years have own away,
Not past: in acts for which your life was given,
But spent in uselessness at follys shrine.

Sudden, the winds of vengeance, blown from heaven,
Fast sweep you from creations lovely face.

Forye were like the tree, in goodly soil
Implantedit was reard with tender care,
And grewapace, in all the pride of strength;
The dcws of heaven descended on its leaves,
It blossomd sweetly and it charmd the sense;
But ere the fruithad ripend, like the end,
Of old, who did our heavenly blossoms mhr,
For the Repertory.

SATIIlI-l NO. VIII. BY \VALTER \VIGGLE.
\Valtcr again the muse inspires.
He feels again the sacred res
That agitate the poet's frame,
.
And set his very soul on ame;
And thus accoutred he appears,
To tell of fortune, and thejeers,
\Vhich she, the faggot, vilely playd
Upon (ungenerous act!) a maid
Some few years since, a lady fair,
0f modest and ungorgeous air,
Transxt with loves unerring dart,
Felt a strange heating at her heart,
For a young man of soul deled,
Yet when the Watchful old were nigh,
lle'd look demure, talk grave and sigh:
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To church each sabbath he would go,
Revile each taudry looking beau,

And say that he could neer perceive
\Vhat pleasure such a dress would give.
But when among companions gay,
Hed drink and dash, and swear and play,
Nor pay to aught the least attention,
Except each vice that you can mention.
But on a hyprocrite so base,
Nature bestowd a pleasing face,
Ilis person was genteel and tall,
Ilis limbs were well proportion'd all;
And he with vanity inated,
The half grown fruit of lovely promise fell,

The leaves were bitten through, but yet not strew'd
Along the verdant plain; the gardner still
Did cherish kindly hopes, that spring again
Just served for maidens shallow pated.

Such was the man in whose control,
\Vas placed Elizas inmost soul;
And why she did not sadly rue it,
Would call its \tltlllll: forth, and so it did:

Constant it faded, still was not his patience
\t'em-ied, he lessenkl not his care, but found
'as, that the fellow never knew it:
For. girls full many a mile around,

In languid sorrow, were there found,
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30
33
\Vhom this same villain had defiled,
And bent its tall top to the dusty plain;
And stabbd their virtue while he smiled.

All this Eliza knew, yet sighd,
To be to such a wretch allied;
The high winds bore its withring leaves afar,
Till some in spite of all defences,
And soon no traces on the spot rcmaind,

To tell the travller, who had erst beheld,
Thought she had barterd with her senses.
Its opening beauty and beneath its shade

Had weary rested, that it once had been.
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And most intollerably wild:
A subtle worm did penetrate its root;
At length, the heart was hallow, and would neer

Repay his labour with a rich return;
It groand beneath the axes poignant edge,
L"
" \th l' Ican smile, and murder while! smile.

Saaasraanz;
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PHILADEPHIA REPERTORY.
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Twas thus when sickness seized the fair,

And stretchd her on the bed ofcare;
45
Her parents watchd the slow disease,
And kindly strove its wrath t appease;

But stubborn, long her mind rt-pelld
The skill by medicine upheld,
Till cleard at length of part her woes,
Again the unhappy maiden rose:
She oft repeated Henrys name,
And oft in fancy fed the ame,
But viewing him at last as cruel,
She burnt her mind quite out of fuel,
And since his love she could not gain,
So did a wag, the passer-by,

That heard distressful sorrows cry;
And poor Eliza, red with shame,
Slowly retraced the path she came,
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Nor ever more dare Cupid rude,
So wildly in her heart intrude;

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120
Her sense returnd, her health improved,

She saw she had a villain loved,
And now determincd, nettled sore,
was plentifully served during dinner. After

dinner a bottle of Cape was introducedso
excellent, that the company gave several
hints that another bottle would be very
gmtlfl'ing- The hint was not taken; on which
Mr. \V. said, Well if we cannot double
the Calla, we must return to ladcira.

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Never to think of Henry more.
Content dwells not amongst the sons of

Such are the woes that maidens move,
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Determined to depart fmm pain.

With this intent, one evening mild,
\Vhen namre all around her smiled,
She rambled towards a wood alone,
Her walk to all her friends unknown.

[Now Walter elevates his rhyme,
And mounts a moment the sublime,
For if he rightly understand it,
The subject here must sure demand it]
\Vhen she arrived the quivring light
Shed by the silver queen of night,
Upon the wave its lustre c t,
12.:
And such is the despair of love;

For did the half to death that go,
Find such a faithful friend below
As did Eliza, to prevent
For once their madly formd intent,
Wed nd they would his counsel take,
And from their dreams of folly wake.
0! may desponding lovers all,
That in this sad dilemma fall,
Be, as they y from fancied pain,

Call'd even- by mud to life again.
men; but, as Solomon says, All is vanity

and vexation of spirit. W'erc any favoured
individual blessed with Sampsons hair, Mi

los strength, Scandanliogs arm, Solomons
wisdom, Absaloms beauty, Crxons wealth,
Caasars valor, Alexanders spirit, Ciceros
eloquence, Gygcs ring, Pei-sens pcgasus,

Gorgons head and Nestors years, he would
not be content.
For while in heaps his ample wealth descends,
He is not of his wish possessed.
Theres something wanting still to make him blest.
For the Repertory.

SONG .
And showd hcra small steam at last,

Dost thou, when the dews of morn
An humble bridge unconscious prcst
Glisten on the owring thorn;
Upon the glittring waters breast,
70
When the wings of zephyr bear,
Solemn the landscape now appeard,
Roses perfume on the air,
No frightful screams around were heard,
Dost thou heave a sigh for me,
Nor even zephyr dared to move
\Vandering far away from thee?
The leaves before the face of love.
0h! then I sighmd bless thee, love,
Eliza here began to think,
75
And mourn the fate that bids me rove!
All trembling on the streamlets brink,
As its smooth waters hurried by,
\Vhen at eve the sighing gale
How dreadful 'twas for her to die.
Waves the willow in the vale;
But from her plan no thought could part her,
When the moonbeams kiss the stream,
Spreading round the mournful gleam,
So, stooping she lmtied a garter,
80
Then, sweet maid, I muse on thee,
Upon the bridge she sat her down,
Absent, far away from me.
Close to her ancles tuckd her gown,
Oh! dost thou then recal me, love,
Noosed round her neck the awful string,
And mourn the fate that bids me rove?
And to the bridge, then gave a spring,
MONTALDO.
Hopingher cares would soon be ended,
85
q...
And she in happiness suspended.
Her thoughts at that time were so chaste,
During the troubles in the reign of
She wished to hide her to the waist,
Charles I. a country girl came to London
And Modesty thus test the the far
in search ofa place, as a servant maid, but
Half under water, half in air.
90
not succeeding she applied herself to carry
\Ve oft have heard of quicksands dread
ing out beer from a brew-house, and was
Upon the earths unsettled bed,
one of those then called tub-women. The
\Vhere seemingrmness would allure.
And bid us tread along secure:
brewer observed a well looking girl in this
So to Elizas sense doth seem
95 low occupation took her into his family as
Fearful, and deep. the passing stream,
a servant,~and after a while married her; but
Nor did suspicion strike herhead
he died while she was yet a young woman,
Shed light her in a slimy bed
But such are fortunes strange vagaries,
and left her a large fortune. The business

of the brewery was dropped, and the young
And such the capers of the faries

That dance around with joy elate
100
About the rm set throne of fate,
a gentleman of skill in law to settle her hus

bands affairs. Hyde, (who was afterwards
the great earl of Clarendon) nding the
widows fortune very considerable, married
her. Of this marriage there was no other
issue than a daughter, who was afterwards
the wife of James II. and mother of Mary
110
and Anne, queens of England.
To think well of every other mans con

dition and to dislike our own, is one of the
misfortunes of human nature.
Pleased with anothers lot our own we hate.
An Irishman, passing by St. Pauls church

in London, exclaimed, looking at his watch,
Och, if here isnt my little watch, made by
cousin OPlanagan of Cork, and ifit hasnt
beat your big clock here by more than two
hours since yesterdays morning.In

_.__
A poor woman, whose husband was going
to sea, handed, through the clerk to the par
son, this public prayer: 3. man going to
sea, his wifc desires the prayers of this con~
gregation. The parson, pointing it in his
own way, read to the ears of the liock, A
man, going to see his wife, desires the pray
ers of this congregation"
__._
uses WORKED us A "EARTH nor.
Faironc, take heed how you advance,
Nor tempt your own undoing;
Ifyoure tooforward, fearful chance!

A spark may prove your ruin.
PHILDELIIIA,
ssrunou, was l, 1811.
MARRIED,
On Saturday evening last, by the Rev.
woman was recommended to Mr. Hyde, as

Dr. W'ilson, Mr. John Holmes, merchant, to
That here, where to the sight they show
A stream uninterrupted ow,

We nota foot the bottom nd,
\Vith mud in sinking terrors lined.
Here the unfortunate young maid
In her mad journey was delayd;
No garter now her neck disgraced,
But she was mud up to the waist.
'lhinkingit folly thus to die,
he beckond to a passer-by,
And scrcamd the little, frightcd soul
To drag her from that hideous hole,
\
Mr. Caleb \Vhitcford, was at an enter
tainment, in which Madeira ofa line avour
Miss Ann Craigc, daughter of Mr. John

Craigc, all of this city.
Particulars of the engagement between the'
United States frigate President, commo
dore Rogers, and the British sloop of War
Little Belt, capt. Bingham.
On the night of the 16th instant, about 9
oclock, the frigate fell in with the sloop of
war, about 20 miles N. E. of Cape Henry:
and when within pistol shot of her, comino
H)
_-_;
of these goods during the trial and privations

of the embargo, and under the prospect or
possibility of war, they have been issued for
the hospital use in a moderate and prudent
proportion, as a fair though cautious experi
ment. There is no doubt that cotton wool
of war-she then poured a broadside'into will defend all our families, our military
the frigate. Here the action commenced, and hospitals and our garrisons from suffering
continued about 15 minutes, when the sloop for the want of the important and necessary
of war ceased ring. The frigate remained articles of blankets. It has been heretofore
near her all night. The next morning com suggested, that there would be no diiculty
modore Rogers sent an oicer on board, to in inducing housekeepers to exchange their
offer any assistance they might require; and woollen blankets in time of want and war,
to express his regret at the circumstance for home made cotton blankets, which last
that had occurred the proceeding evening. would not well suit the soldiers in wet sea
The sloop of war proved to be theLittle Belt, sons in the field. It is earnestly advised that
capt. Bingham, who apologized, and gave the manufacturers of cotton should inspect
as a reason for ring into the frigate, that he these various specimens of cotton blankets
supposed her to be a Frenchman; and po in several posts from New Hampshire or
litely declined any assistance, as he believed Main to New Orleans, for the purpose of
he would be able to reach a port in safety.
instructing their workmen to imitate and
The Little Belt lost in killed and wound improve upon them: it is very important that
dore Rogers hailed- herno answer was

given-Commodore Rogers hailed her a
second time, and in the act of hailing, a shot
was red from the sloop of war into the fri
gate, which struck her mainmastThe fri
gate immediately red a shot into the sloop
ed 30 men, was very much injured, having
the coarsest, shortest, and worse colour
had nearly all her masts and spars crippled, ed cotton will serve for blankets. The short
staple is the most suitable, because the tile
besides several shots in her hull.
This sloop of war is a Danish built vessel, can be the most easily raised by the cards,
'and Was taken at Copenhagen. In Steels which is the great matter in the formation
list she is rated a 20 gun sloop; but carries of a comfortable and good blanket. These
American cotton blankets have been distri
it thirty-two pound carronadcs.
The President received some triing dam buted through the Union for the purpose
age in her rigging, and had one boy slightly of spreading a knowldgc of a manufacture
wounded in the arm.
so interesting and so little understood. It is
well ascertained that Europe cannot afford
-.
An article from Kingston, Jamaica, of the to make such blankets for us. Our manufac~
Mth ult. says, a most curious occurrence tures have the advantage over those of Eu
has taken place in Port Royal Mountain; the rope in this article by sixty per cent. in una
dwelling house, 8m. and from 25 to 30 acres
voidable costs and charges, which the trans
of full hearing coffee, on the plantation of portation of the cotton to Europe and of the
Air. R. Dalhouse, sunk down and disappear goods from Europe occasions.
.
ed, on Tuesday Sennight, and nothing but
the ridge of the house is now discernable. Sllcrzring cloth by water reduced lo the sim
Some days previous, the earth was observed
lest [zrinci/zles.
to crack and sink in a triing degree, and the

house became affected by it, when Mr. Dal
houso was advised to, remove with his fumi
ture, which he fortunately did. The cause
is not well ascertained, but it is supposed
to have been occasioned by a hollow or
~ubterraueous passage in the earth, as there
was not the smallest symptoms of an earth
quake at the time.
A number of machines have lately been

invented for the purpose of shearing cloth.
But I have recently seen one at the dwelling
of J. Little, esq. in Campton, near Ply
Jmerican Co/ton Blankrts.
mouth, N. H. which is constructed on the
simplest principles, and exceeds any of the

kind within my knowledge. Any blacksmith
of ingenuity in edge tools, can make the
bows fastened to posts which ascend from

the back of it, that, should they touch the
substance of the cloth, they glance over with

out cutting it. It is supposed that they will
shear a yard in a minute.
This machine is just patented, and will
be offered very cheap.

It is hoped that printers in general will
publish this short sketch for the benet of

clothiers and the public.
An American.
Grafton, March Ill, 1811.

-.
HEALTH OFFICE,
May 24, 181 1.
Interments in the City and Liberties ofPhiladelphia,
Diseases.
ad. 01:.
Diseases.
Apoplexy
3
Atrophy
1
Chicken pox
0
Consumpsion oflungs 2
Convulsions
1
0
0
1
0
0
Dropsy
0 Worms
Drowned
Drunkenness
Fever
Fever, malignant
lnam. of brain
1
1
1
0
0
ad. ch.
Inamof stomach
Insanity
Small pox, natural
inoculated
Still-born
2
l
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
3
0 2
0 Unknown
2 0
0
.... .
0
16 12
1
1
Total 28
Under
1 year
From 1 to 2
5 From 50 to 60
60
70
70
80
5 10
10 20
2
2
8t)
90
90
100
1
O
20 30
3
100 110
0
30 4-0
2
40 50
3
Total 28
STATE OF THE THER)IO_\IETER.
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May 20
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22
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24
25
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70
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67
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76
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78
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77
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76
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The price is four dollars per annum; citv sub

It shall be delivered to subscribers in the eitv
every Saturday, and forwarded to those in tlfc~
shears: they are about as easily ground as

taylors shears, the edges all being. strait, to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
and- they are easily kept in repair.
They consist of one large under plate
which reaches across the cloth, and four up and become responsible for the payment, shall re
per plates, parrow at the point and about ceive one copy gratis.
It is an interesting piece of information

to the manufacturers of the UnitedYStates,
that they may have a convenient opportunity
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Re<
of seeing the American three [zoint arri/ied two inches wide at the heel; about a foot
and m-illed tolron blankets, by an application long, and which are so placed that they ope
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VOL. 11.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, NHL
BIOGR any
repair to Medina, where, in consequence of
mpg 01: MAHQMET,
the late treaty, they might be assured of
Continued.
protection. This they accordingly did; but
Finding now a confederacy formed in his he himself, with Abu Beer and Ali, remain
favour, our prophet began to pull off the ed behind; not having received, as he pre
mask as to his true sentiments concerning tended, the divine permission to retire.
the means of reformation. Hitherto he had Here he narrowly watched the motions of
propagated his religion by fair means only; the Koreish, and was soon apprised of their
and in several passages of the Koran, which machinations: for the abovementioned con
he pretended were revealed before this time, spiracy was scarce formed, when, by some
he declared, that his business was only to means or other, it came to Mahomets
preach and admonish; that he had no authori
knowledge; and he gave out that it was re
ty to compel any persmi; and that whether vealed to him by the angel Gabriel, who also
they belived or not, was none of his concern, commanded him to retire to Mecca. The
but belonged solely to God. But no sooner conspirators had already assembled at the
did he nd himself enabled, by the alliance
abovementioned, to resist his enemies, than
he gave out that God had allowed him and

his followers to defend themselves; and at
length, as his forces increased, he pretended

not only to have leave to act on the defen
sive, but to attack the indels, destroy idola
try,-and set up the true religion by the power
of the sword. To this he was excited by an
apprehension that pacic measures would
greatly retard, if not entirely overthrow, his
designs; and therefore he determined to use
the most violent methods to convert the
Pagan Arabs, or rather to extend his own
authority.
prophcts door; but he, to amuse them,
ordered Ali to lie down in his place, and

wrap himself in his green cloak: this Ali
complied with, and Mahomet miraculously,
according to the Arabs, escaped to the house
of Abu Becr. The conspirators, in the mean
time, perceiving through a crevice Ali
wrapped up in the green cloak, took him
for Mahomet himself, and watched there till
morning, when Ali arose, and they found
themselves deceived. The prophet next re
tired in company with Abu Becr to a cave in
mount Thur, a hill at little south of Mecca.
Here he had still a more narrow escape; con

cerning which we have the following account
from an Arabic tradition. The Koreish
having detached a party from Mecca to re
connoitre the mouth of the cave, when they
came there, found it covered by a spiders
web, and a nest built at the enhance by
two pigeons which they saw, and which had
laid two eggs therein. On sight of this they
reasoned with themselves in the following
manner: If any person had lately entered
this cavern, the eggs now before us would
infallibly have been broken, and the spiders
No,
-" 1.,
as a kind of sacred animals, and never to

kill a spider.
i;
The prophet and Abu Becr having staid
in this cave three days in order to rccovei a
little from their consternation, set out for
Medina; but the Koreish, being informed ol
the route they had taken, sent a party after

them, under the command of Soraka Ebn
Malec. These overtook them; and, as the
Arab historians tell us, Sorakas horse fell
down when he attempted to seize Mahomet.

Upon this he recommended himself to the
prophets prayers, and remounted his horse
without hurt: but, as he still continued the
pursuit, his horse fell down with him a

second time; upon which he returned to
Mecca, without offering any farther violence:
and Mahomet, thus happily delivered lrom
the greatest dangers, arrived without further
molestation at Medina, where he was re
ceived with the greatest demonstrations of

joy. This ight of the prophet from Mecca
to Medina was reckoned so remarkable by
the Moslcms, that they made it the azra
from whence all their remarkable transac

tions were dated, calling it the {Era qf He
gira, origlit. The beginning of the Hcgira
corresponded with the 16th of July, A. o. 622.
On Mahomets arrival at Medina, his rst
care was to build a mosque for his religious

The Koreish, in the mean time, nding that
worship, and an house for himself. The city
Mahomet had considerably extended his in
of Medina at that time was inhabited partly
uence, and hearing of the league concluded
by Jews and partly by heretical christians,
with the Ansars, began to think it absolutely
that formed two factions which persecuted
necessary that he should be prevented from
one another with great violence. This gave
escaping to Mddina; and, in order to do
the impostor such an opportunity of propa
this the more effectually, they resolved in a
gating his new religion, that in a short time
council, wherein it is said the devil assisted;
the city was entirely at his devotion. Here
in person, to put an end to his life. To ac
he strengthened himself by marrying Ayesha
complish this with the greater safety, they}
the daughter of Abu Beer, though then only
agreed that a man should be chosen out of l
seven years of age, and gave his own
every tribe, and that each should have a blow web demolished; there can therefore be no daughter Fatima in marriage to Ali, the son
at him; that so the guilt of his death might_ body in it: after which they immediately of Abu Taleb. The next point he had in
fall equally on all the tribes; and thus the1 retired. As the prophet, therefore, and his view was the union of the Mohajcrin, or
Hashemites would be prevented from at-; friend, were now saved so miraculously by those who ed from Mecca on account of
tempting to revenge the death of their] means of the pigeons eggs and the interpo their religion, with the Ansars above men
kinsman, as they were much inferior ini isition of the spiders web, he afterwards tioned. To facilitate this, after his mosque
power to the rest of the tribes put together. enjoined his followers in memory of so and house Were nished, he established
Mahomet now directed his com P anions to remarkable an event, to look u P on l)i 8' eons among the Moslems a fraternity, the prin
18
PHILADELPH'IA REPE RTORY.

M
gm
eipal statute of which was, that they should
large quantity of merchandize, consisting of is my love so wonderful that you can doubt
the riches of Syria, carried on the backs ofa

thousand camels. He therefore sent out a
party to reconnoitre it, with orders to wait
in some convenient place, where they might
remain undiscovered. But Abu Sosian hav
bodies of Ansars and Mohajerin; and this ing notice of Mahomets motions, dispatched
was the last transaction of the first year of a courier to Mecca, requesting succours
from his countrymen, that he might be able
the Ifegira.
The next year was ushered in, according to defend the caravan. Upon this Mahomet
to Abulfeda, with a change of the Kcbla, or drew together all his forces, which amounted
place whither the Mahometans were to to no more than 313, while his enemies con
turn their face in prayer. At rst it had sisted of very near a 1000, Abu Sosian hav
been declared to be perfectly indifferent ing been reinforced by the Meceans with
where they turned their faces. Afterwards 950 men. The two armies did not long re
he directed them to pray with their faces main in a state of inaction: but before the
towards the temple of Jerusalem, probably battle three champions from each party en
with a view to ingratiate himself with the gaged each other'in single combat. In this
Jews; and now, in order to gain the Pagan the Moslem champions were victorious, and
Arabs, he ordered his followers to pray with the event greatly discouraged the Koreish.
their faces towards the east. This incon
Mahomet, in the mean time, taking advan
stancy gave great offence, and occasioned tage of this lucky event, offered up his
the apostacy of many of his, disciples. About prayers to God with great fervency and
not only treat one another like brethren, but
likewise most cordially love and mutually

cherish one another to the utmost of their
power. But, lest this should prove insuffi
cient, he coupled the individuals of the two
this time, Mahomet receiving ,advice that a
rich caravan of the Koreish was on the road

from Syria to Mecca, be detached his uncle
llamza, at the head of 30 horse, to seize
upon it; who accordingly lay in wait for it
vehemence; after which, feigning himselfin

a trance, he pretended that God had assured
him of victory. Then throwing a handful
of dust or gravel {OWZtlg the enemy, he

cried out, May the fac of them be con
foundet ; and attacked lthe Koreish with
in one of the woods of Yamama, through
which it was to pass; here however he

was informed that the caravan was guarded
by 300 men, so that he returned without
making any attempt; but the prophet made
the proper dispositions for acting hereafter
against th! Koreish with success. This year
also Mahomet sent out a party of sixty or
eighty horse, all Mohajcrin, except one who
was an Ansar, to make reprisals on the
Koreish. They were met by a party of their
such bravery, that they were soon put to

ight, leaving seventy dead on the spot, and
Er-7'
For the Reperfbry.
CASTLE OF ALTENHFIBJ,
pared for an engagement: however, they

parted without bloodshed, except one of the
THE M/YSTERIOUS MONK.
Korcish, who was killed'byan arrow shot by
A TALE.
Mahomet, having now put himself into
' No, my dear mistress, returned Min

da, but it seems as if the moment for dis
covery had arrived!

Discovery! discovery? reiterated Ame
lia, what dost thou mean by that word?
answer me.
Had you not professed your love for

Florival," answered Minda, I should not
have awakened your curiosity, but your

strange tale, in which the prince Pandolfo
has so great a share, has made it necessary
for me to tell you that your Florival is not
my son.
Not your son! exclaimed Amelia.

He is not my son,indeed, said Minda.
\Vhose son, then, is he?" demanded
Amelia, my peace is at your disposal.

Speak I charge youl
That he is not my son is true, said
Minda, but now is no time to relate what I
know concerning him; come you, my lady,

this evening to my cottage, and you shall
hear the whole.
I all! be patient until then, said Ame
lia, but my anxiety will be almost insup
portable."
Hcrc Amelia and Minda left the cottage

together and proceeded to the castle, where
they had the satisfaction of hearing that
having as many taken prisoners. The loss Florival had recovered sufciently to leave
on Mahomets side was only fourteen men, his couch, as the only inconvenience he had
and among the prisoners was Al Abbas the experienced from his fall, was several brui
ses which the care of Editha had greatly al
prophets uncle.
(To be continued.)
leviated. Shortly after their arrival the youth
enemies, and both sides immediately pre
one of the Moslems.
me?
on
CHAPTER II.
His eye looked wan, and from his youthful cheek
an offensive posture, began in earnest to 'lhe hue of health retired.

make reprisals on the Koreish. His rst The earth has bubbles as the water bath,
exploit was the taking of a caravan attended And these are of them: whither have they vanished?
SHAKSPEARE
by a small guard; and this being accom
The lady Amelia with the governess now
plished by a party consisting only of nine
men, contributed greatly to encourage the proceeded to the castle, and nding Florival
Moslcms. But what most established the considerably better, the former went im
impostors affairs, and was indeed the true mediately to the cottage of Minda, to inform
foundation of all his future greatness, was her of the mornings adventure and relate
his gaining the battle of Bedr; of which we. the story she had heard from Editha. During
have the following account. The prophet the recital, Minda showed evident marks of
being informed that Abu SOsian Ebn Harb surprize and horror, but when Amelia
escorted a caravan of the Koreish with only openly confessed her affection for Florival
thirty or forty men, resolved to advance at she seemed struck with sudden recollection.
the head of a small detachment of his troops Amelia could not help remarking her per
to intercept it. To this he was incited by the turbation, and said:
riches of the caravan, which consisted of a
Why, my good Minda, do you start thus?
himself appeared; and Amelia began to ex
press the grateful sense she had of his kind

ness, but was suddenly checked by the
paleness that overspread the face of Florival,
and the melancholy languor that appeared
in his eyes. She was astonished at his ap
pearance and began to attribute it to the ef

fects of his fall; but, alas! the youth had heard
from Editha of the departure and intention
of the count.
My lady, said the youth faintly, my
appearance is not the effect of my fall; but
there is a reason for it, which rankling at my
heart, has committed the devastation in my

looks which you perceive.
The terror and astonishment of Amelia
were now increased, and she intreated Flori
val to let her know the cause.

Yes, you shall know the cause, return
ed Florival, and when the only wish of life
is gratied, my soul shall y from this delu

sive world to seek for happiness in other
realms: but not here can I unfold it."
Whither shall I attend you then, said
Amelia, anxiously, to hear this terrible re
cital?"
PHIIiADELPHIA REPERTORY.
19
If my wishes may be gratied, answer

ed the youth, permit me to conduct you
to the garden, where having freed my bosom
from the burthen that oppresses it, I bid
adieu to Altenheim for ever.
With trembling steps Amelia followed
Florival, while Editha relieved the anxiety
of Minda, by relating the cause of the youths
afiction.
During these occurrences at the castle of
Altenheim, its master was pursuing his way
to Dusseldorp, where he arrived about four
oclock on the morning after his departure.
The palace was not situated in the centre
of the town, but just upon its vicinity, and
was surrounded by trees, planted regularly,
and so completely covering it that twilight
reigned within the whole day through. As
the appearance was rather more gloomy than
he expected to nd it, Altenheim seemed
a little surprized, but attributing this altera
tion to the disposition of its lord, dismissed
his thoughts and ordered the born to be
sounded.
Geory, one of the attendants, was about
to obey his lord, when the count suddeniy

started, ordered him to desist, and catching
hold of the arm of Malden, who rode beside
him, bade him look to the right. He did so,

and perceived a small door, which seemed
to lead into the palace, open, and in it a
female gure, eloathed in white, with acruci
x in her left hand, while her right grasped
a bloody dagger.
Do you observe that gure?" said Al
tenheim.
I do, my lord, returned Malden.
Is it not extraordinary?" continued the
count.
Shall we endeavour to discover who it
is, my lord? asked the vassal.
'
Mysterious appearance! said Alten
heim, why should we attempt to disturb
the gates were immediately thrown open

and Altenheim and his train admitted; but as
DArinhault had no intimation of his visit,
he was,still in his chamber. He was imme

diatelyiadvised of the arrival of the count,
and instantly arising, prepared to meet Al

tenheim, who during his delay, sat ruminat
ing alone, in the hall, upon the extraordinary
appearance on the outside of the palace. A
thousand conjectures in half as many seconds
passed in his mind, as to the intention of its
appearance, but he could think of no satis
factory cause.
He had not been long in his reverie, ere
he was disturbed with a sound which seem
ed to issue from the wainscot. The spectre
which he had just before seen, made his
mind open to apprehension, and, though he

was a man of undaunted bravery, he trem
bled. In a few minutes, a pannel in the wain
scot opened, and the same gure which he
had seen before, stalked majestically into the
chamber, xing her eyes sternly upon Alten
heim, who could not for a moment withdraw
his from the terrible appearance.
He had drawn his sword upon the rst
noise, but upon the entrance of the spectre,
the weapon dropped from his grasp, and

impressed with veneration for the majestic
female, he involuntarily fell on his knees,
and raising his eyes towards heaven thus
addressed her:
Dread spirit, who bearest net the form
of any one, whom, in the days ofher mortal
existence, I knew, why hast thou left the
regions of felicity to ll my soul with fear?

Tell me thy commission and my life shall be
devoted to full it.
The count waited for a reply, anxiously
gazing on the countenance of the female,
who raised her eyes and arms fervently to
heaven, and was about to answer him, when
the salutation of the prince, or even his en

trance, and the rst words he uttered were,
Altenheim! friend of Pandolfo, lead not
thy daughter to a murderer's arms!

Montaldo started a few paces from him,
a deep frown over-spread his features,which
gave place to a deadly paleness, when the
voice which before addressed the count,
cried,
_
Yes, Altenheim, remember!
For the rst time the eyes of the count

rested upon Pandolfo, and he arose to cm
brace him, receiving him from the servants
into whose arms he had fallen, and who stood
petried with terror and astonishment, at the
voice they had heard and the instantaneous

effect it had upon their master.
(To be continued.)
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For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XXXVIII.

Do not forsake yourself; for those that do,
Oend, and teach the world to leave them too.
LORD BROOKE,
That human life is a scene of vexation,

that those moments when we enjoy the
highest happiness are liable to be over"
clouded with disappointments, has been of
ten asserted, and is now universally allowed.
Even our dearest pleasures partake of some
thing which is unsatisfactory; and we fre
quently nd ourselves most unhappy, when
surrounded by every thing which might be
supposed to effect the contrary. But the hap
piness or misery of a mans situation de
pends principally on his own mind. \Vhen
this is controuled by reason, every occur
rence is considered as an indispensable link

in the chain of necessary events, and the
mind is but little affected by them. It retires
from the violence of misfortune in conscious
security, and rests in the fortied pavillion
the sound of approaching feet interrupted of reason which is erected in our bosoms.
it; perhaps she is the messenger of Heaven, 1 her. She pointed toward the door of the hall
From the above we may venture to argue
and I dare not molest his purposes!
from whence the sound proceeded, and in a that there is scarcely any species of acquire
The face of the female had been turned hollow voice exclaimed:
ment as useful in life as fortitude.
towards the inside of the palace, but she
Altenheiinl
Fortitude is a virtue essentially different
now looked towards the troop and waving her
Powers of mercy! cried the count.
from that of courage. A man may possess
hand as if to some one within, immediately
Altenheim, proceeded the spectre, the latter, in an eminent degree, without eu
disappeared.
friend of Pandolfo, lead not thy daughter
Nothing could exceed the astonishment

of Allenheim at this appearance, which he
immediately declared to be asupernaturai
agent to effect the purposes of Omnipotence,
for he possessed a large share of the cre
dulity of the times, and was determined to
to a murderer's arms!
learn the cause of its leaving the mansions
\Vith these words she vanished, and the
pannel closed with a loud sound as DArin

hault and the attendants entered the hall.
Montaldo heard the noise, started, and turn~
ed pale. Then resuming his native courage,
advanced toward Altenheim, who sat sted
fastly gazing at that part of the wainscot

through which the gure disappeared.
My venerable frienc , cried Pandolfo,
welcome to Dusseldorp. Altenheim was
ed, and upon learning who was the visitor, too much absorbed in astonishment to notice
of eternity.
Geo'ry was now commanded to sound,
and immediately an answer was returned
from the palace court. A messenger appear
joying the least portion of the former. There

are numerous instances of men who have
braved death in every form, while their im
aginations have been heated by seducing

ideas of prot or glory, who in their calmer
moments have been unable to endure the
petty vexations of life, and have eagerly
sought relief in that death which they had.
been so long accustomed to despise. The
infamous Marat, who had the diabolical bold
ness to commit crimes of any shape and

magnitude, being accused of a certain mls.
demeanour drew a pistol in the eyes of the
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PHILADELPHIA RisPER'roRY.
tude to bear them is necessary to comfort.

\Vhile a man suffers himself to be borne
away by the misfortunes which come upon
meditate the ruin of a whole nation, had not him, he certainly cannot enjoy peace of
sufcient fortitude to bear a transient dis mind. He must be the prey of discontent,
grace. This noble virtue, however, seldom and livc_in continual torment. When the
holds a place in the bosom of such men as great Roman orator was exiled from his
country by a factions multitude, his mind
Mara't.
The greatest enemies with which men sunk much under the decree. So long
have to combat are those passions that lie in enjoying the love of the people, and the af
the breast, ready to spring up when irritated, fectionate title of father of his country, he
and prompt the most atrocious deeds. Oppo could not sustain the reverse with any prac
sed to the passions even reason sometimes tice of that philosophy he had so often taught.
becomes a broken dart, unable to conquer His grief was irrational and excessive, and
produce a general rottcnness in the highe

ranks of society, and poison all the springs
of virtue and humanity. There is no vice or
passion, among 'all the badges of human
misery, that is of a nature so spreading and
malignant as the practice of gaming; nor
will it be difcult to discover the ground of
this mischievous pre-eminence, if we attend
to the course of its operation and progress
in the mind.
There is something in the very aspect
and colour of other vices which shocks the
moral sense, and is at open hostility with
whatever good principles or habits have
or restrain them. Like a resistless torrent discovered so great a want of fortitude, that been nourished in us by education or ex
they pour along and devastate the fair works many have been induced to doubt whether ample; but we easily persuade ourselves to
of nature. The man whose desire is to copy his philosophy was not more in his head and look upon gaming as a practice in which
his life after the model of that of his Re books than in his heart and practice.
we trust to the fair issue of chance; and by
deemer, is frequently annoyed by these rest
Happy is that man whose mind is suf shutting our eyes against its consequences,
less ends, and accounts it a more glorious ciently endowed with information, and we not only veil over its reproach, but lend
victory to subdue them, than to overthow a strengthened by reection, that he can meet to it a degree of plausibility, which renders
vast army.
all events, whether of prosperity or adver its temptation irresistible. By this deceitful
sity, with an equanimity of temper, who ac accommodation, and despicable casuistry,
Who ghts
\Vith passions, and ocrcomcs, he is cndued
knowledges the hand of God in every thing, the odium of this vice is melted away, and
With the best virtue, passive fortitude.
and has long rcposed his trust in him. It is nothing but the rst blush of innocence is
There are many evils incident to humanity impossible that such a man can be unhappy. opposed to it, and a certain decorum of sen
which, as it is impossible to foresee, so it is If fortune be against him, he complains not; timent, which is the natural growth of every
impossible to avoid them. There are some ifthe dearest and tenderest connegions of well constituted mind.
which are foreseen by all, and are inevitable life be broken, he repines not; if the whole
The effects therefore of this vice are al
to all. At such evils it is impious to repine. earth and the ends of darkness conspire ways rst perceived on the side of feeling
They are sent by the divine hand and in to shake his established soul, he stands rm and delicacy; and often-times, while the
tended to chasten our pride and beget a and bears all with pious resignation. And why? principle of virtue is left standing itself, all
humility becoming christians. They conspire because he is condent that all things work its decorations and attractions will be moul
for our good and should be sustained with together for the good of the righteous, and dering away, under the inuence of this
a cheerful heart. We should recollect that therefore he calls upon his soul to adore the sour, ungcnial habit. But although the infan
one innitely wise and just mind governs dispensations of the living God.
tine advances of this pestilent practice de
the universe, and directs all events; and is
grade the mind with no stain of reproach
PETER PEACEABLE.
it possible we can be dissatised with this
or criminality, yet ruin that is slow, is not
government? Do we nd it difcult to re
ON FEMALE GAMING.
the less certain; and when the rst repug
pose ourselves and all our concerns in the
From the Looker-On.
nance of habit is removed, the progress to
hand of the great God? Can we believe a
The other day, as I was pursuing an corruption is easy and direct. Other vices
good being gave us feelings that he might agreeable train of thought, in a view to the attack us more openly, and alarm at once
v'Wound them? Surely not; amidrt all our
entertainment of the public, a letter from all the vigour and caution of our minds;
griefs, however poignant, mental or cor one of my town correspondents gave me so sometimes take us by assault; sometimes are
rude a check, that I was obliged to take repulsed in the onset; but the practice of
poreal,
_
three turns in the silent walk, to recover my gaming undermines and reduces us by slow
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
and subtle degrees; and, while our con
The reason why men in general possess composure.
The letter brought me advice of a very science reposes in a attering security, robs
so little, fortitude is because they do not
sufciently recognise the superintendance sore evil, in the commerce of society,which it of that timidity of feeling, and sensibility
of heaven. Narrow minded mortals, who increases with a growth so rank and rapid, of humour, which constitute its principal
are incapable of looking through nature that all the spirit I can assume, and all the safety.
Thus the progress of gaming is so much
up to natures God, are determined to be inuence I can exert, must be condensed, in
a
manner
towards
this
one
point,
for
the
the
more successfully fatal, as it enters into
miserable by brooding over their immediate
privations, and not reecting on the advanta present. The rage for gaming is the danger our habits, with little opposition from our
ges which may arise to them as the conse about which this alarm has been rung by my souls, by imperceptible degrees, and delays
quence. They are unwilling to allow to the correspondent; and, if the facts and instances its attack upon the sacred citadel of virtue,
Supreme Being any more foresight than they which he has collected for me be as well till it has effected a desertion of all those
themselves possess, and hence grow up a grounded as other instructions which have delicacies of sentiment, which form a noble
thousand inquietudes, a thousand vain re come to me from the same quarter, I trem defence about it. It is on the same account
ble for all that is sacred, or decent, or hon
that the most disgusting inuence of this
grets and impious wishes.
Seeing the number-less evils that spring ourable, in life; and my heart misgives me, sordid practice is remarked in female minds
assembly and declared that if he had been

found guilty he would have blown out his
brains before them. The man who could
1!) around us, it becomes evident that forti
at the rumour of a peatilence, that must soon
which lose their fairest distinctions
and
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privileges, when they lose the blushing

honours of modesty, delicacy, and peace.
It is here that the habit shews itself in its
pride of deformity, and appears in the most
aficting shapes of wretchedness and ruin.
A female mind deprived of its sensibilities,
is one of the most desolate scenes in the
world; and a man bereft of his reason, is
hardly a more abject and sorrowful specta

cle. These ruinous consequences of gaming,
my correspondent assures me, have already
begun to display themselves in the charac
every feeling is engaged for her own; where

the rapture of one is the ruin of another;
where gain is without credit, and loss with
out consolation; there can be little room or
occasion for the relaxations of harmless

mirth, and the sportiveness of innocent plea
sure. That vacancy of mind, that excursivc
ness of fancy, and that rambling of thought,
in which true mirth and jollity delight, is not
surely to be found in those courts of ava
had the effect of rendering her desperate.
rice, where all our sensibilities are absorbed
with unchequered delight, and replete with

innocent graces, is now contracted to a cross
by the appetite of gain, and a grovcling soli

ter and deportment of the gentler sex; al
citude about the issue of a card or a number.
ready the sweetest qualities of womanhood
About fourteen years ago, Sophia was the
are perishing under its blast; and having envy of her own sex, and the idol of ours.
nearly completed its havock on the blos She was then in the prime of her age, and
soms and the foliage, it must soon reach to beautiful was her prime: but her beauty was
the very root and principle of society itself. her least praise; for her heart had all the
To behold a ne eye, that was made to
her some valuable jewels, which her father
had presented her with on the day of her

marriage; and where her husband was
wretch enough to share in the plunder. This
luxury of feeling, and her understanding all
From that time she has continued to sink

deeper and deeper into the infamy of a har- .
dcned gamcster; and her virtue and her pro
bity are gone, together with her family jew

els. Her fate too, which was once illumined
expression of discontented malice, and re-
pining solicitude; and her beauty, instead
of being left to the gradual wear of time.

that seldom obliterates every trace, is pre
maturely and radically ruined, by the unspar
ing influence of sordid passions, and corrod
ing anxieties. The heroine of this short tale

is at this moment well known in what are
called the gay circles of life, though the por
trait I havc drawn will be recognized only
by a few: by those, alas! who have gazed, as
l have gazed, on the gilded morning of her
swell with the tender feelings of conscious
the graces of improvement. A winning un
love, to exalt, to correct, to animate, to trans

port its object, lend all its ardours and its
consciousness of her own charms, an inno
ecstasies to the icy appetite of avarice; and
ed attention to her inferiors, distinguished
to contemplate a hand and arm, that nature
her among her companions, and made her

the delight and ornament of every circle. life, and have seen, as I have seen, that morn
But her ill-fortune would not suffer her to ing shrouded in a sudden gloom, pregnant
remain long in this sovereignty of inno with blight and with mildew.
.
cence at her fathers house in--shire:
For the Repertory.
at the age of twenty-one she was married
to the member for the county; and in the
TH E PROPITIATION.
winter of 1777, began her career in town with
BOOK I.
such company as her equipage and condi
Continued.
tion entitled her to keep. A long time she
ARGUMENT.
held out against all the obligations of fashion
and alluremcnts of example: she had an in The shepherds having paid their adoration: to the
Saviour, depart, spreading, as they go, the praises
bred abhorrcnce of gambling; and while she
of God: The eastern sages arrive at Bethlehem
patiently sustained the imputation of mean
and worship the Redeemer: The news of his
ness for refusing to contribute to the l-aro
birth brought to Herod: llis ragezThe ight into
bank, her unavowed charities were daily
Egypt: The murder of the innocents: The death
pouring balm into Misfortunes wounds; and
of Herod.
had cast in her happiest mould, like the

tendril of the vine, to act as the graceful
bond of union and affection, busied in the
beggarly ofce of conducting a Faro bank;

is a sad perversion of natures decrees, and
an outrage upon all that is decorous or lovely
in the female character. But it were ridicu
lous to complain only of the solecisms of be
haviour, and deformities of appearance pro
duced in the female world, by this unblush
ing vice, as if these were its worst effects.
It hasa destroying appetite that swallows
up all the regards and charities of the mind;
and leaves in it no principle of activity, but
covetousness and desperation. To the female
gamester, virtue, and probity, and faith, as
never coming into use, are of little value,

and no where so cheaply purchased as in
those unprincipled resorts, so that, as I am
cent playfulness of manner, and a kind-heart
some of those who upbraidcd her parsimony,

had felt, in secret aids, the force of her go
nerosity, when distresses, which theyhad well
told, every practised seducer who can be deserved, were on the point of overwhelm
gratied with less than the costly sacrice ing them.
of innocence, seeks his objects at the gam
But virtue that stands alone, and discoun
ing table, where he nds a very few attrac tenanced, is equally opposed to the constant
tions will carry him a great way in a course inuence of importunity and example; and
of easy victories.
Sophia wanted those aids of counsel and en
In the whole compass of language no terms couragement which a tender and rational
are so misapplied, as those which are expres husband might well have afforded her. I
sive of happiness, and happiness itself is a marked the rst inroads that were made
word which all of us are prompt in explain on the delicacy of her sentiments, and the
ing, but which none of us in fact understand. untouched bloom of her mind. I saw the
Thus, what is denominated the gay world, gaiety of her spirits cankered and corroded;
consists in reality of the gravest and dullest and I saw all her sensibilities gradually de
part of mankind: and he who loves to $3 caying, like the sapless germs of a wither
the human face overspread with genuine ing rose-tree.
joy, will certainly not nd his account in the
It was among a notorious set of female
regions of high life and crowded haunts of gamblers, ata house kept by a barons lady,
fashion. Where every hope of a womans that her transformation was completed;
heartis rivetted on her neighbours purse, and where a conspiracy was formed to win from
'hen they beheld, around his head divine,
A stream of glory in e'ulgence shine,

The wundring shepherd s, bending to the oor,
The boundless majesty of heaven adore.
That part performed, by heaven decreed to show
The incarnation of a God below,
The swains return; returning tune their lays,
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In new born :uithems to the Saviours praise

Thcsc words in triumph, on the wings of fame
Fly, as they spread the great Redeemers name: 200
Glory to God, omnipotent, in heaven,
To us a child is born. ason is given;
Great and eternal as his holy sire,
The worlds redemption and the worlds desire!
Ere yet the news to distant nations rtm,
205
Earth sends her creatures to adore the Son;
The eastern sages, hastening from afar,
By heaven directed in his new born star,
Their gifts in solemn adoration lay,
And sacred honours to the Saviour pay.
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But when the news to sanguine llerod came:
Distorted features, rage and guilt proclaim;
Fury and vengeance from his angry eye,
And hell born horror and destruction y.
Pl.
As the fierce tiger, with terric roar.
_2_2
5.
Leaves the lone lair the forest to explore,

Pauling to catch his prey, with ghastly wound
To stretch the bleeding victim on the ground;
vSo Herod thirsts to shed the Saviours blood,
219
And crimson earth with the life streaming ood.

Show me, cried he, with false and cndlikc joy,
\Vherc lies this wonderful, this heaven born boy;
Low at his feet my sceptre I would lay,
And humble love and adoration pay.

0! black deceit, and meditatcd wrong,
225
Which but to hell and her dark crew belong!

Thus satan takes the semblance of the saint,
llis purpose to pursue with less restraint,

Tears can assist the reptile of the Nile
And even the ruliian while he stabs can smilc! 230
What mortal arm can counteract the God,
That rules creation by his mighty nod;

XVho, were the thunders Of his vengeance hurld,
Could make an atom crush a rolling world!
The father bids his angel to descend,
235
And on the safety of his son attend;
Obedient to command the mother ies,
\Vhcre beams the sun from more indulgent skies;
Far from the land where death his banner rears,
And dark destruction with the Jews appears. 240

Egyptian sands, Egyptian deserts wild,
Received the parent and her holy child.
W'hile as a panther pilfered of her prey,
\Vith bloody foot prints marks her desperate way,
.Iudea's monarch raged, when he in vain
245
Sought the descended Saviour to obtain;
Now cap no pity check, no fears controul
The bloody purpose ofhis cruel soul;
Insatiate rage and hate his bosom ll,
And guilt and death usurp his yielding will! 250
Relentless fury gives the dread command,
To ll with slaughter the devoted land!
Go, go, my myu'madons of war, he cried,
Unfurl the banner of destruction wide;
Let every male thats reachd the second year, 255
Feel the sharp vengeance of the glittring spear:
And all beneath that infant age destroy,
So shall perdition seize that far famed boy! .
Judea shall the reign of safety own,
'Yor her great monarch tremble for his throne. 260
At the command they shake their spears on high,
And breathing murder, to the slaughter y!
As when the wolf, by hunger made more bold,
.Flies from the wood andleaps upon the fold,
265
The feeble sheep, endeavouring to avoid,
Rush to his grasp and are at once destroyd;
Helpless they writhe in unrelenting pangs,
Torn by the ruthless fury of his fangs,
While the black victor stands cxulting by,
With cndlike pleasure sparkling in his eye. 27
So oer their prey the bands of llcrod stand
While blood besprinklcs evry cruel hand;
So stood Ahillcs with ungenrous joy,
Oer Iriams offspring, the support of Troy
Cries ofdeep anguish rend the ambient air, 275
\Vhile from his breast the spattering gore descends:

The sanguine hoard impatient to destroy,
The father pierce to reach the destined boy; 290 J
Fainting they fall, the dreadful act is done,
One spear transxes both the sire and son!
Meanwhile the king with expectation gay,
Passed unconcerned the direful hours away:
295
Like bloody Sylla, with ambition charmd,
Who with composure, actions he performd
Ertolld to wondering senators aloud,
Till shouts and plaudits shook the gathering crowd;
While guiltless victims feel the glittering blade,
And blood and death the publica pervade!l
300
But though the vengeance ofhigh heaven dclayd,
Soon, in the terrors of her power arrayd,
She reard her crest, and breathing-vengeance round
Struck the too daring tyrant to the ground!
He who decreed that Christ should not expire, 305
Till all should be fulld, from Herods ire
To shield the ospring of eternal love,

Sent down his glorious spirit from above;
\Vhilc Herod, who decreed he should not live,
Receives the death from heaven, he meant to give.

Ghastly he falls, in horror and despair,
311
While swelling groans his agony declare:
\Vith a loud shriek, that shook the realms of hell,
Thrown from his pride the guilty monarch fell;

315
The parting spirit bore the laboring breath,
And the cold body felt the press of death!
1 And blood and death the publica pervade.
The villa publica was a large house in the Cam
pus Martius, aeld where the Roman citizens con
vened their levies for war. Upon Syllas making
himselfmaster of Rome, eight thousand men, whom
he had devoted to death, were confined in this house
and inhumanly massacred.

_.
Por the Repertory.

THE DESIRE.
But strike the golden lyre,

Beyond the azure sky;
And join the blissful choir,
,
That never die!
\Vorthy the bleeding Lamb,

My soul shall ever cry,
Through his exalted name
I never die.
IGNATIUS.
_._
For the Repertory.
TO
Ah! lady, that bewitching smile

Has often made my pulses boat;
And, ah! Ifear the subtle wile
Still thrills my heart with tumults sweet.

It does recal a maiden fair,
Whom once I loved, ah! too sincerely;

\Vho charmd to rest the pangs of care,
Alas! to wound me more severely.
For she was false, and yet she swore,
And smiled, like thee, as lovely too,
She said her heart, I dream no more,
Was mine, and like it fond and true.

Why did I eer her vows believe?
Why baskd I in the beamy smile!
She vowd and smiled but to deceive
My bosom, and its hopes beguile.
Then, lady, if not more sincere,
Than she who once this heart could pain,

Smile not again, when I am near,
Lest I should love, despair again.

For in that beamy smile alone,
The spells reside that conquer me;
And, ah! I fear my heart its throne
Would leave and yield its sway to thee.
Stern death! terric name!

In thy cold arms Id lie:
Secure from dread and shame,
Id fondly die!
FLORENZU.
-.
For the Repertory.

For in this world of woe,
Where grief excites the sigh,
When anguish prompts to go,

Tis best to die!
Could I but kiss the rod,
Id never more decry

The dealings of my God,
But calmly die!
Mr. Editor,
Among the rest, I felt an itching to travesty a

popular ballad, written by an English author, and
having completed it, I send it for publication
should you conceive it to be worthy an insertion.
CARLOS
JVuroddin the Bold and the BeautlfulBrindlo:

a PARODY.
The foolish hopes of pride
A black bull so erce, and a cow, I am told,
No more my soul should try;
Thou Saviour of my choice,
Conversed as they wandered to browse;

Their eyes on each other they tenderly rolld,
The name of the bull was Nuroddin the bold.
And beautiful Brindle the cows.
And babes transpicrccd deform the deadly spear;
To thee Id gladly y;
And, 0! says the bull, since tomorrow Im drove
The shrieking mother in her anxious arms,
Heed not the mortals voice,

But haste to die!
To market, some ninny to swindle;

Im afraid that while through the gay meadows you
rove,
Some bull that beholds you to you will make love,
And court you, my beautiful Brindle.
Clasps her fond boy to rescue him from harms;
But through the valley glide,

Rejoiced to die!
But from her breast the clinging babe they tear

And hurl his wounded body in the air.
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Frantic she views him with a tearless eye,
Beneath the soldier's savage fury die;

Awhile she looks, and death her heart desires,
My follies all forgiven,

Id range the elds on high;
And fondly sing in heaven,
Twas sweet to die!
Feebly she groans and with that groan expires!

The tender father, for awhile, withstands
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To Jesus bosom prest,
The fatal fury of the vengeful bands;

Whole hosts attack, but still the sire defends,
Ill wish, in that dear rest,

No more to die!
Or on his arms to lie;
0! how can you think so, said Brindle the fair,

Surely me you much better must know;
For if you be living I vow and declare,
Nay if you be dead, dear, I solemnly sweq',
With no other to browse will I go
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0:- if eer with another [caper and laugh,

Forgetting Nuroddin thebold;
May your ghost come, my blood in a bulls horn to
qua',
To seize by the throttle my innocent calf,
And having cut her and myself clean in half,
May you hear us away to be sold!
Away to the market Nuroddin was sent,
For a week Brindle didnt eat grass;
But scarce had it passd, when to meadow she went,
A bull, not Nuroddin, his course that way bent,
And thought her too pretty to pass.
His horns, as they handsomely rose oer his head,
Made Brindle untrue to her vows;
I love you like clover, the atterer said,
Says Brindle, Im certain Nuroddin is dead,
So I think Ill go with you and browse.
Now far had they wandered into a dark wood,
And when both of them eating were done;
For nearly three hours they lovingly stood,
Nor yet had they quite nishd chewing their cudI

When the screach owl proclaimd it was one!
Then rst with amazement, fair Brindle she found,
A strange boll that followd aloof;
He lookd like old nick, though he uttered no sound,

He spoke not, he moved not, but lookd toward
And four times each year, when the moonis at full,
0n the spot where they met the deceiver,

They appear, having each a large crack in the skull,
And shriek as they're torn by the skeleton bull,
\Vho cutsem in half with his cleaver!
picable; they display a mind replete with

piety, not unacqnainted with the laws of
hold,
verse.
Twelve spectrcs, with legs like a spindle,
The Fate of Genius," by our corres
Drink with them, there hearts blood befolt' it gets
pondent M. P. .lh, is reserved for our next
cold,
They howl to the health of Nuroddin the bold,
number.
And his consort, the false hearted Brindle!
We cannot perceive in the Modesty_ ol'
+
Valmont,
sutlicient beauty and correct
Character ofa married man.
ness
to
entitle
it to a place in the Reper
The felicity of a married man never stands
tory.
\Ve
can,
however, perceive some
still. It ows perpetual, and strengthens in
its passage. It is supplied from various chan traces of taste and genius, that application
nels. It depends more on others than him may bring to a degree of perfection, and
self. From participation proceed the most would not, therefore, have him descend the
mount of Citheron, but send us from thence
extatic cnjoyments of a married man.
By an union with the gentlest, the most his eorts, which, we promise, shall receive
polished, most beautiful part of creation, a close and candid perusal.
\Ve have received the poetical essay of
his mind is harmonised; his manners soft
Demetrius,
on Marriage. As he is no stran
ened; his soul annimated by the most ten
ger
to
us,
we
should like to see him.
der and lively sensations. Love, gratitude
and universal benevolence, mix in all his
His head covered oer, and gigantic his height,

His body was shaggy to view;
The bull ran away from the terrible sight,

Left some cattle, the cow and her calf in alli'ight,
To see what the stranger would do.

His presence pale terror oer each bosom spread,
The cow was in pitiful case;
At length, when she mustered up courage, she said,
I pray you remove that old rag from your head,

And lets have a peep at your face.
The cow she was silent, the stranger complies,
The rag from his head he withdrew;
0! dear, what asight met fair Brindlcs bright eyes,
What words can express her dismay and snrprizc,
When a skeleton's head met her view!
All present then open'd their mouths with a grin,

Their anger beginning to kindle;
The vermin ran out and the vermin ran in,
And crawld oer his temples and crawl'd oer his

chin,
ideas. The house of a married man is par

adise. He never leaves it without regret;
never returns to it but with gladness. The
friend of his soul, the wife of his bosom,
welcomes his approach with rapture; joy
ushes in her cheek. Mutual are the trans
ports.
Infants, lovely as the spring, climb about
his knees, and contend which shall catch
Remember Nuroddin the bold;

My ghost comes thy blood, in a bulls horn to qua',
To seize by the throttle thy innocent calf,
To cut you and her, with this cleaver, in half,
And bear you away to be sold.
Thus saying, he forcibly seized them, and now
They terribly roard Ill dismay;
Then he sunk through the ground with hisvictims
I vow,
And none eer again saw the calf or the cow,

Or the spectre who bore them away
The hull didnt live longnor has the wood been
lnhabited since, I presume;
For chronicles say, there poor Brindle is seen,
With her calf, Just the darkness and daylight be
between,
To mourn their deplorable doom'.

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hlARRlED,
On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas \Villiams, of

Salem,Massachusetts, to Miss Sarah Hughs,
of this city.
On Wednesday, Mr. Aaron Kellc, to Miss

the enviednkiss of parental fondness. Smil
Eliza
Kempton, both of this city.
ing plenty under guardianship of economy,
On Thursday, Mr. \Villiam Daniels, to
is seen in every part of his family. Gene
rosity stands porter at his door; Liberality Miss Ann Eldridge, both of Campden,
presides at his table; and social Mirth gives Gloucester Co. New Jersey.
On Thursday, Capt. Richard Gray, to
to time the most pleasing motion. \Vhen
death overtakes him, he is only translated Miss Mary Ann Rees, of this city, daughter
from one heaven to another. His glory is of the late Rev. Mr. David Recs of Freehold
immortalized; and his childrens children New Jersey.
On Thursday, Mr. Francis Regnanlt, to
represent him on earth to the latest gene
Miss Catharine Farrcn, both of this city.
rations.
While the ghost addressd beautiful Brindle.

Behold me, 0! Brindle, said he with a laugh,
expression, and though they possess no vas:

poetic beauty, yet they are by no mean des
While they drink out of horns, that a gallon would
the grotmd,
hile a cleaver he held in his hoof.
e perused the verses of Ignatius with.

a kind of sacred pleasure, if we may use the i
DIED,
PHILADELPHIA,
ssrvumv, JUNE 8, 1811.
To the note ofCriticus and Co. we reply,

that we shell, with a great deal of pleasure,
publish their essays on novel reading, so long
as they are distinguished for impartial in
vestigation and respectability of judgment. If
we recollect right we were much pleased
with their essays in the early numbers of our
paper, and now feel ourselves happy at the
prospect of the renewal of their aid to our
undertaking. We would merely remark,
that persons engaging in essays of this na
ture, should invariably remember that
brevity is the soul of wit."
On \Vetlnesday morning, suddenly, Mr.

Henry Spillard.
On \Vednesday last, Mrs. Ruth Lo'nra.
wife of Peter Lohra, Esq. of this city.
-.
Norfolk, May 37.
A most melancholy occurrence took place

here on Saturday last, which has plunged
two amiable families into the depth of dis
tress, and has excited much feeling else
where. As this unhappy transaction is very

shortly, however, to become the subject of
judicial investigation we shall forbear to make
any comment upon it at this time, and con
tent ourselves with mcrcly detailing such of
the facts attending it as were offered iv
24
22M
evidence before the coroners inquest, and
than is known perhaps in any other part of

the known world. This light and inamma
ble uid is discharged through the atmos
The caliph, surprised, demanded the

reason. Because I am afraid, said the
In consequence of some misunderstand
Arab, that if you take a fourth, you will
ing, a dispute took place in the market phere. It bubbles incessantly through the say you are Mahomet, and if perebance a
place on Saturday morning last between muddy pool, about two rods in diameter. fth, that you are God Almighty kimoelji
Mr. Moses Myers and Mr. Richard Bowden, The gas readily takes ame on burning gun
QM
in the course of which several blows passed powder in it, or by the approach of any
HEALTH OFFICE,
and Mr. Myers was a good deal hurt: Mr. blazing body. The volume of it is so great,
May 24, 81 l.
Samuel Myers, a very promising young that a man who approached near enough Interments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
man, and the son of Mr. Moses Myers, hear
to snap a pistol in it which he held in his
from the 25th May, to the lst June 1811
ingpt' this transaction soon after it took place, hand was suddenly enveloped in ame and
Direascr.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
ad. ch,
1 0 lnam. of brain
1 0
immediately armed himself with a pistol, sorely singed before he could make his Apoplexy
1 1 Insanity
1 0
and going to Mr. Bowdens store in a t of escape. \Vhen set on re it burns with re Atrophy
0 l Lockjaw
0 1
high irritation, excited by what he had heard markable splendor and vehemence, not only Burns
()atarrh
1 O Mortication
1 0
of the injuries offered to his father, shot for hours, but days and weeks in succession,
Consumpsionoflungs? 0 Oldage
2 0
Mr. Bowden, who immediately fell dead! mounting to the height of ten or twelve feet Convulsions
0 1 Premature birth 0 1
The unhappy young man was soon after or more. The relator of this was one of a Dropsy
2 0 Plurisy
1 I
l 1 Small pox, natural 0 2
wards arrested, and is now in close conne
party that visited the place in an excursion Drowned
0 3 Still-born
0 4
ment, awaiting his trial, which, we under
through the woods. He discovered after the Debility
l 0 Sudden
1 0
stand, is to take place in a few days.
inammable air had been on re for six or Epilepsy
Fever
1 0
-
Mr. Bowden has left adisconsolate widow eight hours the water of the pond was heat Fever, intermittent 0 1
24 17
and three young children to deplore their ed to an uncommon degree and emitted co Fever, typus
1 O
pious exhalations, and the ebullition at the Fever, inammatory l 0
loss. He was an affectionate husband, an in
Total 41
dulgent father, and an enterprising and use spot through which the air ascended was
Under
more vehement.
1 year
13 From 50 to 60
5
ful citizen.
l
60
70
0
It was judged that if the ame had been From 1 to 2
Mr. Bowden enjoyed the condence and
2
5
0
70
80
1
affection of his acquaintance in an eminent de continued, the water would have been made
5 10
1
80
90
2
to boil and all have been evaporated, and the
gree. To the most gentle, unassuming man
10 20
3
90 100
0
ners, he added a dignity of deportment which surrounding space would have been heated
20 30
7
100 110
0
commanded universal respect. Emerging and dried. And lastly there was reason to
so 40
6
from the obscure occupation of a carpenter, suppose that the succulent and carbonic
40 50
3
TOtal 41
matter in the bottom of the pond would have
he opened his way into the commercial com
munity, under disadvantages which would been put into a state of combustion. From
the
crater
at
the
place
through
which
the
have appalled any other man. But to a mind
ardent and enterprising, combined with a gas rose and the evacuation of the'stirround
9 oclogk'. 12 oclock. 3 oclock.
May 27
1
78
76
determination to subdue all difculties, the ing ground, it appeared asif this had really
28
75
80
76
want of capital, of patrons, and of education, happened on some former occasion; and for
29
68
70
66
were circumstances of small consideration. fear the like might occur again the gentle
30
70
3
71.
He soon rose into notice, and in a few years men of the party extinguished the ame.
31
7B
80
79
June 1
83
87
84
When once in a blaze there seems to be no
ranked among the most successful and en
terprising of our merchants. In the ardour end to its burning, but a storm of wind and
TERMS or THE RBEERTORY.
of his pursuits7 he did not neglect the culti rain may put an end to it.
vation of his mind; from day to day his im
Tennessee Rcjzository.
.provement was rapid and obvious, and upon
most commercial subjects he acquired a ma
A1. mount.
7
turity of judgment which entitled his opin
Al Mohdi, caliph of Bagdad, being one every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
ions to great consideration. By his death a day engaged in the chace, and pressed with country by the earliest conveyance.
chasm has been left in society which will not hunger and thirst, he betook himself to an
Arabs tent to meet with some refreshment. year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
soon be lled.
,,
Yesterday this remains were interred in
Al Mohdi, having taken a good draught of to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
the church-yard, attended by at numerous wine, asked the Arab, ifhe knew him? No,
concourse of citizens, soldiers and masons, said the host: I am one of the principal and become responsible for the payment, shall re
who, with pious benevolence, paid the last noblemen of the caliphs court, said Al ceive one copy gratis.
tribute of respect to the memory of their Mohdi, taking a second draught; after which
Subscriptions and communications will be re
'illfated brother, whom they respected and he repeated the question, do you know ceived at this oiiiee, and at the bookstore of Bel.
esteemed.
Herald. me?" You have_ just now informed me, lings and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.
Printers exchanging With the Philadelphia. Re
_I._
replied the Arab. lam a much greater
person, returned the monarch. After a pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
b'zzr/itising extrication q/Inammable Air.
g
Near one of the sources of Licking river, third draught he avowed himself to be the
PHILADELPHIA,
in Kentucky, there is a great separation of caliph; upon which the Arab carried oil
are generally knowin.
the pitcher, and would let him drink no i
Phlogiston gas from something in the in

terior strata of the earth, in a greater quantity
more.

Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Filth, near
St. Marys church
' @lljifabefpjiafmeperfm
Cowman.
SATURDAY, JUNE l5. 1811..
VOL. II.
No. 4.
pal people, on an embassy to the king of resolved at rst to keep himself within the
BIOGRAPHY.
Ethiopia, in \order to interest him in their
LIFE OF MAHOMET.
quarrels. To do this the more effectually,

Continued.
Though this action may seem of little they accused Mahomet and his followers of
consequence in itself, it was of very great speaking disrespectfully of Jesus and of his
advantage to Mahomets affairs at that time. mother Mary; which accusation they hoped
He was immediately treated with the high would likewise induce him to deliver up
est respect by the Najashi, or king of Ethio the Mosletn refugees that were then at his
pia, who received a particular account of the court. But the bad success that had attended
victory soon after it was gained; while the the arms of the Koreish hitherto, joined to
superstitious Moslems did not fail to look the excuses made by the refugees, not only
upon it as an evident declaration of heaven hindered the Najashi from delivering them
in their favour. Nay, notwithstanding the up, but also prompted him to dismiss the
small number of enemies to be overcome, ambassadors, and return the presents they
and who were only mortal men, these igno had brought him. In the mean time, Abu
rant bigots did not hesitate to own the assis Soan, who had sworn never to use per
fumes or enjoy women till he had another
tance of no less than 4000 angels, who, ac
cording to them, rode on black and white battle with Mahomet, set out from Mecca
horses, having on their heads white and with a body of 200 horse. He advanced to
yellow sashes that hung down between their a post within three miles of Medina; from
whence he sent a detachment, who burnt a
shoulders!
Notwithstanding this disaster, however, barn, together with a man in it that was win
Abu Soan made a pretty good retreat, and nowing wheat. Mahomet, being informed of
conducted the greatest part of the caravan this outrage, moved immediately towards
to Mecca. This chagrincd the Moslems, him with a detachment of cavalry; but Abu
though they found great spoil on the eld Soan was so intimidated by his approach,
0f battle; the division of which had likely that he tied with precipitation, leaving be
to have proved fatal to their cause, by the hind him all the sacks of our or meal that
quarrels that it occasioned among them. had been brought for the subsistance of his
So hot, indeed, were the disputes on this troops. Instead therefore of coming to an
occasion, that the impostor was obliged to engagement with the impostor, as he had
pretend an immediate revelation from sworn, he contented himself with alarming
heaven empowered him to retain a fth part the country, and pillaging such as he sus
for religious purposes, and to distribute the pected of favouring Mahometanism. This
rest equally. This became a law for his suc year also Mahomet conquered tne tribes
town, and receive them there; but after

wards, by the advice of his companions,
marched out against them at the head of

1000 according to some, 1050 according to
others, or, as some say, only 900 men. Of
these 200 were cuirassiers but he had only
one horse besides his own in the whole
army. He distributed three standards among
his troops; of which one was given to the
tribe of Aws, another to that of Khazraj,
and the third to the Mohajerin. The grand

standard was carried before the prophet
by Mosaab Ebn Omar. With these forces
Mahomet formed a camp in a village near

Ohod, a mountain about four miles north of
Medina, which he contrived to have on his
back; and the better to secure his men from

being surrounded, be placed 50 archers, the
ower of his troops, in the rear, with strict
orders not to quit their post. On the other
hand, the army of the Koreish was drawn
up in the form of a crescent, and made a
very good appearance. The right wing was
commanded by Khaled Ebn Al VValid, after
wards so terrible to the Greeks; the left by
Acrema Ebn Abu Jahl; and the centre by
Abu Sofian. The corps do reserve was head

ed by Abu Soans wife, accompanied by
15 other matrons, who performed the office
of drummers, lamenting the fate of their
countrymen slain at Bedr, in order to ani
mate the troops who attended them. The
attack was begun by the Moslems, who fell
upon the enemy with such fury, that their
cessors; but, with regard to himself, the,
called Banu Solm'm, Ghatfan, and the Banu
centre immediately began to give way. Ali,
prophet often took the liberty of ipfringing
Kainoka; plundering likewise a rich cara

van belonging to the Koreish, and acquiring
or, according to Abulfeda, Hamza, slew Arta
it; for which, no doubt, a new revelation was
always aready and convenient salvo. As for from thence 25.000 dirhems for his own
those who were slain on Mahomets part in share of the plunder.
this battle, they were all looked upon by the
In the year of Christ 625, being the third
the enemys great standardbearer; which

struck them with such terror, that they soon
betook themselves to ight, falling foul upon
their own corps de reserve. Victory had now
been no longer doubtful, notwithstanding the
vast inferiority of Mahomcts troops, had
not the 50 archers, contrary to the prophets
express command, quitted their post to pil
lage the enemy. Upon this Khaled, perceiv
ing the Moslem army to be greatly expos
kioslems as martyrs; and the prophet per of the Hegira, the Koreish assembled an
ceiving amongst the prisoners two of his army of 3000 men, among whom were 200
inveterate enemies, immediately caused their horse and 700 armed with coats of mail.
The command of this army was given to
heads to be struck 08'.
The Koreish, in order to be revenged on Abu Soan, who was attended by his wife
Liuhomet for their late defeat at Bedr, sent Henda Dint Otba, and sat down at a village
Amru Ebn Al As, who afterward conquer about six miles distant from Medina. Ma ed, attacked them in the rear with suri
cd Egypt, with some other of their princi-k homet, being much inferior to the enemy, bravery, that he tw
26
day. Not content with putting the troops

there in disorder, he cried out with all his
might, Mahomet is slain, and this had
such an e'ect upon the Moslems, that they
cient to avert their destiny, or prolong their

lives even for a single moment.
(To be continued.)
-_.
immediately took to their heels, nor could
For the Repertory.
the utmost endeavours of the prophet him

self afterwards rally them. He therefore
found himself obliged to quit the eld of
battle: in doing which he was very near
losing his life, being struck down by a shower
OR
THE MYSTERIOUS DIONK.
A TALE.
CHAPTER II.
of stones, and wounded in the face by two

arrows, which occasioned the loss of two
of his fore teeth. He likewise received a

contusion on his upper lip; and had even
been killed on the spot, had not one of his
companions, named Tel/1a, Abu Beers neph
And these are of them.- whither have they vanished?

SHAKSPEARE.
ble the last words of the spectre could effect
Abu Beer, Omar, and Othman; but as soon, after some time proved effectual, and Alten
as they understood that the prophet was safe, \ heim taking his hand, tenderly inquired the >
they returned to the charge With a consider- 1 cause of his sudden indisposition.
The cause, murmured Montaldo, aye,
able body, and, after an obstinate dispute,
carried him off. The good retreat made by what was the cause?
My young riend," said the count,
these champions so discouraged the troops
yourself,
and every occurrence in your pal
of Abu Sofian, that they did not pursue the
ying enemy, but contented themselves with ace are most mysterious."
My noble Altenheim, answered DArin
remaining masters of the eld of battle; nor
did that general, though he exulted not a hault, I pray you to excuse me, you are
little in his victory, make anyfurther use of most welcome to Dusseldorp: A sudden fever
it than to give Mahomet a challenge to meet shot across my mind, and affected me in
him the next year at Bedr, which was ac the manner you observed; but come, I feel
myself recovered, let us retire, and discourse
of other objects now; of love and of Amelia.
I am extremely rejoiced, my dear Mon

was readily granted.
This defeat had like to have proved the taldo, said Altenheim, to nd your re
total ruin of the impostors affairs, and must covery as sudden as your indisposition.
The two noblemen now retired, and as
inevitably have done so had the conquerors
made the least use of their victory. Some of they passed to the chamber of Pandolfo,
his followers now asserted, that had he been Altenheim could not but observe that a deep
really a prophet sent from God, he could not frown hung continually on the brow of the
exasperated on account of the loss of their
friends and relations who had been slain
in the late engagement. To still the mur
Altenheim now related his adventure

without the palace and the appearance of the
spectre within. Pandolfo expressed a great
deal of surprize, and said;
Your imagination must have deceived

you, count Altenheim, for it cannot be pos
sible that there should be a secret pannel
in the Wainscot and escape my scrutinizing
observation."
doubt, you surely heard the last words the
Hamza the prophcts uncle, and Mosaab the him in that manner. Endeavours were instant
standard bearer. Amongst the wounded were . lymade for the recovery of Montaldo, which
have been thus defeated; and others were
the palace?
The earth has bubbles as the water hath,
lems 70 were slain; among
cepted; and after his return to Mecca, he

desired a truce with the Moslems, which
sights could you possibly have seen about
twas more than fancy; but why is this
The astonishment of Altenheim was

greatly increased, upon beholding the situa
tion of the Prince, for he could not possibly
conceive the cause, as he thought it impossi
whom were
Continued.
His eye looked wan, and from his youthful check
The hue of health retired.
On this oceasion Telha received a wound

in his hand, which deprived him ever after
of the use of some of his ngers. Of the M05
ew, received a'blow that was levelled at him.
Prince; which, however, he attributed to a

natural disposition, and yet the remembrance
No, my lord, answered Altenhcim,
spectre spoke!
DArinhault started and looked terried,
but suddenly resuming his fortitude he re
plied:
Indeed, my good count, I heard nothing!
if any sounds were heard, they must have
been spoken during my insensibility.
Altenheim was more and more astonish
ed, and declared he would not rest satised

until the wainscot was searched, to see if the
pannel, which, he was convinced, was open,
could be now discovered.

With all my heart, my dear count,
said DArinhault, and I am extremely re
joiced, that you have demanded a proof in

my power so easily to grant.
Though I shall pronounce it wonderful,
answered Altenheim, if the pannel cannot
be discovered, I shall still retain my opin
ion, for I am certain I could never have been
thus deceivet .
You shall be immediately satised,"
returned Montaldo, if you will favour me
with your company to the hall.

Pondolfo and Altenheim now proceeded
to the spot where the mysterious occuren
ces took place, and the attendants were com
manded to search every part of the vain

scot, which was done, but without the effect
which Altenheim condently expected. Not

satised with this, the count began the ex
amination himself, and coming to the spot
where he saw the spectre enter, he stopped
of former years ashed upon his mind, and

he saw Montaldo in those days, when his
and declared that there there was an entrance,
murs of the former, he laid the blame on
countenance was cloathed in smiles, and his
My dear friend, said DArinhault, I
the sins of those who had accompanied him;

and, to pacify the latter, he pretended a reve
brow beamed nothing but pleasure.
although he could not discover it.
am extremely sorry that I must contradict

\V hence is the change? said he, men your assertion, and believe me, I take it ex
lation from heaven, wherein the period of tally, as they entered the chamber, and he tremely unkind, that after such a proof you
all mens lives was said to be unalterably cast a look upon the visage of DArinhault. still persist in your strange opinion.
The prince perceived that something dis
xed without regard to their own actions,
Pardon me, my dear prince, answered
or to any external objects; so that those who turbed the mind of his friend, and trembling Altenheim, after the convincing evidence
were killed in battle behovetl to have died, ly asked the cause of the perturbation which I have, I must forego my thoughts,though
though they had remained at home in their was so apparent in his looks.
you will easily acknowledge the almost im
own houses. By the assistance of this last
I have seen strange sights to night, possibility of dissipating ideas of this nature.
doctrine he encouraged his followers to ght, my Lord, replied Altenheim.
I can indeed!" replied Pandolfo, but
~about fear, for the propagation of their
Indeed! rejoined D'Arinhault, with you should recollect that they now convey
llla as all their caution would not be suf increased apprehension, what unnatural a suspicion of myself in them, and as such
they should be dissipated."
27
Of you my Lord! rejoined Altenheim,

no, on my honour, nothing should lead me
to harbour a suspicion of one whom I have

come to lead to the altar with the heiress
of Altenheim.
I
My father, said DArinhault, taking
the hand of the count, but was immediately
interrupted by a voice from the wainscot

which in hollow accents exclaimed again;
Altenheim! friend of Pandolfo, lead not
thy daughter to a murderers arms!

The prince turned pale. Altenheim de
manded to know if he were now deceived;
and was answered by Montaldo in the nega
tive, who declared that his astonishment had
he has really declared that he beheld the

same appearance which so disturbed your
lordship.
Thought I saw it, my lord, said Pc
troni again, by these eyes and the valour
of my heart I did see it, and your"
Coward, cried Geraldo, unsay those
words instantly!
Why as to the matter of seeing it, I cant
be certain, answered Petroni, but
You see, my lord, said Montaldo, in
terrupting Petroni, that the fellows fears

will make him say and unsay in the same
breath; therefore we cannot give credit to
his words. No more of this, Petroni; get to
to account for the mysterious voice, but

said if it were possible to discover the cause,
your employ and let us not be interrupted

further with your foolish fears. Permit me
to conduct you from this place, continued
he would unfathom it before he slept again.
he, taking the hand of Altenheim, and we
almost overcome him, for he was unable
Come, I have convinced you prince,
will prepare for our departure.

Altenhcim suffered the prince to conduct
the subject. I will not lead my daughter to him to a chamber where a cheering rcpast
a muderers arms, but Iwill lead her to was prepared, but he could not prevent
the arms of DArinhault, the adopted son ideas arising in his mind tending to place
and rightful heir of old Pandolfo.
DArinhault more than he wished in the
At these words Montaldo started, and a knowledge of the secrets ofthe palace. These
groan deep and dreadful was heard from however he quickly endeavoured to dispel,
the place whence the voice issued.
as he would not suffer opinions in his mind
This is indeed wonderful! exclaimed that would tend to cast a degree ofguilt upon
Altenheim, but come, Montaldo, let us get the man intended for his daughter's husband.
from this mysterious palace as soon as pos
During the repast DArinhault and Alten
sible. To day we must depart for Altenheim, heim discoursed of fortncr times, and the
said Altenheim, and now we will dismiss
and in a few days Amelia shall be yours.
manner in which Montaldo talked, the lial
My generous friend, returned Mon

taldo, I will deserve this goodness: come
let us hasten to take some refreshment.

Geraldo, continued he, to a fellow who ap
proached, of a stern aspect, and an eye from

which murder beamed in every glance,
Geraldo, let every possible means be used
to discover the meaning of the strange sounds
and the supernatural appearance.
My lord, they shall, answered the
vassal, and if the palace contain her
ghostly majesty she shall be fount ."

If it contain her!" exclaimed Petroni, a
fellow who stood trembling by, if it contain
her, Geral"
Silence! roared Geraldo with a voice
that shook the hall, and at the same time
giving Petroni look that sttuck him with

tenfold horror, be half drew a dagger from
his girdle.
Come, come, Geraldo, said DArinbault,
you must this time forgive the terrors and

Ioquacity of Petroni.Youmust know,my lord,
continued he, turning to Altenheim, that
be imagined he heard strange noises:
Imagine! interrupted Petroni, still in

terror.
Petronil said D'Arinhault, sternly.

4 And my lord, proceeded he to Altenheim,
veneration he expressed for the dead Pan

dolfo, and the execrations he bestowed upon
the murderers of the young prince, effectu
ally eradicated all doubts that had obtrndcd
themselves into the bosom of Altenheim.
After their meal was over, Pandolfo retir
cd to prepare for his journey, and Altenheim

we!" to refresh himself, by a walk beneath
the cool fragrance of the trees that sur
rounded the palace.
In passing through a long passage that led
to the garden, he was stopped by hearing
the sound of many voices, in an adjoining
room. He listened.
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THE CABINET. No. XXXIX.

Our city ladies only now aspire
To deck the body, not the mind attire,
In guady show of nery arrayd
Proud as the peacock struts the foolish maid,
Pleasing, like his, her feathers may appear,
But 0! like his, her strains disturb the ear.
Mr. Gravity.
The attering reception my rst commu

nication met with from you, has induced me
to continue my correspondence.
The subject I would now trouble you
upon, is the frivolity of female conversation.
Often has the subject blunted the arrows
of satire, and often has it stopped the mouth
of exposition. But I do not feel daunted at
this, for it is as much our duty to tell the vic
tims of impropriety, what they are, as
what they ought to be. By seeing what they
are, they will find the necessity of altering
their conduct, and by showing them what
they ought to be they will have something
by which to regulate that change. My ex
ceeding stillness among the fair creatures
has often laid me open to their ridicule; all
that I can urge in defence of this, is my
incapacity to sustain a regular part in their
elevated discourse. Taking the Frenchman
for my guide, who says, Peu de precepte et
beaucoup dexemple." I herewith present
you a dialogue which took place the other
evening at the house of Miss Belvisage, a

young lady of fashion, in company with two
of her particular friends, Miss Freeword and
Miss Comita. I was one of the party, my

reason for making such an inconsiderable
gure in the discourse has been already
seen. After the customary introduction res
pecting the Weather, &c. which was tom
to very tatters, they mounted into their
element and continued as follows:

Alisa Belvimge. \Vell, my dear Catharine,
you know the last time I had the pleasure

of your company, I told you that I had been
looking at some ribbons at Mrs. Danbys for
T is true by my valour, said Petroni,
trimmings for my bonnet; I have had it all
for he was one of the group, which Alten

heitn now perceived through an aperture.
By thy valourl rejoined Geraldo, thou
mayest swear by thy valour, and not perjure
nicely tted up since, and Ill venture to say

that you will be very much pleased with it.
Alias Freeword. I have my doubts about
that, cousin, for you know I always did
abominate those torpedoes, and told you
when you got it that it was nothing to com
pare to the cottage hats; they look so sweet,
and innocent.
Miss Bel. Innocent! upon my word, when
people have to get cottage hats to make
thyself, for thou dost not possess an atom.

Nay, Geraldo, returned Petroni, now
we are all alone together, where is the use

of denying it, you know that both our mas
ter and yourself have heard voices and seen
the identical spectre!
Altenheim started, and beheld Geraldo
raise his arm to plunge a dagger into the
bosom of Petroni.
~
'
(To be continued.)
them look innocent: But to drop this, I'll
bring it out, and Ill agree that Miss Comita

and Mr. Thorn, shall decide which of us are
right.
[Exit lilies Belvisage]
PHILADELPHIA nnrnn'ronv.
28
..
lilies Free. Why, Mr. Thorn, it is not pos

sible that you can prefer these vile torpe
does to the cottage hat! I always thought,
andI think so still, that you have more

taste.
I). T. (bowing) You do me much honour

Miss Freeword, butI really cannot say that I
am of your opinion in this affair, for I do
not remember, (if I ever knew) the shape of
the cottage hat: nor of the torpedoe, unless
I may judge from analogy.
'
liss Free.and lilies Comita. Ha! ha! ha!
Illiss Com. Why, Mr. Thorn, are you
serious in this?
D. T. Perfectly so, Miss,I assure you.
ribbon. To be sure the cottage hats look very

neat, but then they go so far over the face,
that a body can neither see, nor be seen,
with one of them on. Therefore for my own
part, if this was turned a little more up in
half the wisdom of my ancient namesake

Solomon, and much less gravity than my
great grandfather Marmaduke Sobersides.
I can smile at a smart repartee, and laugh,
however you may be inclined to doubt it
front I would like it better than the other; or

even as it is, I dont know but I would rather
at a good joke, as loud as he who makes it,
wear it.
IWiss Belv. Now, Catharine, what say you
to that! I am just of Miss Comitas mind
theres a little distortion of feature, my
about that part of it, and had some thoughts
of sending it to Mr. Danbys yesterday to

have it altered, and I intend yet to have it
done.
generally does. To be sure, when I laugh

mouth, perhaps, may yawn as broad as a
milk pail, and very possibly, you could see
down my throat quite plain; my eyes might
look a little blearing, and my nose turned
up, like the nose of a snake; but what of
that, the countenance is not an index to
the mind."
My nose is somewhat shorter than my
arm; my body is not so large as the Irish
giant, and my legs are pretty nearly in pro
portion to my body: in short,I am a decent,
little old man enough, except a small slap
in the face of my beauty, given by a lump
upon my left shoulder. That you may be con
dent that I can see farther than other peo
ple, know that I have two pair of eyes, one
them, Sally?
Miss Bel-v. Yes, my dear, with all my heart, in my head and the other in my pocket. I
and I pray you give us a faithful one. Excuse am not over fat, for if I were fashionable
me one moment: just till I put away my drest, that is haZf naked, you would think
bonnet, I am afraid it will get soiled. I will I had been fed upon em/zty racks, for you
be back again directly. Exit Bliss Brlvisage. could see the boo/w pushing through my
esh. So much for my person, now for my
To be continued
power.
My invisibility proceeds from a curious
For the Repertory.
cause.
Some time since travelling through the
THE INVlSlBLE MONITOR.
forests of Bohemia, I had the happiness of
No. I.
lilies Free. All that I have to say, is that
For (pardon me) I think so little of these since I left it to her, I suppose I must say
things that after they have vanished form nothing,- butI never will agree with you as
my sight, the impression is erased from my long asI live. As for Miss Rattles, it was
just ofa piece with the rest of her dress: and
mind.
Miss Free. Ah! I see you men are all her beau along side of her, was tipped off
alike, your taste ([zardon me) is so vitiated, no less fantastically. Ha! ha! ha! I declare the
that I fear all efforts to reclaim you will be very recollection of it, almost throws me into
totally fruitless.
the hysterics! Will you have a description of
Enter Mas Belvisagr.
Bliss Belv. \Vell, girls, Ive got it. Now

Miss Comita, and Mr. Thorn, for a trial of
your discrimination.
Jiliss Com. (taking the bonnet in her/10nd,)
\Vhy, my dear, this looks very well in aper

sons hand, but I saw Miss Rattle with one
of them on last Sunday, and to tell the

truth I thought it looked rather awkward.
liaa Free. Awkward? absurd! I tell you,
cousin, it looks ridiculous, and you never
did betray your want of judgment so shock
BY SOLOMON SOBERSIDES.
ingly, as in the purchase of this bonnet. To
Shoot folly as it ies,
give ten dollars and a quarter for it, when
And catch the manners, living, as they rise.
Porc
(since you was determined to have one) you
might have got one every bit as handsome
He who applauds him that does not de
Isire praise is endeavouring to deceive the
at Mrs. Hellicks for six.
Jill's-r Bel-u. Never mind the price, I only public; he that hisses in malice or insport
is an oppressor and a robber, says that huge
speak of the beauty of the thing.
lilies Com. Well, Mr. Thorn, since we are monument of genius and learning, Dr.
the arbitrators in this case what do you say? Samuel Johnston. Now though there may
D. T. Being unacquainted with,and totally be a number that deserve praise whom I shall
unqualied for this business, I beg leave forget or neglect to applaud, yet I possitivcly
ladies to be eitcused from passing my opin assure the reader I will not applaud him that
ion. I will resign my commission entirely to deserves it not, nor will I hiss, in malace
Miss Comita.
or sport, but wherever I may encounter
Alisa Com. Have I your permission, ladies, vice will endeavour to put it to the bliish
to proceed?
by any means that may present itself to my
Alisa Belv. You have mine freely.
imagination. Animadversions on vice gene
lms Free. And you have also mine, for rally: no personality: so far, so good, and now
from Mr. Thorns own account of his judg for it.
ment, or rather observation, much could
But stop a moment, wild brain of mine,
saving the life of an old man, whom the
mob were tearing to pieces, for a web foot

ed wizzard: after they had retired, he clipped
a piece of the web from his toe, and giving
it to me, said that I would be invisible while
Icarried it in my shoe, unless I should ex
press a wish to be seen.
So much for my power, now for my rst
stop you shall have it in my next number.
--.
For the Repertory.

Mr- Editor,
Will you permit a poor simple wight

who has got a superabundance of leisure
tim eand a great itch for scribbling now and
then to ll a vacant column in your Reper
tory. NotthatI contemplate entering the lists
with your right valiant and learned corres
pondents. If I did it would, I imagine, be to
little purpose;
For who in scorn of a true ame thats near,
whither art thou rambling? who am I? true Would run to light their tapers at a glow worm.
good reader, thatsa very necessary question, By chance I may perhaps give you a history
and I will endeavour to answer thee; but of my life; I say by chance, for I cannot de
rst I would enform thee, for my own sake, pend on myself in scarcely a single instance.
not to believe that the countenance is an Fond of building castles in the air, undertake
have got rather too large a bow on this, index to the mind. I am a quizzical old ge
a thousand things in as many minutes and
neither do I exactly like the colour of the nius, who has just enough to live on, not rarely accomplish any: stability is no ingre
not be expected from it. But Miss Comita,

now that all the load is upon your shoulders,
be careful how you decide.
bliss Com. As to the way it sets to the head
I prefer the torpedoes, but I think, Sarah, you
29
dient of my composition heaven knows! and

as a further proof, it is ten chances to one
you will never see any more of my produc
tions in spite of what I asserted above. An
other propensity (if I may so call it without
doing violence to grammatical ears) I am
possessed of is a perpetual wish or desire
of prying into the affairs, of others: a volume
might easily be lled in describing the scrapes

and quarrels my 'hnfortunate peculiarity has
led me into. In more instances than one has
a brush handle or house cloth been on the
most familiar terms with my back and head:
and once in an unfortunate attempt to ascer
tain whether a lady of my acquaintance wore
a wig or her own hair, I got so completely
drenched with dirty water that four weeks
connement to my room was the punishment
' I received for what people are pleased to
term my impertinent curiosity.
Such treatment had a contrary effect to
what every person would have expected; in
stead of curing me it made me fty times
worse than before. Nothing now could possi- 1
bly escape my observation. Was there a snug
party who wished to be private, I continued
(though without invitation) to be one of the
number: at a wedding always kissed the bride:
placed in his hands a volume of the Re

mains of Henry Kirk \Vhite. This amiable
Dermody, whose numbers blaze with the

pure re of genius, also sank beneath mis
author, said I, drank deep of the water of fortune; and who can pursue the soaring
Helicon; his muse obeyed his call and pre ights of his aspiring fancy, and not deplore
sides at the ickering rays of the midnight the causes, the fatal causes that corrupted a
taper; and the grave was, at the age of 21, mind which, had it been directed in a pro
the receptacle of his virtues; the hand of per channel, would in time have astonished
death extinguished for ever the sparks of and delighted mankind.
genius, ere, fanned by the breath of matu
The amiable character and disposition of
rity, they had bursted into a ame; and the White, yet more, the religious bent of his
few blossoms he had plucked from the par mind, were such as to warrant the belief of
nassian mount, would have bloomed un
his one day becoming societys brightest or
known, and wasted their sweetness on the nament; but crushed were the partial ex
(lesart air, had not the fostering hand of
pectation of his friends, and the sanguine
Southey interfered; and resetting them from hopes of the lovers of science. The chill of
the glooms of obscurity, gave them to an ad death withered at once the bloom of life, and
miring world.
with it the owers of genius; the narrow
The doctor replied not but with a sigh, house untimely received into its dark cham
and seating himself in the large armed chair, bers, one who was the friend of human kind.
began with attention to peruse the work, Here the bell ringing for dinner interrupted
He did not long remain in that employment, my reverie, and as I prepared to obey the
for the entrance of a servant who informed summons, I thanked my stars that I was not
him his immediate attendance was indispen sufciently enstecped in the fascinating sweets
sable at Mr.
St
, compelled him to of literature, to be let down the wind to
depart, and I was again left to my reec prey at fortune; and since, I ejaculated,
tions. The fate of genius still occupied my since the votaries of the Muse have been so
mind. It is a singular but a well known fact, often doomed to mix with their heliconian
that, whether or not the result of impru draught the bitter waters of sorrow and dis
knew to a certainty who was going to be dence on their part, or the decrees immuta appointed hopes, let me not regret that nig
joined together or who had quarrelled: could ble of fate, there has existed few men of su gard nature has denied me access to the
tell how Miss Polly outed and master perior genius whose lives do not present a luscious fountain, but rejoice that shrouded
Tommy sighed: how Rachel Rosebud irted varyed scene of sorrow and disappointment. in the mist of insignificancy, I shall never
with Beau Brindle which sorely grieved poor Even that Colossus in literature, Dr. John become the mark for the poisoned shafts of
Harry Heartless. Thus passed away the best son, encountered diiculties, which would the critic, and happily may escape the melan
M. P. Jh.
part of my life, and now advanced in my have dismayed minds ofle ss rmer textures, choly fate ofgcnius.
while
in
the
act
of
compilinghis
Dictionary.
fty fth year, I look back with regret on
For the Repertory.
the days that are own forever: youth, health The poverty and distress of Milton were so
Mr.
and good spirits once supported me. Care pressing that his Paradise Lost was sold,
THE PR 0 PITIAION.
oh
shame!
for
10
pounds.
Dryden,
Otway,
was thrust neck and heels out of my door
BOOK I.
and commanded never to show his ugly Chatterton, Savage, and various others equal
Continued.
ly renowned for their genius and erudition,
face again in my presence. But
exemplify the point in question. It is a me
" Alas! those times are over,
And I have had my day.
The infernal gout has seized my toes: my

nose from a delicate cream colour, now as
sumes the imperial purple: vapours succeed
to the throne abdicated by laughter and
good humour, and little more than the name
remains of MARMADUKE MARPLOT.
o-
'
For the Repertory.

THE FATE OF GENIUS.
lancholy retrospect, and evinccs the care

lessness of their country to the existence of
poetic elegance, and the more solid and un
owery researches of philosophy. Genius
has generally been found to hover around
the dwelling of the lowly, the unblest of
fortune; and is oft compelled by the busy
hum of commerce, to wing her ight prema
turely. The great and powerful prefer the
nobler pursuits of gaiety and rcvclry, to the
more rened paths of literature; and hence
Yes, I exclaimed, as I closed the volume;
her followers are doomed to encounter the
poverty and untimely mortality are fre

quently the fate of genius, and I will main
tain it: at the same time striking my hand
violently on the table. Maintain what? my
evils of adversity, the miseries of want, or,
friend, said the doctor, who just" then enter
to drown the pangs of sorrow, plunge in de

grading dissipations, which eventually leaves
no other prospect of release from misery
than the grave. And while we admire the
ing my apartment, had heard the latter part
lays of Scotlands sweetest minstrel, we are
of my exclamation. I repeated it, and as an compelled to regret that thoughtless follies

instance of the veracity of the observation, laid him 10\v,.antl stained his name!
ARGUMENT
The return from Egnu: The songs of triumph at

the Saviour's birth are heard in hellr The descrip
tion of tha place: The terrors of Satan at hearing
the choir from the skies: He calls upon his chief
concomitants Envy, Pride and Ambition: Takes
a. brief review of the temptation of our rst par
ents in the garden

When erce destruction struck the haughty Jew,
To Egypts sands the guardian angel ew:
The trembling air confessed the -orm divine, 319
Whose burning-plumes with heavenlyrad iaueeshine
His spreading wings with thundring sound unfold,
And wave their feathered beauties tipped with gold.
A stream of glory pointed out the way,
And as he ew spread round the shining day!
a ..
0~I|
The father saw the seraph, from afar,
Swiftly approaching on his ery ear;
Fearful he views, in wonder and alarm,
Th increasing radiance of the heavenly form;
But soon the seraph cht-ekd his erring fear,
And breathed these welcome accents in his ear: 330
Fear not, the guilty wretch from whom you ed,
Struck by the vengeance of high Heaven, is dead;
U)
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In this abyss, we, unresisted, reign,
With endless gloom and everlasting pain!
Take then the child, on changeless fate rely,
405
\VRITTEN AFTER A DEBAUCH.
Andfrom the burning sands of Egypt y!

When Heaven commanded, and the rolling earth,
No dangers wait him, for no dangers can,
Ah! Reason, why is not thy sway

More stedfast oer the human soul?
\Vhy dost thou turn thy face away,
Or yield one moment thy controull
435
\Vith all creation, bursted into birth;
lill Heaven be conquered by his creature man:
Immortal raptures kindle through the skies,

Iill, as himself ordained, his blood be spilt,
As the dread mandate from the Eternal ies; 410
To save from anguish and destroying guilt!
Increasing melodies each tongue employ,
But that he yields, in vain would earth oppose,
And heavens bright sons together sing for joy!
340
His very look could blast a host of foes!
0! had I seen, ere that rebellious hour,
Therefore depart and trust the dread decree,
'Ihat guards from danger both the child and thee! In which I threw deance at his power,
515
His mighty potence fashion out a world,
The Seraph spoke, on spreading wings withdrew,
That
rash
deance
never
had
been
hurld!
\Vhile they stood wondring as he upward ew.
Such dread Omnipotence had then sppcard,
Obedient to'omnipotent command,
34-5
] I might have envied, but I should have feared!
Joseph and Mary quit th Egyptian land,
, But now, so hopeless is my gloomy fate,
By heaven conducted, reach Judeas shore,
420
1 I vow eternal war, eternal hate!
And dwell in safety as they dwelt before.
Unthinking youth! where now remain

The fancied joys that guilt bestows?
In retrospections probing pain:
In sad reections poignant woes.
For what can erce salacious re.
But sorrow to the soul impart?
\Vhat viciously indulgd desire,
But throbbing anguish to the heart?
Yet what directs our furious way,
When Reason shuts her streaming eye
And what revives her sinking ray,
Soon as I saw the new made world arise,
Now had the shouts which rent the ambient air,
As heavenly tongues the Saviours birth declare,

Pierced through the solid bosom of the ground,
And reached the regions of despair profound! 352
'hcre rebel angels, cast, reluctant dwell,
Saw the vast waters spread the spacious skies,

My labring bosom broke a direful groan,
Till hell reechoed to the dismal moan!
Though heaven had shed an ocean of our gore
But dear repentance, heart felt sigh?
Our demons thought he thirsted still for more! 425

The direful rulers of a direful hell!
Lugubrious cave! where never hope appears, 355
Through the vast ages of eternal years;
But where dismay and cruel care corrode,
And it around the terrible abode!
Where mans destruction, only, ushersjoy,
And frantic revels evryhour employ!
360
High in the midst an ebon throne appears,
But when I found majestic man was formd,

And the cold clay with deathless spirit warmd
A scheme of vengeance struck my guilty soul, 429
.\nd the black thought no terrors could controul!
In the mild east, where genial suns arise,
And beam more gentle fervour from the skies,
Fair Edens garden stood; the sweet abode
Where man was placed by his indulgent God!
From which the Temptcrs sable banner rears;
None but these passions dared to enter there, 435
Snake-eating Envy and remorscless Pride,

\Vith glitt'ring faulchions, sentinel the side;
Love for our hate and hope for our despair!

Delightful peace the glorious realm contrould,
And endless blessings in succession rolld.
Stands in the van and towers above the rest!
There I beheld them, there resolved, in joy,
There Satan sits, tremendous and alone,
440
Their bliss and holy honours to destroy;
And worms and adders crawl around his throne!
But where, what vulnerable part appeared,
The poisonous vipers round his forehead coil,
370 Alas! I found none and defeatI feard!
His ghastly yjisage beams th infernal smile;
Then thou, 0! cunning Envy, didst suggest
His ery eyes emit a furious glare,
One hope, to sooth the troubles of my breast!
And deadly venom hisses from his hair!
445
That as a positive command was given,
When the glad anthem of the choir oerjoyd,
By
the
omnipotence
of
favouring
Heaven,
Reached his domain and cndlike peace destroyd;
That though all trees which spread their fragrance
The Tempter, struck with terror at the sound, 375
round,
Threw in wild glance h'naming eyes around!
Within the borders of the sacred ground,
In that tremendous time, when cruel hate
Their leafy honours should promiscuous grant,
Allured the traitor to detest his state,
450
And yield their fruit: to satisfy each want,
The reign of peace and mercy to despise,
Yet
one,'that
noblcr
than
the
rest
appeared,
And kindle black rebellion in the skies!
380
And oer the whole its towring glories reard,
\Vhen the embattled seraphim, arose
The heavenly tree of knowledge both 01 good
In dread array, to crush the Eternals foes;
\Vhile rash Ambition, with his waving crest,
365
Led by the son, whose glorious armour gleamd

With godlike lustre; and whose faulchion beamd
Resistless terrors on the fallen crew,
385
As through the skies their fear struck numbers ew;

So now he stands, in terror, while he hears
The sounds seraphic burst upon his ears!

His guilty mind now pictured once again,
Heaven hurling vengeance on his guilty tr, ' ; 390
He fears lest justice shake him from his seat,
And drive his angels from their last ieueat!
lhe ery ame forsakes his fearful eyes,
While starting from his throne erect, he'cries:
Attend my clnetconeomilants, and hear

My words, dictated by a well judged fear;
lfheaven be joyous it imports no good
395
And evil treacherous, should be withstood!
Since grief and death, 0! most terric fate!

On tasting it too surely should await.
This was my hope, I sought the blest abode,
While the earth trembled as I silent trode!
The pair I found with evry blessing blest,
True, nature kindles virtuous love,
But tears from lust her sacred name.

0! when will foolish man be wise?
Wh'cn youth his passions learn to quell
When guided by religion, rise
Oer the blackjaws of gaping hell?
My torturd mind, thou God of heaven,
0': may thy saving cOunsels ll;
That mind by youths Wild whirlwinds driven,
Though still repenting, erring still~
May it, endued with strength by thee,
Hate the gay harlots borrowd smiles;
From sin, in all its shapes, be free,
And SCape in every form its wiles.
Teach me to ward th' attacks of vice.
\Vith mild religions rm nervd am,
And when she strives the soul to entice,
And shows the eye each gaudy chain,
0! teach me. to behold her end,
To frown upon her hopes forlorn;
Or mote severe, the glance to bend

Of cold contempt, or smiling scorn
Then will I view lifes journey oer,
Its dangers past, in sweet amaze,
And landed safe on virtues shore,

Pour forth my soul in grateful praise.
4-55
ALUONDO.
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Tributary verses to Air. Cooke.
4-60 Cooke, tis your merits now that bid the muse
With greater rage did this my spirit swell,
O'er shadowy forests spread her rosy wing;
At the remembrance of from whence I fell!
And in Columbias breast her soul infuse,
Full well ye know the glorious state I held,
Your genius wonder working, sway to sing.
Ere Heaven our hosts from that estate expelld.
465 A Wood born son would now fain strike the lvre,
Fraudful I went and joind the tender pair,
In just encomium all his powers engage;
But for the man in vain I spread the snare;
Yet she,the beauteous Eve,whom bounteous Heaven, For you have kindled natures dying re,
And boldly borne her banners on the stage.
Had to the solitary Adam given;
And virtue only inmate with each breast;
To me your monarch, or your mumerous brood:

\Ve have strong cause, in this our present wo,
To her in luring garb did I appear,
His might and unrelenting ire to know;

400
When rst we warrd to gain an equal right,
And govern high heaven with the God 01 light,
Fiercely We fought, the struggle soon had end,
Ueaseless, the soothing attery I applied,

And when I faild in feeling, touchd her pride!
AKl hall, at last, has proved our only friend!
0! impious wretch, seek not to prove

That nature lights th impulsive ame.
And pour the subtle poison in her ear!
No strutting player, do we behold in vou,

470
Tis Richards self, when Richard you'appem";

In Pertinax, , a true horn soot, we view,
And in the injured King, not Cooke, but Lear
The woman yielded, both together fell,
\nd a loud plaudit shook the realms of hell!

To be continued.
Skilld in the sofler keys that touch the soul,
In virtues cause your words can steal the sigh,
531
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Or make, when vice demands it, sternly roll

The ery ball of indignations eye.
Yes, Cooke, the muse may well delight to call.
\Vith justice armd, to such a task her train;
And bid, though long lived slander loud appul,
Fame still more lasting, sound alouder strain.
'IHADDEUS.
.
The following little instance ofrened sentiment.

written by Anthony Pasquin, esq. in consequence
of the authors being reproached for not weeping
over the dead body of a female friend, has been
translated into German by Klopstock; into Italian
by count Savelli, of Corsica; and into French by
count Joseph Augustus de Macarthy.
Cold drops the tear which blazons common wo,

\Vhat callous rock retains its Chrystal rill?
Neer will the softend mould its liquid show:
Deep sink the waters that are smooth and still!
Love is the universal charm. It possesses

beauty that wins and ravishes every heart.
A single spark of its generosity of dealings
excites our admiration: a glimpse of it in
courteous behaviour secures to a man our
esteem, and sweetly endears him to us. How
charming is the countenance that is bright
ened by the smiles of love! How sweet the
voice that is tuned by the melody of love!
How gladdening to the heart, the beams that
sparkle from the eye of love! Indeed, love,
or goodness, which is but another name, is
the only amiable thing in nature. Power or
wealth may be respected, wit and beauty
may be admired, but if separated from good
ness, they neither deserve nor can command
our love; for the worst and most wretched
tal poison, and thus restores health and hap'

piness to our long tortured bosoms.
Love, like a celestial queen, Walks before,
meekness and gentleness follow as her 01'

(lest daughters, while joy and peace, with
all the sister graces, make up the immortal
retinue.
But love preserves us not only from our
own, but from the malignant passions of
others. Like sweetest music, it has power to
soothe the savage breast, to melt hearts of
int, and to tame the ercest spirit. Its mild

and serene countenance, its soft and gentle
spirit, its courteous and obliging manners, its
fair dealings, endearing converSation, its
readiness to do good services to any man, is

the only charm under heaven to disarm the
of beings possess them in a very high de bad passsions of men, and to guard our per
gree. The prince of darkness has more sons from assaults, our interests from dam
power, and tyrannizes over more slaves by age, and our reputation from slander. For
Oh! when sublimely agonized I stood,
And memory gave her beauteous fame a sigh,
far than the great Turk. One devil may have who can be so unnatural as to hate the man
\Vhile feeling triumphd in my hearts warm blood, more wit than all the Achitophels in the who loves us, and is ever ready to do us good?
Grief drank the offering ere it reachd the eye.
world, and yet with all his wit he is very \Vhat wretch, what demon, can nd it in
odious and miserableAnd such, in pro ' his heart to be a foe to him who is a warm
portion, is every one who partakes in his 1 friend to all? The vilcst sinner cannot be so
SUN SET.
accursed disposition of hatred and malice.
destitute of goodness. Ifyou love those who
Soft oer the mountains purple brow,
But love not only renders us thus dear love you, who! reward have you? do not even
Meek twilight draWs her shadow grey;
and desirable to others; but it spreads the sinners the some.
From tufted woods, and valleys low,
Lights magic colours steal away.
sunshine of sweetest peace over our own
minds. Itdclivers us from the tyranny of all
et still, amid the splendid gloom,
PHILADELPHIA,
those bad passions which make us misera
Resplendent glow the western waves
That roll oer Neptunes coral caves
ble. Like a golden curb it checks the erce
A zone of light on evenings dome.
ness of anger, that dangerous storm and
0n this lone summit let me rest,

And view the forms to fancy dear;
hurricane of the soul. A man can hardly be

\ TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
incensed against those whom he tenderly
There are some melancholy and much to
loves: an accidental neglect, a hasty word, be regreted truths in the Fate of Genius,
a small unkindness, will not agitate a loving related in a manner unexccptionablc, and
spirit, much less work up the hateful r: that does honour to the authors heart.
eyed fury.
Marmaduke Marplot, has chosen a subject
It banishes envy, that severely just vice,
that will allow him to range at large, and
which never fails to punish itself; for it is
counteract many designs. We hope he will
impossible to rcpine at the wealth or pros
be as indqfarigub/e as usual.
perity, at the virtue or fame of him whom
The Review, by Larry Logbrain, in whom
we cordially love. It excludes rcvcnge,that
we recognize an old friend with a new
cruel canker of the heart; for who can in
Till on the ocean's darkend breast,
The stars of evening tremble clear;

0r, till the moons pale orb appear,
Throwing her beam of radiance wide,

Far oer the lightly curling tide,
That seems the yellow sands to elude.
No sounds oer silence now prevail,
Save from the dying vale below;
Or sailors song, home on the gale;
0r oar, at distance striking slow.
So sweet, so tranquil, may my evening ray
Set to this world, and rise in future day.
__.__
dulge bitter sentiments, or form dark designs

of evil against one whom he tenderly loves
and in whose good he heartily delights?
ON SOCIAL LOVE.
It subtitles ambition and avarice, those
To be caressed and be beloved by all

around us, is one of the dearest wishes of the
human heart. It is a natural, it is a laudable
aspiring, painful passions. For who could

domineer over those whom he loves? \Vho
could extort from and impoverish those whom
he earnestly wishes should and would gladly
see prosper? A competence will seem like
abundance to him who lives as among breth
wish. Great pains have been taken, and in

nite expense incurred to attain this coveted
honour, and yet the greater part never attain
it, merely through defect of love on their ren, taken but for one among the rest, and
o'wn part. Let beauty, wit, gold, &c. boast can as ill endure to sec them want as him
and do all they can, yet will it be found in self.
the end that
It is from the prevalence of such bad pas
sions as these that human misery chiey
In spite of all the dull mistaken elves,
They who would make us love, must love them consists. Love is their only sovereign anti
selves.
dote. It alone subdues and expcls their fa
phiz, is received and shall be attended to
in turn.
Lorenzo is ever welcome to the columns
of the Repertory.
The communicator of the epigram con
cerning poor Teague, will oblige us by let
ting us know if it be original.
In the address of Inquisitiveto Glor
mon, we can perceive no poetical requisites,
and too much levity of thought on a serious
subject, for its admission into the Reper
tory.
The essay of Seneca upon Ambition ap
pears to us dull and insipid, both from its
want of solid argument and accuracy of
composition. Having been animadvertrd on
by the greatest literary characters in "
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world, and its baleful effects placed in the
most direful point of view, some new effect
the author has put a most pathetic account

of an unfortunate life into the mouth of the
Massachusetts (proper) 472,040
must be discovered to render an essay on
Swain, which, together with the story of the

Maniac, he tells us, is founded on family
North Carolina
563.526
South Carolina
Kentucky
414,935
406.51 I
ambition acceptable to the public, and that

effect clothed in a degree of elegant com
history. Circumstances transpire familiar to
Maine
228,705}
700745
position, which Senecas by no means ap
both, and in the end the Maniac discovers in
Maryland
380,546
pears to wear.
Of the poetry of Hilarion we cannot say
the Swain a long lost brother.

The fever of frenzy is abated, the storm
that so long tossed on a sea of distraction
his shattered bark is assuaged, the clouds of
misfortune disappear before the cerulean
sky of joy, and the sun of peace sweetly
emerges, to shine with redoubled lustre on
the Maniacs head.
Thus much for the construction of the
poem. We should now proceed to point out
Connecticut
Tennessee West
261,942
a word in commendation, and of course it

cannot appear in our columns. There ap
pears, however, some ingenuity displayed in

the construction of the piece, but that alone
is not suicient to justify us in inserting it.
We have received \Vill Versatiles note,
with the third and fourth numbers of the

Budget; but have not had time to give them
that attentive perusal which is necessary, in
order to decide upon their merits in time
to offer our opinion in the present number.
Valmont is again too incorrect for the Re
pertory.
MARRIED,
On Tuesday evening last, by the Rev.

Mr. Alexander, Dr. Hz'lliam Frederick Hous
ton, of Columbia, (Penn) to Miss .flmy

Hunter MCorkle, of this city. _
On Thursday Evening last, by the Rev. Dr.
Staughton, lllr. Jo/m Nagle, to Alias diary
Go', both of the Northern Liberties.
We learn from Newburyport, (says the
Host. Chron. 6th inst.) that two subscription
papers were circulating at that place on
Tuesday, for the assistance of the sufferers
by the late re, the one headed by Mr. Bart
lett with 3,000 dollars, the other by Moses
Brown with 1,500.
--.
the beauties and defects that strike us, but
East
160,360
101,367}
261727
Georgia
New Jersey
252.433
245.5 62
OhiO
$30,760
Vermont
217.913
New Hampshire
214.414
Rhode Island
Delaware
76.93 1
72,674
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.
that the latter are few, and in enumerating

the former we should be under the necessity
Orleans
Missisippi
76,556
40,352
of quoting a number of detached parts; for
Indiana
Columbia
Louisiania
24,520
24,023
20,845
which, we are sure, our readers would never
forgive us, since it would deprive them of

the pleasure of discovering them on a peru Illinois
Michigan
sal of the work.
The language is certainly melancholy, but
in what other language could we wish to
have the Maniacs griefs related? An Eng
12,282
4,762
7,238,42!
lish writer has declared, that it showed the
author to have been steeped in gloom all his
Extract of a letterfrom an intelligent gentle

man in .N'. Orleans, to his friend in Phila
life; but we would ask if there would not
Tripped on light fantastic toe,
delphia, dated [May 3.

This territory has 91 sugar works which
have made last season 9,694 hhds. ofsugar,
while relating some unfortunate occurrences
and 5,065 hhds. of molasses: 249 cotton gins,
have been a manifest incongruity, nay, an

absolute absurdity, in his having
of his life, mixed with little fable? The opi
which have produced 41,560 bales of clean
nion of this writer appears to be founded on
cotton, which with indigo, tobacco, hides,
prejudice, for we think the style dees the
Ste. form a rich and heavy export. If com

merce was not cramped by our laws and
scrutiny even of hypercriticism.

Of the other poems we shall say little,
other causes, N. Orleans would in a few
COMMUNICATION.
.L aweons Poems. A copy of the English
edition of the Maniac and other Poems, by
the pleasure, we are convinced, they will en
TERMS OF T HE RERERTORY
the Rev. John Lawson, one of the missiona
joy in a perusal, as we did in speaking of the
ries on his way to Semmpore, was put into

our hands for perusal, and we now congra
tulate the public on the appearance of an
Maniac. Were we, however, asked our opi

imposing upon ourselves the same restraint, years rival Philadelphia.

with regard to disappointing the public in
nion, we should say that we think the Hour

Glass, the Hindoos Complaint, the Child at
American edition of this beautiful little the Grave of its Mother, and the Victim, are
work, by Messrs. Hellings and Aitken.
superior to the rest.
The Maniac is written in a kind of poeti
Upon the whole, though we will not in
1 al dialogue, in imitation of the Wanderer sult the authors understanding, by saying
ofSwitzerland, by James Montgomery, Esq., that his work is entirely unexceptionable,
as the author tells us in his preface. The yet, among the voluminous productions of
poem commences with the discovery of the the present poetical world, we have seldom
Maniac by the Swain, who, inquiring the found one, in which candid criticism has
cause of his sorrow and distraction. is an discovered more to commend or less to
swered by the relation of the Maniacs story, censure.
in a manner chastly poetical, expressed in
.
the sublime and simple language of nature,
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
and completely congruous to the character
IN 1810.
portrayed. Agreeably to that maxim, so of Virginia
965,079
ten veried in the experience of all, that a New York
958,220
compeer in misery can alleviate its pangs Pennsylvania
810,163

Any person who shall procure seven subscriber!

ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of Hel
lings and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.

:
PHILADFLPHIA,

Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth, near
St- Marys church.
@Pifabefpiaweperfm.
Cowman.
VOL. II.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22. lBIl.
No.5.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF MAHOMET.
Continued.
The next year (A. D. 626.) Mahomet,

besides several other less considerable suc
cesses, reduced a fortress belonging to the
Jewish tribe of Al Nadir, who had revolted
on account of the defeat at Ohod: on this
occasion, by an express revelation, as he
pretended, he kept the whole booty to him
self; and, about the same time, forbade his
followers the use of wine, or to play at
games of chance, on account of the distur

bances and quarrels which were likely to be
excited by that means among them. This
year also he marched with a body of infantry
to Bedr, to meet Abu Soan, as he had pro
rest were obliged to raise the siege and re

turn home.
The prophet, being now happily delivered
from the most powerful combination that
had ever been formed against him, was visit
ed by the angel Gabriel; who asked him,
whether he had suered his men to lay
down their arms, when the angels had not
laid down theirs? ordering him at the same
time to go immediately against the tribe of
Koreidha, and assuring him that he himself
would lead the way. Upon this Mahomet

immediately set out for the fortress of the
Koreidhites, and pushed on the siege with
so much vigour, that, though it was deemed
impregnable, he obliged the garrison to
Capitulate in twenty-ve days. The Koreid
hites, not daring to trust themselves to the
impostors mercy, surrendered at discretion
to Saad Ebn Moadh, prince of the tribe of
Aws, hoping that he, being one oftheir old
to the Koreish by one whom they had sent

with an actual deance to Mahomet, of the
prodigious veneration which his followers

had for him. The messenger acquainted
them that he had been at the courts both of
the Roman emperors and of the kings of Per
sia, but never saw any prince so highly res
pected as Mahomet was by his companions.
Whenever he made the ablution, in order
to say his prayers, they ran and caught the

water which he had used; whenever he spit,
they licked it up, and gathered up every
hair that fell from him, with great venera
tion. This intimated how desperately they
would ght In his defence, and probably in
clined his enemies to avoid hostilities. In 629,
the impostor began to think of propagating

his religion beyond the bounds of Arabia,
and sent messengers to several neghbouring
princes to invite them to embrace Mahome
mised the year before: but that generals

heart failing him, he returned home with
tanism; but, before sending the letters, he
out facing the prophet; and this piece of
cowardice the Moslems did not fail to im friends and confederates, would have some caused a silver seal to be made, on which
pute to a terror sent immediately from God. regard for them. Here, howevcr,thcy found were engraved, in three lines, the following
The year following, however, the Koreish, themselves disappointed; for Saad, being words, MAI-tomer THE Aros'rus or Goo.
in conjunction with the tribe of Ghatsan, highly provoked at them for assisting the This seal, he believed, would precure the
Koreish while in league with Mahomet, letters to which it was aixed a more fa
and the Jews of Al Nadir and Koreidha, as
sembled an army of 12,000 men, with which ordered the men to be put to the sword, the vourable reception at the courts of those
they formed the siege of Medina; thus women and children made slaves, and their princes whither they were directed. The
threatening the impostor and all his follow goods divided among the Moslems. This sen rst to whom he applied was Khosru PalViZ
ers with utter destruction at once. On the tence was no sooner heard by Mahomet, than the king of Persia; but he, nding that Ma
enemysapproach, Mahotnet, by the advice he cried out that Saad had pronounced the sen homet had put his own name before his,
of a Persian named Salman, ordered a deep tence of God; and, in consequence of this tore the letter in pieces, and sent away the
ditch to be dug round the city, and went
out to defend it with 3000 men. The Arabs

having invested thetown, both sides re
mained in a state of inactivity for some time;
which was so well employed by the impos
tor, that he found means to corrupt some,
of the leading men in the enemys camp.
The good eects of this soon appeared; for
a champion having advanced to the Moslem
decision, ordered the men, to the number

of 600 or 700, to be immediately massacred.
The women and children were carried into

captivity. Their immoveable possessions
were given to the Mohajerin, and the goods
divided equally.
Mahomet now continued to be successful,
gradually reducing the Arab tribes one after
another. In 628, he sent an agent to Constan
tinople, desiring leave of the Greek empe
messenger very abruptly. He also sent a
letter to the same purpose to Constantino

ple; but though the emperor Heraclitus dis
missed his messengers honourably, he re
fused to abandon the Christian faith. Be
sides these, he wrote ve other letters,
which he distributed among those whom he

thought would be most likely to acknowledge
him for an apostle. However, we do not hear
that by means of letters he ever introduced
entrenchments, and challenged the best man
in their army to ght him in single combat; ror, to trade with his subjects; which was his religion into a foreign country. But while
the challenge was immediately accepted by immediately granted. The same year also he our impostor was thus going on in the full
Ali, who slew him and another that came to : concluded a peace for ten years with the in career of his success, and industriously pro
his assistance; after which, those who had; habitants of McCca, and obtained liberty the pagating his infamous falsehoods by all the
been corrupted by Mahomets agents so sour- ' next year to perform his devotions at the means he could think of, he was poisoned
ed a considerable part of the forces, that i. Caaba. \Vhat tended considerably to bring
they deserted their camp; upon which all the
by a maid, who wanted, as she said, to make
about this pacieation was an account brought an experiment whether he was a prophet or
34
not. This was done by communicating some

poison to a shoulder of mutton, of which
one of his companions named Bas/zar Ebn
.Al Bara, eating heartily, died upon the spot;
and Mahomet himself, though he recovered
a little, and lived three years after, yet never
enjoyed perfect health. Notwithstanding this

misfortune, however, he still continued his
enterprizes. The year 630 proved remarka

bly fortunate. It was ushered in by the con- :
version of Khalid Ebn Al \Valid, Amru libn l
Al As, and Othman Ebn Telha, three of the

most considerable persons among the K0
reish: and this soon enabled him to become
master of the \vholepeninsula of Arabia.
This year also the inhabitants of Mecca took
it into their heads to violate the treaty con
cluded with Mahomet; for the tribe of Beer,
who were the confederates of the Koreish,

attacking those of Khozaab, who were in
receive no certain advice of their approach.

Among others that came from Mecca to
reconnoitre the Moslcm camp, Abu Soan
purpose of thy visitfwhat the cause that

thus disturbs thy rest?
Altenheim! as you value yottrs and your
Ebn Harp, Hakim Ebn Hezam, and Bodail daughter's repose, lead not Amelia to a
Ebn Warka, fell into Omar's hands; and be
murderers arms!"
ing conducted to Mahomet, were obliged
Again that warning! replied Alten
to embrace Mahometanism in order to save heim.
their lives.
Farewelll said the phantom, you shall
see me again at Altenheim."
(To be continued.)
With these words she disappeared and
v.
left
the count in the most perplexing un
For the Repertory.
certainty. At rst he thought of pursuing
CASTLE OI" ALTENIIEIM,
the mystery to its developement, but quickly
OR
banished the idea, as it might be taken of

A TALE.
CHAPTER II.
Continued.
His eye looked wan, and from his youthful cheek
alliance with Mahomet, massacred 20 of The hue of health retired.
them, and afterwards retired; being support The earth has bubbles as the water hath,
ed in this action by a party of the Korcish And these are of them: whither have they vanished?
s n A x s P r: A n E .
themselves. The consequence of this vio
lation was soon apprehended; and Abu Soan
Villain! desis he suddenly exclaimed,
himself made a journey to Medina, in order and immediately the whole group disappear
to heal the breach and renew the truce; but ed. For supposing it to have been the voice
in vain; for Mahomet, glad of this op
of the spectre, even the ruian looking Ge
portunity, refused to see him. Upon this he raldo was struck with terror like the rest
applied to Abu Beer, Ali, Omar, and Fa and dropping his dagger ed with them.
tima, to intercede for their codntrymen with Altenheim passed on to the outside of the
the prophet; and some of these giving him palace, determining not to mention this last
fensively by D'Arinhault, and he had no

right to intermeddle with the affairs of his
palace; but be determined, should the phan
tom keep her word and meet him at Alten
heim, to unfathom the latent cause of her
appearance let the consequences be what~
they might.
Busicd with these reections. he reached
the palace, and was met at the entrance of
the ball by DArinhault, who inquired the
cause of his long absence, and the reason
of his disturbed appearance.
l have seen, that phantom again, re
plied Altenheim, I cannot stir without be
holding her!
Montaldo Was a little disturbed, but ex
pressing his astonishment, turned to Geraldo,

who stood near him, and demanded to know
rough answers, and others none at all, he circumstance to DArinhault, lest he should if all possible search had been made for the
was obliged to return to Mecca as he came. believe him as cowardly and credulous as unwelcome intruder into his palace, who
Mahomet immediately gave orders for the the vassal, and rccollecting the effect his replying in the airmative, Montaldo turned
necessary preparations, that he might sur sudden exclamation had upon the servants, to Altenheim and said;
prise the Meccans, who were by no means thought perhaps, as they took him for the
You see, my dear count, that every
in a condition to receive him; but Hateb Ebn spectre, he might have taken esh and blood, means have been used to satisfy your curiosity
Abu Baltaa, hitherto a faithful Moslem, at
(who wore a supernatural appearance to without effect, and now as we leave the
tempted to give them notice of their dan further her parlicular ends,) for a spectre palace this afternoon, I trust this subject
ger by a letter, though without effect. His also.
> will be no more mentioned, no more thought
letter was intercepted: and he alledged in
b
Occupied with these reections he reached of.
his excuse, that the only reason he had for the outsideof the palace, and stsayed near half
By me, my lord, replied the count, it
his conduct was to induce the Koreish to a mile before he came to himself. He then shall be no more mentioned, but as to think
treat his family with kindness. This excuse returned in haste, but was surprized to be ing of it, I confess it is not in my power to
the prophet accepted, as he had greatly dis hold a man mufed up in a cloak, standing in banish the idea from my mind.
tinguished himself at the battle of Beer, but the very door where he had before seen the
\Vell, count Altenheim," rejoined Mon
strictly forbade any such practices for the spectre. He stood some moments gazing in taldo,l do not wish to govern your thoughts;
future; which having done, he immediately
wonder mixed with a degree of fear, when
but come, the day is far gone, let us in to
made the necessary dispositions for setting the person went into the palace, closed the
door, and Altenheim could not perceive any
forward.
Mahomets army, on this occasion, was appearance of an entrance. He resolved how
composed of Mohajerin, Ansars, and other ever to approach and examine the spot more
Arabs, who had lately become pgoselytes. closely, and advanced for that purpose, when
As they drew near to Mecca, he set up his the door again opened, and the female form
our dinner and afterwards we will set for~

ward for the castle.
standards, and advanced in order of battle
to Mar Al Dharan, a place about four para

sangs from Mecca, where the whole army en
camped. Here he ordered 10,000 res to be

lighted, and committed the defence of the
camp to Omar, who cut off all communica
with the town, so that the Meccans could

k
which he had before seen, came from within.
With all my heart, my lord, said Alten
heim, we cannot depart too early.

Dinner was served and the too noblemen
sat down, conversing with more conviviality
than Altenheim had beheld since his en

Altenheim trembled but had the courage trance into the palace; the meal being ended
to advance. The spectre waved herhand for preparations for their departure were im
him to approach no nearer, and Altenheim mediately commenced, and as the sun sunk
exclaimed:
into repose behind the summits of the hills,

Twice before have I beheld thee, most prince Pandolfo, with count Altenheim and
mysterious vision! what, tell mc,what is the the attendants of both, left the palace of
PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY._
35
Dusseldorp, to proceed on the intended
us to it, lead the way and we will seek shelter
journey. As they continued along, the train there until the fury of the storm be past.
was joined by a man muled up in a cloak,
who spoke to Geraldo,'and requested per
mission to join them, as he was travelling
Follow me, my good lord, replied Ge
ing ofthe banditti that were known to infest

the forests of \Vestphalia.
raldo, follow to the left, and I think in a few

minutes we shall be there."
They all now followed Geraldo, and Geof
fry Was a little astonished to nd that his
speechless friend had taken his place along
Geraldo started at the sound of his voice,
side of another of the attendants, leaving
the same road, and dreaded the encounter
and surveying the person from head to foot, the herald in a much more agreeable situa
very reluctantly permitted him to join the tion than he had been in during the continu
ance of his visit, for Geo'ry heeded not the
troop.
The stranger kept his face concealed the rain since he was clear of his terrors.
whole way, and after obtaining the consent
They soon reached the outer coutt of the
ofGeraldo to mingle withthe attendantsspoke castle and took shelter under a portico
not another word, but silently rode along that projected from the grand entrance to
side of Geoffry the herald that accompanied this venerable pile. DArinhault immediately
Altenheim, who would willingly have dis divested himself of his wet clothes and had
pensed with his company, but dared not others taken from his wardrobe, which one
utter a word of his inclination.
of the attendants carried, but had scarcely
They had now proceeded a great distance dressed himself, when Altenheim started
from Dusseldorp, when the moon and stars from a bench where he had seated himself,
which had till then afforded light, disappear and caught hold of the prince, bidding him
ed; the skies were darkened by tremendous look.
clouds; the sharp lightning shot from one
He did so, and was terror struck at be
part of the heavens to another, followed by holding the shadow of a torch, which seem
the noisy thunder in loud reiterated peals. ed coming from the wall of the castle, grow
A erce flash now struck terror to the hearts ing more bright as it drew nearer the out
of all the troop, and the falling of a tremen side. Presently it grew so bright that they
ally got several clever views of it, when l

was.ealled down to pay the postage on a let
ter just arrived. Not a little chagrined at

this interruption. I hastily discharged the
carrier, and proceeded back to my cham
ber to read what he had brought. The epis
tle ran thus:
Good Master Peter.
Boston May 25th. 1811.
This comes from the orlin boy your good

father took him into sarvice a great many
years ago, and who was so ungrateful as
how he got it into his head to run away with
another boy to seke his fortune. And a bad
fortune enuf it was when we found it, for
my comrad was lost at so, and I bein kotch
in steelen a trifle from a shop mans til, took
lojgins in the jale, when I got out a gin,
not hayin one penny to rub against tother,
as the sayin is, I bethot myself how I was

to git along, and so all at wunst like a ash
of thunder it pops into my head as how Ide
larn to do sum slite tricks, and set up for a
kungerer. And so I bot hokus pokus and
larnd it all thru, and bein luky enuf to nd
a bag of munny in market, I bot cups and
balls and cards and dice and so on. I set up
and mought did brave, but the confounded
kumpenny some how always found out how
perceived a small entrance, which looked as
I did my tricks, and so, sir, as thay didnt
the woods reverberate with astonishing if it led under the castle; and their fears
loudness. Nothing could exceed the gran and astonishment were greatly increased,
deur of the scene, as the tree shivered by the by perceiving the phantom of the palace,
electric fury, burst into ames, and was al standing in the entrance with a torch in her
most immediately consumed. The conflagra hand. All were wrapped in silent terror.
tion, threw a fearful light around the forest, Printly she advanced, and again repeating
the warning to Altenheim, the torch she
but when it fell, the darkness was more aw
bore was extinguished, and she immediately
ful than it had been previous to the re.
This is a fearful night, exclaimed Al disappeared.
The group Were silent, until DArinhault
tcnheim, heaven have mercy on us and
cried, come, let us forth; I cannot longer
all the wretches that abide its fury!
Amen! returned DArinhault. " \Vould remain in this terrible place! the horrors of
we could nd a temporary shelter from the the night are nothing, to this dreadful spec
cum to nd out, thay wouldnt cum no more.

Besides there was another kungerer who
every body scd did better an me, but I
doesnt believe a word out for the onely dif
dous oak, shattered by the forked terror, made
erance twixt me and him wus, he swore
he was a true kungerer and had deleins with

old nik, the which God furbid I should say,
and so, sir, you no fokes always likes him .
best who tells em most lies and things thay

no aint tru, and so thay all went to him and
so shnvd me out of bisness. Then, sir, I
thot how I mought game an honest livin in

sum other trade, and took to fortin tellin.
fury of the storm, continued he, for I am
tre! In great haste they left the castle, and
Sein how well my liruther kungerer made
nearly drenched with water.
on the way Altenheim demanded of Mon
out by tellin lies, I detarmined to tell boun
Geraldo now came up to his master, and
taldo, whether or no he had been mistaken.
said, ifhe was not mistaken, the old castle

belonging to the principality of Pandolfo lay
not far to the left hand.
At the mention of this the mysterious
stranger who had joined the troop, started,
throwing Geoffry into a dreadful panic, who
every instant expected to receive his dagger
into his heart.
Pandolfo was dreadfully struck with the
DArinhault requested him to drop the

subject, which he did.
They had not been long from the castle,
before Geoffry was again troubled with the
stranger who once more placed himself along
side of the arighted vassal.
cers too, sick like as no fortin teller had

ever told before. At fust I told good and bad
jest asit cum into my hed, butI soon 'found
it would be much better to tell all good, be
cause, fokes likes to here good news better
'an bad. But I took care to make all I set:
a long while a happenin, so as I mought make
my what
one fortune
good
before
thay
could
nd
i out
I sed was
all in
my eye.
Once
indeed
words of Geraldo, but the darkness of the
_._.
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XL.
Mirabile dictie. VIRGIL

night prevented his confusion from being
The other day I was sitting very com
noticed by the count. At length recovering
his composure he replied to the information fortably in my study engaged upon the sub
ject of sympathy, which I propose to analize
of Geraldo:
I remember the spot perfectly well, and for the instruction of the public in some
if you think, Geraldo, that you can conduct future numberpf this paper, and had actu
I told a sarvin maid as how she should get

a letter from her sweetheart in a week,and
it so happend as she did, for which she got
her fortune told three times and all different.
From that time I karried on a bold stroke
of bisness for a long while and lade up a
kunsiderable some. .I then thot to inkrese
my bisness by makin another rediction on a
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young man who had a'ronted me at one of to him with orders to come and reside with
my shows by pulling down the tables and de me, if his morals be not so depraved but
trudin on the stage, and so I redicted he that he can conform to the regulations of a
should be hung in a month, and becase thay sober family. I promise myself much diver
told me all I sed cum tru, I began to think sion with this original; any thing very good
it mought cum tru myself. But I was took relating to him shall from time to time be
in, for jest about the time when by rites he presented for the amusement of our readers.
PETER PEACEABLE.
ort have swung he got married and went
-.
to housekeepin. From that time my fame
rcclinde, and after sum little I gave up bis
For the Repertory.
nes's, and respected to starve when I had
REVIEW.
spent what I had earned by my talons.
av LARRY LQGBRAIN.
Just about this time I happened to be walk Hamlet Travestie: in three acts. With annotations
by Dr. Johnson and George Stevens, esq. and
ing the stretes and thinking about my own
other commentators. New York; Published by
situation, when lookin down I saw a dirty
David Lon orth, to be sold by M. Carey of
Philadelphia. Price 25 cents.
lookin paper which provd to be a number of
In the republic of letters a truly modest
the reperty the which kuntaind yure name.
lmedently I bethot to rite you a letter the author may indeed be considered a ram
which I here du, and after kunfessin my area. It is certain, however, that the old
felt, the which I here du, kunsarnin runnin writers were much more addicted to mak
away from youre father my kinde master, ask ing open calculations on the patience of
yu if yu mought think an there wus apros posterity than our modern bards. Exegi
pec of a man in my way duin any thing in mons unrentum aare perennius," says one;
phildelphy. As I alwaye had a tarn for bein and Jamque opus exegi: qoud nec Jovis
pubblik,1 could attend at shows, waxworks,
ira, kc. exclaims another, with all the
monky rames, and I dare to say as how my

master would find me very advantegis and
handy about things. If yu mought nd a
place of this here kind for me pleas to tell
the man as how I doesnt mind to tell a ly
or so if so be for his good, and you can re
form him as howl looks very bekummin
when Imc dressd in' my best, and could be
apt to draw a good dele of lady kumpenny,
pomp of inated vanity. The ancients were

the critics as well as authors of their pro
ductions, and of course were never much
mortied by the severity of critical stric

tures. At the conclusion of every dramatic
piece, some one was always ready to tell
the audience to clap their hands. Now this
must have afforded about as much pleasure
to the author, as if the piece had been re
the which is the best kind, becase thay dont presented before himself alone, and he had
spy into things like the men. I plays very had his ears delighted with the harmony of
well on the handorgen and triangle and jews his own attering plaudits. This was the
harp and kittle drum, saws yankee doodle golden age of authorship; every scribbler
with some excess on the ddle. Ive always was in good humour with himself. The an
kept sober and dustrious; and honest when cients chose to be the judges of} their own
I could, for the which I thank God, and if works, and dared to predict everlasting
so be as howe yu could let me have a trie celebrity to their names; the moderns though
I should be much obliged to yu. So no they secretely feed upon ideas ofimmortality
pretend to leave all to a liberal and en
more at present from me, yure humble sar
lightened public. The only difference is
vent to command till deth,
,
this, the productions of antiquity become
ROGER SIMPLE.
B. N. Pleas to let your answer be in post admired the older they grow, while those of
oice till called for, the which is all from modern times hardly survive the rst month
of publication.
me.
R. S.
The author of the work before us is cer
This hotch potch completely expelled the
subject on which I had been engaged, from tainly a modest man. He has published
my brain, to be exercised in my heart in
compassion for poor Roger who was afaith

ful servant till ruined by bad company. He
stood in need, rather of a wise head than a
good heart; my father, whose tenderness
never would su'er a human being to want

a hat he could bestow, took the fellow into
his family, who soon became attached to us,
although he was instigated to quit our man

sion. The simplicity of the boy seems not to
have disappeared in the man. I have written
vulgar prejudices has nobly dared to substi

tute rhyme instead of the original blank
verse; which so completely refutes the ab
surd notion that rhyme is unsuited to the
mouth of the tragic muse, that we hope
no more tragic characters will appear with
out being able to spout rhyme with as much
facility as they used to do blank verse. Their
dignity will be increased by the innovation,
for I appeal to all poets if they do not nd
it far more difcult to write rhyme than
blank verse, which to tell the truth is little
better than prose. The French, that sedate
and wise nation, always compose their trage

dies in rhyme, we hope one day to have the
pleasure of seeing not only Shakspeare,but
Milton, Cowper, Thompson and the rest of
our blank verse poets cut down, by some
hand, friendly to their glory, into agreeable.
rhyme.
This piece opens with the request of La
ertes that he may be permitted to visit Paris,
in order to be instructed by some scientic
Frenchman in the elegant accomplishment
of dancing, which the king being graciously
pleased to allow, replies to the acknowledg
ments of Laertes, with all the urbanity of a
court,
Then brush! the sooner you are off the better!
\Vhile Hamlet, in tears, is lamenting the loss

of his father, the queen delivers these con
solitary lines;
Come, Hamlet, leave o crying, tis in vain,
Since crying will not bring him back again:
Besides, tis common, all who live must die,
50 blow your nOse, my dear, and do not cry.
In this speech the royal mother exhibits

great good sense by desiring that her son
may learn to yield to inevitable evils. The
poet displays one of the nest touches of na
ture in the last lines; but tis no wonder that
so acute an observer of humanity as the au
thor should have discovered that when the
human constitution is affected bya cold, or
any violent grief presses on the mind, a pro
fuse evacuation at the noseis the natural con
sequence. After the beautiful Ophelia be
comes subject to a general derangement of
her intellectual faculties, or as Laertes feel
ingly expresses it, has got to be as mad

as a march hare, she enters with Horatio
into the presence of the queen, and sings

Shakspeares Hamlet. We wish he had not the following pathetic stanzas, upon which
so undervalued his e'orts. The design of the the reader may depend as being an earned
writer was to give a free and perspicuous ingly literal translatidn.
translation of the great original, that people of
Three children sliding on the ice,
all classes might be made acquainted with the
All on a summers day:
The ice it broke, they all fell ini
sublime ights of Shakspeares imagination.
The rest they ran away.
Two acts of useless matter have been very
Now had these children staid at home,
properly expunged by the translator, so that
And slid upon dry ground;
the play now appears condensed into three
They broken'necks had had, pcrchance,
acts. The learned writer casting aside all
But never had been drownd.
anonymously what he calls a burlesque on
PHILADEPHIA TREPERTORY.
U)
Had the author racked his invention for a

month he could not have been able to pro
duce any thing so completely calculated as
these lines are to prove that Ophelia was
really beside herself.
\Vho can refrain from tears when the
lovely mad virgin exclaims,
Stop, stop. Ive brought some fruit for you, sweet
queen,
The nest cabbage that was ever seen;
For you a bunch of carrots; and for you
A turnip; and Ill eat a turnip too.
To bring a rope of onions too I tried,
'But father eat them all before he died!
And afterwards in a song plaintively warbles,

Hes gone; lets be jolly,
For grievings a folly,

And never will save his soul.
\Ve nd Ophelia in the above inclined to re

galc herself with a turnip. The author here
shows his intimate ltnowlege of every thing
relative to man: for it is a truth very well
established by experience that lunatics arc,
in general, blessed with marvellous keen ap
petites. Pope thinks we should read robe of
my charm rendered me invisible, it did not
all over: for I did not know it WaSftLs/iionu
make me invulncrable, for I had quickly to

retire from the crowd, with the loss of my
hat, a part of my frock, and a portion of my
small clothes. However, as I was invisible,
ble. to be ignorant [in that, to me, necessary

particular.
Though Miss Fashion came with her drcs .
well prepared for the encounter,having taken
I felt no inconvenience from my naked ap
care to put on no superuous quantity, yet
pearance, since I could not offend the deli
in her endeavours to push through the crowd
cacy of a female, but more particularly, be
she left the slezt'rs behind, together with a
cause they kept me in countenance, for in
considerable portion of the back of her dress.

I saw no good arising from this accident to
her sleeves, except that it told us she had
been vaccinated, as I could plainly perceive
the mark about an eighth of an inch below
the shoulder. I should have thought the back
made purposely in the manner it was, but
that I was certain she would have been carc
going home to recruit my dress, I scarcely

met one that was not as naked as myself. I
hastened to my lodgings, put on my genlle
mans dress, and immediately returning, en
tered the theatre without any difculty, for
I found that every one of the crowd was
fearful of not being able to get in, and
accordingly walked quietly away, leaving
room within, for at least fifty people more
ful to prevent the whalebone, with which it
I was invisible, I
was stuffed, from appearing above the dress,

as it did. Joe Slangs coat sulfered as much
[zones/[y passed without aying, like some
by his efforts to obtain a seat, as the fraction
of our bucks, who mingle with the crowd,

and, much against their inclination, are hus
qfa man who made it, su'ered by the sale

of it; and Tabitha Tweezle had her gown
rubbed so by the crowd, that you could see
than were there.
As
tled in before they can get time I0 buy a

ticket,- and this is fashionably termed shov
onions, but Johnson holds fast of the ro/zc, ing their faces. They however express their
in which we think him correct; for says he, determination to return and pay as soon as
a rape of onions is a certain number of on
the crowd has dispersed, but it is fashionable
ions, which, for the convenience of portability to be forgetful; thats the reason why Dick
are by the market women suspended from a Dapper forgot to pay Sam Snip for his last
relic; not, as the Oxford editor ingeniously bottle green coat.
but improperly supposes, in a bunch at the
Most people visit the theatre to look at
end, but in a perpendicular arrangement.
the play, but I entered merely to observe
To be continued.
the variety of company that had assembled;
._._
and taking possession of the corner of a pri
through it.
As I have stretched this essay somewhat

beyond the limits I assigned myself, I shall
now conclude, and in my next number, in
form my readers of the pleasing jaunt I had

home with the ladies and gentlemen in ques
tion, for eight or nine equates, after the play
\V'ds ovcr.
.
For the Repertory.
BUDGET, No. I.
For the Repertory.

vate box, unseen by its owner, I began my
BY 'ILL VERSATILE.
observations. Nothing could exceed the re

gret I experienced on beholding the sad
havoc which had been made among the
on commence.
The advantages of mutual intercourse,
though at the most cursory view carry with
ladies dresses, in their attempts to enter
them a conviction of their own importance,
through the crowd. Some, indeed, whom

the managers had admitted through the back
culations, that, like other axioms, they seem
THE INVISlBLE MONITOR.

No. II.
BY SOLOMON SOBERSIDES.
Shoot folly as it ies,

And catch the manners, living, as they rise.
Pore.
Some time last winter, the evening on
which the celebrated Mr. Cooke made his

rst appearance on our boards, in the cha
racter of Richard, I was sauntering up Ches
nut street, making every plebcian believe me

a buck of the rst water, (though three score
years have passed since my birth,) by putting
on a lounging look, sticking my hatupon a
few hairs of my head, twisting my frock
coat about my body, that every one might be
certain that my small clothes reached above
the tail of it, and garnishing my conversa

tion with several whom I met on the way, by
an oath or two, blasting an eye or damning
a limb; and such like fashionable seasoning
to polite behaviour.
The crowd at the theatre attracted my
attention, and I declared my determination
of going in; accordingly, placing my web in
my shoe, my companions lost sight of me,and *
I immediately began to increase my speed
for the theatre. I soon found that although
have been so underrated by philosophical spe
to require to be occasionally advocated.

were principally ladies from forty to y
It must occur to the mind of every in
years old. As for the younger, their dresses quirer, that in the original state of man com
had suffered very severely. I began to think merce could not have existed.
Miss Dorothy Dimple was as invisible as
In the second, which was his pastoral state,
myself, otherwise, I could not conceive how and in which man had become so far civi
she could rest satised there, having in the lized as to be acquainted with the sense and
struggle for seats, lost the bosom qf/HT dress nature of property, commerce began to ap
entirely, and the evening being warm she pear.
could not spare her handkerchiqf to put over
\Vhat the shepherd could spare of his
it. Billy Fopplcton, I presume, had, by surplus products, would without commerce
happy chance, found the part of her dress have been useless, but with it were ex.
which Miss Dimple had unfortunately lost, changed at once, in a manner which benet
and put it into his neckcloth, which appear ed another, as it augmented his own circle
ed to contain more muslin than all the dresses of enjoyment.
of the ladies in the box. He stood behind
Enlarging the sphere of our retrospect we
Miss Dimple, with an opera glass in his trace with the progress of civilization, tl e
hand, observing the female part of the au progress of commerce, and with this pro
dience; but seldom turning his eye to the gress, was elicited a determinate sense of
stage. I was a little surprized to hear him right. The powers of the mind, before (lor
ask what the play was, when it was nearly mant, now received new vigour from enter
door, were in tolerable decent trim, but these
58
prize, the principles of generosity, and man

ly dignity were excited, and lastly with the
progress of intercourse the arts saw their
ronsummation.
Mark, now, the fatal change! The princi
ples of ambition, ever at war with those of
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Your royal breast to sway; by secret wile
For the Repertory.
Heaven all resistless of his hopes beguile;
THE PROPITIATION.
BOOK I.
Continued.
ARGUMENT.
commerce, once more reduced the world to
Satan concludes his speech to Env , Pride and

its original state of barbarism. Commerce
Ambition, by expressing his fears lest the joy in
heaven should have originated in the appearance
ed from the horrid scene, and men and na
of the Son to bruise the serpents head: Demands
tions became aliens, or enemies to each
their advice, how to avoid the threatened dan
other. Boards of robbers, preyed on the
ger: Speech of Envy dissuading open resistance:
' hard earned fruits of rusticated industry, and
Speech of Pride rcproaching Envy, and advising
the cocoon AGE of which idiots and philo
a convocation of the fiends: Satan gives the com
so/I/ms have dreamed, saw now the zenith
mand, and Envy, Pride and Ambition y to the
different parts of the earth, calling on the ends
of its glory. In this state of universal'con
to leave their charges for a while: They assem
fusion, and massacre, the Crusades were a
ble at the command.
means by which commerce was again re
stored to us. Step, by step, we mark its pro
As through the dreary realm the echo flew, 4-75
So shall his hosts, confounded, shortly know,

Well undermine the throne we cant oerthrow. 530
That tis not fear which sways my bosom, hell,
And you, her mighty monarch, know full well.
Where was my fear when Gabriels potent arm
Struck Belial and his powers with pale alarm;
While I, a host of wrathful foes engage,
535
And stand unmoved the utmost of their rage,
Till the dread Son his banner wide unfurld,
'lnd on our ranks oerwhelming vengeance hurld?
Then, then I ed, what spirit could withstand

The ruin ung from his almighty hand?
540
Then too, my liege, your prQWess was no more,
And pallid terror spread your stluadrons oer!

Therefore let none that my advice may hear,
Attribute aught to the effect of fear,
When I dissuade a rupture with that foe,
545
Whose awful potence governs fiends below;
Reigns through the sky, commands each inch of
space,
And grasps creation in a wide embrace!
Envy now ceased, the tempter seemd inclined
'l" adopt the thoughts of his prolic mind;
550
gress. Like the rising beams of the heavenly Each breast a long forgotten transport know;
luminary,dispelling the humid vapours ofthe Our ends delighted, wore a livelier mien,
And joy shone glorious through the dismal scene!
morning, the mists of the night of barbarism
When man was driven from this fair retreat,
were dispersed, and the light of commerce We thought our dreadful victory complete; 480 But soon. to check his purpose, towring Pride
shone with redoubled lustre on the discor Supposed that Heaven had destiud to our fate,
Reard his dark crest, and to the end replied:
The fallen man, in unrelenting hate;
Why boasts proud Envy of his deeds in arms,
dant scene.
When heaven was lld with uproar and alarms?
It was now the part of commerce to re But mark the sad reverse; in that dread hour,
When man i thought secure within my power,
Dares he protest no spirit did display,
555
generate society; and whoever will recur to I heard his God, still merciful, declare
4-85 Exploits like his on that destructive day?
the classical Robertson for a perusal of the What served to rouse my rage and black despair!
Well, well he knows this arm betrayd its might,
history of the Crusades, must perceive how ln accents borne upon th obedient wind,
When its dread master sought the thickest ght!
essentially connected was commerce with He thus addressed the mother ofmankind:
And many a scraph, fainting with the wound
Why hast thou sinnd and disobeyd high Heaven, My arm then sent, had shed his blood around; 569
the rapid melioration that succeeded.
This succint history brings us to modern By whom each good and perfect gift is given; 4-90 But that his person mockd the ying spear,
times, let me ask, what would the little, now
formidable island of Great-Britain have been

without her commerce? Small and insigni
cant, as is her space of earth! What would
Russia have been, bereft of commerce? Bar
Why causcl my unwilling vengeance to be hurld,

And usherd sin and death into the world?
But yet the end that tempted thee to fall,
Shall feel his spirit struck with strange appal!
495
Hell for awhile exults in your despair,
Formd by his God intrenehant as the air?

Or wherefore of his zeal docs Envy prate,
llis wily measures or his fruitless hate!
But thou, 0! Satan, shall their anguish share;

My rage, increased, a treble wo shall shed,
Twas not our general custom to debate
The womans seed shall bruize the serpents head!

Hence to thy hell, and know that soon the Son
attention to commercial intercourse? At once Shall remedy the evil thou hast done;
more vigorous, charitable, and humane. If While he, malignant spirit, shall but feel
her subjects, stimulated by the comforts aris Thy fruitless malice raging at his heel!
(ever twins,) would have bid deance to the

ravages of war, and its concomitant wretch
edness.
But to return, let me ask, by what means
have we arisen to that perfection in the arts
and sciences, the comforts and conveniences
of life? The native Americans are possessed
of talents, equal to the proudest European;
but they had no commerce!
\Vhy is the glory of the eastern Indians
limited? Enterprize is not wanting! Inge
nuity is predominant! Government is conso
lidatedlbut their commerce is carried on
by foreign merchants!
-.
A great man who has lost his intellectual

powers, is a more melancholy spectacle than
a tower or a city in ruins.
And no subservient spirit enter there,

To whatsoeer in council is decreed,
While rage and cruel care my breast corrode!

These joys, 1 fear, proclaim that Son arrived,
Then a collected council let us call,
'And meet together in our gloomiest hall;

500 The fearful purposes we plan, invite
Darkness profound and silence of the night;
Let none but peers of hells domain be near,
Abashd I ed and left the fair abode,
ing from lucrative traic, would have lent

there aid to commerce, peace and plenty,
When all our powers were absent and dispersd,

0n matters touching the affairs of state.
barous! though twenty Pctershad reigned.

What could France not have been, with
Your highness knows, and Envy too, that erst, 565
505
To soothe the sorrows that my hate contrived:

What shall we council then or what perform,
To escape the fury of this gathering storm?
Speak rst, my chief condjutor, and say,
510
Envy, thy inmost thoughts, without delay.
Thus stroke the sovereign of the dark domain,
And Envy thus the pond'rings of his brain:
Monarch of hell, whom all our hosts obey,
\Vorthy to reign in realms of endless day;
515
As truly, as thou knowst all heaven 1 hate,
My _souls deep cogitations lll relate.
Could but my arm, with one tremendous blow,
Hurl deathful vengeance on our haughty foe,

The mighty blow should by my arm be made,
520
My soul determined, st and undi'smnyd,
Though heaven all dreadful in relentless ire,
Stood waiting to repay my zeal with fire!
But vain th attempt our conquerd legions know,
Plunged in these deeps of everlasting wo!
524
Therefore, my gracious liege, permit no thought
With peril big and blood and carnage fraught,
570
575
Where is the warrior that will not accede?

Hell holds no chief, I hope, so lost to shame,
50 little mindful of a deathless fame.

The greatest blessing of our hosts to be,
Though hurld from heaven, emancipate and free;
Nor will our gallant powers permit a few,
581
To plan the measures all are to pursue.
Collect the whole of our dread ends to night,
And what together they adopt is right.
Him Satan with a smile of pleasure ey'd,
585
And to his wish acceding thus replied,
\Vcll hast thou counseld chief of hells domain,
Our rash and headlong measures to restrain.
But do not think that Satans wish to know

The safest measures to defeat our foe,
590
Arose from thoughts of tyranny most fell,

Banishd to heaven from this our peaceful hell!
But from a fear our govemment might fall,

And in the mightyruin bury all!
But come, now let the warlike clarion ring,
595
Each ministring spirit li-om his charge to bring;

Leaving each bosom with his power possessd,
And while we counsel let the earth have rest.
So spoke the king, and instant at the word.
The direful sounds of deep alarm are heard; 600
Through the dark kingdom erce Ambition ew,
And Pride and Envy to alarm the crew:
Each seized the trump, their gloomy wings out
spread,
And melting music warhlcs from the bowers:

Down the green slope the wildly winding streams
Murmur and sparkle to the solar beams;
Sudden tlic tempest heaven's bright glory shrouds,
And thick and eeter y the sable clouds;
Through the deep gloom the lightnings lll'ld glare,
Sweeps in broad curves, and seems to re the air,
A sable helmet glittring on each head;
While o'er our heads the thunders roll around,
And through the air their swiftcst course impelled,

0n the left arm a hell forged shield upheld,
606
While the right hand a gleaming faulchion bore,
'hich they had used in rebel wars before!
Swift through the yielding air aloft they y,
610
And on the various spirits loudly cry;
Th astonishd demons hear th untimely call,
And throng in numbers to th appointed hall!
No pagan isle or continent that lies,
By heaven permitted, neath the distant skies;
615
But thence a spirit came to the divan,
To counsel ruin to degenerate man.
(To be continued.)
Till deaf'ning echoes catch the awful sound,
aa~_.
For the Repertory.

In numbers tuned to unall'ected wo
his Budget, and formed a number for this
Instant, and though with sleep the vision ies,
Should I once more to slumber close my eyes,

Perhaps upon some mountains breezy brow
\Ve view the oceans placid waves below,

At distance far the posting sails desciy,
Like some fair cloud just dropping from the sky,

And as their safe return we bend to greet,
The faithless bank betrays our trusting feet;
Down, down we sink; but I, not doomd to share,
Unhappy youth! the fortunes of the fair,

Presend from death, and left behind to see,
What doubly wounds my breast, the loss of thee.
Yetall these pleasures could I well resign,
Agrceably to the request of Will Versa

tile we have on! ed the choicest matter from
weeks Repertory. We thought his introduc
tory essay might be dispensed with, and as
the second number never came into our
hands,wc, of course, began with the third.
If \Vill Versatile will favour us with an in
terview we will point out what part of his
plan we object to.
\Ve have received the communication of
Adela, and are sorry that it is too incorrect
for publication, since it is at all times our
wish to please the ladies. Yet we assure our
selves that hcr satisfaction will be greater by
our candidly giving our opinion than by
inserting a piece which we are convinced
wants accuracy of composition and origi
nality of thought.
Our reason for not publishing the Mar
riage of Demetrius was an error of compo
sition in one of the verses. As it is our rulc
In pity, Hannah, to a love like mine,
Convinced her heart, ber yielding heart, is mine,

Did but her constant correspondence prove
The dear memorial of unalterd love:
And nights tremendous crew, with aspect pale,
Convinced within thy feeling breast to nd

The balm of comfort for a Weary mind.
Oh! what extatic pleasures red my soul,
While oer our heads the downy moments stole,
And love light hovering in the fragrant air,
To give a zest to every joy, was there!
What though no more I clasp my Hmnah's charms
In the fond circle of a lovere's arms,
PHILADELPHIA,
And shape terric, it along the vale.

Another ash succeeds; and lo! the maid
I must revere a lifeless corse is laid!
To thee, dear maid, I bid my sorrows ow,
What though no more ambrosial sweets I sip

From the rich ruby of her smiling lip,
What though no more the languish of her eye,
Her head declined, and gently heaving sigh,
Bless my fond sight, and rm assurance prove
That her fair soul is formed for tenderest love;
While now cold Prudence, with a cautious air,
Moves me reluctant from the melting fair,
39
Send from thy hand the soul consoling line,

Or, if I may not this full blessing prove,
At least these tortures ofsuspence remove;
Tis all! ask: if, with destructive sway,
Sickness shall tear each bud of bliss away,
Still shall my soul, to generous feelings true,
The path which love and duty point pursue;
Or should celestial health, without alloy,
Lead thee in rapture through the realms ofjoy,

Thoult not forbid my votive muse to stray,
A soft companion on that owery way,
To cull poetic blossoms, and to braid
A breathing garland in the emboWcring shade,
To deck the ringlets of my lovely maid!
I. H. S.
-.-
For the Repertory.
never to alter when the author is known, we

requested to see him in order to suggest
a correction. Parts of the poem please us

much, but it is necessary that the portion in
question should undergo a review.
There is one idea, contained in the two
last lines of Edwys verses to Melody, which
would intitle it toa place, though there might
be room to criticise the rest.
\Vhen we compare the stanzas to Miss
TO MELODY.
Phcebe Pr, by Lothario, to some of his for

But ah! while now through each revolving day
mer pieces we are constrained to cry, as Dr.
No more is home afar on ary wings;
My breast accuses loitering love's delay,
Johnson did of Miltons Paradise Regained,
But still the dying numbers seem to dwell
How can I fancys mournful views controul,
On the tranc'd ear as lessning Echo sings.
what a falling off is here.
Or check the fears that agitate my soul?
Pegasus has been anticipated by Will Ver
Oh! sweet is music at the silent hour
Can she be wavering? nothe thought I scorn,
Of sombre midnight, when the rude winds sleep, satile, the anecdote he requests us to pub
Ofjealousy and frantic passion born:
Plaintively stealing from the woodland bower,
lish having been communicated in a number
Oh! jealousy! thy cold reverted eye,
Or from the brow of yonder rocky steep.
Thy heaving bosom, and thy ponderous sigh,
of the Budget.
I will not own; all tyrant as thou art,
The Effects of attery, by B. in its pre
It seems as if some spirit of the night
Thou shalt not lord it oer my faithful heart.
Breathes through an airy pipe the dulcet lays,
sent state cannot appear; we shall, how
But, 0! my soullwhence these foreboding fears,
Seraphic sounds, that thrill with soft delight,
ever, make some necessary alterations and
hence the deep sigh, and whence these streaming
And lift the soul where beams of glory blaze.
present it to the public.
tears?
Does dire disease with tottering step advance,
And in her bosom x his burning lance?
Methinks I see her mouruful friends around,
And catch her sorrows lamentable sound.
Through the lone day these gricfs my thoughts
employ,
And chase each faint, each eeting sense ofjoy.
And round my couch at night, (the couch of pain)
Sad fancys terrors rise, renewd again;
Griefs pallid train my shuddring soul aifright;

And forms unusual burst upon my sight;
Methinks withthese through aromantic groves

I stray, surrounded by the laughing loves;
Gay spring before us strews the path with owers,
The sounds have ed: the utes melodious swell
Again they come in melancholy strains,

That wake each pensive feeling of my soul;
Now deeper wafting oer the green robed plains
Now, sinking neath the minstrels soft controul,
OBITUARY.
General Eaton, the hero of Dome, and
the victim of sensibility, was cntombed at

Brimeld, on Tuesday the fourth instant.
Which Genius darts from some expiring mind, I
Gen. Eaton, was born at Wpodstock, (Com)
That chears the travllcr with its attring beam,
Feb. 23d, 1764. \Vhile yet ayouth he was
But rapid ies and leaves regret behind.
one year in the revolutionary army. After
Oh! for the notes again! my soul desires,
wards became a member of the college at
Die on the breeze: theyre like the brilliant gleam,
'aked by those strains,to burst her mortal home;

And, oer the dying melody expires,
'l'o spring from earth to heavens harmonious
dome.
EDWY.
Hanover, (N. H.) the honours of which he

received in 1790. He held several years a
commission in the western army; and a
40
:5:
The project they disclosed was to this

effect; that they should open the house in
time is one pound and three quarters: \Vhen

3 weeks old it weighed only three quarters
of a pound. The visage of this sport of na
afterwards appointed consul at 'lunis, the

duties of which he discharged much to the
satisfaction of the government. In 1804- he
planned and executed a design which was
of great advantage in procuring a peace
with Tripoli, and the surrenderof the Ameri
cans imprisoned there, and which deserved
ly procured him the highest honour.
His health had been gradually declining
these two years past, and he breathed his
last on Saturday evening, June lst. He re
they should invite certain opulent men of

this city to see the goods, and then seize
their persons and exact money from them.
This plan was not completely unfolded until
after the communication was made to the
with the strongest resemblance of a Mar

moset, exhibiting an appearance at the same
time as frightful as strange. The child is
perfectly healthy.
mayor; several meetings took place, in which
tained his senses till the day before his death,
chant of this city, was pointed out as the
and met with calmness the king of terrors.

On the Tuesday following his remains
were interred with military and masonic hon
ours, attended by a vast concourse of people
from Brimeld and the neighbouring towns.
His body was borne to the meeting-house,
where the throne of grace was addressed
by the Rev. Mr. Coddington, chaplain of
the regiment there, and a sermon was preach
ed by the Rev. Mr. Welsh, of Manseld,
rst object; it was proposed that he should

be rst invited, and as soon as he entered
Connecticut.
Thus has fallen one of our citizens, who
has done much to cause our name to be

respected by the powers of Barbary, who
has added to the military fame of our coun
try and rendered it important services. He
was a man of a daring spirit, of a powerful
intellect, and of many virtues. His foibles
are in the grave; his military ardour and at
chievements deserve to be remembered and
imitated.
-.
the city, and lay in certain merchandizc; that
it was gradually developed, and at length the

Interments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 8th to the 15th June, 1811.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Diaemes.
ad. ch.
Casualties
1 1 Old age
Consump.oflungs 3 2 Plurisy
1 0
0 l
family, that he should be absent a week, and
Convulsions
Decay
Diarrhoea
O
3
2
0
0
1
during the interval he was to be forced to

draw checks for his money in the bank.
Upon the matter being communicated to
Dropsy
Drowned
Debility
2 0
1 0
2 0
Mr. Girard, he insisted that the scheme

should be suffered to go on, and he would
go to the house; however the menaces and
Hives
0
Inam. ofstomach I
intimations of death to whoever should be

tray the scheme, alarmed the persoh who
Under
1 year
From 1 to 2
2 5
the house he was'to be seized, gagged and

conveyed to a cellar, where he was to be
compelled to write a note to be sent to his
had rst detected it, and it became neces
sary to seize them before this p10t was car

ried farther. They were accordingly seized
on Saturday at a place where they had made
an appointment to meet on the business,
and the facts above came out on the em
mination.
Trunks, papers, pistols, and correspon
dence of various kinds, were found on them.
The elder partner in this business is a
man of about 5 feet 7 inches high, fair com
mayor, and the persons concerned of it,
ture: a house was to be taken in town, and

another on the bank of the Delaware, and
HEALTH 01FICE,
June 15, 1811.
name of Stephen Girard, the wealthiest mer
Two persons have been committed to pri

son in this city, within a few days, on a
charge of a most extraordinary nature.
One of them, a man about 50 or 50 years of plexion but weather browned; a sedate ap
age, had applied to a citizen in the Northern pearance, but with a down look, yet with
Liberties, to aid him in a speculation which great command of countenance: dressed in
promised wealth, cons/ricuity, and honour. light ginghatns, apparently newly made.
The person applied to showed the letter to
The young man was dressed in a black
a third person, as extraordinary and myste coat and black silk waistcoat, sallow com
rious, the third person advised to probe the plexion, and a shoemaker by trade.
matter to the bottom, and to apprize' the
They were committed.
./Iuro1~a.
which was done, and it was agreed to carry
on the idea of aconcurrcnce in order to un
fold the whole mystery. A second to the
original then appeared, a young man of about
M or 26 years old. The plan was of this na
ture, bears the marks of extreme old age,
'.
.rl Lilli/mt.
A child of Mrs. C. W. in
3 Small pox, natural

0 Still-born
O Sudden
4
2
O
-
17 15
1
1
Total 32
5
10
20
30
10
20
30
40
8 From 50 to 60
2
60
70
1
70 80
1
3
2
5
3
2
1
80
90
90 100
100 110
1
O
0
40 50
2
Total 32
June 10
67
68
70
11
67
69
71
12
68
70
72
13
14
15
68
73
75
7477
78
76
80
78
TERMS or run RERERTORY



Orange county, Virginia, was examined
when 5 Weeks old and the following account year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
of it is given as it appeared at that time. to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
The circumference of the arm is precisely
one inch and three quarters: that of the leg and become responsible for the payment, shall re
two inches. The circumference of the head,
fit houses were sought for and pitched upon;

in which the principal was to open a house
for trade; he has given two or three names

round the most projecting part of the fore
head, three inches and a half: the body two ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of He!
and three quarter inches. Length of the face, lings and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.
ibr his own; he says, however, that his reai
two inches and an half, measured from the
Printers cxehanging with the Philadelphia Ra

name is J. Sylvanus MClean, that he is a

native of Pennsylvania, and resides in Rap
pahannoc, Virginia; his associate says his
name is
Graham, that he belongs to
commencement of the hairy scalp to the ex

J:
treme end of the chin. The length of the
PHILADELPHIA,
arm, from the top of the shoulder to the ex
tremity of the middle nger, measured four Marshalls alley, between Fourth and fth, nes:
'v'ermont, and came to this city on business. inches: the body tweIVe. The weight at this
St. Marys church.
@Pifabefpiafwdperforp.
That gives it all its avourCowrea.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29. mo.
VOL. II.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF MAHOMET
Concluded.
discover the faintest traces of an enemy.

Ali took possession of his post without the
loss ofa man; and in like manner Abu Obei
dah seized on the suburbs. Khaled, however,
in his march to the plain, was met by a large

body of the Koreish and their confederates,
were not apprized that the prophet had re. whom he immediately attacked and defeated,
solved upon a war; but perceiving now, upon putting 28 of them to the sword. Not con
the report of Abu Soan, who had been sent tent with this, he pursued them into the
back to them, that the enemy was at their town, and massacred a great number of the
gates, they were thrown into the utmost con
inhabitants; which so terried the rest, that
sternation. Of this Mahomet being informed, some shut themselves up in their houses,
he resolved to take advantage of the confu while others fled different ways in order to
sion that then reigned among them. He avoid the fury of the merciless and impious
therefore rst despatched Hakim and Bo tyrant, who was now become master of the
dail to the Meccans, inviting them to take city. Thus was Mecca reduced, with the loss
an oath of allegiance to him, and become only of two men on the side of the impostor
Mahomet being now master of the city,
converts to his new religion; after which,
he made the following disposition of his for made his public entry into it exactly at sun
ces. Al Zobeir was ordered to advance with rising. \Vhen the rst tumult was over, he
a detachment towards the town on the side of went in procession round the Caaba seven
mount Cada. Saad EbnObad prince ofthe tribe times, touching the corner of the black stone
Khazraj, marched by his order with another with the staff in his hand, as often as he pass
detachment towards the height of Coda, which ed it, with great devotion. Then he entered
commands the plain of Mecca. Ali command the Caaba; where observing several idols in
ed the left wing of the army, consisting of An the form of angels, and the statues of Abra
sars and Mohagerin. The prophet put into his ham and lshmael, with the arrows of divina
hands the great standard of Mahometanism, tion in their hands, be caused them all to be
with orders to posthimselfupon mount Al Ha destroyed. He also broke in pieces with his
jun, and to plant thestandard there; strictly on own hands a Wooden pigeon, that had long
joining him, however, not to stir from thence been esteemed a deity by the idolatrous
till he himself arrived, and till a proper sig Koreish. Afterwards entering into the interior
nal should be given him from Saad for that part of the Oaaba, he repeated with a loud
purpose. Khaled led the right wing, con voice the form used at this day by the Maho
sisting of the Arabs lately converted, with metans, Allah Akbar, God is great, Ste.
which he was to possess himself of the plain turning towards every part of the temple.
of Mecca. Abu Obeidah commanded in thc Then he prayed between the two pillars
No. 6. None but what is favourable, O generous
brother: upon which he dismissed them,

telling them they were from that moment
a free people. After this, pretending a new
The rst rumour of this expedtion had not
revelation, he restored the keys of the Caaba
a little terried the Koreish, though they
to Othman Ebn Telha, who was in posses

sion of them before; and who was now so
much affected by this piece of justice, that
he immediately became a proselyte. Next
day the prophet declared Mecca an asylum,
and publicly gave out that he would main

tain to the utmost of his power the inviolable
security of the place- He then was solemnly
inaugurated; after which he proscribed, ac
cording to some, six men and four women,
according to others, eleven men and one

woman; but of these only three men and
one woman, were put to death; the rest be
ing pardoned on their embracing Mahome
tanism, and one woman making her escape.
The remainder of this year was spent in vari
ous expeditions against different tribes of

the Arabs, which were in general attended
with success.
The ninth year of the Hegira, being that

of Christ 631, is called by the Mahome
tans the year of t'mbaesl't's; for the Arabs
who had hitherto been expecting the issue
of the war between Mahomet and the K0
reish, no sooner saw that which was the most
considerable ofthe whole submit to him, than

they began'to come into him in great numbers
and to send embassies to make their sub
missions to him, both while at Mecca and
after his return to Medina, whither he had
returned soon after the taking of Mecca: and

thus good fortune continued without inter
centre, which consisted entirely of infantry: there, with two inclinations, as wall as with- - ruption to the year 632, when this famous
the prophet himself remained in the rear, out the Caaba; saying to those that attended impostor breathed his last, having just re
from whence he could most easily despatch him, This is your Kebla, or the place to. duced under his subjection the whole pen
his orders to all the generals as occasion
should require. He expressly prohibited
Khaled and all his other ofcers to act of
fensively unless they were rst attacked.
Things being in this situation, the army
upon a signal given put itself immediately
in motion. The prophet mounted his camel
with great alacrity, and was that day cloath
ed in red. Al Zobeir pursued.the route as
signed him without opposition; nor did Saad
wards which you are to turn your faces in

prayer.
Having thus effectually subdued the K0
reish, put an end to all commotions, and
purged the Caaba of 360 idols, the prophets
insula of Arabia, and being ready to break

into the neighbouring kingdoms in order to
satisfy his ambition.
The death of Mahomet occasioned such a
consternation in Mecca, that the governor
next care was to ingratiate himself with the hid himself, fearing to be called to an ace
people. Sending therefore for someof the prin- if count for his former conduct; and the in
cipal
treatment
of them,
they he
expected
asked them
from what
him, kind
new ofit] habitants, upon the rst arrival of this mel
ancholy news, considered themselves as
i
had conquered them? To this they replied,u destitute of all manner of protection. After
42
the rst impressions of their fear, however,

were over, they began to meditate a revolt;
but were prevented by one Sohail Ebn Amru,
aprincipal man of the Koreish. The tumults
at Medina, however, were not so easily ap
peased. The news of this sad event was no
sooner published there, than a number of
people assembled before his door, crying out,
How can our apostle be dead! Our inter
cessor, our mediator, has not entirely left
us! He is taken up into heaven, as was Isa
(Jesus); therefore he shall not be buriet.
ligion then extant, eunningly recommended

himself to the professors of every one of
them. Add to all this, that by allowing of
polygamy, and setting forth his paradise as
consisting in the enjoyment of women, be
adapted himself to the corrupt dispositions
her hand and remained some time silent,

with his eyes xed on the ground.
A thousand thoughts passed through his
mind during this time: he at rst thought it
presumption to acknowledge his love for
of mankind in general.
pulse he felt to disclose it. Again he thought
If the distracted state of religion favour

ed the designs of Mahomet on the one hand,
the weakness of the Grecian and Persian
monarchies assisted him no less powerfully
on the other- Had those once formidable
that Altenheim, to whom he owed so much,
This was conrmed by Omar; who drew his

sword, and swore, that if any person afrm
empires been in their vigour, either of them
ed Mahomet to be dead, he w'ould cut off his
metanism in its birth; but both of them were
hands and his feet. The Apostle of God

(says he) is not dead, he is only gone for a
gone from the people of Israel for forty days,
then strangely reduced. The Roman em

pire had continued to decline after the time
of Constantine; the western parts of it were
then entirely over run by the Goths and
and then returned to them again.
The
other barbarous nations, and the eastern, or
populace therefore kept the body above

ground, even after the belly began to swell;
nor could the prophets uncle Al Abbas,
notwithstanding this, convince them to the
contrary. Upon hearing of these transactions,
Abu Beer immediately posted from Al So
nah, another quarter of the city, and expos
tulated with them in the following manner:
Do you worship Mahomet? or the God of
Greek empire, was so much reduced by the

Huns on one hand, and the Persians on the
other, as to be incapable of making any great
effort. The Persian monarchy itself was in
little better condition. It is true, they ravag
season, as Moses the son of Amram was
would have been sufcient to crush Maho
ed the dominions of the Greeks, and often
Amelia, and yet he could not resist the im
would forever discard him, for daring to love

one so far above him; but his fears on this
point were soon quieted.

Amelia became more uneasy, and at length
addressed the youth in these words:
Has my dearFlorival she would have
said, but beginning to suspect the cause of
his unhappiness; she articulated friend. Has
my dear friend brtmght me here but to be
witness of his griefs, without giving me an
apportunity to ameliorate them?
Dear friend! sighed Florival, 0! Lady,
continued he, gazing on her face, that word
dear has twice before recaled my wandering
senses, and now again it thrills my heart with
ecstasy.
Amelias heart felt a reciprocal pleasure.
Tis only you can ameliorate my su'er
overcame them in the eld: but that was ings, proceeded Florival, for I fondly
more owing to the weakness of the Gre cherished the hope, that Florival was re~
cian empire, than to the strength of the Per gatded by the heiress of Altenheim as some
Mahomet! If the latter, he is immortal, and sians; and so effectually did the intestine thing more than a servant.
liveth for ever; but if the former, you are broils, which arose chiey on account of
And you judged truly, interrupted
in a manifest error, for he is certainly dead." religion, weaken the kingdom of Persia, Amelia, for I have always loved you.
The truth of this assertion he immediately that the most considerable part of it was an
Loved me.I exclaimed Florival.
evinced from several passages of the Koran, nexed by the khalif Omarto his dominions.
Yes, as my friend, continued Amelia,
in so clear and conclusive amanner, that he
As the Greeks and Persians were then
blushing.
not only satised Omar, but calmed the minds in a languishing situation, so the Arabs were
As your friend, said the disappointed
of all the people.
strong and ourishing. Their country had
Florival; hear me, lady, and then let
The rst and great cause of Mahomets been peopled at the expense of the Grecian
your indignant heart despise me, if it will;
success in his imposture, was the gross empire; whence the violent proceedings of
while you have loved me as a friend, I have
corruption and superstition with which the the different religions sectaries forced many
dared to love you as one on whom my hap
christian religion was at that time obscured to take refuge in Arabia. The Arabs were
piness depends; as one, with whom I could
in all parts of the world. Had the pure dee not only a populous nation, but unacquainted
be content to bear the frowns of fate, as one
trines of christianity been then as publicly with the luxuries and delicacies of the
on whom my heart hung with rapture, as
known as the ridiculous fopperies which de Greeks and Persians. They were inured to
one whom I might call my love, my wife!
formed the eastern and western churches, hardships of all kinds, and consequently
Florivall exclaimed the maid with seem
Mahometanism could never have got a hear much better tted than their effeminate
ing
astonishment.
_
ing. But, along with the true religion, man neighbours to endure the fatigues of war, as
Nay,
start
not
from
me,
adored
Amelia!
kind seemed also to have lost the use of the event very fully veried.
cried the youth, falling on his knees, avert
._
their rational faculties, so that they were
not your eye in cold disdain, I have told you
capable of swallowing the grossest absur
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my feelings; well I know it is presumption
dities; such as it now appears almost incredi
CASTLE 0F ALTENHEXM,
ble that any of the human race could receive

as truths. Another cause was, the manner
of government and way of life among the

Arabs. Divided into small independent tribes,
they never were capable of a rm union
but by superstition; and had Mahomet at
tempted their conquest in any other way
it Was impossible he could have succeeded.
As there were also among them Jews, pa
to love you!
. OR
Presumption to love me! said Amelia

A TALE.
CHAPTER III.
A crimson blush her beauteous face oerspread,

Varying her cheeks, by turns, with white and red.
navnzx.
Can such things be,
And overcome us, like a summers cloud,
mentally,but Amelia could not conceive how.

But I also know my destiny! proceeded
Florival, and will soon end my sufferings
in the grave! there will I be forgotten! daz~
zled by the glare of afuence, embraced in

the affections of Prince Pandolfo, the bosom
gans, and christians of all sorts, this impos
Florival conducted Amelia to the garden,
of Amelia will not be disturbed with a sigh

for the fate of the unhappy Florivall"
tor, by adopting something out of every re
and having seated himself beside her, seized
Here a tear fell from his pallid eye upon
\Vithout our special wonder!
SHAKSPEARE.
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the hand of the agitated Amelia, who an

swered:
You wrong me, Florival, I never could
be happy while you were miserable!
Indeed! cried Florival, am I not de
spised by you? are you got destined to be the

wife of Pandolfo? has not the count, your
father, left the castle for the purpose of lead
ing Montaldo to your arms?"

Florival, he has, answered Amelia faint
Though she would prefer a cottage with
THE CABINET. N0. XLI.
the resolution never to marry Florival, but

with her fathers consent. \Vhen their ex
pressions of mutual love therefore had a little
subsided, she informed the youth of her de
termination, and conjured him never to urge
her to break it.
Florival, who saw ve thousand dangers
Our city ladies only now aspire

To deck the body, not the mind attire,
In guady show of nery arrayd
Proud as the peacock struts the foolish maid;
Pleasing, like his, her feathers may appear,
But 0! like his, her strains disturb the ear.
Dialogue concluded from No. 39,

Iiss Freeward. And so, Miss Comita, you
beset her, if she continued in that mind, and
ly, but I have not consented to receive him. who conceived that parental authority might
Did Lhear aright! exclaimed the youth, obliged her to accept the hand of Montaldo,
with something like hope enlivening his eyes. and that, terried by the dread of a father's
My lather has never consulted me," malediction, she might consent if not bound
said Amelia.
by the strongest ties to himself, immediately
O! blissful words! cried Florival, and besought her to change her resolution. She
may I hope that for my sake, Amelia will not was at rst deaf to his entreaties. He repre
be the wife of DArinhault?
sented to her view the dangers that sur
Amelia will net er be the wife of DArin rounded her. The compulsion that might be
haultl answered she, but
used, the probability that she might even be
But what! exclaimed Florival, speak, united to Pandolfo, forcibly and without yield
Amelia. I conjure you speak! my peace, my ing her consent, but that if they were se
happiness, my life depends upon your words, cretly united, if even the ceremony of her
and bliss or misery you may bestow.
marriage with DArinhault were afterwards
Amelia gazed some moments at the en performed, it would be invalid, but that
gaging form before her, a tear started into though performed, and herself in a state
her eye, and the blush of modesty into her of insensibility, it would be binding if not
cheek; she felt shwibved, and sinking into rendered void by a previous marriage.
the arms of Flori-val she whispered;
These images struck horror to the soul
But Amelia will be: thine, or ever re of Amelia, but she still continued resolute,
main unwedded.
till Florival pictured in the most lively colours
Can this be real? cried Florival, ardent
his own distraction and despair in conse
ly pressing the fair maid to his' heart, Ean quence. Then she was half subdued, and at
this be so, is it not a delusive dream of fancy length promised, that if all her entreaties to
and not the felicitous blessing of unhoped soften her father, and her intended appeal to
reality?
the honour of Montaldo proved ineffectual,
It is real, cried Amelia, I am yours. ,
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him to a palace with Pandolfo; she came to
that she would consent to be secretly unitm
Why should we attempt to portray the to him.

feelings of the amiable youth, or depict the
It would be useless to enumerate the vows
inward gratication which Amelia expe of everlasting delity which Florival made,
rienced, at being the cause of giving return and which Amelia returned with all the
ing joy to the pale visage of Florival, and a ardour of ingenuous affection; suice it to
beam of peace to his distracted bosom. The say, that it was nally agreed that Florival
youth expressed his love and gratitude in should reveal the story of their affection to
the most fervent manner, and Amelia, too father Kartholo, a priest belonging to the
ingenuous to disguise a singlefeeling of her convent of Saint Lucia, who, he felt con
soul, increased his felicity by repeating her dent, would perform the ceremony, under
vows of love and her declaration not to marry the circumstances that urged the necessity.
After again renewing their protestations
DArinhault, whatever might be the conse
of regard for each other Amelia and Florival
quence.
Florival gazed on her with admiration, I separated, the former to prepare for her in
had almost said adoration, but Florival knew terview with Minda, from whom she ex
towhom adoration only belonged, to his God; pected to learn who her dear Florival was,
and sought not to impress a belief of his love and Forival ew to the convent of Saint
on the mind of Amelia, by those passionate Lucia, to pour his whole heart before the
exclamations which border on profanity; for holy friar, and solicit his assistance in the
truth needs no adjurations to enforce belief, cause so near his heart.
while the false heart hides its deceit beneath
.
the cloak of solemn asset-ation.
,
A young man who has gamed away his
Though Amelia had confessed her affec fortune is not without his use; he stands as
tion for Ilorival, she had previously deter
a guide post, that with an extended nger
mined to act with the most strict propriety. directs the way to ruin.
really like the torpedoes better than the cot

tage hats, do you?
Alisa Comita. You saw that I was rather
dubious about giving my opinion, but upon
the whole I think I do.
Alias Free. Now the very thing that makes
you decide in their favour sets me against
them. You are for letting the face be seen,
and yet you would hide the greatest part of

the head; you should recollect, Miss Comita,
that a candle is not lighted to be placed
under a bushel, therefore I have no doubt
but they were rst brought up by some dis

appointed girls, who have foolishly been
cropped of their hair and then obtained, or
rather invented them, to conceal their de
formity. But you are not in that list, which
renders your liking them still more unac

countable.
IlfirsCom. This, Miss Freeword, is a mere
matter of opinion, I may say fancy, and I beg,
since we cannot coincide in it, that we drop
the subject. And here comes Miss Belvi

sage, nor could she have come more sea
sonably; now then your description of Miss

Rattle and her beau.
ifter Miss Belvisage (out of breath.)
'
in. Now for it,Catharine: now for it.
M
ree. Your impatience makes me al
most conceit you in a theatre and myself the
heroine of the play; I will however acquit
myself as well as I can, and if I fail in pleas
ing you, it shall not be from a want of laugh
able materials. Well then, rst for Miss
Rattle: you all know what a vile stoop she

has got in her shoulders.
D. T. ReallyI do not recollect ever hav
ing observed it; has she met with any acci
dent lately to occasion it?
.Miss Bel-u. \Vhy, Mr. Thorn, how much
you are wanting in observation; can it be

that you never took notice of the badness of
her whole gure?
D. T. Never, Miss.
(AIL) Ha! ha! ha!

Miss Com. Ah! y-.-u are a strange soul, Mr.
Thorn.Go on, Miss Freeword; let us have
your whole description, so far, I perfectly

agree with you, for she has a vile stoop in
her shoulders indeed!
Alisa Free. Then you must know, this Miss
Rattle had on yellow silk shoes, monstrow
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clocked stockings, a dress that ought to have

been white, but it was so badly washed that
it was considerably tinged with the colour of
her shoes. Well then, ha! ha! ha! she had
more than belonged to her, on her bosom
Im sure, and one of the strangest gured
and most threadbare shawls over her shoul

ders that I ever saw in my life: and to crown
all, her cropped hair this vile torpedo cover
ed from the sight.
Bliss Bel-v. [Looked blark,but said nothing-.1
bliss Com. What a gure she must have
cut. \Vhy she must have been as great a
show going through the streets as the gi
gmzlic or.
Alisa Free. W'ell, you both know that she
always dresses in some out of the way style:

and I can tell you that her beau looked full
as comical as she did. Who he was, I do not
know, but he appeared to me like some raw

countryman; his short breasted coat seemed
as if it was ying off his back, his boots had
great tossels that hung almost down to his
ancles, his waistcoat was double breasted,
buttoned close up to his neck, and it being
such a hot day, led me strongly to suspect

that he had no shirt on, [sly glances between
Alisa Bel-u. and Miss Cam] and his cravat
looked something about the size of an old
fellows of sixty,- his high crowned hat was
straight up and down like a round stump,
and his tour ensemble displayed the most
frightfully awkward gure that you can pos
sibly suppose.
Illiss Com. And she paraded about the
streets with this great monster, did she?
JVIiss Bel-v. Lord, I dont think she had
is nothing that I despise so much as to hear assist them, like those of my predecessor,
one person abusing another behind her back. have been exerted in vain.
DAVID THORNv
D. T. Ladies, permit me to assure you of
a.
my perfect coincidence in your doctrine,- in
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such behaviour as you have just noticed, there
ON THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE.
is always perceptible a lurking envy, which
draws contempt on the very person who
As I was, of late, taking my usual sum
wishes to heap it on another. The liberal mer evenings walk, my meditations were
heart, instead of being swayed against those directed towards the works of nature which
whose fame this malicious envy would tra surrounded me on every side. Heedless
duce, feels an irresistible impulse in his where my wandering feet would lead me, I
favour, though he be unknown, for those was at length brought into a delightful situa
the most subject to slander are the most tion; on one side a streamlet was owing,
pure: from the acknowledged vicious it can where ducks and geese were sporting in
gain no greater conquest; and the echo of their desired element, on the other a lofty
its trumpet, as the hunters horn winding ridge extended itself, on the side of which
among the hills at a distance, seems to die huge rocks were scattered, raising their
away, till it meets with the good, whose fail towering heads above each other; the owers
ings widely exaggerated, like the rocks of springing up from between them, scented
the mountains reverberate its sound.
the ambient air with their rich perfumes:
[The ladies looked astonished]
the sun had ran his daily circuit, and had
Mas Free. Yes, Mr. Thorn, slander all now reclined behind. the summit of the dis
must confess is highly reprehensible, and I tant hills: the moon had not yet risen to
say, Heaven preserve me from becoming
cast her lustre on the- earth: the twilight be
either one of its trumpet bearers, (for you

say it has a trumpet,) or one of its victims.
But, Miss Comita, we have been so much
engaged in our discussion, that we have not
had time to observe the hour. It grows late,
and it is high time for us to think of going
home. I am condent mamma expects me
before this.
Mrs Com. Yes, indeed, I think it is. [Bot/1
rise and [mt on their bonnets, shawls, 32.]
lilies Belv. Whats your hurry, girls; I am
sur ,It is quite early; sit still, your people
~got look for you this hour yet.
ing nearly extinguished, afforded but suf

cient light togtpcover the surrounding ob
jects to the est advantage: the sky was
serene, andthe stars juWi-sting into view,
added new splendour-to the'beauteous scene:
any reason to be ashamed of her co

'
Miss Com. 0! no, we cannot, I declare; it
for any body that dresses as she doc
ould is very late and we should have been there
not feel herself too proud to walk with a already.
{dong/smart.
Having manceuvered in this way for some
Miss Free. And yet she has pride.

time, and overwhelmed Miss Freeword with
.Wiss. Com. Aye, and enough of it too; compliments on the excellence of her de
Ive seen her toss her head about in a ball scriptive powers, Ste. they at length depart
room with as much haughtiness as if she ed. After waiting upon them to their habita
was a dutchess; but her abominable figure tions, I sOught my own, and there wrote you
rendered it most hideous.
this account of the transaction of the evening,
Alias Free. And I know she has got a foul which is a true specimen of their general
mouth about other peoples company, al' entertainment, at their social meetings. This
though she pays so little respect to her own. mirror, Mr. Gravity, I beg you to hold up to
i have heard her tell tales of one of her ac their view. If they can see it with the eye
quaintances, that I should he very sorry to of reason, they will see the folly of their be
talk of, if any thing of the kind were to hap haviour. Ifthey wish to alter it, (as upon this
pen to one of mine.
view they assuredly will,) letthem regard the
Miss. Bel-u. Yes, and so have I; for in cultivation of their minds, and the adornment
stance that affair about Mr. Edwards and of their fancies rather than the ostentatious
Miss Williams; she often relates strange ornaments of their exterior. These make no
tories of them, which by the by, I am much
inclinedto think are very true,but that cannot

justify her in being always talking about them,
and endeavouring to propagate their shame.
We: Cam. No, it cannot indeed; fer there
impression upon the minds of any but them
the gentle br'eeoesg ' fted over the branches

of the trees, and the murmurs oi the gliding
rill, was heardamong the rocks: the birds
weie seen talking shelter among the bushes:

the ocks and herds were leaving the eld,
while the tinkling of the distant bells, with
the melodious notes which from the birds
was heard to resound through the grove,
formed charms to animate the listening ear:
and indeed all nature seemed combined to
ll the scene with the most imaginable
grandeur. Then was I ready to believe, there
was no situation more desirable than the
contemplation of a scene like this. But while
I was yet musing, and participating in the
enjoyment which these objects had enfused,
I beheld a cloud rising in the west, and as
it pursued its course,br0ught darkness with
it; until the place in which I stood was
spread around with gloom, and dread dis
may and horror took the place of that de

lightful scene I had before been viewing,
with such extended ecstasy; I ed for shel
ter, which I had barely reached when the

rain poured down, as it were, in torrents.
The wind pouring fourth her tremendous

blasts, hurled swiftly through the air great
branches of trees; the thunders rolled along
the sky; and the vivid ashes of lightning,

selves, or such as themselves, except what which followed each other in quick succes
is mingled with contempt. Let them read, let sion, only rendered any object preceptable,
them reect, and if they do not amend, their (for the earth was clothed in utter darkness)
case is desperate, and my endeavours to while nothing Was heard but wild terric;v
m
sounds. The trees, as though amazed and Hence the art of regulating our behaviour,
confounded at the sight, fell prostrate to the of adjusting our looks, our words, and our
ground; and only terror generally prevailed. motions; the need of attentions, and all the
Thus thought I, are the pleasures of a man; little gratications of variety, we are natur
while he is exalted on the pinnacle of fame ally inclined to pay that homage which we
and earthly gandeur, he little thinks of evils receive, and to exact that which we pay.
that attend him: but while anticipating a Thus the delicacy of self-love produces all
continuation of his bliss, and amusing him the renements in society; as the delicacy of
self with the pleasures of the moment, un the senses produces all the renements in
noticed till it comes, the storm arises, over
whelms him in its course, and too late he
nds that provision for the future, should

have been his rst study; provision for the
future in this life, and in that which shall
never end.
LISNO.
9*
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THE VIRTUES OF POLISHED LIFE.
They are the charm and the bond of com

pany; and are used at all times and upon all
occasions. They are in the commerce of the
world, what current money' is in trade: they
are sometimes not absolutely necessary, but
one can never safely be without them; and

they always procure the possessor a more
favourable reception. In the words of Mr.
Addison giving the two rst epithets to his
Calm and serene, he drives the furious blast."
Such is that mild complacency, which gives

a softness to the character, and an attractive
sweetness to the manners; that indulgence
which pardons the faults ofothers, even when
it has no need of pardon itself; the art of

not seeing the weaknesses which discover
themselves, and of keeping the secret of
those who hide it; of concealing our advan

tages, when we humble our rivals or oppo
nents; of dealing gently with those who can
not ~submit without being offended; that
facility, which adopts ideas which it never
pleasure; and as the delicacy of taste, which
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When ghosts to stalk about delight,

With their galloping randy dandy 0!
Tis now the time when church yards yawn,
Hey randy dandy 0!
And let their tenants out till morn,
\Vith their galloping randy dandy O

For a precious row Im just in cue,
Hey randy dandy 0!
Some mischiefI should like to do,
With my galloping randy dandy 0!
But rst Ill to my mother go,
Hey randy dandy 0!
is perhaps only the result of the other two,

And what is what soon let her know,
produces all the renements in literature,
With my galloping randy dandy O!
arts, and sciences.
'A feeling heart and musical ear need not
[To be continued-]
be informed of the extreme delicacy of the
__Q.-_
sentimental harmony contained in the so
For the Repertory.
norous randy dandy O!
REVIEW.
\Ve cannot sufciently admire the ingeni
BY LARRY LOGBRAIN.
Hamlet Travestie: in three acts. With annotations ous substitution of a boxing match in place
by Dr. Johnson and George Stevens, esq. and of the rapier exercise of the original, such
other commendations. New York: Published by
David Long-worth, to be sold by M. Carey of scenes as the latter might do very well in
PhiladeJphia. Price 25 cents.
[Concluded] the barbarous days of queen Bess, but blood
Observe the subtle reasoning which the or the idea of blood is highly offensive to an
king uses while Laertes is blackguartling" audience in IBM principally consisting of
beaux and belles. We hope the performers
him for, as he supposes, killing his father.
will pay great attention to their boxing,
Hold him fast, Gertrude, Ill get out 0 th way,
that the people of the United States, who
lles twice as big as I am!
Although we think it natural that his ma are ever thirsting after knowledge, may be~
jesty should be exceedingly terried to be come as scientic as the good and great peo
hold a man of twice his own size ready to ple of England. \Ve would recommend
eat him up, as one might say; yet at this Mendozes systematic synopsis of the sci
juncture if his fears had not impelled him ence as being the most perspicuous and
to escape, we are condent of being able to comprehensive.
prove, (allowing that one and one make two,
During the contest between Hamlet and
and two halves a whole) that the other half Laertes the following words are employed
of his majesty, viz. his royal spouse, would by their majesties; the queen having drank
with the addition of himself make an exact of the poisoned beer.
balance with respect to advantage. But there
Queen. Hamlet, your health! Ha! this is
is no accounting for the actions of men when famous stingol
under the inuence of terror.
King. Dont drink!
Hamlet about to address the skull of Yor
Queen. I have.
ick observes to the grave digger,
King. [aside] The poisoned cup, by jingo'.
had; that delicate foresight, which divines

Alas! poor Yorick! sir! [knew him well: 0!
the plans of those with whom we converse,

and encourages the display of thought and
sentiment; that freedom, which inspires con
dence; and all that politeness, in short,
which perhaps is not virtue, nay, which is

sometimes no more than a happy lie, but
which gives laws to self-love, and makes
pride sit easy by the side of pride, which
would otherwise every moment he wounded.
We are, generally, so much the more polite,

as we are less devoted to ourselves and more
to others; as we are more attentive to opi
nion; as we are more zealous to be distin
guished; and, perhaps, in proportion as we

have fewer resources and great means of be
ing so. But these are not all: among indivi
duals and among a people, between the sexes
and between the ranks, politeness supposes
a certain degree of idleness; for it supposes
the habit and the necessity of living together.
And while the kings nutmeg is operat
The adjection 01 shows a very commenda ing upon the royal viscera the queen ex
ble sensibility in the youthful Dane, as his claims as she dies,
olfactory nerves receive the odour from
Ive had a precious swig;
If Im not a dead woman, dash my wig!
Yoricks noddle. All men very naturally
do the same when their noses comes in con There is one thing in this passage for which
tact with the savour' to which we all must we cannot account. viz. why the queen who
come.
knew she had drank poison and was on the
The many elegant soliloquys with which brink of an awful eternity should employ an
this play abounds have been rendered by oath to give the appearance of truth to an
the translator into very good songs with obvious falsehood. That her majesty was not
selections from the most popular airs ju dead when she spoke the above might be
diciously appropriated to the words. The variously proven, we shall content ourselves
following is a brief specimen, where Ham with saying that,
Queens that speak when they are dead,
let says in the original, this is the very
Are very cunning queens indeed!
witching time of night, re. the translator
Now that Gertrude was not a very cunning
makes the hero sing,
queen is proved by all partsof the piece; that
Tis now the very time of night,
Hey randy dandy 0'
she was a fearful one (as is seen by the kings
' Some read favour. We follow a veryold edition trusting to her when afraid of being attack
ed by Laertes) we readily allow, and totally
of the bard in the original tongue.
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unworthy to be the mother of so promising

a lad and able boxer as the noble prince of
Denmark.
The annotations of this play are luminous
and ingenious; by their help no one can mis
understand the author.
\Ve dismiss this tragedy with our most
unqualied approbation and think it will an~
swer its design in giving the world an op
portunity of enjoying the beauties of Shak
spoare without the defects of that immortal
hard and prince of dramatic poets.
Ob
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Would evry end had fought like thee, in heaven;

'lhen would defeat have shook th imperial towrs,
And conquerd skies, with all their bliss, been ours!
Next came a end that lasted after fame,

Purple his vest, and Belial was his name:
667
Where the silvery currents ow.
670
We will mount the arching sky,

Ride upon the cloud of azure;
Mark the planets as they y,
To some soft celestial measure.
Fearful he struck the brazen boss, the sound,
In deafning echo, shook the hall around.

And now the sylvan Ashteroth appeard,
Unblushing goddess, whom Zidonia fear'd:

The ends behold her with a scornful eye,
Clash their huge shields and pass the traitress by.
Next the pale god of Moab, joind the throng, 675
Obscene, he traild his loose attire along;
Chemos emasculate; yet of all hell,
He in seductive potenee could excel.
Now he whom llindoos zealously adore,
Joind the divan, from worshippd tianges shore;
Whom Satan, soon, in exultaiion eyed,
And, from his throne descending, thus he cried;
THE PROFITIATION.
BOOK I.
Continued.
A non MENT
Enumeration of the endsz'lheir various receptions
by Satan.
Satan, high raised upon his sable throne,
With joy, beheld th' approaching host, alone;
His endlike soul a gleam of transport knew,
While his keen eye beheld the gathering crew; 620
Ifever transport reachd so dire a heart,
Or could one feeling to the end impart.
Come heavenly Muse and all my soul inspire,
Beam on my song thy rays of glorious re,
625
Before my darkling mind emit thy light,
\Vhile leaving nature for the realms of night!
'hile I may sing, as oft was sung before,
0f damned spirits and imagine more
Now rst came he, who, when night disappears,
High oer the orient sky his banner rears;
630
Who, rising, drives the misty clouds away,
And bears upon his brow the front of day.
Far from the east th obedient spirit came,
By India worshippd, Surya was his name,
Satan beheld and heavd his gloomy breast,
635
And thus the triumph of his heart expressd:
Surya attends on this eventful hour,
Then India still obeys our sovereign power.
"eleome brave chief, thy wisdom we invite,
To aid our councils this tremendous night.
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Double faced Janus and goat footed Pan,
Appear with shining Surya in the van;
Near to these chiefs did Baal stern appear,
Whose prowess strikes the lesser ends with fear;
\Vclcomc brave Crceshnoo, gallant ehieftain, well

Dost thou pursue the purposes of hell;
It joys us much to see thee here, to-night,
685
By thy sage counsel to direct us right.
As some tall rock that rears its head on high,
From the vast ocean toward the vaultedsky,
Dagon of Gath among the crowd appeard,
And his huge bulk above the rest upreard.
690
Satan beheld him and with wounded pride,
Gnashing his teeth in rage, he ercely cried:

Why comes the palsied Dagon, from afar,
To join in council with the chiefs of war?
Pale hearted coward, scourge of hell and earth, 695
Bold valour shunned thee, traitor, at thy birth!
Where was thy prowess when thy Gath beheld
Thy brazen statue from its glory fell'd.
Before the Ark thy boasting velour died,
And thrice thy image tumbled from its pride! 700
But take thy place, what ends our summons hear,
Are all, to night, permitted to appear!

And now a fairer form arrests the sight
Of the dread monarch of the realms of night.
Forward she ies, her right to hell she claimd; 705

Of Ephesus the sin, Diana named.
Joss left his proud pagoda to attend,
And aid his brethren to attain their end.
Far from the east the spirit came, alone,
Where woful China bends before his throne! 710
And last came Mammon with snail creeping pace,
While meagre want beamd frightful from his face;

Though loads of gold obstruct him in his way,
By Avrice borne, who owns the spirits sway!
Satan observed him with malicious joy,
715
Who could with so much ease mankind destroy;
Flowing his locks, along his shoulder seen,

His stature tow'ring, terrible his mein.
He long in Babylon had held controul,
And workd the cruel purpose of his soul,
Till heaven inspired Elijah burst the chain,
64-5
His attributes he scornd; but th ease admired,
And slew his prophets, an unhallowd. train;
650
With which he gaind the purpose he desired!

With evry chief appeard a ghastly band,
Obedient to his terrible command!
720
Subset-vient spirits to the endlike state,
To work the sanguine purpose of their hate!
These kept aloof, nor dared to enter in
The dark abode of horror and of sin!
Anxious to learn what wonderous deed could call
Their countless numbers to the dreary hall!
(To be continued.)
His priests assist their cruel god no more,

But crimson Carmel with their spattring gore.
Now .\Ioloch, covcrd oer with many a scar,
Hell's chief support, and warrior in the war,

Armd for the ght in frowning horror stood, 655
His sable armour dyed in human blood.
What now, he cries, O! chief ofhells domain,

For the Repertory.
Disturbs our mighty purposes again?

Behold I come, if war demand my aid,
'Io hurl the vengeance of my glitt'ring blade! 660

Him Satan viewd, joy sparkled in his eyes,
Then, with a groan that 'shook the hall, he cries:
0! worthy chief, to fame immortal given,
T0 FANCY.
Fancy, now assume dominion,
And on moonbeams light and air ';
Spread abroad thy lueent pinion,
Loves attendant, little fairy!
We will dive beneath the wave,

\Vhere the rocks of coral grow;
We will watch the moonbeams lave,
We will visit all unseen,

Where the sleeping beauty lies;
View the heavenly form serene,
Clasp her charms and drink her sighs.
As the ying moments go,
Each upon its wing shall bear,
Sovereign joy to cure all we,
Pleasures laugh, to frighten care.
And before we pass the night,
I will sing and thou inspire;
Sit on moss in glowworm light,

Viewless winds shall touch the lyre;
Then, at near approach ofday,
To meet again, will glide away.
LORENZ 0.
_.....
For the Repertory.
TO CELIA.
When on the moss crownd hill I listless rove,

Eager to catch the suns last, lingring ray;
Still do I tread the paths of hopeless love,
Still does thine image meet me on the way,
Or if I wander in the evning gloom,
I mark thee still beneath the cheerless shade;
Each passing Zephyr does thy voice assume,
Through every mist I see thee, blue eyed maid'
W'hen spent with thought, and worn with heart felt
sighs,
I seek a book to y reeetion's pain;
Thy form engages then my wandring eyes,
Thy gentle beauties fill my soul again.
What though I distant solitudes may share,
I cannot y myself, and thou art there
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LORENZO.
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For the Repertory

TO
0h! lady, once I loved thy form,
And thought thy mind was even fairenr
Surely you owned some potent charm
To render me to you still dearer.
My heart with wild delight has beat
When softly lisping vows of love,
You sigh'd and gave assurance sweet,
'Ihy heart should never from me rove,
And still you sighd and on me hung,
I fondly thought youd love me ever;
But false was thy beguiling tongue,
Thou never lovedst me; never, never.
This heart was thine; though poor in gold

Twas rich in fervent love and true;
Nor could another bosom hold
More of a'eetions warmth for you.
Oh. once I could have died for thee,

So true I loved, and thought it bliss,
So melting was thy sigh to me,

And thrilling was thy fragrant kiss.
47
But soon the spell that stole my mind,

'"Iwas not so rm as I had thought it,
Faded away; thy heart refined,
Was his or mine who dearest bought it.
M
tering to his new profession, and colonel
Shot by sonic murdrous elf;
Lindsay
could not help remarking, on his
When evry creature thought him dead,
Declared, a ball once took his head,
requestingito be a grenadier, that he was too
And so he thought himself.
Then fare thee well, deceitful fair,

I neither love nor hate thee now;
Can calmly view, and not despair,

The killing frown that shades thy brow.
FLORENZO.
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For the Repertory.
Lines addressed to a brother at sea, by one to
whom he had been an invaluable friend.
May the ship that contains the dear freight of my

prayers,
No billowy tempest tremendous oerwhelm,
May the whisprings of pleasure disarm gloomy
cares,
And smiling security sit at the helm.
May hope'and may safety still pilot the way,
0! may their light wings utter prosperous gales,
And the sun of eontents undiminishing ray,
lncessantly shine on the breast of thy sails.
For the Repertory.

FPIGRAM.
A merry son of Esculapius, once,
In contact with a blustring bully came,
And beating sound the self important dunce,
\Vho bellowd out, enough! with might and
" Go to, you fool. our conquring hero cries,
Enforcing th exclamation with a blow;
Can you prescriptions for yourself devise?
Or dare you think the doctor does not know?
T.
I..
Eor the Repertory.

EPIGRAM,
On the Marriage of Mary Ann Angling, to Mr

Abraham Roach, of Upper Canada.
Ann Angling for a husband, took
With such magnetic virtue fraught,
That she the rst that nibbled caught:
Anxious her lover to approach,
She hauld him up and found A Roach.
But if on the waves in so awful a scene,
By disaster or fate thou shouldst ever be cast,

May blue eyed serenity lighten thy mien,
And heaven born hope blot the present and past.
Till Eolus shall with his murmuring breath,
Thy ship and thyselffrom all danger release,
And fancy, uncheckd by the threatnings of death,
Look through the bright vista of home, and of
peace.
PHILADELPHIA,
main,
A silver bait upon her hook;
May no storms of distress oer thy destiny roll,

Nor miserys whirlwinds within thee arise;
Nor may nature in terried wretchedness howl,
Nor ery crownd meteors frighten the skies.
low, and besides in-need. Tis low enough

with me, please your honour, replied the
recruit, and Im in need too, for l have not
had a meal these three days.
For the Repertory.

EPITAPH,
On a Mason, who constructed his own tombstone.
Here lies William Wallup
The address OH. R. S. to Lothario is too

incorrect for publication in the Repertory.
0f the best addresses of this nature we can
say nothing in eulogy; since, containing ge
nerally fulsomc panegyric, they cannot fail to
raise the vanity of an author, and frequently
mislead his judgment. This opinion may
account to our correspondents for the non
appearance of several, which we have re
ceived at di'erent times.
The Passion ofL. C. V. is very chaste,and
possesses merit suicient to entitle it to a
place inour columns. It shall appear in due
season.
The Ode to Avarice, by Demetrius, por
trays that passion in very impressive colours,
and shall receive all the attention it merits.
Who made these stones to roll up,
God has taken his soul up,

And his body lls this hole up.
MARRIED.
the Rev. Dr. Staughton, Mr. John Ieek, to
For the Repertory.

How I long but to gaze on that visage once more,
Free from erce frowning anger, or treacherous
art,
How I long in thine ear the blest potions to pour,

That ow unpolluted from gratitudes heart.
But sincb distance between us his empire hath
thrown,
And absence on each, heavy fetters hath bound,
Though our meetings ofjoy are to others unknown,

Yet oft shall we meet in thoughts magical round. l
Miss Elizabeth Porler, both of this city.

A DETECTION.
The favourite epithets applied by Virgil

to Eneas are pius, pater, and the like:
\Vhen his hero becomes a gallant he mere
ly calls him Dux Trojanus, the Trojan
general. Addison one day remarked this to
sir Rich.~.rd Steele. When the Tattler was
rst published its author was unknown: but

at length Steele, making the above remark
And oft of thy converse shall fancy partake,

And oft shall thy praises my wild muse employ,
Till I nd you, when 1 from the gay dream awake,
Lodg'd safe on the bosom of soul soothing joy.
in one of his papers, was by Addison found

to be the writer, and the curtain which con
cealed him was torn away.
T HADDEUS. '
An Irishman observing a pair of enormous

long legged hose hanging in a hosiers win
Epitaph on a gentleman who never paid his debts. dow, stepped in and inquired who they were
made for; to which the clerk replied, for no
Reader, beneath this stone is laid,
body in particular. Arrah, dear honey,
Dick Scurvy, aged jest two score;
A week ago, adebt he paid,
says Paddy, I thought they were made for
A thing he never did before.
Mr. Nobody in particular, for who but he can
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have such long legs as them.
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For the Repertory.
On Thursday evening, the 27th, Mr. JVut/mn
Hagelcl, to Miss Sara/1 .Elberson, both of

this city.
On the same evening, Mr. John Cougar,
to Miss illConm-ll, both of this city.
DIED,
At Baltimore, on Thursday morning, of a
lingering disease, at an advanced age, Samuel
Chase, a judge of the Circuit Court of the
United States.
On Wednesday morning last, in the 40th
year of her age, Mrs. Mary Merrccld, wife
of Mr. Joseph Merrecld, merchant of this
city.
On Monday the 24th, after a long and
severe indisposition, Mr. Samuel Wharton.
On Sunday the 16th inst. Dr. Archibald C.
MCalla, of Roadstown, N. Jersey, in the
49th year of his age.
At his residence in Darlington district,
on the 6th inst. Lt. Col. John Smith, of the
For the Repertory.

EPIGRAM.
Poor Teague once telling his mishaps

Amidst the bloody wars;
How he had scaped the Frenchmans traps,
Though covered oer with 8cm:
3d regiment of the United States infantry.

At Laguira, 23d ult. captain Tremclls, of
marching regiments, was lately brought for
this city, of a consumption. Captain T. it ap
inspection to lieutenant colonel Lindsay, who
pears had been labouring under this disease
presides over the recruiting department in
for several years, and went to Laguira. by the
A recruit who had inlisted in one of the
Dublin; the mans appearance was not at

advice ofhis physicians.
48
3,1
Fayal, March 10, 1811.
To the Editors of the Boston Patriot,
vessel's side, and was dicovered to be a

Mermaid, or ananimal of the kind which he
The legislature of Connecticut, at? I it
May session, passed a law, disqualaifjg
had frequently heard called by that name. She any citizen of that state to hold anyw'ii! I!
had two arms, and hair upon her head; but the oice, except that of justice of the paid?! '1"
. i .
colour he could not plainly distinguish; was after he is seventy years of age.
about four feet long from head to tail, and
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vii, |
the part below plainly discovered to be sh,
HEALTH OFFICE,
93' .
ceived from Thomas l'lickland, vice-consul having a broad forked tail. The head was
June 22,181 :
of the United States for that island. As the very small, and by no means in proportion to Interments in the City and Liberties of Philad phia,. _
shoal mentioned will probably expose ships the body. She continued along side of the
Diseases.
from the 15th
ad. ch.
to the Disealec.
22d June,
ad.
' cb.
to danger, it is desirable that this informa Kate about half an hour, and at one time,
tion should be generally dili'used, that mari when our informant looked over the side, Apoplexy
1 0 Old age
1 0
0 1 Ileurisy
0 I
ne'rs may be guarded against it.
raised her head out of the water. Our inform Cholera Morbus
2 O
ant also adds, that he Would have caught her, Consump. oflungs 6 0 Scrofula
I am, ac.
JOHN B. DABNEY.
Convulsions
0
3
Small
pox,
natural
3 3
Consul of the United States for the Azores. but was prevented by the entreaties of the
Decay
0 1 Still born
0 2
negroes belonging to the vessel, who appear Diarrhoea
St. Michaels, February 28, 1811.
1 O Syphillis
O l
ed very mueh alarmed,and insisted that cer Dropsy
2 0 Teething
0 2
Dear Sir
Dropsyin the brain 0 1 Ulcers
2 O
On the 29th, 30th and Slst ult. we were tain destruction would be the consequence.
Drowned
2 0 Unknown
2 Q
.N'assau [la/zer.
much alarmed by frequent shocks of earth
Dcbility
0 l
._ _
quakes, say upwards of twenty; and oh the
Fracture
0 1
26 17
An old woman, in Lincoln county in this
lst inst. information was received here that
Fever, nervous
1 0
a volcano had broken out in the sea, ve state, lately came by her death in a manner Insanity
2 0
Total 43
leagues west of this port, and half a league that would be deemed tragical was it not the Jaundice
l 0
consequence of her own beastly folly. We
from the land, in 50 or 60, and some sher
men say in seventy to eighty fathoms of publish the account as related. The Under 1
9 Between 50 and 60
5
3
60
70
l
water. I repaired immediately to that part widow 7", who lived with her son, went Between 1 and 2
2
5
3
TO
80
0
of the island, and, to my utter astonishment, to a neighbours to purchase some whiskey,
5
10
I
30
90
0
saw a vast column of black smoke issuing but he knowing her habits, refused to let
10
2O
1
90
100
O
out of the ocean. The wind was a gale from her have any. As she went home she passed
20
30
8 Ages unknown
0
the southward and blew the smoke over the by the distillery and took leave to ll a gourd
30
40
10
_
land. The sea was excessively agitated, and out of a barrel which in her haste to be
40
50
4
Total 4-3
the surf on the shore was frightful. I was as drinking she left running. By the time she
sured by the peasants, that the preceding reached home, she had been so constant in
STATE OF THE 'I'llEllhIOh'lETER.
night, fire had been emitted; and being curi
her devotions to the gourd, that she became
9 oclock- 12 oclock- 3 oclock.
ous to ascertain the fact, I returned to the literally drunk, and by tumbling into the re
June 17
75
78
80
city and desired my son and son-in-law to go set her clothes in a blaze, in which situation
18
72
73
74
and tarry opposite the volcano all night. They she crawled out of doors to a pile of shavings,
19
71
73
76
did so; and saw at various times, during the where she laid herself down aming like a
20
70
73
77
night, re issuing forth like a number of Gentoo widow upon the funeral pile of her
21
75
78
83
22
7'8
83
87
rockets, discharged together. Large masses husband. The son on his return home in the
l
of stone, or lava, were continually thrown evening found the hogs in the ashes of the
TERMS or "run ncnsaronv.
above the surface of the sea. \Vonderful, in
burnt shavings worrying about and carrying
deed, how re could pierce such a vast 05 the limbs of a roasted and almost devour scribers to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub
body of water, yet such was actually the case. ed carcase. On examination he found it to scribers half yearly in advance.
In eight days it entirely subsided, leaving a be the miserable remains of his mother!!!"
shoal on which the sea breaks. What a
Raleigh Star.
Sirs,
I send you for record in your valuable

paper, the following account of a remarkable
phenomenon that has lately happened at St.
Michaels, contained in a letter I recently re
happy deliverance for us, for had this fprmi
--.
dable volcano opened on the land it would

probably have gone near to ruin this ne

No subscription will be received for less than A
Horrible and distressing. On Tuesday the

4th inst. immediately after attending to mil to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
island. I am, 82c.
T. H.
litary duty, Mr. Peter MKensey, of Berlin, considered as subscribing for the next.
inthc presence of his now widowed wife and
A Mermaid. Captain Carey, of the schooner four orphan children, deliberately took his and become responsible for the pay ment, shall re
.
Kate, from Exuma, bound to this port, in razor from the shelf, and ran tOWards the ceive one copy gratis.
forms us that on Saturday morning last. barn, folIOWcd by Mrs.MKensey, who caught
about 2 oclock, beingr then about six miles hold of his garments and endeavoured to ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of Bel.
to the south east of the east end of this wrest the fatal weapon from his hand; but in
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Re.
'_.'
island, and being at this time below asleep,
spite of her eorts, her bitter cries, and heart
was called by one of the negroes of the crew
melting supplications, resolutely bent on his
of the schooner, and informed that a strange
own destruction, the husband and father, in
kind of sea animal was along side the vessel.
the midst of prosperity and health, cut his

threatfrom ear to cur,"and instantly expired?
'
Watchman.
He immediately went on deck, when the
animal made its appearance close to the
pertory will he expected to pay the difference.

PHILADELPHIA ,
Printed and published by Dennis Hesrtt,
- St. Marys church.
@BiI/abeliaiafeeptrfom
Cowrert.
SATURDAY, JULY 6, till I.
VOL II.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF COMMODORE ED\VARD PREBLE.
From the Port Folio
Commodore Edward Preble was born
August 15, 1761, in that part of Falmouth

in Casco bay which is now Portland in the
state of Massachusetts. His father was the
honourable Jedidiah Preble, who was a briga
dicr-general under the government of the
Massachusetts bay; and after the revolution
ary war became a member of the council and
senate. He died in the year 1783, aged 77.
Edward Preble from early childhood dis
covered a strong disposition for hazards and
aware of its disadvantages and hazards to

its possessor, was disposed in this instance,
accompanied as it was with ingenuous feel
ings and a disdain of all baseness, to regard
it as a prognostic of good. A single anecdote
in illustration we venture to record, trusting
that none of our readers, young or old, will
receive it in ill part, or think it capable of
any evil use. The good preceptor, with a
dear love for his pupils, was liable some
times to gusts of passion, portentous in ap
pearance, though commonly harmless in
effect. On one occasion, our hero in an en
counter with a schoolfellow, had given a

blow, which covered his face with blood.
On the boy presenting himself in this plight
adventures, and a rm, resolute, and per
in school, and announcing Preble as the au
severing temper. Possessing an athletic and
thor of his misfortune, the masters ire was
active frame, he delighted in exertion, and
raised to a tempest: seizing the fire shovel,

he sprung towards the offender, and aimed
particularly in sporting with a gun, in which

he displayed superior skill. His constitution,
naturally robust, was corroborated by this
athletic exercise.
His father, with a view to a college educa
tion and liberal profession for his son Edward,
placed him at a suitable age, at Dummer
a blow at his head; which, however, he took
care should just escape on one side of his

mark and fall on the desk. He repeated the
motion, bringing down his. deadly weapon
on the other side with the utmost violence.
The boy never changed his attitude or
academy, Newbury, then under the care of countenance, sitting perfectly erect and
the late Mr. Samuel Moody, a celebrated looking calmly at the assailant. The latter,
teacher. Here he was employed in Latin from being pale and quivering with rage, be
and other studies, and though the bias of came instantly composed, and turning away
his nature to action and enter-prize proved exclaimed that fellow will make a general.
an overmatch for the attractions of literature Against the wishes and hopes of his father
and sedentary occupation, his time at school Edward persisted in that predilection for the
yielded valuable fruit. The correctness and sea which he had always shown; and leaving
propriety of expression in his letters and . school after two or three years, he entered on
orders, the quality and cast of his conversa board a ship. His rst voyage was to Europe
tion, and the general resources of his mind in a letter of marque, captain Frend. On
showed him indebted to early culture as well their return, they had a severe time on the
as to the opportunities he enjoyed from | coast, through head winds and extreme cold.
much intercourse with the World and his The young sailor was conspicuous for his!
standingin society. He doubtless,with others, activity and usefulness in this trying exi-i
experienced the benetof having a precep gence.
tor who made it his care and gratication
About the year 1779 he became midship
to discover and fan the spark of honourable man in the state ship Protector, 26 guns,I
ambition in the minds of his pupils. He was commanded by that brave oliiccr, John Fors~ J
particularly attentive to their characteristic ter Williams, who has always spoken withi
individual traits; and food of viewing them emphasis of the courage and good conduct:
on the most favourable and indulgent side. of Mr. Preble, while in his ship.
i
He was struck with the marks of a fearless
Ox. the rs: cruise of the Protector, she en-'
No. 7.
Admiral Duff of 36 guns. It was a short

but hard fought action. The vessels were
constantly very near and much of the time
along side, so that the balls were thrown from
one to the other by hand. The DulT struck,
but taking re about the same time, she in
a few minutes blew up. Between thirty and

forty of her people were saved and taken
on board the Protector, where a malignant

fever soon spread and carried off two thirds
of captain \Villiams crcwIHe returned to
an eastern port, and landing his prisoners
and recruiting his men sailed on a second
cruise. Falling in with a British sloop of war
and frigate, the Protector was captured.
The principal ofcers were taken to England,
but Preble, by the interest of afriend of his
father, colonel William Tyng, obtained his
release at New York and returned to his
friends.
He then entered as rst lieutenant on
board the sloop of war \Vinthrop, captain
George Little, who had been captain Wil
liamss second in command in the Protector,
had scaled the walls of his prison at Plymouth,
and with one other person escaping in a
wherry to France, took passage thence to
Boston.
One of Mr. Preble's exploits, while in
this station, has been often mentioned as an
instance of daring courage and cool intre
pidity not less than of good fortune. He

boarded and cut out an English armed brig
of superior force to the 'inthrop lying in
Penobscot
harbour,
under circumstances
which justly gave the action great eclat.

Little had taken the brigs tender, from
whom he gained such information of the
situation of the brig, as made him resolve
to attempt seizing on her by surprise. He
run her along side in the night, having pre
pared forty men to jump into her, dressed
in white frocks, to enable them to distin
guish friend from foe. Coming close upon

her, he was hailed by the enemy, who, as
was said, supposed the \Vinthrop must be

her tender, and who CrlLU out, you will
run aboard." He arswered, " I am coming
aboard, and immediately Prcilc with four
invincible spirit in Preble; and though gaged off Newfoundland, the letter ofmarque i teen men sprung into the brig. The mo
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tion of the vessel was so rapid that the rest
ed, )Ir. Preble was one. In the fall and win he turned from the convent and bent his way
ter of 1798-9 he made twv cruises as com towards the castle. He thought it strange.
mandant of the brig Pickering. The next that Kartholo should give such positive
year 1799, he received a captains commis orders for the government of the attendants
sion, and the command of the frigate Essex of the convent; but had Florival known,\vhat
and a loud voice, we have more than we of 36 guns. January 1800, he made a voy
was no secret to the monks, that their su
want; we stand in each others way. Those age in her to Batavia, whither he was sent perior would sometimes shut himself up in
of the enemys crew who were on deck with captain James Sever in the Congress his cell for three or four days together, he
chiey leaped over the side, and others to convoy our homeward bound trade from would have ceased to wonder at his conduct
below from the cabin window and swam to India and the East.
now.
'
The day after leaving port, a snow storm
It drew fast towards evening as he reached
the shore, which was within pistol shot.
Preble instantly entering the cabin, fotlnd the came on, and they parted from the three ves the castle gates, where he met Amelia pro
oicers in bed or just rising: he assured sels under convoy out. On the l2th, in a ceeding to the cottage of his mother, and in
them they were his prisoners and that re heavy gale, he lost sight of the Congress. She quiring whither she was going, insisted upon
sistance was vain; and if attempted, would unfortuately was dismasted and obliged to attending her thither, to which she assented,
be fatal to them. Believing they were sur put back. The Essex pursued the voyage upon his promising to leave her there, and
prised and mastered by superior numbers, alone, after waiting a suitable time at the return for her about nine oclock.
they forbore any attempt to rescue the ves Cape of Good Hope to see if the congress
On returning from the cottage, the youth
sel and submitted. The troops of the enemy would come up, she sailed for Batavia. Be felt a strong, irresistible curiosity to enter
marched down to the shore, and commenc
fore and after arriving at Batavia, captain the convent and learn what could possibly
ed a brisk ring with muskets, and the bat
Preble made two cruises of a fortnight each employ Kartholo so long in retirement. He.
tcry opened a-cannouade, which, however, in the straits of Sunda. In June he took knocked at the gate, and upon expressing
was too high to take e'ect. In the mean time under convoy home fourteen sail of Ameri his wish to pay his vows at the feet of the
the captors beat their prize out of the har can merchantmcn; valued at several millions patroness of Saint Lucia, in the chapel of
bour, exposed for a considerable space to of dollars. He was separated from them in the monastery, was permitted to enter. It
volleys of musketry, and took her in triumph a tremendous gale otl'the bank of Lagullos: was generally the custom that one of the
but most of them rejoined him afterwards friars should attend a visiter, who wished to
to Boston.
Lieutenant Preble continued in the Win at St. Helena, and were protected till they enter the presence of the Saint, but vespers
throp till the peace of 1783. This vessel is were considered out of danger. He met few being just concluded, they were all busily
acknowledged to have rendered eminent cruisers of the enemy. He gave keen chase employed in their cells, and Forival was, in
service by protecting our trade near our to a French corvette from the Isle of France, consequence, permitted to visit Saint Lucia
shores, and picking up a great number of which he would have overtaken, but the wind let: d'lc'te. He proceeded along the dark
the small privateers which issued from the dying away, she escaped by means of her passage that led to the chapel, on each side
sweeps. He arrived at New York near the of which stood the cells of the monks. He
British ports to the eastward.
From this period the flag of our nation end of the year. He had been sick on the passed each, until he came to the well known
began to be displayed in every sea, and voyage, and failed in health exceedingly door of Kartholos. His feet was chained by
her ships to visit every mart in both hemis afterwards- Being appointed to the Adams curiosity, and he could not pass it. He lis
for the Mediterranean, he was too feeble to tened, and could hear nothing, whereas, in
pheres. Mr. Preblc was a ship master in suc
cessivc voyages, to various places, near and take command and was obliged to resign the other cells, he could plainly hear the
her to captain Campbell.
hum of the busy monks. This increased his
distant.
[To be continued]
In the year 1798, the accumulated inju
curiosity and he ventured to look through
ries and insults of the rulers of France awak
the small grated window of the cell, to ob
For the Repertory.
ened a spirit of resistance in the people
serve what Kartholo was doing; but no Kar
CASTLE OF ALTENHBIM,
and government of this country. The presi
tholo Was within! The little taper, which he
OR
dent uttered a loud call for a navy and ob
usually burnt in his cell, was now quiver
tained a hearing. That class of our states
ing in its socket, and Florival, perhaps it was
of the forty destined for boarding missed
their opportunity. Little called to his lieu
tenant will you not have more men?" No,"
he answered with great presence of mind
men and citizens, who had always thought
A TALE.
CHAPTER III.
a maritime force an indispensable instru
Continued.
ment both of a defence and negotiation, and
who had often before pleaded for it in vain, A crimson blush her beauteous face oersprcad,
embraced the occasion to begin the good Varying her checks, by turns, with white and red.
nnvnzu
work. In this and the following year, fteen
Can such things be,
frigates, and about twelve other vessels of
And overcome us. like a summers cloud,
war were built and commissioned. It was
Without our special wonder?
suausrsaan.
fortunate for the prosperity and usefulness
He arrived at the gate, and requesting to
of this infant establishment that many of the be admitted to an interview with father Kar
naval heroes of the revolution, who had been tholo, was informed that he had retired to his
accustomed to maritime warfare, were of cell, late the preceding night, leaving orders
an age to be employed in the service, and not to be disturbed in his devotions, and for
acknowledged the claim of their country bidding any one to molest him until he ad
to the benet of their experience.
mitted them himself.
Of the ve rst lieutenants rst appoint
Mysterious conduct," said Florival, as
but an excuse for curiosity, conceiving that
it might be dangerous for it to continue

there, resolved to enter and extinguish it.
He softly opened the door, which was never
fastened, and hastily raising the taper, found
it had only sunk too deep into its stand, and
had yet some hours life in it. He now thought

it was not his duty to extinguish it, least the
friar should return and be in want of it, or
we may rather suppose, that now he had en.
tered the cell, he could notexamine it with
out the torch, and this determined him not
to put it out.
After he had adjusted it, he proceeded
round the cell, drawing his hand along the
wainscot, until lighting upon a secret spring,
PHILADELPHIA R'EPERTORY'.
51
a small door ew open with astonishing

loudness. Florival was amazed and dread
ed detection, for he plainly heard feet in the
passage. Presently two or three voices at the
deorcried:
Father Kartholo, father Kartholo, what
was that?
Florival was confounded, expecting them
to enter every moment, but nding them to
remain without, only repeating:

Father Kartholo,-father Kartholo, what
was that?
He endeavoured to imitate the friar's voice
and answered:
4 Tis nothing of consequence: only my
table, by accident, upset; I pray you retire
and disturb me not."
The monks requested his pardon for the
interruption which their fears for his safety
had caused, and after receiving the blessing
ofthe supposed Kartholo, hastily retired, leav
ing Florival at liberty to pursue his search.

He now searched and found the door open~
ed into a closet, in which he found the friars
habit hung upon a peg. In his eagerness to
enter he stumbled over something on the
oor, and stooping down, upon examination
found it to be the ring of a trap-door. His
curiosity was not to be resisted; he sat down
the lamp, and applying each nerve, with
some difculty raised it. He was almost

overcome by the stream of conned air
that issued from it; but being of a most dar

ing resolution, he drew his sword, and per
ceiving a ight of stairs he boldly descend
ed, determined to elucidate the mysteries of
the monastery. He descended about thirty
steps, and found himself surrounded by
bones, sculls, and coins, in the cemetery
of the chapel. He felt a solemn horror thrill
through his veins, something like fear qui

vered at his heart, and he was upon the point
of retreating, but his native courage soon re
turning, he felta sudden indignation against

himself for permitting his bosom for a mo
ment to entertain a thought of fear.
No! what have I to fear? cried he,
what, though surrounded by these loath
some emblems of mortality, no deeds of
guilt have made the mansions of the dead

so terrible to me! I need not fear to meet
the spirit of some murdered friend, pointing
to the wound my glittering poignard made!
No; ye dread glooms, ye cannot strike my
her hand, and the blood streaming from her

breast entered the vault. Florival started,
gazed stedfastly on her, and soon perceived
we readily enter into every scene of life,

and are calculated to promote the general
good of the community. On all sides, daily
by her pale and emaciated looks, that she occurrences engage our attention, which call
was not of this world; and bending in solemn forth the energies of our nature. \Ve are
awe upon one knee, with clasped hands, prevented from living in selsh obscurity,
raised his eyes to Heaven in fervent suppli
by the various cords that are intwined around
cation.
our hearts, and which powerfully draw us to
The eyes of the spectre of the palace, for the indulgence of our natural feelings and
propeiisities, of relieving such suffering ob
it was the same form, soon rested upon Flo
rival: she started likewise, but perceiving jects, as chance may ohtrude upon our no
his devotional attitude, she advanced with a tice. From this view of the human constitu
slow and stately step, until she bent over tion, is it not evident, that man was born for
him, laid her clay cold hands upon him; society? If the Creator had intended him for
raised her eyes to heaven, gave a deep sigh solitude, would he not, in innite wisdom,
have divested him of all those tics which, in
and withdrew a few paces.
Florival ventured now to turn his eyes the present state of things, bind him so
towards her, when she pointed toward that closely to his fellows? How often has this
part of the vault from which the youth came, natural principle been prevented by sophis
and motioned him to retire through the door try and superstitious fanaticism!
Sympathy, like every thing else, must be
by which she entered. \Vith a mixture of
awe and terror, Florival beheld her retiring guarded by reason, lest it run into such ex
until her gure was entirely lost in the mist tremes as must effectually destroy any be
of the surrounding darkness. Again the nets that may ow from it. There are some
youth sunk upon his knees, crossed himself, men whose constitutional sensibilities are so
and breathing a fervent ejaculation to Saint phlegmatic, that they require great danger
Lucia, arose and proceeded toward the door and awful calamitcs to irritate them. Others
through which the phantom had entered. possess such delicate feelings that, rather
He passed it and found himself at the foot of than suffer for a moment the importunity of
a ight of stairs. He ascended a few steps, an object apparently distressed, they will
when he encountered another trap, and rais bestow a proportion of the last dollar they
ing it with great difculty, a stream of cool possess upon earth; without ever troubling
air rushed in, refreshing his fatigued and themselves to discover whether they are
fainting body, but at the same time extin really performing a charitable act, or whether
guishing the taper, and leaving him in total they are not unjustly depriving worthy ob
darkness. With some difficulty he passed jects of that relief which might with propriety
the aperture and found himself in an en be afforded to them, by thus lavishingly dis
tangled thicket. He sat some moments think tributing their bounty. If the powerful emo
ing on the past occurrences, and endeavour tions excited by sensibility are not checked
ing to account for the appearance of the and made to ow in their proper channel, a
spectre, when the recollection of Amelia man may, in a few years, spend a large estate
without the approbation of conscience, or
ashed across his mind, and he was con
vinced it was near the time at which he pro even the enjoyment of common pleasures.
There is a kind of morbid sympathy, that
mised to call and escort her home. He started
up, and darting irresistably through the op may frequently be found in persons of both '
posing branches, after some time found him sexes. This is that kind of sympathy, which
has for its objects, the sufferings of dumb
self close to the castle gates.
animals and vegetables, to the exclusions of
(To be continued.)
human beings. Poor little fellow; said Mrs.
_._
Scum, the other day, as I stood beside her at
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XLII.

0 Sympathy! all comes from thee!
Sterne.
her own door, addressing herself to a dirty

little dog that had just been soused over
head and ears in a gutter by some mische
vious boys; poor little fellow! only look,
you of the power, a quiet conscience!

He felt his soul renewed and proceeded
along the vault with cautious steps. He had
almost reached the farthest end, when sud;
Sympathy is that emotion of the heart.

which causes us to participate in the joy or
sorrow of happy or adverse events, when
they happen to others, nearly in the same
manner as we should if these events related
only to ourselves.
denly before him a door, similar to the one

which opened into the closet, ew open, and
sympathy is the very solder of society.
a tall female gure, with a bloody dagger in
While blest' with the feelings of sympathy, erable woman stepped up and desired chariti
heart with fear, for I bear a charm that robs
From this denition, it is obvious, that
MrPeaceable, how shameful; these infamous

wretches must be devoid of all humanity,
who can so misuse a poor harmless little

creature. Thomas! come take this poor ani
mal under shelter; and, Thomas, give it a
little warm milk to comfort it, poor thing!"
The servant obeyed. At that moment a mis
so
\4
mt
of the
in her
of her
(cried
lady, inasmuch as she had served

family; but now had a helpless family
own to" Come, sir, do come in.
Mrs. Scum, taking hold of my arm)
I vow we are overrun with beggars; I de
clare one aint safe in ones own house; pray
iuexprcssible as it convinced me I was in a

civilized country!
In Scotts Marmion this elegant passage

is introduced with admirable effect, and may
This measure is adopted, andChemos appointed
operate as a counterpoise to the satirical

scrap for the ladies inserted below:
to the embassage: His departure from hell.
sir, come in." This, may it please the rea
Oh! woman! in our hours of ease,
der, I think, affords a very clever illustra

tion ofa morbid sympathy.
l have understood that Miss Touchy car
ries the thing somewhat farther; for during
a storm, it is said, the tender hearted damsel
can almost shed tears for the sad fate of the
very lilies and tulips that grow in her fathers
garden!
\
A virtuous man cherishes the sympathies
of his nature, when they may be useful in
prompting him to the performance of great
and worthy actions. His feelings are never
burdensome. His mind is too well fortied
to suffer an overthrow of its principles upon
every appearance of distress; but when he
nds an object whose situation deserves his
commiseration, he overwhelms the pain his
sympathy occasions, by offering at the shrine
of active virtue the assistance it is in his
power to impart.
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
From the above remarks I infer, that sym
pathy, when corrected and restrained by ra

tional education, is not only the base of hu
man society, but the fountain of all moral
prosperity. Parents who are concerned for
the future character of their offspring, will
begin early to direct those natural sympa
And variable as the shade,
By the light quivering aspen made;

\Vhen pain and sickness ring the brew,
A ministering angel thou!
A verse from Cowper's Friendship.

Some act upon this prudent plan,
Say little! but, hear all you can!
Safe policy! but hateful;
So barren sands imbibe the showers,
Yet render neither fruits or flowers:

Unpleasant and ungrateful.
Once in a pew two ladies sat,
The devil (always on the lurch
Behind such people in a church)

In short-hand way and pencild marks
Took down the words of these two sparks,
On parchment skin; and when the roll
Would hold no more it was so full,
His devilship began to pull,
And stretch it with his teeth, which failing,
He knocked his head against the railing.
I
The priest, he laughd, though then at mass,

To see the Devil such an ass,
To think that parchment, roll, or een a skin.

Would hold TWO womens chat, whenthey begin.
J. R. e. _
For the Repertory.
BUDGET, No. II.

BY \VILL VERSATILE.
senars.
Advertisement from a country [la/(er.
Lost; where it was drop/zed,- last night.
an empty bag; with a cissars in it, The bag

was marked. in large letters T; S; (which
ment the sirscrz'burs) but they 1001?, were

out. the jzarson ware lost it never miss-4 it
asked in asing song sentimental tone, why

does azure deck the sky? anticipating an
answer from him of tis to be like thy
eyes of blue, when the sagacious genius
returned this most laconic answer; why
do bags have bristles? you fool!
A gentleman (a genius) once at the re
quest of a lady, retired in his room at three
oclock, P. M. to make a conundrum; at seven
he came out, with a small piece of paper, on

which there was an A, printed, and dotted all
over, and to complete it, the paper was torn
in half, save a small part that just held it
till he drop/zed it. and then cuddent nd it,
together; joy sparkled in his eye, and he an

ticipated immortalization for making one of
so any fiarson what brings it home shall be
the capitalist ones ever was, when lo! says
paid.
he, why is this like you? Why, because
Signed
SAM. DAVIS.
The writer of a modern book of travels,
And the vast throng. now gathered round him.

viewd:
His face resuming then his native pride;
74-5
He, to the anxious inquiry replied:
Thanks, Belial, and you. chiefs, this ready zeal
P1 eel-aims you active for the common Weal;
Let patience now bear with me while I tell

What cause demands this congress of our hell. 750
What boding terrors ll your monarchs breast,
What pangs conicting all his soul infest.
'lhe tempter, then, dcsporfdingly, once more
ltehearsed his fearful apprehensions oer.
Scarce had he ceased, when the assembled crowd,
With clamouring tongues, to Belial cried aloud,
Speak thou, brave chief, and all our host inform,
A blue eyed young lady, very vain of her

beauty, in the presence of a clownish fellow,
*0,
Now the dark congress. in the drear retreat,

Couchd, on their knees, around the temptcrs feet;
From evry tongue, this adulation fell,
730
Satan, all hail! imperial chief of hell!
Then Belial rose. again the silence broke,
Gazed on the ends and thus the king bespoke.
0! thou who bearst, in hell, the sovereign rule,
In council sapient and in battle cool,
735
For thy protection do we all unite,
By thy command are we convened to night;
What dreadful purpose now demands our best.
And claims attendance from each subject ghost!
What eer thy will, puissant monarch, say,
746
And all our powers are ready to obey.
Now from his sable throne the tempter rose,
The cause of their convention to disclose;
In dreadful silence for awhile he stood,
And passd their time in pleasing chat.
thies, which must in future life so materially
inuence the conduct of their children.

PETER PEACEABLE.
Speech ofBelial: Reply ofChemos: Moloch having

upbraided Chemos, Mammon offers it as the best
procedure to dispatch a messenger to earth, to
learn the truth or falsehood of their supposition:
its a Sized-A-Torel
w..
relating the particulars of his being cast

away, thus concludes:
After having walked eleven hours with
out tracing the print of a human foot, to my
THE PRO PITIATION.
great comfort and delight, I saw a man hang
Concluded.
ing at the end of a rope suspended by a

beam lying in a horizontal position between
two trees; my pleasure at this prospect was
The ends being informed of the reason of their
For the Repertory.
BOOK 1.
ARGU MENT
convocation, demand the opinion of Rehab
What measures best may tend t avert the storm.

Thus the dark clan their will at once expressd,
When thus the fury of the purple vest;
760
Since you, brave peers, my counsel thus desire,

Attend my words, which zeal and glory re;
It needs no argument to bring to view

The meastu-es proper for us to pursue;
With hate and deadly vengeance for her guide, 765

Methinks that hell may instantly decide;
Whats Heaven, that we should linger in the thrall,
And shake our bosoms with a pale appal?
Are we not strong in numbers as in right,
Then wherefore longer hold us from the ght' 770

From what I've heard, tis Heavens unjust intent
T extirpatc us, and Heaven will ne'er relent;
0f evry hope ov mercy thence bereft;

One only way t avoid despair, is left;
Let daring valour beam from evry brow,
And resolution arm each warrior now,
775
Upward ascend, and let the tyrant know,
We ve lost not courage by our overthrow!
These are my thoughts, and I would now advise
Instant and open war against the skies!
780
Here Belial ceased: him palsied Chemos eyed;
Then in submissive accents thus replied:
My sovereign liege. and you that now appear
In council, round his glorious throne, give ear;
'lis true, I boast not, Belial deeds in arms,
7B5
Amidst the dreadfulthunder of alarms,

l cannot guide the chariot through the air,
Curb the proud courser, and impel the spear;
Carry pale death and terror in my train,
Nor stain my arms with blood of thousand slain;
m
In warlike prowess it is yours to shine,
79!
But in the council, Belial, it is mine;
For the Repertory.

Mr Editor,
Then let not rage your gallant bosom re.

While now I utter what my thoughts inspire:
As in the danger every fury lies,
~" 795
So every fury, surely, may advice;
It doth amaze me that our chiefs contend
That active war would gain our wish'd for end;
Concludc in Heavens eternal overthrow,
And hell rejoice, with all her ends, below!
800
That self same Heaven, this hell once lcarnd to fear,
And we, within this dungeon dark and druarl
Tell me, ye chiefs that form this valiant throng,

Has Heaven grown weaker and have we grown
strong?
No: that same God who once his vengeance sent,

Is still a God. and still omnipotent;
806
The following fragment. found among the unn

ished manuscripts of a young friend who is ab
sent, having pleased me in its perusal, 1 now take
the liberty of submitting it to you.
T.
PA SSlUN.
Passion like a whirlwind rages,
With each nerve its war it_wages:
Bear its raging heat by turns
But man who has in sin and error trode,
May be seduced to leave a lenient God!

Then turn from yon invulnerable skies
And measures to betray mankind devise!
As the erce boar in fettei s long connd,
815
So chaffd, while Chemos spoke, dread Molochs

mind;
As when the boar assunder bursts his chains,
And howls his fearful fury o'er the plains,
320
So raged the chief when Chemos ceased; his eyes
Sparkle in vengeance, as he ercely cries:

Can hell a spirit so debased contain,
In all her spacious and enlarged domain?
Chemos avoid me, or my rage will shed
A fatal vengeance on thy treacherous head!
URBAN (_lRANDll-IR.
In the following tragical story, it is fatally exem

plied, with what unremitting assiduity, malice
will pursue the unfortune object against whom
the spirit of envy is raised. In it too, we may
perceive the folly of irritating our enemies while
we are in imaginary security; and from it we
Healthful pleasure little prizes,

Always ranting,
Boasting, vaunting,
Joy it never realizes;
may learn, that no situation in life, can shield us
from the shafts of calumny, or raise us above the

reach of the envious and. the unjust Eon-on.
ho dares to utter but a word of fear,
Shall feel the fury of my angry spear!

Silence succeeds: this meagre Mammon broke.
And, on his gold supported, thus he spoke:
830
What boots it, chicftains, that we argue, here,
Of boasted courage and of trembling fear;
'hen, yet, we know 1101. any cause demands
The labour of our mind or of our hands?
Let some dread spirit leave these glooms below,
The truth or falsehood of our fears to know;
Then, if we nd the awful wonder true,
Well counsel measures proper to pursue.

A listning ear to this harrangue they give,
And the sage measures be advised receive.
Rankling weeds within it grow,
The man who is to gure in this little

history was the son of a notaire royal at
Painful errors,
Je. lous terrors,
ieep its cruel heart in we.
Sablec, and born at Roucres, a. town at some
little distance from Loudun, in France. It

was said that he learned magic of his father
and uncle; but the inhabitants of the place
have borne the best testimony to their good
conduct and demeanour. Urban Grandicr
Thus resistless on it urges,
Evry tender feeling surges,

Stamping, stcaring,
Cursing, swearing,
Thinking from its soul it purges.
I
8-25
studied under the Jesuits at Bourdeaux, who,
Man thus wild and unrelenting,

Feels no joy in madness venting,
Nor at peace is,
_
Till it ceases,
All its fury, in relenting.
L- C- V.
For the Repertory.

ODE TO A VARICE.
Avrice, to thee the strain I raise,
Not to exalt with attring praise,

But curse thy hateful sway:
To thee the Muse for once connes
The fury ofthe poets lines,
In a denouncing lay.
For, monster, tis by thee alone,
840
Chemo: was call'd to undertake the deed,
Andhonours promised if he should succeed.

Impatient, now, the fury stands prepared,
hen thus his will the prince of hell declared:
Go where renown now calls thee, ()hemos, go, 845
That to her votries scorn is shown,
And to the Muse divine:

Because thou failst in thy desires.
To make them quench their sacred res,
And tremble at thy shrine.
And let thy breast with endlike rapture glow!

Of all her chieftains, hell'condes in thee,
Go, raise thy fame for all eternity.
But mark me well, do thou on earth remain,
Until the mighty purpose thou attain;
850
Be not deceived, bold Chemos, wait to see,
Some glorious miracle attest it He!
Fear not my vigilance, the spirit cried;
We do not fear it, all the host replied;
Then from the cell the sensual fury springs, 855
Because thou canst not veil in night.

Curbing wild Fancy"s airy ight,
The splendour of the soul;
Chace from their thoughts loves fairy dream,
And wrap in clouds gay pleasures beam,
Beneath thy dull control.
While hellsdark angels clap their sable wings.
May men prepare for bliss above,

In happiness below.
A mans chief good is an upright mind,

which no earthly power can bestow, or take
iom him.
And know that he had rather die
account or THE CELEBRATED
Sweets of love it cannot know,

p
0r bend the suppliauit knee;
For know thy threats he dares def},
_._.
Youth, and beauty,
Cooling reason it despises,
819
Homage the Bard disdains to pay,
DEMETRIUS.
All. its dircful wrath engages:

For with fury as it burns,
Evry tie alike it spurns.
Love, and duty,
God of his earthly inuence to deprive,

Seductive arts, alone, let us employ,
Therefore, thou end of hell, away'
Than owe his life to thee.
Father. mother,
Sister, brother,
No war would I advise, but if we strive
These cannot fail, ye warriors, to destroy!

Heaven scorns us, tis impossible we can
Seduce the God to leave created man;
Regenerated birth;
And when thou hast embraced thy doom.
Proclaim upon thy gclid tomb
Another-joy on earth.
0! Avrice, may thine empire cease,

Many nations smile in liberal peace,
The Wing of genius grow;

And in the arms of social love,
\Vhole worlds shall at thy fall rejoice,

Genius declare with winning voice
on account of his great talents, considered

him with no common regard. As they were
convinced that he would do credit to their
order, they bestowed upon him the benecc
of St. Peter at Loudun, of which they were
the patrons, and procured for him a. prcbcnd
in the church of Sainte Croix.
Such considerable preferment excited the
envy of his ecclesiastical brethren.'He was
a young man too of a most prepossessing
gure, and something great and elevated
was manifested in all his actions and deport
ment. In his person there was an attention
to the graces that was some reproach to him
among his order, but which enhanced the
general prejudice in his favour. He was
every way accomplished to make a gure in
the world; and possessed, in an uncommon
degree, the talent of expressing himself with

ease and force in conversation. The same
superiority attended him in the pulpit; and
on whatever subject he was engaged, he left
nothing to be wished for by the correctest
judges.
The rusticity of the monks could not bear
to contemplate the credit which such ac
complishments attracted; their jealousy grew
the more malignant from the restraint im
posed on it by the elevation of his character;
till, at length, it was carried beyond all.
bounds of moderation by the deserved con.
j tempt with which the efforts of their media
54
Were regarded. The friends of Grandier
daughters affections had been won by Gran
struck him with his list on the back, saying,
found innite charms in his conversation and dier, and to whom it was on good grounds
Go faster, Jesus, go faster; why dost thou
manners; but to his enemies his carriage was supposed that her virtue had been likewise
full of loftiness and disdain. All his designs surrendered.
The exposure of the young lady was pre
and undertakings Were marked with peculiar
rmness and intrepidity: and in matters of vented by an act of friendship that deserves
interest he was not easily wronged or over to be recorded. Martha Pelletier, by whom
borne. But he repelled every attack with the unfortunate girl was tenderly beloved,
such vigour and resentment, that his enemies disguised from the world the fruits of the
amour, and took upon herself the whole
were rendered irreconcileable.
But innocent as was Grandier of the crime reproach, by declaring the child to be her
of magic, he was undoubtedly chargeable on own, and bestowing upon it the care of a
the score of gallantry, in which he discover tender mother.
The enemies of Grandier, attracted by a
ed but little self-government and modera
tion; a part of his history that will account sympathy of hate, drew every day closer
for many of those implacable enmities which together; till at length a desperate combina
he drew upon himself: and we may conclude, tion was formed for his utter destruction.
that the least furious of his persecutors were Accusation upon accusation was preferred
not among his defeated rivals, and the rela against him, on the score of his imputed pro
tions of the victims to his seductive qualities. fligacies and impieties; but not a single wo
Amidst the many amours with which he was man could be found to appear against him,
embarrassed, there was but one mistress of and the evidence altogether involved so many
his heart, and report gave this title to Mag palpable contradictions, that, although the
deleine de Brou, with whom he was thought part taken against him by the bishop of
linger?" upon which Jesus looked at him
to have contracted a marriage of conscience,
Poitiers procured his frequent imprisonment,
and to have written, for the greater repose the stength of his cause triumphed over all
of her mind, his famous treatise against the the malice of his persecutors. He continued,
however, to wind up to the highest possible
eelibacy of the clergy.
But as his heart was great and honourable, pitch the virulence of their hate, by the in
he was never known, by the slighest breath sulting and imperious deportment he adopted
of intimation, to sport with the character of towards them.
any female whose charms had yielded to his
(To be continued.)
'.
_
allurements.
mom rorotan ANTIQUITIES.
Notwithstanding the predominancy which
this passion had gained in his mind, it had
THE \VANDERING JEV.
not been able to subdue or weaken the sen

Dr. Percy tells us, the story of the wan
timents of piety and principles of faith with dering Jew is of considerable antiquity: it
which he was inspired; and we shall see in had obtained full credit in this part of the
the end that these qualities acquired their world before the year 1228, as we learn
due ascendency, and supported him under from Matt. Paris. For in that year it seems
great trials; greater than humanity is con there came an Armenian archbishop into
witha. frown, and said, Iindeed am going,
but thou shalt tarry till I come. Soon after

he was converted and baptized by the name
of Joseph. He lives for ever; but at the end
of every hundred years, falls into an incura
ble illness, and at length into a t of ecstasy,
out of which when he recovers, he returns
to the same state of youth he was in when

Jesus suffered, being then about thirty years
of age. He remembers all the circumstances
of the death and resurrection of Christ; the
saints that arose with him; the composing
of the apostles creed, their preaching and
dispersion; and is himself a very grave and
holy person. This is the substance of M.
Pariss account, who was himself a monk at
St. Albans, and Was living at the time when

thisArmenian archbishop made the above
relation. Since his time several impostors
have appeared at intervals under the name
and character of the wandering Jew. See
Calmets Diet. of Bible. Turkish Spy, vol. 2.
B. 3. Let. I.
We had one of these impostors not many
years ago in the north, who made a very
hermitlike appearance, and went up and
down our streets, with a long train of boys
at his heels, muttering, Poor John alone!
Poor John alone! in a manner singularly

plaintive.
Anecdote of the late gen. Washington.
One Reuben Rouzy, of Virginia, owed
the general about 1000!. While president of

the United States, one of his agents brought
an action for the money; judgment was ob

tained, and execution issued against the body
of the defendant, who was taken to jail. He
structed to bear, without the extraordinary
England to visit the shrines and reliques
had a considerable landed estate, but this
succours and resources of a never failing re

ligion.
Some legal victories which his superior
eloquence and address obtained in various
preserved in our churches; who being enter

tained at the monastery of St. Albans, was
asked several questions relating to his coun
try, &c. Among the rest a monk, who sat
for debts, unless at the discretion of the per

son. He had a large family, and, for the sake
ecclesiastiCal suits, excited the keenest re
near him, inquired if he had ever seen or
ling his land. A friend hinted to him, that
sentment in the breasts of those he had

defeated, vwhich was moreover exasperated
heard of the famous person named Joseph,
probably, general Washington did not know

any thing of the proceeding, and that it might
be well to send him a petition, with a state
ment of the circumstances. He did so, and
the very next post from Philadelphia, after
the arrival of his petition in that city, brought
him an order for his immediate release,
that was so much talked of, who was present
to an uncommon pitch by the disdainful at our Lords crucixion and conversed with
triumphs with which these victories were him, and who was still alive in conrmation
accompanied. Mounier and Mignon were of the christian faith: the archbishop an
the principal among this number. To these swered, that the fact was true; and after
we may add the numerous relations ofBarot, wards one of his train, who was well known
President des Elus, the uncle of Mignon, to a servant of the abbots, interpreting his
whom Grandicr had treated with a mortify masters words, told them in French, that
ing contempt in a difference which had taken his lord knew the person they spoke of very
place between them, and whose great riches
and connexions gathered round him an im

mense croud of sharers in his resentment.
But the most determined of all his enemies
was Trinquiant the kings procurcur, whose
kind of property cannot be sold in Virginia
of his children, preferred lying in jail to sel
together with a full discharge, and a severe
reprimand to the agent for having acted in

such a manner. Poor Rouzy was in conse
well; that he dined at his table but a little quence restored to his family, who never
while before he left the east; that he had laid down their heads at night without pre
been Pontius Pilates porter, by name Car senting prayers to heaven for their beloved
taphilus; who, when they were dragging Washington. Providence smiled upon the
Jesus out of the door of the judgment-hall, labours of the grateful family, and in a few
55
years Rouzy enjoyed the exquisite pleasure

of being able to lay the 1000!. with interest,
treating her to assist him, during the night,

with the lustre of her eyes-
at the feet of this truly great man. Washing
Non avendo candele per iserivere i suoi versi!
ton reminded him that the debt was discharg

ed. Rouzy replied, the debt of his family to
the father of his country and preserver of
their parent could never be discharged; and
the general, to avoid the pleasing impor
tunity of the grateful Viginian, who would
not be denied, accepted the money, only,
however, to divide it amongst Rouzys chil
having no candle by which he could see to

write his verses!
dren, which he immediately did.

Literary Anecdote.
An old American gentleman, whose father
attended more to teaching his son the me
thodsofaccumulatiug riches than knowledge,
lived some time ago in a town in the state of
Connecticut. From application and industry,
he had amassed a property of about 20,000
dollars. Although not able to read or to write,
he never hired a clerk, but had always been
in the habit of keeping his own books. He
had invented some new characters for con
veying his ideas to
himself and others;
they were formed as nearly similar to the
shape of the article sold as the nature of the

circumstance would-admit. One day a cus
tomer of his called upon him for the pur
pose of settling his account; the book of
hieroglyphies was handed down, and our
merchant commenced with such a time
you had a gallon of rum, and such a time
apound of tea: such a time a gallon of mo
and respectable consort of Dr. David Ram

say.
At Washington City, on the 27th ult. Ann
Burchan, formerly of Philadelphiaaged 80
years.
The illustrious Cardinal Bentivoglio, the
ornament of Italy and of literature, languish

ed in his old age, in the most distressful
lashing-ton, July 2.
The frigate Essex, Capt. Smith, has at

poverty; and, having sold his palace to sa ,Iength arrived in this country, having on
tisfy his creditors, left nothing behind him board \Vni. Pinkney, esq. our late minister
to Great Britain, after a passage of 4-9 days.
but his reputation.
I Le Sage resided in a little cottage on the
On the same day, a few hours before the
borders of Paris, and supplied the world Essex, arrived at Annapolis the British fri
with their most agreeable romances; while
he never knew what it was to possess any
moderate degree of comfort in pecuniary

matters.
co-
ANECDOTE OF VOLTAIRE.
gate Minerva, Capt. Hawkins, of 32 guns.
having on board Augustus J. Foster, esq.

the British minister to our government. The
Minerva sailed from England six or seven
days before the Essex.
By the Essex dispatches are received from
On the performance of one of his tragc~

dies, the success of which was eqivocal, the
abbe Pellegrin complained loudly that Vol
taire had stolen some verses from him.
France, the contents of which rumour has

not yet wafted to our cars.
How can you, who are so rich," said the
A Afonster. A serpent of extraordinary

size, has been recently discovered in the
Mississippi swamp, a few miles above this
village. I have converscd with three gentle
abbe, seize thus upon the property of an

other?" \Vhatl have I stolen from you,"
replied Voltaire; then I no longer wonder
that my piece has met with so little appro
bation.
M
'
PHILADELPHIA,
St. Francisville, May 30.
men of unquestionable veracity, who have
seen it. They agree in their description,

which is in substance, that the monster is in
body considerably larger than an ordinary
man, beautifully striped with gold and green,
rich beyond conceptionthe length is not

accurately known, but is supposed to be
from 15 to 25 feet. One of the gentlemen
lasses, and such a time a cheese. Stop
Once before we received the Quilting with whom I conversed, shot at it with a
there, says the customer, I never had a
Frolic, from Tammany, and expected our rie, when it emitted a very offensive smell,
cheese of you or any other person: I make
silence with regard to it would have suf from which he supposed he had wounded
my OWn cheese." You certainly must have
ciently expressed our opinion. Having, how it. However, as it was seen the succeeding
had it," said the merchant, it is down in
ever, received another copy of it, from him, day, it is presumable that if it was wounded,
my book." The other denied ever buying an
we must inform him, that such poetry can~ the wound was slight. This is the rst ser
article of that kind. After a sufficient num
not be admitted into the Repertory.
pent of such large size, I haveTime
heard
of on
ber of[zroa and cons, upon recollection he
Piece.
There being no poetical beauties, and the Mississippi. I
informed him he had purchased a grindstone
numerous errors of composition in the Sun
-._
about that time. 'Tis the very thing, said
rise of Gontonia, we cannot insert it. Many
COL. BURR.
the merchant, and I must have forgotten
of our rst poets trespass on the rules of

to put the hole in the middle!"
THE POVERTY OI" THE LEARNED.
To mention those who left nothing behind

them to satisfy the undertaker, were an end
less task.
venturer oer the streams of Helion, and
Agrippa died in a workhousc; Cervantes from no wish to clip the wings of his fancy.
is supposed to have died with hunger; Ca~
moens was deprived of the necessaries of
.
MARRIED,
life, and is believed to have perished in the
At Bockland, on Thursday the 27th ult.
streets.
'
A respectable gentleman, lately from
grammatical propriety for the sake of rhyme; France, informs, that Burr continued in
but making the sun rise out of the west be Paris; and that, though apparently obscure
cause it must rhyme with breast, is a [malice and inattentive to public measures, yet has
lrcentia, that is totally inadmissible. I/Ve make frequent interviews and communication with
this remark in pure regard to a young adv the principal officers of state.
Fed. Gar,
_-_.._.
COMMUNICATION
To the public.
It would naturally be expected that an
bythc Rev. Dr. Read, Mr. John MAllzster,
v The great Tasso was reduced to such a
appeal to your liberality, to your justice, on
Jun. of Philadelphia, to Miss Eliza Melville
dilemma, that he was obliged to borrow a

crown from a friend, to subsist through the
Young, daughter of Wm. Young, Esq.
behalf of the hose companies of our city,

would be unnecessary, when we consider
DIED,
week. He alludes to his distress in a prett-y'

At Charleston (S. C.) on the 10th ult
sonnet which he addresses to his cat, er I Mrs. Martha Laurens Ramsay, the amiable
that for you they labour, and not for them

selves. But it is a fact, lamentable indeed,
thatfrom the public, to whom they ough
56
.
I .
to look for support entirely,they have receiv

ed but little. To what cause can this be attris
buted? Isit because their demands are enor
mous? No: the contribution necessary for
their support, would be scarcely one cent
per annum for each citizen!
Is it because they have not been faithful,
in your service? The farthest from it possible.
It would take millions to purchase the pro
perty which their indefatigable zeal has res
cued from the fury of the re, since their
insitution.
Is it because you do not feel their useful
ness, until the resistless conagration curls
in spreading columns round your habitations
and the burning ruin threatens immediate
destruction? This is not, cannot be the reason.
If it be, at that hour, your present listless

ness in contributing to their support, will
render their efforts of no avail, and you will,
in agony, behold that property burning to a

heap of ruins, sinking into ashes, which, a
few dollars, a few cents, if bestowed in sea
sonable time, might have saved from the
most destructive of elements. \Vithout your

support, my fellow citizens, the hose com
panies cannot exist, and will not considera
and singular discovery been made in this
the learned naturalists, which is thisz-ln

*
a cave in the county of Warren, and neara

_river called the Cany Fork of the Cumber
June 29, Bll.
united feathers and webbing, which has very
much the appearance of twilled sacking,

and they were laid in baskets of cane curi
ously and ingeniously put together, and bean
tifully variegated with different colours. Convulsions
Decay
Who those people were, of what nation or
Dropsy
tribe; how or when they were deposited in
in the breast
this cave; and how preserved, would be sub
in the brain
jects not unworthy of the learned philoso Drowned
pher. It is thought they cannot be of the Debility
present race of Indians for several reasons: Fever intermittent
and rest, in the dead waSte and middle of
have coarse black hair. As for the manner
the night, most frequently, to sustain fa

tigue in toiling for your safety? Is it not
enough that they risk their lives in mount
ing your aming buildings, and taking ad
vantage of every opportunity to rescue your
property, while the cold sleet of a winters
ni'ght often invelopcs them? ls it not enough
that after their exertions have subdued the
ames, they are busied in preparing their
hose for the suceour of those who may next
be visited by the dreadful calamity? \Vill not
this suffice? but shall it be said that you suf
in- which they have been preserved, I think

it may be rationally accounted for in the pre
servative qualities of the allum anti copperas
tion for yourselves. Call a meeting and

voluntarily contribute your various propor
tions with a cheerful heart. Or now that sub
scription papers are about to be opened, let
your purses be unclosed, and in the hour
of distress, your liberality will be fully re
paid by the salvation of one hundred times
as much as it is necessary to bestow.
PHILO-PHILADELPHIA.
3 0
0
1
1
0
2
0 2
1 3
0 5
3 0
1 I.
2
0
0
2
0
Sore throat
Small pox, natural
Still born
Sudden
Unknown
1 0
--
31 27
1 0
1 0
Total 58
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
60
70
2
2
5
2
70
80
l
5
10
1
80
90
1
10
20
O
90
100
0
20
30
9 Ages unknown
0
is very dicrmzz from that in which the pres

ent race oflndians bury their dead: secondly,
the webbing in which they were shrouded
appears to be very dl'rren! from that which
the present race of Indians manufacture:
from night: the Indians of the present day
1 2 Pleuriay
'lyphus
Gangrene
rst, the manner in which they were interred,
.their services to you, leaving their homes
vice? Never. You are liberal in the relief of
Interment: in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,

Direavec.
ad. ch.
Diseaael.
ad. ch.
Apoplexy
1 0 Hooping cough
0 1
Cancer
1 0 Hives
0 1
Childbed
1 0 Inammation, liver 5 0
Cholera Morbus
0 7 Insanity
3 0
Consump.oflungs 3 0 Palsey
3 O
up untlecayed by the mouldering hand of

time. They were very curiously wrapped in
dressed deerskins, with coverings made of
and thirdly, they themselves appear to have
other sufferers by re, have some considera
HEALTH OFFICE,
land river, there were two human bodies dug
tion for yourselves rouse you to activity?

Tell me, my fellow citizens, is it not enough
that part of the community have formed
themselves into companies, and volunteered
fcred them to drain their purses in your-ser
the sea to the north of Moscoe; it is ten
country, calculated to excite the curiosity miles long and ve broad, and bears no
of the vulgar, and to awaken the inquiry of marks of volcanic origin.
been a very. dzrrmt people, having ne

axen hair, which is as different from the
30
hair of the present tribe of Indians as day is
40
50
10
Total 58
4O

STATE OF THE THERMOSIETER.
with which the cave abounds, and with which
they appear to be strongly impregnated.

Could those persons be resuscitated, they
probably would be able to give a correct his
tory of the numerous remains of fortica
tions found in this country." Nat. Intel.
74-
74-
75
25
26
70
74
72
79
75
81
27
28
75
7'2
7474-
75
76
529
69
70
70
TERMS OF THE RERERTORY.

I
The Mnbleslrom. A Danish paper states,

that this dreadful whirlpool, situated to the
westward of the coast of Lapland, has, with
in the last two years, increased its phenomena.
It now stands 15 minutes every fth hour.
Vessels at the distance of eight or nine Eng
lish miles are no longer safe, and its attrac
tive force, when agitated by a storm, will
even reach them, or the large kind of ani
June 24

l

Any person who shall procure seven subscriber!

mals, at the distance of ten miles, and im

petuously hurry them to destruction in the
ceived at this office, and at the bookstore of He!
gulph. Two vessels, bound from Norway
to the Vigten islands, having been driven

last summer within nine miles of the Mah
lestrom, and imagining themselves secure,
Extract of a letter from a gentlrmizn in as its' operation was thought t_o be conned
Tennessee to his brother in this county, to six miles, were on a sudden carried away
dated ril 9, Hill.
by the torrent, and, with their crews, intire
There has lately a very extraordinary ly lost. An island has lately emerged from

pertory will be expected to pay the diiierence.
m
PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and published by Dennis Ileartt,
Marshalls alley, betWeen Fourth and Fifth, near
St- Mary's church.
Cqitnnnrpntsjapmm ,
That gives it all zts avour.
Cowren.
F
VOL. II.
SATURDAY, JULY 13. till 1.

BIOGRAPHY.
Reposing in your skill,judgment, and bra

very, the highest degrec of condence, the
From the Port Folio.

president has determined to commit the
LIFE OF COMMODORE EDWARD PREBLE.
No. 8.
sources with energy where they could he

used with effect. It is no more than justice
to commodore Prcble, in giving a sketch
of his life and character, to say that these
were his sentiments and feelings on this oc
casion.
command of this squadron to your direc

(Continued)
tion. To a gentleman of your activity and
In the year 1803 he was sufciently re zeal for the public service, to command your
covered to enter again upon duty. At this most strenuous exertions, I need only in
At this time, our situation with respect to
time he commenced a career in which he form you that your country requires them."
Morocco and Tunis, was critical, and in res
acquired great honour, and exalted the char
Commodore Preble accepted this trust pect, to Tripoli had been hostile for more
acter and evinced the importance of our in with unfeigned pleasure. By a judicious and than two years. The American adminis
fant navy.
spirited exertion of this force, small as it tration had proposed to adopt the same
In May of that year he was appointed to was, and apparently insufcient for any bril policy towards these powers as that sub
the command of the frigate Constitution, liantexploit in such a warfare, he hoped not mitted to by most of the governments of
then lying in Boston, which he was instruct only to effect the immediate object of his Europe; that is, to give them presents, or
ed to get ready for sea. in June he received command, but to secure public favour to our annuities, in conformity to their prejudices
orders to take charge of the squadron des military marine, and to earn laurels for him and habits, but to make an occasional dis
(ined to act in the Mediterranean, as soon self and his associates. He made welcome play of force in their seas, with a view to
as it should be prepared; consisting or seven the chance given him of adding to the proof keep down their demands and expectations.
sail, viz. The Constitution, 44 guns; Phil..
already existing, that if love of money The former part of the system, however,
delphia, 44-, already on the Station; Argus, and commercial enterprise are thought to had been practised upon at least till after the
18; Siren, 16; Nautilus, l6; Vixen, 16; 151.
be the only strong traits in the American year 1798 without the aid of the latter. The
terprise 14. This force was committed to lcharacter, it is because our local situation opposition in congress to the building of
his direction for the purpose of protecting and the nature of our policy deny us the vessels of war till this period, withheld frotn
eectually the COmmclce and seamen of the means of earning glory. I am fully aware, the goverment the means of employing force
United States against the Tripolitan cruisers - says he in his answer, of the great trust to lessen the amount or secure the etiect of
on the Atlantic ocean, ie Mediterranean, and high responsibility connected with this presents.
appointment. The honour of the American
1nd adjoining seas.
Great sums had been paid in specie and
The presidept in his message to congress, ag is very dear to me, and I hope it will articles of war, especially to Algiers. The
October 3, of this year, says The small never be tarnished under my command. new bashaw of Tripoli, who had deposed his
vessels authorised by congress with a view He felt responsible to his immediate supe elder brother, wishing to gratify his subjects;
to the Mediterranean service have been sent riors. He also felt responsible to his own high thinking to sell his friendship to us at a high
into that sea, and will be able more e'ectu sense of reputation as a commander, to the rate, and perhaps expecting the cooperation
ally to confine the Tripoliue cruisers within advocates of our naval establishment, and of one or more of the African goverments,
their harbours and supercede the necessity to his partial friends, who were anxious he sent out his cruisers against our trade. The
of convoy to our navigation in that quarter. Eshould be tried in some enterprize of pith United States squadrons, rst under commo
They will sensibly lessen the expenses of yand moment. He considered that he was to dore Dale, and next under commodore
the service the ensuing year)? It woutd Seem ,do well and more than well; more than Morris, had furnished protection to our
that the views of the administration respect would ordinarily be expected, to distinguish_ commerce and seamen by convoys; and had
ing this armament were limited to a censtant himself and his companions, if the eld" annoyed Tripoli by blockading her principal
blockade before Tripoli, as a substitute for should be opened, by gallant adventure and1 cruisers in Gibraltar, and by attacking and
convoys to our merchantnien. The commo bright achievement. Such an issue of his dismantling another. Still the bashaw had
dore,however, hoped to give the bashawcther command, he imagined, would interest na not received such an impression of our
reasons fur desiring peace With the United tional pride as well as policy in the mainte ability and determination to make the war
States besides those he would nd in the nance and patronage of a maritime force. it: distressing to him, as to be inclined, on ad
obstruction of his harbour, by carrying the would help the cause of those patriots who missible terms, to discontinue his piracies.
war into his pal.ce and the streets and wished our nation in our disputes, not only; Specks of war, and symptoms of insolcnce
with the African governments, but others, toyE in the other Barbary states rendered it im
houses of his capirJ.
.
The seeretary ol the navy, in announcing unite with all possible moderation in councils" portant they should have a stronger convic
to captain Preble his appointment, observes, and discussions, a readiness to use our re-i tion of the inconvenience and danger of re
58
PHILADELPHIA REPERTOBY.
fusing to be at peace with the United States.

The commanders before Mr. Preble, had urg
ed the necessity ofan increase of our force in
those seas; and, if Tripoli was to be block
his orders. Hashash was, and continued to

be, in the condence of Muley Soliman. He
had said do what you please and 1 will

support you.
aded with effect, had recommended that a
The next day after his arrival, commodore
larger proportion of the squadron should be

small vessels, who might easily relieve each
Preble wrote to the consul Simpson at Tan

gier, desiring him to assure the Moorish
court, that the United States wished peace
other. The last suggestion, not the former,
appears to have been regarded by the gov

ernment in the armament entrusted to our
oicer.
Although impatient to reach the scene of
operation, he was not ready to sail with the
Constitution till the 13th of August. The
with his majesty, if it'could be had on pro

per terms: that he could not suppose the
emperors subjects would dare to make war
without his permission; but as their authority
was disavowed by the governor, he should
punish as a pirate every Moorish cruiser,

Wages in the merchant service being higher who should be found to have taken an
than those to public ships. it was found ditli
eult to get her manned at all and still more
with native American sailors.
On his passage to Gibraltar, he brought
American.
Commodore Rogers, on whom the com
mand of the former squadron under Morris
to and visited, 7th September, the frigate

Maimona, 30 guns and l50 men, belonging
turn to the United States with the frigates

New-York and John Adams, agreed to re
main a few days on the station, and to join
commodore Preble in Tangier bay, to assist
in effecting an adjustment.
On the 17th, taking into his ship the prin
to the emperor of Morocco. After three

several examinations of her papers,which
were fair, he dismissed her, though he after
devolved, and who was under orders to re
wards believed she was authorised to cap

ture Americans. He arrived at Gibraltar 12th cipal Moorish oicers of the two prizes, he
September, and immediately found work to appeared, with the Constitution and John
till his hand in the position of our affairs Adams, in Tangier bay, hoisting the white
with Morocco. Captain Bainbridge had on ag in token of peace, but having the men
the 26th August, captured the Moorish ship at quarters. Mr. Simpson, however, was not
Mirboka of 22 guns and 100 men. This ship permitted to come on board, nor to write ex
had sailed from Tangier August 7th. Among cept on an open slip of paper; being con
her papers was an order to cruise for Ameri ned to his house, with two centinels at his
cans. It was not signed, but declared by the cap door; by order, as was said, of the governor
tain to have been delivered to him sealed, with of Tangier. The governor was at Tetuan,
a direction to open it at sea, by Hashash, gov and the emperor was absent at Fez and not
ernor of Tangier. She had taken the Ameri expected for several days.
can brig Celia, captain Bowen, which was
[To be continued-]
--.
then in company, and which captain Dain
For the Repertory.
bridge retook and restored to the owner.
The last of May captain Rogers had detain
CASTLE 0F ALTENHEIM,
ed the Mishouda, a Tripolitan vessel under
OR
Morocco colours. She had a passport from
the American consul, with a reserve for
A TALE
blockaded ports. She was taken attempting
to go into Tripoli, which captain Rogers, in
the John Adams, was known to be blockad
ing. On board her were guns and other con

traband articles not in her when she receiv
ed her passport at Gibraltar; also 20 Tri
polinc subjects taken in at Algiers. The ap
pearance was that she had been taken un
der the imperial flag for the purpose of
CHAPTER III.
Continued.
A crimson blush her beauteous face oerspread,
Varying her cheeks, by turns, with white and red.
DRYDEN
Can such things be,

And overcome us, like a summers cloud,
Without our special wonder?
snaxsreaas.
while Florival with his sword drawn, deed
it all without the least emotion, except that

of awe and veneration for the Author of
the tempest. Florival, though bred up en
tirely in the cottage of Minda, had had the
principles of piety to Heaven instilled into
his mind; this was ever the guide of his con

duct, and now conscious of never having wil
lingly oended, the fury of the storm passed
unheeded by him. He had not proceeded many
yards on his way before a ash of lightning
communicated the electric uid to his naked
sword, passing up which, it struck him and
he fell sensoless upon the ground.
In the mean time Amelia, having entered
the cottage, was a little surprized at not be
holding Minda, who had gone to the monas
tery on business, and the youthful maid per
ceiving on a sort of mantel erected over the
chimney place, a roll of parchment which
she had never before seen, and condent
that Minda had lately placed it there, she

felt an irresistible curiosity to examine its
contents, and taking it from the place, was
about to open it, when she heard, or fancied
she heard, footsteps, without the cottage.
Conceiving it to be Minda, her conscience

smote her for her unjustiable curiosity, and
she hastily replaced it upon the mantel, but

u. the hurry of the action, a miniature fell
from the bundle. She took it up, and found
it to be the likeness of a knight, with the
ensignia of his order portrayed upon the
breast. On perusing it further, she was forci
bly struck with the great resemblance which
it bore to the features of Florival. A thou
sand conjectures passed through her mind,
and a beam of joy lightened her countenance
when she thought that perhaps her Florival
was nobly born, and that circumstance would
remove the only obstacle to their union.
She had now remained some time, and
expected the feet she had heard would en

ter the cottage and discover Minda to her;
but she not appearing, Amelia stept to the
window, and perceived the old woman at a
little distance, in close conversation with
father Kartholo. They approached and she

distinctly heard the friar say,
Why was not the manner in which this
youth came into your possession before re
vealed to me? but tis no matter, I must
being restored to our enemy. The emperor
Nothing could exceed the astonishment of hasten to the castle, for Ive business there?
The friar then left Minda and proceeded
Florival at this mysterious and unaccountable
denied authorising the attempt of the Mis

houda, and said if she was given up the cap
adventure; but he had now no time for sur

mise, knowing where he was, he left the
tain should be punished. The governor Has

hash, on learning the capture of the Mirbolta,
at which time the emperor was absent, de
toward the castle, while the old woman in

haste entered the cottage, and expressed
spot and proceeded with a hurried pace her surprise at seeing Amelia there so ear
toward the cottage of his mother, in spite of ly, as she had not expected her before the
the storm, which had commenced during his sun had set, and darkness begun to shade
clured she acted without authority, and that stay in the vaults of the chapel, and still con
the landsCape.
war was not intended. At the same time her tinued to rage with increasing violence. The
I had no way of passing my time, re
captain certied that this governor gave him lightning ashed and the thunders reared, plied Amelia, blushing, for at that moment
PHILADEPHTA REPERTORY.
m_
she thought she could have passed it much

more pleasa: \tly with Florival; and thought,
continued she, we might spend it together,
until the peasantry retired; besides you know
it would have been dangerous to have come
l'ul; he looks upon adverse fortune with in
justice, and where the wronger canno:
difference, he meets her undaunted, and her
wince. Such a man as this, if he can even
rags, though they may cover him with the have the courage to look at bad fortune ap
ensigns of poverty, cannot smother that spark proaching him without rufling his features,
of comfort which illuminates his bosom. He it may be thought when it really arrives
hears the winds raving over his head, and would feel like other men, and perhaps sink
after night."
How then will you get home,my sweet they bring not to his alarmed imagination beneath its load: but no; this man never will
the images of rocks; he hears the thunder deprive himself of existence, because the
lady? asked Minda.
\Vhy," returned Amelia, Florival has reverberating through the mountains, and triing follies of this world have been denied
promised to come and escort me, about nine sees the lightning hurl whole forests down, to him, or after having been in his posses
and thinks not that perhaps even now the l sion, have been taken away; he will, ifhc be a
oclock.
As she said this she felt another suffusion conicting elements have dashed his ves 1 man of true equanimity of mind, still be the
of blushes, and silently hung her head, while sels to pieces, and made of all his silks, but same in all his calamities, and all his dangers.
Minda uttered an exclamation of surprize at garments for the waves. He is happy if rich, And if he could for one moment let in the
beholding the miniature in the hands of in being devoid of the fear of becoming poor bare idea of discontent, he has taught him
he is not troubled in his mind, nor does he self not to proceed with any design until
Amelia.
he has weighed it in the just balance of ma
What do you mean, Minda? cried vex his neighbour with foolish terrors un
founded and absurd, which the splenetic and ture deliberation. His ripened thoughts,
Amelia.
That miniature, how came you with it? the fretful ever nd occasion to communi ever ready to be administered to his neces
cate. But he is still happier when we con sities, teach him to look with no dependence
replied the mother of Florival.
Again the maiden blushed, but from a dif template him in the bosom of his family on the tickle smiles of fortune, but to pur
ferent motive; her modesty created the rst, when we see the little occurrences of life sue the rcection of his merciful Creator
but now she blushed for shame at the recol pass by him unnoticed, which in others with unaltered stedfastness, and having lived
lection of her conduct and its detection by would produce, unpleasant comparisons, and in the execution of those good works which
Minda. However, she ingenuously confessed dreary reections. He may be provident, and an untroubled imagination ever can perceive
the fact and entreated forgiveness, which the at the same time generous and noble in his its duty, he will die with the glorious cer
old woman readily bestowed, as she had not conduct, for an equanimity of temper seldom tainty of having the bark of his happiness
the same ideas upon the subject, as passed fails to produce in some measure a liberality moored in a heavenly harbour.
through the mind ofAmelia, who gazed upon of soul. Such a man hears the ravings of the
GREGORY GRAVITY.
-.
the picture, and demanded of Minda who politician, and the excommunicating fury of
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it was? She replied, that she was ignorant; the fanatic with equal disregard: and while
but strongly suspected, and ardently hoped, he mixes with neither party in their dis
BUDGET, No. Ill.
that it was the miniature of the father of graceful clamours, he takes his post beneath
BY 'ILL VERSATILE. I
the banners of reason, and retains it rm and
sens rs.
Floriv'al.
Shakspearc being asked at an entertain
Amelia could not conceal the joy she felt, unshaken. If he be a patriot, the trumpet of
at this corroboration of her own expectations, sedition cannot arouse him to warfare against ment what kind of wine he would prefer,
that constitution under which he enjoys all answered, that of other people's."
and audibly exclaimed;
Sure Heaven has not so much bliss in his rights and liberties; but despising the
Henry IV. king of France, considered this
store for me! But come, my dear dame, pro uttering insects of the day, he will spill maxim superior to any other; the satisfac
his last drop of blood in defence of the cause tion derived from revenge is only momentary,
ceed with the relation you promised.
You forget, that the peasantry have not he has espoused. \Vithout abusing the terms brutal, pleasure, that leaves an envenomed
yet retired from the elds! said Minda, and he may be truly said, to live whilst he lives sting behind; but that gained from clemency
our cottage is so slender, and they are so in the enjoyment of true pleasure, who has is godlike, serene, and lasts forever."
curious, it is not safe for me to commence a mind like this. He may not indeed, nor be
The machine for weaving stockings, Sac.
will not, live in all the dazzling but empty was the invention of adisappointed lover; he
my story.
Amelia acknowledged the justice of these show of magnicence which youthful folly was in love with a stocking~knitter, who
remarks, and they walked into the garden and wild extravagance can invent, but he slightcd his o'ers, and the following lines
until they saw the happy vassalage of Altein will live in the only way to be happy: in the accompanied the machine, a present to his
heim returning blithesome to their cots,when way after his own heart. He will view the cold hearted beloved.
they_returned, and Minda having trimmed effeminacy of the world with sorrow, min
Of all the arts that human wit can boast,
Conceived by study, or improved by cost,
their little re, seated herself by the side of gled with a becoming indignation for those
None can unto the judging world appear,
Amelia, and proceeded as will be found in who are sinking into weakness beneath the
More wonderous than the frame depicted here,
dignity of man, and will sustain amidst them
the following chapter.
Six thousand pieces does the whole contain,
that rmness which keeps all enemies at
(To be continued.)
The unwearied task of one poor lovers brain,
bay. Such a man when insulted proceeds
Who in revenge to female slights, was moved
not to the rash resort of a pistol, nor covets
'lo spoil the knitting of the maid he loved,
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the name of an honourable murderer; but pur
May each dcsponding lover pensive grow,
THE CABINET. No. XLIiI.
And when disdaind. the like resentment show.
sues that path which prudence, who is ever
La tranquillite desprit cst Ie tresor du sage.
at his elbow, shall direct, and shames the
Cooke dining with aparty of gentleman, had
That man to whom nature has given an aggressor into a confession of his fault, or the following toast drank in compliment to
equallinlity of temper, let him be satised, takes him to a tribunal where the tongue of him:" May those who feast on Shakspeare
for he has a treasure incorruptible and use slanderous invective is tied by even handed have it always well cooked!
60
A gentleman lately arrived from the East

Indies, inquired of a person respecting an
acquaintance who had been hanged for for
gery,soon after he left England. And did
he continue to the end, in the grocery line?
added he: yes! no!" replied the other, he
enliving rays of wit which are but seldom
elicited. In the language of a literary friend

to whose researches I am indebted for the
discovery, The reputed author has for
some time borne his blushing honours thick

upon him: and it is now with real regret,
stuck to the end0f a Item/1 line.
that I cut the air blown bladders which have
An Irish officer of the uncommon stature supported him upon a sea of glory" so far
of six feet eight, made his appearance at beyond his depth, by stating to the world,
the rooms at Bath, when the late haughty that this admired infant of the genius of 181 l,
princes Amelia was present, she was led has been in existence on no more obscure a
by his uncommon appearance to inquire his page than that of Francis Rabelais, since the
beginning Of the sixtemzli century. The
name, family, and pursuits: she received in
formation, among answers to her other in story appears (from the manner in which he
quiries, that he had been originally intended introduces it) to be still older. It Was first
for the church, rather for the steeple in versied by his countryman Peter Grosnet,
beginning thus:
terrupted the royal humourist.
The following fine reection is to be found
Notez en leglise de dieu,
Femmes ensemble caquettoinent, &e.
in the life of that interesting character lord
Herbert, of Cherbury: every body loves To one of the commentators of Rabelaisftn
the virtuous, whereas the vicious do scarce the 1st volume and 6th chapter of whose
love one another.
Let I, thy wit be thy friend, thy mind thy
works it will be found, I am indebted for the

following translation, from which our Ver
companion, and thy tongue thy servant.

\Visdom, is that olive which springeth
from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and
beareth fruit in the actions.
satile amuser has taken his story, not ver

balim, but in the disgracefully mutilated state
in which he has recommended it to the pub
lic.
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DETECTOR versus WILL VERSATILE.

Mr. Editor.
There are certain circumstances which

, render severity of stricture excusable, and it
has fallen to my lot to review a production
published in your last number, which has
given me occasion to exercise this undenia
ble privilege. l allude to The Budget, No.
2, by \Vill Versatile, in which the face
tious \Vill has attempted to palm upon the
world one of the grossest of literary thefts.

The receiver, saith the old proverb, is
as bad as the thief, and if the public at
large, is willing to shield the agressor from
the exposition of shame, either through ig
norance, or lcnity; there will ever be found

some individuals who will defend the rights
of an author, and overthrow the pile-built
foundation of the PLAGIARIST. The piece in
question is the one signed J. R. G. (intro
duced among our heros scraps.) describing
the devil taking down on parchment the con
versation of what \IVill" is pleased to style
two ladies, but who are otherwise deno
minated in the original work. It was proba

bly in the month of April last, when this was
announced among other pieces, for public
representation, in the bills of a debating so
ciety of this city, as being written by a mem
bar. I listened to it with delight, and had
frequently occasion to speak of it with the
Two gossips prating in a church,

The devl, who stood upon the lurch,
In short-hand on a parchment roll
\Vrit down their words; and when the scroll

\Vould hold no more, (it was so full)
His devilship began to pull
And stretch it with his teeth, which failing,
He knocked his head against the railing.

St. Martin langhd, though then at mass,
To see the devil such an ass,
To think a parchment roll, or een a skin,

Would hold two women's chat, when they begin."
when he considers the extreme impropriety

of correspondents to periodical publications,
forwarding, for their own, the sterling wit of
the ancients despoiled of its beauty, and deck
ed out in all the feathery insignicance of

modern fashion and vanity. And i also hope,
that, the example made of WILL Vcnsn
TILE, will in some measure deter others

from attempting a similarimposition, as they
will most assuredly some day become point
ed at as the despicable statues of arrogat
ing ignorance, or the unworthy footstools of
laughing literature.
0
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TH E PRO llTIATION.
BOOK II.
ARGUMENT.
0n the departure of Chemos, the ends disperse;
Apostrophe; Arrival of Chemos upon the verge

of the world; He hastens to Judea. The Saviour,
in the mean time, has reached the age of man

hood: Propheey of Malachi relative to the second
coming of Elijah: Apostrophe to that prophet;
Apostrophe to the merits of the cross.
Umbrageous pinions aid the end to rise,
From the dark mansions, toward the blue archd.
skies;
While all stood wandring at his rapid ight,
Till lt-ssning distance veild him from their sight;
Then broke th assembly; eager to fulfil
5
The fatal purpose of his sanguine will,
Each spirit sought the charge he left, when all
Where loudly summoned to the dismal hall.
The sounds of uproar and confusion cease, \
And hell enjoys a momentary peace.
10
Not so her spirits; they, uneeasing, feel
Internal pangs, they struggle to conceal.
Evn so the wretch, whom darkness can allure
To stab th unconcious victim more secure,
Ifl properly recollect, when this was s/Ioken \Vcars outwardjoy, but feels the sharp controul 15
in public, there were contained in it some : 0f inward anguish, oer the labring soul!
illiberal reections on a Roman catholic i Condemning' conscience leads th interior strife,
church in this city; these however, the lu And ends the mortal agony with life;
minoua plagiarist appears to have had sui But as the soul, in vain, must death desire,
Conflicting conscience never can expire!
20
cient prudence to expunge.
And while the wheels of endless ages roll,
The question has often been asked, and l Must sway her sovreign sceptre oer the soul!
repeat it, what pleasure, or what fame can
possibly be promised to himself by a literary

theft? He can enjoy no internal satisfaction,
for his mind must be continually uneasy
lest he should be discovered, and despised.
Will may say that he did not give it as
original. I mean new. This he surely can
not say with truth, although he may say that
he did not give it as his own. lfit was not his
intention to impose upon his readers, why
sign the altered translated French verses of
Peter Grosnet with the initials J. R. G? I
feel no inclination at present to glance at his
other antiquities, but if I should again see
so glaring an occasion, he shall not find me

'most unqualified approbation, as one of those backward in apprising him.
See Rep- vol- 2- page 52
& I hope the editor will excuse my prolixity,
In vain she its to nd a drear retreat,
Fleeting she ies but conscience is as fleet;

And when she hopes to shun her dread alarms, 25
She clasps the spirit in her angry aims!
While billowy terrors oer his bosom swell,

He feels her vengeance, is himselfa hell. '
Who ofus all, impartial conscience, say,
Shall, in thy fearful ame, forever stay;

30
\Vhile hellish ends, with all our anguishjoyd,
Behold us tortured ever undestroyd;
Terrible fate! from this my spirit save,
Thou who eommandst the terrors of the grave;
Unless thou bid my soul from sin arise,
35
And train the helpless spirit for the skies.
Dreadful her fate; but just is thy decree,
That bliss awards, or baleful misery!
Now, with his sable wings extended wide,
Had lustful Chemos from the council hied,

' Myself am hell.
Murrow.
4-D
\
v
()1
M?
.v .
'Iill the soft glebe, with morning dews impearld,

Provlaimd his entrance to the spacious world;
His uttring pinions leave their lengthend toil
And the earth trembled as he touchd her SOil
45
On the rcmotest verge the spirit stood,
And all the mighty void around him viewd;
"here oceans foaming billows loudly roar;
And lash with thundering sound, the ambient shore.

Downward be lookd ai-ighted to behold
50
His native hell, her direfnl jaws unfold;
Then struck the earth, and passionately cried:
Soon, man, you tumble from your towring pride!

Soon in yon cavern dark and dreadful, tlirown,
Hell, hell shall boast and claim thee. for her own!
Twill lighten ours ifyou are doomd to share 55
In quenchless res and fathomless despair!
50 the pale wretch that wears the cruel chain,

Doomd to support imprisonment and pain,
Exulting bears the grating- door unhar,
T admit some wretch his dolei'ul cell to share! 50

Delighted welcomes his compeer in grief,
That brings the anguish of his fate relief.
So Chemos felt, so hell shall \vt-lcome all
\Vhom guilt shall bear to regions of appal!

Awhile the end exulted in the thought,
65
To fallen man with fearful ruin fraught;
Then shook his wings,their sable plumage spread,

And to Judeas blooming region sped.
Meanwhile. unknown and shut from vulgar view,
The infant Saviour up to manhood grew;

70
Thirty bright suns had ung their blaze away,
Since heavenly signs announced his natal day;
Then on his glorious mission he began,
And shovrd the widom ofa more than man.
Ere angel songsters sung the Saviours birth
#5
And bore the gladdning chorus down to earth;
Ere God the spirit left his dazzling throne,

At the incarnate birth of God the Son,
Th eternal Sire his latest prophet sent,

To warn Judea of the great event.
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Malachi, he whom Heaven himself inspired, '
\Vho felt with zeal his glowing bosom red,

The tidings bore: the hour is come, he cries,
Soon shall the son of righteousness arise;
His healing wings shall widely be unfurld,
And drop down manna to a dying world;
His mighty arms, in death extended wide,
Vl'hat growing wonder and what deep amaze,

Sweet anticipation the mariners cheering,
'hile round thy soul increasing glories blaze?
Intcrs their past woes in oblivions grave.
Be dumb, my muse, attempt not to display
115
Now oer the billow see
What mortal pencil never can portray,
Bend the chaste willow tree,
Close thy adventurous wing, nor further soar,
Bathing its limbs in the high rushing spray
But wait at humble distance and adore.
,
Now in the clouded west,
Favourd ofHeaven, from whom the power ofdeath
All the gems shrouded rest.
Shrunk back appall'd, nor dared to steal thy breath,
That gild the bright dome ofthe mansion of day.
lVhen shall arrive the blissful hour when I
121
By the curtain ofdarkness Sols couch issurrounded,
Shall join thy spirit in a blissful sky;
Behind which enthrond sits the God ofthe storm,
When sin no more a ood of grief shall roll,
And though glaring lightnings still hover around it,
And drown the sacred pleasures of the soul!
Their ctforts are vain to discover his form:
I do not ask the glory to thee given,
125
No more he is luminous,
I ask no bright translation up to heaven;
Now threatning gloominess,
No burning chariot and no blazing steed,
I-lickers dark shades oer the giver of light:
My passage to eternaljoy to lead;
Sullen he seeming lies,
Content within the silent grave to lie,
Under the gleaming skies,
And gain through death an entrance to the sky. 130
The footstool his crown, of dcmoniac Night.
But 0! if Jesus perishd on the tree,
,And shed no portion of his blood for me,
But mark by the lightning, the ship gains the strand,
A fearful fate attends my day of doom,
And blest terra firms consoles her once more,
A fearful vengeance slumbers in the tomb!
And now mark the seamen beholding the land.
Slumber-5, till lifes faint lamp extinguishd lies, 155
Enrapturd by viewing their dear native shore:
Then, in tremendous terrors to arise!
_
And now the lead they heave,
Then, bitter death, to dying saints so sweet,
Sorrows sick bed they leave,
Thy swift approach with pale despair I meet;
Miserys pains the blest vision allays;
The trembling bosom bursts a labring sigh;
From the recorded dream,
Fear crowns the brow and horror lls the eye! 140
Hopes all rewarded seem,
Speak, blood of Jesus, and my spirit tell,
\igour revives at the soul soothing gaze.
Soul I have saved thee from the pangs of hell!
Success to the breeze which impells her before it,
Know, when I crimsond calvary with gore,
The tale of its kindness they breathe with delight,
My tortured body thy transgressions bore!
Then welcome death, a brighter front to wear, 14-5 On gratitudes bosom reclining, adore it,
And blest with its smiles scorn the seowlings of
The haggard spirit seems an angel fair;
night.
Tis but the messenger to guide the way
Their lasses delighted all,
To the bright mansions of eternal day;
Joyful, afliightcd call,
His sable wings a pleasing hue assume,
Lest their dear loves should be lost in the main;
His owing tresses waft a sweet perfume!
Smiling; yet tearful cry,
Now every terror from the bosom ies,
Hoping: yet fearful y,
While all the seraph blazes in his eyes!
150
To hear their sad tales, or to clasp them again.
Where, where is now, the parting soul can sing,
O! grave thy victory! 0! death, thy sting!
. Now strong and more strong blow the swift swell
(To be continued.)
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Proclaim for Gentile, Greek and Jew he died!
But ere the Saviours glorious voice you hear,

The lost Elijahshall again appear;
90
He who on Carmel, by availing prayer,
Calld rushing torrents through the thirsty air;
That same Elijah who, in holy ire,
Brought from the skies a rolling ame ofre;
95
That same Elijah at whose prayers arise
The ames devouring toward the vaulted skies;
At whose request terric thunders roll,
And inward horrors shake the troubled soul;
That same Elijah who, near Kishon, slew
The priests of Baal, an unhallowd crew;
100
That same Elijah who, in days of yore,
The ery steeds and ery chariot bore,
In burning glory, to the opening skies!
Elisha wondring as the prophet ies!
Up from the earth the glowing favrite springs, 105
A heavenly whirlwind lentthc- chariot wings;
Skies burst their golden gates to let him in,
The following production, written partly

in the manner of Walter Scotts Boat Song,
(Sec Lady of the Lake canto 2) and the lines
preceding it, were presented to a poetic
friend. They are now forwarded for his con
sideration to the Editor of the Repertory.
Charles, since we poets all are poor,
That in this world of folly live,
Ak-etions tribute pray endure,
'Tis all a poet has to give.
In hands like thine the soothing lay
Harmonious trills the warbling lyre;
But now, untorturd accents play
Elijah, say, what transports lld thy breast,
On entering thus the malicious of die blest?
Now oer the oceans waves,

See wild commotion raves,
Now see them sweeping tremendous along:

All heaven frowns stormingly,
\Vinds roar alarmingly,
And the wing of Despair utters broad oer the
throng.
The rosy checkd maiden of happiness vanish'd,
And the fear of destruction presides in their
stead,
ln noisy terror oer the wire.
ish'd,
But mild expectation a'righted had ed;

No hope comes assuagingly,
Frenzy rules ragingly,
Fictions of fancy in horror arise;
I therefore ask it as a friend,
Now noisy madness too,

In friendships name you must comply,
That which a critic hath not pennd,
Regard not with a critics eye.
THE SllllWRECK.
110
Such unnerving terrors they fain would have ban.
Snatchd from a world of sorrow and of sin;
Th' angelic choir a song of triumph raise,

And heaven is wrapt in harmony ofpraise!
ing breezes,
And more gloomy darkness envelopes the scene,
A sad consternation each mariner seizes,
And wan disappointment marks every mien.
Hail! to the ship so majestic appearing,

Which ies with such speed oer the world of
the wave,
Yielding to sadness view,
Through their minds the dark spirit ofagony ies:

And mustI the sad strain of misery borrow,
And must I the deaths of poor seamen relate,
And mournfully mingle in verses olsorrow,
The shriek of the maid with the thunder of fate!
For now a dashing sea
Bursts on her crashing lee,
62
Seatterd in ruin her wreck lies around,
Tempests rush foully on,
And as they howl along,
The dirge of the mariners perishd resound.
And the bank where the willow was once green and
thriving,
a
Deep buried in ocean no verdure display d,
And the tree at the mercy of huricanes driving,
Shed no more on fond lovers its tranquillizcd
shade.
Ye landsmen in pleasure here,
\Vho no sad measure fear,
Who smile at the church bell that calls to the tomb:
That God ever living praise,
Songs of thanksgiving raise,
To his mercy that sltares you so dreadful a doom.
THADDEUS.
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For the Repertory.

LIARRIAGE.
See you festive troop advancing,

Pleasure sparkling in each eye, '
Hope the lively sense entrancing,
Quells the joy dissolving sigh.
Now see the youth with l'ove ecstatic,
Tread the rose bespangled green,
\Vhich with breathings aromatic,
Scents around the jocund scene.
See the maiden coyly charming,
Panting, trembling. lld with fear,
In this scene 0f life alarming,
Beautifully sad appear.

She has no avowd defender,
Unprotected see her stand,
Whilst her beauties, modest, tender,
Ask for some protecting hand.
ROSARIO OR THE EFFECTS OF FLATTERY.
The gay Rosario once reclined
Sec yon youth now fondly gazing,

Mark her countenance rened;
In ckle fortunes favours,

Favours which enervatc the mind,
And mar its best endeavours.
Hear him now with rapture praising

All her elegance of mind.
ln gilded pleasures fond embrace,

He passd each eeting hour;
Cupid, little urchin, moves him,
To indolence, and vile disgrace,
The maiden sees, the maiden loves him,
A slave, though full of power.

Cloyd with pursuits of health, supine
He lolls in gorgeous ease,
Pausing upon some new design,
Beloved self to please.

Now, truth in justice rears her crest,
He concludes the work begun;

Marriage forms them into one.
Sound again the song of pleasure,
Be no tongue in praises mute,
lake the lyre's inliv'ning measure,
Breathe the soul delighting flute.
himself, exercised the nuns of his convent

0! receive my suppliant strain;
And by her virtues sore apprcst,
But for thee all love would fail me,
Then, far famed honour urged its claim,
And dwelt upon each theme,

That consecrales a deathless name,
And renders bliss supreme:
Or degenerate to pain.
With thy blessing joy commences,
In thy arms repose is found;
4nd thy bounteous hand dispenses
Health, and happiness around.
Points out the worthless course he run,
And chides his vain display;

Bids him, truths glorious pages scan,
And let them mark his way.
Then, ye youth, in marriage mingle,

True delight is only there;
For a life supported single

Is a life of ceaseless care.
Next attry with her horrid tongue,
Burst forth in guileful lays,

And the proud dome, resounding, rung
With great Rosarios" praise.
And let virtue still presiding,

Hold oer you her mild control,
And in her advice conding,
Give to her your inmost soul.
Nowmow, alas! Rosario falls,

Encouraged in dark deeds;
DEMETRIUS.
Not consciences self he heeds.
Oer all his vast domains;

lhence faith and honor fi'ighted ed,
There pity soft complains.
Sickness at length his frame assails,
(Attended by despair)
And attrys hideous form unveils,
\Vhich can no more ensnare.
lhen, then, Rosario beat his breast
And inward shrank dismay'd,

To see the end, a end confcst!
He by that end betrayed!

Torn by reections cankering thorn
He rends the air with cries;
At last, both friendless, and forlorn,
The hapless victim dies.
B.
every day in playing the part of persons pos

sessed with devils. They were accordingly
taught to imitate the contorsions and con
vulsions which are supposed to belong to
this aficted state.
It would not be unreasonablc,in this place,
for your readers to demand, how it Was pos
sible for a whole convent to be engaged in

such an inhuman plot? how it was possible
for the hearts of young and inexperienced
females to be thus hardened against the
feelings so natural to their age and sex, in
a cause too wherein youth and elegance
were to be the mournful sacrice? Such a
question, however, can only be answered by
of Bourdcaux, in whose court he had been
the fact itself. The whole story of their

being possessed with devils appears unques
tionably to have been an imposture, to which
Grandier was at length a victim; and as it
seemed to have no other end but the de
struction of this devoted object of their hate,
we are justied in supposing that it was
acquitted, and who appeared to be well dis
purely in this view that the whole contrivance
Not hell fraught sin his soul appals,

Cursed revelry, and riot spread,
cabal, and of challenging the full cli'ccts of
their utmost malignancy, by an opposition

that could end in neither honour nor ad
vantage. He was not to be moved by these
representations, and continued to gall and
irritate the festering wounds he had inflicted
on the credit and feelings of his enemies,
till at length they were prepared for a con
spiracy so dark, so durable, so complicated;
that it may be said to stand alone in the his
tory of the human heart. The following was
the plan of revenge adopted by this savage
combination: it appears that Mignon, with
t assistance of certain others disposed like
Sacred Marriage, let me hail thee,
W'hich hcconfounded views,

Still hesitates to choose.
made. It was suspected, besides, that there

lived a young person at Loudun from whom
he could not resolve to be separated. Alas!
what transcendcncy of virtue is necessary to
oppose this sort of temptation in a man
whose profession forbids him to marry,
while the sensibilities of an ardent com
plexion are urging him with all their vio
lence, and the opportunities which personal
accomplishments produce are tempting him
with their persuasion!
,
It was in vain that the friends of Grandier
remonstrating with him against the manifest
imprudence of drawing upon himself the
vengeance of an implacable and powerful
ACCOUNT or 'rnn CELEBRATE!)

URBAN GRANDIER.
Continued.
It was about this time that the archbishop
posed towards him, on account of his superior
was undertaken. Arguments too might easily

have been used with such young and prejudic
nest to abandon his present situation, and ed persons, capable of lessening the horrors of
seek repose from the vindictive persecution the scene in which they were acting, drawn
of his enemies in some distant benece. from the interests of their particular convent,
But unhappily, Urban Grandier was not of and of the church in general. They might
a character to follow this counsel: he loved have been persuaded, that it Was praise
too well the gratication of his vengeance, ,worthy to operate towards an end so con
not to pursue the conquest he had already ducive to the honour of the church, as the
attainments, advised him with much earnest
PHILADELPHIA RElERTORY.
63
nut
punishing a proigate character, by any, the

darkest contrivances; that they would ren
der themselves conspicuous thereby to their
country, and to Europe at large, and draw
to themselves a greater contribution of aims.
and a more numerous conux of pensioners.
However it was, they certainly, day after
day, for a length of time, were practised in
the parts of persons possessed; in all the
you entered into the body of this maid?" From

a principle ofanimosity. By what compact?
- By owemr \Vhat owers? Roses.
rho sent them?" Urban. She pronounc
of barber-chirurgeons.) They therefore used

to hang their basons out upon poles, to make
known at a distance to the weary and wound
ed traveller, where all might have recourse;
ed this name with apparent repugnance, and they used poles, as some inns still gibbet
with violent throes and convulsions. Tell their signs across a town.
me his surname, said Mignon. Grandier,"
I am better pleased with the subsequent
answered the supposed demon.
ingenious conjecture, which I take the li
It was plain enough that the superior berty of extracting from the Antiquarian
grimaces, contorsions, and convulsions which might easily have learned, in the course of Rr/zcrlory. The barbers pole has been the
the time in which they had been forming subject of many conjectures, some conceiv
were supposed to indicate this terrible con
dition of humanity. It was said that Mignon, her to the character, a sufciency of Latin ing it to have originated from the word [1011,
their director, took care to bind them to to make these few answers in that language, or head, with several other conceits as far
secresy, as well as to a co-operation, by the and that, to have pttt her fairly to the proof, fetched and as unmeaning; but the true in
the examination should have been commit tention of that party-coloured staff, was to
most dark and tremendous oaths.
The rumour of this possession, as it was ted to ecclesiastics to whom she was a show the master of the shop practised sur
called, of the nuns of Loudun, at rst ran
stranger. The Strur laie, was also very pretty,
silently through the town. The moment it

became a public topic, Mignon exorcised
began her part as soon as the other had mow a beard; such a sta', being to this day,
nished and went through the same mockery. - by every village practitioner, put into the
The devil of this last proved not so learned, hand of a patient undergoing the operation
and referred her examiners to the other of phlebotomy. The white band, which en
devil for the information they required. After compasses the staff, was meant to represent
the scene was over, the judges retired.
the phillet, thus elegantly twined about it.
the superior of the convent, and another
nun. In these exorcisms he joined to him

self Barre, Cure de St. Jacques de Chinon,
a man of a gloomy and melancholy habit,

and full of ambition to be regarded as a saint.
He came with great parade to Loudun, at
the head of his parishioners, whom he led
in procession, walking himself on foot, to
give lustre to the proceeding. The two ec
gery, and could breathe a vain as well as
(To be continued.)
ibid.
-_._
UNDER THE ROSE.
Doctor Browne leaves me little more on

this subject, than the easy and agreeable
task of making him speak concisely and in
ANECDOTE.
A \Velshman, who a few years back was

at the assizcs at Cacrmathen, and who had
never before seen so ne a show, asked a
clesiastics, having exercised themselves and

[llain English.
their pupils in this mockery for a week,

judged themselves qualied to support a
public exhibition. Granger, Cure de Venier,
Nazianzen, says he, seems to imply, that

the rose, from a natural pro/terry, has been
made the symbol qfsilence.
sagacinus countryman of his own, pointing

to the judge upon the bench, who that shen~
tleman was in her cown, and hur pelt, anti
her plack cap. \Vhy, marry, quoth the
united himself to this cruel cabal; for what
reason is it not exactly known, since there

was no visible motive on his part. He un
took, however, to represent the state of the
convent to Guillanme de Cerisay, de la

Guerinere, Bailli du Loudonois, and Louis
Chauvet, Lieutenant Civil, and to request
their attendance at the exorcisms which

were about to take place. He assured them,
that in her paroxisms one of the nuns spoke

Latin with case, although she had never
learned that language.
The two magistrates repaired to the monas
tery,to assist at these ceremonies, and, in case
Hence it should seem when we desire to

conne our words, we commonly say, they
are spoken under the rose.
There is a propriety in this expression
also, if we mean only in society at convivial
entertainments, where it was an ancient cus
tom to wear chaplets of roses about the head.

The Germans have a custom of describ
ing a rose in the ceiling over the table.
Lemnius and others have traced it to ano
ther origin: the rose, say they, was the flower
other, hur is an old woman, that takes hur
nap upon hur cushion, and then hur tells the

shewry hur tream.
.~
The following curious insrription is re.

ported to have been on the sign of a watch
maker, in Oxford, England.
Here are fabricated and renovated, tro
chiliac horoges, portable and permanent,
linguaculous or taciturnal; whose circum

girations are performed by internat spiral
elastic, or extensive pendulous plumbages:

pocrates, the god of silence, &c. it was there diminutives simple or compound, invested
fore an emblem of it to conceal the pranks with aurent or argent integuments.
On the other side:
of Venus.
Pofmlar Antiquities.
-.
Here sons of science and the muses friend,
ORIGIN OF BARBERS POLES.
May nd a younger brother to attend,
Barbers shops are generally marked by
\Vho humbly hopes he may their watches
long poles instead of signs: the Athenian
mend.
of Venus, which Cupid consecrated to Har
they should see reason to believe that the pos

sessions were real, to authorise the exorcisms;
otherwise to stop the course of an illusion
that might bring discredit upon the church
and religion in general. As soon as these
oicers made their appearance, the superior oracle accounts for this custom, which is of
of the convent fell into strange convulsions remote antiquity, in the following manner.
and distorted her features into such horrible The barbers art was so benecial to the
grimaces, that, from one of the handsomest public, that he, who rst brought it up in
women in France, she became in a moment Rome, had, as authors relate, a statue erect
one of the most deformed. To add to this ed to his memory. In England, they were
effect, she imitated the cries of a young pig in some sort the surgeons of old times, into
with singular success. At her right hand stood whose art those beautiful Inches, our fair
a white friar, and Mignon at her left. The virgins then too used to be initiated. (Thus
latter conjured the demon to answer to the in corporate towns, the present companies
following questions: For what reasons have
_' An old word fora doctor, or a surgeon.
"*
\l' IT IN A MADMAN,
The Rev. Mr.--, A clergyman of most

profound erudition, went crazy from intense
study, and would. wander about, demanding
his breakfast, dinner and supper from differ
ent persons, taking no denial. He once visit
ed the dwelling of two old maids and demand
ing his dinner, promised them an epitaph in
return. This they acceded to, provided he
would write it before; he did not submitto
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this, but agreed to give them two lines be

fore, and two after dinner. He then asked
t 1e name of one of them, who answered
Mary, upon which he said:

Here Mary lies, who died of late,
And took her (light to heavens broad gate.
The Farewel of Romeo is, we regret, too

incorrect'for insertion in the Repertory.
The Alphabetical Acrostic of D. is too
unintelligible in substance to be inserted.
The Acrostic alone is attended to.
\Ve have received the Return of Morning;
Pleased with this, they prepared him a good
by
but as it contains
no ideas
but
whatLorrin;
have, althonsand
times been
express
dinner, and after he had nished it he arose
to depart. They however reminded him of his

promise and demanded the other two lines.
Where did I leave oli'? inquired he. Upon
being told, he said, aye this is it:
ed, and in superiorlanguage; we decline
publishing it.
The communication to the editor,'from
One, shall receive due notice in our next
number.
Here Mary lies, who died of late,
And took her ight to heavens broad gate;
LIARRIED,
But th angel Gabriel took a club,

And knockd her down to Beelzebub!
_-._
\Vcre honour, said that excellent mo~

narch, Louis XII. ofFl-ancc, banished from
On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Dr.

Collin, captain T. Fuet, of Newbern, North
Carolina, to the amiable Miss Mary Fisher,
of Southwark, Philadelphia.
United in this happy pair we nd.

the face of the earth, it still should be found
The grateful gift of person and of mind.
in the breast of a king. This monarch said
nobly, when he was pressed to punish some
DIED,
persons, who had been inimical to him when
ln \Vardsbnry, (VL) 24th ult. Mr. Ebe
he was the heir apparent to the throne of nezer Fisher, of Dover; while hiving a swarm
France: The king of France," said he, of bees one of them stung him on the end
should never avenge the injuries of the of his nose, and the poison operated so
duke of Orleans.
powerfully that it occasioned his death in
about thirty minutes after he was stung.
a
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PHILADELPHIA,
On W'ednesday afternoon last, in the 77th
year of her age, Mrs. Barbara Hertzog, relict

of the late Mr. Andrew Hertzog.
HEALTH OFFICE,
July 5th, .1811.

Interment: in the City and Liberties Philadelphia,
from the 29th- .lune_to the 6th of July.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
0
0
0
t)
l2
43
2
1
0
0
0
0
.Da'aeases.
ad. ch.
Ashma
Apoplexy
Casualties
Carrarh
Cholera Morbus
Consump. oflungs
Convulsions
Decay
Diarrhoea
Dropsy
Drowned
Dysentery
Drunkennell
1
I
1
1
2
40
0
1
1
2
1
1
Insanity
Mortication
Old Age
Pleurisy
Scrofula
Sore throat
Small pox, natural
Stone
~
Still born
Suicide
Sudden'
forms
Unknown
1
0
1
3
1
I
2
1
0
1
8
0
1
0
l
0
O
O
1
1
0
3
O
1
1
0
Debility
1 1
._ _
l-ever remittent
Hooping cough
Hydrophobia
Inamrna. bowels
0 1
0 1
l 0
l 0
39 33
Total 72
Under 1
Betvveen l and 2
3
60
70
5
1
70
80
10
8t)
90
10
2o
3U
2t)
30
4O
3
11
13
90
100
72
4-0
50
Total

' Occasioned by drinking cold water!!!
_._
CORRESPONDENCE
Thc accusation of Will Versatile by De

tector, in the paper of to day, appears, as
the piece alluded to was aignrd, and under
stood to be original, even by ourselves, to

be well founded. Though we expressed our
opinion freely on the merits of the Budget,
we published it in hopes that it might im
prove, and now sincerely regret a circum
stance of the nature in question; but at the
same time will return our thanks to any one
whose depth of reading gives him an 0p
portunity of detecting others in retailing
the writings of other authors as their own,
and who will_exposc the plagiarism. In jus
tice to \Vill Versatile we must say that his
communication did contain four lines, re
ecting on the Roman catholic religion,
which Detector alludes to. It cannot, there
fore, be said that he expunged them to fa

VOur the deception. If \Vill Versatile is un
justly accused our press is open to his re
ply, which shall be published, if there be
nothing personal or abusive.
As Horace in Philadelphia has never fa
voured us with any of his poetic e'usions
before, we are at a loss to account for his
heading thCjirsI, with Book 3rd, Ode 17th.
The legislature of New York have appro

priated fteen thousand dollars for the pur
pose of ascertaining the preliminaries nc
cessary for carrying into operation the great
canal to connect the waters of the Hudson
with the waters of Lake Erie. This under
.taking exceeds in magnitude any other that
has ever been attempted in America; and if
executed will probably be of a public benefit
more than proportionate to its magnitude.
The people of New York have already en
tered deeply into its spirit; and it is a for
tunate circumstance that no state in the
union is better able to take and perform
public works of this kind than New York.
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scribers half' yearly in advance.
-.
.Mungo Park. The Mcrccd, which-arriv

ed a few day ago at Plymouth, has brought
accounts from Africa, which completely put


an end to all hopes of the existence of

Mungo Park, the enterprising traveller. The ceived at this oice, and at the bookstore of He]
search that had been made after him tended lings and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.
fully to conrm the accounts previously re
ceived of his dissolution. It seems the im pertory Will be expected to pay the dicrence.
mediate cause of his death was a fever,
brought on by the hardship he endured. Ht

drew his last breath in the hovel of an oh;
As soon as he lets us understand him per
negro woman. Not a vestige of his papers
fectly it shall appear.
has been received.
PHILADF LPIIIA,

Marshalll alley, betn'een Fourth and Fifth, near
St. Marys church.
Q Bilabelpiaweperfam
Cowman.
SATURDAY, JULY 20. is! I.
VOL. ll.
BIOGRAPHY.
From the POrt Folio
LlFE OF COMMODORE EDWARD PREBLE.
(Continued)
Another act of hostility had been done at
Mogadore, by an order to detain all Ameri

can vessels, and the actual seizure of the
offered. It was essential he should know the

system of concession was abandoned.
Accordingly the commodore took a de
cided course. He gave orders to his squa
dron to bring in for examination all vessels
belonging to the emperor and his subjects;
despatched three vessels to cruise o Moga
brig Hannah of Salem, Joseph M. \Villiams
dore, Salee and Zarach, and one off Tetuan,
master.
and entered the bay of Tangier at several

times.
That the Tripolitans might not think they
were forgotten, he despatched the Philadel
phia and Vixen to lie before Tripoli.
The consul, Simpson, made representa
tions to the emperor, who was absent, before
and after the arrival of commodore Preble,
explaining our hostile movements. The an
The commodore was conrmed in the

propriety and benet of a high tone and
vigorous measures. He observes, in his com
munications to the government, that all

the Barbary powers, except Algiers, appear
to have a disp05ition to quarrel with us, un
less we tamely submit to any propositions
they may choose to make. Their demands

will increase, and be such as our gov
ernment ought not to comply 'with.
They send out their cruisers; if they
prove successful it is war, and we must
purchase peace, suering them to keep all
swers received were general, but showed

that if he had authorised war, he was now
No. 9.
gave information that when the emperors

minister arrived the negotiation would be
opened.
A present (of bullocks, sheep and fowls)
was ordered for the squadron, as a token of
the emperors good will.
On the 8th, the emperor with his court
and a large body of troops, visited the beach
and batteries on the bay for the purpose of
viewing the United States squadron, when
the Constitution saluted again with 21 guns;

a compliment with which the king and court,
as the consul reported, were very much gra
tied. The present arriving at the same time,
it was acknowledge by three guns, accord
ing to Moorish custom. The Moorish cap
tain of the port and several respectable
Moors, friends to the prisoners on board,
came off to see their friends. The following
day the consul gave notice that the emperor
and we capture their cruisers before they

have taken any thing valuable, it is not war,
although the orders for capturing are found
on board; and We must restore all. This he
prepared to disavow it; and if the orders for

the capture and detention of American ves
sels had been the acts of his governor, given
under a general discretion, he would refuse
his sanction.
The excessive bad weather obliged our
officer to keep harbour in Gibraltar several
days. \Vhen this permitted, he was cruising,
believed ought not, and need not be suffer
occasionally standing in to Tangier bay. On
ed. It was equally disgraceful and impolitic
resources of skill and courage are abundant,

to - allow these barbarians to think they
the 5th of October, when his majesty was

expected, he anchored, with the Nautilus in
company, in Tangier buy; the circular bat
tery at the town \V. Q- S. 1;; miles distant.
Here he remained, only changing his ground
might have peace on any terms they might
once to be nearer the town, until peace was
vate seal, to the governor of Mogadore, for

the release of the American brig detained
at that place, and that Monday was appointed
for giving an audience to the commodore and
consul.
On the day assigned, the llth, the com
modore, accompanied by colonel Lear, Mr.
Morris, as secretary, and two midshipmen,
landed at Tangier for the proposed audience.
He believed there was no danger in landing;
but he expressed his desire, that if he should
be forcibly detained, the commanding ofcer
on board would not enter into treaty for his
please to dictate. Under these impressions

he did not hesitate to use his discretion,
concluded. He was joined in the afternoon
Irelease, or consider his personal safety; but
they have taken; and if they are unfortunate,
for a nation, whose navigation and com

merce were second in the world, and whose
had given an order under his hand and pri
of the 6th by the frigates New-York and lopen a fire upon the town. They were usher
although specic instructions on this subject John Adams. The ship was kept constantly ed into the castle and the presence of the
were not given, and follow his own ideas of cleared for action, and the men at quarters sovereign through a double le of guards.
what expediency and honour required, tak night and day. On the 6th his majesty ar The commodore at the entrance was request
ing a rm attitude towards the agressor. rived with a great body of troops, horse and ed, according to Moorish custom in such
This he would have done and risked the foot, estimated at 5,000, who encamped on cases, to dispose of his side-arms. He said
consequences, if he had been backed by no the beach opposite the squadron. The con he must comply with the custom of his own
force other than that of his peculiar squadron. sular ag on shore indicating that the em country, and retain them, which was allowed.
The consent of commodore Rogers to co peror had come and was in view of the ship, On coming into the imperial presence, our
operate with the two frigates under his con
the commodore was careful to order the oicer and consul were requested to advance
trol, left no room for question. Our ofcer ship dressed and a salute of 21 guns, which near the emperor, with whom they conversed
believed the emperor of Morocco had long. was returned from the fort with an equal by an interpreter. He expressed much sor
meditated to make war when a pretext should ,_ number, as was the salute of the other fri row and regret that any differences had
be furnished, and a prospect of impunity gates in the morning following. The consul arisen, for he was at peace with the United
66
Elm
States. He disavowed having given any hos
there, insisted on retaining those deserters
For the Repertory.
tile orders; said he would restore all Ameri
from the commodores squadron, who were
can vessels and property detained in conse

quence of any act of his governors, and re
new and conrm the treaty made with his
father in 1786. The commodore and consul,
on the part of the' United States, promised
that the vessels and property of the emperor
should be restored, and the orders of cap
ture revoked. They proceded to an inter
believed to be British subjects. It was in
THE MYSTEROUS MONK.
The refusal of this essential courtesy, in the
A TALE.
present instance, was one reason of his fix

ing on Syracuse, instead of Malta, for his
rendezvous.
Our oiccr returned from Cadiz on the
view with the minister, where the details sixth of November; and having alloted the
were settled. The mutual stipulations were Argus, captain Hull, to the Gibraltar station,
forthwith executed, the Mirboka being ap and disposed of his other force, he proceed
praised, with a view to the indemnication
of the captors by our government. The com

modore received a formal ratication of the
treaty of 1786, and a letter of friendship and
peace to the president, signed by the em
peror.
Thus by the happy union of prudence and
energy, seconded by a competent force, we
escaped war with a power, from his situation
ed to Algiers, where he was to leave colonel

Lear, the consul general. On the 22d he
SPIRIT OI THE WOOD.
A fury crawld from out Ids horrid cell,

The bloodiest minister of death and hell.
BLACKMORE
I was born, began Minda, in this ve t-y

cottage. My father was one of the vassals of
Altenheim; but esteemed more as_a friend
sailed from Algiers for Syracuse; and on his

voyage was informed of the disastrous loss
of the Philadelphia, captain William Bain
bridge. On the Slst of October, after pursu
ing a Tripoline corsair till she came to seven
fathoms water, in beating off, she ran on a
rock, not laid down in any chart, about four
his masters life, for which the count was
while she was attacked by numerous gun

boats, which she withstood' for four hours,
while the careening of the ship made the

guns totally useless. Areinforcement coming
off, and no possible means of resisting them
appearing, the captain submitted to the hor
rid necessity of striking to his barbarous
enemy. They took possession of the ship,
and made prisoners of the oicers and men,
in number three hundred, with robbery, vio
season, however, was too far advanced for lence, and insult. in forty-eight hours, the
active and permanent operations against the wind blowing in shore, the Tripolitans were
enemy. Yet this officer did not indulge him able to get off the frigate, and having raising
self in repose, or suffer his forces to be idle. her guns, towed her into the harbour of
In cruising, where they necessarily at this Tripoli. The commodore apprehended the
time of year encountered a rough rea and worst from this diminution of his force; a
tempestuous weather, in supplying convoy, war with Tunis, and perhaps with Algiers;
and in maintaining the blockade of Tripoli, at least, a protraction of the present war.
when practicable, the squadron was fully and He could not but hope the government
arduously employed. It was apparent that would repair this loss by another frigate in
the commodore aimed to do all that was pos the spring, and also would furnish him with
sible, and not merely what was convenient. more small vessels or gun-boats. His idea
The Philadelphia and Vixen had been or of the amount and distribution of force to be
dered to the coast of Tripoli. The commo desired, he mentions in a subsequent letter;
dore now formerly declared the blockade observing, we ought to have a brig and
of that place, and sent notice of the fact to schooner to cruise between Cape Bon and
the ministers and consuls of the United Sicily; abrig or schooner o' Cape Margaret,
States, to be communicated to the respective to the south of Tripoli; a brig on the coast
neutral powers. He found it expedient to go of Calabria; two frigates, with one schooner
to Cadiz, in order to make up his comple and some gun and morfar boats, before Tri
ment of men, and procure a few supplies not poli, and a brig and schooner to cruise from
to be obtained at that time at Gibraltar. An Derne to Bengaza. With such a force, so
unpleasant circumstance not expected, sel disposed, Tripoli might soon be brought to
dom before experienced by our public ves any terms we might please to dictate.
sels, and afterwards remedied by orders of
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lord Nelson, made him willing to shorten
his stay at the last mentioned port. Several
It is the sign'of a frivolous mind to study
commanders of British ships of war lying singularity in little things.
s
CHAPTER W;
A tale of strange and terrible occurrence!
than a servant by the lord Rodolfo, the father

of the present noble count Altenheim your
ladyships father.
He had been the counts companion in
war, and had the happy fortune twice to save
formidable, and placed our affairs with him and a half miles from the town. Every exer
in a better condition than before the variance. tion to get her off proved ineffectual. Mean
The commodore acknowledges his obli
gations to his coadjutors, observing, in the
whole of this business I have advised with
col. Lear, Mr. Simpson, and commodore
Rogers. I am condent we have all been
actuated by the same motive, the good of our
country.
The commodore having nothing at pres
ent to fear from Morocco, was at liberty to
direct his principal attention to Tripoli. The
on
dispensable to the exercise of discipline, to

be protected in his right to his own seamen.
by no means ungrateful; but gave him this

cottage and the lands around it, absolving
him from all allegiance except what his

friendship and love dictatec ."
That was a noble recompencc, inter
rupted Amelia.
Noble indeed, my lady, returned Min
da, and proceeded with her story. hfy
father, who had long loved Geraldine, a.
female attendant upon the lady Emmeline,

your ladyships grand mother, now found
himself in a situation to be completely happy
with her, and conding his desires to his
lor , count Rodolfo not only consented to
the union but condescended to give my
mother to my father, his faithful Stadtsburgh.
Upon this marriage they remm ed to this
cottage where they lived for two years; at
the end of which time I was born, and, as I
have often heard my father say, the happi

ness of my parents was greatly increased by
that event. This felicity was, however, des
tined soon to end; for, two years after my
birth, my poor mother died, leaving my father

disconsolate for her loss, with no tie to bind
him to existence but the helplessness of

his infant daughter. That daughter doomed
to be the cause of his death!
Here the good woman, almost overcame
by the recollection of past events, burst into
a ood of tears.
You amaze and afflict me, my dear Min
da, exclaimed Amelia, affectionately taking

the hand of the cottager, and sweetly kissing
her sorrow furrowed visage. You amaze
and alict Inc. I conjure you proceed and
unsay those words; you could not have been
the cause of your fathers death!
Suffer this storm of recollection to sub
side, my dear lady, returned Minda, and
you shall hear all." After a few moments
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ed a wound which rendered him ever after
0! happy had been my life, exclaimed
.unt for actual service in the eld. Expres

After the death of my affectionate mother, sions of gratitude Were renewed to me from
whose loss I was too young to feel, my the count, and soon after I. retired from the
father conded me to the care of a female castle to this cottage with my father. Here
relation and again accompanied count Ro we resided, tilling our little farm and living
dolfo to the wars. A short time after their upon the produce of it, which, together with
absence the lady Emmeline was delivered the bounty of the count, enabled us to live
Minda, had I never beheld that man; or,
pause she continued her story to the follow

ing effect.
of a son, the present lord of Altenheim.
completely beyond the reach of want, until
if beholding him, we had left him to perish!"

Indeed, Minda? said Amelia.
To him I owe all my griefs, rejoined

Minda; tis from him that all my sorrows
have arisen. But, my lady, you shall hear:

Nothing could exceed the surprize and pity
of my father, when he beheld the wretch
before him, nor could any thing exceed my
terror.
I being new about four years old, was re I was about eighteen years old; during which
ceived into the castle and had the happiness time I had many suitors, who solicited my
(To be continued.)
of nursing your dear father and passing my hand, but as I could never consent to give
.
time in nding amusements for infant years. my hand unless my heart accompanied the
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No wonder, then, said Amelia, that gift, I remained single- Here ends my happy
story, proceeded Minda, for all that fol
my father loves you so, my good Minda.
THE CABINET. No. XLIV.
He had still greater cause, continued lows is but alictive and tremendous. One
Dimidium facti, qui cacpit habet.
day, ah! when the sun set that day, my hap
Minds, for I saved his life.
Hoaacz.
His life! echoed Amelia in astonish piness set with him for cverl
The reader, I am condent, will not re
Your tale is indeed interestingl'inter lish the following letter the less, because I
ment.
Yes, returned the mother of Florival, rupted Amelia.
have not chosen to say a word of any kind
for one day, having been laid on his couch
'vVere not these circumstances, said about it.
PETER PEACEABLE.
asleep, I was called away for something by Minda, partly linked with my knowledge
Sir,
the lady Emmeline, and upon returning I of Florival, I should not have trespassed on
Although entirely unknown to you, I do
your ladyships patience. But to proceed: not hesitate to send you this little history of
found asnake encircled round his neck!
As my father-and myself were once re my life. It may have its uses, and therefore
Merciful heaven!" exclaimed Amelia.
I shrieked for help, proceeded Minda, turning from Dusseldorp, whither we had please to make a cabinet of it.
but shrieked in vain, for the nursery was been to dispose of some of the overplus
I was born in the midst of opulence and
so far distant from the servants apartments, productions of our farm, night overtook us fashion. My mother, with a thousand bril
that they could not hear me; and the lady as we entered the forests of Altenheim about liant qualities, had one failing, and that was
Emmcline had taken a walk into the gardens ve or six miles from the castle, then cele a most unreasonable pleasure she took in
of the castle. Terried at the idea of his thus brated for their being infested with banditti, gratifying the improper wishes of her child.
perishing, I seized a knife that lay on the that became a terror to the surrounding My father, unfortunately, was one of those
table in the room, and frantically thrusting country.
good-natured souls who yield up their na
it between the viper and the infant, he fell,
As we were poor and of course no tempt tural prerogatives and understandings into
divided into several pieces, on the floor!
ing object for the robbers fury, we passed the hands of their care sostls, and think
Heroic Minda! cried the heiress of without much fear until we had penetrated themselves happy in the matrimonial har
about a mile into the forest, when our ears ness while the reins are held by their rule~
Altenheim.
Overcome with terror at his danger, were struck with continued deep and heart loving wives. My mother, in short, had the
continued Minda, and Ibelicve with joy at rending groans, that seemed to issue from whole charge of my education; and as fate
having saved him, I dropped the weapon and some poor wretch not far distant from us. had determined that I should be an only
fainted upon the oor. Soon after the lady
I shake with terror? cried Amelia look child, you may suppose she had ample time
Emmeline entered the room, and perceiving ing anxiously round the cottage.
to look to it. As soon as I had arrived at that
her son covered with blood, me lifeless, the
Dispel your terrors, my lady, there is age when my mOthcr supposed I had began
knife by me, and no appearance of respira no danger here, said Minda, and proceeded to think and could receive instruction, shc,
tion from her son, her feelings can be bet with her story.
very ccndescendingly, tintlertook to initiate
ter felt than described. Her shriek recalled
As my father carried a lantern, we were me herself into the mystery of a, b, c, Src.
my wandring senses, and the young count enabled to see our way clearly; I therefore, This,at the expense of half a dozen primers
began to revive. I started up, seized the terried almost to phrenzy, conjured my and a few oods of bitter tears, I at length,
infant in my arms, and exclaimed, He father to proceed with all possible increase of comprehended; and at the expiration of three
our speed, as we could not assist the sufferer months from the commencement of my
lives, he lives.
W'hen the rst emotions of grief, joy, and be it who it may. But he, whose soul never course of study, I had absolutely learned to
surprise were over, I informed the countess shrunk at any danger, and whose heart never repeat the whole alphabet backwards and
of the truth. She took me in her arms, called heard the sigh of distress without affording all forwards with a facility that confounded and
me her preserver and overwhelmed me with the relief in his power, refused to leave the delighted my fair'instructress herself
expressions of gratitude. And, believe me spot until he had discovered from whence the
As soon as it was judged proper, my
lady, those who have experienced the felicity groans proceeded. Giving- me the lantern, mother procured masters to instruct me in
of being thanked by the mother for the he drew his rapier, and we began our search, these higher branches of literature which
preservation of her child, will never hope which was not continued long, before, bleed
would have been highly unfashionable and
ing from a wound in his breast, we beheld impolite had she engaged in them. First
for a more rich reWard.
Soon, after this event the count and my a knight, as wevsupposcd, lifeless on the came Monsieur Nimbletoe, under whom I
father returned from the wars, after an ab ground.
Was to learn to dance; a thing though utter_
sence of ve years, the latter having receiv
f Unhappy destiny!" sighed Amelia,
ly impossible on account of a defectin the
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thought proper to rise from bed or my chair

to attend them, and as l employed very little
ble. lt originated from a malicious disposi

tion, and was generally directed to objects
which served to increase it. Their conduct
was directly contrary to that which true
man, soon acquired knowledge enough of honetn' demands, and they disregarded all
the business to experience no mortication the incentives to virtue which it offered. In
and was enabled to support my wife and this sense it has been perverted to a great
degree; for instead of that true sense of
mother very decently.
Some years of indefatigable industry, such honour which every heroic mind possesses,
as I once thought myself incapable of per a certain kind has arisen which has been
stigmatized and derided as false notions by
forming, raised me to a handsome com
petence which I am now enjoying in the .pious men. What I here mean has been
bosom of retirement. I endeavour by reec lgenerally termed duelling, which is sup
tion and books to remove the false preju posed to be the quickest and most honour
dices of early life, and to give my powers able way of terminating disputes. lt surely
to the acquirement of knowledge and the is the most expeditious, but by far the most
practice of virtue. Drawn by a thousand uncivilized and inhuman. What reason can
be assigned \vhy affairs of honour are decid
social ties, and blest with athousand domes
tic endearments, life is a delightful journey ed in this manner? It is commonly attributed
mind when I did attend them, I found my
whose path is smooth 'to the feet, and the
self at twenty more ignorant than many lads
scenery around beautifully variegated with all this dees not consist in murdering DUI fel
that can please the eye, or charm the mind. low men, but in endeavouring to do him
The little vexatlons I meet with on the road good, and regulating our own conduct by a.
I drown in the draught of innocent pleasure; strict adherence to virtue. But the advocates
and I can safely say that with halfthe money of duelling may say, we will be called
and apparent means of comfort, late years cowards if we do not resent our injured
have brought me more real happiness than honour. A coWard, we know, is the most
ever I enjoyed in the society of the rich, the approbrious name. But is it coWardice to
refuse killing a man? and is it consistent
thoughtless, and the gay. I am, 8tc.
EDMUND MOORVILLE. with true honour and the dictates of con
science to murder him? Every rational being
...._.
will allow it is unworthy of any person, who
Organization of one of my feet, rriy doating

mama declared should be accomplished.
This exercise was so extremely disagreeable
on account of the fatigue it occasioned, that,
at the expiration of three months, I pre
vailed on my mother to release me from

the experiments of M. Nimbletoe, who was
eternally trying, by keeping me hour after
hour in the stocks, to shape my foot to his
fancy, and make it capable of pliantly slip
ping into the rst position, which you know
is the very foundation step to the science of
dancing. ~
As it is unnecessary to be more particular
about this period of my life, I shall merely

say that masters of all arts and sciences were
procured for my benet, but as I seldom
of fteen.
I was now introduced into the most fash
ionable societies, and having an empty head

and overowing pocket, soon acquired all
the vices which were then in vogue. I Was
present at all horse races and staked largely
upon my own judgment. I visited every
resort of fashionable indolence; played at

billiards to excess, and, in short, supported
the ban ton in the most approved and gen

teel style. I was sought after by the most
polished bucks and gentlemen sharpers,
among whom my character stood high as

generous and noble in the extreme.
In one of my excursions to a neighbour
ing state I fell violently in love with a very
amiable and beautiful lady, but of no fortune;
who nding no objection to my family or

myself, condescended to bestow upon me
her hand. I returned in triumph with my
beloved Laura to my native city, intending
to introduce her in the circle of my friends,
and to make her and myself the envy of all
the bells and beaitx in town. Think then

with what horror I learned that my father
had died suddenly and left a fortune so im
poverished by the expenses of his family, as
to be quite insuicient even for the support
of my mother: my wife and myself were also
dependant on it. W'hat was I to do? untaught
in any art or professesion by which I might
support my wife and parent, I found myself
within the jaws of poverty, and obliged, as

usual, to bear with the contempt of those
who had once professed the sincerest friend
ship. I was frequently tempted to destroy
that life which had now become so disgust
ing and painful by my unexpected fall.-To
this fall, however, I owe the serenity of my
present life. I began seriously to think of

conquering my natural indolence and the
mistaken notions in which I had been edu

cated. I collected together the remains of
my fathers fortune, and having joined it
to that of an industrious and deserving young
to a misunderstanding of real honour; for
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lays claim to the name of a christian, to at
Honour is the subject of my story.
tempt settling disputes by hnzarding his life.

These pretensions to honour are groundless,
In every age of the world, honour has

been accounted a most noble principle, and and on no account can- they be supposed to
every one has laid claim to some portion of arise from ahumane and generous heart.
No vice has been so often endeavoured
it. It comprehends all the various qualities
that adorn the human mind, and is founded to be suppressed as this: it is a barbarous
upon principles which in themselves are custom which has received the sanction of
noble. It has been esteemed so highly, that time, and is an express violation of the laws
of heaven. Honour has been paralized by a
even life, in a great degree, has been de
pendent upon it, and that person who could practice which has spread its baneful in
without the least hesitation break through fluence over every quarter of the globe. In
all the bonds which it has prescribed, has every feature of it we see instances of pre
been considered as one in whom no depend meditated revenge, which characterizes the
ence could be afterwards placed. Though disposition of savages. Laws have been
the greatest part of mankind pretend to have enacted for the express purpose of I check
some share of it, yet how much they possess ing its progress, and examples have been
is seen by their conduct, and the motives made in order to deter others from it. But
by which they are governed. It cannot be all attempts which have been made have
supposed that the portion which every man proved ineffectual. Revenge and the desire
possesses is always guided by a right prin of shedding the blood of man has prevailed.
ciple, nor that it is equal in the same degree The voice of reason, justice, and humanity
with that of others. This may also be said of has been disregarded. Passion instils the
nations; some have a great sense of honour, design of murder, and revenge executes.
while others appear to be entirely destitute By an unaccountable circumstance, the prac
of it. This may be accounted for in their tice of duelling has descended to the pre
different natures, and a greater part may be sent age. But in attentively observing the
circumstances which have taken place, there
attributed to the climate of their country.
However noble honour is, yet some have is a great probability of its beingr ulti
possessed a kind which is base and despica mately abolished. It would cease to produce
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many calamities which society has felt for Pelow? that you are made for heaven: that history of kingdoms and of empires, hear
so long a time. Every motive which humani your heart is greater than the world: that the those who return from the most remote isl
ty can urge, calls loudly for its entire sup earth is not your proper sphere: and that ands: the immortality of the soul has always
all to you is nothing, which is not God? been, and it is yet the belief of all the na
pression.
It cannot but be a matter of joy to every Answer if you can: or rather interrogate tions of the universe. The knowledge of a
sensible person, to observe what laws are in your heart and you will be faithful.
single God is not so general: his glory, his
force for the checking of its progress, and
if there will not be a future state, what power, his immensity, have been annihilated
if they should be put in their utmost rigour, design worthy of his wisdom could have in (if I may use the expression) in the hearts
events of this kind might- cease to happen. fluenced God to create men? What! would and minds of men; but the sentiment of the
It is greatly hoped, that the measures which he have had no other view in forming them, immortality of their souls has never been
have been taken to stop its increase may than in forming beasts? Man! that being so eifaced from their hearts. They all gure
prove effectual, and tend to destroy a cus noble, who is endued with such high ideas, to themselves, a region that our souls will
tom which has been the cause of so much such vast desires, such great sentiments; inhabit after death; and in forgetting God,
distress in the world.
AMICUS. susceptible of love, of truth, of justice: man they have not been able to forget them
alone of all creatures capable of a serious selves. Or, whcncc comes it, that men, so
For the Repertory.
destiny, ofknowing, and ofloving the Author different in temper, worship, country, sen
of his being: that man made but for the earth! timents, even in gure, and who hardly ap
STRIKING PROOFS OF THE TRUTH. OF A
FUTURE ST ATE.
to pass a small number of days like a beast, pear to be of the same species, nevertheless
all agree in this one point, all wish to be
Translated from the French of Masillon by Gregory in frivolous occupations, or sensual plea
Gravity
sures! he would not full the purposes of immortal? This is no delusion: for how will
If all is to end with us, if man is to ex
his being, in playing so contemptible a parll you account for the agreement in it of men,
pect nothing after this life, if this is our pro he would have appeared upon the earth but of every age, and every country? It is not
per sphere and the only felicity that we can to present a spectacle laughable, and wor a prejudice of. education, for the manners,
promise ourselves, why are we not happy thy of pity! and after that he would return to customs, and worship, which commonly im
here? If we are born but for the pleasures his native nothingness, without having made plant prejudices, are not the same among
of the senses, why cannot they satisfy tis? and any use of that vast mind, and that elevatcu every people: the sentiment of immortality
why do they always leave a fund of disgust heart, which the Author olhis being had given is common to them all. it is not a sect; for
and sorrow in our hearts? If aman is not him'I-Ol God! where would have been your besides that, it is the universal religion of
above a brute, why does he not pass his days wisdom here, to have made so great a work the world. This doctrine has had no chief,
like it, without care, without inquictutle, but to glut the ravages of time: to have placed nor protector: men are persuaded of it
men upon the earth, but to make wanton themselves, or rather taught it by nature:
without disgust, without sadnes, in the en
joyment of the senses, and the esh? 1f man essays of your power, and refresh your leis and it alone, from the beginning of things,
has to expect but a temporal happiness, ure by that variety of spectacle.
has passed from generation to generation,
why is it not to be found upon the earth?
In ne, if all dies with the body, what is and is still maintained upon the earth. 0!
whence comes it that riches vex him? that it that has been able to persuade all men, you, who believe yourselves to be but a.
honours fatigue him? that pleasures weary of every age, and every country, that their lump of clay, depart from the world in which
him? that the sciences confound him, and souls were immortal? what has inspired man you find none like you; go then and seek
irritate his curiosity without satisfying it? kind with such a strange idea of immor in another earth, men of a different kind,
that reputation tortures, and enibarrasses tality? Would a sentiment so remote from and similar to brutes, or rather look upon
him? and that all these cannot fill the im the nature of man, if born but for the grati yourselves with horror, to nd that you are
mensity of his heart, but still leave him cation of his passions, have been able to pre alone in the universe, revolt against all na
something to desire? All other created things, vail upon the earth? For if man, likea beast, ture in disavowing your own heart, and ac
knowledge a sentilnent common to all men,
contented with their destiny, appear happy, is made but for the inheritance of time, noth
after their wishes, in the situation in which ing would have been more incomprehensi the common impression of the Author that
the Author of nature has placed them: the ble to him, than the bare idea of immor created them.
O
stars tranquil in the rmament, quit not their tality. \Vould lumps of clay, animated to
abode to enlighten an other earth: the earth, have no object but a sensual felicity, ever
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regular in its motions, attempts not to take have been able either to comprehend, or to
THE PROPITIATION.
the place of the stars: the animals crawl in conceive such noble sentiments, and such
BOOK ll.
the country without envying the fate of man sublime ideas? Notwithstanding, that idea,
Continued.
vwho inhabits cities and sumptuous places:
astonishing as it is, has become the idea of
ARGUMENT.
the. birds sport in the air without thinking

that any creatures on earth are happier than
themselves. All is, in a manner, happy in
the place assigned to it by nature. Man alone
all; that idea, so opposite even to our senses, Coming of Elijah, in the person of John the Baptist:
The terrors of Uhemos at beltolding him: The
when man apparently dies like a beast, is
baptism ofour Lord.
established throughout the earth: that senti The prophet said, and in obedience, came,
is restless, and discontented: man alone is
in~ the universe, has met with an universal
a prey to his desires; torn by his fears; pun

ished by his hopes, and becomes sad and
unhappy in the midst of his enjoyments:
man alone meets with nothing here below,
on which to x his heart. Why is this? 0!
man! Is it not because you are misplaced
reception in the bosoms of all nations; the

most savage, as weli as the most cultivated;
ment, which could not have been invented
It not in form, in spirit still the same,

The Heaven directed baptist, and before
155
The Uhrtst appeared, his bright commission bore.

A camels hair, alone his body shields
the most polite, as well as the most rude; From the hot wmds that skim across the elds;
A leathern girdle oer his Waist he hound,
the most unfaithful, as well'as the most suh~ l That held his garment, tightly claspd arotmd; 160
i
missive to faith. For look back, even to the ' No triendly sandals shelter gave his feet,
birth of time, survey all nations, read the li From the loose stone or arenaceous heat;
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No covering closed from solar beams his head;

Locusts and honey were his only bread.
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0! that like him, I felt my bosom red,
My mind enlightend and my soul inspired;
Then, like to him, the glorious trump ld blow;
Call dying creatures from the brink of wo;
Jesus, would sing thy grace in nobler strain,
Till the loud echo shook the conscious main; 170
The conscious main the echo should rebound,
And list'ning nature catch the joyful sound!

'here Jordan rolls along his varying tide,
The baptist stood; repent, repent, he cried:
Fly from your sins, obey the high command, 175
For know, the kingdom of dread Heavens at hand!
Listen and learn, the sharp and glittring blade,
To the deep root of evry tree is laid;
\Vhat brings forth evil fruit shall feel its ire,
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'Ihen burn forever in a quenchless re!
'lis true, with Water, I indeed. baptize,
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A blaze of brightness ambient oer his head,

Lambent its all divine c'ulgcnce shed!
The hosts beheld him with a pale alarm;
225
But he whose soul with heavenly grace was warm;
Behold he cried, the righteous Lamb of God,
Who rules creation by his mighty nod;
He comes to wash the sinners guilt away,
230 ,
And train the spirit for the realms of day!
135
Woman thy seed shall bruise the serpents head!

Like one whom silence and the hour of night,
To deeds of midnight violence, invite,

With hope, (for hope has often times been nursed
Within the heart that sin and guilt. have cursed;)
With hope of black success delighted grows,
And his dark breast with endlike rapture glows!
But disappointment following close behind,
Evn so pale Chemos, whose lascivious soul,
Gave willing way to endlike hopes control;

Hope, that as he so long remaind on earth,
He shall, if you the mighty act desire,

Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and re!
245
To purge the earth at his supreme command; 190
And found no emblem of the Saviours birth,

Bell was deceived, and all the sounds she feard,
\Vhere but the sounds her inward terrors reard;
hose sons, like wheat, shall all be gathered in,
But the dread words the new Elijah spoke,"~ 250
And saved alike from sorrow and from sin:

But all who scorn and disavow his name,
Shall burn like chaff amid a dcathlcss ame!
Now on a rock that spread its basis nigh,
And reard its awful eminence on high,
Like bursting thunder on his senses broke;
T h eternal God, whose fan is in his hand,
llis hollow eyes emit a deadlier glare,

And his soul sickens with a new despair! _
195
Hells dark commissioner had ta'en his stand,
And gazed delighted round the promised land;

\Vhich his deluded fancy pictured given
A prey to hell, apostatizcd from Heaven!
200
His eyes in wandring reachd the crowded ood,
\Vhere holy John in fond employment stood;
The end beheld him with a dreadful glare,

And roaring shook his pinions on the air!
'rathful he heard the doctrines that were taught,
With peace and pardon, to the guilty, fraught; 206
Foreboding terrors lld his swelling breast,
And labring groans his agony expressd!
Disturbd he viewd the various scene, but still
lMaintained his posture on the towring hill.
210
Meanwhile, from Galilee, the Saviour hied,
To bend his sacred head in Jordans tide.

Hail! sacred stream, that saw a God descend
And low beneath thy lucid surface bend!
Hadst thou been conscious who thy base had trod,
Shrunk had thy stream before th' incarnate God! 116
Like that vast decp which Moses bade divide,
And roll its billows hannlessly aside!
Or like that stream which saw the Godhead shine,
In Canas realm, and blushd itself to wine.
" Maundrell says The river Jordan may be said

to have two banks-Afterlntving descended the outer
most, you go about a furlong upon the level strand
before you come to the immediate bank of the river.
This second bank is so beset \vith bushes and trees,
such as tamarisks, willows, oleandcrs, &c. that you
can see no water till you have made your way

through them. In this thicket, anciently, several
sorts of wild beasts were accustomed to harbour
Now see the Lord approach the sacred stream,

While love and mercy from his visage beam! 255
They who beheld him, distantly, with fear,
Dismiss their terrors as he hastens near!
And thus the conscious wretch whom sins oppress,
Whose days no peace, whose nights no slumbers
bless,
Beholds the God at distance, clothd in ire,
SATIRE, No.1X, BY W'AL'I'ER \VIGGLE.

I think I said, some time ago,
That frequently I playd the beau;

Now this is true, and these warm nights,
hen home is parchd of all delights,

Young female creatures, in my care,
0ft walk about to catch the air,
Or visit or do what they please;
This is the man of whom Jehovah said,
And just detection thunder on his mind;

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Despair-ing now. he heaves his labouring~ breath,
And his heart sickens at the coming death!
But think not potence in that water lies,

To cleanse the soul from all corrupting sin;
The powerless water cannot cleanse within:
But he who follows me, th eternal Son,
\Vhom Moses wrote of and whom I forcrun,
The baptist saw the Saviour, now, draw near,

While heavenly glories round his brow appear;
260
Bearing the vengeance of devouring re;

But as he approaches, views, with glad surprize,
Pardon and mercy beaming from his eyes;
Fear from his bosom finds a swift egress,
265
And as he hastens nearer, dreads the less;
"fill his embraces every doubt remove,
And fear, 0! wonder, is transformd to love!
Jesus approaching asks the sacred rite,
\Yhile all stand wondring at the glorious sight;
(From home their tongues can fan a breeze;
And they from it can cooly utter,

When there theyd melt away to butter.)
Last night, as in our rout it laid,
A while at Mrs. Gabs we staid;
Twas the girls wish, and men, they say,

Have but to bow, and to obey:
Two dealing lads, her nest room
Filld with segars impure perfume
Who laid some merchandiziug plan,
In cvry varied scene of man;
O'er Africs sands, Hindostans plain,
And een the isles that speck the main;
Talking of sugars, dry goods, teas,

How hard on them were these decrees
\Vhich put the world in such a fuss,
Till they at length proceed thus:
Richard, I often think, said one,
As through this busy world I run,
Of people elbowing about,
Some towrds the croud, some to get out,
What each is after; still I nd
Tis gain invigoratcs the mind,
And gives the puny mortals sway,
To cut, or hack, or force his way
Through thick and thin, \vtthout dismay.
This will the leading star be found
0f cvry wretch that treads lifes round,
lvc labourd long in vain to hear.

0ft oer his soul-seducing page,
Ive sighd with wo, and swelld with rage,
The lowly emblem of his future grave,

So neath the waves of death the body lies,
And after his example, so shall rise.
'lis meet we should all righteousness full.

Then, then he sulferd him, the dread command, 285
The conscious servant dares not to withstand;
What holy pleasure lilid his joyful mind,

Baptizing then the Saviour of mankind!
(To be continued.)
themselves; whose being washed out of their covert
by the overowings of the river, gave occasion to

-.
that allusion of the prophet Jeremiah, (chap. xlix.
There is a candour in true virtue which

19. and 1. 4-4.) He shall came up like a him from
31w melting of Jordan.
n cannot be counterfeited.
40
Oer plains unfruitful, desert, drear,
And pleasures felt, I must confess,
Yet suffer it to be so now, for still
35
Why singe oer midnights lamp, his brow,

\Vhy fortuncs golden gifts refuse,
To harbour with a beggard Muse,
\Vhy he will hold his steady course,
Unawd by fear, unmovd by force,
That sccmd the cares of life to bless,
The tutord baptist saw the God, and cries,
3O
But one, and thats an author, now
The God requests to bend beneath the wave, 270
While weeping pleasure sparkles in his eyes, 275

I, I have need to be baptized of thee,
And comst thou, mighty personage, to me?
Forbid it, 0! my soul! the God descend,
And low beneath the yielding water bend!
None hear the Lord the baptists words deny, 280
But with pursuasive eloquence reply;
51
And strew oer sorrows thorny bed,

Down, t to rest despairs cold head;
50
Or soaring fancy to inspire

'ith sparkles. of celestial re.
Yet for all this, keep it from me,
For I would not an author be,
Een should I cress times gloomy sea;
For never could I quench the ame
Q! h
Of interest, with a watery fame.
And yet I love a poet still,

For be his failings what they will,
He oft enchants the sense with song,
And hurries misery along,
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Loaded with cool rccctions curse,
Bi fore the torrent of his verse.

[This fellow has a fancy bright,
But intercsts clouds create a night,
Through which its ames but dimly rise,

Its splendor dazzles us, and dies.
'lltus Walter thought, but spoke not, when
The other silence broke 353111;]
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Charles have heard you, but you seem
Like one in a. delirious dream,
70
Sure such your thoughts can never be;

Admire you authors! set me free
From such a horrible suspense,
There is a story recorded of an Indian,

who being tied to the stake, to be burnt,for
a misdemeanor, a Franciscan friar persuad
ed him to turn christian and then he would
go to heaven.
And prove your judgment, and your sense.

Charles could not answer, for the dame,
75
The
Indian
asked
him,
whether there were any Spaniards in
Old Mrs. Gab, burst in a ame,

To this effect: I do declare,
heaven? Certainly, answered the friar,
This nonsense I can hardly bear,

You board with me tis true, dear sirs,
answered, and these were his last words, If

thats the case, [had rather go to Hell, than
But when you praise these stupid curs,

These mastitis that the good ni-ight,
its full of them. The poor dying Indian
80
have any more of their company.

.
And prowl and bowl, and snarl and bite,
A certain barrister, having a louse on his
These stiflungovernable fools,

That scorn societys mild rules;
(Here, poor old soul, she was so wrath,
face in court, Mr. Curran took notice of it

85
to him: the other rather pettishly answered,
She stoppd for breath o'erwhclmd with froth.)

And like some old discarded parrot,
Roost in, and lthify the garret:
These cranes, these turkey-buzzards. those-
No more good madam if you please;
90
Surely, Curran, you joke. Joke, sir,
Said a grave merchant stepping in,
cricd Curran, by Gd, if you have many

such Jokes as 'hat in your head, I would
advise you to crak them immediately.
But in one word their names to tell,

These pole-cats for I vow they smell;
9::
For decency it would offend.)

" In short said he, they all should rot,
Forgetting men, by men forgot.
Charles said no more. Richard lookd glad,

For once was \Valter \Vigglc mad,
100
For though a bard, I was not known,
Thus all neglected and alone,
One, declares that instead of making

it a lilcrary [Ill/101, by original lilacs,- we
make it afulsome, nonsensical one, by insert

ing seleclcd jzieces!"
\Vc would advise this mammoth in litera
ture, this Longinus in criticism, to peruse,
for his improvement, a valuable little work
called the New Guide to the English Tongue.
To the public we could give some proofs
of the respectability which our paper has ac
quired abroad, but as this would appear
bombastical, we shall only say in commenda
tion of it, that, though we are convinced it
contains a great deal to censure, yet we have
received no animadversions on it from those
capable of judging, but from persons who
thought to make the Repertory a medium
through which to send their nonsensical
.d Matake. A lover, wishing to compli

ment his dulcinea, by intimating she was a
celestial being descended on earth, unhap
pily called her a fallen angel."
Hive.
effusions into the world, but have been dis

appointed; and whose strictures, like those
before us, have been distinguished for no
Guildenstcrn was, or imagined himself to
mium, both for the correctness ofthe trans
thing but profound ignorance, cynical aspcr

sion and illiberal arrogance.
.
The translation from Massillon, by our
Once when John Kemble played Hamlet
in the country: the gentleman who acted friend Gregory, demands our highest enco
be, a capital performer. Hamlet asked him,

Will you play upon this pipe?" My lord
Crammd and unnoticed in a corner,
To hear each lilly-liverd scorner,
I cannot. I pray you do. Believe me I
105 cannot. I do beseech you. \Vell if
as quite too much, but tell me, pray,
In her own house what could I say
your lordship insist upon it, I shall do as
To raging Mrs. Gab, and all
well as I cum and to the confusion of Hamlet
The heroes raising this cabal?
and the great amusement of the audience,
Therefore since my wild tongue was tied,
115 he played God save the king.
'hich speaking would have been deed,
l bore it, till the girls should come,
To go a walking, or go home:
For they were in a room behind,
Vl'ith young Miss Gab, entranced to nd
Some fresher folly, just come oer
120
Prom gaudy France, or Englands shore.
At length they came, and sober hearted
I tippd my hat. and we departed.
Charles partly says the truth, thought I,
e buz one moment, and we die,
lation and the sublime truth it establishes.

Mankind in general have been rm in the
belief of the immortality of the soul, and
that individual who has attempted to con
trovert the fact, has been obliged, however
reluctantly, to abandon his hypothesis.

The essay of Amicus on Honour, we pub
lish with pleasure, and sincerely hope that

his endeavours may have a tendency to check
Suspect a tale-bearer, and never trust the infamous practice of duclling.
. The verses of 'lyro, in one instance,
him with thy secrets who is fond of enter
savour
of politics, therefore they cannot be
taining thee with anothers. No wise man
inserted.
will put good liquor into a leaky vessel.
.
MARRIED,
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURDAY, JULY '20, 1811.
It seems as though we were but born

To be through life the beggar-s scorn;
Unnoticed as the gnats that play,
Self-pleased, in sols meridian ray:
And if, as fancy sooths the brain,
Like phoenixes we rise again,
CORRESPONDENCE.

Bishop \Vhite, Mr. down 11. Jones, mer
chant, to Miss Jane Hamm, second daughter

of Mr. James Hamm, all of this city.
John Lindsay, Mr. Ballard Jimmory, to Miss
When the judicious and the impartial

offer opinions, which may lead an editor to
the improvement of his work, they ought to Frances Sharpe,- Mr. Robert Bradley, to
be received with honest thanks andheartfelt Miss Sally Sitar/1e,- and Mr. George Ro/zer,
gratitude. But when the virulence of the to Miss Ann Sher/1e, three amiable sisters,
ignorant, the illiberal, and the disappointed and only daughters of Mr. Peter Sharpe,
gotist is expressed, it deserves exposure deceased, of Four Mile Creek, Virginia.
All that eer breathe our airy name,
Are languid blasts of cold mouthd fame.

But be it so: who but desires
To hang at times, oer fancys res?
And who that once has felt their glow,
But smiles at all base cares below,
from an editor, and contempt from the pub

lic, who will, in spite of such dcclamation,
Or wings expanded loves to rise,
To range with her the midnight skies,

And leaving wondering crouds behind,
Outstrip the couriers of the wind?
Thus soaring high the enchanted pair,
Pcopling with fairy forms, the air
In ccstacys wild vortex whirld,
Look down upon, and scorn the world.
profundity of his judgment will serve to

give a correct idea of his communication.
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That heard her this sweet list begin,
("lwas said, but it cannot be pennd
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take the liberty ofjudging for themselves.

In our last number we promised to no
tice the communication of Onc; but on
reperusing the piece, we do not think it

worthy that attention which we had at rst
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Vincennes, Indiana, June 15.
Indian Hostili/ies. We are informed by a

gentleman from St. Louis, that about ten
days ago, a party of Indians (supposed to be
the Putnwatamies') attacked an American
family living about 30 miles east of Cahokia,
imagined. The following instance of the when the father and mother being from
iii:
72
Win-mi
home, the Indians killed one of their sons,
\Ve regret that none of them have been yet
and took a daughter prisoner. When the
apprehended.
parents returned, an alarm was raised, and
captain \Vhitcsides with a party of volun
Bat/[more Fed. 602.

.
jail, where he now remains, and is to stand
trial for ravishment; but as they cannot sub

stantiate the fact, from the circumstance of
As a proof of the ingenuity of Sheffield the old lady putting him into her daughters
bed, he has entered an action against them

for false imprisonment.
Dublin lie/tar.
third day they came up to a camp just de
serted by the Indians, where they found the our readers, that a knife has been made at
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daughter, tomahawked in sundry places, but Messrs. Travis, Senior, and Co.'s shops,
HEALTH OFFICE,
July 13th, 1811.
still possessing life. In returning home with Red Hill, containing 17 articles, viz. three
the girl, they met a party of Indians, of whom blades, button hook and saw, leather-punch Intertitents in the Cityand Liberties ofPhiladelphia,
from the 6th to the 13th of July.
and screw-driver, box cork screw, hook and
they killed two.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
ad; cit.
Captain VVhitesides and his patriotic party, gimblet, two phleames, picker and tweezers,
Abscess
1 0 Fever, typhus
0 1
two
lancets,
with
a
ring
at
the
head;
the
in resuming their sebuting, qme up with
Apoplexy
8 0 Fever, hectic
O 1
1 0 lnam- of lungs
O )
a party of forty warriors! we say warriors, knife is only ll-ltSth of an inch long, and Cancer
Cholera Morbus 0 16 Old Age
2 0
because they were unprovided with either weighs one penny weight 14- grains.
Consump. oflungs 3 0 Palsy
2 O
London paper. Convulsions
horses or womenbut captain \Vhitesidcs
1 1 Rheumatism .
1 0
Diarrhma
3 0 Smallpox, natural 0 3
.
nding this number of savages too strong for
Dropsy'
1 0 Still born I
0 2
To render Cucumbers wholesome.
his small band of citizens, found it prudent
Dropsy in the brain 0 4- Sudden
15 1
Slice cucumbers into a basin of cool Debility
and advisable to return to the settlements, in
0 1
Drowned
0l 6
1 Unknown
v
order to reinforce his volunteers, who, we spring water, and it will not only make them
Dysentery
1 0
43 32
are informed, are determined to extirpate the by far more crisp and ne, but will also ren Drunkenness
1 0
_.
Fever
1 0
Total 75
savages who infest the Illinois country.
der them much more wholesome,and effec
Our informant adds, that the citizens are tually prevent their rising in the stomach. Fever, rcmittent 1 0
The Water will completely extract and take
moving into forts in every direction.
Under 1
2
away the pernicious juice of the cucumber,
Between 1 and 2
1
60
7O
3
'Poughkeepsie, New York, July 10, 1811.
which is the principal cause of their so often
2
5
3
70
80
3
The Weather. The intensity of heat, dur disagreeing with the stomach.
5
10
1
80
90
1
-._
ing \Vednesday, Thursday, and Friday last,
10
20
2
90
100
1
20
30
9
100
110
1
is supposed not to have been equalled in
The following ludicrous circumstance is
30
4O
15
this village since the settlement of the a fact, and has become the subject of ge
40
50
8
Total 75
country. \Ve regret that it is not in our neral conversation: The son of a respect
power to give the degrees of heat during able landholder, in the county of Meath,
these three days; but such was the variation had been strongly attached to the daughter
STATE OF THE THERXIONIETER.
of the thermometers here, that an attempt of a neighbouring farmer, butas she did not
9 oclock- 12 o'clock. 3 oclock.
of this kind would be extremely hazardous. encourage his advances, he formed a reso
July 8
79
81
82
9
80
84
87
One remarkable circumstance, however, is lution of seizing her by force; and as she
teer Americans pursued the savages; on the
workmen, and the perfection to which cut

lery articles have been carried, we inform
-_
this, that the water in the Fallkill, a clear,

running stream, of considerable magnitude,
daily went to see a favourite cow milked,
that cattle refused to drink thereof, and the
that was the opportunity xed on. The

young ladys brother, however, got intima
tion of his designs, and made them known
sh therein died and oated in large 'quanti
to his sister, who as there was a striking
ties upon the top of the water.
resemblance in the persons, agreed that he
a little northiof this village, became so heated
--.-
should dress himself in her clothes, and at
Rogues. Several recent attempts have been
tend the cow. \Vhen he had arrived at the
made to swindle the banks, by strangers of
genteel appearance. A check, drawn by a

Philadelphia bank, on the Mechanics Bank
spot four 'men jumped over the hedge,

seized and carried off the supposed lady
(though not without much apparent resist
of Baltimore, for 350 dollars, was very in
ance) to a chaise, which conveyed them to
geniously altered to 3050, in words and

gures, presented by a Frenchman, ap
parently 21 or 22 years of age, of slender
person, fair complexion, and genteel ap~
the bridegrooms residence.

The priest not being at home, the wed
pearance. Suspicion induced delay, and dur
ing the rst moments of inquiry he made 08,

without the money. Upon investigation, he
appears to be one of a company of genteel
men not known in town. They were traced
to an Inn, where one of them had ruined
his coat, by spilling on it some liquid, which

they use for eating the ink from the check,
or other writing when they insert such words
or figures, as may suit their dishonest views.
ding was deferred till the next morning. In
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It shall be delivered to subscribers in the cit
No subscription will be received for less titan a. '
Subscripti'ms and communications will be re.
the mean time the lovers mother tried to

administer comfort to the distressed young
lady, and in order to convince her that her
ceircd at this ofce, and at the bookstore of licl.
son had no dishonourable intentions towards hugs and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.
her, proposed that she should sleep that
night with her daughter. The young ladies pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
retired soon after the rest, when a cry of
help! brought the parents to the door of
PHILADELPHIA,
their daughters room which the ravished
fair one had previously fastened. The dis Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth, new:
guised lever was seized, and sent to Antrim
St Marys ehureh- '
@biratipbactpermp.
Cowren.
SATURDAY. JULY 97. 18H.
VOL. ll.
No. 10.
BIOGRAPHY.
could not in any event expect to bring out
himself by a severer treatment of the cap
From the Port Folio

the frigate Philadelphia. On the 16th, the
tives, but this was not long persisted in. It
service was accomplished in the most gal
was supposed that in case of a formidable

attack on the town, the worst that would hap
pen to them would be to be taken into the
country for safe keeping.
(Continued)
He proceeded to Syracuse. where he was
received with much hospitality, and aided
by the governor with the accommodations

he needed for his squadron. He also found
sir Alexander Ball at Malta, (which he soon
visited,) disposed to show him every good
oice. December 14, he sailed with the En
terprize on the winter cruise, amidst boiste
rous weather; for many days it blew a gale.
On the morning of the 23d, the Enterprize

captured a ketch in sight of Tripoli, which
left that port in the night, bound to Bengaza,
She was under Turkish colours, and navigat
ed by Turks and Greeks; but had on board
two Tripolitan oicers of distinction, a son
of one of the ofcers, anumber of Tripoline
soldiers, and forty or more blacks, men and
women, slaves belonging to the Bashaw and
his subjects. He at rst determined to re
lease the vessel and men claimed by the
Turkish captain and retain the Tripolines,
about sixty in number, as prisoners; hoping
lant manner, lieutenant Decatur entered the
harbour of Tripoli in the night; and laying

his vessel along side the frigate, boarded
and carried her against all opposition. A
It must, however, he confessed impossible
large number of men were on board, of for any one to have said to what lengths
whom twenty or thirty were slain, and the the fury and fanaticism of that people might
remainder driven Over the side, excepting go, if no concession was made to their pride
one boats crew, which escaped to the shore,
and one person made prisoner. The assail

ants then set re to her and left her. She
was soon in a complete blaze, and was to
tally consumed. The frigate lay within half
gun shot of the castle and the principal
battery, with her guns mounted and loaded,
and two corsairs, full of men, were riding
very near. We had none killed, and only one

wounded.
From this time till the bombardment of
Tripoli, the commodore was occupied in
cruising, in keeping up the blockade of the
'lripoline harbour, and in making prepara
tion for an attack. He took the utmost pains
to convey supplies and information to cap
tain Bainbridge and his officers and men;
and afteratime,by means of the good ofcers
they would a'ord an advantage in negotia

tion, and perhaps be exchanged for some
of our countrymen. Before this determina of sir Alexander Ball, succeeded. He tried
tion was executed, he ascertained that the several times to negotiate for a ransom and
captain had been active in taking the .Phila treaty; but the demands of the regency were
delphia. Having received on board this very sometimes ridicoiously extravagant, and
vessel one hundred Tripolitans, armed with when lowest, beyond what he thought him
or avarice, or the pressure of the war should

drive them to desperation, our unfortunate
countrymen must often have shuddered at

the thought of their possible destiny. When
the rst consul of France, in March, at the
instance of Mr. Livingston, directed his com

missary at this regency to mediate for their
release, Mr. Beaussier undertook the oice;
and announced to the commodore, that one
hundred and fty thousand dollars, with
some usual gratuities, would probably effect

the object, and that perhaps a cartel for the
exchange of prisoners might be negotiated,
which would reduce the sum. The commo
dore did not think himself authorized to
agreee to these terms, and never would go
beyond eighty thousand; not that the amount
Was important, except on principle, and as
it might affect our relations to the Barbary
powers. In June the Russian court, through
their minister at the Porte, interposed; but
did not bring the regency to our conditions.

From rst to last, it was a point of honour
swords and muskets, and substituted the co self permitted to accord. The designs of war
with his excellency the bash-aw, not to give
lors of the enemy for his own, he assaulted fare he had entertained were checked by a up the American captives for a less sum
the frigate, and when she was boarded, solicitude for the release of his countrymen; than had been usually received from most
plundered the ofcers. He had no hesita though he may by some persons, perhaps, of the powers of Europe, in turn for the ran
tion in retaining the vessel; because she Was be thought to have indulged too far his aver som of captives of like number and quality.
either a Tripoline, and then a prize, or a sion to the payment of a considerable ran Even after the bombardment in the ensuing
Turk, and then a pirate. She was not in a som. He found himself able to make their summer, he was not ready to yield, though
condition to be sent to the United States. situation as comfortable as the nature of it he was really sick of the war. In his view, he
He transmitted her papers to government, would admit; and he believed that the inic was conquered when he ceased to be amply
and some time after had her appraised, and tion of sucring and terror, when the time paid for his prisoners. He nally accepted
took her into the service as the ketch ln should come upon the enemy, would not sixty thousand dollars, satised, no doubt,
produce, as it did not, any long continued that our naval armament would be coeval
trepid.
February 3d, 1804. lieutenant Stephen., aggravation of the evils of their condition, at least with his hostility, if not at all times
Decatur, with seventy volunteers in the In- whilst it would essentially serve his country. equally active and formidable; but especially
trepid, and accompanied by the Syren, sailed Indeed after the destruction of the Philadel at that moment apprehensive that his
for Tripoli, with a view to destroy, as they H phia, the bashaw at rst affected to avenge brother's general Eaton if not disanned by
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negotiation, would reinstate Hamet in the

sovereignty of Tripoli.
On the rst of April, the commodore went
to display force at Tunis; where he found

a Tripoline polacre dismantled, having been
blockadcd for sixteen days by captain Deca
tur. The hey of Tunis had for some time
been uneasy at his treaty with the United
States. Why should he not, like Algiers.
have an annual stipend? He insisted that the
commodore should land and satisfy him for
some property alleged to be unlawfully
seized by the former squadron. The com
modore made a short answer, that it was
not his business, and that he must put to sea.

He found it necessary to watch Tunis dur
ing the whole of his command. In the spring
he took another prize, a Tripoline; and upon
the presumption of her being condemned,
she Was estimated, equipped, and put in

commission, called the Scourge.
Finding that force did not arrive from the

United States, our oicer resolved to endea
vour to make some use of the friendship of

Naples. Although he was without diplomatic
authority, the minister,gencral Acton, from
than twenty thousand Arabs. These forces father for his kindness. Being now tenderly
were arranged in the positions best adapted placed upon my fathers bed, the surgeon
forxrepelling an attack,and also for seizing the of Saint Lucias convent was sent for, who
occasion of falling upon any detachment of upon examination, declared his wound was
the invading force,which could be drawn from not mortal though deep and dangerous.
the main body.
By proper care,the anguish of the wound
The weather prevented the squadron from was assuaged, and the third day after his ar
approaching the enemy till the 28th, when rival in our cottage, he was able to speak.
after anchoring within
miles of his line Nothing could equal the pleasure of my
of dtfcnce, the wind suddenly shifted and
I am sure it is not to all! exclaimed

Amelia, with animation.
A TALE.
CHAPTER IV;
I hope it may never prove so to thee, my

lady, replied Minda, and proceeded.
Continued.
personal regard and good will to the ser

vice, favoured his application to the king,
and the commodore obtained as a friendly
loan from the king to the United States, six
A fury crawld from out his horrid cell,

The bloodiest minster of death and hell
gun-boats and two bomb vessels, completely

titted for service; also liberty to ship twelve
or fteen Neapolitans to serve under our
flag in each boat.
\
father, and indeed, lady, nothing could ex
increased to a gale. They were compelled ceed my pleasure at this happy event, for,
to Weigh and gain an oriing. On the first though addressed by a number, I never saw
of August the gale subsided, and the squad a man that interested me till now. I was his _
ron on the third (the weather being pleasant nurse, and watching by his side, as he lay
and the ind at east,) at noon were within insensible, I drank the bitter draught of
two or three miles of the batteries, which love!
were all closely manned.
The bitter draught!" interrupted Amelia
(To be continued.)
starting, call you the fragrant cup of love
_._
by so harsh a name?"
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To me at least it was abitter draught,"
CASTLE or ALTENUEIM,
answered Minda, but I would fain believe
on
it is not so to all."
,
The first words Malventi uttered, were,
srmrr or The woon.
Where are all my band? Have none of them

escaped?
These words were evidently the effect of
the disorder of the brain, but contained a

BLACKMORE
Having taken our horse and the vehicle on dreadful truth, which we suspected not; but
which we conveyed our articles for sale, to attributing the words to the unsettled state
Dusseldorp, with an intention of disposing of his mind, produced by the fever of his
With this addition to his armament, on of them to advantage, and supplying our
wound, my father requested him to remain
the 2lst July he joined the detachment off selves at a reduced price with others, we quiet, and not fatigue himself by talking too
Tripoli. His force consisted of the
had sold it and were returning on foot. This much. I joined my father's CDlTCnilCS with
Frigate Constitution,
44 guns,
24lb. created a great difculty in getting the my own, and taking my hand and imprinting
Brig Argus,
18
24
wounded man to our cottage; but my father on it a kiss, he promised to obey me in
Siren,
18
18
resolving not to leave him to perish in the every thing.
Scourge,
A strange, unusual, but delightful sensa
forest, without an effort for his preserva
Schooner Vixen,
16
6
tion
thrilled through me as he spoke, and
tion, raised him in his arms, and, notwith
Nautilus,
l6
6
standing the wound in his knee which oc every word he uttered rooted him deeper in
Enterprize,
l4
6
casioned his limping gre. y, and prevent the affections of my heart. I hung enrap
Six gun-boats of one brass twenty-six pounder ed his walking fast, he bore him safely to turcd upon his Words, and was only pleased
each; and two bombard ketches, each carr ' our home, from which we were now near when I attended his bed side, supplying his
ing a thirteen inch mortar; the whole num
wants almost before he could express them.
two miles distant.
ber of men one thousand and sixty.

\Vhen he was mournful, l sighed, and when
Noble, generous Staatsburgh, exclaim
The enemy had on his castle and several ed Amelia, with what joy must the stranger a smile enlivened his face, nothing but plea
batteries, one hundred and fteen guns; fty have rcquited thy humanity, although thy sure beamed from mine. He perceived the
iive of which were heavy battering brass soul required no other reward than the feel power which he had over my heart, and
one day as I sat beside his bed, drinlting the
cannon; the others long eighteen and twelve ings which the deed itself imparted.
pounders; nineteen gun boats, with each a
You shall hear, my dear young lady," delicious honey of his words, he requested
long brass eighteen or twenty-four pounder cried Minda, wiping the copious tears from me to relate the manner in which we had
discovered him wounded, and bore him to
in the bow, and two howitzers abaft. He had her aged visage, you shall hear how Mal
two schooners of eight guns each, a brig of venti, for that was his name, rewarded my the cottage.
ten, and two gallies, having each four guns.
Pleased with an opportunity of affording
" A detail of the operations of the American him the gratication of hearing that I was
In addition to the ordinary Turkish garrison,
stationed upon the fortications, and the fleet in the Mediterranean, by W. Eaton, Esq. com instrumental in preserving his life, I began
pared with commodore Preblel despatches, jour
crews of the boats and armed vessels, com
with our journey to Dusseldorp, and
nal, correspondence, and other letters from otiicers
puted at about three thousand, the bashaw in the squadron, have supplied the facts in the fol~
Here Amelia interrupted Minda, by ask.
had called in to the defence of his city more lowing narrative.
hing her, if she did not hear-thunder. She
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so had he exercised his power here. Trees
which were young in the days of my child
hood, had grown to maturity; others which
were once ourishing as myself, had wither
ed even faster, and were gradually falling
to decay; and those which were then old
were now rotten; the tempest had long since
scattered their heavy members on the
ground: those branches, through whose lux
uriant foliage I had once gazed with the
sparkling eye of a sportsman, and that an
cient trunk whose recesses had often shel
tered the timorous rabbit from the vigour
of my boyish pursuits, had mouldered into
dust. Similitude turned my thoughts on man:
the shadows of night were gathering around
me, and I was retracing my steps homeward,
when at the edge of the forest, I beheld the
mournful wreck of a virgin, reclining on the
listened and hearing the distant murmur, to deceive you, with regard to my love for
replied in the afrmative, and Amelia im your daughter, or the affection she has pro
mediately rising ew to the door. The fessed for me. Nor need you be ashamed of
heavens were robed in darkness, the light my alliance, for in giving me your daughter,
ning began to ash with increased vividness, you bestow her on Don Sebastian, Marquis
of Malventi, and knight of the noble order of
and the storm begun.
\Vhat will become of me! exclaimed Calatrava, descended from one of the most
Amelia, I shall never get back to the eas eminent Hidalgoes of Spain.
My father and myself were astonished at
tle in this furious tempest.
Minda requested her to be under no un this discovery. and my hopes of being his
casiness, for if the storm increased she could began to decline, as I thought it impossible
remain at the cottage all night, and when that the daughter of the vassal Staatsburgh,
Florival arrived for her, he could return and could ever be received as the wife of a mar
prevent any uneasiness that her absence quis. However, Malventi removed my fears
might occasion at the castle.
and my fathers scruples, who had begun
This in some measure decreased her ap to object, telling us that he was master of
prehensions, and she again sat down to listen his actions, and at liberty to take whom he
to the remaining part of Mindas sto'ry.
pleased to be his wife.
I related the adventure to Malventi,
After his recovery he informed us, that
proceeded the old woman, who, when I had being on a visit to a near relation in Lower bank of a meandering rivulet, who was mois
concluded, grasped my hand, pressed it and Saxony, he had in returning been attacked, tening its verdure with her tears. The distress
calling me an angel sent from heaven to his by banditti, in the forest were we found him, demonstrated by her looks, interested me
relief, sunk back upon his pillow. I raised and that he imagined his attendants had re in her behalf and I drew near her. She was
his head, and conjured him not to let his turned home to Madrid without him, sup but thinly habited; her countenance was
wan with melancholy; her cheeks deeply
feelings overcome him.
posing him to have been slain.
Minda, dear Minda, said he, is it not
My father consulted your grandfather, his furrowed with the traces of wo: the last
terrible to see the cup of bliss within our noble benefactor, who, having received from lingering spark of reason seemed expiring
reach, and yet ourselves forbid to embrace Malventi letters and other proofs of his be in her eye, and the sighs of misfortune agi
ing the person he declared himself to be, tated her bosom. The demon of despair sat
it?
I, blushing, acknowledged that it was, and gave his consent, and our union was accord
enthroned on her brow, and each feature
timidly inquired if it were his destiny.
ingly solemnized at the convent of Saint of her face yielded to his imperious control:
It is indeed! answered hc, O! Minda, Lucia. I now felt happy, blessed with the her lovely auburn locks were thinly scatter
ed over her temples, and the languid stream
dearer than life do I love, but yet"---here he man I loved, and the presence of my venera
of existence seemed verging towards the
paused, seized my hand and gazing on my ble father.
(To be continued.)
ocean of eternity.
face, contined, Minda, have you ever loved?
-.
I was confused, but asked him the reason
Such washer appearance before she be
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held me; but upon my approach she dart
of his inquiry;
Because, replied he, if you have you
ed into the wood, and all the sincerity of
THE CABINET. No. XLV.
kindness or the eloquence of persuasion
will pity me.
Garrit aniles
I have loved, I do pity you! exclaimed
could scarcely prevail upon her to return:
Ex re fabcllas.
IIORACE
I hastily.
Fathers have inty hearts, no tears can move them. at length however, after repeated assurances
Powers of bliss! cried Malventi, do I
hear aright? pity me, did you say, Miuda?

pity will not do from you, I want your love.
for you are the object of my adoration! Turn
not from me, my beloved Minds, let not your
cruelty undo me, let] not your hatred rob me
of that life, which yours and your fathers
humanity preserved!
Ah! lady, said Minda, let your love
for Florival be to you my excuse for acknow
ledging to this interesting Malventi, I loved
him. His ecstasy knew no bounds; he started
up and receiving my sinking head upon his
SIIAKSPEARE
" Mark her, ye gay seducers! mark her well!
The evening Was delightful, and I sought
of her safety, she came, and having intreated
her for the reason of her present wretched

situation, which she promised to develope
the lonely haunts of nature to enjoy it: the
in the morning, I left her in the protection
earth had just completed her diurnal round,

and the few misty clouds scattered through
out the rmament were yet faintly tinged
with the parting rays of the sun. The hour
was favourable to meditation, and the serenity
ofheaven added to the tranquillity of my soul
of a good old farmer whom I had often visit

ed, and retired to the habitation of my friend
to seek repose. But my mind was too busy
on the scene I had just witnessed, and the
fairies ofmorning were not awakened sooner
than I. I waited its return with impatience,
and when it was but yet early, I hastened to
The cares of this world I hadforgotten,the
thoughts of past sorrows had left me, and the plaeel had left her, lest the object of
the painful recollection of the ingratitude of my uneasiness should escape me, and my
bosom, for the rst time imprinted a kiss man troubled me no more. I had past the more than curiosty remain unsatised. \Vhen
upon my cheek. At this moment my father attering delusions of youthful fancy, and I arrived, she had just risen, and her appear
entered the room. He started on beholding those scenes in which I had once roved with ance indicated that she also had not slept.
She approached me with the languor of
me in Malveutis arms, and casting a pierc all the enthusiasm of delight, I now survey
ing look upon him, tore me from him, and ed unmoved,with the steady eye ofretlection. [settled distress, and with the tear of pity
The forest wore a new aspect, ._z.tl
time trembling in my eye, I bend the following
I sunk upon my knees before him.
My venerable preserver, said Malventi who levels Lingrrlon-s will; ins desolating pathetic Printion of the interesting incidents
to my father,. I do not pretend, nor do I wish hand, also founds new ones rpon their ruins, of her short life.
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PHILADELPHIA REPER'IORY. -
Good sir," Said she, there is something
me that I construed it amiss. At that time
in your mien which justies dependence,

and as you have kindly requested my mourn
ful history, I proceed to relate a tale which
has been told to few, but which has never
failed to draw the tear of compassion or ex
cite the sigh of simpathy.
My name is Lavinia, and the eighteenth
winter of my existence has just ceased how
ling over my head. Unkindness expelled me
my benefactor presented himself to me in
that she should for the present remain with

them, which was willingly agreed to by all
the character of a lover: _his appearance
parties, I retired to ruminate on the suf
was elegant; his manners mild, and his ad
dress insinuating: Henrys apparent neglect

was yet fresh in my mind, and pride as well
as duty urged me to accept the proposal.
ferings of this unfortunate girl.

It should be a caution to parents not to re
strain the affection of a child merely because
they do not altogether approve of its object.
Gratitude demanded some remuneration, and
Advice should not be withheld; but when that
the only one I had to offer, was myself is used without effect, the severity of dis
What was I to do? I had no earthly protec appointment should be mitigated; they should
from the abode of my parents; riches had tion but under his roof, no hope but in his endeavour to render them happy rather than
kindness: my only adviser was myself. Ye miserable, and although it should please
rendered them austere. The purest affec
tions of my early years were placed on a prudes scowl not at my conduct, for thus nature to counteract their wishes, they should
youth whom my fond fancy had painted as situated, say ye severest what would you ever evince the affection of a parent, and
deserving as he was elegant; but he was have done?" The proud idea of indepen perform the duties of a christian.
not wealthy: a richer suitor desired my hand, dence delusively whispered to my mind,
GREGORY GRAVITY.
and my disobedience to render myself un reject not the offer!" the thoughts of being
happy has thus unjustly incurred my banish raised above the groveling haunts of poverty
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ment. Thrown upon the world for support, were delightful; and when I reected with
MEDITATIVE
HOURS. No I.
I wandered, opprest with all the misery of what propriety I could look down upon that
The
employments
and
occupations of ac'
sorrow, near this spot, and gained a hospi Henry whom I then thought untrue, I was
tual
life,
though
various,
can
not always en
table admittance into a cottage which once determined. Determined on what? On my
stood on yonder mountain, but the unmerci own ruin! The pretended affections of Mr. gage the mind and prevent it from indulg
ful ravages of war have destroyed it. Its N proved but to be the machinations of ing in pensive meditation. To me it is a re
family and myself were doomed at a dis wickedness: my situation rendered my de laxation from busy cares, and when the
tance to behold the uid of life gush from struction the more easily effected, and his shades of evening have fallen fast, and the
the bosom of the good old manI had adopted triumph the more completely perdious. orb of day smiled a soft farewell to nature,
as my father.
Where you last evening discovered me, I often stray to some sequestered vale, or
Though unwillingly, I was again desert has lately been deposited the issue of his misty mountains top, to hold sweet con
ed, again left destitute of all: thus roaming villainy and my imprudence; it is the grave of versation with myself. The charms of nature
throughout the elds, with no canopy over my child, which I often bedew with the tears rst employ my mind; and as I behold ob
my head but that of heaven, no protector but of regret, and to which I nightly breathe ' jects clad in sublime majesty, or some more
its God, Iwas seen by a person whose train the burning tale of wo. The pangs of ad simple which the taste of art has been em
bespoke his grandeur, the magnicence of versity assail me on all sides, and the arrows ployed to improve, the recollection returns,
whose chariot marked the wealth of its pos of affliction are deeply buried in my heart: that all was formed by the merciful Creator,
sessor; he begged me to enter; chilled by I look upon myself with horror, but when for the sole use of man, the question natur
the rigour of the season, and my still more I consider the manner in which my ruin has ally arises, Does man repay his God for all
rigorous misfortunes, and overpowered by been accomplished, I am compelled to link his bounteous providence? does he fervently
the force of his solicitations, I at length re
the cause of my unhappiness with the name offer to Him the sincere effusions of a grate
ful heart? From such a view I turn away;
luctantly consented; l was quickly conducted of man!
to his mansion, which is not far distant, but
which I will never enter more. His kind

ness for a time soothed my sorrows; the
drooping rose of health began to revive upon
my check: my heart would have been free
from pain but for the recollection of Henry.
Yet Mr. N, he who has rendered a

defenceless, unsuspecting female wretched,
who has insulted the name of hospitality by

taking so base an advantage of it, is consider
ed a gentleman; he is looked upon by many as
My parents I still loved, but to love them as
a man of honour; his grandeur protects him

from the voice of censure; and riches shield
lonce did, I never can. The star of my
him from the gaze of justice. 0! let this
hippiness, yet faintly glimmered in the hope

that I should some day become possessed
of my Henry, for I rmly believed that his
flimsy veil he rent, and let him be discover

ed to the world with all his atrocities. But
whither does the impetuosity of my reflec
affection for me was sincere: but, alas! such tions carry me? whither does the current of
are the ways of mankind, he had left his my unhappiness tend? and why trouble you
country to brave the dangers of the deep: longer with ineectual complainings," let
I was told he had left it without regret; he me display no more ofhis wickedness, but let
had never apprised me of his intention which his own conscience gnaw him with all the hor
rors of remorse, as my feelings are torn by
appeared to me improper. His seeming in
difference Operated so powerfully upon my the vultures of misery.
youthful mind, that it damped the ardour of
Here she concluded; and as she appeared
my esteem and I endeavoured to banish the too much exhausted to hear any advice or
remembrance of him from my bosom: but judge of any plan that might offer, having
ger consideration has too lately convinced proposed to the old farmer and his family
their actions speak and impressively an

swer no. Search we the splendid dome,
whose lordly owner is surrounded by wealth,
the means of procuring all his heart de
sireth, and a family who place their happi
ness on him, blessing and blest; how thank
ful should that man be; and as it pleased
heaven to bless him with riches, more than
sufficient to procure the necessaries, nay

even luxuries of life, he ought to imitate
the bright example, and dispense a part to
those his poorer brethren. Charity and good
jwill should be the most prominent features
in his character, and in the fullment of his
christian duties, he would sink to the nar~
row house, followed by the tears of the
wretched, the widow and~the orphan. Such
was the end for which man was created.

To dwell in fraternal love, and in the ex
ercise of virtue be prepared for another
and a better world." How few, I fear, full
that end. The demons selshness and avarice
m
have corrupted the faculty of the soul, and

the germ of benevolence, early implanted, is
too often stied in its birth. In one of my
evening rambles, when indulging in reec
tion, my rcveries were interrupted by a deep
drawn sigh. I started. It was again repeated.

By the pale beams of moonlight I descried a
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I
III
and tranquil slumbers, upon my bed of you knew the society, you must have known
straw.
MOURNFIELD. him, and knowing him, you must have known
_..._
a youth possest of a mind by nature strong
For the Repertory.
and ingenious, and by learning and reection
To the ers/zicatious, logaatious, and [zerti
expanded and strengthened; that his heart
nacioua Detector.
posscst the milk of human kindness, and
Famed Sir,
head rested upon his hand, and he appeared

furrowed with the pressure of misfortune
rather than by the power of time; his white
hair streamed in the wind, and a sigh fre
quently broke from his agitated breast. I
was unwilling to intrude upon his sorrows,
although his appearance excited my com
misseration. There is a dignity in sorrow '
which refuses the forward gaze of curiosity,
and demands pity and respect. I echoed his
sigh and was slowly proceeding on my walk.
He arose from his hard seat; but overpower
ed by fatigue, tottered, and as he was fall
ing, I received him in my arms. I replaced
that his friendship was as valuable as his dc

With mingled emotions of contempt, cha testation for specious hypocrisy was great;
grin, and resentment, at your charge of plagia
knowing this, I say, how could you be so
ry, and admiration and amazement at your can
illiberal towards him? Absent! not able to
dour in exposing it, I read your long address defend himself Z You know his productions
in number eight, of this paper; and whilst] were too intimate with fame, to admit the
acknowledge that the ground of your charge supposition that such a ier: of satire could
in some measure, justied your conclusion, have added to their acquaintance. Had your
I must also deplore an equal want of can
pen been directed to candid exposition, in
dour, in your not applying to afiro/zer source stead of hypothetical invective, every noble
for an explanation of the suspicious circum
mind would have admired your elegance of
stances, that induced you to assail the repu
style more. But to return: the unexpected
tation of a society, calculated pre-eminently, applause which its recitation provoked, in
and instituted exclusively for the inspiration duced manyfriends to the society, of a lite
and dissemination of the noblest and most rary and respectable character, urgently to
dignied principles. The Scrap, in ques importune for copies of it; which being trou
him on his seat, while in a voice almost
tion, was rst introduced to us in the mid
form, sitting on a stone; it was a man, his
inarticulate, be poured out his thanks; there dle of last winter, and the member who
was a delicacy and chasteness in his language spoke it, informed the society, it was to Mr.
that convinced me he had moved in a more I. S. G. we owed it (our honorary member
exalted station. In a few words I offered
then, and now absent from the city); accord
him any assistance in my power; spoke of ingly on the 18th of April, that was an
the propriety of returning to his residence; nounced by the society, with other pieces, at
the evening Was advancing, the damp wind an anticipated exhibition, and a member
might prove injurious. He su'ered me to cited as thelauthor; for the idea gained
proceed, and with a composure which I did
not expect, informed me he had no home,
universal credence, without partial scruti
would be opened to the child of wretched

ness; it was inhuman to leave him exposed to
the night air, and the sudden rise of the
wind indicated an approaching storm. \Nith
ny, that our member was really the author.

All things being new arranged for the exer
cises of the evening, we contemplated no
change, until we were agreeably disappoint
ed, by the unexpected arrival of our friend
on a visit to our city; he yielded with becom
ing diidence to assisting us in the laborious
duty, and his accession was joyfully hailed
by every member, as we reasonably con
ceived the pleasure he must feel in having
such a masterly production exhibited to the
difculty, I conducted him to my humble

home, and spread before him our scanty
sooner apprised of our intentidn, than he
no place of rest; he had with diiculty sup

ported his steps from a distance of several
miles, and had sunk on the stone where 1
had rst d-scovered him, unable to proceed

farther. \Vhat could I do? my means were
slender, I knew of no house whose doors
fare. He could scarcely swallow a few

mouthfuls, and told me in an under voice he
was very faint, and begged me, in addition
to the kindness I had already shown him, to
permit him to repose that night in my house.
I readily acceded to his request; I conduct
ed him to my chamber and left him to his
repose. I had given him my own bed, where
shall I rest myself! was the question I ask
honour of the institution; but he was no

insisted on a member being erased; denied
the authorship, and acted as an honest fel
low should do, but to no purpose; the com

mittee imputed his repeated denials to a false
modesty; the error was printed; the sup
posed author (who is well known to you,
sir,) charged us, that when accident should
convince us of our egregious mistake, we

should do him the justice to excriminatc
ed; no matter, I was young and healthy; a him from the rpsponsiblity of being the au
few bundles of clean straw removed the dif thor to that production which he should ever
culty, and in the whisper-lugs of an ap disclaim as his own. And now, sir, let me
proving conscience, which told me I had ask youbeing as you own one of the audi
done my. duty, I could calmly repose; and ence, and being as you were considered a
after offering up a prayer at the throne ot friend to the society, how could you assert
mercy, for permitting me to become an in that he had " far beyond his depth, bore his
strument of his goodness, I sank into caln. Llushing honours thick upon him, when it
blesome, I was resolved to publish it in a
work, which I have always felt an interest in

The Repertory. I signed it originally, I.
S. G. but upon more mature reection, fear
ing to expose so much of his real name,
would be arrogating to myself liberty with
out licence, I mutilated only the S by
making an R of it; for the truth of which I

refer, Mr. Editor, to the MS. But, sir, I
could, if a case of this trivial nature deserved
it, appeal to God, that neither in that, nor in
the little writing that I have done, c'ver attempt

to purloin the writings of others, and after
despoiling them of their beauty, for feathery
insignicance, palm on the public a literary
theft. Now. sir, after one more remark,l
leave you little bettered by this assaying,

far beyond your depth. If you had as much
wisdom and reection, as either impetuosity
of diction or perhaps real detestation for a
plagiarist, you would have recollected that
I would have been an admirably foolish
knave, to hazzard for my own, what I
shrewdly suspect you knew was imputed to
Mr. I. S. G. But as you have showed your
rashness heretofore, I would warn you to re
ect, that I could not cite thesefacts, ifthey
were merrly nominally so, when the inc
m aaynran Society is involved, and will be rea
dy to contradict any assertions that are false.

And, sir, (if your laudable itch for scribbling
still continues,) I would advise, nay intreat

you to be merciful to the infant geniuses of
1811, (of which your facclious servant
is one) and turn your peultative sagacity to
examine the originality of some oldrr estab
lishments.
WILL VERSATlLE.
+
He that is his own appraiser, will be dis

appointed in the value.
78
'
For the Repertory.
Long, long before, the evangelist of old,

Inspired by thee, the great event foretold;
THE PROPITIATION.
Now it is done, amaze the listners seized,
There, to the numrous council, Ill unfold
BOOK II.
" This is my son with whom my soul is pleased. 350
Continued.
Perhaps, as when the Greeks to Jesus came,
What danger tells me must at once be told;

420
Though I would fain, withinmy sullen breast,
Forever let the fearful wonder rest.
To pay their worship and adore his name;

For the Repertory.
ARGUMENT
When the dread words upon their senses broke,
Apostrophe to the Baptist: Jesus comes from the

stream and addresses a prayer to the Father:
The heavens open and the Spirit of God de
scends in the shape of a dove: Amazement of the
crowd: Chemos hears the voice, and with a
shriek leaves the mountain, and descends to
hell: Satan's address to him; His reply.

Distinguished favourite, what distinguishd joy,
Did then each nobler faculty employ;
290
'What blest emotions in thy breast arise,
And lift the ravishd spirit to the skies!
How did thy soul expatiate in that realm
\Vhere oods of endless blessing overwhelm;
\Vhere thou shouldst one day join the tuneful choir,
And praise thy Saviour on an angels lyre;
296
\Vhere, when pale death had set thy spirit free,
Thou shouldst forever that Redeemer see,
Whom then, thou was conducting to the wave,

llis precious body in the stream to lave!
300
But wherefore strive those transports to reveal,
The pen cant paint them, but the heart can feel!
Now shook black Chemos on the lofty hill,
But greater horrors soon his bosom fill,
a
(His guilty hopes receive a greater blow,
005
His inward feelings keener anguish know;
As from the stream the blessd Redeemer came,
Some said, it thundered, some an angel spoke.

Not so pale Chemos, well the spirit knew, 355
And shrieking from his stand perturbed ew;
Unseen of all, except the allseeing eye,
Whose mighty glance can pierce from earth to sky;
Strike through the bowels of the yielding ground,
And view the regions of despair profound:
360
SATIIIE, No. X, BY \V.\LTER \VIGGLE.
And view both time and vast eternity;
As winds that range the haughty hill,

My brain tremendous fancies ll,
I
And wake once more my slumbering quill;
Like to the drums outrageous jar,
Urging to rapine and to war.
Now though by some tis deemd inhuman
To wage it gainst a feeble woman,
Yet whilst I have a sway above her,
Jesus. in whom these attributes combine,
Ill leave such notions to her lover,
Behold the past, the distant future see,
To prove the great possessor all divine!

The dreadful lightning of his eye beheld
The end confounded and his way impelld;
\Vith dismal cries. he took his fearful ight
365
Too well convinced in Jesus had appeard

The mighty personage whom satan feard;
370
The eternal Son, who soon his vengeance hurld,
And shook the tempters kingdom in the world!
Now through the air retreating Chemos drives,
And on the worlds remotest verge arrives;
375
The rescued land, where hell must reign no more;
The}! plungd beneath with deep despair of mind,

Leaving the earth with such a foe behind!
Satan received him, scarce the spirit knew,
\Vhile countless numbers praise Jehovahs name;
But from his visage saw his fears were true. 380
'With new delight, the Lord baptized, is seen,
\Velcome, brave chief. I give thee welcome still,
His form eiilgent and benign his mien!
310 Although thy looks are ominous of ill,
Like him whom Moses, when the powr of death
The temper cries; but quickly now relate,
Robbd his frail body of the eeting breath,
What thy success and what our doubtful fate;
Left to conduct the num'rous Israel oer
May we rejoice, or struck with pale appal,
385
The rolling tide, to Canaans blooming shore;
Must hell unaided and unpitied fall?
Great Joshua, who, at Heavns supreme command, To whom the end could scarcely make reply,
Prepared to enter to the promised land:
316 And een a tear stood frightful in his eye;
So stood the Saviour, but superior far,
His evry look convulsive pangs expressd,
As beams the sun above the brightest star!
And inward anguish heaved his mailed breast; 390
Prepared to lead, who on his grace rely,
Which evry instant broke a doleful groan,
To the bright land of promise in the sky!
320 That shook the monarch on his sable throne;
On Jordans banks he stood, and, humbly, there,
Then on the king he bends his b. leful eyes,
To his dread Sire preferred a fervent prayer;
Breaks his deep silence and distressful cries:
Een while the multitude surround the shore,
0! royal chieftain, whom our hosts obey,
395
Success in mans redemption to implore!
Worthy on earth to hold imperial sway,
\Vhat prayer of thine, O! Saviour, or what word, 325 Let not despair oer all your spirit roll,
To heaven attentive, could ascend unheard!
And drown the native greatness of your soul,
I .0! while he prayed, the portals of the sky,
At the pernicious tidings Ive to tell,
In dread astonishment, assunder y;
Of what, on earth of late, our cause heft-l.
400
Celestial gates! on pearly hinges hung,
Despise me not; but much, my liege, I-fear,
330 The total ruin of our hopes is near;
Ravishd with music as they open swung!
The listning crowd, in silent wonder, hears
What I have seen I would not see again,
The sounds of transport breaking on their ears;
For all the pearly riches of the main;
\Vhen, 0. amazement, swiftly from above,
For earths vast afuence nor ten thousand more,405
On shining pinions, stoops the heavenly Dove!
No, though pale Mammon offered all his store!
No mortal eye could bear the e'ulgent light, 335 Let me forever live in realms of night,
All, falling prostrate, closed their dazzled sight;
Rather than view again that dreadful sight;
Dark Cbemos starts, from spot to spot he springs, "lwere worse than death, my liege, to hell and thee,
And from the radiance cowers beneath his wings!
Full of tremendous pangs and misery!
410
A stream of glory led the bird divine,
How, how shall I, my sovreign. speech employ,
And to a distance ambient beauties shine;
34-0 In uttering what must evry hope destroy;
Angels in heaven, midst shouts, wonder. see
Yet What Ive seen I will with truth impartI
The emblem of peace, Redeemer, rest on thee.
Although it writhe with pain my bursting heart;
But hark! thy glorious priesthood has begun,
Although it torture you, for hear you must;
415
The Father owns thee his beloVed son!
And, though you hate my tale, to me be just.
Thus in the presence of the emperial host,
34-5 Let then our powers be lt :lSSCI'IllDiLd all,
Did he anoint thee with the Holy Ghost.
And meet again within our gloomy hall;
\
10
And show that though all earth defend,
Down to the mansions of unending night!
Their stands, awhile. in fury glancing oer
And when her errors meet my eyes,

\Vith satires weapon lil chastise,
To her my spirit shall not bend.

What though they say no real man
Would ever stoop to such a plan,
Yet I will purge her of her spleen,
15
(Tis my immodest muse I mean,)
And rise eccentric and sublime

Above this jade of tingling rhyme.
Tis now some little time ago,
Perhaps about two weeks or so,
Since fame outspread a threatning rumour,
That this same muse was out of humour,
Who said that shed desert my plan,
And let me do the best I can.
Ruld by a kind of foolish dread,
20
Unto her temple quick I sped,
l bent before her form divine,

And humbly worshippd at her shrine,
Because dame CUS'! on seemed to hid it,
And all my fellow poets did it:
When, all at once her tongue assaild me,
30
And with tierce words of madness haild me;
How dare you, cried she, monster rude,

Into my presence thus intrude,
35
And break the peace that reigns around,
With your unseemly jargon sound;
No longer seek my courtly aid,
Nor let your worship more be paid,
Nor with your doggrel verses try
To melt my anger in a sigh,
For I despise such worms as you,
And all your dabbling, jabbring crew.
(To use a license quite poetic,
In language trite, and energetic,)
My rhyming vessel from her truck,
Unto her keel was thunder-struck,
The sky of hope was over cast,

\Vhen yielding to mis-For'times blast,
Though reeling neath the giant stroke,
Her rm'commander (I) thus spoke:
If such, my lady, be your way,
To you Ill have no more to say,
Do you suppose that Im a fool,
To be connd to any rule?
50
55
Ay, you may rave at, all my verses,

And nish evry line with curses,
Because, forsooth, Ill not run on
In one continued drawling tone;
But, madam, all your rage I fear not,
60
And for your jingling verses care not.

" The reader will perceive that Walter alludes
to the goddess of rhyme.
79
4
M
If] repent, or soon, or late,

I will make rhymes in spite of fate;
\Vhat though the sense should all be lost,
Sure that is but a triing cost,
My love reposd. I'll tread the paths of life

With lasting pleasure and unalterd joy.
admire the ignorance of the devil that pos

sessed the Soeur laie. It occured also, that
ALCONDO.
65
these devils had forgotten to vary their parts,

since they had played exactly the same scene
before dierent persons. They remarked too
the excess of Mignons hate, which could
not conceal itself, where disguise would
have been political. The share too which the
_._
Sinc'e (well our present critics know it,)

THE TORNIENTOR.
Tis sound alone that makes the poet.

'ct still lve labourd lbr your ease,
And sought your clungt ful taste to please,
Nor strove to force you giiinst your will
It' s. osnonNr-z.
A petrifying plague there is,
Which sours the sweetest. cup of bliss,
7O
And clouds lifes brightest sun;

0f happiness the worst annoy,
, To do a line, or good, or ill:
But if my kindness you abuse,

And all your proll'er'd aid refuse,
Carmelites took in the transaction, seemed
'lln- mortal foe ofevry joy,
plainly to result from tho resentment they
l'ltle/jcitu dun.
You vile, ungrateful, thankless muse,
bore towards Grandier, for the contempt in
Know that l scorn your useless aid,

You smiling, luring, wanton jade,
7.,
Not old Madusas fabled head,

Whose dreadful eyes could turn, tis said,
The boldest form to stone,
Nor care one single cent shout you,
For I can do as well without you.

What though on eagles wings no more
llly earth uound fancy dare to soar,
\Vhat though no sounding, swelling line,
which he held their preaching. And lastly,

they observed that the enemies of Grandicr
assembled every night in a house of Trin
Ecr quenchd the blaze of mirth, or tyd,

\Vith magic spell the form of pride,
Like the aforesaid dun!
80
quunts, at the village of Puidut'danc.
The next time the magistrates made their

appearance at the convent, the convulsions
were just nished, but the superior was
foaming and drivclling ut the mouth, and
presented a spectacle squalid and shocking.
llard fares, alas! the luckless wight,

Whose steps can, neither day nor night,
This rude tormentor shun;
'ho at each corner, crook and turn,
Whereer his weary feet adjourn,
Harmonious, elegant, be mine,
\Vhat though because youve broke your trust

Im doom to grovel in the dust;
Think you, Id atter, sigh, and woo,
85'
The ticklish help ofsuch as you?
Think you the thankful st rain 1 raise,
Barre demanded of the demon, \Vhcn he
Is haunted by a dun!
And spend whole pages in your pratse!
Ambition drops her busy schemes,

Avarice awakes from golden dreams,
Or, in a lengthy invocation,

Expand your honours through the nation?
Had I some mighty work begun,
Offset, or ction, folly, fun,
Id rather by revenges soul
90
Blithe wit adjures his fun,
"
Pride sinks her bold aspiring crest,

E'en potent genius stonps, opprest,
Before the mighty dun!
A quarrel should take up the whole.
\Vith this, good readers, I assure ye

I turud and left her in a fury.
9.)
Muse! tell how oft thy angel song,

Has led my captive soul along,
\Vith more than mortal tone,
--.
How I, entrancd, while thou hast smild,
Eor the Repertory.

TO LOUIS A.
Stay, dear Louisa! yet another gaze,
Oh! why depart so quickly from my view?
Or why withhold thine eyes enchanting rays,
'hich kindle rapture from their sparkling blue?
Have waked, the sweet enchantment spoil'd,

By an intruding zhm.
should depurt? He replied, To-tnorrow

morning. He next asked, For what reason
he should remain till that titne? The devil
replied, It is a compact, and immediately
after, Sacerdos nis. It seemed as if he
hardly knew what he said, and was come to

the end of his Latin. After many ceremonies
had been performed, and a long list of the
names of saints repeated, the superior rc

gained her tranquillity, and, regarding Barre
with a smile, declared that the demon had
left her. She was asked if she remembered

the questions which had been addressed to
Let toils my haggard limbs embrown,
Let want and sickness Weigh me down,
her? to which she replied in the negative.
Gout, fever, cholic, stone:
After she had taken a little nourishment, she
Give me a scold in marriage noose,
dSSlll'ed those around her that it was about
And even (ML/ck himsclf let loose,
Still let the buds, which thy dear face adorn,
the hour of six in the evening when the de
But save me from a dmi.
Of virtuous beauty spread their odours round,
mon
rst invaded her; that she was in bed,
Chill not their fragrance with the look of scorn,
~._
with several nuns in her chamber. She could
Nor blight their blossoms with a vengeful frown.
ACCOUNT or "run CELEBRATED
perceive that somebody took one of her
Still unimpaird may those blest charms remain,
URBAN GRANDIER
hands, and, after having put into it three
As sweetly pleasing, and as mildly kind;
Concluded.
black pins, closed it again.
ith hope dispel thy anxious lovers pain,
The all'uir began now to be the subject of
And shcd its radiance through his gloomy mind.
It is strange to think that such absurdities
all conversations in the town, and the name
should not have inspired universal disgust
Not all the wealth that sordid wretches hoard,
of Grundicr to be in every bodys mouth.
Nor all the gold Peruvian mines contain,
among any people above barbarous igno
The credulous and superstitious part of the
Such blissful moments could to me afford,
runce;-the only shadow of excuse under
neighbourhood bowed their understandings;
As in thy presence from thy smiles I gain.
which such torpid crcdulity could shelter
the simple took all upon trust, through re
I will prefer to heavn a fervent prayr,
itself, was the llatlllul rcpugnance men felt
verence and want of discernment: but all
\Vith one petition lll :tssail his cars;
.tt imagining that there could be found cupa~
thinking and sensible persons saw clearly
0! grant Louisa thy protecting care,
ble of so horrid a machination, so large a
And guard from vice her unsuspecting years:
the absurdity of the whole proceeding,
number of their fellow-creatures, and that
though
their charity at rst would not sut
Her charming youth, her animated mind,
too among the ministers and votarics of a
fer them to suppose that it had for its object
Father otall, to virtuous paths allure,
mild and merciful religion.
Preserve her wishes modestly rend,
so truly diabolical a purpose. They could
Her beauty spotless, and her conscience pure.
Then I will worn the tbreat'ning frowns of pride,
'lhe lurking villain skilld in many a crime,
In virtues bark as her directions guide,
Float down the 'current of delusive time.
In her mild breast, secure from jealous strife,
Where vicious thoughts no longer can annoy,

not
help remarking, however, that when
Mignon was urged to demand of the demon

the cause of that unimoaity which occasion
ed the compact between him and Grandier,
he refused to comply, because, in reality, it
was a question to which he had not taught
ANECDOTES.
It is notorious that the English generally

pronounce the letter]: where they should
not,und omit it, where they should pronounce
it. An English gentleman was met lately, on
the Nun a Latin answer. They could not but the afternoon of his marriage day, drest more
_s_0
elegant than usual, and upon being asked the
ernor of Pennsylvania, Ste. &0. &c. and for many
cause, replied, That he was going to halter
years a member of the British house of commons
his condition.
A learned schoolmaster being lately in
terrogated by one of his pupils, respecting
the etymology of the word syntax, replied
after some consideration,that it received its
To entitle him to respect and consideration among
the worthy, he had no occasion to borrow merit

from his ancestors: although even in modern Amer
ica, it cannot be unknown, that he was second in
lineal descent from the benifieent founder of Penn
meaning from the circumstance of the an
sylvania, and third from admiral sir William Penn,
cients having laid a tax upon sin.
conqueror of Jamaica. His high spirit kept pace

with his genealogy, nor was he inferior in the
EPITAPH.
From a New London paper printed more

than 100 years ago.
On the 22nd day of December,
A confounded big piece of timber

Fell downslam bang
And killed poor Jalm Lamb.
PHILADELPHIA,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Had Horace in Philadelphia informed us,
that his imitations were of the substance, as
milder virtues of Christian, Husband, Father, and
Friend. One ofthe most distinguishing traits of his

character, was the cheerfulness and equanimity
with which he bore a portentous blow of fortune;
for this, liberal men of all parties will honour his
memory, while good men of all sects will be confi
dent that he has his reward above. So many of the
most respectable class both in England and Penn
sylvania, have enjoyed the happiness of his acquain
tance and society, that it would be needless to de
scant on his logical strength of health and convivial
ow of soul. This inadequate record of his varied
worth ows from him who knew him best and loved
him most.
'.
well as the manner, of particular odes of the
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF
bard of Venusium, we should have known
AMERICA,
our course. We can never think it the duty,

A PROCLAMATION.
nor the interest of an editor to let any piece
WHEREAS great and weighty matters claiming
shrink unnoticed" into his paper. As we
know the author, we forbear commenting on the consideration of the Congress of the 0- States
form an extraordinary occasion for convening them,
any other part of his note; but will take an
opportunity of speaking in a friendly man I do by these presents appoint Monday the fourth
ner to him: indeed, it would at all times be
preferable, but when we are ignorant who an

author is, we are obliged publicly to address
him.
day of November next for their meeting at the city

of Washington; hereby requiring the respective
Senators and Representatives then and there to as
semble in Congress in order to receive such com
munications as may then be made to them, and to
To the second communication of One, we

consult and determine on such measure as in their
shall make no reply through the medium of

wisdom may be deemed meet for the welfare of the
our paper; but if he will favour us with an
United States.
interview, we will convince him that he has
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal
totally mistaken our intentions. We wish to
(L. S.)
Wound the feelings of no one, particularly one

who appears to be a friend.
Mourneld may very protably to himself
and others, spend a few hours in the compo
sition of his meditations. His style is chaste

and correct.
of the United States to be hereuntoatiix

ed, and signed the note with my hand.
Done at the city of Washington, the twenty
fourth day of July, in the year of our lord
one thousand eight hundred and eleven,
and of the independence of the U. States
the thirty-sixth.
The communication of C. Y., animadvert

JAMES MADISON.
ing upon Philo-Madan, we decline publish

By the President,
ing, for several reasons. For the society

which C. Y. advocates we have the highest
one ship from Ireland70 had arrived a little be.

fore, and all were directly engaged in our cotton
lnanufsctories- I do not doubt that ere long, you
willnd an advantage in turning a part of your to
bacco plantations into sheep walks, and thus be
freed from any dependance upon Europe.
JAMES MONROE, Sec. of State
HEALTH OFFICE,
July 20th, 1811.

from the 13th to the 20th of July
Diseases.
ad. eh.
Diseases.
ad. GNmlOrscoi-MOI-P'
li-nO-Moowl-l
Asthma
Apoplexy
Cholera Morbus
Consump. ot'lungs
Convulsions
Decay
2 0 Fever, typhus
2 21 Whooping-cough
4 l lnflam- of brain
1 4 Inssnity
0 1 Old Age
1 Fever
Diarrhozs,
Dropsy
Dropsy in the brain
Drowned
Dysentery
Debility
3 I Sudden
0 2
3 0
3 0
0 1
Drunkenncss
27
Total
64

Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
24- Between 50 and 60

5
60
70
6
70
80
IO
10
20
20
3t)
1
8
4.
2
1
80
90
90
100
100
110
0
1
30
4-0
B
-
4-0
50
3
Total 6
STATE OF TIIE TIIERMOMETER.
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81
77
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73
so
so
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so
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74
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TERMS OF THE RERKRTORY

Any person who shall prosure seven subscribers
esteem, as well as for some individual mem

M ANUFACTURES
bers, and will therefore request C. Y. to call

-on us, at No. 40, North Second street, where
we will explain ourselves fully.
Hugh Headlofty has chosen a good sub
ject for his satyrical pen and may nd matter
sufficient for several essays.

..._
ntnn,
Athisseat at Richmond, (Eng-J in the 77th year
of his age, the honourable Richard Penn, late gov
Extract of a letter from the hon. Robert R- Living

ston, of the state of N. York, to a southern cor
respondent.
Clermont, 25th May, 1811.
The quantity of ne wool that has been impor
ted, in consequence of the present state of things
in Europe, and the number of Merinoes, cannot fail
very shortly to establish our manufactories.No
less than 100 weavers have arrived at New York in

ceived at this ofiice, and at the bookstore of Hcl~

m
PHILADELPHIA ,

St. Marys church.
@hfabefpiacgkeperfom
' That gives it all its avour.
Co wran.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3. HM l.
VOL ll.
No.11.
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BIOGRAPHY.
From the Port Folio
LIFE OF COMMODORE ED\VARD PREBLE.
(Continued)
The commodore observing that several
of the enemys boats had taken a station
without the reef of rocks which covers the
till a blow from the boats captain, a power
one time he had in his ardour pushed for
ful Turk, cleft his blade in two. He instant
ward so that his boat grounded within pistol
ly closed with the Turk, but overpowered

by muscular strength, he fell under him
across the gunnel of the boat. In this posi
shot of one of the enemys formidable bat

teries, and where he was exposed to volleys
of musketry. But by address and courage
tion he drew a side pistol and killed his an
he extricated himself from this situation,
tagonist. Meantime his serjeant and a marine
and so ill directed was the enemys re,

soldier, seeing his danger, ew to his relief without receiving any injury.
entrance of the harbour, about two miles and engaged and slew the other four assail
Captain Somers was not able to fetch far
from its bottom, resolved to take advantage ants. By this time the other thirteen men had enough to windward to co-operate with De
of this circumstance, and made signal for the vanquished the residue of the crew, thirty catur. But he bore down upon the leeward
squadron to come within speaking distance, one in number, and the boat's colours were division of the enemy, and with his single
when he communicated to the several com hauled down. Captain Decatur left this boat boat within pistol shot attack ve full man
manders his intention of attacking the ship in charge of an ofcer, and immediately with ned boats, defeated and drove them in a
ping and batteries. The gun and mortar lieutenant MDonough, and eight men be shattered condition and with the loss of
boats were immediately manned and pre sides himself, laid another boat on board, many lives under shelter of the rocks.
pared to cast off. The gun boats in two di which he carried after a desperate and
Lieutenant Decatur in No. 2, engaged
visions of three eachthe rst division un bloody encounter of a few minutes. The with one of the enemys largest boats, which
der captain Somers on board No. l, with erce desperation of the Arnout Turks, who struck after the loss of the greatest part of
lieutenant James Decatur in No. 2, ant! value themselves on never yielding, made her men. At the moment this brave young
lieutenant Blake in No. 3. The second di the slaughter of the enemy in these conicts ofcer was stepping aboard of his prize, he
vision under captain Decatur in No. 4, with immense. The two prizes of captain Deca was shot through the head by the Turkish
tur had thirty-three ofcers and men killed, captain, who by this means escaped, whilst
lieutenant Bainbridge in No. 5, and lieuten
ant Trippe in No. 6. The two bombards were and twenty-seven made prisoners, nineteen the Americans were recovering the body of
commanded by lieutenant commandant Dent, of whom were severely wounded.
their unfortunate commander.
Lieutenant Trippe boarded one of the
and by Mr. Robinson, rst lieutenant of the
The two bomb vessels kept their station,
commodores ship. At half past one oclock enemys large boats with only a midshipman, although often covered with the spray of
the squadron stood for the batteriesat two Mr. Jonathan Henley, and nine men. His the sea occasioned by the enemys shot.
cast off the gun boats; at half past two signal boat falling off before any more could join They kept up aconstant re and threw a great
for the bombs and boats to advance and at him, he was left to conquer or perish with number of shells into the town. Five'of the
tack,and in fteen minutes after, signal was the fearful odds of eleven tothirty-six. In a enemys gun boats and two gallies compos
given for general action. It was commenced few minutes, however, though for a moment ing their centre division, stationed within
by the bombs throwing shells into the town. the victory seemed dubious, the enemy was the rocks, joined by the boats which had been
In an instant the enemys lines opened a subdued; fourteen of them lost their lives driven in, and reinforced, twice attempted to
tremendous re from not less than two hun and twenty-two submitted to be prisoners; row out and surround our gun boats, and
dred guns, which was promptly returned by seven of whom were badly wounded. Lieu 'prizes. They were as often foiled by the
the whole squadron now within musket shot tenant Trippc received eleven sabre wounds, vigilance of the commodore, who gave signal
some of which were deep and dangerous. to the brigs and schooners to cover them,
of the principal batteries.
At this moment captain Decatur with his The blade of his sword also yiekled..le which was promptly attended to by these
three gun boats attacked the enemys east closed with the enemy; both fell, but in the vessels, all of which were gallantly conduct
ern division consisting of nine. He was soon struggle, Trippe wrested the Turks sword ed and annoyed the enemy exceedingly.
in the centre of them, and the fire of grape, from him, and with it pierced his body. Mr. The re of the Constitution had its ample
langrage and musketry was changed to a Henley in this rencounter displayed a valour share in this bombardment. It kept the
deadly personal combat with the bayonet, joined to a coolness that would have honour enemys otilla in constant disorder and pro
spear, sabre and tomahawk- Captain Deca ed a veteran. Lieutenant Bainbridge had his duced no inconsiderable effect on shore.
tur grappled one of the enemys boats and; lateen yard shot away, which baled his ut The frigate was constantly in easy motion;
boarded with but fteen men. He parriedfl most exertions to get along side the enemys and always found where danger threatened
the blows of ve Turks, who fell upon him i boats; but his active and well directed re to defeat the arrangements ofthe day. Several
with scimeters, so as to receive no injury: within musket shot was very eii'ective. At times she was within two cables length of
82
m
the rocks and three of the batteries, every

one of which were successively silenced as
often as her broad-side could be brought to
bear on them; but having no large vessels
to secure these advantages, when circum~
stances compelled her to change her posi
harbour were swept of numbers. The effect

on shore was not so great as in the shipping,
but still such as to spread consternation.
tion, the silenced batteries were reanimated.
Several Turks were killed and wounded,
We suered most, says the commodore,

when wearing or tacking. It was then I
and many guns of the forts dismounted, and

the town was considerably damaged.
most sensibly felt the want ofanother frigate.

At half past four the wind inclining to the
northward, and at the same time the enemys
otilla having retreated behind coverts which
wounded, and thirty only t for duty. Three

other boats were sunk with their entire
crews, and the decks of their vessels in the
(To be continued.)
.
For the Repertory.
me that a wound he received by a fall from

his horse, just before he reached his palace,
prevented his coming for me,but that he had
sent his faithful friend, count Palermo, to
escort me and my father to the palace.
When I had recovered, Palermo thus
addressed me:
If the marchioness of Malventi will con
descend to trust the faithful friend of her
husband, I pledge my life, and my more sa~
cred honour, to conduct her safe to the pa
lace."
0! yes, yes, returned I, let us hasten
shielded them from our shot, whilst our

on
this moment, let us not delay, perhaps he

may expire before I reach him.
Neither the remonstrances of count Alten
heim, nor the persuasions of my father,
people were necessarily much exhausted by

two hours and a half severe exertion, signal
was given for the gun boats and bombs to
retire from action; and immediately after
to the brigs and schooners to take the gun
boats in tow, which was handsomely exe
cuted, the whole covered by a heavy re
from the Constitution. In fteen minutes
the squadron was out ofreach of the enemys
shot and the commodore hauled off to give
tow to the bomb-ketches.
The squadron were more than ture hours
within grape shot distance of the enemys
In about a week after my marriage, Mal

venti expressed his intention of returning
chariot drove off, surrounded by the horse
to Madrid, to correct the error under which
men, and we were very soon out of sight of
batteries, and under a constant re.But the
his relatives there would labour concerning the battlements of Altenheim, and the more

A TALE
could induce me to wait till morning. I in
CIIAPTER IV:
Continued.

SPIRIT of THE WOOD
A fury crawld from out his horrid cell,

The bloodiest minster of death and hell.
BLA OKMORE
sisted upon departing immediately, and or

ders were accordingly given to that effect.
We were very soon prepared for our jour
ney. My father and myself bidding the in

habitants adieu, stepped into the carriage,
and Palermo, taking his leave of the count
and countess, placed himself beside us. The
lofty spires of the monastery of St. Lucia.

The speed of the horses was increased,
and we soon entered the forest, when all ap
peared dark and dreary.
Palermo had heretofore conversed with
great vivacity, but now he. grew more taci
turn; would scarcely reply to our remarks,
and then with a sullen and evasive answer.
At legth he observed a gloomy silence, and
commanded us as we valued our lives to
question him no further.
ed, but lost none except lieutenant Decatur, for I resided at the castle, strove to dissi
Nothing could equal my consternation or
the brother of the captain Decatur, so conspi pate it as much as possible. Six weeks had the amaZement and anger of my father. He
cuous in this war. Several circumstances ex now passed, when about twelve oclock one demanded of Palermo, what he meant by
plain this impunity of our squadron. \Vhere night, the castle was awakened by the re such unequalled insolence; who only replied,
the engagement was close as with the boats peated soundings of a horn. Full of hope, I by applying a small ivory whistle to his
the impetuosity of the attack as well as our immediately rose and prepared to meet one, mouth, the noise of which was quickly an
moredexterous use of the weapons of de for whose absence I had continued in a most swered from without, and immediately the
struction overpowered and appalled the ene disconsolate situation.
carriage stopped. W'e were at the same in
The castle was aroused, the gates opened, stant surrounded by double the number that
my. The barbarians are unskilful gunners.
--'lhe shower of grape shot annoyed and and a chariot entered the court, surrounded had appeared in the court of the castle.
discomposed them in the application of what by a troop of horsemen. I stood anxiously
My father, perceiving that we were be
little skill they possessed. The assailing expecting my husband to leave the carriage, trayed by the treacherous Palermo, drew his
party were so near as to be overshot by the but was disappointed. A man of a tall, com rapier, and resolved to sell his life as dearly
batteries; especially as the managers of the manding gure, alighted, and demanding to as possible. The carriage door was burst
guns were so fearful of exposing their heads speak with count Altenheim, was introduced open. Hurt not the woman, exclaimed
above the parapets as easily to oversight to him, and presented him a letter from the Palermo, as he was about to leap through
marquis of Malventi. My heart sunk within, the door, Hurt not the woman, but let the
their object.
Very different was the result of this con for I thought myself deceived; but my anx old fellows life out. As he spoke this, he
ict to the enemy. The American re was iety was soon relieved by the counts pre received a ball through the head, from a
not an empty peal, but a messenger of death senting him to me, and his handing me a pistol levelled by my father, with a pair of
in every direction. The three captured boats letter from my husband.
which he had armed himself upon our de
had one hundred and three men on board,
My eye glanced over its contents, and I parture, and which Palermo nor myself had
forty-seven of whom were killed, twenty-six sunk into my fathers arms, for it informed seen. The next that appeared received his
damage received was in no proportion to the
apparent danger; or to the effect produced
by the assailants. The frigate took a thirty
two pound shot in her mainmast, about
thirty feet from the deck, her sails and rig
ging were considerably cut; one of her quar
ter deck guns was injured by a round shot
which burst in pieces and shattered a mari
ners arm, but not a man was killed on board
of her. The other vessels and boats suffered
in their rigging and had sundry men wound
his fate, and to bring a suicient number of

vassals to escort me and my father safely to
his palace. I was urgent in my wish to ac
company him, to which he would not listen,
but tenderly solicited me to remain with my
father, until his return. To this I at last as
sented, and saw him depart, promising to
be at Altenheim in about six weeks.
I felt very unhappy during his absence,
and could not get clear of my melancholy,
although the countess, your grandmother,
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death from the other pistol, and two or three

felt the fury of his sword; but at length I
saw him fall with receiving a ball in his
breast; and I immediately fainted.
After some time I recovered, and found
myself in the carriage, supported by one of
the most terric looking men I had ever be
held. I inquired for my father, when the
inhuman monster told me that if he had be
haved cooly about it, they would have spared
his life, but that in consequence of his unruly
conduct they had left him quartered in the

forest.
Detested homecides!" exclaimed Ame
lia.
You may easily conceive my grief and
despair at hearing this, proceeded Minda.
I raved, and conjured the assassin to mur
-der me also, and then bear the tidings to my
unhappy lord. At the mention of Malvcnti, the
bravo burst into_ a loud laugh. We now

stopped, and I heard a voice cry in French,
Qui va la! W'ho goes there.
Guzman, answered the man in the
coach.
The watchword, demanded the same
voice.
Valour, returned my companion.
Pass, said the voice, and the carriage
proceeded.
After a short time, it stopped again, and my
companion said, come, madam, we are at
our journeys end. Prepare to alight." As he

said this, he raised the curtains and opened
the door, when to my astonishment, I found
day had not broke, which convinced me that

we must have travelled but a few miles from
the castle. I saw it was in vain to resist, and
following him out of the coach, he conducted

me through a passage rendered almost im
passible by the weeds 'and branches that
grew over it. After some time we stopped,
and stooping down, he raised a trap door,
through which we pasSed, and I soon found
myself beneath the ground, in a cavern dim
ly lighted by a feeble lamp suspended from
the top. We passed through several doors,
and at last entered a subterranean hall, su
perbly illuminated, with lamps suspended

from the ceiling. Here my conductor paus
cd, bade me be seated on a couch, to which
he pointed, and telling me he would inform

the captain of our arrival, left me to my me
ditations.
The word captain sounded like thunder
on my ear, and convinced me that I was a
prisoner to the erce banditti that infested
the forest of Altenheim. I could not forbear
cursing aloud, the artice that had led my
opening of a door, through which my con

ductor disappeared, and judge of my horror,
grief, joy, and amazement, when the rst
friendship, was unable to discern what pro

perly constituted a disgrace. \Ve were once
walking in one of the avenues of Philadel
person that my eyes saw, was my beloved
phia, when an old woman meanly habited,
Malventi.
and rendered inrm by disease and accu

mulated years, made an attempt to cross the
street from the opposite side to that on
which we were walking; but the shock she
received in her sudden descent from the
pavement was more than'her tottering frame
could bear, she lost her powers of support,
and fell to the ground. I instantly ew to
To be contined
I..
For the Ropertory.
THE CABINET. No. XLVI.

Never admit (says the philosopher Seneca)
vain glory into your hearts; for human glory
is at best no more than human folly.
That men are born equal is a truth that ra
tional minds are little disposed to deny. This

principle, though not recognised by some
nations, is, happily, the very foundation of
the government under which we live; how
then, ought Americans to blush when they
hear of fellow citizens, who still retain the
prejudices of despotism and refuse to allow

the privileges of humanity to those whom
fortune has less favoured than themselves!
The God of nature has made no difference

in the formation of his creatures. He has
made no restrictions as relate to the general
benets of life. He has caused his sun to
shine upon the poor as well as the rich; both
feel its invigorating warmth, and both adore
its glorious Author. The elegant scenes of
nature afford as much gratication to the

senses of the mendicant as to those of the
king; both equally enjoy the fragrance of the
rose; and both delight to tread the enamel
carpet spread by the hands of spring. The
same atmosphere keeps alive the vital lamp
in the one as well as in the other; both are
composed of the same materials, and both

must nally be resolved in the same undis
tinguishable mass. By what authority, then,
does one mortal assume the reins of supe
riority over his fellow? when the Creator of
the universe has sent forth hisulccree, shall
it be reversed by the temerity of man?

Sociality is a characteristic of human na
ture. In the bosom of society man finds his
dearest comforts. Formed with a mind teem

ing with the rich conceptions of imagination,
and endowed with speech for the purpose of
facilitating his communication, how shall he
be satised but by corresponding excellence,
and where is it to be found but in the circle
of human society? But how necessary is per
fect harmony to benecial intercourse? He
who conceives him placed above mankind
can never experiance the enjoyment or ad
advantage which result from sociality.
There are many persons who grow up in
the world with very erroneous opinions re
specting certain passages of life, which are
father to his death, and made me the victim
very frequently renewed in the course of it.
of some merciless robber.
I once knew a young man, who, with hand
her assistance, raised and conducted her
over the street, and received for my trouble

a thousand fervant blessings. I now looked
for my friend. He had retreated a consider
able distance from me, and appeared in
great confusion as Icame towards him. I
inquired the reason of his precipitate ight,
which he frankly delivered and confessed
himself extremely mortied that I, in the
open street, had so disgraced myself and
him, by going to assist the poor woman in
her disaster. Just at this moment the un
fortunate object passed. My friend with the
greatest caution lest he should be observed
privately placed a dollar in her hand and
immediately drew me from the place. I was
sorry to see such an inconsistent mixture of
contemptible pride and generous sensibility.
I lectured my friend on the subject, but I
know not if ever he corrected his error. The
natural susceptibility of his heart was warped
by prejudices early imbibed; prejudices that
put out if his reach a luxury of feeling which
nothing can express, but which certainly re
quires an unsophisticated soul for its enjoy
ment.
W'e may safely admit as a principle in life,
that the performance of a good action can
never bring upon us any real disgrace. \Vhat
ever may be the reproaches of persons who
have been educated in false notions of pro
priety, the pleasure we derive from an ap
proving conscience, and receiving the bless
ing of those, who are ready to perish,
abundantly counterbalances them all.
I believe it is related of the celebrated
Franklin, whose mind was disposed to draw
an improving moral from every circumstance
of life, that he was once passing through a.
chamber door and struck his head against
the top of it. Let this teach me, said the
great and good man, to stoop a little as I
pass through life.
PETER PEACEABLE.
For the Repertory.
REFINEMEN'I 1N LANGUAGE.
Mr. Editor.
There is no real friend of literature that

is not delighted to hear of any improvement
My thoughts were now interrupted by the some talents and every qualication for in it that is likely to take place, and willi:
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PHILADELPHA REPERTORY
M
to lend his assistance to ensure its success.

Under the impression that no one would be
likely to receive more pleasure from such
intelligence than the editor of a literary pa
per like yours, I hasten to forward you for
record, some of the improvements in Pro
sody and Orthograpby, that are already ac
cepted in the rst circles of polite life.
ever brilliant be his fancy, to picture to him

self the most faint idea of Miss Amantes
pronunciation and delivery. So much for
pronunciation; now for orthography. My ob
servations on this head shall probably be
short, for I know very well how dearly every
soul that has any thing to do with an author,
editor, printer, reader and all, love to get to
the bottom of a piece, and knowing this

I intend to go through my proposed plan
with all convenient speed,but be my produc
tion as long as it will, I will do nothing on
compulsion. Thus then instead of or in
then, in the words of Miss Minuzza, who has many words of our language we should use
been just liberated from school and is brought ur, as philosophy and good sense will alWays
up in the true style of present excellence. teach us that a word should be spelled as
O! lauh, memia, how extreme opressire the nearly as possible in the manner it is pro
heat is tiday, I cawnt hardly bear it. Aw, nounced; as for example, inturmittent, pur
me dear geirl, answers her mother, peo- ' suaz'd, exursize. The ladies have not yet dc,
ple must lairn to put up with these theings. termined respecting the words ending with
I trust the reader will at once acknowledge a mute vowel, that is, they have not yet given
the superiority of such expressions over the us a general rule; some they have expungcd,
old fashion. As for Johnsons Dictionary 1 but others they wish to retain, which will
would advise every gentleman by all means be perplexing in the highest degree to those
not to permit it to be seen in his library, persons who are anxious for their improve
particularly if it be frequented by ladies. ment. Might 1 presume to advise their se
I have known as many as ten copies of it rene highnesses, I would be decidedly in
to be destroyed just in my own neighbour favour of rejecting them all. For instance,
hood, by the dear creatures: for I would have what necessity have we for an e at the end
you to understand that they are the present of either of the following words: date, hate,
reformers of our language from the corrupt rate, pate, 8tc. when by the very nature of
state in which it has fallen through the ig our a the words would have the self same
norance of former, and the credulity of mod~ sound without them, but if We were to in
crn times. Thrice happy sex, how do I envy sert an 2', thus, bait, the matter would be be
you the glory you will atchieve by such an yond doubt. There is one of the lately adopt
enterprise, and how delightful must be the ed alterations which I cannot pass ovcr with
contemplation of your triumph, when you out bestowing on it that portion of praise
perceive self important rhapsodists, and cyni ' which it so highly merits, not only from its
cal age itself bow their stubborn wills and evident propriety, but also the melody it
embrace your proffered improvements which yields the words in which it is introduced:
Examples, perse'want, subjewgation. In
they have so long resisted and so long en
deavoured to overturn in vain. As the most deed I could relate many other very con
principal alterations are in prosody the rea siderable alterations, but have pitched upon
der must be conscious how great is the loss those already mentioned because they are
by committing it to paper; for as the soft not yet so generally known. As I am/Iso
owings of Italian poetry is only soft when warm in my wishes for the success olthis
read by one who understands all its nice noble undertaking, for which the name of
peculiarities of pronunciation, so is the con American lady will be respected over all
versation of which I am the advocate only Europe, particulary England, I cannot for
particularly delightful when turned by the bear offering for their consideration several
pouting lip of intelligent beauty. Now, ideas of my own, in regard to some parts of
although it will be at once acknowledged our language in which it is shamefully ir
more elegant than the former pronunciation, regular. Let me mention a few and the
yet none can conceive the rapture with penetration of their genius will doubtless
which I heard the following verse recited perceive all. Now why in the name of com
mon sense spell general, or gentle, kc. with
by Miss Amante as written by herself.
From these, I shall endeavour to show, by
a train of philosophical reasoning, the pro

priety of a few material alterations that I
propose myself. I shall illustrate all these
points beyond the possibility of mistake. Thus
Souft wus Melindas lowvely form,

Cerewlean wus her eye,
As the gray ran-b0 threuw the storm,
Flash'd breight across the skeiy.
The elegance of the poetry will be able to

speak for itself, but I defy any man, how
lcat, cent instead of rent, and indeed I might

count on ad innitum. Sufce it to say that
with the alterations which will most probably
take place in the course of one or two cen
turies, if the laudable wish which at.present
pervades fashionable society continues till

that time, our language will rival in elegance
and harmony any language in the known
world. For perspiculty the Chinese would
be nothing to it.
I trust, Mr. Editor, that you,at least, will
be able to set the proper value on genius

that thus spurns at old established rules, and
creates rules for itself, or rather despises all
rules, and wanders wild as fancy into these
paths where case is to be attained without
labour, and propriety without exactness. I
confess that I am much ashamed of my own
sex, and for two very considerable reasons: the
rst is, that they do not speak their language

at all according to the formation of it; and
secondly, because they will not go where

they might learn to do so, viz. in the society
of ladies. It is to them, my dear Mr. Editor,
it is to them, I repeat it, that we owe all the
rened comforts of our life: what can be a
greater proof of this, than their present e30

crtions, which I trust I have sufficiently
shown. Our language is on the broad way
to perfection: and I hope you will not with
hold your endeavours to advance it. For my
own part, sir, I have for some time made
these things my study, and the unfrequency
of a mixture in company of the two sexes,
renders it peculiarly necessary that all praise
worthy alterations should be made public. I
have for the present chosen your paper as
the medium to communicate my sentiments
and opinions, and have now in embryo several
considerable lectures on language, fashion,
politeness, beauty, Ste. which if my rst com
munication should meet with a favourable
reception from you and your readers,I shall
forward you in due time. I am very certain of
pleasing that which I am the most anxious to
please, i. e. the fair sex; yet at the same time
I would wish to convey to all, that informa
tion which is particularly useful and from
which may result the most good to society.
To the candid I address myself, and to the can~
did only will I be accountable for the opin

ions expressed in my works.
Sir, I wish you a good night.
HUGH HEADLOFTY..
For the Repertory.
a g, or geometry, or george, or georgick, Pedantic letter, written by a student to a

with a ge, when j, and j alone, is the proper
letter to begin those, and a myriad of other

words. Such spelling as this I confessl have
not ingenuity enough to account for. Ay
thercs enough, instead of mm", rat instead of
friend, on receiving information of his be

ing married.
L. D. A. June 18, l809.
Dear John,
.1 had the pleasure of receiving yon; M.
85
vour of the 18th inst. which 1 perused with

indefatigable attention and inexible regard,
during which l vainly essayed to command the

distorted muscles of my countenance, nd
ing it so ctitiously incrassated with dubi
ous uncer'tainty, and abounding with cos

metic gushes of extravenatcd humour.
You mentioned that you had, (I suppose
from the drowsy lassitude of remaining col
located in a state of ruinous pcccability)
subjected yourself to be conglutinated in the
indissoluble bonds of connubial and mollient
slavery. If so, you may have obtained a lau
riferous conquest, but it would have been
my hertation that you should have retarded
for some time, the execution of your jeo
pardous enterprise, so that you might never
have occasion (if it should so happen) to
maunder, or objurgate yourself for being
thus unpremeditatedly precipitated into the
tempest breeding abyss of mind overturn
ing misery, or the nubiferous sea of galling
unhappiness. Do not suffer your mind to en
joy too much oblectation m the multiuous,
but dangerous paths which may be spread
before you, for depend upon it, although the
atmosphere of your bliss be not now impreg
nated with the gloomy horrors of impending
danger, it may yet become nebulous, and at
length grow pendulently pregnant with nar
cotic sorrow.
Yours,
'32.
o..
Por the Repertory.

THE PROPI'IIATION
BOOK 1].
Continued
lPride, Ambition, Envy and Chemos, hasten to com
'
mand again the convocation of the ends: they

obey and Chemos commences the account of his
embassy.
Now once again the dread command is given,
To summon all the foes of earth and heaven
Each sought a part, and rst all daring Pride 425
Spread his broad wings and toward the orient hied;
Ambition ew, while vengeance red his breast,

To rouse the distant spirits of the west.
Chemos and Envy swiftly sallied forth,
Leading the dreadful host that heard the call,

And in obedience hastend to the hall!
Now fear and hope each endlike spirit feels,
Which his proud soul but transiently conceals, 450
Except erce Moloch, he alone disdains
To wear pale terrors lacerating chains:
With brow undaunted did the monster stand
The dreadful bulwark ofthe fallen band!
Sovereign of hell, on every visage here
455
Methinks I trace degrading marks of fc ar,
The rising sun now tinged the orient skies,

And all his radiance burst upon my eyes.
what hell endures of bitterness, of we!

Soon, if our efforts do not prove in vain,
Mans lot with us is never ending pain!
There, on the distant verge of earth I stood, 5535
And gazed around upon the circling ood,
Until the west received the sinking sun,
And the mild reign of evening had begun,
The stars began to sparkle in the sky
And earth was lighted by the moon's pale eye. 530
Then did I plot, night suited best the deed,
The measures hkely soonest to succeed.
Our monarch had the sounds of transport heard,
But whence proceeded the dread rounds we feared!
Where couldl y, what certain course persue, 535
To learn if our alarms were false or true?
None of the nations heavens high King obey,
But all submit to our imperial sway,
Except Judca, she alone, I knew,
Ubeyd the God and to her realms I ew;
540
Search'd every spot, no personage appeared,
Thai hells dread sovereign or our hosts had feard.
There when king Herod steepd the streets in gore,
And rage and murder spread J udea oer,
I led the slaughter, l nispu'ed each heart
54,5
To follow then so damnabh, a part,
1 laughd while intants deck'd. the bloody spears
The warrior cried; and from each vacant eye,
Beams pale despair and inward misery!

0! stain to glory, base degenerate breast,
That dares permit them there, unmoved, to rest! 460
This faulchion nervcd with rage and just disdain,

Pants to extend that wretch upon the plain
\Vho boasts his prowess when all dangers fly,
But trembling shrinks on their approaching nigh!
For me, though heaven with all his numrous host
The skys protection and. its monarchs boast, 465
Come armd and rushing from their realms amain

To hurl their vengeance on our ranks again,
Unmoved I stand, their ercest rage to meet,
Made tenfold furious by the first defeat.

4-70
Then wheres the spirit that would basely'y
And leave his fellows unrcvenged to die!
Brethren in arms, CJCOl. this palsied fear,
See death or endless exaltation near,
lf fate should call us once agrin t engage,

And check the seraphims insatiate rage.
475
And groans of anguish burst upon my cars:
Mark, mark it well, the promise which 1 give,

You shall not want a leader while 1 live,
What fearful cause for this 1 neer required,

For my fell soul no cause at all desired:
And let the dastund spirit likewise know,
This, his I knew, enough for ends to know,
That while I live he shall not want a toe,
480
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For the Repertory.

Lines produced whilst contemplating the lethargy
of America concerning Washington, in not hav
ing erected a monument to the respect of his
memory.
Neglectful country! tell thy wrongs no more,
No conquests boast by injured merit W011i
No stranger welcome to that thankless shore,
That grants no tribute to her greatest son.
Ah! why pretend his virtues to revere,
And let great Washington unmarkd repose,
Whilst only round his mouldring form appear
The drooping lily and the blushing rose!
Well may the lily droop its tender head,
Well may the rose in mantling crimson stand;
The one in wo for the neglected dead,
The one in shame for its ungrateful land.
Therefore no more, whateer aects the state,
Chemos. or good or ill, at once, rel .te.

Sire, answered Moloch, numbers present here,
500
No tomb in grandeur rises oer his grave,
No sculptur'd monuments his deeds rehearse,
Nor aught his greatness from oblivion save,
But languid praise and perishable verse.
Chemos a tale of trembling fear to tell,
That sought the south and this the icy north- 430
Meanwhile the end that oer hells kingdom reigns,
Inspired by hope and pain'd with fear remains.
Evn so the wretch whom Justice dooms to die,
While fearful horror looks from either eye;
Between the hour that gives him ocr to death, 435
And that which robs him of the eeting breath,
Despair sees fate and Hope expects reprieve,
That looks for death and this entreatl to live
Soon the dark monarch all attentive hears
The distant murmurs break upon his ears,
440
Made by the spirits in their rapid ight,
To meet again within the realms of night!
Quickly they join, impatient now to hear
What theyve to hope and what, alas! to fear.
445
The king perceiyes stern Moloch, from afar,
In preface let me not a moment waste,

When threatning danger cries aloud for haste,
But this, what I exhibit to your view
80 Hell befriend me as the whole is true!
Now had the world in morning glory drest,
515
Burst on my view, with transport lld my breast;
As far as transport could inhabit there,
Iaild at all points and thus equipt for war,
Doomed as we are to fathomleu despair!
Because their coward souls are slow to aid

The cause that once employd my ready blade;
To such I spoke; tis such I bid beware,
505
And tempt my fatal vengeance if they dare.
Chemos, our monarchs dread command obey,
And, what thou hast to tell us, quickly say.
Brave peers of hell, began th encouraged chief,
Let threatning infamy revengeful rise,

(Her purest worshipper let glory claim;)
Nor cease to reprobate Columbia's sighs,
Till piles eternal ratify his fame.
There wild comparison may view his mind
Attend my histry for I must be brief;
550
Crimes on the ctu'th assist our cause below.
(Jiiemos, relate the knowledge thou hast gaind,

Nor let thy tongue with pallid fear be chaind;
Show me the arm dares hurl its rage at thee,
First let it strike, omnipotcnt, through me;
Let him who seems inchnd my ire to brave 485
Know Moloch never threatcnd but he gave.
Nothing relate that shall the truth exceed,
Yet nothing short of it, as you proceed
Please whom it may or whom it may offend,
Relate the truth, and Moloch is thy friend.
490
Chief whom we love, the hstning king replies,
Why beams red anger from thy piercing eyes;
Far from our mind was every wish so fell,
To urge the spirit to decieve all hell.
Besides what boots it, all our spirits know,
495
That truth or falsehood scarce can swell our wt!
In foolish terror and despair appear,

Determined, if 1 err not, to compel
520
Brave world, I cried, so fair, thou soon shall know,
510
And shed a tear and reverence his dust,
And own with sorrow weighty but rend,

The patriot noble, and the country just.
-.I_
For the Repertory.

LOVE.
Of all the passions of the soul
'
'.
<9.
I None seems more SW ash";
86
Now it is bold and spurns control,

How meeker than the dove.
For the Repertory
0f husband, children, sister, brother!
Tis Woman!
SONNET.
Now cool as reasons frigid stream

Its changeful fancy ows;
Now wildly with demoniac gleam,
Its ery eye ball glows.
There lives a power that when the heart is rivd

\Vith agony, can calm each lab'ring swell;
And venomd sorrow of her sting depriv'd
Is by that pow'r expelld the torturd cell.
Now virtue on its visage smiles,

Where'er the rays of beaming light are spread,
In Laplands icy shores or Indias groves;
And lightens evry charm;

Now vice with wildring look beguiles
In lovcs protean form.
Now we its melting tones believe
Mild, artless, and sincere;
Now, smoothed tongued hypocrites decieve
Less bitterly severe.
That men unites, soothes sorrow with a tear,
Now marriage shows the rose wreathd band,

Love bows his head to wear;
Now passion with unhallowd wand
Dissolves the spell to air.
A beam of heavnly bliss dwells in her smiles,

And the full bosom of its woes beguiles.
EDWY.
Thus with unsettled course we nd

It holds its doubtful way,
Though there renement is unknowu, or ed,
The perfect mind s loves rmest tie,

The unpolluted soul.
DEMETR IUS.
_._
For the Repertory.

HORACE 1N PHILADELPHIA.
Book Ill. Ode 17.
No more condemned to make my bliss,
Dependant on a girls caprice,

And linger at a distance:
I bid the intruder, love, depart,
(That vanquished, then enslaved my heart,)

And date a new existence.
Tis Sympathy celestial and sincere!

The gift of heavn, a smiling ray ofjoy
Our wavering sex in folly,

lf heaven, in pity to mankind,
llad not unnished left thy mind,

Nor made thee angel wholly.
Oh! happy fortune, happy fate,
Close at a lad) 5 car to wait,
Ubedient and observant:
Be her purveyor of supplies,
But well has she repaid its price,

For earth is made a paradise,
By Woman!
And lls the breast with friendships swcct employ.

9
sccous'r or run cecanaarnn

URBAN GRANDIER.
Continued.
_._
For the Repertory.
I A similar scene was acted every day be-

fore the magistrates and ofcers of the town.
OLD NICK.
The bailli, however, and the lieutenant Civil,
The rib of Gaffer loved a drop,
were not among the number of the implicit
\Vliencre she took a sup,

Twas all in vain he cried, dame stop,
Dont swallow down the cup.
believers, and refused to authorise or accre
Now Gaffer liked Columbias tar,

Disliked his foes, odd rot'em;
Ilis bowl displayd two ships of war,

111 action at the bottom.
.
Twas once when dame the bowl had seized,
Says Gaffer leave some dear.

N0, she replied, I am so pleased,
To see the vessels here.
O 110'. said Gnil'er, gentle soul,

Ill cure you of that trick;
I
Away he Went and bought a bowl,
Whose bottom held old .Nick.
0h! woman, furnished with thy arms,
Thou mighst have xd (such are thy charms)
Tis Woman!
Eden she lost, ensnard to vice;
lVith Reasons steady sway.

And claim a short control,
'
That pow'r exists and with existence moves.
Till virtues precepts ll the mind

Then though gay charms may please the eye
\Vhen, hours of absence past, we meet,

Say, who enrapturd runs to greet
Our glad return, with kisses sweet?
Tis \Voman!
Who, in a word, a touch, a sigh,
The simple glancing of her eye,
Can ll the soul with exstacy!
But still his dame left Galfer none

And roused the peasants ire;
Why what the dickens, wife have done,
dit any relations of miracles to which they

themselves were not ocular witnesses. Gran
dier had regarded in profound tranquillity
the rst proceedings of the conspirators: he
had seen them in a light so contemptible, as
to feel no apprehension for their conse
quenccs. But perceiving that, at length, the
comedy grew less laughable, and that serious
impressions, to the injury of his character,
had already been made by the calumnies, he
felt it necessary to represent his situation to
the bailli, and to protest against their pro
ceedings. It required but little argument to
expose a delusion so gross. Grandier obtain
ed from_the magistrate a candid attention to
his representations, who entered them in the
Why blood and ouns and re!

Nay, be not angry, cried the dame,
You Would no"have me stop,

For sure, dear Gaffer, twere a shame
To leave old ,Mck a drop!
RALPH ltlSlBLE.
.
public register, and gave him a clear recital

of the various scenes at which he had been
present in the monastery.
In the mean time the unfortunate eccle
siastic saw his enemies multiply around him,
to whom were now added Rene Memin
1h scandal, attery and lies,
In line, her slave and servant.

But I who cannot beg or kneel,
Or feign what 1 can never feel,
0r condescend to atter:
Resign my claim to empty joys,
To prattling girls and stupid noise:
Their idle, senseless clatter.
Friendship clears his long standing scores,

Kicks Love and Hymen out of doors,
Those idle worthless var-lets:
Within my study takes his chair,
And hands me wine and a scgar
In breath surpassing Charlotte's.
THE EXCELLENCY OF 'OMAN.
\VllO, in this World of care and strife,

Doth kindly cheer and sweeten life,
As friend, companion, and as wife!
Tis Woman!
Who, by a thousand tender wiles,
By fond endearments, and by smiles,

Our bosom ofits grief beguilcs?
"lis Woman!
From whom do all our pleasures ow;
' \Vho draws the scorpion sting of we,
And makes the heart with transport glow?
'Tis Woman!
Who, of a nature more rend,
Sieur de Silli, the major of the town, the

lieutenant Criminel, and all the servants of
the king. The bishop of Poitiers had mani

fested an ill disposition towards him from
the commencement of the plot; and, upon
being applied to by Gmndier, threw him

again upon the royal judges. It was in vain
that the bailli repeatedly ordered that the
nuns should be separated from each other
and examined by unprejudiecd persons. The
rest of the ofcers would not assist him; and
Magnon refused to comply, on the pretence

that such a proceeding would be contrary to
the oaths of their order. Such an union of
May L more constant to you prove,

And 13 Jane, Ann or Harriet love,
Doth soften mans rude stubborn mind,
An hundred
if he chuses:
My choise is made, my path is plain!
And makes him gentle, mild, and kind?

Tis Woman!
persons in dignied situations, both civil and
Im entered in Apollos train,
Who binds us all to one another,
the tremendous oaths with which Barre, the
By silken bands of father, mother,
principal exerciser, protested his veracity
MY momma the muses.
religious,imposed silenge upon all men; and
before the magistrates and judges, overawed
vantes, the immortal author of Don Quix
little minds, and gained vast credit to the
ote, died of hunger; Camoens, the cele
imposture.
lost sight of their caution and consistency,

and every day ran greater risks of exposure
by still hardier experiments upon the public
credulity. Their machinery was so clumsily
brated writer of the Luciad, ended his days

in an alms house; and Vaugelas left his body
to the surgeons to pay his debts, as far as
it would go.
In considering the above men, who, blcst
with common sense, an even and cheerful
temper, and equability of disposition, need
envy the elevation of genius,or the superiori
contrived, that perpetual failures in their
ty of learning, and science; when he sees the
The transaction had need of all these sanc

tions to support it; for emboldened by suc
cess, the machinators in a thousand instances,
tricks began at length to-open the eyes of one condemned or neglected, and the other
all reasonable men; all, except those who toiling without regard? Whoever pants for
made it a merit to be blind in religious con fame, or longs for literary honours, would
cerns, and who, unhappily for the devoted do well to take a view of the fate of those
Grandier, composed a very great majority of above mentioned, or survey that of such of
our own country as have been eminently
the people.
(To be continued.)
conspicuous in the elds of imagination, the
regions of fancy, or the plains of philosophy.
Curious direction of a letter, which was
Bacon lived a life of meanness and dis
actually in the Philadelphia post ofce some
tress; Raleigh ended his days upon a scaf
weeks ago.
fold; the learning and virtue of More could
County Derry
not secure him a better doom; Spencer,
Magharafelt
whose Fairy Queen is never read but with
Care of Dr. Greham
an increase of admiration, died neglected,
for Joseph Johnston
forsaken, and in want; the fate of Collins,
Drumgrees nigh Lisfan
one of our Lyric poets, may be ascribed in a

Ireland
a:
great degree to the worlds neglect which
l783, October 20. From a late. calculation, was the cause of his mental derangement
made by a gentleman perfectly qualied for and death: Milton sold. his copy right of Pa
the undertaking, capt. G. 8. it appears, __that radise Lost for 151., at three payments, and
there are no fewer than 1247 regular lo'dges
belonging to the fraternity of free-masons in
Europe; 187 in America; 76 in Asia; and
13 in Africa. These make 1523 lodges now
existing in the world.
[S/n'ritual Magazinefor 1783.]

There cannot be a doubt but that since
that period they have greatly increased, and
upon a moderate calculation we may say
there are now more than two thousand lodges
in the world.
-.
Singular custom in the Isle of )llam

If a single young woman prosecute a sin
gle man for a rape, the ecclesiastical judges
87
nished his life in obscurity: Dryden lived

in poverty, and died in distress; Otway,
though his end he variously related, yet all
his biographers agree in this, that he died
prematurely, and in want.
Lee is said to have died in the streets;
Steele lived a-Jife of perfect warfare with
which he tells us it is distinguished for

lVc would have no objection to publish any
eulogium upon an association of youth,
whose motives are as laudable as we know
those of the Mnemosynean Society to be; but
a severe stricture,from the pen of one who
was indebted to the politeness of some one,
of the members of the society, for an oppor
tunity of judging of their performance, we
think highly reprehensible, and cannot in

sert it.
The controversy that arose from the com,
munication of Detector, must not be brought

into the Repertory, therefore Consta'ntius
cannot appear. As the party accused, W'ill
Versatile was entitled to the reply; it has
been inserted, and nothing more can appear.
Besides, Constantius seems entirely to mis
conceive the phillipic of Detector; for D.
does not, in any one instance, either attack
the Mnemosynean Society, or I. R. G. but
has directed his attack against Will Versa
tile only. The facts which C. supposes D.

acquainted with, D. has assured us he was
entirely ignorant of.
L. D. W. is thanked for his pedantic let
ter; it will probably amuse many of our

readers.
\Vhen we commenced the publication of
the budget, some parts of it pleased us much,
but we think it has greatly depreciated; and
from a sense of duty to our subscribers, and
from motives of friendship to \Vill Versa
tile we decline it. We are far from thinking

Will possesses no talents; but we think they
lie more in original composition than in ju
dicious selection. The former may be good
without much study, but a great depth of
bailiffs; Johnson is said to have sold the
reading is absolutely necessary for the lat
Vicar of Wakeeld for a trie, to release its
ter. As we now know who Will is, we would
great author (Goldsmith) from the gripe of be much obliged by his calling on us, when
the law; Fielding lies in the burying ground
of the English factory at Lisbon, without a
stone to mark the spot; Savage died in
Newgate, at Bristol, where he was conned
we probably could suggest something to his

advantage.
The application of Lisnos remarks is very
happy,
thoughaswe
say his composition
is as correct
hiscannot
rst number.
I
for a debt of 31.; and the great biographer

impannel a jury; and if this jury nd him of the English poets, has recorded of the
The poetical essays of Amanthus are en
guilty, he is so returned to the spiritual inimitable author of Huchbras, (Butler) that tirely too incorrect for publication in the
courts, where if he is also found guilty, the all that can be said of him with certainty, is, Repertory.
dunater, (that is, the temporal judge) delivers that he lived neglected and died poor; and
If Romeo be willing that we shall in one
to the woman, a rope, a sword, and a ring, that youthful phenomenon, the immortal
and she has it in her choice to have him Chatterton was so-embarrassed by want, that
he destroyed himself in his 18th year. Such,
hanged, or beheaded, or to marry him.
alas! is the fate'of envied genius. Lon. [1a.
or two instances, use the pruning knife, we

will insert his piece. There is a great deal
of merit in it, but parts are inelegant as well

as incorrect.
Tim FATE or GENIUS.

__0.0
Homer was a begganPlautus turned a

mill; Terence was a slave; Boethius died in
goal; Paulo Borgeyce had fourteen differ
ent trades, and yet starved with all; Tasso
was often distressed for ve shillings; Ben
tevoglio was refused admittance into an hos
pital which he had himself erected; Cer
PHILADELPHIA,
Curious Dina-very.
The remains of an elephant have been dis
covered on the shore of York river, a few
CORRESPONDENCE.
yards within high water mark, near the seat
We cannot perceive that candid observa of Mr. Gawin Corbin, about six miles below
tion in the communication of Simon Snug, h VVilliamsburg. The river, gradually washing
83
.~
Mm
away the southern bank, leaves exposed to
yet apprehend the monster, that he may receive the
view all these marine substances, which
justice of the law that awaits him.

[.N'. York paper.
have been accumulated by some'violcnt in

+
undation, as well as the remains of animals,
which had perished upon the surface of the

earth, previous to the inundation. As the
bones lie, some upon the surface of the
earth, some within one or two feet, we may

believe that the elephant was buried about
Our readers may recollect an account of the fall

of a part of the Chi], near Lover Castle, by which
a mother and her children were killed whose bo
dies were found the next day. A hog'lwas buried in
the ruins at the same time, and was supposed to
have also perished; but, strange as it may appear,
for this work, and the circulating libraries would

gladly have purchased copies of it at ten times its
price. Our fair readers are much indebted toMessx-s.
Hopkins, for presenting them with this happy com
bination of pure precept, interesting narrative, and
elegant style.
[Jtc-w York Commercial Advertiser.
__._
HEALTH OFFICE,
July 27th, 1811.
the workmen, in removing the rubbish, discovered
25 feet deep, that being the general height

of the bank. Some of the bones, as the more
lares or grinders weighing from 4lb. to 7;,
are in a state of perfect preservation; others
moulder when exposed to the air, or are so
decayed as not to withstand the force neces
sary to extricate them from the mud; but
the bones of the pelvis, ribs and vertebraz,

have been carefully collected. Two tusks
were also found, but could not be got up
entire; at the largest end they measured two
feet in circumference, and by adding the
fragments together, or by completing the
curves on the convex and concave sides of
the larger fragment, about three feet in
length, the tusk appears to have been at least
six feet in length. Froma comparison of the
bones with the ostcology of the elephant, no
doubt remains of their belonging to that

animal. These demonstrations of the exist
ence of the elephant in the lower part of this
state, are new, and form a valuable acces
sion to the College Museum.
(Ric/z. Enq.
CARLISLE, July 24~

A sulphur spring has lately been discovered on
the farm late of John MCoy, deceased, in Rye
township, the qualities of which have been proved
to be medicinal, as several persons have been re
lieved of complaints which they have been-labour
ing under for many months. The spring is much
larger, and the water is as much impregnated with
sulphur as any spring in Cumberland county. Any
person or persons wishing to attend'it for the bene
t of their health, can be accomodated with lodging
in the neighbourhood, as it is within fty rods of
MCoys mill, and two miles of Clarks Ferry, on the
Susquehannah.
it alive on Thursday se'nnight, making exactly ve

months and nine days since the accident- At the
time of the accident the animal weighed about sev
en score; he is now wasted to about thirty three
pounds, but is still likely to do well. DuMnPap.
.I
Naples, May 9.
A woman has been delivered at one accouche
ment of 6 male and 7 female children, all alive,and
perfectly organized! They have been preserved
and a more particular description will be given.
The Humane Society of Philadelphia have recom
mended the following to all labourers, in warm

from the 20th to the 27th of July
Direaaer.
ad. cli.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Cancer
2 0 Fever, malignant
l 0
Cholera Morbus
0 14 Fever, hectic
Consump. oflungs 5 0 Hives
I.
2
1
1
O
O
O
Dropsy in the brain 0 1 Small pox, natural 0
Convulsions
Diarrhoea,
Dropsy
'
0 2 Old Age
1 0 Palsey
0 1 Pleurisy
Drowned
Dysentery
Debility
Fever
0 1
0 2
l O
0 1
Fever, nervous
_ __
16 24
-
Total
40
weather.

Carry with you to the place where you labour, a

Under 1
4
quart bottle filled with two thirds molasses, and'
Between 1 and 2
6
60
70
1
one third vinegar; mix about a gill of this liquor
2
5
2
70
80
1
with nearly a quart of water, or half a gill with
5
10
l
80
90
2
10
20
4
90
100
0
nearly a pint of water, and it will afford a cheap,
20
30
3
100
110
0
pleasant, strengthening and nourishing drink, which
30
4O
4
will enable you to sustain both heat and labour,

4-0
50
2
Total 40
much better than ten times the quantity of ardent
spirits. It will moreover take somewhat from the
STATE OF THE THERMOMETER. I
coldness of the water, and thereby prevent the evils
which freqently arise from drinking pump water.
-.
A CURIOUS RACE.
Each party winning stakes!

Two Yankees lately took lodgings for about ten
days at a tavern in Lancaster county, in this state,
and fared sumptuously, drinking two or three bot
tles of wine daily. The last day a dispute arose
about the speed of their horsesthey at last agreed
to enter on the protable contest- The landlord
was appointed judge, each being the rider of his
own horse. When they were mounted, the judge
like those at the Olympic games, gave the word,
one, two, three and GO. Off they went, and have
July 22
23
24
25
26
27
79
74
74
76
75
74
as
76
76
80
76
7e
83
79
79
as
71
76
TEENS or was nsnenronv.


and become responsible for the payment, shall re,
neither been seen or heard of since; leaving the

landlord fully compensated by having had the ho
HORRID ATTEMPT.
On Monday morning the 8th inst. Pem- Doing, nour to be their judge.
*
whose family resides at No- 24 Fell-street, made
the diabolical attempt to poison his wife and Wifeu
LITERATURE.
A Correspondent notices the Novel advertised
daughter, by putting arsenic in the tea-kettle He
excused himself from eating that morning, by pre by Messrs. B. B. Hopkins 8: Co. of Philadelphia, in
tending indisposition. No sooner had they taken the following terms:
The Novel " Self Control, advertised by
part of a cup of tea, and tasted of some fish, which
was boiled in the water poured from the tea-kettle, Messrs- B. B. Hopkins 8t Co. offers a rich treat to
ceived at this oicc, and at the bookstore of licl
than they were taken with violent vomiting. all those who delight in that system of practical lings and Aitken, No. 40, orth Second street.
Medical aid was immediately called, and we are morality which teaches by example, and represents
happy to state that they are in a fair way of recov youth and beauty under the guidance of honest
ery. As soon as the poison began to operate, the principle, safely steering through the dangers of
:
cowardly villain took good care to destroy what dissipated life. Its author has not declared herself
might have led to a further discovery of his guilt, she sent a few copies of it to try their fortune,
PHILADELPHIA,
by throwing away the sh, and emptying all the from Edinburgh to Londonand never was a can
vessels that contained the poison, and then tied The didate for literary praise more completely success
known vigilance of our policeit is to be hoped will ful. The booksellers were besieged by applicants
St- Marys church
-._
'
? bifatefpjiawererfom
Cowman.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 10. till I.
VOL II.
nation of merchants, and that by taking their

ships and men we should get great ransoms.
BIOGRAPHY.
Instead of this, their Preble pays us a coin
of shot, shells, and hard blows, and sent a
(Continued)
Decatur in a dark night with a band of chris
The American navy has seldom had op tian dogs, erce and cruel as the tyger, who
portunity to gain renown. It seems proper killed our brothers and burnt our ships be
in recounting the lives of her commanders fore our eyes.
On the 5th of August the commodore pre
to indulge in more detail than would be to
lerated in the biographical notices of naval vailed on a French privateer which had left
men belonging to a nation long known in Tripoli that morning, to return with 14
the annals of maritime warfare. We have wounded Tripolines whose wounds had been
dwelt on the particulars of this attack on carefully dressed, and whom the commodore
Tripoli as a display of the penetration and sent with a letter to the bashaws minister.
energy of the commodore, and his power of These prisoners it is said informed the prince
infusing his own spirit of heroism into his that the Americans in battle were ercer
otcers and men. We value this achievement than lions, but in the treatment of their cap
as a proof that our countrymen are equal to tives were even more kind than the mussul
the highest kind of naval courage. As might man. The barbarian at rst misunderstood
be expected, it made a powerful impression the motive of sending these men, but after
on the minds of the enemy. The burning of wards professed to be pleased with the act,
the Philadelphia could not fail to make the and said if he took any wounded Americans
bashaw and his people apprehend something they should be likewise returned; but he
serious from the present commander. When would not restore any of the Philadelphias
N0. l2.
vred to gain a position to cut 08 the retreat

of ours; but the larger vessels were so ar
ranged as to defeat their design.
In this rencounter at about half past three,
one of the prize boats was blown up by a
hot shot from the enemys battery, which
passed through her magazine. She had on
board twenty-eight oicers, seamen, and
mariners, ten of whom were killed and six

wounded, among the former were Mr. James
Caldwell rst lieutenant of the Siren, and
Mr. J. Dorsey, midshipman. Mr. Spence,
midshipman, and eleven men were taken up

unhurt. This young ofcer was superintend
ing the loading of a gun when the explosion
took place. He with the survivors nished
the loading, and having discharged her,
whilst the boat was sinking, jumped into the
sea and were taken up by another boat. The

loss this day was twenty-two killed and six
wounded, two of them mortally.

It was afterwards ascertained that the
enemy suffered less at this time than on the

third.
the squadron was seen standing in, however, crew. On the 7th the privateer returned
At eight in the evening the John Adams,
he aected contempt, and surveying them with a letter from the French consul signify capt. Chauncey, joined the squadron. By him
from his palace, observed, they will mark ing that the bashaw had very much lowered the commodore had the rst oicial notice
their distance for tacking; they are a sort of
Jews, who have no notion of ghting. The
palace and terraces of the houses were co
Vered with spectators to see the chastise
ment the bashaws boats would give the
squadron, if they approached too near. This
exultation was very transient. The battle
was scarcely joined, when no one was seen
on shore, except on the batteries. Many of

the inhabitants ed into the country, and the
bashaw, it is said, retreated with his priest
to his bomb proof room. An intelligent of

cer of the Philadelphia then in captivity, ob
serves that the Turks asked if those men
that fought so were Americans or infernals
in christian shape sent to destroy the sons
of the prophet. The English, French and
Spanish consuls, say they, have told us that
they are a young nation, and got their in
dependence by means of France; that they
had a small navy and their oiccrs were in
his tone; and would probably treat on rea

sonable terms. But nothing denite or satis
factory being proposed by the enemy, and
the terms intimated being higher than the
commander was willing or felt authorised to
make, he prepared for a second attack. The
bomb vessels under lieutenants Crane and
Thorn were to take a station in a small bay
west of the town, whence they could distress
the town, without being much exposed them
selves; the gun boats were to be opposed
to a seven gun battery, and the brigs and
schooners to support them in case the
enemys otilla should venture out. At half
past two the assault was made. \Vithin two
hours six of the seven guns were silenced.
Forty-eight shells and about ve hundred
round shot, twenty-four poundcrs, were
thrown into the town and batteries, when
between ve and six P. M. the squadron re
that four frigates were on their passage to

reinforce his detachment. At the same time
also he learned that by the appointment of a

senior oicer to one of the frigates, he would
be superseded in the command. The govern
ment Were highly satised with the com

modore, but they had not a auicicnt num
ber of captains, juniors to Preble, to supply
all the frigates sent out; and they did not
think the saving of his feelings would justify

the creation of any others. Had they how
ever known or anticipated his brilliant suc
cess at this time, they would probably have
ventured upon promoting one or two of the
gallant lieutenants in tlfe Mediterranean in
order to keep the commodore in the chief

command.
,
As the frigates were to sail four days after
the John Adams, further operations were
suspended in expectation of their arrival. No

tired from action. During the engagement,. assistance could be received from this frigate,
experienced, and that they were merely a the enemys gun boats and gallies mantzu-l as her guns had been stowed by the kelson
e
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PHILADELPHA REPERTORY.
m
and standing in, under the direct re of fort would pay the happiness of a doating father,
frigates to make room for her cargo, she be English, the castle, crown and mole batte his daughters ruin? Has the hidalgo of
ries, made signal for the gun boats to retire Spain, the marquis of Malventi, the knight
ing sent out as a transport.
Captain Chauncey received orders to re from action. When arrived within a sure dis of Calatrava, shrunk into the captaiii of a
main on the station, that commodore Preble tance he opened his battery with round and ruthless banditti?
The only answer I received was a frown
might make use of his boats and men, should grape shot, upon 13 gun boats and gallies,
the delay of the expected reinforcement which were closely engaged with ours; sunk from Malventi, and a rude laugh from some
determine him to renew the attack. The one of them; disabled two, and put the rest of the gang.
Your father, my dearMinda, said my hus
squadron kept their station before the town, to flight. He continued running in until
preparedto strike a decisive blow on the ar within musket shot of the batteries; when band, cannot now assist you. You are be
he hove to, red three hundred round shot, yond his power, you are safe within mine,
rival of commodore Barron.
On the ninth, commodore Preble, in the beside grape and canister, into the bashaws and while I live, you shall remain so; for,
brig Argus, reconnoitered the harbour. The castle, town and batteries. He silenced the believe me, though I appear in this uncouth
next day a ag of truce was seen ying on castle, and two of the batteries, and a little garb, there is a heart within this bosom that
throbs with the most ardent affection for you.
the shore. The commodore sent a boat on after six hauled off.
The gun boats red four hundred round It is true, I have in one instance deceived
shore, which was not permitted to land, but
returned with a letter from the French con shot, beside grape and canister, with evident you; yet you are still the marchioness Mal
venti, your husband still a hidalgo of Spain,
sul advising the commodore that the bashaw effect.
A boat from the John Adams, with a mas
and a knight of Calatrava.
would accept ve hundred dollars each for
the ransom of the prisoners and terminate ter's mate and eight men on board, was stink
You can well conceive my increased au~
the war without any consideration or annuity by a double headed shot, which killed three guish, my dear young lady, upon hearing
seamen and badly wounded another. The this; yet with shame I QWn, I pitied rather
for peace.
The amount of the demand was about effect of this attack was serious on shore. A than despised the author of my misery, for
150,000 dollars, which the commodore re thirty-six pound shot penetrated the castle I loved him in spite of myself. Finding every
jected, but for the sake of the captives and and entered the apartment of the prisoners, effort to escape, which I determined to do
to save the further effusion of blood, offered and damage Was done to houses and some if possible, ineffectual, I endeavoured to re
concile myself to a destiny it was impossible
eighty thousand and ten thousand for pre lives destroyed.
The French commissary now renewed the to avoid, being treated with the most endear
sents. After beginning to treat with the
French coinmissary general, the bashaw sus negotiation for peace, but it was broken off ing affection by Malventi, and the most pro
pended the negotiation, saying he would wait in consequence, as he thought, of one of the found respect by the band.
the result of another attack. On the night squadron approaching the harbour, as a car
A circumstance that soon after happened,
of the twenty-third, the bomb vessels under tel, which he said was interpreted by the madca deep impression upon Malventi, and
protection of the gun-boats, were sent in to ignorant and mistrustful bashaw as a proof of was the prelude to a series of disasters. One
bombard the town. The bombardment com discouragement on the part of the invader.
day, while Malventi and the rest of the troop
(To be continued.)
menced at two A. M. and continued till day
were out, Bernardo, who was left to protect
.
light; but as it was subsequently ascertained
me, and guard the cavern, grossly insulted
For the Repertory.
me, nay, swore to use force to obtain the
without much effect. _
gratication of his wishes, when my husband,
On the twenty-seventh the weather prov
on
who had unexpectedly returned, entered,
ing favourable, the commodore stood in for
and discovering the villany of his troop
Tripoli, and anchored his ship two miles N.
er, drew a pistol from his belt, and dis
by E. from fort English; the light vessels
A TALE.
charged it at Bernardo. The ball entered
keeping under way. A number of his of
CHAPTER V:
his side, and he'instantly sunk senseless up
cers and many of the seamen being employ Then tell me, was not this enough to freeze
and their carriages put away in the other
the oor. Nothing could exceed the rage of
ed in the boats, captain Chauncey, and se
veral of his officers with about 70 seamen,

volunteered their services on board the Con
stitution.
The gun boats accompanied by the Siren,
The feeling- heart to adamant! to check

The native current of the soul, and swell
Love's gentle streamlet to the sea of hate!

NON.
Malventi at the audacity of the robber. He

ordered his body to be thrown out of an
aperture in the cavern into the river, that
The feelings that agitated my bosom, rolled near, which was accordingly done,
Argus, Vixen, Nautillus, Enterprize, and proceeded Minda, soon gave way to a though I entreated him to permit the corpse
boats of the squadron anchored at three in the deadly sickness, and I fainted in the arms of to be interred.
morning, within pistol shot of the enemys Malventi. When I recovered, I found him
Three weeks after this event, as Malventi
lines, with springs on their cables, and com bending over me in the fondest solicitude, and myself were enjoying the refreshing
menccd a brisk re on their shipping, town, and as Iopened my eyes, Heaven be praised. breezes upon the margin of the river I urg
batteries, and castle, which was warmly re he exclaimed, she lives, she lives. My be ed him to forsake his wretched course of
turned. The ships boats remained with the loved Minda, continued he, why will you life, and enjoy domestic happiness with me,
-gun boats to assist in boarding the otilla in give way to these unnecessary terrors? in upon the small patrimony which my beloved,
case it should come out, and the brigs and my arms you are safe from all unhappiness, but unfortunate father had left me.
schooners were kept .under way either to protected by my power, you are secure from
It cannot be, said he, it can never,
harass the enemy or to assist the gun boats. all danger.
never be! my dear Minda, I cannot return
At day light, apprehensive that the ammuni
\Vretchl" cried I, unfeeling, ungen to the world in the character of Malventi,
tion in the gun boats must be nearly ex erous wretch; is this your boasted affection! and without that, I will forever abjure man
hausted, the commodore weighed anchor, , is this your honour, this the respect you kind. You shall one day know the reason
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why I left the world; shall know that I was

happy, till deceit and treachery destroyed
me.
As he spoke this, a tear started into his
eye, but he quickly dashed it off. We now
perceived a man approaching us, muffled in
a cloak, who drawing near to us, exclaimed
in a hollow voice, Malventi!

My husband started at the sound of his
name, but his courage soon returning, he
cried, what WOUlCi you with Malventi?
Nothing but this, replied the stranger, in
a low tone of voice, swear not to open the
paper which I shall deliver you, until I am

ought of sight."
\Vherefore!" inquired Malventi, but
no matter, by all my hopes I swear.
It is enough," returned the stranger,
and throwing down a small note sealed, he

instantly departed with precipitation. Mal
venti anxiously watched him until he entire
ly disappeared, and then, breaking the seal
of the paper, to his astonishment, and to my
great terror, he read only these words:
Tremble Malventi, for Bernardo lives!
The villain will betray me, cried Mal
venti, but recovering his composure, and

despising the threat, he prudently resolved
to provide against any attempt Bernardo
might make. VV'e accordingly returned to
the cavern, where he convened the troop
and related the circumstance that occurred,
ordering the cavern to be prepared for a vi
gorous defence in case of an attack. Every
thing was accordingly done, and centinels
placed upon the skirts of the forest, to give

notice of any attempt against our Safety. Af
ter our evening meal was concluded, Mal
venti told me, that since the efforts of Der
nardo might possibly separate him from me,

he was determined to relate his story, if my
patience would listen to him. I consented,
when calling in one of the band, he entered
with a blooming infant in his arms, which
Malventi received from him, and thus ad
dressed me:
For some months, my dear Minda, this
infant has been under the care of a poor pea

sants daughter, but to day! sent for him
to conde him to yours. Protect him, for

though the offspring of illicit intercourse, he
is your husbands son, and surely ought not
to suffer for the crimes of his parents.
I took the trembling little one in my
arms, and gazing a few moments on his rosy
cheeks, a tear involuntarily started into my
eyes, I prest him to my bosom, and declared
that I would shelter him as my own. The
band were now seated round a
cheerful
re that blazed upon the hearth, when Mal

venti related the principal transactions of his
life, as nearly as I can recollect, in the fol

lowing manner.
The story qf'lazvmti.
I was born in Seville, in Spain, and am
descended from one of the most noble fami
lies of my county. My father was a hidalgo,
his title Don Juan Velasquez de Leon, mar
quis of Malventi, and knight of the order of
Calatrava. My mother was the only daugh
ter of the count of Algoronza, a nobleman,
For the Repertdry.
THE CABINET. No. XLVII.

Groan answers groan, to anguish anguish yields,
And deaths loud accents shake the tented fields!
High rears the end his grinning jaws, and wide
Spans the pale nations with collossal stride,
\Vaves his broad falchion with uplifted hand,
And his vast shadow darkencs all the land.
DAR\VIN.
In what point of his character can we

than whom none stood higher in the esteem contemplate him in which man appears so
of his sovereign. The same hour that gave much of a demon as when engaged in war?
the daughter of Algoronza to my father, saw Humanity shrinks aghast when she beholds
my fathers sister united to the brother of countless thousands treading over the blood
his wife, and by this marriage the families besprinkled eld, each anxious to prove
were rmly joined by love and interest. which is the most completely skilled in the
\Vhat may seem more extraordinary, my horrid business of murder, many of whom
dear Minda, the hour that gave birth to your not even know for what they ght. Fame
unfortunate Malventi, presented the count with her deceitful smiles allures them on;
of Algoronza with a grand-son.
the hope of fame gives energy to the soldier;
Fortune seemed to frown on my cousin the hope of fame invigoratcs the general.
and myselffrom our infancy, for ere we had
When we contemplate the noble-minded
reached our third year, I had lost my me patriot, who exercises his greatest faculties
ther, and my cousin found himself without a in the defence of his country against lawless
parent. In consequence of this misfortune, oppression, we admire his manly courage,
my good father, my cousin and myself, went and we look upon his band of veterans who
to reside with the venerable Algoronza, fought from necessity, and not from choice,
where we lived happily and in the greatest with reverence. \Ve grant their right to the
harmony with each other, until age sunk his ever blooming laurels which fame has en
grand-sire to the grave, and raised the young twined around their brows: we hear her
Alberto to be the count of Algoronza. At loud-mouthed trumpet spread their vic
this period we were near sixteen years old, tories abroad and are proud: they are the
and from this period may the misery and victories, not of cruelty, but of that heaven
guilt of my life be dated, since it was soon born spirit whose greatest spoil is freedom,
after this that the circumstances which led and whose greatest boast is clemency.
But when we see the unbridled ambition
to them occurred.
On the evening which made us seventeen of insatiated tyrants driving whole hosts into
years of age, the young count celebrated the the tempest of the battle, to lay down their
anniversary of our birth by a pompous mas lives for some petty acquisition of territory
querade, to which all the nobility, for miles or title, we feel an inward horror at the
round the country, were invited; and among name of war: and when we hear their vic
the rest Don Antonio Gomez, heir to the tories promulgated throughout the world
crown, and his beautiful daughter, Isabella, with the enthusiasm of satisfaction, we look
graced our company. Never before had I for christianity in vain. What must be the
beheld so fair a person or so enchanting a sensations of military despots after having
face. Her soft blue eyes beamed inexpressi gained that which there was only dishonour
ble sweetness, her auburn hair played in in attempting to gain, when they look around
small ringlets upon the breeze that issued them for one moment with the eye of
through the hall, and received fresh odour thought? when they survey their own do
from the perfume of her breath; the rose of minions, perhaps almost depopulatcd, and
her check seemed to vie with the coral of the dominions of their enemies laid in more
her lips; there appeared majesty in her de awful ruin? when they consider how many
portmcnt that awed into respect, and yet widows weep over the untimely death of
such a condescension of her manners, that those who were once their protectors and
the meanest could approach her without re delight; how many orphans yet lisping who
mourn for those on whom were placed near
straint.
To be eontined
ly their sole dependence; how many hug
_Q_'
bands returning from fighting their battles,
Henry of France asked a lady which was the who find the hapless members of their fami
way to her bed-chamber. To which she sensi lies torn by the relentless blood-hounds of
bly and modestly replied, the only way to my their savage sport? Tell me, ye tyrants, what
are your sensations when you think of these
bed-chamber, Sir, is through the church.
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awful attendants on your course of ambitious read, and if I may judge from the attering
extravagance and unfecling cruelty? Childish plaudits with which the softer sex, (bless
ambition! demoniac pursuit! have then the the dear ceatures,) have overwhelmed me,
robes of royalty taught you, child-like, but as universally admired. It is on this account,
to pant for something still more gaudy? do and this account only, that I appear again
your victories but teach you to wish still to before you, and declare to you my intention
be rendering yourself amore extensive vic of writing for your neat little paper, as often
tor? And what then? Say that you have the as leisure from my military studies will per
whole world under your feeble command, mit. It has been the practice of authors time
where is your increase of delight? are you immemorial to give the public a short sketch
still unsatised? Then scale the regions above of their lives, and indeed the practice is so
you, for your overgrown pride has doubtless generally followed that the readers of a
convinced you ere now, that you are equal periodical work look for the histt ry of the
in power to the Deity! Are your conquests writers, no less than the history of the times.
in pursuit of happiness? listen to the philo Never let us follow a new plan of going
sopher Cineas, who asked Pyrrhus, after through our evolutions," was the advice of
having heard all his plans of conquest and an old colonel whom you shall hear more of
briars before the door, and fell into the fol'

lowing reections.
I have now, thought he, got a son,
for the rst time in my life, and certain am I

from his appearance that he is brought into
the world for some great and important
purposes; their is an air of nobility in his
very look which indicates it, and I will con
sider it as my most particular duty to bring

that boy up in the line of warfare. Yes, in the
line of warfare, for who cuts such a gure on
the page of history as the warrior; who lls
the youthful imagination with such panting
ambition, who wakes his soul to such tem
estuoua sensations as the Warrior; who is so
ges, what he intended to do alter his return.
useful to his country, and who so honour

able to himself? Yes, my son shall be a war
hereafter, until We are convinced, and that rior, and nothing now remains but to give
fully, of the advantage it possesses over the him some ne heroic name: and a heroic
\Vhy then, my dear Cineas," replied Lht:
old one. So 1 think too, and therefore shall
king,
shall have, for I will call him after the dis

dedicate this number, to myself.
\Vherever this may be read, if read aloud, abled old colonel who lives at the foot of the
I beg that silence may be called, if not, I beg hill, poor old Hugh Hardfare; he was a brave
that the reader will x himself in his chair, man; lull many a time have I fought by his
aggrandizement from the Tiber to the Gan
victorious, contented, we would
laugh at our ease, and be happy." My
lord, said the philosopher, 6'- and if you

promise yourself but this, after so long, and
so fatiguing an eXpedition, on your return to adjust his cravat, blow his nose, hawk three
Epirus, why not be happy without going out times, spit, take a pinch of snuff, compose
his countenance and begin:
of it?
But admitting the pursuit of the warrior
I, Hugh Headlofty, concerning whom
to be happiness, (which I can hardly con the public is about to be much interested,
ceive,) there is a selsh cruelty in making am a native of Virginia, and was born in the
himself happy at the expense of the lives of midst of the Tapxitanian tribe of leather
so many men, and the comforts of so many pated Indians, my mother was a very noble
families. It is therefore we see that such minded woman, and my father by the timel
expeditions are never undertaken by the good was born was cutting what we Virginians
king, or ruler of a nation; he wishing his call some highcmars among the deer, and
people to escape the ravages of war never other wild game with which our country
commences one; and they, in gratitude for abounds; on coming home he found my
his peaceful policy, and out of attachment to mother sitting up in bed, and no sooner had
so mild a government, are always ready to he entered the room than she handed me to
lay down their lives in its defence against him, saying, Here, Nebuchadnezzar, here is
a present for you; and I hope, continued my
the inroads of invaders.
War is in short a end bread in the fury mother, that he will one day be a great man,
of the mind, and exists because of the various an honour to his parents and useful to his
dispositions and manners of nations, nor can country. 1 hope, continued she, Mr. Head
we ever expect that it will be extirpated till lofty, to see this son of yours some day pre
one religion prevails over the earth, and men

are all bound to each- other by the strongest
name," continued he, with enthusiasm, he
side in the wars of Scotland, and when l was

wounded I found him humane. Yes, my son
shall be called Hugh.

He hastened to my mother and informed
her of his resolution; she in compliment to
his having wished me a warrior immediately

agreed to it, and thus was I named sans
ceremonie Hugh Headlofty; the Hardfare

was omitted in consequence of the old mans
request, as he insisted on it, that it would
be productive of bad luck. 1 was, however,
with the greatest pleasure granted his rst

name, and thus according to the warlike no
tions of my father, had I a warlike instruc
tor. Accordingly when I had attained a suf
cient age, the old soldier taught me the
manual exercise with a wooden gun, and be
fore I was fourteen years old I was the cap
tain of six boys nearly my own age, who were

all I could muster within three miles, and
we had at different times charged success~
paring for the glories of the eld, and mak fully all the pig styes we could nd, and put
ing ready to slay on every hand around him to ight the only flock of geese in the
ties of fraternity which no circumstances the enemies of liberty, and spreading in country. This we effected with missile
will ever be able to disunite. It is then our
most sacred duty to contribute our mite to
their camp
Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.
its glorious accomplishment, and to endea
weapons, as upon such occasions as these
our guns were totally useless. Indeed we

were particularly careful in carrying our
I hope he will even be a general, who will

vour to hasten that happy period, when the
arms, lest the cracking of the wooden spring
rival in fame all the heroes of antiquity, and
breath of contentment and social pleasure
bursting over the barrier of forests scour the might reach the camps of the enemy and
shall be inhaled by its inhabitants, and the
precipitate their ight. Thus the principal
surrounding mountains of our maurauding
wing of concord stretched over the wide ex
part of my education being a la militairc,
neighbours, and prove himself, to use a
tended universe. GREGORY GRAVITy_
Was 1 growing up in the heart of the coun
poetic expression,
try, or if I had anotion of giving my readers

*
For the Repertory

MY LIFE, WRITTEN BY MYSELF,
I trust, Mr. Editor, that my essay on Re.
In war the mountain tyger, peace, the valley lamb.
My father smiled his according wishes and

restored me to her embraces; after which
having prepared all things necessary for tea,
fmemem of Language has been universally be seated himselfin a lovely arbour of poison
a romantic line or two in poetry,

In wilds remote from proud renement far,
Trod only by the foot of restless enterprize.
HUGH HEADLUFTY.
(To be continued)
For the Repertory.
gnnamns or NATURE. No. It.
just ready to be ushered in, to ll our minds

with gladness.
LISNO.
On the ensuing morning, as soon as l

awoke from my slumber, my ears were sa
For the Repertory.
luted with notes of melody. The early birds
THE PROPIIIATION.
as they sung welcome to the morn,bade me
BOOK ll.
Continued.
Chemos concludes the account of his embassy.
Now years had rolld, and still my search was vain,
arise from bed, and follow to the eld; while
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He looked towards the hill, when passing by, 615
And frowned tremendous from his dreadful eye!
Mcthoughtythat glance seemd forcibly to say
Hells frown on earth receives a blow to day!
Too soon was veried the truth of this,
Big with but we to us, to man but bliss.

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'loo soon despair my endlike bosom swelld,
Too soon a fatal sight my eyes beheld,
'l'oo soon for hell, the wondrous man appeard
The very personage our sovereign feard.
Now he approachd the arenaceous shore
62:}
With wondring countless numbers coverd o'er;
Soon, soon he met the holy Baptists eyes,
Who gazed a moment and exulting' cries:
from afar, the murmurs of the rill among

the rocks, and the rustling of the breeze
among the towering oaks, joining in concert,
bid jarring sounds be still, and at the toll they
That hell might fear. Delight and. smiling joy, 555

on this conviction every power employ.
hushed. I hastened to the scene to glut my
As one, who wand'ring through the trackless wild,
This is the man of whom Jehovah said,
mind with rich variety, from natures bound

less store. Onward I moved, and as I roam
With hurried pace, of every joy beguiled,

Pursues th'e dangrous path with trembling tread,
\Vhile evry hope has from his bosom ed;
560
Delighted sees, upon his anxious sight,
Rise through the gloom a distant taper-5 light,
Alluring hope usurps his late despair,
He sees the beam, his heart expatiates there:
Evn so the king, whom pale despair had seized, 565
Now nds his breast from evry fear releasd.
Woman thy seed shall bruise the serpents head. 630

This was the Saviour.Dainned end, thou liest,
The man you mention cannot tie the Christ!
Starting erect the furious monarch cries,
While danger gleamd in his indignant eyes.
Then back recoiling conscious of the truth,
655
His face beamd horror- If, he cried, sooth,
The glorious personage you saw should be
The great Redeemer, the eternal He,
I dread to think! your monarch is undone,
And fearful ruin threatens every one!
640
If such the truth, ye spirits all prepare
For greater torture and increased despair!
ed 1 passed huge trees and moss grown

steeples, stretching their lofty tops far in the
air; while the silent breeze wafted odours on
its wing as from the flowers they arose. No

gloomy clouds longer obscured the sky, but
a beautiful serenity prevailed. The morning
star still glimmered in the east, to deck the
spreading twilight, adding splendour to the
smiling prospect; and the moisture of the
air prepared the mind for a survey. Now
had I reached the deep, coursing its way
in silent, solemn, majesty; while the poplars
fanning over me, waved gently to and fro. The
warbling tribe stilluttercd round me, and
notes harmonious sounded in my ear. The
ocks and herds now left the place of their
retreat, and steered their course for those
hills which I chanced to spy rising gradual

ly one above another, till lost in height and
distance. I then surveyed a wide extended

vale, over which was scattered the habitations
of industry,a.nd where the smiles that beamed

on each countenance, told me it was the seat
of peacable content. There I beheld the

elds growing up with plentious crops of
grain, and ripening for the harvest to rcwztrd
the farmers toils. There also the different
fruit trees, bending and weary with the load
that pressed them down, were easing their
branches on the fruitful earth. Still as I

gazed new objects struck my view; nor was
there any bounds to splendid beauties, but
the extent of human sight. Nature now only
seemed refreshed by the excesses of the
evening storm. Elated thus in rupture I be
held, until the sun had risen in his course,
Not one I found, within her wide domain,
As Chemos thus th attentive host addressd,
And rst the failure of his plan expressd.

The ends rcprieved from evry horror seemd,
And furious pleasure from each visage beamd; 570
Untimely pleastu-e, doonid 0 increase their pain;
For soon pale terror recommenced her reign,
When what remaind for Chemos yet to tell,
Like bursting thunder in their senses fell.
Yet lest the fears that lld our souls were true 575
And the dread cause lies hidden from our view,
Chemos resumed, I thought it best to wait,
And watch on earth the interest of our state.

By Jordans side I took my dreadful stand,
On a tall mountain that oerlookd the land;
580
Near to that spot where in the days of old,
On either side the yielding waters rolld,
Where Joshua rose the hero of his God,
And Israels tribe the opening channel trod.
And here my tongue would fsin forget its use, 585
Nor in your ear the deadly truth infuse;
But tell I must, howeer my soul detests
To utter aught that tends to pain your breast.
Long had I waited anxious still to nd
Ifyet were come the saviour of mankind;
590
Near thirty years had passed when there appeard
A pious fool whom all the nation feard;
In Jordan's tide the holy preacher stood,
And-bathed their bodies in the unconscious ood;
No terrors seized me, for the wretch I viewd, 595
As one who like the many would delude.
But soon I found, as I had been foretold,
Hell is no more, and treble is our grief,
Without a ray ofhope to beam relief!

Thus satan and the listning furies hear
645'
Their frowning danger overwhelmed with fear!
Mammon more closely hugs his sordid heaps,
And the pale spirit for his riches Weeps;
While Cliemos, trembling at the monarchs ire,
Resumed his story as the chiefs require.
659
Forth from the stream the humble Jesus came,
While all the people praise the eternal name.
Awhile he stood upon the crowded shore,
His glowing visage brighter than before;
A pealing anthem swelld the air around
655
And the skies burst asunder at the sound!
New glories beamd from heaven, and sweetly shed

Their fair eulgence on the Saviours head,
But now the third of that tremendous three,
The dreadful author of our misery,

Who on our rebel ranks his vengeance hurld
And ung our spirits to this dismal \vorld,
Descends in glorious aluence from above,
Home on the pinions of immortal love!
Upon the Saviour all perceived her rest,
665
While strange amaze pervaded every breast!
So Noahs dove, forgotten years before,
To the tall ark the peaceful emblem bore,
And now descends, O mighty gift of love!
In him was seen Elijah, seer of old,

Emblem of peace, to mark the heavenly dove; 670
He whom we once astonished saw arise,
Glorious she came and silently presaged
In burning glory, to the opening skies!
600 The waves of ruin would be soon assuaged!
Now to a distance through the ambient air,
Chemos resumed, let every end conceive,
ascending those distant hills, and called me With rising fear, I threw a deadly glare,
What pain or horror such a sight would give.
Terrible sight, that struck with dread my breast, 675
to retire. Thus in the space of one short When full before me, at a distance, 1
And lled with fear the adders in my crest!
night, may a scene of horror and dread con Beheld a stream of glory from the sky,
Descending swiftly, as it nearer drew,
fusion, be changed into one the most smiling A man approaching met my wandering view; 605 But now a voice descended from on high
Shook, as it rolld, the regions of the sky;
and pleasant. Though clouds may at times Around his head the lambiant radiance shone,
With sounding force approaching swiftly near,
grow thick and lowering, though friends Of all the throng, aiound his head alone!
It broke like thunder on my sutrtled ear:
680
forsake and leave us to the mercy of the Shakes not your souls, as then in terror mine
This, this, it cried, is my beloved son,
610 My soul is pleased with all that he has done!
yawning waves, and nature all assuming to Shook conscious of the presence all divine;
What need of more, the heavenly voice lknew,
open its angry jaws, and threaten to devour, if Hosts in amazement viewd, and well they might
Look in amaze upon the glorious sight;
And from the spot in fearful haste I ew;
We are at peace with our God, in those erce The heavenly vision all my joy devourd,
The verge of earth afforded a retreat,
685
threatenings great blessings may be hid, Fearful I shriekd and neath my pinions cowerdl
But about as conscious of our late defeat!
94
m
There I retired, a moment to deplore

That hell must reign oer rescued man no more:
"hen plunging downwards through the yielding
main
Sought these black realms and all our woes again!
. The tale Ive utterd, gallant chiefs, is true,
To council safety now remains with you.
There the gamester light or jolly,

There the lender grave and sly.
cumulating upon their names and their or
Wealth, my lad, was made to wander,

Let it wander as it will;
with steadfast malignity their plan of re

venge, when they received a blow from an
unexpected quarter, which confoundedthem
der, the enemies of Grandier were pursuing
Call the jockey, call the pander,

Bid them come and take their ll.
for a while, and checked the career of their
692
malice. The archbishop of Bourdeaux, Mes

tropolitan of that district, paid a visit about
this time to his abbey of St. Jouin, in the
neighbourhood of Loudun. As soon he was
When the bonney blade carouses,

Pockets full and spirits high,
-.
For the Repertory.
What are acres, what are houses?

THE SONNETTEER. NO I.
Only dirtor wet or dry.
TO NIGHT.
See nights dun curtain wraps the darksome pole.

'
00 x L v I a.
New silence reigns, the winds are lulld to sleep,

The sea boys song expires upon the ear;
And, save the rolling restless rivers sweep,
No sound is heard, no wandring step is near.
Oh! how I love thy sober shadows, night,
When sweet tranquility descends with thee;
Tis then reection loves tindulge her ight,

And all her pensive charms reside with me.
Tis then a chastend, melancholy power
Leads my lone steps to some secluded grove,
acquainted with the affairs of that town, he
Should the guardian, friend, or mother,

Tell the woes of wilful waste;
Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother
You can hang or drown at last.
sent his physician to examine the possessed.

All was in a moment as quiet as the grave,
and no vestige of possession could any longer
be discovered.
SLANDER
In the mean time Grandier, conding no
What mortal but Slander, that serpent, has stung?
more in the gross complexion and self
Whose teeth are sharp arrows, a razor her tongue;
evident absurdity of the whole contrivance,
The poison of asps her vivid lip loads,
laid before the archbishop a clear and manly
The rattle of snakes with the spittlc of toads;
account of the proceeding, with a particular
Her throat is an open sepulchre; her legs
Sit hatching of vipers and cockatrice eggs;
ller sting is a scorpions; like hycna, shell cry;
exposition of the motives which urged his
enemies to so devilish a conspiracy. The

archbishop, touched with the representa
The mouth of a monkey, the hug of a hear,
tions of Grandier, deputed unbiassed persons
The head of a parrot, the chat of a hare:
to examine fairly and dispassionately the cir
The wing of a magpye, the snout of a hog,
The feet of a mole, and the tail of a dog;
cumstances of this extraordinary aair; and
ller claw is a tygers, her forehead is brass,
to this end to separate the afflicted persons,
With the hiss of a goose, and the bray of an ass.
so as eectually to prevent the possibility of
.
collusion. Such was the virtue of this decree,
EPIGRAM.
that the whole legion ol'spirits were instant
Tom taken by Tim his new mansion to view,
ly put to ight. Barre withdrew himself to
Observed, twas abig one, with windows too few.
Chinon, and all was restored to perfect tran
With the ear of an adder, a basilisks eye;
Where, undisturbd, unmindful of the hour,
1 rest and muse on absent friends I love.

When, night, again thou comst to shade the scene,
Bring on thy sombre wings tranquility serene.
EDWY.
_.....
For the Repertory.
TO MISS You tell me, Mary, I no more
(As I have done) must call you mine;
" That allour hours of bliss are o'er,
And I alike no more am thine.
Then, then, no more when evening's shade
Draws nigh, across the distant glade
As for that, ansvvered Tim, Im the builders
for-giver,
For taxes twill save, and thats good for the liver.
Replied Tom, since you live upon farthings and
mites,
'W'ell roam together, evening hail
Its good for the liver, but bad for the fig/Its!
And breathe our vows upon the gale.

.-
That mind I thought a gentle mind,]

Has provd as boistrous as the wind;
That heart I thought a heart that loved,
Alas! untrue, unkind, has proved.
Then go, and to another give
You mistake. said th other, on the back his
'I'hough while in this sad world I live.

My fate is anguish and despair!
ROMEO.
friend slapping,
Tis only the razor, you see, he is urn/Wing.
Call the Betseys, 'ates, and Jermeys,

All the names that banish care; ,
Lavish of yotu- fathers guineas,
Show the spirit of an heir.
All that prey on vice or folly,
Joy to see their quarry y;
dren from its school, and the nuns became
the fable and the jest of the whole neigh

bourhood. In the midst of these cross acci
dents, however, Mignon relaxed nothing of
as unexpected as it was decisive, drove the
And he bawld aloud, where have you been now,
Ive only been out to the play with Pat Horn."
current of adversity with such fatal violence

against the unhappy Grandicr, that neither
patronage, talents, nor the justice of his
cause, could avail to protect him. It happen
By the powers, my jewel, O'Kaiferty said,
ed that-about this time, there went an order
born,
Mind your work or youll put a horn pm on my

head.
spiracy brought the convent into so great

discsteem, that parents withdrew their chil
EPIGRAM.
my dear?
_
My dear Teague, she answered, as sure as Im
Loosend from the minors tether,

Free to mortgage or to sell,
Wild as wind, and light as feather,
Bid the sons of thrift farewell.
bishop of Poiticrs fell very low in the public

esteem, while all extolled the candour of his
Says Teague to his wife, let me whisper your ear,
.--
Long expected one and twenty,

Lingring year, at length is own;
Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty,
Great young fool, are now your own.
test of a fair inquiry; and the name of the
his horrid purposo, and his hate was only the

more exasperated by disappointment.
W'hile things were in this train, an event
a.
Dr. Johnstons extemporaneous Verses, on an ex

travagant young heir, coming of age, not generally
included in his Works
doubt but that the business shrunk from the
Metropolitan. This bad success of the con
EPIGRAM.
Two gentleman taking a walk t'other day,
Passd acoblcrs snop, Razor his name, on the way,
Behold in this shop, exclaimed one, " on my life
The fellow is lustily lathen'ng his wife!
Your ckle heart, relentless fair;
quillity. No reasonable man after this could
from the council to dismantle all the for

tresses throughout the interior part of the
--.
kingdom, and M. de Laubardemont Was com
missioned to destroy that of Loudun. This
accovxr or The CELEBRATE!)
man was entirely devoted to cardinal Riche
URBAN GRANDIER.
lieu, the ordinary instrument of his oppres
Continued.
Regardless of the interpretations which sions, and, when any subject was to be sacri
good sense might have given to their pro ficed without the formalities of justice, the
ceedings, and of the infamy they were ac. most dexterous agent on those sanguinary
IgHlLADEPHIA REPERTORY.
~
95
occasions.'An old connexion had subsisted

between him and the persecutors of Gran
dier; and no sooner did he make his appear
posite the son, dicred in opinion upon a

subject they were discoursing about, and
rather than have any serious dispute, they
on Friday last. She is to sail this day for
ance at Loudun, but the cabal recovered
agreed to leave it to the gentleman oppo
their spirits, and rallied round him with an
site themthey then stated the case and
exultation which they took but little pains desired his opinionthe son was silent
Singular Circumstance. In the small town of

Camden, opposite Philadelphia, avery curious cir
cumstance has lately occurred. A game cock took
to conceal.
a great dislike to a brood of chickens, which his
Some time before these events, a woman

named La Hamon, belonging to the town of
Loudun, had accidently recommended her
self to the notice ofthe queen, in whose ser

vice she now was employed. As she had
manifested abilities much above the com
mon rate, and no despicable vein of wit and
i'rony, a suspicion fell upon her, supported
they waited a little longer, and then desired

him to decidestill he kept silentthe
favourite hen had hatched, and cruelly peeked

three of them to death. Some time after this, poor
claimed, \Vhy the fell0ws a fool! Upon
partlet sickened and died, and chantieleer,~repent
which the son started up, and called out
ing of his former barbarity, new acts the part of the

mother; searches food for the remaining chickens,
every night nestles them under his wings, and.
whoever attempts to disturb them is certain of be ing attacked by this repentant murderer. \Vho
after this will dare to affirm that the brute crea
tion are not conscious of right and wrong, nor sus
ceptible of the tender passions.
Father, father, they have found me out!

+
A sea captain having made some mate

rial blunders in his reckoning, and nding
that he could not discover the latitude, walk
La Hamon, who had been one of his parish
ioners, it occurred to the conspirators that

they could not by any contrivance more ef
fectually promote their object, than by at
tributing to this unfortunate man a corre
spondence with the supposed authoress, and
ed the deck in great despondence, wringing

his hands, and crying out in a pathetic tone,
Oh! if my dear wife knew where I was!"
By St. Patrick, (said a surly tar,) I would

much rather, sir, that you knew yourself.
-_o.-
The abbe G
, was once engaged in a
violent dispute with a gentleman among a

large party, who being at the bottom of the
table, the distance between them rendered the
accomplishment of any personal insult im

practicable. Sir," said the gentleman, if
I were near you,I should give you a box

on the ear, so you may consider the blow as
given. And sir, replied the abbe, were
I near you, I should draw my savord, and run
you through the body, so you may consider
yourself as dead.
_..._.
a particular concern in this perilous satire.

SURGICAL BON MOT.
Other schemes were also adopted for ex

asperating the cardinal against the unhappy
preside at the examination of surgeons, ques
ecclesiastic, and things were in this posture
tion minutely, those who wish to become
when M. de Laubardemont returned to

Paris. He there made a report of the condi
tion of the nuns, whom he represented to be
really possessed with devils, after having
given them, as he declared, a full and unpre
judiced examination. It is true, that since the

arrival of Laubardemont a numerous rein
forcement had been added to the list of the
-.-
gentleman looked steadfastly at him, ex
by other circumstances, of having written a
most unmerciful satire upon the cardinal,

entilled La belle C'orzlonnierc'. In this piece
were contained reections the most gelling
upon his birth, his person, and his character,
but more particularly a ludicrous account of
his eminences passion for a female cobbler.
The rulling propensity of Richelieus heart
was that of revenge; and the smart that fol
lowed from this lampoon excited such a
storm of this passion in his mind as the
world saw plainly was not to be appeased
without some victim or other.
As Grandier was well acquainted with
France, and has Mr. Barlow on board.
It is well known that the veterans who
qualied. After answering very satisfactorily
I'm.
Important at this season of the year. A number of

ne pictures and valuable furniture is yearly spoil
ed by the ies; or if this is prevented it is generally
done, only but great attention and trouble. The
following simple way of preventing ies from sitting
on pictures, or any other furniture, is well experi
enced and will, if generally used, prevent trouble
and damages.
Let a large bunch of locks soak for ve or six
days in a pailful of water, and wash your picture,
or any other piece of furniture with it. The ies
will never come near any thing so washed,
Q
LONGEVITY.
The following extraordinary instance of Longevity,

is given in a late German Journal:
There is now living near Polosk, on the from
tiers of Livonia, a Russian, who served under Gus,
tavus Adolphus, king of Sweden. He was present

at the battle of Pultaway, in 1709, at which time
he was 86 years of age, At the age of 93 he enters
to the numerous inquiries made, a young ed in t0 the marriage state, and had children. The
gentleman was asked what he would pre family of this Patriarch consists 0t 186 individuals,
scribe, if he wished to give his patient a who reside together in a village, which compred
profuse perspiration. He mentioned many hands 10 houses. This old man now enjoys a per.
diaphoretic medicines, in case the rst failed, feet state of health, though now 180.
Tullocleu Phil. .Mag- for Nov. 1803.
and had some hopes he should pass with
credit; but the unmerciful examiner thus
_.
possessed, and the ladies had somewhat im
continued: Pray, sir, suppose none of those.
A London paper of June 4th, states the present
proved themselves in the parts they were to

play.
succeed, what step would you take next?
cost of the war to be 250,0001. per day, that is,
(To be continued)
0-
Silence not always a proof of wisdom.
A gentleman who had the ill fate to have

a son very weak in his intellects, was con
tinually recommending silence as the best
method of hiding his imperfections. It so
happened that the father took his son to an
entertainment, and for want of room to set
together, they were obliged to take sepa

rate 5
After dinner, two gentlemen, op
\Vhy sir, replied the harassed and en

raged young Escu/afu'us, I would send him
here to be examined: if that would not give
him a sweat, I candidly confess I do not
know what would.
PHILADELPHIA,
Norfolk, August 5, 1811
The United States frigate Constitution,

captain Hull, anchored in Hampton Roads
1,750,000l. per Week, or KlNETY-ONE ancuoss
srsausc PER ANNUM!!!

a0,
CONSUMPTION,
A work has lately appeared at Paris on Pulmo
nary Consumption, in 1 vol. 8vo. which has excited
great attention. The author is a young man
named Bayle physician to one of the hospitals
LA CHARATE, where he examined the lungs of
more than three hundred individuals of all ages
who fell victims to this disease. The basis of his
definition, and of his division of pulmonary plithisisn
96
me
m
is pathological anatomy- This disease is dened to
be a lesion of the lungs which produces a pro
gressive disorginization of this viscera, after which
takes place its ulceration, which terminates in
death. This excellent anatomist has established
beyond 'doubt the melancholy fact, that pulmonary
consumption is essentially incurable, and mortal
though there are diseases, attended with the same
symptoms, different in their nature, which are sus
ceptible of cure. He distinguishes six kinds of pul
This is also a proof that the Adriatic gulph b

pierce the bottom in the middle with a very large
auger; when the auger sinks down ve feet, the fore the deluge extended to Modena, and farther
water burst out with such violence, and so great a towards Milan, and on the decrease of that ood,
discharge of sand and stones. that the well is al raised or advanced the soil by the swillage of rivers
most lled up in a moment, and a perpetual ow of 8w. from the mountains.
-.
phulous2nd, granulous in which the lungs are

full of white granulations, solid. half transparent or
water ensues upon it.

To this account of Ramazzini I would add, that
these springs do not swell with rain, or decline by
drought; and I would remark some circumstances
that are very observable in sinking a well, viz.
From the surface of the ground to the depth of fbur
feet consists of the foundations and ruins of an old
city. They meet with the pavement of streets, the
cartilaginous3d, with melanose. that is, with a
shops of handicrafts, the oors of houses, and Works
degeneration of the pulmonary substance into a

brown and afterwards black matter, shining and
in chequer. It is amazing that the ground should

be raised to that advanced height, which cannot be
imputed to the frequent destruction, and rebuilding
of the city above its own ruins, for the elds about
it are on the same level, or rather higher.
After they have got through this four feet of rub
bish, they come to the natural soil, compact and
monary consumption, lst, turberculous, or achro
compact4th, ulcerous; this denomination seems to
apply to most kinds of phthisis. Mr. Bayle has,

however, proven, that the essential ulcers of lungs
are extremely rare. The pus which is thrown up
usually before death is almost always the result of
solid, so that you Would imagine it to be entire and
a vicious secretion of the mucous branchic mem
branes; or it proceeds from an ulcer occasioned by unbroken; but presently after it blackens and grows
another kind of lesion of the lungs. Primitive ulcers, ~ fenny, abounding with marshy reeds.
I recollect that I have seen in a well of this na
without complication are rarewhich constitute
ulcerous phthisis.5th, Calculous phthisis, this ture, about the depth of 24 feet, a burly-straw en
tire, and in another, at the depth of 26 feet, a bough
species is more rare than the preceding6th, Can
cerous phthisis, which results from a degeneracy with a bunch or cluster of hazlenuts hanging on it
ofsome portions of the lungs into a tissue analogous uncorrupted.
Thus alternately, for about six feet, there is ob
to schirrus, or cancer.
Mr. Bayle shows by what treatment life may be

prolonged, for a longer or shorter time, in the dif
served a variety of changes of soil, white or black,
and thickness; this lies over another of marsh, that
uberance of springs at Modena, says, it is the pe

culiar advantage of this city, that in any place as soft, sandy, mixed with gravrl and cookie shells.
signed, within, or around it. for the compass of This disposition of layers, so well distinguished by
some miles, you may open a clear spring of living there strata, is observed in all wells of the city and
suburbs, to keep the same order and regularity.
water.
The trees and plants found are a clear argument
For in any situation of ground, when they dig a
well, and come to the depth of about 65 fee , they they were once exposed to the air. In the lower
depth of the wells are found great beams, coals,
' An ancient city of Italycelebrated for making
flints, and pieces of LIOl'l- At the rst gushing up of
Panaro, 22 miles W. by N. of Bologna, 34- S. by E.
of Mantua, and 60 N. N. W. of Florence.
Diseases.
Apoplexy
ad. ch.
Diseasn
2 0 Gout
Cholera Morbus
0 31 Hives
ad. ck.
1 0
0 1
Cholic
1 0 Inam.lungs
Consump. oflungs 8 4 Insanity
l
2
0
0
Convulsions
4 Old Age
Decay
2 Palsey
Dropsy
1 0 Sore throat
0 1
Dropsy ofthe breast2 0 Small pox, natural 0 1
Dropsy in the brain 1 0 Still born
0 3
Dcbility
0 1 Sudden
2 0
Drowned
2 0 Teething
0 2
Dyscntery
3 2
Drunkenness
1 0
32 53
Epilepsy
O 1
_ _
I-ever typhus
1 0
Total
85
Under 1
37 BetWeen 50 and 60
3
Between 1 and 2
10
60
7O
4-
70
80
5
10
20
30
4-0
10
20
30
40
50
0
2
9
11
3
80
90
100
90
100
110
1
0
O
Total 85

9 oclaclc- 12 oclock- 3 oclock
July 29
75
78
80
30
78
81
86
31
80
85
88
Aug. 1
2
72
73
74
75
76
77
7-1-
78
80
11 feet, and is now and then lled with shells of
ends in the level, where the anger is xed. This is
masks. It is seated between the rivers Sechia and
from the 27th July to the 3d of August
consumption is more frequent among young females euckels; it ends at the depth of 39 feet, after that,
of the higher circles than it was formerly, owing another layer of marshy ground, at the thickness of
to light dress worn in winter and exposure to the 2 feet, appears, heaped up with reeds, and the
night air W hen it is known that the disease, in all leaves and branches of plants; when this is removed
stages, is incurable, more precaution will probably in the digging, another layer of chalk, partly of the
be employed to prevent its attack.
.Nat. bite]. same bulk of the former, offers itself, and ends at
the depth of 52 feet; after that another of marshy
.
Curious particulars in the soil of .Modena, from a let ground, not unlike the above stratum; then another
!er comnmm'caletl by amcmbe'r ofthe Royal Socic!y_ of chalk, like the superior strata, but of lesser size
Dr. Ramazzini, in his book of the wonderful ex
August 3d, 1811.

with the branches and leaves of several trees, cov
ered with akind of thin crust or bark, till you come

ferent species of this disease.
The work is truly originalthe result of obser to a level of chalk or marl, which is rst visible at
vation. The facts are stated with much sagacity and the depth of 28 feet.
When this is reached the Workmen are secured
exactness.
We are glad to hear, that an English translation from the least disturbance from a new ow of wa
of this work will soon be prepared for publication ter, and then pursue the work with the greatest fe
by Dr. MNeven, professor of Chemistry in the cility to the bottom.
The thickness of this stratum of chalk in about
College of New-York.
It has been observed, that, in our large cities,
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lings and Aitken, No. 40. North Second street.

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the water, it brings up leaves of oak, chcsnut, mil Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth, near
I
St. Marys church.
let, bean-cod, 81c.
arm-mid!
Q bifabefpiagieperfarp.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 17. \81 I.
VOL. II
Bl OG R A PHY.
From the Port Folio
(Concluded)
On the third September, the bomb ketches
being repaired, as well as the damages sus
tained by the other vessels in the action of
the 27th, the squadron was again ready and
disposed for another attack on the town and
batteries.
Cowran.
Between three and four oclock,
the action commenced and soon became ge

neral. As our gun boats bore down on the
boats and gallies of the enemy, they gave
ground and retreated under cover of the
musketry on shore. The brigs and schooners
pursued with the gun boata as far as the

depth of the water would permit, and within
musket shot of fort English. The action in
The commodore had for some time con

templated sending a re ship into the bar
bour to destroy the otilla, and at the same
time throw a quantity of shells into the town.
Captain Somers volunteered in this service,
and with the assistance of lieutenants Wads
worth and Israel, tted out the kctch Intrepid
for this expedition. An hundred barrels of
-gun powder, and one hundred and fty xed
shells were placed in the hold, with fuses
and combustiblcs so applied as to re them
Without endangering the retreat of the ad
venturers. On the evening ofthe fourth Sep
tember, captain Somers chose two fast row
ing boats from the squadron, to bring off the
people, having red the vessel. His own
boat was manned by four seamen from the
Nautilus with lieutenant \Vadsworth and six
No. 13.
diate and distant consequences important to

his country. In naval tactics his active and
discerning mind anticipated the eect oflong
and familiar experience. In this enterprize
he displayed the rapidity of conception, and
promptitude to act so requisite in critical cir
cumstances, along with the foresight, cir
cumspection, and steady perseverance always
necessary to success in difcult undertakings.
The energy and intrepidity which marked
his character, the passion for achieving deeds

of honour that glowed in his breast, were
emulated and shared by his ofcers, and
fully seconded by his men, who' thought
mighty things easy under such a comman
der. His conduct of this war made an im
pression on the African governments, that
will not soon be e'aced, and cannot fail for
men from the Constitution. At eight they a long period of time to check their disposi
this quarter now became divided. The brigs parted from the squadron and stood in the tion to interrupt the peace that has been
and schooners with one division of the gun
boats engaged fort English: the other divi
rision continued engaged with the boats and
gallics.
The two bomb kctches while directing
harbour, conveyed by the Argus, Vixen, and settled.

Nautilus to within a short distance of the
All joined in the suffrage to the distin
batteries. Having gained the inner harbour, guished merits of the commodore. His holi
and near at the point of destination, she was ness the pope, is said to have remarked that:
boarded and carried by two gallies of one he had done more towards humbling the anti
christian barbarians on that coast, than all the
their shells into the town, were exposed to
hundred men each. At this moment, she ex
the direct fire from the bashaws castles, the

crown, mole, and several other batteries. The
ploded. The effect was awful. Every bettety christian states had ever done. Sir Alexander
commodore perceiving their danger, ran his

ship between them and the batteries, within
musket shot, where not less than seventy
was silenced and not a gun was red after

wards during the night. Captain Somers is
said to have declared to a friend that in case'
he should be boarded, as he was apprehen

guns were brought to bear on him, and sive, he would not be captured. There is
there discharged eleven broadsides with so every reason to believe that on the enemy
good effect as to silence one of the principal proving successfui,the captain seized a quick
batteries, and to injure the others and town match and touched a train which communi
materially. The wind veering to the north catcd instant re to the mine; by which he and
Ward and bcginning to blow fresh, at half his brave companions found with the enemy
past four P. M. he gave signal to retire from a common death.
action under cover of the Constitution. In
Nothing occurred after this till the two
this engagement, although the frigate and squadrons joined on the ninth of September.
vessels were much damaged, not a man was Though commodore Barron tpok departure
lost. The bomb vessel commanded by lieu from the capes of Virginia on the fth July,
tenant Robinson had all her shrouds shot and crossed the Atlantic to the \Vcstern
away, and was so shattered in the hull as to islands in sixteen days, they were fty days
be kept above water with difculty. The on their passage thence to the coast of 'lri
Argus received a thirty-two pound shot in poli, having experienced forty-one days head
her hull, which cut away a bower cable as it winds and calms in the meantime.
entered, and which so checked its velocity,
Here ended Mr. Prcble's command, sot
that it fell upon deck without doing injury. honourable to himself, and in both its imme-'
Ball in a letter September 20th, said I beg

to repeat my congratulations on the services
you have rendered your country, and the
hair breadth escapes you have had in setting
a distinguished example. Their bravery and
enterprize are worthy a great and rising na
tion. If! Were to offer my opinion, it would
be that you have done well not to purchase
a peace with the enemy. A few brave men
have indeed been sacriced, but they could
not have fallen in a better cause, and [even
conceive it advisable to risk more lives rather

than submit to terms which encourage the
Barbary states to add fresh demands and in
sults.
>
After the squadron joined, the commodore
obtained leave to return home, which he
was the more willing to do, as it would give

the command of a frigate to captain Decatur.
The ofcers joined in an address to their
late commander, containing the strcngcst ex
pressions of attachment and respect. The
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congress of the United States voted the

thanks of the nation and an emblematical
medal, which were presented by the presi
dent with emphatic declarations of esteem
and admiration.
\Vhen the commodore returned he was
received and treated every where with dis
tinguished attention. His countrymen show
ed that they were proud of his fame, and
grateful for his services. From this time he
was much consulted and employed by the
government in the management of their naval
convinced of the goodness of his disposition

and the sincerity of his friendship. If he
with Tripoli and the prisoners ransomed,

and our navy was not again ordered abroad.
In the latter part of year 1806, the health
of Mr. Prcble began to decline. It was the
same complaint, at debility of the digestive
organs, under which he was near sinking a
few years be fore. For many months he strug
gled with his disorder, indulging a hope of
recovering till within ten days of his death.
one child, a son, to feel his loss and to inherit
following, sensible that the hour of his dis
on
solution was approaching. In the view of this

event be displayed the fortitude which be
came his character, and his exit was in full
A TALE.
failed in uniformly restraining the impetuosity

of his temper, he had no trait of arrogance,
malignity or revenge in his nature. Signal
instances of his humanity and generosity ; amusement, my cousin called me on one
might be related. He was patient of labour-,i

and in business was remarked for exactness
and despatch. He was a kind neighbour and
useful public spirited citizen. He cherished
his relatives with tenderness, and was the
object of their food regard. He had been

concerns. Peace was the next year made several years married, and left a wife and
the precious legacy of his honourable name.
At the time he died, he had nearly completed
an elegant mansion where, in the enjoyment
of easy circumstances, and the society of a
beloved family, he had looked for the repose
endeared by past scenes of toil and danger.
it pleased heaven to defeat his plans and ter
minate his prospects by untimely death, thus
Findingr that the inveteracy of his malady teaching us to value our life by the good
bid deance to medical skill, he resolved on and noble actions it contains, and not by the
a water excursion as a last experiment. On time it endures.
__
Sunday the 9th of August, 1807, he went on
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board a packet and stood out to sea, but nd
ing no relief he returned on the Thursday
:.,
side, and demanded, in great and apparent

confusion, if among the crowd of masks, I
could distinguish the daughter ofDon Gomez.

The blood mounted into my face and my for
boding heart already pronounced him my
rival.
\Vith her, said Algoronza, not waiting

for my reply to his question, with her I
would dance, for her beauty has subdued me
and to her my heart has already devoted it
self with the most affectionate ardour.
You may all judge what must have been
the feelings that agitated my bosom, upon
hearing this declaration from Alberto, in
whom I now fatally perceived a rival to my
lovea rival, powerful indeed, but one with
whom I resolved to act honestly, but to
whom I was equally determined never to
submit. I loved Algoronza with the affection
of a brother, and thought it best to come to
an immediate explanation.
My friend, my brother, said I, it is

indeed unfortunate that wc both have placed
our affections on the same object.
Howl exclaimed he, startingafew paces
CHAPTER V:
correspondence with his life. He breathed
Continued.
his last on Tuesday, 25th of August 1807, in
the 46th year of his age. The inhabitants of Then tell me, was not this enough to freeze
Portland united in every mark of respect
crowded, each nobleman seeking for a part

ner to conduct down the dance. I was dress
ed in green armour, and my cousin in white.
While yet the parties were mingled con
fusedly together, preparing for the coming
The feeling heart to adamant? to check
from me, while I could perceive a frown ris

ing on his brow. How! Sebastian, you in
love with the daughter of Don Gomez, with
the beautiful princess of Castile! that must

not be, Malventi, that shall not be!
The native current of the soul, and swell
to his remains. On the day of his funeral, Loves gentle streamlet to the sea of hate!
business Was suspended, the colours were
ANON
- Shall not be! Alberto, cried I a little

chagrined at the severity and impetuosity of
displayed at half mast from the shipping in
his manner, Shall not be! who will, who
You, my dear Minda, and my brow as
the harbour, and he was interred with mili
sociates, may think this a mere rhapsody of
tary honours and the ceremonies of religion
words, but I assure you, there is not the
and masonry.
On the intelligence of his death reaching

iVashington, the ring of minute guns and
other marks of naval mourning were ordered
in testimony of the honour due to the me
mory of a patriot and hero, and of the un
feigned sorrow produced by his death.
The person, air, and countenance of com
modore Preble answered to his character.

His features expressed strong passions along
with manly and generous feelings. His at
tiude was erect yet easy and natural, his step

rm, and his whole appearance and port
can prevent it?

I, Malventi, I, returned he, my soul
least exaggeration. Such, my comrades, is wrapped up in her, 1 live but in the hope
was the daughter of Don Gomez, such was of obtaining her, her presence is my only
Isabella of Castile, and being such, it was happiness, and you must abandon her to me,
impossible to behold her without admiration, or we are deadly foes!
Algoronza! cried I, sternly, but recol
without love. Nor were the beauties of her
mind less conspicuous than the elegancies of lecting myself, I remained silent gazing a
her person. The re of genius was elicited few minutes on the countenance of Alberto.
in every observation, the soundness of her His visage was darkened with a fro .-.n and
judgment in every remark, and a depth of the most ungovernable passions were exhi
information was perceptible in every word. bited in his looks. Never till now, did I be
I beheld her and my soul drank in the de
lieve the count in possession of such a dis
lectable poison that ruined my character in position and I felt my anger rising at the
the world, embittered my cup of happiness, discovery, when remembering that neither
and made me the wretched outcast you be
of us had addressed the princess on the sub
were noble and commanding. In the calm

of domestic life and the society of his equals hold me! Not that she was the cause; no, ject, and that, perhaps, both of us might be
he was placid and affectionate, in the exer she was chaste as fair.
refused, I repressed my feelings and thus
cise of authority peremptory and rigid. But
But to proceed. The revelry of the eve addressed Algoronza:
though he made himself feared, and might ning gave place, abcut twelve oclock, to
I would not willing be an instrument in
be thought sometimes imperious and severe, the enchanting harmony of the softest music,
rendering you unhappy, my beloved Alberto,
yet he retained a strong interest in the af which began to vibrate on the car; it called
but should the fair daughter of Don (ioniez
ftCtiOhS 10f
oieerg and men, who were
for the masks, and the hall was immediately approve my love, no power on earth shall
PHILABELJPHIA REPERTORY.
compel me to forego her;but on the contrary,
should she reject my suit and confess her
acceptance of yours, fear not me, for by all
the hopes I entertain of happiness, I swear,
I never will molest you, but aid you with my
utmost power. Is not this candid, and may I
not justly require the same promise from
you?
Twas truly great!" interrupted Amelia.
Algoronza was silent for a few minutes,
continued Malventi, proceeded Minda, and
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Isabella of Castile, indeed, but unworthy

the encomiums bestowed upon her by the
uncertain fury, I soon disarmed him. Upon
gallant heir of the marquis of Malventi."
this, his rage knew no bounds, and although

I restored him his sword, and offered him.
How! am I discovered? exclaimed I,

removing my mask; well, fair creature,
den, breathing curseo and revenge.
may I at least hope that the princess of Cas

tile is not chagrined at having danced with
so poor a practitioner as Sebastian?
my hand, he refused both, leaving the gar

(To be continued.)
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Chagrined, returned she, the farthest
from it possible."
Can it indeed he! cried I, catching her
THE CABINET. N0. XLVIII.

Are we not here now, said the Corporal,
hand with eagerness, can it indeed be, and are we not(dropping his hat plumb upon
the groundand pausing before he pronnmced
that Isabella of Castile does not behold Mal the word) gone, in amoment?
"sans,
venti with indifference?"
I
0! health, displace this sickly hue,
pany, and Algoronza soon led a beautiful fe
The crimson blush of modest difdence
0! cool this fever of the brain;
male to the dance. The rst dance had com su'used her lovely checks, as she cast her
His check in thine own rose imbue
menced, and I had requested no lady to eyes upon the ground without uttering a
And let him follow in thy train.
favour me with her hand, but now perceiving word.
LORENZO
In the midst of life we are in death,
a female of a lovely gure, whose dress of
0! princess, continued I, you must
cerulean hue was decorated with a variety be conscious that it is impossible to behold said my aunt Dinah as I entered the room.
of flowers, setting pensivelyin a retired part and not to love you. Hear me then confess The old lady had the paper in her hand, and
of the hall, I immediately advanced towards that my heart adores you, that I live but in I spied the tear of sorrow glistening in her
her, and politely requested the happiness of your smiles, and that I can be happy only in spectacles. Here Gregory, said she, hand
leading her to' the dance. With little hesi your love! W'itness, thou silver moon, and ing me the gazette, here is an account of
tation she complied with my desire, and we you, her bright attendants, that in truth and the death of one of our old friends; he has
joined the party. If I thought her interesting honour, Malt-enti pours his heart before this been long absent, continued my aunt, but
before, I was wrapped in admiration on be image of perfection, and vows to love but when I reect upon your youthful days,_
holding her,
what an open hearted boy he always appear
her!
0n the light fantastic toe.
Isabella was silent for some time, and at ed, and what an affection you seemed to
All present seemed to gaze upon her with length she could only articulate, Malventi, have for each other, in spite of me a tear
mingled looks of wonder and delight, and and sunk upon my bosom. At that moment will moisten my check at the recollection."
even I, lost in astonishment at her grace I thought myself blest beyond the power of I cast my eye upon the paper and wept in
and agility, often forget where I was, and increase, and fondly pressed the dear maid sympathy, for it was one of my school-mates,
for whom I had indeed contracted a great
disconcerted the party by my inattention.
to my heart, in all the fervour of a chaste af
The dance being ever, she permitted me fection. It is needless to dwell upon this part of esteem, who having gone to a foreign land
in search of a fortune, had been seized there
'to lead her beneath the cool refreshing sha my story, sufce it to say, that ere we return
with a violent t of illness which had hurried
dow of an arbour, that stood in the centre of ed to the palace, Isabella confessed she lov
the garden, to enjoy the fragrance of the ed me, and promised with the consent of her him to his grave. He was a man of worth,
without show, of morality without a'eeta
evening breeze, and seating ourselves upon father be mine. This I had no doubt of ob
a grassy seat within the bower, we entered taining, as few could boast a nobler birth, tion, and of religion without bigotry. And is
into conversation. A little overcome by the but you shall hear how I was disappointed, such a man as this, thought I, to return to,
exercise she underwent in the hall, she re
We Were about to leave the garden, when and mingle with common dust? Is such a
moved her mask, and the full moon beamed Algoronza rushed from behind the bower man as this to die, and be forgotten?
upon the fair face of the daughter of Don in which we had been seated, and catching
0! why has worth so short a date,
While villains ripen gray with time!
Gomez.
me by the arm, exclaimed:
Nothing could equal my delight, mingled
Consummate villain, that hast betrayed I felt sad before, for Ihad just returned from
with a pleasing astonishment, at being thus my condence, and basely injured me in the paying a visit to my friend Peter Peaccable,
alone with one whom my soul idolized; and tenderest point, the object of my affections; who is at present rather indisposed. Now,
rejoiced at the happy opportunity of expres prepare to meet the reward of thy mon although I had no apprehension of his im
sing the sentiments which had so lately ta strous crimes. Answer me not, Sebastian, mediate danger whilst with him, yet the re
ken their residence deep in my heart, I thus but with thy sword; you have wronged me collection of times apostrophe made me feel
exclaimed:
in the opinion of this fair maid, whom my unhappy; for, Are we not here nowand
The fair Isabella of Castile! am I so heart adores, and my sword shall nd a pas
gone, in a moment? and what are we,
blest as to have an opportunity of expressing sage to your heart, or yours be buried in thought I, but miserable insects, the crea
those sentiments of esteem and admiration my bosom! Shield well thy life, for if my tures of an hour? To-day we are gay and
with which she has inspired me? To what aim prove true, thou diest!
animated, and to-morrow we may be but a
wonderful and happy chance may I attribute
mass
of unintelligent matter. \Ve live in the
Before I could stand upon the defensive,
so great, so desirable a blessing?
Alberto rushed upon me, like a madman, sunshine of satisfaction, without thinking
This impassioned address, delivered withwith/headlmrg violence, while the princess the cloud of sorrow may yet overspread us,
all the ardour of an honest affection, a little sunk lifeless on the ground. I however re and the storm ofdcstruction rage around our
confused her, and I saw a blush rise upon covered my sword, which had fallen, and heads. We live in the blessings of healh,
her lovtly cheekas she replied:
warding his thrusts, which were aimed with without dunking that the chill hand of sick
then, a gloom overspreading his features,
with evident marks of reluctance, he gave
me his promise. \Ve now joined the com
PHIL ADELPH A REPER'IOI? Y.
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Us _~-_
ness may yet lay hold of us, in some unex

pected moment when we are
-Connting on long years of pleasure here,
17.1: quite unfurnishd for the world to come.
it is the crring propensity of man to be

(ii'ssails'iitl; yet with a seeming perfectihility
of bliss, when in the enjoyment of health,
he feels not for the sick man, and sees the
maimed pass by him without being moved.

Little does he think that in an instant he
may be visited by alictions more dreadful
than either; how little does he think that ere
another sun dawns upon the World his eyes

may be shut upon it forever. \Vhy is this,
01 man? There is no one but knows how

unstable is his situation in this life: there is
no one but is fully sensible that he may he
called to an immediate account for the deeds
committed in the flesh; there is no one but
has some idea of futurity; and no one from

whom all certainty of it is not concealed.
Yet man is moved by nothing; knowledge
does not seem to put him on his guard, nor
ignorance to a'right him. He passes his life
in lethargic carelessness of the greatest of
all considerations, whilst he is troubled in his
mind with the cares of the world, which have
nothing to offer, nor nothing to withhold

Strange and inconsistent are all his actions,
he is regardless of sickness, although when
it tortures him, he shudders; he turns not
his thoughts on death, although he knows it

to be inevitable.
\Vhy will we not consider, though the
blush of health be now suffused over our

countenances; though for a time a fancied
contentment should gleam upon our minds,
that there may yet be trials in store for us,
which will put our religion to the test, chace
ruddy health and cheerful contentment from
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it is my firm determination to cut this mat

ter short with you; well then, in three Words,
MY LIFE, WRITTEN BY MYSELF.

Continued.
we were married; and as happy a life did we

lead of it I strongly suspect, as most marri
ed people do even in this civilized part of the
country. Indeed so happily did we live to
gether that we never exchanged a single
cross werd. I was just one and twenty when
I was growing up almost as wild as the

inhabitants around me, (pleasing your rever
ences I mean the Indians, bears, Ste.) till my
fteenth year, when one day as my father
and the old colonel were looking over a I married her, and immediately after it, when
treatise on war, all of a sudden it popped all of our family (I had taken my wife home
into their heads that I ought to know how .to my'fathers) were, one night, sitting as or
to read and write, or else I never could be derly as most people do in a cold night by
so great a personage as appeared to them a large crackling re, three warriors of the
desirable. They went to work forthwith, and Tauxitanian tribe burst the door open and
after many struggles to avoid it, what with demanded Fantanda. They addressed her in
threats, promises and persuasions, I was at their native tongue, and she clung to me
length induced to enter peaceably on a course and replied; but what it was I cannot tell.
of study; and such was my success with the The fellows then menaced us with the most
noble old colonel (for he was almost exclu frightful distortions of countenance, and I
sively my teacher) that in one or two years must say to tel the__truth that notwithstand
I could read and write with tolerable facility ing all the hero m I had theoreticly learned
from the worthy Hugh Hardfare l was fright
and had'taken a little snack of geometry.
About this period of my life it was my ened, asthe saying is, almost out of my skin.
good fortune, or at least so I thought it then, That though, Mr. Reader, I would thank
to fall in love with a. nice little half civiliZed you to recollect as you go along, was the rst
squa, and I do candidly think that our vows, and the only time I ever was scared in my life.
although she could not speak a word of Old Hugh was sitting along side of my
English nor I a word of Tauxitanian, would mother looking at her knitting and my father
ll a clever sized volume. 0! gentle fair ones, had that minute nished cleaning out his ri
she used to hang so deliciously round my e: Hugh always wore a sword; to be sure it
neck, and breathe her sighs so luxuriantly was grown rather rusty, but, as the old man
in my bosom, that I sometimes thought my used to say, it had still edge enough on it;
soul was going to fly away with my body. to keep off a bear and he diverted all three
NowI would here civily beg the amourous of theylndians with his attacks, whilst my
youth to picture to his burning imagination, father loaded his rie, and in less than two mi
a little creature delicately set and healthy, nutes two of these strappers were laid sprawl
and delicately Coloured, (I do not mean ing on the ground. The third ran faster than
coloured like asnow heap, or as philosophers any civilized man can imagine, whooping and
have it, not coloured at all,) dressed off in hallooing as if Auld Clootie was after him,
the style of these Very tasty people, the when not a soul of us budged out of the door,
Tauxitanians, and skipping about through except to carry the carcases a short dist
us, and in their stead ll our hearts with
the briars and up the trees like a squirrel.
ance in the woods, where if nothing should
the gloom of impenetrable terror, anti hang

our cheeks with the livid ensigns of frail mor
Can you fancy such a delightful reality! if

so, then you have a slight notion of my little
dove-eyed Fantanda. This maid was in the
rst instance very near ruining all my fath
ers and the colonels plans for my general
ship, and in the second, the very means of
calling the energies of my soul into action.
How often was I absent from my military
lessons; how often has my father hunted for
prevent us, we intended in the morning to
tality? N0 moment can we call our own; of no
property can we boast ourselves the owner,

since he who giveth, also takcth away as it
may suit him best, without yielding an ac.
count thereof to any one.

It is owing to this uncertainty in all hu
man aairs; it is also to this ckleness in
the smiles of health that I am obliged to in

trude myself upon our generous readers out
of season; but I can assure them that they

cannot lament the indisposition of Peter,
nor wish his recovery more sincerely than
myself. I however hope, as he is now gone
to breathe for a time the exhilerating air of

the country, that he will soon be able to come
forward in propria persona, and resume his
functions.
_GREGORY GRAVITY.
inter them. Fantanda seemed very uneasy,

and constantly indicated by her motions the
necessity of all of us leaving our dwelling.
The courageous old Hugh knew their fero
city when insulted better than any of us, and

it was at length agreed on to escape the In
dians, that we should carry the most valuable
of our property with us, which you may sup
pose was not much, and take up our tem

porary abode at his dwelling. I believe I have
often has iny mother wanted me to take my before observed that his house was at the
measurement, (for she, good woman, was so foot of a hill about a quarter of amile from
anxious for my manhood, that I verily be my fathers house; if l did not do it before
lieved she measured me, both in height and I do it now, and in ny opinion that will an.
circumference at least three times a week;) swer every purpose: here then we accord-4
how often have they bellowed and bawled ingly took up our lodgings; not emeuy in
for me, but all in vain, for I was by the side Hughs house either. tor it Was built at the
of some meandering rivulet hanging in ex-. mouth of a most c.tp .LIutitl cavern, all spy/e!"
me high and low, through thicket and brake,
to give me some new notion of his, and how
stacy over my charming Fantanda. Reader ancc of communication to which was bid by
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the
stowed
old ourselves
fellows ingenuity;
away out inof this
the cavern
cold, and
we
ror in wine-i man absorbed in his own mind,
from wreck, loaded the eye with
thinks only of himself.
Some forests which before sprung up to the
had full scope to enjoy some of the most

At length he crawls to the foot ofastecp
uncomfortable reections that ever entered. rock, and by the reection of the lightning-s
my brain. So much for Fantanda thought I, l be perceived a cavern, whose deep and gloo
and faith if every man gets driven out of his i my horror would have frozen his blood at
house because of his wife, and h..s to sluil': any other time. Bruised, and exhausted
himself and his whole family with her in a with fatigue, he throws himself to the bot
cavern for fear of her being taken from him, tom of the den, and there, rendering thanks
the marriage state will be found to have some to heaven, he falls into stupor.
hitters mixed with its sweets; at least accord
The storm at length is appeased; the
thunders and the winds cease to rock the
ing to my notion of things.
HUGH HEADLOFTY. nunntain; the torrents, less rapid, roar not
To be continued.
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For the Itcpertory.

THE STORM AND THE CAVERN OF SER
PENTS IN PERU
Tsanslated from the French of Marmontel, by

Gregory Gravity.
A deep murmur give?.m,;_nlal for the
10'!
'4' a distance; and Alonzo feels the balm of
sleep llowing through his veins. But in the

moment he is falling into a peaceful slum
ber, a noise arouses him, more terrible than
clouds, were bent
ruins
to the ground; other;
seemed yet to bristle up with horror. Hills

around which Alonzo had seen smiling 111811
dows, now split luiO pi'ccipiccs, showed him
their mangled sides. ()ltl trees uprooted,
thrown from the summits of mountains, the
pine, the palm tree, the guaieum, (lignum

vitae tree) the caobo, the cedar, scattered
over the plain, covered it with thin disscvcr~
ed trunks, and shattered branches. The hol
lows of detached rocks marked the channels

of torrents; their craggy borders were lined
with a frightful number of animals, mild,
cruel, timid, and ferocious, that had been
submerged and vomited up by the waters.

Meanwhile these owing streams left the
woods and the shade to become rcanimatcd
that of the tempest.

This noise like to the striking together
of pebbles, is that of a multitude of ser
pents" that aiso nd their refuge in the
Cavern. The top of it is lined with them, and
interwoven with each other; they make in
seemed to have made peace with earth, and

smiled upon it as a sign of favour and of
love. All that yet breathed, began again to
with the res of the rising day. Heaven
commencement of the elemental war. it is

suddenly announced by the frightful whist
ling of the winds. A thick cloud envelopes
heaven, and confounds it with the earth: the
lightning tearing the gloomy veil, in van
ishing redoubles its darkness: a hundred
moving, the noise which is heard by Alon
enjoy life; the birds, the beasts, the savages
zo. He knows that the bite of these snakes

is the most subtle of poisons; that it sud
denly kindles it in the veins of its unfortu
i'orgctfulness of evils is a gift that nature
thunders, which seem to roll and bound
nate victim, a re which devours and con
to man
along a chain of mountains in swift succes
sumes them in the midst of the most ex

cruciating pangs. He hears them; he thinks
he sees them crawling around him, or hang
ing over his head, or ready to spring upon
him, rolled in fearful coils. His courage is
sion, create an awful roaring, which now
seems to die away, and now swells furious

like the tumult of the waves. The mountain,
reeling beneath the shocks which it receives

from the thunder and the winds, bursts
asunder, and rapid torrents issue with a hor
overcome; his blood is chilled with horror;
rid noise from its sides. The affrightcd an
drag himself out of the den, he trembles,
nimals croud from the wood upon the plain;

and by the rays of the lightning, the three
lest under his hands, under his feet, he

should press one of these dangerous reptiles.
travellers, pale with terror, saw, passing by
Quaking with dread, shivering, immoveable,
he scarcely dares to breathe. If he wishes to
surrounded by a thousand deaths, he passes

the leopard, as trembling as themselves, the whole lingering night in a painful ago
for in this universal danger of nature, fero ny, desiring, yet shuddering to see again
city no longcr exists, but every thing is the day; condemning the fear which chains
him, and making useless efforts to surmount
softened by fear.
One of the guides of Alonzo, had in his his weakness.
their side, the lion, the tyger, the lynx, and
fright, gained the summit of a rock. A tor
Day at length arriving justied his terrors.
had forgotten their a'right; for the quick

has bestowed on them, which she has denied
s.
For the Repertory.

THE PROPI'IIATION.
BOOK ll.
Concluded.
ARGUMENT
Chernos having concluded, Satan addresses the
ends; Speech of Envy, dissuading from open
war; Reply of Belial; Speech of Moloch, support
ing Belial; Mammon makes a third proposition
which is adopted, and Satan leaves the infernal
regions.
Chemos then ceased, and Satan straight uprosc,
His minds deep cog-itations to disclose:
\Varriors, supporters of Apolyons fame,
695
Whate'er your attributes, whateer your name,
You all have heardwhat hell has now to fear,

Then council wisely; if to grasp the spear,
And rushing headlong to the distant sky,
0r gain relief or nobly dare to die!
700
Else here in hell secluded to remain?
The pale compeers of misery and. pain!
For me, my rage and unrelenting pride,
And black ambition are my only guide.
Would that our spears. through all my foes were
He saw realised his dreadful foreboding; .he

saw it still more horrible. He must die or
vage that embraced it, rolled with it in the escape. He painfully rallies his small re
whclming tide. The other Indian thought maining strength; he raises himself slowly;
driven,
705
he would be secure from danger, in the hol
he bends, and resting his hands upon his
low of a tree, but a column of re, whose trembling knees, he comes out of the cavern To nd a glorinusarmory in heavn!
summit touched the cloud, descended upon as unnerved, as pale as a spectre leaving, its But ye must judge what measures to pursue,
Hells safety, chieftians, now depends on you!
it, and consumed bothit and the unfortunate tomb. The same storm that had thrown him
Let wild resentment all your bosoms re,
man who had ed there for safety.
in danger, had preserved him from harm, Yet native cunning your resolves inspire!
719
Meanwhile Alonzo exhausted himself with for the snakes were no less terried than Thus Satan ended his unmeaning boast,
wrestling against the violence of the waters; himself; and it is the instinct of all animals And Envy rising, thus addrcst the host:
rent precipitatcly bounding, rooted up its

foundation, and swept it away, whilst the sa
he groped in darkness, seizing b turns the

branches and the roots of the trees that he
to cease being hurtful when surrounded .by
\'e gallant peers, convened to judge what best,
May insure to hell an crerlastingrest,

peril..
Attend my words, nor you, my king, despise,
met .with, without thinking of his guides,
A serene day consoled nature for the ra-l The secret measures that my thoughts advise,
without any other thought than that of self rages of the night. The earth as escaped Tis true I boast not prowess in the eld,
pyeservation; for there are moments of tcr- .
ll Deeds 0f renown to greater chiefs I yield,
f Rattle snakes.
715
102
The strength that nerves their mighty armsin war,

'lo hurl the javelin and to guide the car,
7520
Tis impotence of hope, then let us rise,
Nor need I, gallant chieftains, promulgate,

That I bear Heavn an everlasting hate,
Present our rm, determined phalanx there,
And urged the king the reign oer earth to share;
Seizes the wand which all the host obey,

The magic emblem of imperial sway!
Fearful he sat cmbosomd in his mail,
865
And each prostrating. bursts the dread all hail!
Satan now stands, and all prepared to rise,
With pleasure beaming in his face, he cries;
7%
Superior far in battle are to ours!
A dreadful wish through all my bosom reigns,
'lo plunge my poniard in Jehovahs veins;
But then how vain the dread attempt would be,
0r failing, hurl aloft such dreadful ire,
Yc daring warriors, now a short farewcl,
At which evn heavn shall tremble and admire!

Hell roard their terrible applauding, while
Ere long your monarch will return to hell;

870
Exulting victor in the fatal strife,
0r trebly wounded, to detest his life!
No more but this! he spread his wings on air.
And left awhile the mansions of despair!
To be continued.
I claim not, theirs in battle tis to shine,

But in the council, warriors, it is mine,
Armd with ten thousand terrors, to the skies,

Away with secret war, disguise is vain,
\Vcll conict proudly, rush to heavn amain,
Tis true I hate, but yet I fear, his powrs
4 Pregnant with ruin both to you and me!
730
795
The Temptero visage wore a dreadful smile; 800
Moloch arose upheld his quivering spear,

Chieftains of hell, he cried, at once give car;
If wars your thought, forego the rash intent,

\Vc know Jehovah is omnipotent
Let scbret wiles our numrous powers emplo'y,
And hell-born cunning all our foes destroy;
Let quenchless vengeance burn in every heart, 735
But all our weapons be consummate art!
For should we dare an open war to wage,
And boldly with the ranks of heavn engage,
Certain destruction waits the unequal strife,
Full many a end shall, trembling, part with life.740
\Vould we not rather live in deep appal
And ceaseless anguish, than not live at all?
I need not say what feelings ll my breast,

For well has Belial, all I would, cxprest,
Though ever banished from the realms of bliss,
Else Heavn had fallen and her numrous powrs,815

And endless life and glory had been ours!
The chance we have to gain that glory now,
If pale eyed fear usurp not evry brow,
If daring valour reign through evry breast,
820
And fearful vengeance wave on evry crest!
What greater ruin, say, has Heavn to give,
Each, each is ready to cry aye to this!

Puissant sovereign, Satan, let not thou
The re of anger kindle on thy brow;
lve but a wish to gain imperial sway
And o'erd an opinion of the way!
'
745
Let the embattled hosts determine, now,
Like him I purpose and like him advise,

To hurl deance at the frowning skies;
\lhat can we suffer more than a defeat,
To shield, if conquerd, all Our hosts once more,

From Heavens pursuit, as she has done before! 810
Pursuit! no Heavn will be constraind to fly,
If we but combat, or remain to die;
What conquerd us before? some trembling ghost,

Imparted terror to our daring host,
If I advise the safest or ifthou;

750
If, ye dread chiefs, you think your monarch right,
\Vell rush impetuous to the fearful ght!
But if you war in secret, I alone
11! lead your vengeance underneath the throne,
And artice, that warriors but despise,
But when the end dcsisted, silence broke,
Shall prove the ruin of th exulting skies!

With me your power, ye spirits, all combine,
To form beneath the solid base a mine,
\Vhose dread explode shall into fragments blow

All heavn, and prove her monarchs overthrow! 760
Satan attends, his eye beams living re,
And Envy haply would have felt his ire,

But Belial rose, the tempest to appease,
And calm the billows of the threatening seas!
This greatest oi hells magi waved his crest, 765
And thus the feelings of his soul cxprcssd:
Except our entrance on the page of fame!

Thus Moloch spoke: meanwhile pale Mammon sat,
And calmly listcnd to the hot debate;
826
And grinning through his meagre visage, spoke:
My heart compells me, chieftains, to aver,
830
If either purpose you adopt, you err!
lfany measures can at all avail
I think the plan I offer cannot fail.
For a few moments then attend my voice,
And of three propositions take your choice.
Who has forgotten that when paradise
835
Rose like a basalisk to blast our eyes,
Our lieged monarch found a passage in,

And tempted man to ruin and to sin?
Ye dread supporters of our monarchs right,
What then is this Redeemer, a mere man,
Convened for dreadful purposes to night,

Ye daring warriors, terrible in war,
Whose eeting life can measure but a span; 840

Our king has art, the thought Im sure is just,
To hurl the thunderbol s of ruin far,
770
For the Repertory.

a.
And hell is even then a safe retreat,
Than to compel us in these dens to live,

Then if we fall our lot is still the same,
755
805
To tempt this creature to forsake his trust;
I know not whether or to stimulate

Your merriment or overwhelming hate,
Then let him go and be the trial made,

For doubtless man is yet to be betrayed!
\Vhat is opaque and hidden to our cy es,
Moloch he gives the rst command, while he

Is absent on his fearful embassy;
860
PARAPIIRASE OF HORACE.
Book III. Ode 17.
T0 suns LAMIA
He exhorts him to spend the marrow, which
threatened to be dark and cloudy, in a liberal indul
gence.
O! iElius, of most noble line,
-,
Whoselso on pages shine
0f records old and true,
.)
(For, from the founder tis believd,

The Lamian race their name receivd,
The origin of you!)
a. I
25" "4
Command of Formian walls who bore,
Of Liris' wave, Marica's shore,

Tis said with princely sway;
List, IElius, to the instructive lyre,
List to advice which gods inspire,
Breathd in the poets lay.
To-morrow tcmpests range the deep,
And sea-weeds shall, with surging sweep,
Be lashd against the shore;
Unless that prophetess of rain,
The raven, (and her creaking train,)
Must be believd no more.
Then whilst you may, the dry wood pile,
To-morrow, wine should make you! smile,
Wine full of life, though old;
Brisk, shall your slaves a pig prepare,
They free from work, you free from care,
Shall laugh upon the cold.

Q.
ACCOUNT or run CELEBRATE!)

URBAN GRANDIER.
Continued.
The Cardinal trusted entirely to M. dc

Against the wretch who owes allegiance here,
845 Lauburdcmont the execution of his ven
Let him but offer endless sway, and more,
And yet, pale dastard, dares to counsel fear.
Aye let him offer Mammons precious store;
geance, who returned to Lemma with afull
He says, our glorious purpose to prevent,
775 Here the pale end look terried in face,
commission to bring Grandier to his trial,
The Bret-lasting is omnipotent!
And huggd his riches in a close embrace!
\Vell but allow the hypothesis is true,
and to decide nally on each article of the
If this succeed not let me hear your ire,
That is Jehovah omnipresent too,
And feel the treble fervour of our re!
850 accusation. The rst step of this Minister
Does he to omnipotence such revrence give,
So Mammon spoke, the furies all consent,
was to order Grandier to prison, without
And hopes his omnipresence to deceive!
780 And own his purpose best for their intent,
waiting for any information against him,
lle boasts hell lead us to the throne, below,
As likely to succeed; but ah! if they
who, though forewarned of this intention in
And when we are there tis easy to oer-throw;
Had known whom llcll attempted to betray,
time
to make his escape, disdained to con
But while he leads to dangers dark and deep,
They would have shrunk aghast, nor dared to try
Where is omniscicncc, is the God asleep!
To tempt the Lord of hell and earth and sky! 856 fess himselfa culprit by ying the face of
Say can the sable curtain of the night,
785 The grizly monarch for his ight prepares,
justice. He was seized the next morning
Hide cvn an atom from the eternal sight?
And evry spirit in the labour shares;
before it was light, as he walked to his
To Heavns uncoverd, mid the darkness, lies!
Can Envys wiles, then, to th allseeing eye,
The bloody chief ascends the vacant throne,
More lawnt warriors, or unnoticed lie?
790
And decks his forehead with the snaky crown;
church to assist at matins, and was immedi
ately conveyed to the castle at Angers, where

he lay in a dungeon for three months. Herc
103
M:
he composed a volume of prayers and me

ditations, which breathed nothing but piety,
forgiveness, and resignation; a composition
of great elegance both for diction and sen
timent, and which looked very little like the
production of a magicians brain. This work,
which was exhibited on his trial, operated
as little in his favour as the testimony of his

confessor, who visited him in prison. His
enemies were sworn to destroy him. Some
feeble struggles were made for the poor ec
clesiastic by his aged mother, who present
ed several appeals in vain. He was tried on
the 19th of December, l633, on the grounds
of the supposed possessions ; and Grandier,

though surrounded with bitter enemies, and
with a miserable death staring him in the
face, wore a countenance serene and un
moved, while the villainous artices of this
monstrous conspiracy were played 05' be
fore him.
The Bishop of Poitiers dcputed as prin
cipal exorcist, Demorans, one of the most
declared of Grandiers enemies; and from
this moment all the world saw clearly that
the ruin of the man was a thing resolved
upon. He was now thrown into a prison at
Loudun, with only such necessaries as na
ture demanded. From this mansion of mis
ery he wrote a Christian-like letter to his
mother, betraying no symptoms of mehtal
perturbation or sorrow, requesting her to
What, cried he, have you the audacity

to say that I am your seducer? The
same, cried she, pointing to him with her
nger, and adducing the circumstances of
time and plae. The Council burst into a
peal of laughter, and the maid was covered
with confusion at the discovery of her mis
take. As it was well known that the Nuns
for the most part were in the same igno'
rance of his person, the friends of Grandier
conceived that the same innocent stratagem
might expose the falsehood of his accusers,
but a discovery of this nature suited not
the views of M. de Laubardemont.
Two fresh exorcists were now appointed
by the Bishop of Poiticrs: one of whom
was afterwards among the judges of Gran
dier; the other was Father Lactancc, a big
ot of the rst order, and one who had adopt
ed in all its virulence the hate of the cruel
fraternity. The exorcisms were now recom
menced with all their fury;and the cabal,
covered with a protection which set them
above fear, gave vent to their malice in
PHILADELPHIA,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Circumstances not necessary to be men

tioned here, prevented us from noticing a
number of correspondents last week, but we
resume the duty, in this number, with a
great deal of pleasure.

To Simon Snug we think it unnecessary
to return an answer through the medium of
our paper. The objections we had to his
piece we still hold, but if Simon will favour
us with a sight of his satirical phiz, we will
convince him that he has taken our note in a
more extensive manner than was warranted
by it.
The fragment of a Romance, offered by

Bellario, we are of opinion had better not be
published; we are pleased with the compo
sition, though rather crude, and connected
with the body of the work, might indeed

illumine the columns of the Repertory.
The life of Hugh Headlofty contains a
deal of wit and humour, and if pursued in
forted. No one was permitted to have the

smallest concern with the prisoner, but ei
such shocking absurdities as staggered the

crcdulity of the blindest of their votaries.
The Superior had afrmed, that on the b0
dy of Gmndier there were ve marks of the
devil, and that in these places he had no
sensibility to pain. He was accordingly vis
ited in the prison by the surgeon and a
great number of curious people. Mamouri,
which was the surgeon's name, brought
with him a probe, to put the assertion of the
Superior to the proof. This probe, however,
ther his hitter enemies, or their immediate
had a blunt and a sharp end,_so that he could
dependents; and the surgeons and apothe

caries, whose reports were to certify the
make him appear alive or dead to pain, as it next.

After having made a few alterations that
suited his purpose. At the end of the ope
ration, however, the body of Grandier, which do not affect the subject of the piece, we
was stripped naked for the purpOSc, was are much pleased with the essay of Romeo.
covered with blood. A variety of experi An injudicious choice of language and a.
ments of this nature were tried upon the superfluous quantity of words, are errors into
unhappy ecclesiastic, whose courage en which the tyro in literature generally falls.
The verses of Rosella we have not
creased with their cruelty, and whose erect
composure under his sufferings drew tears perused with sufcient attention to offer a
of pity from all but his priestly brethren: decided opinion in this number.
Lines on reviewing the tomb of a Parent,
but the sovereign authority with which the
Commissary was invested imposed awe up by Algernon, shall receive the attention
on the people, and a dreadful silence scaled which so pious a subject demands.
send him a bed and a bible, and to be com
state of the convent, were all chosen from
among the most ignorant and prejudiced of

the profession.
It was in vain that Daniel Roger, the
physician of the town, and a man of consid
erable merit endeavoured to resist such a
confederacy of ignorance ; it was in vain
that the devoted Grandier exclaimed against
such an open injustice ! M. de Laubarde
mont had now thrown off all regard to ap
pearances, and hardly affected a colour of
equity in any of his proceedings. It was pro

posed to this cruel agent, by those who yet
hoped that the truth could interest him, to
up in their lips.
adopt a coutrivance of St. Athanasius, who,
W'hen the great admiral Haddock was

(lying, he called his son, and told him, con
sidering my rank in life, and public servi
ces, for so many years, I shall leave you but
when accused at the Council of Tyre of vio

lating the innocence of a maid whom he
the same strain, will no doubt answer the
authors intention of driving dull care away

for an hour or two.
The translation from Horace would not
disgrace the gay and gallant Roman.
, Morning by H
r, has been perused by
us with peculiar pleasure, and we are in
some degree astonished, that the rst poeti
cal attempt should contain so much smooth
ness of composition. It shall appear in our
The Sonnetteer, by Edwy, is thus far very

To be continued.
.
had never seen, and by whom he was en

tirely unknown, put on a look of uncon a small fortune; but, my boy, it is honestly
ciousness, and answered his accuser not a got, and will wear well; there are no sea
word. 'limotheus, however, one of his mcn's wages or provisions, nor one single
friends, who had previously concerted this penny of dirty money in it." How happy
measure with him, took the accusation to would be the nation, could all modern odi
himself, and turning to the woman, cers say the same with equal justice.
pleasing, and will doubtless be acceptable to

a number of our readers. If they derive as
much satisfaction from poetical effusions of
this nature as we do, their pleasure will be
very great.
-.
AFFLICTING PROVIDENCE.
Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.
In contemplating the departure of our fellow

creatures from this busy sceneI we are led to won
der, and compelled to acknowledge the omnipo
tence of Jehovah. We see thousands desire"
i
104
cd by the terrors of the battle; thousands silently

sinking; the victims of a slow disease, and others,
hurried by the touch of a burning fever into :ui

aw ul eternity! some are dashed headlong on the
rock and the breath of life issues through the
wound; some, 0! horror, become their own dc
Too much of water has thy darling boy,

Therefore forbid these \vo-born streams to fall;
In heaven no deep afictions can annoy,
No awful horrors and no strange appal!
him spontaneously which ever way he turned. The

diameter of the latter was nineteen feet ve inches.
After deducting the weight of Degcn and his fly
ing-machine, the baloon possessed a power equal to
thirty-two pounds.
There his pure spirit shall forever dwell,

Untouched by death or deep afiction, there
The joyful anthem shall, exulting, swell,
stroycrs, and some enter their tomb through the

jaws of the devouring tyger, while others pass
through the resistlcss water to an eternal home.
Of this last nature is the departure which we are
There you may cry, when ies the yielding breath,

And changeless fate your nal hour shall bring;
about to relate. Master William Britton, of about
Ol grave, where is thy victory, 0! death,
ve years of age, the darling son of Mr. William
Where, to the righteous, is thy fatal sting?

0n yonder frail memorials of the dead,
llritton, board merchant, ofthis city, was on Wed
nesday afternoon last, drowned from one of the slips

of Richmans Ferry, on the Jersey shore- The cir
HEALTH OFFICE,
To him who saved her from unfelt despair!
Diseases.
command, and descended a steep slip for that pur
pose, in company with a little girl, when dreadful

to tell, he fell into the water, and though every
possible assistance was immediately given, it was
in vain.
I Now came the distracted mother, in all the
phrcnzy of despair, wringing her hands and cal
ling upon her darling, her dead child; while the
weeping sisters, calling for their little brother from
the unmindful stream, presented a spectacle that
would melt almost a heart of adamant, and draw
tears from eycs unused to weep! And then to see

the tender father, landing at the spot, where zeal
ous friends were searching in vain for his beloved
boy, 0! it was a sight that might have bleached
joys rosy check forever and stre wed the snows of
age upon youths auburn ringlets.
The next morning the body was found, and in
the aftemoon was interred in the Baptist meeting
yard, in Second-street, where the Rev. Dr. Staugh
ton delivered avery affecting address.
From this distressing dispensation we may learn
the uncertainty of human cmstence, and hear the
opening grave exclaim, prepare! since youth and
old age are alike exposed to the ravages of death.
To you, alictcd parents, there is a consolation in
this hour of trial. Great indeed is yourloss, but the

gain of your infant is incalcidable. He has own
from anxiety and distress, in this vale of tears, to
endless blessings in the skies; and though his body

had forever remained in the stream, the yielding
atcl' could never have conned his spirit, which
has gone to join the ransomed around the throne,
where, while you are mourning his loss, he, doubt
lens, is singing. glory and honour and praise and

power he unto Him that sitteth upon the throne
and unto the Lamb, world without end.
H.
._._.
DIED,
On Wednesday morning last, Capt. The

ma: nderson, aged 57 years.
__
.N'ew Invention. With pleasure we announce to
the public, a new constructed balance, for weighing
all kinds of commodities, particularly gold and sil
ver, with the greatest possible accuracy and dis
patch; not only giving the specic gravity in its
various denominations to the hundreth part of a
Diseases.
1
1
Childbed
Cholera Morbus
1 0 Hives
0 14- lnam.lungs
ad. ch.
0 Fever, bilious
0 Hooping cough
0
0
2
1
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0
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1
Consump. oflungs ,3
Convulsions
0
Diarrhoea
0
Dropsy
1
Dropsy ofthe breast 1
Dysentery
1
Debility
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2
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0
1
0
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Epilepsy
1
Fever
1
Fever, intermittent 1
0
1
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Inllam. stomach
I 0
Palsey
1 O
Scrofula
1 1
Small pox, natural 0 1
Still born
0 2
Sudden
1 0
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Total
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Under 1
Between 1 and 2
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60
70
1
1
grain, but also at one view, the value in dollars,
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80
cents, 8:0. whether the standard be American, En
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10
10
20
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2
30
90
90
100
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glish, Portuguese, French or Spanish. It combmes
20
30
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all the uses of the hydrostatic balance, .for ascer
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taining the purity of metals, proof of spirits, Sac.
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50
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In its conguration and principle it approaches
nearest to the bent lever balance of any machine
for weighing now in use, and will be a very valua
STATE or THE 'IHERMOMETER.
ble acquisition to banks and counting houses1t is
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the invention of the ingenious Mr. Moses 1.- Morse,
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of Cambridge Port, late a citizen of this county.
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and as it allords another instance of the inventive
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POWers of the mechanics of our country, we cannot
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but hope Mr. M. will meet with due patronage for
inventing and perfecting a machine the uses of
TERMS or THE RERERTORY
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BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE.
Among the brave men, who perished in

the glorious struggle for the independence
of America, captain Nicholas Biddle holds
a distinguished rank. His services, and the
high expectations raised by his military
genius and gallantry have left a strong im
pression of his merit, and a profound regret
that his early fate should have disappointed
so soon the hopes of his country.
Nicholas Biddle was born in the city of
provisions and good water, and although va-t vessels, and selecting the crews, and a posi
rious efforts were made for their relief, it was tive order was issued that no boys should
nearly two months before they succeeded.

Such a scene of dangers and su'erings,
in the commencement of his career, would
have discouraged a youth of ordinary enter

prise zutd perseverance. On him it produced
no such e'ect. The coolness md prompti
tude with which he acted, in the midst of
perils that alarmed the oldest seamen, gave
a sure presage of the force of his character,
and after he had returned home, he made
be received on board.
To the bold and enterprising spirit of
young Biddle such an expedition had great
attractions. Extremely anxious to join it, he

endeavoured to procure captain Sterlings
permission for that purpose, but he was un
willing to part with him, and would not con
sent to let him go. The temptation was, how
ever, irresistible. He resolved to go, and lay
ing aside his uniform, he entered on board'
the Carcase before the mast. When he rst
went on board, he was observed by a sea
man who had known him before and was
very much attached to him. The honest
fellow thinking that he must have been de
graded and turned before the mast in dis
grace was greatly affected at seeing him,
but he was equally surprised and pleased
when he learned the true cause ofthc young
oiccrs disguise, and he kept his secret as
he was requested to do. Impelled by the
same spirit, young Horatio, afterwards lord
several European voyages, in which be ac

quired a thorough knowledge of seaman
ship.
In the year 1770, when a war between

Biddle one of the rst settlers and proprie Great Britain and Spain was expected, in
tors of that state, from whom he inherited consequence of the dispute relative to
a very large fortune, which his losses in Falkland's island, he went to London, in
trade, and the engagements of suretyship for order to enter into the British-navy. He
a friend had greatly reduced. His mother took with him letters of recommendation
was the daughter ofNicholas Scull, Esquire, from Thomas W'illing, Esquire, to his bro
who was, for many years, surveyor general ther-in-law captain Sterling,'on board of
of Pennsylvania, and of these worthy and whose ship he served for some time as a
respectable parents he was the sixth son. midshipman. The dispute with Spain being Nelson, had solicited and obtained permiss
The subject of this memoir very early in accommodated, he intended to leave the sion to enter on board the same vessel.
life manifested his partiality for the sea, navy, but was persuadcd'by captain Sterling These youthful adventurers are both said to
and before the age of fourteen he had made to remain in the service, promising that he have been appointed cockswains, a station
a voyage to Quebec. In the following year, would use all his interest to get him pro always assigned to the most active and trus
moted. His ardent mind, however, could ty seamen. The particulars of this expedition
1765, he sailed from'Philadelphia to Jamai
not
rest satised with the inactivity of his are well known to the public. These intre
ca, and the Bay of Honduras. The vessel
left the Bay in the. latter end of December, situation, which he was impatient to change pid navigators penetrated as far as the lati
tude of eighty-one degrees and thirty-nine
1765, bound to Antigua, and on the second for one more suited to his disposition.
In the year 1773 a voyage of discovery minutes, and they were at one time enclosed
day of January, in a heavy gale of wind, she
was cast away on a. shoal, called the North was undertaken, at the request of the Roy with mountains of ice, and their vessels
'crn Triangles. After remaining two nights al Society, in order to ascertain. how far na rendered almost immovable for ve days, at
and a day upon the wreck, the. crew took to vigation was practicable towards the north the hazard of instant destruction. Captain
their yaw], the long-boat having been lost, pole, to advance the discovery of a north Biddle kept a journal of his voyage, which
and with great difculty and hazard landed west passage into the south seas, and to was afterwards lost with him.
on one of the small uninhabited islands, make such astronomical observations as
The commencement of the revolution
about three leagues distant from the'recf, might prove serviceable to navigation.
gave a new turn to his pursuits, and he re
Two vessels, the Race Horse and Car
upon which they struck. Here they staid a
paired, without delay, to the standard of his
few days. Some provisions were procured casc, were tted out for the expedition, the country. When a rupture between England
tnd America appeared inevitable, he return
from the wreck, and their boat was retted. command of which was given to the hon
As it was too small to carry them all off, ottrable captain Phipps, afterwards lord ed to Philadelphia, soon after his arrival, he
they drew lots to determine who should Mulgrave. The peculiar dangers to which was appointed to the command of the Cam
remain, and young Biddle was amongr the such an undertaking was exposed, induced ;| den galley, tted for the defence of the
Delawarea He found this too inactive a ser
number. He, and his three companions, the government to take extraordinary pre
Philadelphia, on the 10th day of September,

1750. His father, Mr. tVilliam Biddle, was
a native of New Jersey, son of William
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vice, and when the eet was preparing, un

der commodore Hopkins, for an expidition
against New Providence, he applied for a
command in the eet, and was immediately

appointed commander of the Andrew Doria,
a brig of fourteen guns and a hundred and
thirty men. Paul Jones, who was then lieu
t2nant, and was going on the expedition,
was distinguished by captain Biddle, and in

troduted to his friends as a ofcer of merit.
Before he sailed from the Capes of Dela
ware, an incident occurred, which marked
his personal intrepidity. Hearing that We

deserters from his vessel were at Lewistown
in prison, an ofcer was sent on shore for
them, but he returned with information that
the two men, with some others, had armed
themselves, barrieadoed the door, and swore
they Would not be taken, that the militiaI of

the town had been sent for, but were afraid
to open the door, the prisoners threatening

to shoot the rst man who entered. Captain
Biddle immediately went to the prison, ac
companied by a midshipman, and calling to
one of the deserters whose name was Green,
a stout resolute fellow, ordered him to
open the door, he replied that he would

not, and if he attempted to enter, he would
shoot him. He then ordered the door to be
forced, and entering singly with a pistol in
each hand, he called to Green. who was pre
pared to re, and said, Now Green, if you
do not take good aim, you are a dead man.

Daunted by his manner, their resolution
failed, and the militia coming in, secured
them. They afterwards deelaredto the of
cer who furnishes this account, that it was
captain Biddles look and manner which had

awed them into submission, for that they had
determined to kill him as soon as he came
into the room.
To be continued
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OR
A TALE.
CHAPTER V:
Continued.
Then tell me, was not this enough to freeze
The feeling heart to adamant? to check
The native current of the soul, and svvell
Loves gentle streamlet to the sea of hate!

ANON'
I stood afew moments, absorbed in reec

tion on the conduct of Alberto, and nothing
could exceed my chagrin and pity at his pre

cipitancy. From this state I was aroused by
the condition of my beloved Isabella, to

whom I now ew, and succeeded, in a few
moments, in recovering. She had been so
much aEected by fear and disgust at the con
duct of Algoronza, that her frame trembled,

and a deadly paleness took possession of her
features. Had Alberto been before me at
this moment, my feelings would have over
come my discretion, and I should have chas;
tized him for his cruel and ungenerous pro

ceedings.
After expressing her fears for my safety,
and her horror at the unnatural course which
Algoronza had pursued, Isabella requested
me to conduct her in, which I did, though
not before I had obtained her consent to so
solved to picture her situation to Isabella,

and implore her to fly with me from an un
justufather and from the prospect of a treach
erous and cruel husband in Algoronza. An
opportunity soon o'ered. In all the glowing
language of love, I warned her of the dan
ger to which we were exposed, and pictured

my despair and distraction, should she be
united to my cousin. The wedding day was
xed, and our ruin certain, should she refuse
to accompany me. For a long time she re
sisted every argument, struck with terror at
licit her fathers concurrence in our wishes,
the step, and at the idea of her fathers ma
in two or three days.

This intention was, unfortunately for me,
prevented, for on the morning of the second
day after this, my venerable father was taken
ill, and on the fourth, to my irreparable loss
and inexpressible afiction, he expired. This
fatal catastrophe delayed my application to
Don Gomez for some time, during which I
resided contentedly with Algoronza, who,
deceitful villain, seemed totally to have for
gotten the past, preserved the greatest re
spect for me, and even treated me with that
fond affection, which had distinguished our
boyish days. We came to an explanation,
and he professed to he resigned to the loss
of his mistress, since I had fairly won her.
Some months had now elapsed, when one
night I ordered my squire to prepare for
our departure to the castle of Don Gomez,
early the next morning, in order to the com
pletion of my happiness. WVe sat out about
ledictions, but at last her own danger sur

mounted every obstacle, and it was agreed,
that the night previous to the day of her mar

riage, I should be at her window, with a lad
der of ropes, and carriage which was to con
vey her from Braganza.

The plan of our elopement being settled,
I took leave of Don Gomez and left Algo
ronza, exulting in his imaginary triumph. I
returned home and waited, with impatience,
the hour that was to disappoint my cousin
and put me in possession of her my heart
desired. All things were prepared, it arrived,
and with my faithful Gilbert, precisely at
twelve, I was beneath the window of Isabella.
The ladder was xed, Isabella descended
with part of her wardrobe, and all her jew
els; I seated myself beside her in the coach,

and Gilbert drove 08 with the greatest ra
pidity. \Ve travelled faster in hoped ere my
precious charge would be mist, that we
three oclock, and at the same hour in the might be near one hundred miles from Bra
afternoon we arrived at the castle. My mind ganza. It was our intention to travel into
was expatiating in scenes of fancied happi Westphalia, from whence we were to write
ness, during our journey, and my heart beat for the pardon of Don Gomez, expose the
high with expectation as my anxious eyes villainy of Algoronza, and if unsuccessful,
caught the rising grandeur of the turrets of we intended to remain there, as we had
Braganza. I dismounted, and entering the wealth enough in our possession, to maintain
saloon, to my astonishment I beheld Algo us in a retired manner. We travelled with
ronza, in close conversation with the prince, out intermission, except what was absolutely
who, upon my approach, received me coolly, necessary, until we reached Dusseldorp,
and to my confusion and rage, I too soon where we purposed to retnain their abort
discovered that my cousin had, some time time, and there the princess of Castile was
before, obtained his promise of Isabellas bound to me by the most sacred ties of
hand.
marriage.
This discovery exasperated me beyond
Gilbert, though in every other respect an
the bounds of reason, and I accused Algo invaluable servant, was very loquaeious, and
ronza of his perdy, threatening him with thinking us secure, he took care to let the
consummate vengeance. He only laughed at whole country know, that the marquis and
my rage and disappointment, telling me that marchioness Malventi resided in Dussel-~
he had vowed revenge and had obtained it. dorp.
That all my letters to Isabella he had put
One night the poor fellow entered my
into the possession of Don Gomez, who, ex room, in great hurry and confusion, What
asperated at the proceeding, had given Isu is the matter, Gilbert? said I.
bella to him. I know not what restrained
We are undone, my lord, returned he,
me from chastising Algoronza, but the vil I have been used to frequenting the hotels
lain escaped my fury. As I knew it would of this place, and just as I was passing out
be an useless labour to attempt the urging of the door, to night, who should pass in but
of Don Gomez to retract his promise, I re Antouio, the valet of Don Alberto. 'It was
2
too dark for him to perceive me, so I turn

ed and followed him. I heard him ask if the
marquis Malventi had passed through there.
The marquis resides here was the reply, and
Antonio immediately departed.
This was alarming intelligence, for I
doubted not that we were pursued by Go
mez or Algoronza, and we determined im
mediately to quit Dusseldorp. The carriage

was get ready, and at twelve that night we
departed with speed. Not being well ac
quainted with the road, we did not reach the
borders of this forest, until the day began to
break, when we perceived the carriage of
Don Gomez in full pursuit of us, drawn by
four horses, and followed by two footmen,
armed. Nothing could exceed the terrors of
Isabella, and my fears for her safety. In a
few moments my faithful Gilbert was com
manded to stop, and threatened with instant
death if he refused. The brave fellow imme

diately drew a pistol and_shot the ruian
that had seized the horses, and immediately
three or four pistols were discharged at him.
He fell dead from his box. Two pistols more
were now red, before I got from the coach,
andeven now, my dear Minda, my brain
burns, and my bosom swells with rage and
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Malventi, thou art revenged! he cried,

and expired.
After I had lain some short time, I he
camc inscnsible with loss of blood, and when
I recovered, I found myself in this cave,
ed as they envelope themselves; as they'grow

more numerous, it is extended; it follows
them in gradation from their most simple to
their most intricate state. It is hunger and

thirst in man whilst yet a savage, that \valtcn
with my wife beside me, surrounded by the
the rst will of his soul, the rst movements
banditti; who informed me that some who

rode in the coach had, they were told, borne
his body to Dusseldorp, and that they, in
of his body; it is these wants that make him

run, seek, watch, use artifice and violence:
all his activity is exerted to procure the

passing that way, discovered the bodies of means of his subsistence. Are they easily
Isabella, myself, and Gilbert, and conveyed

the two former to the care. In a short time
I recovered from my wound, and my be

loved wife was interred.
The calamitous circumstances I have re
lated, made me detest mankind, and the so
licitations of the band to join them, were
acceded to, upon the corroboration of my

hate by a circumstance as unjust as it was
cruel. I was declared an outlaw, and my es
tates were conscated, for the seduction of
attained? has he within his grasp, fruit, game,
and sh? he is less active, because by stretch

ing out his arm he is satised, and when su
tiated, nothing incites him to move, till the
knowledge of dicrcnt enjoyments has awak

ened in him desires from which spring new
inducements to action. Are the means dif
cult? is the game scarce and agile, the sh
cunning, the fruit transitory? then is man
forced to be more active; it then is neces
sary for his livelihood that his body and his

the princess of Castile, and the murder of mind should both be exercised to overcome
the count of Algoronza. I now became a
robber, and our captain being killed in an
encounter with the kings troops, you, my
brave comrades, made me your leader. Since
then we have been as humane as our trade
would admit, and never shed blood when our
the difficulties that he meets with; it is then
necessary that he should become active as

the game, cunning as the sh, and provident
and forecasting to preserve the fruits. Then
to extend his natural faculties, he exercises
himself, he thinks, he meditatcs; then he
ronza!
Villain! cried I, is it to you I owe
booty could be obtained without it.

discovers how to make a how by bending the
It was after my being wounded, my dear branch of a tree; how to make an arrow, by
Minda, in an encounter with a knight, in the sharpening a reed; to attach a piece of wood
forest, that I was indebted to your kindness to a sharp stone to make an axe; then he
and that of your father, for the preservation strives to make nets, he labours to fall trees
of my life. Part of what followed you are al and hollow their trunks to make canoes.
ready acquainted with, but you have yet to Already has he overleaped the bounds of ne
learn, that on leaving you to procure the ne cessity; already the experience of a crowd
cessary proofs of my birth, I came no further of sensations has inspired him with delights
than the cave, remaining here the time nc
and trouble, and it requires an increase of
cessary to travel into and return from Spain, activity to remove the latter and multiply the
and from hence too, I sent one of my band, former. He has felt the pleasure of a shade
as the count Palermo, to conduct you to against the rays of the sun, and he builds
himself a cabin. He has experienced that a
Malventi.
Not six weeks ago was Bernardo received skin shelters him from the cold, and he
into our band, and already has the villain makes himself a vestment. He has drunk
threatened us with destruction. But let us, brandy and smoked tobacco; he loves them.
my brave companions, be watchful, and re He wishes to have more; he can only pro
my pursuit and my Isabellas murder?
main united in our defence, and, with these
horror at the recollection,one pierced 'the

fair bosom of my beloved Isabella, and she
fell, a bleeding corpse, at my feet! What a
change! a few hours before I had been ex
ulting in my happiness in Isabella, and look
ing forward to its increasc,and now the dar
ling object of my affections, she on whom

I had placed all my thoughts of earthly feli
city, murdered by the arm of a barbarous
ruH-ian, lay dead before me, covered with
her own blood! My brain turned, I rushed

from the carriage, and exclaimed, to Gomez,
as I supposed,
\Vretch! you have murdered your
daughter and my wife! But my naked
sword was brandishcd in the face of Algo
cure it with skins of beavers, the teeth of
glooms to shield us, we remain unconquer
Dead, exclaimed be, starting a few

paces from me, and is she dead! exccra
ble villain, that heart robbed me of my hap
elephants, and gold dust; he rcdoubles his

able."
activity and industry crowns him with suc
Here Malvanti concluded, continued cess.
Minda, and after drinking to their safety
piness, at length thy doom is at hanil.

Algoronza, cried I, ercely, I am
now resolved on your death or mine. In

vondcr coach lies the body of my murdered
ivifc, and before me stands her assassin!
and the destruction of their fees, the band re

tired to rest.
To be continued.
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For the Repertory.
IIe for
rushed
pa'rried
his
Ithrusts
some upon
time, me,
and Ithen
attacking
ORIGIN AND MOTIVES OF HUAIAN

INDUSTRY.
him furiously, he received my sword to the
Translated from Volney's Travels in Syria; by Gre
hilt in his bosom, and his passed through
gory Gravity.
the esh of my right side. We both fell; he

All activity, whether of body or of mind,
to rise no more.
,1 takes its rise from necessities;_it is display
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. XLIX.

Thou hast been,
As one in suffering all that suffers nothing;
A man who Fortunes buffets and rewards

Has tacn with equal thanks: and blest are they
'hose blood and judgment mingled are so well
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's nger,
To sound what stop she pleases.
SBA K sr sit a: .
I have looked upon the country as a place

where the busy citizen could repair and yield
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himselfto a temporary forgetfuhiess of his

troubles. In this persuasion it has always
been my practice to visit it oceasionally, and
remain there, as long as pleasure prompted
or inclination would allow. There is a satis
faction in rambling over her gay spread
mountains,
and reclining in the arbours
woven by her fanciful hand which no other

scenes are capable of imparting, and com
pared to which the dull monotony of a town
is disgustful. As we look over her lofty pre
ripices jutting over a rapid river, to which
we have been inadvertently led, we feel an
anxious apprehension mixed with sublime
delight; and when we loitcr on the Bowery
borders of a rivulet, winding calmly through
a love inspiring grove, the tranquillized
sensations lull us into a heavenly calm. \Vhat
a scene is this for contemplation! a scene
calculated to humanize the breast of bar
barity and bid the brute creation silently
adore! Such was the scene in which I was
lately placed, and my soul Was swelling with
the tide of rapture. I looked around me on
every side and beheld new beauties at every
gaze. It was morning, and as the sun cast
his rays over the tops of the hills, I beheld
at a small distance from me, an old man in
the act of supplication, with his face turned
towards the rising monarch of the day.

Venerable age had scattered his hoary ho
nours on his head, and his countenance was
lighted with an animation tempered with

humility which I had seldom before seen.
He appeared to pray fervently for some time,
at length having risen, on perceiving me he
slowly approached me, and satised my ad
miration in a few words.
He had been a soldier in his younger days,
and bore the scares of honour on dicrent
parts of his body. He showed me the sword
with which he had laboured for the inde
pendence of his country and his eye glowed
at the recital. He had once a wife, but she
had yielded to sickness, and was now a
sent situation as a consequence natural to
maincd there, but that we were smoked out
tion, nor dropt the tear of painful and impi

ous regret. His mind was still awake to the
of it with as little ceremony as the village

inhabitant smokes bats out of his decaying
abode, with suffocating brimstone. I have
tendercst feelings of human nature, and he
would dwell upon the praises of his amiable

partner with delight; his soul was still
elevated to the noblencss of valour, and he
seen them, MixResdcr, tumbling down from
the eaves as thick as hail. I have seen the

squeaking wretcht-s scrambling to the sides
would recite the courageous actions of his of the houses as they fall, and I have abso
son with enthusiasm; his heart was still open lutely even watched their eyes as they would
to the beam of tenderness and he would tell grow dim, when they would stretch out their
the kindness of his brother with the purest wings till, as a body might say,
'Iheir interrupted heart-pulse swam in death.
throb ofaffection. But the happiness he now
enjoyed through the lial attention of his There was this small difference between
' good daughter amply compensated for all the manner of our expulsion, and that of the
his alictions, and it was for that happiness bats. In the rst place, we were not in the
bestowed on him by the unpolluted hand of caves of a house at all; ergo, according to
this affectionate, this virtuous girl, that he the principles of logic, we did not fall from
each morning returned his thanks; and asked
them; neither did a soul of us die, at that
its continuance no longer than the will of

heaven might see proper to allow it. Per
fectly satisfied with his state, perfectly pre
pared at any moment to change it, his life
owed along like a gentle stream, undisturb
ed by rocky impediments, and untliverted by
meandering courses; it seemed like to the
placid beaming of the sun when from the
eye he calmly retires in the west free from
intervening shadows and threatening clouds
in majestic serenity. Happy, indeed, thought
I, are those who can thus pass through the
calamities of life without being aiicted with
the multitude; thrice happy are those who
like this good old man are unaffected by the
time: nor were we smoked with a particle

of brimstone. It will therefore appear evi
dent to the intelligent reader, that this little
circumstance was mentioned merely to give
the literary character a correct notion of
sublimity in the present mode of introduc
frowns of fortune, who can think of their
past sorrows without pain, or place them to

the vast account of the kindness of Omnipo
tence, in endeavouring thus to win our
thoughts from this scene of insignicance

and to place them on something eternal;
thrice happy are those who can thus by re
ection ameliorate their distresses and mag
nify their happiness; for thus blessed with a
superiority of virtuous contentment what is
there for them to desire?
tenant of the grave; he had once a son, but
Poor and content is rich, and rich enoug .
he had fallen in battle; he had once abrother,

he also was no more: but he had yet a.
daughter who soothed the old man to hap
piness, amused him in his waking hours and
watched him in his sleep. All his sorrows
he bore with a virtuous and manly resigna
I looked upon the old man with a re

verential esteem. Absorbed in natures vir
tues, her beauties were forgotten, and the
scene around me capable of yielding great
and unspeakable delight, engaged not that
observation so much more delightfully em
ployed. I asked the old mans blessing, and
with my mind engaged in prayer to become
tion; he looked not continually back, to count
how many more nights we might have re
age, and heaved not the sigh of dissatisfac
ing similes. The fact is, we were to all in
tents and purposes smoked out of the ca

vern; neither will this appear at all wonder
ful to a reective mind, when it knows that
the Indians in seeking for us had almost

cxtirpated the white inhabitants from that
part of the country; going on in their com
mon polite manner of making war; bunting,
destroying, &c. &c. all that came in their
way. T hcy had torn up my fathers house
completely from its foundation; burnt it to
ashes, and explored the spot where it stood,
with great masses of_ timber in hopes ofnd
ing us, much like your Pennsylvania boys
dig for worms when they are going a sh
ing. All their labour proving as yet incec
tual, old Hughs house was the next one that
was to be stormed; accordingly they hunted
for us in every crevice, and conceiving it im
possible that we could have escaped their
diligent search, mildly determined to march
oil, and leave it blazing. I regard this cir
cumstance (and I shall stop short to make
the observation) as a singular proof that
something Watched ovcr'ourimportant fatcsr,
for in _v. but other way any one can account
for the sudden departure of the red men
from that spot, when they had hertofore been
so sternly particular,I know not; however I

over his former pleasures,and to throw them
in
old
age,
if
I
should
ever
attain
it,
just
have my own opinion concerning it,and every
in the balance with his present ones; he re
body else may just think as they think pro
ected not continually on the moments of such a man, we parted.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
per. Ccrtain it is, that thus did they leave us,
his ardent youth, when blessed with the
and that thus were we smoked out of our
smiles of conjugal felicity he found no one
For the Repertory.
hiding
place, when if they had staid ten mi
so happy as himself; he thought not con
RIY LIFE, 'III'ITI'ZN BY IIYSELF
nutes longer they would have discovered us
(continued)
tinually of those scenes which now never
In this delightful retreat did we remain crawling out as quietly as they could possi
could return; but when he did, he had tem
snug
enough, all night, and no one knows bly have wished us, except our wind had
pered his mind by piety to reect on his pre
been stopped at once. There certainly never
was a more courageous family in such a
situation; but how it was I cannot tell, my
low fact, therefore so must I record it, that

before we left the ruins of our worthy old
protectors house, three warriors and six
109
Genius of Milton, 0! be thou my muse,

And all thy lustre in my mind infuse!
Or if too vast thou holdst my fond desire,

Impart an ember from the mighty re!
And thou, 0! light, as to my woidring eyes
virgins approached with the greatest possi

ble humility, who it appears had just set Thy various beauties in succession rise,
ground; my mother, Fantanda, and myself about parading through the forest in search Evn as thou dost thy eliluent beams display,
crawled out on our hands and knees after of us; each warrior carried a lighted pipe of Vl'ithin me shine and let my mind be day;
father came out cautiously, and slowly, drag
ging his rie after him close along the
the same fashion; and even old steady heart
peace, and a belt of white wampum; the mid
ed Hugh llardfare, whom I watched with

attentive anxiety, lifted up his head by in
denitely small degrees and looked about
with as much seeming apprehension as my
self. At length all being still; this said
he, my young hero, will be a kind of les
son to you, that stratagem in warfare is no
less necessary at times to ensure success,
than courage. For what would the most
elevated valour have been able to accom
plish here? \Vhat would the most resolute
and indefatigable industry in the conduct of
so few men, had we engaged in the unpro
dlc one also bearing a blight tomahawk, and

each of the blushing danisels had their hair
interwoven with fanciful flowers. \Vhen they
arrived within fifty yards of us, they buriedl
the hatchet with all due pomp, and came up
lit-able contest, have availed us against so

ferocious, so numerous, and so powerful a
foe? If our imprudent boldness had urged

us to await undanted, the approach of this
blood thirsty band, ere now we would have
been weltering in our blood: our rm braced
limbs would have been nervcless, our ani
mated eycs" (poor old fellow, thought I,

but I did not say any thing, there is not
much animation in your eyes) would have
ceased to sparkle, and our valouv, thus blind
ed against sense, would have been strangled

by the frozen grasp of death." Let this be
a lesson to you my son, said Mr. Nebuchad
nezzar Headlofty, my father, who was a man
that thought we could never have too much
of a good thing, not to suffer your courage

to blind your judgment and overstrain your
mind.
hlivabile dictu, my mother did not open
her mouth: I suppose she thought she
dare not, and as for Fantanda, or Mrs. Head
lofty the younger, she could not; or if she

had it would have been to no purpose, for
no one of us present could have understood
a word she might have said.
Now I would not be the least afraid to bet

six hundred wlmngrangras, which reduced
to currency amount to about fty dollars,
that not one reader out of the thousands that

ock to see and hear this memoir, can guess
45
So shall I see the glorious theme I sing,

And my bold muse outspread a bolder wing;
50
But more than all Bright Radiance upon hi gh,
Whose footstool earth, whose temple is the sky,

Thou God of light, to guide my wandering heart,
A beam from the eternal blaze impart;
Which glorious beam shall guide me safely through,
56
to us with a smile; at the sight of which,_ From error free, the path I should pursue!
Fantanda was near going crazy; my father,l For who can light impart, impart not thou,
Who beaist a crown of lustre on thy brow;
mother, and myself were suddenly in a lively i Who art thyselfthc sun of all the world,
and most excellent humour, and old Hugh I And hast oer space thy splendid beams unftu'ld! 60
hopped about on his lame leg, absolutelyf
lifting the sound one up in the air for joy.

HUGH HEADLOFTY.
(To be continued.)
Jesus, the baptist from the water leads,

The re of deep temptation then succeeds.
Scarce stoops the glorious spirit from above,
To own the offspring of eternal love,
Ere to meet hell that Heavens high will be done,
That spirit leads the all obedient Son.
ag
66
The more the saints in favour so divine

The more for his seduction ends combine;
A But let the hosts that in perdition dwell,
Their cruel souls with hopes of vengeance swell; 70
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THE PROFITIATION.
BOOK llI.
That bounded poWer, by Heaven himself bestowd,
ln vain attempts to counteract the God!

If he oppose, the trembling ghosts obey.
And back retreat in horror and dismay!
But now the Spirit moved upon the deep;
Nay, evn the plans their bloody wills pursue, 75
Let their be light, he cried, eulg'cnce knew
In hopes, some deuthlcss spirit to subdue,
The voice divine, and over chaos ew:
Do but assist, O! wondrous powr, the will
At the command involving mists dispel-st,
Of heavens omniscient Sovereign to full!
And light, obedient, out of nothing burst.
'hat breast with merited disdain can glow,
So to the sleeping clay th Eternal spoke,
What heart indignant ample wonder know,
80
The clay obeyed and into man awoke;
At the presumption of the apostate foes,
t Again he cried, unto the waters, lie,
l
The fountains gushed, and swelled into the sea! 10 l' Who dared their diabolic art oppose
Against the offspring" of the prince of heaven,
Hail! light, that rst the dreary reign destroyd,
To whom all power in earth and hell is given!
And beamd thy lustre oer the boundless void!
And who 0! Saviour, through thy grace inspire, 8:3
Before thee, darkness, all dismayd, retires,
Thy patience can sufciently admire;
And. chaos sparkles with unnumber'd res
15 Who from the skies unnsked, undriven came,
Say, hast thou been from all eternity,
'lo bear the cross and to despise the shame;
Ply-11 as thou dwellst in God and God in thee?
To combat foes detestable and fell,
At whose appearance fearful Sinai shook,
And rescue myriads from the grasp of hell!
9i)
in holy fear, to meet his kindling look!
More awe and wonder oer my soul preside,
Or if thou hadst beginning, who can say,
hat glorious moment fashiond rst thy ray; 20 A; thy humility than Satans pride.
For who can wonder that the sons of hell,
At v. hat bright hour thou brightest of the train,
\Vhom mad ambition tempted to rebel,
Thy peerless beauty first commenced her reign?
To equal potence with their God aspire,
9.?
Before the archd, eerulean spheres were made,
And tempt the vengeance of eternal lire;
Before the sun his earliest beams displayd;
25 \Vith heedless rage the futile hope pursue,
Before the moon from dismal nothing fled,
'lill lleaven from bliss their rebel numbers threw:
Or stars their rst nocturnal brilliance shed;
No source of wonder that their souls should still
Before the skies received the tuneful choir,
The dark incitements of ambition feel;
10:;
Their bosoms glowing with seraphic re,
XNTRODUCTION
Long did the world beneath the Water sleep,
Should strive their awful terrors to dismiss,

And leave their bah-ful grief to catch at bliss!
But 0! the wonder that of Heaven the chief,
what is the reason thatI have been loitering

so long about the place of our late secretion;
why 1 have listened to such a long speech
Thou didst exist, and ready at the hour,
First in th ei'lillgtt train thou did'st appear;
Should leave his bliss to catch at halt-ful grief!
from colonel llavdfare, w ho, by the by, is no
Upon the pinions of the morning y.
Nor know one cause to leave the realms above, 105
mean orator,.or why I have permitted my

father to say a single word, or myself to
make so many moral reections. I am fully
The sons of God, for joy, together sting,

And new born nature with rejoicings rung!
condent that no one can solve the riddle,
O! that like him, whose pleasing numbt'i s fell,

' 'l.y umtchlessglories, though unknown, to swell;
and therefore I will even do it myself. 50

fact had it, and every historian ought to fol
l ftlt my soul illumined, by thy rays

Pouringr their grandeur in unecasing blaze!
When the omnipoteut, creative powr,

All nature ralld from chaos, dark, and drcar,
A nd scatter glory oer the darkling sky;

35
Except the glorious cause, eternal lovt-l

Th angelic hosts before the sceptre bow,
And heaven born terror wraps each angtl brow,
hen, who dares die for man! thirltrrnal cried}
40
Silence ensued, no spirit then replied;

fill the dread Second from the lriune burst,
Cor-val and coequal with the First;
119
110
By the great Third his bosom all inspired,

\Vith love for man his yielding spirit red;
"hile all the host beheld the God; dismayd,
Myself will save the race that hell betrayd,
The wheat, the corn fannd with the breeze,
Still in their height and strength increase;

115
The Saviour cried; will leave thesc'glorious realms,
To seek those scenes where sorrow overwhelms;

here sin, as ocean, round his waves has lunld,
And like a second deluge drownd the world!

Where now the sons of ruinall conspire,
120
All the gay owrets of the eld,

With spicy groves their fragrance yield,
Charmd with the scene the warblers rise.
And sound their anthem to the skies.
The sun is rising in the east,

The beauty of the scenes increased;
He spreads his rays around the earth,
To fan the embers ofa fearful re,
'hich in the end shall burn you rolling ball,

And cover nations with a deep appal;
llouseless to roam, the earth my naked bed,

The heartless stone a pillow for my head;
Untill the farmer for his toil,

Shall be rewarded from its soil;
125
There, though the God my radiant brow adorns,
den attack, but answered with a smile of

indignation, that hc~renounccd satan and
all his devils, that he gloricd in the name
of Jesus Christ, and that he disclaifned all
- knowledge of, and intercotsc with such mis
And nature seems to have new birth.

with gradual pace pursues his way,
And soon declines the transient day;
Until he meets the distant west,
Descends the wave and sinks to rest.
To shut my glory in a crown of thorns!

As now his ra_\ s descend the wave,
The owing vest, the. purple robe to wear,
The cross that robs me of my life to bear;
130 So shall frail man descend the grave,
But virtue nothing has to dread,
The pangs of death with groaning soul to meet,
\Vhile blooddown tricklesl'rom my hands and feet; Glorious she rises from the dead;
And thence descending, seek th affrightcd grave, Triumphantly she bursts the chain,
And ies where endless pleasures reign;
Man from despair and horror but to save!
The seraphs hear and ans ering joy replies, 135 'lo sing, while countless ages run,
The praises of the eternal Son.
New but-sting hallelujahs rend the skies.
Thou man with glowing bosom catch the theme,
_.._
And hail thy gracious Saviour all supreme!
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1f anthems, for thy safety there are known,
TUE TEM PEST.
llow shouldst thou echo anthems for thy own, 14-0
Erlemporancous.
Thy bosom how with love for Jesus swell,
See the rough Atlantic rise,
'ho caught thy spirit as she sunk to hell!
lIR
'ar the restless billows wage,

Now aloft the vessel ies,
For the Repertory.
Now she sinks beneath their rage.
TllE SONNETTEER. No. H.

Thus the bark of life is tost,
Thus awhile withstands the wind;
To MORNING.
Fair laughs the morn"
can. v.
10'. from the summit of you eastern steep

The rays of glory burst upon the grove;
Nature awakens from olilivions sleep
And morns gay herald waft: her lay above.
The night dews y the owrets blushing bloom,
No more the lily bends beneath the load,
While zephyrs winglets,fraught with rich perfume,
\Vavc oer the lawn and sport along the wood
Bic-st child of nature, who with artlcss joy
Can gaze and prize; with taste uncloycd by art=
Ncer may renement thy delight destroy
And check the genuine feelings of the heart

Nature, though clad in tints that eer adorn,
Fairer and lovlier shines at balmy hour of morn.
EDVVY.
Grandicr was now brought for the rst

time into the presence of the nuns who
had acted the parts of the possessed; im
mediately strange transports and convul
sions ensued, succeeded by horrible out
cries and yellings, and all pretended to put
him in mind of the times and places in
which he had communicated with them.
Q Grandicr was no way dismayed by this sud
But at length is shatterd, lost,

Leaving " not a wreck behind."
VALERIAN.
For the Repertory.
erable impostors.
This cxecrable scene, however, produced
considerable effect upon the people, who
could not believe it possible for women that
had devoted themselves to their God, to be
capable of such monstrous iniquity. The
nuns would now have torn him to pieces
lil' they had not been withheld; they threw
'; however, their slippers at his head, distort
} ing at the same time their countenances in

to the most terrible grimaces. About two
months before the condemnation of Gran

l dier, asudden remorse seized upon the sis
; tcr Clara, and the sister Agnes: they public
} ly confessed the part they had taken in this
infamous plot. One of the seculars, la No
, geret, made the same avovv'al; but the prin
l cipals of the conspiracy laughed at their de
claration, which they insisted were only the
artices of the devils to foster incredulity.
The judges were now appointed for the
trial of Grandier, the issue of which was

{easily
foreseen, when it was observed that
Your breecliea are lost, said his man to Sir John,
lve scarchd evry room and I nd they are gone: j the choice fell entirely upon his avowed and
EPIGRAM.
'1 inveterate enemies. Such an outrage against

all the principles of justice drew together
Your mistress informd me just now that shefotmil the sound part of the inhabitants of the town:
em.
V.
at the ringing of the bell, they assembled in
.
the town-house,and there composed a letter
accoux'r or THE CELEBRATE!)
to the king, in which the proceedings of the
URBAN GRANDIER.
cabal were spiritedly and justly exposed.
No, Ned, cried the knight, they are safe PM he

boundem,
(Continued)
._._.
For the Repertory.
MORNING.
Hail! glorious morn, whose bright array

Now ushers in the new born day;
Bursts the dark curtain of the night,
And gives free access to the light;
\Yhile eastern twilight decks the sky,
A rural scene salutes the eye;

The dewy lawn, the fertile vale,
The senses charm, the mind regale.
A thousand hills, whose jutting base

I-ar decorates fair nattues face;
There craggy rocks and towring trees,
And lambkins sporting at their case;

There ocks and herds together meet,
And joyful the fair morning greet;
Below it lays th extended plain,
'het'e peace and smiling plenty reign.
This measure, however, proved entirely in
In the mean time the vulgar were cajolcd

by a thousand conjuring tricks, which pas
sed for the agency ofthe devils. Father Lact
ance promised them that the demon should
take the commissarys cap from his head
during the service, and suspend it while they
chaunted a misererc'. This was done by an
easy contrivancc, when the glare of the
chandeliers favoured the deception. An order
was now published, declaring the possession
by devils of the nuns of Londun to be a
true representation, and enjoining a gene
ral belief, because the king, the cardinal,
effectual, turd contributed only to exasperate

the comniissary, who, with the other com
missioncd judges, annulled the act of the
assembly, and forbade any persons in future
to deliberate on matters which came within
the power of the commission.
Grandicr now began to consider his con
demnation as the certain consequence of
and the bishop believed it. Such as refused
plished. One last solemn appeal he address
these outrageous proceedings; he neglected,
however, no arguments which might tend

to open mens eyes to the uncxamplcd per
version of justice and violation of human
rights, by which his ruin was to be accom
assent were declared to be indcls and here led to his judges, full of force and full of
tics.
dignity, reminding them that the Judge of
111
judges would sit in the midst of them, and eldest of the indigent family. They made
take account of their motives and decisions their complaints to the Chapter: the Canon
on that day in which they would sacrice an was prosecuted, and condemned not to a]:
innocent man to the implacable fury of an [war in the their for a year. The young
unrighteous cabal; that, as mortals, but a
little time would bring them before that

mighty tribunal, where the temporary judg
ments, which they shall have authorised in
this world, will form the grounds on which
that last immortal judgment shall be pro
nounced upon
them,-which shall extend
through eridless ages.

About this time an occurrence took place
which affected all minds with the deepest
horror: as M. de Laubardemont was enter
ing the convent, he was surprised with the
gure of a woman in the outer court, with
only a linen covering on her body, and her
head naked; a torch was in her hand, a cord
about her neck, and her eyes were swelled

with weeping. On approaching, it was found
to be the superior of the convent, the chief
actress in these infernal scenes.
As soon as she perceived the commissary
she threw herself on her knees, and declared
herself the wickedest of Gods creatures for
her conduct in this iniquitous affair. Imme
diately after this confession, she attached the
cord to a tree in the garden, and would have
strangled herself outright, had it not been
for the interference of some nuns who were
shoemaker, having attained to mans estate,

was scarcely able to get a livelihood, and,
overwhelmed with wretchedness, sat down,
ANECDOTE.
'
_ I
A gentleman but a few months married, as he

was hearing home a cradle one day, was met by a
fricnd,who exclaimed with a smile, Ah! these are
the fruits of matrimony. No, returned the

other, this is only the fruit banker.
on the day of a procession, at the door of
PHILADELPHIA,
the cathedral of Seville, in the moment the
procession passed by. Amongst the other

Canons, be perceived the murderer of his
CORRESPONDENCE.
father. At the sight of this man, lial affec
0. know the piece alluded to by Lothario to be
tion, rage, and despair, got so far the better the poetical composition of the ostensible author.
ofhis reason that he stabbed him to the heart. John and Jane, he has assured us he never saw,
The young man was seized, convicted of but the story upon which he founded his poetic
the crime, anti condemned to be quartered
alive. Peter, whom we call the cruel, and
whom the Spaniards, with more reason, call

the Lover of Justice, was then at Seville.
The a'air came to his knowledge; and, af
ter learning the particulars, be determined

to he himself the judge of the young shoe
maker. When he proceeded to give judg
ment, he rst annulled the sentence pro
nounced by the Clergy; and, after asking

the young man what profession he was of,
Iforbid you," said he, to make shoes for
a year to come.
-_._
effusion, was told him in plain prose some time

ago. We return Lothario our sincere thanks for his
laudable intentions, and take this opportunity of
requesting his reappearance in the Repertory; we
conceive him to be aman of too much sense to
take offence at our candid opinion at one of his
pieces, and must therefore attribute his long silence
to some cause unconnected with personal chagrin.
As soon as we can command a few hours leisure,
we will most cheerfully comply with the polite and.

flattering request of Bellario.
The communication of A Spectator savours, in
one instance, of theological controversy. If he will
alter or permit us to alter the commencement of
IDLENESS.
Bishop Cumberland being told by some
near her. Not even this spectacle could of his friends that he would wear himself
touch the heart of Laubardemont: these re out by intense application, replied, It is
cantations were represented as fresh proofs better to wear out than to rust out."
of the friendship that subsisted between
Idleness is the most painful situation of
the third paragraph, the piece shall appear.

However we may agree with the author of the
essays on Holy-days, (and we partly acquiesce
in his opinion) our prospectus forbids us to make
Grandier and the demons, who made use of the mind, as standing still, according to Ga
This will, doubtless, be a sufcient reason to the
these expedients to save him. To the pre len, is of the body.

judiced every thing serves as a proof; it
Rosseau, in his Confession, says, In my
feeds upon that which should naturally de
opinion, idleness is no less the pest of coria
stroy it. At length, on the 18th of August,
ty than of solitude. Nothing contracts the
1634, after a multitude of depositions, the
mind, nothing ingendcrs tries, tales, back
most absurd that ever entered into the hu
bitings, slanders and falsities, so much as
man heart to invent, Urban Grandler was
being shut up in a room opposite each
condemned to be tortured and burnt alive,
other, reduced to no other occupation than
before the porch of his own church of Salute
the necessity of continual chattering. \Vhen
Croix.
author for its nonappearance.

We remember to have perused with great plea.
sure, pieces over the signatures of T. D. M. Sedlcy
and Herminius. These correspondents seem to have
entirely left us; for what reason we cannot learn,
but we should be very happy at their reappearance
every one is
imployed, they speak only
(To be concluded in our next)
when they have something to say; but if you

are doing nothing, you must absolutely talk
PETER THE CRUEL.
incessantly, and this of all constraints, is the
A Canon of the cathedral of Seville, most troublesome, and the most dangerous.
affected in his dress, and particularly in his I dare go even farther, and maintain, that
shoes, could not find a workman to his lik
ing. An unfortunate shoemaker, to whom
he applied, after quitting many others, hav

ing brought him a pair of shoes not made
to please his taste, the Canon became furi
to render a circle agreeable, every one must
the Repertory a receptacle for theological disputes
to which the piece in question cannot fail to lead.
in our literary store house,
Alexis has a very happy fancy in rhyming, and

we believe that if he favoured us with a call. we
could put him in the way of writing some pleasing
poetry, although the piece before us is too incorrect
for insertion.
-_._
.II rcnfClfyfUT' Jpaplery. M. Sage has lately stated,
in a memoir read to the national institute, at Paris,
the eieacy of uor volatile alkali, in cases of severe

apoplexy. For at least forty years, says he, I
have had opportunities of witnessing the efcacy of
be not only doing something, but something

which requires a little attention."
volatile alkali, taken internally, as an immediate
Calvin is said to have composed 2023 remedy for the apoplexy, if employed on the rst
sermons. He either wrote or dictated du appearance of the disease. One of the keepers of
ous, and, seizing one of the tools of the ring the whole of his last illness; and when
shoemaker, gave him with it so many blows his friends requested him to do nothing, he
upon the head, as laid him dead on the oor. used to say, What, would you have the
The unluppy man left a widow, four (laugh Lord come and surprise me in my idle
ters, and a son fourteen years of age, the nessi
my cabinet aged 72 years, robust though thin and

very sedate, was seized, while fasting, with an ap
oplexy. He fell down deprived of sense. When rais

ed up he had the rattles in his throat, his eyes were
closed, his face pallid, and his teeth xed together.
- PHILADELPHA REPERTORY.
112
I drew out his under lip so as to answer the pur

pose of a spout, into which was poured a spoonful
of water, containing 25 or 30 drops of flour volatile
alkaliAt the same time two slips of paper, the
edges of which were Wetted with volatile alkali
Were introduced into his nostrils. The teeth were
speedily Separated, and the eyes openedA second
dose of alkali was instantly poured down the throat,
The rattles ceased; speech and recollection return.
cd- In the course of an hour the patient recovered
suflicient strength to proceed without assistance
about thirty paces to his own chamber. In another
hour he got up, asked for something to eat, and has
syrup; and whilst engaged in the drug business,

[compounded it largely as an article of sale- As
I have been frequently asked for it, by those who
have in their families experienced its cilic;.c_v,l
have here given the receipt, which will enable eve
ry one at a triing expense to prepare it for thcm~
juice to make it agreeable

If the child is not too young, let it drink of it
grounds and all stirred up together. It is believed
that this toasted oat meal tea is scarcely ever eject
a method of communicating magnetism to a bar of

iron, without a magnet He takes abar about three
feet in length, which gives no sign of any magnetic
virtue whilst lying in a horizontal position; but
possesses the same in a. very sensible degree when
selves, asa domestic medicine. It is far superior
to every other form of hive syrup I have ever tried,

and is equally superior to them in common colds,
hooping cough and those other complaints for
4-
in which this composition is prepared; but it is.
probable that a solution of alum, pot-ash, and vit

riol, is one of the ingredients.
HEALTH OFFICE,
.
August 17, 1811.
from the 10th to the of 16th August.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
ad. cli.
Asthma
1 0 Fever, typhus
0 1
Abscess
0 I Fever, puerperal
l O
which syrup of squills, 81c. are so constantly em
Apoplcxy
'1 O Hooping cough
0 2
0 2 Hemorrhage,
1 0
ployed. I may add, that as it sometimes fermcnts Atrophy
0 24 Inam. of liver
1 0
in the hot months, all that is necessary, is merely Cholera Morbus
Cholic
1 0 Insanity
1 0
to
boil
it
down
a
little,
which
prevents
the
continu
since experienced no return of the disorder." He
Consump. of lungs 4 1 Old age
1 O
reports another instance in the person of one of his ance of the fermentative process, without diminish Convulsions
0 3 I'alsey
1 O
friends, who was a great cater, and was struck ing the efcacy of the remedy.
Decay
1 3 Pleurisy
1 O
Dian-hora
1 0 Sore throat
0 1
Seneca
,
with the apoplexy while at table. The volatile al RSquills root
drieilbruised
and bruised, f eacltrlb
Dropsy
2 1 Stone
0 1
kali excited a vomiting, and after that had abated,
watcr
8 pounds.
Dropsy ofthe breastl 0 Sudden
1 0
the patient took 20 drops of volatile alkali in half of
Boil together over a slow re, till the water is Drowned
0 1 Syphilis
1 O
a glass of wine. llis senses returned, and in two half consumed; strain of the liquor, and then add 0f Dysentcry
1 3 Worms
0 2
hours he was able to walk in his garden."
Dcbility
2 o
_. _
Strained honey,
4 pounds.
O 1
27 47
Boil the honey and the strained liquor to lbs. Erysipclas
Fever
2 0
CHOLERA TMORBIYS.
or to the consistence of a syrup; and add to every
I 0
Total
74
Observing by the report of deaths for the last pound of this syrup, 16 grs. of tartar emetic; that Fever, nervous
Of
the
above
there
were,
few weeks, that the Cholera lm-[ms has proved is, 1 gr. to the ounce.
Under 1
4
fatal to a number of children, it is earnestly rc
The dose varies from 10 drops to one or more
Between 1 and 2
12
60
7O
6
comniended to parents and others (and will I am
tea spoons full, every quarter, half, or one hour, ac
2
5
10
7'0
80
l
sure, be approved of by physicians, most of whom
cording to the age, or the violence of the disease.
5
10
2
80
90
l
know its efficacy) to use, in addition to other
It operates by purging, vomiting, and sweat.
10
20
2
90
100
0
means, the following simple remedy:
20
3t)
5
_
Off Any quantity may be made at a time, using
Toast or brown in a vessel, as you'wo d coffee,
60
40
5
Total 74
the ingredients in the above proportions.
four table spoons full of oat meal, pour #it a pint
40
50
5
-.
By
order
of
the
Board of Health.
of boiling water, add a little sugar and lemon
Mlgnetism. Mr. Leopold Vacca has discovered
ed from the stomach, on which it lies light, and to
which it proves cxccdingly grateful. For the infor

mation of the poorer class of citizens it is requisite
to mention that cat meal can be procured at any
of'the druggists shops.
It is now recommended by one who has recently
experienced its sovereign efficacy.
HUMANITAS.
(Tjlhe Editors of papers in this city would no
doubt render a service to many suffering intiuits,
as well as adults, by publishing the above.
placed perpendicularly.
These signs disappear
again when it is laid down horizontally, and appezu
August 12
69
71
13
7t)
72
75
14
69
71
15
16
17
71
7-174
72
76
77
75
77
80
again when it is lifted up vertically. A small bar
turn my particular attention to that disease. All

the common remedies, as syrup of squills, decor
TERMS or nu: RERERTORY.

The price is four dollars per annum; city suL.
be communicated to a body without either a natural every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
or articial magnet.
+
Liquid to extinguish 1",1-2- hI. Gonzatti has dis year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
covered a liquid which instantaneously extinguish i to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
es fire. The following experiments Were publicly
made with it at Venice. Some resin and oil were and become responsible for the payment, shall rc
set re to, and scarcely had a few drops of this ccive one copy gratis.
liquid been poured on the ame, when it immedi
ately disappeared, leaving behind not the least ceived at this office, and at the bookstore of Hel
trace of re. Billets of wood, besmearcd with pitch lings and Aitkcn, No. 40, North Second street.
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Ite
and resin, :uid afterwards dipped in this liquid, re pertm'y Will he eapected to pay the difference.
sisted the action of the hottest re, to which they
tion of Seneca, ve. have been found of little adv-an.
were exposed for several hours. The inventor af
tage; at length I fell upon the plan of combining
rms, that a few applications of this composition

to wood-work would preserve it from all danger of
fire. He has not thought t to publish the manner
Thc following interesting article is copied from

The Philadelphia Jfediral .lfusemn, conducmd
by John Redman Coxc, M. I).
RECEIPT FOR SYRUP FOR THE HIVES.

From the misfortune of bovine" all my children,
five in number, from theirbirth, subject to attacks
of trachitis or the hives, I found it very necessary to
the virtues of the remedies most celebrated, into

:he form of a syrup, which I denominated hive
of steel it appears, rubbed several times in the same
direction against the extremity of the other bar,

when situated vertically, acquires magnetism;
hence the discoverer concludes that magnetism may
PHILADELPHIA ,
Marshalls alley, bctWeen Fourth and Fifth streets,

near St. Marys church.
@ibifabelria@eprfarg.
That gives it all its flavour.
Cowren.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31. 1811.
VOL. ll.
No.15.
Biddle was appointed to the command of

the Randolph, a frigate of thirty-two guns.
wards he was taken by the Cerberus frigate, W'ith his usual activity he employed every
and on pretence of his being an English exertion to get her ready for sea. The dif~
man, he was ordered to do duty, and ex
culty of procuring American seamen at
tremely ill used. Captain Biddle, hearing that time, obliged him, in order to man his
of the ill treatment of lieutenant Josiah, ship, to take a number of British seamen,
wrote to the admiral at New-York, that how
who were prisoners of War, and who had
ever disagreeable it was to him, he would requested leave to enter.
treat a young man of family, believed to be
The Randolph sailed from Philadelphia in
a son of lord Cranston, who Was then his February 1777. Soon after she got to sea
prisoner, in the same manner they treated her lower masts were discovered to be un
lieutenant Josiah.
sound, and in a heavy gale of wind all her
He also applied to his own government masts went by the board. \Vhile they were
in behalf of this injured ofcer, and by the bearing away for Charleston, the English
proceedings of congress on the 7th of Au sailors, with some others of the crew, formed
gust 1776, it appears, That a letter from adesign to take the ship. \Vhen all was
captain Nicholas Biddle to the marine com ready they gave three cheers on the gun
mittee, was laid before congress and read: deck. By the decided and resolute conduct
\Vhereupon Resolved, that general Wash of captain Biddle and his officers, the ring
ington be directed to propose an exchange of leaders were seized and punished, and the
lieutenant Josiah for a lieutenant of the navy rest submitted without further resistance.
of Great Britain: that the general remon After retting at Charleston, as speedily as
land ofcers, and ordered to make the rst
BIOGRAPHY.
'

LIFE OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE
(continued)
\Vriting from the Capes to his brother,

the late judge Biddle, he says, I know not
what may be our fate: be it however what it
may, you may rest assured I will never
cause a blush in the checks of my friends or
countrymen. Soon after they sailed, the
small-pox broke out and raged with great
violence in the eet, which was manned
chiey by New England seamen. The hu

manity of captain Biddle, always prompt and
active, was employed on this occasion, to
alleviate the general distress, by all the
means in his power. His own crew, which
was fromPhiladelphia, being secure against
the distemper, he took on board great num
bers of the sick from the other vessels.
Every part of his vessel was crowded, the
longboat was tted for their accommodation,
and he gave up his own cot to a young mid

shipman on whom he bestowed the greatest
attention till his death. In the meanwhile he
slept himself upon the lockers, refusing the
repeated solicitations of his ofcers to ac
cept their births. On their arrival at New
Providence it surrendered without opposi
port. Unfortunately, about ten days after
strate to 16rd Howe on the cruel treatment

lieutenant Josiah has met with, of which the
possible, he sailed on a cruise, and three
congress have received undoubted informa

tion. Lieut. Josiah was. exchanged after an
imprisonment often months. After the cap
ture of the ships with the Highlanders, such
was captain Biddles activity and success in
tion. The crew of the Andrew Doria, from taking prizes, that when he arrived in the
their cr0wtied situation, became sick, and Delaware he had but five of the crew with
before she left Providence, there were not which he sailed from New London, the rest
men enough capable of doing duty to man having been distributed among the captured
the boats; captain Biddle visited them every ;vessels, and their places supplied by men
day, and ordered every necessary refresh 'who had entered from the prizes. He had a
ment, but they continued sickly until they {great number of prisoners, so that for some
arrived at New London.
[days before he got in he never left the deck.
After retting at New London, captain
\Vhile he was thus indefatigably engaged
Biddle received orders to proceed off the in weakening the enemys power, and ad
Banks of Newfoundland, in order intercept vancing his countrys interest, he was disin
the transports and storeships bound to Bos terested and generous in all that reiated to
ton. Before he reached the Banks, he cap
his private advantage. The brave and wor
tured two ships from Scotland, with four thy opponent whom the chance of war had
hundred Highland troops oii board, destined thrown in his power, found in him a patron
'for Boston. At this time the Andrew Doria and friend, who on more than one occasion
had not one hundred men. Lieutenant Josi was known to restore to the vanquished the
ah, a brave and excellent officer, was put on fruits of victory.
four sail of vessels, bound from Jamaica to
board one of. the prizes, with all the High
days after he left the bar, he fell in with

London. One of them called the True Bri
ton mounted twenty guns. The commander
of her, who had frequently expressed to his
passengers his hopes of falling in with the
Randolph, as soon as be perceived her, made
all the sail he could from her, but nding
he could not escape, he hove to, and kept
up a constant re, until the Randolph had
borne down upon him and was preparing for

a broadside, when he hauled down his colors.
By her superior sailing the Randolph was

enabled to capture the rest of the vessels,
and in one Week from the time he sailed

from Charleston, captain Biddle retiirned
there with his prizes, which proved to be
very valuable.
Encouraged by his spirit and success the

state of South Carolina made exertions for
tting out an expedition under his com
mand. His name and the personal attach
ment to him, urged forward a crowd of vol
unteers to serve with him, and in ashort
In the latter end of the year 1776, captain time the ship General Moultric, the brig".
ll
PHILADELPHIA R EPER TOR Y.
.1.
For the Repertory. I
Fair American, and Polly, and the Notrc

Dame were prepared for sea. A detachment
of fty men from the rst regiment ofSouth
Carolina continental infantry was ordered to
act as 1n.-.rincs on board the Randolph. The
on
Bernado fcll, who after struggling a few

moments, placed his hand upon the wound
and exclaimed:
At length, Malventi, you are revenged,
THE MYSTERIOUS DIONK.
and the blood of Isabella is brought upon

A TALE.
regiment was then commanded by colonel,
my guilty head.
CHAPTER "I.
now general Charles Cotesworth Pinkney.

who, with his ollicers and soldiers, would
Malventi struck his hand forcibly upon

his
forbead, stept a few paces back, raised
l-rom furious passions and avenging guilt.
have done honour to any service. Such, says
MALL: r. the thick hair that overhung his brow, and
our informant, himselfa gallant olliccr of Terror alarms the breast; the burning tear
gazed upon the fallen Bernardo.
that regiment, was the attachment which Rolls oer the cheek.
Tnourso >1. 1
The blood of Isabella, of my wife! at
the honourable and amiable deportntent of;
It was the custom, continued Minda, length he exclaimed.
captain Biddle had impressed during his to plant sentinels around the cavern, in'
Of thy wife! replied the dying man,
Ilut see the horrors there, the wounds, the stabs
stay at Charleston, and such the condence :, dillerent parts of the wood, either to warn; for though twice thy weapons have failed,
.valo'ur,
inspired that
by ahis
general
professional
emulation
conduct
pervaded
and the band of any dangers that threatened, or at length they have succeeded and the death
to give notice of any chance of obtaining* of Algoronza is at hand!

the corps to have the honour of serving un- 1 booty.
Malventi was thunderstruck, and stagger
der his command. The tour of duty, afterl
About midnightnever shall I forget the ? ing a few paces was obliged to support him
a generous competition among the olliccrs, awful horrors ofthat tremendous hour! about self upon his sword, while Algoronza con
was decided to captain Joor, and lieutenants t midnight some of the sentinels rushed into tinuctl:
(.l'rey and Simmons, whose gallant conduct,: the cave crying, to arms, to arms! The
Let the moments of life that remain, be
and that of their brave detachment, did jus
banditti immediately left their repose and employed to elucidate the mystery that sur
tice to the high character of the regiment. flew to their defence. Malventi seized his rounds me. While I lived with you, Sebas
As soon as the Randolph was retted and a pistols and his sword, and at the head of the tian, on the kindest terms, I was undermin
new mainmast obtained in place of one which banditti sallied towards the mouth of the ing your character with Don Gomez, who in
had been struck with lightning, she dropt cave. Terried at the dreadful elangour that consequence of my misrepresentations re
down to Rebellion Roads with her little revel-berated through the hollow bosom of fused you his daughter and bestowed the
squadron. Their intention was to attack the the wood and almost unconscious of what i promise of her hand on me. The circum
Carysfort frigate, the Perseus twenty-four I did, I seized the infant Eugenio, and stances that followed are too well known to
gun ship, the Hinchinbrook of sixteen guns, v placed myselfbcside my husband, and scarce you to need my repeating them. Having
and a privatcer which had been cruizing 06' ly had we proceeded fty yards from the been conveyed to Dusseldorp, I slowly re
the liar, and had much annoyed the trade. cavern, when we were encountered by Ber covered from the wound you gave me in the
They were detained at considerable time in nardo, at the head ofnear one hundred men, forest, and resolved to propagate a report of
Rebellion Roads, after they were ready to some with torches, given him by prince my death, which enabled Don Gomez to
sail, by contrary winds and want of water on Pandolfo, for the purpose of surprizing procure from his brother, the king. the con
the Bar for the Randolph. As soon as they their retreat and putting the banditti to the scation of your estates and the outlawry of
got over the Bar, they stood to the eastward, sword. In a few moments a terrible conict your person. Still I panted for revenge.
in expectation of falling in with the British commenced. You can better conceive my Some time since, as I was travelling through
cruizers. The next day they rctook a dis terror and distraction, my dear lady Amelia, this part of the country, to give a colour to
mastcd ship from New England; as she had at this moment, in the midst of a band, op the report of my death, I was attacked by
no cargo on board they took out her crew, posed by a rancorous and cruel traitor, with one of your band. I overcame him and he
six light guns and some stores, and set her an infant shrieking in affright and clinging begged for mercy, which I granted on com
on re. Finding that the British ships had to my bosom for safety. I stood, while death (lition that he assisted me to discover you.
left the coast, they proceeded to the \Vest' was busy around me, in a kind of apathy, Judge of my astonishment when he inform
Indies, and cruised to the eastward, and unconscious of danger or heedless of my ed me you were captain of a band of robbers.
nearly in the latitude of Barbadoes for some fate. At this moment the thought of my A new thought struck my savage mind,
days, during which time they boarded a father ashed upon my mind. I saw him as rendered brutal by my disappointment; I
number of French and Dutch ships, and . sisting Malventi, I saw him relieving his resolved to become one of your band and to
took. an English schooner from New-York wounds, and, alas! I beheld the venerable glut my vengeance with your assassination. I
bound to Grenada, which had mistaken the Staatsburgh murdered in defence of his __ioined you under the name of Bernardo, but
Randolph for a British frigate, and was daughter! \Vhat tie then had I to attach me no opportunity offered to satiate my revenge.
taken possession of bcfore the mistake was to existence? Rescued now, I should be When my barbarity was levelled at your
eternally branded as the wife of a robber! wife, you killed me as you supposed, but a
discovered.
.._
There is nothing, says Plato, so delight
ful as the hearing or the speaking of truth.

For this reason there is no conversation so
agreeable as that of the man of integrity,
who hears without any intention to betray,
and speaks without any intention to de
CUiVC.
The idea strengthened my heedlessness, and
peasant snatched me from the river, and at
I beheld unmoved, my still beloved Malventi

rush with erce animosity upon the treach
erous Bernardo. The conict. between them
was soon ended, for the third thrust from
my husband drove his sword through the
bosom of his adversary, who fellimmediately
at his feet. There was a mutual, momentary
his cottage I recovered rapidly from the

wound your pistol gave. \\'ithout discover
ing my real name, I applied to prince Ian
dolfo, who has given me these vassals to
destroy your band and make you his prisoner.
Submit not or an ignominious death awaits

you.-You are now the count of Algoronza.
pause between the contending parties as ---I can no more.-1'Iere his breath failed
P] l I L.\ I )IIIiiI l IA R EPERTOR Y.
11~
3
and with a groan, this victim to his own re
vengeful disposition expired.

l\lalvcnti gazed some time on the body of
the count and a tear started into his eye.
The leader of the princes party now called
on the band to surrender, but Malventi
cried aloud, death, death, and rushed
upon them, followed by his whole troop,
except one, who seized the child from me

and excl-aiming;
I will at least save thec, a he instantly

fled. Never from that hour have I bchcld
l the spot where I had witnessed my first mis "from my sleep by a loud knocking at my
fortune, and preferring retirement and peace ' cottage door. I had scarcely time to leave
.to the splendours that are ll('CCS_'-lll)' intro I my bed, when i heard some person exclaim;
I .(lllt'Cd into a castle, after a short time. I i If you have a heart to pity, or a soul alive
I withdrew, to spend the remainder of my i to the tender feelings of humanity, open your
' days in this spot. Herc have I since resided, ' door to the persecuted and unfunnnatei"
Nothing could exceed my astonishment,
and by a life of pious resignation to the will I
of heaven and of kindness to the distressed ' and my fears at rst made me lltsllutC, but;
a repetition of the mysterious exclamation
that come within my knowledge, I have suc
determined me. I immediately descended
ceeded, almost, in obliterating the remem
brance of former years from my mind; but and opening the door, two men, mullled in
no; though the recollection has ceased to
cloaks, rushed in. One drew abundle from
him, or the unfortunate infant.
torture, it can never be eaced from my
The battle now joined between the troops

with tenfold fury, and in a few minutes
I was knocked down, by attempting to shield
Malventi from a blow that was levelled at
him."
heart.
beneath his cloak, and placing it upon the

table, they both hastily left the cottage, with
out uttering a word.
After my astonishment had a little sub
sided, I procccdcd to examine the contents
of the bundle and on raising one part of the
covering, discovered an infant about two
years old, fast asleep.
A short time after my removal, the young

l
lord Ferdinand was married to your amiable,
departed mother; soon after which event the

count Rodolfo departed this life. The lady
Terrible, terrible!" interrupted Amelia,
Emmeline, who was generally in ill health,
looking around her in fear.

'
I lay upon the cold, insensiblc ground
struck with this deep aliction, sunk into a

rapid decline and in a few months followed
until morning, continued Minda, and then
her beloved lord to the mansions of rest;
nothing but blood and lifeless bodies pre leaving her son in possession of the titles
sented themselves to my view. Near me and domain of Altenheim.
The events I have been relating, my dearl
lay my unfortunate Malvcnti, cold in death,
and around us the mangled bodies of the young lady, were not the cause of introduc
band. Not one escaped except Huberto, who ing the families of Pandolfo and Altenheim,
for your father and the prince became bosom
tore the infant from me.
I now attempted to rise, but enfceblcd by friends some time before. In a few years
my wound and the cold dews that had fallen after your fathers marriage, you were born
on me,I had just strength to rise on one and your fond mother left the world soon
arm and then fell upon the body of my after you had reached your eleventh month ."
husband. I did not, however, remain long in
Here Amelia could not contain her feel
this situation, before a band from the palace ings, which were acute on Mindas mention
of Dusseldorp, arrived at the spot, to see if
signs of life appeared in any of the bodies,

but all were dead. The leader was very hu
mane, and discovering me, had me conveyed
to the palace in as tender a manner as possi
ble.
'
After I had sufficiently recovered from my

terrors and my wound, 1 related my unfor
tunate story to the prince Pandolfo, who im
mediately diSpatched a messenger to Alten
hcim, to inform the count and countess and
prepare them for the return of the unfor

tunate (laughter of their murdered Staats
burgh, whose body, I afterwards learned,
they had discovered in the forest.
The next morning I set forward, accom
panied by some of the vassals of the prince,

and in a few hours was received at the castle
of Altenheim with every demonstration of
affectionate concern for my misfortunes and
joy for my safe return. The old count dropt
a tear to the memory of his beloved Staats
burgh, the lady Emmeline wept at my
destiny and the young lord Aitenheim ex
pressed his sorrow in the most affectionate
manner, while I again related my adventures.

They insisted upon my taking up my re
sidence at the castle, but grieved to behold
ing her mother, whom she had never known,

or at least, whose kindness she was too young
to appreciate. A sigh burst from her bosom

and a ood of tears from her eyes.
Ah! she exclaimed, were that mother

now alive, I should have some friend to un
burthcn my heart to; if she were alive I

should not become the victim of paternal
ambition, nor be doomed to drag out a
wretched existence in union with a man I
loathe.
Here she could no longer support herself,
but sunk upon the bosom of Minda, who
used every argument to inspire her with for~
titude and resignation. After her emotions
had in some measure subsided, Minda pro
; ceeded with her story in the following man

ner:
Some years had now passed over my
head, and the remembrance of my misfor
|tuncs, softened by a life of peace, began to
alllict me less. Ivisited the castlc,being al
ways received with thc most cordial affection,

and regained that checrfulness ofdisposition,
which had ever been my companion, until
my unfortunate encounter with Mdventi.
One night, after I had returned from the
castle and retired to rest, I was aroused
That infant was Ilorivall" exclaimed
Amelia.
It was, returned Minda.
Mysterious Providence, said Amelia,

for what are we preserved!"
i had scarcely uttered an exclamation of
surprise, procecedcd Minda, when one of

the men reentered the cottage and thus ad
dressed me.
To'be continued.
0
Por the Repertory.

THE CABINET. No. L.
With spluttering nonsense and unmeaning stuff,
They drown the struggling cars of those that hear
them.
0! save me, Fortune, from loquztcious folly.
There are innumerable little incidents in

life, which, although they present no painful
images, nor awaken distress-ing reflections,
are nevertheless extremely disgusting to an
understanding that has any claim to sound
ness, or a judgment that is not the dupe of
insignicant investigation, and foolish pur
suits.
_
One of these incidents, which may be
ranked among our minor troubles, is being
constrained to listen to a tedious, doll, un
meaning, and frivolous conversation. In the
rst place, conversation imposes upon us one

duty which, in the company ofa fool, we are.
very unwilling to comply with; it is that of
paying, or at least seeming to pay, the
strictest attention to the whole discourse.
Not unfrequently has it happened to me,
when I had unintentionally condemned my
self to the company of one of these our..ng
outangs, who are continually v rinning self
approbation, that in the midst of his story
(to which it was impossible that I should at
tend,) he has interrogated me concerning
some part ofit, which has put me in a state
116
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ofdiscomture for some time. The conver E a single bullet, without touching the animal
sation of a wise man, if attempted by a fool, at all; how many birds had perished by his
would also appear foolish, but I defy the destructive hand; and his wonderful success
wisest of men, on the subjects which engross
in adventures of a different kind, which are
the attention of fools, ever to appear wise.

It was my ill fortune the other day, to fall
in with one of these young, loquacious block
hcads, who stopped me at the corner of a
street and, in spite of several efforts to escape
him, kept me a full hour standing, whilst he
related the numerous tricks of the dierent
monkies which had through a. succession of
years belonged to his family. He would tell
me how one would attack a cat, and having
played with it till he was tired, dash it down
and go to something else; how another, be
ing rigged up in rcgimentals, would parade
about the room on his hinder legs; how an
not very proper to be inserted here: always

taking care to exalt his own abilities and
exertions, far above those of every other per
son. Thus was I harrangucd for a full hour,
other, whom he had made drunk, would

show his teeth, and throw somersets; how
another would ruin the ,work of the female

part of the family; and what exquisite sensa
tions it afforded him to plague them; with
forty other tales respecting them, equally in
sipid, stupid, and tiresome. At each of these
ridiculous stories he would laugh with the
as I have before observed, with stuff so un
meaning and so absurb. I was thus long, and

in the manner thatI have related, kept upon
my feet, under the scorching rays of the
sun, in a state of the greatest weariness that
can be imagined. Thus wasI constrained to

listen to a discourse which, had I been re
clining on the silken sophas of Persia, or

leisurely carried about in the India palanquin,
0r surrounded by all her spicy stores and
owrey presents, would_even then have been
extremely irksome.
It is therefore I mention it, that these
strictures may fall under the observation of
Phoebus, that kindled such horrors in the
Grecian camp, will be considered with as lit

tle perturbation of mind as an arrow dis
charged from the bow of foolish curly head
ed little Cupid. Aftcr some hours of the
greatest anxiety, morning arrived, and a good
ly morning it was too. The sun rose in just
such a hurry as a man does when he jumps
up at midnight to slip on his pantaloons and
hasten down stairs to light a candle to see if
he can nd any robbers about the house,
whom he had thought to hear. \Vhy, the sun
seemed to me at least, to spring up eight de
grees all at once, as much as to say, stzuid
to your arms boys, I want to see this quarrel
of yours out, make haste and nish it. I
think he also mentioned some few words,
is like me, (and although some will differ,
in this I trust I am not singular,) they will

nd it adviscable to strive to entertain the
world with something more worthy the at
tention of the world than monkeys tricks,
parrots pratings, sportsmans successes, and

such like tasteless and loathsome trash, or
else sink into the same insignicance as

their topics, and be treated with the same
contempt. The propriety of all the inferior

animals of the creation in their sphere is
be very pleasing information, that to no por
self evident, but man was formed for noblcr
tion of the human race have monkics a

greater similarity than to them.
occupations, and let him support his right to

such a destiny by being properly acquainted
'But to return to my learned and edifying
with his elevation, and feeling himself a
companion; not one moment was his tongue
man!
GREGORY GRAVITY.
at rest; it went with much greater velocity,
_._
and with as uninterrupted a motion as the

pendulum of a regularly Wound up clock.
For the Repertory.
He, of course, having exhausted one subject,
must turn his thoughts to another of equal

importance, and shortly after the sage con
clusion of his monkey-talk, his fruitful mind
brought forth a like dissertation on parrots;
he told me' how he had seen one overturn a
carriage by its squalling, another back a
team into the river, Etc. with many equally
preposterous tales that were in existence
long before he was. From this he soon get
to something else; told his marvellous ad
ventures ata fox-chace; how he had been
thrown into a ditch, and being leaped over

by his horse was left in perfecc'safety. How
he had brought six squirrels to the ground
at one re; and his amazing dexterity at
killing one at any reasonable distance, with
I will cut them 06, thought I, like rotten
sheep; once I get among them, the shafts of
they start such conversations they may make

themselves well acquainted with the charac
ter of the person they address. If every one
number to train up, according to his own

exalted ideas, and at length concludes the
subject of monkics,by declaring his beliefthat
the combat, and very little did I sleep the
ensuing night; for the cogitations of heroism

swelled my bosom. Oh! oh! thought I, now
I am secure in my wife, how I will lay those.
Hassinungaean rascals about me in the ght;
some of this talkative gentry, that, before
- most unaffected delight, wish for a certain
they are certainly partly endued with reason,

and materially assimilated to man, to support
which, he did not fail to bring forward
abundant testimony, no doubt manufactured
in his own, or perhaps some more intelligent,
monkey dealers brain. I can however as
sure these gentlemen, which will no doubt
war against them, and they were unable to

support it withov. us. Modesty has kept me
winding about this for some time; howevei"
to let the reader into the secret, the true
state of the case is, that they wanted r. ge
neral; and policy with, if you will allow me
to say so. sound judgment, determined them
to apply to me. It was a good way of salving
over the business of my marrying Fantanda,
for one of these peace-bearing Warriors was
her father, and he resigned her to me with
dignied decorum, intimating by his actions
that he would expect me to lead them to
the eld of battle. Then my great soul
stood trembling in my br'cast; it panted for
)IY LIFE, \VRITTEN BY MYSELF.
Continued.
Most people think a smile is a smile all

the World over, but for my part I thought the
smile of these Indians, to say the truth, not
much ofa smile: but, poor souls, they intend
edit for a smile, and I have no doubt, as Mr.
Fuller says, that if we had thought of it time

enough we might have made frowns pass
for smiles as currently as lovers make what
we now consider tender glances pass for
something far more exquisite than words
have any idea of. Be that as it may, the
'lauxitanians meant friendship to us, and for
the very best earthly reason, they had oc
casion for it, they could not do without us;
metaphorically, concerning me, but modesty
again, prevents me from mentioning them.

\Vhat a plague of a thing this modesty is;
why, it robs the memoirs of a man that
writes his own life of half their value. It is

exactly what I said before I began this his
tory: and for that very reason, that I was
averse to writing it; but having applied to all
my friends in vain, the amazing and very na
tural importunity of the world overpowed
me, and I was obliged to (lash away at it my
self as speedily'as possible. \Vell, then, be
fore I go any further, I think it expedient to
let the reader know, that it is my plan to say
all the fine things I can of myself in this his
tory, and that for those that I do not parti
cularize I leave his unrestrained judgment

to determine.
This very morning that the sun went on
at such a rate, did my father and I set out
for the place of rendezvous, my father with
his rie well scoured, with abundance of am
for the Hassinungacan tribe had declared munition, and 1 bearing on my thigh the
m
immortal blade of the soul-invincible Hugh

Hardfarc, who, poor old man, had so hurt his
'lhen seeks the spot, obedient to command,

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Fearless, hells sable monarch to withstand!
But 0! what spot had righteous Heaven decreed,
Should be the witness of the mighty deed!
lame leg by dancing on it, at the sight of the

emblems of peace before mentioned, that
'Was it the temples sacred walls within,
in spite ofall his wishes he was constrained \Vhere Satan feard to hear his load of sin;
15o
to remain at home. One small circum Around the altar, whence in clouds arise
stance I should have mentioned in its pro The smoking blood or burning sacrice!
per place is, that when peace had been con ()r where the twelve surround the humble board,
,cluded on between our family and the Tauxi
tanians, a number of them immediately set

to work and built up a clever little hot for
our present accommodation, promising after
the conclusion of the war, to rebuild our
habitations as completely as their skill in
architecture would admit. It was at this place

that we left the complaining old colonel,
who nding it absolutely impossible for him
self to go, had lent me his sword, exhorting
me never to part with it while I had life, but
And. hear instruction from th omnic Lord?

Did there the Tempter ply the balcful bowl
0f subtle poison, to ensnare his soul?
Ah! no: when evry friend the Lord had left;
Parching with thirst, of needful food bereft;
When no puissant altar smoked around,

No bleeding entrails hallowed all the ground, 160
The Tempter camefar in a dismal wild,
swords, some with scalping knives, some

with tomahawks, all with bows and arrows,
and some with war-clubs, &c. we moved, I
in giant greatness, with my head as high as

any militia captains of the present day in
their van. Do not expect to laugh much, my
good reader, for if I am rightly acquainted
with the nature of tragedy, you will nd
some of my story tollerable tragical. The
place of meeting pointed out by the two na

tions, was over a'rocky country, at a distance
of 20 miles from the place of our starting,
close to which we arrived the same night,

and spreading our blankets slept.
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The earth in pale aright its silence broke,
And groaning from her centre, fear bespoke;

The moon forgot with usual rays to shine,
Feeling the anguish of the form divine!
And the red halo round her fainter light,
To all but him who made beast, day and night!
No food to nourish sinking life was near,

N0 cooling think the fainting soul to cheer.
For ah! this waste could boast no lucid streams,185
Whose tranquil breasts reect the solar beams;
Show the revolving moon her silver face,

And clasp the stars in their contind embrace!
N0 heavenly dew descended to revive,
And keep the vital ember still alive;
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Or if descended soon the naked clay,
With selsh thirst, would stick the balm away.
Not so when Israel through the dreary waste,
By Moses led, from cruel Egypt passd;
Then the kind heavens reviving manna gave, 195
And saved their countless numbers from the grave.
For forty days the Saviour there dclayd,
And felt his anguish, rm and undismayd:
Though nature suffered, still the godhead knew,
And kept the glorious purpose still in view,
HUGH HEADLOFTY.
. To be continued.
m.
For the Repertory.

THE PROFITIATION.
BOOK III.
(Continued)
ARGUMENT.
Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness; Des
cription of the spot: Satan arrives on the earth,
at the close of day: Aposu-ophe: Satans address
to the retiring sun.
The Lord. baptized, now leaves the \vondring
stream,
Olid'ring, to bathe the person all supreme:
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Meanwhile the prince of darkness and of death,

Shakes his broad wings and pours his poisond
breath,
From hells lugubrious mansions to arise,

And hurl deance at th indignant skies:
His minds prolific sources to combine, '
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Which dark fin-ebodings said was his no more;

The (lay: as lit the Tempter, sought its close,
inviting man and nature to repose;
220
The sun was sinkingthrough the western wave,
By Ilenvcn conducted to a transient grave;
'lh astonishd billows of the yielding main,
Blushd as he passed them with his smoking train'
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Shall morn again his fervid life renew?

Shall the huge sun to-morrow morn arise,
To trace his journey through the yielding skies;
And as his rays oer anxious nature pass,
Drink the sweet dew that wets the thirsty grass? 23h
lie shall: though sinking through the surgingmain,
lle sinks to rise, with life renewd, again,
Until the day when in tremendous ire,
The spirit led the Virgins holy child:

Yet, as majestic through the waste he trod,
The desert trembled to receive its God;
and I had started sometime since for the The winds, from heaven descending, rushd amain
And swept relentless oer the naked plain;
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place of general rendezvous, and as I would
Pale visaged terror held her council there,
hold it very foolish in us to stop stock still, Aided by desolation and despair!
to hear what I have been merely telling for Such was the spot, more dismal than the dead,
your information, we have this moment ar To which, to court temptation, Jesus ed;
180
rived among our friends, the war-preparing There, for the crimes of millions, he was curst,
Tauxitanians. We were soon formed into a With all the rage of hunger and of thirst!
line of march, and some armed with broken
And shook beneath the furys lt-aden press,

'Iowring he stood and viewd the object oer,
A transient graveand is the record true,
155
to bring it back'to him stained with the blood

of some of those villainous, bloody minded,
and ferocious IIassinungaeans. My wife and
Added new horror to the horrid night!
170
mother staid with the old colonel to take Instead of his disciples, beasts of prey,
care of his irritated leg, and to be taken care That court the gloom and shun the smiling day,
of by him.
Surround the God, a source of pale ali'right
You may recollect, reader, that my father
pr
1 l/
r
Bursts his broad blaze to set the world on re,

But when, 0! man, thy uttring spirit breaks 235'
Her prison doors, and ight etherial takes,
When thy frail body is transpierced by death,
And through the wound fate steals thy silent breath;
No mortal morning shall to thee arise,
No sun of life relumc thy faded eyes!

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Time oer thy sight his sable curtain draws,
And vast eternity expands her jaws;
When in the gape, thy timrous soul is hurld,
She sinks to risebut in another world;
There shall she rise, indeed, to set no more; 24.)
To bowl with furies, or with saints adore;
To mingle anguish and transpiercing cries,

0r shout her anthems through the listning skies!
Ifgrace not catch thee ere thou reach the tomb,
Unthinking mortal,horror is thy doom;
250
For know, vain man, there is no choice but this,
Eternal anguish or eternal bliss!

Now when the sun threw forth his palest ray,
And wider spread his orb as shrunk the day; 255
'When glimmring twilight oer the world increasd,
And the moons eye lookd pallid, from the east;
When the blight stars of heaven spontaneous spread
And oer the sky their faintest beauties shed,
Shaking his wings, the dismal foe to man,

Viewd the huge orb with fear, and. thus beganziti)
Monarch of day and glorious source of light,
Down, down at once nor blast my aching sight!
\Vithdraw that front which ashes vengeance now,
And ing-s red ruin from its aming brow.

I hate thee, sun, unwelcome sight to me,
2.35
Who cannot bear the light of day to see;

Night, only night, to me can pence impart,
Suiting the gloomy purpose of my heart!
Brighter than thou, on thy resplendent throne,
I once, in heaven, a bright archangel shone;
270
Led the seraphic choir their songs to raise,

[n pealing echoes, to Jehovahs praise!
Till damnd ambition, in my bosom nurs'd,
Me and my number-less adherents cursd;
Then, Heavens-self trembled as her favrite feil,275
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To work for Hell her black and deep design;
And out of chaos yawnd the gulf of hell!

Then, angels wept at that omnic ire,
Which thus consignd our daring hosts to fire!
To tempt, though nature trembled at his nod,
'lhcn orb avaunt, thou mindst me of the day,
Ambitious fool! to tempt th incarnate God.
Now had the end dread ~Molochs palace passd,

On hells connes, the strongest and the last: 4 211
Soon the faint hum of busy earth he hears,
And now her farthest verge in sight appears;
As gloomy vengeance spnrrd him to advance,
He vicwd his victim with malicious glance:

Then touch'd her soil, earth felt with deep distress,
When I beamd brighter than thy brightest ra_';20

When heavenly breezes fannd me with perfumes,
And lesser spirits wondered at my plumes;
'hen second only to th' eternal Three,
1 might have gazed disdainfully :tt thee!
The retrospection kindles rage, amaze,
235
Hence through the wave and quench thy hateful
blaze}
lII] LABEL PI-IA REPE'R'F Oil.
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I
j___
He
spoke,
and s..uk_
sptcadand
hisleft
fearful
wingstofornight.
ight, A
While
the sun
the world
Then Romeo came from afar,
Accorsr or THE CELEBRATED
While slurils of vitriol ll'd him;

URBAN GR \NIMER.
He found Paris close to her grave,
(To be continued.)
Concluded.
And he pulld out his sword and he killd him,
._.-_
Grandier
heard
the sentence of his judges
\Vc publish the following piece, because we think 0' love is a terrible thing, you know,
without undergoing the smallest change of
'Forjust like a bee it stings you so.
it a good u'avestie of a play which we never admircd'
countenance, or betraying the slightest symp
Then all of a sudden he died,
No one has a greater veneration for the genius of
tom of mental trepidation. Erect and daunt
hich
Juliet
woke
up
and
saw;
Shakspeare than ourselves, but we have often won
lcss, his eyes cast upwards to heaven, he
Then nding poor Romeo dead,
dered how his mighty mind could stoop to dictate
walked by the side of the executioner, to
She stuck a sharp knife in her craw!
such a thing, although we acknowledge it contains
She only pretended before,
the prison assigned him. Mamouri, the sur
somethings worthy of its author.

For the Repertory.
'IRACXCAI. HISTORY OF ROMEO AND JULIET
0. whoever heard of such love,
As .Iuhet for Romeo bore;

It filld evry drop of her blood,
And cut through her very heart's core;
So they stole to old Lawrences cell,

In spite of the wind or the weather;
he saw till the two were made one,
It were dang'rous to leaveem.togethcr.

0! love is a terrible thing, you know,
For just like a bee it stings you 50.
Larry made a great knot with his tongue,
The pair of true lovers he tied;
So that no one could breakem apart,

And Juliet became a fair bride!
Then her couz made his sharp shining sword,
Just under Mercutios rib halt;
And lhen,just for killing his friend,

Foolish Romeo went and killd 'Iybalt!

For just like a bee it stings you so.
Says the prince, says he, Romeo must go,
And far from Verona must y;
She lived though her danger were mighty;

But now she fell down on the oor,
And both of em died rify, (lily!

SAM. llARROVV.
'.
For the Repertory.

Lummtalions on the Death ofa Friend.
Mournful and sad succeeds each lingring hour,
She began for to silhe and to cry!

But Capulet, bless you, he thought,
That Juliet continued to bellow,

Cause Romeo murdered 'lybalt;
And thought him an m-nm-y fellow!

Forjust like a bee it stings you so.
But, datur, says he, how is this,
Youve wept till your eyes is quite sore;

Ive fo\uid you a man of my choice,
So come, cease to cry any more!
But she wouldut; says he, youre a fool,
And you may as well dry all your sorrow;
I gm- him my promise, miss Jule,
So youll marry young Paris to-morrow!
Forjust like a bee it stings you so.
Then full of a phrenzied despair,
Away to the friar she ew;
One husband, says she, I have got,
And, father. I do not want two!
Faith, datur, says he, that is strange,
Ive heard ofa many a woman

Thats buried a dozen, and you
Cant tell what to do, now, with two men!
0h! love is a terrible thing, you know,

Then he gave her some spirits to drink,
Twasnt gin, for it made her all cold,
For two or three days she were dead,
direct. Fourncau, another surgeon of the
town, was-conned to the same prison with

Grandicr, for manifesting human feelings on
an occasion on which he was ordered to
exercise some crueltics upon his person.
Alas, says the poor ecclesiastic, you are
the only being under heaven that has pity
And tree/rs creep slowly towrds ohlivious shade,

Whilst grief and pain my tortured breast pervade,
Weeping the loss of balmy Friendships power:
Which, beaming like the suns pure rays, its light
Dispell'd each gloomy shadow from my soul,
on the wretched Grandier. Sir, you know

but a small part of the world, was the re
Still we may meet and meeting never jmrr.

OltESTES.
fused to execute this last order, for anv
ply of Fourneau.
Fourneau was now ordered to shave him
all
over, which he was preparing to do, af
And nature, bending to its soft control,
ter cntreatiug the pardon of the unhappy
Harmonious did our youthful minds unite.
sufferer, when one of the judges commanded
Together, like connected blossoms placed,
of lifes gay morn, the smiling joys we shared,
him also to pluck out his eye-lids and his
Butdcath,by whom nor age nor youth is spared, nails. Grandicr desired him to proceed, as
In one dread moment all those joys defaced:
suring him that he was prepared, by the
'lore from my arms the brother of my heart,
gracious support of a good God, to suffer
And left me bathing his cold tomb in tears,
all tliings._l$ut Fourneau percmptorily re
But (oh. the great idea mocks my f032'5,)
Then Juliet loved Romeo so,
geon, followed him, to execute such indig
nities upon his body as Laubardemont should
STANZAS.
(From Emmas real/1.)

The chilling gale that nippd the rose,
Now murmuring sinks to soft repose;
The shadowy vapors sail away,
Upon the silvry oods of day;
Health breathes on every face I see,

But ah! she breathes no more on me!
The woodbine wafts its odours meek,
To kiss the roscs glowing cheek;

Pale twilight sheds her vagrant showers,
To wake Auroras infant owers:
.\I:ty smiles on every face I see,

But ah! she smiles no more on me!
Pet-chance when youths delicious bloom
Shall fade unheeded in the tomb,
Fate may direct a daughter's eye

To where my mouldring relies lie;
And, touchd by sacred sympathy,
That eye may drop a tear for me!
power on earth. As soon as the rst part (if

the operation was performed, Grandier was
clothed in the dress of the vilest criminals;

and led to the town-hall, where M. de Lau
hardcmont, and a vast concourse of people,
were waiting to receive him. The judges

on this occasion, gave up their seats to the
ladies, as if gallantry could with decency
mix in so woful a scene. Before he enter
ed the audience chamber, father Lactance
exorciscd the air, the earth, and the prison
er himself.
'
v
As soon as he was admitted, he fell upon
his knees, and looked around with a se
rene countenance: whereupon the secretary
told him, with a stern voice, to turn and
..dorc the crucix, which he did with inef
t'.|.ble devotion; and lifting up his eyes to hea

ven, remained for some time wrapt in silent
adoration. As soon as he recovered from his
Betrayd by love; of hope bereft;
No gentle gleam of comfort left;

Bowd by the hand of sorrow low;
No pitying friend to weep my wo,
Save her, who spared by I [eat-ens decree,

Shall live to sigh and think on me!
Oh! -I could wander where no ray
Breaks through the gloom of doubtful day,
There would I court the \vintry showr,
The lingring dawn, the midnight hour;
l-or cold and comfortlcss shall be

And all thou ght her they ne'er should behold. i Eachfuture scene ordauid for me!
reverie, he turned to the judges, and thus

addressed them: My lords, I am no magi
clan; to which truth I call to witness, God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Ho
ly Ghost. The only magic that I know is

that of the Gospel, which I hare alu'avs
preached! have never entertained anvother
i'aith than that which our Holy Mother, the

Catholic Church, has prescribed to me. I re
cognize Jesus Christ for my Saviour; and
PHILADELPHIA REPER'IO'l-lY.
1 if)
I pray that his blood, which Was spilled up

on the cross, may blot out my transgressions,
_which indeed are manifold. \ly lords, cott
tintred be, (here the tears trickled down
his. face) I beseech you, moderate the
rigour of my punishment, not for my bodys
saltc, but lest my soul be. reduced to forget
its God in despair.
He was now put to the question,ordin:\ry
and extraordinary. llis legs were placed be
tween two pieces of wood, round which
several strong cords were tied together with
> \Vretch, cried he, renounce the devil; ll for two-pcuce-h.tlfpenny. This speech re
you have but a moment longen-confess! ti called to Saxes memory his bravery and
\Vithout waiting for the order, this irnplat'a wretched situation so forcibly, that he gave
ble friar applied his torch to the pile, and }' him his pardon.
publicly performed the office of execution
er. Ah! where is thy charity, Lactancc?
PHILADELPHIA,
1
i
the extremest force: between the legs and
the boards, wedges were beat in with a

mallet, four for the question ordinary, and
eight for the extraordinary. During this
cried the poor ecclesiastic. There is a

Sn'lLRlHY, AUGUST 31, 1811.
God who will judge both you and me. I
cite you to appear before him within the;
CORRESPONDENCE.
month.
i
There is something very pleasing in the Lamen
There was a vast concourse of people in
tations of Orestes, in whom we recognize an old
the square, among whom this devilish con
friend, who is ever welcome to our columns.
duct of a minister of God excited a mur
Alexis is again received, but we are of opinion
mur ofabhorrcnce. They cried out with one 1
that his fame would not be increased by the insertion
voice to the executioner, Strangle himli
of his verses, although his ideas are more natural
strangle himl but the ames had already|
and betterexpressed than any hehas before sent us.
process, the priests exorcised the boards,

the wedges, and the mullet. Many of them,
indeed, assisted at the torture, and took the
seized his body, and prevented this last sad I
act of dreadful compassion. Thus miserably I
mallet out of the executioners hand. Gran

dier uttered neither groans nor complaints,
but regarded this horrible testimony of their
hate with supernatural serenity, while the
marrow of his bones was seen to drop on the
pavement. In this extremity, be pronounced
commend to our correspondents the choice of sub
possessed human bosoms, and condemned,

jects less light and frivolous, since often, where
by the most iniquitous tribunal that ever}
the composition is faultless, we are obliged to re
mocked with a show of justice.
scene, he was stretched before the fire, and
recovered from frequent faintings by some

strong liquor, which was poured into his
mouth. Here he named two coufessors, to
fuse their essays, because we think the subject

unworthy an insertion
A poor sweep, travellingthrough Stretton,
The veiscs of Automath to Religion please us
near Burton-upon-Trent, last week, being
much, although their composition display s the hand
benighted, knocked at the door of a farmer,
of the tyre. we shall make such alterations- as we
and begged he might sleep in the stable
think they need, if he be willing, :uid give them a,
till the approach of day, but was refused.
place in our poetical department
The labourer, however, hearing the answer,
-._
and having more humanity than his master,
3 Having nished the reprinting of a part of
suered him to take his repose upon some the rst volume of the Repertory, those whose vo
straw in the barn. It happened about two lumes may not be complete can have the decient
oclock in the morning, two villains came numbers supplied by applyingr at this olliee.
|
distinctly a strain of fervent adoration, which
Was copied from his mouth by one of the

attending magistrates, but which he was not
permitted to preserve. After this terrible
whom he wished to consecrate his last me

ments, but they were both refused. This with a horse and cart, with an intent to rob
instance of unrelenting malice forced some the barn, and having nearly tilled one bag
tears down his cheeks; and when other con said, twas a pity they had not engaged ano
fcssors were offered him, he desired that ther man to hold the candle,- the poor sweep
no one might interpose between God and hearing this, and imagining the men belong
ed to the house, rushed from the straw, and
himself.
7
In his way to the place of execution he exclaimed, 0, I'll [will the candle! The
cast a look of pity and comp]..Ct my on those villains, at this unexpected answer, and the
that accompanied him, and often kissed a appearance of his black face and white teeth,
lighted torch which he held in his hand. hastily dccamped, leaving horse, cart and
Father Grillau, whom he had demanded for bags, at the disposal of the supposed DEVIL.
_..
his confessor, appr'oached him with these
consoling \vords: Remember that your
Saviour, Christ, ascended to heaven by the
way of sti'erings. Your pobi- mother blesses

you. I implore for you divine mercy; and .l
beliete firmly that God will receive you tinto
heaven. At these words, a placid joy over
spread the countenance of (irdndicr, which
never forsook him from that moment, till
the flames devoured him. The cxrcutioner

Jould fain have strangled him btfol't: he
had set fire to the pile; but the exorcists
had done all in their power to prevent this

miserable charity, by lling the cord so full
of knots that it could not be effected. At
', A few voltznies remain for sale, at five dollars:
if bound, the price of binding will be added.

DIED,
On 'ednesday morning last, Jon-pl: Cit/y, esq.
formerly member of congress for the first (Lstrict
of Pennsylvania, and late cashier of the Farmers
and Mechanics Bank.
__._
Curefol' the 'luul/z Jule.
The late Dr. Brown courted a lady sevc-l
Lact.u1cc seized
An eminent apothecary in the vicinityof London,

has lately recommended, as an effectual cure for
the tooth ache. the following remedy, which he has
been in the habit of using for many years, and out
ral years unsuccessfully; during which time1

it had been his constant custom to drink thev ofthe number of cases, eight tenths have succeed
ladys health before that of any other: but, ed: Take three table spoons full of brandy , and add
being observed one evening to omit it,al one draclzm of camphor, with thirty or l'n-y drops
gentleman wishing to remind him of it, s_.id' (if laudanum, drop a little upon some lini, and ap
Doctor, come, drink your usual tease; ply it to the tooth affected, keeping the lint mois.
The Doctor replied, l have toasted her for tened for five minutes only on the tooth and gum.
several years and cant make her Brown,- so
('tlrc_/in-tlie Grime]. Dissolve three dracl.n.s of
lll toast her no longer.

prepared Natl-on, in a quart of cold \\.L'.Ql', and
_._.
take half this quantity in the course of the dav
A peer fellow in Marshall Saxes army,v Continue this medicine for a lbw days, and that
was going to be hanged for stealing a crown; painful complaint will he dislodged. It mav be ta
Saxe asked him how he could risk his life l ken at any hour. but is best after a meal. hitnnhers
t
l for such a trifle? As to that, said he, 1
tomb and thrusting it into (irandier's face, i have long exposed it evtry day, boldly, sit-,l
this moment, Father
The three rst verses of Celorinton, with the ex
ception of one poetical inaccuracy, are pleasing, but

perished the body of Urbain Grandier, sa
crificed to the most diabolical hate that ever;l the two last are very objectionable. \Ve would re
of persons have been perfectly relieved by this

simple remedy.
PHILADEL PHI A. REPERTORY.
lQO
m1
1
m
Let me conduct the reader back with me again to
The tables of longevity which are supplied from

the northern nations, lead us to reect upon the
benets of that industry, which even necessity may
impose upon man. This long life must arise from
the greater strength and action which he possesses.
A late Russian bill of mortality gives the following
number which has exceeded 100 years. For the
first ve years above that period, 177- In the next
the streets. Numerous spires glittering with gold,

amidst burning domes and painted palaces, appear
in the midst of an open plain, for several vcrsts be
fore you reach this gateHaving passed, you look
about, and wonder what is become of the city, or
where you are; and are ready to ask once more,
ve years 86; in the next 36; and in the next 23; and
How far is it to Moscow? They will tell you,
in the next 8; and in the next 6; and then an indi

vidual at 150 years of age. In a late Swedish bill 200
males and .300 females had passed 100 years, and
5 0 persons had far exceeded that number. In these
countries registers are kept, so that great mistakes
This is Moscow! and you behold nothing but a

wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens, pigsties,
and brick-walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, tim
cannot be made; and the comparative ages vouch
for the extraordinary longevity of the persons found

in all their settlements. If age initselfbc not ables
sing, yet since it comes as areward of long health

and habitual temperance, it conrms the kind
opinion we form both of industry and virtue; in the
increase of animal and intellectual happiness. 1n
ltussiait is said the births are to the deaths as 13 to
8, and the number of marriages by a late statement
is above one quarter of the births. Withthe two
greatest advantages for population from freedom
and an extensive country, we have prodfs that our
best hopes have been just. It is for experience to
prove to us, whether with the blessings of civiliza
tion we have not all its vices, which may prevent
the length of life, if they do not prevent the begin
ing of it, by the most powerful causes to interrupt
it.
Essex Register.
I .New method of teaching musicA Highland pi.
per having a scholar to teach, disdained to crack
his brains with the names of semibreves, minims,
crotchcs and quavers. Here, Donald, (said he)
take your pipes, lad, and give us a blast. So! very
the gate by which we entered, and thence through
ber yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of
materials suicient to stock an empire with misera

ble towns and miserable villages. One might ima
gine all the states of Europe and Asia had sent a
building, by way of representatives,,t0 Moscow;
and under this impression the eye is presented
with deputies from all countries, holding congress;
timber huts from regions beyond the Arctic; plas
tered palaces from Sweden and Denmark, not white
washed since their arrival; painted walls from the
Tyrol; mosques from Constantinople; Tartar tem
hand his knee, or tie his legs, he will hop you eight
times faster than the white faced fellow I showed
you rst. Now wheneer you blow your pipe, Don
wards Mecca; holding, as he said, intellectual con

verse with Mahomct. Clarks Travels in Ruaria.
HEALTH OFFICE,
Aligust 24-, 1'81 1.

from the 17th to the of 24th August.
Diseases.
(III. ch.
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Apoplexy
Casualties '
(Jhildbed
1 0 Inam. of liver
0 2 Insanity
1 0 Locked jaw
1 0
2 0
1 O
Cholera Moi-bus ,
0 21 Mortication
Consump. of lungs 9
Convulsions .
0
Decay
1
Diarrhoea
0
Dropsy
of the breast 11
Drowned
0
42
1
00
Dyscntcry
Debility
Fever, typhus
Hooping cough
[lives
O \Vorrns
1
1
2
1
l
1
2
0
0
Old age
Scrofula
Stone
Still born
Sudden
Ulcers
1 0
0 1
1 0
0 3
I 3
0 0
l
0 1
_ _.
27 4'2
_.
Total
69

Under 1
3
' Between 1 and 2
12
60
70
3
ral ruins from Rome; terraces and trellisscs, from
2
5
6
70
80
0
Naples; and ware houses from Wapping.
5
10
S
80
90
1
llaving heard accounts of its immense popula
10
2O
3
90
100
O
20
3t)
3
100
110
1
tion you wander through the dcsolated streets.
30
4O
7
Passing suddenly towards that quarter where the

40
50
9
Total 69
shops are situated, you might walk upon the heads
of thousands. The daily throng is there so immense,
JQHN ALLISON, Clerk.
that, unable to force a passage hrough it or assign
any motive that might convene such a multitude,
you ask the cause: and are told it is always the
August 19
77
82
86
same. Nor is the costume less various than the as
20
80
8488
21
79
83
86
pect of the buildings; Greeks, Turks, Tartars, Cos~
das, from China: cabarets from Spain; dungeons,

prisons, and public ofces from France; architectu
sacks, Chinese, Muscovites, English, French, Itali
white face; but if, after blackening his face you
on two small carpets bare footed, with his face to
ples from Bucharia; pagodos, pavillions, and viran
Well blown indeed. But what is sound, Donald, with
out sense? Ybu may blow forever without making

a tune of it, if I do not tell you how the queer
things on the paper must help you. You see that
follow with a round open face (pointing to a semi
brbvc between the two lines of a bar) he moves
slowly from that line to this, while you beat one
with your foot and take a long blast; if now you
put a leg to him, you make two of him, and he will
move twice as fast; if you blacken his face, he will
run four times faster than the rst fellow with the
with which he said he should shave his head. At

his devotions, he stood silent for an hour together
ans, Poles, Germans, all parade in the habits of

their respective countries.
We were in a Russian inn; a\complcte epitome
of the city itself. The next room to ours was lled
by ambassadors from Persia. In a chamber beyond
the Persians, lodged a partyof Kirgisians: a people
yet unknown, and any one of whom might be ex
hibited in a cage, as some newly discovered species.
They had bald heads, covered by conial embroi
22
81
82
$23
24
74.7O
72
72
83
72
74
o
runs or run nEnERTOnY.

scribcrs to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub.
scribcrs half yearly in advance.

dered caps, and wore sheeps hides. Beyond the

Rirgisians lodged a nidus of Bucharians, wild as considered as subscribing for the next.
the asses of Numidia. All these were ambassadors
from their different districts, extremely jealous of and become responsible for the payment, shall re.
each other, who had been to St- Petersburg, to ceive one copy gratis.
ald, remember this, the tighter those fellows legs

treat of commerce, peace, and war- The doors of
are tied the faster they will run, and the quicker
they are sure to dance.
._._
all the chambers, entered into one gloomy passage,
MOSCO\V.
a curious masquerade. The Kirgisians and Bucha

rians were best at arms length; but the worthy old
\Ve have arrived at the season of the year in

which this city is most interesting to strangers.
Moscow is in every thing extraordinary; as well in
disappointing expectation as in surpassing it; in
causing wonder and derision, pleasure and regret.
so that sometimes we all encountered, and formed
Persian, whose name was Orazia, often exchanged
visits with us. He brought us presents, according

to the custom of his country; and was much plea
sed with an English pocket knife we had given him,

ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of H31.
hogs and Aitken, No. 40. North Second street.

pcrtory will be expected to pay the difference.
PHILADELPHIA,

Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth streets,
near St. Marys Church.
\\l~
0":
@hlabefpbiaieperfm
Cowraa.
VOL. II.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, l8ll.
No. 17.
shrinks abhorrent, stained their blooming

years: Caligula corrupted the innocence of
his sisters and sullied the honour of his house.
The emperor Tiberius, courting popu
on this reverseof fortune, revived with vi
ry which arises out of the perversion of great larity, affected to charge himself with the
ment of humanity, while she trampled dc
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE or AGRIPPIINA THE YOUNGER.
An example of the disquietude and mise
talents, can be neither uninstructive nor use
less. Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus and
Agrippina, and great granddaughter of Au
death he was not believed guiltless. Agrip
cency and honour under foot. The throne

was the object of her ambition: practicing
pins, as she advanced towards maturity, was
on the weakness of her uncle, she availed
given by him in marriage to Domitius
herself of her attractions, and, by artice and

a display of her charms, endeavoured to
captivate his affections. In the failure of this
project, she meditated to unite herself with
a man whose courage and ambition might
assist her views; whom she might prompt
to effect the death of the emperor, to seize
the reins of government, and to share with
her the sovereign power. Galba, whose birth
fortunes of the children, of whose fathers
gustus, entered life under the most favoura
ble auspices. She received her birth in the Enobarbus, who, to the lustre of ancient no
city of Abii; from this circumstance called bility, was solicitous of adding an alliance
Colonia Agrippina. In this young princess, with the Czsars, whom he disgraced by his
every advantage of nature and fortune seem vices, while he boasted of their blood.
Nero was the fruit of an union thus un
ed to unite; illustrious in birth, distinguish
propitious,
of whom Agrippina was deliver
ed in beauty, her talents, her spirit, her ac
ed
at
Antium.
Caligula, who had succeeded
tivity, the vigour of her mind, appeared to
promise her a boundless prosperity. The Tiberius in the imperial throne, gave to the
child in mockery the name of Claudiuszl the
daughter, the sister, the niece, the wife, the
mother, incensed at this insult, rejected the
mother of emperors, her station, her misfor
tunes, her qualites, and her crimes, alike emperors interference, and caused the in
bore a character of greatness. Checked by fant to be called after his father Domitius.
Her unfortunate marriage, the example
no impediment in her career of ambition,
from
the throne, with the dissolute manners
absolute in power, and magnanimous in de
feat, we are compelled to mingle admiration
with o"r abhorrence of her guilt, and a por
tion of respect with our just detestation.
The earlier periods of the life of Agrip
pina, were passed with her, grand-mother
Antonia: happy had it been for her, had she
inherited the virtues of this respectable Ro
man matron. Antonia sought by precept and
example to direct the ardent mind of her
pupil in the paths of honour and rectitude,
and to render her worthy of her illustrious
descent. Agrippina beheld, while yet a child,
the ashes of her father, the pride and hope
of his country, brought in mournful pomp
to the capital, and consecrated by the tears
of the citizens. In the despair of her mother,
the sorrow of her family, and the regret of
gour: in the accomplishment of her darling

plans, pressing forward, regardless of the
means, she stied in her heart every senti
was noble, and whoseinterest was extensive,
rst engaged her attention; but, nding her

overtures were coldly received, she turned
her views towards Crispus Passienus, a man
advanced in life, a popular orator, possessed
of talents and resources, immense riches,

of the court, completed the corruption of and great inuence at court, and who had
Agrippina. Accused of a criminal intercourse twice'lled the consular dignity. Passienus,

with Lepidus, her cousin, the adulterer suf attered by her attentions, was caught in
the snare, he married the princess, secured

to her his inheritance, and soon after expi
red (but not without dark suspicions), leav
ing his fair widow uncontrolled mistress of
his possessions. To the sanguine mind of
with her sisters, to the island Pontia, on a Agrippina these treasures appeared to be in
pretence of having conspired against the exhaustible: giddy with success, in the cer
state, and projected the assassination of the tain path, as she believed, to the attainment
emperor. Caligula, having loaded the prin of her desires, she placed no bounds to her
cesses with invective and reproach, produc magnicence; till, awakening the jealousy of
ed, or forged, letters in proof of their guilt; the empress, she was compelled to dissem
while he pretended to consecrate to Jupiter ble, and to use her advantages with a show
the Avenger the daggers which, he assert of greater moderation.
The fate of Messalina, the wife of Clau
ed, they had provided for the occasion.
On the death of Caligula, and the acces dius, who fell a victim to her vices, remo
the people, she learned the worth of the
sion of Claudius, the uncle of the princesses, ved the most formidable obstacle to the ad
parent she had lost, and her own irrepara
vancement of Agrippina; she had already
ble misfortune. Amidst all these incite the sentence against them was repealed:
IA ments to virtue, contagion stole into herl they were restored to their dignitits and gained to her interest Pallas, a frccdman,
,C- heart, and the promise of her youth was i, honours, and possession given to Agllpplna who, with Calistus and Narcissus, governed
; prematurely blasted. Antonia discovered 'l of the estates of her husband, bequeathed to the emperor. The weakness and indolence
with horror the disorder of her grand-child-i, her at his death, and on her emle SCI-zed. by ofClaudius subjected him wholly to the pow
ren, which she found herself no longer able 4 Caligula. The aspiring temper of Agrippms. (1 of these favourites, under whose exertions
to restrain. Crimes from which nature '5 prince ofthat name was the derision of the court the people groaned, and who were ambi
fered death, his ambition having provoked
the jealously of Caligula, who seized this oc
casion of exterminating a rival. Agrippina
was also condemned to the humiliation of a
public penance, and afterwards banished,
130
PHILADELPHIA REFER TOR Y.

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tiotts to choose a wife for the emperor.

Through their machinations, A grippina, at
taining the summit of her wishes, was rais
ed to empire. The scruples proposed by

Claudius respecting their consanguinity,
were removed by an appeal to the senate.
Princes, it was alleged by this corrupt as
but was fated to embrue his hands in the

blood of her who should advance him to the
throne. Content, replied his infatuated
and intrepid mother; provided he reigns,
let me be the victim.
and she was obliged to leave it to Heaven

and futurity to unfold.
She now called Amelia from the chamber,
\Vhatchful of rivals, who, by supplanting
and silence once more pervaded. the sur

rounding landscape. Minda informed her
of the mysterious exclamation of Oeraldo,
who she immediately conjectured to be the
same person who brought Florival to the cot
reasons of state might supersede ordinary
her in the emperors affections, might snatch

the reigns of government from her hands,
she sacriced to her jealousy more than one
rules; the senate were the interpreters of law,
of the most illustrious Roman ladies, whose
sembly, were not bound by common laws;
and from their judgment there was no ap charms threatened her with a competition:
peal. Thus was a venal aristocracy induced the wealthy also became victims to her ra
without difficulty to sanction the wishes of pacity. Statilius Taurus (whose father had
who felt somewhat alarmed, until the sound

of the horses feet was lost in distance,
tage, but Minda was too well satised that;
she would have known him instantly, to

adopt her opinion.
the sovereign, and to enact the decree that
twice lled the consulate, and who, in the
Though the fear of her father had been
gave the throne to Agrippina, and placed in

her hands an absolute power.
She commenced her reign with a popu
lar act, by recalling from exile the philoso
reign of Augustus, had erected a magni

cent theatre at an" immense expense) pos
sessed gardens of singular beauty, which at
tracted the attention of the empress. Having
pher Seneca, whom Claudius had banished,
disregarded the intimation of her wishes,
great, her terrors on account of ,her beloved

Florival never left the bosom of Amelia.
She again expressed her anxiety, and her
determination of returning to the castle and
inquiring the fate of her lover. From this
Minda endeavoured to pursuade her, but
finding her resolute, she fastened the cot
tage and they departed together for the eas
tle. The moon shone in her meridian reful
and appointing him to be the preceptor of the ruin of Statilius was determined. Tar
her son Domitius. The people were grati quinius Priscus, an ofcer who served as
ed by this measure, and by seeing the prince lieutenant to Taurus (while, with the title
under the direction of a man, from whom
of proconsul, he governed Africa), was su
they fondly believed he could not fail of im

bibing sentiments of virtue.
Agrippina maintained, in the station to
which she had advanced herself, a despotic
sway: jealous of her authority, and careless
of the measures by which it was supported,
she availed herself alternately, for the secu
rity of her ascendency, of her talents, her
borned on this occasion to accuse his mas

ter of extortion and magic. Conscious of
the malignity of the charge, indignant at the
teachery practised against him, aware of the
power of his adversary and despairing of
artifices, and her charms. To the weak em
justice, Taurus, to escape their malice, rush
ed upon his fate by a voluntary death. The

glaring absurdity of the accusation, with its
melancholy consequences, rousedthe pub
lic indignation: the accuser was driven with
peror she left only the shadow of power;

through her hands every prefcrment, every ignominy'from the senate, and, soon after,
favour was conferred; while, regardless of being convicted of extortion (the crime
birth or merit, she bestowed on her atter
which he had charged on the unfortunate
ers and partisans the rst oices of the state. proconsul), suered, amidst the execrations
The senate was disgraced by men who owed of the people, the recompense due to his
their elevation to their facility or their crimes.
To be continued.
crimes; while its ancient members, despoil
_.,__.
ed of their honours, were driven with igomi
For the Repertory.
ny from the legislature. All ranks and or
ders became confounded; the distinction of
CASTLE OF ALTENHEUM,
patrician and plebian seemed no longer to
on.
exist; nor was it honourably superseded by
that of talents and virtue: the rst dignities
A TALE.
of the empire were possessed by enfranchis

CHAPTER V'l:
ed slaves, whom teachery and defamation,

Continued.
murder and crime, conducted to their sta But see the horrors there, the wounds, the
tions. The voice of the nation was extinct in From furious passions and avenging guilt.
the senate; its members, hirelings of the
throne, but echoed the imperial mandates,
stabs
MALLET
Terror alarms the breast; the hunting tear

Rolls oer the cheek.
Tnoussox.
gence and not a cloud obscured the enligh

tened rmament. They pursued the path that
led by the convent of Saint Lucia, at which
they intended to stop and inquire if Flori
val had been there. They had nearly reach
ed the garden wall, when Amelia uttered
a shriek and sunk upon the ground. Minda
turned to learn the cause, and beside the af
icted maid beheld the sword that and

plume of her beloved Florival. The poor
woman was so overcome by the sight of
these witnesses of the fate of her son, for so
we shall still call him, that she was scarcely

able to offer consolation and support to the
unhappy Amelia. She could only raise her
and lead her to the convent gate, where she
knocked loudly for admittance. The porter
soon appeared and upon being known, they

were immediately let in and every attention
was bestowed upon Amelia which her neces
sities and rank demanded. By slow degrees
she recovered, and the rst sentence that
passed her lips was an inquiry for Florival.

A beam of joy illuminated her counte
nance, when the abbess replied, that in the
early part of the evening he had entered the
chapel and had not been seen to return, and
that very probably be was in the cell with
father Kartholo; but upon one of the frater
nitys inquiring of the superior, he replied
crouching beneath the yoke which crushed

the remaining spirit and liberties of Rome.
The exclamation of Gcraldo astonished that he had not seen him, and Amelias heart
A woman governed the empire, whose vices the good old woman, and his sudden disap again sunk.
'
were subservient to her ambition, and who pearance left her in doubt and uncertainty,
Kartholo now came from his cell and in
was great alike in talent and in guilt.
for she could not conceive who he could be. great pcrterbation asked if Florival were
It is recorded by historians, that, bent on She was well convinced that it was not the missing? Amelia threw herself on the bosom
the elevation of her son to the throne of the bandit who bore Eugenio from her, and per of the friar and sobbed out the truth, conjur
Caesars, Agrippina, in the spirit of the times, fectly satised that it was neither of the two ing him not to drive her to destraction by
consulted a Chaldean divincr, who predict
who placed Florival under her protection. saying he had not seen Florival, as she knew
ed that Domitius would indeed be emperor, Who then couldit be? Conjecture was vain it was the intention of the youth to seek him.
\u
\ PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY.
m
For some days, my dear young Lady, the superior called Amelia to him and thus
addressed her:
returned the friar, Kartholo has not dis
coursed with him. If Heaven have deprived
Daughter, your noble father has con
ded to me his intentions of uniting you to
us of him, continued he, solemnly, re
member it is our duty to be resigned, and Pandolfo, and l have opposed his using pa
submit without a murmur to its decrees. ternal authority to compel you to accept him.
But how do we know he is lost? His hat and I still will oppose it, and ifit be in the power
sword may have been separated from him of Kartholo, you shall yet be saved."
by the violence of the storm, and he be safe
Amelia fell on her knees and breathing
within the castle. Have any persons been forth her gratitude, besought his benedic
despatched thither.
tions, declared that her union with Montal
None had, but two friars now offered to do would ruin her peace of mind forever.
hasten and learn the fate of the youth whom The superior bent over her in humble piety
all esteemed and admired, while the superi
and pronounced a fervent ejaculation for
or and some others determined to search her safety and happiness, then overcome by
round the convent gardens. They were his feelings he hastily retired.
upon the point of leaving the monastery for
As they continued their way from the
this purpose, when Editha, with several do convent, Editha informed Amelia that Allen
mestics, arrived in search of Amelia.
heim had inquired for her, but being told
Editha, my dear Editha! cried Amelia, by one of the vassals that she had retired,
springing into her arms, tell me if Florival ordered her not to be called until morning.
Amelia was gratied at hearing this, but more
is at the castle.
Florival at the castle! exclaimed Edi so when Editha told her that upon their ar
tha, why I came on purpose to scold you rival, the count ordered their beds and had
both for remaining so long from home, when retired before she left the castle. They had
you ought to have been there to receive now reached the gates, which had been left
your noble father and Prince Pandolfo, who open by Editha and her party, and were a
little astonished to see two men enter just
have just arrived.
Then he is lost indeed!" cried Amelia. before them. It was Geraldo and another
Have they at length arrived?" demand vassalof Pandolfos. Minda started on be
ed the superior, with a sigh, and at the holding the former, for his mysterious ex
same time casting his eyes upon the ground. pression recurred to her memory. The men
They have, your holiness, replied Edi now perceived them and they entered the
tha, and a more noble looking gentleman castle together. Editha immediately prepar
than Prince Pandolfo, Inever saw, saving ed refreshment for the whole group, and af
ter partaking of it they retired.
your ladyships father."
Amelia insisted upon Mindas passing the
Amelia was too much engaged with fears
for Florival, to attend to the compliment of night with her and they accordingly went
together to her chamber. Minda being fa
Editha, who now continued;
But who is lost, not Florival, surely?
Lost, lost, returned Amelia and related

the affair to her governess.
tigued, soon sunk into a profound sleep,

but Amelia, busied in reections concern
ing her Florival, could not close her eyes.

Sad news, indeed, lady," said Editha, She lay some moments; all was silent as the
4 we must all lament him, but it will be a dead; her lamp now quivered in its socket
greater stroke to our lord than to any of the and in a few moments expired. The windows
131
m
red to raise herself (in one arm and heard

distinctly the sound of footsteps. As she
knew neither of the chambers, except her
own, was occupied, she felt considerably
alarmed, and the rst impulse of her terror
was to fasten the 'door, being convinced

some one was in the passage. The sound ap
poachcd and she discovered that there were
two persons walking along the entry.

It was a lucky circumstance, said one,
that they passed on; but I question its be
ing him."
_
I tell you, Gaspard, said the other,
it is him; the scar on his breast convinced
me. He received it in infancy. By the foot~

stool of his holiness, I would not have had
our master see him for the wealth of a bish

op; his feelings, and that fool of a conscience
which he unfortunately possesses, would cer
tainly have betrayed him.
Well, well, replied Gaspard, he is
safe enough at all events: but hold, let us be
careful of what we say, walls have ears and
we may be heard."
That is true, said the second voice,
let us be careful. Will this passage never

end? By St. Marco, but we must have got
into the wrong path. Let us return, for this
cannot be the one Geoffry directed us to.
.This has several chambers in it, that, he
said, contained but two and bade us take
the second.
Amelia now heard their retiring footsteps
and felt relieved from the greatest terrors.
Unable to tell who they were, she conjec
tured they must have been the vassals of

Pandolfo, and in the second she thought
she recognized a voice similar to one she
had heard in the cottage; but who they
were discoursing about, she could not ima
gine. It appeared too evident that their con-

duct had been nefarious,and her breast glow
ed with a sort ofsatisfaction as she imbibed the
idea that Pandolfo participated in their guilt.
She now thought perhaps they were talking
of Florival. But no, they had never visited
rest. But come, you must immediately to the
were closed, a total darkness succeeded the
castle."
Father Kartholo now seated himself
thoughtfully in a chair, and Amelia, with a
heavy heart, prepared to accompany Editha,
to the castle. Her reections were acute
and indeed her situation was calculated to
make them so. Florival was no more and
she was left at the mercy of Pandolfo. But
now she sawa gleam of ' hope from this
quarter, for if so noble as Editha represent
ed him, he would never receive her hand,
glimmer of the taper and a solemn horror Altenheim before, therefore it could not be
pervaded her chamber. Amelias mind im him. Unable to form the least idea of their
bibed the gloomy cast of the night and the conduct or intentions, she retired to her bed,
most frightful images crowded into her im and, overcame by fear and exertion, she soon
agination. She saw the ghost of Florival fell into a restless slumber.
To be continued.
covered with blood, pointing to the wound
the assassins dagger made. Now she beheld
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him sinking beneath the savage tiger and
THE CABINET. No. LII.
his warm vitals gushing upon the ground.
Non acervi auri
By such thoughts her mind became affec
Egroto domini deduxit eel-pore febres,
ted and she involuntarily drew the clothes
Non animo euras.
when he knew her heart was devoted to ano

ther. This was her support. a poor relief
over her head, in silent terror. She lay some

time in this situation, when her attention
from the agonies she felt for Florival. W'hen
was aroused by a noise in the passage that
they were about departing fromthe convent,
where they had now been for some hours,
Semper avarus egct.
Honacs.
Consider Avarice as we may it is one of

led from the hall to her chamber and a num< the most degrading vices that infests the hu~
man species: each ner feeling of the soul
be: of others on the same oor. She ventu
1 32
perform some action of liberality, that may are without reWard. In line, civilization is
satisfy its cravings? alas! it is bereft of th0se only kept animated by necessity; and neces
it has once reared its throne in the human qualities which alone served to lighten its sity alone keeps returning harbarity at bay
heart it renders it senseless to the cries of gloomy character, it has drunk of the stupi
0, Avarice! thou art anearthly devil; may
misery, and the resolution of man is unable fying draught of avarice, and it has sunk into the children of men despise thee; may thy
reign be short and circumscribed; be thy
to expel it, for his resolution is unnerved. lethargy.
Let no man tell me the avaricious man is comforts still fewer; be thy countenance still
The man who has given up his whole mind
to the accumulation of wealth, who turns the happy in his wealth, for I will deny it. Let more forbidding; be thy anxiety still more
whole bent of his reflection to this one ob me not be told that it is in this consists his distressing; be thy hopes blasted; be thy ef
ject, is unfit for the social pleasures, for his pleasure, for pleasure he has none. Let it forts accurst!
GREGORY GRAVITY.
heart is shut against them; is incapable of not be urged, that the ruling propensity of
performing acts of virtue, for he is awake on each man however vicious is capable of yield
ly to vice; is unable to ameliorate the distres ing him satisfaction; for such an argument is
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ses of the wo-worn, for he is hardened, and controvertible to virtue; it is founded on an
MY LIFE, WRITTEN BY MYSEIQF.
stable error, and it must fall. There is the
they cannot move him.
(Continued)
Alas! have I often thought, when I have happiness of that man who is eaten up with
But a very little distance had we to march
seen a man'giving up every faculty to the apprehension? is not such the case of the
becomes gelid at its embrace; each virtuous
sensation shrinks from its touch, and when
detested search after gain, for what is it, 0!

man, that thou dost labour? Is it after riches?
avaricious, whether his treasures be conded
this time to meet our adversaries, for the
to the cold and unsympathising bosom of the
rascally, scandalous, bloodthirsty, and in
'hat will they avail thee? will they retard the

progress of sickness? will they extend the
limits of thy earthly happiness? will they pro
earth, which is careless of his condence and
corrigible scoundrels had the insolence to
only nourishes that which is productive, that

which is useful; or whether they be oating
on the billowy element; or whether they be
xed in seemingly permanent-security; he is
still a prey to apprehension, for he fears he
will be robbed by the night thief; he fears he
come upon our very borders. Agreed, says
tect thee from the tyrant death? Ah! no, they
will avail thee nothing; the ministers of sick

ness will not receive thy bribe; thy happiness
will diminish, not increase, for they will be a
source of continual and increasing anxiety;
and though surrounded by gold, the light
ning of death will pierce thee, and thy swim-
ming eyes shall behold thy treasures melt
away! Whata scene hast thou then to contem
plate! in the expiring struggles of nature, in
the moment of thy departure for another
world, thou wilt nd thyself unprepared for
the journey! ten thousand sensations will
rush tumultuously upon thy scul; ten thous

and deeds of wickedness will stie the voice
of conscience and palsy her every effort;
thou wilt bethink thee of the widow and the
1, the nearer the better, for we will then
ght without fatigue, and if they come 08'

much better than they did the rst onset
farewell to all my pretensions to glory and
hopes of fame.Such were then my reections,
for my active mind never slept, and strange
will be unfortunate among tempests, or pi
rates; he fears he will be impoverished by as it may seem, it is full as true, that I form
flame. What pleasure can he enjoy who is ed some of the most sublime plans of at
placed in such a deplorable situation? what tack and defence in my sleeping hours that
satisfaction of his life, he whose day is over ever entered the brain of statesmen or hero.
cast by terrifying surmises; whose pillow by Many of these plans are to be inserted, in
night is strewed with the piercing thorns of my military work now in hand, under the
anxiety, and surrounded by the pityless head of DREAMING, in which article I trust
I shall clearly prove, although
friends of heart rending reection?
Not only is avarice the canker of private
Dogs have dreams as well as gentlemen,
comfort but the bane of society at large; it that they are received through the inspira
grasps refinement in itschilling hand, and it tion of no less a god than Mars. Do not
perishes; it frowns upon the youthful hope dogs ght? why not dream then the inspired
orphan whom thou has wronged to satiatc of vigorous enterprise, and it is nerveless; it dream of conquest? Peter Pinder, hush thy
thy gluttinous cupidity; thou wilt think of casts a cold glance at the ne arts, and the slandering tongue.
I digress, but so interesting and edyfying,
the pangs of misfortune, of the cries of thunderbolt of heaven is less destructive, for
wretchedness that have struck thine ear in at that glance the chisel of the sculptor falls and logical, and philosophical a digression
vain; thou wilt dimly behold opening before from his hand; the pencil of the painter there is not aman I suppose for whom I
thee an illimitable prospect; and deploring touches no longer the canvass with the tints have any respect that is not a man of science,
that fatal passion which has accompanied you of life; the pen of the poet is motionless, the but will pardon. I resume my path peacefully
blaze of his fancy faintly sparkles for a mo and thus I proceed: we had received infor
to the verge of death and
ment and then illuminates no more. It is the mation of the approach of theHassinungaeans
To the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an ete rnal scene.
foe to literature, and at the gloom of its coun by means of a small scouting party that I
thou wilt expire in hopeless agony! Why tenance literature becomes languid: the had ordered to be on the look-out. Every
will not the avaricious man think of these tongue of eloquence arouses us no more in married man knows that when a woman
awful consequences attendant on this degra the cause of virtue: it elevates us no longer takes a notion of doing any thing old nick
ding, this ruinous propensity? We perceive to captivating delight. The genius of true himself could not put it out of her head: and
the daily massacre of time; we perceive fal pleasure droops its head; its heart pulse beats why? because old nick is the very man
ling around us our brethren, and know not with interrupted and painful throbs, and in
that puts it into her. I would not care'if the
what moment may seal our own doom. Me
teresting suering damps upon hcrvisage old fellow had staid at home this time at
thinks this single reection should be the cheering beam of joy. The delicious sen any rate, for it is an absolute fact that he
enough to deter us from an indulgence in so sations of humanity are arighted to silence, put it into Fantanda to go with me to the
hardening, so disastrous a vice. Self love is and the lame and the blind, and the poor and battle: all I could say or do was useless, for
the governing principle of nature; are we the unfortunate are spurned from our doors go she would; and 1 like every good husband
deaf even to its persuasisns? will not that self by tlexnoniac inhospitality. Industry follows ought to do, seeing I copld not stop 'her,
love which delights in attery prompt us to not his propagating plough, for his labours acquiesced in it in a goodnaturcd and
13 0
peaceable manner, for one enemy is enough

to have at one time. \Ve marched, and our
enemy soon came in sight of us; we engaged

and direful was the conict; for old l-Iugh
Hardfare was among us with an old spear,
and he did cut and slash about him in a
most noble and glorious manner. \Ve did not
secrete ourselves behind trees as these people
mostly do, but went together by the ears
pell mell, scalping and cutting throats and
playing the very mischief. I had long swelled
with a most couragious desired to engage
one of their warriors in single ght, and now
How thy sword has oft rung,

And vomited crimson fraught ame.
your eye at me at all, for I was as rm even
For the king swam about in his gore;

And invincible Hugh
Because I have laid all his scurvy arts low,

And plungd him still deeper in scorn and dispair. l lI
Thus bestowd him his due,

And the war thus completed once more.
ANTHONY ANDAGULOUS.
0! de diddle dum dee,

\Vhst a tale it shall be,
\Vhat a wonderful far-sounding tale;

On the lightning twill y,
Range in thunder the sky,
Now before him armyd

See the works of his blade,
after I knew this, as rock dunder, as the
Sixteen mangled red chiefs on the ground.

And now see him fearlessly strut through the ranks,
Whilst his blood sprinkled brow to the heavens
he rears;
Undisturbd by the soul scraping tomahawk clanks,
The genius of battle the hero appears.
0! de diddle dum dan,
in contact and after a most tremendous

combat which lasted two full hours by the
sun, at length I did the kings business for
him and ended the war again, for the Bassin
ungaeans again ed. I was told by one of my
oicers, Anthony Andagulous, whom I had
not known till just before this engagement,

that both armies stared at each other and at
us with much greater astonishment than the

armies of the older time did when the Ho
ratii and Curatii were about to engage to
decide the general dispute. This Anthony
Andagulous, let me tell you, is very much of
an ofcer and withal a very ne poet, to
whom and the colonels Headlofty (my father)
and Hardfare I own much, I cannot resist his
importunities to publish a song in honour
of that signal victory; I have been shorter in
my description of it because I think my old
friend Anthony treats it in a better manner
than I am able: and thus it begins.
Such are the words of the poet concerning

this affair, and the words of a poet no one
,will doubt. O! that was a warm day; from
I three oclock did we skirmish and ght, till

And out pinion the storm breathing gale.
'
the setting of the sun.
I sing of that battle in Blastherunks eld,
Now for misery; you no doubt remember,
Where Isaw bloody armies tremedous engage,
Where long stubborn and stem not a warrior would Mr. Reader, that my wife would go with me
yield,
to this battle and you may well suppose that
But like bull-dogs and mastis tremedously rage. I had enough to do to take care of myself,
saying is, and strutted up to him with the

most bold fronted eclat imaginable; we came
0! dc diddle dum dun,

Theres an end to the fun,
Tis to me that this knowledge shall history owa,

And old Otsnktoria' shall curse me and swear,
comes the part of my history worth every

mans while to read. I saw one of these
0. dc diddle dum da,
gentry cutting some most terric swells in
What a terrible fray,
the general battle, and thought it would be
What a glorious conquering ght;
dangerous to let him live long, for I candidly
What a fuss to relate!
believe that this single warrior did execution
What a kick up of fate
equal to two tenths of his whole army: I
Knockd over the vanquishd that nighti
had old Hughs sword yet, and I foamed Twas then that great Headlofty ashd in the cloud
0f warriors that viewd him with awful amaze;
through the the thickest of the ght to meet
this monster. I knew by the very shape of Twas then like a trumpet his lungs bellowd loud,
And then his wild sword dazzled all with its blaze.
his eye that he was a great man among
0'. de diddle dum di,
them; and a very great man he was, that is
See Hugh Headlofty y,
clear, for he was absolutely their king Broti
See him run, see him skip, see him bound;
besthan. No, Mr. Reader, you need not cock
What a terrible man,
particularly when engaged with king Broti

besthan. In a word my wife was missing, and
I wandered disconsoiate and sad, hunting for

her through the whole country for some
considerable distance, without avail, at
length one coming to the deepest part of
the forestHUGH I'IEADLOFTY.
To be continued.
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THE PROPITIA'IION.
BOOK Ill.
(Continued)
as c u M a nr.
Our Lord, pereeivin Satan through the disguise
he wore, deman s to know from whence he
came; His reply; He commands Jesus to turn the
stones into bread; The answer of the Saviour and

the disappointment of Satan; Failing in his rst at
tempt he bears the incarnate God to the temple.
The Saviour knowing the Deceit was high.
Raised his low head and burst amournful sigh;

See the blood all distill'd from his pores:
Cast on the weeping foe a piteous look,
423
Like a lion he stamps,
Though
well
he
knew
that
form
the
Tempter
took.
Like a lion he ramps,
Forth from the sud'ring man th all seeing eyes
Like a lion he ranges and roars.
Shot their keen glance and pierced the close dis
Tauxitanians ght! and the battle is Won!
guise:
Hear vast hearted general Headlofty cry;
\Vithin the glorious armour on his breast,
They ght, and the lost Hassinungaeans run,
To Chiists dread godhcad stood the end confest!
Some scape, some are wounded, whole hosts of
'et had that Godhead struck the rebel down, 42!)
them die.
And flung pale ruin from his dreadful frown,
0! dc diddle dum den,
Had then twelve legions of th eternal throng,
Now these poor wretched men.
With souls indignant and in justice strong,
,Were followd oer bogs, and oer mites;
Grasping red lightnings and the thunders roar,l3;i
It had been much the best
The
skies to rend and shake the ambient shore, I
If they neer had sgressd,
Descended, hurling vengeance and Wright.
Na neer waked Tauxitanian res.
Uponthe monarch of unceasing night,
But now let my pen'bresthe dread combats wild jar What then, 0! man, had been thy fearful fate,
Till Hugh Headloftys far foremost glory I sing.
Left to the end and to his cruel hate;
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llow with great Brotibesthan he ~joind in the war
To all the wily snares the ends employ,
Is now what my harp shall sonorously ring.
For one determined purpose to destroy!
0! de diddlc dum dim,
SONG, in celebration of the defeat of the Hassin
ungaeans by the 'lauxitanian tribe under the com

mand of general Headlafty. when he overthrew the
adverse king in single combat.
What then had served thee,what rcdemd thee then,
See the heroes begin,

Hear them grunt for two hours, and blow:
But the victory now
Wreathcs Hugh Headloftys brow,
Let old Anthony tell of the deeds he has done,
And display noble feats to your war-loving view;

Let him tell how hes made Hassinungscans run,
Being led by the vast, the invincible Hugh.
Q! dc diddle dum doo,
0! great Headlofiy ling-h,
How the sqtms hate the sound of thy name,
How thine arrows have sung,
And his victim lies sprawling and low.

\et see how the great Hassinunguean turns,
See him rise, and his conqueror join yet again,
Now the bosom of Headlofty furnace-like bums,

And he hens his antagonist down to th- plain.
' See a subsequent pan ol tl is munoir.
1' 0r ratlnr' evening
And caught thy soul from everlasting pain?

May all informing mercy let thee see,
44.3
The Saviour bore his cruel wrongs for thee!
What form art thou the suflhnng Jcsi's cries,
'Ihst wearest the bright cnsignia ot' the skies; .
Whose shining brow a helm of radiance bears,
\\ nose either side a heavenly pinion wears;

450
1 \\ nose radient plumes are tipp'd ith glitti ing gold!
Qua
who thou art, and what thou wilt unfold.
l : t' :ist'ning end lns trembling hand ilnprest,,

With seeming grief, upon his heaving breast,
134
And with the left, approaching still more near,4-55

\Vipes from his glowing cheek a pearly tear;
Then to indignant Heaven uplifts his eyes,
But left alone to that, how soon would death 525

Blast our frail bloom and steal the vital breath!
Shouldst thou withdraw thy aid, in holy ire,
Soon would we hunger, languish and expire!
And to the humble Saviour thus replies:
The Tempter heard, nor ventured yet reply,
These tears, that fall to see thy cruel wrong,
530
Refuse its wonted purpose to my tongue;
450 For pallid fear stood trembling in his eye.
His frame all shook as he prepared for ight
These labring sighs that yield a sad relief,
Prone to the dungeons of tremendous night,
Impede, almost. the uttrance of my grief;
Fiercely he rose, commenced his gloomy way;
But if these tears, that sympathetic roll,
But viewing still the Saviour as he lay,
Could give one touch of comfort to thy soul,
Or if the sighs that rend my beating heart,
460 with some new hope his guilty bosom burnd. 535
lie checkd his ight and to our Lord returnd.
Could to thy wounds a healing balm impart,
These sighs should burst, and tears should ever Though Jesus once his hellish power deed,
Not one repulse can break his towering pride.
ow,
So when Scamander rolld his angry ood,
Until they drovmd remembrance of thy wo!
The son of Peleus on the margin stood;
4-50
But I descended through the yielding air,
A greater comfort, sweeter balm to bear;
4-70 By one defeat but renderd still more brave,
Down from the realms of pitying Heaven I come,
Shook his long spear and rushd upon the wave.
Tempted in want the Saviour hell defied,
Bv Heaven sent down tameliorate thy doom;
But now vain glory and the world are tried.
Gb, said Jehovah, seek my only child,
VVandring distressd along the trackless wild;
Forth from the wild, a scene of pale dispair, 545
Haste, haste and bid him cast his grief away, 470 Through the lone regions of surrounding air,
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ODE lO PEACE.
Hail! beauteous nymph of Heavenly birth,
Transmitted to this wayward earth
'lo sooth the cares of life;
Spread thy soft empire oer my soul,
And far extend,~from pole to pole,
Subduing sanguine strife.
Hail! thou fair goddess, source of joy,
\Vhose smiles and treasures never cloy,
Accept my willing lay;

Pure emblem of angelic rest,
\Vithin my fond embrace be prest,
And cheer my mouruful way.
Bright eluence of a Saviours love,
Let me thy powerful virtues provc,
And join thy blissful train;
There basking in those soft delights,
Which sportive innocence invites,_
lll triumph in thy reign.
Command all nature, nature shall obey.
Jesus the rebel to the temple bore,
Peace, oer thy calm unruled brow,
Obedient, from the skies thy servant came,

Heavens brightest seraph, Gabriel is my name.
Where ministring Jews assembled to adore.
Unnumberd graces loosely ow,

0r carelessly entwine;
Each waving ringlet of thy hair,
Wafts fragrance on the ambient air,
And evry joy is thine.
Not in the sacred house did he appear,

He trembled with his guilt to enter there;
No longer suffer hunger now, or thirst,
No more let anguish from thy bosom burst;

480
But that thy fathers changeless will be done,
lfthou be he, the co-cternal son;
Th omnic word, within whose ranks I fought,

\Vhen heaven with war'and burning ire was fraught;
Whose burnishd chariot oer the rebels rolld, 485
'lheir numbers crushd, their headlong rage con

trold;
While its huge wheels revolved in streaming blood,
550
Far as he can, the Tempter would retire

From the bright altar and its brighter re;
And to the temples summit, trembling height,
By Heaven permitted, bore the Lord of light:
There he, at length, the dreadful silence broke,555
And thus presumptuously the Lord bespoke:

(To be continued.)
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Dashd, like asea, around the smoking flood;
Pursued their fearful ranks along the sky,

And hurld them down in deep despair to lie! 490
\Vho, as they from heaven's summit trembling fell,
Parted the gloom and burst the gulf of hell!
If thou be he, who formd the rolling earth,
And spoke the whole creation into birth,
Speak to the stones that bear thy aching head, 495
And bid their hardness soften into bread;
Say but the word these burning sands shall burst,

And cooling fountains roll to quench thy thirst
So shall I know thou art indeed the Son,
The mighty Second of the great Three One. 500

Not yet the Saviour lets the Tempter know,
He sees the end through all the beauteous show;
But first, 0! wonder, condescends to tell,
Even the monarch of pernicious hell;

From that authority of all most high,
His rash suggestions give the God the lie.
Stanza: From Emma: Ifr'eath.
Though health and joy with roseate hue

No more my pallid cheeks imbue,
And wan disease, with fearful mien,
Triumphant oer my face is seen,
Clear through the mist of years I see
There still is left a hope for me.
Though stern adversity may lower,
And crush me with her iron power,
Though poverty with visage pale,
May bid my wretched mansion hail!
Though every friend, alas! should ee,
505
Health may return, diseases y,
Canst thou have come from yonder distant skies,

To the Deceit the Saviour thus replies,
And yet this truth remain unknown to thee,

Known in the heavens from all eternity;
Though nature without. it might be subdued,
Man lives not merely by his daily food;
VERSES.
Occmioned by reading
510
Unless thou, heaven born peace, wert nigh,
Ambrosial magic to apply,

And sooth each rising pain.
Thou, aided by the almighty arm
That points the thunders erce alarm,
And bids the storm arise,
Canst check the tumult of the soul,

Canst make the wounded spirit whole,
And train it for the skies.
Bellona tumbles from her car,
At sight of thee the blasts of war

Shall cease to rend the air;
Wild, raging tumult shall subside,
And wan'iors kneeling side by side,
Thy welcome shall declare.
While mount and vale and sylvan plain,
Exulting in the rapturous strain,
My heart returning friends may see,
And legions, joining the bright throng,

The gladdning chorus shall prolong,
That speaks thy loudest praise.
LOTHARIQ
There still is left this hope for me.
Make it the source from which this life must ow,
And by a miracle that source bestow.
Health blooms eternal in the sky,
By that dread word which spoke them all to birth,

Are all sustaind that ll the teeming earth.
520
0! bmzntenus Sire, we live by bread indeed:
Bread is the means of life thy love decreed,
By iii) PQTUIHHIUD it support aiiords,
Wm, uniting plenty On our humble boards;
And joy cam never. never die,
To breathe new life into the fainting heart?

He who without the instrument of bread,
515
Can keep his crea ures from among the dead,
The fragrance of the spicy grove,

The sweetest avour breath'd by love,
\Vould greet the sense in vain,
And joy may sparkle in my eye,

Adversity may cease to reign,
And plenty bless my board again,
But if these expectations fail,

And stern disease at length prevail,
If these pale harbingers of death
Steal from my breast the vital breath,
Beyond the silent grave I see
But by each word Jehovah will impart,
Thy beaming eyes of azure hue,

(Brilliant as drops of morning dew,)
Unblemishd are by tears;
Thy lips the rubys tint display,
And on thy brow, the light of day,
Refulgently appears.
Adversity, disease and pain

An emranci' there can neer obtain.
'JIwi'e mingle friends that never ee,
There sull is left a hope for me.

VALERLLN.
Harmonious anthems raise;
-.-_
\
EYES.
Tell me not of size or hue,

Jetty black, or azure blue,
Hazle, sober grey, or brown;
If theyre clouded by a frown,

And without expression fraught,
Or signs of reason and of thought,
Theyll never please,
But, though sparkling with delight,
Or with sorrow dark as night;
P III 1. .i DELPH IA R EPERTORY.
135
em
Though'their lustre dimmd by we,

Or by bashfulness r..st low;
If ott gemmd by Ifitys tear,

Let theinowner never fear;
Theyll ever please.

_..;
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
THE BLACK BULL.

The Rev. Mr. Buckley, of Qolchester, in Connecti
cut, was famous in his day as a casuist and sage
counsellor. A church in his neighbourhood had
fallen into unhappy divisions and contentions,
which they were unable to adjust among them
selves. They deputcd one of their number to the
venerable Buckley for his advice; with a request
that he would send it to them in writing. The
matters were taken into serious consideration, and
Among the fashionables and valetudina

rians at Ballstown Springs, a Yarkee Yorker
and a Georgian lately met, and in convers the advice with much deliberation, committed to
ing upon the localities of the two sections writing. It so happened, that Mr. Buckly had a
ofthc country ,which they represented, the farm in an extreme part of the town, upon which
former, by one of those strange fatalities
he entrusted a tenant, (for in those aristocratic
that often happen to odd people, introduced days of our forefathers it was no sin for a clergy
the subject of a negros head; and, no doubt. man to own land and other property, provided he
from very honest prejudices, contended that came honestly by them.) It was necessary for
the skull of a negro was much thicker and Mr. Buckly to give some directions to his tenant;
more impenetrable then that of any Other

person: the Georgian, who happened to be
a physician, and we believe from Savannah,
supported the contrary position, asserting
that the idea was altogether illusory,-that
this supposed hardness of a negros skull
over that of other peoples arose from the
elasticity of the wool which covered it, and
not from any particular contexture of the
Skull itself. The novelty of the dispute, con
siderably excited the curiosity of the bye
standers, and from the technical lore of the
Georgian, who could dissect for the Yankee
in superscribing the two letters, the one for the

church was directed to the tenant. and the one
for the tenant to the church. The church was
convened to hear the advice which was to settle
Yankee Yorker, I dont know but you are
beef he would try it." If you try it, my lord,"

replied Curran, I am sure it will be hung."
very advice which we need. The direction to re

pair the fences is to admonish us to take good heed
in the admission and government of our members.
We must guard the church by our Masters laws,
and keep out strange cattle from the fold. And
ded, and peace and harmony were restored to the

long aiictcd church. What the subject of the
letter sent to the tenant was, and what good effect
it had upon him, the story does not tell us._

.-
Eat-cures, or a new way qfpaying deb.
any time next week.
Tuesday, culled. Leave the bill. I will look it
evidenced in the roar of the spectators,

over
the doctor preferring to abandon the argu
Thursday, calkd. Not athome, gone to the ball.
ment, rather than submit to our Yankees
19th. called. There seems to be a mistake in
Northern Whig.
._
Two young women drowned themselves

sometime since in a pond near \Vakceld,
England. A board was, in consequence, pla
ced near the spot with this inscription.

\Vhoever drowns themselves in future in
this water shall be punished as the law di
rects.
An Irish appraiser having been employed
to make an inventory and appraisal of the
goods ofa person deceased, sat down one
of the articles as follows: Item, an em/ity
bor,full cfold st'igs, wort/i nothingvalued
at 5 shillings. and a Hebrew Bible, he thus

particularised; Item, a book, the beginning
Qfwhich is nttlze end."
up to you; but if you do, my position shall

9th called. ' Not at home. When will he best
be considered as established, to wit, that the home? Any time to-morrow.
negros skull is the hardest. This volley
10th, called. Has a gentleman with him. \Vait
had the effect to decide the fortune of the an hour. Oh! this is the bill; look in on Tuesday.
practical demonstration of his position.
--.
of corned beef, told him, if it was hung
Jan. 1st, called. Oh! this is Mr. L.s billcall
day in favour of the Yankee, as was soon
<
was soon found, who said Brethren, this is the
suffer me to make the experiment ppon

your' head, and if you dont inch, I will give
March 1st, called. What! did I not settle that
bill? surely that bill is paid, dont you remember

calling here about ten days ago? Yes, sir, I called.
but you were then busy- \Vell, Ill examinecall
next week. \Vill you be good enough to x a day?
What insolence! If you make use of any more
such language, I shall complain to your employer;
at any rate, I am determined to procure a less
troublesome mechanic; so, impudence, heres the
amount of your bill; write a receipt in full in this
book, and tell your employer I mean to have no
further dealings with him.
The mystical advice puzzled the church at rst;
" You will see to the repair of the fences, that

they be built high and strong, and you will take
special care of the old Black Bull.
cable way to settle this dispute is, for you to
now it appears to me, that the only practi
17th, called. Gone out riding, and will not be

back till the last of next week.
but an interpreter among the most discerning ones
all their disputes; the moderator read as follows:
Nearly a similar case with the following actually

occurred with a poor but respectable mechanic.
who had an account against a gentleman for less
than ve dollars.
Saucer. Pncsa o.
pleased, and I have done it an hundred times;
ceipt any time tomorrow or next day.
Judge Toler, now Lord Norbury, to whom

a person once said: If all the innocent blood
he had shed since he became judge, was col
lected he could swim in it, was at a public
dinner with Curran the celebrated Irish law
yer. Toler observing Curran carving a piece
a negros head with as much facility as a

watchmaker will separate his own mechanism
the ght appeared to be all on one side, and
our Yankee hero was retiring from the con we must, in a very particular manner, set a watch
test with a fallen crest, and the laugh at his ful guard over the Devil, the old Black Bull, who
heels,when summoning all his courage, has done us so much hurt of late.
All perceived the wisdom and tness of Mr.
he wheeled to make one desperate effort,
resolved that if he must fall, to fall in the Buckleys advice, and resolved to be governed by it.
arms of victory. \Vell, doctor, says our The consequence was, all their animosities subsi
right; all I know about it is, when I was a
hey, there was a negro in our neighbour
hood, n- ho for six pence, used to let me break
acane across his head of the size of this
(brandishing a walking stiCk of about three
fourths of an inch in diameter) as often as I
34th culled. Just gon : out.

291b, caI/ed- I am busy now, I will call down
and settle it.
Feb. 13th, called. ' Bless me, I quite forgot to
callthis bill not yet discharged! Bring me a re
the billI know nothing of this item, take it back

and examine your bookst
1r
PHILA DELPH IA,

CORRESPONDENCE.
The delay in publishing the communica

tion of Algernon was not occasioned by any
wish to keep him in suspencc, but simply
by our not having had time to alter the
parts which we thought \vereexccptionable.
Our editorial duties are laborious, and often
prevent us from performing promises of

the nature of the present. \Ve shall bestow
the rst moment we can spare on the verses
of Algernon.
PHILDAELPHIAREPERTORY.
156
L will accept our thanks for his epigrams,

and be good enough to favour us with more.
The verses of Celemond are correct,though
we cannot say we admire the subject.
Though the Ode of Romeo might, with
few alterations, be made very pleasing and

correct, yet, as his plan has been anticipated
by the Sonneteer, we think he had better
decline it.
There are some ne touches in the Ruins
of Celorimon, but there are also parts which
ought to be altered or expunged, before it
can be published. An interview with C.
would be pleasing to us and perhaps not
unprotable to him.
Thomas has given us liberty either to
publish or burn his communication. We
of government, attended also. To every friend of by this herb, and it is left with the gentlemen of
the small remnant of revolutionary heroes still liv the faculty to decide whether it was produced by
ing, this mark of national gratitude was pleasing in the Oxygen, or by some other quality or virtue of
the highest degree. Great credit is due to the of this plant.
This publication is made in hopes that some
cers and soldiers of the marine corps, who, on this
occasion, performed every part of the ceremony other unfortunate person may receive relief by the
application of the same remedy.
with the greatest accuracy.
JOHN TAYLOR.
[With great pleasure we publish the following
Eneld, July 4th, 1811.
*_
communication from the Rev. Mr. Taylor, for
merly of Deereld, (Mass) now of Eneld, in

this state- The facts stated in it are of so much
importance, and so well authenticated, that we
have no doubt it will receive a very extensive
circulation]
Con. Mrror.
Diaeases.
Mr. Editor,
Sir,
On seeing an account in a late Philadelphia

paper. of the death of Mr. J. G. Vassar of Pough
.
kecpsie, in consequence of the effect of Mephitic
MARRIED,
Gm, I felt a. degree of compunctionI for having so
At Shropshire, England, Mr. Frost to Miss long omitted to publish the following facts:
Snow.
About six years ago, in the town of Deereld,
All marriages, we may believe,
(Mam) which was then my place of residence,
Permission from the skies receive,
I was present, in three or four minutes after a
And are ordained above;
young man had been taken from a well in a state
We must cxelaim, when of one mind
of insensibility, and apparently near death. Soon,
Together Fran and Snow are joind,
however, his system became universally and ex
Hail matrimonial love,
tremely convulsed. Medical assistance was imme
diately obtained. No medicine could be administer
DIED,
On Tuesday night last, William PaynreII, esq. for ed. Several attempts Were made to bleed, but
without effect. A tepid bath was also tried without
many years a respectable inhabitant of this city.
On Monday the 2d inst. Jame: Jlfatlm'r, esq. ser effect. Friction, and various other extents] applica
geant-at-arms and door-keeper to the senate of the tions Were resorted to, but all to no good purpose.
United States, aged about 67. He died in conse The convulsions continued- In about ve hours
quence of having, a few weeks since, fractured one the miserable object appeared to be sinking into
of his ancles by a fall into the cellar. Mr. Mathers death, and just upon the point of expiring. At this
was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to the coun time it occurred to my mind that if Oxygen could
try some years prior to the revolution, in which he be administered, it might possibly restore'him; but
took an early and active part. After moving his having no proper means of obtaining it, and having
family out of the city of New-York, and thereby found from some former experiments, that the herb
sacricing all his prospects in private life, he joined inllgarlg called Barrage, contained a considerable
the American army under the immortal Washing quantity of this Gas; and on inquiry being inform
ton, with whom he continued till the close of the ed. that a plenty of it might be immediately ob
war. He distinguished himself for his bravery in tained, I concluded to make trial of it. I soon broke
several actions, in one of which he received a a large handful and placed it at his nose. In two
severe wound Himself and at numerous family minutes respiration was evidently better. In four
suffered much during the whole time of our glori or ve minutes he spoke, and used some bodily
ous contest for the independence and liberty of exertion, but was mentally deranged. He now dis
this country, after the achievement of which, he covered an inclination to obtain the euvia of the
was appointed door-keeper to the revolutionary con
bur-rage. Another handful of the broken leaves
gress, in which capacity he, continued until the was placed as before. In ten minutes his reason
dissolution of that body, when he was chosen door returned, with a considerable degree of strength.
keeper to the senate of the United States, and some lie now called for more of the herb, and manifest
time after, was appointed sergeant-at-arms. He ed great satisfaction in breathing through it. Ap
has ever since acted in the capacity of sergeant
plications of it were made for about an hour, when
choose the latte r.
'
at-arms and door-keeper to that branch of
HEALTH OFFICE,
September 7, 1811.
from the 31th August to the 7th September
ad. cit.
Diseases.
Cholera Morbus
Consump. of lungs
Convulsions
Decay
Diarrhea
Dropsy
Dysentery
0
3
0
2
2
2
2
8
0
40
0
0
1
Fever
Fever, billions
0
5
1 Teething
0
Fever, typhus
Hooping cough
2 0
0 3
Hives
ad. ell.
Inam. of bowels,
Insanity
Palscy
Pleurisy
Rupture
Small pox, mom!
Still born
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0 2
_ _
26
__.
Total
50
Inam. stomach.
I. 0
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
5
10
10
20
20
30
30
4O
40
50
2
0
0
0
0
l
1
8
1~
2
2
3
4
7
60
70
80
90
100
70
80
90
100
110
Total
2
8
2
0
0
0
.
50

STATE OF THE THERMOMETER
. 9 oclock. 127oclock. 3 oclock.
September 2
76
81
3
4
5
6
7
77
79
79
70
68
80
80
80
71
71
83
85
78
73
72
menus or Tm: RERERTORY.





ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of llel
the
he was able to milk. The next day he was com lings and Aitken, No. 40. North Second street.
legislature. whose condence he has on all occa fortable, and called on me and expressed himself
sions possessed. Mr. Mathers was buried on in the following manner: In all my life 1 never pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
Tuesday, last, with the honours of war: besides the smelt any thing so sweet and good, nor that gave
PHILADELPHIA,
soldicry his funeral was attendr-d by a large con
me such pleasure as the burrage did from the
course of the most respectable. citizens. Such of time I awnked until I got on my feet-"
the heads of the departments as were at the seat
A surprizing effect was produced on this man 1
s.-
an
I -s '. -.'-'
. "*7 Wk,
l-.: a
With :4. -_ .
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@Qibifabrfpaceperfom
Cowrea.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 18!].
VOL. ll.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIPE OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE.
(Concluded)
On the night of the 7th of March 1778,
the fatal accident occurred, which termina

ted the life of this excellent ofcer. For some
days previously, he had expected an attack.
Captain Blake, a brave ofcer, who com
manded a detachment of the second South
Carolina regiment, serving as marines on
board the General Moultrie, and to whom
we are indebted for several of the ensuing

particulars, dined on board the Randolph
two days before the engagement. At dinner
captain Biddle said, We have been cruiz
ing here for some time, and have spoken a
number of vessels who will no doubt give
information of us, and I should not be sur
prised if my old ship should be out after us.
As to any thing that carries her guns upon
one deck,l think myself a match for her.
About
P. M.
of the
of March,
a sigto
nal
was 3made
f om
the 7th
Randolph
for aisail
windward, in consequence of which the

squadron hauled upon a wind, in order to
speak her. It was four oclock, before she

could be distinctly seen, when she was dis
covered to be a ship, though as she neared
and came before the wind, she had the ap
pearance of a large sloop with only a square
sail set. About seven oclock, the Randolph
being to windward hove to. the Moultrie be
ing about one hundred and fty yards astern,
and rather to leeward, also hove to. About
eight oclock, the British ship reda shot

just ahead of the Moultrie, and hailed her,
the answer Was the Polly of New-York,up

on which she immediately hauled her wind,
and hailed the Randolph. She was then
for the rst time discovered to be a two
(locker. After several questions asked and
answered, as she was ranging up along side
the Randolph, and had got on her weather
quarter, lieutenant Barnes of that ship cal

led out, This is the Randolph, and she
immediately hoisted her colors and gave the
enemy a broadside. Shortly after the action
No. 16.
_______
and of some individuals in the other vessels
of the squadron, we have been enabled to
state some particulars of this unfortunate
event in addition to the accounts given of it
by Dr. Ramsay in his History of the Ameri
can Revolution, and in his history of the
revolution of South Carolina. In the former
commenced, captain Biddle received a

wound in the thigh and fell. This occasion
ed some confusion, as it was at rst thought
that he was killed. He soon however order
ed a chair to be brought, said that he was
only slightly wounded, and being carried for
ward encouraged the crew. The stern of
the enemys ship being clear of the Ran work, the historian thus concludes his ac
dolph, the captain of the Moultrie gave 0r count of the action: Captain Biddle who
ders to re, but the enemy having- shot a perished on board the Randolph was univer
head, so as to bring the Randolph between sally lamented. He was in the prime of life,
them, the last broadside of the Moultrie and had excited high expectations of future
went into the Randolph, and it was thought usefulness to his country, as a bold and skil
by one of the men saved who was stationed ful naval ofcer.
on the quarter deck near captain Biddle,
Thus prematurely fell at the age of twen
that he was wounded by a shot from the ty-seven, as gallant an officer as any country
M'oultrie. The re from the Randolph was ever boasted of. In the short career which
constant and well directed. She red nearly Providence allowed to him, he displayed all
three broadsides to the enemys one, and those qualities which constitute a great sol
she appeared while the battle lasted, to be dier. Brave to excess, and consummately
in a continual blaze. In about twenty minutes skilled in his profession, no danger nor un
after the action began, and while the surgeon expected event could shake his rmness,
was examing captain Biddles wound on the or disturb his presence of mind. An exact
and rigid disciplinarian, he tempered his
quarter deck, the Randolph blew up.
The enemys vessel Was the British ship authority with so much humanity and affa
Yarmouth of sixty-four guns, commanded bility, that his orders were always executed
by captain Vincent. So closely were they with cheerfulness and alacrity. Perhaps no
engaged, that captain Morgan of the Fair otllcer ever understood better the art of com
American, and all his crew thought that it manding the affections as well as the respect
was the enemys ship that had blown up. of those who served under- him: if that can
He st'oQd for the Yarmouth, and had a trum be called an art which was rather the num
pet in his hand to hail and inquire how cap ral effect of the benevolence and magnan
tain Biddle was, when he discovered his imity of his character.
mistake. Owing to the disabled condition of
The virtues of his private life endeared
him to a numerous circle of friends. \Vith
the Yarmouth the other vessels escaped.
The cause of the explosion was never the frankness and manliness of character,
ascertained, but it is remarkable that just which eminently belong to the officers of his
before he sailed, after the clerk had copied profession, captain Biddle united other quali~
the signals and orders for the armed vessels ties of much more rare occurrence. The
that accompanied him, he wrote at the foot most amiable mildness and modesty of man
of them, in case of coming to action in ners, a strict and rigid temperance, anda.
the night, he very careful of your maga strong habitual sense of his religious and
zines. The number of persons on board the moral duties. A sincere Christian, his re
Randolph was three hundred and fteen, ligious impressions had a decided and pow
who all perished, except four men, who were erful inuence upon his conduct. Even his
tossed about for four days on a piece of the native courage was heightened by the reec
tion, that in the discharge of his duty, all
wreck before they were discovered and ta
ken up. c"'om the information of two of these pc..sonal consequences were to be disregard
men, who were afterwards in Philadelphia, ed. his temper was uniformly cheerful, and
4
'
122
,--_-__g
11is conversation sprightly and entertaining

In his person he was about ve feet nine
inches high, remarkably handsome, strong
and active. Before he left Charleston, he
was engaged'to be married on his return,

to a young lady of that place.
Among the'tributes paid to the memory
of this interesting young ofcer at a period
recent to his loss, we are happy to notice
particularly, a spirited poem by Mr. Fre
ncau, whose works are too popular to ren
der its insertion here necessary.

By the numerous living witnessess of his
worth, and extraordinary promise, his mento
ry is cherished with peculiar fondness and it
will ever be respected by the brave and the
patriotic.
do
For the Repertory.

on
A TALE.
CHAPTER VI.
Continued.
But see the horrors there, the wounds, the stabs
From furious passions and avenging guilt.

Matte-r.
Terror alarms the breast; the burning tear

Rolls oer the cheek.
TIIOMISON.
Woman, we know not to what part of

the country we have wandered or who you
are, but your appearance is humane. We
have therefore deposited in your hands an
infant whom we swore to murder. We do not
do this from motives of humanity, but be
cause his being here unknown will answer
every purpose, since he is only wanted out
of the way. He can give you no information
concerning his birth, since little more than

two years have passed over his head. But
you must swear byall the pangs the damned
endure, never to make inquiry concerning
his name and family, otherwise he must with
us again and death will be the consequence.

I involuntarily clasped the infant to my
-bosom and bade him immediately propose
the oath.
recollected nothing of the family from

whence he sprung, and still is perfectly con
vinced that he is my son. Your noble father
too is deceived in this respect, believing him
lore, but commanded her to keep her oath
inviolate. She therefore entreated Amelia

never to utter a word of the story she had
related to her, but leave the unravelling of
to be the son of Malventi, whom I had not "the secret to him
revealed to him on 'my return, through mo
Whose eye rules all things and intends
The least of our concerns;
tives of false delicacy. At the age of six
years I placed him in the castle, where he has and who, doubtless, would bring the guil
since remained and has unfortunately ensnar ty to a merited punishment and reward the
ed your affections; though, my dear young innocent.
Amelia readily acknowledged the justice of
lady, I have not the least doubt but the
youth is nobly born
her remarks, and submitted in silence to her
Such are the circumstances that I had to requests. The distant sound of the castle bell
unfold, and it only remains for me to say now tolled ten upon their ears, at whichAme
that the miniature'which you discovered was lia started from ner seat; her thoughts ashed
with Florival together with some blank pa toward the youth she loved, who had pro
pers, and that I rmly believe the person it mised to be at the cottage an hour before,
portrays was his father. \Vhoever it may be, but who had not then appeared. Her terrors
you are at liberty, my dear lady, to keep it in at the story which Minda had related were
your possession,but in your possession only. great, but they were nothing, comparatively
At the conclusion of the story of the good speaking, to those that now assaulted her
and unfortunate Minda, Amelia stood some bosom on Florivals account. Her mind now
moments wrapped in silent astonishment at' pictured him sinking beneath the violence
the-strange and unaccountable proceedings of the tempest, and with his last breath im
which it unfolded. At length she expressed ploringableSsing upon his beloved Amelia.
to Minda her determination of placing the Now she saw him, braving the fury of the
miniature in the hands of court Altenheim in storm, wandering from the path, and sinking
order to discover, if possible, from whence the victim of some furious beast or falling a
sacrice to the more savage fury of a mid
her now dearer Florival sprung.
Minda in the strongest and most peremp night ruflian.
Minda perceived something bore upon her
tory terms objected to this and exclaimed:
You forget my oath, my dear young lady, mind and tenderly inquired what it was.
which renders it impossible for such an in
Florival, my Florival! exclaimed Ame
quiry to take place."
lia, and sunk upon the bosom of the old wo
An oath thus exacted, my good Minda, man.
returned Amelia, can certainly never be
Minda instantly rccollectcd that Amelia
considered binding, either in the eyes of God had told her he promised to be at the cottage
or man.
at nine oclock, but though her mind was lil
Pardon me, lady,rejoined Minda, did led with apprehension, she wisely forebore
the security of my dear Florival demand it to mention her fears and endeavoured all in
Heaven might leek with an eye of forgive her power to dissipate the terrors of Amelia.
ness on me for it, but he is secure, and Though he had promised, she said, to meet
doubtless the designs of an omnipotent God them at nine oclock, probably something had
are to be answered by his situation. We occurred to detain him longer at the castle.
must wait therefore, until circumstances,
guided by the unerring purposes of Omnis

cence, shall unveil the mystery that sur
Swear, cried he, by your hopes of rounds us."

To the wishes of Minda the silence of
peace on earth and your everlasting happi
Amelia gave acquiesence, and she resum
ness hereafter, never to make inquiry con
ed her thoughtlul deportment, then sudden
cerning the birth of this infant.
I swear! cried I, and he instantly left ly recollecting the appearance of Kartholo,
the cottage, nor have I since beheld either she eagerly demanded the reason of his be
ing there. Minda replied, that upon learning
of them.
Religiously have I kept my oath, preserv the mutual affection of herself and Florival,
ing also from Florival the story of his being she had sent for the friar, to communicate
so delivered into my hands. His infant prat to him the manner in which the youth came
tle, which amused and diverted my mind under her care, and request his advice, but
from melancholy retrospection, would often that he passed the cottage while the mes
mention servants and equipage, but time has senger was at the convent, when she stop
erased all remembrance of former [scenes ped him ulld acquainted him with the truth.
from his mind, and even at ve years old he He had blamed her for not telling him be
Nothing, however, could calm the fears of

Amelia, which were so powerful that she
determined to return alone and be assured
of the truth, rather than remain in a state of
uncertain
cordingly
hand was
knocking
inquietude until morning. She ac

rushed towards the doorHer
already on the latch, when a loud
made her start back. She retreat
ed towards Minda and her heart beat with
expectation for she believed it was Florival.

" Open, open, cried a voice from without,
open, Minda, and give us shelter from the

iticlemency of the night}?
My father! said Amelia, it is my fa
ther. Let him not discover me, my dear
Minda, here at this time of night, or I am
undone."
Softly, my dear lady,' returned Minda,
PHILADELPHIA R EPERTOR Y.
or you discover yourself. Step into that
room and you are secure.
Amelia immediately entered a small cham
ber on one side, and closing the door threw
herself upon a bed, anxiously waiting for
the departure of her father. Minda now open
Our travellers had now dried their dren

ched garments and had partaken of some rc
freshment which Minda had prepared, when
Geo'ry' who had left the cottage some mo
123
M
unalienable by that weakness which in this
case would have been an amiable one, or a
man of stubborn magnanimity, and elevated

and resolute virtue. He takes into consid
ments before, entered and informed count
eration all the frailties of our nature, and he
Altenheim that the tempest had ceased and

that the stars began to break through the
ed the door, and admitted Altenheim, Mon
taldo and their attendants to the shelter of dissipating clouds. All were rejoiced at hear
is sorrowful; he reects on the temptations

of the criminal and he sympathises with
him; he is acquainted with his good qualities,
and he admires them; he sees his repen
her cottage, except Geraldo, who staid with
ing this, but none more so than Amelia, who
out to fasten the horses under the spreading

branches ofthe trees.
Ever ready to assist those who are in
necessity, my good Minds, said Altenheim
as he entered. We must intrude a few m0
ments and then on to the castle."
I am indeed happy, my lord, returned
Minda, at all times to assist the unfortu
nate, but more particularly in having it in
my power to be of service to your lordship.
Altenheim replied affectionately to Minda
and the prince Pandolfo was introduced to
her. Minda startled a little at the name and
then turning to count Ferdinand, excused
herself by observing that it recaled to her
memory those times when the old prince,
then ayouth, treated her so humanely. At the
mention of the old prince, Montaldo looked a
heard their departing footsteps with the

greatest satisfaction.
Geraldo lingered until the whole had left
the cottage, and then hesitating a few mo
ments at the door, said to the astonished
Minda in an under tone
Have you kept the secret!
Minds started back without making a re
ply and Montaldo calling for him the vassal
instantly departed.
that the horses were secure from the rain

and the saddles unbraced. Geraldo now turn
ed his eyes upon Minda who was mending
tending for the exercise of the former in

legislative governments and one portion con
tending for the latter. This we may "en
ture to lay down as a self evident truth; he
that is prone to the exercise of mercy will
often exercise it amiss, whilst he who always
dheres to strict justice, although he may
To be continued.
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For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. N0. LI.

Mercy, though sweet, can but relieve a few,
But Justice is that good which blesses all
There are perhaps no twdidints cohddrii

little confused, but soon recovered his serenl ing which the world differs in opinion more
ity, when Geraldo entered, who informed him than Mercy and Justice: one portion con
the fallen re, and as she raised herself and
cast her eyes on him, he started back against

the door and uttered an exclamation of sur
prise. All were astonished and Minda stood
gazing at him confounded by his behaviour.
She knew him not; nor could she divine the
cause of his extraordinaly conduct upon be

holding her. Geraldo perceiving the situa
tion of Minda and nding he was unknmvn,
recovered from his alarm, and upon be
ing questioned by his lord, replied that his
surprize originated in beholding a most
striking likeness between Minda and a lad)
be had been acquaidtcd with some time be
fore.
Montaldo was perfectly satised with [his
reply fromGcraldo, but his behaviour appear
ed too mysterious for Altenheim to acqui
esce in the excuse he gave for it. The count
had marked Geraldo for a villain and won
dered how Pandolfo could retain a fellow in
his service of such a ferocious disposition and
offensive manners. Nay, he had almost be
sometimes wound his own sensibility, will
always be right. I wih for a moment sup

pose a man to have been guilty of a crime
which is punishable by the laws of his coun
try with death; he has however heretofore
conducted himself in a manner perfectly no
ble, in every point ofhis character; he is sen
tentant disstresses, and he is inclined to
mercy. But he is too good a man to permit

that mercy to blindfold his judgment; he is
too sensible a man to let himself be borne
away by the tide of popular opinion, for he

sees its danger; he is too upright a judge to
pardon him, for the consequences stare him
in the face. It is one of the follies of man
kind to possessa most exalted opinion ofitsclf;
all men are inclined to believe themselves
nearest perfection, and although the shaft of
reason often pierces these buoyant insects
of vanity, yet it is so contracted in its ight

that many of our self-favouring prejudices
soar far beyond its reach. And what is the
consequencefh'Iany men seeing this man
set free from the punishment liable to his
guilt, men who had only refrained from like
or more heinous crimes through the fear of
being treated with the rigour of the law,
never failing to draw the curtain over their
weaknesses, leaning to the most favourable
surmises, argue with themselves; this man
has been guilty of a breach of law and his

good qualities have saved him from igno
minious punishment. Have not I good quali
ties also? I am charitable to the poor; I am
' Warm to the sorrows of the alicted. Have I
I not also some circumstances attached to my
{character that would have the same e'cct
; upon the minds of the jury and the judge,
I that this man was possessed of? I have a wife
land a family of small children;l have an
aged mother who depends on me for subsis
sible, accomplished, his_nr.mncrs conciliate
tence. It is true I am making a comfortable
the esteem of all; he is generous to a fault; in

a word he is possessed of every virtue which
adorns human nature, but has been inadvert
ently led into an error for which he is sin
cerely penitent. His repentance would al
most persuade justice to break her swordz
living for us all, but the method I now per

suc is a slow one of accumulating a fortune,
and I am tired of it; I will seize upon the
property of another; if he resist, I will kill
him, for has not this man been pardoned
who had committed an action equally cogniz
able by the laws? If lam discovered, I will
plead my want, I will lay before the court
my numerous and helplessfamily; I will dc~
it wrests her balance from her hand; and the
marriage of Amelia should be delayed until
sternncss of human determination is soften

ed by the persuasive eloquence of pity.
The court is lenient, the jury is overwhelm
ed by sensations of afiction at the departure
if so noble a follower, from the paths of vir
=ue, the man is pardoned. Who would have
opposed it? illil'lluf] resolution is liable to
.uch an overthrow: and he who could have
~tsisted the conibined forces of pity and 0's
.crm, in a Cause so melancholy, must ei
reproach the court with injustice, and cite

the case of this man as' a precedent.
the mystery was elubidatcd.
ther be devoid of the feelings of a man,
Thus we see that very feeling ,wltich moves
gun to conceive, from this very circumstance,
opinions unfavourable to M01.t..ldos honour.

which he was very loathe to imbibe, and but!
already concluded in his mind that it th
spectre of the palace again Warned him, the
plore the crime, but at the same time refer
to the circumstances which occasioned it as

unavoidable, and imperious. If this should
fail moving compassion, if they should per
sist in handing me over to him who puts the
sentence of the law into execuLion, I will
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us to pardon a man who has subjected him uence of Morpheus, for what general, Mr.
self to punishment; the very sensation of Military reader, or what soldier, could have
pity for his error and compassion for the slept knowing the enemys force, or at least
state of his family rebounds upon us in other his numbers, to be about double his own.
instances of a similar kind, to which it has However, my father and I planned, with the
given existence, and overpowers us with greatest industry, in what manner we should
selfreproach. \Ve pardon one man out of attack them, till near four oclock in the
admiration for his virtues, and pity for his morning, when having arranged matters
family; it is true we prevent his family from completely in our heads, we gave some of
suffering by his loss; but we soon discover the chiefs by signs to understand our inten
the want of propriety in such a proceeding, tions, and at about ve, each with a re
and that very pity for one family, precipitates brand composed of dry branches of trees, we
crawled up to the summit of the dividing
many into irretrievable distress. It is an un
deniable fact, that very numerous indeed are hill, and rushed like a torrent down upon
the citizens of every nation who are only the foe, brandishing them, I think, ifI may
practically virtuous, through the fear of pun
be allowed to form an idea of such things, a
ishment awaiting them in the career of vice; little devil-like. \Ve laid so snug and still,
and thus are many men in a well regulated that they had no thoughts of our arrival
country useful members of society, who if whatever, and when we swept flaming dowu
they were situated where they could give the hill, they were put in such utter con
free rein to the indulgence of their vicious sternation, that they betook them to a most
prnnensitics, would be disgraceful to their precipitate and disgraceful ight. \Ve of
5; cries and destructive to the comfort ofthe course pursued our conquest till pursuit be
world. It will therefore I trust appear evident came dangerous, not uttering a word all this
that the most indiscriminate infliction of the time, spreading the most direful ruin on
mandates of justice, unameliorated by the their Ha thgttan be supposed; nearly sixty
tears of mercy, although, as I have before lay dead upon the eld, and many severely
observed it may be painful to him who causes wounded. What think you of that, Mr. Rea
it to be executed, will nevertheless be the der, as the work of one morning against so
most certain way of insuring the ultimate powerful a foe, with an army of but one hun
prosperity and happiness of a nation. The dred and forty men? If my generalship is not
question then is this, whether we should in
to be praised in this instance, farewell to
cline to a virtue restricted in its limits and taste, farewell to sound judgment, and criti
its good effects, in prelerence to one which cal discernment in the art of war. But this
under the mask of sternness is universal? subject I will push no further; I disdain it,
This number I have entirely devoted to le
for conscious of superiority over the present
gislative justice, and therefore must only be leaders of armies, be they situated where
understood to be speaking of society on an they may, and leaving my abilities to be de
enlarged scale; not of particular members cided on by those who understand the mat
of it, but of the whole human family; person
ter, I proceed in my story. Our victory be
al mercy I may take into consideration at ing complete we set up a most tremendous
some future period.
cry according to usage in these cases, and the
GREGORY GRAVITY.
fact is, I bellowed so loudly that I injured
my lungs materially, and could not speak
to me now we are man and wife, as I did be

fore the tying of the marriage knot. I have
said ,in a previous part of this memoir, that
we lived together in the greatest harmony;
plain for two weeks. This cry dissipated the
ness, and wonder! It was about two weeks
this I still maintain, but there is most cer
tainly more fancy in a charming young girl

and her lover meeting each other, by the
side of some moss overgrown rock, or over

shadowing tree, than in the coming together
of a man and his wife at the door of their
own cabin. Henceforth then, except in one
instance which is yet to come, I will leave
off all domestic relations and betake myself
totally to warfare and its soul inspiring con
cerns. The Tauxitanians retired leisurely to
their families, and the very rst question put
to me, by old Hugh Hardfare, at our meet
ing was, well my lad, have you still my

sword? \Vith inconceivable dignity I on
buckled my belt and presented it to him, with

these words: I have stained this sword in
blood, tell me if I am worthy of your name;
for I never claimed it till now, and conquest
backs my suit. I went on in a very elabo
rate speech, which I have docked 08', be
cause of my having many things to record

of more importance, and I am afraid of spin
ning out my history to an unreasonable
length. Brevity, said old Billy Shakspeare,
whose worksI have. read since my retire
ment from war, is the soul of wit: brief
then shall I be, but how brief you must wait
till I see t to tell you, or to stop.
The death blow we had given to the rst

threats of the Hassinungaeans silenced them
for some time, but we had only scotched
the snake not killed it, for they sent us no

proposals of peace; at length the Tauxitanians
despatched two ambassadors to know their
intentions, and in three days the ambassadors
returned, after having received the most
agrant insults that could have been offered

ton free nation. Mark my energy! mark my
behaviour through the whole of this busi
For the Repertory.

LIY LIFE, VRIT'IEN BY .MYSELF
(Continued)
Dismal was the night, and dreary were

our reections concerning mom, for a de
serter from the Hassinungaeans informed us,
that their army was three hundred strong.
Now it is true enough that we did sleep, as
I have before stated, but we did not sleep
long, for there was but a small ridge be
tween our two armies, we laying in the north
valley, and they in the south, and such a most
endish notions ofour enemies, and had it not after our victorious return, that this scanda
been for the complete drubbing we had just lous affair took place; we had all became
given them, so as to reduce their numbers tranquil, undisturbed by the storms of war,
much, it was then, and is my candid beliefto the sun of ease and pleasure gleamed upon
this day, that they would have returned to
us, and the faithful fellows that I had led to
the charge. Not one man did we lose on this make a glorious conquest forgot not their
excursion, and pretty well convinced that ne promises. Mark my energy! Mr. Reader;
cessity would oblige them to make overtures they were putting up a house for me in the
of peace, we marched back to our homes, all
rst style of their ability, and I determined
of which were near to my own on account

of that being by much the thickest settled
part of territory belonging to the tribe;
unconscionable yelling did they keep, that where we were received with the most en
they roused us from our slumbers, as with thusiastic acclamations of joy. I am a bad
the thunder-bomb of Jove. Once awakened, hand at painting scenes of domestic happi
you may well suppose we did not yield our ness, and to tell the truth,l do not feel half
to make it honourable to us both; it was
selves again that night to the leaden in
nearly nished; but the very moment that

the news reached my ear, or rather that the
signs struck my eye, concerning the Has
sinungaeans, I broke off all labour from my
dwelling, and ordered speedy and vigorous
preparation for a renewal of hostilities. I

that pleasure in relating Fantandas behaviour have told the reader twice to mark my ener
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gy in this affair, for there are generals, I say,

that sooner than full in carrying their own
plan of aggrandizementinto execution, would
let their country go to pot. Now, as I had
undertaken to defend these Indians and had
taken them under my protecting wing, I
scorned luxury and banished it from my
thoughts, my soul was eager for a second
conquest, and my nostrils breathed the de
structive ame of war.
HUGH HEADLOFTY.
To be continued.
l, in my way, am equally emulons. \Vhole

hours I dwell with rapture on the probabi
lity of my names descending to the remot
cst ages of posterity, entwined with the
owery wreathes of approbation; and wonder
that one little head could contain so vast a
profundity of erudition, as evinced by my
sublime and voluminous works. And where

fore, most sagacious sir, should I not have
my fame. lfa bit of a blood takes a pistol
paths I could enumerate, that raise their fol
lowers to the highest [zinnaele of their de

merits, in the fune of notoriety, while the
poor would-be author drags his slow length
along, as I before observed, unheeded and
unknown. From this statement your Sagacity

will readily discern, there are many speedier
and more honourable means of making my
ing trip to the Jersey shore, his name is im
self celebrated, than the one I have chosen.

I will not, however, deviate from it; fortune,
most learned sir, generally favours the bold;
mediately encircled with the glorious cha
and if this essay does not, from its intrinsic
racter of renown; the men envy him as he
merit, which must be perceptible to all who
struts majestically through the streets; the

women gaze at him with astonishment and
honour. themselves by perusing it, impress

on your own mind, and the minds of your
\Vhether thou reposest on thy couch of awe; the little children run after him to readers, a conviction of the exalted station
down, in the midst of pleasant dreams, 0?, touch the tail of his coat; nay, the very dogs in literature my talents entitle me to hold,
with painful application consumest the mid and cats forget to bark and mew, and retreat you will again, perhaps, hear from
night oil, receive, oh friend editor, the hum ing with speed, y the presence of so noble,
PEREZ QUIZ, ESQ.
Helicon street, near the grove of laurels.
ble, but sincere greeting of thy unknown so suerior a being! Thus a duellist, who
'
--.
well wisher. May the muses nine, ever in sheds the life blood of a perhaps injured, in
For the Repertory.
spire thee; their streams ever be delicious nocent friend, riots in the very lap of noto
to thy sense, and their laureat wreathes be riety; his name appears in the newspapers in Is it a custom?
ever within thy reach!
pompous capitals, and not unfrequcntly Aye, marry is it:
But to my mind, though I am native here,
I write to you, most worthy sir, for a two adorned with notes of admiration!!!
And to the manner born, it is a custom
fold purpose; to delight you with my easy
Oh! why should not one single ourish of More honoured in the breach than the observance.
flow of language, and to render my name the quill 'of a scribbler, contain as much
SHAKSPEARE
conspicuous in the annals of polite literature. magic to exalt him to as proud :1 pro-emi
Mr. Editor,
I have no doubt but you and all your read nence in the list of worthies, famed for their
I am about to relate to the readers of
ers, will perceive from this specimen of virtues, their genius, and their learning, as your paper, one of the most distressing ac
my talents rare, I am fully entitled to that obtained by one single pull of the trig
cidents since the falling of a tower, under
such an elevation. Perhaps it would be more ger of a murderer, whose courage by that the ruins of which a hog wore to a skeleton,
satisfactory to you, should I, in compliance pull is established forever.
merely on account of having nothing to eat
with the example of many learned men, lay
But I need not express on that subject forve months.
before your eyes the history of my life. surprize. Modest merit must long Struggle
My father, who died lately, rest his soul,
If, friend Editor, thou hast in thy composi with the mists of obscurity, long endeavour may he be happier in heaven than he would
tion any thing resembling- modesty-any to chase away those envious shadows, eer it permit anybody to be on earth. \Vell, as I
thing like sensitive delicacy, that shuns ra can rise in a full sun of glory and exalted was saying, he had a black woman by the
ther than invites the public scrutiny, do not, renown. Each class of human beings can at name of h'lahala, who was very fond of dress.
I beseech thee, insist upon my placing my tain celebrity, easier, and in less time, than Whenever sunday arrived; (and it never
self in that most indelicate of all situations. the poor follower of the nine; the wild ights arrived often enough for her: she would
Be my own historian? the very idea shocks of his imagination, the thoughtless exu therefore wish that Godhad made the world
me! I am convinced, even could I prevail berance of his fancy, become the subjects of in one day, that every other day might be
with myself to lay aside my innate modesty, animadversion to thecynical critic, whose sunday,) I say, whenever sunday arrived, she
and, to oblige you, commence the task of malicious satire not only removes to a still would dress herself in the newest fashion
relating my adventures, I should be com greater distance from his anxious view, the and parade the streets from morning until
pelled to Stop short, eer I had reached the wreathes which he fondly hoped would be about ten oclock at night, when she Would
middle of my story. Permit me, therefore, the reward of his labours, but also depres return excessively fatigued with her [xi-ome
to inform you, that if you should be so vain ses his spirits, and not unfrequently extin nude."
as to form such expectations, they never guishes the re of his genius. A libertine
Her dress looked so spruce, that many of
can, never shall be gratied. Suffice it to has his famehe that neer hesitates to our bloods have saluted her with, very
say, I am a queer old fellow, and am deter plunge an artless unsuspecting female into ne evening miss; shall I have the pleasure
mined to be an author.
infamy and misery; even he, who owns no of seeingyou home? to all which she would
Notoriety is necessary in the present en Ilaw, either divine or human; no will but his readily assent. But when they happened to
lightened ara, to the existence of our ' passions, why even he has hiezme; is court see her blooming visage, their tunes would
bloods of fashion, and not to have fought a ed by many of the credulous fair, who be change, and such terms as, smoky fate,
duel, seduced a female, emptied three boc
lieve that a libertine reformed, will make the chimney chops, would be vociferated for
ties of Madeira at a sitting, and combatted best and tenderest husband. Sometimes he
squares.
with the watchmen,is to be totally unknown is shunned, but he knows his worth,- he be
It was after she had returned from one of
in the records of modern buckism; hence lieves he is shunned through fear, and his
these sabbath day excursions, during which
all pretenders are anxious to render them vanity is gratied.
one of the sable fraternity had taken her to
selves ehi'ning charactere.
Many, oh! learned sir, are the honourable a confectioncrs and stuffed her so immode
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126
L
M'"5
atcly with ice cream, that she was suddenly

taken ill of a cholic. \Ve could not get her
to take any medicine, nor could we possibly
bend her body in order to afford her a little
case that way. This struck us with the
greatest astonishment, and we were com
pelled to stand by and witness the agonies
of poor Mahala without being able to afford
her any relief, till about eleven oclock that
night, when she expired in the most excru
ciating torments.
We could not conceive what prevented us
from bending her body, but when the wo
men went to lay her out, the mystery was
developed. She had the shank of an old
skillet down her bosom, fastened round with
some tarrcd twine, and having, a few days
before, broken the handle of my good

mothers frying pan, close to the broad part,
she had put almost four feet of cold iron

down her back! No wonder we could not
bend her. This iron was shoved through a
dirty piece of canvass, which met the skillet
shank before and was fastened by a piece of
my fathers greasy hair-ribband. I heard the
women cry, as they undressed her, Look
at her Carrel!
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Thus, Mr. Editor, did Mahala fall ,a victim
And bears the object to his rocky nest.

300
In vain the Tempter sought the Saviour there:
Then took his ight, along the ambient air,
To the tall mountain where pale Chemos stood,
And viewed the Baptist in the prouent ood.
There now arrivd he checks his ight awhile, 305
And rests his labouring pinions from their toll.
Not so his eyes, they court no slumbers bland,
His bat built pinions plied their utmost force,

As toward the wild Apollyon bent his course;
Nor yet approachd the Saviour as he lay,
But at convenient distance checkd his way;
I-lutterd his wings and stooping sought the ground,

\Vhose arensceous odours glowd around:
And there, the better to conceal his end,
Transforms his person and casts off the end;

\ssumes the features and the form divine,
Of him whose pinions with e'ulgence shine;
380
But over wakeful, travel oer the land;

Intent on guilt, lie bids them close no more,
And trace the yielding stream from shore to shore.

No moving object met his angry view,
311
And silence with the night her curtain drew,
Save where the bird of Eden sweetly sung,
W'hile earth in slumbcrs on her axle hung;
Sai e where the tyger through the desert howld 315
And for his prey, in ravning hunger prowld;
Save where the owlet pourd his dismal note,
And sliriekd sad music from his hollow throat!
ho waits obedient to th' eternal nod,

The swift and favourite messenger of God;
Who fought, indignant, with the eternal Son,
When haughty pride that dreadful war begun,

Which ended not until the Tempter fell,
385
\nd learn'd the rashness of his guilt in hell!
For even ends can take an angels face,

And dress tlieir'persous with celestial grace;
'an cloak with secmihg good the latent harm,
Welcome to Satan, whose infernal car,

No sounds, but those of doleful grief, can hear; 320
Their purpose more securely to perform!
390
The 'lempters visage now lookd more serene,
No burst ofjoy a pleasure can impart,

No genrous passion touch his inty heart;
Rage and black vengeance all his spirit tear,
Mingled with pride, ambition and despair!
For how could hope that gives to life a. zest, 325
Find an asylum in that tortured breast,
That once knew peace where peace alone can reign,
Unmixd with tumult or corroding pain;
; Yet now forever from those regions hurld,
I To vent her anguish in a ery World!
330
llis arms grew bright, etherial beamd his mien;
The hissing adder left his changing hair,

That now on ringlets uttered on the air.
The sable helmet left his front and now, _
One more refulgent circled round his brow;
Hells black ensignn parted from his breast,
395
And left a star of radiance there impressd.

Now from his shoulders uttring wings expand,
Bl'i_"!tt as the sun and as the eygnet bland;
400
Delightful colours through the whole combine,
And show the traitor as a form divine;
While as he shakes in air the glowing plume,
A gentle zepliyr wafts a sweet perfume;
The uttring breezes fannd him as the_\' ew, 405
And fragrant spices sprinkled him with dew.
Downward, exultingly, he casts his eyes,
Views his fair form and thus unheard he cries.
Deceitful beauty oft hast thou betrayd,
0ft hast the minister of Hell been made;
4-10
How oft on earth hsst wrongd the keenest eyes,
With outward virtue cloaking inward vice!
Thy dread omnipotence once more renew,
And aid thy anxious master to subdue.
There lies my victim, now assert thy powr, 415
Thou hell born beauty, in this pregnant hour;
Pregnant with triumph or defeat to thee,
To man destruction or despair to me!
He spoke, and softly rising frOm the ground,
Or how could he, who once in Heaven, so blest,
l First in the train of scraphs stood confessd,

to her vanity, and an itch for following that
I Yet ung he pearl, relentless, from his sight,
disgusting but predominant fashion of wear l Preferring torture in the realms of night;
ing corsets,- and thus have my family lost ! How could he nd in smiling joy relief,
335
a valuable servant. What an abominable , 0r know one pleasure but in baleful grief! '
practice, said my aunt Tabby when she If man lose Heaven what fearful fates attend,
\Vhat unknown horrors wait the tragic end;
But then to lose it, once admitted there,
\Vhst mightier anguish what increased despair! 34-0
Now from the stream his eyes the frond withdrew,
into a nut shell and swelling every other And oer the howling waste a glance he threw;
'The howling waste not met his sight before,
part of the body like a bloated toad.
SOL-OMAN SALTPETRE. For vain twould be,he thought, those glooms tex
plore;
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Since sure no mortal could be so beguild
Of hope and peace as to infest the wild!
THE PROFITIATION.
Now hell born joy looks fearful from his eye,
BOOK ll].
As to explore his rears his head on high;
(Continued)
For there he sees, reclining on the ground,
A no u M r: .v -r.
While savage beasts howld fearfully around, 350
Satan hovers oer the temple in search of our Lord; Th' incarnate Saviour; well the fury knew
Not descrying him from thence, he ascends the The heavenly man, for round his temples ew
rock on the banks of Jordon; Description of the A lambent glory, though he hapless lay,
night and conclusions thence drawn; Satan now , Shut from relief and from the cheerful day!
casts his eyes toward the wilderness and descries | The beasts of prey beheld the radiance shine; 355
the Saviour; Takes his ight, but stops at a dis i Unerring instinct showd the form devine;
tance from our Lord and takes the form of Ga. ,! Repressed their rhge and bade them back retire,
briel; His metamorphoses described; His solilo l Struck with the glory of th empyrean lire!
There lies my way, tli exulting spirit cries,
(luf
As he prepard th impatient wing to rise;
360
Upborn upon the air, the rebel ew,
Until the temple met his fearful view;
290 I But soft a while and let me counsel how
heard the circumstance, that women can
not be contented with the shape Heaven

gave; but must be squeezing their waists
\Vliere fam'd Jerusalems proud grandcurs rise
576
Shook -om his plumes a bhlmy odour round;
2.
Plied his huge pinions, cut the atrial way,

Then stooping lit where Jesus. friendless, lay.
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(To be continued.)
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THE SONNETTDER. No III.
T0 CHARITY
Charity, like the. dewy star

Of evening, shines in tears. 'rnouPso n".
Lives there who ever pionsly pursues

Fair virtues path nor bows at follys shrine;
A heart temptation wily neer subdue-s,
} Tensnare yon wretch and chest Jehovah now.
That shuns, nor will on pleasui-es breast recline?
' Friendless Within the wilderness art seen,

And look majestic toward the peerless skies.
Puissant Saviour, potent Nazarene;
.
The searching traitor, With his subtle sight,
\Vith meagre famine oer thy visage ung,
Pierces die darkness of encircling night,
And seeks his p I). So too the eagle ies,
295 And parcliing fever blistring on thy tongue?
Canst then feel this and can I f-ol to win
And how .5 when; u, unconscious victim lies;
Thy cheerless soul, who tempted man to sin?
Sails 10l|lld the spot and with hi-t kr-ener eye
Yes, theres glorious hope in that! he said,
Marks his ~Hist prey, predestined soon to die;
370
And. from the summit of the mountain ed
Rum his talents, heaves his plumcd breast,
For him no salutary dews descend,

Sweet tears of Charity to Wash away
The guilty stains, and to his bosom lend
Of true repentance the consoling ray.
Sister of mercy! pure as native skies!
In thee we see the miniature of heaven:
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B:
The tears that fall from thy soft pitying eyes

Tell that our errors are by thee forgiven.
0h! till our wandring footsteps cease to stray,
Let thy forgiving lumen gild our darksome way.
EDW' Y.
For the Repertory.
0 may Providence defend thee!

Circled in its guardian arms,
Dangers may in vain attend thee,
ginal, or selected, as we have so often requested

them to do.
\
Although we found the communication of Celo
Safe amid surrounding harms.

rimon too inaccurate for publication, we are far from
Shall I wish the world caressing?

\Vish thee pleasure, grandeur, wealth?
No; but many a nobler blessing;
Wisdom, virtue, friendship. health
believing, as he himselfdoes,that his time is foolish

ly spent. That time which is devoted to the study
of literature can never be misspent. he would ad
vise Celorimon to prosecute his endeavours and we
h'lONOl)Y,
Mayst thou know the gracious Donor,
On the Death qf a allother.
Early know, and love, and praise!
-Lie still, thou throbbing heart, nor let one pulse,
Though urgd by griefand swelld by ooding tears,

Beat opposition to the will of Heaven!
And ye, tumultuous powers of the soul,
Then shall real wealth and honour,

Peace and pleasure crown thy days.
-.-
think he will succeed, since. he has given a sure

prognostic of future excellence, a laudable difli<
dence.
We shall comply with the request of Automath
with a great deal of pleasure.
ANECDOTP. OF SANTEUIL,
Either subside, or in one strain combind
Throng the chaste numbers of a'eetions glow,

Breathing your feelings in each fervent line;
Eject your rending pangs, nor miser like
Thus inly hoard your cankering sorrows up,
Feasting the mind! which with increase of food
lusatiate. grows, and in unkind dilation,
_._
A celebrated Poet of the last Century.
Returning one night to the Abbey of St.

Victor, at H oclock, the porter refused to
open the door. saying he had positive. orders
to admit no one at that hour. After much
altercation, Santeuil slipt a Louisdor under
Searches each recess of the troubled breast,
'hiist waiting on its call, aiiction stern

Fast follows, and in every bleeding wound
the door, and he obtained immediate admit
MARRIED,
0n \Vednesday last, by the Rev. Mr. James Pat
terson, Mr. William Howard to Miss .Mary Dieiz,
both of this city.

.~
Singular PhenomenamCapt. Tew from St. Bar.
tance. As soon as he got in, he pretended tliolomews to New York informs that since the
he had left a book upon a stone, upon which late destructive hurricane at that place, the north
And sweet commiseration weeps in vain!
he had been sitting while he waited for the east quarter of that island appeared to be falling
'hat then can pains corrosive touch dissolve,
door opening. The porter, animated with the into the sea, and the crack across at the time ofhis
If nought avails being bathd in friendsliips tears, poets generosity, ran to get the book, and sailing had for several days been gradually opening
\Vhat melt the visage of all rigorous fate,
Santeuil shut the door tipon liim.Mastcr Thc cavity was eleven feet wide, and appeared to
And smooth the wrinkled brow of furrowing care,
be bottomless. The inhabitants were much alarm
Strikes deep his probe, while nature shrieks aloud,
In placid majesty? what cheer us in the trying time

Of death, or render pillows, thorned oci' with we es,
Soft as the down that lines the turtles nest?

Religious force! rm resignation, calm humility!
These shall befriend the children of distress;
And opening, like. the coral lips of morn.

Cool with thin dcws, the passions ery heat,
And lull their raging tempests to repose.
These shall the rent and anguishd a heart embalm
In breath nectarcous, and quite undismayd
Darraignd iicath virtues sanction, willing meet
With power repellant, each invasive foe.
Peter, who was half naked, knocked in his

turn, when Santeuil started the same diiii
cultics as he had done against admitting any

one at that time of night, and that he would
not disobey the prior. Ay, but master,
said the porter, you know I let you in ve
ry civilly. And so will I you as civilly,
said Santcuil, if you pleaseyou know the
pricein or out is the word, and I will de

lay no longer. The porter, nding he was
like to sleep in the street, half naked, and
also run the risk oflosing his place, slipt the
ed.
--.
Volcanoes in the .MaamA treaties on .Meleuric

Stones has recently been published in Vienna, in
which the author maintains and endeavours to
prove the opinion of La Place, that these stones
which have puzzled philosophers to account for,
are actually'diseharged from certain volcanoes iii
the Jlloon.
._
From the Brattlcborough (Vermont) Reporter.v
Oh then, divine and peaceful attributes,
Died. in this town, on the 11th inst. Abigal
Glorious securers ofsubstantial bliss,
piece of gold under the door again, saying,
0n ye 1 call! teach me submission to the Great Su
I thought a poets money would not stay Bemis, daughter of Mrs. Rt. Bcmis, aged 10 years,
long with me," and purchased his admit of by drophobia simplex.
As this disease rarely occurs without the bite
tanee.
preme
And strict reliance on a Sa\i0til"8 love;
Her whom I mam-n, teach me to emulate,
Who met decrees of providence though harsh,

With fortitude becoming, nor eer strove
The mystery to solve, or latent cause
PHILADELPHIA,
To seek With curious unbesceming zeal,
But on the Oiuniscients Will faithful reclined,

CORRESPONDENCE.
Dwelt in his love, and sunimond by that love
Pied on angelic pinions this vain World,
To reign in realms of never ceasing bliss.

LOTHAHIO.
I
.
From the lanoplist.

TO AN INFANT.
Child, I bid thee, lovely stranger,
Welcome to a world of care!

'herc attends thee many a danger,
W'here awaits thcc many a snare!
from the sprightly manner and yet keen satire

of Perez Quiz Esqr. he will no doubt become the
favourite of a portion of our readers. Compositions
that are merely calculated to affect the risible func
vions, without having any end in view are beneath
the notice of an editor, but there are persons inca
pable of receiving instruction except through the
medium of humorous satire. We. should be much
pleased if Perez would make himself known to us.
Georgiana will be good enough to inform us
of a rabid animal, and no such affection being sus

pected in this case until the symptoms became
alarming, we deem it proper to give a statement
of them to the public.
on Friday, the 9th inst. bctWcen 12'and 1 oclock,
she complained of weakness in her limbs and a
diiculty in walking; lay in bed until near night;
soon after getting up, had two slight ts; passed
the night without much uneasiness- Saturday,
' \Veftake the term Simplex. as she was without
madness, and manifested no desire of biting
the by standcrs, as those do who are ailkctcil with
the rst species called rabiosu. it is granted by Dr.
Rush and others that this species may be produced,
by other causes than the bite of a mad animal. As

some may question and others wish to know them,
we give them in his own words. lniuuaiion of

Hence, away, ye dread surmises,
Hope presents a fairer scene;
Many a blooming pleasure rises,
Many a sunbeam shines serene.
whether we are to consider her communication on

the stomach, exposure to intense heat, iini', drink
the Nativity of our Saviour as original or selected,

before we publish it; and here we would again do _
sire our correspondents to head their pieces ori
ing cold water when the. ho l_\' was very much

heated, worms, putrid and impure animal food, a.
wound in a tendinous part, a fall. epilepsy." -
19.8
complained some of being clioakcd, and towards

evening reised all kinds of liquids; difficult breath
ing came on, with a strange kind of anxiety which
was soon followed by violent agitations, exerting.
the force of the body and limbs, in every ppssible
direction, and loud sereechings representing the
strongest passions of fear. The paroxysms continu
cd through the night without any abatement.
Sunday morning, symptoms much increased; large
quantities of saliva discharged, and sometimes
spouted or thrown with the ngers: dislike and
horror at every kind of drink, and whenever she
attempted to take any, she had a convulsion of the
Iliarynx f
She was very much a'ectcd with fresh air;
wanted the doors and windows closely shut; com
plained of the breath of those that held her. At 12

orl oclock, paroxysms increased with reachings
to vomit, and the greatest hurry in every motion;
breathing now becomes short; pulse fails at the
wrist; a suusion of red liumours lls the cutis
round the eyes, and swells the lids; the heart pal
pitales, the voice faulters, and gradually fails; thus
life is let down in hasty steps until half past three
P. M. when she expired.
LEMUEL DICKERMAN,
'ILLARD ARAIS.
f This we call Pathognomonic of Hydrophobia.
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combustion, and that the light and heat given out tallic calces. The one he calls, heat making rays.
comes from the oxygen alone. But light and heat the other, deoxydizing rays. Dr. Davys opinions
are produced in a variety of instances without the respecting light, and other rays emitted from the
presence of oxygen. Indeed, in all cases where - sun, imply, that he does not believe any of these
bodies rapidly combine, the phenomena of combus phenomena will admit of an explanation by the pul~
tion takes place. The new metal potassium, or sations of an ethereal medium. His observations
the metal of potass, was placed in a glass vessel lead to the supposition, that the particles of light
lled with carbonic acid gas; by the heat of a and of other bodies possess polarity.
spirit lamp applied to the glass, the metal inamed
in this gas, and gave out a brilliant light. Charcoal
HEALTH OFFICE,
was deposited on the side of the glass. In this
August 31, 811.
experiment, it may be said, that the oxygen of Interments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 24th to the of 31th August
the carbonic acid combined with the potassium;
that it ought to be rccollected, that this oxygen hail
given out its light and heat. According to Lavoisier,
when it combined with charcoal to form carbonic
gas, it ought not, therefore, to give out a second
time what it had before lost. In another experi

ment, potassium and arsenic were placed in a
close retort, containing nitrogen gas; by the heat
of the spirit lafnp they combined rapidly, and,
during their combination, much light and heat were
produced. Here, if the experiment was properly
made, no oxygen was present. Mortals also in

ame spontaneously in chlei-ine gas, (improperly
called oxymuriatic acid gas.) This gas, Dr. Davy
stated, was a simple uncompounded substance,
containing no oxygen. His experiments on this
Prom the London Monthly Magazine, April 1, 1811.

The opinions advanced by Dr. Davy, during the
present lectures at the royal institution, relating to
subject We shall afterwards mention. Heat is ra

diated from the surfaces of all bodies, but in ili'e
rent degrees, according to their nature and colour.
Black surfaces absorb and also emit radiant heat
more rapidly than others. If a polished surface of
combustion, and the nature of heat and light, vary
metal, and an equal surface of charcoal, be heated
DAVY ON HEAT, LIGHT, AND COMBUSTION
to the same degree, and a thermometer be placed

at the same distance om each; the charcoal will
raise the thermometer more rapidly than the po
rent lectures. Combustion, according to these new lished metal This radiation of' heat Mr. Leslie
doctrines, is not the result of the combination of had attributed to certain :crial pulsations Dr. Da
oxygen with other bodies, by which the oxygen is vy stated, this could not be the case. for heat was
condensed, and the light and heat given out, as the more powerfully radiated in vacuo than in the open
French chemists assert; nor are heat and light air. He placed a platina wire in vacuo, and a ther
specic substances, di'eriug from other matter mometer at a certain distance from ii; the wire
All bodies, which have a strong chemical affinity or was then ignited by means of the voltaic pile; the
attraction for each other, are found to possess two effect on the thermometer was greater and more
different states of electricity. Thus, acids are ne rapid than when the same experiment was repeat
gative, and the alkalies positive. Zinc and mercu ed in the air. All the metals are fused more rapid
ry, and other metals which posst as strong chemical ly in vacuo than in the open air, when acted upon
atnites, me also in dicrem states of electricity. by the v'oltaic pile,_ and give out a more intense
This di'ercnoe in the natural state of electricity, degree of heat and light. Charcoal, in the same
I ad. ch.
Diseases.
ml. cii.
0 Debility
Burns
1 Fever
Cancer
1 0 Fever remitent
1 0
Casualties
0 l Fever, typhus
1 O
Cholera Morbus
1 14- Hooping cough
0 5
Consump. of lungs 7 0 llu-moi'rhage
0 l
Convulsions
O 1 Old age
1 O
Decay
0 1 S'illborn
0 1
Diarrhoea
1 1 Teething
O 2
Dropsy
2 0
Dropsy-ofthe breast 1 0
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Dropsy in the bi'ainO 2
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Dysentery
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Between 1 and 2
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110
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so much from the received doctrines, and are so
interesting and important, that we shall here en

deavour to give an abstract of them from his di'e
Diseases.
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TERMS or THE RERERTORY.

It. shall be delivered to subscribers in the city

No subscription will be received for less than I
Dr. Davy considered as the cause of chemical af
circumstances, ignites with a most brilliant light;
nity. Combustion is the effect of chemical action.

In such bodies as combine rapidly together, the
particles are violently agitated; and, being separa
ted from each other by their polar repulsions, are
thrown o in straight lines through free space,
and this light may be continued for any length of considered as subscribing for the next.
time, without any change or decomposition of the
charcoal. The light and heat, in these experiments,
cannot proceed OlIl combinations of oxygen, but
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which are thus operated upon. This opinion was
also adopted by Ilookc and Boyle. The experi pertory will be expected to pay the di'erence.
and become radiant heat and liglit. According to

Dr Davy, the particles of all bodies possess polari
_ ty. \Yitli many bodies oxygen has a most powerful

aiiiity, and combines with great rapidity,- and,
during this violent chemical action, much light and
heat are produced. Some of the French chemists

have asserted, that oxygen is the only suppoit of
,\c,
ments of Dr. Herschel had shown, that the sun eon

stantly emitted invisible rays, (distinct from light)
which produce heat; other invisible rays are also
emitted. which have the property of reviving me
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g bilabeljabiaweperfm.
Cowran.
VOL. II.
No. 18
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER.
(Continued)
Success, on a different occasion, con
soled Agrippina for the fate of her emissary.
ofCaractacus, general of the forces of .Bri

tian, who, with his family, came to Rome
to do homage for his freedom.
Thus elevated, and grasping the sub

stance of power, the shadow of which was
insuicient to satisfy her, she opposed the
judgment of the emperor, who favoured the

was charged before the emperor, by Junius Samaritans, and took the part of king Agrip
Lupus, with treason against the state, and a pa and the Jews, for whom she nally pre
design of usurping the sovereign power. In vailed. Her ascendancy over her husband
Vitellius, her favourite and chief minister,
duced by his fears, the feeble Claudius lis
subjected to her the empire: the nobles,
tened to the danger which seemed to me
omitted no means for his preservation; by
the people, the governors of provinces,

courted her protection by presents and sub
mission. Indolently acquiescing in her pro
jects, the incapacity of Claudius opposed no
limits to her power. She procured for her
persuasion, remonstrance, and menace, she
son, while yet immature, the logo ririlis;
nace him, and suffered himself to be per

suaded to take measures for his safety. The
empress, alarmed for the fate of Vitellius,
at length prevailed over the terrors of the and also, when in his twentieth year, the
emperor, and compelled him to relinquish previlege of demanding the consulate, and
his purpose. Vitellius was pronounced inno of exercising the proconsular authority. She
cent of the charge laid against him, and his caused bounties to be distributed in his name
among the people and the army, and had
accuser sent into exile.
Encouraged by the facility with which him declared prince of the Roman youth.
her purposes were e'ected, Agrippina re Nero appeared, in the circus and at the
sumed her darling plan, for the accomplish games, richly habited in a triumphal robe;
ment of which she collected all her powers. while Britannicus, the rightful heir, was
Claudius was, by her influence, induced to yet in the garment of the firetm'ta. The
adopt Domitius, to the prejudice of Britan v forfeit of their posts was the punishment
nicus, his son,aprince of distinguished me
of those who showed disgust or compassion
rit. Domitius on this occasion received the for the humiliation of their prince, while
name of Nero, and was associated with the their offices were conferred on the partisans
emperor in the government, under pretence of the empress. Gcta and Crispinus, cap
of relieving him from the fatigues of busi tains of the guard, were the rst who in
ness. The people were deluded to author curred this pcnalty; while Burrhus, an offi
ise the injustice, and to dignify the empress jcer who had attached himself to the cause
with the title of Augusta. Intoxicated with which favoured his interest, received their
success, insatiable of honours, and desirous incorporated companies.
to be adored as a divinity, Agrippina usurped
A scarcity at Rome afforded to Agrip
the privilege, till then held sacred, of as
pina an opportunity of courting popularity
cending the capitol in a magnificent chariot. for her son, of which she eagerly availed
In the temples, in the assemblies, in the herself. A tumult was purposely raised by
streets of Rome, she appeared in royal robes, her emissaries to intimidate the emperor,
out fortitude or resource, and alarmed by

the commotion, was, with little difculty,
induced by Agrippina to publish an edict,

transferring upon Nero the burthen of go
vernment, beneath which his pusillanimous
spirit shrunk. Nero, tutored on this occasion
by his mother, caused a quantity of corn,
reserved for the purpose, to be distributed
among the populace; he afterwards, attend
ed by the senate, ascended the capitol, to
offer prayers for the recovery of the e
ror, who was reported to he labouring under
a dangerous sickness.
Narcissus, a freedman of Claudius, who,
by ridding him of the late empress, Mes

salina, had acquired his confidence, saw
through the policy and the arts of Agrip
pina, and, ftom time to time, advised his
master (whom he served as secretary) of
her designs. Aware of his purpose, and con
vinced of his intractability, the empress

meditatcd how she might rid herself of his
interference. But, afraid of acting precipi
tately, she contented herself for a time with
endeavours to undermine him in the con
dence of Claudius, while she waited an opl\
portunity to effect his ruin; for which an

occasion, at length, seemed to present it
self.
A mock sea-ght was ordered upon the
Laws Fucinue, for the entertainment of the
emperor, for which an hundred galleys

were equipped. The banks of the lake, and
the adjacent mountains, were covered with
people, who crowded to the spectacle. The

emperor, clothed in armour, was seated on
a throne, erected on an eminence; near him,
on another, appeared Agrippina magni

cently attired. The combat was performed
without disorder, to the satisfaction of the
spectators. The representation of an engag

ment by land was next ordered by Claudius,
covered with gold and jewels, seated in a who, weak in body and weaker in mind, was for which bridges were thrown over the
splendid equipage, and commanding the incapable of relieving the exigences of the lake. Near its mouth, where the water was
homage of all who approached her. Thirst state. The people, ocking round the pal used to discharge itself, a splendid repast
ing for distinction, she sent out a colony, ace, cried aloud for bread: Claudius, with
was provided for the court. A bank had been
who gave her name to the city of the Ubii.
cut
for the purpose of letting the water pass
' Worn by the sons of senators before the age of
Placed on a scaffold, erected between the
Roman eagles, she received the submission
seventeen, when they assumed the toga virilia, or

habit of a man.
into a canal made to receive it; when, rush
ing suddenly, with an unexpected force,
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PHILADELPH] A REPE RTORY.

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every thing was carried before the tide. An by the emissaries of Agrippina; and, not
universal consternation took place on this withstanding the etforts of Narcissus, who
disaster; when, in endeavouring to escape, openly espoused her cause, she fell a sacri
some were drowned, and others trampled ce to these ridiculous pretences.
But that once seen, who hesitates to choose,

And this, once tasted, 'twould be death to lose!
W'hen the sun began to throw his early
she conjured Amelia to despel, or at least to
confusion, Agrippina seized the advantage,

which the dismay of the emperor a'orded
For the Repertory.
her, to ruin Narcissus, by whom the spec
a,
OR

A TALE.
the sums allotted by Claudius for the show;

CHAPTER Yll.
while to this she added a heavy charge of

peculation and fraud, under which, she de
clared, the provinces groaned. Narcissus
defended. himself with spirit, retorting on the
empress the charge of ambition and pride:
he sought also to convince the emperor of
her veiws in the destruction of his servant,
whose delity to his master (against whose
family she meditated, in behalf of her son,
the most criminal designs) he affirmed to
- ve been his only fault. He declared among
\lits friends, that whether Britannicus or Ne
ro succeeded to the throne, his ruin was:
equally certain; since the former would
avenge upon him the death of his mother,
whose licentiousness had dishonoured the
emperor and the empire; nor would the lat
ter fail to espouse the cause of Agrippina,

whose interest required his destruction.
Still, wliile he survived, duty to his master,

he protested, Would constrain him to point
out the snares that were spread in his path.
\Vavering between the contending parties,
and wanting fortitude to check the irregu
larities of the empress, of which he was too
well aware, the weak Claudius was incapa
ble of decision. Wine at length, by its tem

porary effects, gave him courage to avow
his consciousness of the deceptions practised
upon him, and to~menace their author with
future retribution. Agrippina, informed of

the threat, which, in his intoxication, the
emperor had let fall, determined to forestall

the blow, and avert from herself the fate of
Messalina: but, previous to the completion
of this design, she was solicitous to remove
meadows, animated by the carols of the lark,
pouring his instinctive gratitude to a glorious

Deity. But those times are now gone. Florival
is dead and Amelia must be sacriced to the
man she loathes.
She now related to Minda the occurren
ces of the night, who was quite bewildered
in the mazes of conjecture, being unable to
nd any clue that might probably lead to the
unravelling of the mystery that surrounded
Pandolfo and his attendants. She requested
Amelia to accompany her in a walk, to enjoy
the cool refreshing breezes of the morning,
to invigorate her body, and which would
greatly tend to dissipate the gloom that
seemed entirely to envelope her mind. This
To be continued.
to death: while all was disorder, terror, and
tacle had been prepared. She accused him

of having neglected the means of security,
for the purpose of appropriating to himself
How often have we left our footprints in

the dewy grass, while bounding over the
Fear of detection, what a curse art thou!
Grizt'th.
Unseen perfection I could calm dismiss;
Unmoved resign as yet untasted bliss;
beams upon the turrets of Altenheim, Ame
lia and her aged companion were aroused

from their slumbers by the hustle and con
fusion that reigned through the castle, and
the thought of Florivals disappearance,
fresh upon their minds, they arose with
heavy hearts. Amelia had ever admired the
beauties of the opening day, and drunk in',
with a grateful heart, the luxurious draught
of morning fragrance; but now she was too
much occupied with fears for her dear Flori
val to enjoy the glorious sight. She threw
open the shutters of her window and be
held unmoved the lustre of the rising day.
The sun had just left the horizon and his
broad orb gradually diminished as he ascend
ed the dappled track which he was destined
to pursue. The mists of the night were per
ceptibly receding before him, and the tear of
morning, that trembled upon the bending
spray, was quickly absorbed by the fervour of
his beams. The meadows appeared to smile
and the mellow throats of the tuneful world
warbled a matin anthem to the benevolent
Creator. In short, it was a morning such as
may have inspired Thomson when he
wrote
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake,
And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy
conceal as much as possible when before the

count, since it might arouse his suspicions
and accelerate the catastrophe she was so
anxious to avoid.
They passed through the gates into the
garden, which was very extensive, and on
the further side of which there was a kind

of arbour, formed by the spreading branches
of a grape vine, and from thence an outlet
into the elds. Towards this they walked,

intending to rest within it a few moments
and then pursue their way into the meadows.
They had nearly reached the spot, when
Amelia perceived some person dressed as a
nobleman, followed by a servent, enter the
arbour, through the outlet before mentioned.
She gazed some moments on him, before

she requested Minda to look. His gure
was tall and commanding; his visage betray
ed an unsettled bosom, for it was darkened
with a dreadful frown, his looks were upon
the ground, and as he dropped his arms,
which were folded, Amelia perceived upon
his breast the refulgent order of Calatrava.

Minda, said she, behold yonder ter
rible looking man."

The prince Pandolfo! exclaimed Min
da, as she raised her eyes in obedience to
Amelia's request.
The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour,

Pandolfol cried Amelia, recoiling in
a rival, whose pretensions she had for some
To meditation due and sacred song?
horror, is that the man who is distined for
time impatiently endured.
Who would in such a gloomy state remain
the husband ofAmelia?
Domitia Lepida, and aunt of Nero,
Longer than nature craves, when every more
And the vassal who so mysteriously
And every blooming pleasure wait without,
wealthy, high-born, beautiful, haughty, and
To bless the wildly devious morning walk?
interrogated me," returned Minda.
licentious, had presumed to oppose her at
Glorious sight," exclaimed Minda
I have little to hope from such a man,
tractions to those of the empress, and to di
vide with her the homage of the court. Her Look here, ye supporters of a false philoso said the daughter of Altenheim, mournfully,
indulgence and liberality towards her nephew, phy, and mark the omnipotence of that ad if his face is a mirror to his mind; there
had attracted him to her with tender affec mirable chance who commands the mom Ibehold relentless pride and savage cruelty.
tion, while the austerity of his mother made ing to arise in all its splendour, then say if I do not err, that visage is an index to a
volume of terrible villanyl let us avoid him.
him shun her presence. An accusation of there is no great First Cause.
They now turned into another passage of
How often, with my Florival, exclaimed
magic, of disa'ection to the state, of an at
tempt to destroy the empress by unlawful Amelia, have I tasted the luscious repast the garden, which was separated from the
practices, was preferred against Domitia, which nature spreads to satisfy the mind. arbour by the thick foliage of the vines and
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rees.
They passed along without uttering
a word, but were suddenly arrested by a

deep groan, that issued from the bosom of
Montaldo. Amelia started but listened.
intreaties, you shall never force me to a

union which I loathe!
Fearful that the count might have arisen
ieave to retire, which Altenhe'im the more
readily granted as he wanted to have some

private conversation with Pandolfo.
and called for Amelia, Minda urged the

Rt-tire, my child," said he, and com
When shall I be free from this insup necessity of shortening their walk and im mand Florival to come to me immediate
portable weight of misery! cried Pandolfo, mediately returning to the castle. Accor ly.,
" when will cease to burn this hell of con dingly, arising, they bent their way home,
Florival has"-been missing since last
science!
and at the gates were met by Editha, who night, Amelia would have replied, but check
Smother it, my lord," cried Geraldo, informed Amelia that count Ferdinand had ing herself, she hastily withdrew and com
manded Editha to hasten and inform her
in the embraces of Amelia."
been up for some time and called for her.
The very voice I heard last night in the
Amelia, though scarcely recovered from father of the fate of Florival.
passage," whispered Amelia to Minda.
The old woman, in relating the story,
her perturbation and anxiety, ew into the
I know delight awaits me there," re
hall and in a few minutes was clasped to the was often interrupted by her tears, but
much oftener interrupted herself by passing
turned Montaldo to his vassal, but as well bosom of Altenheim.
might you expect to quench the flames of
My father! cried she, how happy cncomiums upon the unfortunate youth.
During the recital, Montaldo seemed very
Etna with a tear, as to banish from my am] in being once more in your arms."
mind the anguish that afllicts it. I am at the
My good child, replied Ferdinand, much disturbed, and traversed the room in
pinnacle of power, but that spirit still pur not more happy than thy father in clasping the greatest perturbation.
(To be continued.)
sues me, which wears the gure of a female to his heart the image of a departed saint.
but the visage of Huberto."
But come, my love, enough of transport,
For the Repertory.
Huberto! cried Minda, the very ban
let us bestow some moments on politeness.
THE
CABlNET. No. Llll.
dit who bore Eugenio from me, my dear My lord, continued he, addressing Pandol
Blow,
blow,
thou bitter wind,
Lady, where will these mysterious occur fo whom Amelia had not perceived upon her
rences end?
entrance, permit me to introduce you to the
Indeed! returned Amelia, then be

lieve me, Minda, that Pandolfo is a villain,
heiress of Altenheim; Amelia, my love, be

known to the noble prince Pandolfo."
Amelia received him reluctantly, while
and my father shall know it.

And you, consummate villain! cried
Pandolfo to his servant, have raised an
other terror to torment me. Did you not
tell me that the prince was dead, did you

not swear you cast him into the river?
My lord, I did, replied Geraldo, but
Gaspard would not consent that he should be

murdered. However, rest satised, safe with
in the dungeon, he must fall a prey to mea

gre famine. Perhaps ere this he is dead!
O! that I were sure it was so! cried
Montaldo, seizing her hand, bending his
knee and imprinting on it a fervant kiss,

passionately exclaimed;
The image of a saint indeed, my lord;
I am confounded at beholding such divinity
of beauty; I congratulate you on the posses
sion of such a treasure and anxiously wait
the moment that shall make her mine. And
Thou art not so unkind

As mans ingratude!
Shaka/um.
He thats ungrateful hath no crimes but one,
All other faults may pasl for virtues in him."
There is an instinctive principle in man

which teaches him to love the hand that re
lieves him. In the hour of sickness, or of pov
erty, if a sympathising friend shed over him
the tear of regret, and soften his pillow of
you, my loved Amelia, suffer me to kiss
aliction with commisserating converse, it

inspires him with a sensation of the most
exquisite nature; that sensation is gratitude.
He that is poor, and begs his sustenance front
this hand, as an emblem of that homage

which my heart pays to your beauty and
your virtue.
door to door, has also his moments of hap

piness, as well as the rich man who lolls at
ease in his chariot; those moments are
Pandolfo, dead, dead, and with him let my

terrors die!
The moment, my lor ," said Amelia, when the generous beam of benevolence
that is to make me yours, may never ar plays in the eyes of the person who assists
Amelia shuddered with horror, and seiz rive.
him. His heart overows with fervent and
ing the arm of the no less astonished and
As she spoke this, she cast a contemptu almost reverential esteem, and he pours
horror struck Minda, drew her forward ous look upon Montaldo, which was unper
forth his excess of delight in the invocation
to depart. But now, hearing Montaldo de ceived by Altenheim, but at which Pan of blessings on his benefactor. It is then
parting, they hesitated a few moments and
dolfo looked chagrined and arose. Amelia that he is proud of his species; it is then
saw him leave the garden, followed by Ge could not help thinking that his coupling that he perceives it approaching to that per
raldo. They then entered the arbour and his heart and the name of virtue, was a sole fection which will be grateful to the penny
Amelia. sunk down upon a seat, entirely
cism which she could not reconcile; a modest less wanderer and pleasing It] the sight of
overcome with her terrors, while Minda
blush, however, suffused her cheeks, at his God.
confounded and amazed sat down without compliment.
Gratitude is of double eect; it is twice
uttering a word.
What great end, at length exclaimed

Minda, has Providence to answer by these
wonders!
lll perish ere I wed him!" exclaimed
Amelia, in a tone of fixed determination,
perish, before my name shall be exchanged
for one that I should blush to utter! no, cruel,
cruel father, blind to the happines of thy

daughter, blind to the vllainy so perceptible
in Pandolfo, regardless of my sight and my
Breakfast was now announced, and Alten

heim, conducting his daughter to Montaldo,
blest, it blesseth him that gives and him

that takes;" for what can be more consonant
requested him to lead her to the table and

desired her to behold in him her husband
and future protector. Amelias heart sick
ened at the thought, and she mentally ex
with the rude swept feelings of the poor,

than to nd a hearty welcome; and what
can be more delightful to him that bestows
it, than to perceive the object of his kind
ness thankful? lt is a feeling Perfectly divine;
claimed Never, never! She would have

recoiled from the touch of Pandolfo, but
dreaded the anger of her father, and
silently permitted him to conduct her. The

breakfast being over, Amelia requested
it flows from the

spirit;" it humbles
teaches man his
[mow-man; it is an
lowly and cuntrite in

high crested pride; it
dependence upon his
offering to virtue; and a
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reections
lorn, can tell; yes, he can tell how sharper
which on the bed of death, are satisfactory
than a serpents tooth it is to have a thank

less child. But he only can tell it, and the
maxims of philosophy in this hour are cold,
and uninteresting, and of no effect. 0! ln
gratitude, thou disturber of the common
pasport to
those
consoling
and which can disarm aiiction of many a

pang. Such. then, being its consequences.
it is not wonderful that we see so little of
it in this world of renement, and of civili
zation? yet it is even so; cherubic as it is, it
peace, thou who strikest to the tone of dis
is in a great measure discarded from the
cordance the key of pleasure, thou who hast
human heart, whilst the canker worms of

dissatisfaction, of envy, and avarice usurp
awakened in the bosom of man a real hell;
its place. Or in the words of a modern poet,

" And now, angelic maid, she secret pines,
\Vhilst burning woes, and lacerating throbs

Her bosom tear with never ending pain:
On her white throne, where once serene she late,
"here she dispensed her blessings through the soul,

Gloomy lngratitude with hideous frown,
Veild in the horrors of corroding thought,
Plots secret mischiefs on its guardians peace,
And serpent-like, against the bosom plans,
Whose vital embers waked it into life.
\Vhat can be more awful to the reection

of a man of sensibility, than to perceive all
his intentions of doing good frustrated or
embittered by thankless wretches, who after
having made him the dupe of their duplicity,
laugh at his tender heart, and ridicule the
idea of his liberality. When a man has once
been convicted of this crime, he has been
convicted of many, or in the words of Juve
nal si ingratum dixeris,
omnia dixeris;
it is only the offspring of minds long intimate

with the practice of other vices; whose
hearts have become callous to the feelings
of human nature, and absolutely partake of
the spirit of Miltons arch-end. When we

consider how little is gained by this beha
viour we are astonished that it has been so
frequently pursued. If we look upon it in
any of the most common occurrences of life,
it is horrible beyond what we have before
seen; but when observed in its career in the
circle of society, in the bosom of a family, it
is horrible beyond conception. How dread

ful it is, can only be told by him who has
experienced its insults. He that has taken
another by the hand with the sincere grasp
of commiseration and led him to wealth and
grandeur, and is then despised by him, and
insulted, can tell it. He who has been lured
to assist another out of distresses, and is

plunged in the midst of them, and then left
to extricate himself the best way he can,
can tell it. He who has conded his secrets
and his wealth to one he thought a bosom
friend, but who proved to be a villain, and
treacherously deceived him, can tell it. He
who has loved with the enthusiasm of youth

ful attachment and has been undermined
by him he raised from nothing, can tell it.

e who has reared a child in, all the fondest
.dulgence of affection, and is then deserted
cease thy iniquitous counsels, let thy spell

over mankind cease, and yield thy sceptre
to softer feelings. Thou art the sprite of
malice, the being of discontent, the misera
ble demon who devours all comfort and all

happiness; why will not men turn from thy
counsels? why will they not desert thy ways?
and clasping each other in the affectionate
embrace of a social life devoted to virtue,
expel thee from their bosoms and melt at

the favours conferred on them by each
other, and hail again the dominion of sacred
satisfaction, of heaven born gratitude!
GREGORY GRAVITY.
.6.
For the Repertory.

MY LIFE, WRITTEN BY MYSELF.
ing manner a-bed. If he had threatened to

approach me in any way but that, my rm
nerves had never trembled." In the rst
place, consider the disgracefulncss of a war
rior dying even a natural death, and in the
second place, how much more disgraceful
to be scurvily killed asleep, and you will
not wonder at my honourable aversion to
that kind of an exit. So it happened, but
how I cannot tell, that Anthony aforesaid,
was little less averse to it than myself, and.
as this ungrateful people, charged me with
cowardice the very moment I left them
to themseleves, and ocked daily round
the standard of Otanktoria, my spirits began
to droop under the burden that was dash
ed upon my shoulders in such an unseemly
manner.
That is the very reason of my being at this
time so serious, and I do solemnly vow and
protest unto you one and all, that in spite of
every exertion to overcome them I cannot
make myself master of my feelings at this
time. Think of it, if a single reader of
you is humane, think of a man losing his
wife and his honour in such an underhand
(Concluded)
Lo! dead Fantanda weltering in her blood.
ed manner, on the same day, and then
diate oblivion. To mend the matter, there
life in such imminent danger, my fellow sol
was a surly old rascal Otanktoria, spoken of

by my friend Anthony above, who wished
to despoil me of the fame I had so justly
and so gloriously acquired, by saying that
it was he himself being painted white, and
dier and my very good friend, Anthony An

dagulous, and I projected the plan of leav
conclude whether any human being could

How she came by her death never till help feeling dejected, comfortless and for
this day have I been able to discover; how lorn. Be that as it may though, it is just
ever, let this be a warning to wives to let what I promised you sometime ago con
their husbands have something to say in their cerning the end of my history, and therefore
notions of going abroad. Here was an era you cannot say I have shuied foully; a clear
in my life. Grief completely choked me; conscience renders the rest of my labour
for not a single papoose had we, when this light.
Seeing how every thing was working
unfortunate affair took place, and I saw no
prospect of rescuing my name from imme against me; my fame going to rack, and my
ing the inhospitable rascals and seeking

our fortune where she might prove kinder.
My wife was dead, and although I confess
not I that killed king Brotibesthan. This the good old Hugh was much my favourite,
Mr. Reader, hurt my feelings much, and
in consequence of its gaining some belief,

I gave up the command of their victorious
army in disgust, and returned to my own
dwelling to weep over my misfortunes,
and to curse the teachery of this world. The
song above inserted drew the vengeance
of Otanktoria and his whole party on my
faithful friend Anthony Andagulous, for by
this time they had procured an interpreter,
contrary to my knowledge, and the abomi
nable old villain took it in such high dud
geon, and was so direfully exasperated,
that he determined to massacre us both.
Great as I have often proved myself in the
tumult of the battle, I always from my ve
ry childhood had a most insuperable aver
in his old age, and left comfortless and for . ion to the idea of being killed in a sneak
and my father and mother were ties of a

powerful nature, yet I took up courage to
lay the matter completely before them, and
they having painfully yielded me their con
sent we departed immediately hot foot, with
out knowing whither we were going. Each
of us had a, bow and arrow and Anthony had
an old dagger, with which we were deter
mined to ght our way if we met with any
opposition. Happily this did not occur, for
we avoided our late enemies, and after tra~
velling many days at length we found our.

selves in a land of civilization. Thousands
and tens of thousands of reections,plots, and
notions, were revolved in our minds, how we
should do about making a living, for al
though in our journey we found the savages

very hospitable yet we to say the truth, hard
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ly expected as much from those who had

rened all the baser passions of the soul and
were absorbed in worldly pursuits. Now I
have witnessed our philosophical surmise to
your columns with my elegant and truly

admirable epistle.
This present communication is not the
result of fear lest my preceding one should
be true; and if it were not that I want to
have failed in its object, or that it has not
nish this sketch, as much as my readers
excited universal approbation and applause.
want to see it nished, I would absolutely
No sir; I am so perfectly satised with its
moralise two pages. It is a most noble sub

ject, it is seldom moral writers hit on such
a one; but Quid doceo? what am I gab
bling about? Not about my history Im sure,
and that is what I ought to be scrambling
through. Here goes, then. No plan could
we form worth calling a plan, by the which
to live, until it crossed our brains, by acci
dent or fate, or what you will, that we would
turn authors. Anthony, as he has fully proven
himself to be, is no mean poet, and in prose
writing, althoughl say it myself, I write in
as stiff a style as most men. This thought
reception, that I am determined this epistle,

which I entend as a modest display of my
moral principle, shall contain a ow of lan
guage, in which elegance shall combine
with perspicuity and strength, to complete
the impression of astonishment and admira
tion already made and mingle it with en
thusiasm for me the author.
It generally happens that the opinions of
men of genius and science, when drawn into
action by the discussion of subjects with
which both are intimately acquainted clash:
but I observe, with no little pleasure, that
in this our slight acquaintance, the very in
fancy of that equal admiration which must
ever exist, our sentiments ow in perfect
unison. My heart pants to embrace a kin
dred object, and nothing but the mandate
of imperious necessity prevents me from
cheered us, for it did not enter our heads till
we had heard of the vast thirst of the

present race after novels and romances.
This was told us at the very further
most verge of civilization, and so on we
travelled, spreading our fame as a novel wri
ter, and a historian, I being the novelist, in
every city, town and village we passed

through. \Ve rst intended both to write
novels; but it was one of Anthonys ideas
that the world ought to have something more
solid to mix with them; this however proved
to be a mistaken notion, for I was invited to
ail the genteel families in the towns we stop

ped at, as we came along; and treated in a
most delicious manner, while the poor old
solid historian was neglected at his lodgings.

Thus he was again induced to embrace our
first determination, and arriving at Philadel
phia we wrote many volumes of this kind of

composition, which let me tell you sir, have
been much, very much admired. Having
been published anonymously I forbear to

mention their titles. And here sir in this ve
ry town do we live on the proceeds of our
work, he a bachelor, and I a widower, as
happy as philosophers: so indeed we are.

Personal descriptions I despise, therefore
let the reader fancy me just such a lookingr
man, and just as old a one as he sees t.
HUGH HEADLOFTY.
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, For the Repertory.

To the Editor.
Venerated and most conciliating sir,
Ldisrobe myself from the magic mantle

of imagination, and descend from the view
less halls of fancy, in obedience to the voice
of gratied vanity, which impressively com
mands me to compliment the profound dis
cernment you have displayed, in adorning
worn the learned advocate to the sneaking
pettyfogging attorney. Each, however glar

ing his vices, and however circumscribed
his good qualities, possesses that goodness
of heart, that, like a sponge, wipes out all
his vices and his follies.
Not long since I was introduced to the
presence of one of these good hearted be
ings. Dick Heartly, this is my excellent
friend Mr. Quiz, was the introductory lan
guage. I bowed profoundly and took a seat
near the gentleman. I had not sat long ere
my friend jumped up and rccollecting an
engagement, pleaded our consideration, and
ew out of the room; rst telling me he left
me with one of the best hearted fellows in
the world, whose conversation would inter
est, amuse and delight me. This information

was the more satisfactory as I very much ad
mired the appearance of my companion. His
conversation indeed professed in an eminent
degree, that open liberality and generosity of
sentiment, which never fail attracting the
attention and commanding the respect of sur
rounding auditors. I-Iis countenance was pre
possessing; benevolence and good will beam
throwing aside the dark mantle of obsurity, ed from it, and his manners were highly cul
and sunning myself in the warm glow of tivated.
a personal sympathetic communion. The
I need scarcely tell you, exalted sir, of
heroes of Fingal dreadedtto fall in their the satisfaction I derived from our inter
youth, without the shield of their renown, course: I took every opportunity of being in
lest the hunters should pass their tomb re his society, and he appeared to seek mine as
gardless. And I am equally fearful of dis sedulously. I believed him to be everything
covering myself, till I have shaded my blush that was good and noble: but this belief in
ing brows, with a wreathe of myrtle, whose an enlightened moment totally dissappeared,
verdure shall alike defy the venomed breath and the best hearted fellow in the world ap
of the critic, and the obliterating influence peared before me in his native colours: never
of time. When that period arrives, andI before had hypocrisy and villainy assumed
condently believe it is not far removed, so fair at tenement, and I shuddered to re
I will burst open the human ken" like collect I had once considered him as my
the glorious luminary of day, which long friend!
obscured, rolls away the sable curtains of
This pure pattern of goodness, had been
almost impenetrable aether, and shines extensively engaged in commerce: his ships
through the slowly retreating gloom with proudly rode on the broad bosom of the
renovated lustre.
ocean, freighted with wealth: his trade was
successful: he was honoured and respected.
I have, most grave sir, been a minute ob
server of the vices and virtues of this The widow and the fatherless found a friend,
breathing world," and having already ex a father in him. Such was the pictures fair
tracted the mote from my own eye, I am est side, and so far he was worthy of the uni
perfectly competent to perform the same versal term. Circumstances occured that
service to my neighbours. It is a profession made it necessary to part with his wealth or
I have spontaneously adopted: and though his honesty; he paused; honesty and probity
not unfrequently I have forgotten myself in were the sacrice; he yielded them and
interfering in the concerns of others, I have drew into the dreadful gulph of poverty, his
a consolation in store which the numerous most intimate friend, the companion of his
class of my cotemporary busybodies are not heart, and the father of a numerous offspring
possessed of. My motives are good, and even who were doomed to behold the author of
my errors ow from my innate goodness of their ruin roll in luxurious ease in his soft
heart. The boast of this possession is rather cushioned coach, or eclipse the bucks of
diminished by its being always considered English bond street, in his dashing curricle
an universal virtue, from the highly polished and tandem. Think not, most serious sir,
proigate down to the brutal freebooter, this picture is the mere creation oftht- brain;
142
PlllLADELPIIA REPERTORY.
tis something more than phantasy; such cha

racters have existed, and even now exist.
May you, my esteemed though unknown

friend, escape the friendship of those amiable
beings, whose goodness of heart counterbal
anccs dishonesty, seduction, treachery and

drunkenness. May you ever bask in the warm
sunshine of sincere friendship and prosperi
ty; may your name be the companion of mine
in its glorious descent to posterity; and the
wreathes which must eventually entwine
our temples, be coequally green and lasting.
A spirit of prophecy compels me to proclaim
that the names of QUIZ and your honourable
self shall live renowned till they arefor
gotten!
_
Farewel, respected sir, if my present de
termination should prove durable, you will
receive no more admirable epistles, nor sa
tires keen, from PEREZ QUlZ, ESQ.
whose residence is erected near the grove
of laurels, whose ears are constantly saluted
by the soft murmurs ofa babbling rill, whose
oating ringlets are fanned by the soft sigh

of amorous zephyrs, whose path is strewn
by viewless hands with the fairest and most
fragrant wild owers, and whose ights of
fancy are ever varied with sublimity, simpli
city and elegance. Once more farewel.
-_>-1
For the Repertory.

THE PROFITIATION.
BOOK III.
(Continued)
anovuzrrr.
Satan instigate: our Lord to cast himself from the
temple; Apostrophe; Reply of Jesus; The Temp
ter being again foiled, bears the Saviour to the
top of a mountain and shows him the kingdoms
of the world; Golconda.
Thou didst upon the Lord of heaven depend,
'l o feeble man a father and a friend;
And meagre famine has, I plainly see,
$50
Had no death dealing potence upon thee:
Yet still perhaps my rising thought but lies,
And thou art not he for whom I left the skies,
Before engaged will suffer a defeat;

Nature exult, and from this pregnant hour
The world shall own thee and adore thy power;
Before thy dread omnipotence shall bow,
585
And thou be lord of nature, only thou!
Now wherefore hesitate to take the fall,
Does danger ll thee with a strange appal!
Hence then, imposter, for thou canst not be,
Th'eternal Son, the long expected He;
Prophetic aid, with vengeful soul, to spread
To usher ruin to th eternal sonl

'Iis written, guardian angels shall attend
The son of God, ftom evry wrong defend;
To guard him leave their worship round the throne,
Lest he should dash his foot against a stone! 596
'lhrice changed the spot, still hoping to succeed,

And gain permission to perform the deed:
666
In vain at Kirjath did the prophet try,
For heavenly vengeance threatend from the sky;
Further he strove, but yet availd no tnore,
Dread not the peril and despise the pain;

Upon the God of heaven again rely,
If he support thee thou canst never die!
The eld of Zap/rim and the height Pear!
Before all men, who wonder at the sight;
Though death seems ready and though danger

frown,
if thou be he, then cast thee headlong down;
A nobler method thou caust not devise,
575
To prove thy matchless mission from the skies;
T'assert thy Godhead equal, and proclaim

Through the wide earth the glory of thy name.
The sound shall y and startle evry shore,
All feel convinced who dared to doubt before; 580
Hell, that will soon attempt thy soul to chest,
600
To watch the offspring of his endless love;

On them rely, thy list of wonders crown.
Cast. thyself, headlong, from this summit down!
Thyself cast down: malicious Satan, why
605
Didst not thou hurl him through the ambient sky?
Why not that arm, which, in presumptuous spite,
Raised the Redeemer to that trembling height,
That same Redeemer thence precipitate,
With all the triumph of infuriate hate!
610
Was it because thy unrelenting will,
Sought not the btxly but the soul to kill!
No, either would a new felt joy impart
To sooth the anguish of thy tortured heart;
But the same power that suffered thee to raise 615
The tempted Saviour to that fearful place;
Thalmighty vigour which in Jesus lies.
Now checks thy malice and thy rage dees;
That dreadful strength, that potence not thine own,
May lift him up but shall not dash him down! 620
So when that Saviour bade the earth appear,
And the earth rose 1r0m chaos vast and drear;
When yet the ocean round resistless rolld,
With power infuriate swelling uncontrol'd;
The Tempter touches with seraphic smile.

0' arch deceiver, O. malicious joy;
That thus could smile and smiling would destroy!
Now from the hill around he casts a look,
Raise thy faint head, awhile, and view, he cries,
Where Ganges worshippd stream translucent lies;

Behold, and let it raise thy proud desires,
Where rich Golconda lifts her golden spires:
There in her pompous palaces await
685
Gorgeous apparel and imperial state:.,.
There dazzling halls obedient vassals ll,
Who wait, submissive, for their sovereign's will;
No parchiug thirst or hunger enters there,

69
No bodys pain, no spirits deep despair;
Nor day nor night the tuneful chorus cease,
But all is joy and never ending peace.
And see where now appears her open'd mines,
In which the diamond's bright e'ulgence shines;
Its keener radiance dims my distant sight,
695
A silver moon within those worlds of night.
Now the attendant vassal enters there,
With votce of echoing majesty he gave;

No more unconquered let thy billows ride,
Ocean obey, I bid thy streams divide;
Thus far thy rage may go, this line is made
Earths ambient bulwark, here it must be staydl630
Had Hell, to effect the purpose of his pride,
Heaven's true and sacred record misapplied!
To his dread lord the pearly gift to bear;

ow to be envied is his peerless lot.
Who reigns a sovereign in that golden spot.
To that the Saviour still will have recourse,
For the Repertory.

ST ANZAS,
On the death of Jllrl R 3.

635
While indignation on his visage burns:

'Tis written, also, in that glorious word,
I charge thee, creature, do not tempt thy Lord!

Apollyon heard and swelld his wrathful breast,
Trembling with rage and yet with fear opprest; 640
He cannot, though his efforts all combine,
Elude the answer cogent and divine.

Yet, though his endeavours proved in vain,
He dares attempt the fearful act again!
The weapons, which he hoped would have prevaild
To move presumption and distrust, had fail'd; 646
Stilla new hope resists unwishd despair,
For still new arrows does his quiver bear!
Now earthly grandeur its effect must try
650
If Christ its bright allurements can defy,
As with the hope of heavenly once he stole
From yielding man his all immortal soul!
When his deep arts subdued too yielding Eve,
675
While with his load of guilt the mountain shook!

Far as the keenness ofhis sight can y,
Uunumberd worlds and kingdoms met his eye;
Their various beauties arch Apollyon knew,
Each designates and bids the Saviour view!
680
This dread commandment to th obedient wave,625
He wields the weapon, gives it all its force;
670
Now the tall summit of the towring pile,
His guardian spirits utter now above,
"lis written! say'st thou, Spirit, he returns,
570
Divine accurses upon Israels headi
If thou be he, secure from danger, then,
Then will I own thee and with joy adore!

565
One further proof of thy dependent love,
Dependent on the will of Heaven above;
Then will I kneel and humble reverence pay,
And hail thee equal to the Lord of day!
Behold thou art here upon the temples height,
Would urge too yielding Balaam to afford
For what could injure him. what deed be done,
To ash conviction but one wonder more,
Lo! streams of light the orient now adorn,

And the sun blushes on the check of morn,
590
Who fondly tempted Adam to receive.

Now Satan from the temples height withdrc'v,
And with the Lord precipitately ew
656
To that tall rock whence Chemos viewd before,
The sacred Baptist on the crowded shore:
Thus seeking, led by blind presumption still,
By change of place, to effect his baleful will 660
So too proud Balak, Moab's haughty lord,
Soft plaintive notes attune my lyre,

And thou, oh muse! the strains inspire,
Not with a thirst for fame,
But with that heart lamenting theme,
'l'hat thrilling grief, that we extreme,

Which trembles in my frame,
0h! mourn, ye poor, ye wretched mourn,
From earth your dearest. blessings torn,
Sweet guardian of your peace!
Shes gone, that with aections care,
0ft saved you from corroding care,
And bade your sorrows cease:
Who, mortals firmest ti-iend assignd,
(Celestial inuence o'er her mind,)
She unto man was given,
To solace sorrow here below,
Kind consolations to bestow,
And then be snatchd to heaven.
700
__
1%3
m
Yet whilst bewailing this sad loss
Let it not all your soul engross,
\Vhilst he could at his pleasure roam,

And shoot the live long day.
Nor swell the oods ofgrief;
Quoth Frank. Id rather you than me,

What needs your roller locks,
Ill bet ten pound you do not see
A .n'ngk bird in ocks.
Though raised to mansions in the sky,

Her glorious precepts still are nigh,
To minister relief.
Her presence useless tis to crave,
Her pure examples still you have,
The intercourse between this city and the city of

Amboy, New Jersey, is prohibited on account of a
pestilential or infectious disease prevailing in the
latter place.
--.-
'.-_
Charleston, Sep. 111'

It is again our painful duty to detail the awful
A preacher, in a sermon on repentance, effects of a dreadful visitation upon our ill-fated
Unfolded to your view;
\Vho walkd in virtues brightest road,

And being summond by her God,
Has left that road for you
ORESTES
in which he insisted that actions, and not
tears and pious cxclamations, were the signs

of a sincere repentance, concluded with this
city; a tornado having passed through it, carrying

death and desolation in its progress
On Tuesday last, at halfpast 12 oclock, a tornado
illustrative apologuc:A bird catcher hav

unprecedented here in its extent and effects, cros
For the Repertory.

THE SONNETTEER. No. IV.
To XNDIFFERENCE
What is so chilling as the vacant stare
Of bold Indifference?
axo N
Then hear me, Henry, this fond prayer is mine,
That neer my heart, when once with friendship
warmd,
May causeless change the enlivening glow divine,

For the cold thrill by pale Indifference formd.
Thine, oh, Indifference! is the careless smile,
The frigid feeling, waited for self alone:

From thee in vain would wretchedness beguile
A soothing tear, to lull its hapless moan.
Thy breast is colder than the inty rock
That never opes to mornings balmy tears,
Thy soul unbending as the stubborn oak,
That in the gale its tall top proudly rears.
ing caught his prey, used to kill them by sed a section of our city. It rst took effect at Fort
strangling them. In this action, he happen Mechanick, situated on the south east point of the
ed one day to hurt his finger, and shed tears city, and passing from thence in a north west di
in consequence. See, says a young bird, he rection, it crossed the town in a direct line to the
shows signs of pity upon us. Do not mind pond on the north side of Commons Bridge; how
his weeping eyes, replied an old bird, look far it has extended its ravages into the country we
at his bloody bands.
have not learnt. In its progress it overturned and
.
A gentleman once was sitting at dinner at

the lower end of the table, where there was
much strange company. A friend whispered
to him, that a certain lady at the upper end
of the table was a great scholar, well ac
quainted with the Latin and Greek lan
guages. The lady had been using her ngers
and mouth in picking the leg of a roasted
0h! eer my bosom yields to thy cold sway

May it forget to beat and shrink in dust away.
EDW'Y.
goose, which had given a glossy appearance

to her lips, chin and checks. 1 know not
(said the gentleman) what may be her knowl
edge of Roman affairs, but she certainly
shines consfu'cuous in all the lustre of grease.
.'
For the Repertory.
Air street, in London, is famous for pom,
T0 MISS E 8.
Cease, Eliza, thy locks to despoil,
And remove the bright steel from thy hair;
For fruitless and fund is thy toil,
Since nature has made thee so fair.
Swallow street for gluuona; Golden square

for money-lenders,- and Bond street for cre
ditors.
PHILADELPHIA,
While rose on thy cheek shall remain,

And thy eyes so bewitchingly shine,
Thy endeavours must still be in vain,
For attraction will always be thine.
CELEMOND.
For the Repertory.

EllGR.\.\lS.
Bob, who was prentice to a draper,
To read had never learnd.
Yet thought he would peruse the paper,

\Vhich wrong side up he turnd.
Come, Thomas, and look here, cried he.
(Addressing a poor clown)

Theres been a devilish storm at sea,
The ships are upside down.
L.
CORRESPONDENCE.
\Ve must solicit the pardon of Simon

Snug for not complying with his request.
His review is mislaid or unfortunately lost,
but should we find it, we will immediately
return it to him. We are extremly chagrin
ed that an accident of this kind should have
occurred, but his candour will attribute it to
the multiplicity of business.
Automath is not forgotten; but want of
time has prevented our attending to his
Religion.
The communication of Pedestro cannot

A braggert sportsman meeting once
(When seeking after game)

\Vith Frank, whom he esteemed a dance,
And who thought him the same.

Taunted most sorely at his doom,
Condemnd at work to stay,
appear, he can have it by calling at the ofce,

Marshall Street.
Y
The request of Romeo will be cheerfully

complied with, as soon as we have a few
moments leisure to bestow upon his com
munication.
completely destroyed a great number of houses

and out buildings, unroofed others, and prostrated
trees, fences, and almost every thing coming in
contact with it. It is computed, from a hasty view
of the scene of devastation, that the loas to the city
will fall little short of that experienced by the cala
mitous fire in October last- But, in addition to this
great loss of property, we have. on this occasion,

to lament the loss of several valuable lives. The
tornado appears to have been about one hundred
yards in width
This dreadful visitation is more aficting than
even the ravages of a conagration. The tornado
struck suddenly; passed through the city with
the rapidity of lighting, and in an instant invol
ved in destruction and death both the habitation:
and inhabitants. No notice of the approaching
danger Was given, and before friendship and hu
manity could y to the relief of the sufferers, all
was involved in ruin. It was preceeded by a mo
mentary deceitful calm, and was attended by a
steady rumbling noise resembling that of a car
riage rattling over a pavement.
Chinese Tartary.-It is stated in a German paper.
on the authority of some merchants who have arri
ved at Moscow from China, that an adventurer,
named Baghvan-Ho, has recently collected a num

ber of followers in Grand Tartary, and has induced
them, in conjunction with several wandering tribes
of Mingus, to submit to his authority in the double
character of Prince and Pontiff. His followers be
lieving him to he possessed of supernatural power,
profess the utmost devotion to his will, and their
conduct on several occasions, when attacked by
uthertribes,was characterized by all that zeal which
marks the adherents of a new religion. The cara
vans which traverse the desert island pay him tri
bute, though escorted by Chinese or Russian sol
diers. The merchants who were introduced to him
fell prostrate at the threshold of his tent, and re
mained in that position during the audience: he

spoke to them in four languages, and was courtl.
144
PHILDAELPHIA REPERTORY.
t
us in his manner.The Chinese government of
Nayman, not daring to attack him, lately sent some
individuals in his condence with presents, and or
Mr. Hunter has loaned these paintings to the

academy for a few months for the gratication of
its visitors; and it must be a subject of regret with
and to Paris, for some reason we cannot now ex
ders to learn his views, resources, &c. Baghvan-Ho, plain, he did not go: but about the year 1751, he every artist and amateur, and indeed every person
came to Newport, Rhode Island, and brought with who feels an interest in the progress of the arts in
at this audience, assumed the title of king of Tar
tary and made a pompous d isplay of his followers, him these pictures. He died there about the year this country, that this institution has not the means
about 60,000 of whom were armed with bows and one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight, and of retaining them. They will probably be taken to
arrows, lances, and different guns. To show the at the sale of C.s effects, these paintings were England in the course of the next year, where their
inuence he possessed over them,he made a signal, purchased by my father, Dr. \Vm. Hunter. \Vith merits will be duly appreciated, and the owner re
and 100 voluntarily embraced death by stabbing C. he had beed long acquainted, and knew the his ceive for them a price proportionate to their value.
.
themselves to the heart. The Chinese government, tory and value of these paintings. His own opinion
of
their
value
was,
however,
conrmed
by
that
of
HEALTH
OFFICE,
alarmed at the proximity of this aspiring chieftain,
September 14-, 1811.
Mr. Alexander, a painter of celebrity and excel
was strengthening the frontier garrisons, and tak
lence, at that time travelling in this country.
ing other measures of precaution against the con
from the 7th to the 14th September.
solidation of a power, which not only threatened
Lomlon he could make his fortune by them. To

London, as outlawed for treason, he dare not go:
From the time of purchase to this moment, they

Diseases.
the independence of the country, but mcnaccd the

extinction of the present dynasty.
have not been removed from the place where you

saw them. By the men of science and taste, they
were gazed at with astonishment, as being where
From the New York Evening Post- August 27.
they were; but their originality and merits were
universally allowed, and their history is now bet
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS.
There have lately been deposited in the Ameri ter known in Europe than this country. They have
canAcademy of Arts, two superb paintings by the been visited by most travellers, before and during
pencil of Salvator Rosa; one representing a Bull but particularly since the revolution. It was the
Bait, the others Lion Hunt. These pieces, which long residence of the English and French armies
are uniques, and were considered by their author here, that occasioned their history to be so widely
as his chiefdouvre, are undoubtedly superior to spread, and their merits to be so well ascertained.
any painting in this country, and will maintain a Among the ofcers of the English army, who at
distinguished rank among the admired productions that time bestowed upon them particular attention,
of the celebrated Roman artistsThat all doubts and have since inquired after them and tug'ed
their being sent to Europe, was the present Duke
as to its authenticity may be removed, the follow
ing concise history is given, extracted from a let of Northumberland, then Lord Picrcy; the present
ter of Wm. Hunter, esq. attorny general of the Earl of Moira, then Lord Rawdon; Col. French
and Admiral Stanhope. Among the French were
state of Rhode-lsland. to John C. Bogcrt, esq. se
cretary of the academy.
The extracts.
These paintings were formerly the property
of William Campbell, a brave Scotchman. who with
most of his clan, were engaged on the side of the

Pretender, in the rebellion of 1745. He was engai
ged in the battle of Culloden, and in that battle,
at the peril of his own life, saved that of a noble

Italian, who accompanied the Pretenders army, as
Duke De
Lawam,
others. But it may perhaps be more gratifying to

know what the artists of own country have thought
of them. The celebrated painter" G- Stuart, isa
native of this town, but it is now forty years since
he has seen these paintings; yet, in February last,
Diseases.
ad. ch.
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1 Hooping cough
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1 Hives
0 1
0 Inam. of liver
1 1
0 Still born
0 1
0 Unknown
0 S
2
0
21 21
03
Total __
C 42
Fever, billions
Ofthe above there were,

Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
10
2
60
70
5
70
80
0
80
90
2
1
2
0
10
20
90
100
20
30
3t)
40
7
4
100
110
40
50
5
Total 42
afterwards Duke dc Biron,
Count Forsen, Count Dillon, Court de Noel and
ad. 1:71.
Cholera Morbus
0
Consump. of lungs 8
Convulsions
0
Decay
2
Diarrhcea
1
Debility
1
Dropsy
0
Drowned
2
Dysentery
l-cver, intermittent 11
STATE OF THE THERMOblETER.

9 nrlock- 12 oclock. 3 oclock.
66
67
September 9
54
1
11
12
13
65
65
70
69
67
56
72
71
67
67
71
73
14-
66
68
71
at Boston, he described them to me, with the
most distinct recollection of every object, in colours

as vivid, and lights as strong as their own. He
Catholic interest. They both effected their escape knows perfectly well the merits and history of
to the coast of France; Campbell became a sailor. these paintings, and has always been solicitous
and in the course of a few years was captain of a that they should try their fortune in England.
trading vessel to Italy. During one of those voy Washington Alston, anartist of pro-eminent genius,
ages, in the streets of Naples, he was accidentally whose name and talents are better known in Italy
met, and immediately recognized by the grateful,lta. and England than in this country, previous to his
lian, who treated him, during his stay, with every going to Europe resided at this place, and spent
friendly civility and attention. and at his departure day after day in examining and studying these
bestowed upon him these very paintings, with an paintings. After an absence of eight years, during
assurance that they were highly esteemed; that which he had seen and studied the best colletr
they had been inherited by him, and were original tions of Europe, he returned with an opinion,
ly obtained by his ancestors from Salvator Rosa which he freely expressed, that there could be
himself- The Italian further related that in his fami no doubt as to the antiquity and extraordinary
ly the traditionary account was, that Salvator deem value of the paintings; that his own ideas of their
ed them the happiest efforts of his own pencil; that merit were greatly increased by the comparisons
they were uniques, and that he had not, and would he had made, and that the only reason he had to
not make any copies of them The Italian bestow doubt their being the work of Salvator Rosa was,
the popes nuncio, or as representative of the
ed them upon' Campbell, as a reward for saving that he had seen no piece of his in Europe equal
his life, and assured him, that either in Paris 0, to them.
TERMS OF THE REBERTORY.



pertot'y will be expected to pay the difference.
PHILADELPHIA,

near St. Marys church. 3'
@ibilabelpbiafseperfom
Variety 5 the very spice of life,
Cowman.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. l8ll.
VOL. 11. '
self to the legions. Britannicus, the right

ful heir, was held back by Agrippina, while
BIOGRAPHY.
ors, repelled with rmness his assumption.
Seneca and Burrhus, diering in charac

ter, yet acting in concert, aspired to direct
the councils of the state, to supplant Pallas
and humble his protectress, an occasion for
which quickly occurred. The ambassadors
of Armenia, on their arrival at Rome, de
manded an audience of the emperor, on bu
siness of national importance. A day was
accordingly appointed for the conference,
when Nero, seated on a throne, prepared
for his predecessor, the title offoocl for the to receive them in form. Agrippina, to
too pusillanimous to interpose for her pre

servation, revolved in his thoughts the conse
quences of these proceedings. The warn
ings of Narcissus forcibly recurred to his
remembrance: appal'led and undetermined,
her son, who had, by his promises, gained

the hearts of the soldiers, was proclaimed
emperor. The precipitate decree received
from the senate, prepared for the occasion,
an immediate conrmation. The deceased
emperor was placed among the gods. Nero,
alluding in sport to this circumstance, after
wards gave to a ragoo of mushrooms, the
dish in which the poison had been prepared
with a view of diverting his anxiety, he made

a tour to Sinuessa, celebrated for its baths,
gods.
LIFE OF AGRIPPTN'A THE YOUNGER.
(Continued)
The emperor, conscious of the injustice

to which Domitia had been a victim, yet
Agrippina, having thus reached the goal
and for the saluhrity of its air. Agrippina

embraced this opportunity, when, absent
to which her views had been directed, deter
mined, in the wantonness of success, to

from the court, she could more easily sur
round him with those devoted to her ser avenge herself on those who had opposed
vices, of perpetrating the crime she had her. Junius Silanus, surnamed by Caligula,
long meditated. A poison was atteordingly the golden sheep, from the sweetness and
prepared by Locusta (celebrated for her benevolence of his temper, great-grandson
to Augustus, and pro-consul of Asia, was
skill in this pernicious art), and administer
ed to the emperor in his favourite dish. the rst victim to her vindictive temper.
The drug working slowly and causing a His birth and amiable qualities had endear
vomiting, it was feared by the empress that ed him to the Romans, who, dissatised
its effects might fail; when Zenophon, a phy with the youth and inexperience of Nero,
sician devoted to her service, introduced, and disgusted with the means by which he
under pretence of relieving the emperor, had ascended the throne, openly talked of
a feather into his throat, dipped in a subtle bestowing the empire on Silanus. To rid
and mortal venom. A few moments termina herself of this formidable competitor, the
ted the tragedy: Claudius expired, a victim empress again had recourse to poison.
Fidelity to his master had thrown Nar
to his own weakness, and the turpitude of a
woman whom he had raised to the throne. cissus into prison, where, languishing in
His death was concealed for a time, the misery, he voluntarily laid down a life be
better to dispose the nation in favour of Ne come odious and burthensome. His fate
ro. T he senate and consuls were ordered was not wholly unmerited: enriched by the
to offer up vows for the recovery ofthe em -miscries of the people, oppression and rapine
peror, whose body was carefully covered: had left him but few friends. Other victims,
comedians were also sent for, the better to marked for vengeance, were saved by the,
carry on the deception, under pretence of interposition of Burrhus and Seneca (thci
diverting him in his sickness. Agrippina, governors of Nero), who laboured to form;
their pupil to virtue, and to curb the ambi-l

in the mean time, with feigned endearments
No. 19
whom her son was indebted for his elevation,
claimed a right of sharing with him the em

pire, and of taking her seat by his side on
the present occasion. But Nero, whom his
governors had taught to consider such a
measure as an innovation, and as degrading
to the Roman dignity, determined to oppose

her purpose. As the empress, with amajes
tic air, silently advanced towards her place,
Seneca whispered to the prince to evade
her intention. Nero took the hint, and com
ing down from the throne, as if to receive

his mother, contrived, by compliments and
affected civilitics, to protract the time, till a
frivolous pretence was invented to defer the
audience.
'
The preceptors of the emperor, in coun

teracting the inuence of the empress, were
not always scrupulous respecting the means
they adopted. Their pupil having conceived
a passion for a slave named Acte, they en
couraged his infatuation, with a view of op
posing to the ascendancy of his mother the
blandishments of a mistress. Disorders,
which might have been foreseen, followed
a policy so imprudent and pernicious: the
emperor, whose passions were impetuous, .
and whose extravagance knew no bounds,
determined, to the degradation of his rank, l
and the subversion of the laws of the cm ll
pire, to raise Acte to the throne. Incensed 4l.
and humiliated by a competitor so ignoble,
Agrippina rcmonstrated with bitterness, and
harassed her son by censures and complaints.
Opposition producing its usual effects, the
and professions of sympathy, detained in a dis tion of his mother.

Pallas, the favourite of Agrippina, left
tant apartment Britannicus and his sister.
The report of the death of Claudius, not no means unessaycd to usurp over the
.withstanding these precautions, spreading mind of the young emperor the inuence
through the city, it was judged expedient l he had exercised over that of his prede
that Nero, accompanied by Burrhus, the cessor; but his arrogant and severe man_
captain of the gaurds, should present him ners were but little suited to the temper passion of Nero was inamed, and the re
of Nero, who, supported by his govern- proofs of his mother became intolerable: te.
' A ragoo of mushroom.
146
PHILA DELPHIA R EPERTORY.

m
rid himself of her persecutions, he talked

of abdicating the throne; while, in their mu
tual upbraidings, truths escaped, which de

prived them of the public esteem. The city
made sport of their dissensions, and the
court became a scene of confusion.
Nero began at length to perceive the im
in the throne of his ancestors. The audi

ence appeared moved; the tyrant was con
founded; and from that moment determin
ed on the destruction of so dangerous it ri

val. Another cause of jealousy, less impor
tant and more ridiculous, has been also at
tributed to Nero: desirous of being admired

policy of this intemperate conduct, and to for his excellence in vocal music, he could
dread the dangers which might ensue from not pardon Britannicus for possessing a
the irritation of a spirit like that of Agrip more melodious voice.
pinas. Dissembling his sentiments, he af-I

footed to become indifferent to IRS mistress,
and to courts. reconciliation with his mo
To be continued.
~~
For the Repertory.
and tis therefore easy to comply with my

desires. Besides she is dutiful, and my re
quests are with her commands. In two
days she shall be yours. Indeed, Pandolfo,
[did entertain suspicions of your honour,
and that malicious spirit_"
Spirit! interrupted Pandolfo, O! that
spirit!
\Vhat of that spirit? cried Altenheim,
severely, have you more knowledge of
that spirit prince, than you are willing should

be discovered?
~ On my soul, no! cried DArinhault;
thcr. The empress, deluded by his affecte

CASTLE OF ALTENIIEILI,
tion, was induced to condemn her past con

duct, and to lavish cndearments on her re
pentant son. But the vanity of Nero threw

him off his guard: Agrippina, perceiving
that he was not the dupe of her pretenccs,
on
THE MYS'IERIOUS MONK. >
A TALE.
haunts the minds of all who know me; and

CHAPTER VII.
and that he distrusted the motive of her
Continued.
caresses, resented his suspicions: their mu

tual disgusts were renewed and aggravated,
and hostilities recontmenced.
This showed itself openly, when the em
Grit'th.
Unmoved resign as yet untasted bliss,
yet by yonder skies I am as guiltless as the

shapeless embryo.
Dismiss your fears, prince, returned
Ferdinand, affectionately, struck with the
rmness and solcmnity of Pandolfo, for I
But that once seen, who hesitates to choose,
And this, once tasted, 'twould be death to lose!

peror, having sent to his mother a present
ofjewels and rich Clothing, she haughtily
\Vhen the governess retired and the
commissioned the messenger to tell his acute sensations that affected the bosom of
master, that she acknowledged no obligation Altenheim had in some measure subsided,
in receiving back from her son a part of the he observed with surprise the a'ect Edi
whole, which she had bestowed upon him. thas story had upon Montaldo, who, perceiv
Nero, enraged at this contempt and de ing the keen glance of Ferdinand xed up
ance, avenged himself of the empress by on him, endeavoured to regain his compo
sure and eagerly inquired who Florival
dismissing from his service Pallas, her fa
vourite, on whom he had bestowed the of was.
iiee of high-treasurer. The indignation of
A noble, though low born youth; re
Agrippina on this insult knew no bounds: plied Altenheim, the son of the good we
she threatened, in her wrath, to raise Bri man in whose cottage we last night found
tannicus to the throne, to conduct him her shelter from the fury of the storm.
self to the armies, to point him out to the
Are you satised, my lord," said the
legions as the son and rightful heir of Clau prince, that he is really the son of Min
dius, and to expose to the nation the criminal da?
means by which Nero had usurped his in
Perfectly satised, prince, returned
heritance. To menaccs she added reproaches the count; but wherefore did you ask that
the most bitter; it is even said, that, aban
but can I feel otherwise than miserable,

while I am thus tormented for I know not
what? No, my lord, I dread not the terrors
of that visionary visitant, but that suspicion
question, have you ever seen the youth?
doning herself to an excessive rage, she

Never, rejoined DArinhault, but
forb0re not to add blows to invective and having partly heard the story of Minda from
Geraldo, who knew her some years ago, I
reproach.
Nero was not unmoved by the vehe understood she had no son, no child. But
mence he had provoked: Britannieus had come, my lord, it was but a thought that
arrived at an age to feel the injustice he struck me, let us leave this melancholy
suffered, and to render himself formidable subject and talk of love and of Amelia. Be
to the oppressor: respecting the means by lieve me, count Ferdinand, I expected not to
which he had been supplanted, he had, on meet such excellence at Altenheim, such
the following occasion, recently betrayed transcendent charms. My union with the
his sentiments. A king being elected in fair Amelia was projected, and has pro
sport, at an assembly, to rule the amuse gressed thus far, by interest, but I would
ments of the evening, the lot had fallen found it on a purer motive, love. On my
upon Nero, who, for the purpose of insult part it shall be solcmnized by the most ar
ing the prince, had commanded him to sing. dent and unchanging love, but on hers
Britannicus complied with the mandate.
It will be the same, interrupted Alten
believe you innocent. Tis true, I had re

solved to suspend the marriage, if that spi
rit again addressed me, butI am now re
solved it shall take place. The ghost has

not kept her word, so no more, dear prince,
but prepare for your marriage on the even

ing of the day after to-morrow.
You 'overcomc me with this kindness,"
said Montaldo, secretly exulting that he had
so easily banished his suspicions from the b0
som of the count; but Altenheim was in such
a state of uncertainty, that the most triing

circumstance would have been suliicient to
arouse them again, as they were only
smothered by the asseverations of DArin
hault and an ardent desire of uniting the
houses of Pandolfo and Altenheim. Envelo
ped in a veil ofmystery that surrounded eve
ry person with whom he was connected, and
being unable to penetrate it, the proofs he

had of Montaldos guilt were only presump
tive, and he thought it best to sacrice his
song, the
heim, it will be the same; I know my
suspicions to his ambition.

He now requested Pandolfo to excuse him
while he hastened to prepare his child for
the suddenness of her marriage, and conduct,
ing him to the library, hastened to find Ame
lia and inform her of, the happy event. The
unfortunate maid had retired to her chamber,
where the count found her in tears. These
he attributed to the wrong cause, and thus
addressed her:
In tears, my love? this is indeed kind.
\Veeping, I suppose, for the death of your
unfortunate playfellow, the brave Florival.
But come, these tears must be withheld, for
I have news of joy to tell.
treachery by which he had been supplanted
child, Pandolfq, know her heart untouched,
Indeed, my father," replied Amelia, it
and made the subject of his
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will be welcome, for I expected deathfnl
can call a blush into the check of my daugh
with a trembling hand, expecting to ascer
tidings from you: Pandolfo
ter? So then the discovery is made; here is

the cause of hatred to Pandolfo, here is the
tain the fate of her beloved Florival; but
\Vill soon be yours, my daughter,

interrupted Ferdinand, exultingly. Mis
tress of DArinhault, you will be the pride
and envy of all Germany, and be the means
of rendering your father completely happy
and raising him to the summit of all earthly!
grandeur."
Amelia gazed some moments on her fa
thers face, then seizing both his hands with

in hers and falling upon her knees, in the
utmost agony of feeling,besoughthim not to
sacrice her to a man she could not love:
conjured him by her likeness to her mother
not to destroy her happiness, and declared
that death would be the consequence of an
union with Pandolfo. Altenheim looked at
his daughter some moments in silent severi
ty, then exclaimed:
Base, degenerate girl! is all my hope
thus blasted, all my fond solicitudc repaid
with such ingratitude? has my anxious love
watched over thee from thy infancy, trained
thee in the paths of virtue and of honour,
and procured thee a husband worthy of thy
love, to see thee, dead to thy happiness and
thy fathers honour, reject a princes o'er!
Ah! my father, returned Amelia,
what are the honours that await me, to the
misery I shall be doomed to experience with

the guilty Pandolfo.
Altenheim started a few paces from her,
and gazed upon her in fear and wonder, as
he repeated, guilty! guilty!
Yes, my father, returned Amelia, in
that gloomy brow there is written dreadful

villainy! he is guilty or I am greatly decei
yed.
So then, rejoined the count, your
knowledge at last is nothing but suspicion."
Not so, my lord, answered Amelia. She
then related the mornings adventure, to

which Altenheim listened with great ap
parent uneasiness, and when it was conclu

ded, stood some moments in mute astonish
ment. At length, arousing from his reverie,

he demanded of Amelia whether it were
really true? Amelia solemnly declared the
fact and referred the count to Minda for a
corroboration of what she related. Ferdinand
stood some moments in meditation, and then,
looking signicantly at her, requested Ame
lia to tell him if her aversion proceeded from
what she heard, or whether it had not previ
foundation for your aversion to a man you

saw not till to day; you love another, is it not
so? Answer me!
I dare not, I never will breathe a false
hood to you, my father," answered the terri

ed Amelia, I do indeed love another, but
alas!-
Dare you avow it, then?" interrupted
Altenheim. Base girl, undutiful, unhappy
daughter! But mark me well, when the ti
ger receives his food from the fearful infant,
when the wolf becomes the guardian of the
sheepfold, when re shall mingle with its
liquid adversary, then hope to marry any one,
except Pandolfo.
Alas! my father, replied Amelia, your
determination is,I fear, unnecessary, for F10
what was her disappointment, her astonish

ment, hope, joy and expectation, when she
read as follows:
Appeal, dear lady, to the humanity and
generosity of Pandolfo; but should that be
unavailing, seem to acquiesce in the wishes

of your father; remembering that there is a
friend, who vows to save you in the hour of
peril. Be resolute and rely on
A FRIEND TO THE UNFOR'IUNATE.
To be continued.
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For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. LIV.
The following essay, received from a

new correspondent, of whose assistance we
shall be always happy, might be commented
on at considerable length, but as we have
rival is no more.
now neither time nor room, we must leave
Did I hear aright? exclaimed Alten that entirely to the discretion of our readers.
heim. Florival! in love with my vassal! \Ve can only say that Mr. Tinderbox has
I should bless -the providence, that in remo here recorded many truths in his own way,
ving him, has saved the honour of my house. which deserve the most serious considera
My bosom burns with shame, disobedient tion.
G. G.
girl; this was the guilt of DArinhault; he
Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
was destined for your husband, and you had
Her noblest work she classes, 0:
previously disgraced your father by an affec
Her prentice han, she tried on man,
tion for his slave, the son of an outlawed
An then she made the lasses, 0. Burn}.
Spaniard!
Mr. Gravity,
Dear, sir,
Spaniard! cried Amelia, but suddenly
I read every Cabinet as regularly as it
recollecting her promise to Minda, she
checked herself and remained silent. The appears, and to take them in a general way
count stood for some moments torn by con like them well enough: Iapprove of your
tending emotions, and at last, catching her plan much, but I have waited so long and
wished so inc'ectually to see some subjects
in his arms, he exclaimed:
I forgive you, but sooner than I inten which it embraces touched upon, that
ded; yes, to-morrow shall you be the wife I have taken up the determination 0f trying
of DArinhault. No answer, I am resolved." whether or not I can manage some of them
myself.
'
Thus saying, Ferdinand immediately with
One of these subjects which have been
drew, leaving Amelia in the most excrutia
ting agony. She threw herself upon the bed, much neglected, or at least never spoken
and could only exclaim, Then I am un of by you with proper decorum, is that of
done! when she sunk into a state of insen the ladies. Now, Mr. Gravity, on econd
sibility. In this situation she was discovered thought, I do not much wonder at your not
by Minda, who entered the chamber with a painting the fair creatures in all their cap
letter in her hand, addressed to Amelia. She tivating loveliness, knowing as I do, the;
was greatly terrified on beholding her, you live with an old maiden aunt and
and calling for Editha, assistance was imme sister, whose strait faces must doubtless be
diately procured, which in a short time suc very cooling to the fancy of a man like you.
ceeded, and the maid recovered. Minda im
But at the same time I am convinced that
mediately requested her to command the
you will cheerfully permit me to make a
absence of the servants, which being done,

she presented the letter, informing Amelia
few remarks on the fair, and permit your

readers'to hear what I have to urge in their
ously taken root in her bosom. She replied that a person, mufed up in a cloak, had ap
that it had, long before she saw him.
peared at the gate, and demanded to speak
Indeed! cried the count, and what with her. She had hastened to him and re
was that aversion founded on! Amelia trem-i ceived the letter, with an injunction to deli
favour.
Being a stranger to you, sir, I think it
well enough to let you know that I am quite
a young man, and will therefore be allowed
bled violently and a blush immediately over ver it into the hands of the lady Amelia; he to have a right to say something of these
spread her features. Have I then touched then instantly departed.
matters, when I declare to you that I am
upon asubject, continued Altenheim, that I
Amelia took the letter and parted the seal ll with the sweet creatures almost every
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evening of my life, and atter myself that ful affair till the very lilies began to wither
I know the minutest casts of their disposi in sympathy, and until I have been abso
tions. as well as any man on the face of the lutely apprehensive of her impairing the
earth. For instance, the other night I was at power of her blue love-sparkling eyes.
Mrs. Fribbles, and her eldest daughter, who Poor thing, it is no fault of hers, and I try
is one girl among ve hundred thousand, all I can to prove this to her, but her ele
tossed back her head on the chair, and vated soul, Mr. Gravity, disdains all recon
declared in a melting tone that it was ciliation to it. She looks on her father, as
most direfully warm, and that their house every girl of spirit should do when their
was so close that it was as much as ever a fathers happen to be mere tradesmen, with
body could do to breathe in it. The fact the most dignied contempt, and prove the
is, I was quite incommoded by the cold, Mr. truth expresed in the motto which (accor
Gravity, for it was one of the sharpest ding to your custom) I have put at the top
evenings we have had this season: however, of my piece, most completely and potently.
my discernment, which I am now proving, In so many delightful propensities do they
saw plainly that she Wanted an airing; of excel the men, that to enumerate the tenth
course, sir, I breathed hard and said as 1 part of them would be an everlasting task.
advanced towards her, pray, Miss Mary, I cannot however, refraim from mentioning
have you any objections to take a little walk some few of the most charming of Miss F.s.
around the square? I think it would be of In the rst place she evinces her excessively
innite service to you; besides it would be rened taste for beauty in various ways:
much cooler, for I confess I feel disagreea
If she perceive a ribbon of an uncommon
bly warm myself. Mrs. Fribble, you certainly colour or peculiarly rich cast, hanging at a
do permit Miss Mary to sew too much; mantuamakers window, she will discover in
Madam, her habitual industry will ruin her, it hundreds of elegancies and never is nor
she looks quite pale now, and I will venture never can be satised until she has purchased
to assert that before three years her consti it; here again is her nobleness of mind dis
tution will be overthrown, and she will be
played more forcibly than ever, for the more
come consumptive; she is forever setting, exorbitant the price,the more stedfastly is she
Madam. The girl will do it, sir, said Mrs. bent on the purchase. Nothing can restrain
F. in spite of all that I can say to her," her; it will be a handsome appendage to her
0! yes," observed Mary, I do sit a great bonnet, and that is a sufcient reason for
deal, I know, but upon my word, Mr. Tinder
her, as it should be for every young lady of
box, it comes so natural to me to sew that intellect.
I cannot help it.
. No part of the human character can we
Now the fact is, sir, Miss Mary has a no
observe in them, without seeing it eminent
tion, but how she got it I do not know, that ly exalted above the groveling notions of
industry is very pleasing to young men, and men; and no attribute do they possess in a
therefore talked to me in that style; but I more superior degree, than independence
think it a duty I owe to her, to declare that vulgarly termed the love of contradiction.
she has a soul above snch lowlived pursuits. In this, Miss Fribble is a perfect pattern for
Sew indeed! she does not take a needle in her whole sex, and to evince it, regularly
her hand once a week; no, sir, novels are makes it a point to praise for beauty the
her delight, and I for furnishing her with most homely man of her acquaintance; for
them am almost doted upon. Such are her a ne' voice, him who has in a manner no
tasteful pleasures, walking, (but never with voice at all; for a ne person him who is
out a bean, for a beau to a young lady is short, clumsy, and, like Richard, sent into
what a cane is to an old man,) visiting and this breathing world scarce half made up;
reading the above mentioned superlative for profound thought him who never thinks;
species of compositions. Such conversation for an accomplished young man, him who
as the above is the most pleasing of any has just migrated among us from the im
kind that can be made use of, for it teaches penetrable forests of our western country,
them to see that their superiority is observed and who bears with him all the gloomy
shades of countenance, behaviour and fancy
by more than themselves.
Since this eclaircissemcnt has led me so that distinguish the Aborigines. Now all
far into the merits of Miss Fribble, I will this, sir, I look upon as being an undenia
give you a short sketch of her character. ble proof that they are made of more rened
Her father is a blacksmith, and the distress
of the poor dear little creature on this occa
materials than we are, and were intended
then denies these assertions must either be

immoveable by argument, or what is worse,
must have shut his ears against conviction.

Mr. Gravity, as astonishing as it may seem,
I do nevertheless most candidly believe
that there are not three fathers in this city,
who can see things in their proper light,
and they are therefore all anxious to rivet \
the attention of their daughters _to the mon
astic exercise of theneedle, or the pursuits
of dull and stupid writing and arithmetic.
Writing never was useful to them except
in penning a love letter; but now the rene

ment of language and of thought, has ex
ploded them, and consequently all the claims
of writing, on the fair sex, fall completely to
the ground; and as for arithmetic for a
girlsir, it is high time a reformation took
place with respect to female education, it
is shamefully neglected. Now, sir, I appeal
to you, of what possible use can arithmetic
ever be to a young lady of fashion like Miss
F.? Is it likely that they will ever stoop to ex
amine paltry shop bills, which scarcely ever
exceed one hundred, or two hundred dol
lars at a time? It makes me mad, sir, to see
their genius cramped over such philo

sophic folly. No, sir, let them be instructed
in the branches to which their superior

nature inclines them; let their reading be
entirely conned to novels and romances;
let them not see history; let them be taught

how to dance; that is what will captivate;
let them learn to play, even if it be but to

drum (which indeed has now become the
most fashionable) on the piano forte; let
these things be administered to them in the
rst style of elegance, and then will they
shine forth in the sphere for which they
were designed, and which, thanks to their
good mothers and their own powerful pro

pensities, they will ll in spite of all the
fathers in the world. I move (and scarcely
a lady old nor young in this city but what will
second the motion) that henceforth fathers
have nothing to do with the education of
daughters; let them attend to their dull
minded sons, but let the airy fancied females
be brought up by their mothers, of course
very principally by themselves, and then,
and not till then, Mr. Gravity, we shall see
them what they ought to be.
TIMOLEAN TINDERBOX.
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For the Repertory.

ON CORSELETS.
Mr. Editor,
sim wrings my very soul. Ihave known

her) sir, to sit at the back window that over
to hold the reins of society in their bands,

which have been rudely grasped from them
by the designing rascality of man.
I am a friend to satire when it is intended

to be productive of any good effect to the
community; consequently I read the com
looks their garden, and ("WP at tlilidt'ead
Whoever reads this essay carefully and
munication of Solomon Salt-pctre in your
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sixteenth number on the subject now before

me, with much pleasure. But there are in
the catalogue of human follies, some which
have assumed such a position as to become
invulnerable to ridicule; it then becomes
necessary that plain spoken reason should

assail them, and if they yield not to it, they
must remain triumphant. One of these hab
its, which I rank in the aforementioned class,
and which is now gaining ground rapidly
among the softer sex, is that of wearing
Corsclets. Many persons are of opinion that
this is too triing for literary discussion:
let them not harbour such an idea; it is
aiding that which should be assisted by
none; it is countenancing that upon which
all should frown; it is giving ill advice to
the fair. It is natural to suppose, and indeed,
in many of their actions it is sufficiently ap
parent, that it would be the aim of the mem
so essential a part of the system be not

likely to produce effects ruinous to mortali
ty. I wish my readers to reflect if it be not
likely to produce an increase of that mincing
affectation in movement and in posture,
which excites the languid emotions of sick
ening disgust. Why then is it so powerfully
supported? The'man of discernment will
always look upon that being who endeavours
to distort herself into her own notions of
beauty as a moving statue of stupid dis
content and struggling deformity. Can it
be possible that mothers are acquainted
with corselets being one of the supernume
raries of their daughters dressing room?
Can it be possible that their unnatural
shapes should escape the observation of any
one? How then can they escape the observ
ing pride of mothers? It is upon them we
Call to check the progress of this vice; it_is
upon them we call to direct their daughters
bers of this portion of society to render them

selves agrceble to those of the other. Is it
not then much to be wondered at that this
practice, which is so much despised by all
With eonquer'd Europe and her conqueror Rome;

From me alone expect to hear their doom;
Far as the world, from north to southern pole, 72:3
From west to orient, I command the whole;
Theres not a nation on the earth appears,

But owns my pntenee and my vengeance fears;
Save this degraded spot, Judea named,
For broils and blood and cruel faction famed; 730

This, from thine eye scarce Worth a single glance,
A very atom in the great expanse.
Yet even here my agents are employd.
And, lulld to safety. soon shell be destroyd .
Still not to these my right do I conne,
aright; we demand it, for it is to us they
belong, nor can the rising generation admire

nature contracted by canvass from native
elegance into the circumference of a wed

men, should nevertheless have thrown its
magic so strongly around the ladies as to

hold them the admirers of one of the most
detestable and most despised of all fashions?
What is the aim of their majortiy? Beauty,
ding ring; and maiden charms bereft of all

their original softness, and decorated or rath
hooped with unsympathising steel.
TIMOTHY THOUGHTFUL.
and admirationWVhat is the giddy fair oues

most delightful, most enrapturing wish?
A lover. And can they expect by the vile
distortions of vitiated taste ever to attain
that which forsewore them in their
For the Repertory.
His seven pale moons but shed their borrow'd fire,

By my permission and as I inspire;
74-5
Beside these, millions not created yet,
When called to being shall be my estate;

Creatures unborn shall meet the light of day,
But to adore, and own my sovereign sway.
Count the small sands upon the oceans shore,
My subjects number many thousands more;.

To these add all that sparkle in the sky,
And these by countless millions multiply;
Still would you lack the numbers that obey,
Bear my soft yoke and my imperial sway.
750
And am not I, who thus can worlds bestow,
735
And rule the destiny of men below,

An object worthy of unbounded love
From mortal man and deathless hosts above?
Speak, wretched creature, tell me, should not all
THE PRO PITIATION.

(Continued)
A a o u M r: n 'r.
Before my face, in adoration, fall?

To him the listning Saviour lifts his eyes,
And in commanding accents thus replies:
He who created and inspirits all
Satan continues to describe the thjferent cormtnes;
That live and move on this terrestrial ball,
BOOK lll.
mothers womb, that which is distributed
by nature in her most capricious moments?

or can they expect to gain admiration for
pursuing a practice, the pursuit of which
has been justly denounced? can they expect
to have a lover pouring forth at their feet
praises of beauty, when he beholds before
735
\Vorlds unexplored in boundless space are mine;

In mighty orbits round the sun impelld,
Which mortal eyes have never yet beheld:
Millions of miles beyond the farthest star,
740
Acknowledge me, obedient subjects are.
Ev'n belted Jupiter submits to me,
And distant Saturn owns my sovreignty;
76!)
With all the worlds and creatures that you name,

May humble love and adoration claim.
766
Then, cried the fiend, I give the whole to thee,
If thou wilt, suppliant, bend the willing knee;
resumes the God,- Da'saointment and zlcs'jmir of Will prostrate fall my presence now before,
770
Satan; He is again thejimzd, and tumbles, writhing Confess thy lawful sovereign and adore!
0! now, what muse can paint the dreadful look
with agony, headlongfrom the mmmtain.
him but a mass of low-thoughted deformity?
Th all conquering Christ, with indignation, took;
Look next where lies a spot well worthy boast,
The vain decorations of fashion the sensible
The tottring mountain now begins to nod.
And
sparkling
rich,
broad
Africs
winding
coast;
will always despise; and all the admiration
Trembling with fear as he resumes the God!
that will ever be offered at the shrine of the Behold again where pearly Saltzburgh lies,
The lightnings ashd, the thunders threatning
And Smolands bright Adelfors meet thine eyes;
goddess qf was/lish waists, will only be the
sound
775
i Now in the north, :1 blissful sight behold,
705
Broke through the air and shook th astonishd
impudent attery of butterfly fops, or the Where frozen Lapland owns a mine of gold
ground!
impure glances of designing libertinism. Turn now thine eyes, and in the westward view
But let me not be thought to speak too

harshly of the fair, when I assert that such
appears now to be one of their most desir
able objects: refer for one moment to their
behaviour of late years, and blush for them.
.
'
.
1
I have
seen them out at their
chamber
maids, after taking a long walk, for not be
The mines of Sultzbm-gh; Smolmul; Lapland,- Peru,
Chib'; He (lee/urea not there alone to be his, but oth

ers' unseen, and world yet IlllClEalLll; ()'era them
to the Saviour
he will worship him,- llis reply,- He
So when before he left the realms above,
Th exhaustless riches of unknown Peru;

From north to south her mines untouchd remain,
And golden beauties dazzle all the plain.
710
So heavens bright gems look elliueut through the

'
night,
:4 And fill the welkin with a cheerful light,
j1, Lo! Chm new, along the water" shore,
l Contains abundance of the precrous ore;
ing able to unbutton their dresses. Let us \ Observe the whole, how fair their glories shine; 715
then, fora short time, lay aside their appear 1; These 1 can give, for the-so are only mine.
To guide the chosen people of his love,

Tall Sinai trembled and expressd amaze,
While round its summit ashd the lightnings
blaze;
780
And bursting thunder-s, through the startled air,
Announced aloud th eternal One was there!
The Tempter, nding his designs were known,

Swelld his proud soul and broke a direful groan;
Contending passions labourd in his breast,
785
When thus the Saviour: Spirit, once so blest,
3 Nor these alone, but countless numbers more,
ance in this invisible armour, and reect on 1 ,

its consequences. 1 am not about to bring l
forward instances of young ladies deaths ',
from the wearing of corsclets; butl am about n
to ask if such a stubborn connement of
Which through the distance we cannot explore,

Beside all these, how many kingdoms wait,
To learn from me, and me alone, their fate:

The East c'eminatc, drludcd Greece,
Now fondly nursed upon the lap of ease,
720
{ New curst destroyer, mans relentless foe,
! Father of sin and lord of ends below,

"lis written, let the sound distant each nerve,
God thou shalt worship, God alone shalt serve! 790
_Didpt thou suppose thy guilty self unknown,
150
Or that I sulfered friendless and alone?

Thoughtst thou no light within this body lies,
Eternal blaze! to~pierce thy close disguise?

795
\Vithin that bright deceit did I perceive
The cruel end that lured submissive Eve!
The once archangel who all Heaven deed,
And the bright hierarchy spurnd in pride;
Who from the acme of perfection fell,
And by th omnic power was hurld to hell! 800
Get the hrnce, Satan, to despair and re;
Thus love subdues and thus must hate expire!
Likc bursting thunder this dread sentence fell,

Nor struck the traitor only, but his Hell!
The Tempter tumbled in relentless pangs,

805
And as he fell, resumed his dreadful fangs;
Again the adder, emblem of despair,
Curlcd his thin body through the aming hair,
Ilis native wings on either shoulder hung,
And nauseous air around the mountain ung; 810
The bcamy helmet left his fearful head;
And from his breast the bright ensigna ed;
No more angelic beauties various shine,
To prove the false, dissembling end, divine;
For balmy sweets that lovely fragrance shed, 815

Sulphurcous vapours playd around his head;
The hissing viper sandald both his feet,
And the whole devil stood again complete
Down from the rock the end detected fell,
And as he roll'd burst forth a dismal yell.
820
Increasing terrors ll his pallid soul,
Increasing torments oer his bosom roll.
In falling, many awound his body bore,
Which, as he sunk, the craggy mountain tore;
Whilst atwixt the foes contending,

Dark despair his form distending,
Rides upon the ensanguind ood.
' Gilded banners proudly ying,
Lead to death and dread alarms;
And with glorys call complying,
Over heaps of dead, and dying,
Fierce enthusiasts close in arms.
As, two adverse waves reclining
On the chalfd and stormy main,
Both, in one huge surge combining,
And with bellowing fury joining,
Neither, doth itself regain.
Thus, convulsd by phrenzys re,
Shrieks discordent rend the air,
Thus, when slaughtring troops retire;
Checkd in victorys desire,

Are they of their loss aware.
Those brave ranks once overowing,
Now are shorne by wars fell hand,
Those choice hearts, with love once glowing,
Kindest blandishmcnts bestowing,
Now are chilld by deaths cold wand.

Despots view this loathsome pressure,
Caused by lawless wish for sway;
View. of man the base erasure,
Then, let each tyrannic measure,
Peirce your bosoms with dismay.

LOTIIARIO.
For the Repertory.

STANZAS,
lie sunk to earth and shook the 'ighted ground.

rithing he lay, on object of despair,
827
And breathed his anguish to the headless air;
While the Evening invites us to woo.
His bosom labours and his foaming ire
-.-
For the Repertory.

ODE TO WAR
Harsh and shrill the clarion sounding,
Swells the tumult from afar,
Steed gainst steed, impetuous bounding,

Danger, timid fear astounding,
Haste, Haste, dearest Nannie, cried Charley awa,
The bells are a ringing and for us do ca;

The bairns are asleep and Ill hasten with you,
\Vhile the evening invites us, dear Nannie, to woo.
Nay, nay, my dear laddie, I canna consent,
Lest when we are married your choice you repent;
Ah! then, my dear Charley, what then should I do,
No more would the evening invite us to woo.
No, no, my dear lassie, dispel a thy fear,
To Charleys fond heart none but Nannie is dear;

l vow while I live, that I breathe but for you,
Then haste while the evening invites us to 00
No, no, my dear Charley, remember the day,

When Moggic you kissd, lad, when l was away;
If then we should marry and you prove untrue,
No more would the evening invite us to woo.
Mark the mad array of war!

Then, then, a farewcl I bid Nannie my dear,
Hosts armipotent engaging,

Deeply groans the lengthend strife,
\Vhilc, within each breast is raging
Thirst for conquest, but assunging
\Vith the ebbing tide of life.
Peace, which lately smiled resplendent,
Flies the carnage covcrd plain,
And bright joy her fair attendant,
On her balmy smiles dependent,
llides him at the sight of pain!
Ilideous fury, wildly gleaming,
\Vhen Charley is dead, ah! refuse not a tear,

To the memry of him who died, lassie, for you,
Who refused, though the evening invited to woo.
Stay, stay, my dear laddic, she cried, with a smile,
You know I was joking, my love, all the while;

I vow while I live that I breathe but for you,
Well wed, while the evening invites us to woo.
.\'0 hard scenes, soft pity blending,

She, alas! is drownd in blood!
Or Chatter-ton, or Gray peruse,

Or Ramsays merry song.
With Thompson, Young, and Pope to soar;
0r trace the lines of Milton oer;
But pause at Beatties name;
\Vhose mournful muse I hold most dear,
While the soft winds would dry that tear

"hich sympathy should claim.
Or while the suns last fading gleam
Looks fainter oer the limpid stream,
Do thou my soul inspire
Apollo, lend thy dulcet aid,
Come, sit beneath the cypres shade,
And sweep the sounding lyre."
Come, pour thy soft melodious lay,
As in the West declines the day,
Impart thy notes to me;
While I forget the eeting hour,
Listen to thy Olympian power,
And strive to rival thee.
CELORIMON:
_._
For the Repertory.
Extempore lines Written upon discovering in a
corner of a note, written by a beautiful girl,
the ominous and angry French words, Li's
VALERIAN.
Why, llannah, cruel war declare

Gainst me, who merit not your hate!
Is it a crime to love thee, fair?
Im guiltySuch, alas! my fate.
Angelic, interesting maid,
Than all thy beauteous sex, much more
I loved thee once- If wars thy trade,

Rage on; thee now I must adore.
LEANDER.
~__
IMPROVEMENTS.
A multitude of improvements are made,

making, or proposed, in our country, at the
present period. But there is one species of

improvement very much neglected, which
would contribute more to our wealth, liberty,
and happiness, than any or all the rest, and

which would in a great degree, eventually
bring all the rest with it. Imean the im
provement of ourselves; intellectual and mo
ral improvement.
This sort of improvement would contri
bute immensely to our wealth. It is easily
seen what a great bar ignorance and stupidi
ty are in the way of benecial farming, manu
tiicturing, or commerce. Knowledge and in
-.
gentlity, skill and invention, enable their

For the Repertory.
possessors to work in the light, instead of

LIY 'ISHES.
Stalks in desolations van,
Cursed ambition tmbesceming,

(ltapine, and oppression teeming,)
Onward goods the dismal clan
And there in silence court the muse,
Gucrre.
Till near the base, when with tremendous sound,
Bursts from his mouth sulphureous floods of tire.

SO when the breast of proud Strombalo swells, 831
And the hot lava to the top impels,
Forth from the mouth the burning ruin hastcs,
And the rich plain of smiling verdure wastes.
(To be continued.)
Or on the banks, by Schnylkills side,

Set list'ning to the murmring tide,
Ast gently ows along;
To rove, alone, at early dawn,

\Vhile Flora skirts the verdant lawn,
\Vith owers of brightest hue;
'hile the gay warblers chaunt their lays,

And Phebus throws his lucid rays
Along the elds of dew.
groping about and striking away in the dark;

they make those who have them hundred
eyed and thousand handed. Another point of

view. Intellectual and moral improvement
would enable and dispose the people to
choose good rulers; good rulers would make
W
good laws and pursUe wise measures. Now

that good or bad laws, wise or foolish mea
sures affect the prices of our crops and the

wealth of our country, he must be a most
ignorant fool who does not perceive.
Moral improvement would increase our
wealth,in many other ways, and very greatly.
There are, for instance, in the United States,
a multitude of idle, or half idle men, women,
and children, that can and ought to work, to
do business of some kind or other. Moral

improvement would make all these indus
trious and active. \Vhat an immense prot
to the country, when all these drones, instead
of eating the honey of the working bees,

should make honey themselves, and help to
ll the hive! The stings of conscience, or
even the smell of the brimstone match of
contempt, would soon make them busy in
collecting the sweets of some blooming eld
or some fragrant ower.
Take another case. How many hundred
thousand of drunkards or drinkards are
there among our seven millions of people?
\Vhat an immense, unn ccessary expense
for liquid re! How much time and labour
is lost! How many labourers spoiled or kil
led! How much sickness, how many deaths
and how many poor thrown on the towns,

from drunkenness! Well, suppose all these
make men honest andlpcaceable, instead of

rogues, rascals and robbers. It would put
tive; his courage was unsubdued. The pros
an end to quarrels and law-suits, decrees

and orders, armies and wars, Algerines by
the usual sources of splendid actions; it re

mains for the truly great soul to preserve its
equanimity in the gloom of dungeons and
embrace of death.
The exploits of this extraordinary man in
the vigour of life are unknown to us. \Ve
saw him only for a short time on the edge
sea, and Arabs by land. A glorious improve

ment surely. A vast saving! An immense
gain.
Trenton Federalist.
CHARACTER OF AN INDIAN CIQEF.
History presents few instances of igqeater

valour and magnanimity, than are displayed
in the character of Opcchanchanough, an
Indian chief. Bold, artful, insinuating; skil
led in dissimulation and intrigue, he for ma
ny years kept the early settlers of Virginia

in a state of continual alarm, and more than
once menaccd them with destruction. Al

though so decrepid by age as to be unable to
Walk, he commanded in person, and directed
from the litter on which he was borne, the
pect of power and incentive of example, are
of the horizon; but from the lustre of his de
parting beams, we may easily conceive what

he was in his meridian blaze. Geo. Jour.
.
A gentlemen having missed his way, for

tunately overtook a boy going with a quan
tity of tar to mark his masters sheep. The
gentleman asked the road to
; but
was directed by so many windings and
turnings, right and left, that he agreed to
take the boy behind him on the horse, as he
was going near to the same place. Finding

him pert and docile, he gave him, as they
onset and retreat of his warriors at the dread

ful massacre of 1641, which almost extermi
nated the colonists. The excessive fatigues
ofthis campaign completed the wreck of his
rode on, some wholesome advice relative to

his future conduct, adding occasionally,
constitution. His esh wasted away; and his
Mark me well, my boy. Yes sir, (said
sinews lost their elasticity; so that the eye

lids hung over the balls and obscured their
sight. In this forlorn condition, bending un
der the weight of years, and worn out by
the hardships of war, he was surprised, ta
drunkards to become sober men, the com
ken captive, and carried to James-Town,
munity would be gainers to an incalculable

amount. To introduce a race of sober men
instead of grog bruisers, wine guzzlers, and
whiskey barrels, would be a far more prot
able improvement than the full introduction
of English sheep and cattle, or even that of
Merinos. To make all the idle work, and
where he was basely shot by one of the sol

diers appointed to guard him.
To the last moment, his courage remained
drunkards sober, would contribute more to
151
M
unbroken; like the staff of Moses, it sup
ported him in adversity and prosperity, in

sickness and in death. Just before he expir
ed, he heard, says the historian, an un
he) I do.Ho\vcver, he repeated the inj unc

tion so often, that the boy at lastv cried out,
Sir, I have no more tar.
-.
A certain vicar of a facetious turn, walking

late one evening, met his curate highly ela
ted with the juice of the grape. Oh, ho, Mr.
'l'wangum, says the vicar, from whence come
you? \Vhy I dont know, doctor, says he, Ive
been spinning it out with neighbour Free

port. Ay, quoth the doctor, and now I per
ccivc after your spinning it out, you are now
nishing the work by reeling it home.
*
usual bustle in his prison. Having ordered
An abbe, remarkable for his parsimony,
his attendants to lift up his eyelids, he dis
covered a number of persons crowding happened to be in company where a charita
round him, for the purpose of gratifying ble subscription was going round. The plate
an unseasonable and cruel curiosity. The was brought to him, and be contributed his
If any of your female readers, Mr. Sher dying chief felt this indignity with a keen Louis dor. The collector, not observing it,
man, should have glanced their eyes upon ness of sensibility the more violent, as it came to him a second time. I have put in,"
my communication,l hope they will indulge was new and unforeseen. It was a burst of said he. If you say so I will believe you,"
me with a moment more of patience and a passion, a momentary ascendancy of nature returned the collector, though ldid not see 4
pardon while I say that moral improvements over the habits of education, and its exhibi it. I did see it," cried old Fontenelle, who
Would promote manly plainness, simple, lady tion and effect must be acknowledged to was present, but did not believe it.
like elegance, and rational economy, instead correspond with the greatness of the occa
of childish show, play-acters dissipation, sion. \Vithout deigning to notice the intru
PHILADELPHIA,
courtezans nery, and mad extravagance. ders, he raised himself from the earth, and
What an emense saving here! By following with a voice and tone of authority command
fashion and exhibiting show less, while they ed that the governor should be immediately
CORRESPONDENCE.
consulted durable elegance and substantial ralled in. \Vhen he made his appearance,
We are well pleased with the poetry of
benefit -more, a multitude of families migh: Opechanchanough scornfully told him, had 'l. W. W'. but we have always been averse
curtail their expense and become one mort it been his fortune to have taken Sir \Villinm to publishing an acrostic, particularly when
independent, respectable, happy. By such a Berkeley prisoner, he would not meanly it exposes the name of a lady.
revolution there would be a great Saving it. 'xave exposed him as a show to his people.
The cxtemporaneous verses of Leander
the articles of duns, lawsuits, costs ofcourt,
What nobleness of spirit! What matchless we publish as a very happy effusion.
prisons, white-washings, &c. &c.
aeroism! At the age of an hundred years;
An llle upon a Printer, by Alexis, shall
Once more, moral improvement would blind, unable to stand,. wounded and'a cap
appear in our next.
I
the commonwealth than spinning jennies and

steam engines, than any or all of the new
manufactures mentioned in secretary Gal
latins report.
:1
2d. That the atmosphere of the comet is either
From the Richmond Enqm'rer.
The following- are the observations which I

have made on the apparent situation of the comet
now visible. The distances between it and the x
ed Stars we'e ascertained by a good lladlcys

octant, and the right ascensions,'&e. were obtain
ed fmm a celestial globe, not having at present
leisure to make the necessary calculations in
spherical trigonometry for that purpose.
Saturday, 7th Sept. half past 7 at night.
Distances.
Polar star,
Deg. .Min.
50 15
HEALTH OFFICE,
extremely dense, or that the comet is removed at a
much greater distance than Jupiter from the sun;

for as the' comet is enlightened by the sun in like
manner as the planets, it would be equally bright
September 21, 1811.
Inter-ments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia

from the 14th to the 215t September.
Diseases.
Cholera Moi-bus
ad. ch.
Diseases.
0 4 Fever, scarlet
ml. ch.
o lamwo'nwcw-po
N'QOHOH O #
as Jupiter were it at the same distance and not
Consump. of lungs 8
2 Hives
Convulsions
Decay
2
0
I
2
obscured by a dense atmosphere. On account of
the great apparent magnitude of its body it is

however more probable that its distance from the
earth is much less than that of Jupiter, and that
a dense atmosphere and not its distance causes its
obscurity. Its eect upon the globe will principal

., .
.
Alpha
2]. 35
ly depend upon its distance from the earth when
L's Major Gamn'la,
16 28
passing the descending node.
Right ascension,
161 30
Declination north,
41
Doctor Halley in speaking of the comet of 1680
Longitude, 4- signs 23 degrees.
says, had the earth then been in the part of her
Latitude,
30 30
.orbit nearest to that node, their mutual gravita
Distance from the sun, 34- 15
tion must have caused a change in the plane of
Wednesday, 11th Sept. half past seven at night.
Distances.
Deg. .Min.
the orbit of the earth and in the length of our
Polar star,
48 50
year, and that if so large a body with so rapid a
Alpha,
?0 10
motion as that of this comet were to strike against
_
.
Beta,
4 44
Uisa Maprdcnmma,
13 23
the earth, a thing by no means impossible, the
LEla,
27 23
shock might reduce this beautiful frame to its
Arcturus, 4-3 45
original chaos.
Right ascension,
165
Declination north,
42 45
Mr. Whiston attributes the universal deluge to
Longitude, 4- signs 28 degrees.
the
near approach of a comet. His opinion was
Latitude,
34
that the earth passing through the atmosphere
Distance from the sun. 37 45
of the comet, attracted therefrom great part of the
lfriday, 13th Sept. half past seven at night.
Distances.
Deg. Mn.
water of the ood; that the nearness of the comet
Polar star.
48
5
raised a great tide in the subterraneous waters,
Alpha,
19 35
as that the outer crust of the earth was changed
tirsa Major Beta,
14- 4
Gamma,
12 15
from a spherical to an oval gure. Thus he ac
Right ascension,
168 30
counts for trees and bones of animals being
Declination north,
43 45
found at very great depths in the earth.
Longitude, 5 signs.
Latitude
35
As the most remarkable comets have been gene
Distance from the sun, 39 30
rally attcndcd with extraordinary tides and tem
Saturday, 14th Sept. half past seven at night.
pests, it were to he wished that those who have
Distances.
Deg- Jilin
an opportunity would be particularly careful in
Polar star,
47 50
Alpha,
19 12
noticing such natural phenomena as may take
.
.
Beta,
14
3
llrsa
Mayor
Gamma,
n 42
place during the appearance of this comet. Such
an opportunity may not again present itself for
Eta,
24 23
Arcturus,
42 26
many years.
JOHN \VOOD.
Right ascension,
169
Richmond, Sept. 15.
Declination north,
44
Longitude, 5 signs 45 minutes.
Jeremiah Baily, of E. Marlborough township,
Latitude,
.35 ' 45
Distance from the sun, 40 30
Chester county, Penn. has obtained a patent for
Sunday, 15th Sept. four in the morning.
a very useful and simple machine for elevating
Distances.
Deg. .Min.
and conveying grain or meal by means of blowing
Alpha,
19 10
or suction. This machine has been tried and
Ursa Major Beta,
14
1
Gamma,
10 35
found to answer the most valuable purposes. Some
Alpha of orion,
82 15
of its superior advantages are that in the rst
Sirius eanis major,
88 55
place it does not cost one fth as much as Evans.
Procyon canis minor,
63 55
\Vith respect to the changes which have taken It is not liable to get out of order; requires but
place in the comet since rst observed, its bright little force, as there is no friction- It cleans the
ness as likewise its tail have considerably increas wheat, cools the ow, and delivers it at the bolt
ing hopper without rubbing, and is so easily adapt
ed
\Vhether this comet be one of those which have ed to any situation as to be applied. to raising
0
1
Dropsy ofthe breast 0

Dysentery
3
lnam. of brain
lnam. of stomach
lnam. of liver
Locked jaw
Dcbility

0 Still born
1 0 Teething
Fever
Drowned
1 Unknown
Fever, intermittent l
Fever, remittent
Fever, bilious
Fever, malignant
Fever, typhus
I
to
0 4
2 0
4 0
Total
55
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
10
20
30
40
'11 Between 50 and 60

460
70
5
10
20
3O
40
50
6
6
1
7
7
3
70
80
90
100
4
3
80
90
100
110
3
0
0
0
Total 55

STATE OF THE THERMOBIETER.
9 oclack- 12 oclock- 3 oclock
Scptember 16
65
70
74
17
71
76
77
18
19
72
74
78
77
82
79
20
21
69
63
70
6-1-
70
65
JOSEPH HUTTON
NFORMS his friends and the public that his
room, No. 64 Lombard street, will be opened
on the 15th of October for the purpose of evening

tuition, from six until nine oclock. It is his inten
tion to limit liis'number, the advantages of which
need no comment.
TERMS or THE nlsiusn'ronv.
The price is four dollars per :umum; city sub
scribers to pay quarterly in advance, distant subI
evary Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
year. These who do not notify us of their intention

and become responsible for the payment, shall it.


high or low water, and delivering it into a store, pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
at the rate of 500 bushels an hour, by the force of
PHILADELPHIA,
_
ml conclusions may however be drawn.
one horse- This machine is now in operation at
lst. That its ascending node is in Leo, and its J. Bailysand Divid Dickeya mills, in Chester Ws alley, bet 'een fourth and Fifth streets;
a periodical return, is extremely uncertain; [do
salt, grain, 8w. out of the hold of a ship, either at
not nd that it corresponds exactly with any on

record. From its situation and appearcncc 515
descending node is in Sagiwrius.
county,
1 .
"4" s
Q Bifabefpjiageperfttm
Cowrzn.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5. NHL
VOL ll.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF AGRIPPI'NA THE YOUNGER.
(Continued.)
It was not long before, by the ready
means of poison, to which he had again re

course, he contrived to remove his rival.
The surprise of Agrippina at this catastro

phe could be equalled only by her grief:
no suspicion could fall upon her; her inter
est in the preservation of the prince, through
whom alone she could expect to preserve
an inuence over her son, afforded her best
N. 20.
feeling any solicitude respecting her justi

cation, he declared himself zealous but for
hand of Silana; till Agrippina, with a view the honour of his master, which, if once se
of securing in reversion the estates of her cured by proofs of the crime, he was him
friend, threw impediments in the way of self prepared, not merely to act the part of
their union: she suggested to the knight a judge on the occasion, but even to inflict
the disproportion between his own years the sentence, which should follow convic
and those of his mistress, whose charms, tion.
she hinted, were somewhat on the wane:
The tyrant, appeased by reections so
while. with these reections, she mingled reasonable, agreed to suspend his vengeance
Sextus AfriCanns, a Roman knight, became
cnamoured of the charms, and sought the
insinuations still more delicate; and, at length,
succeeded in detaching from Silana
and to commission Burrhus and Seneca,
her with a deputation of freemen, to investigate
lover, whose altered manners betrayed to the
in the morning the grounds of the charge.
injured fair one the author of her wrongs.

Burrhus, on his admittance to the em
The disgrace of Agrippina seemed to af press, assuming a severe accent and ame
ford the opportunity of vengeance to a wo nacing air, interrogated her respecting the
man who wanted magnanimity to forbear accusation brought forward against her. To
From neglect and coldness, Nero proceed
ed to humiliation and outrage: dismissing to crush the vanquished. Agents were em this charge Agrippina replied with a lofty
the gaurds which, as the wife and mother ployed by her to suborn Paris, a comedian, and dauntless mien, mingled with an air of
of an emperor, had been appointed to at to act the part of an accuser against the em resentment and scorn, that it was little sur
tend her, he at length compelled her to press.
prising, that the feelings of a mother to
_
quit the palace, and to abandon the city;
Nero, carousing with his companions, wards her offspring should not be compre
allotting for her residence a mean house in was roused from an entertainment by the hended by Silana. A tender mother," ad
the suburbs, were wretches were commis
alarm of a conspiracy against his life and ded she, forgets not her children with the
dignity, projected by his mother, and pre facility with which a harlot changes her lo
sioned to insult and distress her.
The friends and atterers of her posperi pared for execution. Agrippina had, it was vers. The agent employed by my enemies
ty, with few exceptions, vanished in her pretended, by the promise of her hand, and to effect their purpose, converts their ma
of sharing with him the empire, engaged lignity into burlesque. To an accuser like
adverse fortunes: deserted, cast out, con
temned, without sympathy or support, the in her designs Rebellius Plautus, great this, contempt rather than credit is due.
wretched Agrippina sunk at once from the grandson to Augustus, the lustre of whose The malice of adversaries may be safely
elevation to which she had waded through birth was to conciliate the people, and to deed, who, in support of their ridiculous
a sea of blood. Not a vestige of her former procure to their cause a powerful par allegations, have failed to produce one re
putable witness. It would be easy for me to
greatness remained; the incense of courts, ty.
the homage of nations, were exchanged for
The rst purpose of Nero on this intel demonstrate, that the design imputed to my
indignities the most vile and gross; those on ligence, was the immediate destruction of charge is incompatible with my interest.
Whom she had lavished favours, who owed the persons accused; but Burrhus, more From the generosity of Britannicus, had I
to her their fortunes, joined in the cry calm and collected, restrained his fury. l-le been instrumental in restoring to him his
against her; or, by aected condolence, represented to him, in forcible terms, the rights, I might indeed have attered my
sought to ensnare her to her ruin. In this right of every criminal to be heard in his self of protection; but, should the sovereign
wreck of her prosperity she remained un- own defence; the improbability ofthe charge authority fall into other hands, my enemies,
appalled, sustained by her native cou alleged; and the character of the accuser, I am but too well aware, might bring charges
a single witness, alone and unsupported, against me which a son only could pardon
' rage.
his testimony corroborated by no facts. To in a mother.
At this crisis, she found her most im
placable enemy in Silana, a Roman lady, these arguments he added, the reproach of
Observing her audience impressed by the
distinguished by her birth, by her riches, the world, which would not fail to pursue [frankness and spirit with which she defend
and by her beauty. Silana had cultivated measures of a nature so desperate, precipi |ed herself, she boldly demanded admittance
the friendship of the empress, who had, onI tately taken, without time for reection, to the emperor; of whom, without even
her part, though not without interested land in the midst of a debauch. Far from deigning to justify herself, or to .t-proach
justication. In vain she sought to attach
to her the nobles and oicers of the state;
her credit and power daily diminished.
views, been lavish in complacent returns. being the advocate of the empress, or from him with the rank which he owed solely to
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m
her, she implored vengeance upon her ac
cusers, and a recompense for the friends

who yet adher'ed to her. Her peremptory
and dignied manner, with the condence
of her appeal, combined to assure her suc
cess. Nero, surprised and moved, could re
fuse nothing to a mother, who, availing her

self of the sudden revulsion of sentiment
produced by the occasion, effected, in the
heart of a tyrant, the triumph of nature over
ambition and fear. Silana was exiled, and
quest? even if the expected friend fmled

hood of Nero had held the office of his he would but leave her in. the same situa~
governor, was at length preferred as more tion in which he found her. This made her
mander of the galleys, who in the child
practicable and ingenious. Anicetus, who
change her rst resolution and determine
had conceived against the empress, whom

he believed to be his enemy, a mortal ha
tred, eagerly seized this opportunity of at
once paying court to his master, and ac
complishing his own revenge. A galley
upon attending to her unknown adviser.

Minda highly applauded this determina
was constructed under his direction, the
deck of which, on moving a spring should

her agents suffered death; while on the ad give way, and the hold divide, by which
herents of the empress, officers of honour means the persons beneath must be inevita
and trust were conferred.
bly destroyed, while the event might ap
Agrippiua thus. by the malice of her ene pear entirely casual. 'l'he emperor, on re
mies, reinstated in her power, was little ceiving the news of the success of the plan,
scrupulous of the means of maintaining it: was to exonerate himself from suspicion,
in opposing her interest to that of Sabina by an appearance of surprise and con
Poppaza, of whom Nero was now become cern; while, by paying honours to the
enamoured, a conduct is attributed to her memory of a mother whom he equally ha
by historians, from the recital of which it is
impossible not to shrink with disgust. But

her blandishments and fascinations failed to
supplant a rival whose inuence over the
emperor daily increased, and who availed
herself of her charms, to aggravate in the
heart of her lover a distrust of his mother,
but too well grounded. The transition from

distaste and suspicion to hatred and ven
geance is, in some minds, easy and rapid.
Nero at length determined to rid himself

of a competitor that disquieted his mind, in
terfered with his pleasures, disturbed his
claims, and awakened his dread. Over a
heart corrupted by power, and by the facili
ty of indulging its passions, nature and
gratitude have but a feeble sway. The em
peror forgot in his anxiety for the security
of his previleges, that, for the rank to which
he owed them, he was indebted to her whose
death was now become familiar to his

thoughts.
To avoid the odium of parricide, he had
recourse to secret and treacherous mea
sures: various attempts were made to ad
minister poison to the empress, but aware
for her cottage and Amelia to seek Montal

do. Alas! poor maid, had she known the
disposition of DArinhault, savage, brutal

and hypocritical, she would never have at
tempted to soften his inty bosom by awaken
ed generosity.
Full, however, of expectation, she pas
sed to the bank of the river to refresh her
fainting spirits and endeavoured to regain
some composure before she addressed the
prince; and placed herself upon the grassy
banks. She sat some time, leaning upon her
arm, when she heard the sound of footsteps;

she looked up and beheld Montaldo ap
ted and feared, he purposed to concili
ate popular esteem. The celebration of proaching her with rapid strides, but appa
the approaching festival of Minerva, at Baiaa, rently unconscious that any one was near
a seaport in Campania, resorted to for its im. Amelia arose and he perceived her; he
hot-springs and delicious gardens, appear quickened his pace and taking hold of her
ed a t opportunity for the accomplish hand he thus addressed her: My lovely,
my destined bride, to what blissful power
ment of the design.
am I indebted for the felicity of thus meet
ing you?
a.
My being here, my lord, replied Ame
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lia, was entirely accidental, but since we
on
THE MYSTERIOUS BIONK.
A TALE.
CHAPTER VII.
Continued.
Griith.
Unmoved resign as yet untasted bliss;
But that once seen, who hesitate! to choose,
And this, once tasted, twould be death to lose!
Amelia held the letter opened in her

hand for some time, and endeavoured, from
the writing,to surmise who the writer could
of the perils of her situation, she contrived, by
be. But all in vain; she had never seen it

before, and could not form the least proba
precaution or antidotes, to bafe the design.
ble conjecture concerning the author. It
Seneca has been accused of a concurrence,
could not be her lilorival; oh! no, she was
or at least of a passive acquiescence, in the too well acquainted with his hand. It could
criminal views of his pupil. \Vith a curious not be father Kartholo, for how was it in
casuistry, some persons have supposed, that his power to save; besides, why did he not
the philosopher forbore to oppose a crime impart his plans to her while at the monas
which, by lling up the measure of the ty tery? Perhaps then it was some device to
rants offences, might draw down upon him lead her tnore calmly to the arms of I)
the slumbering vengeance of the gods.
tion and they both left the chamber, Minda
Arinhault! her soul shuddercd at the idea,
Among various stratagems planned for and she, at once, resolved to pay no atten
the destruction of Agrippina, it was propos tion to the mysterious epistle. But then her
ed, that a ooring should be so contrived marriage with Pandolfo was determined on,
as to fall, as if by accident, in the middle and either with her consent or forcib g she
of the night, and thus to crush her to death. must go to the altar; where then could be
But a scheme, projected by Anicetus, com I the danger of attending to this private re
have met, I acknowledge that I wished, to

see your lordship.
Can it be possible! exclaimed DArin
hault, that the lovely Amelia could have
desired to see me!
Yes, prince, replied the trembling
daughter of Altenheim, for you have it in
your power to conrm my mortal happiness
or misery! to your honour, to your gene
rosity I appeal, to snatch me from the pin
nacle of ruin and obtain the everlasting
gratitude of Amelia.
You amaze me, my lovely trembler,
cried the crafty DArinhault, in affected
surprize, for well he knew the intention of
the maid, you amaze me, indeed! what
can this mean? I conjure you to explain and

save me from the misery of surmise!"
Hear me, prince Pandolfo," cried
Amelia, assuming a tone of rmness, you
and I have been destined from our infancy

for each other, but I hope your noble nature
would wish our union founded on a more

honourable basis than that of sordid wealth
and gaudy pageautry.
Certainly, my beloved, my adored Ame
lia, cried Mantaldo rapturously, upon the
pure unsullied basis of mutual affection."
Indeed! prince," returned Amelia,
*- then you will no doubt withdraw your de
mand of the promise of my father, when you
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know that I can never love you and that my
heart has long been the property of ano
ther."
DArinhault was thunderstruck. He ex
pected not so sudden an attack and was ra
ther unprepared, but sinking on his knees,
he conjured Amelia not to drive him to dos-l?
of the day; Kartholo refuses to perform the
her father. The monks and nuns all ed
ceremony, or even to be present
from the chapel and the spectre, repeating

the warning to Altenheim,_ immediately
disappeared.
Yes," cried the count, your admoni
tion shall now be attended to. Look up, my
child, and be happy; you shall never be the
wife of D'Arinhault.
at it.
However, Celestine will attend and the knot
he makes will last as long as Kartholos.

Come,my children, let us in and take some
refreshment, and I will give orders to pre

pare for the moment that makes me the
pair, that had she made her request. before' happiest of fathers.
They now entered the castle, and the halls
he had seen her, there would have been no
difculty in relinquishing his pretensions, soon rung with the tidings of the approach
but to have the cup of felicity within his ing nuptials of the lady Amelia. Let us has
grasp and throw the nectar from him untas ten then to the catastrophe of the next day.
ted; never, never, it would be certain death! The fatal morning arrived; and the group
Unmanly, and ungenerous, cried Ame from the castle proceeded to the corfvent
lia, but know, proud lord, that my forti
tude, once roused, can be as stubborn as
your cruelty, and here I declare, never will
of Saint Lucia, to witness the hynienial
I be willingly your wife!

The natural disposition of the infamous
ceremonies. They paused a few moments

in the hall, until the tolling of the bell an
nounced the moment for proceeding to the
chapel. Father Celestine preceded the
DArinhault was roused and, starting from
whole, bearing the cross, having on each
Amelia caught the last words of her fa

ther but could only cast a look of gratitude
on him, for her feelings checked her utter
ance. Pandolfo was conveyed to the castle
in a state of insensibility, and Amelia and
her father followed; the former with a light

heart, the latter, happy that his daughter
had escaped the snares of a villain, but cha
grined that his ambitious prospects had
been thus blasted.
To be continued.
e
his humble posture, be cast alook ofsavage
side a friar, habited in a white robe carrying
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triumph at the helpless Amelia, then with a

smile of haughty sarcasm exclaimed,
a torch. Then followed Pandolfo, conducting
THE CABINET. No. LV.
Amelia, supported also by the arm of

Altenheim, and lastly the nuns, chaunting
lingly you shall be,0r the sacred promise of the marriage anthem, accompanied by soft,
but most enchanting music.
court Altenheim be violated!"
Thus saying, he hastily turned to depart,
They now entered the chapel, arranged
but Amelia conjured hint by the affection themselves around the altar, and after pay
Indeed! heroic maid, thus mine unwil
he professed for her, not to drive her to
ing their adorations at the feet of the patro
despair, and urge her to desperation by

mentioning the circumstance of their meet
ing to her father.
On one condition, answered the un
ness of the monastery, Celestine proceeded

to the nuptial rites. No friend appeared to
save her and Amelias heart trembled at
her inevitable destiny.
feeling villain, I consent, obduratc girl.
I pronounce, cried Celestine, Amelia,
to bury in oblivion the insult you have o'er

ed to my honour and my love, consent to be
daughter of Ferdinand count Altenheim,

prince of the holy Roman empire the true
mine, whenever your noble father shall re
and lawful wife of
quire your attention at the altar.

Here a deep groan ew through the
Amelia shuddered at this proposal, but chapel, struck every bosom, except Ame
seening no way to avoid the detestable act lias, with dismay, and prevented Celestine
and resolving to commit herself to the care from concluding the ceremony. In a mo
of her unknown friend, as her last hope, ment all was again silent, and the monk
reluctantly promised, and the transports of was requested to proceed. He did so, when
DArinhault were unbounded. He declared the groan was again heard, and a voice;
that she had given him new life and raised which issued from the cemetery below, ex
him from the depth of despondency to the claimed in a hollow tone:
summit of felicity. But the heart of Amelia
Altenheim, friend of Pandolfo, lead not
was agitated by dili'erent sensations. She thy daughter to a murderers arms!"
beheld her situation with the utmost agony.
All were thunderstruck; but none knew
Should her friend fail and she become the the voice of the spectre of the palace, except
wife of Montaldo, her misery would be the prince, Altenheim and their attendants.
extreme. Suffering under these impressions,
Heard you that, my father? cried Ame
she permitted Pandolfo to conduct her to lia, rushing into the arms of Altenheim,
the castle, at the entrance of which, they heard you that?"
were met by Altenheim, to whom DArin
What means this delay? cried Pandolfo,
hault related the successful issue of his in let the ceremonies proceed."
terview with Amelia. The count was in ex
Never, cried Amelia.
stasies and catching Amelia to his bosom,
Never! cried the spectre of the palace,
wept over her in unfeigned joy.
appearing as before described, to the amaze
To morrow, said he, your marriage ment and terror of the whole. Pandolfo
shall be solemnized; and there is but one sunk senseless into the arms of the atten
thing that throws a cloud over the festivities dants, and Amelia fell upon the bosom of
Habit is a second nature.
Shaka-pears.
It has been so long a time since I have

made my appearance before the readers of
the Cabinet, thatI feel upon commencing
this paper very much of the difdence
which possessed me when my rst number
was ushered into public view. My good
friend Gregory has indulged his old compa
triot in the literary cause with so long a
respite from his usual labours that he ab
solutely began to think he had some sort of
right to be as lazy as he pleased. But this
delightful dream of indolencc Gregory is
detertnined shall continue no longer. Pe
ter, said he in a voice unusually hoarse and
terrifying as he bolted into my chamber
the other morning before I was out of bed,
t Peter," said he, is it possible that you can
let this wicked world jog on in its own

infamous trot to ruin, interrupted in its
destructive course only by what my poor
ngers, almost worn away by constant
labours, can avail? Arise! slothful moralist,
how canst thou rest with the terrible
weight of sins which burden this poor
globe all resting on thy head!" Rest! Greg
ory, said I, springing out of bed, alarmed
by the serious tone ofthe old man; rest! my
friend Gregory, Ill never rest till I behold
the unworthy name of Peter Peaceaole
once more at the bottom of our column,
and this very day I'll set about showing the
inuence of habit on the human mind.

Habit is a second nature," continued Mr.
Gravity, and your own ill habit ofindolence
has so unnerved every principle of industry

in you, that it will require a full months
hard moralizing to get your cranium into

any sort of trim. I thank thee.I Gregory,
returned I, in the rst place fr" ' e subject,
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and now I overlook thy reproach, in consi
paralizes the sensibility of judgment (ifl
deration of the appropriate motto which
may so express myself,) and renders it sa
tised with the most agrant outrages upon

the less true because it is as old as the hills propriety of conduct and the baser degrada
and has been in the mouth of every old gos tion of the human soul. A man who has for
sip since the days of yore.
a long time been accustomed to the com
It is a fact proved by the exemplication mission of a particular vice, loses, in a great
of past and present times, that the comfort measure, his perception of its impropriety,
of man in this life depends altogether upon and when this is the ease we may give over
the good habits in which he has been edu all hopes of a permanent and principled re
cated. The human mind in the early state formation.
of its existence is plastic, and liable to re
In the above observations I am well aware
ceive lasting impressions from every cir that the reader will nd nothing new, but
cumstance around it; if habituated to the I shall think the merit of my essay not a
practice of virtue when young, old age will whit the less on that account, if he will only
nd it xed in those principles which enno seriously attend to the ordinary remarks
ble human nature and render their posses which I have here collected for his benet.
sor happy; but if allowed to follow its natu
PETER PEACEABI.E.
ral inclination, to despise worthy conduct,
and to love the ignoble pursuit of sinful
For the Repertory.
thou hast furnished to it, and which is not
pleasure, future years will behold it sunk
into the awful abyss of immorality, covered

with the lth of vice, and surrounded by
the noxious cxhalations of stupidity and ig
norance. Habits, whether good or bad, grow
like the oak of the mountain, at rst it is

a tender plant, but soon becomes xed in
its strong hold and requires all the strength
of man to root it from its situation.
Ill habits, like cancers, show none of their
malignity in the beginning. Suffered to pro

ceed in their course, they corode the sensi
bilities of virtue, and frequently destroy the
victims of their violence. Many quacks pre
tend to eradicate the one, but that skilful
physician called Resolution, who unfortu
nately gets so little practice in this wicked

world, is alone adequate to the cure of the
other.
Ill habits frequently arise from small in

dulgences. The man who drinks frequently
will soon acquire the love of ardent spirits,
and nally contract a habit of using them.
He then becomes a drunk ard,
the
most
despicable and dangerous character under the

sun. The excellent and venerable professor
of the practice of physic in our university
has somewhere in his luminous writings
THE PROPITIATION.
Now hence and else all nature from thy weight,
Down to the realms of darkness and of hate!

But rst, for daring in my garb t appear,
875
Feel the sharp fury of my heaven made spear!
He spoke, then let the angry weapon fly,
And struck the fallen traitor in the thigh;
Spread his broad wings and to the summit flew,
His love and adoration to renew;
880
Leaving the end to vow revenge in vain,
And breathe his curses on the heedless plain.
Now upward ew, their bright commission oer,
'lhe ministring choir around the throne to adore;
To shout new anthems to the glorious plan,
885
Contrived by mercy for redeeming man.
The conquering Jesus leaves the barren wild,
Where peace neer beamd nor pleasure ever
smiled,
And to the city bent his lonely way,

New scenes of love and wonder to display;
To call the twelve his every joy to bear,
And the vast labour of his work to share.
890
In humble Canas favoured realm, where few

That graced the marriage cencert, Jesus knew,
BOOK IlI.
(Concluded)
A no u M s n 'r.
The angel: descend and would]: the Redeemer; Gabri
To make the potence of his godhead known, 895

The conscious water his omniscience own;
Behold in him the eternal sovereign shine,
el ujibraills Sutrmfor assuming hinfarm; prophecies Obey his look, and blush its stream to wine.
the increase of the kingdom qf Christ, and leaves the To heal the maimd. unclose the eighties: eye,
traitor wounded on the ground,- The choir ascend And bid disease in all its gures y;
900
and Jams returns to Jerusalem; Brief review of hit: Eject those ends that many a bosom bore,
acts, and the book closes with a hymn lo the glory And all the soul with cruel fury tore:
qf the Saviour.
But now the Saviours mighty trial 5 oer,
835
And thirst and hunger threaten now no more;

His heavenly eyes with native glories beam,
To hear them cry, while trembling at his nod,

We know thee who thou art, the Son of God;
With silent potence check the stream of gore 905
That long had own, and hid it ow no more;
And his bright look proclaims the dread. Supreme.

But hark! what rapture round the mountain ies.
What sounding chorus lls the listning skies! 840
Heavens portals, now,on pearly hinges hung,
By waiting seraphs are Wide open ung
Descending angels call the )Eolian lyre,
And through the air transportingjoys inspire.
845
Enchanted echo bears the notes afar,
Till newborn pleasure gladdens evry star;
The silver moon rejoices at the sound,
With power omnic multiply the bread
And the bright sun ings brighter day around;
The raging winds their sweeping force to stay?

The listning' waters and the winds obey;
The smiling verdure takes a lovelier green,

850
And all creation wears a fairer mien.
To the tall mount the tuneful choir descend,
Before victorious Jesus lowly bend,
Each min'string seraph shakes his golden wings,
And heavenly odour round the mountain ing-s.
On that same spot where Satan tempts before, 855
Arch angels bow in reverence and adore.
advised that medicines be not administered

in ardent spirits, lest the patient by this
means be innocently seduced into a love of Gabriel the true, who led the chosen choir,
With bosoms glowing with celestial re,
those terrible articles.
Descends the mount to where the Tempter fell,
Knowing, then, how liable we are to And thus addrelsd the groaning king of hell. 860
contract habits; and that these habits will
The souls that Jesus from thy grasp shall wrest,

Shall add new torture to thy tortured breast; 870
And these, malignant homicide, shall be
Vast as the sands that compass round the sea.
I Deteated rebel, who could thus assume

Myshining armour and refulg'ent plume;
How couldst thou hope to cheat those piercing eyes
That look through earth and hell, from yonder
skies?
See here thy fate deserved, thus overthrown, 865
materially aect our future happiness, ought

it not to be the peculiar study of those who
have the charge of children, to bring them
up in virtuous habits that generally society
may receive the benet of the services of
In endlesl anguish and despair to groan;
men who have been taught in their youth New showers of vengeance shall from heaven be
to walk in the right way? Our capital danger
shed,
in the indulgence of evil habits, is, that it And rain increasing horrors on thy head;
Which countless numbers in abundance fed;
To tread majestic on the obedient wave,

And snatch Barjonas from a watery grave;
Command the troubled billows of the deep
To hush their roarings in a transient sleep;
The whistling winds to slumber into peace,
910
And bid contending elements to cease;
To force the cry, what personage is he,
915
Who thus commands the billowa of the sea,
Celestial manna oer the world to shed,
To cleanse the leper and to raise the dead;

Eternal Saviour, whose redeeming love,
Urged thee to leave adoring hosts above,
920
By thy distress rebellious man to save,
And catch his spirit from a fearful grave;

'lhou who in whilom ages spoke to birth,
925
Earth and the whole that ll that spacious earth;

llow should all nature shout thy awful name,
And sound aloud the mighty trump of fame!
Let all creation in ten thousand lays,

Pour the loud anthem ofexalting praise;
that ye high choirs. let each angelic tongue
Swell the proud mulic and begin the song,
930
For ye, ethereal messengers divine,
That with superior radiance sweetly shine,

Should praise superior in the skies bestow,
And heaven born rapture every bosom know;
935
That all which in the air or earth appear,

The thrilling echo may exulting hear.
Skies catch the sound and let your regions ring,
157
=%===
Let all your shining hosts triumphant sing;

And with transporting harmony proclaim
The matchless glory of a Saviours name.
Thou orb immoveable that shedst the day
940
To wondring worlds, his mighty power display;
Pronounce the mighty anthem to his power; 1010

And as upon the naked earth you throw
Your freezing beauties, heaven directed snow,
Let your cold beds that warm the fertile ground,
Speak clarion tongued to every creature round,

And for existence grateful, as they fall,
1015
Proclaim Jehovah matchless Lord of all.
Whereer thy fervid inuence is felt,

945
With humble love let every bosom melt;
Let every knee in adoration bend,
Praise him. ye spheres, loud shouts of honour raise,
And Christs omnipotence through earth extend;
And earths rotundity advance his praise.
Do thou proclaim that ere the mass was broke,
Ye beasts that range the gloomy forest through,
To gloomy chaos the Redeemer spoke;
950 I charge you bear the vocal chorus too;
Calld from her dismal womb thy earliest rays,
Join your loud powers to swell the anthem high,
Formd thy huge orb and kindled all thy blaze.
And roar Jehovahs glory to the sky.
That orb upon its burning axle hung,
And you, ye tribes, whose featherd pinions bear
Then placed thy light the wondring worlds among. Your oating bodies on supporting air,
Thou moon benevolent, sweet silver queen,
955 \Vho mounting soar, with strenuous wings, on high,
\Vhose peerless look enlivens all the scene;
Or nearer earth with timorous bosoms y,
1026
Sheds oer the ambient gloom a silver light,
Mingle your notes, a joyful concert raise,
\Vhen the earth slumbers on the lap of night;
And ll the air with the eternal praise.
Still on the world emit thy paler rays,
But thou, whose tunes the darkling hours adorn,
But to proclaim thy great Creators praise;
960 \Vhile plaintive singing on the silent thorn, 1030
Tell how he formed of old thy weaker beam,
Sweet Philomcla warbler of the night,
Though in the train of night thou ridest supreme;
Praise, more than all, thy God, in chaste delight.
Bade thee each eve to take thy light from days
Let all on earth the glorious song resound,
Superior orb, and shine with borrowd blaze;
In boundless mercy gave thee ample power, 965

To cheer drear midnights melancholy hour.
Ye living gems that sparkle in the skies,
And ing pure lustre from your starry eyes,
More bright than all the fabled pearls that sleep
Upon the bottom of th incumbent deep;
970
Hall to your Makers praise, his glory boast,
And let new transports shake your numerous host.
Not only you, ye wonder-ous seven that run,
In your excentric orbits, round the sun,
From whose imparting beams, ordaind by Heaven,
Your glowing warmth and smiling day is given; 979
But you, ye xd bright sapphires of the sky,
That round your own huge axis only y;
With all that move in yonder blue archd sphere,
Resound his praise till listning earth shall bear.
Nor these alone, but all that boast a place
981
In the vast regions of unbounded space,
'hich none but Heavens all piercing eyes have
seen,
Dressd in the fruitful glebe or smiling green;
\Vhose distant circuit bids them swiftly run 985
Round him we see, or round another sun,
Bear as ye roll your great Creators name,
And moles and worms blind tenants of the ground;

\Vith grateful zeal their silent honours raise, 1035
And creep and wind expressive of his praise.

Ye loud reverberating rocks, ye elds,
Whose fertile soil the waving foliage yields;

Ye towering hills whose awful summits rise,
Through the thin clouds and kiss the distant skies,
The name of Jesus echo through the air,
104-1
His mighty bands omnipotence declare
Thou muriatcd ocean, let thy roar
Echo his name from shore to distant shore:
Thy crested billows as they mounting rise, 1045
And the white foam, reecting Iris, ies,
Dash in disorder round their furious spray,
Wherefore this coldness

Preying oer my face, my hands;
That chills my blood, that binds my heart
In winters frozen hands?
This place how irksome!
Darkness suits not well my soul.
0! where that pillow soft with down,

That oft my silent misery stole?
And where that fever
Slowly burning in my brain?
This head feels no delirious pang;
Twere bliss no pang to feel again!
And where that trembling,
As late I pressed a dying bed?

No throb convulsive heaves my breast,
And miscrys like a vision ed!
This feeble struggling
Fain would break the chain of death;
Some inward powcr with kindling warmth
Inspires my clay with living breath;
Hark! the loud thunder,
Rolling, shakes the tomb around;
And the deep earthquake wrecks the world,

And rends this prison under ground.
0! tis the last trump,
Blown with blast of angel strong;

That blast terric lingers long.
T express an anthem to the God of day.

Ye rivers and ye lesser streams that ow,
Delightful murmurs, murmur, as ye go,
1050
A song of triumph to the eternal King,
Who formd the source from whence your waters
spring.
Ye brooks that ooze along the winding dell,
The great Jehovahs lasting honours swell;
Let every nny tenant of your stream,
1.055
Announce the God eternal and supreme.
Unnumberd hosts the watery worlds that ll,
Then bid thy thunder catch the wondrous theme;

In such a voice as rends the earth and air;
While distant planets tremble in amaze,

And in instinctive wonder, brutes shall gaze.
Tell bow from dust at his command you came,
\Vho breathed a spirit in your lifeless frame; 1070
And who when hell, with unrelenting soul,
That deathless spirit with the body stole,
Left the bright skies, in love, to set thee free,
And bore the cruel pangs of death for thee.
Wrap up thy soul in him, when nature dies,
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SOLILOQUY IN THE GRAVE.
And in the chambers of the dead,
And in new regions echo new acclaim.

Ofevery tribe, the creatures of his will;
Praise him, thou lightning, through the troubled air, Remain not silent, but attend the throng,
From West to orient, ing thy forked glare.
990 And add your voices to the general song;
1060
And as thou yst to strike grim terror round,
Proclaim that he who buoys you through the wave,
Throwing thy anger through the yielding ground, Birth to that ocean and your numbers gave.
Proclaim that he who formd thy aming ire,
And last, 0! man, the mighty call obey,
And charged thy fearful shafts with liquid re,
Join the great hymn, upon thy loudest lay,
Is he who reigns eternal and supreme;
995 Thy gratitude to listning worlds declare,
1065
From north to south his quivering potence roll,
To bring pale terror to the fearful soul,
And as he growls along the bursted cloud,
Shout through the air the Saviours name aloud.
Ye chilling winds that sweep across the main, 1001
Or blow your fury oer the naked plain,
Obey the summons, let your loudest breath
Pierce through the ground and shake the house of
death;
Shouting around the chorus as you go,
1005
Mighty is he who bade your lungs to blow.
From pregnant clouds descending down main,
Sound through the earth the eternal glory, rain;
Own your Creator, let each falling shower
h
With countless millions, there forever join,
'Io praise the glorious Architect divine

(To be continued.)
1075
And the burnt earth in dying embers lies:

When the vast seas are bid no more to ow,
When mighty worlds shall melt away like snow,

To live in endless bliss, do thou aspire,
1080
And in the skies receive an angels lyre,
I come, thou Saviour,

Throned in yonder ery cloud!
Lie there thou broken chain and rust,
Lie useless there thou spreading shroud!

And thou, Corruption,
Die! thy triumph now is oer,
And Death himself entombd shall lie,
And living worms destroy no more.

Sweet smiling spirit,
Hither dost thou Wing thy way?
0 take me from this tedious night!
0 hear me to the realms of day!
Hither, sweet Spirit!
One struggle more will end the strife.
O lend thy hand! 0 lift my head!
0 let me enter into life!
J. L.
_._
For the Repertory.
LINES,
On hearing a sermon from the parable ofLazarus and
the rich man, delivered by the Rev. Dr. S.
Ah! what avails the pomp of state,
Georgcous apparel, glittring plate;
Or what avails the yellow ore,

That avaricious fools adore?
Imperial monarch on thy throne,
Esteem the prostrate world thine own;
Yet death, With all resistless stride,
Shall trample on thy tou'cring pride:

Soon, thoughlcss fool, the trainsient earth,
From whence thy body burst to birth,
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Again slr..ll take thee to her womb,
And nd a cold, unfeeling tomb!
Within an inch or two of ground,
Thy llfk'ltSS carcase. shall be found,
And tenrless marble shall declare,
A monachbut a man lies there!

Go, miser, oer thy sordid heap,
Go and in trembling terror weep,
Go, oer thy brilliant gewgaws grieve,
For soon the whole thou art doomd to leave.
Ye rich that revel in your wealth,
Till sickness blights the bloom of health;
Tet spurn the beggar from your doors,
Though dogs, more piteous, lick his sores;
Still live and let th insatiate soul,
Qua still the baleful mantling bowl;
Yet learn this truth, relentless death
Shall stop your orgies with your breath!

Your body for the tomb prepare,
forth all the variety of animals from the
Revolutionary Trait. It is told of the late
earth, except the Chepewyans, who were

produced fromadog; and this circumstance
occasions their aversion to the esh of
that animal, as well as the people who eat
it. This extraordinary tradition proceeds
to relate, that the great bird, having nish
Mr. Mathers, sergeant at arms of the senate, _
ed his work, made an arrow, which was to
be preserved with great care, and to remain

untouched; but that the Chepewyans were
so devoid of understanding as to carry it
away; and the sacrilege so enranged the
great bird that he has never since appeared.
They have also a tradition among them,.
that they originally came from another
country, inhabited by very wicked people,
and had traversed a great lake, which was
that while he was attached to colonel Van

Courtlandts regiment, on a nothern station
in New York, a small body of men, of whom
he was one, was stationed on the Hudson at
what is called a Block-house, under the com
mand of one ofcer. A body of hostile Indians

four times their number approached. The
ofcer, instead ofexhorting his men to defend
themselves, advised them to surrender and
ask for quarters. This mark of cowardice in

the ofcer (death being inevitable had they
surrendered) so roused the soldier's blood in
our departed hero, who was standing with his
musket prepared for action, that he instantly
charged upon the ofcer, arrested and con
'lo moulder with the beggars there;
ut with the beggar-s shall it rise

To riches in the distant skies?
Attend this truth and learn from thence,
\Vhat God decrees thy recompense;

Learn if to you the boon is given;
narrow, shallow, and full of islands, where
they had suered great misery, it being al

ways winter, with ice and deep snow. At
the copper-mine river, where they made
ned him and took the command. Afters

few shots the Indians retreated with the loss
of one man. For this gallant act, he not on
the rst land, the ground was covered with
ly received the thanks and applause of his

colonel, but of the whole regiment.
copper, over which a body of earth had since

been collected, to the depth ofa mans height.
The pure and spotless rise to heaven!

VALERI \N.
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THE PROGRESS OF REPORT.
Report is rst, a pigmy small,

That shrewdly cautions, dares but crawl;
She whispers this, hints that, looks shy,

Sneaks on, and :quints, and learns to lie,
Gains as she goes, grOWs bold and strong,
Nor creeps through fear, a pigmy long.
But soon we see the monster rise,
Stride round, and swell to giant size:
\Vith uplift hand and accent loud
Fright and amuse th astonishd crowd;
Wake all the passions: rouse to strife
Neighbour with neighbour, man with wife,
.lar and derange the socid spheres,
\nd set whole cities by the ears
Strange is her form. She runs or ies
\Vith spreading wings set full of eyes;
Set full of cars her monstrous head,
And mouths and tongues that talk one dead

And watches, listens day and night,
Pleased nothing less with wrong than right;
Hears, conjures, vents her motley tales,
Ilarangues, puffs, libelsl slanders, rails;
And, where permitted most to dwell,

Renders the neighbourhood a hell.
They believe, also, that in ancient times their
ancestors lived till their feet were worn

out with walking, and their throats with eat
ing. They describe a deluge, when the wa
JV'ational Intelligencer.
From the Balance.
Of all my fathers family I like xvsznr the best.
Old Ballad.
A very sensible and feeling sentiment,
ters spread over the whole earth, except the whether said or sung. Ifoncs affections-cen
highest mountains, on the tops of which they
preserved themselves.
They believe that immediately after their
death, they pass into another world where
they arrive at a large river, on which they
embark in a stone canoe, and that a gentle
current bears them on to an extensive lake,
in the centre of which is a most beautiful
island: and that, in the view of this delight
ful abode they receive that judgment for

their conduct during life, which terminates
their nal state and unalterable allotment.
If their good actions are declared to pre
dominate, they arc landed upon the island,
where there is to be no end to their happi
tre in himself; if the whole circumference
of his friendship is bounded by his own

breast; how easy, how quiet, how comforta
ble must his years roll on! The ills which

befal others, do not vex him. The ravages
of re and famine, of pestilence and death,
never trouble him; provided they do not

enter his own threshold. He is not chargea
ble with partiality or injustice towards any.
He does not, by performing one liberal or
generous act, establish a precedent for
another. No one person ever asks a favour
of him, more than once: Being refused, it

would be folly to repeat such bootlcss calls.
I have known people harassed half to death
ness; which, however, according to their for favours and acts-0f kindness, merely
notions consists in an eternal enjoyment of because they suffered it to get about" that
sensual pleasure and carnal gratication. they were in the habit of granting them;
_.._.
But if their bad actions weigh down the
when, had they adopted my policy, and shut
INDIANS TENTS.
balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and

leaves them up to their chains in the water,
themselves up snugly in their own chimney

corner, nobody would ever have thought of
troubling them. More than nine tenths of all
the ills and vcxations of this life, arise from
peoples ignorance of, or inattention to. my
doctrins. I have kept a regular journal of
all the calamitous cvcr's which have hap
The following is a very distinct account

of the Chcpcwyan ideas of futurity.
The notion which these people enter
tain of the creation is of a. very singular na

ture. They believe that. at the rst, the
globe was one vast and entire ocean, inhab
ited by no living creature except a mighty
to behold and regret the reward enjoyed

by the good, and eternally struggling but
with unavailing endeavours, to reach the
blissful island, from which they are excluded

for ever.
They have some faint notions of the
bird, whose eyes were re, whose glances
transmigration of the soul: so that, ifa child
were lightning, and the clapping of whose
be born with teeth,\they instantly imagine,
wings was thunder. On his descent to the

ocean, and touching it, the earth instantly
arose, and remained on the surface of the
from its premature appearance, that it bears

a resemblance to an advanced period, and
that he has assumed a renovated life, with
waters. This omnipotent bird then called
these extraordinary tokens of maturity.
pened since my remembrance, and l have
in every instance traced their origin to

a departure from rst principles; that is,
the great, gmnd principle ofpreferring ones
self to every body else. I have noted almost
innumerable cases, where men drowned
themselves, by attempting to rescue others
159
from a. watery grave! and a near neighbour

of mine once actually ruined a good coat
and hat, by rushing into a burning house
to snatch a child from the llames; and what
adds greatly to the folly and madness of the
act, the child was not in any way related to
voice, such an accumulation of charms were
himlA beggar woman called at the house
so persuasive, that in a moment he felt more

as a man than a judge, and he promised the
lovely advocate that the colonel should gain
his cause. Here the judge was engaged on
both sides.\Vhen he returned to his study, he
found the tradesman in despair. I have
of Mr. , on a raw blustering evening.
seen her, cried the poor man out of his
matter; yourtrade may turn out unsuccess~

ful, but I can always beg.
PHILADELPHIA,
CORRESPONDENCE.
She held in her arms a child, half naked
senses, I have seen the lady who solicits
and shivering with the cold. She wanted

some old garment to protect it from the
tempest. Instead of sending her off, away
ran Mr.
s daughter to a clothes-press,
0 sir! my cause is lost. Put yourself in

my place, said the judge, quite confused.
with a candle in her hand, to get the article
which the beggar wanted. In her hurry,

she set re to a garment hanging in the
press: The house was almost instantly in
ames; and three other houses were destroy
ed with it! Such were the consequences

arising from a silly girls sensibility! I.
+
Origin of the saying, As drunk as Davids

Sow."
Many years ago there lived at Hereford,
a certain David Lloyd a Welchman, who
kept an inn, and had once a living sow
with six legs; the circumstance being pub

licly known, great numbers of all descrip
tions resorted to the house. It happened that
David had a wife, who was much addicted
to drunkenness, and for which he used fre
against me, she is as handsome as an angel.
Could I refuse her? and saying this, he
took an hundred pistoles from his purse,

which was the amount ofthe tradesmans
demand, and gave them to him. The lady
heard of this; and as she was scrupulously
virtuous, she was fearful of lying under too
great an obligation to the judge, and imme
diately sent him the hundred pistoles. The
colonel, who was as gallant as the lady was
scrupulous, repaid her the money, and so in
the end every one did what was right. The
judge feared to be unjust, the countess was
cautious of lying under to great an obliga
tion, the colonel paid his debt, and the
tradesman received his due.
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MARRIED,
On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Law

son, Mr. Israel I. JIahbn'dge to Miss Mary Kenyon,
both of this city.

DIED,
On Tuesday, the 3d of September, in Russellville,
Ken. John .Maare, esq. a native of Philadelphia.

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.
Story of a remarkable Beggar.
A beggar, to all appearance maimed and

miserable, though in reality a hale fellow,
quently to bestow on her a severe drubbing. but rather inclined to laziness, took his stand
One day in particular, having taken an extra on Aldersgate street, London, where he
cup, which operated in a powerful manner, asked charity from all passengers for many
and dreading the usual consequences, she years. There was something so winning in
staggered into the yard, and unpereeived by the follows address, that he was rarely
any body, opened the stye door, let out the unsuccessful in procuring something from
sow and lay down in her place, hoping that the passers by. Among others one gentle
'a short unmolested nap would sufciently man, a humane merchant, who passed every
dispel the fumes of the liquor; in the mean day through that street, constantly, and
time, however, company arrived to see the without failure every morning, after hear
much talked of animal, and Davy, proud of ing the charity whine, gave some small
his nice, ushered them to theistye, ex matter. At last the merchant disappeared
claiming: Did any of you see so uncom and was not seen in the street for several
mon a creature before? Indeed, Davy, months. After a while the beggar happened
said one of the company, who had peeped to fall in with his old benefactor dressed
into the stye and saw how matters were rather shabbily. He immediately inquired
situated, I never before observed a sow the cause of his not having walked his won
so very drunk in all my life! Hence the ted route for so long a time. Ah, Mr. Lazarus,
term, As Drunk as Davids Sow."
An awful sublimity in the soliloquy ofJ. L. is so

easily destjnguishable, that it needs no comment.
The vigour and elegance of the composition evin
ces a mind of no common capacity and a heart of
genuine piety. we shall always consider ourselves
indebted to J. L. for any communication he may
send us, and shall at all times express our feel.
ings, by giving it undelayed publicity.
T;s encomium on Dr. Darwin shall appear.
The communications of Peter Prodigal and F._
C. we have received, but have not given them that
attentive perusal we could wish.
said the merchant, I met with some losses

at sea: my vessels were taken; my credit
Suicide. On the 10th ult. Mrs. Polly Hutchinson.

of Cavendish, Ver. hung herself in the garret with a
garter. She had been married but four days.
Vermont Republican.
-.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.

COMMUNICATION.
Mr. Lewis,
Sir,
Should you think the following summary ex

tract of means (recommended by the Royal Hue
mane Society of London) for the restoration of the
apparently drowned or otherwise suffocated and
for the prevention of immature interment, subser
vient to the cause of humanity, you will please to
publish them in your useful journal.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
\ e. T. HORNE.
'rne nnowunen.
l. Convey carefully the body, with the head
raised, to the nearest receiving house.
2. Strip, dry the body; clean the mouth and nos
trils.
j
sons
3. inYoung
a warmchildren
bed.
to be put between two pcr~ i
of a colonel in the army against a tradesman.

The tradesman was in conference with the
judge, who found his claim so clear and so
was gone, and I no longer would come your

way. Sir, said the beggar, how much money
would set you aoat again? Why, Lazarus, I
4-. An adultlay the body on a bed, and in cold
believe about one thousand pounds might weather near the re. In summer,expose the body
put me forward again in a small way. The to the rays'of the sun; and in warm seasons air
beggar instantly stepped into an adjacent should be freely admitted.
house, and brought out a parcel of notes to
5. The body to be gently rubbed with annel
just, that he assured him of success. At the
that amount. There, sir, said he, take the
sprinkled with spirits or Hour of mustard; the pro
moment the charming countess appeared in
reward of your former charity towards me.
per substances to he sprinkled on annels, and a
the anti-chamber, the judge ran to meet her.

Her address,her hair,her eyes, the tone of her
If you can ever repay me, it is well; if not,
heated warming-pan, covered, may be lightly mo

ved over the back and spine
Circuilous Justice.
A countess, handsome enough to preju

dice the most rigid judge in favour of the
worst cause, was desired to take the part
you must not trouble your head about the
160
MW
6. To restore breathing, introduce the pipe of :-.

bellows (when no apparatus is at hand) into
one nostril, the other, and the mouth, being closed,
inflate the lungs, till the breast he. a little raised;

the mouth and nostrils must then be let free: repeat
this process till life appears
a
7. The breast to be fomented with hot spirits,
hot bricks covered, &c. to be applied to the soles of
the feet, and palms of the hands. If no signs of life
appear, the body is to be put into a warm bath.
8. Electricity to be early employed by a judi
cious medical practitioner.
INTENSE conn
Rub the body with snow, ice, or cold water. He
store warmth, by slow degrees, and, after some

time, ifthere be no appearance of life, the resuscia
tire p1 occss for the drowned must be employed.
SUSPENSION or was scan.
1. A few ounces of blood may be taken from
the jugular vein; cuppingglasses applied to the
head and neck.
2. The other methods of treatment, the same
as recommended for the apparently drowned.
surroca'rron av xoxrous varoons.
Breweries, distilleries, SteMen rashly go down
into large vats, emptied of fermented liquors, in
order to clean such vessels, &e.A lighted candle
should be rst let down, which continuing to burn
clear, the men may then venture with safety.

\\'ith certainty to save and secure valuable lives, it
will be adviseable to put an hot: pot with quick lime
the strength, especially near the end of fevers and

other acute diseases, patients in consequence of ac
cidental circumstances, frequently lie in a state rc
sembling death. If the bed-clothes be soon removed,
the heat of the body will be suddenly dissipated, and
the enfeebled spark of life forever destroyed Rela
tions. Ste. not attending to this interesting and im
portant object, the lives of thousands of our fellow
creatures have been sacriced, and their bodies
prematurely committed to the grave. By a more

kind and humane conduct, sensation would often
have returned. m'tal action have been regained, and
fe perfectly restored.
Under proper restrictions, no danger can possi
bly arise to the living, as the rst stage of putrescen
cy is always distinguished by a perceptible clam

mineso of the skin, and an acidgas, which marks the
earliest time for interment. In the second stage of
The reality of death, in all cases, may therefore be
consult the faculty, as they will readily form an ac
returned, warm wine, or diluted brandy. The pa
tient must be put into a warm bed, and, if disposed

to sleep, they will generally awake perfectly re
stored.
2. The plans of resuscitation are to be used for
three or four hours.
Diarrhzea
Debility
1
l
O Jundicc,
0 Locked jaw
1
1
O
0
Dropsy
Drowned
Dysentery
Drunkenness
0 l Mortication
1 0 Old age
0 1 Palsy
1 0 Pleuiisy
1
2
2
1
0
0
0
l
Fracture
Fever
Fever, remittent
Fever, bilious
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
2
1
1
2
0
0
0
Fever, typhus
Fever hectic
1
0
O
1
Gout
Hooping Cough
0 2
Stillborn
Sudden
Ulcers
Unknown

30 19
_
Total
49
3
60
70
1.
5
2
5
3
70
80
2
5
10
1
80
90
2
10
20
2
90
100
0
20
30
4
100
110
0
3t)
40
9
40
50
7
Total 49
9 oclock. 12 ocloelw 3 oclock.
60
61
59
69
63
61
72
64
61
75
66
The following lines are a tribute of respect to

an enterprising traveller, whose fate is so far as
27
62
65
67
28
62
63
69
JOSEPH HUTTON
INFORMS his friends and the public that his
Perhaps a sketch of his life may not be uninter

room, No. 64- Lombard street, will be opened
esting to the reader.
Mungo Parke was born in the north of England ltuition, from six until nine oclock. It is his inten
in the year 1771. Having received a liberaleduca tion to limit his number, the advantages of which
need no comment.
tion, be commenced the study of medicine, on the
completion of which he sailed for the East-Indies,

where pursued his profession several years. On
his return home he was engaged by the African
Association to undertake a journey into Africa, for
the purpose of exploring the Niger. With this in
tention he left England in 1795, and returned after
reams or 'rne asaenronv.

an abscence of two years. This expedition having

been published, we shall not attempt any account year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
of it, but it is well known, that he displayed ex to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
traordinary courage and enterprise throughout the considered as subscribing for the next.
journey. From this period Mr. Parke remained in
Europe till the year 1805, when, urged by the re
! ceive one copy gratis.
'
peated solicitation of the association, he left his
native countrynever to return more. The only ceived at this oice, and at the bookstore of He!
departed for the interior of Africa with a retinue
of fty men. Report, however, has frequently sta
ted that he was wandering among the natives; but
his long absence forebodes a fate to him similar to
that which Peyrouse, Cook and many other travel
lers have experienced.
Columbian.
Pei-ers, sudden deaths, &c.--1n great sinking of
60
oicial account since received of him is, that he
rnBVEN'HON OF PREMATURE BURIAL.
1 Insanity,
2425
26
It is an absurd and vulgar opinion to suppose
3. Bleeding never to be employed, unless by

the direction of the faculty.
September 23
persons irrecoverable, because life does not soon

make its appearance.
Decay
which the absolute criteria of life and death depend.
certained, as to leave no hope of his existence,
warm water may be given; and, if swallowing be
curate discrimination of the exudations, &c. on
ter is to be repeatedly thrown upon the face, the
czssnar. onssnvarross.
1. On signs of returning life, a tea-spoonful of
3 lnam. of liver
If the least doubt remains, relations, 81. should
LIUNGO PARKE
lungs; though some of the infants had been given

up at least two hours, by midwives, Sac.
Under
thus known from its semblance. By an earnest atten

tion to these important circumstances. premature
interment will be prevented, and an immense num
ber of our fellow creatures restored to It e, provided
the resuscitative process be assiduously employed
ad. ch.
1 0
Convulsions
Between 1 and 2
the attendants and survivors.
ad. ch.
Diseases.
O 4 lnarn. of brain
Consump. of lungs 2, 1 Intlam. of stomach I
with an offensive odour. It is these alone which
will instantaneously drive out the destructive and
citation by warmth, Motion, and ination of the
Diseases.
Cholera Morbus
prove noxious to
to the bottom; then pour boiling water on it, which
drying the body by intervals. If the body feels cold,

employ gradual warmth, and the plans for restoring
the drowned.
snu. scan INFANTS,
It is to be lamented, are too generally consider
ed as deadThe transactions and reports (of the
Humane Society) record various instances of resus
lnterments in the City and Liberties ofPhiladelphia,

from the QIst to the 28th September.
[ulrrercenqh an alkaleaeem vapour escapes, attended
~.
deleterious vapours. In case of accident, cold w a
HEALTH OFFICE,
September as, 1811.

pertory will be expected to pay the di'crence.
PHILADELPHIA,
Printed and published by Dennis l-leartt,

near St. Mary's church.
@FBifabefpiaweperfm.
Cowman.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 181].
VOL. II.
No. 21.
g__-_1_
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF AGRIPPINA TIIE YOUNGER.
(Concluded)
cret order from Nero, been purposely

damaged, he pretended solicitude for the
safety of his mother, and pressed her to re
l in safety
to the land. Having received no

other injury than a blow on the shoulder
and what arose from her fears, Agrippina
move to the galley of Anicetus, whom, revolved in her thoughs all the circum
with detestable duplicity, be appointed to stances of the previous disaster, the source
ofwhich she was not long at a loss to dis
be her guard.
The elements, as though they refused to cover. But too politic to suffer her suspi
be propitious to a conduct thus execrable, cions to appear, she commissioned her
Nero, accordingly, with professions of

respectful affection and concern for the
past, proposed to his mother to accompany
him to Baiae, for which they embarked in
the galley prepared by Anicetus, and mag were serene and calm. Two persons only
nicently adorned for the occasion. Touch accompanied the empress: Crepcrius Gal
ing at Antium, the emperor there left lus, who placed himself near the rudder;
Agrippina, and proceeded along to Baiae, and Accronia lolla, a Roman lady, who,
whence he addressed to her an affec seated at the feet of her mistress, congratu
tionate letter, in which be pressed her to lated her on the behaviour of her son. The
join him, and to pass, with the court, the galley had scarcely cleared the port, when,
remainder of the holidays. Agrippina, at on a signal from Anicetus, the ooring of
tered by these attentions, sailed immediate the cabin, laden with lead for the purpose,
ly from Antium, and put in at Bauli (i. e. suddenly gave way, and sunk beneath the
Bagola), a pleasure-house, between Mise
empress. Creperius, thrown from the rud
num and Baim: she was here met by Nero, der by the shock, was killed by the blow,
who came to receive her. Having conduct while the partitions not readily yielding, the
ed her to the castle, where refreshments floor still remained suspended. A confusion
were provided for her, he there left her, ensued among the seamen; the springs, by
and returned to Baix. However secretly which the hold was to be separated, failed
the measures of the emperor had been at the critical moment, through the exer
concerted, Agrippina received at Bauli an tions made by those of the ships company
obscure intimation of some impending dan to whom the secret had not been entrusted.
ger: perplexed with conjectures respecting In this dilemma, there appeared no other
the purport of this warning, in which nothing way of destroying the vessel than by caus
was distinctly specied, she determined to ing it to be overset; a purpose rendered of
proceed by land to Baize. She was met on tedious execution by the different man
her arrival, by her son, with all possible oaurves of the crew. In the midst of this
demonstrations of regard; while, to lull her perplexity, Agrippina, with the lady attend
suspicions, he insidiously conded to her ing her, fell gently into the sea, whence the
secrets of apparent importance. He also latter, unconscious of the occasion of their
appeared busied in devising spectacles for distress, shrieked aloud for aid; calling up
her amusement; and in public affected to on the seamen, in the name of the em
yield to her the precedence, a distinction press, tosnatch her from impending de
yet more attering to her pride. Deluded struction. Deceived by her cries, and mis
by these extravagant testimonies of respect, taking her for their victim, the creatures
Agrippina persuaded herself of their sin of Anicetus struck her on the head with
cerity; her penetration Was the dupe of her their poles and oars, when, stunned by
wishes, while her distrust hourly lessened. the blows, she immediately sunk. In the
On her return to Bauli, whither she was mean time, Agrippina, in silence, intre
desirous of being conveyed, the emperor pidly struggled with the waves, contriving
conducted her to the sea-side, caressing to keep her head above water, till barks
heron the way with an appearance of the from the shore, alarmed by the noise, came
tenderest affection. The vessel in which to the relief of the wreck. The empress be
she was about to embark having, by a se ing taken up, was conveyed by the boatmen
freedman, Agerinus, to inform the empe

ror, who was not far off, of her danger and
escape: she directed her messenger to add,

that she would at present dispense with the
attendance of her son, since she greatly
needed repose. Though in a situation thus
abounding with perils, the empress forgot
not her interest, but caused a diligent search
to be made for the will of the lady who

perished as her substitute, and a seal to be
placed upon her effects.
Nero received with rage and mortica
tion, intelligence of the failure of his pro
ject; be perceived that the contrivance, with
all its atrocity, was exposed to his mother;
nor could he doubt her endeavours to rouse
in her defence the senate and people. In
this agitation of spirits, he implored the
counsel of Burrhus and Seneca, who lis
tened to him in silence, and, after- some mo
ments pause, deliberated apart. On their

return to the emperor,.thcy confessed their
inability to afford him assistance. Burrhus
declared that the przetorian band would not
embrue their hands in the blood of the
Caesars, nor oer outrage to the family of
Germanicus, whose memory they held in
the highest vcneration: to this he added, an
intimation that Anicetus, who had charged
himself with the affair, was the ttest per

son to complete his engagement. Nero,
eagerly availing himself of this insinuation,
renewed his solicitations to the comman
der of the gallcys, who yielded without
difculty to his wishes. The tyrant, embrac
ing him on his acquiescence, in a transport

of savage joy, assured him, that from that
moment he considered the empire as his
gift, and should hold it as the fruit of his

zeal.
Agerinus, deputed by Agrippin't to the
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PHILADELPHIA REPEGR'IURY.
emperor, now demanded to be admitted to

his presence: as he delivered his commis
sion, a dagger, by the command of Nero,
was secretly dropped at his feet, as if, con
cealed for treacherous purposes, it had slip
ped front beneath his garment. This paltry
stratagem affording a pretence, Agerinus
was seized and conveyed to prison, for the
purpose of reflecting an odium upon his
mistress, and preparing the public mind for
hat was to follow.
During these machinations at Raise, the
had corrupted his principles, and stifled in

his mind the sentiments of virtue. Re
morse, it is said, at length seized him, and,
in the spirit of a tyrant, awakened its tor

tures. The vengeance of the gods, says
the historian, seemed to follow him, while,
haunted by the phantoms of a disturbed
imagination, he sunk into the terrors ofa
pusillanimous superstition."
Tacitus, Suetonius, &C.LiV05 of the Roman
Empresses, Consorts to the rst twelve Cazsars
of RomeDictionaire des Femmes celebrees.

eQ-_
report of the ship-wreck, which was believ
your power and yours without the inCQnveni
ence of a marriage ceremony!

By heaven! returned Montaldo. you
have saved me from despair. It shall be so,
my noble follower. Nay, if Ferdinand should
now consent, 1 would scorn his offer and
hear her from him in chastisemcnt for his

former suspicions.
It was settled that the plan should be de
ferred for a few days, that suspicion might
not be roused, and Montaldo even determi
ned to return to Dusseldorp before the at
tempt was made. Count Altenheim was now
ed to be accidental, and the danger of the

empress, spread through the country. The
For the Repertory.
announced at the door of the chamber, and
people ocked from all quarters to express
OR
Montaldo having composed his confused

thoughts, requested him to enter. Ferdinand4
approached the couch in a distant manner
and very formally inquired how DArinhault
found himself. He answered in a meek
and faint reply that he was better, and im
mediately endeavoured to eradicate the suspi
their solicitude on the occasion, to assure
themselves of the safety af the empress,

and to congratulate her on her escape. But
these public demonstrations of sympathy
failed to allay her disquietude: Agerinus
had not returned; no tidings had arrived
from her son; dreadful forebodings haunted

her mind.
A TALE.
CHAPTER VIII.
0! it was a sight, that might have bleachd

Joys rosy cheek forever.
all. G. Lewis.
Twas such a deed, as shows the ends less guilty,
And from the brow of brutal vice doth pluck
Her purpled ringlets.
JImm.
At this crisis, Anicetus, at the head of
Montaldo was carried to his chamber and

some troops, suddenly appeared, and beset
ting the house in which Agrippina was placed upon a couch, when Geraldo who
lodged, secured all her domestics. Conster accompanied him, desired the servants to
nation spread through the place, while Ani withdraw, and they all, immediately disap
cetus forced his way to the chamber of his peared. His endeavours for the recovery of
tictim,who, attended only by one of her the prince were then used, which in ashort
women, was rcposing on her couch. The time succeeded, and Pandolfo showed signs
attendant ed at the approach of the assas of returning animation. Upon coming to
sins: Alas! exclaimed the empress in a himself his rage and disappointment knew
pathetic tone, as she perceived herself aban no bounds. He cursed the folly,as he called
doned, and her fate drawn near, will you
also leave me? The ru-ian, followed by
two naval ofcers, approached the couch
it, of Ferdinand and his own weakness, but
called for the heaviest fury of perdition to

light upon the dead Huberto. Geraldo endea
on which Agrippina reclined. Rallying her
voured to soothe the passion of his master,
spirits, she received them with rmness.
but for some time without success at last the

storm subsided, and fear usurped the place
of anger. Fear lest Altenheim should sus
pect and withhold in consequence his daugh
ter from him, to whom he felt his heart so
1f, said she, you come, commissioned
by 'your master, to inquire after my health,

tell him I am recovering: but if you harbour
designs against my life, you are not the
agents of my son; he is incapable of parri
cide. The sanguinary band, surrounding
the couch, showed no relenting symptoms.
As the empress yet spoke, she received on
ungcnc'rous
suspicious, and threatened to
prefer a complaint to the emperor, if Ame

lia was not immediately united to him.
To this Altenheim replied, that he was
free to think what be pleased, and as his
daughter was his own property that he of

course had a right to dispose of her to
whom he thought proper, and requested
the prince to give up all hopes of her, as
she never should be his.
The pride of DArinhault was touched,
and, rising haughtily, supported by Geraldo,
he requested Ferdinand to prepare his vas
sals for their departure the next day. Alten
heim bowed his assent, but at the same time
informed the prince that he was at liberty to

remain at Altenheim as long as it suited
his convenience and leisure. Montaldo only
replied, that he should leave the inhospita
more than the loss of honour. The infamous

Geraldo, however, always ready to advise
his lord to and assist him in any nefarious
design, informed him that, let Altenhcim act
to doubt the criminality of her son, Agrip
but they
were now too deeply rooted in his breast to

leave him on a slight defence. Montaldo,
nding all his endeavours in vain, assumed
a haughty manner; reprimanded him for his
much attached that he dreaded her loss,
her head a blow with a truncheon, while a
centurion, drawing his sword, prepared to

conclude the tragedy. No longer a'ecting
cions of the count once more;
as he thought proper, Amelia should be his.

if he would undertake the scheme he had
ble roofof Ferdinand the next day, and the

two noblemen immediately separated.
Montaldo remained some time in the
chamber to mature his plan, which as yet
was but in embryo, and having descended to
dinner staycd'no longer there than politeness
to propose.
'
demanded. He returned to his chamber and .,
It struck me, said this adept in vice, Geraldo with him. The night came and the
pina presented her body to the murder
ers: Strike here, said she; level your the moment your lordship swooned.
prince ordered his vassal to remain with
Let me hear it, good Geraldo, said him until morning, which at length arrived,
rage against the womb which gave birth to
a monster. Thus, great alike in guilt and DArinhault.
and D'Arinhault and his attendants sat out
Gaspard, my lord, replied Geraldo, and for Dusseldorp. Geraldo would have had
in misfortune, perished this magnanimous
princess, pierced with repeated wounds, myself, will convey her to the old castle him stop at the deserted castle, but he
in the forest between this anti Dusseldorp, shrunk in horror at the idea and ordered the
under the hands of assassins.
Nero, whose heart knew not to relent, from whence, after the confusion occasioned troop to proceed directly for the palace
treated with indignity the remains of a mo by her absence has subsided, it will be easy to where they arrived about sunset.
ther, who, solicitous for his aggrandizement, hear her to the palace, when she will be in in Amelia, being now free from the fear of
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ous contempt, which added the most acute the greatest resolution, and soon found her
anguish to the feelings of Amelia. She how self in a dismal dungeon. The chill, damp air
idea, which had taken rm possession of her ever remained silent. They now entered the quite overpowered her and she was obliged to
mind, that the youth was still alive. Ponder chamber, which appeared very convenient. lean against the wall for support. After some
ing on these things she would often wander On one side was a comfortable bed, and on moments she found the sickness that over
to the cottage of Minda and sometimes into the other, two spacious windows through came her, began to disappear and trimming
the woods adjacent, nor think of returning which the moon beamed full above the her lamp, which still played in a faint blaze
until the rays of the sun began to look pale summit of the highest tree. Amelia threw and emitted but afecble light around the
herself upon the bed and Geraldo, having doleful cave, she began to traverse it. This
along the landscape.
It was on the evening of the sixth day lit a small lamp and placed it in the re she did cautiously, examining almost every
after the departure of DArinhault that, place, informed Amelia that Clithero would inch she mode, when, at about forty yards
having wandered further than usual into the attend her wants every day until she was from the door by which she entered, she
forest. she was suddenly seized by two men, removed to the palace, then withdrew and encountered a sight that shocked her to the
soul and took from her the power of motion.
who darted from behind the trees. They locked the door after him.
were masked, but one of them removing his,
The sensations of Amelia were most She uttered a cry of horror and sunk down
' displayed to her astonishment and terror acute. She saw herself torn from her father by the side ofa human skeleton! For a long
the vissage of Geraldo. The truth ashed and at the mercy of Pandolfo, without a time she remained insensible, and when she
upon her mind; she could only utter a cry hope of escaping or of softening his inty did recover, it was only to faint again at the
of horror, and fainted in the arms of the bosom into pity. This consideration aroused sight which met her eyes. At length, how
measureless villain. In this situation she was her to exertion and she left the bed, deter ever, her fortitude overcame her fears and
conveyed to a carriage which they had in mined to endeavour to effect her escape. she resumed her courage. Her terror was
waiting at a short distance, and they drove She threw open the easement, but she be now converted into pity and she began to
with the greatest rapidity for the castle in held the trecs waving below her, conse conjecture who the unfortunate su'ercr
the forest. They arrived there in a short quently there was no hope of escape. that could have been. The mystery was however
time, during which Amelia had recov way. She then took up the lamp and began soon developed, for, close by the cshlcss
ered from her swoon, and intreated to be to traverse the room, when at the side near bones, she found a roll of parchment. On the
conveyed to her father, but Geraldo only her bed, she beheld a door which she had out side were these words.
The skeleton near which this parch
laughed at her distress, and informed her of not discovered on rst entering the room.
the plan laid by DArinhault for her des She now began to conceive hopes of esca ment is discovered, is the remains of the
truction. When the carriage stopped, Ame ping: she placed her lamp upon a chair and once powerful prince Pandolfol"
Upon reading this, the astonishment and
lia was ordered to alight and follow Geraldo endeavoured to open it, but found it fastened
curiosity
of Amelia were equally excited.
without utteringa word. She did so, and on the other side. She however, strengthen
entering a passage that appeared to lead ed, I may say, by hope and despair, applied She saw, or thought she saw, in Montaldo
under ground, passed about twenty yards, her utmost force, and after a short resistance, his murderer, and again adjusting her lamp,
when they began to ascend a flight of stairs. the rusty bolts gave way to her strenuous she was preparing to satisfy her doubts,
In a room at the head of these stairs they efforts. She now seized her lamp and was when the clanking of a chain vibrated on her
were met by a third person, whom Geraldo, about to enter the aperture, when she recol cars. In an instant every thought was absorb
immediately addressed and said,
lccted that Clithero might probably enter ed by fear, and, raising her eyes, she beheld
her chamber and nding her gone would a pale, emaciated gure enter the dungeon
Is all prepared, Clithero?
All, roared the villain, whose terric certainly pursue her; therefore she returned from a dark passage opposite to the spot
visage struck terror to the soul of Amelia, and, to her inexpressible joy, found that the where she stood. His head was bent towards
but who, summoning all the fortitude she door though which Geraldo and herself had the ground and a chain was wrapped round
could, was determined to bear with resig entered, could be fastened securely on the his body. As he approached Amelia uttered
nation the fate which Providence had or inside by means of the massy bolts that a shriek and fainted.
To be continued.
were aixed to it. Having pushed these in
dained her.
IIIIO
Tis well, replied Geraldo to his wor to their sockets, she proceed through the
For the Repertory.
thy companion. You will now, madam, door she had bursted and immediately found
herself
at
the
head
of
another
ight
of
stairs.
addressing Amelia, be pleased to follow
THE CABINET. No. LVI.
me, and Iwill conduct you to your chamber. These she descended for a considerable
hoso loveth instruction, loveth knowledge;
Thus saying, he seized a torch and, open time and at length found herself on a kind but he that hateth rcproof is brutish.
Solomons Proverbs
ing a door opposite to that by which they of platform, her progress being impeded by
Pcrhaps there is no greater proof of the
entered, began to ascend another ight of a broad door, fastened by a huge iron bar.
stairs, followed by the unhappy Amelia. Here her heart began to faint and she was self-love and vanity of man than his refus
They now passed through another room, upon the point of returning, when leaning ing to listen to instructive truth. I may al
and up another pair of stairs, when Geraldo against the door for support, she accidently so be permitted to add that there is nothing
informed her that the room they were then touched asecret spring in the bar, which which more strongly denotes ignorance
entering would be her prison fbr a few days, immediately ew from its position across than such a refusal; for the wise man is
but that after the rst alarms occasionedby and left the access free. Amelia opened the always anxious to increase his stock of wis
her absence had subsided, she would be con door but started back when a nauseous vaa dom; nor does it matter to him from whom
ducted to Dusseldorp and be admitted to pour issued from within, and nearly extin he receives it. He is attentive _to whoev
the embraces of Montaldo. The villain utter guished the feeble flame of her lamp. She er speaks, for from the mouth of the fool
ed this last part with a smile of supercili however recovered and pressed forward with sometimes falleth wisdom.
Montaldo, reected more on the mysterious
fate of Florival. She could not dismiss the
Lid
F_m
There is probably no desire implanted in show that he loveth instruction," nor

:he breast of man which is capable of giv shut his ears when they are saluted by the
ing such elevation to his spirits as a thirst unwelcome cries of suffering morality. Let
after improvement. What can be more sub him not consider himself xed beyond the
lime to the reection of human nature than reach of reproof, for in that reection he
to see the spirit of one of its subjects soar disturbs the peaceful compact of society,
ing among the stars, portioning planets to with the overwecning arrogance of pride.
their appropriate places and laying down Such a reection is the father ofignorancc,
within the grasp of human comprehension the disseminator of vice: for how is it pos
the vast, the sublime system of the uni
sible that he who Considers himself per
verse! The man who does this is looked feet will ever improve? Such a reflection is
upon by each of his fellows with the wild distracting to the mild tranquillity of friend
est enthusiasm; each one is self-ennobled ship, for friendship will advise; it is its
by being his friend, and seeing such a being right, and when it is frowned out of that
projectdd upon the same scale as himself, right, it is frowned out of existence, it is
he is lost in wonder,
annihilated: it was therefore well said by
And his proud heart exults in being man!
the deep-thinking son of David, he that
Thus we see he who makes instruction hateth reproof is brutz'sli. It is however to
his pursuit, is an object of admiration be hoped that while vice is so great a fa
vorite of mankind, reproof never will he
even to those who despise it. The myste
rious paths of science were only formed tonguetied; it is to be hoped that it will
by the great Architect of worlds, to be be supported by the invincible, and eloquen
trodden by those whose minds have been tial energy of independance; that bold front
awakened to the conviction of a proper ed fraud will be still told of its shameless
idea of his greatness; the man who follows deformity; that deceit will still be exposed
it through all its windings must enjoy sen to public indignation; and that the same
sations of a.naturc so indescribably exquis powerful minister of the rights of society
ite, as to be incident only to himself; it con and mankind, independance,will hold his po
ducts to a temple at the entrace of which sition rm and unshaken, will frighten the
he has attained the summit of human un guilt-blakened soul from its ways of wick
derstanding, is in a manner though awfully edness with the searching glances of his
distant, in many respects assimilated to God. eagle eye, even as the lightning of the
Had such a man fallen into the too common clouds displays to mortals the gloomy hor
fault of despising instruction, he would rors of the midnight tempest.
yet have groped in darkness with the com
Let us but think that we are ignorant,
monality, and yet have been only possessed and then will we be in the right road of
of those brutal enjoyments, at the thoughts becoming wise; let us consider ourscleves
of which his rened soul now starts, and open to reproof and let us listen to it with
with which ignorance alone can be contented. the earnest desire of mending, and then
But great and godlike as may be these will we nd ourselves advancing toward
scientic and philosophical pursuits, there perfection.
is yet another kind of improvement which
GREGORY GRAVITY.
we should love even more, it is the improve
ment of the soul in the dearer studies of
Forthe Repertory.
morality and religion. The duties of these
INCONSISTENCES OF MANKIND.
can be comprehended by all men, and it
The following short notes of a few of the
cannot be too strongly impressed upon our plain inconsistencies and contradictions in
mind that one of the greatest of these duties the sentiments and conduct of mankind, per
is seeking instruction in those magnicent haps, may serve to illicit truth relative to
volumes, from whence are extracted all some important points of principle and prac
our rule of life, and all our hopes offuturi tice.
ty. Morality is that which should be dear
l. The ministers of the gespcl, of every
unto every man even as the apple of his denomination of christians, profess to be
eye; and he who turns away from the soul lieve in, and to teach the principles and pre
illumining instruction which it pro'ers, com cepts contained in the new testament, which
mits another crime than pride, he militates is a system of love and peace,and the whole
against virtue. To respect it, is one of the family of mankind are equally embraced in
promises expected from a man in entering the obligation of its duties, and in the parti_
the great circle of society, it is a duty he cipation of its benets, no portion of the
owes to it and which it will not dispense globe, no sect or colour excluded.
with; nor let any man refuse to listen to
Peace on earth and good will among men
him who would enforce this truth, let him was proclaimed at its rst promulgation;
and the love of each other is declared to be

the true mark of discipleship. No colour of
authority for killing or destroying in the
words or conduct of the divine author of
our religion, or in all the writings of his im
mediate followers; but the plain tenor of the
whole interdicts the spirit of war and blood
shed; and perhaps, the taking of human life
in any case whatever may properly be inclu
ded. Let us examine the lamentable contrast.
Men of different nations, and professors of
the same christian principles, violently and
deliberately kill each other, and to possess a
particular district, to decide the point of su
periority, or to avenge aggressions on their
rights, the innocent are involved with the
guilty in the common contest. The greatest
natural blessings of a benevolent providence
for the necessary use of man, and even men
themselves, are put in requisition for the war;
full preparation is made, that the satanical
passions of men may be exercised in every
possible manner in distressing and destroy
ing their fellow men both by sea and land.
Battles are fought and thousands of the dead
and the wounded may claim the tender syma
pathy of natural feeling, in which the desolate
widows and fatherless children may also be
included.
But can any individual engaged in promo
ting or carrying on war, open the new testa
ment and show from thence his authority
either for giving offence or even for retal
iating of national or personal injuries with
the punishment of death. If those men de
nominated the clergy had uniformly main
tained the direct inconsistency of war and

legallized murder and robber , with the prin
ciples and spirit of the christian religion,
with as much zeal as they have insisted on
some other points of far less clearncss and
importance to the benet of mankind, how
much might they have inuenced the senti
ments and conduct of the people and clear
ed themselves from the charge of sinister
motives which lies against them.
2. Much pains have been taken, and at
considerable expense, by several religious
societies, to propagate the gospel among the

unenlightened part of mankind; but how
much has this pious design been frustrated
by the injudicious means employed for the
purpose, but more especially by the spirit of
avarice, injustice and cruelty that has gen
erally been exercised by what are called
christian nations towards the comparatively

innocent and uno'ending inhabitants of Asia,
Africa, America and the islands of the seas;
so that there need be no marvel of the small
degree of success in the work.
3. Since the invention of the art ofprinting

and the degree of reformation that has been
PHI LA DELPHI A REP ERTORY.
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4;
L
made from the superstitions and errors, the

essential interests of mankind have been
much advanced in diverse respects, and in
Though he invulnerable still may shine,

\Vhy let him so ifman may still be mine;
lfl obtain for what the strife begun,
particular the true meaning of theuord Li
And tho-i (ltf' 'SlLtl Gabriel, whose spear
To join the chorus of me blest above,
20
And swell the anthem to redeeming love.

Christ to the Jews a mark of envy stood;
Envy broods hatred, hatred leads to blood!
Man to my lwgc; I only wish for man;
Their cruel souls the surest means explore,

95
To feast their vengeance with his smoking gore;
But vainly all their efforts do combine,
berty has become more accurately defined;

and generally understood; and in the United
States of North America the rst and fun
damental principle of the government is, (list
every man has a natural and unalienable
right to liberty or freedom, and yet within
the limits of those states, at the present time
there are not less than ten hundred thousand
My own he \ritherd, palsicd be my heart,

25
If \vnuzid for wound my vengence not impart.
Look from your skies, insulting wreteh, and know
A tenfold anguish shall reward this blow;
0: twas most brave, 'while panting on the ground,
To lift thy weapon and inict a wound!
35
Where was pale Gabriel when my fury raged,
And through the sky destructive war I waged?
Though joind with hell the mighty deed they try.

In vain they join, the Saviour cannot die,
100
Till the dark hour that mercy had decreed,
Should be the moment for a God to bleed!
Then the proud joy their vengeful bosoms hold,
If Heaven permit my verse shall yet unfold;
104
of men, women and children held in a state
Then he avoided, struck with panic fear,
When on the cross th obedient Christ 'was reard,
lale ,tll'filill ushers and unwelcome fear,
of slavery, and in a great extent, their pos The fatal vengeance of my searching spear;
terity are to be retained in unconditional Then I marchd round and sought the coward then,
But as l roved the coward sought in vain.
36
bondage forever.
Yet when superior force had struck me low,
4-. It has been supposed that afrequent The chief, secure, could deal a little blow!
use of distilled spiritous liquors was neces Hear me thou mayst and rest in peace awhile,
46
sary in the heat of summer, as a stimulus And at thy mighty conquest sweetly smile;
to invigorate the system and to prevent the But when thou thinkst not, shall my fury bear,
bad effects of drinking cold or bad water, Horror unfelt and undesired despair!
New world adieu, once more I take my ight,
and yet the same articles are taken in winter And seek the doleful palaces of night!
to promote warmth and to fortify against the The chiefs of hell to ressemble there,
45.
impression of cold. The deplorable conse To plan thy ruin and my hopes to share!
quence of those errors in opinion and prac So spoke the fiend as from the earth he springs,
tice is, that many, by gradually increasing Born through the air by his umbrageous wings,
the habit of usingr spirits become nally ru Then stooping through the deep, descends to hell,
There to relate what fate his hopes befcl. "
50
ined, disturbcrs of the peace and happiness
The wondrous Works the mighty Jesus wrought,
of their families, and often of society, and With glowing love and boundless mercy fraught;
numbers have brought on themselves an in The lepers cleansed and maimed numbers hcald.
curable state of debility, and shortened the The sick revived, the sightless eye unseald;
The dying rescued from their fatal doom,
55
period of their natural existence.
And dead commanded to forsake the tomb;
A SPECTATOR.
Served but the rage of malice to infuse,
Q
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THE PROPITIATION
And rouse the vengeance of tumultuous Jews;

Who long had waited for the welcome hour,
Thafsnatchd their millions from the Roman power.
Misguided nation! didst thou hope to know,
61
Messiah crown'd with honour here below?

Thoughtst thou that God in bloody vengeance drest,
ARGUMENT.
And breathing carnage from his angry breast,
Satan recovers from his dismay.- Ilis soliioquy: His Need leave the glorious palaces of day,
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descent to hell.- The works of Jesus raising the en To wrest his people from tyrannic sway?
vy of the Jews, they hmw'ng experled'in the les
Thou shouldst have known a motion could sufce,
siah a temporal prince, they suck his life.- Thefeast To throw black ruin from the opening skies;
of the passes-er: The supper being m-er Ismriot But more than all Judea should have known,
leaves the supper chamber, in rage, because the Jesus descended not for her alone;
7O
Sa-m'our Illlll foretold his crucixion: Solioquy of But sure redemption through the world to bear,
Iscariot.
And call both Jew and Gentile from despair.
Now had the sounds of transport on the hill,
She should have known his potence struck within,
To lift the soul from overwhelming sin.
Sunk into distance and the air was still;
No mortal glory or terrestrial sway,
The sun had passd his proud meridian height,
75
The western skies proclaimd the approach of night; The incarnate God descended to display;
The day declining sought its early close,
5 Such as the ambition of the world desire,
That blaze a eeting moment and expire;
And not a star to cheer the darkness rose;
Or rise with life in youths unthinking day,
When Satan, groaning from his tortured breast,
Leand on his shield and thus his thoughts cxprest: With life they ourish, and with life decay:
80
Like the frail ower, a passing hour they bloom,
Eternal curses on relentless fate,
10 'lhen lose their lustre in the rnyless tomb.
For blasting thus the purpose 'of my hate;
Just when my lips the fragrant verge embraced,
With life his honours rst began to rise,
And die they shall when the Redeemer dies;
To dash thecup of triumph from my taste.
0! turns too much, but curb thy passion, soul,
With life begun, yet no beginning knew
85
Let not this phrenzy oer thy reason roll.
For from no source his life the Saviour drew:
Still thou mayst conquer, win, without alloy,
15 From the long years of vast eternity,
Peace yet unknown and yet untasted joy
Jesus has been and shall forever be.
Although thou temptcdst Jesus Christ in Vain,
He came the guilty spirit to prepare,
So rm his followers may not remain.
These endless honours in the skies to share;
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BOOK IV.
To counteract Omnipotcnce divine;
\Vhom angels worshipp'd and whom devils feared!

Amongst the twelve whom Jesus kindly chose,
T enjoy his pleasures and to share his woes,
His woes on earth, his pleasures in the skies,
\Vhen the bright spirit from the the body ies, 111
Was one, who seemed to hear the gracious call,
And boasted faith superior to them all,
Whose soul deceitful, uttered many a prayer,
Borne to the skies on wings of midnight air,
Though skies indignant spurnd the traitor thence;
Infamous offering to Omnipotcnce!
116
When from the lips though the petition breaks,
The heart not utters what the tongue bespeaksl
lscariot named, the humble purse who bore,
To feed his avrice not to feed the poor:
120
Degenerate slave, who stoopd to pilfer thence
And rob thy brethren of their frugal pence;

Who sold their all and placed the produce there,
From which thou, traitor, hadst an equal share;
But, nursed predominent within thy breast,

125
Detestcd Mammon urged to .steal the rest!
But now the hour, the important hour arrived,
To crown the plan which mercy had contrived;
The glorious plan, salvation to impart,
And lift the burthen from the anguishd heart; 130

The joyful moment of the feast appeard,
That greatest feast by every Jew revered;
Toamark the day when God his power employd;
And Egypts every rst born son destroyd;
While from the angels arm, the bloody door, 135
Rendered the hosts of Israel all secure.
In due submission to the sacred law,
Held by the Saviour in consummate awe,
He takes his seat, and round the humble board,
The twelve obedient join their dying Lord;

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Dying, but once again on earth to rise,
And thence ascending fill the joyful skies.
Ah! round that board what songs _of glory rung,
\Vhat sweet commandments left the Saviours
tongue;
No muse the actions of that hour can swell,
Nor words omniscient, that from Jesus fell!
145
Say then, my willing muse, nor venture more,

The day declined the sacred supper oer;
Unusual fervor, when his task was done,
Beamd red and fearful from the sinking sun; 150

Night from her dusky cell reluctant ew,
And oer the world her sable curtain drew;
The moon, affrighted, her ctl'ulgenee shrouds,

And veils her visage with the darkning clouds;
The stars, indignant, shut the various light,
155
Nor deignd to shine on that tremendous night,

When sinful Judas, an unwelcome guest,
To breathe his malice left the holy feast;
Each ruling breeze that \vaftcd its perfume,
And whispering zephyr, with its downy plume; 160
With every tree that waved its foliagw ~~ ."nd,
|
I
I
166
And threw its leafy shadow oer the ground,

Seemd as before his fearful eyes uprose,
In terror clad, a host of vengeful foes:
So the assassin who forsakes the day,
165
And prowls at night to catch th unconscious prey,
Listens in terror to each rustling breeze,
And starts aghast at every form he sees.
\Vith hurried step the glebe Iscariot pressd,
And vented thus the feelings of his breast:
170 i
0ft with the glad, on streams of joy.

[last thou the owery path pursued;
And ones that oft each bliss destroy,
In fancys sad perspective viewd.
0r canst thou think, because Ive prcst
And oft, with fancy still thy guide,

"anderd oer frowning Etnas brow,
And 0ft beheld th inconstant tide
Circling in eddies Wild below.
That I should eer the rover prove,
0! arch deceivcr, has it come to thisI
And oft has Homer's sounding lyre

Enthusiastic roused thy soul;
0ft through thy mind th obedient wire
Bade pleasure glide, or sorrow roll.
Is this thy glory and thy promised bliss?

0ft have I heard thee to Judea cry,
\Vhoeer on me believes shall never die;
And now. 0, rare deception! canst not save
175
Thyself from sinking to the silent grave.

But hence, at length, my foolish dream is oer,
And now Iscariot is thy slave no more.
My Juliet to my glowing breast,

And fondly kissed the virgin dew,
From of? thy lips, so pure and true,
And treachrous be to thee and love?
No, sweet girl, I neer will leave thee,
By that trembling tear, believe me.

CESARICUS.
THE DEAD TVINS.
Twas summer, and a subbatll eve,
And balmy was the air,

I saw a sight that made me grieve
An yet the sight was fair:
Within a little coin lay
For when he swept its golden strings

And his ecstatic lay began,
Ile touchd upon the master springs
That agitate the heart of man.
Two lifeless babes, as sweet as May.
Die if thou wilt, ambitious Christ, but I
Have too much wisdom with a fool to die.

180
Let the poor wretch whose base degenerate soul,
Yes, fair Almira, may I still

List to instructions sweets from thce ,
Like waxen dolls, that infants dress,

Their tittle bodies were;
Bound by some end, submits to thy controul,
Learn from thy wit the lay to trill

To soul-exalting melody.
A look of placid happiness

Did on each cheek appear:
I-anatic, all thy mighty honours share,

Thy threat'ning dangers, and thy deep despair;
But now thy fraudful councils I forsake,
185
Ofthec and d( t ~ my lasting leave I take:
Secure of this. W iich.only I adore,
The glorious purse, we part to meet no more;
Since, as our chief, the whole belongd to thee,
Clouds for a moment may obscure,

But when on earth its course is run,
Twill shine in other realm secure.
And come with glory and with afuence drcst;

Armd with unknown omnipotence, arose,
To pour destruction on our haughty foes,
195
And sway the sceptre of the world alone;
Proclaimd thy mission through the earth aloud,
Not borne the scofngs of the vulgar crowd,
Then had I been thy humblest vassal made,
And every word and every book obeyd.
205
Here let me pause, where these sweet olives
'lo hurl Tiberius from his towering throne ,
A rosebud nearly closed, I found,
Failing shall hide her face in shame.
The whole repays what thou hast robbd from me.

191
They lay together side by side.
And slander with malicious sting,
For virtue like the glorious sun,
Hadst thou, indeed, my expectation blest,
And in the cofn, short and wide,
Black envy on her buoyant wing,

Flits weak about thy stubborn fame;
Each little hand within,
And many a pink was strewd around,

With sprigs ofjessainine:
And yet the owers that round them lay,

Were not to me more fair than they.
Their mother, as a lily pale,
Sat by them on a bed
And bending oer them told her talc,
And many a tear she shcd:
Yet oft she cried, amidst her pain,
My babes and I shall meet again!"
0! to my heart thy words have found

A passage only found by thee,
And wakcd with their bewildring sound
The captive love, and sethim free.
Who begs that alms which thou alone
Of all thy sex canst cer bestow;
He begs, to all the world unknown,
To hide him in thy breast of snow.
A YIR'IUOUS 'IFE.
DEMETRIUS
Should the rude hand of care wound my partner
spread,
A welcome shelter for my naked head;

And lonely vigils with reection keep,
Although my eyes are heavy now with sleep.
Thus spoke Iscariot and his body laid
105
_._
in life,
He always shall nd the best friend in his wife;
For the Repertory.
If when trouble oertakcs him, on me hell recline,

lIis sorrows, his anguish, his tears shall be mine.
See what ruby tints elliise

Their sparkling radiance oer the ower,
If cheerfulness prompts him to mirthful employ,

My invention shall teem to enliven his joy;
Should the light-footed hours with gaicty shine,
0n earth, recumbent neath the olive shade:

Pencild with etherial hues,
To his dark eyes as wakeful as his fears,

No soothing slumber for awhile appears.
(To be continued.)
_--
For the Repertory.
Sweet beyond descriptions power

Thus on beautys lovely cheek
Glows the soft vermilion dye;
Sweet sufl'usion! who can speak
The pleasure of the gazing eye.
His pleasures, his transports, his joys, shall be mine.

The wife, tis agreed, best her station adorns,
When spreading lifes roses and blunting its thorns;

Then Ill strive to select its most valuable owers,
Lines addressed to a young lady of extensive read

ing and uncommon strength of mind.
Say, sweet Almira, wilt thou hear
Untutord admirations lays?
Wilt thou incline thy modest ear,
To drink in unpolluted praise?
No foolish passions sway thy mind,
Nor senseless lace-talk gilds thy tongue;
Had it been so, to scorn consignd,
of thee the poet had not sung.

But from tliy " silver-melting speech
Celestial joys their balms impart,
And thus in hues serenely bright

Ilope pictures on the bosnm bliss,
Spreads her gay visions to the sight,
And gilds each future path with peace.
Their fragance, their beauties, their bloom, shall

be ours.
*
I. S.
TIIE GREAT SPIRIT.
._
A general denition of the Great First

For the Repertory.
T0 JULIET.
Fear me not, I neer will leave thee.
By that trembling tear, believe me

Thy cheeks warm glow will soon be oer,
Thy ruby lip delight no more;
And from that eye of softest huc,
Heaven will take back its favrite huc:
Cause, as far as human words dare attempt

one, may thus be given: The eternal inde
pendent and self-existent Being; The Being
whose purposes and actions spring from him

self, without foreign motive or inuence:
He who is absolute in dominion; the most
pure, the most simple, and most'spiritual of
The gay retreats of fancy reach.

And delve their passage to the heart.
But shall my love, with thee, decay,
all essences; innitely benevolent, bene
For oer the bards soul kindling page
And with thy roses fade away?

Shall J uliets loved attraction's die
With the blue sparkling of her eye?
cent, truc and holy; the cause of all being,

the upholder of all things; innitely happy,
because innitely good; and etemally self
suicicnt, needing nothing that he has made
0ft does thy mind attentive rove,

\"lcw the erce warriors threatning rage,
And hear the sylvan sighs of love.
No, sweet girl; I neer will leave thee,
By that trembling tear, believe me.
167
I
inimitable in his immensity, inconceivable

in his mode of existence, and indescribable
in his essence, known fully only to himself,

because an innite mind can only be compre
hended by itself. In a word, a being who,
There is one character, which, of all oth
ers, I most sincerely think worthy of con

tempt; it is he who is despised by woman,
and stigmatized by man; it is he, who,
through excess of politeness, has no opinion
from his innite wisdom, cannot err or be de

ceived, and who from his innite goodness,
of his own; who, like the ape, can only imi

tate, and like the parrot, can prate his lesson.
can do nothing but what is eternally just, \Vhose eyes bespeak the falsity of his heart,
right and kind. Reader, such is the God of and whose tongue is wanton in the indis
the Bible, but how widely different from the criminate praise of all who are debased by
god of most human creeds and apprehen being in his presence. This is the person
sions.
[Du Clarke.
whom the World calls a atterer; and whose
life is the greatest reproach to the dignity of
A grandee of Spain handing some refresh
man.
centre is a metallic pipe; the bottom of the bath is

about two feet below the pavement, and ve feet
wide; the tessolatcd oor represents various gures
in dancing atitudcs, most beautifully wrought. In
digging farther they found a dolphin, and various
other antiquities of the most costly materials. it is
supposed to be the remains of a Roman palace. A
Roman road has idso been discovered leading
through the eld, and supposed to extend much
farther.
Londonpap. Jug. 3.
*
From the Virginia Patriot.

COMETARY DISQUISITION.
From Delametheries theory of the earthvol. 5.
ments to a circle ofladies,ohservcd one with
a most brilliant ring, and was rude enough

to say in her hearing, I should prefer the
ring to the hand." And I, (said the lady look
ing steadfastly at the glittering order suspen
ded to the duos _neck,) should prefer the
collar to the beast!"
__.__
PHILADELPHIA,
MARRIED,
_ At Petcrsham, (Mass) September24, by the Rev.

Festns Foster, Doctor Jaw/1h II. Flint, to Miss Han
Duscjour, in 1775, calculated the paths of the

sixty three .oomets which were then known. He
proves that no comet further from the earth than
one million of leagues is to be supposed capable of
producing upon it the least sensible effect. From
this calculation, says Dusejour, l have discovered
that allowing the distance of a comet from the
earth to be one million of leagues, there are only

It is well known that queen Elizabeth nah IV. Rcezl. all of said place.
seven which have made nearer approaches to her
was a great admirer of the immortal Shak This maid so frank, so tender and so fair,
orbit.- those of 837, 1618, 1680, 1702, 1743, 1763,
speare, and used frequently (as was the cus That her soft looks could any heart ensnare;
tom with people of great rank in those days) A row] so kindly tuned to notes of love,
1770- The comet of 1770 was twice at less distan
to appear upon the stage before the audience "or voice, where physio faild, could pain remove; ces from the earths orbit than a million of leagues
Whose very eye had Venus softness int,
viz. on the 1st of July, and 14th September. The
and to set delighted behind the scenes while
\ O, wondrous change! has now become a int.
least possible distance was on the 1st of July about
the plays of the bard were performed. One
_._
evening Shakspeare performed the part of
A late Charleston paper computes the number 750,000 leagues. From his investigation, it may, he
the king (probably Henry the Fourth) the of lives lost, in consequence of the Tornado, to be says, he concluded that of all the comets which
audience knew of her majesty being in the somewhat short of twenty; and the loss of proper have been observed, the one which approached the
house. She crossed the Stage while Shak ty, to be between two and three hundred thous nearest to the earth, is certainly that of 1770. This
spcare was performing his part, and on re
and dollars.
ceiving the accustomed greeting from the

audience, moved politely to the poet, but he
_._.
W. I ittlc. Esq. of Pittscld, Massachusetts, has
given 2500 dollars to Tilliamstown College, to
did not notice itlwhen behind the scenes,
phenomenon has come to pass in our days without

operating the smallest change in nature.
The passage ofthis comet,he says again, has oc
casioned no sensible motion in the atmosphere
ortides,no derangement in the motion of the moon.
she caught his eye and moved again but still institute a found to aid indigent scholars in obtain
he would not throw off his character to no ing an education with a view to qualify themselves
It appears, notwithstanding, that the comet of
Best Fat.
tice her; this made her majesty think of for the ministry.
1680 might have approached the earth nearer than
.
some means to know whether he would or
The model of Mr. \Vaits new invented Print that of 1770; for according to the elements deduced
would not ale/tar! from the dignity ofhis cha
ing Press, is completed, and has received the ap
from its last appearance, the least possible distance
racrer while on the stage. Accordingly, as he probation of all who have beheld it. The black of it from the earth could not. have exceeded
was about to make his exit, shestepped before ing of the types and the printing are performed 165,740 leagues.
him, dropped her glove, and recrossed the by cylendcrs, which, with the tympan frisket, are
He then makes the following inquiries:
stage; which Shakspearo noticing, took up all operated by machinery, to which motion may
1. Whether the earth could, according to Man
with these words, so immediately after n be given by a horse, by steam or by water. The pertuis, be carried off by a comet and become its
ishing his speech, that they seemed as be same power can work several presses. The only satellite?
1
, longing to it,
2
Whether
the
earth
could
force
a
comet
to be
attention necessary is that of a lad to each press,
And though now bent on this high embassy,
Yet stoop we to take up our cousins glove.
He then walked off the stage, and presen

ted the glove to the queen, who was highly
pleasedwith his behaviour and complimen
ted him on its propriety.
*
In the Limerick paper an Irish gentleman,

whose wife had absconded from him, thus
cautions the public against trusting her:

My wife has cloped from me without
rhyme or reason, and I desire no one will
t."-.ts{ her on my account,_/br I am not mar
ric-d to he 1'.
to place and remove the sheets. The apparatus on come her satellite, as the Arcadians say has hap
a scale for business is expected to be completed pened the moon?
The result of his calculation has been, that a.
in a few weeks.
Boston Paper.
comet moving in one second of time less than
_._
Extract ofa letter received from Petworth yes
2176-1 feet, mighthe compelled to describe an cl
terday: A few days since a laboring man, cnga~ \ lipsis round our globe, so as to pass, however, in
gcd ploughing in a eld at Bignor, near Petworth, every revolution, at the extremity of the earths
found the plough obstructed by a heavy stone, sphere of attraction.
when he obtained assistance and removed it; it is
But a comet whose velocity would carry it fur.
of marble, and beneath is a ight of steps of the ther than 2176-1 feet a second could not oecome
same, leading to a large arched passage, where they a satellite to the earth.
discovered an entire Roman bath with tcssclated
Whcncc he concludes that the moon'ying, at the
pavement in perfect preservation. The bath is of a rate of more than 2176-1 feet a second. nucr was.
hexagonal form, surrounded with seats, in the a comet that has been forced by the earth w more
168
m
round her. He is also of opinion that the earth can

never become satellite to any comet.
Ifthe earth, says he, (p.192) cannot expect a new
satellite, she need not for the same reason, be under
any apprehension of becoming satellite to a comet.

Her orbit might, were such a comet of enormous
mass, undergo considerable changes, but she would
still have the sun as the centre of her motion.

Dusejour carries his remarks as yet further. He
supposes a comet of equal mass with our globe to
' be no further from it than 13000 leagues and cal
culates the effects it might produce. He nds that
in the most inuential circumstances, it would
As to the comets whose orbits should be situa

HEALTH OFFICE,
ted in the plane of the ecliptic, the probability is
October 5, 1811.
not so distant. Let us suppose those orbits laid Interments in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
from the 28th September to the 5th October
down on the plane of the ecliptic, and the peri
Discuss.
ad. eh.
Diseases.
- ad. ch.
helium distance to be less than the distance of
Asthma
1 1 Inam. of brain
1 0
the earth from the sun: as the comet in every
Apoplexy
1 1 Inam. of bowels
0 1
one of its revolutions, necessarily cuts the orbit of
Cholera Morbus
1 5 Inam. ofliver
1 0
the earth, it is sufcient, in order that these two Consump. of lungs 6 1 Mortication
0 1
bodies meet that the earth be then at the corres Decay
1 0 Old age
1 0
ponding point of her orbit, an event which affords Drowned
1 0 Plenrisy
0 L
1 l Scrofula
O l
the probability of an innity against one From Debility
Fever intermittent 1 2 Small pox, natural 0 1
i all these facts, the author infers that there is no co
Fever, bilious
1 0 Still born
0 3
met known which can, consistently with its cle
Fever, typhus
2 0 Sudden
1 0
mcnts ascertained during its latest apparition, ap Fever, scarlet
0 1

proach near enough to the earth to produce upon Gangrene
O 1
20 27
it any injurious e'ects whatsoever; such an event Hooping Cough
0 5
0 2
Total 47
could result only from the changes which those Hives
lengthen the greater axis ofthe earths orbit 1-250

and thus give our year an accession of2 days 10
hours 16 minutes, that is, that the new year would
be 367 days 16 hours 4minutes 48 seconds, [p. 184-]
This comet, then, would be very far from being elements might undergo.
Such
changes
are
not
physically
impossible;
but
Under
1
8 Between 50 and 60
3
able to draw our globe after it.
Between 1 and 2
460
70
I.
there
is
a
vast
difference
between
the
possibility
He examines also the effect such a comet might
2
5
7
7O
80
3
produce upon our seas. It is certain if it continued of any derangement whatever and the certainty
5
10
7
80
90
2
that it will be such as is calculated to occasion
long in that position, it might swell the tides pro
10
20
1
90
100
0
digiously and raise the waters of the seas, perhaps the meeting or mischievous proximity of the co
20
30
3
100
110
0
30
40
5
.
above the highest mountains. But he nds that un met and. the earth. In order that this occurrence
40
50
3
Total 47
der the most favourable circumstances it cannot should take place, the derangement should ob
continue longer than 2 hours 32 minutes 2seconds serve a certain given law, happen at a certain giv
at a less distance from the earth than 13000 leagues. en time, and the earth should then be in a certain
He then applies the rules laid down by DAlem given point of her orbit.
Therefore, with respect to the comets which
9 oclock- 12 ucloclc- 3 oclock.
bert in his Inquiry into the origin of Winds, where
59
60
63
the earth is supposed to be surrounded with a bed have not the conditions necessary to intersect the September 30
October
1
57
58
58
of water of the depth of a league, and nds that a orbit of the earth, conditions which none of them
2
56
50
63
comet 13,000 leagues from the earth, and acting is known to have. there is the probability of an
3
61
66
70
463
68
71
uniformly in the same perpendicular direction, innity of the third order that such an event will
5
66
72
76
would tahelo hours 52 minutes to produce its effects. never take place.
As the globe we inhabit may be affected not
Besides, the mean depth of our seas is in all prob
JOSEPH HUTTON
ability not more than about a quarter of a league. only by a comet itself, but also by its train, it will
They are intersected by continents and islands. be necessary to consider it in two of its stages
- room, No.64Lomba1-d street, will be opened
before and after it passes to its perihelium.
Such a comet therefore, even under the most fa
After passing to their nearest distance from tuition, from six until nine oclock. It is his inten
vourable circumstances, could have but little effect
the
' sun, the tails of comets are often extremely tion to limit his number, the advantages of which
upon our tides. The comet of 1770 which was
need no comment.
,
750,000 leagues from the earth on the lst of July, long. It is supposed that the excessive heat com
municated
to
them
by
the
sun
reduces
their
wa
TERMS of THE RERERTORY
has not affected them in the least sensible manner
ter to vapour, and considerably expands their
whatsoever.
He then calculates the probability of a comets atmosphere. Should a train of this description scribers to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub
approaching to a certain distance from our earth fall in with a colder body, such as the earth, this
vapour
would
be
condensed
and
fall
in
rain.
or coming in contact with it. He makes it appear
These effects cannot be produced unless the
that the plane of none of the comets that are
known is situated in that of the orbit of the earth; comt pass near the earth, or have a vast train.
that, consequently the orbits of those comets can e have seen, however, that the comet of 1770,
cut the orbit of the earth only in one point. There returning from its perihelium, has had no such
is, therefore, a probability of an innity of the aect upon the earth, though it was less than one
rst order (un infini du premier ordre) that those million of leagues from her on the 14th September.
But before they pass to their nearest distance
planes will not intersect.
But admitting them even to intersect, there is from the sun, the train of comets appears to be
still an innity against. one that the comet will ofno considerable extent; they must contain but
not be at the point of intersection. In a word, little vapour, as the comets themselves come from
though the comet should be at that point, it is excessively cold regions. They could not there
another innity against one that the earth her. fore discharge a quantity of water of any account
upon our globe, were they even to come in con
self will not be there.
Hence there is an innity ofthe third order (un tact with it; because the heat of our globe must
inni du troisicme ordre) against one that the be greater than that of any comet in such a stage
comet will not meet tin - i":
of its revolution.


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BIOGRAPHY.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DOCTOR RICHARD
DINMORE.
From the National lntelligencer.

Doctor Richard Dinmore, Was one ofthose
I The death of his uncle placed him in good

circumstances, although far from what the
mode of .bringing him up warranted the
expectation of; for in the distribution of his
property all his relations of equal degree

were placed on the same footing, many of
whom he had never seen. The guardian
to whose care young Mr. Dinmore was
few men who deserve to be held in remem

brance, even by those who had not the satis
faction of his acquaintance. A briefsketch of now intrustcd, was a man of strong and vi
his life will serve to show the connexion gorous intellect, who roused into activity
between moral and political virtues; and the a mind relaxed by efl'eminacy, and prepar
importance of a cultivated understanding in ed his ward in some degree for the trials
supporting the mind under bodily infirmi he afterwards experienced. At the expira
ty, domestic afiction and political intoller tion of his apprenticeship he was sent to
London to complete his medical education,
ance.
He was born in the city of Norwich, in where he made great proficiency as an ana
England, on the 8th of December, l765. tomist; and where his sanguine tempera
His father was a respectable tradesman of ment led him to embrace with avidity and
that city, and yet lives to shed tears for to pursue those improvements in the theo
the loss of one of the best of sons. The af ry of his profession which Brown and Dar
fection of wealthy relatives took him in ear win had introduced. On his return from
ly infancy from the paternal roof, and he London, in 1788, he married Miss Shreeve,
was reared by an uncle, under strict reli and settled at Watton, in his native country;
gious discipline, but with all the cffemina followed his prefession for several years;
cy and indulgence which riches could give. ill qualied for its laborious duties by bodi
in history; well acquainted with the Eng

lish aristocracy; and no man better with the
established priesthood of his country. He
knew intimately their hearts, their immor
ality and their hypocrisy; and with a few
exceptions, despised them thoroughly.
He knew the form and body of the pres'
sure under which industry labored, and re
joiced in the hope that the public mind
would recover its elasticity, and the English
character be fully developed. Until now he
had been an English Whig; but a careful
examination of the effects of government
on society, led him to a more accurate
knowledge of the government of his own
country than he had before possessed; col
lision of mind stimulated his inquiries, and
stripping history of the glare and splendor
of royalty, he scrutinized the personal char
acters of the English sovereigns. This ex
amination effectually destroyed his rever
ence for monarchy, and carried perfect con
ly inrmity, and disgusted with the prac
viction to his mind that no other than a de

mocratic representative government would
consult. the true interests, and promote the
happiness of the people. In 1793 he pub
his education was showy and calculated to tice. To be a witness to the pains and suf
lished the result of this inquiry, under the
ferings of his intimate friends, often with
title of A brief account of the moral and
The apparent heir to his uncles fortune,

exhibit him as a ne gentleman, rather than
a scholar. He acquired an early taste for out the means of relieving them; to hear
historical reading, which he retained the groans and see the sufferings of the
through life, and which had a considerable poor, and extract a living from the misfor
effect in forming the character he support tunes of his fellow creatures, accorded ill
ed in manhood. The vigor of his mind with his feelings; he could never utter
would occasionally appear through the tram groan for groan with a patient and suffo
mels of fashion; he would astonish and de cate him with medicine to lengthen his
light his uncle, who was an English whig, own bill. \Vith an acute and discriminating
by the support of the American cause, which mind, in easy circumstances, and blessed
he drew from historic sources, and by an with an astonishing ow of spirits, when
ease and brilliancy in conversation, rarely free from bodily pain, he was the intimate
to be met with. Destined for one of the lib and associate of the rst characters in the
eral professions, his uncle preferred that of country, for wealth or talent; and when he
medicine, and according to the notions of left England possessed the affection and
the day, paid a large fee to an eminent coun esteem of a literary circle seldom equalled.
try practitioner, with whom he was placed
The mm of the French revolution cal
for some years, as a preparatory step to led forth all his sympathies and affection
his future studies. In the family of this for the human race. He hailed the bright
gentleman he became attached to an amia prospect of peace and good will among
ble and interesting young lady of the name men, and rejoiced in having his lot cast in
of Shrceve, whom he afterwards married. so suspicious a period. He was well read
political acts of the kings and queens of

England." He entered with his whole
soul into those plans for the reformation
of the English government which the best
heads and hearts of that kingdom deemed
necessary for the support of civil and re
ligious liberty; and was one of the eighty
who were to have been sacried to Mr.
Pitts fears of the honest indignation of
his early friends and supporters, had Har
dys trial terminated according to minis
terial expectations. The Reevite associa
tion by which those who were unwilling
to sing to the praise and glory of the uni
ted church and state were excluded from
the common benet of society, rendered
his abode in W'atton unpleasant and un
safe. The spirit of proscription and per.
sCClltlOD was abroad, and the friends of
freedom were only safe by their numbers.
Returning to Norwich, he entered into
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a commercial connexion with a young gen
ney, being in United States stock, was by

him sent to New York for sale. It went
into the hands of one who became bank
tleman of fortune, named Turner, and a
Mr. Gardner, now of the city of Philadel

phia. They traded extensively in grain to
the continent, and suffered greatly when
the French took possession of Hamburg.
The sacrices then made for the preserva
rupt a few days afterwards; by which he

lost every cent.
Thus left in a strange country, with an
enfeebled frame, a family to support, and
life. Superior to every species of hypo

crisy, he pursued undeviatingly the path
of political honesty and moral rectitude;
leaving to us who survive the example of
how a moral and good man ought to
live, and how cheerfully he can die.
With many domestic cares, aiicted by
tion of their mercantile credit, and the death
without a dollar, his moral rectitude and
gout, and a subject to a cancerous com
of one of the partners a few days before he

became of age and into possession of his
property, destroyed the establishment: and
rm mind kept him from despondence. De

pendent on himself only, he began the
world anew, with the rm resolution of
making his mode of living depend on his
means of support. He opened a small school,
plaint, life could have few attractions. He

believed his existence necessary to others,
discharged faithfully the duties it imposed,
the debts of the rm falling on the surviv
ing partners ingulphed the whole of Mr.

became gradually known, and esteemed;
Dinmores property.
He had during this time made a noble for he found those who recognized his
stand with the republicans of Norwich worth, valued his head and prized his heart.
against a proigate administration. Their With the feeble means derived from the
cause was embraced by some of the wealthi sale of his books, and being joined by ano
est men in the country and was support ther unfortunate whom he had known in
ed by a mass of talents, which alarmed even England, he opened a grocery store in
Pitt. And in their opposition to Windhams Georgetown; his partner died, and he be
election, without a bribe or a threat, car came the editor of anewspaper in Alexan
ried a majority of votes to the poll; forc dria. Firm in the support of human rights,
ing the ministry to buy the votes of Nor and the governmem of our country, he for
wich citizens resident in London, and send several years conducted the Expositor
them by the coaches to the election, in or with a very slender support. In Washing
der to secure their favourite champion a ton he lost his son, at an age when his
seat in the house of commons. About this great talents had developed themselves,
period the Doctor wrote a small pamphlet, and when the father was on the point of
entitled, An exposition of the principles seeing all his fond hopes realized. Whilst
of the English jacobins, rescuing the re in Alexandria he was bereft of the kind
publicans from the foul and slanderous im solacer under all aiictions; a loving and
putations of their enemies. His zeal for beloved wife; not, however, without cbm
the cause of liberty, civil and religious, mitting to his care and attention an infant
knew no rest; he was always at his post, in daughter, the sixteenth child of their union.
opposition to the growing and overwhelm This infant was now the only tie to exis
ing power of despotism. The loss of for tence. He felt the incompetency of an in
tune, was not as with ordinary men, accom
rm father to discharge the duties devolved
panied by the desertion of friends, but he upon him as his child advanced in age. The
could ill bear the dependent situation of a daughter of his step mother whom he had
poor gentleman. He determined to leave a known in early life, was left a widow, with
country, where corruption and fear had so a feeble means of support and several chil
palsied the public mind, that little hope of dren. She became his wife, and discharged
political regeneration was left for his time. the duty of a mother to his child whilst he
His friends procured him an appointment bestowed the same attention to her daugh
as surgeon in the service of the East India ters. These sacred bonds are now sever
company, but he chose rather to relinquish ed, and all have to lainent the loss of his
the situation than subscribe articles which parental cares.
forbade resistance to oppression, and make
No native born citizen could be more
his transportation from India depend on attached to, or would have sacriced more
the mere will of the company. Always at in the support of this country than him,
tached to the American cause, where its for he believed our government superior
governments were in accordance with his to all others for the purposes of its insti
belief of political perfection, he resolved on tution. His consolation and support du
coming to this country, where man enjoys ring the latter part of a life of pain and dif
more of civil and religious liberty than has culty, was the hope of beneting his fel
fallen to his lot in any other portion of the low creatures and the consciousness of do
globe, or at any other period of time. \Vith ing good. Since his relinquishment of
a wife and only surviving child (whom he the paper, and becoming a clerk in the
had afterwards the misfortune to lose,) and public ofces, he evinced the same zeal
about three hundred pounds sterling, he for the advancement of the district in po
arrived at Washington in 1797. This mo- 1' litical rights which had marked his whole
,1
and passed to his God, without a sigh, on
the evening of the 26th of September, in

the 46th year of his age.
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For the Repertory.
CASTLE or ALTENHEIM,
OR
a TALE.
CHAPTER VIII:
0! it was a sight, that might have bleach'd

Joys rosy cheek forever.
Jil. G. Lewic.
Twas such a deed, as shows the ends less guilty,
And from the brow of brutal vice doth pluck
Her purpled ringlets.
Jinan.
The gure ew to catch the sinking maid,

but upon coming near enough to discern her
features, he started back, uttering a shriek
of mingled horror, surprize and joy. He

stood some moments motionless with aston
ishment, during which Amelia had recover
ed and xing her eyes upon the emaciated
form before her, she exclaimed:
I conjure you tell me, dread spirit, that

bear the form of the only one my heart could
ever love, tell me for what purpose you
have left the tomb, and thus a'right my

senses in this dismal dungeon!"
Amelia! cried the supposed spectre,
my dear Amelia!
.
Can it be?" shricked the maid, it is! it
is!
She rushed forward and was clasped in
the arms of the living Florival! Good reader,
Season your admiration for awhile,
While I relate this marvel to you.
0 left the unfortunate 1"lorival, senseless
upon the ground, struck by'the lightning, on

that evening, the events of which are alrea
dy known, his search for Kartholo and his
subsequent encounter with the spectre of the
palace. The youth continued in a state of

insensibility until the prince, Altenheim
and their attendants arrived at the spot. The
count, being before, passedwith his atten
dants without beholding the situation of his

esteemed Florival, and Montaldo and his
vassals would also have passed, had not a

deep groan from the youth arrested their
progress. Geraldo was ordered to search
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from whence it proceeded, and soon discov
to know their reason for this procedure, but
ered the body of Florival. He no sooner ga
received no other answer than the reitera

tion of the threat. Not knowing how to ac
count for their inveteracy, and conscious of
having committed nothing by which to incur
from observation; but my crafty keeper ob

served my motion and having placed the
bread and water upon the ground, he pro
cceded to examine the chain. He soon per
ceived the staple to be loose, and without ut
their hatred,I proceeded, and, after some

time, arrived at this desolate mansion, where
tering a word, he drew it forth and drove it

into another part of the wall, then with a grin
thing in the ear of DArinhault, who started,
we were admitted, by a ferocious looking
and Geraldo ordered all the rest of the ser

vants to proceed to the castle and leave the
unfortunate sufferer to the care of Gaspard
and himself. The command being repeated
by their lord, they proceeded. Geraldo whis
pered Mont-aldo as he passed:
Let your prudence, my lord, conceal this
wretch, through a door that opened only as
of savage triumph left me to my reflections.

Again I relapsed into despondency, for every
hope had disappeared. Clithero had length
ened my chain so that I could lie down;
which I now did, resolving to commit myself
into the hands of heaven and bear with forti
tude the dreadful fate that awaited me. My
little stock of bread and water was soon gone
and Clithero appeared no more. The excru
zed upon the face, than he started back, ut
tered a cry of surprize, and seizing a torch

that was carried by one of the attendants
held it close to the youth, remembrance
seemed to strike him. He whispered some
adventure from the count, and command the
silence of the vassals. Ere long you shall

hear more of this.
After the group had retired a sufcient
distance from the spot, Geraldo opened the
bosom of Florivals vest, in order to accele
rate his recovery, when he again started at
far as a chain across it on the inside would

permit.
Clithero, said Geraldo, to the fellow
who admitted us, we have brought a youth
of which you are to take the greatest care,
for so our lord commands. Let him escape
at the hazard of your life.
We will lodge him in the lower dun
geon, answered Clithero, from which if
he escape, I will be content to bear the ven
geance of our lord.

\Vhat my feelings were, my dear lady, at
the mention of the dungeon, you can easily
a scar on his breast, and exclaimed tis he, imagine; but they were more acute still
when Geraldo commanded the to follow, and
this is convincing proof.
Having traced the circumstances thus far. I saw Clithero seize a chain, fastened to an
we shall proceed in the words of Florival, iron belt, that hung upon the wall.
which he delivered to Amelia, after the rst
IVhat are you going to do with that?
emotions of wonder, joy and terror had sub demanded Geraldo.
As I am to be accountable for the pris
sided. Having recounted the events which
are already made known he thus continued: oners safety, returned Clithero, Ill take
\Vhen I awoke from the state of insen the liberty of securing him as I please.
sibility into which the shock I received had
The iron belt was now fastened round my
thrown me, judge my astonishment, beloved body and I was compelled to carry the chain
Amelia, on beholding two erce and ruflian that was to confine me, as I thought, from
looking fellows bending over me and using liberty forever. 1 followed the unfeeling
every endeavour to bring me to my senses. wretches and was soon conducted to a cold
I immediately concluded that they were ban and clammy dungeon. Here they left me
ditti, but was soon undeceived by their infor
without a word, after they had fastened my
ming me that they were the vassals of the chain to a staple in the wall. I heard the
Prince Pandolfo and would conduct me to door close and the massy locks and bolts
Altenheim when I found myself in a condi creak that shut me in impenetrable darkness.
tion to proceed. After some time I felt my My heart sickened with despair, and I sunk
self considerably recovered and requested down upon the gelid ground. The horror of
their aid to conduct me to the cottage of my my situation rushed forcibly upon my mind;
mother, where I would rest that night and I beheld your despair and the anguish of my
return to the castle in the morning. They benefactor; I saw you united to Pandolfo,
received my wish with demonstrations of while I was lingering in a comfortless dun
satisfaction, and, leaning upon the arm of one, geon, and where I rightly supposed I was
whose name I afterwards learned was Ge destined to expire with famine. The thought
raldo,-
overcame my fortitude and my senses ed.
Infamous villain! interrupted Amelia, \Vhen I revived what was my astonishment,
shuddering at the recollection of her own my delight, to find that in falling, I had for
injuries.
ced the staple from the wall. My joy was al
Be calm, my love, said Florival, and most as great as if I had been restored to
continued: Supported on his arm I pro liberty, forl considered the circumstance as
ceeded, as I thought, toward the cottage, nor the happy prognostic of approachinglibera
was I undeceived until I found myself en tion. But from this dream of felicity l was
circled by the forest. I represented their soon aroused by the unbolting of my dun
error, as I imagined, to them, when Geraldo geon door and the entrance of Clithero with
drew his rapier and threatened me with in a torch, a small pitcher of water and a loaf
stant death if I uttered a word or refused to of bread. I immediately replaced the staple
follow them. Full of amazement I requested and leaned against the wall, thus covering it
ciating pangs of hunger and thirst now began

to tear me. I was almost mad with anguish
and with herculean vigour, the powerful
struggle of despairing nature,1forced the sta
ple from the wall,but overcome by the effort,
fell. Senseless I lay for a great while, and
when I did recover, nature was so exhausted
that I was unable to rise. A long time I re

mained upon the ground,but at last resolved
to make one effort to rise. The cravings of

hunger were wearing me away, but I suffer
ed no longer the extremity of pain. I arose
and bending my way directly forward, I soon
found myself in a narrow passage, feeling
the wall on each side, which I have disco
vered led to another dungeon, in which I

have found the deer object of my hearts
best a'ections, whom I never hoped to be
hold again.
Here Florival concluded and Amelia im
mediately gratied his curiosity by a relation
of the circumstances that lead to her con
nement in the dungeon. Having conclu
ded, they both expressed their conviction of

the guilt of DArinhault, though neither
could imagine the cause of his enmity to
Florival; and having offered many fruitless
conjectures, Amelia at length called the at
tention of her lover to the parchment she
had found by the skeleton; whose astonish
ment and horror were as great as her own
had been. There still being no hopes of lib

erty the youth resolved to peruse the scroll
by the feeble glimmer of the lamp which
Amelia had brought with her into the dun
geon, but his purpose was prevented by
their perceiving the gleam of a toxfupon
the furthest part of the passage
ough
which Florival entered. Their fears were
now aroused, and they gave themselves up
for lost. Perceiving, however, a projection
of the wall that was built round, forming a

kind of arch, they both entered it and con
cealing their lamp, remained in breathless

expectation until they discovered who it was
that had entered the dungeon. Presen
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they heard two persons approach, and plain

ly distinguished the voices of Geraldo and
the inhuman Clithero.
~
They are not here," cried Geraldo.
Curses pursue them both!" cried Clith
epistles which deserved abetter fate than

the neglect with which I have treated them
for a considerable time past. The rst is
from a particular acquaintance of mine

whose sober and dignied deportment has
em, but come, let us hasten and doubtless been the admiration and delight of all those
we may overtake them before they reach the who have had the happiness _to be in her
castle."
'company.
PETER PEACEABLE.
They now passed on, so near the conceal
Dear Mr. Peaceable,
ment of Florival and Amelia that had they
It affords me the highest satisfaction up
turned round they must inevitable have dis on this my undertaking to address you,
covered them. Florival convinced that now to be assured that the friendship we have
was the only chance of discovering an outlet always cherished, and the social intercourse ;
which has always subsistcd between us, isv
to their prison, imparted to Amelia his de
sign of following them, and after nding the not diminished, and will insure the observa
entrance to the dungeon, returning for her. tions I have to make not only a kind rc
The maid was apprehensive for his safety, ccption from your judgment, but also a
yet seeing no alternative, but this or re place in your literary Cabinet.
_
maining in the dungeon, she consented, and
You will, no doubt, be surprised, that I,
the youth, wrapping his chain around him
who have over most studiously avoided any

intercourse with the busy bustling race of
to prevent its clanking, proceeded forward

conducted by the distant gleam of Geraldos
torch. After some time they stopped at a
door; Clithcro unlocked it and Florival felt
the cool air rush in upon him, which great

ly revived his fainting body. He now saw it
close and heard Clithero lock it again from
the outside. He rushed forward and examin
ing it, discovered the catch to be fastened
with large screws. He took the at staple
which still accompanied his chain and to his
joy found it suiciently small to operate as
a screw-driver. Full of hope he returned to
Amelia whom he found waiting his return
in breathless expectation. He imparted to
her his hopes and they immediately hasten
ed towards the spot that would open to lib
erty. Florival instantly began his operations
and in the space of an hour removed the
three screws that fastened the lock, and up
on opening the door they were nearly over
come with joy at beholding the starry rma
ment. Bending to the ground,they returned
thanks to that benecent power who protects
the innocent and confounds the designs of

daring guilt.
They were now free, but knew not which
way to travel, to avoid their enemies and
reach a place of safety. Resolving, however,

to trust to that Providence who had hitherto
protected them, they took the right hand
path and proceeded forward with as much
speetl their feeble frames enabled them to

employ.
(To be continued.)
\
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. LVII.

Thou, nature, art my goddess.
Shakcpeare.
For the entertainment of this day I shall
tal'e no further care than to publish a few
mankind; who have always taken care to
shroud myself in the veil of darkness

(unless when it has been torn from my
shoulders by that spauglc-loving, gaudy old
maid the moon) before I make my appear
ance upon earth, should thus desire to ap
pear in public, in the face of those whom I
have heretofore so particularly wished to
avoid. But the injuries which have been
heaped upon me since the introduction of
the present mode of polite assembling are
too heavy to be longer supported, and I am
compelled in this public manner, to sup
press my native feelings of modesty, and to
assert the prerogatives and immunities
which the Author of nature has vouchsafed
to me. It would seem that what is termed the
polite world, have forgotten that the most
laudable politeness consists in the care that
is taken not to wound the feelings of am.
ther. During the presiding of day, the
greater part of these elegantes are conned
to their respective beds, labouring under
mine health, wealth, and happiness by frc_

quenting the other. Oaths and imprecations
ll up the pauses of obscenity, and the most
beastly prostration of soul and body is the
invariable consequence of those unseasona
ble matings.
Midnight. herself, aghast, beholds the wretch,
Who wildly laughs in happiness supposed,
And thinks himselfin bliss beyond this world.
Echo reverberates the sound to ears
0f sober hearing, like the groans of death
And mis'ry.
All those who are incited by the love of

science to seek my company are invited to
take their lamp and sit down in full assur
ance of my approbation and delight in their
society. To the rational and good,I have
always been a friend, and without vanity I
might repeat the many compliments they
have made me. Such men as yourself and
Mr. Gravity and a few others are always
welcome wherever I happen to be.
Now I have my pen in hand, it may pro
brobably be agreeable to many honest peo
ple to know that the ery affair called the
comet is not likely to make any alteration
in the weather during the ensuing winter,
and that there is no more danger of a dis
truction of the globe by re, (as has been
without authority reported) than there was
this time last year, or any proceeding year.
Yours, Scc.
MIDNIGHT.
Peter Peaceable cannot help desiring

that the various editors of public papers
may give the last paragraph of the above
letter one or two insertions for the instruc
tion of the world at large, and particularly
the ladies.
Mr. Peaceable,
Sir,
You may recollect that I addressed a let

tor to you some months ago with a sketch
of the history of my life. In the simplicity of
colds, head aches, and the many tlistcmpers my heart I then boasted of divers excellent
contracted by indulgence in dissipated ex deeds I had performed by the help of a mis
travagance; but as soon as I make my en erably bad memory. Your prophecy, which
trance into the world, I nd these enemies was printed immediately under my letter,
to quiet and to me, ready for my approach, has been veried to the fullest extent. I
and prepared to stun my ears with the am now obliged with shame to confess that
squeaking of catgut and dazzle my eyes the deceits I practised under pretence of a
with the ames of chandeliers and the brilli memory in the first instance in reality bad,
ance of mirror glasses. The most frivolous but for wicked purposes said to be worse
conversation engages these thoughtless than it really is, have met their reward. I
votaries of indulgence, and effectually con am fully convinced that nothing but the
spires to banish contemplation, my sedate purest uprightncss of mind can insure
happiness, or open a path to the enjoyment
compeer.
But, here, my pity is more frequently ex of the elegancies of wealth. Yours,
JEREMIAH SURFACE.
cited by the bolder part of my disturbers;
P. S. In consideration of the aid I have
they who retire to the mansion of prostitu
tion, or the house of the retailer of poisons, afforded you in lling up a number or two
to endanger life by the one, and to under of the Cabinet, and as I really stand in
il 7 S
need of it, perhaps you would not hesitate

to send me four or ve dollars to pay for
my last weeks board, &c.
J. S.
Dear Peacey,
To tell the truth, I am now about forty,
with a very cleaver fortune at my disposal,

a handsome young rogue, it seems, has be
come enamoured of my person. I hate co
quetry and have determined at all events
to marry him. Please to let me have your
advice upon the subject. If you speak fa
vourably I dont know how many nice things
I may do for you.
I remain your friend,
DOLLY HEEDFUL.
auswstt.
Madam,
Marry him, and oblige your most obedient

humble servant,
PETER PEACEABLE.
For the Repertory.
ON PASSION.
There is nothing in which the weakness

of man is more apparent, than in the indul
gence of passion. I allude to that intempe
rate insolence of mind, which at times may
be said to stie the voice of reason, and
rst discard from his mind the pursuits of! where she was sold for a penny per lb. less
than the prime cost.
A woman at Milan brought into the
nition agreeable to friendship must admon
world,
it is said, at one accouchment, three
ish with gentleness.
If then, as I trust must appear plain to all. sons, four daughtersand a dark brown
an irritable disposition fully indulged, is of horse with a cropt tail,no shoes on his fore
feet, and a white streak on his forehead.
fensive to friendship, what must be its ope
Yesterday his majesty the king of Rome
ration in_gencral life? He who permits it to
get the upper hand is despised; he is point -frightened a horse, who started and leapt
ed at as unt for social snjoyments; as a overa ship completely rigged laying at
man of slender intellect, for Would any but \Valnut street wharf.
Will be sold, at public sale,the chancel
a slender intellect be rocked about by pas
sion? would any but a man of slender intel lor of the exchcquerwith a quantity of
lect with these consequences before him kitchen furniture, the property of a person
cast the reins on the neck of impetuous declining housekeeping.
Ran away from the subscriber, living in
anger and trouble not himself concerning
what it overtht'ows? Perhaps a parent, or a Germantowna gold watchwho is an ex
brother, or a sister, or a wife, may thwart its cellent accountant.
Just arrived and for sale by the subscriber
path; it matters not, they are all trampled
No.
50 South \Vharvesa wet nursewho
by the demon under foot. Suppose honest
has
been
in three pitched battles.
'
but unknown merit should chance to be in
barbarity; and he who would render admo
its career; it matters not, it must perish.
Died, at his seat in Cumberland, Mr.-The
But suppose virtue rm and resolute should

feel it shock; suppose he should seize it
with stedfast determination; suppose he
should forcefully restrain its fury; what are
then the pleasures of him who has let loose
this destroyer of human licity? He is degra
same dayhis remains were interred in--a

mammoth cheese.
ded, he is scorned, he is obliged to disown
Married, Mr. Flint to Miss M. Reedat

this festival, were exhibited three or four
horned cattle of an astonishing size.

In the course of the entertainment Mr.
Pepin, on the famous horse Noble, will leap
from Cape Henry to New Castle, in fifty
hold over every intellectual faculty an infuri the act; to confess himself impotent; his
eight hours.
i
brow is branded with humiliation, and his
ated sway.
To be sold, the time of a negro girl, who
It may not be amiss for us to strive to tongue murmurs prayers of forgiveness.
discover whether an extremely irritable and All the boasts of its being an act of duty has seven years to serveis broken winded
rude temper can be productive of any con
to acknowledge the fault thus wantonly and has had the bots these two years.
' The son of Mr.--was yesterday playing
sequences likely to be pleasing, or of any committed, mostly, and perhaps most cor
with
some large dried pease, when after a
actions that will reect honour on its victim. rectly, are construed into the weak apo
few moments he was in extreme pain, and
Is friendship in an error? \Vill the hasty logies of fear.
ebullitions of passion, will the condemning
On this point I will not contend, but it it was discovered that he had swalloweda
frowns of fancied superiority be likely to must be evident to the whole world, that he waggon load of good Irish potatoes.
Was stolen from my premises, on Sun
correct it? will insolent reproach be likely who would retain his dignity in the eyes
to produce an end which can only be attain of men (if he ever possessed it), must act day morning last,forty acres of good ara
ed by reective virtue? will' scandalizing with that circumspection and coolness ble landwhoever secures the thief, shall
abuse ever subdue that which is only to be which will enable him to support what he receive-21 bushel of blue point oystersif
tamed by modest remonstrance and delicate may have advanced, amidst the wildest he returns it himself I promise him a full
admonition? I answer, unhesitatingly, No! tumults of dissatisfaction, and the most de pardon.
In act second, a representation of the in
The ear of generous friendship is open at termined of earthly reproach.
T. T.
all times to advice, but it is only the base,
I
the illiterate, the spiritless, whom friendship

has forsworn, that will ever submit to high
toned arrogance or lofty condemnation.
Is this an end in which passion appears de
sirable? passion! which is ungoverned as

the monster of the Lybian forest, and which
overturns the intellectual powers with a
more desperate determination than was the
hydra of Lerna massacred by the club of the
invincible Hercules.
He who would shine with lustre in the
circles of polite life, must cast off from his
countenance the dull expression of the
fernal regions, the furies seize Don Juan

and cast him intothe common sewer, in
For the Repertory.

CROSS READINGS.
Mr. Editor,
A news paper may be read several times,

and still impart a great deal of amusement;
if your readers will follow my directions. Af
ter having regularly perused the gazette,
let them read it directly across, and there
will be a number of curious combinations,
called cross readings, which cannot fail

affording a fund of entertainment. Let them
take the following for example.
V.
The court sentenced her to three months
clown; he who would move with distinction
on the polished springs of renement must hard labour, in the house of correction
South street.
Some days ago a distillery in fourth street
caught fireand having passed the perihe
liumsold one fourth pf a ship lying at
queen street.
On Saturday last, a union was solemni~
zed between his royal highness prince VVil
liam Henry and a princess of Germany
the consequences of which have not yet
transpired. .
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Take away your expensive follies, and

you will have little reason to complain of
hard times.
1
i Should danger threaten, say, what arts or arms,165
For the Repertory.
i From us are wanted to repel the harms?

What arts! the art I use is but my shield,
My arms I boast but in the sanguine eld;
'l' i! l. IROPITIA'IION.
But from his eye a ame of liquid re,

lroclaimd the erceness of his opening ire.
On his broad shield he leand awhile his head,
Then to the king in dismal accents said:
340
One sad attempt remains, then, Satan, say,
BOOK IV.
Therefore not arts, but say what arms, alone,

(Continued)
ARGUMENT.
S1216]! having reached the mansions of hell, calls the
emls: They obey his summons: Speech of lo/och,
Sulrm relates the failure of his attempt, and (le

clar'es that but one more ej'ort remains: The terror
From us are wanted to protect the throne.

The grizly monarch brushd his tears away,
Bade all his griefs be still, his griefs obey;
His wonted horrors to his visage rise,
And native fury lls his baleful eyes;
While rising ercely from the regal seat,
He thus proceeds his failure to repeat:
270
275
of theftenrls: folach requests to hear it, and Satan

Brethern and chiefs, how shall it be rehearsed,
(r/Iresses his hopes of seducing Judas Iscariot.
The changeless destiny with which Im cursed;
Meanwhile, the king of evil and of hell,

Ilzul reached the dens where baleful spirits dwell;
And there arrived convened the dismal state,
llis eii'orts deep miscarriage to relate:

Haste all ye powers, the angry monarch cried,
And dolcful echo, all ye powers, replied;
215
Bore the loud sound upon the piniond air,
And bade each end to Satans throne repair;
Each end, obeying, from his charge withdrew,

And all impatient l the congress ew;
The darkend air divides, in pale affright,
\Yhile pass the furies to the house of night.
220
And now assembled, silence Moloch calid,
The hosts lookd trembling and with fear appalld;

Silence ensued and Moloch thus began:
Man, spite of all the labour he has cost,
Too much I fear me will at last he lost;
280
Proud Heaven, who cast us in the lairs of re,
Seems bent again to visit us in ire;

T inict the greatest curse that can befal,
By rescuing man from our imperial thrall;

The dreadful blow that struck my thigh was given,
By Heavens curst messenger, if not by Heaven.286
But listen, warriors, while your king shall tell
What dire mischance his dearest hopes bcfel!
He now rehcarsed the ineffectual strife,
In which he faild t allure the Lord of life,
290
Though every forceful pleasing art was tried,

The weak attempts of hatred, and of pride,
Into the soul of some one he might choose;
Ilow vain the effort, though with cunning thrown,
No bread would be commanded from the stone;

Monarrh of sin and wrathful foe to man,
295
"elcome once more to all our WalllOtS here, 225 ' No false renown be courted by a ight,
From the tall summit of the temples height;
Nor earthly honours adoration buy
From him who fashiond both the earth and sky.
he love thy person and thy potence fear;

Deputed by thy subjects here below,
The loud, all hail, on Satan I bestow;
Nor yet too soon appeard, thy glad return

\Vith tenfold fury makes our bosoms burn.
As if the sun were from his centre hurld,
No more to shed his fervor on the world,
How when the air with songs of triumph rang,
230
The world no longer could existence boast,
\Vith the huge orb her splendcnt glory lost;

50 when thou 'rt absent from our chieftains here,
'ith thee all fury seems to disappear.

236
'lhou greatest helper of their raneorous hate,
And chief supporter of our mighty state;
'I'hou son of hell, whose unremitting rays
Flush burning vengeance, in continual blaze! 240
But why sits sorrow on that royal brow,
And why do hell-born tears now bursting ow?
\Vith what dread anguish is thy heart opprest,
And why so ercely heaves that generous breast?
Speak, for our souls with restless fury glow, 245
To hurl black ruin on thy every foe;
And see, what eyes have never seen before,

'lhy shield bespotted with thy kingly gore.
' {age almost chokes the utterance of my tongue,
I pant impatient to avenge the wrong.
250
My angry faulchion, pendant by my knee,
Longs to revenge the insult offered thee;
I speak not, Satan, an unmeaning boast,
But the determind council of our host.
The sound inicted a severcr pang,

300
Than through his fallen, wounded body flew,
\Vhen the sharp spear celestial Gabriel threw.
And now, cried he, but one attempt remains,
That may repay us for our toil and pains;
In vain we strive an open war to wage
305
Ruin recoils upon our headlong rage;
Aghast and horror struck our legions stand,
While falls the blunted spear from every hand.
Hear it, ye chiefs, then dare rejoice in re,
Say, ye dread chiefs, and let the answering air,

If I your changcless purpose speak, declare.
'lligh ocr their heads the ends their foulchions
wield,
'lhen strike, in loud reply, the echoing shield,
The stricken boss rcverberates through the hall,

While each cried, " Moloch speaks the mind of
all."
260
Moloch proceeded: Quickly now relate,
Imperial Satan, what affects our state,
Why labours in thy bosom many a sigh,
And why bursts sorrow from thy piercing eye?
And as returning to these realms of night,

I passd as morning shed her earliest light,
He whom I tempted just before in vain,
365
Three Jews composing his dctested train;
Mongst whom was one for sinful actions famed,
Pale Mammons votry, and Iscariot named;
Long had I markd him eager to receive,

370
The false delusions we are wont to give;
And fondly anxious for the glorious hour
When Christ should come arrayd in earthly power!
Ambitious in increasing wealth to roll,
And worship riches, dearer than his soul.
With a faint hope once more my bosom glows, 375
For as l viewd him, this reection rose;
Ifhe profess to follow, tis not love

Sent from the regions of delight above;
Tis proud ambition actuates his breast,
Grasping ten thousand thunders in his hands;

Nor checkd his steeds until our legions fell,
And sought a refuge from his ire in hell!
That great Eternal, great he sure must be
Who braves and conquers such a host as we; 320
Not hope of heaven and everlasting rest;

And failing here, as Well I know hell fail,
My art on him may in the end prevail;
Here then I nd in this presumptuous fool,
To work my purpose, a submissive tool.
Seduced by me, the guilty traitor may
Forsake his service and his Lord betray.
Now hear me, chiefs. the Jews already plan,
Schemes for the ruin of this more than man,
\Vhich if we can but forward, as inspire,
Success at length may crown our bold desire.
Iscariot, urged by some great chief of hell,
That great Eternal, who gave nature birth,

And xd the bounds of heaven and hell and earth;
Christ the disturber of our reign may fall,
He whom I tempted is the true Messiah:
310
That very son who on his smoking car,
Hurld the red ruin of his rage afar,

Vhen in the skies, a numrous host combined,
With Heavens dread Seraphim in ght we joind;
\Vho rolld his chariot oer our fallen bands,
315
Incarnate now to rescue man is come,
255
The sad attempt that may our toils repay;

Though threatning peril in the trial wait,
\Yell perish nobly to defen the state.
The anxious hosts their fearful monarch eyed, 345
Who, to revive their drooping hopes, replied:
Though Christs omnipotent, his slaves may yield,
And crown the conquest of the hard fought eld;
Chiefs of this deep domain, tis known to you,
350
The expectation of each anxious Jew,
Looks for his dread Messiah, proudly great,
t In all the glory of terrestrial state;
While we, with anger and with hate imprest,
Strive to root deeper in the yielding breast
This fatal error, though too well we know
355
To what they tend and whence his glories ow:
Now. when down tumbled from the mountains
height,
While choirs celestial blast my aching sight,
I left the spot, yet hoping still to nd
360
A chance to work the purpose of my mind;
Hoping a portion of my hate tenfuse
And add new horrors to our horrid doom:

\Ve can but strive, if in the strife we fall,
325
\Vell drag some wretch to share our great appal;
Breathing forth rage well draw our latest breath,
Edulcorate, with vengeance bitter death;
Strive with stout hearts to stem the fatal blast,
395
390
To envious Pharasees his lord shall sell;

And man still live beneath our fearful thrall;
There is our hope, and now, my warriors, say,395
Lies there no prospect of success that way?

Let each uncheckd his various thoughts express,
And council measures all our hopes to bless.
To be continued.
.
330
And breathe deance to the very last.
As Satan spoke, the mingled crowd grew pale,
With trembling terror, at his fatal talc;
No more their pride or foolish boasts are heard,
For the Repertory.

ON DARWIN.
Occasioned by having read some lines, condemn

ing him as a poet, by MY. (vide Rep. p. 7,)
Which just before the stricken shield averrd;
Even Moloch, now, no sign of fury gave,

Moloch of hells dark soldicry most brave;
380
335
For sound worth and solid treasure,

Show me Darwins equal here;
175
Lofty verse and dulcet measure,
turning quack. He attempted it at Paris
your divine talents, I shall give you an at
Vibrate on the listning ear.
without success, and then directed his views
testation in due form, under our seal, that

you can revive the dead, that it was our
He is one continued picture

0f bold vigours healthful train;
Stubborn critics rigid stricture

Strives to blot his page, in vain.
\Vhile one spark of real learning
Deigns to grace us here below,
Will the candid and discerning,
Merits due on him bestow.
\Vere, in me, a vein implanted,
So pure, entrancing, so divine;

Could each earthly wish be granted,
Each for it would I resign.
Then, poetasters, cease dispraising,
to the provinces. He arrived at Lyons and

announced himself as the celebrated Dr.
Mantaccini, who can restore the dead to
life; and he declared that in fteen days

he would go to the church yard, and excite
a general resurrection.
This declaration excited violent mur
murs against the doctor, who, not the least
disconcerted, applied to the magistrate, re
quested he might bc put under guard, to
prevent his escape, until he should perform
his undertaking. Th proposition inspired
the greatest condence, and the whole city
Cease to denounce Ute poet true,
For know the sun in glory blazing,

Shrinks not at insects such as you.
.
For the Repertory.

THE DEATH OF CRAZY JANE.
Oer the heath, so cold and dreary,
Where the maniac oft has Stray'd;

Where the travller faint and weary,
Often felt his soul dismayd;
While the wind my bosom quivring,
Cools the fever of my brain;
\Vhile my gelid limbs are shivring,

Rest thee, hapless crazy Jane!
Hark! the angry storm is roaring,
Hush thee to my breast, my child;
On thy head the tempest pouring,
Makes thy mother doubly wild.
Had thy father never left thee,
We should not now press the plain:
But he ed, all hopes bereft thee,
Trembling babe of crazy Jane.
Closer still, love, I beseech thee;
came
to consult doctor Mantaccini, and
purchase his Beaume de Vie.

As the period for the performance of this
miracle approached, the anxiety of the in
habitants of Lyons increased, he at length
received the following letter from a rich
citizen.
The
great operation, doctor, which
you are going to perform, has broke my

rest; I have a wife buried for some time,
who was a fury; and I am unhappy enough

already without her resurrection. In the
name of heaven do not make the experi
ment,I will give you fty louis to keep
your secret to yourself."
In an instant after, two dashing beaux ar
rived, who with the most earnest supplica
tions intrcated the doctor not to revive
their old father, formerly the greatest mi
scr in the city, as in such an event, they
should be reduced to the most deplorable

indigcnce. They offered him a fee of sixty
\Vhile thy mothers breast is warm,

Cruel death shall never reach thee,
Love shall shelter thee from harm;
Till the cold, my life blood seizing,

Checks the current in each vein;
And. my naked bosom freezing,

Lifeless lies poor crazy Jane!
louis, but the doctor shook his head in a
doubtful compliance.
Scarcely had they retired, when a young
widow on the eve of matrimony, threw her
self at the feet of the doctor, and with sobs
fault we were not eye witnesses to your

power.
The certicate was duly signed and dc

livered, and Dr. Mantaccini went to work
new miracles in some other city.

--.
One of the professors at Trinity College,

Dublin,some time ago undertook to abridge
a certain work that had been published in
two volumes. Instead of abridging, however,
the professor had, it seems, been so well
pleased with his work, as to convert it into
three volumes of the same size with the
original. Soon after this event, one of the
students of the university brought an ora
tion, or some exercise of that kind, to the
professor to correct. The professor com

plained of the student's idleness in having
made the oration much too short. 0, sir,
(said the student) if thats all, I must beg
the favour of you to abridge it.

-.
lllamlzcturc of Puller.
It is pleasant enough to consider the

changes that a linen fragment undergoes in
the manufacture ofpaper. The nest pieces
of Holland, when worn into tatters, assume
a new whiteness more beautiful than their

rst, and often return in shape of letters to
their native country. A ladys handkerchief
may be metamorphosed into a billctdoux,
and come into her possession a second time.
A beau may peruse his cravat after it is
worn out, with greater pleasure and advan
tage than he ever did in the glass. In a word
a piece of cloth, after having ofciated for

some years as a towel or napkin, may become
the most valuable piece of furniture in a
princes cabinet.
.4ddz'son.
and _sighs implored his mercy; in short, from

And together we will perish.
morn to night, the doctor received letters,
Ah! then do not shriek so loud;
Evn in death my arms shall cherish,

My torn weeds shall be thy shroud!
From the warring tempest shrinking,
Dost thou her me, sweet, complain?
No, though life is swiftly sinking,
Murmurs not sad crazy Jane!
Henry, 0! farewell forever,

Soon at rest the maniac lies;
I, nor this dear suffrer, never
Will accuse thee in the skies.

She, the genial warmth retiring,
Pressd her lifeless babe again;
And the lamp of life expiring,
Sunk the friendless crazy Jane!
VALERIAN.
visits, presents, fees to an excess that ab

solutely overwhelmed him. The minds of
the citizens were so differently and violent
ly agitated, some by fear and others by curi
osity, that the chief magistrate of the city
waited upon the doctor and said, Sir, I
have not the least doubt from my experi
ence of your rare talents, that you will be
able to accomplish the resurrection in our
church yard the day after tomorrow accord
ing to your promise; but I pray you to ob
serve that our city is in the greatest up
roar and confusion, and to consider the
dreadful revolution the success of your ex

periment must produce in every family. I
entreat you, therefore, not to attempt it,
but to go away, and thus restore the tran
Tlzefollowing' fnscri/zrion was rallied from a

door in a small village qfl)wsrtshir0,1;'ng
[am].
John Sibbins, tailor, schoolmastcr, and as
tronomer, I also keeps a journeyman to do

all sorts of blacksmiths and carpenters work,
and to hang church bells, 81c. Any gentle
man as bespeaks a coat may have it on Fri
day or Saterday without fadN. B. Being

rumored thct I intinds to leave o business
on account of my being elected Church
\Vording, I hopes my friends will not give
care to such blood thursty reports, by ther
humble servant.
JOHN SIBBINS.
A Country blacksmith, coming into a far

mers yard with a hammer in his hand, was
bitten by a snarling dog; which aggravating
A gentleman after having ruined his for
tune by extravagance, bcthought himself of J quility of the city. In justice, however, to u him, he happened to strike the dog with the
TRICK OF A FRENCH QUACK.
176
sharp end of the same, and kill him on the
the ambition of his aspiring muse, There is
spot. You might, said the person who
nothing more censurable in a young author,
owned the dog, have struck with the other
whose genius is yet in embryo, ifl may use Interments in the City and Liberties oi Philadelphia,
the expression, than choosing those subjects
from the 5th to the 12th October
Dieeaael.
ad. ch.
Dioceses.
ad. ch.
for his pen, which have employed the great
1 0 Fever, typhus
2 1
est poets in the world. He cannot hope even Abscess
Burns
2 Hooping cough
0 3
to imitate, and the real worth of his talents Cholera Morbus 0 3 lullam. of stomach I 0
Cholic
1 0 Innm. of bowels
1 0
will be depreciated by the comparison.
1 0
The essay of Moralitas upon Religion Consump. of lungs 9 0 lnam. of liver
Convulsions
_
0 3 Measles
O 1
possesses agreat deal of merit, but is in ma Decay
2 1 Palsey
1 O
1 (i Pleurily
1 0
ny respects so incorrect as to need correc Diarrhdea
Dropsy
2 0 Scrofula
0 1
tion and revision. The author will oblige us Dropsy of breast 1 0 Sill born
0 5
Dropsy in brain
1 1 Suicide
1 0
by calling for it.
Drowned
0 1 Sudden
1 0
\Ve recollect having published with pe
end of the hammer. That
I would,
answered the fellow, if he had bit me with

the other end of his teeth.
.-
A foolish fellow went to the parish priest.

and told him, with a very long face, that he
had seen a ghost. When and where?
said the pastor. Last night, replied the
timid man, I was passing by the church,
and up against the wall of it did I behold the
spectre.-- In whatshap' did it appear?
replied the priest. It appeared in the shape
of a great ass. Go home and hold your
tongue about it," rejoined the pastor, you
are a very timid man, and have becnfriglzt
med by your own shadow.
_-.__
A French writer having

bleman, was caned by him
\\'it; when applying to the
then regent, and begging
lampooned a. no
for his licentious
duke of Orleans,
him to do him
nuuxrn orricn,
October 12, 1811.
Dysentery
2 2
culiar satisfaction several communications
Debility
1 0
33 2s
under the signature of A. C. M. and as this

correspondent seems to have entirely for
saken us, we take the liberty of inviting
him to resume his pen and favour us with
a portion of its efforts.
The request of Edmund can be complied
with.
5
Fever, intermittent 1
Fever, remittent
0
Fever, bilious
2
The following article is worthy the considera

tion of persons suffering under the disease of
0
1
0
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Between 1 and 2
2
5
5
10
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100
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justice, the duke replied with a smile, Sir,

CONSUMPTION.
it has been done already."
PHILADELPHIA,
Completely to eradicate this disorder, I will not

positively say the following remedy is capable of
doing; but I will venture to affirm, that a tempo
rate mode of living, (avoiding spirituous liquors
wholly;) wearing annel next the skin; and taking

9 oclock- 12 o'clock 3 oclock.
every morning halfa pint of new mil/c mixed with

CORRESPONDENCE.
a wine glass full of the expressed juice ofgreen
W'e are sorry that the non appearance of

Romeos Sonnet to Peace should displease
him, since we are bound to publish noth
ing but what we conceive Worthy an inser
tion. The noteaddressed to us,displays the
impetuosity of youth, which we are willing
lish his Sonnet, we shall attend with plea
sure to any other communication he may

send us.
To the very different note from Automath,
we can only reply that his conclusion is cor
rect, but that our first leisure time shall be
devoted to his piece.
The communications of E. C. and Peter
Prodigal, cannot appear. The former is too
brief for the subject. The latter is too prolix
and incorrect.
,
Annas Smile,by Celorimon, does not po
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hour/mum], the complaint will not only be relieved,
but the individual shall procure to himselfa length

of days beyond what its mildcst form could give
room to hope for. I am myself, sir, a living wit
ness of the benecial effects of this agreeable and,
on the 15th of October fot the purpose of evening
though innocent, yet powerful application. Four
tuition, from six until nine oclock. It is his inten
weeks use of the boar/mum] and milk relieved the

pains of my breast; gave me to breathe deep, long
and -ree; strengthened and harmonized my voice;
and restored me to a state of better health than
[had enjoyed for many years. Jim. Daily Advertiser.
tion to limit his number, the advantages of which
to overlook, and at the same time a laudable
ambition to become an author, which we are

unwilling to damp. Though we cannot pub
October 7
interesting to 0141 PeopleT he following course

of procedure will enable them to preserve the eye
sight, or recover it after it has failed. Every morn
ing, when washing yourself, dip your face into the
water, open your eyes and keep them under the
JOSEPH l'lU'l'TON
room, No. 64- Lombard street, will be opened
need no comment.
TERMS or THE nancn'roav.

No subscription will be 'ccei\'ed for less than I.
considered as subscribing for the neat.

Any person who Sll.\ll procure seven subscribers
strengthens the eye and cleanses it from the rheum
and become responsible for the payment, shall re. '
\vhich deadens the sight and considerably affects ceive one copy gratis.
the ball. A gentleman in Maryland, by the name of
water as long as you can hold your breath. 'l'his
scss the necessary requisites for publication James Calder, aer using spectacles for twenty ceived at. this office, and at the bookstore of Ilel
in the Repertory.
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Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Rt
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scsscs neither sweetness of composition nor ping the crown of the head into cold water, every pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
vigour of idea. Had R. perused the Ode for morning both winter and summer is: preservative
lilll. \lll'LllllA,
St. Cecilias day, or Alexanders Feast, he
against the head and ear ache and will materially
would have found the power of music so sub

limcly pourtrayed in it as to have restrained
assist the other operation, in its e'ect upon the

eye.
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Q bifabtfpaglsdeperfarp.
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BIOGRAPHY.
From the Freemans Journal.
MOIRS OF BENJAMIN \VEST, ESQ.
President of the Royal Academy, Sue.

The subject of this memoir, rendered
illustrious by his unrivalled and sublime

genius in the highest branch of the most
exalted art, has beecme more the subject
of public interest and admiration, by the

astonishing displays of his pencil, than by
the vicissitudes or circumstances of his
life, which being of that even and unob
trusive nature, which belonged to a well

spent domestic life, does not excite the in
terest of the public, nor require the notice

of the biographer.
It is intended, therefore, chiey to limit
this memoir to his history as a painter,
though not without some mention of his
origin and family history, particularly as
his birth is that circumstance. which may
justly most gratify and atter the feelings
of
AmericansIndeed,
as
in miniature dclineations, unsurpassed even

by Robertson.
Nor, shall we be considered inconsider
arts. Thence he visited Florence, and pur

sued with ardour his further studies in the
galleries and the palace of Pitti. Ever ea
ately boastful, if we remember to name the ger in the search of the best masters, he
talents of portrait painters, so deservedly successively visited Bologna, Parma, Man
conspicuous as a Sully and a Rembrandt tua, Verona, and Venice, where he had am
Peale. The latter, in his late grand histori ple opportunities of discerning the excel
cal painting of Bonaparte, has shown that lencies of the Caracci, Corregio, Julio Ro
his talents are not conned to portrait mano, Titian and all of the celebrated in
painting; and the former is, at least, known the Venetian and Lombard annals. Besides
to his friends to possess much ardour in these, he also visited Genoa and Turin,
the study of historical subjects, and may where he found the best pieces of the Ita
yet, if his health should support him, show lian and Flemish masters.
us compositions in that department.
The pieces which he executed whilst in
But to return to the subject of this mc Italy, procured him the respect and friend
moir.
ship of all the professors and connoisseurs.
Benjamin West, Esq. was born at Spring But his labours were t00 unremitted and in
eld, in Delaware county, in the state of temperate; so that he was brought several
Pennsylvania, in the year I738. His ances
times to the extremest debility of health.
tors were of the society of friends, most of Yet even in his seasons of connement and
whom emigrated to that state with William sickness, the ardour of his genius could
Penn.
not repose, and his passion was still in
Americans,
His father, John West, however, did not
though we be much inferior to Europe in

the patronage and promotion of the arts,
we- may indulge an honest pride in believ
emigrate from England, (Buckingham

shirc,) till about the year 1714-15. He set
tled in Pennsylvania, where he married and
ing ourselves inferior to no nation, in the
intellectual and physical means, if We con

sider the recent origin of our countryvitself.
.Already we have surpassed England her
self in some of the mechanic arts witness
' the unrivalled successful operation of steam
engines: but even in the rened art, to

which the present subject more immedi
ately leads us, self-applause may be tolera
tcd, since the skill of American artists has
received the highest commendation of Eng

land and of the world. We may name with
dulged even while conned on his bed, by

suspending over it a painting frame con
structed for the purpose.
From Italy he visited by a tour through
brought up ten children, the youngest of France, but chiey at Paris, all that was
whom is our present Mr. \Vest.
worthy of his observation and study, in the
As early as the age of sixteen, Mr. West French school. And in the year 1763, he
had given the world strong assurance of left the continent for London. In visiting
his future greatness. For even at that time England and seeing the best performances
he had fuicient encouragement to induce of its ablest masters, it was Mr. Wests
him to embrace the art of painting as apro purpose to still better qualify himself for
fession. Before he had attained the age of 2l, practising with renoWn on his return to his
he had already extended his fame, and native country: but after making his visits
the spcimens of his skill in portrait and
to
Oxford,
Blenheim,
Bath, .Storehead,
historical
sub ects had states.
spread over his owniA Fonthil, Wilton, Windsor, &c. &c. paint
and
the neighbouring
I ing several pictures, which, at the advice
admissible exultation, two American ar

In l760, when but 21 years of age, he of sir Joshua Reynolds, were exhibited be
tists abroad, such as Copely and Trumbull,

second in historical printing only to West
himself: whilst at home, we have a Stuart
and a Trott, equal in portrait paintings to

any in Europe. The former, scarcely equal
embarked for Italy, to improve himself in; fore the society of arts, he received such
the study of those master pieces which thatl distinguished applause, and such marked
country afforded. At Rome he became ac solicitation to remain in England, as deter- .
quainted with Raphael Mengs, and Pom mined him.to take up his nal residence in
pio Baltoni,a.~, well as with the works of

>Mr. Trott may be called the untutored child l Mic.,ael Angelo, and Poussin; and through _
of nature,having drawn his powers entirely from the friendship of Lord Grantham, he wasI
his own original genius. He indeed, in latter life,
has had the opportunity of studying under Stuait; l that he is the best and closest imitator, that has
and his diploma, awarded by that great master, is, ever attempted to copy bim."_
l
n
London.
In 1765, Mr. \Vest was made a director
of the society of arts; and on the creation
of the royal academy in I768, he was
named by the king to draw up that plan of r
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1
the institution which was then adopted. His

rst painting exhibited on the opening of
the Academy in 1769, was the picture of
Regulus, which was the rst he had done
under the patronage of the king.
Under the royal favour and the concur
ring sentiments of admiring artists, Mr.
West now had a support which enabled
him to follow without restraint or controul
MM
healing the sick in the 'l"emple.* This

rh'fdouvrc of himself, and of the art, has
been, indeed, changed from its original
purpose of a gift to the Pennsylvania Hos

pital, to a place in the new National In
stitution in London: but, if that mind.
which for a great and deserved object, could

summon energies to his aid, which were
before unknown to himself, why may \it
the entire bent of his genius. Soon after,
not trust his assurance, that a second pic
therefore, came out his pictures of Agrip
ture, (and not a mere copy,) will have ex

cellencies, which his fertile genius may
enable him to add. The letters from Mr.
pina, Hannibal, \Volfe, and Penn. The ne
prints engraved by \Voollctt from these,

still more aided the circulation, and spread
the fame of the painter over Europe and
America.
\Vhilst we contemplate Mr. West as
possessing all the philosophy of painting,
we must also regard him in the amiable
character ofa moral painter. All his sub
jects,therefore. are such as most dignify
and support religion, philosophy and inor
ality. Before the time of West, it had been
the hereditary prejudice of artists to con

ceive that modern dresses could not sus
tain a picture, where heroism and dignity
should prevail. Nothing but Roman or
Greek dresses could be tolerated: but the
pictures of Wolfe and Penn, being a bold
departure from prescribed forms, has forni
ed a new era in the art, and has caused a.
total revolution and innovation in the dres
ses of historical gures not only in England,
but throughout the world. He has there
fore been called in France, as well as cer
tied in England, to be the Reviver of
the dignity of historical painting.
In 1791, Mr. West on the death of sir
Joshua Reynolds, succeeded him as presi
dent of the royal academy. In his ofcial,

as well as in his private capacity, he has
ever been the munificent and ready patron
Coates and Mr. Hunt, who have seen the
progress of the new picture, and have heard

the promises of the venerable artist, give
every assurance of an equal, if not asuperi
or gift. To their testimonies, we are pleas
ed to add the opinion of so distinguished .-.
painter as Mr. Robertson, with which we
shall close this articlesl'
Mr. \Vests picture here, (London, 26

April, 181]) is the wonder of the world
it is truly gratifying to see the enthusiasm
of the venerable president. eclipsing in ar
dour and enthusiasm the youngest enthusi
ast in the art. His spirits ul'C revived anti
~.ustained by the honours he receives; and
Itis mind is invigorated for the production
of still higher excellencit-s. He has now
could plainly hear (lashing against the shore.
They now approached the door and Flori

val knocked.
A hoarse voice within cried:
Is it you Alcanzor?"
\Ve are unfortunate strangers, replied

Florival, that have lost our way through
the gloom of the forest and crave the friend
ly shelter of your cottage, until morning.
Are there many men of you? demand

ed the same rough voice.
But one,"
returned
Florival, and a
in, at the same time opening the door. Not

so bad as that, though we are very cautious
in these parts, since the Moorish Corsairs
like the first. be produced from the ener

gies and resources of his own mind.
u...
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OR

A TALE
out a fostering hand to all his cotempora
Dare but to touch her,

And 1 rend you, singly, limb from limb!
C. J. Ingerrol.
The grief that is not loud,
Whispers die oer fraught heart and bids it break!
I
S/uikapeare.
often visit us."

The travellers were now admitted to the
comforts of a cheering re and a good meal
was spread before them, of which they ate
sparingly, particularly Florival, who had
prudence enough, after so long an absti.
nence, not to injure himself by the indul
gence of iininoderatc appetite. After the
meal was over, Florival' requested his host
to inform him what he meant by the visits

from the moors, which he talked.
Can it be possible, said the youth,

that they come so far up our rivers? they
have I believe never reached as far as the
Our hero and his fair charge had now

travelled a considerable distance without
him for extent, diversity, and number of

' For a more minute desciiption of which, we
subjects; so that indeed adetailed catalogue
refer our readers to the Select Reviews of Liter
of those known to the public, would amount ature, for August.
to several hundred.
1' For a knowledge of this letter, we are indebt
But, great as lost has been, it would ed to the Select Reviews of Literature and Spirit
seem that, at the advanced age of seventy of Foreign Magaznies, publisht d by John I" Wat
three, he still has new energies, which the

world had not witnessed, but for their pro
banks of a river, the waters of which they
sent to the institution, and the second most.
CHAPTER IX:
The history of Mr. West from his 'ap
deavour to gain shelter for the night, and
information as to the part of the country

they were in. They now quickened their
pace and found that it proceeded from a
cottage that appeared to be situated on the
hapless female. Surely you will not be so

inhuman. as to refuse us a shelter?
No. no, answered the person from with
of rising genius; and, whilst his own fame
pointment in the academy, to the present

time. is nothing but unreniittcd diligence
and increased success in his profession.
The annals of the art, have no parallel with
ed on their unfortunate destiny,a distant
beam of light broke through the darkness

and lled their bosoms with apprehension,
lest it should be the torch of their pur
suers. They stood motionless with terror,
but observing that it was stationary, their
fear gradually subsided, and they resolved
to direct their footsteps towards it, and en
made considerable progress in the art-and

picture, 1 cannot call it a copy,- for as soon
as he had drawn it in slightly, therst was
has been regularly rising, he has ever held

ries.
meeting with any adVenture. They were

still in the forest and had now almost be
gun to despair of reaching the Cottage of
Minda before day-light. \Vhile they ponder.
Castle of Altenheim.
Altenheim! replied the old man, why
you are five leagues, below Altenheim."
" And upon the same river? demanded

Florival.
son. A work which, for interesting and polite liter
To be sure, returned the host. But

come, do tell us how you came to have
that chain around you, and how my young
ature, is probably, not equalled in our country. In

the October No. of this Miscellany, (just out) we
have read a very pleasing memoir of Mr. West,
and have viewed wnh pleasuie, a most admirable
lady came to be with you at this time of

night.
.
Florival hesitated, but upon receiving
sent display in that wonder of the world,

as his cotemporaries have delighted to call
it, the grand historical painting of Christ likeness of him, done by Edwin.
the consent of Amelia, immediately related
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their adventures. The old man expressed

his knowledge and hatred of Pandolfo, and
added.
Methinks I have seen that face before;
but as many years have passed since, I

may be mistaken.
Florival was surprised but requested all
the information of his host which he had it
in his power to grant, concerning the situa
tion of the country and the nearest and most

secure rout to Altenheinv, This he promised
to comply with in the morning,but begged
them to take some rest after the fatigue they
must necessarily have undergone. He then
went to the foot of a ight of stairs and hat
ving called his wife and daughter, by the

names of Barbara and Bertha, our fugitives
presently saw descend a woman of an appear

once as uncouth as her husbands, followed by
a beautiful girl, whose countenance wore
the most interesting simplicity.

Come wife," said the old man, you
val overwhelmed with asronishmeut and ter ceived. Presently they knocked at the door
ror. He knew not what to do, but at least re and the cottager demanded to know it if
solved to warn Amelia of any dangers that was Alcanzor.
might surround them. He aceordingly open
It is I, answered the tall moor, open
ed the door with care and found Amelia lay
the door Jaspar.
ing dressed on the bed and in profound slum
Softly, softly," cried Jaspar, as he
ber.
opened it, we have lodgers to night.
Amelia, my love, he said in a low voice,
Indeed! rejoined Alcanzor, are they
awake!
worth the trouble?"
.
Amelia immediately unclosed her eyes and
Marry but there will be no trouble at
demanded of F lorival the reason of arousing all, replied Jaspar. There is not much
her.
gold, but there is a delicate bit of female
Speak lower, my love, said he. \Ve loveliness that will suit your Moorish
are surrounded by danger. Arise and come stomach.
A woman? cried Alcanzor.
into my chamber."
And a young squire, said Jaspar, that
The maid got up in the utmost terror and
was about to follow Florival when, by the bears her company.I
light of the lamp which he brought into the
If he be poor, cried Alcanzor, " let
room he perceived a large rapier, in
him go where he will, but the lady shall
crusted with blood, and 'a brace of pistols along with me.
And he too, rejoined Jaspar, if it be
hanging against the wall.
It will be at least prudent, said he, to only for my safety. He belongs to Altcnheim
provide against extremes, and these appear and if suered to return I am undone.
You know we never kill unless urged by
as if providentially sent.
He accordingly took them down and pla necessity and therefore if you dont take him,
crd the pistols in the belt that was around this dagger
his body, after he had removed the chain
Enough," said Alcanzor, he shall go,
that was attached to it. They now entered and in Barbary perhaps he may bring a
Berthas chamber, and Florival, closing the thousand sequins.
door as softly as possible, informed Amelia
Barbary! cried the woman, why do
of the warning he had received from the girl. you mean to go to Barbary?
must resign your bed to the lady, and you.

Bertha, yours to the young squire here.
They both have escaped from bad hands and
having wandered four or ve leagues out of
their way, have craved the shelter of 'our cot
tage, until morning."
The woman expressed her satisfaction,
and the daughter only answered by a sigh
Florival noticed the melancholy of the sweet
girl and, looking alternately at the father and She would have had him immediately quit
mother, he felt something like suspicion 0t the cottage, but he represented to her the im
their intentions dart upon his mind. He how possibility of avoiding the robbers, should
they have any ill intention, and that an ab~
ever forebore to express it, lest it should irri
tate his host and terrify Amelia. He hit upon rupt departure would but awaken suspicion.
an expedient at length, and Amelia having He thought it best therefore to trust to pro
been conducted up stairs by Barbara, as he vidence and his own resolution for protec
was retiring led by Bertha, he turned to the
old man and said:
tion, adding, '
They shall not harm you, my love,

while Florival exists.
cerning the moors, l have been wondering
He now persuaded her to lie down and
who the Alcauzor you addressed me as, can endeavour to compose her feelings and
be. Alcanzor is a moorish name.
recruit her strength, in case any immediate
The old man was confused and Florival's cause should require exertion. Amelia
suspicions were conrmed. At length the complied with his request, but could not
host said, that Alcanzor was a neighbor of sleep, while he sat down by a window that
his, whose wife was sick, and whom he had looked into the river. He sat for some time
requested to come for Barbara, if she got leaning upon his hand and ruminating upon
worse during the night. It'lorival was not sat the strange events that had passed, and re
ised with this reply, but without utterint,r a volving in his mind the probable fate that yet
word, followed Bertha, determining howev attended him, when he was aroused by a
er to use the utmost vigilance. When they sound which he thought was that of the
reached the chamber, Bertha placed a lamp dashing of oars. He looked out and could
in the chimney, when Florival requested her plainly distinguish, by the light of the moon,
to take it away; she advanced tOWattlS him, a small boat coming towards the shore, in
and seizing him by the hand, said, in hurri which there was ve men dressed in moor
ish habits, and completely armed. They now
ed tones,
Let it remain, slccp not, that door, opens landed and advanced towards the cottage.
to the ladys chamber; beware of danget; One was a man of amazing stature and ol
a noble and dignied appearance. This, he
Ale..z.zt~r is a Moor and a robber."
Thus saying she withdrew, leaving Flori concluded, was Alcanzor, nor was he de
My good friend, from what you said con
Aye, aye, dame, returned the moor,
I have this trip taken several ne priso

ners, as well as gold, and mean to visit
Africa once more to dispose ofthem. Here,
continued he, here is your share of the

plunder, for providing us with provisions
and protection, while on shore.
He now threw several heavy purses on
the table and called for refreshment.
Amelia had heard every word that pas
sed, and trembling with fear, arose and pla
ced herself by Florival. Again the conversa
tion
below was renewed, and our hero
and heroine were the subjects.

Is she handsome? asked Alcanzor.
Beautiful! replied Jaspar.
Not so handsome as you think, Jaspar,"
said his wife, grufy, but you are always ,
praising other women."
Come. come, dame, cried the Moor,
no cavelling, remove these things and then
for our guests.
The things were now taken away and Al
canzor said, they had better secure the lady
rst, lest in the cofusion of taking care of
her attendant, she should escape. This coun

sel Was adopted and the unhappy fugitives
Iteard them ascending the chamber of Bar
lmltt.
> There is but one way remaining, cried
Florival, place yourself upon the bed my
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M
stiffen the sinews, and freeze the vein of bark on the sea of manhood he sees storms
love, and I will defend you to the last."
Amelia in terror obeyed him, and Flor

ival placed himself close to the door that
communicated with the other chamber.
Presently he heard them in the next room,
and Jaspar exclaimed:
She is not here. By my faith the rogue
has a nice taste and has taken her to himself;
but well soon disturb them.
So saying he opened the door, but had
scarcely entered the chamber when the

rapier of Florival cleft his head assunder,
and he fell dead without a groan. A Moor
'now entered and received his death from
one of the pistols. The other four then rush
ed forward with Alcanzor at their head. Flo
val levelled the second pistol at him when
one of his men in rushing forward received
the ball through his head which was intend
ed for his master. Florival now attacked the
remaining three and sacriced another
to his fury, before he was disarmed and
secured.
(To be continued.)
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Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
Shake/ware.
There is scarcely any point within the

compass of human comprehension, which
man by unwearicd perseverance may not
. attain. It is therefore certain that as it re
gards our absolute wants there is nothing
that will defy the
'ited exertions of indus
try and patience. \Vc however nd attached

to the character of mankind, either a dispo
sition unreasonably sanguine, or unreasona
bly timid; timidity takes the lead, for after
having met with a few disappointments the

most rm among us are apt to resign them
selves to apathy. This would by no means
he the case, were it not that those who are
buoyed up by hope are apt to think every

thing within their reach, and that they have
only to stretch out their hand and grasp
whatever is desirable. This portion is little
removed in point of happiness above those
who are in the rst instance under the do
minion of fear. Each of them is alike in
error, but as both converge towards the
same centre, it is my intention to investigate
effect of gathering before him; he sees commerce

beset by dangers, and his prospect which
perceives a handsome face belonging to one might once have been brilliant, is overshad
of the opposite sex, and he covets it; he owed and conned by anticipated glooms.
conceits that the object of his desire is all There again nothing perhaps is necessary
checrfulness,)
to observe the
this timidity, in love. The youthful swain
perfection, that her mind is the mirror of

goodness, that purity chills her bosom but
but rmness; not expectation founded on

rash conjectures
t undeniable data, not a
that compassion warms her heart; he blends

together charms opposite, and incompatible
rmness which
at rst view com
manding, but sin s/ihastily when trodden
with each other; in short he conceits ten
upon by the gigantic foot of misfortune; not
thousand ner things than a sedate old

bachelor could express were he to think
forever. This incomparable dulcinea is very
possibly in a situation in life more elevated
than our hero; he of course (for f love has
a thousand fears") looks at the worst side of
a rmness that can be intimidated,r one
that will smile amid approaching calamaties;

one that instead ofyielding to the attacks of
insolent apprehension, thinks but of con
quest. If possessed of this quality, and its
natural attendant perseverance, he has no
the picture, and in a very short time is fully thing to be alarmed at; it is in every station
convinced that the object of his afeuion, as of life alike necessary, and in every station,
it is termed, never can be his. Hereupon he when employed, alike successful.
Thus then it is; the man who is possessed
sinks into despondence; or he may perhaps
after considerable exertion muster up reso of a temper at the same time accomodating
lution enough to write her a billet-doux. and bold, who without being overbearing,
Modern etiquette, and novel writers accep condes sufciently in his own ability, will
tance render it absolutely necessary that the seldom fail; while he who is given to tim
idity and doubt, will most generally fall
ady should return the lover his letter with
out having broken the seal. Our good youth short of his object. In nothing is this per
construes this into her excessive modesty, severance aud self condence, (not self con
and immediately resigns all hope of becom ceit) more necessary than as it regards ac
ing possessed of the fair, when if he had only quirements n science; had Johnson been
been possessed of foresight and resolution, one of the victims of this distrust, our lan
we have small room to doubt of his having guage would not now have been under such
ultimately succeeded. These ideas are not noble regulations, and our literature would
chimerical, they are exemplied daily; they have been in all probability still far from re
are not to be laughed at, for we very often nement. Were there no minds among us
see the most serious consequences result but what were shackled by its chains, we
from things equally unbiloao/llu'cal.
would be doomed to tread in old and beaten
But it is not my intention to conne my paths, and even to stumble on an uninter
self to this only; for the effect complained of rupted plain; instead of elevated excursions,
is no less produced on many of our wishes the human fancy would grovel in the dust
unimproving and unimproved.
than the one here referred to. If for exam
Whatever profession we may embrace
ple, a young man be about setting forth in
the pursuit of a livelihood, being free industry and perseverance should be our
from the minor's tether," he is apt to paint great and leading principles, they will keep
innumerable difficulties; to fancy terric all treacherous doubts" from insulting us;
dangers; to see on all sides around him, his they will dispel the glooms which may have
in clouds, and above
conned our view, they will illuminate the
him his rmament hung with darkness. Is

he a. mechanic, and without friends? he
thinks he will never be able to procure a sub
sistence; he thinks there is already asuperu
ous number of his profession; that he will be
unable to make a beginning, and be nally
reduced to starvation. Would be but reect
on the proportionate increase of population,
and the dependence of society on itself, or
horizon
enveloped
surrounding prospect, they will teach us

not to fear the ftowns of fortune and will
nally in every rational undertaking lead us
to assured success.
GREGURY GRAVITY.
_-.o._
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the impropriety of our distrust, and to prove

HUMANITY.
that to this distrust alone are we indebted
Humanity is one of the greatest qualities
for many of our calamities.
of man on man, these doubts and apprehen
that can adorn the human mind, for without
As it is generally the rst thing that en sions would not arise; would be but reect it, man would be reduced to a station lower
gages he attention of the young, it may not on the advantages of merit, if he were indus than that of the brutes. It is a virtue which
be amiss, (although it may appear foolish, to trious and honest he would find nothing that should possess and actuate every breast; and
those philosophers whose unbending coun should dauut him.
it is a principle which has been revered and
tenances condemn all that does not tend to
Or if he be a merchant, and about to em observed in all ages. It has been known to
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exist among savages, though they are gen
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erally supposed to be destitute of the least

spark of it.
It has happened that when the principles
ofhumanity have not been early incalculated
and impressed upon the mind, it has become
in the end delighted with scenes of cruelty.
How comes it that we so often see children
tormenting and killing poor harmless insects?
Is it not owing to their Want of this exalted
virtue which their parents have never instil
THE PROPlTlATION.
led into them? the neglect of it will lead
them by degrees to commit greater cruelties

and may eventually tend to deprive them of
the least regard for virtue or humanity.
No nation has been so disgraced as to en
tirely disregard this most distinguishing trait.
In the wars which have harrassed the world

We have occasionally seen some vestiges of
it. And the cruelties of the contending na
tions have been circumscribed by the inu
ence which it possesses over the minds of
mankind. That conqueror who can spurn at
the idea of humanity, and of sparing the,
effusion of human blood, and who gluts his
voracious appetite by the wanton distruction

of his fellow creatures, is accounted a mon
ster in the eyes of the world. Many of this

class has the world produced, and they have
always been viewed with the utmost detesta
tion. The vices of men have not gone to

such a pitch as to entirely suppress every
sentiment of feeling and compassion for one
another. The human mind, though naturally
prone to wickedness, is not destitute of hu

manity. instances have proved this assertion,
the late destructive res at Charleston and

Newburyport have excited that liberality and
compassion in our citizens which has so long
characterized them. Too much praise can
not be given for their prompt and willing
attention to relieve the distressed sufferers.
Humanity by such continual and uninter
rupted wars in Europe, appears almost to
have left that convulsed quarter of the globe
Death and destruction have almost e'aced
every image of it, and desolated Europe af =
fords the most striking picture of the want '
of its useful inuence. The fair form of na
ture has almost left the uncultivated soils of
Portugal and Spain, and humanity with hor
ror shrinks back at the sight. The mind is
lost in astonishment at the dreadful progress

which is made by cruelty, and wonders why
man delights in the destruction of his fellow
man.
HUMANUS.
.-
Converaation between two broom makers.
Tom, how do you make out to sell your .,

'
brooms so much cheaper than I do when l
steal every stick of wood I make use of? Oh,
said Tom, I steal my brooms ready made.
Your well earnd plaudits shall reward the deedjd

The look end tho! and thus the joyful king,
(m. Envy, go outlpread your spreading wing;

No fault will we attribute if you fail,
But swelling praises if you should prevail.
Nor praises only but a. glorious fame
455
\Vill ever wait on Envys growing name.
Delia! expresses his joy at the last prospect of suc
Now while rash pleasure from his eyeballs glarcs,
cess, and requests Jloloch to name one of theemls
Ungenerous Envy for his ight prepares;
for the embassy.- Reply qfJlIoloch; Em'y is chosen,
When meagre Mammon, who in silence sate,
who prepares for-hi: departure, when Jfommon ad
Counting his heaps, regardless of the state;
460
wires that the whole 'vitn't Juden and employ their Now raised his eyes and prayed the fiends give ear,
attributes for the attainment of their did; This is The ust advice he would bestow to hear;
assented to, they leave Hell and alight on the hill This roused the attention of the bustling clan,
where Sutnn suj'cred his last (lc'ftal; The Jews Who listend while the fury thus began:
455
being in council, Satan and Emy hasten to the Friends in ambition, breth'rcn in dispair,
\dopt my council ifit best appear;
hall, while Sommu is directed to shut the senses of
If not reject it, but awhile bestow,
Judas in deep -mul Jllanuntm to appear to him in Your gentle patience, that advice to know.
vision.
Let not one spirit undertake this deed
llc ceased,when Belial, of the clan most wise,
Of dreadful moment, if you would succeed;
479
Rears his tail form and thus transported cries: 400 Not Envy only, chieftains, can stubdue,
And guide the passions of the stubborn Jew,
0! gentle hope, that chasest our despair,
Pride and Ambition must with him along;
With eyes so smiling and with mien so fair;
Welcome once more to this delighted breast,
And I too. Mammon must be with the throng.
I meet thee like the sparrow meets her nest; 404 Far be from me the uncndlike part to cast
476
\Vho, long had wandered from the fragrant wood; One curst reflection or bright Envy blast,
Where on some tree the straw built mansion stood: But trust me, friends, it every soul requires,
\Vhosc bosom unrelenting vengeance res.
Or like the tigerI howling on the air,
\Vho long had prowld to seek his lonely lair,
Then let us all our posts awhile forsake,
480
The opening at a distance now descries,
And to Judea ight immediate take;
Roars with new joy and to the cavern flies!
410 There let each end his attributes employ,
Thou point's bright hope to the long wishd for goal, But to one fearful purpose, to destroy.
And pourst a furious pleasure oer my soul.
So shall each one the toilsomc eil'ort bear,
Now, gallant princes, now the hour has come,
And if we conquer each the glory share.
Scarce ceased the end when answering" plaudits
A new born act-a in our dreadful doom;
415
broke,
An sera unexpected, long disired;
And acquiescence to his well bespoke.
With hate increasedbe all your bosoms red;
In frantic (lance your long lost rapture tell,
Prepare, ye chiefs, the exulting monarch cries,
And let your souls with thoughts of vengeance On wings of wrathful fury to arise,
Two years oftriumph nearly now have pass'd,
swell.
Methinks, een now I see the Saviour die,
Haste let the second he the Saviour's last;
490
And cold, unpitied, unhefriendcd. lie:
420 This pregnant year a year of
shall be,
I see the spear his pendent body tear,
To you, my daring warriors, as to me;
And hear the cries of anguish on the air.
Jesus no more, who every hope devours,
0! joyful sounds, as loud as thunder roll,
tlankind unfricndcd, may again he ours.
And play sweet music to my listniug soul;
424 So spoke the king and instant at the word,
495
The pang that \vrithes the Christ when he expires, The sounds of preparation loud are heard;
(Huts me With vengeance for hell's angry res!
Each leaves his shield . his breast with armour round,
Say. my compccrs, who undertakes the deed,
lie but secures, his shaky candles bound
Over each foot, which bears a dismal wing,
'I inspire the Jews till the lttdeemer bleed?
Speak Moloch thou, and who soeer you say,
To aid the fury in his feat-ll spring.
500
Of all our host, is ready to obey.
430 The word was given and now the flight began
My swelling breast with equal vengeance burns,
Led by the king and Moloch in the van.
And equal hate the sullen end returns;
Next came black Envy, next Ambition came;
But ! disdain such sctvile means tcmploy,
Then Ashtcroth, unblushing end of shame:
Een man's ..cui st Redeemer to destroy
With her emasculattd Chemos ew,
505':
Slaughter and blood are Molochs chief dclight,435 The most detested of the hellish crew;
1
Those dread attendants on the furious ght:
\nd next did graceful Belial appear,
i
To lead the countless numbers of the rear,
Yet for a while I lay my purpose by,
And with the wishes of our king comply;
'l'hen followd Creeshnoo the dump ranks behind.
Fonake my shield, against our cunning foes,
'..'ith him the hateful .loss of China joind.
5h
That stoop to an, an equal art oppose;
440 'l'hen next came he who raised the Tcmpter'
But for myself. the work I cannot share,
wrath,
No soft insinuating power I bear;
'lagon the huge, the loathsome sin of Gath.
Let cunning l-lnvy act the glorious part,

\nd after all the meagre Marnmon came,
Whose way, with riches clogged, was slow an
And make his power pervade through every heart.
The task be mine. pale, res less Envy
lame.
. cries, 545
t'hese, had he yielded to _\pollyons mind,
To counteract toe purpose of the skies;
51
dual-ded by Cerberus, had been left behind,
Ifl should fall the fault be all my own,
llut then all Hell had tllgz'ti Ins ight in vain,
And mine the su"riug and the shame alone!
Mammon must ever with his heaps remain;
But. if, ye mighty warriors, I succeed,
BOOK IV.
(Continued)
a n c u M e n 'r.
182
PHILADELPHIA REPERTOllY.
m
Scatter with life the meagre end would part, 520
Than lose his gold, for dcatei' to his heart.
On the tall mountain, where dishonourd flight
Last shamed the Tempter, all the legions light:
The hill that trembled with his guilt before,
\Vith tenfold guilt now tottcrcd tenfold more. 525
Scarce had they rested ere the monarch cried:
Welcome thou spot that dashd my towering pride,
Here on the hill from whence before I fell,
I stand the sovereign of victorious hell.
Tremble Redeemer, then the conqueror thou,
But here 1 stand the haughty victor now;
530
And see, brave chiefs, the Jews in close debate,
Now council measures, urged by cruel hate,

To rob the Saviour ofhis life, and give
\
Themselves with us in endless giief to live.
Sce how the hall is throngh'd, my chiefs. away535
And bloody conquest greet our hopes to day.
But soft, grey twilight from the brook now ies,
And the dark mists of night in haste arise:

The moon now rises from the transient grave,
And looks portentous oer the angry \vavo!
440
Myself and Envy will now seek the hall,
To guide the ponderings of the Jews while all
The rest remain upon this lofty hill,
Ready to act the purpose of our will.
That done, lscariot next demands our care,
545
Yonder he stalks to aid our deadly hate,
Guilt and dissatisfaction on his brow,

He treads 'he ground with hurried step, and now
551
To look pale death the silent darkness through.

Now he looks round in terrible despair,
'hile rage and envy from his eye balls glare;
555
And now he stops beneath the olive shade.
Now on the ground his weary form is laid;
Haste, drowsy Somnus oer his senses creep,

And hold the rebel in the bands of sleep;
'hile thou, dread Mammon, to his mental sight,
Appear in airy vision of the night;

Exert thy power to tempt him to his fall
And bear the traitor to the Jewish hall;
There will myself and powrful Envy be,
To inspire the council and to Welcome thee.
560
Ten thousand hopes are swelling in my breast,555
'
Dream on, cried Mammcn, wretched Judas dream,
Be cheating wealth, deludmg Christ thy theme;

Uome fearful vision. now exert thy power,
And aid pale Mammon is this glorious hour
So spoke the nd, the vision then began,
And thus lscariots mental wandrings ran.
For the Repertory.
Saw the wild harbinger of wo appear.

Saw it approach in gilded horror nigh,
And thug confusion though the crowded sky?
Or Dolly Dump, who when the dream Was told
Solved the vast riddle like the seers 0t old,
And self-inspired to Vicious'youth declared

_ The great intention that around us glared?
Yes, Dolly , thou demandst my strongest rhyme,
For neer shall 1 through clouds of darkest time,
Wipe from my mind thy great plOplmttt; st. _.in,

And smooth its deep impression on my brain,
When with contracted brow and features wise
M UK N [N G.
Now issues morn, borne on the ray,
That changes sable night to day;

And makes the mountains lofty height
Glow with the dazzling rays of light,
That gilds the sky around,
And soon the dewy drops 0 tnight, '
That glitter on the grass so bright,
Dissolved in vapour take their ight,
Far distant from the ground.
The sylvun songsters swell their throats.
And loud they chaunt their di't-rent notes,
And make the woods repeat
Their song which forth on zephyr oats,
The welcome morn to greet.
How beautiohs tis at early dawn,
And him to urge, pale Mammon be thy share;

But see halfway the traitor meets his fate,
Starts as a basilisk had struck his view,
And lure the rising consciencp to lie still.

Now through the air the fox-mless vision spread,
And uttered fraudful oer [scar ots head.
To walk upon the open lawn;

And view the rising sun of day,
Advancing foward on his way,
To hear the merry sotigsters raise,
Their voices in melodious lays;
Or straying long some winding rill,
That issues from a neighbouring hill,
To see its nny shes glide
And sparkle on the silver tide.
Such scenes as these would oft impart,
Some good instruction to the heart;
And cause the mind to keep in view,
The hand that formd scenes always new.
SYLVANUS.
_.__
For the Repertory.
THE COMET.
Addressed to the horror loving old maids ofthis our

city from the classical pen of Daniel Dingdong
Which till the deed is done can have no rest;

Hail! lavourd town. which views with eagle eye,
Nerve Envy, M smmon, nerve with rage your hearts,
Think on our '1 ongs and Well perform your parts; ' The kindling train that gilds the realms on high,
Whose mighty genius sweats in glorys rays,
Think that the eliort of his pregnant night,
570 And rides exalted on the comets blaze.
Must or advance us or destroy us quite;
Hail! maids and matrons, hail! ye antique few,
Hear, nor permit your soul to feel appal,
That nature eye with philosophic view,
Jesus or we this night must rise or fall
That tread in noblcr paths than Newton trod,
'I'nen fzdl the Saviour, while the all'righted skies
And turn a comet to the frown of God!
With looks of anguish see our heroes rise.
575 I 0 who can bid the harp your merits ring,
Now for the te: nble attempt, he said,
And who your sense in worthy numbers sing?
And with wan Envy from the mountain ed,
Who dare attempt with Phebus languid ame
To where in close assembly sat the Jews,
To light the radiance of your wandrous fame?
A deadly potion in their breasts t infuse
Now the rst \vatch ofnight had midway own; To give to justice what is justices due,
And make the splendid olf'ring unto you?
The darkness drcar, the wandring pathway lone,
When sober Somnus, on his errad sent,
531 Since then, Apollo all thy glories fail,
Come brush the comet with thy swinging tail,
His silent way to guilty Judas bent:
Blaze, blaze around me with horric sweep.
Followd by Mammon to concert the wile,
And bid the wicked wretches sob and weep,
Ply-ant the base Judcan to beguilc;
Fast lockd in sleep lscsriot restless lies,
595 Breathe oer my stain thy sparkle-shining lyre,
And roll my head in wonders wildest re.
By powerful Somnus oer his yielding eyes
But say whose glory shall I rst record,
The bell forged fetters held, or all in vain,
Whose mighty wisdom most demands the lord,
Had sleep endeavoured to enforce her chain;
No soothing slumbers wait the guilty soul,
Or fair Eliza, maid of some supremo,
Guilt is as wakcful as the midnight owl;
590 Who rst behold the judgment in a dream,
Till the deceitful ends their bosoms ll,
Who, pious damsel! wrapt in frantic fear,
'l'hou toldst the wonder that disturbd the skies,

Told how, (09 horror,, how the airshoultlt mulg ,
And summer reign where Boreas ought to range,
And how to curb the wickedness oteat-tn

From distant realms the comet l'lamed to birth.
Yes, city, well Philosophy may sm.le
To see thy children skill d in wisdom's wile,
To see thy antique maids instructed soar
Though realms where blinking idiots but adore,
But hark! lair Dolly calls me yet again,
To pour in mine the phrenzy of her brain;
I leave you now, ye herd offools, to go
To hear, to learn, and then her thoughts to show,
To show them to this Wise but wicked town,
And teach submission to J0l|0Val.S frown.

But until time shall order my return,
'lown, let your thoughts with ti-autic fury burn,
Old maids set all your Wits to instant work,

best all you y like meteors at aJerk;
For rest assuied or now or then it come
Soon shall this rocking planet share its doom,
Soon shall its sphere in quivring terror burst,
And soon its members mingle with the curst.
Soon shall this comet, yes this comet fair,
Kindle :1 red confusion in the air,
Shall thump against us like a bul'l'crs blow

And like a trap ball knock us to and fro;
Shall mountains dislocate, destroy the sun,
And bid the sy stem undirected run,

Tell me ye wicked. how will quake each soul
When crazy ruin ranges through the whole,
When mad disaster sheds itis crimsond ray,
And tears the lily cust,from shilling day,
When sheets of flame shall uttering shake aloud,
And curling volumes with distracted shroud.
Will yo not tremble, say yc vicious cicw,
When red hot pitch forks quiver on your view,
when clouds with smoky sulphur hove. round,
And thunder dances \vith terric bound,
When in a cinder all this earth shall be,
And d -zzling misery annoy the sky,

When ocean shrinking from its monstrous bed,
Shall turn each wave to eye of glaring rcd,
When this same comet, 0! I shrink to say,
Shall trail around us wild distractious ray,
To us, pale mortals, its dread will reveal,

And rock convulsive, and com ulsive reel;
When from its orbit it shallliasel; y,

And melting,r all the gems that gild the sky,
Shall be in Ocean With his sapphires hurld,

And ery cataracts oerwhclm the world!
THE FATE OF A MEDLER
Mr. Bonnie and his wife,

Had at breakfast a so it's;
He wanted bread and butter with his ten;
Says she, " l iulc lit: It). st,
1 will have a plate uftunst.

So to loggerheads with him went she.
M
There was one Mr Moore,
Lodged in the second oor;
A man very strong in the wrist

He overhead clutter
About toast, bread and butter,
50 he knockd down Mr. Bourne with his st.

Says Moore, Ods my life!
You shall not beat your wife;
It is both a sin and disgrace.
You fool! says Mrs. Bourne,
Tis no business of yourn."
And smack went a cup of tea in his face.
Cried poor Mr. Moore,
As he sneakd to the door,
i' Im surely a man without brains:
him his boatswain and cabin boy, to whom
he gave directions to occupy two of the

beds, and, recollect my lads," said he,
is informed that, nether his "Oysters, Pepperpot or

Hot corn," can nd admittance into the Repertory.
ders were strictly complied with, to the an
The communication of Humanus is published
noyance of every guest in the house: in the without comment.

The Piece signed Historicus is reserved fo a
morning the landlord complained heavily of
the disturbance, and hoped the captain would more attentive perusal
discontinue it; but the latter said that it was
his way at sea, and did he no! [my for the
rooms? Pi/zing all hands! Was repeated on

the second night, which produced fresh re
red that if such practices were continued,
Ifa stranger pokes his snout in,
The extortion ofthe inn-keepers at Ports

mouth, on persons arriving at that port, has
long been proverbial; in a recent instance,
however, an attempt of this nature was com
pletely foiled. A few weeks ago, a gentle
man with his family, landed there, from the
West-Indies, and intending to remain a short
time until he could hear from his friends in

London, applied to the landlord of the inn,
to which he had been conducted,for accom
modation: but was told that three bedrooms

could not be provided for his family unless
he would engage them for a week certain,
and that the lowest charge would be a gui
nea a day for the use of them. To this ex
orbitant demand the gentleman, after some
before we commence the publication.

The correspondent with the delicate signature,
all hands for a general muster." These or
tnonstrances from the landlord, who decla
PIPING ALL HANDS.
We have no objections to the rst number of

the Moralist, yet we should like to see a few more.
watch and watch, every three hours [ti/2e
When two married folks are outing,

Hes sure to get it tweakd for his pains.
183
it would be the ruin of his house, and he
should be satised if the captain would pay

for the two nights occupation of the rooms,
alitl discontinue his nocturnal alarms." Cap
tain L. declared, that sleeping on shore he
found congenial to his health, and combiningr
sea customs with land conveniences afforded
him an ample fund of amusement. The
third night produced a repetition of the
alarm; but, in the morning Boniface waited
upon the disturbcr of his house,and with ma

ny bows and cringes, informed him, that
he was extremely willing toirego any cliar
g'esfar the three nights lodging, if the Cap
tain would consent to sleep on board his
ship, where he might fti/ze all hands as fre
quently as he pleased; to which otter, cap
tain L. with apparent reluctance, acceded.
London Pojzcr.
I:
expostnlation, acceded. Soon afterwards, on
going to the post-office, he found letters ly
PHlLA DELPH 1A,
ing there for himyfrorn his friends in Lon
There is not one correct line in the blank verse

of Senex.
_-._
we have been favoured with the perusal of a ser
mon on the death of CaptJohn Kidwell, who died
on the 20th of July last, within two days sail from
Cadiz. This discourse was delivered on Sabbath.
evening, 15th of September, by the Rev. Dr. Rog
ers, with great pathos and apparent effect, in the.
rst Baptist Meeting House, in Second street. The
text Was from Matthew. vi. 10.

" Thy will be done.
After a few preliminary Observations, the speak
er proceeded to expound the text and with great
clearness and precision informed us what was
meant by the will of God and what implied in its
being done by us After explaining in the clearest:
manner, the words of his text, chosen by the afic.
ted partner of the deceased brother of the church,
he continued as follows.
From the foregoing observations we learn, I.
That a christian felicity is connected with or insep
arable from his conformity to the will of God. Psalm
xxxix. 9. This is more to be desired than gold, Etc.
2. The necessity of renouncing' every thing that
comes in competition with Gods will. The source
of human misery lies at the door of the opposition
there is n the will of man to the will of God, &c.
3. The obligation we are under to be wholly rc
signed when visited with the severest losses, 3w.
Heaven gives as friends to bless the present scene;
don, requiring his immediate departure

from that place, as soon as he should arrive.
On his return to the inn, he informed the
landlord of the circumstance, and hoped

payment would not be insisted on for the
rooms, which he had scarcely occupied:
but to this Boniface would by no means
consent, and high words arose between the
parties. Capt. L. of the royal navy, who
was well known to the landlord, happened
to be in the house at the time, inquired in
to the circumstance, and discovering the
imposition intended to be practised, o'cred
CORRESPONDENCE.
As it is always our rst wish to please the fair,

we are sorry that the communication of Helena
did not come into our hands until a few days ago.
We have however, perused it attentively and nd
a talent for poetry in it, which we are ever
ready to encourage, but it is so inaccurate in com
position and touches the subject so briey that
we are under the necessity of declining it. We
shall however attend, with a great deal ofpleaaure,
to any other piece she may send us; only we would
have her take our word for it, that there exists no
American nightingale.
WL' should publish the communication of Ed
mund but that he has left room for a double mien
to take the bargain off the gentlemans hands.

it was cheerfully assented to by both par ilre, which renders it objectionable. We believe
ties, and the latter immediately departed I this to have been unintentional, but it is not the
less objectionable on that account.
with his family, after thanking the captain
To the gentleman who favoured us with the
for his interposition. Immediately directions interesting sermon on the death of Capt. Kidwell,
were given for the beds to be prepared, as we return our sincere thanks and invite him to fa
capt. L. said it was his intention to sleep vour us from time to time with his own lucuhra
on shore that night. What, all three?" tions, as well as such religious intelligence as
inquired the waiter. To be sure! .un not , may come into his possession.
'lhe picnic-5 argument in favour of Morning by
Ito pay for them? was the I'KfPly. In the 1'
Sylvanus, is its simplicity, although it is not. bad
evening the captain returned, bringing with n' poetry. We invite his correspondence,
Resumes them to prepare us for the next.

He who does all things well has recently remo
ved from our number, by the visitation of the king
of terrors, a beloved brother, captain John Kidwell,
who died on the 20th of July last, within two days
sail from Cadiz on his passage home, although he
had been sick from the time he had left our capes
on his passage out for that port. At the time ofhis
death he was at a promising period of human life,
being only in the 32d year of his age. At his own

special request, previous to his leaving Cadiz, in
the anticipation of death before the vessels arrival

in Philadelphia his remains were solemnly deposit
ed in the deep, but the sea must and shall give him
up when the trumpet sounds forth,
.
Awake, ye dead, and come to judgement.
I
Two years ago last March, our brother, who we
trust is now in glory, was baptized in the name of
the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Ma
ny of the members of this chtuch will recollect
that his rst impressions of a religious nature were
occasioned by a shipwreck, he remaining 10 days
on the bottom of the wreck previous to his deliver
'ance therefrom. His new life began on the water,
and on the same element his natural life lt'l'nllII-t ed,
and the water will nave-'to give up his body a1 the
Ian day. Our brothers life, conversation, social in
tercourse with the world :url others, and in shot
184
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his whole deportment has been since his profes

sion of our holy religion, as all who knew him can
testify, becoming of the gopsel of the grace of God.
His letters in general. especially those he wrote to
his beloved wife, since he left our capes never to
return more, breathe a spirit of uniform glowing
piety. The idea that the time of his bodily dissolu
tion was drawing nigh must have taken fast hold of
his mind. In his very last letter to his dear partner
dated Cadiz, June 18th, in speaking of his great
and almost constant pains of body, he writes, I
hope that I shall be enabled to say, Thy will, 0 God,
be done." Dont be alarmed at my indisposition,
perhaps it is good for me to be sfilicted, it is the
hand of the Lord and we must not complain but
endeavour to say Thy will be done and not ours.
Pray for me, ask the prayers of the church in my
behalf, I always remember you and them in my
prayers, we must watch and pray lest we enter in
to temptation. Oh that I had the Wings of a dove,
then would I fly away and be at rest, but I must
wait all my appointed time till my change cometh.
People here go to mass on Lords day and at night
to balls, may God forgive them for they appear to
know not what they do.Thc Lord bless and protect
you in my absence and may you enjoy much of our
Lord and Master's presence.
Other extracts might be made of a similar nature
from his other letters, which are peculiarly des
criptive of the state of his mind, his concern for
the salvation of idolaters and unbelievers among
whom he had to mix when abroad, his high sense
HEALTH OFFICE,
October 12, 8l1.
who never dies, is also thy loving, tender, and bet

ter husband. " Be still, is his voice, and know that
I am God. The sea, like the grave, for awhile ap

pears ushed with victory. It rejoices over its prey
but its conquest shall be of short duration only;
your husband will rise again, and through grace,

Atrophy
1 lnam. of stomach I
crowned with glory; your poor feeble nature may
Casualties
Cholera mot-bus
l
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7 4 Old age
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sister, most affectionately beseech you not to mur
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mur. No more in this vale of tears will the presence
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of the late patient partner of your cares gladden

your sight. He is gone, gone to receive, as we trust,
an eternal crown.
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now recoil. but our religion whispers, all .5 well.

We all sympathize with you, for your lOSS is great
indeed: but remember that your loss is his un
"Why do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at deaths alarms?

Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.

The preacher then pathetically addressed the
church, afterwards the careless and profane, par
ticularly the thoughtless child of the ocean, and
concluded the service.
The sublime truths delivered in the above dis
course have been received in all ages of the
world, by the wise and good, as the'foundation of
the only real happiness the human soul can enjoy.
How correct was the poet when he wrote,
The soul uneasy and conned from home,
Diaeaaea.
ad. ch.
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Rests and expatiates in a life to come
9 oclock. 12 o'clock- 3 oclock.
of those spiritual privileges he enjoyed in Phila
delphia, the Satisfaction he experienced in retire

ment when in Roman Catholic countries, and that
How correct is the legate of heaven when he de

clares, that when the Saviour shall come, not with
sweet communion which he enjoyed when the Bi
his disciples round a heap of bm'ning coals, but

ble was his companion and the eternal God was his
with his people round a burning world, the trum
helper. The books which he took with him to sea pet shall sound, the earth and the sea shall give up
and which are now in the chamber of his mourning
their dead, and the corruptible bodies of those that
widow are all of the religious kind, purely evangeli
cal. The hymns. since the return of his books, two of sleep in him shall be changed. In vain then the bil
which have already been sung and of which the lows of the sea will attempt to roll, evaporating
concluding one will be, were all found turned down; like the dews of the morriitig before the fervour of
these, with many others so found, are all descrip
the sun, the dead shall leave. their watery tombs.
tive of death, eternity, and the world of glory.
Those that arejusted by faith to meet the Lord in
The mate and others of the ships company on
the air and be conveyed to that heavenly Jerusalem
board, when speaking of him, are lled with tears;
they were such witnesses of his prayers and other to join in the eternal anthem that gladdens the
devotional exercises that the impressions made may skies, and sing glory and honour and praise and
probably be never forgotten, which may God grant power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and
might be the case. But our brother is no more as unto the Lamb, forever and ever.
to this world: Jehovahs will has been done as it
When the last trump shall terror spread,
respects his removal from us. His apparent antici
And earth in ery ruin lies;
pation of death has been realized He possesSed a
The grave and seas shall yield their dead,
tranquil frame of soul, knowing him in whom he
And every soul tojidgment rise!
had believed. He thought and so expressed himself
0! may I, ere that awful hour,
that he should not return to his earthly home, but
Find that the blood of Jesus fell
he is gone to hi eavenly one, even to the true
On the dread page, with sowreign power
Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heaven
To blot my sins and save my soul from hell!
ly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angelsi
to the general assembly and church of the rst
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JOSEPH HU {TON
room, No. 64 Lombard street, will be opened
on the 15th of October fot the purpose of evening

tuition, from six until nine oclock.
It is his inten
tion to limit his number, the advantages of which

need no comment.
1
TERMS or Tnr. acneuronv.


and become responsible for the payment, shall re.
\Vhen Colonel Thornton once asked his

born which are written in heaven, to God the
coachman, if he had any objection to go
judge of all, to the spirits of just men made per
abroad with him? To any place that ever
feet, to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
was created," said the fellow very eagerly.
and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better Would you drive me to hell? said the co

Subscriptions and communications will be re.
things than that of Abel. There let us all be wil

4
lonel. That I would, answered the fellow,

ling to leave him; and there, do thou, our bereav
that I would." Why you would nd it a

ed and beloved sister, be willing to leave him too.
hot birth, and you must go in rst yourself,
Being dead, be yet speaketh to you, his late en
Tom, the box is before the body of the coach."
deared partner. Read over and over his letter from
Cape Henelopen. How does he evidence himself to No, no, I would back your honour in, and
b, the loving and tender husband; but thy Maker wait at the gate; 1 know my place."
ceived at this oflice, and at the bookstore of list.

PHILADFLPHIA,
Marshalls alley.between Fourth and Fifth stregtl,
@Bifabelpjiaweperfotp,
Cowrza.
VOL II.
BIOGRAPHY.
'rns urn or GENERAL LEE. *
The family of the Lees is both ancient
and respectable, many of them having had
connections and intermarriages with the
principal families in the English nation, and
from a pedigree done for Mr. Thomas Lee,
distributor and collector of the stamp du
ties for the county and city of Chester,
North Wales, we learn that the generals
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. l811.

l which gave great uneasiness toevery Ameri
can, as it appeared prejudicial to their interest
and safety. On this occasion he exerted
himself, and published a pamphlet showing
the importance of this country, which was
much approved of by all the friends to
America. The celebrated Dr. Franklin, in par.
ticular, was pleased to compliment him, and
said, that it could not fail of making a salu
tary impression. In the year 1762, he bore
a colonels commission, and served under
general Burgoyne in Portugal, and in this

said county, who was some time a captain service he handsomely distinguished him
of dragoons, afterwards lieutenant colonel self.
\Vhen a general conclusion was at length
of general Barrcls regiment from 1717 to
1742, at which time he was promoted to a put to the war, he returned to England
regiment of foot. He married Isabella, se from Portugal, after having received the
cond daughter of sir Henry Bunbury, of thanks of his Portuguese majesty for his ser
Stanney, in the county of Chester, baronet; vices; and count La Lippe recommended
by this lady he had three sons, Thomas, him in the strongest terms to the English
Harry, and Charles, the youngest, who is court. He had, at this period, a friend and
patron in high ofce, one of the principal
the subject of these memoirs.
From his early youth he was ardent in secretaries of state, so that there was eve
the pursuit of knowledge, and being an oi ry reason for him (6' have expected promo
ccr at eleven years of age, may be consid tion in the English army. But, here, his at
father was John Lee, of Dernhall, in the
ered as born in-the army, which, though it
deprived him of some regularity with res

pect to the mode of his education, yet his
genius led him assiduously to cultivate the
elds of science, and he acquired a compe
tent skill in the Greek and Latin; while his
fondness for travelling gave him also an op'
tachment, his enthusiasm for America, in
It must be observed, that this famous act

had divided almost every nation in Europe
into two different parties: the one, asser
tors of the prerogative of the British par
liament; the other, of the rights and pri.
vileges of America. General Lee, on this

occasion, pleaded the cause of the colonies
with such earnestness, as almost to break
ofl all intercourse with the king's minis

ters at the court of Vienna, men that he
personally loved and esteemed; but, at the

same time, it was thought that he pleaded
with so much success, as to add not a few
friends and partizans to America. These

circumstances are mentioned, as they serve
to demonstrate that a zeal for the welfare
of the colonies, from the generals earliest

acquaintance with them, had been a ruling
principle of his life. The present memoir
will testify what he sacriced, what he did,
and what he hazarded, in the last and most
important contest, which separated the co

lonies from their parent state; but there is
one circumstance which seems to claim a
terfered, and prevented. The great Zndian, particular attention, which is, that of all
the officers who embarked in the American
out, which the ministerial agents thought service, he was the only man who could ac
their interest to represent as a matter of no quire no additional rank, and perhaps the
consequence. The friends ofAmerica thought only one whose fortune could not have
the reverse, and asserted it would be at
tended with dreadful waste, ravage and

desolation. This brought him once more to
Having laid a good foundation, tactics be publish for the defence and protection of
came his favourite study, in which he spent this country, by which he lost the favour
much time and pains, desiring nothing more of the ministry, and shut the door to all
than to distinguish himselfin the profession hopes of preferment in the English army.
of arms. We nd him very early in Ameri But he could not live in idleness and inac
ca, commanding a company of grenadiers tivity; he left his native country, and enter
of the 443th regiment, and he was at the ed into the Polish service, and was, of
battle of Ticonderoga, where general Aber course, absent when the stamp act passed;
crombie was defeated. Here, it is said, he but, although absent, he did not cease la
was shot through the body, but fortunately bouring in the cause of America, as may
be learned from many of his letters. He
his wound did not prove mortal.
When he returned to England from used every argument, and exerted all the
America, after the reduction of Montreal, abilities he was master of, with every cor
1101). .The cession of Canada was talked of,
at the same time, he had not an inconsid

erable number in both.
or what we called Pondiacks war, broke
portunity of attaining the Italian, Spanish,

German, and French languages.
he foundagencral peace was in contempla
N0. 24.
been impaired, or, at least, the tenure by

which it was held, changed from its former
condition into a precarious and arbitrary

one, by the success of the British minis
try's schemes; for, had they been completed
to the full extent of their wishes, the con
dition of his fortun, had not been altered
for the worse; his fortune, though not great,
was easy, and, it may be said, aiuent, for
a private gentleman.
The general, who could never stay long
in one place, during the years NH, 1772,
to the fall of 1773, had rambled all over
Europe; but we can collect nothing materi
al relative to the adventures of his travels,
as his memorandum books mention only

of the names of the towns and cities through
parliament, of any weight or inuence, and, which he passed. That he was a most ta
respondent
he had, in either house
186
pid and very active traveller, is evident;
and from this popularity, there is no reason

to doubt but he expected he should soon
an oicer in Italy in an affair of hon become the rst in military rank on this
our," by which he lost the use of two of continent.
his ngers; but having recourse,to pistols,
To be continued.
~.-
the Italian was slain, and he immediately
was obliged to fly for his life. His warmth
For the Repertory.
of temper drew him into many rencounters
ducted never, as they believed,to see their

native land again. Florival Was released
from his bonds, and they were conducted
through numbers of terriclooking Moors
and renegado Spaniards into the cabin.
There they discovered several other prison
of this kind, in all which he acquitted him
addresed as the count of Algoronza and

presented Amelia to him.
it appears also, that he was engaged with
OR
self with singular courage, sprightliness of

imagination, and great presence of mind.
A TALE.
Much dissatised with the appearance
CHAPTER
IX.
of the political horizon at London, on the
Dare but to touch her,
l6th of August, 1773, he embarked on
And Ill rend you, singly, limb from limb!
board the packet for New-York, where he
C. J. Ingersol.
arrived on the ldth of November follow The grief that is not loud,
ing, and had a very severe t of the gout. Whispers the oer fraught heart and bids it break
At this period, the controversy between
Shulr-speare.
Great Britain and her colonies began to be
Amelia beheld her brave protector fall
serious, and the general concerted a de
beneath the symeter of one of the Moors,
sign of taking a part in favour of America, but saw no more. She rushed shrieking
in case it came to an open rupture.
from the bed but fell senseless into the arms
The destruction of the British East India of Alcanzor. The mother and daughter now
companys tea at Boston, the 16th of De made their appearance, and while the former
cember, was a prelude to the calamities vented her unavailing curses upon Florival
that afterwards ensued. At this crisis, gene
for the death of her husband the latter was
ral Lees mind was not inobscrvant or inac employed in endeavouring to restore the
tive; his conversation, his pen, animated lifeless Amelia. These efforts were a long
the colonists to a great degree, and per time unsuccessful, but at length she recover
suaded them to make apersevering resist ed only to greater anguish, upon beholding
F lorival covered with blood and bound with
ance.
During this winter, he visited Philadel cords so that he was unable to move his arms.
phia, \Villiamsburgh and several other In vain were her lamentations, they were
places in Virginia and Maryland, and re a only answered with scoffs by the Moor and
turned to Philadelphia, a few months be the curses and revilings of Barbara. Florival
fore the rst congress met in that city, on conjured her to moderate her grief and
the 5th of September. Encouraging and trust to providence for their deliverance.
observing what was going forward here, he
We are in your power, Moor, said he
then paid a visit to New-York, Rhode-Isl
to Alcanzor, and therefore ought to be se
and and Boston, where he arrived on the cure. But permit us to depart and the ad
lst of August, 1774. The most active poli
ventures of this night shallforever remain a
tical characters on the American theatre secret with us."
now hailed him, and were happy in his ac;
Alcanzor looked scornfully at him but
quaintance, not a little pleased with his san made no reply, then turning to the Moors
guine, lively temper, considering his pre he cried:
sence among them, at this crisis, as a most
To the barge.
fortunate and propitious omen. General
Our unhappy fugitives were now compel
Gage had now issued his proclamation, and led to proceed toward the boat, and as they
though Lee was on half-pay in the British passed from the cottage, Bertha whispered
service, it did not prevent him from expres in the ear of Florival,
sing his sentiments, in terms of the most
lf I can escape from this spot, the count
pointed severity against the ministry. In Altenheim shall know your destiny.
short, he blazed forth a whig of the rst mag
Florival pressed her hand in token of gra
nitude, and communicated a portion of his l titude and they immediately departed for the
spirit to all with whom he conversed. As shore, and as day had now broken, the Moors
he continued travelling, or rather. ying, appeared in great perturbation. They now en
from place to place, he became known to tered the boat and plied their oars with
all who distinguished themselves in this great force for about three hours, when
important opposition; his company and cor
Florival perceived, under the shelter of a
respondence were courted, and many occa.
sional political pieces, the production of his
pen, were eagerly read, and much admired;
small island covered with trees, the Moorish
galley, which in a few moments they reached,

and on board ofwhich they were now con~
ers, and amongst the rest a gentleman dres

sed in a rich Spanish habit, whom the Moor
She started at the name, and the story of
Minda rushed upon her mind. This could not

surely be the base friend of Malventi who
had again escaped the just vengeance of that
injUred man. She seemed lost in surprize,
and remained silent. Refreshment was now
ordered and they all sat down together to a
delicious meal, though it wanted liberty to
make it palatable. Alcanzor ordered his men

to prepare for their departure as soon as
night came on and then joined the melancho
ly group in the cabin.
It is now time to return to Altenheim and
relate the circumstances that succeeded the
departure of Amelia. Night came on and
the curtain of darkness enveloped the land
scape, for the res of the rmament had not
begun to sparkle. Hour after hour had pas
sed and
Amelia had
not
returned, till
Minda began to conclude that she had

proceeded to the castle without visiting
the cottage. She was, however, soon fatally
convinced that her opinion was erroneous,

for about eleven oclock the vassals from the
castle arrived at the cottage in search of her.
Nothing could equal the astonishment of
the servants upon nding she was not there,
nor the dismay of Minda when she discover
ed that Amelia had not returned to the castle.
A thousand conjectures ow through her
mind but the only one she indulged was that
she had been carried off by the vassals of
Montaldo. She opened her mind to the ser
vants and determined to accompany them to
Altenheim to impart her suspicions to count
Ferdinand. They accordingly departed and
found the anxious father waiting at the gate,
together with Editha and some of the vassals.
Not perceiving his daughter with them, a
groan broke from the bosom of Altenheim,
he sunk lifeless into the arms of his at

tendants and was conveyed to his chamber by
the servants whose feelings were a most as
powerful as their lords. Nothing but grief
reigned through the castle, for not a heart
was there but what beat in unison with the

disconsolate father. \Vhen Altenheim recov
ered, not a word escaped his lips; the big tear
stood trembling in his eye, convulsive throbs
disturbed his bosom and his hands were clas

ped in the extremity of sorrow. For two
hours did the distressed parent thus suer
187
Mm
for the loss of his beloved Amelia. At length

the violence of grief subsided and he deman
ded of one of the attendants if Minda were
in the castle, who being admitted, was desi
red to give any account of the distressing
accident that was in her power.
She related all she knew concerning the
ramblings of Amelia, and then informed him
of her suspicions that she had been carried

off at the instance of DArinhanlt. Alten
heim started at the idea and exclaimed:
On my life, my lord, exclaimed Minda,

~ they have spoken false; too well I know my
Florival to suppose that, if alive, he would be

guilty ofso great a crime. But, alas! I am too
fatally convinced he is no more.
Geraldo and his companion, attested, how
ever, their innocence and the truth of the
circumstance related, which was only done

to x on Florival suspicion and remove it
from Montaldo; and it succeeded to their
wishes, for Altenheim immediately adopted

No, he could not be so base!
the idea and retired to his chamber to bury
Can your lordship still doubt, said Min
his griefs in solitude, after ordering the two
da, that Pandolfo is capable of the basest villains to be provided with lodging. This
they wisely rejected, declaring it necessary
actions?
That he is a villain, I doubt not, an
for them to return to Dusseldorp immedi
swered Altenheim, but his audacity in ately. After having taken some refreshment
tearing my child from me, I can hardly cred they left Altenheim and proceeded towards
it. However, messengers shall be immediate
the palace to convey the fatal intelligence of
ly despatched to Dusseldorp, and if the fact the escape of his prisoners to Montaldo.
be so the vengeance of an aficted father Nothing could exceed his rage, and had
not Clithero wisely refrained from coming
shall reach him.
The bell of the castle now tolled three into his presence he would have lost his life,in
and Ferdinand ordered his vassals to pre consequence. He was continually haunted
pare for an immediate departure to Dussel with fears, lest he should be discovered and
dorp. They were soon ready and having re
Florival and Amelia return. It was not until
ceived his orders, Huberto departed at the three or four days had passed without their
head offty men. He had orders to search the being heard of that Pandolfo recovered the
forest and to stop at the deserted castle of least serenity of mind, and then he hastened
Pandolfo. He had been gone about an hour to Altenheim to clear himself from the foul
when a loud knocking at the gate, disturbed imputation attached to him by Minda, and
the inhabitants of Altenheim, and when it was express his regret at the grief of Altenheim.
opened, to the astonishment of all, Huberto
It was on the morning of the fth day
and his troop entered having Geraldoand after this fatal night, that Montaldo visited
Clithero in custody.
Altenheim, and while they were in con
They were conducted to the count, who dence, count Ferdinand was told that a-fe
interrogated them, threatening the severest male desired to see him. Full of hope and
tortures if they spoke falsely. The villains, expectation he ordered her to be admitted.
however, secure from detection, upon nding Our reader will have surmised that it was
that their captives had not found their way Bertha, the daughter of the murderous Jas
home, paid but little attention to these par. It was. She apologized to the count
threats. Geraldo declared that he had been for her intrusion:
to the deserted castle on business for his
But, continued she, I trust it will be
lord, and that he had missed his way in the
forest and had beed basely seized by Hu

berto.
unnecessary to make an apology when you
Altenheim. In short she related every cir

cumstance that might tend to counteract
the counts suspicions, but all in vain, they
were too rmly rooted to be so easily era

dicated, particularly as he was now convin
ced the youth was alive and with his daugh
ter. Bertha now let Altenheim know that she
had elopcd from her barbarous mother and
wished to be received as a domestic into the
castle. This was readily granted and orders

issued immediately to that effect.
Pandolfo now took leave of the count
and proceeded towards Dusseldorp, while
the inhabitants of the castle remained in a
state of anxiety and distress. Altenheim knew

his daughter was a slave and could only
weep and pour his maledictions on the head
of the guiltless Florival.
(To be continued.)
H~
For the Repertory.

THE CABINET. N0. LVIX.
There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to th observer, doth thy history
Fully unfold.
Shake/Jame.
Till you stand, and in a right line view it,
You cannot well judge what the main form is.

.Hdmiral of France.
There is a kind of insanity which some

men are very apt to fall into, which leads
us to entertain very different opinions of
them from those which nature intended.
I mean the desire ~of'appearing to others,
what their own dispositions will not permit
them to be. This seems the more ridiculous
when we consider that there is always to
be discovered in such persons a something
to detect them. The speech and actions of a
man, in the unguarded moments of social
intercourse, will most generally furnish a
clue to trace his real character among the

unnatural rubbish with which he may have
surrounded it.
\Vhen this mania xes on its victim, it
generally leads him to a desire of being a
know, my lord, that I am able to give you

information of your daughter.
creature as opposite as possible to that
Your daughter, my lord, continued he,
This operated like a stroke of electricity, which nature made him. I have heard of
I have not seen. A female and a man we and Altcnhcim requested her to proceed. She cobblers who imposed themselves on the
did pass in the forest, but it was so dark that then related the circumstances with which the world as procients in the science of poli
we could not destinguish them. As they pas reader is already acquainted except the im tics and mathematics. I have heard of ap
sed, however, we heard her call him by the prisonment and escape ofFlorival and Ame
plications made to the manager of a theatre,
name of Florival.
lia, for ofthese she was, happily for DArin from men who were destitute of every
This broke like thunder on the ears of hault, entirely ignorant, the youth having qualication for the character of a player.
cvety one, and the name ofFlorival was re
related his adventures to Jaspar alone. I have known many, (and I hesitate not to
peated from every mouth. The count was When she had concluded, Altenheim found confess that I myself was once among the
wrapped in the most profound amazement. his suspicions corroborated and immediately number) who believed themselves chosen so r
At length he cried, while tears gushed upon uttered the heaviest curses on the betrayer vants of the muses, and bent the whole
his cheeks,
I
of his child, as he called Florival. Bertha force of their mistaken genius to the
Can it be possible! did the ungrateful could not, however, coincide with Ferdi
composition of poetical epistles, odes, epi
wretch secrete himself so long, but that he nand, and informed him that Florival could grams, and acrostics; and what is still more
might have an opportunity of robbing me of not have intended to elope with Amelia strange, proofs are not wanting to show that
my only comfort? Cruel, degenerate girl! as he was so strenuous, to get back to some of our bloods, as they are tom's/119
188
denominated, have even endeavoured to palm

themselves on the town for gentlemen.
In my earlier days it was my lot to be

come the friend and condant of Tom Rattle.
I
am totally
unable to account for the
friendshipwhich subsisted between us, ex

cept on the authority of an assertion ofthe
Spectator, who declares that a purfcct simi
larity of disposition is not absolutely neces
sary for the existence of a very cordial
friendship. Tom was a high ying son of
fashion, full of vivacity and a handsome for
tune to gure with. An assembly of bril
lantes, where the lively violin incited to the
dance, and elegant dissipation received the
smiling homage of her votaries, was Toms
own element. He delighted to mix with the

lobby loungers at the theatre, to talk loud
in his own box, to take his glass, to sing his
song,
To sweat the watchman in the public street,"
in short to do any thing in which there was

fun, or the shadow of fun. Yet with all this
which the great world affords, and one

plainly told me that about a year ago his
brain had been turned by reading Zimmer
man on solitude. He had deceived himself in
the idea that perfect happiness is only to be
found in the midst of woods and rocks far
from the busy hum of men, but of late,
said he, I have discovered that there is
no such thing as forcing a mans natural in

clinations; if I had not been insane, I should
have known before I sought this solitary and

comfortless abode, that the vivacity of my
disposition would never make me happy
except in the bosom of sociality and friend
ship. However, continued the recovered,
gentleman, in a few weeks I shall remove

to New York and enter once more into these
scenes I so absurdly left."
We may rest assured that the only me
thod of arriving at real happiness is to walk
in the direct road of our particular genius.
The pleasures we enjoy upon earth we
draw principally from ourselves; but while
against him, Tom was desirous to be we assume borrowed characters our own can
thought a sober fellow. He no more ne afford us no gratication, and we live under
glected going to church than going to the the continual scorn, and are wounded by
play. He would sit in my company for hours justly excited mirth, which other men in
together with the most perfect apparent dulge in at our expense.
The man who moves through life in
satisfaction, and discourse upon some serious
subject with all the gravity of a sage. His the path for which nature destined him.
gay associates thought him the wildest lov is in no danger ofthe vexations to which they
er of pleasure in the whole circle; while are subject, who, jackdaw like, strut in
good old matrons, whom he took care borrowed plumes. The man of worth is
should only behold the prim side of his satised with the station for which his tai
character, set him forth to their ungoverna ents qualify him, he enjoys the, respect ofhis
ble sons as the very pink of propriety and fellow citizens, and the peaceful reections
of his own contented mind.
pattern of excellence.
PETER PEACEABLE.
Horatio was a fellow of an opposite cha
-.
racter. He was naturally pensive and taci
turn. He was generally disliked in inixcd

society for the gravity which pervaded his
manners, and the solemnity with which he
uttered his weighty sentiments. Horatio
was a scholar, little acquainted with the
world, and therefore pedantic in conversa
tion. His mind accustomed to reection,
was generally contemplating some impor
tant subject, and to him it was evidently a

considerable effort to elevate it from that
austerity which by habit it had acquired.
For the Repertory.
Htsronv.
No study can be more pleasing and
instructive than history. It unfolds to us the
events which have happened in all ages
and in all countries. it gives a minute ac
count of the fates of nations and of king
doms, and can improve the mind with in
ferences and reections which may arise
from perusing it. It presents to the atten
tive reader a rich eld for expanding his

Yet Horatio had an ambition to be thought ideas, for it is most intimately connected
world and extends as far as the reign of

Charlemagne in the year 800. Modern his;
tory dates its rise from that period, and
reaches to the present times. Here the at
tentive student can fix his choice upon
either division, whichever he thinks presents
a more extensive eld for him to enlarge
his thoughts. Both are interesting, and both
may conduce to the improvement of his
faculties. But modern history is founded up
on a larger scope, and presents a more mi
nute investigation of the evils of society. All
the famous discoveries and inventions are
recorded in modern history, and the man
ners and customs of mankind have been
improved and become more polished since
the latter has succeeded the former. All the
astonishing changes and revolutions which
have occurred are found within the limits of
modern history. Upon the whole it is better
calculated to instill into our hearts a more
ardent thirst after the knowledge of mankind
in general.
The advantages which are derived from.
the careful perusal of history are numerous.
Besides the knowledge it gives us of all
nations from the creation of the world, it
increases our abhorrence of vice, and indu
ces us to pursue after a real and solid

glory. The vices of mankind are depicted
in their true colours, and the instances of
heroism and magnanimity it records cannot

fail to make a deep impression upon our
minds. In it we see the inutility of de
pending upon the constancy of human
affairs, and it leads us to consider the pre
cariousness of human glory. It furnishes us
with instances of persons that were in the
height of prosperity, and by a reverse of
fortune were suddenly hurled from their
high station into that of disgrace and pov
erty. On the other hand it exhibits the pic
ture of some who from a mean and obscure
condition were exalted to the very pinnacle
of prosperity. Thus does it present to us
scenes of the mutability of human grandeur,
and enables us to make a right estimate of
mankind
Thus do we see that the study of history
in general is highly benecial to man. It
dispossesses him of those prejudices which
would strongly adhere to him, were it not
that through it he becomes acquainted with
the world. It inspires him with a love for
with the other important branches of litera

ture. It is formed upon a very extensive
scale, and the arts and sciences are chiefly
indebted to it for the principles upon which virtue, and enables him to imitate those
they act. It greatly enhances the value of illustrious examples recorded in its pages.
other studies, and forms the mind to enter It ts him for associating With society, and
cheerfully into the learning of other scien~ by an accurate knowledge of it he becomes
who was evidently not formed for his pre
versed in the customs of all ages.
sent situation. He has immured himself in tic branches.
Before I conclude, sutl'er me, Mr. Editor,
History with regard to time may be di
the most perfect and romantic solitude, and
lives the life of a hermit. He talks with vided into ancient and modern. Ancient to make a remark upon an evil which is
lively and dissipated, and his awkward at
tempts to imitate the language and man

ners of the ban ton drew upon him the
scornful smile of more successful originals.
During my late jaunt into a remote
part of the country I met with a gentleman
rapture of the busy and various scenes history commences with the creation of the I rapidly increasing in our polite circles. Is it:
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W:
not painful to see the rising generation, in
scbolar, but can never contribute to the
stead ofinereasing their fund of knowledge improvement or entertainment of the gene

by attentively studying this most important rality of readers. Utility, says some au
branch, exclusively devoting their attention thor, should be our sole aim in publica
to the reading of novels? By means of these, tions. To this sentiment the Moralist
they become disgusted at the thoughts of readily subscribes. It is sincerely to be
more solid and important studies: they be regretted, that all writers did not bear this
come habituated to the perusal of these cti in mind, when they are preparing pieces
tious talcs,and their minds are wholly engros for the public. But another opportunity
sed with the love of them. lmean not to de will offer, when somewhat more may be
nounce all novels; there are some, but very said upon this subject.
It may be proper to state, that as to
few, which do honour to the authors, and im
prove the taste of the readers; but these are originality of thought or novelty of expres
laid aside, and others which are full of ab
surdities are sought after with avidity. At

present we see that no check is liable to be
given to this prevailing disease, and unless it
be soon remedied, we shall perceive that the
dispositions of the present generation will be
wholly unt to prosecute the more liberal and
useful branches.
HISTORICUS.
sion, the Moralist lays no claims. No,these

are seldom found, though often alum/ited, in
the productions of our modern essayists. By

reading we obtain ideas, which, after remain
ing in the mind some time, are introduced
to other minds in a new dress and as stran
gers in the
intellectual world; they are
radically the same, though the words in

which they are couched, are different as day
For the Repertory.

THE MOBALIST. No. l.
The etiquette of fashionable life, has been
partially introduced into the literary world.

A writer cannot offer his productions to
the public, with any founded hope of a fa

vourable reception, without some preface,
stating his business and apologizing for his
intrusion. A compliance with this cus
tom seems then to become necessary, as a
is from night.
As the female part of your readers may
feel a curiosity to know, whether the Mo
Rage, as I view, inates my aching eye,

And from the sight indignantly I y.
He spoke, and groaning from his baleful heart,5l5
Turns from the unconscious river to depart:
Parts from the shore and still with hurried pace,

Proceeds his former footsteps to retrace;
But scarce the arenaceous bank he leaves,
When far and full before him he perceives

A wretch decrepit, on whose naked head
The hoary emblems of old age were shed;
620
The tattered robe which full of lth he wore,
Scarce covered half his leprous body oer;

1n clotted exures blew his seraggy hair,
And shook a nauseous odour on the air:
625
Judas oertook him, anxious to behold
One so distressd. so miserably old.

When he the motive of his haste drew nigh,
'
He saw that blindness blasted either eye;
530
As oer the ground his way the wretch impelld,
His only arm a staff supporting held,
His only arm, for only one he wore,
The dexter side a witherd portion bore.
His bending body scarcely could uphold,
635
The bag he bore of all alluring gold;
With cautious step the traveller trod the road,
While from his sightless sockets sorrow ow'd
Judas beheld his riches, not his grief,
And thus bespoke him to impart relief:
640
What wreteh art thou, whose fainting body bears

This tatterd garment and this Weight of years,
ralist is their friend or not; whether his
\Vhose eyes as rayless as the murky night,
face is handsome or otherwise, I shall grati Can boast no cheering beam of heavenly light;
fy them on the spot. To the rst part of the Nor bright as morn when day began her reign.645
question he freely answers in the afrmative, Nor when grey twilight glimmers oer the plain.
to the latter neither modesty nor ability will My swelling heart with mild compassion warm,
permit him. His countenance is so remark \Veeps to behold thy withered, maimed arm.
lay who thou art? 0! whither gost unfold,
ably singular, that he nds it a matter of
And whence this burthen of unwieldy gold?
650
imposibility to describe it; and even if he_ The eyeless creature checkd his wandring way,
non-compliance is construed into a token 'should describe it,where is the utility? The
of disrespect to the reader. Complying Moralist has mixed much among the ladies
then with these received and fashionable and can truly exclaim with Milton, they are
notions, the Moralist hastens to lay before natures last, best work. They always im
his reader the motive, which induced him prove upon further acquaintance, new beau
to make his appearance in public. That the tica sre discovered, and we leave their com
\Vith feeble accents Judas to obey;
To say what purpose of relentless fate,

Brought the pale victim to that wretched state.
Whoeer thou art, the maimed and the blind,
655
To pity and relieve is heavenly kind;

\Vhence came this gold and whence my wretched
state,
world is no better than it should be, and
pany with reluctance.

that the morality of this city has not arri
ved at the summit of perfection, will be
readily granted on all hands. It is certain
ly then the duty of every person to endea
vour to bring about a retolution and to
promote the advancement of virtue. Be it
then known, that the improvement of male
and female is, if possible, to be increased
by the Moralists lucubrations. The Mora

list says lucubrations; for he never attempts
to compose at any other time than at night.

Undisturbed by the noise of the street and
unmolested by the importunities and vis
sits of acquaintances, the Moralist can set
_-.q_
For the Repertory.

THE PROFITIATION
Bestow your patience while I shall relate.

From Davids city, Bethlehem, 1 came,
Rich as the earth, Caltheus is my name;
660
Twelve days have passd since day these eyes have

seen,
Blind from my birth 1 have not, stranger, been;
BOOK Iv.
But how this blindness and my wrongs befel,
ARGUMENT.
The vision ofIacan'at; llc wakes, and believing it a
visitation from Heaven, hasten: to the Jewish hall,
The Jews having met, Cm'aphas urges the necessi
ty ofputting Jenn to death; Speech of Mcademur;

Reply of Janus.
He left the spot where Jesus told to all,
The moumful destiny that should befall,
How on the cross he should be lifted high,
In cruel agony forsaken die.
He trod the ground with hasty footsteps oer, 605
Nor eheckd his speed till cheekd by Jordans
shore;
There gazing on the prouent stream, he cried;
down and pursue what train of thought

he pleases. His readers however are not
to expect that his productions will smell
of the midnight lamp, they will not nd
them illustrated by Latin quotations or em Here is the spot where rst he touchd the tide,
Here where the Baptist all benignant stood,
bellished by sentences of Greek. Compo And plungd the Jews in the putting ood;
610
sitions of this discription may gratify the Curst be your stream, disgraceful river curst,
admirer of ancient learning or the lettered That not his body neath your surface hearsd;
If rage prevent not, I will truly tell;

Jesus of Nazareth, to him I owe
66.
My present sufi"rings and unequalld wo.

These words like thunder struck lscariots soul,
And his red eyes in wild disorder roll.

His'restless body told his restless mind,
Which sleep's resistless pinions cannot bind. 678
In Canas land, pursued the visiond end,
I Went to see the marriage of a friend;

The flowing goblet liven'd every guest,
And mirth reign'd playful in each joyous breast;
But soon the rich supply of wine was oer.
675
The passing goblet kissd our lips no more.

Then did I see his mighty potence shine,
When the pale water reddend into wine.
Now as disease had bafed mortal skill,
And torn my body with stiiiction still,
Soon 1 resolved in foolish hope to try, 7

lfit the power of Jesus would defy;
680
190
M.
For sure, thought I, who thus could change the
And not in stronger chains the people lie;

Judea fall a victim to his power,
_And after millions curse our natal hour?
685 The unruly gang now burst a erce reply,
The gloomy hall recchod, crucify!
Hither I came, this present rich I bore,
But he who in the night to Jesus came,
Offered him this and promised thousands more;
Sage Nicodemus was the inquirers name;
For the Repertory.
stream,
.
Must be the God eternal any! supreme;
Delusive hope! that foolish men obey,
Thou dost but promise Only to betray.
Wretch, he replied, while anger amed his eye,
With guileless heart before the council rose,
That hopest redemption or relief to buy;

Full Well thou knowst thy riches dispise,
And willing grace all recompence denies
Didst thou expect a renal friend to nd!
The arts of Caiaphas and hell t' oppose,

The marks of age were oer his visage spread,
690
755
ODE 'IO DISAPPOINTMENT.
Fiend of the gloomy brow whose ruthless mein,
Frighls the pale mortal from serene repose;
Thy presence changes every roseate scene
Ofjoy, and lls the breast with sullen woes

760
And hoary emblems round his naked head;
He viewd the assembly, from his soul he sighd,765

Then in commanding accents thus he cried:
Presumptuous traitor! let those eyes be blind;
At thy command the dawning sstive morn,

Is overcast with shadows dark and deep;
Relentlessly thou wieldst the venomd thorn,

That bids the heart oer blighted raptures weep.
When fancy warms the youthful ardent mind
With hopes of bliss, thy gloomy form is near;
Maimd be the arm which these base offerings bore.

Ye men of Israel, 0! avoid this shame,
And, eer he taste the substance, end unkind,
And leprosy affect thy body oer.
696 Before it judges does our law condemn!
'Ihou bids't the fond luUSIOH disappear.
He spoke, and soon my arm all withered lay,
What hath been done your cruel hate that moves,
My form was leprous, darkness chased the day:
To murder him whom all the world approves! 770 Hope, like the wild rose, leads the raptured sense
In spells of fragrance to the scented grove;
Thus to my anxious friends must I return,
Ye who, vociferous, echo, crucify,
700 . For what good deed must this good Jesus die?
To curse my folly and my woes to mourn;
Bids the warm heart with caution cold dispense,
And cheers the path whereer it chance to rove
But, 0! that vengeance could my wrongs repay,
l Many good deeds he does, but mention one
Twould light mysteps and cheer the lonely way;
lnjurious act or sinful he has done;
But, like the oweret, hope has her alloy,
Ifhe to death or torture should be given,
7'75 l
This rich reward should pay his friendly zeal,
A potent spell thou Disappointment ownst;
Who would revenge the anguish that I feel;
Dread the great vengeance of indignant Heaven!
To chill her inuence, wound the bosoms joy,
705 He ceased, when Annas, at this guilt grown hoar,
Nor this alone, but millions yet untold,
And immolate it at thy shrine at once.
would bestow of all acquiring gold.
Arose, new poison in their ears to pour;
Here, cried Iscariot, here behold that friend,
As late I roved gay pleasures pathway oer,
The reverend Nicodemus ercely eyed,
"l'ill then I km: W not thee nor wish'd to know,
Ready assistance in your cause to lend!
And with affected, zealous fury cried:
780
Sippd the sweet dew from every blooming ower,
Receive the gold, the hellish vision cries,
7
Have we not heard the sacred prophecy,
And give a listning ear. to my advice:
710 t Deliverd by the priest of God most high,
And felt of virtuous joy th enlivening glow.
The. Jews een now in council form the plan,
1 That if we shed not this deceivers gore,
Sudden I saw thee from a wild flower spring,
To seize this traitor both to God and man;
Our l..ws dishonourcd. Israel is no more?
For, ah, the ower of pleasures sweet and wild,
Now if thou knowst where Christ is to be found,
Cursed he the wretch, by Heaven for ever curst,785
\Vave oer the grove thy sable plumy wing,
Whose rebel heart, whose tongue deceitful durst
Reveal the place and be with blessings crownd:
And then descending every bud deled.
Rescued Judea shall be ever free,
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lour such contumely oer the dread behest,
And hail their saviour as they welcome thee!
Which with prophetic power the priesthood blest.
Tis done, cried Judas, to the Jews I y,
He asks what cause our cruel hatred moves
Israel is free, for Jesus Christ shall die!

The vision ceased. the bands of slumber broke,
In wild amaze the bloody rebel woke;
720
Started in horror from th imprinted ground,
Andcast a look of guilty terror round.
His eye soon resting on a heap of gold,
Gazed in amazement, trembling to behold!
The wily end had left the tempting lure,
725
Iscariots deep perdition to ensure.
The traitor lookd in pale aifright awhile,
To murder him whom all the world approves? 790

Say who approves, do we or scribes one word
With credence sanction which from him we heard?
Our hate's inspired by him who reigns above,
Hatred to Christ to Heaven is glowing love;
\l'hilc, hear ye all, and dread th avenging rod,795
Love to this Christ is enmity to God!
For what good deed must this good Jesus die?
For no good deed, ye Jews, I would reply,
But for his plots against the public weal,
But soon his visage brightens to a smile:
This arch deceivcr shall our vengeance feel! 800
l His fall alone to us can safety give,
Delight then glistens in his joyful eyes,
\Vhilc, with the voice of triumph, thus he cries:730 And by his death shall our religion live.
Yes, it is so, for this great, glorious end,
__._
The eternal God a vision deignd to send;
For the Repertory.
My thoughts have not been sporting in a dream.
THE SONNET'IEEIL No. V.
But Heaven has lld them with the mighty theme;
Behold the proof substantial to my sight,

735
Looks golden lustre through the dismal night:
Tremble. impostor, with despair and fear,
l-ate cries aloud, thy dreadful end is near!
The messenger inspired by Heaven 1 come,
And bear the mandate for thy tragic doom!
740
Rejoice Judea, raise thy tuneful voicel
T0 MERCY.
The quality of mercy is not strained, Sac.
Soft soothing power whose pearly tears descend,
Like the refreshing showers of opning spring!
The beams of peace and consolation blend
In thy sweet smile and sport upon thy wing.
lligh Heaven and justice cry aloud, rejoice!
Loveliest daughter of Omnipotence,

The softend image of thy heavenly sire;
Thy potent power, thy magic inuence,
\Varms the cold bosom with celestial re.
1 lo spoke, and to the council swiftly ed,

- \Vhilc Mammon now unseen his footsteps led.
Meanwhile the Jen's with rage by Satan red,745
In council met, the death ofChrist conspired,
Unseen of all the cunning Tempter sat
\Vhcre Caiaphas appeared and urged his hate,
\Vho left his seat and now, in accents loud,
Prophet unconscious, thus bespoke the crowd: 750
Brethren, what miracles he doth, we see,
And (huff bear, but What, alas! do we!
Is it not meet one guilty slave should die,
Teach us that soft humanity to show

That ever dWell within an upright heart,
To mourn anothers as our bosoms '0'
And if offended bid our wrongs depart.
And let us eer thy clemency adore,
That smiling bids us go, repent and sin no more.
snwv.
I viewd and sicken'd at thy blasting power,

That chased, relentless, hopes delightful dream;
.\I heart resembled some disertecl bower

llid by deep foliage from the days bright beam.
Twas thenlstray'd through deepest glooms ofnight,
By melancholy": chains encircled round;
Twas then I followd by the moon's pale light
The pensive power, with cypress chaplets crownd.

And still she often in her cold embrace
Rntu'ines my heart, which ne'er her inuence flies;
And when l moments dear to memory trace,
She heaves my breast with tributary sighs.

MONTALDO.
For the Repertory.
EPITAPH,
On a promising boy, who died, lately, just as he

completed his sixth year.
Bright as the gems the wealthy orients boast,
Sweet as the odours of their spicy coast,
A pearly dew drop, see, some ower adorn,
And grace, with all its pride, the rising morn.
But soon the sun emits a licrcer ray,
And the fair ahl'ic links into decay;
Low in the dust the beautcous ruin lies,
While the pure vapour seeks it native skies.

A fate like this to thee, sweet youthI was given,
'l'o sparkle, bloom, and be exhaled to heaven.
'
PEGASUS.
-.-'
From the desk of poor Robert, the Scribe.
One afternoon in the month' of October,

J young gentleman from Philadelphia, who
nud visited Luzcrne to enjoy the pleasure
of the chase, was standing with his rie on
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m
the verge of one of those high precipices

which bound the river Susquehanna, watch
ing the eagle as she sailed far below him
I went up to Franksburg last fall to visit

my old friend and to congratulate him on
the purposed connexion. It was one of those
pleasant moonlight evenings in the month
of September, when I arrived at the gate.
such as had always been enlivened by the
brethern of the sea raised the but \on their

shoulders, and transported it, from the side
of a hill, where it stood, into the centre of
a pine grove, at a miles distance. This per

formed, they returned unperceived. At the
dawn of day, Jack, as was usual, opening
song and the dance, under the old elm by the door to pass a judgment on the wea
the door. But the sound of joy was no ther, was saluted by a pine bough, which
more heard on the green. \Villiam was gone; very forcibly complimented his face with a
the check of the soldier was wet with an good morning. Never having read of
guish; and the wife of his bosom seemed queen Mab's nocturnal incantations, he was
at a loss to conjecture how he could have
fast declining in sorrow to the grave.
run so many knots in so few hours. At
Pale and dejected, Mary sat by the win
dow, her head reclining on her hand. HerI length, rubbing his eyes several times, he
says, Confound me, Poll, unless my
eye moistened by a tear, was xed on vacan
cy, or wandered heedlessly from object to lights are in a sea fog, weve been dragging
object. Seduced by the man who saved her our anchors all night!
life, she was soon to become a mother.
A quaker driving a single horse chair, up
The old man took my handpressed it
between his:- 0! this is an ungrateful on a green that leads from Newington-green
ed her in his arms, and bore her to the ham
world, said be. His heart swelled; he t0 liornsey, happened to meet with a young
turned away to conceal his emotion. An blood, who was also in a single-horse chaise.
let at the foot of the hill.
By the assistance of the cottagers, Mary aged missionary, whose hair was silvered There was not room enough for them to
was soon sufciently restored to be remov with the frosts of seventy winters, endeav pass each other unless one of them would
ed to the house of her father, which was not oured to turn their affections to another back his carriage, which they both refused.
far distant. A fever ensued, and William. world, and to lead them for consolation be Ill not make way for you, says the blood,
f dn my eyes ifI will." i think 1 am ol
whose extensive studies had given him yond the tomb.
some knowledge in medicine, attracted by
Ye votaries of pleasure; ye gay, ye wan der than thou art," said the quakcr, and
a charm which he could neither resist nor ton seducers ofthc fair, whom you should therefore have a right to expect thee to make
way for me. I wont, dn me, resumed
dene, resolved to remain and prescribe for protect; 0! could you have seen the cot
the rst. He then pulled out a newspaper
Mary until her fate should be determined.
tage of poor Freeman, your infamous tro
Mary was just eighteen, when the acci phies over deluded innocence would have and began to read, as he sat still in his chaise;
the quaker observing him, pulled a pipe
dent happened which introduced the accom been scorpions to your consciences.
plished and fascinating stranger to her
Such ruinHark the watch dog announ~ and some tobacco from his pocket, and with
knowledge. By his kindness, and that of her ces a stranger! The door opened, and in a a convenience which he carried about him,
parents, she slowly recovered; but the live
moment we behold William at the feet of struck a light, illuminated his pipe, and sat
ly radiance of her ne blue eyes was chang her father. Mary shrieked and fainted. I and puffed away very comfortably. Friend,
ed to a mild and pensive sweetness, less come; I come, said he, for forgiveness; said he to the young blood, when thou hast
dazzling, but. oh! to the heart of sensibility, I come to offer all the reparation in my pow- read that paper through, I should be glad if
how interesting. The lily stole the roses er. Not a moment of happiness have 1 known ' thou wouldst lend it. My young gentle
blossom; the throbbing heart. and expres since I left you."
man, seeing that the obstinacy of the quaker
sive ush that rose when \Villiam entered
Noble youth! thou hast set a pattern by was not to be overcome, prudently made
the room, too plainly told, that love, obtru
way for him; but not until he had favoured
thy return to virtue, most worthy to be fol
sive urchin, had left the city, and entered lowed.
him with a few oaths and imprecations.
Glraner.
_._
the cottage of Mary with the stranger.
along the breast of the cliff, when he Was
suddenly awakened from his reverie by the

shriek ofa female voice. Turning sudden
ly around, he saw a young horse, which be
ing frightened, had run away with his rider.
and was rushing impetuously towards the
precipice. He was too far off even to at
tempt to throw himself before the ali'right
ed animal. One expedient only presented
itself. \Vith uuerring aim he drew up his
rie, and the horse fell on the very brink
of the cli.
The stranger ran to the assistance of the
unfortunate female. Though pale as the
tenant of the grave, a lovelier object never
met his view. Her dark hair fell loosely on
her cold bosom. She was lifeless. He rais
\Villiam was the most accomplished man
Mary had ever seen. Pleasing in his man
At the commencement of the late war,
MARSHAL TURENNE.
when the dread ofa press-gang kept the

It is well known of marshal Turenne, tha'
ners, insinuating in his address, sensible and minds of many in perpetual alarm, an his heroism (for such it really was) was onl;
handsome, and, too, the preserver of her American tar, whom Neptune had not treat
to be equalled by his solid and manly piety
life! \Vhat female heart could be 'inscnsi ed with the utmost lcnity, resolved to quit equally remote on the one hand from the su
ble to so much excellence! The affection his station on deck and sleep in the cabin, perstitions of his own age, and on the other
ate and assiduous attentions of W'illiam till the storm had blown over. Accordingly, from the indifference of ours. In a court oi
soon restored Mary, in some degree, to her with his favourite lass, he retired some gallantry, and in times when the point of ho
former health, and the chain that had so miles from Boston, built a snug little but, nour was preserved in full extravagance, the
long detained him, gathering new strength, and night anti day alternated to his bottle marshal was never known either to ghta
he found it impossible to break a connexion and his Poll. A crew of old mess-mates duel, or be engaged in an intrigue. The
that was already so dear to him.
hearing of Jack's precipitate retreat, made grace, the dignity, with which he once re
All Franksburg talked of the courtship, diligent search for his abode. A short peri leased himself from an embarrassment of
and when I saw W illiam and Mary lead od marked their success. The hut which this nature, will at once give an exact idea
down in the dance together-,l could not Was elevated on large stumps, and of no of what he was, and be a sufcient answer
help thinking they were formed for each great size, presented an object to gratify to the favourite question of the defenders of
other.
their humour. In the dead of night these duelling; how is a challenge to be refused?"
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PHILADELPHIA REPE'RTOR Y.
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How is a challenge to be refused! let this

anecdote of the marshal answer them. A
young oilicer of noble family, and in despite
of what may he thought from the part of his
ten, to attend the neglected, to visit the for
.in the usual forms. The marshal made no

reply to his challenge; the oiccr repeated
tresses of all men in all countries. His plan

is original, and it is full of genius as it is of
humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a
circumnavigation of charity. Already the
benet of his labours is felt more or-less in
every country, and I hope he will anticipate
his nal reward by seeing all its effects fully
it several times, but the marshal still retaili
conduct which follows, from real worth, im
agined himself to have received an insult

from the marshal, and demanded satisfaction
2 Measles
realized in his own. He will receive, not by
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there will be, I trust, little room to merit by

Speech at Bristol previous to the election in 1780.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The communication of llistoricus contains a

great many valuable hints on the utility of the
study of history. \Ve cordially agree with him,
in every thing he advances, except one. \Ve are
not convinced that all the astonishing changes
and revolutions which have occurred are found
within the limits of modern history.
5
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are commanded not to murmur against the' Lord.
cease until he had obtained his pardon of the We wish the author to make a few alterations,
marshal. Turenne afterwards became his when we shall present it to the million, with great
patron; and under such a preceptoi-{he be pleasure. \\e are led to these remaks from a re
came the rival of his fame.
spect to the dead, and a partiality for the poetry of
Lothario which is seldom exceptionable.
Total
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STATE OF THE THERMONIETER.
The lines of Lothario, on the death of an amia
his pocket, Young man, said he, could ble and regretted lady, contain many striking beau
I wipe your blood from my conscience with ties, but they also have their defects. For instance,
as much ease as I can your spittle from my
Might turn thy dread award, thy fiat move;
face, I would take your life on the spot. Go that is, the virtues and patience under fu'ering
'sir.
of the aiicted lady, might surely have chang
Saying this, the marshal retired in all the ed the determination of Omnipotence. This ex
majesty of triumphant virtue. The young pression, we think, borders on the profane. It is
ofcer was so much struck as well with his amiable to mourn for the departed friend, but we
Hosvard the Philanthro/iist.
0
1
such acts of benevolence hereafter.
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2
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Convulsions
nied by two other general ofcers, he hurri

ed towards him, and to the astonishment,
manner as with his virtue, that he did not
all. ck.
and monopolized this branch of charity, that
scabbard, and taking his handkerchief from
Cholera morbus
Wrens".
0 Fever, typhus
0 Hives
pel him upon their walks, and at length

meeting him in the public street, accompa
spectators, he suddenly returned it into the
1
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retail but in gross, the reward of those who
sheathed it, when, to the'astonishment of the
ad. ch.
2 lnam of brain
visit the prisoner, and he has so forestalled
from a sense of the indignity, seized the

hilt of his sword,and had already half un
Diaenseo.
Apoplexy
Atrophy
0 Inam. of bowels
cd the same silence. Irritated at the appa
ment; the marshal, his countenance glowing
October 26, 811.
lntermcnts in the City and Liberties oPhiladelphln,

Consump. of lungs 3
rent contempt, the oicer resolved to com
and even terror of all who saw him, spit in

the mal'shal's face.- Let us form some con
ception of the grossness of this insult; the
object of it was, the great Turenne, a mar
shal of France, and one of the greatest gen
erals which Europe produced. The compa
ny of the marshal started back in amaze
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at the ofce of the
TERMS or run REPERTORY.
scrihers to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub
Of the beautiful ower of Pegasus, that deco
The eulogium pronounced on this benev rates our poetical partarre in the present number, scribers half yearly in advance.
olent character by the most eloquent man of we cannot sufciently commend. We leave it to every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
any age, cannot be too often quoted. Ican our readers to experience the same pleasure which country by the earliest conveyance.
not, says Burke, name this gentleman (How we enjoyed in the perusal.
ard) without remarking. that his labours and
We do not think there is suicient point in the year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
writings have done much to open the eyes epigram of K.
and hearts of mankind. He has visited all
Having perused three numbers of the Moralist
Europenot to survey the sumptuousness
we, with great pleasure, present the rst number
of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not

to make accurate measurments of the re
mains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a
to our readers. The Moralist will always be wel
scale of the curiosities of modern art; not to
collect medals, or collate manuscripts; but

to dive into the depths of dungeons; to
plunge into the infection of hospitals; to sur
vey the mansions of horror and pain; to take
the guage and dimensions of misery, depres
sion, and contempt; t0 remember the forgot
come while his essays display a solid reasoning and

a correct and pleasing composition.
\\'e have but one objection to the communica
tion of Junius. One paragraph relates to the po
litics of the day; any interference with which we
have promised to avoid.
A distant correspondent inquires if St. Orme be
dead- We should be obliged by an answer from the
proper source.

ceived at this oice, and at the bookstore of Hel
lings and Aitken, No- 40, North Second street.
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Ra

pertnry will be expected to pay the difference.
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PHILADELPHIA,

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l. Englishman, and a
BIOGRAPHY.
THE LIFE OF GENERAL LEE.
(Continued)
General Gates was settled on a. planta

tion in Berkley county, Virginia, and, hav
ing a great friendship for Lee, persuaded
him to purchase, from a Mr. Hite, a very
ne valuable tract of land in his neighbour
No. 25.
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soldier of a free state, to

exert his utmost to defeat them.
Professing these sentiments, he received
a continental, commission, of the rank of
major general.As he had made war his
study front his youth, seen a variety of ser
vice, and distinguished himself for his
courage and abilities, one might have ima
which, from the season

other circumstances, he
destined for a southern
orders to general Lee, to
of the year and

judged must be
expedition gave
repair, with such
volunteers as were willing to join him, and

could be expeditiously raised, to the city
of New-York, with adesign to prevent the
English from taking possession of New
York and North-River, as they would there
hood, of about 2,700 acres, on which were
gined he would have immediately been

appointed second in command in the Ameri
can army; but this was not the case. Gene
several good improvements.

On this business, he left his friends in
the northern states, and returned to Vir
ral \Vard, of Massachusetts Bay, by some

means or other, had received a commis
sion of prior date, and, on this account,
arrival, began with putting the city in the

best posture of defence the season of the
gina, where he remained till the month of
perhaps to the injury of the service, he

took rank of general Lee, who was at pre
sent content to act under him. Whatever
his feelings were on this head, he took care
disarming all such persons .upon Long
May, 1775, when he again presented him

self at Philadelphia. The American con
gress were assembled, and he became dai
ly a greater enthusiast in the cause of lib

erty. The battle of Lexington, and some
other matters, had now ripened the con
test, and Lees active and enterprising dis
position was ready for the most arduous

purposes. He therefore accepted a com
mission from the congress, which was of
fered to him by some of its principal mem
bers; but he found it necessary previously
to resign that which he held in the British
service. This he did, without delay, in a
letter transmitted to the right honourable
lord visicount Barrington, his majesty's
secretary at war, assuring his lordship,
that although he had renounced his half-pay,
yet, whenever it should please his majes
ty to call him forth to any honourable ser
vice against the natural hereditary ene
mies of his country, or in defence of his
most just rights and dignity, no man would

obey the righteous summons with more
zeal and alacrity than himself; at the same

time, the general expressed his disappro
bation of the present measures, in the most
direct terms, declaring them to be so ab
solutely subversive of the rights and liber
ties of every individual subject, so destruc
tive to the empire at large, and ultimately
by command the country, and the communi~
cation with Canada. The general, on his
year and circumstances would admit of,

Island, and elsewhere, whose conduct and
declarations had rendered them suspect

cd of designs unfriendly to the views of
to disguise them, and general \Vard, on congress. He also drew up a Test, which
the evacuation of Boston, grew weary of he ordered his ofcers to offer to those who
military honour and service, retired to pri were reputed to be inimical to the Ameri
vate life, and sent his resignation to con can cause; a refusal to take this, was to be
construed as no more or less than an
gress.
On the 2lst of June, general \Vashing ayowal of their hostile intentions; upon
ton and general Lee, having received their which, their persons were to be secured,
orders from congress, left Philadelphia, and sent to Connecticut, where it was judg
in order to join the troops assembled near ed they could not be so dangerous. Thus,
Boston. They were accompanied out of the general excited the people to every
the city, for some miles, by a troop of light spirited measure, and intimidated, by every
horse; and by all the ofcers of the city means, the friends to the English govern
militia, on horseback, and at this time gene
ment. At this time, captain Vandcput, of
ral Lee was accounted, and really was a the Asia, seized a lieutenant Tiley, and
great acquisition to the American cause. kept him on board his ship in irons. On1
On the road they received the news of the the principles of retaliation, Lee took into
affair at Bunkers-hill, and arrived at the custody, Mr- Stephens, an oilicer of govern
camp at Cambridge the 2d of July, I775. ment, and informed the captain what hel
The people of Massachusetts received had done, and that this gentleman should
them with every testimony of esteem, and not be released until lieutenant Tilcy was
the congress of that colony not only pre returned. This had the desired effect. His
sented an address to his excellency gene determined and decisive disposition had
ral Washington, as commander in chief, an amazing influence both on the army and
but, from a sense of the military abili people, and the steps he proposed for the:
ties of general Lee, presented one to him management of those who disapproved of
also, couched in terms of the highest re the American resistance, struck a terror.
spect.-The general remained with his wherever he appeared.
army till the year 1776, when general
Congress had now receivedthe account of
;, \Vashington, having obtained intelligence tgeneral Montgomery's unsuccessful err-w
so ruinous to his majestys own person,

dignity and family, that he thought him I of the tting out of a eet at Boston, and of pedition against Quebec. As attering ex-j
self obliged in conscience, as a citizen, an I, the embarkation of troops from thence, pectationa were entertained of the success;
,
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PHILADELPHTA REPERTORY.
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I
Of this oicer, the event threw a gloom on here it may be mentioned,
as somewhat re;
American affairs. To remedy this disaster markable, that when general Lee received
they turned their eyes to general Lee, and orders, at Cambridge, to repair to New
congress resolved that he should forthwith: York, to watch the motions of the British,
repair to Canada, and .take upon him the' he met general Clinton the very day he
command of the army of the united colonies]; arrived there; when he came to Virginia,
in that province. This, though he was just he found him in Hampton-Road; and, just
recovered from a t of the gout, he ac-l after his arrival in North-Carolina, general
ceptcd; but, while preparations were mak Clinton left Cape Fear. Their next meet
ing for the important undertaking, con ing was at Fort Sullivan, which must have
gress changed their determination, and ap made Lee appear to Clinton as his evil
pointed him to me command of the south genius, haunting him for more than 1100
ern department, in which he became very miles, along a coast of vast extent, and
conspicuous, as a vigilant, brave and active
ofcer. His extensive correspondence, his
address under every diiculty, and his un

wcaried attention to the duties of his sta
tion, all evinced his great military capacity,
and extreme usefulness to the cause he
had espoused and was warmly engaged in.
Every testimony of respect was paid to
him by the people of the northern colo
nies, and he experienced a similar treat
ment in his journey to the southward. On
his arrival at VVilliamsburgh, every one
expressed their high satisfaction at his pre
sence among them; and the troops of that
city embraced the opportunity of present
ing him with an address, expressive of their
sanguine hopes and rm resolutions of
uniting with him in the common cause.
This example was followed at Newbcrn.
North-Carolina, anda committee Was ap
pointed by the inhabitants of that town to
wait upon him in their name, and, in an
tddress, to thank him for his generous and
nanly exertions in defence of American

'ights and liberties, and to offer him their
:ordial congratulations for his appearance

unong them, at atime when their pro
'ince was actually invaded by a powerful
lect and army; and to express their happi
1055 to nd the command of the troops
lestined for their protection, placed in the
lands ofa gentleman of his distinguished

:haracter.
Great too was the joy in South-Carolina,

vhere his presence was seasonable and ab
olutely necessary, as sir Henry Clinton
was actually preparing for an invasion of
hat province. The minds of all ranks of
>cople were considerably elevated at the
ight of him; it diused an ardour among
he military, attended with the most saluta
y consequences; and his diligence and ac
lrity at Charleston, previous to the attack
.pon Sullivans-Island, will be long remem
ered. From a perusal of his letters and
irections to the oflicers commanding at
hat post, We may justly infer, that Ameri
a was under no small obligations to him
01 the signal success there obtained. And
meeting him at Philippi.
.
To be continued.
0*
For the Repertory.

OR

A TALE.
CHAPTER X.
0! Strange reverse of fortune.

Arms on armour clashing brayd
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
0f brazen fury raged.
Yes. there may be redundancy of bliss,
And now I feel it
The noble youth acquiesced in these sen

timents cheerfully, and having received the
permission of Amelia, he resolved to make
some inquiry of the count of Algoronza. N0
opportunity offered, as the Moors were bu
sied in preparing for their departure. The
thick mists, common in the low countries,
now began to rise as the gloom of night

commenced its cheerless reign. The moon
arose indeed, but attended by the dismal
looking halo, which only added to the terror
of the time. Dimly was she seen through
the thick and clammy atmosphere, and not
a star glowed in the rmament, in short it
was a night calculated to cover the heart
with that awful melancholy which was so for
cibly depicted in the surrounding view, and
suited the purpose of the indels as it ena
bled them more securely to leave the harbour
which it was dangerous to traverse in the day
time.
The sails were now expanded, the sweeps
of the corsair applied with gentle force and
she seemed to those on board to move with
great rapidity. Amelias heart sunk within
her at the prospect of slavery, but Florival
comforted her with the hopes ofa speedy
deliverance.
As the Moor Alcanzor was now on deck,
Let us leave the mourning and dejected

father and return once more to his no less
unhappy daughter and her faithful Florival
Amelia could not discard the amazement
that had taken possession of her mind on thus
meeting a count of Algoronza, and took an
opportunity, after their meal was over, of
relating the story of Minda to Florival.
Nothing but the necessity she considered
herself under of letting the youth into some
knowledge of his birth, as she considered
him in danger, would have urged her to dis
cover what Minda would once have had con
cealed.
The astonishment of the youth at the won
derful adventures of his supposed mother
as well as her high acquired station, was on
Florival took occasion to address the count

of Algoronza.
Your lordship will pardon me," said he,
that I presume to break in upon your sor
rows; but we are both unfortunate, and sym
pathy for suffering is, at all times, welcome."

You are right, my young friend, replied
the count, I am unfortunate and gratefully
accept your offers of sympathy."
Your pardon I must further request,
proceeded the youth, when I express the
astonishment of the lady Amelia and myself at
hearing you called the count of Algoronza."
Indeed! rejoined the count. Is that
title familiar to you? Have you ever heard be
fore of the count of Algoronza?
I have, my lord," answered 'Florival,
ly exceeded by a strange amazement that
and am acquainted with some circumstance

lled his soul at discovering she was not his
of a dreadful nature respecting him and the
mother.
unfortunate marquis of Malventi.
God of mercy! exclaimed he, when
This is indeed fortunate," cried Algo
Amelia concluded, who am I and for what
ronza. Young sir,l am now the count of
strange destiny am I preserved? But to thee
Algoronza, being distantly related to the un
I yield myself. There is a special provi fortunate nobleman you mention. It was the
dence in the fall of a sparrow, and doubt
interest of Malv'enti that brought me from
less some wise end is to be answered by my Spain. Be good enough to relate what you
sufferings.
know concerning Malvcnti or Algoronza,
My beloved Florival, said Amelia, who
seemed invigorated with hope, by the excla

mation of the youth, let us trust to the
power that has hitherto protected us for

safety and deliverance, for doubtless we are
and you shall know my intentions."

Florival now related as nearly in the words
of Amelia as possible, the story of Minda,
which affected the count in a great degree,
and when the youth concluded he said;
his care.
The wrongs of Malventi have indeed
M
been great, but had he lived, they would all

have been recompensed. Know, young sir,
that Don Gomez, the father of Isabella, has
succeeded to the crown of Castile, that the
outlawry of Malventi is revoked, and that I

am ambassador from his father in law, the
king, to conduct him to court. But since he
is no more, and has left no issue, his honours
and estates devolve to his lawful wile, the

humble, but virtuous Minda. And should I be
so fortunate as to regain my liberty I will be
the bearerof this pleasing news. I doubt not
but her marriage can be proved."
Easily, I believe, replied Florival, by
count Altenheim."
Here was indeed a reverse of fortune to
hlinda, but Florival knew it would be unwel
come news to her. He however did not ex

press himself so to the count, but contented
himself by mentioning his astonishment and
wonder at the change that had taken place.
The communication between Algoronza.
Amelia and Florival was now continued every
day uninterrupted by the Moor who treated
his prisoners with the greatest humanity
and respect. Florival informed the count
how they came into their unfortunate situa
tion, and at the request of Amelia the heart
evening was appointed for the perusal of the
scroll that had been found by Amelia near
the body of Pandolfo in the dungeon.
Alcanzor now came into the cabin and
told the prisoners that as they were now clear
of the channel they were at liberty to enjoy
the breezes of the ocean upon deck, when
ever they thought proper. This was agree
able news to the whole, for the conned con
struction of the cabin, as well as the number
in it, rendered it close and uncomfortable in

being constantly conned there.
The evening was now come that was to
witness the clucidations_of new mysteries,
and Algoronza, Amelia and Florival had ta
ken their situation on deck, near a lantern
the youth with the scroll in his hand. He had

opened it and was proceeding to the peru
sal when one of the crew cried out, a sail!
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success ofa fellow creature, and nding it

impossible to become possessed of good
ly answered, that he was a Moorish corsair, rlualities, would fain destroy his reputa
'tion, and blast his hopes. \Vhich would
and turning to his crew, he cried:
brand the smiling visage of virtue with de
\Vhat is your resolve, my brave country
men? say but the word and we will rush to testation; which would debase the exalted
soul; which would blur the fair name of
death or victory."
They had not much time for thought for blushing innocence; which would nurse
the Spaniards began the action by a broadside the tiger suspicion, and letting it loose into
which shattered the corsair very much. The the bower of reposing modesty, would
Moors now lashed their vessel to the ship and snatch it from its covert, and display its
instantly boarded. During the conict Algo blooming features to the scowl of scorn.
ronza conveyed Amelia into the cabin of the
Such is envy; that passion which has
frigate as well as all the other prisoners. gained such undue ascendcncy over the
They were then provided with weapons and souls of mortals; that passion which has
rushed into the thickest of the ght. Twice no foundation but unprovoked hatred, no
did Florival encounter Alcanzor and as often aim but unmerciful destruction. \Ve behold
forbear to attack him. The action had now it in every sphere of life glowing with
lasted two hours but was evidently going equal animosity against every thing that is
against the Moors; Alcanzor perceived this good, nor is its clamorous invective ever
and commanded his men to retire to the gal at silence, unless when it is ai'ighted by
ley. This order was no sooner given than the uncommonly majestic port of inde
they began to retreat. Florival at the head of pendent virtue, nnd hushed by the porten
afew Spaniards, burning to signalize himself, tous nger of observing shame: for such
pursued them. They were no sooner on is its cowardly insolence that these are the
board than they cut the lashings and the ves only means ofstilling its rcproaches. \Vhcre
sels immediately seperated. Part of the a man has taken so noble a stand in the
Moors instantlv hoisted sail and applied their cause of virtue, and supported himself with
sweeps, while Florival and his few men con such exact and unaltered propriety, that he
is admired and beloved by all the candid
tinued to deal destruction round them, firm
ly persuaded that the corsair was still lashed and thejust, it is then that envy is appalled
to the ship. Finding at length no assistance and by his majesty; it is then that she is hushed
their number decreasing continually, and be by shame. But she is only silenced, for
ing told that the vessels had parted and that against such objects does she bend her dead
they were prisoners, astonishment disarmed liest bow, and finding that she dare not dis
charge the arrow which was intend
them.
They were all secured and manacled ex ed to accomplish the ruin of the good,
cept Florival, whom Alcanzor commanded she had drawn it with such vigour that in
the Moors to release, for his bravery and her stuggles to withhold it, she torments
herself. The bosom of the envious man
generosity to him.
in
such a case as this, may well be termed
Twice," said he, I was in his power,
a hell, for it is the abode of furies; an
and twice he saved my life; release him.
Twas your previous humanity that saved guished disappointment, and designing
you, said Florival, and not the justice of malignity, range through it with unabating
your cause. But come lead me again to my ire, and they who were once the disturbers
of others, are now the disturbers of him
prison.
\Vhat were now the sensations of Florival. who gave them birth. How wretched must
Again he was a prisoner; but this bitter be the sensations of such a man; he has
truth was in some measure edulcorated by nothing to sooth him; he has no tranquil
the idea, that Amelia was free and under lizing quality to soften the rigours of disap
the protection of a nobleman who would, he pointment; and where will he nd that which
doubted not, restore her to the arms of Al can render tolerable the scourges of malice?
He sees no prospect before him which will
tenheim.
awaken a hope of pleasure, which can allure
(To be continu d.
Jer, to discover her to be a Spanish cruizer.
Alcanzor was now hailed in return and bold
This struck every one like thunder.

Each was agitated by different emotions.
Some with hope and expectation, others with
fear and apprehension, particularly the Moors
themselves, who nding they were in the
bay of Biscay, were fearful of meeting with
aFrench or Spanish felucca. Alcanzor was
the only one that remained rm. Instead of
bearing away, he stood iinmediately for the
For the Repertory.
vessel and about ten oclock came within
THE CABINET. No. LX.
hail.
Amidst the gayest scenes, and purest joys,
A gun from the vessel immediately gave t Pale Envy, rankling in the human breast,
the, signal for the Turl. to heave too, which he ; Finds all a desert, or creates a hell.
E. W'arren.
did and discovered himsell along side a large
Envy may be denominated that endlike
him to a transient ease; for_what pleasure can
he expect if the object of his hatred should

become his victim? what case can he look
for who is tortured by the anxiety of vice?
His day knows no beam of comfort; his
night is shadowed by the deepest misery:
tranquillity has forsaken him forever; be

ship. What was his chagrin, upon hailing passion of the soul, which repines at the eyes with attention the object he has vain
196
ly laboured to destroy; he sacks for his

errors, with
the xed
and immoveable
gaze of unrelenting hate: he is constantly

agitated in the fear that he should be ob
served, he is always uneasy lest he should
fail of success. Such a man has feelings
which no pen can describe; they thrill
tilt-ugh his heart, they agonize his bosom.
These are the prospects of disappointed
envy; these are the delights of failing mal
ice; these are the comforts so laboriously

sought for; these are the pleasures so dc
scrvingly enjoyed!
But let us in another instance, suppose
that envy should succeed anti virtue suf
fer; let us suppose the complete triumph
of the man who had embraced it as his
means of procuring happiness, lor of ac
complishing his designs; let us suppose
that a virtue reared on less stable founda
tions, though not less true, should fall
in the esteem of the world under the at

tacks of this degenerate disturber of the hu
man peace. \Vhat, I Would ask, are the
pleasures of him that effects it? Can he
look upon his actions, and say, I have
done my duty? can llC look upon the ob
sidered the miseries of successful envy: we

have beheld man in each situationinnitcly
unhappy, and we have not been able with all
the exertions of fancy to paint him one joy.
Deluded mortal, why then dost thou pursue
it! unthinking wretch, wherefore take it for
thy guide! Hadst thou but embraced social

affection, hadst thou but cherished the love
of thy species, how numerous would have

been thy delights; with what satisfaction
mightest thou reflect upon thy behaviour,
and what well founded bones mightest thou
have entertained of felicity. Now where are
thy coming delights? The shadowy form of
vice intercepts them from t_hy view; the ag
onizcd sensations of dissatisfaction banish
from thee all repose. For who can repose
when his couch is strewed with briery un
happiness? who can sleep when guilt with
her thousand ministers of wo pierces the bo-t
som and distracts the brain? who can hope
for comfort, when he has blasted the hopes
of others? and who when he has shown none
can expect mercy? can he look for that opin
ion of him in others, which he does not hold
be hidden. Many more might be enumerated

but I forbear. Thus is it seen the continu
al and unfadiug stain of that character which
has embraced it, and thus will it always be
observed however brilliant be the scintilla
tions of wit and genius that surround it.
Ye who have as yet preserved yourselves
free from its pollution, continue to keep it
at a distance; continue to repel all its insinu
ating adrcss, and never for one moment pet'
mit it to enter your bosoms; but remember
that there is nothing more noble, and at the

same time more just, than to give to genius
all its praise, to courage all its admiration,
to virtue all its love. Remember that mag;

nanimity of soul is never more perceptible
than in overlooking the faults of others, and
condemning our own; and that he who is un
willing to yield to merit its due, is unfailingly

possessed of a bad heart anda contracted
mind.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
For the Repertory.
THE MORALIST. No. II.
of himself? can he flutter himself of future

The importance of time is the subject
happiness, when he cannot enjoy it here? which most naturally suggests itself on this
ject of his malice, and. say, I have done or is his malignant passion so insolent, so I occasion. That man is an accountable crea
society justice? can he look into his own headstrong as to despise reproach, and to 5 ture, no one, who has thought rationally on
bosom and say, my heart is at case? scorn futurity?
this point, will deny. lfman is accountable,
No, he Can do neither, for he has tres
Respecting him who has deliberately time must be considered by him as impor
passcd on his duty, and he knows it; he cherished this most ruinotIs of vices, too tant in the highest degree; we are placed
is conscious he has done society a wrong, much cannot be said in condemnation. He on this isthmus of'a middle state, to make
and he trembles; distress gnaws upon has laboured to confuse social order; he has preparations suitable for an existence be
his heart and he shudders as he feels its endeavoured to disturb_the tranquillity ofthe yond the grave. Revelation seems to favour
fangs. He perceives himself if not sus great family of man; he has strove to stran the idea of the soul's susceptibility of
pected by all, at least despised by the vir gle peace, that peace which is the attendant innite improvement; it must then be con
tuous; if beloved by any, he is sensible of happiness, that peace without which tinually progressing towards perfection,
that he merits not their love, although no happiness exists; he has sought to anni and its progress must be accelerated or re.
they are as vicious as himself. He has no hilate concord; to set man in opposition to tarded in proportion to the improvement or
hours of tranquillity, for his mind is in man; to excite distrust; to mar the spirit of misimprovemcnt of time.\Vc live under a
continual tremor lest he and his purposes improvement: to overturn morality; and to government, where each can pursue what
should be handed over to universal con distract virtue. He has pursued this conduct 1 improvement his inclination dictates, and in
tempt and detestation. He distrusts each from motives no less reprehensible than the ' a country where care and industry will se
breeze, lest it bear witness against him; effects they were calculated to produce; from cure a comfortable subsistence. Opportuni
he fears each one that approaches him, motives too degrading to have taken their; ties of improvement are enjoyed by every
existence even in the mind of degraded man; individual. A man must blame himself if
lest he should conrm his guilt.
motives which were inspired by satan: which these opportunities are not embraced. Every
" Supicion ever haunts the guilty mind,
actuated him to his blind rebellion, and which moment ought to be devoted to its proper
The thief doth fear each bush an oiccrz"
and can there be a greater thief than him sealed his nal ruin. Such is the precedent of use, either to business, to the improvement
who has stolen from a man his good charac the man of envy; and such may very reasona of mind, or to innocent and necessary relaxa
ter; who has stolen from virtue its richest bly be his only expectations. Ye who are al tions and entertainments of life. Provision
ready its victims strive to become victors; must rst be made for the body, and this
gem, public admiration?
Envy is most gencmlly rash and thought strive to overthrow that passion which tends cannot be done without strict attention to
less; led away by a blind avidity to carry its to misery and points but to destruction. It business. 'Many men frequently fccl emba
point, it is often precipitated into the black was a tincture of this passion that blot rassed and complain they have too much to
est dangers, and often surrounded by the ted the character of Garrick, that darkens do; but this is owing not so much to the press
most bitter foes. It dares not reect on its the sparkling wrcathe that surrounded the ofbusincss, as to the manner in which they
divide their time. Some things are attended
situation, or it would shrink from it;'it dares brow of Goldsmith; and by all the great
not sue for mercy, for its supplications would ness of the one, and the general amiable to at improper seasons, while others are
be despised. We have contemplated the qualities of the other, itis rcgretful to say neglected, which demand immediate de
wretchedncss of unsuccessful, we have con
that the gloomincss of this shade can never spatch. \Vithout a systematical division of
197
PHILADELPHIA. nnrnn'ronv.
time nothing; can be executed with address

and expedition. Romanto, a neighbour of
mine, from this very circumstance is able
to transact more business than any two
men of his profession in the city. He is not
on the wharf when his presence is necessary
at the counting house, nor at the counting
house when he could be more serviceable

in his family. 'With all his business, and it
is extremely extensive, he never complains
ofwant of time. By his own exertions, he is
now in the possession of a fortune, which
supplies the necessities of life, procurcs its
gratifieations and gives him the means of
educating his children. Nothing is more
gratifying to the feelings than a visit to the
family of this gentleman. His sons are re
quired to devote particular hours to their
studies, and his daughters to employments
adapted to their age and consistent with
their sex. He may be called a strict, but not
a severe father. He denies them no reasona
ble gratications, provided they are sought
after at seasonable periods.
Alfred the great was so strongly impres
sed with the importance of improving time,
that he is said to have divided the four and
twenty hours into three parts. Eight hours
he allotted to eat and sleep in, eight he de
voted io business and recreation, and eight
he dedicated to study and prayer. But a
system of this kind, it is whisperedmdll not
suit the manners and notions of our modern
gentlemen. Eight hours are little enough,
they say, to devote to sleep, eight to meals
_ and recreations, and eight to business. Stu
dy and prayer are of necessity left out of

their account. They are not to be found in
the Catalogue of their employments. If more
time was devoted to study and prayer, the
number of our scholars and moral men,
would be considerably increased.

Any person, who has even supercially
studied human nature, must have discover
ed, that man is naturally inclined to idleness.
~He requires some powerful stimulus to
rouse him from inactivity and call forth into
operation the faculties of the mind and the
energies of the body. This stimulus is a
desire of happiness, whether it is made to
consist in fame or riches. Happiness is the
\nd every bosom lld with trembling fear,

Except the Enquirer, he who knows no guile, 335
Mr. Editor,
Can view the heaviest terrors with a smile;
As I believe it is the intention of your Yet stood the tears of sorrow in his eye,
useful miscellany to encourage literature, Tears of regret for that his Lord must die;
sn'cr me to submit to the consideration of A sight of anguish from his heart transpired,
843
your learned correspontlcntsa passage from As slowly from the chamber he retired,
To
the
deep
cloister
there
those
wrongs
to
grieve,
'\'ii-gils rst Eelogue in the 54th and 55th
Those cruel wrongs his arm could not relieve
lines. The lines are the following,
And now Xscariot, traitor to his God,
Hihe tibi, quze semper vicino ab limite sepes
\Vith hurried step to seek his master trod;
Hyblotis apibus orem depasta salicti.
Closely surrounded by a chosen band, A,
845
The sense is very obscure, and in order That bloody priests had placed at his command,
to divest the passage of its obscurity, the With staves, and aming torches to illume,
commentators of Virgil have given several And cheer the silence of the midnight gloom.
interpretations. The sepes, denotes un \Vhich, like the halo whose terric light,
Gives awful aspect to the queen of of night, 850
For the Repertory.
doubtcdly the hedge that divided Virgils

lands from his neighbours, and that hedge
consisted of salicti or willows: but the
order in which they stand tends to perplcx
..nd confuse the reader. The illustration
of this passage by any of your ingenious
correspondents will oblige
A LEARNER.
Far be from thee, the zealous Simon laid,
THE PRO PITIATION.
friends, but quickly to their misfortunes.
861
'Ihou King of heaven, thou glorious Lord of earth,

Who spoke the vast creation into birth;
But let what fate soever visit thee,
The same, 0 Saviour, shall attend on me;
BOOK IV.
ARGUMENT
.mms having concluded, Cm'aphas threatens any

one who dares to advocate the Saviour; Judas n/l
[Jeurs and afar: to betray the Lord into their hands;
The sorrow of .Nicademus; the (Inparmre of Judas
with the ham]; Jifter Judas left the supper our

Lordfortels his denial by Peter, and comforts his
disciples,- He then passes the brook Cellron, into the
garden of Gethsc-mene; The coming of the agany.
So Annas spoke, aloud applauding cry,

Prevented Nicodemus from reply;
Till Caiaphas" now waved on high his hand,
A moments awful silenceto command;
And when the furious host the sign obeyd,
The haughty priest, with exultation, said:
Let him who offers aught in the defence
Of this impostor, quickly y from hence;
Lest our just. mige and tun-elenting hate,
Should link the traitor in his limrful fate.
805
810
Stand forth the Jew, to be with honour crownd,

Who can inform where Jesus may be found;
Nor honour only but a well earnd meed,

Shall pay the patriot for the lial deed.
Thus Caiaphas, no envious Jew replied,
815
Till. entering now the hall, Iseariot cried,

Behold, most reverend priest, the patriotlhere,
The ends, transported, gave a shriek ofjoy,
Go slowly to the entertainments of thy
In which, suspended in the unconscious air,
The cruel nails my hands and feet shall tear;

In which the rock shall with my blood he died,
A fate like this, thou Ruler of the dead;
protably is a marl; of debasement, weak-1

-_..-
The gracious Saviour, after Judas ed,
Rose from his seat and to his people said,

Let not your hearts be lld with trembling fear,
0, my disciples, since the hour is near,
855
When the sharp spear shall pierce my naked side.
0,
For the Repertory.
Glowing with zeal and undisturbd by fear;

820
One ,who .too long has worn th impostors chains,
end of all our actions, and the means of ob
But by one action freedom now regains.
taining this end is the improvement of time. 0! glorious struggle for immortal fame,
The man who spends his time in a proper And endless honour to thy mighty name,
manner, is the only person who may be The priest replied, these tlnrty pieces take, 825
said to be truly happy. Life at most is but' By these with thee, the covenant we make.
short, and to spend it improperly and un-l He said and threw them down, the Lhundring sound
Shook with pale terror every Jew around;
,ness and stupidity.
As on the winds the r lambent blazes blew,
The light increased the fearful horrors too.
865
My tongue shall praise thee with my latest breath,

And my feet follow even unto death.
How frail the wretch, whom llcaven no longer
keeps,
From lifes rough craga and black teric stccps:
Fearless he walks and unconcerned to know. 871
That errors gulf gapes horribly below;
Through which the waves of deep perdition roll,
In ceaseless fury to oerwhelm his soul.
In keen rebuke Barjonas Jesus eyed.
875
And then in mildest ascents thus replied:
When in this breast begin the deathful strife,
Wilt thou for me forsake thy mortal life?
Thyself, 0 foolish man, thou little knowst,
To make this vain, this rash and truthless hoast;8
For her loud herald, mark me, shall not thrice,
Salute the morn, ere thou deny me thrice

Let not your hearts be troubled, ye believe,
And strength and mercy shall your faith receive.
What though in derth this frailer body lies, 835
The deathless spirit seeks the distant skier;
Thither I haste to nd you all a place,
The gracious been of my redeeming grace;

That done, in glory lll return again.
And where I am you ever shall remain.
890
Though here distress and persecution wait,
And deep ull'liction be your balcful fate;
Though lidlchagrined with cruel men conspire,
To rear the cross and light the {moral pyrc:
l
Though, stripes that Weeping mercy doth deplore,
In dreadful pangs, should mark the body oer; 896
Though dungeon walls your tortured frames enclose l
And dungeon damps increase your countless wot-s; l
Though your weak limbs the iron pinions bind,
i
Let
Turnnothen
baseyour
terrors
thoughts
fetter then
to mansions
the mind;
in the s w; i
Success had crownd their efforts to destroy. 830

The Jews astonishd from the chamber ed,
From whence oppression, anguish, tortures _.,
For the proud mmsion trembled oer their head;
Where never care iutrudes nor pale despair,
Stran_e cries of horror struck the startled ear,
And let th excursive mind expatiate there:
PHILADELPHIA REFER TORY.
198
.
W
For when the ocean of aliction rolls,
905
My mercy is the bulwark to your souls;
And the sweet tulip from its grandeur fell;

Low sunk the jessamine, the [IMHIOII ower,
Rcdden'd to blood in that tremendous hour;
The tall toppd myrtle droopd its towering head,
And sweet perfume from every blossom ed. 950
Now came the moment when distress should roll
ller surging hillows oer his anguishd soul;
\Vlen the reard cmss expands your arms in pain,

My power shall then your fainting breasts sustain;
\\ hen hell exults around your funeral pyrc,
910
My blood shall quench the fury of the re;
\\ hen bleeding stripes your body circle round,
My grace shall be a halm for every wound;
\ 'hcn not a friend, nor human nor divine,
Should there appear his dreadful \voes to join;
\\ hen dungeon walls shut out the purer air,
when Hell a moment from despair should rise,985
My changcless love shall be your guardian there;
U1 go your frail hearts to echo songs of joy,
915 And shake the earth with her triumphant cries;
And in loud anthems every power employ;
When angels should behold, with deep dismay,
While the cold walls responsively shall ring
The mighty sufferings of the Lord of day!
In loud reverberations, while you _sing.
Leave for a time. the soft harmonious lyre,
I am your God, vYour father and your friend,
. And to the furthest verge of heaven retire;
990
Trust then in me and safety mu st attend;
920 While man unconscious of the fearful grief,
The pangs of sorrow will be quickly past,
Reposed in sleep, nor offered kind relief;
0' dreadful hour, that saw a God betrayd,
And bliss eternal shall be yours at last.
Nor will I leave you comfortlcss, alone,
0! happy hour, that saw the purchase made,
Beneath the. pressure ofyour woes to groan,
995
' Ordaind ere time or nature rst began,
To you the Comforter shall soon be given,
925 The costly ransom of rebellious man.
The third great record of henignant Heaven.
All, all had seen his wonderous potence shine,
\Ve shall conduct you throughthis world of wrong, To prove his glorious mission was divine;
Though persecution lift her cruel thong;
But only three, his awful pangs shall share,
He shall apply the healing balm Ive found,
Qlndl see his spirit seemingly despair:
1000
To sooth the anguish of each bleeding wound; 930 Lest at the sight their fearful hearts should pour
And when your short, but ery trials oer,
Torrents of grief at what his spirit borc;
I end you to me where grief shall vex no more;
Their faith should falter and their hearts begin
\V here smiling peace and endless blessing reign,
To doubt his potence to subdue their sin!
The favoured three that With their God appear,1005
And heavenhorn pleasures banish hellhorn pain.
Noryou alone, who now obey my laws,
935 Within the doleful garden would not fear:
How could they doubt who saw his glories beam,
And suffer shame in my unhonourd cause,
\Vhen trembling Tabor ownd him Lord supreme,
Shall taste the joys my father can bestow,
Who saw celestial radiance round him spread.
When the freed spirit hastens from below;
And godlilie glories waving oer his head,
1010
But all the good that live in evry age,
That love my laws and in my cause engage, 40 When the wont fashion of his face was changed,
And all the mortal secmd at once estranged;
\t'hen danger frowns from his terric face,
\Vhen, as the sun, his glorious visage seemd,
Shall nd the rich effusions of my grace;
And as the light his glistning raiment gleam'd;
A new felt vigour to their souls impart,
How could they fear base Judas and his train,1015
And cheer the drooping courage of the heart.
Though persecution may destroy their bliss, 946 The dark assistants of more guilty men,
W'ho saw both Moses and Elijah there,
No persecution can disturb their peace;
Enwrapt with glory his decease declare;
My omniprcscnce shall defeat their foes,
\Vho heard while entring the oershadowing cloud,
And lead them conquerors oer a host of woes.
1020
Though bound with chains, their souls shall still The very God exclaim, in accents loud,
While holy wonder lld their breasts with fear,
be free,
And live, in swcet communion live, with me. 950 This is my son, his saving counsel hear.
_._
A mighty price for this your master pays,
But love impels and freely he obeys.
For the Repertory.
His blood must purchase what his love would save,
Or all were sWallowd in a dreadful grave.

Soon now the glorious sacrice begins,
The full Propitiation for your sins.
955
TBMPORA MUTANTUR.
Tom said the world was good, he knew,
He meant, I trow, to banter;
This might, indeed, have once been true,

(omt, let us hence, the traitor is at hand,
Leading exultingly the numrous band.

As men inspired, in former days have said,
'l'h obedient son of man must be betrayed;
llut wo to him whose unrelenting heart,
Inspires the wretch to act so base a part,
Better for him if hurld from yonder steep,
Fhaincd to a rocks sharp fragment, in the deep.
Such dark destruction, such unknovm despair, 965
But, tempura mutaruur.
Will Dasher bought his sunday cost,

A rich West lndian planter;
He promised to take up his note,
'hat, doctor, preach to man all day,

At night to the decanter?
lonce was paid to preach and pray,
But, tempom mutantur.
\Ve vow to mend when stern disease

Doth in our bosoms plant her,
But when again comes health and ease,
Tis, temjaora mulmmu'.

But when the touch of death we feel,
It will not be to banter,
Then, heedless mortal, then it will
Be, temora mulantur.
+
Selected for the Repertory.

L -\ PL A ND.
With blue cold nose and wrinkled brow,
Traveller, whence comest thou?
From Lapland woods, and hills of frost,

By the rapid reindeer crost;
Where, tapring, grows the gloomy r,

And the stuntedjuniper;
Where the wild hare and the crow
\Vhitenin surrounding snow;
Where the shivring huntsmen tear

Their fur coats from the grim white bear;
'here the wolf and arctic f0):
Prowl among the lonely rocks,
And tardy suns to deserts dreat',
Give days and nights ofhalf a year;

From icy oceans where the whale
Tosses in foam his lashing tail;
Where the snorting sea-horse shows
His ivory teeth in grinning rows;
Where, tumbling in their sealskin boat
Fearless the hungry shers oat,
And from teeming seals supply
The food those niggard plains deny
.
The Rev. Mr. VVhiston, so well known in
the literary world for his writings, being

one day in discourse with the late lord
chief justice King, who was brought up at

Exeter a rigid dissenter, a debate arose
about signing articles which men do not

believe, for the sake of prefermcnt; which
the chief justice openly justied, be
cause (said he) we must not lose our
usefulness for scruples. Mr. \Vhiston,
who was quite of an opposite opinion, ask
cd his lordship, If in their courts they
allowed of such prevarication? He an
swered, They did not." Then, (said Mr.
\Vhiston) suppose God Almighty should
be as just in the next world as my lord chief
justice is in this, where are we then?"
But, tempura mutamur.

.
One breaks and vows his debts hell pay,

He surely means to banter:
Collects his all, then runs away,
As mortal never felt, his soul shall bear.
A farmer in England, who had been ma

ny years in the practice of coming home
intoxicated from a market-town, one day
For, tempera mutantur.
lle spokeI and followd by his people,took

Miss Modish lies in dreadful pain,
llis pensive way oer Ccdrons winding brook.
The water, conscious that its God was nigh,

(bird more pellucid as he passed it by;
U'. honoured garden, twas not so with thee,
And deathlike terrors haunt her,
observed appearance of rain, while he was

in market. His hay was cut, and ready to
be housed. To save it, he returned in
Shell mend ifshc gets well again,

Then, tempera mutanmr.
haste to his farm, before he had taken his
lhy fairest bower: were clad in solemn gloom,
So many charms Dick Rakcal bore,

He could not but enchant her;
customary dose of grog. Upon coming in

to his house, one of the children, a boy of
"is anguish withered all the lilys bloom;

The fragrant 10 bush lost its wonted smell,
To marry her he often swore,
970
'1' hou feltst his anguish, dark Gethsemane'
975
But, tempura mutanlur.
six years old, ran to his mother, and cried
out 0! mother, father is come home,
199
PHILADELPHI A REPERTORY.
*
and he is not drunk. The father heard
An_d the imformation from our special minister to

on any effective change in the British cabinet. Dcnmarl-t, shows that the mission had been attend- _
To be ready to meet with cordiality satifactory ed with valuable effects to our citizens, whose pro
proofs of such a change, and to proceed, in. the I perty had been so extensively violated and endan
mean time, in adapting our measures to the views ' gered by cruisers under the Danish ag
which have been disclosed through that minister,
Under the ominous indications which command
will best consult our whole duty
ed attention, it became a duty, to exert the means
In the unfriendly spirit of those disclosures, in committed to the executive department, in provi
demnity and redress for other wrongs have con ding for the general security. The works of de
tinued to be withheld, and our coasts and the fence on our maritime frontier have accordingly
mouths of our harbours have again witnessed been prosecuted, with an activity leaving little to
scenes, not less derogatory to the dearest of our be added for the completion of the most impor
national rights, than vexatious to the regular course tant ones; and, as particularly suited for co-opcra
of our trade.
tion in emergencies, a portion of the gun boats
Among the pccurrences produced by the con have in particularliarbours,'been ordered into use.
duct of British ships ofwarhovering on our coasts, The ships of war before in commission, with the
was an encounter between one of them and the addition ofa frigate, have becn chiey employed,
American frigate commanded by captain Rogers, as a cruising guard to the rights ofour coast. And
rendered unavoidable on the part of the latter, by such a dispOsition has been made of our land for
a re, commenced without cause, bv the former; ces, as was thought to promise the services most
whose commander is, therefore, alone chargeable appropriate and important. In this disposition is
with the blood unfortunately shed in maintaining included a force, consisting of regulars and militia,
the honour of the American flag. The proceedings embodied in the Indiana Territory, and marched
of a court of inquiry, requested by captain towards our north western frontier. This mea
Rogers, are communicated, together with the cor
sure was made requisite by several murders and
respondence relating to the occurrence, between depredations committed by Indians; but more es
the secretary of state and his Britannic majestys pecially by the menacing preparations and aspect
envoy. To these are added, the several corre spon
ofa combination of them on the Wabash undr r
denccs which have passed on the subicct ofthe the inuence and direction of a fanatic of the
' British orders in council: and to both, the corres
Shawancse tribe. \Vith these exceptions the Indian
ipondcnce relating to the Florida, in which con
tribes retain their peaceable dispositions towards
the repeal would ensue, will not permit us to rely
this exclamation, and was so severely rebu

ked by it, that he suddenly became a so
ber man.
PHILADELPHIA,
CORRESPONDENCE.
The request ofa Learner will, we doubt not,

meet with proper attention from some of our cor
respondents.
To the friend who selected the description of
Lapland we return our thanks.
Several articles intended for this week have been
omitted to make room for the president's message.
Washington City, Nov. 5, 1811.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
The president of the United States this day

communicated by Mr. Edward Coles, his private
secretary, the following Message to congress.
Fellow citizens of the Senate and
of the House of Representatives,
In calling you together sooner than a separation
from your homes would otherwise have been re
quired, I yield to considerations drawn from the

posture ofour foreign affairs; and in xing the pre i gress will be made acquainted with the interposi
sent for the time of your meeting, regard was had ttion which the government of Great Britain has
to the probability of further developements of the thought proper to make against the proceedings of
policy of the belligerent powers towards this coun the United States.
The justice and fairness which have been evinced

try, which might the more unite the national coun
on the part of the United States towards France,
cils in the measures to be pursued.
A, the c109,- m the late cession of congress, it both before and since the revocation of her decrees,
was hoped that the successive conrmations of the I, authorised an expectation that her government
extinction of the French decrees, so far as they would have followed up that measure by all such
others as were due to our reasonable claims, as
violated our neutral commerce, Would have in
duced the government of great Britain to repeal 5 well as dictated by its amicable professions. No
its orders in council, and thereby authorise a rcmo- 1, proof, however. is yet given ofan intention to re
val of the existing obstructions to her commerce pair the other wrongs done to the United States;
and particularly to restore the great amount of
with the United States.
Instead ofthis reasonable step towards satisfac i American property sized and condemned under
tion and friendship between the two nations, the I edicts, which, though not affecting our neutral re
orders were, at a moment when least to have been l lations, and. therefore, not entering into questions
expected, put into more rigorous execution; and it
between the United States and other bclligcrcnts.
was communicated through the British envoy just i were nevertheless founded in such unjust principles,
arrived, that, whilst the revocation of the edicts of I that the reparation ought to have been prompt and
France, as officially made known to the British gov- ' l ample.
ernment, was denied to have taken place, it was i
In addition to this, and other demands of strict
an indispensable condition of the repeal of the Bri i right, on that nation, the United States have much
tish orders, that commerce should be restored to ;' reason to be dissatised with the regorous and un
a footing, that would admit the productions and ~ expected restrictions to which their trade with
manufactures of Great Britain, when owned by the French dominions has been subjected; and
neutrals, into markets shut against them by he; which, if not discontinued, will require at least
cncmv; the United States being given to understand , corresponding restrictions on importations from
that, in the mean time, a continuance of their non- France into the United States.
importation act would lead to measures of retalia
On all those subjects our minister pleuipotentia
. ry, lately sent to Paris, has carried with him the
tion.
At a later date, it has indeed appeared, that a com l necessary instructions; the result of which will be
munication to the British government, of fresh evi. communicated to you, and by ascertaining the
dence of the repeal of the French decrees rig-inst ulterior policy of the French government towards
our neutral trade, was followed by an intimation, that the United States, will enable you to adapt to it
it had been transmitted to the British plenipotentiary that of the United States towards France
here, in order that it. might receive full considera
tion in the depending discussions- This communi

cation appears not to have been received: l ut the
transmission of it hither, instead of founding on
it an actual repeal of the orders, or assurances that
Our other foreign relations remain without un
favourable changes With Russia, they are. on the

best footing of friendship. The ports of Sweden
have offered proofs of friendly vlspositiou towards
our _commerce, in the councils of that nation also.
us. and their usual pursuits
I must now add.that the period is arrived, which

claims from the legislative guardians of the nation
al rights a system of more ample provisions for

maintaining them- Notwithstanding the scrupulous
justice, the protracted moderation, and the multi
plied cfforts on the part of the United States, to
substitute, for the accumulating dangers to the
peace of the two countries, all the mutual advanta

ges of reestablished friendship and condence; we
have seen that the British cabinet persevere-s, not

only in withholding a remedy for other wrongs so
long and so loudly calling for it; but in the execu
tion, brought home to the threshold of our territo
ry, of measures which, under existing circumstan
ces, have the character, as well as the effect, of
war on our lawful commerce
With this evidence of hostile inexibility, in
trampling on rights which no independent nation

can relinquish; congress will feel the duty of put
ting the United States into an armour, and an atti
tude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding
with the national spirit and expectations.
I recommend accordingly, that adequate pro
vision be made for lling the ranks and prolonging
the enlistments of the regular troops: for an auxilia

ry force, to be engaged for a more limited term;
for the acceptance of volunteer corps, whose patri.
otic ardour may court a participation in urgent ser
vices; for detachments, as they may be \vanu-d, of

other portions of the militia; and for such a prcpu.
ration of the great body, as will proportion its use
fulness to its intrinsic capacities. Nor can the cc~
casion fail to remind you of the importance of those

military seminarics, which. in every event, will
form a valuable and frugal part of our military es

tablishment.
The manufacture of cannon and small arms has
proceeded with due success, and the stock and re
suurcks of all the necessary munitions Pr, d-aplnle
to emergencies- It will not be inenpcdicnt, ho- I-v
QOO
them.
Your attention will of course be drawn to such
ges of an independant conveyance of our products

to foreign markets, and of a growing body of ma
riners, trained by their occupations for the service
provisions, on the subject. of our naval force, as
of their country in times ofdanger, must he dimin
from the 26th October to the 2d November.
er, for congress to authorize an enlargement of
may be required for the services to which it may ished.

The receipts into the treasury, during the year
be best adapted. I submit to congress the season
ahleness, also, of an authority to augment the stock ending on the thirtieth of September last, have ex
of such materials, as are imperiahable in their na ceeded thirteen millions and a half of dollars, and
have enabled us to defray the current expenses, in
ture, or may not at once he attainable.
In contemplating the scenes which distinguish cluding the interest on the public debt. and to re
this momentous epoch, and estimating their claims imburse more than ve millions of dollars of the
to our attention, it is impossible to overlook those principal, without recurring to the loan authorised
developing themselves among the great communi by the act of the last session. The temporary loan
ties which occupy the southern portion of our own obtained in the latter end of the year one thousand
hemisphere, and extend into our neighbourhood. An eight hundred and ten, has also been reimbursed,
enlarged philanthrophy, and an enlightened forecast and is not included in that amount.
The decrease of revenue, arising from the situa
concur in imposing on the national councils an ob
ligation to take a deep interest in their destinies; to tion of our commerce and the extraordinary ex
cherish reciprocal sentiments of good will; to regard penses which have and may become necessary,
the progress of events; and not to he unprepared must be taken into view, in making commensurate
for whatever order of things may be ultimately es provisions for the ensuring year. And I recom
mend to your consideration the propriety of en
tablished
Under another aspect of our situation, the early suring a sufficiency of annual revenue, at least to
attention of congress will be due to the expediency defray the ordinary expenses of government, and
of further guards against cvasions and infractions to pay the interest on the public debt, including
of our commercial laws. The practice ofsmuggling, that on new loans which may be authorised.
I cannot close this communication without ex
which is odious every where, and particularly crimi
nal in free governments, where the laws being made pressing my deep sense of the crisis in which
by all for the good of all, a fraud is committed on I you are assembled, my condence in a wise and
every individual as well as on the state, attains its honourable result to your deliberations, and as
utmost guilt, when it blends. with a pursuit of ig surances of the faithful zeal with which my co
nominious gain a treacherous subserviency, in the operating duties will be discharged; invoking, at
transgressors, to a foreign policy adverse to that of the same time, the blessing of Hemcn on our
their own country. It is then that the virtuous in beloved country, and on all means that. may be
dignation of the public should be enabled to mani employed,in vindicating its rights and advancing
fest itself, through the regular animadversions of its welfare.
(Signed)
H EALTH OFFICE,
November 2, 1 811 .
Diseases.
Casualties
Cholera morbus
ad. ell.
l 0
1 0
Consump. of lungs 10
1 Old age
Connilsions
Diarrhoea
0
2
2 Still born
0 Suicide
0
1
2
O
Dropsy
Drowned
Descntry
Debility
llivcs
Hooping cough,
lntlam. of bowels
[album of liver
3
1
0
2,
0
0
0
0
0 Sudden
O Teething
1 Unknown
1
2
4
1
1
1
0
1
26
0
l
O
13
Total 43
Under 1
Between 1 and 2
2
5
JAMES MADISON.
the most competent laws.
To secure greater respect to our mercantile ag,
all. cli.
Diseases.
0 1 Insanity
1 1 Mortication
I-Vaahingtan, Aa-v- 5, 1811
5
10
20
30
4O
10
20
30
40
50
5 Between 50 and 60
5
60
70
3
70
80
4
1
1
6
9
80
90
100
5
2
2
90
100
110
O
O
O
-
Total '13

STATE OF THE 'lllERMOlllETI-lR.
October 28
52
51
58
29
SO
31
November 1
58
49
53
50
4-0
67
52
5456
45
61
52
55
51
47
and to the honest interests which it covers, it is ex.
pedient also, that it may be punishable in our citi
In May last some robbers broke open the tomb
zens, to accept licences from foreign governments,
ofthe mother of the sultan Selim, at Constantinople,
for a trade unlawfully interdicted by them to other

American citizens; or to trade under false colours or
papers of any sort.
A prohibition is equally called for, against the
acceptance, by our citi'Lens, of special licences. to
be used in a trade with the United States; and
against the admission into particular ports of the
United States, of vessels from foreign countries,
authorized to trade with partieularports only.
Although other subjects will press more immedi
ately on your deliberations, a portion ofthem cannot
but be well bestowed, on the just and sound policy
of securing to our manufactures the success they
have attained, and are still attaining in some degree ,
under the impulse of causes not permanent; and
to our navigation, the fair extent, of which it is at
present abridged by the unequal regulations of fo
and robbed it of gold cloths and precious stones
to the value of 150,000 piastres. Suspicion alight

at the ofce. of the
reign governments
Besides the reasonableness of saving our manu
facturers from sacrices which a change of cit-cum.
stances might bring on them, the national interest

requires, that, with respect to such articles at least
as belong to our defence, and our primary wants,
we should not be lcft in unnecessary dependance
ing on some Sclavonian slaves, they \vere taken

up and put on the torture; two of them refusing
to make confession, were impaled in the Streets
of Constantinople, and remained
alive,
but in
t2,
dreadful agony, twenty-two hours.

__._
An old lady, who lodges at Camden-Town, was
found immersed to the chin in a large water butt
TER\tS or rm; narcaroar.

at the back of the house in which she dwelt, a
few mornings since, and on being questioned as every Saturday, and n'warded to those in the
to the cause of placing herself in a situation so ex
traordinary, she said she had been informed by a
No subscription will be received for less tlun a
fortune-teller, that th; world was to he destroycd year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
by the comet which is now in view; and that she to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
had got into the butt in order that she might dip considered as subscribing for the next.
her head under water while the tail of the com
et was passing.
._._
A Curious FactIn digging awell in Alsted, N.
H- on the hill near the meeting house, the workmen ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of Hel
had dug about nine feet through a hard gravel or lings and Aitken, No. 40, North Second street.
pan,when they came to a hard blue clay, intermixed .
Printers exchanging with the Philadelphia Ile

with stones and gravel; after digging ve feet pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
therein. a lump of clay was taken up in which was
enclosed a small brown snake, with a red belly
PHILADELPHIA,
and a white stripe round his neck, with a small
snake in his mouthwhen exposed to the air,
Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth streelsi
has been seriously felt by our shipping interests; they discovered evident signs oflife , which was wit
near St. Mary's church.
and in P ertion u this takes place, the advanta. nessed by several spectators.
on external supplics- And whilst foreign govern.

. ments adhere to the existing discriminations in their
ports against our navigation, and an equality or les
ser discrimination is enjoyed by their navigation, in
nor ports, the effect cannot be mistaken, because it
Variety s the rerv spice of life,

('ownzn.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 16., Hill.
VOI. ll
BIOGRAPHY.
'l'ili. LIFE OF GENERAL LEE.
(Continued)
The aair of SiliiiV" s Island was a most

extraordinary deliverance; for. if the Eng
lish had succeeded, it is more than proba
ble the southern colonies would, at that
time, have been compelled to have submit

ted to the English government. Dreadful
was the cannonade, but without cii'ect.
Porto Bello, Boccochico, and the other
castle at Carthagena, were obliged to strike
to Vernon; Fort Lewis, in St. Domingo,
yielded to the metal of admiral Knowles;

but in this instance an unnished battery,
constructed with Palmetto logs, resisted,
for a whole day, the 12 and l8 poundcrs of
the British eet, to the astonishment and
admiration of every spectator.
The eet and army under sir Henry
Clinton and sir Peter Parker being repul
sed, general Lee then ew to the assist
ance of Georgia, where he continued for
some weeks, planning schemes to put that
province in a state of defence, and to make
an excursion into East Florida, as their
southern frontiers were suffering consid

erably by the incursions of the Indians, and
'othcrs, from that quarter.
About this time, the congress were in
formed, by general Washington, that Clin

ton, with the troops under his command,
had returned, and joined general Howe at

Staten Island. In consequence of this in
teliigence, the congress were convinced,
that the English, by collecting their whole
force into a point, were determined to make
a vigorous exertion at New-York, and, in
good opinion they had conceived of him;

his reputation was in its zenith, and they
now applied to him for assistance, in the
present important situation of their affairs.
An express was despatched to Georgia,
directing him to repair, as soon as possible.
to Philadelphia; there to wait for such or
ders as they might judge expedient. He
returned with great expedition, the begin
ning of October, and waited on congress
immediately on his arrival, who, after con
i1' . 26
service, was indeed of the utmost impor

tance.
The congress, on hearing the news, on

dercd their president to write to general
Washington, desiring him to send it [big
to general Howe, for the purpose of en
quiring in what manner general Lee was
treated, and if he found that it was not
agreeable to his rank and character, to send
a rcmonstrance to general Howe on the

subject. This produced much inconveni
ence on both sides, and much calamity to
sulting him, resolved that he should, with
out delay, repair to the camp at Haerlem, individuals. A cartel had sometime be
with leave, if he should judge proper, to fore been established for the exchange of
prisoners between the generals Howe and
visit the post in New-Jersey.
Hitherto general Lee had been success iVashington, which had hitherto been car
ful, and was universally esteemed; but for ried into execution as far as time and cir
tunenow began to reverse the scene. On cumstances would admit. As Lee was
the 13th of December, 1776, at the head particularly obnoxious to government, it
of all the men he could collect, he was was said that general Howe was tied down,
marching to join general Washingtonavho by his instructions, from parting with him
had assembled the Pennsylvania militia, to upon any terms, if the fortune of war should
secure the banks of the Delaware. From throw him into his power. General \Vash
the distance of the British cantonment, he ington, not having at this time any prison
was betrayed into a fatal security, by which, ers of equal rank with general Lee, pro
in crossing the upper part of New-Jersey posed to exchange six eld ofcers for
from the North-River, he xed his quarters, him, the number being intended to balance
anti lay carelessly guarded, at some dis the disparity; or, if this was not accepted,
tance from the main body. This circum he required that he should be treated
stance bcing communicated to colonel suitably to his station, according to the
Harcourt, who commanded the British practice established among polished na
light-horse, and had then made a desultory tions, till an opportunity oercd for a fair
excursion at the head of a small detach and direct exchange. To this it was an
ment, he conducted his measures with such swered, that, as Mr. Lee was a desertcr
address and activity, that Lee was carried from his majestys service, he was not
091, though several gaurded posts and arm to be considered as a prisoner of war; that
ed patroles lay in the way. Great was the he did not at all come within the condi
joy of the British, and equal the conster tions of the cartel, nor could he receive
nation of the Americans, at this unexpect-li any of its benets. This brought on a truit-
less discussion, whether general Lee, who i
ed event. The taking of a single ofcer}
prisoner, in other circumstances, would! had resigned his half-pay at the beginning
order to ensure success there, were dispos

ed, for the present, to overlook every other
.project. The getting possession of that have been a matter of little moment, but,i
city. and the junction of the two armies in the present state of the continental for-l
under generals Howe and Burgoyne, it ccs, where a general deciency of milita-i
was the congress's opinion, were the grand ry skill prevailed, and the inexperienced
objects they had in view, and for the at of the ofcers was even a greater greiv
tainment of which they would give up eve ance, the loss of a commander, whose spir- i
ry inferior consideration. Lees success in it of enterprize was directed by great knowl
the southern department had increased the edge in his profession, acquired by actual
of the troubles, could be considered as a

deserter; or whetherhe could, with jus
tice, be excluded from the general bene
ts nta cartel in which no I).\liiClli.tl' ex

ception of persons had been made. in the
mean time, general Lee was gaurtltd w; h
all the strictnt-ss which a state-criminal of
the rst magnitude could have experien- \
2092
ced in the most dangerous political con

juncture. This conduct not only suspend
ed the operation of the cartel, but induced
retaliation on the American side, and colo
ned Campbell, who had hitherto been

treated with great humanity by the people
of Boston, was now thrown into a dungeon.
Those British officers who where pri
soners in the southern colonies, though
not treated with equal rigour, Were, how
ever, abridged of their parole liberty. It

was at the same time declared, that their
future treatment should, in every degree,
be regulated by that which general Lee

experienced, and that their persons should
be answerable, in the utmost extent, for
any violence that was offered to him. Thus

matters continued till the capture of the
British army under general Burgoyne at
Saratogo, October l7, I777. A change of
conduct towards him then took place; he
was allowed his parole in New-York, lodg

ed in the same house with lieutenant colo
nel Butler, of the 38th, dined with gene
ral Robertson, commander of the vtown, and
the case was muchechangetl on his return

from captivity. He found them improved.
and daring enough to attack even the Brit
ish grenadicrs with rmness and resolu
tion. Had not this been the case, and gene
'
the battle of Monmouth, which determin
Yes, there may be redundancy of bliss,
ed his career in the American army. Be
And now I feel it.
Arms on armour clashing, brayd

Horrible discord, and the maddening wheels
0f braZen fury raged.
.
fore this affair, his character in general

In the rorning, nothing 6f~thc Spaniard
was very respectable; many of the warm was to be seen, and Florival, giving himself
friends of America highly valued the im up'for lost, was resolved to hear his fine.
portant services he had rendered to the with that fortitude which had hitherto
marked his character. He now began to
United States.
From the beginning of the contest, he had trace in his mind the scenes he should have
excited and directed the military spirit to pass through and the misfortunes he
which pervaded the continent; his conver should be forced to undergo. He saw him
sation raised an emulation among the offi self sold to the merciless Mahometans; he
cers, and he taught them to pay a proper saw them chaining him and lashing him
gress,
and
by _some
discontented oi
cers in the army, to raise Lee to the rst

command; and it hath been suggested by
many, that general Lees conduct at the
battle of Monmouth was intended to effect
this plan; for, could the odium of the de
feat have been at that time thrown on gene

ral Viashington, and his attack of the Brit
ish army made to appear rash and impru

dent, there is great reason to suppose he
would
have been deprived _of his com
mand. lt hath been observed by some wri

ters on this subject, that when general Lee
was taken prisoner, the American army
wsron no par with the Royal forces, but
that his Amelia had found
main there, for he deemed it improbable,

CHAPTER X;
0! Strange reverse of tortune.
this, his zeal was unwearied in inculca

ting- the principles of liberty among
all ranks of people; hence, it is said,
that a strong party was formed in con
parchment
and secured in the dungeon. 'This gave his

thoughts a new turn, and the story of Minda
ral Lee, when ordered to attack the rear immediately recurred to his memory.
of the royal army, seeing his men heat
Not her son? said the amiable youth,
back with disgrace, unwilling to rally, and and brought to her in so mysterious a
acting with fear and trepidation, his retreat manner? Tis very strange! Perhaps I am.
would have been necessary, his conduct the hated and dispised offspring of ilti cit
crowned with applause, and his purposes love! ha! it must be so. A noble villain was
effected; but, disappointed in this view, my father, and to conceal the shame, I was
the retreat has been imputed to himself, as to have been murdered, but that the mercy
he could not alledge the want of spirit in of a cut throat spared me and placed me
his troops for the justication of his con under the protection of the best of women.
Well, I am guiltless, and while I carry here
duct.
To be continued.
an uncorrupted heart, mothers may forsake .
~b
and cruel fathers attempt to murder, but
For the Repertory.
there is a Parent in the skies who never
abandons his creatures and who wards the
CASTLE OF ALTENHEI'M',
poniard from the innocent bosom.
.
on.
Though
this
idea
had
taken
transient
THE MYS'lERIOUS MONK.
possession of his mind, it did not long re
A Tame.
with many principal officers and families,

and a short time after was exchanged.
The rst military scene in which gene
ral Lee appeared after his liberation, was
attention to the health, cloathing, and com

fortable subsistence of their men; add to
he laid down a scroll fell from a folding in

his robe which he discovered to be the
With stripes, which Mercy with a bleeding heart,

Weeps when shesees inicted on a beast;
he beheld the cruel keeper urging him to
that were he the son of infamy, so much

mystery with regard to the inquiry concern
ing his birth, which Minda had promised
'not to make, would not have been observed.
Perhaps, said he, and there is surely
an unknown power that actuates my heart,
perhaps this scroll may tend to elucidate
the mystery; perhaps here 1 may discover
some faint traces of my birth. Lie there,
continued he, putting the parchment into
his bosom, and at a convenient season I
will peruse thee.
He then laid down again and soon fell
into a refreshing slumber.
Let us now for a short tinfc return to the

frigate and the fugitives which She had
received on board, from the piratical Turk.
Nothing could equal the grief of Amelia
on discovering that the brave and gallant
Florival was no where to be seen. In vain
greater labour than he was able to support, did Algoronza endeavour to dispel her grief,
and enforcing his commands with threaten she called on the name of the youth, and,
ings and blows. But Amelia was free, in had she not been prevented, wuuld have
rescuing her, he had become a slave and he precipitated herself into the sea.
thought he gained by the exchange. In fact
He is gone, she cried, and after have
there was nothing he would not have under ing for my sake suffered so much, he is at
gone to~have procured her liberty; it was last murdered by the fury of an enraged
for her he had felt alicted, and now he was robber!
convinced she would not have to suffer
\Ve may at least hope he lives, said
from the inhuman Turks, and most probably Algoranza, though 'lis probable he is a.
be forced into the seraglio of some unfeel prisoner. At the head of several more he
ing Moor, he felt his heart at ease, and chased the Moors on board their galley,
was prepared to encounter the greatest dif which soon after parted from the ship and
culties. He was shown into a room in the bore them from us. But moderate your
cabin which was to be his until their arri grief, madam, for if wealth can ransom him,
val in Africa, and being evercome by the brave youth shall not want a friend- that
exertion and fatigue, threw himself up can bestow it, while Alguronza is alive.
on his mattress to take a little repose. As Then suffer me to chase away these sorrows
203
5M
and that
anticipate
Remem
lber
you arehappiness
returning hereafter.
to cheer the
bosom
that were depicted in her countenance, and
tions of hope, joy, anxiety and expectation
Minda made no reply, but raised her

hands in silent devotion, and returned thanks
of an affectionate father, who bitterly mourns
forbore to interrupt her. Nothing could
to Heaven, that her dear Florival was alive,
your absence, and who will, doubtless, be
have been more tender or noble, than the
rejoiced at your return."

Ah! replied Amelia. many a pang
have the alictions which I know he has
experienced given me. He was the best
of fathers. But had Florival returned his joy
would have been greater and my happiness
have been insured for ever.
Algoronza now informed Amelia that as
the ambassador of Don Gomez. king of
attention which the count paid to Amelia.

\Vhenever night obliged them to alight.
two or three of his vassals guarded her
slumbers and prevented her safety from be
ing endangered.
It was on the evening of the fth day of
their journey. that Amelia perceived the
dear place of her nativity break upon her
and guiltlcss of the foul actions laid to his

charge.
Amelia now requested her to accompanyr
them to Altenheim, which she readily
agreed to, and seating themselves in the
carriage they were soon in sight of the tur
rets of the castle. Amelias heart beat high .
as the carriage entered the court and she
view, and the sight so overcame her with
was. Algorouza alighted and requested to
Castile, he had ordered the frigate to con
joy that she was near fainting until a ood

of tears relieved her.
be announced, which was no sooner done,
vey them into Holland, from whence they

could be conveyed immediately to Alten
heim. Amelia could not but enjoy great
satisfaction in the prospect of her return to
the embraces of Ferdinand, to relieve the
anxieties which she knew the fond father

must have experienced on her account.
But what would be his astonishment and
Dear, delightful spot, exclaimed she,
how my bosom glows at my return. Wel

come, dear place of my nativity, the rude
forests that have often lled my breast with
terror seem to smile, and your huge rocks
unbend their towering brows at my ap
proach. Welcome. home, to which the fair
rage, upon discovering to whom he owed est paradise of earth is but a cheerless
his daughter's absence and his own alic desert)
tions. Amelia shuddered while she revolv-l
A smile glistened through a tear that
ed in her mind the censequences of this trembled in her eyes. as she thus expressed
discovery. She knew her fathers ery dis her feelings; but when she drew near the
position and dreaded that he would either

take immediate vengeance upon Pandolfo.
or lay the circumstance before the empe
ror and demand satisfaction by a single en
counter with the traitorous prince; for these
'were the days of chivalry. These she equal
ly dreaded, as in either case the life of her
father was endangered.
Full of these reections, which, with her
afictions for the fate of her beloved, regret
cd, Florival, who was torn from her at the
moment when fortune seemed most inclined
to smile upon their affections, constantly
occupied her mind, the days rolled away
uncounted, and she was surprized when,
one evening, Algoronza came into the cabin
and informed her that her perils were nearly
passed, for the misty lands of Holland
a..
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. No. LXI.

Beware
cottage of Minda, her transports were un'
\Vhen I had made up my mind to devote

this paper to a series of observations on the
the door, and in a moment the latchet of value of silence, I could not help indulging
Mindas cottage was in her hand. Algoronza some concern lest my good natured readers
followed her. She entered, was clasped to should retort the charge of nnseasonable lo
the bosom of the good old woman and no quacity upon myself, who am continually dis
thing could be heard for some time but the seminating my own sentiments and caring
subs of Minds and the exclamation of Ame very little for those of other people. i was
lia of, My dear Minda, my dear Minda!" afraid lest it should put it into the head of
Algoronza could not behold this sight some witty fellow to say, that if Peter Peace
unmoved, and he dashed a tear from his able would read more and write less it might
check, as Amelia turned and introduced
grateful thanks'to Don Manuel, the com
ed she, for we have heard you were

together."
She then informed Amelia of the arrival
of Bertha at the castle and the information
she gave concerning them, together with
the effect it had had upon the count.
I am so impatient to embrace my fa
ther, my dear Minda," said Amelia. that I
was prepared and they sat out well guarded,
long lost daughter, in rapture, to his heart.

(To be continued).
bounded. She could not contain them. She

commanded the coachman to stop opposite
mander of the frigate, landed with his fair

charge and immediately began to prepare
for their departure for the castle of count
likewise rescued by the frigate, a carriage
then he was ushered into the presence of

the mourning Ferdinand. He little dreamt
that happiness was so near, but scarcely had
the count begun to develope the truth,
when the shouts of the vassals announced
it and in the next moment he enfolded his
Of whom you talk, to whom, of what, and where!
him as the count of Algoronza. The sur

prize of Minds, as it might be supposed, was
great, but how was it increased when he in~
formed her that his visit was principally to
her. She, however, forbore any inquiry on
began to rise upon their view. The day after the subject for that time, so anxious was
this, they made the port in safety, and Algo she to hear the relation of Amelia.
ronza, having returned their sincere and
But where is my Florival? demand
Ferdinand. As the train of Algoronza was
saw the servants hastening to learn who it
and attended by a guide, who promised to

conduct them by the nearest rout and to have not time now to relate the aficting
reach Altenheim in four or ve days. The and wonderful tale. But this much know,
travelling Was very unpleasant, but from that Florival is guiltless, and that he, as
the different feelings that agitated her bosom. l well as myself, owes his misfortunes and
Amelia had little time to consider the mode absence to the scheming villainy of Mon
of travelling. Algoronza perceived the emo taldo."
turn out more to his own account, and per

haps be quite as agreeable to his readers.
On further consideration, however, I came
to the resolution, if any thing of the sort

should be mentioned, to act like other au
thors, and not be offended, but continue to
talk on as if nothing had happened.

I was sitting the other evening in a select
company of men whose genius and learning
render their conversation the entertainment
and instruction of every sound mind. For my
own part, as my custom is, however impro
bable it may seem to the reader. I said little;

an engaging subject occupied the attention
of my friends, and I was contented to hear
how they would manage it. From this 1 was
led to reect on the blessing of speech. Al
though a thousand pleasures may be drawn
from the resources of amans own mind. yet
when a number of intelligences are concen
trated as it were, mutually communicating
their several powers of enjoyment in the re,
ciprocation of knowledge and fancynvhat "n
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accumulation of delight is the result. The
There is acertain teacher of youth in our

mind is never wizaried, the continual recur
city who has long been in the daily habit of
rence of new anti splendid ideas preserves it compelling his pupils to preserve a perfect
from fatigue and excites all its dormant facul silence for ten minutes at least. These pupils
ties to action. It is like travelling among the may at some future period have reason to
enchanting scenes of a country variegated thank their preceptor for the institution of
into extensh'e prospects of woods of refresh an exercise which taught them duly to appre
ing verdurc; mountains whose sublime ciate the value of the most important bles
heights awaken the most awful emotions; sing which heaven has conferred on man.
cataracts dashing with ungovernable fury

from rocky precipices, and gradually subsi
ding into a calm and peaceful lake whose pe
lucid surface reects the tremendous scene
ry elevated around it, and imparts life and
fertility to the green meadows and cultured
elds which extend before the eye, and suc
cour in their turn, the snowy ocks that graze

upon their bosom.
Speech may be considered as the via vita
without which existence would be feeble and
hardly able to support itself; but there are
advantages which result front a reasonable
restraint of it which it is the business ofthis
essay to exhibit.
From the moment whenthe infantis ush
ered into the world his mind begins to im
prove. Busily employed in beholding new
images, and familiarizing himself to his sit
uation, no sound is heard but that which in
dicates to the watchful parent his pains and

limited desires. The Author of his being has
Condemned his tongue to silence until he has
acquired a sufcient acquaintance with things
to make the mothers answer to his numer
ous questions of some importance to his mind.
The oil of instruction gradually expands the
torch of reason in his breast, till he is at
length enabled to maintain an equal rank

among his fellow men. But the human soul
knows no point of perfection, it is ever in a
state of progressive improvement, and con
sequently fresh instruction is always wanted
in every new path it attempts. The same si
lence and attention are then necessary which
rst taught it to use the organ of speech to
the purposes for which it was designed.
Some people imagine that ifa man be si
lent he acknowledges ignorance. If this re
aly be the case, is he notwise to listen to those
Who Cut) instruct him?
To indulge an unmeaning silence which
has nothing for its object but the gratica
tion of an indolent propensity, is insolent and
improper. A mans conversation is the pro
perty of the company he is in, and they have

arigliv to hear his sentiments of every pro
per topic of discourse: but when I hear a
conceited fellow launch out into the depths
ofa subject with which he is not at all ac
this consideration I shall spend a few min

utes upon the subject of friendship.
Nature has not implanted in our breasts
a sentiment which ought to be more culti
vated than this. It inspires us with the love
of society, it creates in us a desire for im
proving the taste and manners of the age,
and unites man to man by the most obliga
tory ties. All the principal qualities of the
These children of nature, the Indians,are mind are comprehended in it, for it is
remarkable for their taciturnity, always chu strongly connected with the other virtues.
sing to reect for a time upon every thing In it we see all the features which can
they say. The consequence is, that though ornament the soul, and which cherish and
an Indian may do a foolish act, by reason of improve the faculties.
It was evidently intended by the Author
his narrow conceptions of propriety, yet it is
very seldom that an Indian says a silly of our beings that this distinguishing trait.
should be cultivated and increased. Every
thing.
It is not a very wonderful fact that an one possesses it in a greater or less degree.
In some we see but little of that friendly
excessive talker always makes a great ma
ny ridiculous speeches, which, had he been disposition in comparison to what is per
more select in the choice of his observa ceived in others; this manifestly ,proceeds
tions, would never have escaped him. The from a want of its cultivation, for though
practice of monopolising discourse, is ve all have some portion of it, yet all do not
ry disgusting in conversation; every one of pay as great attention to the improving of
the company have a right to be heard, and what they already have, as what others do
every one will detest or pity the man, who who are gifted with the same share. \Vhy
by his impertinent loquacity will not per this facility is not cherished, is not to be
imputed to the proportion or extent of what
mit him to be heard. Silence, when it ap
pears free from affect-anon, sulleness. and ig nature gives them, but it is owing to a disin
norance, is a sort of ornament to speech clination to the extending of what is already
given them. This creates a disquiet in their
and like authority procures respect."
Would my inclination and paper per minds, for when they perceive that they
mit, I might here enumerate hundreds of want those social principles which exist
proverbs and wise sayings, from the wr-i between man and man, they cease improv
tings of king Solomon to these of the pre ing the means which are allotted them.
Friendship has always held a distinguish
sent time, to prove and illustrate the val
ue of silence; but I shall content myself ing rank among the other virtues, and in
deed it justly deserves it, it is undoubtedly
with proposing the following:
Let any one chuse some proper occa one of the principal traits in the human
sions for practising the art of being silent, character, and the improvement of it ren
and persevere for a reasonable length of ders a person a fit subject ofesteem. Those
time; ifa degree of benet be not found to virtues which originate in a well principled
arise from it, the gentleman or lady so heart always shine conspicuous in that man
disappointed, shall have my free permission who makes use of the opportunities offered
to chatter away his or her life if they please him for extending his friendship. His cha
afterwards.
PETER PEACEABLE. racter receives additional lustre from those
expressive marks which are observed in
his conduct.
For the Repertory.
Though friendship is an innate principle,
Mr. Editor,
yetit is greatly indebted for its promotion
The advantages which result from discus to the state of society. We clearly perceive
sing moral subjects are very numerous. it in every age of the world. \Vhen man
it ts us for entering more fully upon the began to be collected and formed into so
examination of other branches, and prepares ciety, the cultivation of friendship among
us for understanding the principles of socie one another was their rst object. As by
ty. In the age we live, this is a necessary degrees they began to increase, so did the
point for all to know, for as the arts and
sciences progress, so do the minds of the

people become more rened and improved.
guninted, I look uptin him as no better than Though many have enlarged upon these
a parrot or magpye that chatters only because subjects very often, yet still do they pre
sent more room for investigation. Under
nature has given it a tongue to do so.
progress of amity and harmony keep pace
with them. Imean not here the tumults and

broils that have harrassed the world; ter in
proportion as the world was inhabited, so
did they also increase. but what I alluded to

is that quality which from our births has w
W
ken its residence in our hearts. EH31! when
the world has been in its most convulsctl
state, and when war has spread its desolating
ravages over the face of nature, this prin
ciple has not been disregarded, but has al
ways had its followers amongst the general
ity of mankind. The reason is obvious, for
it is that which animates the soul, and in
spires it with a love for its fellow creatures.
It is that which cements and consolidates
all the different qualities in the human cha
racter, and exalts it far beyond the reach of
malice.
From our childhood we perceive friend
ship growing in our hearts; when young
we contract a fondness for some, and as we
advance in years, it is rendered more strong

and permanent. As our minds become
more invigorated and improved, we see the
essential importance of cultivating it to the
utmost extent. In all classes of people we see
the inuence which it has overthcir minds.
In the most uncivilized state of mankind,
it has never been Wanting: for in the sava
ges of the present age we behold thcm
bound as it were by it, and united into a
strong band. This clearly evinces that it is
an inherent quality, anti which time and so
ciety have improved.
From this brief view of friendship we
see what an excellent quality it is, and that
comparing it with the other cardinal vir
tues, it does not suffer by the contrast.
But conjoined with them it tends to aug
ment the benets which are derived from
a diligent improvement of them all. Upon
the whole we see no feature in the hu
man character that exalts it more than
friendship.
LUCIUS.
For the Repertory.
THE MORALIST. No. 11!.
radically changed. How frequently do we ob

serve persons, even after they have arrived at
an advanced period of life, start back on eu
tering a dark room. \Vhat is this, but the
culties of manhood. The only way to chi-ct

this, is a proper attention to their education.
three persons dressed in robes, indicative of

their oices.
Behold, said one to the other, a min
ister of the gospel, a lawyer and a soldier.
remains of those ideas, they imbibed while
" No," returned the other, a bishop, a
listening to the stories of the nurse. 'At this
judge and a general."

Mercy on me!" cried the rst, what is
my country coming to! a bishop and not a
minister of the gospel, a judge and not a
lawyer, and a general and not a soldier!"
And so," added the professor, a physi
cian and no apothecary!
season the habits are unformed, and the mind
is susceptible of any impression. As he ad

vances in years the passions become warm
and active, the youth is eager after every ob
ject which wears the appearance of novelty
or which promises pleasure. What he now
dislikes will never please him, what now
pleases him will never become an object of

aversion and detestation. Curiosity is on the
wing, and will be satised either in a proper
on an improper manner. The imagination is
lively, all nature appears decorated with How
ers and not a cloud obscures the sky. The
imagination wanders through painted vales

and visits enchanted palaces. It pictures
nothing but scenes of uninterrupted happi
ness and bliss. This is the season, in which
For the Repertory.

THE PROPITIATION.
BOOK IV.
ancuxnu'r.
The gmxy, during which Judd: and his band amm
ut the brook Cedron; They pa." it; [tearful ap
proaches the Lord, and after- tm a'ectionate ud

tlrean, gives the fatal kiss; Jeans proclaims himself;
and the soldiers are wcrconw; Peter amitcs off the
ear of Jfalcbur; Jesus heals the womul, am] rn
the vigilance of the parent ought to be exer

ted. This is the season, in which the mind
should receive the seeds of useful knowledge.
prove: Petr-1for his inlcmpera-le zeal; .pamap/m Io
Ilabits are now formed, which characterizes
On Tabor with them, in efi'ulgence bright,
Mala/tue,- The Jews bind the Saviour, bear him

away, and the book concludes.
the future man. Let these habits be formed The Saviour bought the cloud of glorious light;
The blissful wonders that surround him there,1025
in the mould ofcorrectuess and let his mind And heavenly transports, his disciples share;
be impressed with ideas of rectitudc and mo But when in deep afictions he must g'roau,
rality.
Th? bear them not, in grief he is alone;
\Vhat plan of education should be pursu \Vi tout the verge the chosen three remain,
ed we do not intend to point out. Men differ While he is covered with the cloud of pain. 1030
as much on this subject, as they do upon re There tears of anguish now began to rise,
And dim the lustre of his sacred eyes;
ligion and politics. Each man will {Allow his His naked head a burning fever bore,
favourite system. Letithowever be observed And agonizing pangs his body tore.
that every child should be educated in such

la manner, as will best prepare him for the
l station he is destined to ll. This is too
much disregarded in the present day, parti
cularly in the education ofthe female sex; but

more of this hereafter.
'
It is presumed that nothing- morev than
Time is rolling on with rapidity and ere

long it will become the duty of children to the elements of knowledge can be acquired
take the places of their parents. They, who t during the years which are generally devo
are now in the arms of the nurse, must he ted to ascholastic education. These however
the future protectors of the freedom of are to be improved by future application and
America and the supporters of her govern by unwcaried perseverance. They serve the.
ment. The present actors must shortly quit youth as guides to direct his future travels
the stage of life, and leave room for rising through the elds of science and as lights to
merit and for youthful action. it then dr show him the path which leads to ,the tent
volves upon us as a duty to prepare the minds ple'of honour, or the place of emolumeut.
of these infants, who are to be the future
men, of Columbia, for the dangers anddif
205'
a.
For the Reperiory.
O! holy Jesus, at that awful hour,
103,5
\Vben stern afiction swayd her wonton power,

What. fearful anguish rushd thy bosom o'er!
Tremendous suli"ring opend evry pore;
What sighs oppressive. issued from th'y breast,
And all the sorrows ofthy soul expresstl.
1040
'L'lieir smallest griefs our feeble minds bemoan,
And the slight mtlring calls the direful groan;
But what the grief and what th unequzrll'd pain,

Tlitit urged tli incarnate Jesus to complain;
Twas not the wo to one frail mortal given,
1045
at the worlds anguish and the wrath of Heaven.
Where was the Comforter thou diedst to send,
Wherethine eternal Father. were thy friend;

The source of comfort and unfading joy,
Around whose throne the saints, their harps employ,

When thou aione the mighty-conict stood,
1051
And from thy visage rolld cold drops of blood?

Had not thy God withdrawu awhile his face,
Griefhad-not held 'thee in her dread embrace;
To thy complainings he awhile was deaf,
1055
Nor sent his angels to impait relief;
That thou mightst pay the ransom of thine own,
A nd tread the wine press fmely and alone.
But now the fearful ght is at an end,
v That erudite and venerable professor, Dr.

_, Rush. in his introductory lecture on the 4th
Tia education, forms the common mind,
instrwhile endeavouring to impress upon'the
Just as the twig is bent the trees inclined.
To lm resolve the strongest suringa bend-1060
1 minds of the students the necessity. a pet
The ideas we receive during the rst years fect knowledge of the Materia Medica, ill 'lhe goldtn portals- of the azure sky,
No longer ban-d, now 'idt .-ssunder y;
of our lives. seldom leave us. XVr: may cot'n- lg
;troduced the following anecdote. TWO fur
\-)w the Eternal sends his Spit-i: down,
pound and abstract them, but they use not mers happened to enter a house where sat,
to strengthen and supporthis anguishd Son;
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MW
All hail! he cried, and gave the fatal kiss.

Jesus then passing to the armed band,
linthankful Malchus! will not this subdue

Thy haughty spirit, unrelenting Jew?
Meantime lscariot, thirsting for his gore,

leachd, with the Jews, smooth Cedrons winding
shore;
Who lld with terror, near lscariot stand;
0! wondrous-guilt, that thus can grow more brave,
And whom seek ye? with brow serene, he cried;

Jesus of Nazareth, the crew replied.
1140
As Heaven horn mercy seems inclined to savel1210

Untouchd his heart, he turns unto the band,
Made on the verge a momentary stand.

And thus exultingly addressd the band:
To them the Saviour, why these stares, this host,

To take one man, the trouble sure is lost?
And to secure the Saviour gives command.
Let these, my people, go, and turn to me;
And closely pinioned one on either side;
Ye seek the worlds Redeemer, I am he.

1144
They heard, and struck with terror at the sound,
Then, as they would a culprit, rudely led

1215
The sudring Lamb, while his disciples ed.
While distant choirs their loudest voices raise,
And swelling anthems speak Jehovahs praise.
1070
At length, 0' Israel, is the moment come,

That leads this curst deceiver to his doom;
1 am ordaind to save the sinking state,

And be the messenger of changeless fate.
In glorious vision did our God appear,
1075
My soul to urge and banish trembling fear;
llasten, he cried, in this propitious hour,

And blast the. wretch who dares usurp my power!
Obediem, here, with firm resolve, I stand,
Prepare, for the Redeemer is at hand:

1080
Soon shall your eyes this wondrous traitor see,
For whomsoe'er I kiss. the same is he.
He spoke, and stepd into th astonishd brook;
Wherejust before his way the Saviour took,
The stream, which softer, more pellucid ran, 1.085
Conscious who pass'd it was a more than man,

Now swelld its trembling waters in ai-ight,
While all stood wondring at the Wondrous sight;
Round Judas dashd its undulated ood,
Blushd at his guilt and crimson'd into blood ;1090

The traitor trembled, then with rising pride,
Struck his dark breast and reachd the fatal side;
.And as the seraph rose through yielding air,
Vho came to cheer the Saviour from despair;
With clattring sound, lscariot and his gang, 1095

Upon the Lords retirement ercely sprang:
The wretch, remorseless, led the madend crowd,
And low before the gracious Jesus bowd.

Detected wretch! for such a mission t,
Who to the villain joind the hypocrite;
1100
Whose daring guilt could work the'lempters will,
Vhose looks smile danger and whose kisses kill.
With look complacent, Jesus Judas eyed,
Then in mild accents to the traitor cried;
1105
Why art thou come, unhappy Judas, why,
Is it thy hands in guiltless blood to dye?
Bethink thee yet, and let thy trembling soul,
Be caught from ruin and from hells control;
Mercy can yet upon thy spirit beam,
There yet is power to bless thee and redeem; 1110

Think of the precept which I often gave,
That there is no repentance in the grave.
'l'his gracious counsel treschrous Judas hears,
And his soul labours with unusual fears;
rlhen, the dark passion rising in his breast, 1115
Speechless they fell upon the trembling ground.

So the red ruin of his darting re,
Sent from the clouds, the messenger of ire;
Strikes through its victim to the vital part,
And breaks the nervous bres of his heart! 1150
Still on the ground the wretched soldis lie,
Until the Saviour lays his Godhead by;
Meekly submitting to the glorious plan,
Which bade him suffer for degenerate man.
But brave Barjonas, lld with holy zeal, 1155
Drew from its scabbard his avenging steel;
Closely he marked oicious Malchus there,
With Judas eager all the guilt to share,
Punting to raise his sacreligious sword,
And bring destruction to his dying Lord;
1160
Around his head the glittring weapon ew,
And hurld his vengeance on th' audacious Jew.
That guilty car which oft attention paid,
Around his arms a cruel oord they tied,
For the Repertory.

THE COMET,
Addressed to all who dishelieve this planet to be

ominous; from the classical pen of Daniel Ding<
dong.
Then is dooms day near! Shakopeure.
Ye light and thoughtless of the world give ear,
Hear what I write, and reverence what ye hear.Q
From the best source my knowledge 1 write dowrtI

From the old maids and matrons of our town:
\Vho when at school, so much was force their friem},
By the sharp weapon severed from the head, 1165

A stream of blood adown the rebel shed;
Prostrate he falls, the agonizing wound
The Holy Bible read from end to end.

Again I say, ye thoughtless souls give ear,
The comets near us, " then is doomsday neari,
\Vhat though that God who bade the waves subsidt
And the vast waters of the sea divide,
'
1"ho his omnic words through chaos hurld,
And called from thence this indigested World;
Drew with th eternal compasses its bound,
And bade the oeean circle it around;
Tortured his breast, he burst a groan around;
What though that God \vhobade the ambientmal',
While Judas wrongd the master he betray'd;
Up to the Lord he cast his fading eyes,

While thus Barjonas to his victim cries:
1170
Detested wretch, now bleeding in the strife,
Behold the vengeance of the Lord of life!
His eyes the Lord on zealous Peter glanced,
And to the wounded Malchus then advanced;
Behold, 0! Peter, the revenge I crave,
1175
The only purpose of my life to save;

Had grace not caught thee from the verge of hell,
Down to perdition had thy spirit fell.
Thinkst not that if I would my oes should fall,
One look tremendous could consume them all?1180
Twas mercy saved thee from a fearful doom,
A fearful fate that slumberd in the tomb;
That bounteous mercy which thou dost receive,
To all the wretched, to the guilty give;
Assume not the prerogative of Heaven,
1185
To thee no mandate to revenge is given.
He spoke, and to the fallen bending low,
Rise oer the world and swallow it again,

After the awful judgment once was oer,
Declared by water, earth should fall no more;

Think ye our matrons lack so much of sense,
As not to know far more than Providence?
Think ye, that he who made it years ago,
,
Should more about the world than we do, knov
Fallacious thought! why Dolly Dumpling swears,

That great disorder there will be up stairs,
'
Meaning the skies; for shortly it will rain,
For forty days and forty nights again!
That then the world will be in piteous plight,

Shut in the chambers of surrounding night,
For the vast torrents that successive run
From the huge comet, shall put out the sun;
And on each star that shines be thrown a pail
Again he bowd and thus the Lord addressd:
Heal'd the deep anguish of his prostrate foe:
Behold, thou Sovereign of the earth and skies,

A tear stands trembling in my sorrowing eyes,
Because thy words a dreadful pang impart,
1120
And indicate suspicion at thy heart;
Yet a bright smile absorbs the briny dew,
Because I feel thy pond'iiings are untrue.
While round his words an awful silence spread,
Th' omniscient Saviour to lscariot said;
1125
Thus tears assists the reptile of the nile,
While the same power that would the wound a].

susge,
Ofthirty buts of water, from his tail!

Theres my aunt Grizzle, makes a dreadful rout,
Concerning a strange tale that ies about;
The other night she came, lookd wondrous wisg,
From out her spectacles for Want of eyes;
Pray Daniel. have you heard the wondrous news
Preservd his servant from the Jews dark rage,1190

Is not thy heart, 0! Malchus, now subdued?
The prophecies are all fullld, my friend,
Wilt thou not leave this sanguinary brood!

Does not thy breast a powerful motive feel,
To urge thee at the Saviours feet to kneel,
And beg his mercy pardon to bestow,
To save from min and eternal wo?
I heard our parson Magpie loud declare,

Hed seen a strange appearance in the air!
And sure tis dreadful when a parson sees
Such terrible and awful sights as these!
And thus the ruian while he stabs can smilc;

Thinkst to deceive, lknow suspicion true,
But what thou doest, Judas, quickly do.
Thus the Redeemer; and the traitor then,

Dessernbling, spoke the listning God again: 1130
This lit-art trom thee indignity can bear,
Bin let my actions what I feel declare;
Lei his eiiiliracc, let these surcharging sighs,
Conviii". ther, Rabbi, that suspicion lies;
Show me around thee poster love than this; 1135
No! what? why God has calld in all the Jews!
And soon the World will meet a dreadful end!
1195
Dost thou not see the jaws of hell expand,
Besides, if I am not mistaken. soon
And waiting ends in exultalion stand?

Dost thou not see that from this tottring brink,
Tis Christ must snatch thee or thy spirit sink11200
Therell be a conagration of the moon;

1 have observed, mark, Daniel, what 1 say,
And nd that both do go the selfsame way,
Struck with thy guilt, 0! wretched man, wilt thou,
And soon the comet must oertake the moon,
Acknowledge him thy Godl thy Saviour now!

Or wilt thou, further mischief to devise,
Because it ies as fast as aballoon;

And when oer-taken, hear it and admire!
Laugh at his goodness and his grace despise?

And does his kindness no swret powerimpart,120
To melt the inty hardness of thy heart?
'l'hat beauteous orb shall instantly take re.

Then shall we see men who inhabited there,
Wringing their hands in terrible despair!
'
20;
t
1
Q'hen shall We nd our engines useless are,
But soon each hill and rocky way,
thario would call on us, at No 64 Lombard Street;
Their pipes can't play, the hose cant reach so far!

'ihen will you see the moon men run about,
And call for buckets for to put it out.
But Daniel, be not troubled with appal,
Involved beneath the misty grey,
at any time his leisure would permit.

'
The lines found in the cabinetof sfricnd, presen-"
ted by Mercutis, are not of suicient accuracy or
interest to render their publication advisable.
To 8.1V. for his pleasing communication from
They say that ifthe comet were to fall,
It would not do much damage here below,

Twould only give one end of us a blow;
But mark me. gentle Daniel, mark, alas!
If what! say dont quickly come to pass!
My gentle aunt, these wonders being sung,
0! greater wonder! deigncd to hold her tongue,
While 1 unfolded how unwise it was,
Was hidden from the eye.

Now all was still, each beast was laid
Beneat-. the forcsts cooling shade,

And evry little bird to rest
Had itted to its downy ncst,
Bordentown, we return our thanks, and invite his

The meadows that were clothed in green,
No more in that bright garb are seen,

And all the besuteous scenes around,
\Vere hid in sable gloom profound,
The earth shall surely be dcstroyd by rain!

And well my aunt has ascei-tsind that soon
The saucy comet shall burn up the moon!
if this be true, it plainly doth appear,
To sense and sight, that doomsday must be near.
_._
'.!_
Till Luna, fairest Queen of night,
Rising in grandeur to the sight
To trace such dire effects from such a cause!

PrOOf l deduced; but it Was all in vain,
correspondence upon medical or any other scien

tic pursuits.
Danced on the silver stream,
Again the lofty hills shone bright,

Beneath the radiance of her light,
Beneath her brightest beam.
The moon with splendour sheds her rays abroad,
Majestic moving oer the grass clad vale,
Bright sparkles on the lofty pines that nod
Their spreading branches to the evening gale.
For the Repertory.
MARRIED,
By the Rev. Dr. Green, on Tuesday evening, J11.

Jlorclecai 1. Bryant, Druggist, to JiliuJlnn LJJea
can, of 'luckerton, New Jersey.
At Canton. (China) in May last, M. James .111

i Comb, of the ship Triton of New York, to the beau
' tiful Jlfm Chi Jlllangt' IIoam, youngest daughter of
Altangi Hoam, a Mandarin of immense wealth, re
siding near the English factory.
SYLVANUS.
Adieu to the nine, to their soul thrilling glow,

The stresmlet of Helicon lovely and clear;
011' may it fowvcr transparently ow,
And the heart of some worthier votary cheer.
No more shall I roam by the side of a stream,
And inspiied respond :1 wild note to the gsle;
No longer indulge in the magical dream
of the poet, nor rest in the myrtle deckd vale.
But remembrance that loves dear pursuits to retrace
When i list to the lay of some child of the nine,
And pore oer the verse to discover each grace,
ill hang on the pleasures that often were mine
And perhaps some fond youth who has heard the
rude swell,
Of my harp oer in silence it hung on the tree,

Will recall the wild notes and with friendliness tell
That its strains though uncouth, from unchsste.
ness were free.
staggered home with his master, a good deal
intoxicated. The next day he followed him

to his accustomed tavern. \Vhen the goat
For the Repertory.
made signs to him to follow him into the

house. The goat stood still. An attempt was
made to thrust him into the tavern. He re
Nature, continually forming springs of mineral

qualities, appears to have a watchful eye to the
sisted, as if struck with the recollection of health of Philadelphia and her neighbouring towns.
what he suffered from being intoxicated the l The situations in which she places them in general
night before. His master was so much af

fected by a sense of shame in observing the
conduct of his goat to be so much more
rational than his own, that he ceased from
Have the momentsl spent with the harp ed away;

But they leave not behind them a favouring star,
To shed its pale lustre to brighten the lay.
that time to drink spiritous liquors.
Of the few whom I love who will often endear

The name of the bard to their minds, and forgive
The faults of his song and his mem'ry revere.
Adieu for the nine, may their owerets eer bloom,
To entwinc'the light brow of some favrite child;
play they ever impart to the soul their perfume,

.-\'or eer be of freshness of vcrdure despoil'd.
MONTALDO.
_._
For the Repertory.
BVENlNG.
The shades of evening stretching oer the sky,

Deep paint the landscape with a dusky brown,
Soft through the trees the gentle breezes sigh,
And cast their cooling inuence all around.
The hills ware tinged with yellow hue,
As sunk the orh of light from view,
And all around the lofty trees,
That spread their branches to the breeze,
following. It was written last August but nOthaving

an opportunity of sending it at the time, it was mis
laid. You will confer a favour by publishing it.
came to the door, he paused; his master
Like the day when I followd thc Schuylkill afar,
Yet sweet is the thought, in the hearts it will live,
_._
Bordentown, Nov. Int, 1811.
A noted drunkard was once followed by
Mr. Editor,
a favourite goat to a tavern, into which he
As your interesting paper seems particularly cal
was invited by his master, and drenched ; culated for communications of a chemical or scien
with some of his liquor. The poor animal ' tic nature, I take the liberty of sending you the
far outvies those which are the productions of art.

The Yellow Springs, and Bristol Springs, are both
in beautiful situations, but are so frequently over

run with company, as not only to be disagreem
ble, but really dangerous to invalids. The spring at
Colestown in this state, (which was lately analysed
1 by Mr. James Cutbush of Philadelphia,) cannot be

Never attempt to execute any thingin pub objected to on this point, but the situation of it,
lic, unless you can perform it well in private. I think, is far from agreeable: which in my opinion
is the principal agentin all cures said to be perfor
med by mineral waters.
.
PHILADELPHIA,
Dr.
Benjamin
ltush,
in
his
remarks
on diseases of
the lungs, says, there are three obstacles to be
CORRESPONDENCE.
overcome in their cure; rst, 1 think he says, we
Our friend Edmund appears to possess no despi 1 must cure the disease, second the symptoms, and
cable talent for poetry, but his last communications l} third the predisposition. The rst and second do
are too incorrect for publication. If he will be good
enough to let us know how to direct, we shall take

great pleasure in delivering our remarks at large in
a letter.
The subject ofthe essay of Felix has been touch
ed by so much more masterly a hand, that we are
under the necessity of excluding his from our co
lumns.
We shall willingly comply with the request of
Junius.
Slionc bright beneath the settingray
The Epigrams ofL. do not possess sufcient point
The latest beam of parting day

That hovcrd round the sky:
Romeos request shall be attendul to.
We should be much gratied, if our friend Lo-_
not come under my province to mention; but the

i third, which of all, he says, is the most diicult to
cure, must be overcome by exercise of some kind,

and removal to a romantic situation, where the pa
tient may have friends about him of the most ill ely,
and entertaining sort, and where he may beisur
rounded by all the beauteous scenes of \ariegatcd
naturc-
'
The situation of the spririg (which was lately

discovered at this place) comprehends these reme
dies. The water was analysed by the (.olumbisn
thcmical Society ofyour city; owing to the distance

and the manner in which the water was sent to
208
Philadelphia, they could not give the analysis cor

rect enough for publication: they however found,it
contained a quantity of iron held in solution by
carbonic acid. This carbonic acid is the base of the
such as the Lincoln, Leicester, Dishley or Bak'cwell

HEALTH OFFICE,
and other heavy ceced sheep. Every farmershould
November 9, " 811.
lntemients in the City and Liberties ofvhiladelpliia,
make, with every ewe, a careful experiment ofget
from the 2d October to the 9th November.
ting her to the nest woollcd breeder orto tb'e hea
Diseases.
ml. ch.
Diseases.
ad. th
viest eeced breeder. If none are in his ock or
0 1 Gangrene
1 0
neighbourhood, he should take care to prefer rams Abscess
Apoph-xy
1 1 lines
2
I of the nest or the heaviest eeces he can obtain. I(Jhildbed
1 0 lllltm of stomach I 0
0 5 lnflam. of bowel!
2 0
This will produce a steady and rapid improvement l Cholera morbus
1 0 Mortication
1 O
in the quality or increase of the quantity of wool. Cholic
Consump. oflungs 8 1 Old age
2 0
No time in this country Was ever so profitable Convulsions
0 7 Scrofula
0 1
0 1 Sore throat
0 1
for breeding sheep as the present; as mills, which Diarrhea
Dropsy
1 2 Siillhorn
O 2
. turn as many as sixteecn thousand spindles for Wool Dropsy of the breast 1 0 Ulcers
1 0
are known to exist in Europe, and as we have the Dropsy in the brainO 2 Worms
0 1
Hysentery
1 0 Unknowl
2 0
mechanism here, our market for wool of everyde
articial seltzer water, used in such considerable
quantities in Philadelphia. It appears to me to have

all the properties ofa strong ehalybeate, as well as
the stimulating effect ofa large quantity of Carbo
nic acid.
The spring is not only a short, but pleasant walk
from Bordentown, a description of it and its vicini
ty may be seen in the Aurora of 24th July, signed
Saunders.
I only hope that. what I have said may be some
inducement, for those persons labouring under a
predisposition to consumption, to seek relief in
the manner I have mentioned.
scription must continue excellent. We could manu

facture, with ease, dress and colour ve times the
number of sheep skins we can procure. Our physi

Come to these groves, and these life breathing ! cians agree, that mutton is one of the wholesomest
l meats, for the well, for the sick, for the invalid and
glndcs,
Ye fricndlcss orphans, and ye dowerless maids!
for the convalescent. The service of our country,
\l'ith eager haste, your mournful mansions leave,
the care of the poor and industrious, and the best
Ye weak that tremble, and ye sick that grieve;
interests ofthe United States require us to multiply
llcre rosy health the sweets oflife will shower,
our sheep, to increase the weight of the eeces and
And new delights beguilc each varied hour.
esh, and to improve the quality of our wool by the
Sir "1 Jones.
earliest and steadicst attention and exertions. Let
S. \V.
_.
us also avoid the unnecessary slaughter of these
useful animals (even the wethers) for one or two
DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.
By several vessels which arrived yesterday from years, considering all as breeders or wool bearers.
North Carolina, we have received the distressing
news of the wreck of the schooner Hiram of Provi

denrc, on Ocrococke Bar.
The following information relative to the above

mentioned vessel and the unfortunate passengers,
we have collected from people in this city. The
schooner was chartered by a Mr. Pcrrin, of New
Haven, to carry himself and family to Wilmington,
{N- C.) There were on board more than twenty
persons, among whom were Mr. Pcrrin and family,
Mr Fraser, of Woodbury, (Conn) and several oth
ers, names not known; all of whom were supposed
to have perished. It is said several dead bodies

were driven on shore, among them were twu wo
men and a child.
[New for]: Com. lid]
-.
JllmleI 0f a new Printing PramA London pa
per says, A model for a printing press has been

prepared for the inspection of the society of arts,
which appears calculated to add much to expedition
in the impression, and greatly to diminish the manu
al labour connected with that operation. The frame
is an oblong- square, somewhat similar to those in

common use; the carriage stands in a line with the
cheeks, one of which passes through its centre, and
the ribs are segments ofcirclcs; the collin is placed
above and clOse to the carriage, and is nearly of the
same length, the same check goes likewise through
its centre. This coffin is made to admit two forms at
a time, and to move horioontally about the cheek
already mentioned, presenting at the same instant
THE INCREASE OF SHEEP AND WOOL.

The landed interest of the U. States owe to them
selves much greater attention to the breeding of
sheep and the care of the fleeces than they have
hitherto paid. It cannot be, that (treat Britain can
a form to receive the impression, and another for

the application of the ink, and the taking off and
laying on the sheet. The rolling in and out of the
.forms, which are invariably to the same point, and
the pullings are performed by circular motion, and
have had an interest in forbidding, during ve or six
may be done by any person, even by is blind man;
centuries, the exportation of sheep, and that we can

have no interest in raising or multiplying them.
indeed itscems possible for a weight to accomplish
Erysipelas
Fever
Fever, remittcnt
Fever, bilious
0
1
2
0
1
0
0
1
Fever, typhus
- 29 30
_,
Total 59
Under 1
I
Between 1 and 2
4 Between 50 and 60
7
60
70
5
2
2
5
5
It)
5
2
70
80
80
90
2
1
10
20
20
34)
30
40
90
100
8
7
100
110
U
.
40
50
3
Total 59
STATE OF THE TllERhIOMETER.
November 4
9 oclock- 12 o'clock 3 o'clock.

46
5453
46
51
52
6
7
8
9
56
52
53
61
61
60
55
67
58
57
56
69


at the oice of the
Philadelphia R e pertory.
TERMS or THE nsrsn'roav.


year. Those who do notJiotify us of their intention
parts ofonr crop as we cannot consume, and which

we therefore export. let us then raise crops and com modities we can consume and use. Wool is a SUlt'
and a good article, to be raised in much gngatcr
abundance. [pt vour farmers carefully
the

the purpose. One revolution of the wheel rolls out and become responsible for the payment, shall re
one form, rolls in mother, and pulls-it with an un- , ceive one copy gratis.
changeable accuracy; for the degree of pressure
which the form may require, and which is given to ceived at this office, and at the bookstore of Hel
lings and Aitkcn, N0. 40. North Second street.
the rst sheet will extend to every sheet in the
heap, without the smallest increase or diminution. pertory will be expected to pay the difference.
It would appear that nearly the work of two ordi
advantaged breeding, ip the lpstyeuro; trgqJrom
nary presses might be done at the same time at this
Some power in Europe constantly captures such
PHILADELPHIA ,
the ne wholled shell,- letc.XFll=\t Wuhh Men new invenoed one This ingestion: improvement is
noes. Let them also consider ,the pro England the more remarkable, as it is the work of a person
I};Lk'.9 by iii-coding from the. heavy eeced ghgepy lumopnootod with mechanical pursuits.

Marshalls alley, bC\VV[t'll Fourth and Fifth su'eea,
' near St. Marys church.
@Pifabdpjiapefrm
Cowrzn,
S\'IURI),~\Y. tJOVl'lvllilfR 23
"\ ll. ll
NHL
No. 27.
4
BIOGRAPHY.
tacking the enemy on the 28th of June,

agreeable to repeated instructions.
2dly, For misbehaviour before the enemy
THE LIFE OF GENERAL LEE.
on the same day, by making an unnecessa
(Continued)
ry,~disorderly, and shameful retreat.

3dly, For disrespect to the commander
in chief, in two letters, dated the 1st July
and 28th June.
The letter. on which the third charge is
The British army, early

the 25th of June, completed
tion of Philadelphia, having
ported their stores and most
on Thursday
their evacua
before strans
of their artil
lery into the Jerseys, where they had thrown

up some works, and several regiments were
encamped; they manned the lines the pre

ceeding night, and retreated over the com
mons, cressing at Gloucester point. A par
ty of American horse pursued them very,
close; however nothing very material hap
pencdtill the 28th, when, about three o'clock
in the morning, the British army moved on
their way to Middletown point. About ll
oclock, the American van, commanded by
general Lee, overtook them; but he soon
retreated, and was met by general Wash

ington, who formed on the rst proper piece
founded, is as follows:
Camp, English Town, lat July, 1778.
Sir,
\ From the knowledge that I have of your

excellencys character, I must conclude, that
nothing but the misinformation of some ve

ry stupid, or misrepresentation of some ve
ry wicked person, could have occasioned
your making use of such very'singular ex
pressions as you did, on my coming up to
the ground where you had taken post; they
implied, that I was guilty either of disobe
dience of orders, want of conduct, or want
of courage. Your exeellcncy will, therefore,

of ground near Monmouth court-house. innitely oblige me, by letting me know, on
\Vhile this was doing, two pieces of cannon, which of these three articles you ground
supported by colonel Livingston and colo your charge, that I may prepare for my jus
nel Stewart, with a picked corps of 300 men, tication, which, I have the happiness to be
kept oh" the main body of the English, and condent, I can do, to the army, to the con
made a great slaughter. Very severe skir gress, to America, and to the world in gene
mishing ensued, and the American army ad ral. Your excellency must give me leave to
vancing, the British made their last e'orts observe, that neither yourself, nor those
upon a small body of Pennsylvania troops about your person, could, from your situa
at and about Mr. Tennants house; they tion, be, in the least, judges of the merits
then gave way, leaving the eld covered or demerits of our manteuvres; and, to speak
with dead and wounded. General hVashing with a becoming pride, I can assert, that to
tons troops pursued for about a mile, when, these manteuvrcs the success of the day
night coming; on, and the men exceedingly was entirelyjowing. I can boldly say, that,
fatigued with marching and the hot weather, 1 had we remained on the rst groundor,
they halted about half a mile beyond the had we advancedor, had the retreat been
ground of the principal action. The British conducted in a manner different from what
pretensions to the regard of every servant

of his country; and I think, sir, I have a
right to demand some reparation forthe injury

committed; and, unless I can obtain it, I
must, in justice to myself, when the cam
paign is closed, which I believe will close
the war, retire from a service, at the head
of which is placed a man capable of offering

such injuries;but, at the same time, in
justice to you,I must repeat, that I, from my

soul, believe, that it was not a motion of
your own breast, but instigated by some of

those dirty earwigs, who will forever insinu
ate themselves near persons in high oicc;
f0r I am really assured, that when general
\Vashington acts from himself, no man in
his army will have reason to complain of in
justice and indecorum.
I am, sir, and I hope ever shall have rea
son to Continue,
Yours, Ste.
CHARLES LEE.
His excellency, general Washington.
Head Quarters, English Town,
28th June, 1778.
Sir,
I received your letter, dated, through
mistake, the 1st ofJuly, expressed, as 1 con

ceive, in terms highly improper. I am not
conscious of having made use ofany very
singular expressions at the time of my meet
ing you, as you intimate. \Vhat I recollect
to have said, was dictated by duty, and
warranted by the occasion. As soon as cir
cumstances will admit, you shall have an
opportunity either ofjustifying yourselfto the
army, to congress, to America, and t0 the
world in general, or of convincing them

that you are guilty of a breach of orders,
and of misbehaviour before the enemy on the
28th instant, in not attacking them as you
took a strong post in their front, secured it was, this whole army, and the enterests had been directed, and in making an unne
on both anks by morasses and thick woods, of America, would have risked being sacri cessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
where they remained until about l2 at night, ced. I ever had, and, I hope, ever shall
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
and then retreated. In consequence of this have, the greatest respect and veneration
action, general Lee was put under arrest,
and tried by a court martial at Brunswick,
the 4th July following. The charges exhib
ited against him were,
ist, For disobedience of orders in not at
The court met, by several adjournments,

till the l2th of August, when they found
but, in this instance, I must pronounce, that the unfortunate general guilty of he seve
he has been guilty of an act of cruel injus ral charges brought against him, and sen
tice towards a man who had certainly some tenced-him to be suspended from any coma
for general Washingtion; I think him en

l ducd
with many great and good qualities;
mission in the armies of the United States

of North America. for the term of twelve
months. But it was usual, in America, and
one of the generals favourites; he had ta
sympathy for the sufferings ofa fellow crea

ture, shines with greater splendour than
the gems which illuminate the caverns oi
MarylandHere we must observe, that,
prior to this, Mr. Drayton was by no means
thou ht necessary, that the set-tcnce ofevelty
ken some unnecessary liberties with his
Golconda.
court martial should be ratied or conrm
character, in a charge which he delivered,
ed by congress; the proceedings, therefore,
as chief justice, to a grand jury in Charles

ton, South Carolina. His temper, thus exas
perated, he could no longer refrain from
emphatically expressing his sense of the
injuries he had received from Mr. Drayton.
These were delivered, intermixed with
threatening language, to Mr. Hutson, his
No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,

No gt-m that, twinkling, hangs from heautys eat-o,
of the court, were accordingly transmitted '0

them, and the genetml repaired to Philadel
phia to await their decision. During his stay
there on this business, he was involved in
several disputes; and, though this affair
might be considered, as yet, sub judice, yet
the conversation of the city was rather against

him. which induced him to publish, as it
were, a second defence.
It was a considerable time before con
gress took the general's trial under their
consideration, during which our unfortu
nate hero continued smarting under the
frowns of fortune; and the malignant tongues
colleague and friend, who communicated it.

A correspondence ensued, remarkable for its
poignancy of reply.
This correspondence, which produced no
thing but inkshed, being nished, the gene
ral retired to his plantation in Berkley coun
ty, Virginia. where, still irritated with the
scurrilous attacks he had met with from
of men; and, to add to his sufferings, in this several writers, and others, in Philadelphia,
state of suspense, he received a letter from he could not forbear giving vent to the bit
colonel L.ovrens, one of general Washing terness of his feelings, and, in this misan
tons aids, informing him, that in con
thropic disptmition. componed a set of Que
tempt of decency and truth, he had public ries. which he Styled Political and Military.
ly abused general Washington, in the gros These ht' sent. by one of his aids, to the
scst terms;" that the relation in which he printers of Philadelphia, for publication; but
stood to him, forbade him to pass such con they thought it imprudent to admit them
duct unnoticed; he therefore demanded the into their papers, as general Washington
satisfaction he was entitled to, and desired, possessed the hearts and admiration of eve
that as soon as general Lee should think ry one; he, therefore, applied to the editor
himself at liberty, he would appoint time ofthe Maryland Journal, at Baltimore, who
and place, and name his weapons." With indulged him with their insertion. The Que
out hesitation, this was accepted, and he ries no sooner made their appearance, but
made choice of a brace of pistols, declining
a considerable disturbance took place among
the small sword, because he was rather in the citizens

a weak state of body, having lately received called upon
a fall from a horse, and also taken a qpanti give up his
ty of medicine, to bathe a fit of the gout,
which he apprehended. They met, accord
ing to appointment, and discharged their
pistols, when general Lee received a slight
of Baltimore; the printer was

for the author; and obliged to
name.
(To be concluded in our next)
For the Repertory.
wound in his side; and it has been said,
on
that. on this occasion, he displayed the great
est fortitude and courage.
Shortly after, the proceedings of the court
martial, on his trial, came under considera
tion in congress, and produced debates for

several evenings; but, nally, the sentence
Was conrmed. The general was much dis

satised with it, and his mind extremely
embittered against one of the members
(Mr; Henry Drayton, of South Carolina).
This gentleman's conduct was vitupcrated
by Lee in the severest language, because
he opposed in congress a division of the se
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks,
For others woes, down virtues manly cheeks."
The torrent of feeling having now,
A "race.
CHAPTER XI.
The sWord ofjustice is within my grasp,

It trembled o'er his head, shall fall and crush him
Juan.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange and unnatural:
Shakapeare.
It would be in vain for us to attempt a

description of the feelings of Altenheim or
thus unexpectedly having his daughter, his
beloved, lamented daughter, restored to his
it!
some measure, subsided, Altenheim wal
in a situation to listen to the story of his

daughters misfortunes. If he was astonish
ed at the return of Atnclia, our readers will
doubtless believe that he was no less so,
on nding how much he had wronged Flo

rival, ahd to what an extent the villainy of
Montaldo had been carried.

Noble, generous youth, cried be, when
Aviielia concluded, how have I wrong
ed you: but I hope I shall yet live to make

you reparation. No exertion shall be spared
to procure your liberation. and he who has
so nobly protected Amelia shall then have a

better title to protect her.
-'* As to the liberation of that noble youth,
my lord." said Algoronza, I take that upon
myself; but if my observation has not dectiv
ed me, you alone have it in your power to
reward him as he deserves.
Amelia understood the count and blushed,
then turning to her father requested to

know if Pandolfo had been at Altenheim
since her absence. Altenheim informed her
of the circumstances that had taken place,
and declared his determination of bringing

Montaldo to an early and a dear account for
Itis attempt upon the honour of his house.
This was what Amelia dreaded, and she
used all her eloquence, as did Algoronza,
:o persuade him to forego his determina
ion, but in vain. They then endeavoured to
obtain a promise that he would refer the
case to the emperor, which
arms. Again and again be pressed her to

gued and insisted upon lumping them all his heart and again the tears chased each
together, to be decided' by one question. other down his cheeks. He did not blush for
In this he was ingeniously and warmly op. them, his noble heart was affected with those
Slti by a very amiable and worthy gentle feelings which tnnoblt- nature. and the tear
man, Mr. William Pace, a late governor of of honest joy, or the genial dew that falls in
YCIui charges brought against him, but ar
Nor the bright stars which nights blue arch adorn,

Nor rising sun: that gild the vernal morn,
he refused
'nost strenuously, urging the stain it would

be upon the honour of his house, ifhe refer
red a decision of this nature to the supreme
.uthority.
But, my lord, said he to Algoronza,
I pray you to satisfy my curiosity. I have
before known much of a count of Algoron
2a. suffer me then to inquire from you, if
you are descended from the same person."
From what I have heard, my lord, re
plied Algoronza, from Florival, I am the
ueir of that unfortunate nobleman to whom

you refer.
The count then informed Altenheim of

the circumstances that had transpired in
Spain and of his intentions in coming into
he north. Altenheims joy on hearing of
the good fortune of Minda was almost equal
\
21 1
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to what he experienced Al the runrn of ms

dauxhter. Minda felt little elevated at the
bright prospects before her, since Florival
was not in a situation to share them with
her. She however thought it her duty to ac
cept them, and now informed Altenheim of
the mystery which enveloped the birth of
icillCd. For some time did the thoughts ot

Florival keep sleep from the eyes of Amelia,
but at length, her feelings gave way to wea
riness and she sunk into profound sleep.
Once more let us return to the manci~
pated Florival, and pursue his fortune for
her charge.
amid the tumult of the battle, the momen
He is not the offspring of Malventi.

cried Altenheim. I am happy. indeed, II'
that. for, pardon me count, and you, my dear
Minda, whom I am happy to be the rst it.
styling the marchioness of Malventi, but I
should not like to unite my daughter to the
son of a man who died in putting the laws
of his country to open deance."
After conversing for some time on the
various circumstances that had occurred
and the unfortunate situation of Florival.
tous scroll which had been discovered near

the skeleton of old Pandolfo had been pre
served. They had now sailed for several
concerning whom Altenheim cottld not nd

terms to express his encomiums, it was
agreed that Algoronza should take upon

himself to procure his emancipation at any
ransom, and that he should proceed to effect
it as soon as the business of his sovereign

was dismissed.
Which in brief," said Algoronza, is
this. That Malventi, or in case of his death
or disappearance, his heir should, if discov

ered, be conducted to Spain, to be restored
to the estates and honours of the injured

marquis, and receive that respect and con
sideration at court, which his rank and the
merits of his house had received until the
unfortunate circumstance that led to his out
lawry. My king is extremely sorry for, and
sincerely repents the share he had in the
persecution of Malventi. and is anxious for
~nothing so much as to show this sorrow and
repentance to the injured._"
Altenheim now requested Algoronza to
awhile. W'e left him just discovering that,
successive days without meeting a single
vessel of any description and Aleutrzor de

clared his expectations of reaching Africa
in safety. It was one night when the Moors
MEMOIR UP THE UNHAIPYEND OF DARIN

HA UL'I, PRINCE PANDOLFO.
Conned in the loathsome dungeons of

one of my own castles, I have no instru
ment to pen my history with but a small
stick, nor ink to stain this parchment with
an account of the most horrid murder that
ever disgraced humanity, except the blood
which I have let ow from my arm. Let not
the reader, therefore, start at its crimson
thus:
It was wonderful indeed, that a mere

infant should plant revenge so deeply in the
heart as to lead the possessor to effect his
life, but the appearance of Montaldo justi
ed his protestations. Ah! had I then discor
ered the secret \"iprr that was pouring his
attering poison into my car while plotting
the downfal of my house, I had been com
paratively happy and not now the unbefriend
ed victim-to itnzratitude and blood.
No one but a father can conjecture my
new son, after some time, the aiictive re
membrance of past deeds subsided and I

began again to enjoy content.
A year has now past, since Huberto, a
faithful servant who had been years in my
tmily, requested a private audience and
then informed me that Montaldo, my adopt
ed son, he who owed to me his life and ex
altation, to whom I had given my heart,
the earnest of my honours, had endeavour
~ppearance nor murmur against the dead if ed to engage him in an attempt to murder
it should be scarcely intelligible. Should my me! Would I had listened to him, I had
murderers be the rst to enter my dungeon,
then been secure; but I disbelieved him, not
dhhtless, this scroll will be consignedtg

oblivion, but should, fortunately, a frie
innocence discover it, let it be perused and
ingratitude, and am now the victim of my
conveyed to Ferdinand, Count Altenheim,

who will revenge the dead and bring upon
the ungrateful Montaldo the reward he
ders for the preparation of a chamber for
merits.
That a stranger may know by what tics

Montaldo should have been bound to me.
let me relate the circumstance which placed
him under my protection."
Here foll0wed the discovery of Montaldo
in the wood and his reception with the
prince, together with the account of the
murder of the son of Pandolfo, which, as the
her. After Amelia had reached her room, reader has already heard them from count
his guest, as well as lodging for his train.
Once more the fond father pressed his re

covered daughter to his bosom, imprinted a
kiss upon her cheek, and bidding her good
night retired with the count.
Amelia was now conducted to her cham
ber by Editha, followed by Minda, whom
Amelia insisted should pass the night with
Altcnhcim, it willbe unnecessary to relate
missed until the maid had l'cl tted every cir here. Floriral paused after he had read thus
cumstance over again, to sastisfy her insatia far, and seemed immersed in deep thought.
ble curiosity. During the recital Editha ex Could it be possible that he was that son,
pressed her feelings by her gestures and perhaps tniracphutsly preserved, although
expressions, not forgetting to pass some believed to be dead. He seemed elevated
pretty severe remarks upon Pandolfo. She at the idea, and he already meditated an
was at last satised and recommending awful retribution for Montuldo, for he imme
Amelia to tht' ptotrction of St. Lucia, sne diately conjectured that he was the murder
left the chamber. The maid and Minda now
discovery of his birth. The scroll proceeded
had set their Watch and all except those feelings at this awful moment, nor any one
who were to conduct the cot stir until morn but a father conceive the paternal love I was
ing, had retired. that Florival, having pro continually exemplifying for Montaldo. My
cured permission to remain tip, for the boy was lost, I had no issue and Mmtlnido
purpose of perusing the roll which was in once more became my heir. Nothing could
his possession, took a light and seating him equal the grateful kindnesses, which the
selfin the c.tbin, opened the parchment and adopted DArinhault lavished upon me, and
pleased with the supposed virtues of my
read as follows:
consider the castle as his own, and gave 0"
the talkative old governess could not be dis
ed the manuscript more attentively, anxious

ly expecting some clue to guide him in the
er. But, alas! he was slave. He now perus
thinking Montaldo capable of such black

incredulity.
0! dark ingratilude, how every nobler
feeling is absorbed by thy infernal agency!
Like the dews of the morning evaporating
before the fervour of the sun, dost thou
suck the heaven born virtues that should
surround the heart! All other crimes are light
to thee, hydra of guilt, for thou art the fa
ther of all crimes that exist upon the earth."

(To be continued)
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_ THE CABINET. No. LXII.

Si tel est le dentin des hommes,
Quun instant pent les voit nir:
Vivons pour linstaut ou nous sommel,
Et non pour l'imtant a venir.

J- I}. Romsemr.
Although I profess to be dCCidtdh art-rs:

to such apologies for licentiousness and vice,
.tnd heartily despise the drttnkard when I
hear him, glass in hand, roaring out with I'
careless Horace, dum vivi'nus. viv
"f:
'
'
yet between the extremes of mtzmp", ,,r
212
M
gaiety and sullen despondencc, we will nd a
an attainment, and the nerves of present so
medium which should be ever observed,and
tisfaction are unstrung; and the heart of hap
which will always secure to us tranquillity

of expectation, and rationality of enjoyment.
This medium may with unquestionable pro
priety be denominated contentment, and will
universally be found elevated above the apa
thy ofa negative pleasure. It is the absolute
duty of all to endeavour to attain it, for it
gives a tone of harmony to the passions, and
teaches man the happiness of that state against
which he is too apt to rail. It teaches him to
estimate the blessings he has received from
Heaven, and at the same time that it convin
ces him of the folly of reaching at things

which he cannot attain, it teaches him to rest
satised with those that he can.
Our existence here is of short duration,
and notwithstanding the calumnies cast upon
this life by hankering bigots and the imps
of dissatisfaction, it has pleased that Being
who is all benecence to scatter among us
the seeds of a happiness which might arrive
at much greater perfection than it does, but
that we are for the most part too dilatory and
feeble in temper to rear it. Nor is there in
my mind the least shadow of doubt that the
man who sits in stupefaction and broods up
on his sorrows, placing them with undiges
ted reproaches to the account of Heaven, is
little less culpable than he to whom noth
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\Ve have nothing in our hearts that is

piness beats not; and the pulse of pleasure more capable of exciting us to pursue the
hints; all chilled by the icy breathings of paths of virtue than real ambition, which
despair. On the other hand, those that are produces in us an emulation to exceed our
wealthy too generally draw in the infection equals in every respect. It inspires us with
of avarice, and the poor and the deserving the hopes of obtaining the rewards of the
bless not their slumbers. Unsatised as well indefatigable industry we show in the pro
as the humble, they look forward to poverty secution of our objects, and impels us to
and shrink at its supposed or at its dreaded the execution of other things which are
approach. \Vhat though the vision he unreal more important. It causes us to tread surely
they conceive it to he truly as it appears and and cautiously in the steps we take in our
feel a corresponding misery; for fancy is the progress to obtain the summit ofour wishes.
giant that territies, and fancy is the fairy that
Ambition is the peculiar characteristic of
soothes.
man. In his younger years it is seen begin
They that experience the most perfect ning to use that inuence over him which
happiness are those who are fully aware of oftcrwards shines in its most conspicuous
the instability of all earthly possessions, but dress. In the course of his studies it excites
who looking at those beneath and these
above them, sigh as the more unfortunate
him to
transcend his associates, and by
frequent cultivation, enables him to carry
but smile as the more wealthy pass them; j off the palm of victory. As he progresses
who heave the sigh of undissembling sor , in years, it expands and takes full possession
row for the victims of distress. and beam not .! of his heart. It summons him to undertake
the smile of expectant sycophancy, fawning more arduous duties, and like a torrent car
for favours, but the smile of satisfaction at ries him on to the complete execution of
seeing others happy; those who are not vjthem all. If he generally succeeds in his
troubled by distant prospects, nor alarmed jundertakings, his ambition also increases,
by imperfect visions, but who live for the l and as he proceeds in his course he aspires
enjoyment of the present moment, and not to higher objects.
for that which is to come.
But ambition after a real and solid glory
Anticipation is a monster whose appear is not found in all; but instead of that we
ance is seldom supportable, but often horri

ing Was delightful but unwarrantable grati
cation. He that passes the present hour in lie; for when it is in its mildt-st mood the
lethargic carelessness of what is to come, is overstrained imagination is unable to with
undoubtedly an object of pity; but far more stand it, and when it lends its features the
to he pitied is that man who has it in his pow grin of destruction thought is annihilated,
and hre zy eroverns.
man who
ls it not
being
thensufciently
very
er to enjoy the present with innocent delight. mini
yet is continually looking forward to mo
ments that may arrive by which his pros gifted by fortune to live in the indulgence of
pects will be blasted, and his comforts over every correct and rational propensity, should
thrown. Competency is all that is requisite embitter the present by reections of future
to insure happiness to the properly consider miseries or longing after future delights
ate mind; and I know not that l ltazmd any which are alike improbable and alike beyond
thing in advancing, that in this land of li
his fear and his expectation. We may take
this for granted; our happiness here de
berty and of plenty, a competency is attain
pends in a great measure upon ourselves:
able by all.
How many are there among us who being each of us possess the means of procuring
. selves destroyed. All their labour and exer

tions were useles, for blinded by mad ambi
now comfortable, look forward to the hour
it in a very considerable degree, if we will
ed in the heatts of virtuous men. \Ve observe
when they will be rich! how many entiting, in

toxicating follies dance before us, illumina
ted by the giddy eye of fancy! how many
things which we have long and longing
viewed at a distance, are approximated by
her magic! how many akeingr desires, ake
no longer! how are our bad qualities cast in
the shade, and how do our good ones blaze
upon and delight our own self aggrandizing
but exercise the necessary labour, without i it inciting them to emulate others in virtuous
which we have neither a right to expect it, : deeds, but not so as to engender or foment
nor to reproach Otnnipotence lornotyielding :disputes. Sure ambition was not intended
itto us in superior portions, than those which ;I that
for all
suchshould
purposes,
was intended
strive but
to beit superior
in vir
we merit, and those which we possess. If
there be many blessings not within our ICnCh l;X. we
honesty. God would not create in
us a and
principle
that should be the means of
see them seeking after the empty pageantry
of the world. We see them strainingr every

nerve and useing their utmost to obtain the
full possession of their wishes. We behold
them as the most conspicuous actors in the
occurrences of the world, and sometimes
we observe their hopes blasted and them
tion the destruction that awaited them was

not seen. But the ardour ofsuccess and the
kexpectations of victory hurried them on un
til they were stopped in their wild career.
But true ambition does not meet with the
same fate; for instead ofits destruction, we see
it in its full vigour, and behold it strongly x
there are also many that are, and to conclude
With the elegant words of the persecuted .l breaking down the barriers of friendship,
but manitestly for the purpose of beneting
author of my motto,
'
mankind. lfit was not designed for that, why
natui e! in anioment we clothe the naked; we
" Ne laissons point enavodr
was it implanted in us? Surely one sentiment
shl'tun the wandering; we feed the poorr we
Des Litns mis en notre puissancc;
Et qut- tuuemc denjouir
wasnot formed for the design of counteract
pll-tt'Cl the friendless; we assist the need),
Netou'e point lCllI jonissance."
ing another, nor to hinder the et-ct which
we comfort the broken hearted! The mind
would result from aright cultivation one of
reels under the contemplation of so glorious
GREGORY GRAVITY.
PHWLADELPHIA REPERTORY.
by a contrary agency of the other. The na
ture of the principle clearly convinces us to
the contrary. and from this we perceive that
it was instilled in us for the express intent
of our pursuing the dictates of virtue.
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tended to and its importance more duly ap
THE MORALIST. N0. IV.
preciated, less time would be devoted to the
Woman, lovely woman, nature formd thee

To temper man; we had been brutes without thee
Ohoay.
Though a thirst after the attainment of
a real and permanent glory ought to be en

couraged, yet we often see it perverted, and
directed to objects which serve rather to

depress than stimulate it. In the heroes who
have sprung up in all ages. their predomi
nant passion has been ambition, but it was not
guided by correct motives, nor distinguished
by right purposes. That thirst after power
which they encouraged to the utmoat degree.
The female sex in every age and in every

country have had a surprising inttence over
the actions and conduct of man. This inu
once has been greater or less in proportion
to the progress of civilization. \Vomen were

not treated with so much respect, nor was
their inuence so great, during the rst ages
after the ood, as since the reformation. As
the arts and sciences progress and as general

knowledge becomes more extensive, the
manners of a nation improve; and as their
manners improve thetreatment of the female
was the means ofimpoverishing their country,
and of aggrandizing themselves. It was that

which entailed on it innumerable calamities
for which it was not prepared,and it was their
pursuing after an increase of their own
power and authority, that brought it to the
IOWt-st ebb ofdisgrace.
In every age of the world we have seen
instances of this kind, and generally they
have been the victims of their own folly. It
was Alexander who aspired after the sore.
reignty of the world, and who we believe at
tained nearer the summit of his ambition
sex becomes more tender and respectful.
Among the rude nations of antiquity where

the sun of science never shed its cheering
beams, and where the black clouds of igno
rance and prejudice obscured the understand
ing, female inuence. though not ine'ec
than any other mortal, who died at an early
age, and through frequent excesses. It Was

Caesar who ran one continued career of vic
tories and of honours, who atoned with his

life for the destruction of his fellow citizens.
There was Pompey who was ranked among
the most successful heroes of his age, who
shared the fate of his compeer. Anthony,

who to gratify his insatiable ambition delu
ged the Roman empire with blood, in the
civil War between him and Augustus, tvas
the destroyer of himself. Nearly all those

who shone the most conspicuous in the
pursuit of their darling object, cxpiated with
their lives, for the wanton miseries they htid
occasioned.
Thus we observe that those who aspire
after individual power never attain it to the
utmost, but generally close their career in
the pursuit of it. As their ambition would
never be gratied in this life, and to increase

it as much as they could, would be their
sole aim, they are often cut off amidsttneir
excesses, and an end is put to'tlieir destruc

tivt schemes. ,We may suppose that this
will always be the case hereafter, for it evi
Bred only, and completed to the taste

Of lustful nppetence, to sing,to dance,
To dress, and troul the tongue, and roll the eye."
Let us not be understood, that we dissa
prove of a suitable attention to personal ac~

complishments, or on the other hand, are de
sirous of rendering the ladies deeply learn

ed. No; we consider the latter as improper
as the former. Such a general tincture of
the most useful sciences as may serve to
BOOK v.
strate that female influence is great, and that
ARGUHBNT.
it becomes more exttnsive as renement
Iutrorluctz'on; The Sau'our t'; home to the bail Qfu
increases and as knowledge is diffused.v
nar; Description of !712 palace,- Cunlraa: between
Female influcnCe will prove'benecial or
injurious to society in proportion as female

education is cultivated or neglected. The
toilet and less would be wasted in the ball

room. A proper attention to dress is highly
commendable and the acquisition of ease and
gracefulness is essentially necessary; but
when they are carried to excess, they termi
nate in the annihilation of knowledge and
worth. It would appear front the ritanner in
which some of our young ladies are instruc
ted, that they were desti1ute of all tnind and
free the mind from vulgar prejudices and.

give it a relish for the rational exercise of
its powers, might very justly enter into a
tual, was however conned within narrow li
mits. This was not the case among nations = plan of female erudition. The sex might be
where civilization and knowledge had made taught to turn the course of their reections
some advancement. The Egyptians, even as into a- proper and advantageous channel,
early as the days of Jacob, treated their without any danger of rendering them too
wives with tenderness and respect. The wo elevated for the feminine duties of life. In
men were absolute in their houses and had aword, they ought to be considered as de
a surprising inuence over the minds oftheir signed by Providence for use as well as show
husbands. They were frequently consulted and trained _up, not only as women, but as
in matters of importance. Any violence or rational creatures."
insul. offered to their property or their per
' From the circumstance, that proper atten
sons was severely reprimanded. This fact is tion is not paid to the intellectual part offe
well established by the history of Joseph and male education, has arisen the absurd notion,
Potaphers wife; the circumstances of which that their powers of mind are not compara
are so well understood, that it is unnecessa ble with those of man. If nature has marked
ry to descend to particulars. To what could any difference between the capacities of
this be owing? \Ve answer,to>the great ad males and females this dierence is not as
vancement of the arts and sciences among great as the vanity ofthe former is willing
this people. History informs us, that the to imagine. It is not to be expected, that the
Egyptians werethe nurses of every useful sexes should resemble each other in this
art and their metropolis the cradle itself of grand particular, when their system of edu
learning. [it their intercourse with one ano cation is so widely different.
ther they, nianifcsted'much politeness and
o
good manners.- But we need not consult the
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pagesof ancient history for proofs of our po
THE PROPITIATION.
sition; daily' observations sufficiently demon
dently 'does not appear intended that ambi

tion which is directed to false objects, education of the daughters of America be?
should ever preponderate over virtue and comes then'an object of muchiniportance.
integrity.
SEMPRUNlQ-S.
They are destined to nourish and instruct the
i
213
futureheroes and statesmen of our country.
Vanityis a passion that Moses our jutlg-iv tofqrtpt their young minds by their precept- ,
time and the days qfJartm; T/tefuriesJnrtl of

_
trualhtg the Jews, accompany Jesus to the hall,
' Jlfeumvlu'le Judas wanders from the pit/ace,llcll

with terror; 17h soliloquy; Determines to destroy
himselfin Jon/rm,- Jl'leem with the decrepit] wretch

who seduced him and upbraida biav cr-uelty; l'he
jieml asst/Inca 1w nativefarm; Dismay qflircnrief,

Jllnmnwn addresses him.
Come, tragic muse, and breathe a solemn strain,
Let pain and aliyttisll mingle with ill} train;
ment, and makes us both unsafe and'ridicu-. andrto conr - thost .|)l\ et-pts bytheir w;
lous.
> ".
l eiampl'tt. Was'this fact more generally at Comefiit'the sable garb of griet array'd
PHILADELPHIA R EPRRTOR Y
214
PM
While awe and wonder all my breast pervade.

'lo mournful numbers touch the trembling cord, 5
While lrecount the sorrows of my Lord;
My bounteous Saviour and the worlds great friend,
Who loves till een eternity shall end,
Who ings the whirlwind. guides the ying spheres,
"ho forms the seasons and who rules the years-.10
Yet, who submitted life itself to give,
Embraced the cross that rebel man might live!
And there more glorious is the Saviour known,
Than the proud monarch on his dazzling throne.
No pompous rcvt-lry, imperial state,

The glittring pageants of the vicious great,
Their halls disgured, or their tables erst,
With fruits luxuriant, and pernicious curst.
But as time ew rebellious earth forgot
75
The pristine purpose of her happy lot;

Pride and \mbition, as his moments ran,
8t)
.Not the magnicence of countless stars,
When, as he passed, upon a moss clad stone,

He saw his foul hetrayer there alone,
Increasing fury lls his labring breast,
Left-by his friends, encircled by the bands
And thus his poignant feelings he expressd: 160
OfhOstile foes, that wait till tyrant power
Command destruction, name the deathful hour! 90 Detcstcd wretch, who hast destroyed my hope,
The soul's salvation an eternal prop;
No murmurs from the Saviours bosom break,
Give back my virtue, give me. back my truth,
No coward terrors all his spirit shake:
In all the native glory of their youth,
Silent he stands, acquainted with the doom
'l'hat soon must lead himv to the. silent tomb! Or by the anguish of my baleful doom,
165
'lhe ends tot fearful to forsake the Jews,
95 By all the terrors of the secret tomb,
Lest frowning justice should his power infuse
My bursting rage a dire revenge shall shed,
\Vithin those souls that, unresisting, fell
And hurl perdition on thy treachrous head! '
A dreadful prey to stratagems ofhell!
Could not my bodys ruin hate control,
Still when they met, unseen ofall, but him
But must your wrong he levelld at my soul! 179
Whose eye the mists of darkness cannot dim . 100 is Judas spoke the gloomy end arose,
The humble Saviour; in the hall appeared,
The triumph of his efforts to disclose,
And as they sat the guilty bosoms cheered.
Destroying venom issued from his breast,
Meanwhile Iscariot mournd the blood he spilt,
And meagre Mammon stood at once confest!
Wandring distracted with his load of guilt;
lscariot ceases, round his eyeballs roll,
175
Upbraiding conscience ll'd his soul with (IR-dug And horrid wonder wrappd his startled soul;
And kmwins anguish thI'Ough his bosom spread;
His eye emits an inexpressive glare,
Deep in his heart remains the labring sigh,
And every look bespeaks his deep despair;
And "Will"- ftenzy glares from either eye;
A trembling horror shakes his tortured frame,
In every form the end of hell he sees,
As thus he hears th uxulting end exclaim: 180
On every wind that utters in the trees,
110 Perdition sieze thee, 0! unthinking fool,
of me the victim and of hell the tool;
He seems the cries of black revenge to hear,
Yet wherefore charge thy ruin, wretch, on me,
And his own footsteps ll his soul with 'fear!
The fatal cause. lscariot, lies with thee'
lle smites his breast and tears his naked hair,
Twas thy own guilt that urged thee to betray-,IIS
In all the fur y of enraged despair!
'
Calld on the ends to hear his tortured soul, 115 And I but led thee to he dangrous way.
As heavens forbearance oft has been abused,
To yawning gulfs, where burning billows roll!
So hell itself may falsely be accused.
Yet no, cried he, not those my soul requires,
The guilty slave who revels to the last,
Ye ends of hell, superuous are your res!
Nor knows repentance till all hope has passd, 190
More horrid pangs now rack my torturd frame,
To mitigate his fate and hide his sliam.~,
Superior anguish, that would quench their ame;
They cannot burn with such terric ire,
121 .Vlaltcs guiltless Satan sharer in the blame:
Barters his hopes for sordid trash away,
Astyrant conscience with her inward re!
Then swears that Mammonlured his soul astray.
Hell s but a meteor lambent on the wind,
O, specious pretext! O, delusive scheme,
195
To the terric burnings of my mind;
Where the hot eaks that eer from Etna fcll, 125 False as the airy image ofa dream!
0, lost Iscariot, Hell perceived thy soul
.Ioind to the lava of your hottest hell,
Bent beneath riches unrestraind control,
Should erce Strombalo, belching forth his rage,
I from the mansions of perdition ed,
\Vith 'hose to torture me, alas! engage,
And bade the vision utter o'er thy head.
A uttering taper were the fearful whole,
200
130 Thy willing heart conceived the cheat divine,
To that which blazes in my anguishd soul.
And free acceptance made thy service mine.
But soon Ill check this unrelenting pain,
,.
Soon calm this scorching fever of the brain;
For the Repertory.
Soon stop this battle, this internal strife,
And end my pangs with ignominious life.
TO THE HUMMING BIRD.
15
Nor the bright pearls the base of ocean bears,

With all their radiance, shine like him who shone
The worlds Redeemer on the cross alone

Bcfoie the bands on Christs retirement broke,
Ere vet, all hail! the lost lscariot spoke;
20
'lhe'wrathful rebel gave the fatal sign,

To show the mighty personage divine.
v
- .
hose cheek soeer my treschrous kiss shall blast,
The same is the Redeemer, hold him fast.
'
His guaids, more cruel from th effect of fear, 25

His gracious hands with tortring pinious tear;
Now were those bands which fashiond earth and
heaven,
To angry bonds and cords unfeeliug given;

Now was he hound who came the world to free,
From cruel sins pernicious slaveryg 30

The patient Lord they drag along the street.
hose craggy pavement tears his naked feet;
The blood reluctant gushes from each pore,
And every footstep leaves the print of gore!
35
\Vhile the inconstant multitude around
Make, with their cries, the echoing air resound,
The shouts of insult and contumely. spread,
\l'ith mingled curses, on the Saviours head!
\Vhat hellish agent did his potver infuse,
'ithin your bosoms, O! unpitying Jews]
40
The dreadful act that steals the uu r'mg breath,
Wears not such horror as the pomp of death!

What needed all this pageantry of we,
'lhis cruel lingring of the fatal blow!
Was it that unrelenting malice thought,
45
Malice with rage and vengeance ever fraught,
A quick dispatch, precipitated fate,
Mercy too vast, and lenity too great?
\Vas it that while your hearts for murder cried,
A seemingjustice should your fury guide?
50
\Vas it that though your hearts in wrong delight,
It should be covered by a show of right?
\Vhateer the motive, pride and envy urged,
Till truth was in the gulph of wrong immerged!
Whatever urged, the gurltlesa blood you shed 55
fialld loud for vengeance on your guilty head!
The bands now led the Saviour to the dome,
And with pale terror strike my guilty soul!

My brain grows wild, perditiou waits, I rave,
My only refuge is a dreadful grave!

Ye ends, that laughd when l the Saviour sold,
Poured their foul poison in the breast of man;

The foot disdaindthe humble dust it trode,
And the soul pantcdto become a God,
Until the dome, so fast the vice increased,
85
Became a palace and a king the priest.
There led, the Saviour all submissive stands,
With new feltjoy my tragic end behold:

150
.Your scorpion whips to scourge my soul prepare,
Your'buriing pincers which the body tear,
! Then snatch that body from the silent tomb,
l And execute its lamentable doom!
Iscariot spoke,- and then with hasty stride,
15
Which Pride and Envy long had made their home;

Luxurious sacrilege appeared-in all
The pompous greatness of the dreadful hall;
60
The silver cup, the yellow shining bowl,
That oft had drownd the feelings of the soul;
0! could my eye the monstrous wretch behold, 135
The tables groaning with their golden weight,
That lured my spirit with his treacherous gold;
In all the pageantry of royal state,
Seem'd, sad reverse of times when, sweetly drest, One look of horror and of pangs unknown,
Sat chaste simplicity in modest vest;
6,, From this rackd bosOm one despairing groan,
Should blast his sight, like thundring vengeance
St'cmd to invite, such glistnmg baits employ,
burst,
'1 he sons of hell, inviting to destroy!
\nd hurl destruction to his soul accurst;
0, sad reverse. when Aarons priestly rod
140
Obeyd the mandate of a guardian God,
70 0! dreadful fate, 0. whither shall I y,
How shun the vengeance of the frowning sky!
Full in the midst, his purpose to disclose,
Freshcu'd tolifc and buddcd like the rose;
There Heavens red lightning wnh an angry glare,
Then simolv' virtu". piety. and low
Menaces ruin through the trembling air;
The pticlthOOtl ownd, commissiond from above;
The rumbling thunders through the welkin roll,165
Measured the ground to reach the proucnt tide;
Little bird, with needle beak,
How thy uttring pinions speak,

As around the fragrant ower,
Thou dost it for many an hour;
Wherefore, ever and anon,
Hasten off and utter on?

Fearst thou lest thy narrow lip,
There luxuriously should sip,
Dost thou check thy fond desire,
Lest in sweets thou shouldst expiri?
Man a lesson learns from thil,
Not to rest in fancied. bliss:
'
WM
mered a little, he desired his chaplain to ex

amine the candidate. The rst question pro
MY MISTRESS;
posed was- Why did Balaams ass speak?
A short and sweet love poem, in imitation of the
chaste and delicate style of divers g'rest amato Because his master had an impediment in
his speech," answered the young man, which
ry writers.
>
put an immediate end to the examination.
My lo :e s as much stared at as is the church
For the Repertory.
Not to revel in the bowl,
And intoxicate the soul,

Till in luxury he lies,
And the epicuresn dies;
beams that sorrow out of measure,
Underneath the ower of pleasure,
Unsuspected and unseen,
Lurks, to make her pangs more keen.
[learns to close the thirsty lip,
Or, like thee, with caution sip,
spire;
But, alas'. though so fair, she 5 still cold as a carrot;
While this body of mine s like it house all on re,
Lest redundance of delight,

Should subdue the spirit quite,
And my soul like one burning to death in the garret.
And beneath mellifluous ire,
In bed, airs, 0, such is my love, such my doubt

That she ll pack me off, calling me jack-ass or
Heaven born virtue should expire.

Grateful to thee, little Hummer,
Sweet attendant on the summer

For the laws thou dost impart.
To direct the erring heart,

Ever may thy caution be
Cherishd in the breast by me.
gander,
That I m all night long kicking and tumbling

about
Like a poor herring roasting alive on the brander.
When she s near my heart jumps like a pea in
the pot,
EMMELXNE.
For the Repertory. ,

THE ORPHAN'S PETITlUN.
And I sigh like Tom Sledgehammers labouring

bellows,
For her eye is so bright and her eye beam so hot
That it seems it would singe off the beards of the
fellows. Y
'_-
Nothing shows more the folly, as well as

fraud of man, than clipping merit and repu~
tauon
%
PHILADELPHIA,
ssrunmr, novanssn 23, 1811.
CORRESPONDENCE.
To Old Robin, we return our thanks for his es,
say on Societ), and inform him that, with a res

pect due to grey hairs, we shall always Welcome
him to the columns of the Repertory, unless he
should unfortunately tumble into Shakapeare's
seventh age.
We acknowledge what Philo Timarcus says, to
0! turn not the orphan away from your door,

Bestow but a trie to soothe her distress;
And he who looks down on the friendless and poor,
Your heaven born charity tenfold will bless.
0, what shall I think of? O, cruel maid, how,

When my soul s in your chains, can you try thus to
choke her?
'_
[cant live without you, that 's clear, and so now
Be mine, or at once run me through with the poker

Behold how the pavement is red with my gore,
That runs from my feet, by the cruel stones tom;
GLORMON.
-.-I
0! be not as iuty as they, I implore,
Lest death strike me cold at your gate, ere the
EXTRAORDINARY HONESTY.
morn!
A person of the Quaker profession, (says

My cold shivring limbs in these tstter'd weeds clad; a London paper) having through misfortune,
Say, cannot these touch with pity your breast?
about 40 years ago, become insolvent, and
Then think what a trie will make this heart glad, not being able to pay more than eleven shil
And to my fond indigent mother bring rest!
lings to the pound, formed a resolution, it
Providence smiled on his future endeav

ours, to pay the whole amount; and in case
of death, he ordered his sons to liquidate his
And snatch her, perhaps, from the brink of the
debts by their joint proportions. lt pleased
gravel
God, however, to spare his life; and after
Suppose your dear mother lay helpless and wan,
struggling with a variety of diiculties, (for
And you to relieve her should brave the keen air; his livelihood chiey depended on his own la
Suppose that the aluent should bid you, "begone,
bour) he at length saved suicient to satisfy
And perish thy mother in grief and despair!
every demand. A few days ago, the old man
All! say. does that move you? a mothers in grief,
And for her, her daughter a pittance would crave;
To give to the tot-ments of sickness relief,
Say, you have a mother? then think what I feel,

Should sorrow and penury round her appear: 0! yes, youll assist me, your heart is not steel,
came with a considerable sum, to the sur
viving son of one of his creditors, who has

been dead 30 years, and insisted on paying
PM see, on your cheek falls the pitiful tear!

0! eloquent nature, in vain you neer plead,
This boon doth a beam of sWeet comfort impart.
And you too have gaind, for this merciful deed,
A smile from your God, and a tear from my heart'
Behold how it rises and breaks on my cheek,
"Pie: a tear that the souls deep recesses reveals;
More loudly than Words ever did does it speak,

And, g'listning, declares all my bosom now feels!
Tis gratitude bids it arise from its source,
Tia usnsport that makes it refulgent and clear;
Tis hope, cheering hope, that now guides its sweet
course,
Ah! say, who would blush while they shed such
a tear?
YALERIAN.
be true, but We are of opinion that truth may be

related in a better manner, than is displayed in P.
T.s essay.
We are much pleased with the poetry of Em
meline, and though the object of her address is
not at present to be seen, the excellent moral she
has drawn can never be out of season- We invite
her correspondence.
Under the signature of Sempronius, we discover
a correspondent from whom we have received sev
eral communications, and one whose way of think

ing and correct and easy manner of expressing his
ideas, will always assure him a cordial welcome in
the columns of the Repertory.
MARRIED,
In Culpepper county, Virginia, on the

17th September, Mr. Richard Alajor, aged
75 years, to Mrs. .dnn Dulce, aged 70 years.
The groom was very corpulcnt, and the

bride \icighcd upwards of 230 pounds. This
may truly be called a great match.
At Coventry, Con. on the evening of the
17th ultimo, by the Rev. Mr. VVoodru, Dr.
him the money he owed his father, which
Daniel urry, aged 50, to Miss Percy Por~
he accordingly did, with heart felt satisfac

tion. Such a display of virtuous principle,
we record with innite pleasure, as it not
only reects the highest honour on a worthy
individual but also on that society to which
he belongswhose members have long been
ter, aged 48, after a procrastinated courtship
distinguished, and deservedly'rcspected, for
their upright and equitable dealing. On

this occasion, we cannot help exclaiming in
the language of Pope, an honest man's
the noblest work of God."
.
of 25 years.
-.-
Cincinnati, October 9, 1811.
By the politeness of a Swms gentleman,

residing at Vevcy, Indiana Territory,
we
have been favoured with the follow rig

sketch of the Swiss settlement.
New Swisserland,
ls situate on the right bank of the Ohio

river, in Jclfelson county, Indiana Territo
ry, about seven miles above the mouth of
A young man was recommended to bishop . Kentucky river. The settlement was begun
in the springof the year 1802, by some
Burnet for ordination, As his loidsbipstam
PHBLAIIELPHTA' REPETOWYf-l
Swiss of the Canton of Vuud, fornt'erly . F
or to what it is now; and there is no doubt
nestii'u Much,
,
part of the Canton of Bern; the principal that in the course of anumber of years, the
November 16, 811.
object is the introduction of the culture of United States will be able to, do without, Inter-ments in the City and Liberties of Philadcipla,
from the 9th to the 16th November
the Grape Vine in this country. This set _z'm/mrlcd wine. The precious culture of the
tlement, or rather the place called New vine will be tried in diHerent parts of the
Diseases.
ad. ch.
Diaeaser.
ad. cl
Swisserland, extends from about three Union; and will undoubtedlymuitiply with Apoplcxy
1 0 lnam. of brain
1 0
Cancer
1 O lnam of stomachv 1 O
quarters of a mile above the mouth of rapidity. The Swiss will encourage it with Cholera morbus
0 2 lnttm. of liver
1 0
Plumb creek, down the river, to the all their power; they give vine slips ~gratis Cholic
l 0 insanity
l 0
0 1
mouth ofVcnoge creek known by thename of to whoever will plant them, with directions Consumpmflutigs 1 l \lortlcntion
Convulsions
U 4 Old age
1 0
Indian Creek,* a distance of about four miles and instructions for their cultivation.
Decay
1 0 Palsey
1 0
1 U Pleurisy
1 0
The Swiss-also cultivate Indian corn, Dian-hurt
and a hall, fronting the river, and extends
,
O 2 Sin born
0 4
back for the quantity of about 3,700 acres wheat, potatoes, hemp, ax, and other ar Dropsy
Dysentcry '_
0 l Sudden
3 O
of land2,500 of which they have purchas ticles necessary to farmers, 'althoughuin Fever
2 0 Unknown
1 0
- '
ed undera law in favour of J. JamesDufour small 'q'uanties.Some'oftheirwomen mtike ' Fever, remittent O l
Fevt-t', malignant
0 l
90 22
and his associates, allowing them twelve straw/tats, .whicli, they sell in 'Cilldihltin l-eVer, t_\ phus
1 2
years to pay for it from 1802, the tim:.of and on the river, to trading boats which Hooping cough
0 1
Total 42
0 2
the purchase; the remainder , they have usually stop there to purchase them, to Hives
,
bought as other purchasers, and paid forit. carry to the Mississippi country, where they
Under 1
2
The lower end, about. two miles along are very ready sale. They are made quite}, Between 1 and 2
0
6t)
70
1
different
from
the
other
straw
hats,
by
tyeP
thc river, is occupied by 13 Swiss families
2
4
70
80
1
5
1t)
2
8t)
90
O
ing the straws together, instead of plui ing
containing 66 individuals, of every age
10
20
3
90
100
1
10 of those families have successively come and sewing the plaits. One of Mr. F. J.
20
30
5
100
110
0
t'
40 '
7
L
to join the three rst, who had begun the Dufours sisters-rst brought the art to
.40 50
3
Total l 42
settlement. Had it not been for the difcul this country, from Swisserland.
By order of the Board ofHealth.

I _ ,1, As the Swiss enlarge their! vineyards eve-
ties in crossing the ocean, it is believed the
' JOHN ALLISON, olei-E.
whole distance of four and a half miles ry y'earfmbr'e and more, their settlement
. :v. :"il .
mi.
would have been lled up with as many will become of greater consequence to the
STATE or THE THERMOMETER. .
more of those industrious people.
United States, not only in producing good
9 oclock- 12 o'clock 3 oclock;
The improvements of the Swi5s are and wholesome wine, but also itrPcing a
November-1 l
49
50
50
.
12
45
48
46
considerable, considering the time when model for those who may establish new"
13
50
55
55
they began, the few hands employed in them vineyards in other parts of this continent, .br'A-i'
14
46
'47
4'5
tug;
,
,
15
44.
53
47
and their inexperience in the way of inn which may be more suitable Poi then-eta,
ture. 7'? 35
ag-103a"
MW . '. ' " 16
43
47
46
proving lands in this country. They have.
now about 140 acres of land in cultivatiotn
New swisserland has the advantage of
about 8 of which are planted in grape vines, two roatdsotie'is a fork frOm the road
Checks, Cards, Handbiils,
now bearing; which oii'er to the eye of an leading from'Lawrcnceburg to Port Wil
observerthe handsomest and the most inte liam taking o to the right, about one mile neatly and correctly executed, on reasonable term,
resting agricultural prospect, perhaps ever anda half before arriving at Venoge, or
at the ofce of the
witnessed in the United StatesThere are Indian creek, and 'leads to Dufourls ferry;
Philadelphia
Repertory.
about 8 or 9 acres more planted in vines opposite is a road leading to Frankfort and
j
which are not yet bearing; and they con Lexington, Kentucky. The' other road leads
'renms or The nerenronv.
tinue planting more every year. The crop from-"the upper end of Jefferson county,
The price is Four dollars per annum; city only
of wine of l8l0, has exceeded the quantity down to Madison, all along the river. There
scribers
to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub.
isa
Post-Office,
by
the
name
of
Vevey,
of 2,400 gallons, the quality of which has
scribers lmlfvenrlv in advance.
been thought, by judges of wine, superior which is the name of the town intended to ' it shall he delivered to subscribers in the city
to that of the claret of Bordeaux. Out 01 be shortly laid oli, for the accommodation every Saturday, and forwarded to those in thg
Liberty Hull. country by the earliest conveyance.
the quantity, about 120 gallons was white. of mechanics.
considered as shhscrihing for the next.
Ant-person who shall procure seven subscriber.
or yellow wine, made out of the Madeira
grapes. These two kinds of vines are they

only ones which have hitherto succeeded.
but others are going to be tried, and it is

very probable that some of them will also
produce good wine. \Vhen the vines are
older, and the vine dressers are able to let
their wine acquire age before they sell it.
the :pluiity will certainly be greatly superi
17
or: Juu
0 On account of the great number of creeks in
the United Sta! called by the name oflndtan, the

5 is: who own its mouth, have thought prop" to
arm. ,L-s name to that ot'Venod-i', a small river in thc
Pr. do Vaud, on the banks of which some of the
my; spokcn of here were raised.
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VOL, "_
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20. (an.
,
\
BIOGRAPHY.
THE LIFE OF GENERAL LEE'

(Concluded)
r
his senses; the last words he heard him speak
were, Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!
The citizens of Philadelphia, calling to
No, 23,
great fondness for dogs brought on him the

dislike and frowns of the fair sex; for the
general would permit his canine adherents
mind his former services, appeared to be to follow him to the parlour, the bed-room,
much affected with his death. His funeral
and, sometimes, they might be seen on a.
Lee remained at his retreat, living in a was attended with a very large concourse chair, next his elbow, at table.
There is great probability that the gene
style peculiar to himself, in a house more of people, the clergy of different denomi
nations, his excellency the president of con
gress, the president and some members of
extravagance, and his furniture consisted of the council of the commonwealth of Penn
a very few necessary articles; indeed, he sylvania, his excellency the minister picni
Was now so rusticatcd that he could have potentiary of France, M. Marbois, secretary
like a barn than a palace. Glass windows
and plaistering would have been luxurious
ral was the rst person who suggested the

idea that America ought to declare herself
independent. When he was sent by the
commander in
chief to New-York, he be
lived in a tub with Diogenes; however, he
to the embassy, the minister of nance,
haved with such activity and spirit, infusing

the same into the minds of the troops and
had got a few select valuable authors, and

these enabled him to pass away his time in
general Baron de Viominil duke de Lau
the people, that Mr. John Adams said, a
san, the minister of war, and several other
this obscurity. In the fall, 1782, he began
happier expedition never was projected;

and that the whole Whig world were bles
to be weary with the sameness of his situa

tion, and experiencing his untness for the
management of country business, he came
oicers of distinction both in the French

and American armies.
From what hath been observed in these
Memoirs, we may, with justice, airm, that
to a determination to sell his estate, and pro
general Lee was a great and sincere friend
troductory letter to him, in which were
cure a little settlement near some sea-port

town, where he might learn what the world
was doing, and enjoy the conversation of
mnkind.
His farm, though an excellent tract of
to the rights and liberties of mankind, and
these words, The bearer, Mr. Paine, has
land, rather brought him in debt at the end

of the year, and added to the difculties he
laboured under. It is no wonder, then, he
sing him for it. About this time, Doctor
Franklin gave Mr. Thomas Paine, the cele

brated author of Common Sense," an in
that it was this grand principle which led

him to take part on the side of America. It
appears, that, from his youth, he was bred
up with the highest regard for the noble
requested a line of introduction to you,

which I give the more willingly, as I know
his sentiments are not very different from
yours. A few days after, the Doctor writes
sentiments of freedom; his education and again, There is a kind of suspense in
reading strengthened them; the historians men's minds here, at present, waiting to see
and orators of Greece and Rome, with whom what terms will be offered fromEngland.
I expect none that we can accept; and when
that is generally seen, we shall be more
unanimous, and more decisive. Then, your
was inclined to relinquish his present sys

tem of life. He left Berkley, and came to
Baltimore, where he stayed near a week
he was considerably conversant, added to

the sacred ame, and his travels, in many
with some old friends, and then took his
A friend of the Editors was at the inn

when he took his departure from this World.
The servants informed him that general Lee
was dying; upon which he went into the
room; he was then struggling with the
proposed Solemn League and Covenant"

will go better down, and, perhaps, most of
teel make, and rather above the middle your other strong measures adopted. In a
size; his remarkable aqualine nose rendered letter to Edward Rutledge, Esq. in the
his face somewhat disagreeable. He was spring of 1776, then a member of the con
master of a most genteel address; but, in tincntal congress, the general thus expres
the latter part of his life, became excessive ses himself, As your aairs prosper, the
ly negligent of the graces, both in garb and timidlty of the senatorial part of the con
behaviour. A talent for repartee, united with tinent, great and small, grows and extends
a quickness of penetration, created him ma itself. By the eternal G, unless you de
ny enemies. A character so eccentric and clare yourselves independent, establish a
singular, could not fail of attracting the po more certain and xed legislature than that
pular attention. His small friends frequent of a temporary courtesy of the people, you
ly passed severe criticisms on his Words and, richly deserve to be enslaved; and I think
actions.-Narrowly watched, every little1 that, far from impossible, it should be your
slip or failure was noticed, and represented' lot, as, without a more systematic inter
to his disadvantage. The objections to his fl course with France and Holland, we have
king of terrors, and seemed to have lost
moral conduct were numerous, and hisnot the means of carrying on the war."
leave for Philadelphia.

It is presumed, he now found adi'erence
between a general in command, and one
destitute of every thing but the name; for
we do not nd him entertained at the house
any private citizen. He took lodgings. at an
inn, the sign of the Connestogoe Waggon, in
Market-street. After being three or four

days in the city, he was taken with a shiver
ing, the forerunner of a fever, which put a
period to his existence, October 2d, 1782.
parts of the world, did not tend to dimin-,

ish it.
The general, in his person, was of a gen
218
There are other epistles of his of a similar Monmouth, several pieces of scurrility from lial love, and the tears ran copiously down
the pr , an'd Immerous instances of pri
his cheelts;again he kissed the
spirit and diction.
The more we investigate the} general's vate also alld defamationt 0 far rot th
ma incrt'tpthaf was, ritten in a fathers
ybllo ,d anathema? convlced from the vio
character and condtgct, the inorl ;
gtter bf nlS'pPilOS?I3I5 i
dn ,e hs feQingsf he had had no other
ngiejn hpstddgre
uous his services wi. ' pear? he
G egarpeii
p 60f, that he Was the offspring of Pandolfo.
cy of the Americant ~spu e, we\ nd him w re,an 17 with all manlt
,
continually suggesting nd forwarding plans
To this exasperated dispositioh we may Again he cursed Montaldo and vowed, if
for the defence of the country; and though impute the origin of his Political Quetl'ies, ever he regained his liberty, to bring the
he was a professed enemy to a standing and a number of satirical hints (thrown ;out, heaviest vengeance upon his head. He now
the manuscript
which
army, he was always recommending a well both'in
his conversation
gridwriting,
against continued
lows:
i n:
2 '2"ranl as fol
F:
the commander
in chief.
Hunianityfrwill
regulated "militia. This he *cssstaere'ct
_ To this Huberto only_replie_d;_-Dn,,
the natural strength of a country, and ab draw a_ve_il overvthe involuntary errors of
solutely
for its
vation. necessary
'
' safety
v ' and preser sensibility, and pardon the .sallies of a suf , my lord, and if damned guilt has not made
fering mind, as its presage did not meet him proof against shame, ,I will confound
He has frequently asserted, that a more with an accomplishment.--General Wash him. Montaldo' entered as Huberto spoke
pernicious idea could not'enter' into the ington, by his retirement, demonstrated to lthis. He started when he beheld the vassal
heads of the citizens, than that rigid disci-' the world, that power was knot his object, with me. and seemedmuch disturbed. This
pline, and a strict subjection. to military that America had nothing to fear from his indeed conveyed somesuspicion to my mind,
rules, were incompatible with civil liberty; ambition; but that she was honoured with a but his' subsequent assevei'ations eniirely
and he was of opinion, that when the bulk specimen of such exalted patriotism as could banished it. I now informed him of what.
ls ,
as
of a community would not submit to the not fail to attract the attention and admira
ordinances necessary for the preservation of tion of the most distant nations.
military discipline, their liberty could nJl
be of long continuance.
The liberty of every commomwealth
must be protected ultimately by military
force. Military force depends upon order
CASTLE or ALTENHEIM,
on
bier! he never started, but turning to Hui

berto, he said with a scornful smile:
w I pardon thee, Iluberto, and pity the

.-' t.(, petty
malignity that urged thee to this act,
For the Repertory;
Huberto had advanced; admirable dissent;
THE MYSTERIOUS MONK; Y
and discipline; without order and discipline,
though I despise the utmost of thy malice.

My ford," continued he, falling upon my
bosom, I were indeed a monster of in.
gratitude, could I for a moment harbour
A TALE.
the greatest number of armed men are on
CHAPTER
XI.
aught
your peace,i m'uch less your_
ly a contemptible mob; a handful of regulars
life!" against
'
must disperse them. It follows, then, that The sword ofjustice is within my grasp,
it trembles oer his head, shall, fall and crush him
the citizens at large must submit to the
Overcamerbyjhevmanner'of Montaldo, I
, - ~~
- mien.
bade him dismiss his fears, for that I had.
means of becoming soldiers, or that they Murder most foul, as in' the best it is, v
disbelieved it from the rst and needed no.
must commit the protection of their lives But this most foul, strange and unnatural;
Shakrpeare.
proof to convince me of the improbability of
and property to a distinct body of men, who
So strong was. my resentment against such an accusation; then turning to Huberto,
will, naturally, in a short time setupa profes
sional interest, scperate from the communi Huberto,for what I thought-his false accu I pommanded him to, leave the castle and
ty at large. To this cause we may attribute sation of Montaldo, that I threatened, if he never again appear in my presence, under
the subversion of every free state that his persisted in his stubborn falsehood, to con penalty of the severest punishment. As this
tory presents to us. The Romans were cer front him with my souAlas! alas! my son faithful domestic left the room and nie for
tainly the rst and most glorious people that was no more! pardon, gentle reader, that ever, he said, while sorrow almost choaked
have gured on the face of the globe; they the thread of my story is thus broken, but his utterance;
continued free longest. Every citizen was a when I remember the son I havev adopted in
Adieu, my lord, Heaven guard you from
soldier not in name, but in fact; by which is his place, my feelings are too acute to be the machinations of a monster!"
I was nearly suffocated with rage, hut
meant, that they were the most rigid ob contained. But he is gone! once before in
servers of military institutions. The gene infancy, I had nearly lost him, when in the Montaldo only cast on him a look of super
ral, thereforc,thonght it expedient that eve chase my erring arrow pierced his breast"... cilious contempt mingled with a smile of
ry state in America should be extremely Here Florival started and thrusting his arm triumph, and again embracing me, blessed _
careful to perfect the laws relative to their into his bosom, exclaimed:
the happy chance that brought him in to
militia; and, that, where they were glar
Tis here; 'tis here! Can it be possible confute the designs ofthe villainous Huber-to.
lagain renewed my protestations of love
ingly defective, they should be made more that I am the son of the injured, good Pan
efcient; and that it should be established dolfo? Yes, I feel it in my soul! these tears and parted from the dissembling monster
that rise, are produced by lial instinct, and with feelings not to be described. I con
as a point ofhonour, and the criterion ofa vir
tuous citizen, to pay the greatest deference fall upon the memoir of a murdered father! ceivedhim to be the paragon of excellence,
to the common necessary laws of a camp. Bloody, remorseless villain! If ever we blest the happy, the blissfulhour that led me
The most difcult task the editor met should meet, Montaldo, a fathers murder to discover him in the wood, felt shocked at
with in collecting and arranging these post and Amelia's wrongs thou shalt dearly an
the villainy of Huberto, and yet wondered
humous papers, arose from his desire of swer for!
how he could so suddenly become a wretch,
,
not giving offence to such characters as had
Again the youth felt the scar in his breast, as he had lived in the castle as the Servant
been the object of the generals aversion and was fully convinced that it was caused of Montaldo, from a few days after my
and resentment. Unhappily his disappoint
by the weapon which the dead prince had discovery of the ungrateful foundling.
ments had soured his temper, the affair of
described. His whole soul now melted in
Nearly a year had now elapsed, during
,
which time Montaldo-received the greatest came us, and nearly extinguished our lights.
paternal regard from me and had treated I was so overpowered that it was some
me with.the_most grateful affection in re
'2 1 (i
.
.;
cried the end in human shape, and now

I am certain he can never betray the secrets
of another master!
moments before I thoroughly recovered my

faculties, and when I did, upon casting my
Betray! exclaimed I, a thought like
company him to Altenheim, as heardentlyv
eyes upon Montaldo, I was almost as much lightning ashing through my mind, bc
desired an introduction tov Amelia, the affected by a freezing horror that thrilled
tray! did indeed, then, the unfortunate Hu
daughter of my friend,.to whom he had been through every vein. I scarcely knew him, berto speak the truth; and has he perished
betrothed in infancy.
- .
.
so complete a metamorphose. had his visage for his delity to me!
To this I consented and, accompanied undergone. A terrible frown had settled on
He has!" cried Montaldo, for the
only by Geraldo and Gaspard, two villains his brow, his eyes beamed forth such a ame truth he perished! I say again, you have not
who were attendants at the castle, we sat. of furious malice,.and his teeth knashcd so
known me, prince; I have lived in a state of
out. As we proceeded, Montaldo became horribly, that one might have thought that profound dissimulation, and while you cares
gloomy and reserved, and ere we had reach some end had infused his direful spirit into sed me, you thought not you were caressing
ed this castle, his stubborn silence led me his bosom. For some moments did I gaze on the destroyer of your house! When you
to suspect his intentions and revert to the him, in silent wonder; indeed, my tongue clasped me to your bosom, you little ima
Warning of Huberto. By the time we reach refused to utter a word. At length, however, gined that you were embracing the mur
ed this melancholy place, the torrents of my horror, in some measure, subsided and derer of your son!
.rain which began to fall, compelled us to I ventured to approach him; but he receded
turn, when one day, he requested vme to ac
seek for shelter in its dreary chambers.
from me and, drawing his sword, threaten
\Vhen we entered the hall, the ch eerfulness

of vMontaldo returned, and he discourscd
with great vivacity on the prospect of his
ed 'death if I approached.
For the Repertory.
Montaldo, cried I, what dost thou
mean by these manaces of death? My son,

union with the heiress of Altenheim. After why so suddenly has your visage assumed
some time, he expressed a wish to,explore this dreadful aspect? dismiss these looks I
the interior of the castle and according ha pray you, for they ll me with a strange
ving prepared lights, Geraldo having the ne and unaccountable horror!
cessary apparatus about him, we ascended
He looked at me for a few moments, and
to the upper chambers of the building. Mon now indeed the fury beamed from his eyes.
taldo expressed his pleasure at beholding I cannot portray his looks, language fails
the gothic grandeur of the architecture, but me when I attempt to describe it. Let the
when we descended to the dungeons, de
fancy of the reader, therefore, imagine he
claimed vclgcmently against the tyrannical
UCIIUIlis_nnn of tho doamon nf IPVPHQ'C and
cruelty that invented those cages of horror,
cruelty, about to commit a crime of the
in which many a victim to injustice, malice
darkest ingratitude, and he will form some

idea of the appearance of Montaldo.
and revenge, had been immured and suf

fered to expire by the lingering torments of
hunger and thirst,burried in continual night
He looked at me for some moments, and

then, with a frantic smile and inbollow ac
and oneabode.
cold season pervading forever
his cents, exclaimed:
dreary
V v
Hubcrto!
l,
F"
Consummate hypocrite! little did I ima

\Vhat of him?" said I, why should the
gine that he intended such a fate for me; thought of him now disturb you?
little did Iimagine that he, whom I had re
He is dead! continued he.
scued from destruction, he to whom I had
Dead! dead! reiterated I, and by
given my heart, my honours and my fortune. whose guilty hands? Was it not enough that
would full the prediction of Huberto and he was banished from my castle, but must
prove to be indeed a monster! But the death pursue him? I hope he fell not by
sequel of this bloody memoir will show how your hand, Montaldo!
'
I was deceived, how I had wronged Huberto!
By my command, prince, answered he.
As we passed from one part ofthcse sub Nay never start, you do not know me:
terranean prisons to another, all which Mon
think you, I could passthe stain be cast
taldo failed not to vitupcratc in the most upon my honour?y think you the paltry pu
strenuous manner, I was explaining to the nishmcnt of dismissal from your service
traitor the train of conduct I wished him to could satiatc the vengeance of Montaldos
pursue with regard to Amelia, and after bosom? I say again you have not known me,
my death, which could not, from my ad
vanced age, be far distant. Alas! alas! I did
not expect it was so near. We now descend

ed a pair of stairs, at the bottom of which
was a door, strongly barred. lle command
cd Geraldo to open it, which he accomplish
ed with some difculty, and a stream of

warm air issued thence, which almost over-,
u
THE CABINET. No. LXIII.

A beard neer made a Cato, though many mens
Catos hang only on their chin.
JInratone IVbat you "711.
Many years ago I recollect to have been

much pleased at hearing my grandmother,
who has been long since under the clods of
the valley, relate an anecdote respecting a
reverend young gentleman who had not
long been settled in one of the parishes in
the west of England. The education and
talents of the youthful teacher were unex
ceptionable, but it was his misfortune to lack
a beard. The parishoncrs conceived this to
be a very plausible plea against their pastor,
and determined among themselves not to
be satised until their sermons could be de
livered to them from lips covered with a"
plentiful growth of wisdoms bristles. The
young preacher soon heard of the dissatis
faction which prevailed among his ock, and
thought of an expedient which upon their
criterion of merit must-have afforded them
the fullest content. He succeeded, by the
cooperation of a waggish taylor in the neigh
bourhood, in arryiug a very lusty goat in a.
proper sacerdotal habit, and the next sun
day the bearded-loving congregation to their

great surprise and, I suppose, delight,
were treated with a full view of what they
had so much desired to behold. Now I shall

leave entirely with my reader's to deter
mine how far the grace kept company with
the witon the above occasion.
prince; Geraldo overtook the traitor near
It is not a little surprising when We con.
the convent of Saint Lucia, and his keen sider how very generally the world is de
dagger revenged his masters honour.
ceived by external appearances. The reason
Honour! exclaimed I, dctcsted ho of this I take to be that aversion to deep
micide! could your honour be Satised by thinking, which is characteristic of the
the murder of a fellow creature? Unhappy greater part of mankind. \Vhcn by super
Huberto!
I
i A
cial observation we are satised with the ex
My revenge, at least,.wa_s gratied! terior, we seldom choose to exercise or"
faculties of reason, to discover whether
may not be a mantle cunningly put on to
hide the grossest deformities of disposition,
or conceal the basest motives and most un
nished intellect. How frequently has virgin
innocence fallen a victim to the delusive ap
pearances of virtue sustained by some
wretch whose cruel heart could plot the
ruin of the fairest portion of the edice of
female honour, and under the assumed garb
of prostituted virtue, meditate the greatest
crimes that villainy can commit.

It is a fact that there exists in the dispo
sition of many person, a propensity to ap
pear before the world in characters which
are far from being their own. It seems as
though they had become wearied or asha ' ed of'their own natures, and were glad, for
the sake of novelty, or sometimes from m0
tivcs less excusable, to assume some one
diametrically opposite, which strikes their

fancy, or suits their convenience. I mention
, ed this circumstance in a preceeding essay.
of theland? It often happens in such cases
tenance, as he generally proved to be a
Nero, that proverb of cruelty. From his

gardens he viewed the awful spectacle, and
showed unboundedsigns of joy. Every day
the Roman empire became a still greater
scene of carnage and desolation,when death
stopped him in his mad career. The event
hypocrite. This observation was natural and
was hailed with the acclamations of millions,
that, to use the words of the song, The

wisdoms in the wig.
I forget who it is that said he never liked
to see a young man with too sober a coun
is too often found to be not less true. There as a circumstance that delivered thousands
'
must be something wrong in the bodily or from immediate death.
Thus do we see the death of tyrants is re
mental constitution of that youth who is
averse to a participation in the innocent ceived with unbounded applause, and that
pleasures which are appropriate to his age.
To know the world is a most useful piece
their memories are detested. They are the

bane and destruction of society; tumult and
confusion succeed the place of order and

tration and caution of which a manis pos tranquillity. They drain up the resources of
sessed to come at its attainment. Many a country, both moral and physical, in order
arrive at it with the loss of their property to gratify their insatiable ambition. Distress
and reputation; many by the ruin of their and ruin pervade all clases of the people,
while they dare not complain nor demand
virtue and their peace.
redress. The principles of virtue and honesty
PETER PEACEABLE.
are
lost amidst the immorality and licenti
-.
ousness of the people. In short all the evils
For the Repertory.
which can possibly ow into a country, pro
ceed from the cruelty and oppression of
TYRANTS.
No men are more detested yet more tyrants.
This account is by no means exaggerated.
dreaded than tyrants. \Vhatever kind of
punishment their cruelty can devise, they Every nation which has had the misfortune
inict with the greatest pleasure upon those to bear the yoke of tyrants fully veries it.
innocent subjects who have had the misfor It is most awfully realized in France, where
tune to fall under their displeasure. All all the social and civilized principles of man
their actions conspire to infuse terror into must yield to those of despotism and anar
of knowledge, but it requires all the pene
and related the histories of two or three

gentlemen whom I knew that had thus
grown tired of themselves. I have known
some people who were certainly fully con
vinced of the divine origin of the gospel,
endeavour in company, to ridicule its Author
and his doctrines, and I have known others
who were destitute of any particle of grace
pass for very good christians. The truth of time over whom mey passess authority,
what I have here stated almost every one and to render them more subservient to their
can attest; the question then is, why are we caprices. Though surrounded with all the
so frequently deceived in our opinions of badges of honour, and though all the delica
men? This I believe I have answered in a cies of the country are at their disposal, yet
preceeding part of this paper.
these cannot secure them from danger.
\Vhen a man comes for the rst time into Guards attend them on all sides, and where
any particular circle of people, he naturally ever they go, every avenue and hole must
wishes to appear to the best advantage. He be searched, lest there should be concealed
knows it to be his interest, and therefore, some, who would risk their lives for the de
we seldom make a new acquaintance that, struction of their oppressors. Conscious of
upon leaving, we do not compliment in our the miseries they have occasioned, they be
own minds for a mighty sensible, agreeable, gin to mistrust their most intimate accom
and altogether clever fellow.
plices, and feel terried at every trivial cir
England has frequently been reproved by cumstance. Thus do they drag out a most
her own authors as a very credulous nation: miserable existence, and when dead, their
she immediately takesa man upon his word memories are loaded with the curses and
and never doubts that he will perform what execrations of an oppressed people.
he promises. This was veried in the time
We need only to have recourse to history
of the fellow who circulated a report that to see if this assertion can be supported
on such a day and hour he would gulp down by truth. Almost every age has produced
the river Thames at three draughts! Many eminent examples. But Rome in particular
thousands of the civilized and intelligent in
has been the birth place and destruction of
habitants of the polite cities of London and tyrants. The barbarous actions of Tiberius
\Vestminster assembled to witness the in and Nero, have excited the horror and aver
teresting and august spectacle. But it seems sion of all mankind. Their cruelties drench
that England is fond of being thus deluded; ed the empire in blood, and thousands of
otherwise, why would she decorate the her most invaluable citizens were sacriced
skulls of her judges and physicians withthose to glut their infernal thirst for gore. Rome
enormous masses of powdered curls,enough nearly burnt in order to represent fallen Troy
chy. Her situation as respects religion is

degraded indeed, and the morals of the peo
ple are lost in the wreck of her inuence.

No complaints dare he uttered, and where
suspicion rests, destruction inevitably fol

lows.
In every tyrant we perceive that those traits
which unite man to man are not found. This
is in no wise strange, for being accustomed
to every kind of cruelty, their hearts become
extremely hard, and they banish every spark
of humanity from their breasts. Every man
has some peculiar characteristic in his dis
position, and one that generally differs from
that of others; but in tyrants the same is al
ways found. The same ambition, the same
thirst for blood, distinguish all. In their

names we see prevailing the blackest traits
that are within the knowledge of man, and
these dispOsitions they gratify to their utmost
extent. No wonder then that tyrants are
destitute of those principles which unite
man to man; and no wonder that we see
the nation or country over which they tyran

nize sunk into the most profound ignorance
and misery.
'
What can be worse than a tyrant, and

what can be worse than to have the minds of
a people sunk under oppression? But strange
as it is, even in children we see the same
to furnish false locks for half the ne women in ames, testied the savage barbarity of spirit, and the same love for ruling over
M
their associates. Itappears to be an inherent
quality, and one which almost every one
seems desirous of cultivating. In animals it
also pre- ails, and in the feathered tribe every
bird is desirous of obtaining the superiority
over the others. Hence it appears to be a
disposition implanted by nature, and which
time and opportunities have cherished and

increased.
JUNIUS.
so lookd lscariot as the spirit ew,
Day brings new terrors to the guilty breast,

And only gloom imparts a beam of rest!
Tis now resolved, the guiltless Lord shall die,
And in triumphant arrogance withdrew!

While different passions mingle in his face,
He leaves the spot with deviating pace;
"is mighty griefs, against his reason joind,
Bring raging phrenzy on his tortured mind;
That heavenly form within the tomb shall lie,

(II
10 (It
Part of the deathful and unfeeling cord,
The priests and. scribes the price of blood have

paid,
325
Iscariot fell and Jesus is betrayd.
They all behold him as their lawful prey,
Inspired by ends, more wicked still than they.
With which unfeeling traitors bound the Lord, 260
Vith Jesus in the midst, the murdrous band,
Was still within lscariot's trembling hand,
Around the throne, in cruel triumph stand;

330
Surrounded by his slaves, the Priest is seen,
In pompous garments and with haughty mien;
Though smotherd in his breast his passions lie,
Forward he hastend, reacbd the fatal tree,
Where rst commenced his guilt, his misery
0,
Aptly subservient to his wos command:

Amonstrous thought ashd ercely through his
For the Repertory.
mind,
THE PROPITIATION.
With dreadful guilt and savage fury blind;

BOOK V.
aacumm'r.
Contimmtion ofMnmmons address to Judas,- [scari
ots terrible desnir on descovering the imposition,
He hangs himself,- .Ipostrophe; Juan: in the mean
time has been carried to the palace of C'tu'apbax;

The high priest addresses the multitude,- drlreas to
Caiahns; Tm Jews, st'bborned for the purpose,
at length appear and accuse the Lord.

Hear and let terror shake thy inmost soul,
Let hell born horror oer thv bosom roll;
No prayer ascended, on that fatul night,
To listning mercy to direct thee right;
205
No deep reection lld thy bosom then,

Heedless you rushd to guilt and rushd amain;
Deluded fool! reection could have saved,
221
Now with a frantic smile the chord he eyed,
265
Unfeeling malice looks from either eye,

Bent on the humble Saviour for a while,
And hung suspended, dangling in the air!

The. chord his fearful struggles tighter drew,
\nd ~\ ild and red his starting eye balls grew: 270
Forth from its mansion rushd his lengthend
335
Then oer his visage spread a scornful smile!
His looks triumphant, all his joy expressd
And his wild transports shook his guilty breast,
How, how shall I the sacred joy impart,
345
That beats tumultuous at my swelling heart!
Heaven looks propitious from his height of power
tongue,
And down his breast. an awful horror! hung;
The fatal eort checkd the rising breath,
And smiles benignant on this darkling hour,

This glorious hour, that sees a wretch condemnd,
Then, like a torrent, oer their banner broke,
And his face blackend with the dismal death!

Lifeless he hung till snappd the chord in twain,
And, from his throne arising, thus he spoke:

Chosen of God, whose holy bosoms feel
\Vith Justice warm and unaffected zeal
Then, madly, round his neck one end he tied;'

Mounted the tree, conned the other there,
Then fell a bloated corpse upon the plain;
275
Through his swelld carcase broke a gaping wound,

And his warm vitals gushd upon the ground!
0! shudd'ring muse, forsake the doleful strain,
280
For him, who, from the trembling Sinai, gave
The only law by which he deignd to save;

By whom our sacred doctrines are contemn'd; 350
This sacred hour, which now we dedicate
And you to Hell had never been enslaved:

210
One prayer had snatch'd thee from a cruel late,
And curbd the awful purpose of our hate;
One prayer had hurld me, shreiking, down to hell;
For fear and wonder oer my bosom reign;

\Vhile gentle pity heaves the W0 born sigh,
But avrice conqucrd and lscariot fell!
Forbid it, Heaven, that such a fate be mine:
Behold the man, whose sacrelegious hands,
215
The true Redeemer to the Jews he sold,
And his proud spirit to the friends, for gold;
And what avails him now the silvry meed,
The priests imparted for the bloody deed;
Say can it purchase conscience to lie still,
Or urge the furies to forego their will;
220
No, from the ends, not all his wealth could buy
The lil le torment of one triing sigh;
That such a heart my swelling breast should hold,

The slave of passion and alluring gold;
286
best from the truth my soul be led astray,
And, like a second Judas, I betray!
Are justly manacled with shameful bands,
Thou who couldst fashion nature, canst control
Would heal the sick, invigorate the lame;
And the big tear swims trembling in the eye

Unthinking Judas! what a fate was thine,
The latent springs that move my inmost soul; 290

Subdue my warring passions' raging tide,
The swelling streams of avarice and pride;
Put in one scale the ore, in one put Hell,
Teach me the rebel in my soul to chain,
Then which preponderates, Iscariot, tell:
And view unmoved, felicity or pain!
Say which is heaviest, Heavens eternal ire,
225 Make my contentious spirit ever prove,
295
Or shining gold, a never ending re?
Humbly obedient to thy forceful love!
In all the madness of despair now rave,
When stern misfortune strikes with deep appal,
There lives no power, Iscariot, that can save:
May I behold a chastning God in all:
Were e'en indignant Justice to relent,
My soul submissive, led by thee, disdain
Thy willing guilt his purpose would prevent! 230 To rail at lieaven, or at my woes complain;
300
To bear perdition call thy utmost powers,
Till like the sun emerging from his bed,
Perdition waits thee in a few short hours;
Above the seas of grief I raise my head:
The shapeless furies now, in frantic dance,
Or like the gold rened within the ame,
To sport with misery and thee advance!
I come forth pure to sing thy conquering name!
Nay. never bend in useless rage thy brow,
235 So when the prince of death his barb has ung,
For rage, nor phrenzy can avail thee now;
And my last song shall tremble on my tongue, 306
Thou'st but a foretaste of those streams of we,
I-.re yet the strain with feeble nature dies,
Which like a torrent, soon shall overow,
My soul shall catch the music of the skies,
Then never shake, I hasten to prepare,
Her ravishd ears drink in the glorious sound,
A feast of grief redundance of despair!
240 Then my freed spirit take th etherial bound. 310
He spoke, and appd his pinions oer his head,
And as my soul shall rile to her desire,
11 ( n to the council of the furies ed.
My mortal anthem, lingring, shall expire;
As when impelld by Heavens resisdess bands,
Expire in louder, sweeter, music there,
On the sky's verge the lost arch angel stands,
Where shouts of triumph pierce the sacred air!
Beholds below, the hideous gape divide,
Now with their swords and staves the noisy crew,
24-5
And bell relentless roll her burning tide!
On to the palace the Redeemer drew,
315
Casts a glance backward on from whence he fell,
Where bloody Caiaphas, to usher fate,
And mightier horrors o'er his bosom swell,
And scribes ann priests the awful hour await.
Loud thund,ring grouns his agony declare,
Fit hour they chose, the darkness ofthc night,
And his eye sickens with a deep despair!
250 Attrociou! actions shun th unwelcome light; 320
340
To awful Justice and relentless hate,
To prove to Heaven our unsubducd regard,

And greet you traitor with a dread reward
355
He who has dared, against our dread behest,
To promulgate the falsehoods of his breast,

Whose blind presumption, and unblushing shame,
360
The leper cleanse, who boasts that he can save
The loathsome dead, and call them from the grave!

Nay more, who doth our holy sabbath break,
And gainst our dread Saanhedrim dares to speak,
Whose guilty actions only serve to draw
365
Unjust contumely on our sacred law,
That law which God indulgent did bestow,

To guide his Israel through this scene of wo!
Before that power his bascness has abused,
Abashd he stands, of monstrous crimes accused:
To you belongs it now, ye Jews. to say

371
What dread return his actions shall repay.
Injurious Caiaphas, what guilty deed
Condemns the Saviour of the world to bleed?
Sayst thou of monstrous crimes accused! what are
Those crimes? sagacious hypocrite, declare.
376
Was it a crime to bid diseases y,
And drive the sickly puller from the eye,

To bring the colour to the fading cheek,
To rouse the deaf and bid the dumb to speak, 380
Command the maimed to leave the unfeeling
ground,
0r heal the maniac, long in madness bound,

Upon the leprous healing inuence shed,
And by eternal potence raise the dead!
385
These are the crimes for which he stands armign'd

Before thy power, by haughty pride obtain'd.
Hail! blessd Redeemer, that couldst thus endure,
The efforts of their enmity, how pure,
Thy glorious actions, how deserved thy fame, 390
When even malice nd no cause for blame!
PHILADELPHIA RJsBFJtTonx, , .,_
222
Thou holy priest, and you, ye zealous Jews,

\Vhlle I the hated prisner now accuse;
First, by our sacred sabbath do I swear,
The awful truth I only will declare!
And slowly leaves the mountain tops and gilded

spires '
'
395
80 may that God defend me at my death, "
,
I
,
rious, the soles were armed with large nails,
and the upper leathers were an assemblage
of botchcs; the famous ship of Argus had
not so many piccesin it, and since they had
With lingll'ing pace the parting day retires,
Now in the crowd two slaves lubornd appear,

And one advancing, cried aloud, giVe ear,
Yon azure cloud, enrobed with white,
Still shoots a gleam of fainter liuht;

At length descnds a browner shade;
At length the glimring objects fade;
been slippers, Which was about ten years,
the most skillful cobblers in all Bagdat had

exhausted their genius to keep them to
And undistinguishd darkness covers all the plain.
gether, they even became so heavy that
From whom all present have received their breath.

Now twenty moons had spent their borrowd rays.
And ung around their ineffectual blaze;
401
Since rst, forerun by prostituted fame,
Till all submit to Nights impartial reign,
From Canas land, this arch deceiver came;
Resounds beneath the woodmans stroke.

Now silence holds her solemn way,
Mute is each bush, and evry spray:
Nought but the sound of murmring rills is heard,
Where, it was said, the people askd a sign,

And at his word the water changed to wine.
405
_._
No more the ivy-crowned oak
Or from the mouldring tower Nights solitary bird.

For the Repertory.
Hail! sacred hour of peaceful rest!

VERSES ,
Supposed to be written by one of the tenants of

the Magdalen Hospital.
0! welcome sequestetd retreat,
That hidst from the smile of disdain;
Life passes so calm and so sweet,

What could tempt me to wander again?
Here quiet and happiness dwell,
Sweet solitude, soother of care;
Felicity reigns in my cell,

And banishes cheerless despair.
But that which is sweetest and best,
And all other thoughts doth control,
Is that peace now exists in my breast,
And hope beams her rays on my soul.
0! Father of mercy, to thee
My thanks and my anthems should rise;
'ho piticd a creature like me,
And taught her the way to the skies.
No more shall a lawless desire,
No longer the ruinous bowl
To deeds of distraction inspire,
That gender despair to the soul!
From the orgies of passion now free,
From the revels of midnight secure;
My soul hangs dependent on thee,

Redeemer, forgiving and pure.
Ye good, that would raise from distress,
Who founded this mansion of peace;
Who deignd a lost creature tobless,

And bade all her anguish to cease,
Pursue the congenial design,
Nor fear lest it should not succeed;
That smiles on each virtuous deed.
And, 0! the reward how sublime,
\Vhen fate steals away the frail breath;
When free from this prison of time,
And cold lies the body in death;
To rise and to meet the glad throng,

Conunanded to bless from the grave;
And _join in the Magdalenes song,
No horrors hast thou in thy train,

No scorpion lash, n0 clanking chain.
\Vhen the pale murdrer rmmd him spies
A thousand guilty forms arise,
When shreiks and groans arouse his palsyd fear,
Tis guilt alarms his soul and concienee wounds his
ear.
The village swain whom Phillis charms,
Whose breast the tender passion warms:
\Vishes for thy all shadowing veil,
To tell the fair his lovesick tale:
Nor less impatient of the tedious day,

'She longs to hear his talc, and sigh her soul away.
0ft by the covart of thy shade,
Johannas Wood the beauteous maid;
NIGHT.
The busy cares of day are done;
in yonder westem cloud the sun

Now sits, in other worlds to rise,
And glad with light the Bother skies.
whose affairs were in aruinous state, had

some
excellent rosewater to sell, which
vantage of the poor mans misfortunes, and
bought his rosewater for half its value.

This new bargain put him into good humour;
however, instead of giving an entertain
ment to his neighbours, according to the cus
tom of the merchants of the East, when
they make a fortunate purchase, he found it
more convenient to go to the public baths,

where he had not been for a long time; as
he was undressing, a person whom he took
to be his friend (for the covetous have rare
ly any real ones) told him that his pantouf
es were the ridicule of the whole city, and
Mounts active to the starry pole;
Then pleasd to range-the realms of endless night,

Numbers the stars, or marks the comets devious
l ight.
out before the judge passed rst into the

dressing room, and having put on his clothes,
he sought in vain for the pantoullles, in the
room of which he discovered a new pair,

Thine is the hour of converse sweet,
our avaricious merchant persuaded, because
he wishcd it so, that the person who had

just rebuked him about his old slippers had
made him a present of the new pair, put
Nor change thy festive hours for sunshine and the them on his feet without hesitation, and
day.
LEANDER.
quittcd the place, overjoyed at the thought
__._.
of being saved the expense of buyin'r.
THE SLIPPER S,
When the cadi had done bathing, the
OR THE PUNISHMENT 0F AVARICE.
fit the fair blossom of the mind,
lluttfairer still with reason joiud

Then will I still implore thy longer stay,
slaves looked about for their masters pan
There dwelt in Bugdat an old merchant toules, instead of which they could only
named Abo'w Cassam noted for his avarice;
For the Repertory.
One day as this merchant was walking in

theBeza (the public market in the city) an of
fer was made him ofa large quantity ofcrystal,
of which he made an advantageous purchase.
Hearing some days after that a pcrfumer,
that he ought to buy a new pair. I have

Through foaming seas his passion bore,
thought of it a long time (replied Cassam)
Nor feard the Oceans thundring roar;
but they are not yet so bad but they may
The conscious virgin from the sea girt tower
Hung out the faithful torch to guide him to her serve a little longer.I During this conversa
bower.
1tion he was quite undressed and retired to
the bath.
0ft at thy silent hour the sage
Pores on the fair instructive page;
\Vhilc he was bathing, the cadi of Bag
Or wrapt in musings deep, his soul
dat came likewise to bathe. Cussam coming
A TURKISH TALB
MARIA
always the object of comparison.
was his last resource. he instantly took ad
\Vhcn spritely wit and reason meet; \
ame of assistance divine,
That mercy is able to save!
Of power to charm the troubled breast!

I By thee the captive Slave obtains
Short respite from his galling pains;
Nor sighs for liberty, nor native soil,
But for a while forgets his chains and sultry toil.
they passed into a proverb, and when any

one wished to express a thing that Was rc
markably clumsy, Cassams pantoullles were
nd a vile old pair, which were readily
although he was very rich his cloaths were known to be Cassams, the cadis ofcers
nothing but patches and rags, his turban i went directly in quest of the suspected thief,
was of the coarsest cloth, and so dirty that 'land nding him with the stolen elfects up
it was difcult to distinguish the colour; on him, after exchanging the pantoufilcs the
but of all his whole dress, his slippers were Cadl sent him to prison, and as he was re
what most merited the attention of the eu portcd to be as rich as he was covetous he
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223
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was obliged to'compromiSe the matter with
race on top of the house to dry, but For
pleasure at the return of Glorman to the
the cadi by the payment of a considerable tune had not exhausted her quiver against poetic department of the Repertory. we. re
sum of money.
_ _ '
' the unlucky man, and now she dealt him a quest him to excuse us. His verses exhibit;
On his return home, the alicted Cas

sai'n, for very spite, threw his slippersinto
the river Tigris, which ran under his win
dows. Some days a'fter,a sherman. pulling
up his net, found it heavier than usual which
was owing to the weight of the pantoutiles,

the nails of which had caught hold of his
net and broke several of the meshes, the
poor sherman, enraged at Cass-am and his
slippers, took it into his head to ing them
in at the window, and he threw them with
mere cruel stroke than all the rest. A young

dog in the next house perceiving the slip
pers, leaped from his masters terrace over
to Cassams and seizing one of them in his
mouth, began playing his gambols with it
till he at last dropt it, and itv fell over into
the street, and unhappily struck on the head
of a woman who was pregnant and who was
passing along in the street before Cassams
door! fear added to the violence of the blow,
made the poor woman miscarry; her hus
band carricd his complaints to the cadi, and

Cassam was condemned to make him a re
compence proportionate to the injury he
had done his wife.
Upon this fresh misfortune he ran home,
and takingr his pantoules in his hand, he
ance more repaired to the cadi; Behold,
my Lord, (said he with an impetuosity
the covetous wretch tearing his beard) which diverted the judge) the infernal eause
you shall not do me any move mischief! ; of all my su'erings; these cursed pantouf
So saying he took up his spade, and repair i lies have reduced me to poverty; deign
ed to his garden and dug a hole to bury ltherefore, to publish a decree, that I may
them. One ofhis neighbours, who for a con not be made responsible for the ills they
siderable time had owed him a grudge, see will doubtless yet occasion. The cadi could
ing him turning up the ground ran to the not refuse this reasonable petition; and Cas
governor, and informed him that Cassam sam at length by dearly bought experience,
learned the fatal effects of avarice.
had just dug up a hidden treasure in his gar
den. This was sufcient to rouse the cupi
a keen satire upon those love sick ditties,

which every boy of fteen fancies he can
write, and with which we are, unhappily, too
much pestered.
_.._
We have pleasure in stating that the ap
pointment of Mr. Monroe to the office of
secretary of state, made by the president
during the recess of congress, was yester
day conrmed by an unanimous vote of the
senate.
'
.N'at. Int.
_._
such force, that he overset the crystal vases
that decorated the cornish and mantle-piece

of the room, and one of them'hkewise struck
the bottle containing the' rose water and
dashed it to pieces.
L
Figure to yourself, if you can, the agonies
of Cassam on beholding this piece of de
vastation. Cursed pantouies! (exclaimed
dity of the commandant, and our miser in vain
remonstrated that he hadnot discovered

any gold, but was only burying his' cursed
slippers; the governor had made sure of
the money, and the unfortunateCassam could
not obtain his liberty without a handsome

present.
__ The distracted old miser now gave his

pantouflies most heartily to the devil, and
went and threw them into an aqueduct, at a
great distance from the city, thinking that
he should hear no more of them; but the
devil who had not yet done playing his

tricks with him, directed them to the con
duit of the aqueduct, by which means they
interrupted the current of the waters and
caused an inundation in the adjoining gar
dens; the owners on discovering the cause,
to..k the slippers to the cadi, and demand
ed satisfaction for the damages they had ocl
casioned; the unhappy owner of them was
once more committed to prison, and con
demned to pay a ne, which amounted to a
larger sum than the two former; after which
the cadi, who would by no means detain
his property, restored him his choice pan
toufiies. Cassam, that he might be nally
delivered from all further harm, now deter
mined to burn them, but as they were well

soaked with water, he set them on the ter
PHILADELPHIA,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Maria is welcomed to the Repertory with

the most cordial delight. On her composi
tion we shall make no remarks, it speaks for
itself, and we sincerely hope it may have a
proper effect upon some of the unfortunate
victims of sensuality with which our city
abounds. We should consider ourselves
highlyculpable, did we dismiss this subject
without a deserved encomium on those good
men, whose hearts and purses have been en
gaged in erecting a retreat for those un
happy fugitives from virtue and peace,
whose repentant souls have led them to seek
it, and prepare, in the chambers of retire
ment, for another and a better world."
They command the esteem of the wise and
virtuous, and, what is more, they obtain the
BATTLE I'IH THE INDIANS.
(From the Alexandria Gazette, Nov. 28.)

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Leuisrilie,
to the Hon. Mr. Ormsby, dated the 16th Novem
ber.
An action took place on the 7th November be
tween the troops under Gov. Harrison, and the In
dians under the Prophet. The following are some
of the particulars: I give you a list of a few that
were killed in the action; Col. Daviess, Col- Owen
of Shelby, Col. White of the Saline, Capt. Spencer,

and both his snbalterns, and Capt. Berry from Co
rydon, also Capt. Bain of the regulars. There were
170 whites killed and wounded, and as many IndL
ans. The Indians made the attack on the night oi

the 7th instantthey surprised our army; they kil
led all the guards with arrows, and were in the
camp beforethe whites had the least notice of them.
The battle was fought in sight of the Prophets
Town. Three Indians attacked Col F. Geiger in
his tent at one timehe killed one and vanquished
the other twohe was shot through the arm.
Gov. Harrison was shot ihIOt'lgil the hat and slight
ly wounded in the head. Thomas Randolph was
killed dead; Judge Taylors horse was killed under
him. It is said that Major Floyd fought like Cesar
in his shirt tailThe Indians rushed up and came
to the point of the bayonet with their tomahawks,

There has been dreadful slaughter.
" Since writing the above! have seen a letter
from Hunter to Capt. Clarke~he states that he was
slightly wounded, and among the number killed
are James Summt-rville and Stephen MarsHunter
states that the Indians vgot all their beef and a
great number of their horses; they got about ve

thousand bushels of com and burned the Prophc'ts
Town the day after the action; "
In addition to the above we learn, other letters
received state, that Gov. Harrison had an interview
with the Prophet on the 7th Nov. and it had been

approbation of their God.
-The verses of Leander possess a great agreed betWeen them to hold a council on the next
deal of merit, though they are not without daythat a negro had deserted from the American
their faults, among which may be reckoned army and went over'to the Indians, and told them
a greater prolixity than the subject requires. the intended council was only meant as a decoy to
They, however, exhibit a talent for peotry, the Indians, whom it was the intention of the whites
which we shall at all times be happy to en to massacre when gathered together,and that the
American troops only consisted of about two hun
courage.
For our oversight in'not expressing our dred
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The individual who would correctly sur

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scrutinizing eye, would discern the several
causes and propulsions of each, would per
haps nd no mean, better calculated to dis
tation.The tendence of the latter obser

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favoured child of successful science: and
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cult track ofhis literary career. In sketches
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excited by the attendant circumstances and
close the genius of the age, thanthe biogra<
disposition of the subject; and although this
phical representation of emineitt characters.

It is through other men that we may fre
is increased or depressed '_by the action of

different causes, it can neverbe totally sub
dued, while" hum-an 'curiosity' possesses its
present stimulus or while novelty retains the
power of exciting attention. A compara
tive view of two eminent characters present
BIOGRAPHY.
l-rom the Washingtonian.
CHATTERTON AND 'HITE.
N0. 29.
\\ ere rather of the melancholy and serious

cast, than that of the volatile nature, which
in general characterizes the early period of

youth. Deep thought appeared to occupy his
mind and contemplation to hold her seat al

most invariably in his countenance. Such
was White, and such too was Thomas Chat
terton. But although the comparison will

thus far bear the connection, and admit the
blending, beyond this the two characters are

lost in their contrarieties and differ in their
traits; with the trivial exception of a few
virtues which shone similarly in both. The

disposition of_\Vhite wassweet, amiable, and
guishcd author, and through their pecu
placid; in the tnidst of his love of fame, and
liarities discover our own." But biographi
his increasing reputation, the flattering in
cal sketches are unrestricted to this single
cense paid at the shrine of his genius pro
advantage, whilst the able pen of a pertinent ed with their natural defects, and virtues, duced no evil effect upon the calm and
writer
can point attendant
out the defects,
and disclose
the advantages
ion genius.
The and contrasted in their several similitndes', serene temper of his, mind: and it any ob
has the additional advantage of rendering the servable result 'bedisccrncd, it was perhaps
quently behold ourselves, says adistin
utility of this species of literature, were it genius and disposition of each exposed to
even conned to the penof the historian,
would be of itself an inestimable treasure in

the literary department: but happily the
concomitant excellencies which result from
it are not peculiar to the moral tract, or the

historical page, since there is also a plea
siire in perusing the lives of eminent indi
viduals, (who by their genius or fortune
that of an' increascd desire for honour; and
the fairer view of the reader. in the follow

ing sketch every advocate of Chatterton and
every admirer' of 'hite will discern a dc
grec of similarity in virtues (where the for
mcr possessed them) which must have ar-l
rested
has maturely
the attention
reected
of on
every
each
individual
of these who
ex- I
amples of " unprecedented precocity.
even this might have arisen in no inconsi

derablcjldegree from thepleasure which his
rising reputation conferred on his friends.
His modest and winning deportment in
which a native truth and dignied manner
conspicuously shone, gained Henry the in
variable esteem of all who knew him, and
i preposscssed-in his favour the good opinion
i llcnry Kirk \Vhite, was born of indigent
of every individual, into whose presence his

and unintluential p..rents, whose contracted fate might have led him. Chattcrton on the
tion. The bosom burns with a glowing de
circumstances were often a source of pain contrary, conscious of his ascendency in
sire, whilst we read the happy efforts of a and mortication to his generous and feel talent, seemed to demand the tribute of ho
patriotic statesman struggling with adversity, ing mind. In his earlier years he displayed nour from the hand of all: proud and inde
and contending for the protection ofhis coun not that quick and lively perception, which ,pendent, overbearing in the freak of temper,
try, amid the assailing obstacles of combined has distinguished others of less real and in lhe possessed from his earliest years a Quick
and adverse evils: a picture which thel trinsic talent, but was frequently exceeded tdisposition which the natural candour of his
states of France, England and Spain, have! by those of his years in matters requiring a .mihd did not always counterbalance. in a
alternately presented to the eye of the po-l sound and penetrating judgment. llis ge letter to the honourable H. \Valpoic, he
litical inquirer. The hero,'who opp0ses. nius, when expanded by a short interval of discovers a degree ol' passion unwotthy the
the machinations of-powcrful foes; and ar time, displayed its'attachinent and inclina respect and attention which his imperious
rives at the goal of. honour, through sur tion to poetry as the prepon'dcrating mark nature demanded, and w hich of itself would
rounding impedim'cnt, becomes, when the of' its excellence in literature. The lively debar the patronage he sought. Such was
subject of a biographical pen,'an object of strokes of talent, and brilliant Scintillations the disposition of Chatterton, wnen a con
interest and improvement. But the Son of. of wit discovered in his earlier compositions sciousness of his 'own abilities aroused his.
genius .who reaches the temple of fame evince a native fecundity which fuuri-y pro energy or when a suspicion of nUSiUL'l ex
through the peaceful, but no less arduous mised to extend, but which the unhappy pc vcited his dormant feelings: otherwiye seri
have introduced themselves into notice,)
which is a source of inexhaustible gratica
path of erudite acquirements, is equally an .culiarrt'y of his lot, must have warped nild ious and scdaic, in; inind was imbued with
object worthy of our acquaintance and imi comPresQdQliis temper and disposition melancholy and distinguished by the moat
.t
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PHILADELPHIA RE _
profound thought. His talents were more

universal than those of \Vhite, but the latter
possessed the advantage in the creative
elds of fancy, or in moral and physical rea
foundation of every creed, which he beliefs
him fur some mmms i" a kind of horrid
the system of christianity incapable of yield wonder, while he proceeded as follows:

.Yes, prince, I am the murderer of your
ing, cornmenced at an immature periodv
the doctrinelef Pyhronism: and from view
50.- Nay more, he who disclosed to you my
soning. Chattcrton was ckle, and ittcortsta-nt. ing other subjects in adoubtful light'he ar
dtlgns upon your life; was an accomplice
One moment music and painting" is 955.01. rust] st the Chills... of a tots. Natl-f :. the 5.;hgt'cMsed design. Geraldcand Gaspard,
-
cupation; the next astronomy and heraldry,

and perhaps antiquities and poetry had their
turn. A mind like this, which applies to all,
and with vigour to none, will never reach
the palm of eminence in any branch. \Vhite
as constant, assiduous, and persevering; to
compensate for this want of universal talent,

application was eit'ercised to such studies as
his inclination naturally opposed: among
those the science of ntatltematits was his
utter aversion, and his close attention to
this opposed every bent of his inclination and
nature. The former appeared to nd dif
culty in nothing; the latter possessed many
opponents by nature, and many more by
habit and situation. The rst had a san
guine, the latter a patient and yielding tem
per. A strong and rm attachment appear
ed in both with the earliest affection for
'
. 0
~.
I' J:..L..1~
'
tenets of the gospel. It was not, however,
the act of a moment when his sanguine

mind was attached to christianit'y, that he
concluded by a desertion ofits precepts, and
opposition tO'thc cause? he had frequently
and deeply reected on the subject, and as
often involved himselfin a labyrinth of per
plexities from which he was incapable of
extricating himself or deriving any certain
conclusion: the mysteries of the sacred writ
., rs they could not be elucidated by his com
iprehension, served rather to increase his
scepticism than to produce a reverential awe
for their divine author. When the youthful
mind conding in an acknowledged supe
riority of natural talent, and conscious of
an ascendency over the general judgment
ventures to remove from the common track,
and strike out for itself a peculiar path, it
assisted by). traitorous Huberto, despatch

ed him, on unfatal day in which we sought
the wood; whill pierced my own arm to
give credence tilflgiejl; NOW) PrincFa

you kl!0\V'm-"IWEIIOIZM
your looks are piercing to my soul, ther'c~
fore I' cannot hear them and you must die!"

I had not yet sufciently recovered myself
to speak to the ungrateful wretch, and my
eyes were still bent on him with a vacant
stare. He shrunk from my view and seemed
tortured by contending passions. Though I
had so much cause to 'abhor Montaldo, I
ptill felt disposed to pardon him, and think;
mg this a good opportunity to work upon
his feelings, I portrayed the enormity of his
guilt in all the cogent reasoning of truth

and conjured him not to shut the gates of
mercy entirely against his Soul. _I pron'iised
their relatives; but an open and generous immerges into a degree of'dati'ger which, him not only mypardbn forhis attempt
temper has been peculiarly observable in although it be emminentlygreat, is imper upon my life, but also to pardon the murder
Chatterton.-White was candid, undisguised ceptible to tlte jaundiced eye. In this pre of my darling boy. Advistl'him to y from
and a'ablethc other would not hesitate to carious situation was the unhappy Chatter his guilt and pursue the' paths of virtue, for
bend to the subterfuges of deceit and pre ton. From the rst period of his sceptical that sooner or later, Heaven never forgot to
varication in order to answer and complete
an intended purpose. A manly countenance
was the property of each; sharp, and pene
trating eyes were possessed by either; Chat
bring the hour of retribution.

This, instead of operating as it should
removed until irrecovcrably plunged into have done, only served to heighten his rage.
Prince! he Cried with increased ve
an abyss of despair and ruin. An awful
terton, however, in peculiar displayed a example to the assumptive and aspiring hemence, You urge in vain, think you I
brilliancy in the eye which is seldom or mind of youth! Perhaps no feature is more could bear your forgiveness? No, your smiles
never surpassed; and this conspicuously alarming in the disposition of a young and of approbation would be to me the mockery
sparkled when the ardor of debate or the sanguine temper, than an obstinate perverse of hell! Your frowns, your curses, prince,
spirit of opposition excited his feelings. ness to leave the beaten track, to abjure ac would be more welcome. Pardon for Mon
The fruit of Whites pen was conned chief? knowledged principles, and to oppose the taldo! ha! ha! ha! There, lord DArinhault,
1y to the place of his residence, that of the general opinion of the world: 'when the is your sepulchre! pointing to the dun
other was disseminated over England, and mind has arrived at this point, it has reach geon, there you are doomed to live, till
published in nearly every periodical literary ed the rst step to the gaol of indelity, famine wear you to a lifeless skeleton! In, in,
paper within his reach; and his masculine whose issue seldom concludes in less than and calm this sea of misery!
mind was propelled to action by the cravings irremediable destruction.
Pity tne, O! thou, who readest this ac
of hunger; which the scanty earnings of his
count
of the bloodiest deed that ever dis
(To be continued.)
labour, as it was ill requited, could not
graced human nature. Conceive the horror
satisfy. His disposition rst displayed itself
of my feelings at the prospect of being
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in his early compositions by aspirit of satire,
buried alive, and by the very wretch whom
while that of White was of the more pleas
my kindness had rescued from the grave!
on
ing cast of sentiment.
Conceive then, for my pen is inadequate to
But we have still to make a discrimina
the description.
'
THE MYSTBRIOUS MONK;
tion more palp'ably agrant than any hitherto
But the awful moment was now come:
A TALE.
noticed; which appears to disclose in each,
and with the demoniac fury of a end, MonCHAPTER XII;
nor one, but many traits in their characters. Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
taldo' c'ommanoed me to pass into the dun
Cbatterton was early inltiatcd into the pre But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
geou. l attempted to remonstrate, and again
cepts of the gospel, and embraced its tenets If;the grave
portrayed the atrocity of his guilt and
with a warmth and affection in his younger Can vomit those we bury up, our tombs
the dreadful retribution that Would here
Wit-5pm.
years, that seemed to promise much Salis Shall be the mawl o fkites.
or hereafter overtake him. But in vain, nay,
faction to hisi'ricnds, and comfort to himself:
You can judge, gentle reader, 'what were while l \\ as yet speaking the monster thrust
opinions, he had stood on the tottering
brink of a precipice from which he never
his ardent and aspiring genius, however.
my teelings when Montaldo thus OVHICtl
through inc door \\..y and, us I felt, his
which demands a degree of proof in the himself the assassin of my child. '1 gazed on .sword pierced my -side.' 'The door closed,
It:
Pmmnnntimsnnrnssonnfl g
WM
chanced to have about him for the purpose I heard the sounds of huntsmcn. A thought
of relating his aficting story: and most immediately occurred. I placed the infant at
probably, as he wrote the last word, the in the foot of a tree and mounted upon one of
'Here the scroll fell from the hand of strumentfell from the hand ofithe' unfor its highest branches, to observe what notice
Florival, his limbs trembled and 'a cold tunate victim of savage cruelty and relent the hunters would take of him. Presently
sweat bedewed his shivering frame. His less ambition, and the noble, generous Pan they appeared, with prince Pandolfo and
feelings cannot be described, but his looks dolfo expired! The feeling of Florival again count Altenheim at their head. The cries
fully bespoke them. Never before had he overcame him and again the parchment fell of the child attracted them, and judge of my
perused a recital of so diabolical a deed and from his hand. For some time he looked at joy and astonishment, when I found the de
when he considered that probably it was his the dreadful scroll, then seized it to peruse termination of the prince was to take him
father who had thus perished, his furious again the concluding paragraph. He opened and rear him as his own. With feelings
passion vented itself in declarations of dread it and having further unrolled it, he was sur which I cannot describe, I saw the son of
ful vengeance on the ungrateful Montaldo. prized to nd a continuation written appa Malventi conveyed away, and in Montaldo,
But no, Montaldo had acknowledged him 'rently with ink attached to it with thread. no doubt, the readeris prepared to recognize
self the murderer of the unhappy son of After his astonishment subsided he read as him. I loved the child with an unaccountable
' i
Pandolfo, then he could not be the same. follows:
ardour, although the o'spring of illicit in
tDoubtlcss the villain had seen the poniards
Reader, after thy horror, and amaze tercourse, and could not bring my heart to
of his bravoes buried in the infants bosom, ment at the recital of the hapless prince part with him. I, accordingly. a few days af
and all hopes of discovering himself now Pandolfo, ,have, in some measure, ceased. ter, went with the peas.nt who sheltered
vanished from the bosom of the youth. And bestow a few moments on the story of Hu
me, to the castle of the prince and o'ered
.yet what could urge the hatred of Montaldo herto, for Huberto is alive!"
myself as a servant in the castle or as an
but this circumstance? Could it be that he
Here was a new motive for wonder and attendant upon the foundling, and in this last
had discovered the son of his murdered Florival was so astonished, that for some capacity was received. A fewweeks after
benefactor in the vassal of count Altnheim,
time he found himself unable to proceed; this the generous peasant died.
and wished to destroy him? The most pro which, when he did, every word increasedI vI now lived happy for some time, but as
bable idea, however, be conceived to be, his wonder, hope and expectation.
' the disposition of Montaldo began to expand,
that the affection which Amelia had dis
That the unhappy Huherto is alive, I discovered it consisted of ungovernable
covered for him was the cause of Montaldo's after what you have perused above, appears passion, savage cruelty and profound dis
hatred, and that he determined to destroy wonderful. But let the regularly proceed, simulation. He was now declared to be heir
him in order to remove the greatest obsta the more particularly, as I am in hopes this apparent of the titles and estates of Pandolfo,
cle to his designs upon the unfortunate manuscript will be conducted by overruling as there was no prospect of a lawful heir,
maid. This, indeed, appeared the most solid justice, into the hands of count Altenheim, the princess being in a poor state of health.
reason the youth could bring for his impri through some powerful advocate for virtue However some years after, contrary to all
sonment, and as such he adopted it.
and humanity, to whom I should myself expectation, the princess presented prince
What a terrible secret he should have to have delivered it, agreeably to the request DAriuhault with a son. It was now Itrem~
relate to count Altenheim, should Heaven of the dead, together with what follows, but bled for Montaldo. iVhcn I imparted the
once conduct him to the hospitable mansion thatI feared it might be received with con news to him, he was convulsed with sudden
of his benefactor and the maternal embraces tempt as a fabrication by one who sought passion. He knashed his teeth and exhibited
of the marchioness of Malventi. The feel the ruip of Montaldo, without any cause.
the strongest emotions of malice. and re.
ings of Florival having in some measure
The daring valour, the chequered life venge.
subsided, he again took up the manuscript and unfortunate death of the bandit Mal-5
\Vhat!" cried he to me, is this the
and read as follows, while tears involuntari
venti, is probably known to almost every in- 1 end, Huberto, of all my towering hopes?
ly traced each other down his cheeks:
habitant of the surrounding country; to his Must I now sink into' my original insigni
If thou hast a heart to pity the miseries band did I unhappily belong. On the fatal cance to make room forthis upstart ospring
of another, how will thy soul weep tears of night of his destruction, while blood and of nobility? That I will not do, by Heaven.
blood at what concludes this lamentable massacre were busy round her, did I snatch Nor will you, I think, Huberto, refuse to
story. I have now been six cheerlcss days Malventi's infant from the embraces of his aid me in maintaining my dignity."
in this miserable dungeon, without- tasting wife and y from the fury of the encounter;
My lord, said I, I would do much to
food or having a drop of water to cool my resolved at least to save him. Alas! had I serve you, from the respect I bore your
parching thirst. My arm grows nerveless; I known for what I had preserved him, I father and the love I have for you.
I My father! replied he, did you know
can scarcely intelligibly trace these bloody would have been the rst to plunge my
characters; I feel the cold embrace of death poniard into his then guiltless heart.
my father?"
commencing; the vital warmthreceeds; my
A peasant not far from the scene of ac
(To be continued
pulse utters; the lamp of life quivers in tion received and gave me shelter, ignorant
the socket and must shortly be extinct; my from whence I came and satised with my
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eyes are red from the fever of my brain; "evasive answers to his inquiries. I was now
adieu, Montaldo, Heaven pardon thee and"_ secure, and the next day began to think
THE
CABINET.
N0, LXIII.
i
Here closed this direful relation, which what I should do with' thechild. No plan
Like the morning dew
Florival could scarcely decipher, the more ! occurred to. my mind that could be of pos She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
'sible
advantage
towlum.
A
few
days
after
particularly, as it was written across other
Young.
composition, since the unfortunate prince ,5 as I wandered in the woods, with the boy in
Not many years ago, it so happened that
was of necessity obliged to use whatever he ll my arms, whom I never for a moment left, I I became acquainted with an elderly gentle
the bolts and bars were xed immoveably,
end the once potent prince Pandolfo was

donsigned alive to a horrible tomb!"
228
PHILADELPHIAt REPERTORY. '1
man who lived in an obscure part of Penn

sylvania. He had been educated in all the
splendour of city superiority, and was emi
nently caculated to move in what are termed
the most polished circles ofsociety, but dis
company of Maria, (for that was the name of to occupy one-herself. On hearing of the
the unfortunate girl) but denouncedthe vdangerous indispesition of Maria, and of
amiable Charlotte, for her assitluitiet in Charlotte. her faithful friend, the penitent
temw of the niost~~gallingreproach. But, 'llloiratio sought again the paths of virtue:
perfectly undisturbed by their rcprdachesin hismind was for some time in themost.
gusted with the vice and immorality for the consciousness of doing her duty, she at ,puinful situation imaginable, till at length
which all cities are so well known, he with tended her friend day- and night; andbe it unable to support it longer he wrote in the
two elegant and accomplished 1daughters

retired to a neat little farm on the romantic
borders of the river Alleghany. The gentle

man duriug hisyintercourse with the world
spoken .lto the honour of the aged Albert,

this attention to Maria yielded him unspeak
able pleasure.
~
The amiable girl suffered no thought, to
lie dormant, she was so intent on perform
bitterness of his heart a letter to Maria and

to her father, declaring his wish to make.
amends for, his vicious rashness. He did so;
but Charlotte remained yet extremely ill.

In a few days, however, Maria was so much
ing licrduty. By turns she was at the bed improved in health as to reciprocate her at
side of Maria yielding her assistance and tention, anti the happiness of Charlotte at
consolatitm, and by turns she was preferring seeing her friend thus snatched from infamy
her suit to her discoiisolate parents._ In per and death, nota little tended to hasten her
fill-utilig'this essential part of the dutypf a apparent recovery. She was now nearly well,
ties into which he entered; be feared not the friend instead of aggravating the crime of and her delighted father and the grateful
dangers tvhich.encompassed him. It may lloraiio, and surmising his tleparture to be family of Maria, and even her appeasetl
be reasonably supposed that in. this remote the e'ect of villainy,>she hinted that he still sister tendered her their congratulations on
situation, the sycophantic vices of rened loved tlicirdauglrtehand would at some future the happiness she had been instrumental in
society had not penetrated. lint where is it day repairtlust hijury._,lie had done to their bestowing on others.
1 um
that has not been entered by vice? where is family. In the mean time by means of the
It was however the will of that Being
it that its pollution has not tainted eatfhf most extraordinary exertiornlshe procured who is all benecence, and all wisdom, that
of the place to which Horatio this accumulation of bliss should be ofshort
\Vc may pass through untrodden territory; information
had ed._Siheiw'rotelto_ him frequently, urg
we may cross unattempted seas; we may
duration; and a sudden and violent relapse
seeks worlds yet unexplored, and we will' ing the wretchednessof Maria, and painting convinced Charlotte that she was not long to
nd our footsteps still preceeded by vice. in languagevat once powerful in reproach. remain an inhabitant of this earth. Her
Even if we should discover a world in which and"mild_in persuasion, the vice-of his pro friends were much alarmed, yet they strove
its habits are yet unrened, we carry the in ceeding and the necessity ofhis i-etut'ti. She to convince her that she was not. in danger.
fection with us, and wherever itappcars, is failed not topourtray the patience, the ten This she would not permit, and one evening
paradise transformed into a hell. _\Vhoever derness, and the forbearance of the suffer when they were'all out of the chamber but:
then expects to transport himself to a place ing Maria, and in declaring to him the sin
her sister and her a tentire father the good
'undisturhed by the intrusions of villainy, will: cerity of her, attachment, she did it in a old Albert,..Emily cried she in a faint
_most frequently nd reason to. deplore his manner which must at the same time have voice, I feel that my end is fast approach
error. So did it happen with the elderly exasperated and softened vice. She told him ing." Emily advanced to her bed-side. bly
Albert. The country into which he had re that his marriage with Maria was not only sister,said the expiring Charlotte, (her
moved although at this time but thinly set a duty that he owed to society, but one father now approached; she looked in his face,
he took her hand and held it between his in
tled, had yet some inhabitants of respectabi that he owed to himself. Her letters glow
lity, several of which Albert boasted as ed with the cxprcssion of her beauty; an agony of wo}- my sister, let this be a
neighbours. Among these wasa young man they sighed with the agonies ofher distress; lesson to you, when I am mouldering in the
who joined with an engaging appearance a they melted the heart with the struggles of earth, never to desert your friend because
most accommodating disposition, and pos her virtue; they appalled seduction with the she has been unfortunate: vice should ever
sessed in a great degree those little civilities nobleness of her pardon. Night nor day be despised, but it is the duty of mankind
to endeavour to restore its victims to the
which females consider enticing, and for the eased the anxiety of Charlotte for the happi
enjoyment of which they too often pay with ness of her friend; time nor fatigue damped path of happiness and peace, friendship re
their tranquillity of mind. His name was her determined attention; hope nor despair quires it, and it is not forbidden by virtue.
Horatio, and either led on by indcfmable relaxed her ell'orts. Still pushing forward in She having with pain articulated these
gradations, or such being his primary inten pursuit of this one object, every personal words, her spirit was exhaled, and went to
heaven.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
tion, he caught in the snare of his affections consideration was forgotten in the prosecu
.
or his pretended affections, a young lady to tion of so great an enterprize, constantly
~._
whom Charlotte, the younger daughter of engaged in this alone she thought not of the
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prudish condemnation of her sister and ac
Albert, had conceived an unecmmon attach
ment. His wishes or his imprudence having quaintances, or if she thought of it at all, it
ON SOCIETY.
thus come to an iSsu'e, the young Horatio was but to thank her happy stars that such
Sure he that made us with such large dig.
.
either in villainy,or in fear, hastily departed. was not her idea of virtue.
course, looking before and after, gave us not that.
Although nothing could shake the firm capability and godlikc reason, to rust in no unused."
This threw the deceived fair one. into a most
The desire we discover in the days of
\iolent fit of illness which was near termi ness, nor bind down they restless activity of
nating her life. The sister of Charlotte and Charlottes mind, yet the delicacy of her childhood for company, indicates that it
-..ll our ladies around, professed to hold the frame yielded to her continued labour and must be inherent, or that the knowledge of
Llilllc in such utter abhorrence, that they she found herself after repeated struggles the pleasures flowing from that source be~
not only withdrew. : themselyes from the obliged to leave the sick bed of her friend come so lastingly imprinted on our minds
had accumulated a comfortable competency,
and here with his two daughters(hi_s partner
being dead) he had determined to pass the
evening- of his life free from the bustle of
activity, and the jar of discord. But alas!
.short-sightedmortalnhq saw not the difcul
229
r
!hstit cannot be eradicated. Young persons

entering upon the stage of life, should be
particularly careful in the choice of asso
ciates, as the connections they then form
the custom amongst them, serious and dis

agreeable consequences would ensue. She
would he thought indeliCate by her own sex,

and lay herself open to receive from the
other sex many rude insults, shocking to a
female possessed of sensibility. The con
versation of females is more rened and
elegant than that of men, owing to the care
may pervert their understandings and entice

them to commit irregularities, which in
time will become habitual, and not only em
bitter the remainder of their days, but ruin
their reputation, and destroy all those bright which is taken to form their ideas, and the
visions of anticipated happiness, in which delicate and pliant "texture of their minds
the youthful mind is prone to indulge. A which receive with alacrity the precepts of
mislnthrope may enjoy satisfaction in his re their instructors. The complaints which are
tirement from society, but I am certain he urged by the men who assert that the ladies
cannot feel so much real pleasure, as those of the present age are too diidcnt, and fond
who participate in the enjoyment of those of formality, need some remarks. Were
blessings, which the great Father of the they to converse on topics suitable to their
universe intended should be our common disposition while in their company, instead
portion. He may derive some gratication of expatiating on subjects totally foreign to
in reecting upon the days he has spent their nature, they would perceive that they
among his fellow beings, but it surely must could sustain their part with as much judg
be of a gloomy cast that would drive a man ment and eloquence as themselves. Formerly
from the society of rational beings to abide I entertained that mistaken idea, but have
with brutcs. The social intercourse of men since become convinced that the society of
united in the bonds of friendship is the the female sex is at least more fascinating,
greatest blessing which human nature can if.not equally as instructive as that of the
attain, and cannot be too highly appreciated, male. The society of both sexes if properly
for were we, after acquiring a knowledge of chosen not only serves to pass away atedious
society, and experiencing its full value to hour, but tends to alleviate the misfortunes
be deprived of it, and doomed to linger
incidental to human nature, and lull those
poignant. reections, which calamity has

created in our minds, which by intermin
troubles, what would be the consequence? gling with the crowd saves us from sinking
it would not only render us miserable, but under the despondency which preys on our
shorten our very existence. It must be ac feelings. It is the chiefspring which renders
knowledged that many evils result from as life endurable, without it life would be hard
OLD ROBIN.
sociating with mankind, and that many inex ly \vorth preserving.
perienced persons are ruined by designingr
_.._.
and experienced villains, but it must also be
For the Repertory.
remarked, that those persons are in a great
out the remainder of life, without one per

son to converse with or sympathize in our
measure their own despoilers, for they are
either urged on by avarice, or fall into the

snare prepared by their ignorance and
credulity. Many are there on this great globe
who consider society insipid and tiresome,
unless supported by some weak frivolity
which to a man of understanding is digust~
ing. More real happiness, in my opinion, is
to be enjoyed in the company ofa few select
ON TASTE.
ly knighted by the Swearing Club, for his in

vention of a new vocabulary of oaths, for
which it is said he has a great Mare. Close by

my cousin, sat Dorothy Simple, who thought
herself as learned as Catharine Cockburn,
though she was as ignorant as an infant.

But our most disagreeable companion
was Parson Magpie, whose continual clat
ter and display of his own erudition was
more intolerable than the most profound
' ignorance. Nothing could be heard for some

time but the parsons tongue and Miss Bel
lamys declamation, until the latter request
ed Etiquette to taste some quinces that
were near her, which he did, and declared
with one of his newly invented oaths of rift

my vitalr, but she has a damnable ne'
[as-tr.
For
what,
sir?
inquired Bangbar,
for the quinces, or for the classics?

Perdition to my organs," cried Eti
quette, but I meant both.
Miss Bellamy simpered out a compli

ment to Etiquette in return, and Taste im
mediately became the topic of conversation.
Miss Simple declared she preferred Dr.
Johnson, particularly as he was cotempora
ry with Shah/ware! _
This roused the Parson, who declared
Dr. Johnson no more lived in the time of
queen Elizabeth than he did. He presumed
she meant Ben Johnson, but from her quo
tations we found' she meant the Dr. only
making a small mistake in his age. My
Cousin appeared very uneasy,and resolving
to discover the depth of intellect in compa
The greatest is diversity of taste:
Dr. Johnsons verses on the old gentleman
I-or vice, for virtue, this the number small,
by the side of the stream?

Miss Simple declared she had and ad
mired them for their smoothness and natu
ral ideas. They beigiu thus, said she.
For folly some and some no taste at all.

JIILOII.
Mr. Editor.
entirely deserted, whether owing to their
which was to be concluded by a ball,I per
possessing less attractions than the ladies oi

former days, or that the minds of our youth
my power to decide, but I think the latter is
suaded my cousin Helicon to accompany

me, where we were chagrined and divert
ed by a congress of wit, vanity, folly and
foppishness, pedan ry and prudery. At one
end of the table sat Benjamin Bangbar Esq.
most probable, for were one of our females

to conduct herself with that easy familiarity
and give loose to the natural impetuosity of
her disposition, which in former days was
appeared the prude Miss Bellamy, who

rails against even venial errors, as ercely
as Demosthenes abused the Macedonian,
those who ourished before them, is beyond
ries. Near her was seated Sir Dick Eti

quette, a buck ofthe rst water, who was late
ny, asked Miss Bellamy if she ever read
Of all diversities, thou,nature, hast,
Being distantly related to the Helicon

that appeared ina former number of your
ed frieuds whose minds are well cultivated, paper, I beg leave to introduce myself to
than in plunging into all the vices and dis your notice, by an essay on that Wonderful
sipation which can be supported by afuence. quality taste.
Having been invited to an entertainment,
The company of females seems to be almost
generally have become more depraved, than
and yet commits those very errors with as

little reection at; Messalina her debauche
acelcbrated critic of our town; at another
Alone by the side of a stream,
A poor little gentleman sat;

On top of his head was his wig,
And on top of his wig was his hat.

l
It being known, began Magpie, that i
Samuel Johnson wrote these verses to ri- i
dicule the would be poets of his day, it'
must be a vitiated taste indeed, that can ad~ l
mire them in any other light, and a simple

mind that is unable to perceive their drift. \
My dear Sir," said I, iram be the 1
case, what is to become of my pot'tl'y as it 1

is when in the same measure?
l
Every one now vociferated let us hear

it, and accordingly I took it from my poek
ct and began to read
230
PHILADELPHIA R'EPERTOBY.
M
M
THE FATE OF THE RAT.
I found out a rat in my room,

For rooms will be troubled with rats:
' I_calld for my cats and a broom,
But could get nor a broom nor my cats
Close up in one corner I recs,
The place where my gentleman sat,
On top of the oor was some cheese,
And on top of the cheese was the rat.
I calld and my cats now obey,
No longer in quiet they sat;
And now the poor rat run away,
And away they ran after the rat.
Now just at the head of the stairs,
The victim was caught by a cat;
And in spite of his pitiful prayers,
They ruthlessly eat. up the rat.
Nothing could exceed the eulogy bes

towed upon me for these verses, and even
Magpie, who soon perceived my intention,

joined in the praise and enjoyed the igno
game of the rest to the life.
These are not the only instances that could
be given of a vitiated taste, but these are
enough to show that, when a composition
is admired for its sweetness, however pue-_
rile and frivolous the subject may be, the
mind must be entirely uncultivated, or like
an unweedcd garden, the poisonous seeds
of error have been suffered to grow with
the wholesome plant, and as ill weeds grow
apace have towered far above competition.
HELICON, JUN.
a..
For the Repertory.

THE PBOPITIATION.
BOOK V.
ARGUMENT.
Continuatirm of the accusatimr of Jesus,- The Priest
demands qf the Lord if it be true,- Ile makes no
rep 'y; .dpom-aplm Caiaphaa now calls upon the
We bade him show it by some Wondrous sign.

Awhile he stood, and then with towr'mg pride, 430
He to our wcllmeant inquiry replied;
Destroy it quite and I, in three short days,
Will from the base this lofty temple raise!

He said and quickly from the crowd withdrew,
While scorn and anger lld each listning Jew!
He ceased, the Pontiffrose,his looks express'd 4-36
Pretended rage, as thus he Christ addressd.

Hearst thou, deceiver, what these Jews have sworn,
And is thy heart with deep remorse untorn?

To such a charge whatlanswer canst thou make,
That we our settled purpose may forsake?
441
Twice twenty years did zealous Jews employ,
Sure of support, what need of proof, he cries, 50'

Before your sight his guilt detected lies;
His horrid blasphemy ye all have heard,
.1.
And the proud lies his trcach'rous tongue averrde
What think ye,_now, ye Jen's! each clamrous breath
Loudly vocifrates, his desert is death!
505
Ah! now what deep indignities ensue,
\Vhat cruel malice actuate: each Jew;
What loud revilings, what malignant blows,
Added new anguish to aficting woes!
What scorn and insult on his patience thrown, 51.
What \vild upbraidin gs, till that hour unknown!
But thou, 0! Peter, didst alict him more,
Than all the wrongs which thy Redeemer bore;

Thy rash defection gave the keenest smart,
And ung new anguish on thy Masters heart! 515
Didst thou declare, though every friend should y
In thy misfortunes, Lord, yet will not I,
While the last pulse shall tremble at my heart,
To raise the frame thy folly would destroy!

Shook to the ground, wilt thou its gandeur raise,
In the short moment of three eeting days?
445
He ceased and cast on Christ a piercing eye,
Whilst all the assembly waited a reply.
Dcccitful priest, had mercy touchd thy heart,
Her dazzling bright culgence to impart,
The fatal blow that robs thee of thy breath,
To rouse thy soul, in mad presumption blind, 450
Shall be to me the messenger of death!
And usher light on thy beclouded mind;

Thou wouldst have known when these dread ac
'loo soon, also! thy boasted courage ies,

And thy weal: heart thy gracious God denies, .41
cents broke,
52'
i
While the Redeemer suffered unsubdued,
He of the temple of his body spoke,

In that prophetic power which all things knew,
The picture ofhis mighty su rings drew;
455
Foresnadowcd by these words his coming death,
When pardon issued with his latest breath;
When at his Will :he bands of death should break
And from its transient sleep his body wake!
As Heaven itselfLis mvstic wards were true, 460
The false construction was imposed by you.
New long they waited a reply in min,
For humbly silent does the Lord remain;
Till crafty Caiaphas, in cruel hate,

Even by himself accomplishes his fate.
465
Again he rose in sacerdotal pride,
With voice vocifrous to the Saviour cried:
Darst throw contnmely on our sacred power,
Nor deign to speak in this portentous hour:
Dost thou not know tis at our will to save,
To death with thee, well never, never part;
470
Among the crowd the proud Barjonas stood;
525
In that dark hour when came the band, and'an

Forsook he Lord, be folloWed to the hall!
Now came there one, who saw th' apostles zeal,
When cruel Malchus felt his angry steel;

His fiery eyes his vengeful soul expressd,
530
While thus the trembling Peter he addressd:
What dost thou hear. deceitful traitor, say,
,
Upon this fatal,this momentous day;
Say hast thou come to filllow to the tomb
7"
Yon arch deceiver or to share his doom?

55
The trembling man, in pale amaze, replied,
And with his tongue his gracious Lord denied.
Abandoned slave, returned the angry Jew,
Art thou not one of his disciples tool

0! matchlcss impudcnce! full well thou know'st, 54'
Thou oft hast made his treach'rous love thy boast
Oft with false zeal and fatal error fraught,
Saviour to winner, by a :olemn adjuration; He
Or throw thy carcase in the vulgar grave!

By his dread name whose will you boast to hear,
The truth, doI adj ure thee, to declare,
then speaks; Thepmlendedu'y of the Penn]? The
Art thou the Christ, the eternal Son of God,
Lord is declared worthy of death,- The inlh'gllilkl
Who in the heav ens has xt his vast abode!

475
Now from the lord his voice commanding breaks,
Imperious duty urges and he speaks:
When sacred justice calls aloud his death,

Swalls now thy bosom with the trembling breath?
0! shameful wretch, my soul must eer detest
The monstrous treason of so dark as breast!
Unhallowd Oaiaphas, unmoved Id stand,
To whom Barjonaswhy this rage to me,
But vast and awful is the high command;

Ptilence contumely now would pour and shame 480
Upon that sacred, that tremendous name'
Wouldst thou the chosen of the Father sec?
What wrong or outrage have I done to thee!

I know thee not, nor eer before, I ween,
Hat e I thy wrathful visage ever seen;
Behold him here, for know that [am he;
By our most holy Sabbath do I swear,
Though here maind, to meet the nal hour,

Thou *balt behold me clothed in matchless poWer;
To judge the world, to my decision given,
4-86
Shalt see me coming in the clouds of heaven,
To thy confusion will Imeet thy eyes,
When the last trumphet. calls the dead to rise;
When death and hell obey my dread command, 490
And round my throne mankind forjudgment stand;
When proud deceit shall leave the crafty breast,
And the dark hypocrite shall stand confest!
Then stern rembrancc shall this night recal,
And thy sad bosom feel a strange appal!
415
Now from his seat the haughty priest arose,
While Wild resentment in his visage glows;
Behold him now with zeal affected tear,
And strew his garments on the ambient air;
Whateer his crimes, I neither care nor know,
that mcceed; The lkctimi of Peter.

Now through our streets the rumour quickly ran,
.A rabbi came, with potence more than man!
\Vhose word could burst the casement of the car,
And bid the deaf, 0! mighty wonder, hear!
\Vhose touch could heal the sick, relieve the blind,
To break new transport on the ravishd mind! 411
Such rumour stiled him, each in wonder ew,
This new born prophet of the Jews to view,
That we ourselves might evidence receive,
Ere, like the credulous, we should believe:
415
But 0! what indignation lld each breast,
What rage and grief our various looks exprest;
hen, \"ith his boasted miracles. we saw
This curst blasphcmer scorn our sacred law;

Pollutc the temple to Jehovah raised,
420
Vl hilc .leu's stood motionless, aghast, amazed!
Forth from the temple, doves and sheep he drew,

nd ceu the useful tables overthrew!
Nay more, he dared to scourge our brethren there,
Wli 0 came permitted as our laws declare!
Be olding this with one accord we claim
the cause of .t, and by what power he came;
lf his commission were, indeed,'divinc,
4,25
I
Hast thou declared the doctrine that he taught;
And dost than now, when cruel pangs await

The fatal efforts of our ceaseless bate;
54$
55..
As for this man, who stands in judgment there,
56'}
Therefore with me thy vengeful ire forego!

What still deny thou art his follower, still
Dcny thyself the creature of his will?
Returnd the Jew. 0! most deceitful slave,
565
Darest thou the tortures of our vengeance brave!
When rst our legions passd the Cedron brook, '
And in Gethsemene yon traitor took,
Did I not. answer trembling liar, see
His most oicious advocate in thee,
570
Did not thy weapon y like lightning round,
And on my kinsman plant a deadly wound,
Darest thou, in great Jehovahs sight, declare,

I didgiot then behold thee active there?
And when our band instinctive terrors spread, 575
So that his slaves in all directions ed,
.
._i
. ! _
,
Did I not mark thee trembling with appal,
Follow thy master to the judgment hall?
I did, and now a bold and daring lie,
In his last hour thy master to deny,
580
Thou wouldst invent; why what a creed must he
impart to followers so depraved as thee;
Are guilt and falsehood, 0. abandoned slave,
The rst, great doctrines that thy master gave?
Peter, with falt'ring tongue and heaving breast, 585
Turnd from the Jew and thus himself expressd:
23 I
M
For the Repertory.
Planted in our natures; and when it ope
SONG.
INSORIBBD To Miss a. s.
rates on a fair and virtuous mind, is produc

tive of the greatest good to the individual
and to society; when cultivated by education,
The lovliest rose that ever bloamd."
by study and conversation with the Wlzti and
I knew by that visage, so beamingly bright,
virtuous, it exalts and dignics the man, and
Contentment was seated within,
And I said, with a rapturous joy and delight,

To rob a fair budtis a sin
Wherefore of me these strange inquiries make,
For thy owret nectareous, thats robd ofits sweets

And doomd all neglected to die,
What interest, say, can I in Jesus take;
No longer with pleasure the stunmer sun greets
How understand thee, Jew, or how can I,

590
To questions so unmcaning make reply,
Since nothing I of this Messiah know,
More than from whence thy rage and hatred ow.
For never have 1 till this fatal evn
His friends I know not, nor what they declare, 595
80 Heaven defend the as the truth 1 sw'earl
v
He spoke, and Wonder seized eaclt hstnihg Jew,
While thrice and loud the morning herald crew;
Then, as with some the wretehd Peter burnd,
0n him his eye indignant Jesus turnd600

When Brutus, on whose guilty head,
I
His numrous bounttes royal Julius shed;
With generous mercy deignd his life to ssVe,
Lad snatch the traitor from it timeless grave;
From the close robe his LllllSl.) poutard tore, 605
And staind the senate with his patrons gore,
" Thou too, my son, the bleeding monarch cried,
610
Thou too, my son, wilt thou thy Lord betray,
Andfall, like Judas, from the realms of day?

Thou whom I rst front dark desu'uction drew,
4nd _on my head thy tleeptl'ansgressions threw;
Thou to whomlleuven benignant did make known,
By llll great spirit the incarnate Son;
616
And since the soft sensatiVe owret will die,
only is sincerely respected, whose laudable
When chilld with the nippings of frost,

May thy purity envys keen blasts ecr defy,
Nor in loves giddy vortex be left.
EDMOND.
ambition urges him to soften the splendor

of his station by condescension and humility,
by acts of beneficcnce and humanity.
He who was educated at the feet of Ga
maliel, became all things to all men that he
_._
For the Repertory.

NYMPH OF THE GROVE.
Mild ows the breeze oer the calm shades ofeven,

Soothing to sorrow and soothing to we;
Kind falls the dew from the starry realntd heaven,
And lights with its bounty on llowrets below:
Chccrd is the coming of Mays genial morning,

And welcome its breath, cool, refreshing and
bland;
When roses and lilies wild parterres adorning,
To swell the sweet gale, all their fragrance ex
pand
620
While the bright skies their pearly gates unfold,

And Moses and Elijah, seers of old,
Appear in glory and enraptured speak,

of the great conquest which the Son should make?
625
The radiant mantle of Jehovah spread,

And on the startled ear in accents loud,
Th eternal mandate issued from the cloud;

This is my Son, to Heaven omnic dear,
His steps attend. his sweet instructions hear! 630

Thou who beheldst me with a touch destroy
Dist-uses foul and tot-ments that annoy;
Who sawst me walking on the trembling sea,
Strelcli out my arm and deign to rescue thee:
\Vho suwst the deep, the creature of my will, 635
Rom at my word. at my command be still;
ho SttwSt the ends, obedient to my power,
To mi omnipotence reluctant cower;
Bthcld front death my mighty potence save,

And heztrdst me call a Lazarus from the grave!
Say, canst thou now, in spite of proof like this, 641
Deny thy Lord and venture future bliss?
Deeper the stab to my aficted heart,
'Ihan all the pangs the cruel Jews impart!
might save some. He gave milk to babes

and meat to men, and thus accommodated
himself to the age and genius of his pupils.

The propriety of following this noble ex
ample of the great apostle of the Gentiles
Will evidently appear, when it is realized,
that this passion, this desire of distinction, is
frequently perverted to weak, wicked and

malicious purposes; that it inches the duel
list to murder his friend; the bully to break
But full as refreshing, and still more heart-thrilling,

every head he meets; the gay and the vola
Are thevgraces refulgent 0 the maid that I love:
Her cheeks bright as morning, her lips dew-distil
'
if
Speak none is so fair as the Nymph of the Grove.
Saw me inveloped in a cloud of light;

When from my face this mortal fashion ew,
Thou, O, Barjonas, oer whose naked head
Inhabit a bosom so bright;

But ever in innocent pleasures to share,
ling,
Who when tall 'l'abar trembled at the sight,
And all the Godhead blazed upon thy view;
Then go, fairest maiden, and never let care,
And hail them with joyous delight.
The hopeless wretch before the council seen;
And at the base of Pompeys statue died;

30 did the look of Jesus seem to speak,
And like loud thunder on Bitrjonas break:
Nor blooms with delight to the eye.
those around him will rise up and call hun

blessed.
Real esteem and honour are only to be
obtained by intellectual and moral accom
plishments. Authority may create fear; an
ability to confer favours may command a
servile attention; a splendid appearance may
attract the gaze of vulgar admiration, and
ceremonious civility and artful adulation
may wait upon superior rank; butthat man
When on some banks verdure together reclining,

(Whilst her long auburn hair sportively plays in
the wind.)
We feel all those transports, those ruptures com
bining,
4
That mortals oer felt, or pure Heaven desiptd.
Whilst her head gainst my breast she all lovely
reposcs,
tile to sally forth into nocturnal exploits and

to commit a thousand cnormities, and all this
to distinguish themselves, to be preeminent
in folly and mischief.

Thus the same passion that urges some
to glorious deeds, itnpels others to the vilest

actions. And is there no remedy? no way by
which the active spirit of youth may be moul
ded to virtue and wisdom? Cannot this wild
ambition, thisjuvenile fervour be corrected
'
And makes my true heart her fond pillow ofjoy:

Oh! how inclination its throbbing opposes,
For fear the wild tumult her rest may destroy
Afl'ection so glowing, e'en sceptics must favour,
and made subservient to the noblest purpo

ses? Certainly it may, or the condition of
youth would be indeed deplorable. The God'
of nature inspires his soul with a general up~

And stern unbelief will dissolve, and ap rove,
In viewing each anxious, each studied entlicavour,
To merit my chaste, charming Nymph of the

Grove.
LOTHARIO.
From the Hampshire Gazette.

- Glorys shining chariot swiftly draws
With equal whirl the noble and the base.
VVnen we look round upon the great mul

titude of mankind, and trace out the princi
ples of action in each individual, we shah
nd that ambition runs through the wholt
species, and that every one is more or lCSr
InquTre often, but judge rarely, and thou actuated by it.
wilt not often be mistaken.
The desire of distinction seems to be im
petite for glory. But he has no experience,

no compass todirect his course, a thousmd
passions
andand
feelings
are him
in arms
dethrono
his reason,
to hurl
intotothe
vortexv
of dissipation and ruin!
'
\Vhat shall stay him in this mad career?
l'lnucnton; this is the balmpf Gilead, tho'
.iiedicine oflifcl Train up a child in: the way
he should go. and when he 15 old he will not:
'tPull from it. It ought, therefore, to be the
care of education to infuse into the minds of
u-ituinted youth, early notions of justice and

.onour, of virtue and piety, and by Li S'o.dy,>
patient, and persevcring course of amiable:
_
manners and animating instruction,to rene
HEALTH OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA,
and elevate his ideas of moralexcellence.

The ways of wisdom would then indeed
be pleasant. The smile of tenderness and
concern would interest the feelings of the
docile youth, and easily beguile him into the
paths ofvirtue and science. Religion and phi
losophy too would soon lend their aid to reg
November 30, 811.


from the 23d to the 30th November.
Col. Duviess with more than mortal

power resisted the shock and endeavoured
by his unparalleled courage and presence
of mind to form his troops. \Vith compa
ratively few chosen heroes, he charges the
ulate his passions and direct them to proper
Objects. Happy, thrice happy the youth who thick array of savage numbers. But cour
is thus allured to virtue and happiness, to age and conduct in this pre-eminent son of
dignity and glory by the elegant manners Kentucky, .could not avail while the dark-,1
and persuasive talents of those who think ness of the night shrouded the tawny sons
of the wood and a forest of savage tomahawks i
it a
and rifles were dealing death around. In]
" Delightful task to rear the tender thought,
discharging
his re arms which proved fatal
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
to the savage arm just raised to shed his
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe th enlivening spirit, and to x
The generous [)urpcse in the glowing breast!
Sir Patrick Blake was once in company

where a nobleman, since dead, was relating;r
blood, he received in his breast three fatal

balls; and when he was told an hour after,
the enemy had been beaten,he said I have

done my duty, I am satised, my country is
victorious," and a few hours after expired.
many wonderful accounts of echoes, which

he had heard abroad; more particularly one Droppd from his nerveless grasp the spear,
Closed his bright eye, and checkd his bright cs
in the ruins of a temple, on the Appian way,
Diseases.
all. ch.
Disearec.
ad. eli
Consump- oflungl 7
0 lioopi ng cough
Convulsions
3 Hives
Decay
1 lnam of stomaCh O
Diarrhma
0 lnam. of bowels
0 Inam. of liver
2 Insanity
1
1
0
0
2
I
0
1
O
I
Dropsy
1
Dropsy of the breastO
Dropsy in the brain 0 1 Mortication

Ilysentery
1 0 lleurisy
Dcbility
0' 1 Sore throat
Disease in kneejointO
I Still born
Fever,
Fever,
Fever,
Fever,
Gout
0 Unknown
0
1
2
0
remittent
bilious
nervous
typhus
1
2
O
1
1
4 0

26 23
_.
Total 49
Under 1
Between I and 2
2
5
IO
20
30
40
5
1t)
20
30
40
50
8 Between 50 and 60
3
60
70
44
47
5
11
70
80
90 .
100
80
90
100
110
Total
2
1
2
0
O
0
-
49
reer.
about twelve miles from Rome, which, hei
[Vt-stern Courier.
s'aid, repeated any words seventy times. That,i
replied sir Patrick, (who had listened With
STATE OF TIIE TIIERbIONIETER.

*
9 oclock. 13 oclock- 3 oclock.
Of the latest discoveries of Russian T rav

great attention to much more than he be
lieved) is nothing wonderful; there is an
echo on my brothers estate, near the lake
NovemberQS'
42
46
40
26
32
38
35
Syrawatskoi, a merchant, deserves particular
27
35
44-
42
notice.
28
48
59
57
29
55
63
65
56
52
ellers, that of an island in the Icy ocean, by

Hedestrom, the Russian naturalist,
of Killarney in Ireland, to which I have fre
quently said, Good morrow, Madam Echo!"

and it has immediately answered, Good
who has recently examined the island, which

has received the appellation of New Siberia,
3t)
56
found three birds claws, a yard in length;

morrow, Sir Patrick Blake, how do you do?
Checks, Cards, ,Handbills,

The nobleman never afterwards told his and the roving Jakute related that they had
sometimes found feathers, the barrel of which
AND PRINTING 1N GENERAL,
wonderful tales of echoes when sir Patrick
was capable of admitting a man's clenched l neatly and correctly executed, on reasonable terms,
was present.
at the ofce of the
'
st. Thus these polar regions, which have
.
Captain Christie, an Irish ofcer, who yielded thosegigantic bones of the class of
served with considerable credit in America, mammalia, known by the name of mammoth,
had the misfortune to be dreadfully wound have likewise preserved similar relics in
reams or was REPER'IORY
ed in one of the battles. As he lay on the the department of ornithology, whose authen
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BIOGRAPHY.
ate and tender sister. Comparing \Vhitc

with Chatterton in intrinsic talent, is calling
for decision in favour of the latter: but his
From the Washingtonian.
of a painful and lingering disorder, his sen

sible and patient mind directed its efforts
CHATTERTON AND \VHITF.
to the universal Lord of nature, and reposed
genius was of that wavering and excentric
his distresses in the bosom of a christians

superiority of intellect, which the success of God. How noble, how engaging, but pain
his publications increased by producing the ful a picture, to see the breast of sensibility
exercise of his native talent; had he not struggling with the effects ofa fatal disease,
viewed his ascendency over the qualica yet calmly submitting to the decree and dis
tions of others with a proud and self-suf pensation of an unerrint; Providence! And
cient eye, the unhappy fate to which he such a picture was the ill-fated Henry Kirke
cast which promised rather brilliancy than
Had not Chatter-ton been conscious of a
utilit '; which rather dazzled and astonished,
than beneted and improved. He seemed to

demand admiration; White to merit it, the
former excited applause and wonder, with

a consciousness that they were his due; the
latter received them with a modest hand.

The rst was an object of merited eulogy;
by many years of comfort and pleasure; instance of precocity, uncombiued with a the last was the same united with affection.
but this very disposition, while it caused his weak and feeble constitution, whose corporal Chatterton was certainly the most brilliant
distress, and ultimately his death, was no defects nature seems to have more than character; but \Vhite was unquestionably
less than the absolute productor of his scep counterbalanced by the lavish presents of the best and most amiable.
tical opinions. Let the youth of distinguish mental faculties: and an'instance of this na
Such appears to have been a comparative
ed endowments whether gifted by nature or ture appears, like the falling star, to shine view of the outlinary characters and dispo
with resplendant brillancy for a moment, sitions of these remarkable personages. But,
acquisitorial, while he mourns over the un
happy fate of this remarkable boy, present ;~.ttd then vanish forever; or like the comet said Solon to Crtnsus, Esteem no man
his example to his own eyes as an awful to display attracting splendour for a little happy, until you are acquainted with the
warning of the universal eect of self-delu while, and then leave the world in admira nature of his death. and we might apostro
sion; and while he weeps over the fate of tion at its departed glory.
phize and say. describe no man's character,
In the midst of disease, when his studies until it can be completed by a description
genius let him lament the result of its per
version. Chatterton not only contemned the were interrupted and broken, the mind of of his death. In this last and solemn
principles of the christian religion, but Henry was directed to the presence of an hour, in which nature trembles and humanity
spoke of them with the sneering tongue all-wise and eternal Being; whose dispen shrinks, we may nd the natural disposition
of intended insult: in a letter to a friend we sating hand yielded to the bitter cup which strongly marked: it is then dissimulation is
nd a passage of this tendency on the sub fell to his lot, the alleviating sweets of re -| forgotten and our own image is presented to
ject of christianity; You are welcome to ligion. Not a murmur escaped his lips. l the view without the cloak of disguise. In
the comforts of your religion, for my part Though great were his mortications here, this awful hour we read the proud and lofty
I am no christian. Shall we overlook the his heart possessed a treasure which no l temper, the seating and independent (lisp-2
sneer conveyed in these words, and forgive mundane sorrow could intercept, and which 'l sition of Chatterton, as well as the meek and
the puerile assumption of an inexperienced afforded him the purest solace in the anti affable mind of \Vhite. The latter long an
boy? Though the tongue of charity will be cipation of joy and bliss beyond the grave.
ticipated the approach of the tyrant, and
Had Chatterton not deviated from the waited his vention with a calm and submis
silent the biographical pen ofjustice Will not;
be dormant; we would not be rigidly se-E tenets, which be early held, or had he not sive faith: piety and virtue had shone with
vere, but never can we conceive, that youthl exchanged them for the deceptive opinions exempltry brightness throu5h the hole
is an apology for indelity, when combined 1 of free-thinking, his fate were unmarked conduct of Henry; and it was not for him
with precocious talent and unprecedented l' by the unhappy occurrences which closed to shrink, who had expected the solemn
genius; especially when we reflect, that his life: his disposition would have ap summons, or to trenthle at the evils atten
this vety indelity arose from the result of; peared in a more engaging point of view; dant on a dying bed. He had been preparing
reection, which should have prtduced a} his naturally generous and open character, with assiduity and attention for the wilds
would not have been stained by nefarious terial ollice, and had hoped to have present
conrmation of christian principles.
In descanttng on the scepticism of Chat proceedings; his name, unsullied by dis ed an acceptable offering at the shrine of
terton we lose sight ol the upright and in honour; and the world would not have been benevolence, of his labours in the arduous
teresting, but unfortunate Henry. Early robbed of him, who promised to have been duties ofthe important function. Providence
initiated in the principles of piety, the lat l an invaluable ornament to society: not ad
'llerodotus, who with being prince, the prince
ter never left nor deviated from the chris- ditionally to speak of the bereavement of a otlnszorittns, is the narrator ofmany cxrrllent re.
tian creed to the unhappy hour of his pre " fund and doating mother, and an all'eetion fiections
was reduced, might have been superseded
White. Seldom, or never, do we behold an
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ordained it otherwise; and those talents And not a care shall dare intrude
which astonished the island of Britain, were

snatched from his country, in an early d,
Not so with Chatterton, piqued and disap
pointed at the patronage he expected; and
mortified at the issue of his labour, he fell
a victim to delusive and sanguine hope, and

in a predetermined hour rushed into the pre
sence of that God, whose existence he had
so shortly before denied! My hand tremblcs

when I record the deed of enormity! 'il
To break the marble solitude,
So peaceful and so deep.

And hark! the wind god, as he flies,
Means hollow in the forest-trees,

And, sailing on the gusty breeze,
Mysterious music dies
Swcet flower, that requiem wild is mine,
It wants me to the lonely shrine,
The cold turf altar of the dead;
My grave shall be in yon lone spot,
Where as I lie, by all forgot,
A dying fragrance thou wilt oer my ashes shed
lingly would I have passed over the diabolical

act, and drawn a veil over the last moments
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
ofhis life: but it is here that the youthful mind

may cull improvement, and acquire a lesson
of exemplary vice; had he delayed the deed
but a few days, the patronage which We
preparing by a gentleman of humanity and
\Vhen marshalld on the nightly plain,

The glittering hosts bestud the sky;]
Unc star alone. of all the train,
Can fix the sinner-8 wandering eye.
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who am the offspring ofa Spanish nobleman?
Never can you permit it, never will I sub
mit to be coupled with dishonourl"
Montaldo now partially opened his plans
and at length, speaking more plainly, re
quested me to poison the new born prince!
l shuddercd with horror at this act of dark
ingratitnde, although I had been a robber,
and requested Montaldo never to mention it
again. Here the young villain ceased his im

portunities for the time, but seized every
opportunity of working me to the commis
sion of the dreadful crime; day after day,
month after month was I solicited and threat
ened with my own ruin and the ruin of
Malventi's offspring if I did not consent.
During this period two villains, Gaspard anti
Geraldo, had found their Way into the ser
Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks,
science, for the advancement of Chatterton,
might have raised him to opulence, or have

ceded him renown- But let us close the
From every host, from every gem;

But one alone the Saviour speaks,
It is the star of Bethlehem.
solemn scene of his dissolution, with the tear
Once on the raging seas I rode,
of pity, whilst we prepare to shed that of
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
poignant sorrow for the tomb of Henry:
The ocean yawnd, and. rudely blowd

The wind that tossd my foundering bark.
(J (mime illustrc! clie meritereslc alta i ed in

u'nsi a'a tulle 1e nuzione drl mondo. 'voi side
:i rurr- die .s-z' [mo dubitarc della vastra cais
trnm."
PHANEROS.
[After presenting the foregoing parallel

from a correspondent, our readers shall see
two of Mr. W'hites poetical cffussions,
which follow. If they are not the fairest speci
mens of his talents, they at least show the
turn and temper of his mind. The rst was,
no doubt, written under a strong present
ment of his early death; the latter under
the impulse of his high hopes of a glorious
immortality, through the merits of a Sa
\iour.]
\VAsiusc-Tonux.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,

Death struck, I ceasd the tide to stem;
\Vhen suddenly a star arose,

It was the star of Bethlehem.
should he disbelieve me, I was undone and
It was my guide, my life, my all,

It bade my dark foreboding-s cease,
And through the storm, and dangers thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.
Now safely moord, my perils oer,
Ill sing, first in nights diadcm,
For ever and for cvermore,
The star. The star ofBethlehcml
For the Repertory.
on
TO THE HERB ROSEMARYsl
A TALE.
CHAPTER XII.
Come, thou shalt form my noscgay now, '
Murder most foul, as in the best it is.

But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
And I will bind thee round my brow;

And, as I twinc the mournful wreath,
If the grave
Can vomit those we bury up, our tombs
l'll weave a melancholy song,
Shall be the maws 0 fkitcs.
ShuA-sjieare.
.\ nd sweet the strain shall be, and long,
Inow related to Montaldo the story of

his birth and the misfortunes of his father.
l'omv, funeral ower! who lovest to dwell
He listened attentively and his soul seemed

With the pale corse in lonely tomb,
swelling, during the recital, with various

And throw across the desert gloom, ,
A sweet decaying smell;
t'ome press my lips, and lie with me,

iiLllt'ltlll the lowly Alder tree,
And we will sleep a pleasant sleep,
' Dragonetti. Is the compliment too great! the
lidlltlll Would have similarly bestowed it.
-, 'l he Rosemary buds in JanuaryIt is the ower
- . mnmoniy put in the coffins of the dead.
solved to save the prince. How was this to
be done? I hastened to Montaldo and after

some conversation on the subject of his
prince. The transports of the youth were
unbounded and he now informed me of the
plan which had been laid. lie was to saunter
in the wood with the young prince, we were
to attack him and tear the infant from him,
The melody of death.
should be obliged to quit the castle, leaving

the infant exposed to the designs of Mon
taldo, and if he gave credit to my story the
destruction of the son of Melventi was cer
tain. Both I equally dreaded, yet was re
hopes and fe..rs, I offered to remove the

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CASTLE OI" ALTENIIEIBI,
Sweet scented ower! who art wont to bloom

On Januarys front severe:
And oer the wintry desert drear
To waft thy waste perfume!
vice of Montaldo and gained his condence

and esteem by their ferocious disposition and
readiness to perform whatever ne required.
One day I Overheard them planning with
Montaldo the murder of the young prince.
Nothing could have exceeded my horror
and astonishment and actuated by the impulse
of the moment I hastened to inform Pan
dolfo. But reection soon arrested me,
emotions. \Vhen I had concluded he burst
into exclumations of rapture at his valour

and the vengeance he inflicted upon his
enemies.
And shall the offspring of Malventi,"
while he would wound his arm to give a

colour to the story he intended to invent.
l acceded to this though I trembled lost I
should not succeed in saving the prince. At
the appointed time, Geraldo, Gaspard and
myself were at the spot and presently Mon
taldo appeared with the son of Pandolfo.
We suffered him to enter some distance
into the wood and then we rushed upon him.
The child was soon in our power ulld the
blood owed plentil'ully from the arm of
Montaldo. We instanly lied and after retir
ing about a mile, we halted to determine
what death the infant should die.
"l'was now my part began, and l endea
voured to persuade the others of the cnor.
cried he, be discaided thus? will you,
mity of the deed, but received only curses

tl'UIn Geraldo. Gaspard, however, listened at.
llubcrto, see me reduced to beggury and
.entiVely and appeared much affected by my
shame? me, the son of your great leader, mo words. The infant too, by his cries touched
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him deeply, and he at length proposed that

the childs life should be saved, but that he
should be placed at some distance from the

castle and his birth be kept a profound
secret. Necessity obliged me to accept this,
but Geraldo declared he should die, and
made towards him for the purpose of exe

cuting his throat, when Gaspard and myself
drew our pistols and threatened him with

instant death if he dared advance another
step. Seeing it was in vain to oppose us he

at last yielded, and Gaspard and myself took
possession of the prince, while Geraldo went
to deceive Montaldo by the story of his
murder. We resolved that Geraldo should
know nothing of his destiny as in that case
his life would be still in danger. We secreted
ourselves all day and at night set forth with
the child having the miniature of his father
wrapped in some old parchment, which I
had placed there in hopes that it might lead
to a discovery of his birth."
Florival was aroused, for thus had the
miniature which Amelia had in her posses
sion been found.
About midnight," proceeded Huberto
in his story, we arrived at a cottage, after
having travelled, we supposed, about twenty
miles. \Ve knocked, and after some time
appeared Minda the venerable wife of the
once proud Melventi. With her we left the
child under the strictest injunctions of
secrecy and departed. What was our aston
ishment on being met a few paces from the
spot by by Geraldo, who had followed us all
the way. We now trembled for the prince
again and would have taken him to some
other shelter, bttt Geraldo swore he meant
whither I was hastening, resolved to shut

myself forever from the world, and atone by
and he cursed the slavery that prevented

him from immediately hurling his vengeance
repentance and benevolence for the crimes
upon Montaldo. He folded up the parch

ment, and placed it carefully in his bosom,
and now, for the rst time, heard the con
fusion that was upon deck, on account of
Geraldo ed. How long I lay I know not, the violence of the tempest, that began dur
but when I recovered my senses I found my ing the time that so absorbed his soul in
self upon a bed in the convent and several reading. He rushed up and found the vessel
persons, nuns and friars around me, anxi
in a very precarious situation, and one of
ously waiting my recovery. During the con those dreadful storms increasing fast, for
tinuance of my wound I was treated with the which the bay of Biscay is so notorious.
greatest humanity and attention, and when I Presently the masts Went over the side, and
recovered I made known my intention of the shattered condition of the bark was but
joining their body. To the prior of the con the forerunner to her utter destruction.
vent did I confess every action of my life, Presently she began to sink and the shrieks
and from that saint received the assurance of the dying added each to the anguish of
that my repentance and pious resignation the other. Florival was standing on the
would be rewarded by pardon from a merci stern, when she bilgcd and, more intent to
ful God. In a short time I was in orders, save others than himself, he was suddenly
and the prior being, soon after, taken to the washed into the ocean, by the sea breaking
realms of felicity in the skies, I was chosen over the galley.
prior of Saint Lucia."
.
Mysterious Providence!" exclaimed
I had committed. The villain attacked me
and ere I was aware, plunged a poniard into
my bosom. I fell senseless as the infamous
Florival, as he read the last sentence, how
lllthomless are thy ways? The reverend

Kartholo, Huberto, and the witness of my
birth! The youth now proceeded:
In the convent did I live happy, beloved
and respected, and when the news arrived of
the death of prince Pandolfo and the acces
sion of Montaldo to hisfestates, I feared some
foul play. Count Altenheim informed me,
before, of the intended marriage of Amelia
and Montaldo. This I determined to prevent.
For the purpose.of ascertaining the real fate '
of Pandolfo, I assumed the guise ofa female,
and hastening to Dusseldrop, privately was
him no injury and if we would make the taken for a spectre by the guilty Montaldo."
For the Repertory.

THE CABINET. No. LXV.
Fashion in evry thing bears sov'reign sway."
Man is an imitative animal, says some
philosopher, and with great truth, for we

see the assertion verified every day of our
lives. The little follow after the foibles
and errors of the great, as if there were
a real honour in having no opinions of pro

priety of their own. They forget that in sttch
cases if there be any glory to be acquired it
all belongs to those bold souls who first start
ed the new thought. That example is better
than precept is an old but a wise saying,
founded on the experience of the world at
All was now developed, the mystery of the

woman swear to commence no inquiry con
cerning his birth he never should be molest spectre was solved and Florival found the large. If a child behold his governor indulg
ed. This we did and all three departed for saviour of his Amelia in the mysterious ing in vices which he has been taught to
consider improper, he very naturally quiets
Dusseldrop immediately. The prince is still monk.
alive, and may be found in Florival the page
At Dusseldrop, proceeded Hubcrto, his conscience- by deciding that there cer
in the manuscript, I learned enough to Itainly can be no evil in any thing which a
of Altenheim.
\Ve returned to Dusseldrop, and to
convince tne that the prince had been mur person so much older and wiser than him
gether with Montaldo mourned with well dered, but in returning to' Altenheim I en self can commit. With this impression he
dissembled sorrow the unhappy fate of the tered this dungeon by means of a private commences his career of iniquity; habit will
prince. Montaldo once more saw himself entrance under ground, which opens at the afterwards rivet the love of vice thus inno
front of the castle, and here Iidiscovered
cently acquired.
the heir of Pandolfo and seemed for some
time completely happy; but as one crime ever his body together with the sad story which
If men would as promptly imitate the
produces another, from, as he supposed, he wrote in blood. This relation 1 should virtues as the vices of their fellows, the
murdering the son. he proceeded to conspire have made to count Altenheim, but for the advantages would perhaps overbalancc
the death of the father also. His impatient reasons expressed in the beginning of this the evils which are the consequences of
ambition could not brook the delay of na recital, and am now ready, should Heaven imitation, but this, unhappily,is not the case;
ture. The relation of that herrid transaction direct this parchment into the possession of an a'ectation in the pronunciation of a word,
and the part I bore in it have been perused some powerful advocate, to'assert the truth or a particular toss with the head, will be
above, and it now remains for me to give at the hazard of my life.
sooner lcurned than the most Useful and
an account of myself fmm the time of my
Here the story of Huberto concluded and honourable virtue of benevolence, and jus
departurc from the castle. As Montaldo de Florival remained some moments wrapped tice. The inhabitants of the polite end of the
clared, one of his villains pursued and over in silent astonishment, at length the wrongs city of London agreed some time siqeqh,
took me near the convent of Saint Lucia, of his father rushed forcibly upon his mind,l to banish the letter r, from conversr"
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This became general among the nobility, and

from them descending to the commoners,
was at last exported to America; and it is
now no uncommon thing to hear the very

best people tell you that the summa or
follows these ever varying evolutions with

the most perfect ease and sense of propriety,
and yields without an effort to every new
decree which issues from the court of the
capricious goddess.
-ly applied to t'ashmn as to any thing else;

and in that as Well as in other matters should
always be adopted.
PETER PEACEABLE,
winm is ascending wam, or monstous cold, or
that miss 1Vay looked 'L'L"y quiizical at miss

J'iunznicys enluz'nmenl. I would just let the
reader know that I have by me a petition
from the said little r which I intend some
time or other to lay before _him. When I was

young, I remember,
an
acquaintance of
mine was very much struck by the ne dc

portment of a certain minister of the gospel;
he acquired in a short time a great resem
blance in his manner of carrying himself to
that of the preacher; but unfortunately my
Borne on each light fantastic whim away;

We change our manners with the changing day;
Now this, now that, our fickle minds invites, -~
Nor that, nor this, increases our delights;
For the Repertory.
THE MORALIST. No. V.
But each new folly sanctioned by the great,

We think important to the happy state.
_
Onlv add
Deeds to thy knowledge answerable. add faith,
By way of relaxing my mind from the

severe studies [had been engaged in during
the day, I went the other evening to spend
an hour in the society of an old friend of
mine. He has a couple of daughters about
seventeen years of age who have already
began to think of choosing a mate for life.
They both possess a suiiicient share of
beauty and the favours of fortune to attract
the attention of many young fellows who are
in the constant habit ofvisiting them. I had
scarcely taken my seat in the parlour of my
friend when a young gentleman entered the
room. I was instantly struck with the im
mense size of his cane, which I took at first
sight to be a post which he had dragged out
By name to come calld charity, the soul

Of all the rest.
MxL'i-ozv.
thicker than their mistress little nger; but
sons, who are the objects of this assistance,
Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love
Society is so constituted, that one man

must necessarily depend upon another for
assistance and protection. In the natttre of
things, it is impossible, all men should pos
sess an equal portion'of property and in

uence. Some men have more industry and
he was a wild harum searum fellow and ran
perseverance, and 'will consequently amass
through his fortune before he attained ve
more wealth. than others, whose opportuni
and twenty years of age, while the good
ties are not so favourable, and whose dispo
preacher lived a life of exemplary piety.
~stttons are not so active. Fortune smiles
Clarissa imitates with infinite exactness a
upon the eitertions of some, while she
certain lisp which she thinks sits with very
frowns upon the endeavours ofothers. This
pretty grace on the lips of the charming
precariousness of riches, this uncertainty of
Mrs. 'l. but forgets entirely that Mrs. T. is
acompetency, ought to induce us to cherish
as remarkable for her charitable disposition
towards the poor, as for her imperfect pro of the earth from some corner of our streets. the aection of charity or universal benevo
in order to show the ladies the amazing lence.
nunciation.
To alleviate the sufferings of others, to
It is surprising to behold how mttch fash strength of his arm, and thus recommend
ion has in all ages inuenced the opinions himself as a very suitable protector for the pour into the desponding mind the oil of
of the greater part of mankind. All things. fair sex. But how was I surprised to behold consolation and to assist the necessitous, is
even those of the most sacred nature have a few minutes afterwards the whole parlour the duty of every christian and is the source
bowed before the shrine of this camelion filled with, (as I supposed) the police of the of the greatest satisfaction and of the purest
dcity.. Every one knows how much France city. Ah! my friend said I, why did you bliss to every enlightened understanding.
was wrapped in the superstitions of religion not apply for my assistante to rescue your \Vhen we reflect, what was our condition a
few years back, and how altered for the worse
at one period of her history; and how very property from the hands ofthese ruian con
fashionable it has now become in that na stables!" Bless me, cried my friend, these it may be a few years to come, we cannot
tion to sneer at every thing which bears the are no constables, they are gentlemen of the conscientiously refuse to comply with the rea
SOIlublC demands ofthe needy, or to listen to
least resemblance to the fear of God, and to rst fashion; clubs are all the ragebam
despise any man who avows his belief in the boos and whips have been laid aside these the solicitations of the wretched. Some for
doctrines of the gospel. It is a happy cir two years It is a sail attempt, said I, to tuitous circumstance may place us in the
cumstance that those nations which are so imitate the prowess of an age that has gone situation of the miserable and convert our
ready to imitate gallic fashions and manners by; but as I am less able to take my own mansions of wealth and comfort into the
in more unimportant particulars, have not part in a society of clubs than I was thirty hovels of poverty and wo. It is then our
chosen to follow France in her present fash years ago, I will call on you at some hour duty to be chritable and to give to the ne
ionable deistic and atheistic opinions. In when you are more aloneSo saying Itook cessitous, as our means will allow. Some
have asserted, that it is improper to per
science, theory after theory has been erect my leave.
form acts of charity, as this tends to the en
ed; supported by the fashionable folly of the
Time was when our bucks were content
day, and at last tottered and sunk, on the as
ed to crack their boots with rattans no couragement of idleness, and that the per
friend went no further in his imitation, for
sault of reason, and crumbled into its native

nothing-ness.
_
_
_
now ifa student should immerge from his

1n the minor. aaii's of dress and manners closet and visit one of our fashionable cir
fashion rules with unbounded sway. She cles, he would imagine himself in the com
alters and makes anew the robes of all the pany of so many Herculeses that had com.
dainscls of ton in the land in the course of down to modern stature by the influence of
a single week. She frizzesthe hair in one all powerful time.
way for the ball; and for the next! thinks
Singularity in dress is improper, because
proper to be pleased with quite an opposite it shows too great a contempt for the opi
'_I.I:.rcii10(l- She builds the most beautiful struc
nions of the wod, which never fails to
_ tHips to day, and leaves not a vestige for the draw upon a man a full measure of retalia
prove undeserving of it. Notions of this kind

.tre, however, created in none but covetous
and contracted dispositions. They would

make mankind more depraved than they ac
tually are, and charge all the world with
faults which only exist in their own imagina
tion. They can drive the starved and trem
bling beggar from their door without ad
ministering to his wants, and can listen to
the cries of orphans and the entreaties of
'ration of tomorrow. The plastic mind tion. The golden medium may be as pro-. widowa with calm indifference and stoical
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il'lSLqllHlllY. They fol-leit all claim to re

spect lose all character for sympathy and
humanity. The person, who refuses to assist

his neighbour, when he can do it without in
juring himself, contains in his disposition
more of the brute than of the man. We
may sometimes confer charity on the un
deserving, yet shall this prevent us from as
sisring such as really want it? Though the
liberal man may be and often is imposed
upon, yet he still has the satisfaction of re
ecting, that his intention was good and
that the deed, though unmerited, is how
ever commendable. This example proves of

much service, as it encourages in others
acts of charity and benevolence. As men
are governed much by the examples around
them, they will become charitable from in
terest, if not from principle.

Self-love, when properly regulated, often
instigates a man to acts of benevolence and
induces him to multiply the objects of his
charity. ' I
Self-love thus push'd to socialI to divine,
Gives thee to make thy neighbours blessing thine:
Is this too little for thy boundless heart?
Extend it, let thy enemies have part;
Grasp the whole world of reason, life and sense
In one close system of benevolt nce;
Happier as kinder, m whateer degree
And height of bliss, but height of charity
The exercise of this a'cction is a pro

minent feature in every great and noble
character. We always remember the bene

volence of Howard with pleasure and re
verence; we dwell upon his life with ad
miration and delight. Charity calls forth into
action all the excellent feelings of the soul,
and makes the creature more like his Crea
tor.
Friend, parent, neighbour, rst it will embrace,
His country next, and next all human race;
Tide and more wide the oerllowings of the mind,

Take evry creature in of cvry kind.
Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blcst,
And Heaven beholds its image in his breast.

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Among the long catalogue of vices we

can nd no one so much detested as hypo
crisy. The generality of mankind have at
and creates in him an indifference to his

own improvement.
\Ve have always seen leading characters
of this description. However they may wish
to disguise their real sentiments, yet in an
unguarded moment their base artices are
often detected. And when they are, how is
their company avoided and themselves ab
horredl Is not this suliicient to deter others
from acting the same detestable part? But
strange as it is, we still see some who put
on the mask of friendship, and by this means
discover those'mysteries of the heart which
would not be imparted to any but a real
friend. Those secrets, which might through
their enmity be divulged, would perhaps
tend to the discredit and disgrace of those
who conded in these counterfeit friends.
From a pretended motive of personal benet,
the leading features of this vice are pour
traycd in the strongest colours in that man
who veils his character with the garb of
friendship. The effects which result from
this hypocrisy are strongly xed upon the
mind, and conspire to increase the number
of faults which otherwise would not be so
generous heart. The character ofthe former
is despised, while that of the latter is com

mended. The one is watched least he should
endeavour to draw incautious persons into
his snare, while the other is replete with all
the properties that can render him agree

able. A frank and manly person is blessed
with all the social qualities that connect man
to man: and his mind is governed by a dc
sire to increase the happiness of his ac
quaintances, while his understanding is im
proved by good sense and morality. His
whole conduct is guided purely by the af
fections of his nature, while in his deport
ment he observes the limits of wisdom and
prudence.
The difference that we thus observe in
the respect which is shown to a hypocrite,
and one who conducts himself with a liber
ality of sentiment, should excite in us a dc
sire to imitate the behaviour of the Litter.

\Vhilc we see the former disliked, and his
fair character blasted forever, we should
endeavour by avoiding the odious faults of

one to practise the good actions of the other.
This will always secure to us the esteem
glaring and so distinctly known. These and respect of every person; for those who
crimes serve to asperse his character, and have been conspicuous for purity of morals,
to lessen him still more in the esteem oi have always borne a fair reputation. Virtue
mankind. Wherever dissimulation has been must dlWaYS prevail; for though the flood
carried on without being detected, it has gates of vice and immorality may be opened
given a vital stab to social intercourse, and and destroy the virtuous principles which
has been the means of destroying every may be prevalent in the age, yet integrity
friendly sentiment in the heart of him who and morality will ultimately triumph. This
has proved deceitful and hypocritical.
15 suliicient to incite us to tread in the path
In every state of society a hypocrite has of virtue which will create in us a happiness
always been despised as the fomenter ol which will not cease until our deaths.
mischief and the promoter of discord. The
MARCUS.
disorders that he occasions in society, and
v.
which are not easily remedied, tend to the
For the Repertory.
dissolution of individual happiness. He takes
every opportunity that is offered in elnploy~
THE PROPlTlATION.
ing and practising all his arts in promoting
BOOK V.
and augmenting the dissensions which may
A
it
o u M r: s 'r.
unfortunately subsist between his neigh
Thegriefqf Peter,- The Lord is dragged before Pilate;
bours. Sometimes with success he shoots
His humility,- 'l'heJews accuse lam; Ii'latejwrceit'es
his fatal arrows; and then he disturbs the
their nut/ice am! is willing to release Jesus; 'l'hcy (we
peace ant. tranquility of those around him;
clunmrous: The governor asks the Lord if he is
but fortunately he sometimes misses his
really a king,- L'zs re/Ily; Pilule again address"
t/wJews; They answer him by ercluiml'ng Crurify
aim. His des ructive and insidious schemes
him, crucify Itimf .111111888 of Cain/11m: to Pilate,
are then laid open, and the mask which he
had worn so successfully, and for so long a
ways considered it as the most enormous time,is then seewt'ough. The plans which
he had devised for the execution of his base
designs, and which he so fondly thought
over its passions as to debar the entrance would conceal him, are not sufcient to
of any virtue. All its other crimes are screen him from the dctcstation of every
'but trivial when contrasted with this, for person.
however heinous and aggravated they may
But what a contrast do we perceive be
be, they do not so much vitiate or corrupt tween the conduct of one who is lurking to
the heart as this. It. inspires the person in destroy the reputation of his neighbour, and
that could possibly enter the human mind.
As it progresses, it gains such an ascentlency
whom it reigns with an aversion to morality that of one who possesses an open and a
Hc qffvrs to release Jesus; The}; demand the release

qf Jim-rob: and the crucixion of Jesus; .11'08
"1111,18
Full Well Barjonas understood that look,

645
'ith conscious shame and deep dismay he shook;
Fear and distress his labouiing bosom swell,
And tears of anguish from his visage fell;
Forth from the crowd, o'crwhemled with grief, he
crept,
Sought the lone path, and rackd with conscience

w'cpt.
650, _
There grace still reached him, nerved his soul again

To meet injustice, anguish to sustain,
238
To rise superior to the pangs of death,

And bless his murdi'ers with the latest breath'.
l'tleiinwhile the Saviour, by the crowd condemnd,
Remains to advocate thy hapless cause,

And snatch their victim from the cruel laws?
Tell me, I pray, if true the charge they bring, 795
Say, liasth he not at Rome defiance hurld,
And by the priest, in cruel pride eontcmn'd,
Art thou indeed, as they declare, a king?
Against thy king, pronounced himself his dooin?

As for ourselves, aWay with such a thing,
\Vell own no man but Cesar for our king!
800
Unhallowd thought, shall this unrighteous slave,
656
\Viis draggd btfore the Romans judgment seat,

Renewd contumcly and fresh wrongs to meet;
To whom the Saviour, who till now remaind
Say, was not this enough, 0! man, to save,
Not of this world my glorious kingdom is,
That God his Son to scorn and insult gave,

Enough that cruel buffettings lie bore,
Unmoved and rm in stedfast silence chaind,
660
As faind Tiberius proudly boasts of his;
730
And has he not, thus daring to presume,
'
This wretcli uncircumcised, this cruf knavc,
; Boast that oer Rome he holds imperial powr,

The mushroom monarch of a transient hour?
For if my kingdom, graspd a present world,

My fatal vengeance should around be hui-ld;
'l'hen would my faithful servants boldly ght,
\Vhile from his visage fell the reddning gore?
795
proclaimed himself the sovrcign of the world?
lftliou wiltnt-eds release one at the feast,
Benignant Jesus! in what breast could shine,

Such mercy and such love as shone in thine,
How should our songs of praise and triumph rise,
805
I pray their, le'L not this one be released:
Then should pale fear disperse yon noisy crew, 785 l But here, and know I speak the peoples mind;
Now in the darkest dungeon is conned,
And deep perdition light on evry Jew;
One, who for murder and sedition, will,
I should not thus be givn to their desire,
Unless eiil'i-anchiscil, llllg'llllg torments feel,
But armourd cherubs would fulfil my ire!
810
Discharge his bonds and let the murd'rer y,
Though in this world I claim no recompense,
Yetiiow my kingdom is, and not from hence! 740 And in his place let this deceiver die!
Until the sound amazed the distant skies,
Now, while before thy cruel bar I Salld,
Say, could not this repentant powr impart,

To bend thy stubborn mind and melt thy heart?
Did sin so harden, Satan so deprave,
For sacred justice and insulted right;
665
That nought but death, dishonourd death could

save?
670
Tell me, ye iium'i-ous and revengeful crew,

If these are not the wishes of each Jew!
Obedient to my heavenly Sires command:

Now while Im thus arraignd, andcruel Jews
My person torture and my works abuse,
Till \vondring angels stoop'd the listning car,

And checkd the chorus of the heavens to hear!
Now see the Lord before the Roman stand,
Closely surrounded by the cruel band;

675
No tear of sorrow traced his visage down,
Nor on his brow appeared the killing frowu,
His eye beamd peace, commission'd from above,
Mingled with mercy and eternal love;
No sound of anguish through the mansion rung,l
No guilty murmur left his silent tongue.
630
Humbly he waits, the never erring will
Of his omniscient Father to full.
Now came the judge, and the malicious Jews

Began the guiltless Saviour to accuse,
{685.
And thus the lisining Pilate they bespoke:
We found this fellow leading men astray,
And thousands following his pernicious way;
He boasts a mission fiom Jehovah, while
690
He dares the sacred temple to dele;
lle bade us raze that structure to the ground,
And throw its sacred fragments all around,
And in three days again hed hid it rise,
In towring grandeur, toward the astonishd skies.
Nay more than all, that thou thy rage mayst shed,
And call thy dreadful fury on his head;
696
Dared, in presumptuous arrogancc,to say,
The Jews no tribute should to Caesar pay!
But to his feet the willing o'ering bring,
Sayingthat he himself is Christ a king!
700
To whom the Roman.- say, what plea is made,
What monstrous charge against this man is laid?
Why have you dragged him hither to the hall,
And lld the city with this clamrous brawl?
These things you tell, are all unknown to me, 705
Yet eeii in them no monstrous crime I see!
A hiuidred voices at the instant broke,
Then rose the priest, suspicion sWelld his breast,
Now while with voice vociferous thy cry,

tle merits death and therefore let him die,
Thus spoke the priest and through the listning

crowd,
745
Or say, has childish terror hound thy brow?

The long sought crown in fond embrace l clasp,
j Sits pallid fear upon thy lily cheek,
_
The promised sceptre is within my grasp;
I And does the royal govnor fear to speak?
Promised ere yet to move the earth began,
The glorious recompense for saving man;
750 Ungeiirous dastard, could thy mandate save,
820
1| And woulost thou not protect him ti-om the grave?
The mighty purpose now is nearly done,
i But yet thy stubborn spirit doth full

'
The ght so terrible is almost won!
Th eternal purpose ofJehovahs will;
Soon shall my fearless soul consummate all,
, Had not arrived the Saviours nal hour,
My name shall ourish and Judea fall;
825
Soon shall your bills astoiiishd, topple down, 755 Ile still had lived and still deed thy pow't!
While on my head 1 place the blood bought crown; Not all the hosts, successful Julius led,
When all his foes, in dreadful panic, ed,
Then shall the bitter cup of death be sweet,
With these combined were many millions more,
For mans redemption will be then complete!
Unmoved he stands, whom hosts of saints adore;
Proceed, ye fearful ministers of fate,
831
With soul susuiind, yourjudgment I await;
760 One look could usher rum and dismay,
One dreadful word a world of foes could slay!
Haste to prepare the awful pomp of blood,
But now the great, the glorious hour is come,
And satiate justice with the streaming ood!
And Christ obedient meets his fearful doom.
Amazement lld the listning Romans soul,
Humbly submissive to the grave retires,
835
And, dumb with wonder, roiuid his eye-balls roll:
Then trembling terror lld his panting heart, 765 A reptile triumphs and a God expires!
While he arose his purpose to impart:
A transient triumph, soon the tomb expands,
Thou envious priest and all ye Jews that hear
And once again alive the Saviour aiands;
'1 his wondrous Jesus, to my words give ear;
Alive, no more to feel the touch ofpain.
I have attended to the charge you bring,
To live and in eternal glory reign!
And in him nd no censurable thing;
770
No fault, unless it fault be to deride,
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Your haughty mandates and oerweening pride;
THE VICTORY OF SPRING.
Therefore attend and my intention know,
The hour was calm, the air serene,
I will chastize him and then let him go.
Mornings soft dews yet bathd the green,
He said, when twenty voices loudly cry,
775
And rosy Spring fresh owrs had shed, ,
No mercy, crucify him, crucify!
O'er evry grove, and cvry mead;
Again the govnor: wherefore, why this deed,
When Winter with his gloomy ll'uin,
Why will you stier innoceneeto bleed?
Riishd howling oer the ai-ighmd plain:
This man is guiltless, each onmiseient word
With furious haste he tore the owi-s,
And thus the venom of his soul expressd:_

My ears, attentive, in amazement heard,
Thinkst thou, if not a man factor, we
\Vould cer have brought this guilty slave to thee?

Thinkst thou the sacred priesthood Id defy, 711
And God dishonour byadamninglie!
Here 1 proclaim it, with my loudest breath,
The crimes he practised loudly call his death!
Again the govnor, \vho their malice saw,
815
Not this man but Bambas, broke aloud!

Now, yielding Roman, where thy justice now,
715
780
Convince my heart that heaven omnic loves,

And each transaction he commits approves.
Scatterd them on the driving gale:

The early rose, Springs blushing pride,
Chill'd by his icy presence died,
Now 'tis acustom at your coming feast,
That from his bonds one prisner be releasd;

Then let this Jesus, who is guiltless, live,
Behold to mercy I this Saviour give;
785
Release his hands and let the cruel cord,
Take him and judge according to your law.

Our law forbids, the crafty priest replies.
\Vliile haticd flashed from his revengeful eyes.
Then to the silent Lord the Roman bowd
iiile growing murmurs lld the listiiing crowd:
Unhappy man, what evil hast thou done,
721
No longer bind your sovreign and your Lord!

Now louder still the gen'ral murmur groWs,
And from the crowd again the priest uprose: 790
what crime committed, that not even one
The act will prove that thou art Caesars foe,
Demoniac fury round his eyes now shed,

As thus, impetuous, to the judge he said:
And blooming wreaths that deckd the bowrs

And with the blast, and rending hail,
And oer the rivlets brilliant hue,

Decembers stormy breath he threw.
Indignant Spring their fate survey-d,

And called the zephyrs to her aid,
The rising sun, the Western gale,
The tepid breezes of the vale,

And hasten'd with the iosy hours,
To guard her greens, and save her owrs.
If thy mistaken kindness let him go,

Firs-i oer the enii, the owr of day,
l'ourd from his thionc, a steady ray,
PH ILA DELPHIA 'REPERTORY.
239
I
M
Vhilbt round his brows, and 'osty limbs,

The humid gale of April swims:
And springs obedient zephyrs shed
\Varm deW-drops oer his snowy hsadi
' he melting god, in vain, for aid,
Calls to the frost, and ev'ning shade;
architecture, that you would have taken it

For a hinds cottage, instead of a place that,
\
in times of old, had been the abode of nobili

t_v. It consisted of a long barn like structure,
formed of r, covered in a strange fashion
And scorched with the unyielding ray,

He ed upon the blast away.
Triumphant Spring, with smile serene,
And rosy ngers drest the green,
with scales, and odd ornamental twistings

in the carved wood. But the spot was hal
lowed by the virtues of its heroic mistress,
who saved by her presence of mind, the life
of the future deliverer of her country. The
following are the circumstances alluded to,
and most of them were communicated to
Sprinkled fresh blossoms oer the bowers,

And dew-drops throw, and blushing owers,
me under the very roof.

Gustavus, haviiy, by an evil accident,
O'er evry lawn,and cvry tree,

As trophies of her victory.
been discovered in the mines, and after hav

ing been narrowly betrayed by a Swedish
In vain he storms, and drives in vain,

The northeg-n blast, and freezing rain:
Before the suns continued re,
"is powers blaze, his hosts retire,
CJESARICL'S.
nobleman, bcnt his
course
towards this
_._
house, then inhabited by a gentleman of the
he went straight to one of Christiet'ns 0f

cers, commanding in the province, and in
formed him that Gustavus was his prisoner.
Having committed this treachery, he had
not courage to face his victim, and telling
the Dane how to surprise the prince, who,
he said, believed himself to be under the
protection of a friend, (shame to manhood to
dirt: to confess that he' could betray such a
condence!) he proposed taking a wider cir
cuit home, while they, apparently unknown
to him, were to ride it of its treasure. It
will be an easy matter, said be, for not
even my wife knows that it is Gustavus.

Accordingly the ofcer at the head of a.
party of well armed soldiers, marched direct
ly to the lake. The men invested the house,
while the leader, abruptly entering, found
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name of Pearson or Peterson, whom he had
Pearsons wife, according to the fashion of
THE HARP. LAY VI.
known in the armies of the late administra
THE \VEEPING ROSE.

'lhe rose that is bath'd by the night-dew in tears,
Sadly weeps for the warmth of the sun which has
tion. Here he hoped, from the obligations
those days, employcdvin culinary prepara

tions. At some distance from her set a young
set,
And mourns, as the night-cloud of coldness appears,

For the smiles of the day, it can never forget!
So the warm feeling hard, that has lived like the
rose,
In the sun-shine ofbeauty and low for a day,
Sadly weeps, as the clouds of despair intcrpose,
And the soul-cheering smiles chace, in sorrow,
away!
Yet the rose may cease weeping, and no longer

mourn,
For the bliss of the smiles which in darkness
have set,
For the sun with the morning will warmly return.

And dryall the tears it has shed in regret!
But no sun with the morning will ever arise
Oer the hard that is weeping for smiles that have

set,
To dry the swelld streams of his sort-owing eyes,

Which ow for the bliss he cut never forget!
DELLA Llll -\.
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GUSTAVUS VASA.
The following anecdote respecting this

great monarch, and truly patriotic hero, is
XClatlti by K r Porter, who has added to
his reputatio as an artist, by a considera
ue nan tormeriy tall: on rst ofce"- thar he man, in a rustic garb. looping off the knots
should at least nd a safe retreat. Pearson re- ~ from a broken branch of a tree. The ofcer
ceived him with every remark of friendship, l
nay, treated bin) with that respect and sub-'
mission which noble minds are proud to pay
to the truly great, when robbed of their ex
ternal honours. He seemed more aiicted
by the misfortunes of Gustavus, than that
went up to her, and told her he came in

king Christicrn's name, to demand the rebel
Gustavus, who he knew was concealed un
der her roof. The dauntless woman never

changed her colour; she immediately guess
princc was for himself, and exclaimed with
ed the man, whom her husband had intro

duced as a miner's son, to be the Swedish
such vehemence against the Danes, that, in
hero. The door was blocked up by soldiers.
stead of awaiting aproposal to take up arms,
In an instant, she replied, without once glanc

ing at Gustavus, who sat motionless with
he offered to try the spirit of the mountain

eers; and declared that himself and his vas
sals should be the rst to set an cxample,

and turn out under the command of his be
loved general.
,
Gustavus was rejoiced to nd that he had
at last found a man who was not afraid to
i draw his sword in the defence of his coun
ltry; and endeavoured by the most impres
] sive arguments, and the prospect of a suita
lblc recompence for the personal risks he
' ran, to conrm in him so generous resolu
tion. Pearson answered with repeated assur
ances of delity; he named the gentlemen
and the leading persons among the peasants,
whom he hoped to engage in the enterprise.
Gustavus relied on his word, and promising
ble display of literary merit, in a very iutclii
not name himself to any one while he was
gent and amusing work, which does honour

to his intents and character. Tin: author,
absent, some days afterwards saw him leave
- the house to put his design in execution.
surprisen ifyou mean the melancholy gen

tleman my husband has had here these few
days, he has just walked into the wood on

the other side of the hill, some of those so].
diers may readily scizc him, as he has no

arms with him.
The oicer did not suspect the easy
simplicity of her manner; and ordered part
of the men to go in quest of him. At that

moment suddenly turning her eyes to Gus
tavus, she ew up to him and catchcd the
stick out of his hand, cxclaiming in an angry
voice; Unmannerly wretchl \Vhy sit you be- .
fore your betters? Dont you see the kings

ofcers in the room! Get out of my sight, or
some of them shall give you a drubbing!
As she spoke she struck him a blow on his
back with all her strength; and opening a.
sidc dost, there, get into the scullery,
who with laudable enthusiasm visited the

It was indeeda design and a black one. (cried she,) it is the ttest place for such
spot in Dclacarlitt, where that great monarch ' Under the specious cloak of zealous atlec company! And giving him another knock,
sought a refuge from the Danish usurpcr, tion for Gustavus, the traitor was contriving she ung the stick after him, and shut the
obtained the subjoincd narrative, and the his ruin. The hope of making his court to door. Sure, added she in a great heat,
traditions is so exact, and derived from such I the Danish tyrant, and the expectation of it
never was woman plagued with such a lout
respectable sources, as to admit of no doubt 3 large reward, made this son of Judas resolve ofa slave." The oicer begged she would
of its authenticity. After describing the to sacrice his honour to his ambition, and not disturb herself on his account, but she
place in general, he says
for the sake ofa few ducats violate the most affecting great reverence for the kings re
On the little hill just mentioned, stood sacred laws of hospitality, by betraying his prescntative, pruycd him to enter her par.
a very ancient habitation, of so simple an guest. In pursuance of that base resolution, lour while she brought some refreshment
PHILADELPHIA REFER-TORY.
240
W
aes, and lacillty of preparation may induce

get from the side of the shrew, and she im the curious to try experiments. Prudent lov- l
mediately hastened to Gustavus whom she ers and conspirators will find it a very con
had bolted in, and by means of a back pas venient article in correspondence. Take
sage, conducted hitn in a moment to a cer Zaffre as sold by the druggists, and digest it I
tain little apartment, which projected from in Aqua Ragia, and the Calx of Cobalt till it
be dissolved; which solution must be diluted;v
the side of the house close to the lake
where the shers boats lay, she lowered with a little common water to prevent it;
him down the convenient aperture in the from making too strong an impression onl
seat, and giving him a direction to an honest paper; the colour when the paper is heated
curate across the lake, committed him to becomes of a ne green blue. If ZalTre or
Regulus of Cobalt be dissolved in the same
Providence.
manner in spirit of nitre, or aqua fortis, a
reddish colour is prodgccd on exposing the
One kind kiss before we part.
A young lady having purchased an asort paper to heat. The sympathetic inks made
of the above process have this property, that
ment of music, at a warehouse, situated in?
being- brought to the re one of them be
the western part of Philadelphia, on her re
turning to the carriage recollected a piece comes green and the other red, but what is
IIEALTH OFI-IUI-i,
December
The Dane civily complied; perhaps glad to
which she had neglected to buy.
more wonderful, they again lose these co
~ Sir,
said she on entering the shop, there is one

thing which I ha\e forgot, and which I must
now request you to give me! And what
is it, ask the young music seller. Itis sir,
(replied she, hesitating and whining over the
titles of the music she had in her hand) it is
one kind kiss before we part. The gay
youth vaulting instantly over the tables,
saluted the fair stranger. It is scarcely ne
cessary to inform the reader, (who will re
lours (unless the heat has been too great)

on their being again withdrawn from the
Interments in the City and Liberties of

delphia,
from the 30th November to the7th December.
Diseases.
ml. ch.
Apoplcxy
Atrophy
Cholera Morbus
Consuinp- of lungs
Convulsions
Decay
Dcbilily
Fever, typhus
Hooping cough
[lives
Hemorrhage
lnliam. of bowels
1
0
0
5
I
l
O
1
0
0
I
0
0
1
2
1
3
0
2
0
2
1
0
1
Diseases.
m1. ch.
Insanity '
Locked Jaw
Mortication
Ileurisy
Still born
Syphilis
Teething
Unknown
1 0
O 1
2 0
2 1
0 2
1 0
O 1
1 0
-
17_18
Total 35
>
Under
Betvveen 1 and 2
2
5
5
lo
10
20
20
3t)
9 Between 50 and 60
3
4
1
I
6
1
2
0
0
0
60
70
80
90
100
70
80
90
100
110
tire. Fire screens have been thus painted,
30
which in cold have shown only the trunk
40
50
Total 39
and branches of a dead tree and sandy hills,
' which on their approach to the re suddenly

put forth green leaves and owers and grass
1 upon the mountains.
Saratoga dv.
collect the song, one kind kiss before we
part,) that it was an air of a less touching

nature than the one given by our hero,
which the lady expected to receive.
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STATE OF THE THERMOSIETER.
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\Villiam Pinkncy, esq. of Maryland, our
Chocks, Cards, Handbills,

, late minister to Great Britain, has been ap
MADNESS.
! pointed by the president ol the United States,

Mr. A, physician at Milan, who cured 5 with the consent of the senate, attorney ge
mad men, had a pitof water in his house, in i neral of the United States, vice Mr. Rodney,
which he dipt his patients, some up to their l resigned.
knees, some up to the girdle, some up to the
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chin, as they were more or less all'ccted.

at the oicc of the
Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 181 I.
One of them, that was pretty well recor - ed,

standing by chance before the door, and!
seeing a gentleman ride by with a hawk on
Mr. Editor,
TERMS or The REPERTORY.

scriht-rs to pay quarterly in advance, distant sub
As I was looking over one of your papers

(No. 28) l was surprised at seeing a piece
his st, and his spaniels after him, would
of poetry signed Leander. Said piece is a
needs know to what use all this preparation
daring plagiarism, and was published in the every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
served? He made answer to kill certain
London Magazine of the year 1754, whichl country by the earliest conveyance.
No subscription will he received for less than a
fowls; the patient demanded again, \Vhat
Magazine is in my possession, and I will en-i year. Those who do not notify us of their intention
his fowls might be worth that he killed in a
deavour to let you have it. Did not Mr. Le-'
year? He replied nine or ten crowns; and ander know when he transcribed it that hcl to discontinue at the close of one volume, will be
considcretl'as subscribing for the next.
when he urged him lurther, \Vhat his dogs,

horses and hawks stood him in.r he told him
four hundred cgoitnscllitltihatthepmient

' bid'him begonc, as he loved his life and wel
fare; for, said he, if our master comes and
nds thee here, he will certainly pm thee
in' his pit amongst the mad men, up to the
very chin.
.
Sym/mthetic Ink. In Keirs Chemical Dic

tionary, we nd the following directions tin
making sympathetic ink; its singular proper

was doing wrong? The question remains toi
be answered by himself, which I imagine bcl and become responsible for the pig-ment, shall re
will not dare to do. Publish this, sir, as a bar
rier to such impositions in future, and to de
ter others froin falling into the same error.

A FRIEND TO MERIT.
ceive one copy gratis

ceived at this ofce, and at the bookstore of IIel
lingo and .-\itkt-n, No. 40. North Second street.
Printers unchanging with the Philadelphia Re.

pertm-y \vill ilL' expected to pay the dicrence.
In the original the following line stands

thus:
PHILADELPHIA,
Leander wood the 'lhraeian maid.

In the i,lagial'isin,
Johannes wood the beauteous maid
Printed anti published by Dennis I-Ieartt,

Marshalls alley , between Fourth and Fifth sreels,
@Pljilabelipbiameperfom
Cowman.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. IBM.
\'()lv
ll.
No.31.
through three editions, a very uncommon

instance of favourable reception at a time
ter, is the only reproach which all the per when literary curiosity was yet conned to
LIFE OF BLACKMORE.
spicacity of malice, animated by wit, has particular classes of the nation. Such success
Sir Richard Blackmore, though eminent
naturally raised animosity, and Dennis at
ever fixed upon his private life."
both as a poet and physician, is one of those
It is probable that indigence did not long tacked him in a formal criticism fraught with
great men. of whose life and manners few
compel him to follow the profession of a malevolence and illiberality; but to the cen
memorials have been left by his contempora
school-master; and it is presumed that some sure of Dennis, may be opposed the appro
BIOGRAPHY.
be remembered, to the honour of our au

thor, that to have been once a school-mas
ries, and who has been more censured by his

circumstances concurring in his favour, he
enemies, than praised by his friends. He was

descended from a respectable family in
\Viltshire, and having received the rudi

ments of his education at a country school,
was sent to Westminster at the age of thir

teen, and from thence, in 1668, removed to
Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he took the
degree of master of arts on the third of June,

1676. Though he resided at college thirteen
years, a much longer time than is usually

spent at the university, doctor Johnson is of
opinion that he did not devote his time and
attention to those pursuits which generally
occupy the minds of students; because, in
his poems, there are many errors respecting

the names of nations and places, which he
seems to have introduced without having
taken the pains to ascertain their propriety.
bation of Locke, and the admiration of Mo
travelled into Italy, and took the degree of lineux, which are found in their printed let
doctor of physic at the university of Padua. ters. It is also praised by Dr. Watts in his
He also visited France, Germany, anti the Hora: Lyricaz. And Gildon says, in his
Low Countries, and having travelled about a Art of Poetry," that notwithstanding his
year and a half on the continent, he returned merit, this admirable author did not think
himself upon the same footing with Homer.
to England.
Dr. Johnson observes, that when our au
It is remarked by Pope that what raises
thor rst engaged in physic, he inquired, as the hero, often sinks the man." But it may
he himself says, of Dr. Sydenham, what au be said of Blackmore, that, as the poet sinks,
thors he should read, and was directed by the man rises. The nnitnadversions of Den
Sydenham to Don Quixotte, which," said nis, insolent and contemptuous as they were,
he, is a very good book; I read it still. raised in him no implacable resentment; for,
Whether he rested satised with this direc in one of his latter works, he praises Dennis
tion, or sought for better, he commenced as equal to Boileau, in poetry, and superior
physician, and attained to a degree of emi to him in critical abilities. Indeed, he seems
nence and an extensive practice. He became to have been more delighted with praise, than
fellow of the college of physicians, April 12, hurt by censure; for, in two years after the
1687; being one of the thirty, which, by the publication of Prince Arthur, in ten books,
In the early part of his life he was re

new charter of king James, was added to the
duced to the necessity of engaging in the
profession of a school-master, an humilia
tion with which his enemies failed not to re
proach him, when he acquired a degree of
fame suicient to excite their malevolence.
In a satirical piece, written against him, are
these lines:
" By nature formd, by want a pedant made,
he produced King Arthur, in twelve. In the
former number. His residence was at Sad
preface to the latter poem, he atoned for the

severity of that to the former, by bestowing
were chiey in the city. At that time a citizen an eulogium on Congreves Mourning
was a term of reproach, and his place of Bride."He acknowledges also, that many
abode was another topic to which his ene defects are to be found in Prince Arthur,
mies had recourse for a subject of scandal. and apologizes for them by confessing, that
Blackmore was not known as a poet till, when he undertook that poem, he had been
(in 1695) he published Prince Arthur, an long a stranger to the muses. I had read
lers Hall, in Cheapside, and his friends
Blackniore at rst set up the whipping trade;
heroic poem, in ten books, written, as he

relates, by such catches and starts, and in
swore,
That tooth-ach, gout and corns should be no more. such occasional, uncertain hours as his pro
fession a'orded, and for the greatest part in
In vain his drugs, as Well as birch he tried;
His boys grew blackheads, and his patients diet ." coffee-houses, or in passing up and down the
but little poetry, says he, throughout my
Next quack commenced, then fierce with pride, he
whole life: and in fteen years before, I had

not, as I can remember, wrote an hundred
lines in verse, except a copy oi Latin verses

in honour of a friend's book."
The resentment of the wits and critics
Dr. Garth alludes to his being a school streets." From the latter part of this apology,
he was accused by Dryden of writing to was not softened by the panegyric, or the
master in the following lines:
the rumbling of his chariot wheels." It apology; the provocation was now doubled;
Unwieldy pedant, let thy awkward muse,
seems that he had incurred the displeasure Blackmore, however, found advantages more
With conscious praise, with atteries abuse;
To lash, and not be felt, in thees an art;
of Dryden by censuring in his preface, the than equivalent to all their efforts at scan
Thou ne'er mad'st any but thy school-boys smart. liceutiousness of the stage.
dal; for he was this year appointed one of
Dr. Johnson. with respect to these sar
Prince Arthur appears to have found the physicians in ordinary to king \Viiliam
asms, very candidly observes, that it should! many readers, for in two years it were. who advanced him to the honour of knight-I
l
s
242
hood, with the presrnt of a gold chain and
phic poem, which is deservedly esteemed a
medal.
The honours conferred on our author by
classical performance, and merits the highest

degree of approbation. There is a tradition,
that as Blackniore proceeded in this poein,. I
-'
he laid his manuscript, from timcio time, be
the king, were, by some, attributed to his
new poem; but, as his majesty had no great

predilection for the muses, it was more pro
bably imputed to the eminence he had at
tained to in his profession, or rather to his
zealous attachment to the principles of the
revolution: for he says,in his dedication to Al
fred, that he had taken a greater part in the
succession of the house of Hanover, than
ever he had boasted." Pope, when he be

came his enemy, mentions this as an in
stance of honours and rewards being impro
perly bestowed by kings.
The hero William, and the martyr Charles,
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned
Quarles."
In 1700 he published a Satire upon Wit,

of which Dr. Johnson speaks in the lollow
ing terms. A proclamation of deance,
,which united the poets almost all against
him, and which brought up0n him lampoons
and ridicule from every side. This, doubt
less,he foresaw, and evidently despised: nor

should his dignity ol mind be without its
praise, had he not paid the homage to great
neSs, which he denied to genius, and de
graded himself by conferring that authority
over the national taste, which he takes from
the poets, upon men of high rank and wide
inuence, but of less wit, and not greater
rirtue.-In this performance he justly cen

sured Drydens impurities, but praised his
powers; though, in a subsequent edition, he
retained the satire, and .omitted the praise;
what Was his reason I know not; Dryden was

hen no longer in his Way.
The saute year he published a Paraphrase
on the Book of Job, and other parts of scrip
ture, which Dryden, who pursued him with
For the Repertory.

OH.
THE LIYSTERIOUS MONK.
A TALE.
fore a club of wits with whom he associated,
and that every one contributed as he could,

either to improvement orcorrection. But ad
mitting this friendly revision to have ac
tually taken place, which is by no means
certain, the author will still retain an ample
CHAPTER X1";
Heedless they rushed, but ruin was before,

And death awaited when they hoped success.
Juan
Of one or both of us the time is come.

Shakspeare.
dividend of praise, for to him must always

Nothing could shake the determination of
be assigned the plan of the work, the dis
tribution of its parts, the choice of topics, Altenheim, he persisted in his intention and
the train of argument, and what is yet more, accordingly despatched a messenger to Pan
the general predominance of philosophical dolfo, upbraiding him with his pcrdy and
judgment and poetical spirit; for correction demanding the satisfaction due to the injur
seldom effects more than the suppression of ed feelings of a knight for his attempt
faults; a happy line or a Single elegance, against the honour of the house of Alten
may, perhaps, be added; but of a large work heim. He lamented the necessity that com
the original constitution and general charac pelled him, in the evening of his days, to
lift his sword against one recommended .to
ter must aIWays remain.
Blackmore sometimes deviated into other him by the dearest ties of friendship, but
tracks of literature, and endeavoured to en also lamented the deception under which
tertain the polite world as a periodical es the (kid Pandolfu laboured when he made
sayist. When the Spectator stopped, he Montaldo his heir.
DArinhault received the messenger,
wrote in concert with Mr. Hughes, a paper
published three times a week, called the while he was deeply pondering how he
Lay Monastery, founded on the supposition should extricate himself from the dangerous
that some literary men, whose characters and unpleasant situation into which his vil
are described, had retired to a house in the lany had betrayed him. He perused the
country to enjoy philosophical leisure, and letter again and again. He at rst appeared.
resolved to instruct the public, by communi so ewhat alarmed, but suddenly starting
cating their dispositions and amusements. up, he struck his forehead as if some thought
Whether any real persons were concealed had just that moment seized his mind, then
under ctitious names, is not known. How
turning to the herald of Altenheim;
ever, with their joint abilities, they could

draw the publication but to forty papers.
prince Pandolfo never shrunk from danger
which were afterwards collected in a volume,
yet, and tell him too, that two weeks hence
Tell your lord," said he, that the
and called in the title, A Sequel to the Spec: be may expect me at Altenheim to give him
tutors.
In 1716 and "17 he published two vo
the satisfaction he requires."

So saying he ordered the messenger to
leave his palace without refreshment, and
commanding all his servants to retire except
Gaspard and Geraldo he thus addressed
great malignity, lived long enough to ridi

cule in a prologue.
in 1705, he published Eliza, an heroic
poem, in ten books, which seems to have
been very little regarded; Dr. Johnson ob
lumes of Essays on several subjects, which
serves, that he does not remember to have
is not the prose of a poet, for it is languid,

sluggish, and lifeless; his diction is neither
daring nor exact, his ow neither rapid nor
easy, and his periods neither smooth nor
strong.
'
in August, 1714, Blackmore became one
brought me into dangers which I have been

studiously endeavouring to free myself from.
A way has at last presented itself unsought.
of the elects of the College of Physicians,

and was soon alter chosen censor.-He
knight
found Eliza either praised or blamed by any

author serious or comical. He says, She
dropped, as it seems, dead-born from the
press.
In l706, our author turned his thoughts
to the celebration of living characters, and
wrote a poem on the Ki. Cat Club, and the
next year Instructions to Vandal-bank, an
eminent painter, as a sequel to the Advice

to the Poets, which Steele ridiculed in his
Taller, with such success, that,as Fenton
observes, he put an end to the species ol

writing that gave advice to painters.
_
In l1l2, he published Creation, aphiloso
deserves commendation only as they are

written for the highest and noblest purpose,
the promotion of religion and virtue. Dr.
Johnson observes, that Blackmores prose
them.
Your
stupidity and
inattention have
Altenlicim has demanded satisfaction for the
injuries l have done and those I intended do

ing him. This I have accepted, the h0ary
must
sink
beneath
my
youthful
seems to have arrived late, whatever was the
vigour, then 1 am acquitted to the'wurlq and

Amelia is left unprotected at my mercy.
reason, at his medical honours.

(To be continued.)
tion, and Montaldo retired with savage saris
Out of a great number ol'bare elbows, not

.Ibovc one pair in ten ought to make their
appearance in public.
'lhe villains highly apolaudod this resolu

faction to think upon the best method of
insuring success. Another object also filled
nis bosom. He had heard of the arrirdl-of

Algoronza and the restoration of the titles
2243
WW
and estates of his father to .~linda, who was

now the marchioness Malventi. Thesehe
also resolved to obtain and for this purpose
resolved upon the death of the marehioness.
The day now arrived and accompanied by
Geraldo and Gaspard, Montaldo set out for
the castle of Altenheim. and on the way
opened to his worthy companions the in
tention be conceived of murdering the mar-
chioness of Malventi, as she was not only
aproof that Gaspard and Geraldo had placed
the young prince, though unknown to her,
'uuder her protection, but also stood between
die least noise, and her being found dead in
every vein, until she recognized the voice

picion on him as for them to assassinate her of Algoronza requesting her to open the
with their pionards. Every thing was now door as danger was around her. She in
understood and settled by these infernal stantly arose and putting on her loose night
agents of an infernal master, and they re gown, opened it with the utmost astonish
tired from him to furnish themselves with ment!
the necessary implements for the accom
\Vhat,my lord, cried she, has aroused
plishment of their design, and having pro you at this time?
cured a ladder of ropes, as twilight began
I have not yet been to bed," replied the
to cover the landscape with her dusky robes, count, and I thank Heaven, however me
Geraldo, unseen by any one, entered the lancholy the cause of my being up, that I
chamber of Minda, for Minda had retired with have not, since in consequence I have prob
Amelia, and having fastened it in the case ably saved your ladyships life?
him and the dignity of a Spanish nobleman.

These precious villains entered cordially 0f the window, lowered it gently down, and
into the intention oftheir master and readily left it suspended until the midnight hour
called him to the perpetration of the diabo
undertook to perform the task.
They now reached the castle and were lical act.
ushered into the hall, where Montaldo Was
The castle bell at length struck eleven
meet by Altenheim, Algoroza, the marchio and in half an hour after silence reigned
ness and Amelia. He was not sufciently throughout the halls of Altenheim. Every
hardened in crimes, to meet the injured one had retired and Amelia and the mar
undisturbed. He shrunk from their presence. chioness having separated, the latter entered
but at length, resuming courage. he bowed
her chamber and having fastened her door,
retired to her bed. Here she lay some mo

ments
ruminating on the event of the en
he
said;
i Without inquiring into the motives of
to the ladies and then addressing Altenheim.
counter which was to take place on the next
your extraordinary letter, count Ferdinand,

I am here to meet its demand on the mor
row; till then I claim the hospitality of
your roof, and that treatment which is due
to a true knight.
Till to-morrow we are friends, an
swered Altenheim, then, Montaldo, we are
deadly foes. Let a chamber be prepared,

continued he to the lady Amelia, " for the
prince and see that his attendants experience
a friendly treatment."
These things were soon prepared, and
after dining together, Altenheim retired to
consult with AlgoronZa, Pandolfo and his
Villuits to their chamber, and Amelia and

the m'archioness to lament the danger to
which Altenheim was determined to expose
himself, althouyi Algoronza insisted upon
avenging his injuries, being more in the
vigour of youth and of course more able to

meet the youthful fury of Montaldo.
Searcely had Pundolfo and his assassins
entered and fastened their chamber when
Geraldo said he had discovered where the
marchioness slept, in the most distant part
do long passage that led to the back part

of the castle and that her windows looked
into the garden. Through these they intend
ed to enter and smother her, provided they
could do it with so much secrecy as not to
arouse Algoronza and some of his aiwniillIs
who lodycdin the next chamber. Montaldn
was well pleased with their plan and en
SUlcd their success. It would be easy to
mount the window and smother her without
caused 'a frcezmg horror to thrill '1 rough
the morning, would not throw half the sus
My life! exclaimed the marchioness.

Listen to me a moment, returned Al
goronza, and I will relate. Pondering on
the probable dangers that attend my vener

able friend Altenheim to-morrow, and en
deavouring to devise some measures to
avert them, I sat some time in my room,and
opening my door I traversed the passage for

a few moments, when looking out of the
window at the end of it I perceived a ladder

suspended from your window and two men
in the garden below!
Merciful Heaven! interrupted Minda,
surely they cannot seek my life!
day, and dreading the danger that threaten

ed count Altenheim from the youth and
ThatI will prevent their taking, re
known expertness of Montaldo in the tour joined the count. It is so dark that I can
nament. Suddenly a step in the passage not distinguish who the villains are, but do
aroused her from her reverie and lled her you remain silent and leave the rest to me.
bosom with terror. The person, whoever it Hark! I hear them ascending, retire to your
was, it appeared from the sound was travers bed, and appear to sleep.
ing the passage too and fro with slow and
Minda now retired and Algoronza leaving
solemn pace. Her heart sunk within her the room aroused his servant and placing
for the spectre of the palace immediately himself close to the door of the chamber of
rushed upon her mind. The immaterial the marchioness, awaited the appearance of
messenger, thought she, is here to prevent Montaldos villains. Presently he heard them.
the inhuman Montaldo from a savage tri approach the bed, and upon Mindas shriek
umph over the venerable count Altenheim. ing, he and his servant rushed'in. The as
Mysterious Providence! for what was she sassins perceived themselves discovered and
preservedto see! She now raised herself in endeavoured to escape, but Gaspard ,fell
the bed and listening more attentively she beneath the sword of Algoronza, and Geral
plainly heard, not only the step, but some do as he was getting out of the window, re
person breathe. From this circumstance she ceived a ball through his head from the
discovered that the intruder was at least pistol of the servant, and tumbled dead into
mortal, and seemed somewhat relieved from the garden below.
hot: terrors, in consequence. for though she
-_._
ardently desired the presence of the sup
For the Repertory.
'
posed spretre on the morrow, she had no
desire to see him before that time. The
THE CABINET. No. LXVI.
Mrson now walked towards the end of the The body idle, restivc fancies still
passage and she heard him stop. After With busy whisprings urge the man to mischief.
Anon
some moments he exclaimed:
I had just retired from a long conversa
Some nefarious deed is in agitation! who
are. the villains and why is that ladder sus tion with my aunt Dinah and my good na
tured sister, Priscilla, and seated myself in
pended from the window?
The terrors of the marchioness prevented my own chamber by. the side of as pleasant
her from distinguishing the voice and almost A re asv most authors enjoy, when my atten.
0 ero..mc her as a quick step now approach tion was drawn by a gentle foot-step. I
ed her chamber door. A light tap at which i turned my face towards the door, and upon
244
its opening beheld enter my worthy-and

long; esteemed friend and colleague, Peter
Peaceable. \Vcll Peter, said I, and what is
the news? Now, although this is a question

we seldom ask, because it is so often we see
each other, yet by some freak or quirk I was

led into it on this occasion: which by the
by, as it turned out, proved to be a lucky
question, for to that alone is owing all that
follows. My dear Gregory, answered Peter,
~never was a question put to me more apro
{me than this one, for I have just been to the
coffee-house, which you know is the focus of

intelligence. Ay, ay, of Commercial intelli
gence, but you know Peter, said I, there is
another focus for the petty news of the town.

The old gentleman nodded his head signi
cantly, and laid open the budget he had just
accumulated. He told me of ships spoken
at sea, of others below, of some here, and of
some there, till I was absolutely unable to

contain longer my astonishment. Why Peter,
asked I again, how long is it since you have
begun to visit the coffee-house? I believe,
returned he, I have not been there a dozen:
times in my life, nor would I havegone therel
now, but that not feeling altogether well,

my time hung so heavy on my hands that I
was obliged to sally out of my sober dwel
ling as the old Jew says, to mix a little in
1ne scenes of life: there I can always nd so
much to engage my attention that the time
ies with regular rapidity. This is the rea
son. my old friend, continued he, laying his
hand on my shoulder, this is the reason that
thy Peter has to assign for going to a place
which he so unfrequcntly resorts to. And
happy would I be if I could say that I was
the only one who went for the same purpose:
bttt on the contrary, there were this evening,
I may say hundreds collected in that build

ing who had no more business to transact
there than 1 bad. But it is the merchants
lounging place, and if a man does nbt go to
the coffee-house he is no merchant. Ridi
culous! exclaimed I involuntarily, that men
should crowd themselves where there is

neither business nor amusement, save that
of seeing and being seen; for I venture to
say also from what I have seen of it myself,
ted away a couple of hours he took his de

parture, and what he had said in the early
did not retire from business as he was now

rich enough: \Vhatl replied he, pass a
lazy and inactive life? No sir, if] am weal
part of his conversation having led me to re
flect on the miseries of idleness, I took up thy enough, my gains may be always well
my pen to write a cabinet on the subject appropriated in assisting those that are
poor.
forthwith.
But it is not only the rich that are many
I look upon a man ofa slender mind who
has no avocation, as a more pitiahle object times without employment, for if once the
than the pennyless poetic ghosts that walk love of idleness gains ascendancy over the
unhecdcd on the gloomy shores of the Styx. faculties we perceive in it no exercise of
They have not even so much as a quarrel mercy, but the poor and those who can ill
with Charon to engage them; they are a kind afford it are as likely to fall into its prac
of bad coin which will pass no where, a tices as the independent. Here it is pecu
wretched counterfeit, for wherever they get liarly culpable, for it is not only offering an
footing they are sure to wear out their wel insult to industry bttt curtailing from the
rights of society. The great association of
come.
Idieuess has justly been called the parent civilized mankind has a right to the services'
of vice, for the activity of the mind however of each individual composing it,for mankind
must always be in a state of progressive
weak, is so restless, that ifa man has no re
gular profession he will fall into practices perfection, and if each member was to de:.
shameful and wicked. How often have we termine not to lend his assistance in bring
seen fathers of families who were once men ing about the great event, we would cease
of respectability, after having raised their to improve, our arts would call forth no ad-.
children, drowning their souls in lethargic miration and of course no energy of talents;
stupidity, in the bar room of an inn? How our manufactures would cease to claim a
often do we behold their tempers soured at thought;" science would expire, literature
each passing accident, rendering the lives droop in declining despair, and the wheels of
of all around them painful and disagreeable? all kinds of commerce would come to a
How often do we see them displeased at hasty and a lasting stand. I draw my infer- .
things which once would have yielded them ences front possibilities, and pronounce that
infi nite pleasure,and reviling what was formly as it is now morally impossible for any thing.
their delight. They have become wealthy, and to remain long without improving or do.
the occupation which procured them riches generating, so would society once situated
is despised: pride has a portion in the old in this predicament, soon sink into confu
sion, lose its regulations, and turn its memq
mans weakness, and in his mind his daugh
.
ter is innitely elevated above a young man hers wild.
It is truly a melancholy consideration, to
of his own profession. Thus it frequently
brings distress upon whole families. How think ofso many youths, through their par
often do we see young men who are perhaps tiality at rst for this alone, having been en
possessed of considerable property, through gulfed in such a multiplicity of vices. \Vhat
the industry of their fathers, looking upon is it but idleness that creates so great a
themselves as beings of a superior order to thirst after novelty of amusement? that
the vulgar species of human nature. In this crowds the tavern; that surrounds the gam.
conclusion, they apply themselves to nothing bling table; gives life and depravity to painted
paper, and dishonourable animation to the
For their soft hands were never made to work,
billiard
balls? \Vhat is it but idleness that
And sure to calculate unneeded gain
Were degradation to their noble minds,
Which seek but pleasure through each owery maze
And ask no happiness but ease and wealth;
With these contented whatis earth to them?
occasions so many debauchcs; that ruins the
health; that unfailingly prostitutes the morals

in every possible manner; and absolutely
brings disgrace upon religion? Need 1 men
tion what has been mentioned by so many
that four fths of the persons who visit it,
They are wealthy, and until necessity com
have no kind of business there whatever.

And how have I been exasperated at seeing
impertinent coxcombs strutting about the
steps with all the authority of a sir Francis
Baring, and inquiring into the state of stocks,
pels them they are determined to do nothing. before me, to prove this; viz. the practice of
They pass their days in painful inactivity, and going to church for purposes altogether im
most generally in vicious indulgence; for no proper: with the heart glowing with unwar
person of a well regulated understanding rantable wishes, and entirely alienated from
would set out in life under such dissolute the modest simplicity of virtue? Need I re
impressions. This naturally brings to my cur to the behaviour of the former priests,
recollection an anecdote of one of the oldest and monks, and friars? All these conse
and most wealthy merchants of our city; he quences I consider as the offspring of this
has long been distinguished by his boundless one fault.
generosity and unaffected goodness of heart,
ldlcness should therefore be sternly dis
and upon being once asked wherefore he counteuanced by every good man and worthy
and prices of bills, and premiums of insur
ance, when they were perhaps not worth a

rent. I cast n0 reproach upon poverty, ex
cept that kind of poverty which would be
esteemed rich, and which is therefore a t
shire: for contempt. Peter and I having chat
PHILADELPHIA R EPERTORYJ.
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member of society, as it is well seen that it,
connexions with others, we should consider
not only impoverishes its votaries, and sub~
theirs also. The ends for which man was na
jccts them to Continual reproach, but holds turally formed do not admit of his restrain
out an awful example for the imitation of ing his efforts to benefit them. In that case,
the world!
GREGORY (iRAVlTY-q , may so use the expression, there would
' collision of sentiments between those of
his mind, and the principles which are sub
For the Repertory.
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m
Man is a creature that is enducd with

every moral and social quality. The power
ful instincts which he receives from nature
ordinate to a ruling faculty. This power may

be termed conscience, which has been mani
festly implanted in his heart for the purpose

of restraining and checking him in his mad
make him sensible to impressions, which, if pursuit after the vices of the age. This
cultivated in time, do not fail to become silent monitor exhibits to us the differ
lasting. Ilis views become enlarged by the ence between the effects which result from
great opportunities a'orded him for making following virtue and vice, so that we might
a real value of the blessings which he en not act without a guide.
joys. The affections ofhis mind prompt him
As far back as history informs us, man
to look forward to that period in which he has always been desirous of being equal to
will be an ornament both to himself and so Those around him. As society improved, and
ciety. By the links of nature he is strongly as mankind was spread over the earth, this
united to those with whom he associates, passion increased and enabled him to make
and he sympathizcs with them in all the a just proportion of equality. In some cases
where it has been limited, luxury has over
losses and misfortunes which they sustain.
Imitation aCts strongly upon the mind of spread the country, and the morals of the
man. The great benets which the world people became tainted. The different situa
sometimes receives from persons who are tions in which they were placed, engaged
destined to make a conspicuous gure on them in the arduous task of establishing a
the stage of life, incite him to use his en government that was founded upon the rm
deavours to imitate and copy their virtues. basis of original equality." That equili
His emulation ripens as he advances in brium of power which all so earnestly dc
sircd, was conformable to the designs of na
years, and as the relations that subsist be
tween him and his fellow creatures increase,
it becomes stronger and is more deeply

rooted. His abilities are directed so as to
make his actions superior both in advantage
and fame to those whom he takes as his
examples. He coolly lays down the plans
which he intends to execute, and exerts all
his power to bring them to maturity. This

governing power rouses him to take an ac
curate and extensive prospect of human
life, and from it to imitate such things as
may operate to his own benet. The prin

c pal movements of his mind impel him to
action, and reason superintends and directs
his motions.
In general mans powers are exerted for
his own advantage without considering in
what way he might benet others. Their
interest and good are made subservient to
his own. Their security and happiness
should always be proportionate to our own,
by payiiigajust respect to those boundaries
which should limit our pursuit after indi
vidual benefit. Self love extended to too
great a degree has often rendered man an
enemy to those with whom he deals. That
indulgence which he gave to himself so as
to perpetuate his own enjoyments, tended
to render him odious and disliked. ()ur
motives should mostly be so disinterested
as by observing our. own emolument. in our
a life that accords with the pure principle;

of religion.
VERUS.
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TllE PROPITIA'IION.
BOOK V.
ARGUMENT.
Pilate yields to u: impetuosity of the Jam,- Thei'oy
qf tlieemila; Jesus is conducted to Fulvtity; ls cru
cied between two thieves; One qft/wm revil'e-f, the
other Mean-s him and implore: lus merry; Reply of

the Sa'viour; Hi: (lying struggles; He tries it is
nk-lied, and expires,- Conclusion of the book.

The Roman now submits. attendant hell
Burst, as he spoke, a loud, victorious yell;
The mansion trembled, struck with fearand shame,
Each \vonderd whence the dismal echo came.

Again the sound around the palace ew.
845
And whence proceeded well the Saviour knew;
Cast on the latent ends a frowning look,
The ends beheld him and in terror shook;
To gain a respite from the dread appal,
Shook their bread wings and hastend from the hall;
And to the mount precipitatel y ed,
850
Where well they knew his blood would soon be
shed:
Hoverd. exulting, through the nearer sky,

l With new ushd hopes to see the Saviour die!
The crime is done, the fatal die is cast,
855
1 The sentence, now, of shameful death is past;

1 The spotless sacrice, alas! must bleed,
Z Blush earth, and heaven look mournful at the deed!

ture, and for which man was created. But f The gazing multitude all anxious wait,
the love of liberty which all possessed was ' To see the Lord conducted to his fate.
860
unable to throw down the strong barriers ' At length he comes, amid the heartless crowd,
of tyranny. The unimpaired exercise of | In shouts of triumph and destruction loud,
freedom which was implanted in them, was Bearing his cross, composed and mild his mien,
While on his brow the thorny crown is seen;
not suflicicnt to overthrow the coalitions of Wealy he treads, while from exulting foes,
865
monarchs.
Scorn and contumcly greet him as he goes!
Mans. affections are judged by his con ,Malicious Jews and cruel soldiers rail,
duct, whether the blind impulses of passion And as a king, the dying Saviour hail.
are followed, or whether his principles of Meanwhile his friends with lamentable cries,
Proclaim their sorrows tn the distant skies;
876
virtue, which every man possesses more or Of all, the virgin mother is the chief,
less, are rendered as guides to him in all More loud and mournful is the matrons grief.
his actions. Every man has a controling . The sacred sufi"rer with emotion hears,
principle, which actuates him to be virtuous, i These sounds of sorrow breaking on his earn:
and which shows to him the best means of 5 And, friend to man e'en in the hour of death, 875
attaining a happiness which cannot be sul : Directs their conduct with his latest breath.
lied by vice and malice. It teaches him to ' Now by his side two malefactors see,
Destined to suffer with him on the tree,
examine into the various causes which in 0'. curst indignity! dear dying Lamb,
uence mankind, and deters him from giv Who bore the torture and despised the shame, 880
i ing loose to all the passions of his mind. His Wast not enough thou tookst a murderers place,
capacities correspond in the most essential But must, in death, new contumely embrace;
parts with every moral obligation, and con
duce very materially to give him a clear in

sight
of the state of society. V Wisdom is
stamped upon his mind, and which is seen
according as opportunities present. He im
bibes a tender and stronger friendship, and

the ties which connect him to his fellow
creatures are drawn still closer. Thus he
answersthe purposes for which the great
Creator fomncdhim, and in this world leads
Must wretched thieves thy final moments share,

And all the tot-ments of thy body bear!
Now at the foot of Calvary arrived.
885
, New acts of shame the cruel Jews contrived:
' Now he who man with rich apparel drest,
Must tear the raiment from his sacred breast;
Who cloatlies the earth with owers and rich per
fumes,
The beasts with fur and mounting tribes with

plumes;
$90
With stars bedecks the surface of the sky,
Abhorrd and naked on the cross mint die!
PHILADELPHIA REPEn'ronr. t
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Anil torture now to bitter shame succeeds,

The-cross is reartl, the worlds Redeemer bleeds;
Through his pale hands the piercing spike they

drive,
if thou be he, now save thyself and us!

To whom the other, shaltst thou not with feitr?
And the bright holiest stood exposed ooview!

Earth shook and shuddering shrunk in dreadful
fears
My spirit shudders as thy words I heal-L,
While li-oni their roots, the deed the mountain tears;
C nlitslon on thee, who could trie thus,
895
And his lash'd feet th' unfeeling traitor's rive;

From his swell'd veins burst forth the streaming
gore;
And spread the nountain and his murd'rers oer!
Ah! how he writbes, with dreadful torment torn,
While on the tree by heedless nails upborn;
900
And cVt-i-y sinew his own weight distends,

And every limb with dying struggles rends!
Feat-ftil they tumble, with reechoing sound, 1033

96
that thou no terror that tliy God will shed
'nd add new terrors to the quaking ground!
Consunimitte vengeance on thy guilty head;
_ he dircful tempest waited the Silent dead,
If thou scorn him who innocently dies,
Who from their graves in strange contusion ed;
While for our death insulted justice cries!
Stalkd too and fro and womlerd what could mean
Does not thy parting soul expect to bear,
1049
970 The fearful horror of the awful scene!
ln worlds to come, a yet uiilelt despair;
Guilt and com iction oer Judea stride,
W hen laughing furtes, with their wtnps of re,
And nature owntl that her Creator died!
Wait but to execute th eternal ire!
0! dying Saviour, now I trust to thee,
_.._
'fr-i
There, 0! divine and blessd Redeemer, there
Ali! when thou coinst to hesvz-zn, remember me!
Before tliy foes art lifted in the air;

Naked and bleeding on the cross art seen,
905
By Jens tormented andthe scorn of men!

in fear, ye heavens, restrain your niovnig res,
And veil your glory while the Lord eXpires;
(It so me the crimson mantle be unlurl'd,
And with confusion covefd be the world!
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'lhotigh shame and guilt ot-rwhem me a 1 dia 975

SONNETTEBR, No. VII.
'l'hou still canst train the spout tor the sky;
910
ls this the head deck'd by tli eternal sire,
'lhy 0 out! that runs With my polluted gore,

Can wash my sins or bid them curse no more!
Though now in cruel shame thou dost expire,
Thy saving love is all my souls desire!
980
Though torn With anguish, hear the Lord reply,
'l'liy hour is come and shortly thou must the;
Butletno tenors o'er thy bosom roll,
ith a bright crown, emitting golden lire;

Is this the brow which glorious light adorns,
Non mound and shaded vvitli act-own ol horns?

Are these the eyes, thatnow begin to fade,
915
Whose glance; once made the ends retire dis
Sltuies like the star that gilds the azure sky;
Guiding the traveller's devious steps and \a'lld

To the blest haven of tranquility.
No dark l'orebodings shake thy rescued soul;

This glorious night, enraptured thou shalt be, 985
Breathe oer my soul, by st0rniy passions torn,
By angels borne, in paradise With me!
Let the warm sunshine of the smile adorn,
Which saw the heavens their pearly gates extend,
And wrong and death increasing anguish pour;
And the great Spirit, like a dove, descend;

Behold the splendour oi celestial light,
Terror and night their curtains now unfurld,
41"
Darkness and fear enwrappd the startled world;
\\'ith \voudn'ng creatures on proud 'labors height?
The suit dismayd Within the coulds retires,
Are these the ears which heard the Father, loud,
And the stars bury their ten thousand res;
Own thee his offspring h'Um th encircling cloud;
The moon conlounded views his streaming ood;
Whit-h heard but to ensure relief, yet now,

. itcd with sharp thorns and with reproachcs glow?
Ashamed of earth she blushes into blood!

The SklLS, alas! in sable garments bung,
Thy fragrant breath distilling balmy dens;

And oer my heart their genial warmth diffuse.
But now, almost, the fatal scene is oer,
mayo;
I To nattoion. . W
Seraph of light all hailM
Seraph of light, whose heavenly ell'luence mild
991
\Vaft thee, oh! serapli, to the farthest verge

Ulcarths remotest, uncnhghtenu bound,
Through the dark mists oi error br.ght emerge,
And spread my rays of mold light around.
Thou art the orb whose beams supremely bright

Will guide us dirough liles gloom to realms oi end
less light.
995
That rinstd the dead and dark diseases lieuld,

And bade the eye be open that was seald;
Tllul. cast out devils, preaclfd the glorious news
Otsure redemption to the stubborn Jews;
2130
is rolling eyes his inmost soulexpressd;

Tortured, he ones, while anguish bathed his brow,
That now discolour'd are by cruel blows,

While down his face the crimson current ows?
Are these the hands from which his vengeance fell,
These cruel pangs and added acorn to bear:

And yet, 0! father, hea- what Huh I would,
Upon my murdrers never come my blood;
And struck the rebel angels to their hell?
I pray thee, blot this action from my view,
That to tumultuous oceans xd the bound,

And like a curtain spread the skies around;
935
Whose touch could soothe the cruel pangs of grief,

Restore the deaf and give the lame rehei'l
All! see, the spikes in cruel l'ury tear,
While writhing struggles all their pangs declare!

Can these tht. self same feet, 0! wonder! be, 941
That trode the liquid pavement of the sea;
\Vhile forth his hands, in mercy sttetclid to save,
My God, my God, why llaSt thou left me now. 1W0

by for a moment, only, lull. me hear,
1005
Forgive them, for the) known not what they do!

Now is the awful moment of his death,
Een now he combats with'ihc parting breath;

Behold what pangs his mighty spirits tears,
101o
What dread contortions, now, his body bears,
See how for us his bosom is convulsed, '
Now death is victor, now again repulsd!

Hear the deep groans that from his anguish burst,
While weak and hunting, lic exelaimd, ltlurst!
The hyssop tasted, nature yields to pain,

1015
945 The dying struggles shook the distant main!
Which now are naild to the unfeeling tree,
The distant main in awful plii-cnzy raves,
While unielenting Jews their t0rmehts see?
'And swells around the fury ofthe wavos!
Untlntnkfttl world! which such return as this,
'TIS rixlsun, Father, the Redeemer-zoned,
Made to a God who came to leadto bliss!
1020
'lo thee my parting spirit I conde!
0! wondrotis grace, that ire restranid, nor hurld

A dreadful vengeance on th unthau'ltful world! 950 He said, and deep amazement lilld the host
'lh unfaithful Peter from an instant grave;
But now vn death behold the Saviour shine,

.,..
The God incarnate and the Judge uivtneo. UK)
One of the thieves that felt the coming death, {1"
ltcvild the saviour with his parting breath, l am"
EDW Y.
_._
Are these the lips from which sweet. accents broke. y \\ itti sounds ot anguish and of horror rung!
920 ; Now comes the mightiest tornienui of his breast,
And spoke instruction as man never spoke:
For the Repertory.

REFLECTIONS OF A SOLITARY WANDEREB.
St. Oi-me so long has ceast d with pensive sounds

'lo swell his humble solitary lyre,
His trembling hand almost fin-gets to strike,
To wake again its wonted mournful strains
He thought that in the humble paths he treads,
Alike forgotten Were his name and verse,
Unless some feu' whose love and smiles he prizd,
Would sometimes bid their recollection rise.
A distant stranger seems, he hears, to til-re
Some interest in his fate, and kindly asks
If he, the wandring hard, is peaceful laid

Within the connes ofthe narrow house.
Why does he ask? does he despise his muse,
Or did he wish to sheda tear to dew
His lowly sod, and bid the sigh arise?
'hate'er his motive, now the wanderer greets
And tells him health yet in his bosom glows,

l
The winter winds again thcii'du'ges sing

Around my cottage, and though rude the sounds
To ears indilferent, they to me impart
Emotions sad, yet not indeed lllllllQ-tSlllb".

tlark! loud the) sweep and severfrom the oak,
While with a shriek he yielded up the ghost!
When Heavens just mandate dashd Columbia's

pride,
"
'
And her illustrious chief of Vernon died;
1025
If 'liuu be Christ, tli expiring nun-orer cried, 955 In sable robes-the grateful-land appears,
untiltln not prevent that thou shouldot thus have .And for his late a nation is in tears!
Whose branches spread \vide oer my lonely roof;

The yellow leaves, and twirling in mid 'air
Scatter them ruthless from the parent. boughs,
tiled! V
,
do this the Godhead that thou daredst to boast;
tWliile awful wonder fill'd it listuing host;
The dews of favring heaven W'hole hours I sit '

And view them singly" torn, deformtl, tit-raced,
And banishd rudely by the Western blast.
But when the Godhead {mm the man retired,

And the world's Saviour on the cross expired;
Creation wept and evrn rocks cxpress'd

The inward angui'slrof a sol'teiid breast!
And czui'st thou not retard thy fem, doom. 950 lhe'tcmples vdl was ercely rentin two,
Say hast thou saved thy servants-from the tomb,
1030
more long they bloomd in verdant pride, and

drank
To mc- thty bid arise the days of life, M 4' '

of life evental, chequerd ot't by woes ~ "
r
24:;
! - Ep
..-.
lsm'lIJLllbrRll its hopes, and bids it wait

Thou giddy and brainless in all! wilt thou stay,
'I h approach oflleath like wintry winds to shroud,
In cold oblivion, cvry glowing branch.
The oak, by touch of'meya magic wand,
And hear of the dangers that threat our sojourn!
We know not. this wild, and suppose as we stray

We cross the dread path of reality stern;
r
Changes its fqrmLand in its plzpe [4 view
A tender parent clasping to his heart

r.
A nuinrous nH'spi-ing living in his smiles.
_
\Vith anxious looks he watches oer their weal, '
find news with partial pride their growth mature.
Then comes ambition, like a withering frOst,
And 5 . aks with many colourd dazzling hopes

Tht .i tramp-til minds till then unknoWn to care.
Ardent and blithe, symbolic ofthe spring
And summer moms, like the green leaves
That charmthe eg't: delighted, oh! how blest.
Ambition! aye, and pleasures wily form
Blots their calmjoys, and bids them cast away
Paternal love and eke his fost'ring care.
As when shine'trareller oer the sandy wilds
0f 'easterrr deserts, feels the pangs of thirst
Consume his Rush, parcbd by solar res,
Sees gushing from the hollow ofa rock
The crystal lymph, his strength exerts to gain
The limpid treasure, and with eager haste
Swallows, regardless of the lurking death, ~

The grateful drops: aye, thus deceived does youth
Cast of? the ight prudence gives to guard,
And reckless rising on their baling hopes
With one fell spring, thy caution leave behind,
And buoyant Sull perhaps some eeting day
On the soft breeze by plt asures pinions forind,

Elate with fzuicitdjoy, and air blown pride,
"
Sudden adversity, that wintry wind.
Swells their soft breezes t0 destructive gales. 3"

Then headlong hurld adown the beetling steep,
From wbelming ruin, they arise no more,
D
Ambition! how thy pagant train is swelld

With the dark catalogue of human woes!
Through thee the crimson plumage proudly nods
On the fierce warriors helm, through thee alone
The glittring faulchion bathel its beamy edge
In sanguine streams; through thee mankind are
armd
ith intents murdrous gainst each others life,
T0 build his fortunes on his brothers fullv
Out on thee, monsterlthy (lestorted mcin
Came hand in hand with sin into the world!
Mans greatest curse,destroyer of his bliss.
St. ORME.
For the. Repertory.
STANZAS
To J'frs. 1311, on borrowingfrom her a may; qf
Pennsylvimiu.
_ And offend with our freaks ere we know he is by."
yesit is likelyno mattertis nought

_ "
tell thee it is though, thou grueeless! said I,
y, stay; wonton gipsy! and list to my thought.
With nger in mouth, she abashd hung her head,

And folded her meteor wings. mute and alarmd
" Nay, come, be not terried, sweet one,l said,
Nay, say how the wild we may wander unharmd.
ing tear-
" Why, whyI could lead thee, Im sure, if I might.

Yes pct; but twould be to confusion, 1 fear:
Come, think what kind spirit can point us artght.
. F 501! have itlyes, yes, Arathusa the mild
Will lend thee the pictured expansego! she said,

" Haste, seek it; and then we may dance through
the wild,
Run! run! and Illwait till thou comst in the

shade.
Twas thus that l SPakC to the wonton, as light

Desporting along, Susquehanna she strayd,
\Vhile the sunbeam of noon on the waters was
bright
And the wild deer was lying at ease in the shade.
The ruin long despair hath made:

And echo every sigh I breathe;
And hide a wretch from gaze of day,
A wretch, whose every hopes in death!
DELLA LIRA.
speed-
(From the Paris Indicatcur, of Sejzl. 16.)

The horrid singularity of the facts we
are going to relate, and the scarcity of the
pamphlet in which the details are contain
ed, creates the desire of giving the follow
Then wait, I rejoiiifd, and departed with

.
0, happy expedient, in sadness embraced!

The pictured expanse l beheld in my need,
And markfd every beacon to guide in the waste.
1 found, by the creek of the Bowmen, my path,
Around the hills winding to reach the wide flood;|

({heard the loud cataract roar in its wrath,
And lone Tuscarorat acioss the stream viewd
To thespot wherel fancy tbrsook'then l ew,

To breath forth my glatllicsk-no fancy was there!
For lo! round the high woody hill tops in view
She chaced in wild circles the humming bird fair

But she ew to me, heard me, and danced with
delight.
" Now safe we may journey, she cried, let or y,

When the moon beam onionely Tyogu is bright,
And the night winds along its for gleaming waves
ing narrative all the extent of which it is

susceptible.
Matthew Lovat, a shoemaker of Venice,
offers an instance, extraordinary as it is de
plorable, of the dreadful eects of a fanatical

melancholy, when excited toan enthusiastic
excess. One of the rst acts of this mans
madness was to maim himself: as he hsdfu'st
prepared every thing necessary to dress up
his wound, be effected his cure so success
fully that no kind of accident or any other

bad consequence resulted therefrom. Not
long after, be persuaded himself, that God
had ordered'him to die on the cross; and
from that moment his mind was constantly
employed in the contcmpizttion of his ob
ject, and his hapds to prepare all the in
struments for his martyrdom.
sigh,
-When the War-drums have ceased in the high

lands. to play,
And the dark chief is hushd in his wigwam to rest;

0h, then, on the quiet \nld shore as we stray,
'
For upwards of two years, he mcditated
in silence and retirement, on the means of
CXt Ctitlng his project. At last the fatal day

.u-rivod, (this sad catastrophe happen at Ve
Well think how we found our lone path in the

west.
J. MY.
nice in the month of May, 1805) every thing
_._
had been previously prepared, and nothing

omitted to ensure the execution: Lovat
THE HARP. LAY VII.
placed on his head a crown of tiiOlllS, and
In the dangerous regions of truth, without care,

shrew
Beneath the Willows gloomy shade,

In broken sighs youll hear me mourn.
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30X;
Entanglc thy innocent foot in some snare.
And at the solemn midnight hour,
0h! mournful willow, pity me,
She sobbd, and in haste wiped the bright start
" O, fancy beware, nor thy gambols pursue,

Lest, smiling to catch thee at tricks, the keen
At mid-day, by the Bowery mead,

In tears, youll see me trend the Vale;
And, sighing, chide the blooming owers,
\Vhich taunt me with their odorous gale
Ye roseate owers! no longer blon ,
Nor with such fragrance scentthe lawn.
You bring to mind, the rose lve 10st,
My loveliest rose, forever gone!
At dzmn of day, when little birds

Sing blithely o'er their notes of love,
By Lunas stream, youll hear me sigh,
And mournful sing the noes l prove:
Ye wanton warblers! mock me not,
With songs so cheeitul, sweet, and gay;
0h! change to grief your merry notes,

And join me in a mournful lay!
slllClQ three or four thorns in the skin ofhis

forehead: with a white handkerchief, tied
tround his side and thigh, he cote-red the

wound he had inflicted on bimsclf~thc re
mainder of his body was left naked. In that
situation he placed himsrlfon the middle of
zhe cross, xed his feet on the lower part,
the right over the left, and drove through
both, with a hammer, a nail sixteen inches
' Tunkllannock or Bowmens creek, Luzerne

What? llowi" cried the lloyden, nor waited
reply,
But oer the blue wsvo eliaced the buttery wide,

W lnie the gale of the hills, straying languidly by,
Slow rustled the reeds .of the shore Stayl"l
cried,
county, on the western side of the Susquehanna,

some distance northward of Wilkesbtu're.
'
1' The eastern branch of Susquehanna.

'
a l uscarora creek, 1: small stream running into
Susqeuhanna from thrust.
'
long, until it penetrated deep into the wood;

he then with a rope, around the middle of
his body, tied llHnStll fast to the cross; liav
ing provided himself with twu ether long
nails, wan sharpened, he successively t'lroi'e
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them through each of his hands, by first
called out to the men to form two der/t.
placing the point to the middle of the palm,

and by striking the head of the nail on the
Dn me, shouts a grenadier from be
floor, got them through; this done,he stretch
pewter spoons, and was equally good at

mending a kettle and a constitution.
I
tween two mountains of mud, I .am too

deep already; I am up to the neck.
PHILADELPHIA,
.
ed his hands up to the place where they
J
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 21, 1811.
were to be fastened, and xed the points of THE PROSPECT OF A COUN-TRY PHYS! c
u
the nails in the holes he had first piercedl From the " Life and Adventures of Doctor
CORRESPONDENCE.
on the transverse part of the cross. But pre
Underhill.
vious to his nailing the left hand, he made
In the autumn of one thousand seven s It is with great pleasure that we publish,
use of it, with his shoemakers knife, to cut hundred and eighty ve, I returned to my at the request of the gentleman who rst
a large wound into his left side (he had for parents, who received the with rapture. My appeared in our columns as Leander, his
gotten, says the writer, that it ought to have father had reared for me a likely pye bald entire ignorance of the piece under the
been on the right side,) this accomplished, mare. Our saddler equipped me With horse, above signature, on which was founded the
he had nothing more to do, but to exhibit furniture, not forgetting the little saddle accusation of plagiary, published in our last
himself to public view, and for that purpose bags, which 1 richly replenished with drugs, number, and also of the person who com
Lovat had so well contrived the distribution purchased at Boston. With a few books, and municated it. We have before heard ofsuch
of his ropes, and the end of the cross so my surgeons instruments, in my portmaii
transactions; but we would remind the cor
placed on the edge of the window, that by a teau, and a few dollars in my pocket, 1 sat respondent who favoured us with the pla
slight exertion of his body he launched him out with alight heart, to seek practice, tame ' giarism in question, that nothing can be more
self out of the window, and hung up to a and fortune, as a country pracuuoner.
despicable, than for one person to assume
rope prepared for that purpose. Having
My primary object was to obtain a plat-6 the signature of another, in order to avoid
thus completely succeeded, at eight oclock of settlement. this limagined an easy task, lthe odiuni that attends the detection of a
.
. l
in the morning, this unfortunate crucied fro... my own acquit-ements,
and the celebrity . '5 literary theft. ,,
was found suspended to the front of his of my preceptor. My first stop was at a new ll That pensive but pleasing moralist,St.
house; with his right hand only detached township, though tolerable well SlOCked!l Orme,is
welcomed to the Repertory With the
from the cross and hanging down along his with a hardy laborious set at lllhabltulit.l cordiality due to his merits, and with a satis
body. He was immediately taken down and Five physicians ot eminence but within a :7 faction produced by congeniality of feeling.
carried to the imperial clinical school, under low years, attempted a settlement lti this i;
\Ve are happy to nd that our old friend,
the direction of professor Ruggieri. None
place. The first fell a sacrice to strong li
of his several wounds were found mortal.

The one on his left side was not deep; the
nails had passed through the.hands without
doing the lesst injury to the bones. The
long nail drove through his feet had also
passed between the bones without doing iii
jury to any. Finally, the unfortunate Lovat
qlJOl; the second put his trust in horses, and where we trust his time has been employed
Was ruined by the loss ofa valuable she; the I in cultivating a poetical parterre, the frag
obliged
third quarrelled
to remove;
withthe
the fourth
midwife,
having
and pre
was rant owers of which, it is his intention, oc
'l
l casionally, to transplant into the columns of
scribed, rather unluckily tor a young woman 1 our repository.
of his acquaintance, grievously aficted with
Cheeks, Cards, Handbills, '
a sympathy, went to the Ohio; and the last,
recovered from all his wounds, but the dis
being a prudent man, who sold his books and '
ease of the mind remained the same. Dur
instruments for wild land, and raised his own ' neatly and correctly executed, on reasonable terms,
at the ofce of the
ing the treatment it was remarked, with no
small degree of surprise, that whenever he

had any short lucid interval from his melan
cholic delirium, he suered most excruciat
ing pains from his wounds, whilst at any

other time he did not appear to have any.
On the 20th of August, l805, he was taken
to the mad-house of St. Servolo, and there
be exhausted himself to such a degree by
voluntary and reiterated abstinences, that in
a short time he became a phthisick and,
died on the 8th April, l806.

[The foregoing details are extracted from
a letter published in Italian by Dr. Caesar
Ruggieri, professor of Chirurgical clinic at
Venice; the same physician who attended

the unfortunate Lovat.]
Ii
crop of medicine, was actually in the way of

making a great fortune; as, in only ten years
practice, he left, at his deeease, an estate,
both real and personal, which was apprised
at one hundred pounds lawful money. This
account was not likely to engage the atten
tion of a young man, upon whose education
twice the sun had been expended.
In the next town I was assured I might do
well, as a physician, ifl would keep a grog
shop; or let myself, as a labourer, in hay sea
son, and keep a school in the winter. The
rst part of the proposition is heard with pa
tience: but at the bare mention of aschool, I
ed the town abruptly. In the neighbouring
town'they did not want a physician, as an ex
perienced itinerant doctor visited the place,

__-
During the retreat of the British troops

in Holland, while they~ were floundering
through the mud in a part of the road un
commonly bad, a corps of the guards were
scattered; when
the commanding ofcer
Myiha emerged from the 01113!) Shad:
every March,when the people had most lei

sure to be sick and take physic. He practi
sed with great success, especially in slow
consumptions, charged very low, and took
his pay in any thing and every thing. ,Be

sides,lie carried a mould with him to run
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VOL. II.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF BLACKMORE.
Having succeeded so well in demonstrat
ing the existence of the providence of God,
and thereby establishing the great principle
of all religion, he thought his undertaking
imperfect, unless he likewise enforced the
truth of revelation, and for that purpose
he published a poem on Redemption, in six

books. He had likewise written, before his
Creation, three books on the Nature of

Man.
'
The lovers of musical devotion wished
for a more happy metrical version than they
yet obtained of the book of psalms; a wish
which the piety of our author induced him
to gratify; and he produced in 1721, a new
Version of the Psalms of David, tted to the
l'Iis biographers have reported that the

ridicule which was thrown on the poet was in
time followed by the neglect of the physi
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of which though many are true and certain,
yet they signify nothing, and may a'ord di~

version, but no instruction; most of them
being much inferior to the sayings of the

invidiously great, forsook him in the latter wise men of Greece, which yet are so low
part of his life; but the fact may be reason and mean that we are entertained every day
ably doubted, and some communications in with more valuable sentiments at the table
the Gentlemans Magazine show that he conversation of ingenious and learned men."
The doctor however, unwilling to leave
was consulted by persons of the highest
rank, and preserved his professional credit our author in total disgrace, quotes from
and reputation till the close of his life. It another preface a passage less reprehensible.
Some gentlemen have been disingenu'
would indeed be highly absurd to estimate
cian, and that his practice, which was once
a mans medical abilities by his poetical
ous and unjust to me, by wresting and
forcing my meaning in the preface to an

fame.
Besides the poems and essays already other book, as if I condemned and exposed
mentioned, he wrote a variety of historical, all learning, though they knew I declared
theological, and medical tracts. Amongst the that I greatly honoured and esteemed all
men of superior literature and ez'udition; and
latter were Treatises on the small-pox, con
sumptions, the spleen, the gout, the rheu that I only undervalued false and supercial
matism, the kings evil, the dropsy, the learning, that signies nothing for the ser
tunes used in the churches, which being re

commended by the archbishops, and many jaundice, the stone, the diabetes, and the
bishops, obtained a licence for admission plague. On the medical writings of our
author Dr. Johnson has the following re
into public worship; but it obtained no ad
mission, from the preference given to the marks
Of those books, if I had read them, it
version of Tate and Brady; so that Black
could
not be expected that I should be able
mores name may be added to many others,
who, by the same attempt, have obtained to give a critical account. I have been told
only the praise of meaning well. He was that there is something in them of vexation
not yet deterred from heroic poetry. There and discontent discovered by a perpetual at
was yet another monarch of this island tempt to degrade physio from its sublimity,
whom he considered as worthy of the epic and to represent it an attainable without
muse, and in 1723 he produced King Al much previous or concomitant learning. By
fred, an heroic poem, in twelve books, which, the transient glances which I have thrown
like Eliza, dropped dead-born from the upon them, I have observed an affected con
press. Of his four epic poems, says Dr. tempt of the ancients, and a supercilious
Johnson, the rst had such reputation and derision of transmitted knowledge. Of this
popularity as enraged the critics, the second indecent arrogance the following quotations
was at least known to be ridiculed, the two from his preface to the Treatise on the
last found neither friends nor enemies. John small-pox will afford a specimen, in which,
son, who was no friend to the house of when the reader nds what I fear is true,
Hanover, before he was bound by obliga that when he was censuring Hippocrates
tions to it, remarks on the last poem, that he did not know the difference between
the opinion of the nation was settled at the Aphorism and Apophthegm, he will not pay
much regard to his determinations concern
time of its publication; that a hero intro
duced by Blackmore was not likely to nd ing ancient learning.
As for the book of Aphorism, says
either respect or kindness; that Alfred took
his place by Eliza; that benevolence was; Blackmore, it is like my lord Bacons of
ashamed to favour, and malice was weary: the same title, a. book of jests, or a grave
collection of trite and triing observations;
of insultin g
vice of mankind; and that,ras to physio, I
expressly afrm that learning must be join

ed with native genius to make a physician
of the rst rank: but if those talents are
separated, I asserted, and do still insist, that
a man of native sagacity and diligence will

5 prove a more able and useful practitioner
than a heavy, notional scholar, incumbered
with a heap of confused ideas.

Blackmore was not only a poet, but pro
duced likewise a work of a different kind,

entitled A T1116 and Impartial History of the
Conspiracy against King William, of glori
ous memory, in the year 1695. He engaged
likewise in theological controversy; and
wrote two books against the Arians; the
one entitled Just Prejudices against
the
Arian Hypothesis; the other Modern Ariana

unmasked. Another of his works is Natural
Theology or Moral Duties considered apart

from Positive, Sac. He died on the 8th of
October 1729, in an advanced age, and niani

fested in his last illness the same fervent
piety which had distinguished him in his
life. He left behind him ThLAccomplished

Preacher, or An Essay upon Divine Elo
quence, which was printed by the Reverend
Mr. White, of Nayland in Essex, who at
tended him on his death bed, and here 11:19
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timony to the elevated piety with which he

prepared for his approaching dissolution.
Since his death none of his numerous
publications have been reprinted except his
Creation, which has gone through several
editions, and Was recommended by Dr.
Johnson to be inserted in the collection of
asperity towards our author in other in

stances, calls his Creation a philosophical
poem, which has equalled that of Lucretius
in the beauty of its versication, and innite
ly surpassed it in the solidity and strength
of its reasonin ."
'
Blackmore, says Dr. Johnson, by the
unremitted enmity of the wits, when! he
provoked more by his virtue than his dull
ment with strength, and ease with closeness.

This is a skill which Pope might have con
descended to learn from him, when he need
ed it so much in his Moral Essays.

'
In his descriptions both of life and na
ture, the poet and the philosopher happily
co-operate; truth is recommended by ele
gance, and elegance sustained by truth. In the
The English Poets with the general ap
structure of the poem, not only the greater
probation of the public.
Blackmore as a man was justly entitled to ness, has been exposed to worse treatment parts are proper consecutive, but the dedica'
great respect, for, numerous as his enemies than he deserved. His name was so long tive and illustrative paragraphs are so happily
and opponents were, they were incapable of used to point every epigram upon dull mingled that labour is relieved by pleasure,
xing the least imputation on his moral writers, that it become at last a bye-word of and the attention is led on through a long suc
character, and those who personally knew contempt; but it deserves observation, that cession of varied excellence to the original
him, spoke highly of his virtues. He was malignity takes hold only of his writings, position, the fundamental principle of wis
the friend of Hughes. Addision appears to and that his life passed without reproach, dom and virtue."
have had a great personal regard for him, even when his boldness of reprehension na
-_..-_
and/he was on terms of friendship with turally turned upon him many eyes desirous
For the Repertory.
Pope so late as I714. This friendship was to espy faults, which many tongues would
CASTLE
OF ALTENHEL,
broken by his accusing Pope, in his Essays, have made haste to publish. But those who
on
of profaneness and immorality, on a report could not blame, could at least forbear to
from Curl, that he was the author of a praise, and therefore of his private life and
THE MYSTERIOUS MONK,
Travestie on the rst Psalm. Pope was domestic character there are very few me
A TALE
'al'terwards the perpetual and incessant ene morials.
(Concluded)
As an author he may justly claimythe'
my ol' Blackmore, and satirized him in the
CHAPTER Xlll.
honours of magnanimity. The incessant at
Dunciad in the following lines.
llccdless
they
rushed, but min was before,
tacks of his enemies, whether seriOus or
And death awaited when they hoped success.
But fur oer all, sonorous Blackmores strain;
merry, are never discovered to have disturb
\Valls, itceples, skies. bray back to him again.
Juan.
ed his quiet, or to have lessened his con
Ofonc or both of us the time is come.
In Totnam elds, the brethren with amaze!
tlence in himself; they neither awakened
l'rick all their ears up and forget to graze,
'
Shukseme.
him to silence or to caution; they neither
The sound of the pistol reverberaterl
Long Chancry Lane retentive rolls the sound,
And courts to courts return itrntmd and round.
provoked him to petulence, nor depressed through the halls of the castle, and its in
Thames wafu it thence to Rnfus roaring hall,
him to complaint. \Vhile the distributors of habitants, were soon roused in great wonder
And Hunger-ford re-cchocs bawl for bawl.
literary fame were endeavouring to depre and amazement, and the chamber of the
All hail him victor in both arts of song,
ciate and degrade him, he either despised marchioness was immediately lled with the
he sings so loudly, and who sings so long."
or deed them, wrote on as he had written attendants, and soon after them Amelia pre
Hardly any writer has been more ridiculed before, and never turned aside to quiet ceded by her father entered. Nothing could
than Blackmore; yet there have been few, them by civility, or repress them by confu exceed the astonishment of Altenheim, and
perhaps none, who have had better inten
tatton.
indeed the whole, upon discovering in the
tions. He was certainly a man of consider
He depended with great security on his requitetl villains, the two attendants of Mon
able learning and abilities, and a most zeal own powers, and perhaps was for that rea taldo. All except the count instantly sup
ous advocate for the cause of religion and son less diligent in perusing books. His posed that Pandollo had commanded them
virtue. He wrote indeed too much, and was literature was, I think, but small. \Vhat he to murder the marchioness, but Altenheim,
sometimes decient in taste; nor did he take knew of antiquity I suspect him to have who could see no motive for such an act,
sufcient time to polish his compositions; gathered from modern compilers: but rmly rejected the idea, and commandecL
but he was far from being decient in genius, though he could not boast of much critical his people to discharge such unfounded
and it is evident that it was not his dullness knowledge, his mind was stored with general suspicions nor hint such a thing to the
which excited so much animosity against' principles, and he left minute researches to prince.
'
him. His Creation is by universal consent those whom he considered as little minds.
The villians, said he, " have met ade
accounted the noblest production of his
The poem on Creation has the appear servcd punishment, and the thanks of my
genius. Addison, in one of his numbers of ance of much circumspection; it wants nei
self and the marchioness are due to the
the Spectator, says, it was undertaken with ther harmony of numbers, accuracy of noble count, who saved her from destruction,
so good an intention, and executed with so thought, nor elegance of diction: it has yet as their motives were doubtless plunder,
great a mastery that it deserves to be looked either been written with great care, or, l must-not have a person, who is my guest
upon as one of the best in our English what cannot be imagined of so long a work, till to-morrow, and more sacred than a com
verse. The reader cannot but be pleased to with such facility as made care less neces mon visitor, upbraided with an action for
see the depths of philosophy enlivened with sary.
which he could have no possible motive."
all the charms of poetry, and to see so great
Its two constituent parts are ratiocina
Algoronza and Minda agreed with the
a strength of reason amidst so beautiful a tion and description. To reason in verse is count, and the latter having retured her
redundancy of the imagination);
allowed to be difficult; but Blackmore not acknowledgments to the former, the attend
Some notice is due to the candid decla only reasons in verse, but very often reasons ants were ordered to carry the bodies of
ration of Dennis, who, notwithstanding his poetic-ally: and nds the art of uniting orna
Gaspard and Geraldo into the hall. Four of
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the attendants accordingly took up the

corpse of the rst and four others descended
into,the garden for the carcase of Geraldo.
The bodies were laid on the floor and as
with a firm voice, demanded who had the

temerity to interrupt his purpose, when in
stantly a person, muled up in a cloak rush
ed through the crowd and, almost breath
Altenheim and the rest entered, Montaldo
less, exclaimed;
Forbear, count Altenheim, to risk your

descended the stair case rapidly, and de
manded the cause of the confusion in the invaluable life against the fury of a mur
derer!
castle.
All were struck 'with astonishment, and
He had heard the sound of the pistol and
rightly supposing that the villains had not Montaldo, after he had in some measure
succeeded, his guilty soul recoilcd in horror! recovered, demanded to know who had the
IIe forbore to descend on his rst alarm, insolence to accuse him of murder? The
person replied that he accused him, and
lest his terrors should discover him, but re
suming his courage and recollecting that his throwing o his cloak every ones astonish
all now depended on his rmness, he hastily ment increased upon discovering the friar
arcse and reached the ball just as they had of St. Lucia, Kartholo. Montaldo recoiled
entered with the dead bodies, and inquired; from him and now indeed dreaded the dc
as has been observed, the cause of the con teetion of some dreadful crime.
I have accused thee of the murder of
fusion. The villain was no way discomposed,
and when Altenheim informed him he not prince Pandolfo, cried the monk, and the
only appeared rejoiced at the fate of his intended murder of his son, and have a
victims but complimented the marchioness champion ready to prove upon thy head the
on her escape, thanking Algoronza for truth of my assertion!"
Let him appear! cried Montaldo, and
his conduct. He, however, cunningly forbore
to expatiate upon his own ignorance of the immediately upon the sound of the trumpet,
transaction rightly supposing that it would a knight completely armed, with his vizor
have no other tendency than to arouse sus closed appeared in the lists. This tended to
picion. The morning now came and the increase the general wonder and the order
bodies were carelessly thrown into the of the combat was changed. Amelia saw her
father seated safely beside her, while the
ground.
'
The hour xed for the encounter between stranger knight stood ready to avenge her
the venerable Altenheim and the murderous wrongs.
from her
father, received the reviving
Amelia in his arms.

Florival! she could only exclaim, and
seemed lost in the ecstacy of her feelings.
Nor was the joy of every one less; the name
of Florival and Pandolfo,resounded through
the air, and the benedictions of the vassals
were showered upon count Ferdinand, as
embracing his daughter and her lover, he

exclaimed:
Well hast thou deserved her, Florival,
and from this moment she is yours.

The general joy and surprise, being now
subsided, Altenheitn ordered the body of
Montaldo to be buried without any ceremony,
and the group retired to the castle to listen
to the tale which Florival had to relate, who
being seated by the delighted Amelia, rc

cited every circumstance, with which the
reader is already acquainted, from the mo
ment the vessels separated until he was
thrown into the sea, and then proceeded as
follows:
\
I now gave myself up for lost, and ad
, dressed myself to him into whose presence
5 I expected shortly to appear, and felt per
! fectly resigned to die, when a spar from the

i wreck presented itself to my grasp, and
' with the last effort of almost expiring na
ture, I caught hold ofit. I now began to con~
ceive hopes ol reaching the shore, as the
! wind blew directly in and the waves rolled
Altenheim asked if either had any thing i towards the land. My hopes were fullled, for
Montaldo was xed for twelve, and both
to
say. Montaldo exclaimed, no; and the i in about four hours after 1 had parted from
now prepared for the moment that was to
give one or other to the grave. Altenheim knight bowed in silence. The order was i the vessel, a wave threw me with great force
with a steady serenity, that marked a noble then given to engage 'and upon the third i from the spar, which retiring, I found my
and innocent mind, behold the approaching charge of the trumpet, the combatants self at the distance of forty or fty yards
danger, while Pandolfo was alternately tor rushed furiously upon each other. The con from the edge of the surf. I was so much
mentod with hopes and fears. If he was ict was a long time doubtful; both lost .bruised that when I attempted to rise, I
found myselfunable and must have perished,
victorious, honour and renown would he his, their shields and the breast plate of Mon
but if on the contrary he should fall, futurity taldo was struck off. The knight now had but for the kindness of a sherman, whose
was dark, comfortless and uncertain, and an the advantage, but disdaining to prot by it, but was close by, and who soon discovered
eternal stigma would be 'attatched to his he nobly tore off his own breast plate and my forlorn situation. He bore me home and
name. Tortured by reections like these, cast it on the ground. The light raged with in two or three days I was perfectly re
he beheld the hour approach, and saw the increased fury, till at length Montaldos covered. I now began to think of returning
lists prepared. The marchioness and Amelia, sworddlew from his grasp, struck by his to Altenheim and having related my story
whom no entreatics could keep in the castle, adversarys, whose weapon, the unfortunate to my kind preserver, he generously offered
were placed on an eminence erected for the victim of pride and ambition receivetl to lend me suicient money to carry me to
purpose, and beside them sat Algoronza to hilt deep in his boso 1.. He fell and expired \Vcstphalia. I travelled day and night and this
observe that no unfair advantage should be without a groan, while the victor exeaimcd, morning arrived at the convent of St. Lucia.
Die, guilty and detested homicide! die There an explanation took place between
taken in the course of the combat. The
vassals, were arranged around and the trum a victim to the vengeance of Pandoll'os the good Kartholo and myself, and from
pct now proclaimed the approach of the son.
him I learnt the danger of my Atnelias
combatants.
They
appeared
in the forebod-i
lists and
At the same time he threw down his father. He gave me this suit of armour and
Amelias heart
shrunk
in dreadful
vizor and all eyes were bent on the victori Heaven has not only put it into my power
ings as she viewed the dierenct: between ous I-lorival. Amelia uttered a shriek of to revenge a fathers death but also to make
_her beloved father and Montaldo; but when surprize and joy and fainted in the arms of some small return for the favours I have
the trumpet sounded for the charged, 'she Altenheim, while Kartholo, casting of his received from you, count Altenheim, my
sunk noon the shoulder of Algoronza, until monks habit, added to the general astonish more than father.
she has aroused by the sound of another ment by appearing as the spectre of the
Here Florival concluded and I dare say
[Turf-Pct demanding the cessation of the palace. Florival was soon clasped to the the reader is now prepared for the conclu
combat. Montaldo trembled, but Altenheim, bosom of the marchioness, and immediately sion of the tale, since every mystery is 0'
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PHILADELPHIA REPEIiTORY.
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'veloped, vice punished ard virtue triumph
I think clearly shows the folly of designing

a child for any particular profession without
knowing his own ideas on the subject.
ant and rewarded. However, I have a few

more secrets to unfold, before I bid the
reader, forever adieu. The mother of Bertha,
Mr. Peaceable.
nho had been the means of preserving the
(lepartments of science. The pain I experi

enced in parting from my children who had.
long been almost my sole companions, was
assuaged by the delightful thought that when
I should again have them with me, they
would be more interesting on account of
There is no one who in the course of a

lives of Florival and Amelia at the hut, was life of ordinary length, cannot afford some
thing to the stock of wisdom in the world, the increase of knowledge they would attain
found dead there, and in her Kartholo dis
by relating the experience which has fallen by the dicipline of their school.
covered his wife, whose ight, with the in
famous Jaspar, taking their infant daughter to his share. Now as I conceive it a part of
Five years rolled away. My children re
with her, was the reason of his joining the the duty of every man to endeavour to leave ! turned home after having received the ho
band of Malventi. The meeting between the the earth a little wiser than he found it, I inours of the institution to which they be
father and the astonished Bertha, was truly have no objection to caution parents by my :longed. I was cnmptured at the progress
affecting. He held her to his heart in speech example, not to feed themselves with hopes t they had made, andatnmcdiately told each
lrss ccstacy, and the tears of the spectators . of making their infant offspring when they i, for what station in life I had designed him.
iinwcd as fast as his own. But such scenes grow up, fall in without an effort with the ' I displayed to each the advantages and plea
are easier felt than described, let us there
schemes which were laid for their benet,
l'orcionly say, that Algoronza had loved the while they were yet unable to take part in sures of his occupation, and concluded by
hoping that they were all satised and ready
sweet girl from the moment he beheld her, * the forming of them.
to engage immediately in their new studies.
and now disclosing his passion to her, found
You must know, sir, that I was left a Imagine, sir, my mortication and distress
it reciprocal. He then informed her father,_ widower with three infant sons. Deprived of when I beheld each with a dejected coun
and the same day that made Amelia the the comforts which I enjoyed with the ten- ll tenance bent on the oor, as if in despair of
princess of Pandolfo, made the daughter of derest of wives, and left below without any iall happiness from his intended profession.
liartholo the countess of Algoroza.
inducement to live except the anxiety which Sir, said the elder after a long pause,
After the rcjoicings were over, Algoronza, lled my mind for the future welfare of your intention destroys in me all hopes of
his wife and the marchioness Malventi de my children, I determined to retire from comfort; nothing presents so dismal a pros
parted for Spain, and the prince and princess business in which I was then largely en
pect as the practice of physio; l was not
of Pandolfo, with the venerable Altenheim gaged, and devote my whole time and at formed to be immured in sick rooms, and
went to reside at Dusseldrop, where the tention to their education. The fond heart constantly visiting scenes of desolation and
youthful pair enjoyed every felicity that of a parent is never so truly happy as when death. Commerce is a more enlivening and
virtue and benevolence can give and at he is engaged in forming the infant minds of interesting pursuit, and if it meet your ap
length, saw their good father descend in those pledges of love which the affectionate
probation 1 will directly engage in it. And
peaceful innocence to the grave.
partner of his woes and pleasures, in that I, father, said the younger, feel myself
moment when death was freezing the gen~ very far from being suitable for the pulpit,
.
! tle current of her blood, bequeathed, in dy
For the Repertory.
THE CABINET. N0. LXVII.
" ing accents, to his tenderest care. My whole

soul was wrapped in the delightful employ
and would much rather serve my country by

lling a post in her infant navy. And what
say you for the law. Charles, said Iaddrcss
Our minds are ours, though others prate
ment; I thought of nothing, I cared for no
\Vcll please ourselves alone;
thing, but the advancement of my little ones

in the principles of virtue and useful science.
Says the old song, and most of our friends

and acquaintances say so likewise. I believe
itimpossi'ole to forctcl with any certainty
the future bent of mind which a child may
discover, by any of the actions of his younger
years. \\'e have heard of infant prodigies
grow up to be men of mere common sense,
and after having been praised by the people,
and pulled by the newspapers, at length
sink into oblivion. \Vc have also heard of
boys who had scarce brains enough at col
lege to understand and apply the common
grammar rules, come forth in the world
like comets suddenly kindled, surprising all
who behold, and exciting their wonder where
so much genius could have been so quickly

acquired. Goldsmith and many of the fine
English poets are to be numbered among
those last mentioned.
I fell into the above reection on receipt

of a letter on the subject from a father who
gives me the success of the plans which he
Their dispositions, like that of their mother,
were tractable, and by the constant exercise

of my solicitude and love, I was endeared to
them, and they appeared never so happy as
when in my company. In the ardour of my
mind I allotted in fancy to each the profes
sion he should afterwards assume. The
elder, I devoted to the benevolent profes
sion of physio; and the younger to the more
important and respectable one of divinity;
the other I determined to be breed to the
law. As they grew, I thought I perceived,
and nothing could exceed the pleasure of
the discovery, symptoms of a tness in each
of their minds for their several occupations.
I was now at rest; I had disposed of my
children to my own wishes and I supposed
to theirs.
As my fortune was by no means inconsi
derable, I determined to give them a liberal
education; and with this view, sent them to
ing myself to the third, \Vhy upon my

word, sir, rcplyed he, I have never be
stowed a thought upon any profession, I
dont much care what it is, but Ialways had
an insuperable disgust for the quarrels and
wrangling of lawyers, I should prefer almost
any thing else. Somewhat displeased, and

very much chagrined, I left the room, and
determined to myself that if I had fty sons,
I would never think of their pursuits in life
till they were old enough tojudge for them

selves. lam Sec.
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For the Repertory.
The great Author of our being has in;

stillet'l into man a desire to understand
those principles which should make him
capable of sustaining that rank in which he
is placed. By the impressions which he re

ceives from those objects around him, he is
enabled to make a correct distinction be
tween good and bad qualities. He endeavours

to convert to his own happiness those dis
laid down in educating three sons, which the university most in repute at that time,for criminating properties which are best adapt
letter I make a part of this paper; and which the abilities of its professors in the several ed to improve his taste and reform his dis.
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position. Hence in his conduct we perceive mans reputation so much. W'hen he be

For the Repertory.
that his attention is directed to promote comes hardened with a free use of it, he is}
THE PROPI'IIATION.
those sound scnuments which will secure to prcventcd from being improved by any other
him a respectable standard. His perceptions virtue which the great Creator gives him.
BOOK 1.
receive additional vigour from reecting So much have those whose characters have
ARGUMENT
upon the great station assigned him for ful been stained with a repeated practice of it,
Inlroduclion; The earthquake Ila-ring ceased, Jose/Jr
lling the purposes for which he was sent that if their conduct is reformed, and they
qf/In'mutltcn requests the body of Jcrus; Pildle ar
into the world.
are reclaimed from the wicked course which
tlcrs it to be delivered,- fl'lie Lorri ft' buried, and
The right understanding of every moral they formerly pursued, their reputation is
the watch set,- Jlenn-while-the ghost of Ircuriet do
subject is certainly a desirable object. Be never after fairly established. So true is this
rcemlr to hell; HZ; reccplion.
sides an accurate knowledge of his oun maxim that a liar even when he speaks Th antonemcnt is completed; wrath divine
nature which a man obtains, he is enabled the truth is not believed. Even among the is now appeascd, the merciful design
to avoid those vices which would defeat the ancients whose morals were not so rened That brought the Saviour from a world of bliss,
To shame, to suffering and to death in this,
advantages he might receive from a steady as in the present age, and who had only the
Is now fullld; the great Redeemer fell,
'
3
observance of virtue. The signal benets light of nature for their guide, this vice And man is rescued from the grasp of hell!
that he derives from pursuing a path which was always held in the greatest detestation. In vain the arts, the guilty ends cmployd,
will inevitably gain him peace of mind, tend . However pcrvorse and wicked man has The power of sin and Satan is destroyd;
to regulate his conduct by those laws which 1 always been, and however the age of in The ghastly Tempter lies subdued and chain'd,
10
nature has implanted in him. They are, as delity and barbarism has prevailed, we have By the last vict'ry which the Lord obtaind.
Prophetic visions in his death are known,
an author Well known in the literary world seen that truth and integrity have always And holy mystery at once has own!
observes, consequent in their effects and been placed amongst the most distinguish World be amazed and thou 0! man, rejoice,
immutable in their essence, and they con ing properties that can adorn the mind. In Let grateful anthems ll thy echoing voice,
rm him in his belief that he is observed by deed we may consider it as one which we The load of sin that should have falln on thee, 15
a superior power. They also point out to have received from our births for the pur Thy Saviour bore, while sulf'ring on the tree!
him a road which the experience of others pose of placing before our eyes the fatal ef By glorious grace and fond affection red,
, For thee he suffered and for thee expired!
has proved will be of lasting advantge to fects which might result from the prevail For thee he lives, in shining realms above,
himself, and will nally bring him to that ing of falsehood in the heart. The motives Still to affect the purpose of his love.
20
seat of happiness at which so few arrive.
which induce it to avoid practising the latter Not to the hour in which he died conned,
The consciousness of doing good is ex may be said to be inherrent in it, and which His great atonement was for all mankind;
perienced by every one in a greater or less insensibly lead it to see the glaring faults For whosoccr would on his grace depend,
degree according as he is situated. By pre which would continually adhere to it. The And dare to own him as the sinners friend!
He fell not only for the cruel Jew,
25
serving his morals pure and untainted, and principles which are created for the purpose But bore his suffrings for the Gentile too.
observing a behaviour consistent with the of guiding a persons conduct are perceived Then rise my soul, on his dread power believe,
so manifestly that they are invariably pur And endless life and endless bliss receive;
dictates of virtue, he always receives a heart
"lis faith alone that can disarm the grave,
felt satisfaction. But in complying with the sued.
sccrct impulses of truth he enjoys a still
In making the distinctions between truth And in the hour of dreadful trial, save!
3Q
Come, muse, again the mighty task resume,
greater degree oftranquility. This quality is and falsehood, we ought particularly to ex
And follow Jesus to the silent tomb;
one of the most conspicuous we have re amine the inuence which the practice of Tell how he bade the feeble bonds give way,
ccived from the bountiful hand of nature, each of them has upon our minds. This And thence arising, sought the realms of day.
and we can nd none that so much exalts would excite in us an aversion to tread in
Now ceased the storm that rockd th afli'ighted.
world,
35.
bur character. This spring of all virtues the road of one, while we would be beneted
corresponds with the instinctive emotions of both in our reputation and morals by a right And damp the globe, with evening dews impearld;
our minds, and renders a man capable of cultivation of the other. \Ve would enjoy The twinkling hosts that late in gloom retired,
Now through the welkin spread their starry re;
performing the_ duties of society. The efforts the benefits which would accrue to us in
While the resplendent empress ofthe night,
which he is continually making to arrive at paying a regard to truth and sincerity by That, struck with fear, \vithdreuher silver light, 40
the correct understanding of the laws ofna eonciliating the esteem of those around us, Now in the dappled. cast begins to rise,
ture, and as he advances in his prociency, and our characters would be xed upon a And beam her lustre o'er the waitingskies;
impress him with a determination to sup foundation which the shafts of malice and When faithful Joseph came, with rich perfume,
port the state which he holds with respect to envy would never be able to sap. Our minds Mourning, in inward grief, the Saviour-'6 doom;
The bloody corpse, in humble love to crave,
45
his relations between his fellow men. \Vhcn would never be deceived by false sincerity,
And lay his master in a peaceful grave.
truth has rmly Xed its residence in the and they would never imbibe falsehood more Though once he dared not love to Christ disclose,
human heart, all e other virtues naturally readily than truth. The advantage of observ
With warm affection now his bosom glows!
are established in it. In whatever situation ing it would be seen in every action, and its Pilate submits and bids the soldiers yield
it is, it is improved by the character which rays would make impressions upon them, The lifeless trophy of the fatal eld;
50
it receives from observing those motives which would not be easily removed. Upon Reluctantly the body they released,
For still dark fury actuates the priest!
which truth imperiously demands.
the whole the precepts which it inculcates But fearing now the Roman to withstand,
The investigation of truth is attended we would experience in every stage of our Unwilling yielded to the dread command;
with many valuable effects, it inspires the y lives.
VERUS.
Yet urged by randour in each stubborn breast, 55
mind with an abhorrence of a crime which
sinks it below the level of a brute, I mean
the practice of lying, than which there can
not possibly exist a vice which degrades a
Vanity is a passion that abuses our judg

ment, and makes us both unsafe and ridicu
lens.
_
'
To listning' Pilate, made a last request.

Ere yet due vengeance, curbd this u'aitors pride,
In accents meek, the crafty priesthood cried;

We heard him say his bedy would be bound,
But for three days beneath the gclid ground;
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354, /
1
'hen he would burst with dreadful force, the

chain,
And rise, triumphant, from the grave again!

\Ve pray thce, therefore, be the grave secured,
In which this arch dcceiver is immured
65
Lest his disciples in the night should come,
And forcing entrance to the rocky tomb,
Stealthence his corpse, and falsely it is said,

He has indeed arisen from the dead!
So shall the world be still deceived and curst,
And the last error greater than the rst!

To whom the gov'nor, hypocrite and slave,
(0 if ye list and make secure the grave!
is for myself,_0! happy, if I could
Wash out remembrance of this deed of blood!
But upon you the fearful vengeance be,
70
75
And conscience torture as she tortures me,
Who might hav_e all your cruel fury braved,

tnd from your ire the uno'ending saved!
llut hencc, away, and trouble me no more,
And the deep tortures of the damnd bespoke! 130
Forever dying never to expire!
Iscariot shudderd, retrospection, then,
Let stern remembrance torture, Judas, this
Added new torments to increasing pain;

He saw the glorious height from which he fell,
And the sweet transports he cxchangd for hell!
He saw behind the Saviours cleansing gore, 135
But nought but tortures and despair before!
There blazed a heaven and here a hell was seen,
While an abyss terric gaped between;
Th' aficted ghost in struggling pangs beheld,
\Vhile changeless fate his awful way impelld! 140
Across the dismal lake he cast a look.
And fears increasing all the spirit shook,
Unusual noises issued from the ood
And the black river rolld a stream of blood!
The ends of hell a shriek of transport gave, 145
And rose exulting on the bloody wave!
Is the dread end of thy expected bliss

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For the Repertory.
TO A YOUNG LADY,
On receiz-ing intelligence that she spoke in terms ofa],
probrium of the author, for lavishz'ng cncomiuma on
her'
Oh! blame not the bard, ifrccalling the past,
He rnraptured should dwell upon you;
Ifwhile warm in his spirit, he speaks of those days,

That fancy now pictures in ecstacy true.
Forthe soul of the poet, in visions gay dressd,
Dwell: redoubled on scenes that are gone;
\Vclcomr, lscariot, to these realms, they cry,

Where frowning care and anguish nevcrdie;
' Where streams of grief with ceaseless fury roll,
And his bosom (that bosom which neer can d6
ceive)
Doubly mourns for those days that are own.
And inward torments rack the guilty soul!

150
Where the worm dies not, nor the raging re,
\
Can, through eternal ages, eer expire!
The Roman thus, his blood, the priesthood said,
So spoke the ends, and now what sights arise,
Before lscariots terror beaming eyes,
We upon us and on our children's head!
We fear it not, our breasts with zeal were fraught, The gates of hell are now asunder thrown,
155
The cause of God and injured truth we fought; 86 More dread and piercing is the spirits groan,
A gainst the cunning artice of hell,
The damnd appear in motion to and fro,
In all the deep solicitudc of Wo!
'i'ruth was triumphant and the tritor full!
He spoke, and from the prxtor swiftly fled,
Now full before him ghastly Mammon came,
To seal the tomb and to secure the (lead!
90 And the ghost shudderd as he shriekd his name!
Now toward the spectre, with a frantic dance, 161
'11! fated priest, had mercy dcignd t impart
One ray to thy obuubilated heart,
The grisly ends triumphantly advance:
'l'hou u'ouldst have known no potence could have Seized the lost Judas, and their way rctrod,
Bearing the victim to their dread abode!
bound
Then the pale fury that proouredhis doom,
165
The breathless Jesus in the frightcd ground;
95 Welcomed lscariot to the ambient gloom.
No chains of death the mighty God conne,
Once more we meet, with taunting scorn he cried,
Much less a mortals efforts, like to thine!
And (lashdthe folly of thy towring pride.
1 it: who through chaos his omniscience hurld,
And calld from thence the indigested world,
Freed from the mortal tenement of clay,
(tan not be held, though oer him mountains rise
What cheering prospects light thy peaceful wayJTO
Till their tall summits pierce the arching skies!100 What sights of transports now around thee shine,
How sweet thy feelings, Judas, how divine.
Nor he who out of darkness call'd up light,
llow canst thou view futurity and see,
Be long enshroudcd in deaths d<ilcful night;
l'ulcss, submissive to some glorious end,
Eternal blessings that await for thee174
Here savage torments with her sanguine brood,
lic dcignd his dread omnipotence to bend.
105 And wan eyed care and anguish neer obtrudc;
l.l fated priest, what dreadful woes await,
But on the giddy height from whence you fell,
ln dirt-ful vengeance, for thy cruel hate!
In vain thy guards the sacred vault surround,
\Vhat care, what anguish and what torments dwell!
111 rriml potencc shakes the yielding ground;
And there indignant Heaven lookd wrathful, while
Here the soft visage ever wears a smile!
180
\ud as the word eternal mercy gave,
the stone obedient leaves the opening grave! 110 There endless darkness spread eternal night,
And here bright elucncc beams unending light.
The bands of death are wide asunder hurld,
\nd the worlds Saviour rises to the world!
Ambitious fool, by passion led astray.
the tombs are rent, and walking ghosts proclaim,
How hast thou thrown the richest pearl away!
The powerful virtue of his matchless name!
Hah! does it strike thee, wast for this you took
115 Your midnight way acres: the @edron brook? 186
Now at the rock the guilty congress met,
t'hou priestly murdrer, bathed in guiltless gore!80

Ye have a guard, go circle round his tomb,
\\ hile I sincerely mourn his timeless doom!
The stones scoured, the heedful watch is set;
i he Jews triumphant to their homes return,

While their dark breasts with exultation burn;
Then slight not the tender, affectionate praise,

That with lavishingjoy he lestows;
Tis due to a soul of such genuine worth,
And to genuine worth only ows.
And in tribute to love he recurs to these times
\Vhen my love and my friendship cndcard,
Thoust pressd this sad bosom with more than
delight
And oerwhelming with rapture appeard!
Then blame not the bard, if recalling the past
He enraptured should dwell upon you;
If while warm in his spirits, he speaks of those days ,
That fancy now pictures ,in ecstacy true!
Washington City, Oct. 1811.
EDMUND.
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For the Repertory.

THE HARP. LAY VIII
CHARYOEETTE
'hcn the throb of my bosom is over,
And the pulse of my heart forever sleeps;
When in dust this frail body shall moulder,
And the grass ocr my grave in night-dew weeps :
Oer my tomb shall my spirit then hover,
And in sighs of deep grief call Melia, dear,
To relieve the sad heart she has broken,
And to give my remains one tender tear!

\Vhen my spirit shall oer my grave hover,
And in murmuring sighs call Mclia there;
Should she hear me, and come to me sighing,
And let fall on my tomb one tender tear:
Oh! my spirit shall drink the pure treasure,
And be lulld by the draught to peace and rest,

While her sighs lightly waft it to heaven,
To exist with the happy, pure, and blest!
'ns it for this the fraudful vision came,

To add new glory to lscariots name?
DELLA LIRA.
Was it for this the shining ore was paid,

A
Secure that Christ should moulder in the tomb,
fill the last trumpet spoke the general doom! 120

Meanwhile lscariots unbefricnded ghost,
'iortui-.il by terror, reached the dismal coast
of chcorlcss hell, whose darkling looks declared,

lhe awful anguish for the lost prepared!
\o ray enlivning spread its pleasing light,
125
But all was doleful, melancholy night!
\ dreadful silence through the whole appears,
save when the shrieks of horror on his ears,
1'!, high the drcnr distance, like loud thunder,

l-rlro.
For this the guiltless Saviour was betray'd?

190
Traitor, it was; had virtue swayd thy heart,
Jesus stood ready mercy to impart;
But the dark passion o'er thy bosom stole,
And crafty Mammon caught thy yielding soul!
A double purpose by my power was gained,
195
The world left friendless and thy soul obtaind!
Ere yet the spirit from the body ew,
Thy hell commenced, O! foul, misguided Jew.
But new, forever shall the ame increase,
And endless burnings mar eternal peace;
From the Independent Mechanic.

CHIVALRY.
One evening late. some bucks of blood,

In dark cabal, near St. Paul stood;
(W hose hearts o'erowd with martial re;
Who glorictl in adventures dire)

Devising mighty plans, how they
Might insult all who passd that way;
And boasting of their famous deeds,
(Which other black guards far exceeds)
How theyd robbd huxtcrs of their pyes,
200
Thy soul forever bear the vengeful re,
PHILADELPHIA RHPERTORY.
52 U5
And blackend many womens eyes;

Had cheated boys of gnllry checks,
And half broke lame old negros necks;
I thought our necks would have been broke:

0 what a row has this one been!
Who else has such a battle seen?
Eaten their oysterswent away,
No other bloods, in New-York, can
And, blood like, had forgot to pay;

And many other great exploits,
Performd by them on many nights.
Boast thus of facing any man

Damme, Im almost in a passion
To think we bladeswe bucks of fashion,
Just at this time, a handsome lass
Met with their gang, and wishd to pass,

But they, presenting their phalanx,
Swore she should play them no such pranks;
And (heathen-like) culld her a goddess;

As straight as if she Wore a boddicc;
A glorious feast; " a perfect beauty;

Like Venus, was dmn pretty.
"I wish to go, airs, dont detain me!
What, madam! does this language pain ye
IIold up your head; why all this fuss?
Should be abused by any one;

Perhaps the fellow was in fun.
Lets follow on and make him rue it.
This all proposed, but none dare do it.
Now, when their fright was at an end,
And each could on his sense depend,
'Ihcir soiled clothes engross attention,
Or else their bruises they would mention;
And loudly every one complains
4 0f dreadful loss, or dreadful pains.
object is effected principally by the form of

the glass used. The lamp or candle which
lights the binnacle, is placed in the cabin; of
course the expense of one light is saved,
and all the inconvenience of blowing out in
n squally night, and likewise the trouble of
trimming the lamp, are avoided; though the

light is exceedingly vivid, yet the binnaclc
shows no light overboard, so that the vessel
cannot be traced by it in the night. The

binnacle is so constructed, that neither rain,
nor snow, nor the spray of the sea, can enter
it; and the compass is so formed, that the card

cannot be unshipped by any violent motion
Berton Caminr.v
What, Ned! some dish cows been here;

*
Come, dsmme Dick! lets take a buss.
Have mercy; help! off, villains, off.

What! is not one insult enough?
Yell so again; you noisy bh,
And we will drown you for a witch.
Submit, or
hold! see how they stare
They quick let go the trembling fair;
Their bodies shake, and by degrees
Their hats above their heads arise:
Their hair like pokcrs, stiff, erect;
All dreadful punishment expect.
'What makes their heroism ee?
A man! a single man, they see!
The heard a females cries, and came
To help th insulted suffering dame.

Though old, he felt quite able then
To best a score such genteel men;
he bravely dared, like knights complete,
Insult a female in the street.
0 glorious act! performed by few;
The noblest deed a blood can do.
Ive spoild my pantaloons, I swear."

I'oor Ned sings out, you need not brag
" For I've forever lamed my leg.
Before me lay an iron hoop,
And on its edge I chanced to stoop;
Im sure theres not an inch of skin,
In one whole peice, on either shin.

Another then begins to mutter
I dropt. one knee just in the gutter
They hear a noise again, all start
Towards their homes, swift as a dart.
What heroes these! who take delight

In acts of scandal every night;
'ho seek the Victors laurel wreath
Like British bloods, on Hounslow heath.
0
One of king James the rsts chaplains

preaching before the court at \Vhitehall,
made a set of the following quibblcs in his
discourse. Speaking of the depravity of the
Charleston, Dec. 16.
AN EARTHQUAKE)
This morning, at a few minutes before

three oclock, a severe shock of an earth
quake was felt in this city. Its duration is

supposed to have been between two and
three minutes. Ior an hour previous, though
the air was perfectly calm, and several stars
visablc, there was at intervals of about ve
minutes, a rumbling noise, resembling dis~

tant thunder; which increased in VlOlCllCJ
of sound, just before the shock was felt.

The vibration of St. Philip's steeple, caus~ '
ed the clock bell to ring about ten seconds.
Two other shocks were felt this morning,
one a little before 8 oclock, and the other
ten minutes after that hour; both slighter
They see an old man with a stick!
age, he said, that almost all houses were than .the rst, and of shorter duration; the
made ale houses; thatmen made matrimony vibration of the second lasted probably
Now, out often, not one dare speak;
rather more than a minute; and of the last
The cowards stand, with downcast eyes,
a matter of money; and placed their para
And shaking bodies, while he says:
dise in a pair of dice; was it so in the days two or three seconds. Many of the clocks
Renowned bloods, is this the way
Noah! ah no!
Your warlike prowess you display?

Prowl but at night, like savage beasts,
-.
conrmmumrr.
A gentleman advertised for a clerk, who
)i'ith no compassion in your breasts,
For age, or for the female sex;

But play on both your grilled tricks
Now, for insulting this young lady,
Quick, gentlemen, yourselves make ready,
could bear connement, and who had been
some years in his place. He was answered

by a person who had been amimber ofyears
in Ncwgute.
Drop down upon your marrow-bones.
llard kneeling thisthe paving s.ones,

For those whose tender esh and blood
Had scarcely ever knelton wood.
It made them shake their heads and grin;
Ashamed to kneelafraid to run.
on the 19th May, 1754, about ll oclock,
A. M. but it was very slight. Another slight

PHILADELPHIA,
DIED,
In New Castle county, Delaware, Mr.Gar
ret Cruson, in the 86th year of his age.

Ill soften every genteel pate,
Most lovely lady condescend

To grant us pardon, if you please:
\Verc begging for it on our knees.
She did: (they ownd it was a. favour.)
Then went awayso did her saver.
They had got nearly out of sight
Ere any blood had raised upright,
When thus one of these warriors spoke,
one was felt on the llth Aprib 1799, about

two oclock in the morning. In the year lb 1 l,
on the 13th January, another occured, and
Down in the dirt before him fall.

' How (quoth the old man,) beg her pardon
Come, you repeat, whilst I dictate.

For what Weve done, or did intend,
peated shocks; nor have we heard how far
they have extended into the country, except

that they were felt at Rantowless.
Such phenomena, until lately, were very
rare. One is remembered to have happened
He raisd the stickthey, one and all,
Or else Ill nd which heads a haul one;
were stopped, and the water in different wells

was m'uch agitated. \Vc have not heard of
any damage having been done by these re
_._
was felt at Columbia and Granby in this

state, and at Augusta in Georgia, but not in
Charleston.
Conmuxxcn'riox. The publication ofthe
NEW BINNACLE AND COMPASS.

subjoined extract from the Ellst and 22d
A patent has been obtained by a gentle pages of Dr. Ramsays Chronological Table
man in Liverpool, for a binnacle and com connected with his Historical and Biographi
pass. By this improvement the same com cal Charts of the United States, may ten
pass by winch the helmsmnn is steering on to moderate the apprehensions of the peo
deck, is at the same time visible in the ple, on account of the earthquake felt last
cabin, thereby enabling the captain to have evening, and this morning. It contains all
a constant check upon the stcersman. The that is known of the earthquakes that how:
256
takcn place in the United States, to the north
(including 4 cities;) 45 counties; and (in

1810) 960,000 inhabitants; giving an increase
In 1638, 1658, 1663, 1727, 1755, and minor
ue 340,765 dolls. 68 ets. Fulling Mills, 427;

enhanced val.of cloth 679,120 dolls. 87 cts.
quantity of the ashes, maple sugar, our,

&c. made, or the grain, cattle, sheep, beef.
of South Carolina. Only two have been
previously felt in Charleston, one in 1754 of 15 counties, 147 towns, and 374,000 peo pork, 81c. raised annually so as to make a
and the other in 1799, but neither produced ple in the last ten years! And the militia of valuation of our products or lands. But as
any serious consequences. From circum the state regularly enrolled amounted to the sheep returned for Duchess were 83,855
stances, it is more probable that the earth
--Albany 34,342Cayuga 29,872On0n
102,068 in 1809.
quakes of this city, are consequences of
In h'lanufacturcs the late census has .fur dago 44,893and Je'erson 20,000 we may
causes located to the west, or north west, nished data for the following statement:
conclude, judging from the population,
than that they originate in its vicinity.
Looms 33,068: yards cloth (all kinds) (exclusive of N. York Co.) that the whole
Extracts-1727. A great.earthquakc in 9,099,703valuc 5,002,891 dolls. 82 cents. state contains 1,280,000. Duchess contains
New-England. This extended from Kenne
Tan works, 867; value of leather, 1,299,542 14,341 horses and 51,650ncat cattle, which in
beck to the river Delaware. There have been dolls. 16 cts.Distilleries 591; value like manner (N. York omitted) gives 247,000
live great earthquakes in New-England, viz. 1,685,794 dols. 40 cts.--Breweries 42, val of the former, and 886,000 of the latter; but,
ones in 1653, 1668, 1669, 1670, 1105, 1120,

1732, 1744, 1155, 1757, 1760, 1769, 1111,
Paper mills 28; val. 233,268 dollarsHat.
1783. These were all described as coming

from about N. \V. and going off about 8.13.
They several times reached as far as Mary
factories 124; val. 248,035 dols. Glass works

6; val. (besides bottles, Sec.) 716,800 dolls.
Powder mills 2; value 18,400 dolls: Rope
Walks 18; value 538,000 dolls. Sugar hou
ses 10; vulue 420,706 dolls. Oil mills 28;
land, but seldom or never as far as Carolina,
or even Virginia. To the N. E. they have been

generally bounded by Nova Scotia.
No uncommon disorder or mortality fol
low any of these earthquakes, but in many
places they threw down stone fences, roofs,
chimnies, and parts of houses. Springs and
wells of water were sunk far down into the
earth. Some were dried up. The quality of
their water often changed. Dry spots became
quagmires, and moist places nearly dry. The
earth was suddenly raised, and in subsiding
value 49,283 dolls. 75 cts. Blast furnaces
STATE or NEW YORK.

The following abstract of the population,
resources, 82c. 0f the State ofNew York, is
extracted from a Briqf Tollogmjzhiral and

Slalisliml illanual of the State QfNcw York,
which comprises within 36 pages a great

mass of information very interesting to those
whom business or speculation requires to
attend to its interior concerns. If we had a
similar manual of each state in the union, it
would add much to our stock of geographi

cal and typographical knowledge ofcur own
country; in which we are generally very
decient.
In 1731, this state contained 10 coun
authorized to be laid out, made and built

at the risk of individuals, or expense of the
counties, the state, or the lands beneted
therebyare 39 bridge compaines with 509,
11; val. 205.300 dols. Air do. 10; val. 156.720 000 dollars stock, and 135 turnpike com
dolls. Cutnail factories, 44; val. 276,932 dolls.
panies with 7,558,000 dollars stock, extend
80 cents. Forges 58-, val. 185,240 dolls. Trip

hammers 49; value (return of work from 2
of them only) 1,600 dolls. Rolling and Slit
ing their roads over a length of 4,500 miles,

about one third of which is completed.
The capital stock of the several incorpo
ting Mills 1; value 33,120 dolls. Total value

-l2,085,525 dolls. 62 cts. Also, 413 Card
rated banks is 11,690,000 dollars. The funds
ing machinesvalue included in cloth above;

and 26 cotton factories, not included above,
mon schools now amounts_to'483,326 dol
was thrown into a vibratory motion. Many the cloth there mentioned being the manu
clocks were stopped. The vane on the public facture of families only.
market house in Boston was thrown down,
The above returns (except f0! Ontario,
and many other marks of force or violence Columbia, and \Vashington counties) are
were exhibited in different places and at moreover believed to be short of the real
amountno tow cloth was returned, except
different times.
-.
probably 300,000 horses, and 1,000,000 neat
cattle would be near the true amount in the

whole state.
The provisions made for roads and bridg
es besides the numerous roads and bridges
for two countiesinstead of one there are
set apart by the state for the benet of com

lars 29; the last years revenue of which
was 36,427 dollars 64 cts.-besides which
314,770 acres of unsold land still belongs to

this fund.
Hasln'nglonian.

ten or twelve rolling and slitting mills in the
at the ofiiee of the
statethe nail, hat, paper and rope facto

ries, furnaces, 8:0. much exceed the number
returned. All the woollen factories were
omitted. The single county of Rcnsselaer

will this year manufacture of the above arti
cle, the value of 600,000 dolls. though re
turned last year at 458,000 dolls. And many
new factories in Oneida especially, and in the
western country generally, are just going
into operation. So that it may be safely
aliirmed that our present annual value of
The price is four dollars per annum; citv sub

scribers to'pay quarterly in advance, distaui sub
It shall be delivered to subscribers in the citv
T111115 OF THE REPERTORY


the above named manufactures, exceeds
16,000,000 dollars.
There are now made anually 525,000
ties and only 50,291 soulsin 1771, same
bushels of salt; viz. in Onondaga 453,840
counties, and 163,338 soulsin 1786 (25

yam-s ago) 12 counties and 238,896 souls
5791. sixteen counties, and 340,120 souls
and 1800 thirty counties, 805 towns (in
cluding three cities) and 586,000 inhabi
tants. Now (1811) the state contains about
(though in 1800 only 42,754:) Cayuga 54,

(000; Geneseel,400; Saneca (atleast) 25,000;
and Ontario about 8,760total value at the
works 147,000 dolls. ln Cayuga 2,240 skeins

of silk. To all which may be added 60,000

ceived at. this oice, and at the bookstore of Hel

_ PHILADELPHIA,
dollars; the value of articles annually made

Printed and published by Dennis lleartt,
300 villages of from 15 or 20, but generally

from 30 or 40. to 600 houses, 45?. towns
by convicts in the State Prison.

1 have not suicicnt data to calculate the
g Marshall's alley, between Fourth and Fifth streets.

'
@Bifabefpiaeperfm
Variety a the very spice of life,
Cowman.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. tBH.
VOL II.
No. 33.
:EL
BIOGRAPHY.
SKETCH or THE GENIUS or
ROBERT TREAT PAINE, JUN. ESQ.
A distinguished American loe't.

Of the genius of this-great poet, whose
labours have so largely contributed to the

reputation of American literature, it would
be diicult to speak in terms of exaggerated
praise. To the bounties of nature, who had
lavished on his intellect her richest and

proudest favours, were superadded those ac
quired excellencies. which are the fruits of
vigorous study, and ambitious cultivation.

As a poet, he ranks among the rst of
the rst class. The piercing keenness of his
mind gave it an easy admission into the
most secret and hidden sources of know
ledge, and his prompt and active imagina
tion seized instinctively on whatever was
most beautiful and engaging in nature or in
art. His enthusiasm imparted a warm and

vivid lustre to his thoughts; and his com
prehensive and critical knowledge of lan

guage enabled him to convey the concep
tions of his fancy with uncommon clearness
and energy. In a word, he always felt, and
thought, and spoke, like a poet.
A mind so happily formed as Paines; so

alive to feeling, so pregnant with invention,
so fraught with sentiment, so blest with the
divinityofgcnius; couldnot fail of success in
the mthereal creations of poetry. All his ef
forts in this favourite pursuit have received,
the highest praises of his countrymen; andl
He always felt proud of his learning, and of a brother author. Nor was this applause
would occasionally display it at the expense of forced or hypocritical; wherever he saw
his poetry, by drawing his images and allu genius it was impossible for him to repress
sions from facts and circumstances too little the emotions of satisfaction. For the fame of
know, to be understood by the generality American literature he always displayed a
even of intelligent readers.
cordial solicitude; and frequently expressed
His prose is, in the highest degree, state his sorrow and indignation at the detestable
ly and magnicent. It is the style of doctor expedients, employed by so many of our
Johnson. He had a passion for the elegancics countrymen, to bring it into disgrace.
and renements of composition. His son
Some there are, who have denied the
tences are carefully balanced, and his periods solidity of Mr. Paines critical abilities, on
diligently rounded. Every word is selected the ground that he too frequently decided
with taste, and disposed with skill. In all his by feeling, rather than by judgment. This
Works, he strove after attainable perfection, objection, though plausible, is by no means
nor was he ever satised with what he had satisfactory. In some of the ne arts, the
written, while there was a fault to be recti feeling so instantaneously follows the judg
ed, a beauty to be added, or a grace to be ment, that it becomes identied with it; in
heightened. Of revision he was therefore others, as in music, the judgment follows
never impatient; on the contrary, he seemed the feeling and is determined by it. The
to take delight in reviewing his rst thoughts, best reason we can give why we approve of
and bestowing upon them such correction apiece ofmusic, is because it pleases us. So
and improvementas they could receive from it 18 with the highest ights of poetry. What
a cautious and deliberate criticism.
ever greatly interests our passions, so as to
\Vith the philosophy of the ne arts, no produce the effect intended by the poet,
man was ever better acquainted than Mr. can, with as much certainty, be pronounced
Painc.The arts were the favourite and good, as though it was actually proved to be
most frequent subjects of his meditations. so, by a pedantic display of elaborate reason
His mind dwelt on them with fondness, and ing. Of what value, then, (it may be asked)
delighted to ascend to their rst principles. are the works of Aristotle, and Quintilian,
As a critic, therefore, he stood on very high and Longinus, besides an host of modems,
ground. But he was not like certain grave who have written on the science ofcriticism?
and austere critics, who make it there whole
business to detect latent faults, and urge
skilfnl objections. He was candid and liberal

in all his decisions. He had a soul to be
the Invention of Letters, the Ruling; pleased as well as to be offended, and al
To this question, I answer, that, to the poet,

they arebf no value. The art of poetry is
not derived from the rules of the critics; but
the rules of the critics are collected from
the practice of the poets. Critics are not the
Passion," the two Prologues in dedica though no man had a quicker perception of legislators of poets, but are the more ex
tion of the Boston Theatre, the Monody literary blemishes, yet so nice was his dis pounders of those laws, which the
on Moore, the Epilogue to the Clergy- cernment of excellence, and so great his have promulgated. Every great poetpoets
is a
mans Daughter, and the national song of pleasure on its discovery, that he would critic by instinct, and, in many cases, can
Adams and Liberty, may be classed readily pardon the defects, for the sake of decide more correctly by feeling than the
among the ablest specimens of English one beauty. To young authors he ever mani mere critic can with all his boasted rules to
poetry. The character of his poetical genius fested the kindest disposition. He read their assist him. There are certain beauties of so
resembled that of Pope, more than any other compositions with attention-he praised high an order, that they cannot be perceived
poet, particularly in the smoothness ol his their merits with liberality, and pointed out but by those who are susceptible of the
verse, the exactness of his rhymes, the rich- their faults with delicacy and tenderness. It nest and most delicate emotions. In such
i is greatly to the honour of Mr. Paine, that
ness " his language, and the condensation
cases, the mere critic drops to a levehavith
of his thoughts. His great fault was that of he never felt the envy of rivalship. He was the mechanic, and nds his square an mm.
being sometimes too studiously classical. d among the rst and loudest in the applause passes of criticism of little use, except to
l
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show his impotency. But Mr. Paine did not

decide by feeling, except in cases where feel
,ing is proper to be consulted, as to the test
of the poets skill. He was familiarly ac
quainted with criticism as a science and
could apply its reasonings with wonderful
precision and elegance.
We are now to consider Mr. Paine as a
conversationist. It was in conversation, (con
port folio, only taking the liberty of pasting

this notice to the topI know a little of the
impertinence of editors, but tell you plainly,
sir, that you shall either give this an inser
tion in your cabinet now, or else we close

our literary accounts.
As I was the other day wandering in a
woodland, belonging to the country seat of
who, in genius and scholarship, has seldom
that even I felt a curious quivering at my

heart, which if I had been in possession of a
pencil lam conscious would have evaporated
in a ditty, either to the sportive cat-bird that
was hopping about me, or to Apollo, or
some of his company which 1 fancied en
tertaining me with all their might. To enter
more seriously into the nature of my subject
the principal part of their verses ware ad
dressed to, or dictated by that unaccount
able passion, too indiscriminately called love.
The place was indeed suited for dalliance:
on one hand meandered a. small stream in
graceful windings, and on the other was a
mountain covered with mossy honours: on
all sides were garlands of owers, woven by
the fanciful hand 0f nature with peculiar
sprightliness, and the far springing squirrel
sported on the branches that waved over
my head. Two of the ditties that most forci
bly attracted my attention, and seemed to
have most arrangement, with much difculty
I decyphered. They were close to each
patronized. He has left an amiable widow,
and several promising children. For their

benet we hope his writings will now be
collected and published. \Vc doubt not the
sale of such a volume would be co-cxtensive
with its merit; and that the public would re

joice in an opportunity of testifying their
regard for a work which will do so much
honour to their country.
Nat. Egia.
4
I-or the Repertory.

THE CABINET. No. LXVIII.
"lis somethingnothing!
Shakrpmre.
"I wish, Yorick, said my father, you had read
Plate, for then you would have learnt that there
were two loves.
Sterne.
Lust like aravnous tyger springs I
\Vith savage gust upon his pray;
Q
Lone like the bee with gentle power

Extracts the honey ofdelight. Sellick Osborne.
There are some authors, Mr. Gravity,
who are so very methodical in their pro

ceedings that they will not publish a sum
mer sketch in cold weather, nor a winter
night scence on a July Saturday. This, sir.

I think contrary to all reason, and merely
out of a whimsical notion of my own that

cold nights require warm reading, I laid by
the present communication ready for the
press, early in June, with the positive de
termination that it should not be printed if
g mutt help it until there was snow on the
groundJ give it to you just as I nd}: in my
lll despise thee to the last.
Shouldst thou then be left forlorn,
been equalled, perhaps has never been sur

passed. Boston has the honour of claiming
tonians it ought to be said, that by them his
talents were duly appreciated, and liberally
Though Im call'd a curst deceiver
0! that triumph will be glorious,
gave the most brilliant displays of mind. It considerably fatigued from the warmth of
was here that his genius proudly triumphed the day and the length of my walk, I was
in all its sovereignty. No matter what the induced to sit down for a few moments to
subject, whether scientic or literary, its regain my strength. On casting my eyes in
discussion was in the highest degree mas advertently on the seats around me I per
terly and eloquent. His information was so ? ceived a vast number of lead marks, and felt
extensive and so various, his thoughts were my curiosity excited to decypher some of
so rapid and so compact, his imagination so 1 them, and inform myself as to their purport.
On a nearer examination I discovered the
splendid, his wit so enchanting, and his lan
guage so elegant, that it was impossible to principal part of them to be verses; at this
hear him without delight.
I did not at all wonder, for the elegance of
Such was Robert Treat Paine, Jun. a man, the surrounding scene was so uncommon
him as its native; and in justice to the Bos
But when passions burning fever

By enjoyment shall be past,
a gentleman of fashion, through which were
fessedly the most diflicult of all arts) that he scattered many arbours, benches, Etc. being
Let me on gay banks ofroses

0n thy downy breast recline,
And whilst innocence reposes
Steal a vow to make thee mine.
Long repulsed, but then victorious

I will cast the Oh to scorn
In thy ruin I would glory,
Thou so long my vows hast stood,
And would tell thy shameful story
Though it drench'd my heart in blood.
Edward.
And can it be possible, exclaimed l to

myself, after having perused them, that any
human being could have penned such lines
as these? I was for a moment staggered in
my belief, but my reection recurring to the
degeneracy of our nature, and the depravity

into which man is often sunk by excess of
indulgence, I was constrained unwillingly to
forego my favourable hopes. \Vhat a senti
ment is here! a villain, an unsuccessful suitor,
coolly determines, by every wily artice in his

power to strive to accomplish the overthrow
of virgin innocence; coolly determines the
satisfaction he will enjoy at such a conquest,
and because she has long repelled his in
sincere protestations calculates his delight

at her destruction. Graceless monster! thou
treadest a path untrodden by any before thee,
thou hast not even to plead thy excuse
through the impetuosity of passion! This
should at least prove to the giddy female
the necessity of being cautious in the choice
ofa lover, for what may not this pretended
lover be? he may be sincere but he may
also be no better than an infamous and pre

meditsting seduccr.
Love according to the most rational de-'
scription may he considered a pure attach
ment, arising from a rapturous esteem of its
object; an attachment whose possessor looks
other in the order thatI give them, to show
not at the avaricious principle of self lnlCl'L'Sl,

the difference of the sentiments cherished nor seeks to bind delight in golden fetters
by the two admirers, I transcribe them as but regards only the happiness of the one
nearly as possible; the rst of which runs in on whom he has placed his affections, hold.
the following words:
ing her esteem above all enjoy-merits and her
loss above all calamities. It is an attachment
Here, enticing maid, I wait thee,
that becomes not intoxicated by a super
Thee the delicate and coy:
Thou who gently bidst me hate thee,
Thoucanst yield me furious joy.
0ft with thy fair bosom swelling
Hast thou bade me check my re,
But, alas! such soft repelling
Wilder wakes each erce desire.
\\'ell 1 know thou curbst thy wishes,
\Vhy so self denying prove?
Why not share those joys delicious
That attend. delicious love?
cial glance of pleasure, but looks forward to
more sacred duties than mere indulgence.

To illiJstrate it more fully however, I beg
leave to present the other verses l have
already mentioned, and think the picture
they present that of rational and real love.

0 Matilda, ever dear,
Must I see thy~ face no more,
But on seasof racking fear,
Vain]; sect hopes owery shore!
M
Must distractions ery frown
writhings of lust, and the latter of the calm
Light my soul with horrors blaze,
ness, and gentleness, and thoughtfulness of
Must the god of thorny crown,
love. I leave it to my readears to decide
Anguish, still attend my days?
between them.
0! Matilda, dearest maid,
Fairest of this earthly train,

Be thy kindness now displayd,
Snatch me from corroding pain.
And though king of airy nought,
And of all that vision sees,
\Vith this gift 0! calminy thought,

And my struggling sorrows ease.
Bid this maid of wildring view,
llcar my vows nor disapprove,
Charm her tender fancy too,
Unto heart attuning love.
Giddy passion Ill despise,

Love alone each sense shall away,
And her balm-infusing sighs

All my woes shall melt away.
No wild wish shall scapc my breast,
Frantic folly shed control,

She that e'en could charm to rent.
Frenzys terror torturd soul.
DAVID THORN.
tachment alone cannot be dignied with the

appellation of friendship. Should one of
these merchants be more successful than
the other, or should the interest of the one
clash with that of the other, their connexion

is immediately dissolved. The nature of such
For the Repertory.
a union is so detestable and its existence so
THE MORALIST, No. VI.
precarious that we shall waste no more time
in showing how little it deserves the name
"Friendships the wine of life."~
Young
The best denition of friendship we have of friendship.
The union which subsists between parent
meet with is the following; a mutual ut
tachment subsisting between two persons; and child has frequenly been mistaken for
arising not merely from the general princi friendship; but a connexion of this nature
ples of benevolence, from emotions of grati is not conned to the human family; it is
common to every description of animals.
tude for favours received, from views 01 in
terest, nor from instinctive affection or This union between parent and child when
animal passion, but from an opinion enter supported by no other principle, but instinct,
tained by each of them that the other is will merely induce the parents to supply the
adorned with some amiable or respectable wants of the child and the child to look up
qualities.
to the parent for protection and support. it
Mankind is the object ofthc general princi is almost unnecessary to mention, that friend
ple ofbencvolence which formed the subject ship cannot spring from animal passion:
matter of our last number. There have been
She at whose bewild'ring smile

Pale dispondence disappears,
She that sorrow can beguile
And can dry disasters tears.
individuals, who possessed this affection in

its full force and extent; they have exerted
every faculty of the mind and body to increase
the happiness and ameliorate the condition of
Should this virgin but be mine
the human race. Thougha character of this
Then will [misfortune breve,
description is truly great and admirable,
Nor at woes will eer repine,
yet few' attain it. Most individuals restrict
Can I but her pleasure save.
their benevolence and limit their atl'ections
Then when we decline in age,
to persons of their own family or place of
When our rolling years have run,
residence. Friendship does not consist in
When were passd each lively stage,
the general principle of benevolence, though
And behold life's setting sun,
we offer it as our opinion, that it cannot sub
\Vhat can there more blissful be
sist without some portion ofit. This enlarged
What more rapturous than this,
affection and sense of obligation to society
Than the livingjoys to see
is somewhat essential to the free exercise
Sprung from pure domestic bliss.
of individual attachment.
For these gifts in thankful measure
It is extremely natural for us to fuel
I will raise th adoring" strain,
grateful for favours received, and to watch
And will chace with holy pleasure
Par the hovring' ends of pain.
Henry. every opportunity to make a suitable re
Such are the pure and noble sentiments turn. We respect our benefactor whenever
that constitute real love. How far are they we meet him, and speak favourably of his
exalted above the vile and paltry considera character whenever occasion requires. This
tions of lucrc or of lust! The verses of may be done, and still no real friendship
Edward appear to be the frantic cbullitions subsist between us, nor are we bound to
Of a heart though subdued yet too haughty enter into an intimacy with him merely on
to confess it, and guided by wishes head account of the kindness conferred. This may
strong and diabolical. Those of Henry in indeed nally tend to a mutual attach
dicate a mind free from all considerations ment," but till some other circumstances
but those of the most sacred affection, and occur, this amicable disposition between Us
unsullied virtue. The rst breathe all the
hasty rashness of a disordered intellect bla; -
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M
and our neighbour cannot in justice be de

nominated true friendship.
ing with crazy desires; the latter conned
Many connexions are formed from self
by the bonds of moderation, ow with the
ish or interested motives, founded on the
regularity of a. mind unularmed by frantic
hope, that a reciprocal advantage may be
images, and undisturbed by ungoverned obtained from a union of this nature. Two
wishes; a mind serene and tranquil in the merchants may consider it their mutual in
lids! of doubts, or at least as much so asis terest to live upon terms of intimacy, may
l
given to the attainment ofman. in short the i || show each other some lit.le attentions and
former present a picture of the desperate I] may frequent each others houses; this at
which, every one knows, is common to r21
tional and irrational creatures.

Thus have we attempted to point out the
different connexions, which are daily fortit
ed, but whose foundation is not true friend

ship. It frequently occurs, in writing upon
topics of this nature, that we nd it'easier

to show in what our subject does not consist
than to present to the mind's eye the
reality itself. This negative reasoning how
ever carries force with it, for if we arrive at
the truth and demonstrate the proposition

with which we started, it matters little
whether we use direct or indirect means.
We have endeavoured to show, that true
friendship cannot arise from the general

principle of benevolence merely, not from
interested motives, not from instinctive af
fection nor from animal passion; it naturally

follows then, that it arises from an opinion
entertained by each of the parties, that the
other is possessed of some amiable or re
spectable qualities. Human nature is indeed
so depraved, virtue and vice so equally
blended in every character, and interest so
generally the ruling passion of all persons,
that true friendship is rarely to be found.
This picture is indeed dark, but is not less
accurate. Acquainted with our own faults

and conscious of our own weakness, we are
nevertheless disposed to look upon the mis
dcmcanors of others and pardon errors into
which time and temptation plunge us.
we may resume this subject at another
time, enough has been said for this occasion.
0.
He who postpones the hour of living right

ly,is like the rustic who traits till the rivet
shnll have passed away. He defers his refer
uiation to a period which can never arrivi
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have been ruined and mutilated by war do wund no one who was Willing to u.
his
Mr. Editor,
I present you with the following small

tale from the romance of Voltaire, which is
not believe it; neither do I: I retire within
myself overwhelmed with my curiosity, and

my ignorance. I read our ancient bCOl'.S
replete uith moral instruction, and a perfect

Was drawn for himself. This production will
always be pleasing to the thoughtful, and
cannot be read too often.
GREGORY GRAVITY.
THE STORY OF A GOOD BRAMIN.
Translated from the French of Voltaire.
I met in my travels with an old Bramen,

a man, wise, full of humour, and very learn
ed: moreover he was rich and consequently
still wiser, for wanting nothing, be deceived
no man. His family was well governed by

three ne women, who studied to please
him; and when he did not amuse himself
with his women he was occupied with phi

losophy.
Near to his house which was fine, orna
mented, and surround by charming gardens,i
lived on old Indian woman, a bigot, a fool,,
and very poor.

'
The bramin said to me one day, I wish I '
never had been born: '1 asked him for what
reason. He answered, I have studied for
forty years: they are forty years thrown away:

I teach others and know nothing myself.
This situation awakens in my soul such sen
timents of humiliation and disgust that life
is almost insupportablc to me: I am born:
I live in time, and yet know not what time
is: I perceive myself in a point between two
etcrnities, as our sage says, and I have no
idea of eternity: I am composed'of matter:
I think; but I nd it impossible to dis
cover what produces thought: I know not
whether my understanding is a simple
faculty, as that of walking, or of digesting,
nor whether I think with my head, asI take
with my hands. Not only is the principle of
my thought unknown to me, but I am equally
in the dark as to the principle of my motions:
I know not wherefore I exist; meanwhile
questions on all the points are put to me

daily: I must answer; I have nothing satis
factory to say: I talk much, and remain con
fused and ashamed of myself after having
spoken.
It is still worse when I am asked whether
Brama has been produced by Vitsnou * or
whether they are both eternal; God is my
witness that of these thingsl know nothing,
as my answers plainly prove. Ah! my re.
we esteem reason still more.
rounds me. I speak to my companions:

some answer me that it is better to enjoy
But after having reected upon it, it ap

pears that to prefer reason to felicity is very
foolish. How then can this contradiction be
this life, and laugh at mankind: others think
explained? as all others, the subject is fruit
and they but thicken the darkness that sur

lesson of humility; it is said that the Bramin
senses for contentment. From thence I con

clude that as much as we esteem happiness
ing themselves possessed of knowledge lose ful and gives room to say much, but for the
themselves in extravagant ideas; every thing present we shall conclude it here.
adds to my grievous mortication. I am
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sometimes ready to fall into despair when I
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MATRIMONY.
know from whence I sprang, nor what I am,
nor where I will go, nor what will become
Hail wedded love!
Perpetual fountain of domestic bliss- Jliltw;
of me."
Every person intending to enter into the
The state of this good man gave me real
concern; no one was more reasonable, nor connubial state should possess a compre
of better faith than he. I conceived that his hension and just knowledge of its sacred
unhappiness must be in proportion to the duties, for it ought never to be abused or
luminousness of his understanding, and the violated. The principles which govern many
when choosing a panncr for life reect dis
sensibility of his heart.
The same day I saw the old woman who grace upon those who cmbrace them, and
lived in the neighbourhood: I asked her if throw a stain on the character of man. Some
she had ever been aficted at knowning look for alucnce, conceiving golden charms
nothing of the structure of her soul. She more valuable and necessary than any other,
not even understood my question; she had to render the conjugal life agreeable and
never reected a moment on any of the felicitous. If afemale but possess beauty and
wealth she is looked upon by them as a
points that tormented the bramin: she be
lieved in the metamorphoses of Vitsnr-u superior being, her glittering attractions
with all her heart: and if she could but entice many votaries to kneel at her shrine,
sometimes bathe herself in the waters of and the man on whom she bestows her pet
the Ganges, she thought herself the happiest son and fortune (in the opinion ofthe world)
is considered to have attained the summit of
of women.
Stricken with the happiness of this poor earthly happiness. This prospect must be
woman, I returned to my philosopher and confessed to be flattering and enviable, but
let us view them after dissipation has nearly
said to him, Are you not ashamed to be un
happy, whilst at your very door there is an exhausted her treasure, and faded those
old automaton that thinks of nothing, and charms which once possessed so many al
lives contented? You are right replied he, lurements; what is the bliss he so fondly
I have said to myself a hundred times that anticipated? Does he still continue to re
I should be happy if I were as great a fool ceive pleasure from the society of his wife?
as my neighbour: yet such a happiness I do Does she by her aability and perfect re
signation to their change of fortune,strive to
not wish.
render
him happy by endeavouring to bring
This answer of the bramin made a greater
the remembrance of more prosperous times,
impression upon me than all the rest; I ex
amined myself, and saw that in fact neither and adapting his mind for the humble sphere
would I have wished to be happy, on condi to which imprudence has reduced them, and
in which they should now be contented to
tion of being foolish.
I proposed the thing to the philosophers, remain? N0! her disposition is still the same,
and they were of my opinion. There is her thirst for amusement_ and the gilded
nevertheless, said I, a strange contradiction smile of dangerous gratication is still un
in this manner of thinking; for in ne what satiated, she is dissatisfied with her condi
is our greatest care? to be happy: and what tion, and nothing but reproachcs greet the
matters it whether we are wise or not? man who has participated in squandcring
verend father, am I asked, learn us where
Those who are contented with their state,

are sure of being contented; those who
away her fortune She makes her presence

hateful tobim by her continual upbraidings,
fore it is that the earth is inundated by evil.
reason upon it are not certain of reasoning
1 am as much at a loss as they that ask me
well. It is then clear, Said I, that it would I)!
the question; I sometimes tell them that all
is for the best, in this world; but those who
better to choose not to have common SCHSt.

since this common sense contributes to out
' God and matter.
evil. Every body was of my opinion, yet 1
his life becomes miserable, and the career

which began in extravagant folly, some
nnes ends in miserable separation. This is a
.innentable but faithful oicture of the late
though probable consequence of a connexion
4
founded on the transient charms ofalumicc.

Where are your furies, and eternal fires?
The only union which can render this life

a worldly heaven is that formed by conjenial
souls, whose pure and ardent attachment bc
inu grounded on the noblest principles, is

perpetrated by marriage. Such a connexion
I would advise every person, wishing to
enter into the marriage state, to form, ht
should not let the Want of afuence, dcbar
ertions meet with success, he ought then
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Not half the horror lurks around your caves,
As that which through my guilty bosom raves!

Not half the terrors in your kingdom lie,
As now it-s fearful from my bloodshot eye!
Nor does your baleful courts of sorrow bear, 225
\Vith all their ruin, half of my despair!
Is this your hell? tormenting ends begin,
A hell more furious rages now within!
Scare had the traitor thus himself expressd,
Ere the hell kindled ercer in his breast;
hir. from attaching himselfto an object with

whom, he imagines he can live happy, but
then his determination should not be rash.
he should endeavour to discover by every
honourable means in his power, whether she
is worthy ofhis affection, and if her internal
ornaments be found not to suffer from a
comparison with her external, he should use
every effort to gain her love; should his ex
More loud and longer is the baleful groan,

Around the cell, in fearful echo thrown;
The loosend bres of the bosom part,

And ames of sulphur issued from his heart!
The fateful mystery was now rcveal'd,
Within his bosom lay the hell coneeald!
235
Now from the cross, with Satan at their head,

When Jesus was removed, the furics ed;
240
Jesus lies dead and man again is ours:
Within yon tomb the true Messiah lies,

And sighs of anguish rend the weeping skies;
Angels forbear the wonted songs of praise,
And doleful elegies to Jesus raise!
liOOlx' VI.
ARGUMENT
Jada: makes no reply to .lfmnmon, butgazee in horrid

wotmder (it {he (errors oral/ml him,- t long-111,11"
ceiving noery/ term-Hts, he breaks into exclama

tion: of [HIP/Iri"; "'hilw allerilcingr, the hell kindlus
ercely in his bottom. the bres ofIn}: breast [HUT and
ames of MI//un- issue from his 8011/! The furies
erult m'er lhulamb of Jesus,- Jllammon nrrirerfrom
hell,- Speerh of Satan,- It'e/Jly qfJIammrm; Beliule
(llll'fl'c' to thefzm'ea; 011mm! by Pride and L'm'y.

Soto the tortured ghost the fury spoke,
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And no reply the lost betraycr broke.

Increasing horrors glared from either eye,
And his rent bosom heaved a dreadful sigh;
With our imperial energy combined,

lrocured the downfall of our direst foe,
No aming gulfs, in burning rage appeard,
No hissing adders ghastly head uprear'd.

But every soul the wondring ghost beheld.
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\Vanderd about, with inward grief impelld.

Then thus his voice, in_hollow accents, fell,
Decaying Mammon, say, can this hc hell?

'hert re your hips and \\ here your burning
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Welcome, brave chief, from conquering hells do.

To share our transports on the earth again;
To hear the plaudits on thy glorious name,
As every fury echoes thy acclaim!
Till heaven shall hear the thunder breaking round,
Till angels weep. aiicted at the sound!
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And as they strive to tune the joyful lyre,
With sorrow tremble: the rebellious wire,
In conscious grief that Jesus is no more

Whose efuent glory claimed its note before! 270
Welcome, once more, behold the guarded tomb,
Around whose margin all thy laurcls bloom,

\Vithin our foe in checrless death reclint-s,
Without, our triumph, in culgcncc, shines!
But say, my warriors, what rewards await, .

This brave defender of our royal state?
Though lasting honour rests upon his name,
To loyal Mammon, let the grateful sense
e have of service, lcadyto rcrompcucc.
Speak, Mammon, does not this rejoice thy soul,
To have whole nations under thy controul?

A frantic laugh the grizly end returnd,
As with the dreadful hope his bosom burnd;
Shall Mammon gain this emblem of regard!
Remember this, no sin can longer hold,
Than that of worship for unconscious gold;
325
Of all the crimes, thathunian nature own,
It stands itselfunrivalld and alone.

The monster crime whose fatal presence shun,
All other sinsliko cold avoids the sun;
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275
The phomix guiltthat once dcstroy'd. uprears,

And soon again in pristine rage appears!
Were hosts of nds determined to destroy,

ln vain would they their utmost force employ;
But We should nurse it, since the world began, 335
What sin has llcltl more closely unto man;

What caused more blood and carnage in the world,
What greater devastation round has hurld;
hat hinds htts't tainted and what kings imbued,

What armies routed and what states subdued; .540
What open deeds of violence to all laws,
What secret murders does this fury cause?

Virtue attacked by its destructive ire,
May show resistance but must soon expire;
Whatever breast admits its sovreign sway,
Has drivn each noblcr feeling far away;
The thirsty tyrant drinks from every part,
And taints the genial current of the heart!
0ft has it caused the phrcnzicd eye to roll,
The deed is worthy more than empty fame:
In helitating fear he looktl around,

. To pierce the awful darkness, so profound;
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And. strange to tell, he plainly could behold
Each cheerlcss sight, the dungeon could unfold.
295
And for that service no reward I crave;

Except this one, that your approving smiles,
Shall always wait on my successful wiles.
He ceased, the fury of the purple vest.
299
Rear'd his fair form and thus the host addressds
Then Belial, warriors, what is your award,
main,
THE PROFITIA'IION.
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Let shouts of triumph occupy each voice,

255
When heavens alictcd then should hell rejoice;
And see, the warrior, whose inventive mind,
And lured lscariot to eternal wo!
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hich to accelerate my aid I gave,
Though conquering Mammonmo reward will claim,
of his wife, reason will still retain her do

minion, no person who possesses the means
of supporting a wife ought to procrastinate
the intention of acquiring the tender names
of husband and father, for early eonnexionsI
are generally the most productive of happi
ness and ought to be particularly recom
mended.
OLl) ROBIN. "
)J
Is lost, and Mammon is, 0' shame to tell,

The purchased agent of victorious hell!
Say, have not I an interest in the fall
Of this Redeemer, equal to you all?
Except the poor reward of well earnd fame:

It surely not bets us to pass by
This noble contravention of the sky;
Then listen, ends, and let my counsel nd
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An easy access to each daring mind;
Tis certain now, ye unrcsisted powers,
Since heaven has falln. that the world is ours;
Christ is no more, who boasted him supreme,
And whose detested will was to redeem}
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Deep in yon tomb the giant foe iflaid
And earth by that immortal deed betrayd;
Then since the world is subject to our will,
A recompence awaits for Mammon still;
"[was avarice here that did the victry gain, 315
bet avarice then oer earth resistless reign;
Let half mankind unto this crime be given,
To bar their entrance to relenting heaven;
when beauty no longer blooms on the check
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when absent impatiently hasten his return,

and love and pleasure will welcome his ap
pearance. When time has cooled their
mutual ardour into unbounded frindship.
always make his home a paradise, he will
\Voes which he thought could never be more erce,

Increasing now, his shrieking spirit pierce;
Eager to see the breathless corpse immur'd

Within the grave, and thought it well secured,
Upon the rock above the tomb they light,
To feast their vengeance with the baleful sight;
They saw the Saviour, with delight, betrayd, 211-5
And now within the lonely mansion laid!
Triumphant feelings gladd end every breast,
And thus the tcmptcr his delight expressdz
Let transport burn in every breast, ye powrs,
consummate his marriage. The mild disposi

tion and pleasing converse of his wife will
My:
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Uncased the pnniard, held the poisond bowl; 550

Led to the chamber where lay wealth at rest,
And guided that into the guardless breast;
Rethink ye, ClliCftlullS,Zlllti without delay,
Often held this and forced the wretch to drink,
Declare what meed the action shall repay,

Ye sage advisers, on this mountains height,
Met for triumphant purposes to night;
Each other sin, like constant currents goes,

But like a torrent, this destroyer ows;
Hells miser cried, attend my just desire,
And yield yourudgtnents to what _1 require;

I What ,urged my soul to service, was a zeal
For royal satan and the common weal, But if that service now must be repaid,
That fame for which Iscariot was betrayd,
\Vhom terror murdered ere he touched the brink,
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355
Sweeps in its dreadful course whatever good

Comes into contact with the raging ood!
If then it thus cloth friendless man oppress,
We surely ought encourage and caress;

Their greater foe, to us the greatest fricnd,
| To workfor hell he: only sought for and.
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r
J; 1'
for
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PM
ls swelld to the gale that hoarse sweep, oer ' he
Here Belial rested the unwelcome cause,
\nd ghastly Mammon grinnd his kind applause

Nay een the king and stern eyed Moloeh bent 365
Their totvring plumes in token of consent;
But quickly rose in wrath aspiring Pride,
And thus to Belial ercely he replied;
Belial attend, ye gallant chiefs, give car,
370
And yield my words belief when I declare,
No fiend that boasts of malice gainst the sky,
wood,
T00, sighs for past pleasure enshrouded with

to mutter; what the dl is the matter, my
SHOWS
Even to the fond being that slept on the wing,

And was lulldbj' the. voice of enjoyment to rest:
That dreamt not adversitvs winter could bring
A frost to expel the warm glow from his breast.
Even so must his bosom as oft as it calls
From the vault of oblivion the joys that Once
Can honour conquering Mainmon more than I,
But how shall I. that boast an equal power,

Beneath this preference in obedience cower!
1 low shall I stoop to see him seize the hole, 375
When I as easily delude the soul;
charmd,
Whose remembrance like sounds of soft melody
What greater evils do the world betide,

Than those cpgenderd by o'erweening Pride? 380
Through me the soul with warring passions burns,
And the chaste bounds of virtue rudely spurns;
Treads on the laws to human creatures given,
And soars presumptuous rm the reach of heaven:
Disdain the wanted paths by nature trode,
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And grasps at the prerogative of God!
Then change your will and let his merit be
Repaid by means that do not injure me
So spoke the end, then Envy next arose,
To vent his anger and his mind disclose,
390
His jaundice eyes emit a piercing glare,
\t'hile the roused adder hises from his hair,
He chews his snakes and from his lips, around,
As the wintery blast robs the fair owrot ofbloom,

50 time chills offriendship the soul thrilling glow;
For as frail as the owret that gifts its perfume
To the breeze. are the feeling from friendship
that ow.
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THE HARP. LAY IX
FLOWERS or REMEMBRANCE. 'ro IIETTILXA.

0h! let, ever green, in the warmth of your heart,
These ovvers exist in remembrance ofme;
These owers, fresh water'd with tears of regret.
Which the bard of misfortune has woven for thee!
For, although from his cradle, hes Wanderd mong

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thorns,
And neer in the paths of his life found a rose,
And fiends, he cries, attend what I require:
Never froinjustice, gallant chieftians, swerve,

And what does M amnion more than I, deserve? 400 i Yet it still is the wish and the pride ofhis heart,
To be tender and kind to those worthy regard;
Have not I done asmuch as end can do,
And the. children of feeling, to him ever dear,
Ircpard the poison and the poniard too;
in live ever more in thejoys ofthe hard!
Say, has not Envy bid the guiltless die,
405
To dark detraction, by my potencc driven;
0ft have Icrimsond chastity with lust,

And metamorphosed faith intoslistrust:
As dark as hell, bright merit have Ishown,
And blasted beauties that I did not own,
How often, furies, have I dared impeach,
Nay, often I the various death have held,
And the rst murder was by me compelld,

415
When in the days of yore, rebellious Cain
Stretchd the too righteous Abel on the plain.
Nay, am I not stern Mammons grizly sire,
For what commits be, ifI not inspire?
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GTANZAS.
The owrets of Summer ere robbd of their bloom,

Shrink sensitive back from the chill of the blast;
Then yield they and wave like the yew on the tomb,
And sigh for the days of their beauty oercast.
The warm pl lyful zepliyr deprived of its food,
The frsgrant aroma of lily and rose,
things of the world, did not give himsclfthc

trouble of making a reply, the chamber door
was opened, which made him raise his head
from the pillow, to see who was coming in;

but, judge what must have been his sur
prise, whon he saw a servant lighting in a

joiner, who carried a coin on his shoulder:
He at rst supposed he had been in a dream!

but, looking about and seeing the visage of
one who had not spoken at worda visage
oversprcad with mortal paleness, he made
but one jump from the bed into the middle
of the chamber. The joiner and maid, itn
mediuly persuaded that it was the corpse,
who being unwilling to be shut up in a cof
n, was playing his gambols; their legs
were unable to more with swiftncss propor
from the top of the stairs down to the

kitchen.
Zounds! what are you all about? cried the
landlord; is the dl ying away with the
dead man! Mercy on us! cried the maid,
0! then, ever green, in the warmth of your heart,
quite chop fallen, it is rather the dead man
Let these owers exist, a momento ofme,
Which the hard of misfortune hath woven in praise that would run away with us. Ill be hanged
(said the joiner) if that dead fellow there
Of those feelings so dear he discovers in thee!
DELLA LIHA.
has any more occasion fora cofn than I
have; why he has just struck up a hornpipc.
He has! said the landlord, taking a light,
LAUGIIABLE INCIDENT.
Two English nobleman on their travels, faith well see that.
\Vhen the family weretrembling and get
arriving in Paris, put up at a house in which
a German count had died, and then lay a ting up to follow the master of the house,
corpse. In the middle of the night, one of the the English nobleman, who had again found
two, not being able to sleep, and growing his chamber, slipt into bod quite out of
weary of his bed, aroso in order to amuse breath; and his friend having asked him
himself in the kitchen, where he heard some where he had been, he told him that he had
just been lying with a dead body. Sblood! a
people talking.
After diverting himself there for some dead body! It had perhaps the plague, cried
time, and wishing to return to his bed, he be, jumping, in his turn, out of bed, and
again went up stairs, but, inste..d ofentering running to the door for a light. The land
lord, the landlady, and servants, who were
his own chamber, went into that of the de
ceased count, over whose head they had only passing through the gallery, no sooner saw
thrown a cloth. There is not so much cere him than they imagined it was the dead
mony used in France, in the management or that appeared again; and down they came
their (lead, as in this country, for they are much. faster than they went up, heels over
satised with showing their affection to the h 'ntl from top to bottom, with the candle
living. The Englishman, after having pit i."v rolling qltCl them.
At this confusion, joined with their
out his candle lay down boldly hy the de
funct; when creeping to him as close as shricks and clatnours, the Englishman, ter
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'l'hat towring genius which I could not reach,
Did not my power the deadly draught infuse

Into the bosom ofthe rebel Jews?
Then to my services have some regard,
And yield the endanother just reward,
have been Warm enough, if you had seen

the pretty girl below stairs. Come, come,
you may take my word for it, added he:
and pulling him by the arm, zounds, stir;
Ill engage youll be pleased with her.
While he was holding this ne conversa
tionable to their fear, and the joiner, maid,

That would ease with its softness his pillow ofcarc,
~
cofn, and candlestick, rolled over each other
And give to his bosom a moment's repose!
Shall Envy yield,while Mammon gains a meed,

That robs my powrr of many a glorious deeds!
And blasted virtue, oftem by a lie?

.
0ft has the honest fame of man been given,
friend? said he: you are as cold as ice. Ill

lay a wager, mum as you are, you would
tion with the dead, who, detached from the
falls,
Sigh over dear pleasures evanishd, dcformd.
\Vhat more has Mammon, answer evry one,

Eifected on the earth, than I have done?
The fatal poison issues to the ground,

'l'hen :hamps hisjaws in his arousing ire,
possible, in order to warm himself, and

nding his bed-fellow colder than he, began
m
ried at the hedious noise, soon made for
iy some of the players to raise it, stated that
his room and slipt into bed to his com

panion, without the least fear of catching
it he did so, the scenery would take re,

when he was commanded in a peremptory
manner, to hoist it. The boy obeyed, and the
re was instantly communicated to the see
nery. He gave the alarm in the rear of the
stage, and requested some of the attendants
to cut the cords by which these combusti
ble materials were suspended. The person
whose duty it was to perform this business,
became panic struck, and sought his own
safety. This unfortunately happened at a
time when one of the performers was playing
near the orchestra, and the greatest part of
the plague.
'
In the mean time, an honest country

priest, who lodged in the inn, got up and
appeared armed with holy water, and a long
broom instead of a little brush: he made his
aspersions, and the conjurations prescribed
by the Roman church; and conducted by
way of procession the terried trembling
people into the chamber of the deceased;
who not having been alarmed, lay quietly in
bed.
The priest was instantly regarded as a

saint; and they all cried up the holy water,
which bound the corpse to his good be
haviour,und prevented his being refractory.
+
A miser having lost an hundred pounds

promised ten pounds reward to any one who
would bring it to him. An honest poor man
found it and demanded his rcw-ard, but the
miscr said there was one hundred and ten

pounds when he lost it, and would not pay
him. The poor man sued for the money,
and it appeared at the trial that the bag had

not been ripped nor the seal broken. You
say you last one hundred and ten pounds,
said the judge. Yes, says the miser. Then
this is not your money, says the judge, and
the poor man must keep it till the true
owner appears.
_
A Frenchman called in a tavern for Jacob

- there is no such person, said the land
lord It is not any person I want sare,
the stage, with its horrid danger, was ob
scured from the audience by a curtain. The

ames spread with almost the rapidity of
lightning; and the re falling from the ceil
ing upon the performer, was the rst notice
which the people had of their danger. Even
then, many supposed it to be a part of the
play, and were for a little while restrained
front ight by a cry from the stage that there
was no danger. The performers and their
attendants, in vain endeavoured to tear down
the scenery. The re ashed into every part
of the house with a rapidity, horrible and
astonishing; and, alas! gushing tears and un
speakable anguish deprive me of utterance.
No tongue can tell, no pen or pencil can
describe, the woful catastrophe. No person,
who was not present, can form any idea of
this unexainpled scene of human distress.
The editor having none of his family with
him, and being not far from the door, was
among the rst who escaped.

No words can express his horror, when
but do beer make warm wid de poker on turning round, he discovered the whole
That is ip;" - oh, yes sarc, you are in de ibuilding in ames. There was but one door
right, I mean Philip."
for the greatest part of the audience to pass.
Men, women, and children, were pressing
PHILADELPHIA,
SATURJJA Y, JANUARY 4, 1812.
From the v\merican Standard, Extra.

hlOST DREADFUL CALAMITY!
Richmond, Dec. 27, 1811
\Last night the play-house in this city was

crowded with an unusual audience. There
could not have been less than six hundred
persons in the house. Just before the conclu
sion of the play, the scenery caught re, and
in a few minutes the whole building was
wrapt in ames. It is already ascertained
that 73 persons were devoured by that mest
terric element. The Editor of this paper
265
m:
of those whom he had begged to leap from

the windows. One lady jumped out when all
her clothes were on re. He tore them,
burning, from her, and protecting her with
his coat, carried her from the rmFathers
and mothers were deploring the loss of their

children; children the loss of their parents:
husbands were heard to lament their lost
companions; wires were bemoaning their
burnt husbands. The people were seen
wringing their hands, beating their heads
and breasts, and those who had secured

themselves, seemed to suffer greater tor
ments than those who were enveloped in
ames.
'
Oh! distracting memory! VVhothat saw

this can think of it again, and yet retain his
sensesA sad gloom pervades this place,
and every countenance is cast down to the
earth.
All of those who were in the pit escaped,
and had clcarcd themselves from the house
before these who were in the boxes could
get down, and the door was, for some time
empty. Those from above were pushing

each other down the steps, when the hind
ermost might have got out by jumping into
the pit. A gentleman and lady, who other
wise would have perished, had their lives
saved by being providentially thrown from
the second boxes. There would not have
been the least difficulty in descending from
the rst boxes into the pit.
In addition to the list noiv given, it is
believed that at least sixty others perished,
whose names are not yet ascertained.
George W. Smith, governor; A. B. Venablc, pre.
sident of the bank; Benjamin Botts, wife and niece;

Mrs. Tayloe Braxtou, Mrs. Patterson, Mra- (hillcgo,
Miss Conyers, lieutenant J. Gibbon, in attempting

to save Miss Conyers; Mrs. E. Page, Miss Louisa
Mayo. Mrs. (\Vm.) Cook, Miss Elvina Coutts, Mm.
(John) Lesley, Miss M. Nelson, Miss Page, \Villi
upon each other, while the ames were seiz

ing upon those behind. The editor went to am Brown, Miss Juliana Harvey, Misl Wliitloclr,
the dicrent windows, which were not very George Dixon; A. Marshall, of Wythe, broke his
high, and implored his fellow creatures to neck in jumping from a window; Miss Ann Craig,
save their lives by jumping out of them. Miss Stevenson, ofSpottsylvama, Mrs. Gibson, Miss
Those nearest to the windows, ignorant olv Mariana Hunter, Mrs Mary Davis, Miss Gerard,
their great danger, were afraid to leap down.
while those behind them were seen catching
Thomas Lecroix, Jade Wade, Mrs. Pickit, Mrs.

Heron, Mrs. Laforelt and niece; Jo. Jacobs, Miss
Jacobs, Miss A. Housman, Miss M. Marks, Edward
on re, and writhing in the greatest agonies
Wanton, jun. two Miss Tronins. Mrs. Gel-or, Miss
of pain and distress. At length, those he

hind, urged by the pressing ames, pushed
Ellie-ott, Miss Patsey Gri'in, Mrs. Moss and daugh
those out who were nearest-to the windows,
and people of every description began to fall,
ter; Miss Littlcpage, Miss Rebecca Cook, Mrs. Gi

rardin and two children; Miss Margaret Copeland,
Miss Gwathmey, Miss Clay, daughter of M. Clay,
member 0t congress: Miss Gatewood, Mrs (Tho
one upon another, some with their clothes
on resome half roasted. Oh! wretched

me! Oh! aficted people! \Vould to God I
Was in the house when the ever-to-be re
could have died a thousand deaths in any
membered deplorable accident oceurred. shape, could individual su'ering have pur
He is informed that the scenery took re in chased the safety of my friendsmy bene
tht hack pant of the house, by the raising of factors-ofthose whom I lovedThe editor
a chandelier: that the boy, who was ordered with the assistance of others, caught several h
mas) Wilson, William Southgate, Mrs. (Robert)

Greenhow, Mrs. Convert and child; Miss Green,
Miss C. Raphael, John Welch, a stranger, nephew

to Sir A. Pigot, lately from England; Margaret
Anderson, Thomas Frazier, Mrs. Jerrod, James
Walden, Barack Judahs childtNuttle, carpenter;
Pleasant. a mulntto woman; Nancy Patterson '10
man of colour; Fanny Go", do. Betsy Johnson, d9.
Philadelphia, missing.
PHILAI) ELPHIA REPERTO RY.
264:
(From the National Intelligencer.)
The following letter from a gentleman in

Richmond, to M. Clay, Esq. a representa
tive from Virginia, gives an impressive ac
count of the dreadful catastrophe.
0h, sir, you can have no idea of the general con
sternationthe universal grief that pervades this

citybut why do I speak of that? I scarcely know
what I write to you-
Farewall.
ln hastc and deep
times as much pure dephlogisticated air

exhaled from one plant in twenty-four hours,
in light and clear weather, as a man respires
in a vitiatcd and impure state in that space
afiction.
of time. Hence the inhabitants of close, ill
-.
Richmond, Dec. 27.
In consequence of the awful calamity at Rich

mond, the common hall of that city passed an ordi
SIR,
I have a tale of horror to tell; prepare to hear of nance on Friday the 27th inst. appointing commis
the most awful calamity that ever plunged a whole sioners of the several wards in the city, empower
city into affliction. Yes, all Richmond is in tears: ing them to cause to be collected the remains of
children have lost their parents, parents have lost those who have suffered by the conagration and
their children. Yesterday a beloved daughter glad to provide for the interment of such as may not be
dcncd my heart with her innocent smiles; to day claimed by their friends and relatives.
she is in heaven! God gave her to me, and God
Ordaining also, that all shops, stores, Etc. &c- be
yes, it has pleased Almighty God to take. her from shut for forty-eight hours
mc. 0! sir, feel for me, and not for me only; arm
Ordaining also, the prohibition of any public
yourself with fortitude, whilst I discharge the show or spectacle, or open any public dancing as
mournful duty of telling you, that you have to feel sembly within the city during the term of four
also for yourself- Yes, for it must. be told, you also months.
were the father of an amiable daughter, now, like
A numerous meeting ofthe citizens of the city !
my beloved child, gone to join her mother in of Manchester and others, converted at the capital
on the 27th, and appointed commisioners to super
heaven.
How can words represent what one night, one intend the respective wards and obtain the most
hour of unutterablc horror, has done to overwhelm accurate information of the names and number of
a hundred families with griefand despair. No, sir, such of the citizens and others who suffered. Ite
impossible. My eyes beheld last pight what no solving, that Wednesday next be observed as a day
tongue, no pen can describehorrors that language of humiliation and prayer; and several other resolu
has no terms to represent
tions; for the citizens to wear crape for one month
Last night We were all at the theatre: every and appointing commissioners to receive contribu
family in Richmond, or, at least, a very large pro
tions and make such arrangements in concert with
portion of them, was therethe house was uncom a committee from the common ball, as may be ne
monly fullwhen, dreadful to relate, the scenery cessary for erecting the monument designated by
took fire, spread rapidly above, ascending in vol
an ordinance passed on that day.
umes of ame and smoke into the upper part of the
A letter from Richmond, addressed to a Gentle
aired and unwholesome places, should be

diligent in its cultivation.
H'atchman.
._
ENCOURAGE AMERICAN GENIUS.
To have seen a specimen of edge tools

made according to an improvement recently
dicovered by Mr. Daniel Pettibone of this
cny.
The tools we saw were plane-irons; made i

of cast steel and iron completely united ac
cording to his patented method, granted
March, 1806.
The improvement we understand is as

follows: take a suitable piece of cast or other
steel, and weld it to 10, 20, or 50 pounds of
good iron; (more or less,) when rmly united

it is passed through a rolling mill, and rolled
into plate of any suitable thickness-then
the plane-irons are out from the plate with
shears, (many groce per day) the same as
cold nails are made.
\Ve understand that he, by this mode, can
make clothiers shear blades ofany length or
description;
also paper mill
knives, hay
knives, straw knives, hocs, cooperc axes.
building, whence, a moment after, it descended to
man in this city, states, that the unclaimed remains i,
force a passage through the pit and boxes. In two

minutes the whole audience were enveloped in
hot scorching smoke and ame. The lights were all
extinguished by the black and smothering vapour:
of
perished
upwaa :15
in of
thefty
re,ofwere
the unfortunate
deposited in
persons,
two large
who chissels, gouges, scythes, sicklcs, Eire. 8m.
cries, shrieks, confusion and despair, succeeded.
O moment of inexpressible horror! Nothing l

can say, can paint the awful, shocking, maddening
scene. The images of both my dear children were
before me, but I was removed by an impassable

crowd from the dear sufferers. The youngest (with
gratitude to lleaven Iwrite it), sprang towards the
voice of her papa, reached my assisting hand, and
was extricated from the overwhelming man that
soon choked the passage by the stairs: but no
efforts could avail me to reach, or even gain sight
of the other, and my dear, dear Margaret, and you r
sweet Mary, with her companions, Miss GWathmcy
and Miss Gatewood, passed together and at once

into a happier world. Judge my feelings by yout
own, when I found neither they nor my beloved
sister appeared upon the stairs- I-irst oneI and then
another, I helped down, hoping every moment. to
seize the hand of my dear childbut no, no, I was
not destined to have that happiness. 0 to see so, so
By this mode much labour is saved, and

boxes and buried in the pit of the tlieatre.
The citizens have purchased the lot of ground
on which the theatre stood, for the purpose of I,
erecting a church in its place, and more than two 1
thousand dollars have already been subscribed for i,
that pious purpose. The writer adds, that among '
the number, who so awfully perished, there were
not six of the poorer class of people.
the work much better nished, and this too
without the least injury to the goodness of

the steel.
He expects a patent soon for this improved
mode of making plane-irons, 8m.
Dem. Press.
A letter addressed to Mr. llewes, editor of the

Baltimore Federal Gazette, says, that. the number
of persons lostis not yet ascertained, but supposed

to be neariy two hundred, from the number of
sculls taken out of the building."

-.
NATIVE 01L.
Finer and sweeter oil no country can sup

ply than wbat we can, with little trouble and
expense, prepare for ourselves. The tall

annual sun flower will prove thisIts seeds

bruised and pressed, will yield an oil as and become responsible for the payment, shall re
manv amiable helpless females trying to stretch to sweet and fine as that we import from ceive one copy gratis.
me their imploring hands, crying, Save me, sir, Florence. From a bushel of this seed a gal
ceived at this office, and at the bookstore of Hel
on, air, save me, save me! Oh God, eternity can
lon of oil may be drawnand with this ad lings'and Aitken, No. 40. North Second street.
not banish that spectacle of horror from my recol
[@(tinn. Some friendly unknown hand dragged me
from the scene of flames and death: and on gaining

the open air,to my innite consolation, I found my
sister had thrown herself from the upper window,
and, was savedyes, thanks be to God, saved when;
fu others, in a similar attempt, broke them necks,
m- were crushed to death by those who fell on them
from the same height.
vantage, that it can be obtained at any time,

quite soft, bland and fresh. The seed also,
and most that remain, after the expression

of the oil, are of excellent use to feed and
fodder hogs, poultry, re. But besides these

uses, the growing plantis of eminent service
--It having been proved that near twenty
PHILADELPHIA ,
Printed and published by Dennis lleartt,

Marshalls alley, bt-twcrn Fool-tn and Fifth streets,
near St. M arys church
whifabefpafieperhm
Cowren.
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SATYRDAY. JANUARY ll. l812.
VOL. 1'.
BIOGRAPHY.
"SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF GENERAL
HORATIO GATES.
Horatio Gates was a native of England,

and was born in seventeen hundred and
twenty-eight. Of the place of his birth, the
condition of his family, the incidents and
prospects of his youth, and his education we

are not able to communiCate any particulars.
There is reason to believe that he entered
the army pretty early, and began his career
as an ensign or lieutenant, yet, we are told,
that he obtained by merit merely, the rank

of major, and was aid-du-camp to the British
ofcer, who commanded at the capture of

Martinico. At the conclusion of the war in
seventeen hundred and forty-eight, he was
stationed sometime at Halifax in Nova Scotia.

At that period,if the date of his birth be ac
curate, his age did not exceed twenty years.

He continued in the army, and, probably,
in some American garrison during the en
suing seven years of peace. A new war then
broke out in Germany, and North America,
and Mr. Gates, in quality of Captain of foot,

attracts our notice in the earliest and most
conspicuous scenes of that war. He was in
the army which accompanied the unfortunate
Braddock in the expedition against Fort de
Quesne, and, together with the illustrious
Washington, was among the few Oiccrs,
who, on that occasion, escaped with life. He
did not escape, however, without a very

dangerous wound, which, for a time shut
him out from the bloody and perilous scenes

of that long and diversied contest. Me re
mained in America to the peace of seVenteen
hundred and sixty-three, and then returned
to his native country with a full earned rc
putation, for activity, enterprise, and cour

age.
_
.
At the opening of the American war we
nd him settled on a farm in Virginia. At
what titnc he laid down the military life, and
retttrned to spend the rest of his days in the
new world, we are not informed, but his
conduct evinced so perfect an attachment to
his new country, and his military reputation ' ed, by reenforcements, to act offensively,
was so high, that he was immediately ap and to advance against the frontier forts re
pointed by congress adjtttant general, with cently acquired by the colonial army. Fur
the rank of brigadier general, in the new ther operations were suspended on that side
army. General Vlashington was well ac till a formidable army might be transported
quainted with his merits in his military from Europe, adequate not only to defence
character, and warmly recommended him to but invasion.
congress on this occasion. They had been
It was a remarkable proof of the con;
fellow-soldiers and sufferers under Brad dence reposed in Gates by the new govern
ment, that, on the retreat of their forces
dock.
\
From this period, he took a very active from Canada, the chief command in this
part in most of the transactions of the war, quarter was conferred upon him. This ap
and his abilities and good fortune placed him pointment took place in June, seventeen
in a rank inferior only to \Vashington, and hundred and seventy-six, and the new gene
above any other general. He accompanied ral was found no wise decient in the cour
the commander in chief to Massachusetts, age and vigilance, rendered peculiarly ne
in July, seventeen hundred and seventy-ve, cessary by a declining and unprosperous
and was employed, for sometime, in a sub
cause.
ordinate, but highly useful capacity.
It Was unfortunate that the rivalship, and
The most vulnerable part of the new clashing pretensions ofthe American officers
states, lay in the north. The large territory should add to the natural difficulties of their
still in the hands of the British government, situation. General Schuyler, a most useful
in that quarter, whose frontier was well pro and meritorious ofcer, had hitherto super
vided with fortresses and garrisons, enabled intended the forts and garrisons within the
them annoy or invade the revolted provinces, limits usually assigned to New-York. As
on this side, with peculiar advantages. The there was now no American troops in Cana
congress had, therefore, turned an anxious da, general Gatess command either super
eye towards Canada at the opening of the seded that of Schuyler, or was quite nuga
contest. Being deeply aware of the danger tory. Thence arose bickering and conten
which hovered over them, on this side, they tion. Schuyler, whose merits and services
made slrem ous exertions to raise up new were very great, and generally acknow
enemies in Canada by their emissaries and ledged, Was degraded by the new appoint
manifestoes, and to gain possession of the ment to a subordinate station, when he deem
strOng and important forts upon the lakes ed himself rather entitled to additional dig
and rivers of that frontier by force, or byt nities. He made vehement complaints to
surprise.
congress, and prepared, unless his injuries
Their arguments and agents were not were properly redressed, to relinquish the
likely to meet with any success among a service altogether: an alternative by which
people purely French. and whose only griev the common cause would have suffered very
ance was their separation from their mother heavily.
country. Their enterprises upon the posts
Congress was unwilling to cancel their
upon the lakes were more successful. Crown commission to Gates, and at the same time
point, Ticonderoga, St. Johns and Montreal were fully sensible of the loss they should
Were conquered by celerity and valour, and incur by the resignation of Schuyler. They
a formal invasion of Canada attempted, even laboured, therefore, with much pains to re
in the rst year of the war, and when a concile their adverse pretentions, and by
iriush army was in possession of the prin leaving the two ofcers with jurisdictionsin
--ip.-l colonial towns. This enterprise as'I some degree independent of each other, they
unsuccessful. The British were soon quali-l succeeded imperfectly, in satisfying both.
266
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F
Great credit is due to both these eminent

persons, and, especially, candour requires us
to say, to general Schuyler, for acquiescing
in terms, by which their country were benc
flted by their services.
From projects of conquests in Canada, the
American government had been compelled
to give their whole attention to schemes of
defence. The communications between Ca
nada and the maritime Hudsan country was
chiey maintained by a chain of lakes and
rivers. The intermediate land was over
spread with forest and marsh, and nearly
impracticable to the ponderous accompani

ments, in artillery, and ammunition and
baggage, of a modern army. The com

mand of the lakes and rivers the'refore, was
absolutely necessary, andquite suicient to
repel an invasion. This could only be ob

tained or held by means of a naval arma
ment, and to provide and equip this was the
peculiar province of Schuyler, while Gates
was called upon to cooperate in this service
to the utmost of his poWer.
The British commenced the naval pre
parations on their side with great alacrity
and success. But the Americans had every
very inauspiciously. The American com

mander inStead of waiting at Crownpoint,
for the assault of the enemy,ahandoned that
most dreadful consequences of original sin,

is by the majority of mankind little thought
of while it appears at a distance, and this
place, before he was summoned to do so by distance is always thought too great to ex
an hostile army. The Americans had a more cite much emotion in the breasts of those
formidable enemy to encounter, in the small who are in the enjoyment of good health and
pox that in British soldiers: This an other spirits. What was the state of the mind in
sicknesses made such havoc among them, those unhappy persons who lately perished
not only during the expidition to Canada, in the theatre at Richmond? Thought they
but afterqtheir retreat to Crownpoint, that when they left their homes to visit the dra
general Gates thought it illigible to avacu matic representation that they left them for
ever? No,no: all was life, gaiety, and happi
atc that fortress of his own accord, and con
centrate his army at Ticonderoga. For this nessgrnany of them looked forward to a
purpose be was even obliged to counter long succession of years of pleasure and
mand the advance of large reenforccments. felicitythey expected to enjoy that night
which put a period to their existence in per
Such voluntary retreats are always ex
tremely perilous to the reputation of a gene fect safety:but death, the tyrant; rode on
ral. The congress had entertained hopes of the spreading ame and consigned to his
advancing and conquering by means of this dreary mansions the young, the beautiful,
army. This retreat surrendered to the Brit and the gay. This awful dispensation of pro
ish without an e'ort, the whole important na vidence should teach us that in the midst
vigation of Lake Champlain. General Wash of life we are in death, and should lead 'us,
ington, after a full statement of the motives like rational creatures, as the most impor
of the measure warmly disapproved of it; all, tant concern of man, to consider our latter
the eld ofcers in like manner, loudly conw end.
But there are some persons, who, from

demned it. The commander had only to
plead the opinion of a council of oicers, constantly brooding over death, embitter the
obstacle but the want of zeal, to encounter his own superior opportunity of knowing the whole course of their existence, and perhaps
ippreparing for defence. General Gates co actual state of his affairs, and ancient proofs precipitate themselves into an early grave,
operated cordially with Schuyler, but there of his patriotism and military skill. What what, say they, is the design of life!
was a miserable and irreparable deciency ever sentence has been passed on the wis we are born, exist for a few years, and die.
in cannon, in the materials of ship building, dom of this measure, we have never he..rd \Ve have not the blessing of the beast of
and even in the necessary workmen. The that any imputation rested on the delity of the eld, for he may enjoy life, because he
knows not that he must die, but, we are
country had been hitherto a desert. Coloni the general.
deterred from making exertions to improve
(To be continut d.)
zation in its natural progress had not ap
our minds and better our condition, because
proached these solitary shores. Nothing but
~Q-_
we know that in a little while we shall be
the exigencies of the former war with France
For the Repertory.
swept away, and ourselves and all our la
had occasioned this region to be traversed
THE CABINET. No. LXIX.
bours forgotten forever!"
.
or inhabited. A few forts, with suitable gar
My departed hours,
But this is not the language of the philo
risons, were all that could be found in it, Where are they? with the years beyond the ood.
and that abundance of workmen, vessels, and
prepared
timber which
well planted
country would have spontaneously furnish
cd, was unknown. Schuyler, indeed, was not

destitute of a naval armament, but it was
insufcient to cope with the greater prepa
rations of the enemy. \Vith all the exertions
of the two commanders, they were merely
Young
sopher. He acknowledges the wisdom of the
The arrival of a new year has always lled

my mind with reections peculiarly solemn,
and to myself interesting. 1 very naturally
look back upon the years that l have lived,
providence of God, and his exertions are

not paralysed by the prospect of the grave.
From principles of philanthropy he culti
vates science for the benet of posterity
the events that have passed in my time, and
after he shall have gone to receive the re
turn my eyes forward to the hours that I
Ward of his labours in a blissful paradise.

His religious faith preserves him from all
may reasonably expect to exist. An age so
able to equip about fteen vessels, half of

which were little better than boats, and the
far advanced as mine must in the course of fears of death, and at any motnent he is
nature soon terminate, and I be hurried off ready to receive the commands of the grim
largest carried only twelve small guns very

ll supplied with ammunition.
The wisdom and discernment of general
thousands _who are pressing behind,and to
Gates were shown by the recommendation
of the intripid, and as yet unsuspected Ar_

hold, to the command of this little armament.
The rst operations of the campaign con
the stage of action to make room for the
messenger: happy philosophy! that sustains

us against all the evils of this world, and ex
what end? to be themselves, like me, push tracts consolatiou from every aiicting cir
ed into eternity, and he succeeded by gene cumstance! with thee for our companion
rations yet unknown. This reection is I nothing a'rights us; not even death with
calculated to impress the soul with the

most awful, and some with the most terri
all his horrors can cause us one severe men

tal pang.-\Ve receive him like one who ap
fying ideas. Nothing but a rm and settled points us our place of rest, we lie down in
belicfin the future happy condition of the | the grave in peace, we are comforted be
under Carletou,in which the land forces had immortal spirit, can give us composure un cause we have done our duty.
When we look back on our past lives we
no concern.
der this general law of nature.
On the land side, the great drama opened
'Death, notwithstanding it is one of the, are informed where we have rightly employ
sisted in a contest between these vessels
under Arnold, and a much superior force
26 7
m
ed, and when we have mispcnt them. By the
suffered to lie inactive, would forever be
former we are encouraged to proceed from

the satisfaction which is aiTorded by a clear
conscience, and'by the latter we are instruct
buried in the deep mazes of barbarity.

We thus see the great changes that have
occurred both in the political and literary
world. They must originate from causes
could not easily be removed. By imbibinga

strong and deep rooted aversion to a perfect
knowledge of the different causes that pro
duced these remarkable changes, men more
ed how to improve the years that may yet I rmly xed these prepossessions to avoidthe
be allotted to us. This then must be a duty searching into their natural origin. Circum
'which all wise men will willingly pcrformJ stances, however trivial in themselves, have
that their minds may receive all the benet sometimes done much injury to the improve
of experience; and make even their very ment ofa nation both in its resources and
in the morals of the people. Dangerous as
errors turn out to their ad antage.
\Vhen we consider the shortness of human they have often been, they are sometimes
life. it should stimulate us to make the most attended with a contrary ali'ect. In the nature
of the time which is allowed us, and, wast of things there would be a certain criterion
ing no moments in idleness or imp'nper in by which every person knows how to direct
dulgencics, render ourselves more worthy
of the blessings of futurity.

'li'llc is the most precious jewel that is
intrusted to our care. Many trample the in
valuable gern under their feet with proud
disdain; the wise man converts it into an
adornment for his character. by taking in

nite pains to keep it from all blemish, and
the more care he takes of it, the more be
honours the gracious being who committed
it to him.
These observations might more reason
ably have appeared at the commencement
of the ncw year, but perhaps they may lead

many to reflect on the value of time who
have not yet performed that duty.
PETER PEACEABLE.
.
For the Repertory.
In reviewing the revolutions and occur

ences which have taken place since the crea
tion of the world, every reecting mind can

be furnished withideas that will compel him
to admire the Providence that directs the
a'airs of the world. Time has been preg
nant with events that have excited the aston
ishment of all mankind. They have been of
such arnomentous nature that the very ex
istence of nations has depended upon their
issue. They have served to rouse man from
that lethargy and inactivity into which he had
been plunged by the evils that the corrup
tion of society had disseminated over the
worldr'l'he dark clouds of ignorance and
superstition have been dispelled, and civi
lization, with all its happy benets has suc
ceed the rude state of barbarity.
The ignorance of the origin of these 0c
currenccs has precluded the possibility of
correctly understanding their various na
ture. These who lived in former ages were
which are beyond the comprehension of man,
and are distinguishable by the different

times in which they take place. Their na
tures must be of such a kind as can be known
from a common course of things. The in
ordinate desire and ambition of man had
excited a continual suspicion of disputes
among themselves. Individuals and societies
more or less felt the alarming effects of
his conduct, and what course he should think these perpetual commotions. Laws that were
best to pursue. To effectually place round enacted could not put a stop to these dan
him a bulwark against the inroads of vice gerous principles, nor could any ideas of
and folly, has been the distinguishing feature justice act as a check upon their uncommon
of every person that regards the preservation prevalence.
and purity of his character.
The relations of mankind becoming more
In looking back to the past years we have complicated, it became absolutely necessary
seen war, with all its destructive conse that a change in their condition should take
quences still deluging the earth with human place. Great disscnsions arose among them
blood. We have seen all nature convulsed, that produce different sentiments which
and the whole World made one continued afterwards led to augment these disorders
scene of confusion and distress. We have in society. The power of these evils was
beheld the ruinous effects of tyranny in all not diminished, but on the contrary was the
its most hideous forms, and the rapid pro means of hindering the light of knowledge
gress that is made by the arms of usurpation. from being disseminated among all classes
In short we have seen all the miseries that of people. Other circumstances tended to
can possibly alict our race, overwhelm one increase this fatal mass of corruption, and
section of our distracted globe. The present thus gave rise to a destructive series of re
year has commenced, and with but very little volutions. In the administration of the af
prospect of there beluga change in the order fairs of the world, we should naturally sup
of things. In estabishling one grand universal pose that something would occur that would
rouse the passions of man. But in some in
peace, we are attered with very little en
courage ; em; but in improving and advanc stances these have operated essentially to
ing, the ne arts to a more extensive degree, his' advantage. He has more extensively
the present state of learning warrants us in understood the great system of nature, and
the assertion. It has and is now making a he has been enabled to accurately discover
great progress throughout the civilized objects, which, however trivial in themselves,
yct may be directed to his own instruction.
world, the benets of its increase are ex
tensively felt; and it appears to promise a
\Ve may thus partially understand the na
speedy restoration to tranquility among man. ture of these occurrencies that have always
The deep secrets of philosophy are still held been characterized by some remarkable cir
up to an admiring world by those who have cumstance. Time has almost invariably dis
proved successful in their researches, and closed to us the principles upon which they
the knowledge of its most abstruse subjects took place, and to it we must look for a
is received with avidity. The great success further continuance of removing that dark
that some have met with, presents a great mist that now obstructs our sight. The state
inducement to others to make attempts in of things was such that it is impossible for
and to
us to have any accurate idea of these several
bring to light those things which Providence

intended for the good of his creatures.
Learning with all its other correct and in
accustomed to suppose that they happened structive branches is placed upon a founda
either by chance, or by the inuence and tion which the dark ages of ignorance, il'
dispositions which they held over the minds mankind should ever have the misfortune to
of man. But these SPCCUlaliOHS were after be again overwhelmed with its fatal effects,
wards proved to be unfounded either by: would never be able to overturn. Man would
time, or by the well known issue of them. see the absolute necessity of increasing
changes, but experience of past ages may

point out to us the road by mich we may
arrive at the only true and solid method of
discerning their various sources. Bv ex
They were encouraged by prejudices which
exploring those grand mysteries,
perience we become enlightened, and by it
we perceive the principles of public and in

dividual. felicity. lt furnishes us with [11
means of communicating and diffusing that

instruction to all which is so indispensably
knowledge to a greater extent, which, it necessary.
VERUS.
26 8
m
For the Repertory.
I only would that Mammon should obtain
HOOK VI.
A no u M r: s T.
.4mbi'h'0n addresses Delia]; Belinls proposition, in re
ply; It is accepted and Satan addresses the host,
The morning now breaks and the trimnlih of the
ends is suddenly interrupud by the sound of dis
tant rll-Yft; Tcrror of the/brim; Speech of Satan.

Thus Envy, and Ambition next began,
435
In savage triumph, on his frightful mcin;

High swells his breast, for passion nerves his soul,
And wild and red his angry eye balls roll!
Ungenrous Belial, thus the end commenced,
Shall meagre Mammon so be recompenced.
430
"hile dread
Ambition, through whose valiant
powrs,
Full many a cheated mortal has been ours,
Must, unrcgardcd, spend a life of pain.
Like a rich jewel in the darkling main!
I trust not so, what crimes has Mammon wrought,
'hat bloody conflicts for our sovh'eign fought; 436

More than myself, not half the scenes of guilt
Has he compelld, not half the blood has spilt,
That spreads the front of my unbending ciest,

And stains the sable eusig'n on my breast!
440
Say have,not I mistless way pursued,

Routed whole armies and whole states subdued;
Planted my standard in a field of bloOd,

And courted conquest mid the smoking ood,
Say have not I to open murder led,
445
,And stabb'd th unconscious slumbrer in his bed;
No selsh motive could my wishes guide,

Since I the glory nor reward divide;
But if, ye chiefs, you disapprove the plan,
For paying Mammon and securing man;
The tide of rapture through each opening porc
So spoke the king and all the host reply,

Till sounds of pleasure reach the distant sky; 55
490 Each end to shouts of victry gives his tongue,
And the broad heavens now tremble with the song!
Yet hear my words, and let it be confest,
Untimely triumph! soon to be foregone,
The way they counsel is most sure and best;
' When lasting victory crowns th obedient Son.
Envy, Ambition, Pride, if ye cant bear,
Detestcd ends. how short your conquest is, 565
Each others glory, then the glory share;
But full, complete and everlasting his;
Let each a portion of the world receive,
Awhile you seem to trample on his power,
With crafty llammon, and their forces give
But now advances the terric hour;
To injure man, be all their powers combined
To you terric; but to rescued earth,
To hold more close the fetters of the mind!
The glorious epoch of a SCC'HKl birth!
570
Let these four passions all mankind divide,
Envy, Ambition. Avarice and Pride!
500 Jeans twice born, now makes the mandate plain,
O! thoughtless man, thou must be born again,
So shall the world he pinioud more secure,
Before the parting soul can su'eetly rise,
And our proud triumph be comply te and sure;
To realms of glory in the blissful skies;
No matter how the crafty plan is laid,
If our unfrien'dcd victims be betrayd;
His blood must wash thy crimson sins away, 575
Or if by Mammon or by Envy lured,
505 And tutor thee for realms of endless day;
Forth from thy breast that inty heart must tear,
()r stern Ambition or by Pride insured
And place one softer, more obedient there;
Scarce ceased the end when bursts of loud ap
l
'lhy soul new born, to meek submission wrought,
plause,
May then enjoy the soul supporting thought,
580
Bespoke their approbation of his cause;
The sound through all th unnumberd legions'ran; That Heavens bright realms eternal are her own,
And thus the king, exultinglv began:-510 Where grief is banishd, pain and death unknown?
Where streams of pleasure endless courses bend,

A nd roll successive blessings without cud;
What wisdom, Relial, ever actuates thee,
How can thy mental eye each object see;

Two nughtv attributes in thee are joind,
A martial prowess and a sapient mind;
Infernal Magi, own this p. 'HCC your king,
Superior evils from his wisdom spring.
Where strains of praise each faculty employ, 585

And all are wrapped in everlasting joy;
Where every soul is lld with pure desires,
\Vhere joy ne'er weeps, where transport neer e:
515
pires!
Envy, Ambition, soaring Pride to you,
While yet grey twilight verging into red.
A ml ghastly Mammon there the world is due;

To you then,'fcarful opponents of heaven.
The earth with all her glorious spoils is given. 520
Have not I bid each nobler feeling tiy,
And every sense of rigid justice die?

Who led lascivious Xerxes into Greece,
'Ihat lived and virtue in dctested peace,
since such a triumph crownd my cnd like head,

Since feelings such as fill my bosom, bore
Reward commensurate with what We gain:
THE PROPlTIATION
To lay his claim to unregenrate man;

Revenge and haggard cruelty are seen,
1%
485
450
'hcrc, struck with chilly fear his legions fell,
And ghosts in myriads sought the shades of hell?

\Vho tirgd the Macedonian to the war,
And chaiud proud conquest to his sanguine car;
\Vidc oer the earth his victor legions led,
555
Her dusky curtain o'er the landscape spread,
Strain evry nerve and evry art employ;
sow fell discord and to blast her joy;

Drcamless of fate, she now in peace reclincs,
And aids the issue of your bold designs;
And the loud echo through the welkin rung;
A burst of distant music broke around.
595
.\nd the ends started at th unwelcome sound;
At once their voices and their transports close,
But,-my brave chiefs, while these their vigils keep,
Lie ye not buried in untimely sleep;
526
While fear struck monarchs from his fury ed;
If we would gain completely our desires,
0r meckt; bending to his proud desire,

Confcsi'd him sovreign to avert his ire!
The fatal deed our evry end requires;

While these four warriors act their mighty part,
And trembling terror in each breast arose;

The savage joy that danced in all their eyes,
\Vith conscious fear precipitately ies.
ho, when, o'er all his banner was unfurld,
And one or other reigns in ev'ry heart;

Let other vices mingle in the breast,
While \vonted fur}r aahd on evry face!
\t-cpt, for that Heaven had tbrmd no other world?

Who bade proud Lucius 'l'arquins death conspire,
And bloody Tnllia trample on her sire!
'ho urged dire Sylla guiltlcss blood to shed,

And devastation oer his country spread?
465
Who Julius led to bring a baleful doom,
On the worlds mistress, all subduing Rome;
\Val it not I? and num'rous actions more,
Of valiant hearing, I could number oer;
Let cvry fury my puissance own,

For evry action to each end is known.
Shall all the world to Avrice then be given,
First perish hell and be triumphant heaven!
Well do I know, how Mammon- can subdue,
But well I know my power rcsistless, too,
Merits no less than meagre Av'ricc there,
470
()1- the pale fury seated by his side.

Nor yet detract fioin great Ambitions powr,
'hich succouid hell in many a trying hour;
While Envy thrust his adders in his breast!

Uei'wccning Pride released the ush ofhcalth, 605
Nor heaven nor man can stop the fearful dced.

llut soft, methinks the early twilight breaks, 535
And the approach of morning softly speaks;
Behold, it steals from yonder silent stream,
And clnathes the landscape with its dusky beam;
Soon the bright rays of Surya shall arise,
And kindle lustre in the orient skies!
540
And grizly Mammou liuggd his heaps 0f_wealthl

hat can this mean? the trembling Tempter cries,
that thus disturbs us from the conquerd skies?
()an it be true, that Christ indeed shall come,

Victorious, rising from the bursting tomb!
ihsastrous fate, if this indeed be so,
Our fall is ceain, terrible our wo;
Mankind, indeed, is rescued from our chain,
And earth is portiond to our lien . n vainw
But no, this fearful deed can neer he done,
Though twenty fathers SOUEIH to raise a son.
This is the morn on which the Saviour said,
To prove this promise a delusive he:

'lhen will we hasten to the realms of night,
54-5
'I" invent new crimes in unrestraind delight;
To laugh at Heaven whose ineffectual power,
hui haik? again the awful sound lhear,

lt tln-ilis my soul and lls my heart uith fear!
A freezing horror rushes through each pore,
And chills the current of my vital gore!
Long strove t avert this unrequested hour;

'lo smile while angels weep and seraphs frown,
And Heaven himself, in fearful pangs. looks down!
And thus the motives of his speech awn-kl;

llelieve me, chiefs, when warmly l expressd
'Ihe glowing feelings of a grateful breast,

I meant not, by my soul, to scoff at Pride,
Ambition stoopd the plumage ofhis crest,
To rob the soul of everlasting rest.

Now tremble world,)our destiny-s decreed,
Let us, my chiefs, remain till darkness y,
475
480
Infernal chiefs, my tongue denies to tel],

What valued blessings wait victorious hell;
600
And native horror now usurpd its place,
5.50
Hed leave, triumphantly, th astonished dead!
And proudly looks an equal mecd to share.

Thus spoke Ambition, hstuing Bclial heard,
590
While yet the stars bcamd forth their fainting rays,

Half undimiuishd by the lunar blaze,
While yet the ends their songs ofu-iumph sung,
EPITAPH or ION ON EURIPIDES.

This marble yields to thee,
551
A swelling joy usurps my ruptured soul,
Euripides, no name;
And bears its rult~ with nnrcstramd controul!

How many thousand cheerless years have ed, 555
'5
It is thy glory giws

The marble
it; fame.
610
62.
269
as:
For the Repertory.
Mr. Editor,
The following poetic c'usion was pro

duced by a youth between the ages of twelve
and thirteen. The ideas, in general, I be
lieve you will allow, are highly poetical, and
expressed with a great degree of propriety.
In yottr introductory number you have ex
pressed your intention to encourage native

and youthful genius; in the present case, I
am of opinlon, that your readers will be in
debted to your kindness. The corrections
I have made are few and unimportant.
P. P.
For the Repertory.
Yct heaven born sympathy shall strive to calm

Thy heart-felt agonies, thy wild distress,
TO MISS JANE B
And soothing charms reveal:
On her resquesting me to describe her disposition.
t \Vhilst soft-eyed pity's pain dissolving balm,
You ask me, sweet maid, all your nature to tell,
Will for thee, Richmond, (and the thought she-1
bless,)
I would I had power to picture it well;

But since beauty and truth my fond muse shall in
Melt hearts of inty steel.
spire,
I Hapless the night, when, wrapt in curling ame,

l Thy temple, genius of dramatic art,
With pleasure, I seize on the soft brcathing lyre.

rst then, youre deceitful, the reason is plain,
You would hide all your virtues, but strive to in
Around, distraction threw:
vain;
Though Im sure you are neither ill naturd nor

pcevish,
I own that I think youre inclined to he tliicw'ah:
Nay frown not, nor bid my poor verses depart,
Yourre thievish Im surefor you steal every heart
ln the list of your faults, to be proud, long has
Then beauty perishd; and then virtue, fame,

Snatchd from the earth and from their mortal part.
To other regions ew.
Let us not mourn, for strange are fbrtuncs ways,
Perhaps twas fate; then wherefore should we
mourn?
Ye murmring fancies cease;
RURAL AND CITY SCENERY.

0! ccasc my soul to picture ruins blaze,
To sigh for scenes that never can return;
stood,
0f Flora dcckd in fragrant rosy garb,

Of rural scenes of pastime and delight,
of Ceres crownd with crops of waving grain,
And how Pomona, reddning, hangs her head,
of dreary winter and cold northern blasts,
Now let me rutninate. Of these, compard
\v'ith busv din and b.1stle 0f the town,
To me, ohI muse, thine aid now lend, to sing!
Here verdant spring unfolds fair natures works,
And with exulting linger she points out
The emrald beauties of her owing train.

Here many a rose cxalts its blushing head,
And with a SWt-et refreshing smell enchants
Th admiring sense The lilacs purple owrs,
Dillusing odour through the swelling gale.
Next the lilly stands. The yellow da'odil,
The varigated ti 1 p audprnnrosc,
Demand the watchful gardners nursing care,

Them to protect from winter, uncxpelld,
Im sure that you make it your prideto be good.

Youve a vanity to, to be sure it cxalts,
Not vain of your beauty, but vain ofyourfaults;
Youre artful, but sure such an art is no vice,
Which virtues possesses each soul to entice:
Though not like a coach wheel your tongue ever

ies,
Yet you talk like a woman; but then with your eyes.
In short, we behold all your heart, in your face,
'hcre truth, love and innocence fondly embrace.
Let such thoughts through your bosom eternally

roll,
From virtue they spring and cnnoble the soul;

And though envy and hate their destruction desire,
'lhcy view them with awe and are forced to ad

mire.
IDUMEO.
_.._
For the Repertory.
Lct virtue rest in peace.

Yet sure we may with human sorrow sigh
Ocr mortals who were once to mortals dear,
Nor yet that God offend,
Who from his throne of glory in the sky
As favring witness, views the hallowd tear,
That trembles oer a friend.
Richmond! thy parents, children, lovers, all,
Jom with a stranger in the fervent prayer

For everlasting rest
To each departed spirit, at whose call
Pale memry oft, with pure and holy care,
Shall heave the shuddring breast.
Richmond! thy good have gone to seek a realm
Where peace eternal smiles, where pleasure pure
Knows no distrest alloy:
And blushing boys and vigins joyful heap
Show me the maid that wheresoeer she moves,

'lhinks all admire and every heart approves;
The new-made hay upon the rustic car

llerc fervid summer now atloids to loan,
What newborn beauties on her visage glow;
Thy bad, whom rising terrors may ocrwhelm,

Have sought a pardning God. who bids secure,
Een sinners hope for joy.
0ft as December's storm-cncnmberd gale
Shall thy fair form with far extending zone
()l'chilly snow infold,
The travller, as he hears thy awful tale,
What looks of love her eyes, rcl'ulgent, warm,
Shall shrink amazd, and with an anguishd moan
'hat perfect mould fair nature gave her form,

Who d have each proud Cicisbco she could get:
Show such a maid, Ill show you a Coquette.
ALLONDA:
Christmas, that day which scatters hliss around,
PICTURE OF A COQLETT.
M'ho, oft returning with the sable night,
Scatters their tender blossoms, unblown buds.
Show me. what maid on whosoeer she ares,

Bend her soft eyes and tunes her tongue to please;
Here rising hay-cocks their brown sidcs expose,

To rays saluhrious ofthc mid-day sun.
'ho courts her mirror, every morn, to know
New sourccof feat and wonder of his God.

See where the sultry sun prepares to set,
Black, dismal clouds obscure him from our view,
Th edKZllAl sky contracts, and angry heaven
Hurls direl'ul thunder from the throne supreme!

'l'he lightnings ash, the copious rains descend.
l-mm yonder bursting clouds, the tempest roars,
And, fmm the foicst, roots the noble oak,
That foi succeeding,r tigt-s had withstood

The rag-ing elements. The lingring sun
Pct ps from the west, displays his golilcn fall,
And guilds some eastern mountain with his ray:
Oh! glorious autumn. welcome to our plains,
ODE
Occasioned by the late disastrous conagration of

the Theatre at Richmond.
Mourn muses, morn! strike the weak cord to wo,
bet swelling sorrow vibrate through the strain

In cadcncc long and dccp:
l Now tears from stern Melpomcne must ow,

' Herc must her breast be agonized withpain,
Thou well rcpayst the fatmcr for his toil,
And lingi-rest with plenty and delight.

Thou dost provide gainst Winters icy reign,
.At whose dread coming nature stands aghast,
And strews the forest with her withertl leaves.
Behold the city. Every science, art,

Grows up to eminence withinher Walls.
The lltcltihtmts co'ers spreading commerce lls,
And teaches him in luxury to live.
Vast piles of buildings heapd on cvry side,
Engraved monuments, and churches spires,
Stand full dutPlayd. But oh! the dill rence vast,

TvHAl these, man's works, and those, the works of
God- .
Herc gay Thalia weep.

Richmond! what anguish shall thy halls pervade?
How shall the car he stung with sorrows sigh?
Sad they shall be, and long:
Joy shall secrete herself, at we dismayd,
Mirth cease to sparkle from bright beautys eye,
Or laugh at pleasures song.

Yes, scene of hospitalitys blest range,
With glooms ofshrouded misery thourt hung,
Hopeless of times relief:
All now is changed, save that '0 cannot change,
Thy libral heart, thy mild assuasive tongue,
By undivided grief
Wish it had neer been told.

That day when mortals rst the Sa iour knew,
Shall halt in vvo oer thee:
Shall vcil its face in oods of sorrow drownd,
Save when aslnile immortal, beaming through,

Bids human frailty ee
And oft, in years to come, as grey haird age
Shall with the stranger hobblc to the place,
Where now all Richmond weeps:
Once the young lover, then the droopingsagc',

Shall say, wiping the tear-drops from his face,
Herc angel Oonycrs sleeps.
Here youth and beauty found an early doom,
llcre, gay with pleasure, uncxpecting died;
0' let us learn from this,
How vain is knowledge, -ailtirbeautys bloom,
How mere a shadow is mans highest pride,
And mortals chiefcst bliss.

Frigots be silent! dare not judgclyc know
The paths of sacred science how confined
By crring mortals trod;

Nor can ye think how happiness and Wu,
\re dealt to man by that Almighty mind,

That all-mysterious God!
ALCONDO
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PHILADELPHIA REPERTORY.)
~-_I-'
M:
From the desk of Poor Robert, the Scribe.
cause that he knew to he unjust. His estab
seemed familiar to snip, when up he sprung,
lished character drew business from every

quarter, and he realized in a fortune of ve
and, approached him with Sir, lhope you

are well. The stranger stared for a mo
thousand pounds, and the esteem of his fel
ment, and then cxcluimcd, Sir, you have
low men, the correctness of the maxim, that
the advantage of me. No," said snip,

Ill be dnd if I have! It is you that has
nonns'rv 15 Tue nes'r roucv.

Be honest and tis clear as light,
Youll make by far most money byt.

The prots that are got by cheating,
Are very {cw and very eeting. _
Experience proves the adage true;
Then never loose it from your view.
\Vhenl was a little fellow, just old enough

to be mischievous, I was beset by a parcel of
my companions, to go and pilfer the parsons
pears. Down by the side of the brook that
ows out of Appleberry pond, back of the
parsons house, was a beautiful meadow, in
the midst of which stood the pear tree. It
was largehung full, and they were of a
most delicious avour.
\Vhether I was afraid of a flogging;
whether respect for the parson, (for in those

days children were brought up to respect
the pious) prevented me: or whether I was
deterred by the recollection of any bad luck
in pilfering mellons. I cant now remember;
but I told them decidedly I would have
nothing to do in the matter, and did all in
my power to dissuade them from their en

terprizc.
I dont know how, but so it happened,
that my honesty got to the parsons ears, and
one Saturday afternoon I received an invita
honesty is the best policy.

But there was rich George Ardenburg. the advantage; for, may my thread be ever
who had a large farm given him by his in a snarl, if I have ever got a cent for the
fathcr. One ofthe merchants had advertised very coat you-wear; and what is more, I
for tallow to send off for New-York. Rich never expect to. The fellow now recog
George had killed ainumber of fat cattle and nized the tailpr, damnd him for blowing the
matter, and sneaked o'.
as the tallow was to be sent away imme
diately, he thought it a good time to dispose
A blacksmith, in Shropshire, England,
of it. It was weighed: every body thought it
who was a very pious dissenter, had an ap
was astonishingly heavy. Dick Artly who at
tended the store, being somewhat suspidious, prentice about thirteen years old. As the
and a little roguish withal, in removing one master did himself, so he inststed that every
of the cakes, as though by accident, let it fall member of his family should repeat his or
plumb upon the ower it split open, and 10! her prayers after they had retired from
in the middle was a large stone! Poor George family worship. Suspecting that the boy did
looked like a sheep stealer. He was hooted not obey his commands, he one night fol
out of town. His match was broken of? with lowed him, and listening at the door, to his
the amiable Miss Arabella Broomly; he was astonishment, and chagrin, overheard him
turned out of the militia ofce he held, and repeat the following with great fervour.
nally was compelled to sell his farm and
0! Lord, who art in Heaven abide there,
For this is a wicked world I declare;
move of to Canada.
tion to go and see him. Away I went, con

scious that I had done no wrong, how light
heats the heart of innocence! The good man

met me at the door: Robert, said he,
taking my hand, I have heard that you re
fused to join in pilfering my pears. Now I

mean to convice you, that honesty is the
best policy. Here added he placing a basket

of the nest fruit before me, eat what you
please, and take as many with you as you can
carry." I felt at that moment happier than
Napoleon, with empires at his feet. And the
The blacksmith, the taylort

The printer, the nailor;
The hatter, the joiner;
'Ihc potter, the miner;
The farmer, physician;
The Merchant, politician:
The Saddler, and sawyera,
The priest, and the lawyer;
The painter, and glaziet;
The mason, and grazier,
Will nd tha! my maxim so trite and so old,
To those who adopt it, brings honour and gold.
Gleaner.
_.
For I have to blow and smite,

With all my might,
From Monday morn till Saturday night.
-.-
[The following is taken from a little work

published some time ago cntitled Every
man his own Flatterer. It affords at least a
pleasing contrast to the servile method pur
sued by authors living under monarchial
governments, the writer justly preferring
himself to the high and mighlymosl gra
-ti018 majesty, or the right honourable the
noble Count, Uta]
CHARACTER or A nnumunn.
DEDICATION.
A drunkard is indisposcd to virtue; is a 'ro irvscm,
licencious person; makes his belly his God; - A dedication to himself! exclaims a
circumstance led me to remark, early in life, is worse than a brute; a companion of riot critic \Vho has ever thought of dedicating
the consequence of an adherence to the and revelling; a game and sport to profane a book to himself? And pray, Mr. Critic
people; a ridiculous object; his we and who authorized you to interrupt me? Here,
maxim.
shame; his wifes grief; his childrens dis
Jack, show this gentleman down stairs, and
esteemed for his probity: \Vhcre do you
grace; his neighbours contempt and dcrison;
let me get on with my dedication.
trade, neighbour? said one farmer to an

other. Why, at Mr. Uprights," replied
his familys ruin; a thief to himself; scandal

to christianity; a dishonour to God; a looser
the rst. His weights and measures always

hold out. I dont pretend to know the value
of some goods myself, but he has but one
of his time; a destroyer of his reputation,

pains and credit: and a slave to the devil.
price, and never takes the advantage of ones
A fellow, a few evenings ago, entered a you and I, (that is between you and yourself,
porter house in this city, in the evening, and or me and mysrlf) the less we say on that
being seated, began to enter into conversa- ' subject, the better. No Iwill not atter-you;
tion with the company. He stated his tra I will proceed, on surer grounds, and infonn
There was at Appleberry a merchant, well
ignorance. I marked the consequence, Up

right grew rich and respected; and fully ex
pcrignccd the truth of the maxim, that
honesty is the best policy.
There too was a lawyer Aimwell; he
never would flatter you about your cause.
.-
To myself,
Sir, in dedicating this valuable work to

you, I shall not begin with a panegyric on
your elevated rank, eminent qualications,
and enlightened understanding; for between
vels, his fortunes, and his consequence, and
Goldsmith dedica-ed part of his works to Mr.

quite engrossed the attention of all. A short
Posterity, S. D. 'F- 0. shows more wisdom in dc~
time only, however, had elapsed, when in dicating T0 xvseu'. Poster-ivy never will buy a
for the sake of your money, but would tell tripped a Tailor, and taking his seat, called bonnet n' nis tifc, or a. frock for my daughter;
you pl July "is opinion, even though he lost for his pint of ale. The renowned stranger therefore I declare for uvsetr.
NICK BOTTOM.
a the by it. Nor would he ever advocate a still condoning his conversation, his voice
H
you, that it is your interest to patronise my Mr. Cartwight, which affords an antidote for
book, and if your high sounding name pro the most dangerous disease which the hu
tects me not, I shall be very roughly han.
man body can be aficted with. Lon. Pll/l.
dled by the critics. and so shall you; but I
Seventeen years past I went," says this
presume it will be-nseless for me to say any
thing further to you on the subject.--A benevolent clergyman, to reside at Bramp
ton, near Chestereld. I had not been there
word to the wise.
many months, before a nutrid fever broke
I tun vour humble self,
out
among us: nding a great number of
SOLOMON l). T. Czrnasrco.
my
parishioners too poor to afford relief
*
27]
r
which I gave the bark; the next hour he had
food; the next hour had another dose of

yeast; and then went to bed; it was nine
oclok.-He told me he had a good night,
and was recovered. However, I repeated
the medicine, and' he was soon able to go
about his business as usual.

About a year after this, I was riding
past a detached farm house, at the out
themselves,l undertook by the help of such skirts of the town. I observed a farmers
It is a habit in this city on New-Years
books
as were in my possession, to prescribe daughter standing at the door, apparently
day, for people to congratulate each other;
for them. I early atvendetl a boy 14 years of in great aiiction. On enquiring the cause,
and among the higher order, something
age, attacked with the fever, the symptoms she told me her father was dying. I dis
stylish is used. Mechanicks generally hail
mounted, and went into the house to see
each other with I wish you a happy New unequivocally putrid; I gave bark, wine, and
such other remedies as my books directed, him, and found him in the last stage of a pu<
Year; those who are termed a grade above,
with, Sir, the compliments of the sea
but found them of no avail; his disorder
grew every day worse, and I was in hourly

son. Ste. A' blackamore, named Cuffy, hear
expectation
of his dissolution. Being under
ing the compliments pass, catchcd the
the
necessity
of taking a journey, before I
Words, as he had imagined; and being deter
set
05'
I
visited
him, and I thought for the
mined to compliment his master, he ap
last
time,
and
prepared
his parents for the
proached him on New-Year's morning, with,
" Alamo, I wish you all dc complaints ofde event of his death. While conversing on this
distressing subject, I observed in the corner
season."
of the room a tub of .wort working; the sight
brought to my recollection an experiment
PHILADELPHIA,
I had somewhere met with, of a piece of pu
SATURDAY, JANUHIY 11, 1812.
trid meat being made sweet by being sus
pended over a tub of wort in the act of fer~
mentation. The idea ushed into my mint],
MABIHED,
On Thursday evening the 2d inst. by the that the yeast might correct the putrid na
ture of this disease, and I instantly gave him
Rev. James Patterson. Mr. Edward J. Pas
rim [1 to the amiable Miss diary Newman, two large spoonfuls; and told the mother, if
she found her son better, to re/zeat Um does
both of this city.
every
three hours. On my return, after a
Thou God of' providence and grace,
few days I anxiously enquired after the boy,
Whose poWer extends to every place,
site these the happy pair,
and was informed he was rec0vered. I went
trid disorder; his tongue was. black, his
pulse scarcely perceptible,

stretched out like a corpse,
drowsy insensibility. I then
procured some yeast, which I
and he lay
in a state of
immediately
diluted with
water, and poured down his throat, but left
him, with little hope of his recovery. I re

turned in about two hours and found him
sensible and able to converse. I then gave
him a dose of bark; he afterwards at a
proper interval, took refreshment. I staid

with him till he repeated the yeast, and then
left him, with directions how to proceed. I
called upon him the next morning at nine
oclock; [found him apparently well and
walking in his garden. He was an old man
upwards of seventy.
I have since given the yeast to above 50
persons labouring under putrid fevers; and,
what is singular (continues this benevolent
man,)l have not lost one patient.

\Vhose yielding hearts and joining hands,
immediately to the house, when the boy
The above has been handed to us by a gen
I"ind blessings twisted with their bands
opened the door, and looked surprisingly tleman in this city, who has lost two children
To soften alLtheir care.
by the fever which has been so prevalentof
well.
late.-He had a third child who was taken
AftcrI left Brampton, I lived in Leices
mnn,
At Charleston, Mas. Commodore Samuel . tershire. My parishioners being opulent, I ill, anti this prescription coming to his know
Mr/zolson, aged 69, senior ofcer in the dropped the medical character entirely. even ledge, he made the experiment, which was
with my own family. One of my domestiCs happily crowned with success. 'We shall
American navy.
In this city, on Tuesday last, Jose/:11 Den falling ill, a fever ensued, which in its pro be happy to record further proofs of its ef
nie, csq. editor of the Port Folio.
gress became putrid. Having great reliance, cacy.
and deservedly, on the apothecary's judg
w.
VVe learn that despatches .reached this ment, the man was left solely to his care;
For the Repertory
city yesterday from Mr. Barlow, our minis till nding every effort of service to him
OLYMPIC
CENSOR
terin France. Mr. Edward Griswold ofNew bafed, he told me he considered it a lost
Well pleased to praise, but not afraid to blame,
York is the bearer. He came over in a vessel
case, and that in his opinion the man could
not survive twenty-four hours. I then de

termined to try the yeast, and in fteen mi
verbally that the aspect of our concerns in nutes from taking the yeast, his pulse though
that country were attering, though it is said feeble, began to get more composed and
no change had taken place in the actual state full; in thirty-two minutes from his taking
it, he was able to get up from his bed, and
of affairs.
Walk in his room: at the expiration of the
r
._.
second hour, I give him a boson of Sago,
MEDICAL.
with a good quantity of wine, lemon, and
A certain remedy in putrid diseases, com
municated to the world by the Reverend ginger. He ate it with an appetite, in another
hour I repeated the yeast; an hour after
arrived at Norfolk from England, where Mr.
G. touched on his return home. We learn
Averse, alike, to flatter or offend.
ln/ie.
Jan. 1, The Rizmlr and Poor Soldier.

Jan. 2, IVv-s'l Indian and [Io-tiim.
On \Vednesday evening last, the Olympic

Theatre was opened for dramatic and eques'
trian performances, and, as was to be ex
pected from the curiosity of the public, the
house was crowded at a very early hour.
When an e'usion of light was thrown upon
the embellishments, a burst of admiration
broke from every part, continued for some

time, and the utumitnous voice of the and
722

W5:
ence pronounced the house unequalled in

America, for convenience and show. The
construction of the Theatre does great cre
dit to the genius and taste ofevery one con

cerned, nor can we refrain from passing our
highest encomiums upo- Mr. Strickland,
~jun. for his masterly delineation of scenery,
particularly in perspective. W'e would call
the attention of the. audience to the street
scene, which for design, execution and ef
Mr. MKenzie pleased us generally in the

performance of Faulkland; nor us alone,
but the audience generally. The uneasy,

jealous and hasty lover of Julia, found an
excellent representative in this established
favourite of the public.
Acres is a character of a peculiar nature,
tor at all (lUalliid for performing Darby

and he, unfortunately, was no Irishman. His
name does not at present occur to us, but
the misrepresentation of the original Darby

has been exactly copied since, and the audi
ence are so accustomed to see and be pleas~
ed with it, that performers, though conscious
the elucidation of which requires a great of the error, are fearful of attempting a just
deal of discernment. Though a most abject
ly occur, there are seven doors, opening both
delineation of the character.

The \Vest Indian was performed with
harmlessness of disposition and goodness of great spirit and success. Mr. Southy is not
heart that prevent him from being despised; at all at home in young Dudley, but has his
all which were very well attempted by Mr. excuse in the illness of Mr. Foster, and his
Smalley, from London, his rst appearance having had to study the part at a few hours
\vays, through which the most numerous

audience could pass with the greatest faci
in Philadelphia. \Ve would, however, advise

this gentleman, who possesses a fund of
lity; this, added to the spaciousness of the
comic talent, to avoid that grimace and cari
istage and the careful and judicious manner

in which every thing is planned and conduct
cature, which, though it make the unskil

ful laugh, cannot but make the judicious
grieve; the censure of which one, oerweighs
,a whole theatre of others," and. has materi
Smalley, force themselves so strongly on our
fect, is, in our opinion, and we have seen
almost all the theatres of Europe, surpassed

in none. If any accident should unfortunate
coward, he has a certain suavity of manners,
notice. This play is so well known, that we
thought only to mention it generally, but the

Fulmer of McKenzie and the Vat-land of
mind that we cannot refrain from expressing

our unqualied approbation.
ger from the public mind.
The music in Rosina, is and was very fine.
On account of the delay in the arrival of ally detracted from the merit ofa celebrated The rest is not worth notice.
the wag-guns from Baltimore, which contain performer, of the Chesnut street company.
Upon the whole we were gratied with the
ed the wardrobe of the theatre and the eques
Mr. Webster, in Sir Lucius OTrigger, representation, which after making the ne
trian accoutrements, the horsemanship was was greeted with thunders of applause on cessary deductions for the delay of the
curtailed, for which a handsome apology was his rst entrance, and through the piece appendages, and the extreme diiculty at
made by Mr. MKcnzie, who, previous to sustained the Irish gentleman with great tendant on the establishment of a new the
the play, delivered an appropriate address. spirit and judgment.
atre, must have far exceeded public expec
with his accustomed grace and correctness.
Mr. Southey displayed a great deal of tation. Circumstances not within our con
The address, a copy of which we shall pro
talent in Fag and, we think, would succeed troul prevented us from preparing any
cure and present to our readers, was written very well if conned to a line of characters, remarks upon this weeks performance, and
by Mr. Law, of \Vashinglon, whose fame of that nature.
perhaps, upon the whole, it is very well it
as a poet is too well known to need any
It is almost superuous to mentionylMrs. happened so, for though the critic is obliged
etl, is sufcient to obliterate all ideas of dan
comment here. After the address, the cur
\Vilmo! in the character of Lydia Languish,
to speak his real sentiments, there should be
tain rose and the company, in a very elegant

manner, sung the patriotic song of Hail
for her excellence in every thing she under

takes has been acknowledged and duly ap
every allowance made for the infancy of the

establishment.
Columbia, which, to our astonishment, was

not greeted warmly, except at the mention
of our illustrious, but departed hero, Wash
preciated by the public. Iler reception was
\Ve shall, however, be more regular in

future, giving our remarks upon the weeks
ington.
Having made the above necessary re
marks,we shall now proceed to our strictures
on the scenic representation. Mr. Tyler,
most cordial.
In Miss Brobson there is much to ap
plaud and a great deal to censure; but as this
interesting lady has just commenced her
performance every Saturday.

DRAMATICUS.
the author, we wonder how the genius and
TERMS or Tm: REPER'IORY

with delicacy and candour. We will, however,
give it as our opinion, that if she had had the scribers half yearly in advance.
advantage ofsuch a preceptor as our lament
ed Mrs. Warren, she might have reached every Saturday, and forwarded to those in the
the acme of her profession.
Mrs. Melmoth sustained the character of
Mrs. Malaprop, with consummate excel
lence, and told the audience exactly what the
author meant.
judgment of Sheridan could pay so little at

tion to it. We are far from believing Mr.
saw her last.
from the New York theatre, made his rst
appearance here, in the character of Sir

Anthony Absolute, in the Rivals, and did as
much for the character, as any one could,
for we very much doubt whether any actor

living could make any thing of it. The na
tire of his character giving such a scope for
Tyler at home in the character, but he did
it justice. Mr. Dwyer, in captain Absolute,

Was, as the public have always seen him,
perfectly at home, inimitable in the delinea

tion of the counterfeit lover, and deserved
the approbationhe received. This gentle

man has merit enough to rival Lewis and is
undoubtedly a great acquisition to the Ame

rican drama.
theatrical career, our remarks shall be made.
Mrs. Bray has improved greatly since we}

Of the Poor Soldier, we shall only observe
that it was very well received, particularly
the music. The public have, however, la
boured under a great mistake with regard
to this farce. The scene lies in an Irish vil
lage, every character should have the brogue
and yet Darby has always been represented
as an English country clown. When O'Keefe
wrote this farce, there was but one comic ac

.

ling's and Aitken, No. 40. North Second street.

PHILADFLPHIA,
Primed and published by Dennis Heartt,
Marshalls alley, between Fourth and Fifth meta,
near St. Mary's churc
%5i[abefp)m@@epertrp.
vor
r'owrzn.
SATURDAY, J LNUARY l8. l8l2.
ll
No. 35.
'1
BIOGRAPHY.
1 tot wing of an army suicient to resist the

shock of the veterans of Britain. They issued
branches of the Hudson, till twenty-ve days
decrees, directed levies, organized regi
after his pause at Skeensborough. Here, a

painful, unseasonable, and dangerous pause,
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF GENERAL
ments, and assertained numbers, pay and

equipments. All this was easy, but the de
ciency of the public funds on the one side,
provisions from the posts in the rear, and to
GRATIO GATES.
Gates and Schuyler with eight thousand

men well provisioned, determined to defend
Ticonderoga to the last extremity. All the

efforts of Arnold merely served to delay
without being able to prevent the approach
of Carleton, with a formidable army to this
post, and all parties naturally expected to wit
ness a long, obstinate, and bloody siege.
Some causes, not well understood, though
the lateness of the season must be doubtless

numbered among them, induced Carleton to
disappoint these expectations, by leaving the
fortress unmolcstcd, and retiring in search
of winter quarters into Canada. in a mere
wilderness, where all the waters are frozen
for ve or six months in the year, this was

absolutelv necessary. This retreat enabled
general Gates to march southward with a
oonsider.d.-le detachment of his army to
assist general Washington in his operations

in thr middle colonies.
The ensuing year was passed in a great
variety of movements and skirmishes in the
lower districts of New York, Pennsylvania
and Jersey,betwcen the principal command
ers. in the ordinary records of the time,
we meet with no splendid or conspicuous
part performed by the. subject of this narra
was again necessary, in order to procure

collect the boats and other vessels necessary
for the navigation of the Hudson.
The progress of Burgoyne was arrested
at the very point where it should seem all
obstacles of any moment were fully sur
mounted. He had reached the Hudson, by a
most painful and laborious march through
the forest, and detachment ol'his army under
and of public spirit on the other, rendered

thcse solemn arrangements quite nugatory.
The absolute uncertainty whether in the

next campaign, the British would attempt to
penetrate to New York by the lakes and the
river Hudson, or by a coasting voyage from
the mouth of the St. Lawrence, with the
greater probability that attended the latter St. Leger, who had been directed to ap
scheme contributed to dissipate and enlee preach the Hudson by another road, had
ble the exertions, which the states, with nearly affected this purpose. St. Leger had
xed views, and a traced path before them, gained a battle, and was now besieging
would have been qualied to make.
Fort Schuyler, the surrender of which was
T here is some obscurity in this period of necessary to the further cooperation of the
the life of general Gates. In the spring of British generals, and was condently anti
seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, he cipated. The tide of events, however, now
was appointed with Schuyler, for a subor
suddenly took a new direction.
dinate, to the chief command on the northern

frontier. In May of the same year, he was
superseded by Schuyler, nor was it, until
after Burgoyne with his well appointed le
sumed the command. This place, command
Fort Schuyler refused to surrender, and

the assaults of the besiegers made very little
impression on the works. The Indians who
composed a large part of St. Logcrs army,
began to display their usual ckleuess and
treachery, and after many e'orts made by
ed by Sinclair, was evacuated without a
the British general to detain them, nally
gions had reached Ticonderoga, that he re
siege on the fth of July, The retreating

army under Sinclair, was hotly pursued,
resolved to withdraw. This created an ab

solute necessity for raising the siege, which
overtaken, and defeated. Fort Ann and was done with great precipitation, and ith
Sknecsborough were occupied by the enemy, the loss of all their camp equipage and
tiVe, though there are sufficient reason to and all attempts to check his further pro stores.
believe that his services in that motley war gress appeared wholly desperate.
On the other side, the strenuous exertions
At this crisis a small delay in the advance of Schuyler had deprived Burgoyne of all
fare were active, strenuous, and useful. We
may suspect that the evacuation of Crown of Burgoyne from Skeensborough, rendered those resources which the neighbouring
point did not operate on the public feelings to {necessary by the natural difculties of the country might have aorded him. Alter a
his advantage, in a new scene, especially as 1 country, was diligently employed by general t'ortnights labour he had been able to collect
Schuyler his great'competitor, condemed L Schuyler. That meritorious ofcer contrived only twelve boats, and ve days provisions
that expedient. The general continued on Q to raise the most formidable impediments to for his army. An attempt to obtain posses
the northern waters, anxiously employed in the further progress of Burgoyne, by break sion of a depository of provisions at Bum-ing
prepnring against a formidable invasion of 5 ing down the bridges, obstructing the navi ton, had failed, and two detachments, sent
the enemy, designed to take place on the 'l gation of Wood-creek, choking up the roads on that service had been defeated. The mili
next summer, while the garrisons, in the I or rather pathways through the forests, by [in of the eastern and lower country were
absence of Gates, were superintended by - felled trees, and by driving o all the cattle rapidly collecting, and threatened to raise
obstacles vstill more formidable that those of
-5 of the neighbouring country. These obstruc
general 'ayne.
'e need not dwell on the difculties un tions new so formidable that Burgoyne did nature.
>
der which the new states laboured in the ,1 not arrive at Fort hdWard on the upperJ Schuyier was extremely unfortunate.
.-1QI- 4_.I_-a_.
274 a
m
peculiar malignity seemed to cleave to his

fate. With zeal, enterprise, and diligence,
surpassing that of most others engaged in

the service, he was doomed to labour under
for preventing the retreat of the rnemy, by

occupying the strong posts in his rear. Ac
cordingly nineteen days passed without any
further operations, a delay as ruinous to one
the suspicion of negligence or treachery. party, as it was advantageous to the other.

As Gates had suffered in the public opinion, At the end of this period, the British general
by the evacuation of Crownpoint, Schuyler found his prospects of assistance as remote
and St. Clair had incurred still greater odium as ever, and the consumption ofhis stores so
by their hasty ight from Ticonderoga. This alarming, that retreat or victory became the
odium, even when removed from the minds unavoidable alternative.
of the rulers of the state, was not to be
On theeight of October a warm action
banished from the feelings of the people, ensued, in which the British were every
and made it necessary to assign the manage where repulsed, and a part of their lines oc-,
ment of this war to other hands. Gates was cupied by their enemies. Burgoynes lossf
appointed to succeed Schuyler, and arrived was very considerable in killed, woundedf]
at the scene of action on the twenty-rst of prisoners, while the favourable situation of
Gate's army made its losses in the battle of
August.
It was fortunate for general Gates that no moment. Burgoyne retired in the night
the retreat from Ticonderago had been con to a stronger camp, but the measures im
ducted under other auspices than his. and mediately taken by Gates, to cut off his re-i
that he took the command when the inde treat, compelled him withoutdelay to regain
fatigable but unrequited labours of Schuy his former camp at Saratoga. There he ar
ler, and the courage of Starke and his moun rived with little molestation from his ad
taineers had already insured the ulti-rate versary. His provisions being new reduced
defeat of Burgoyne. The very obstinacy of to the supply of a few days, the transpo of :
Burgoyne, who, notwithstanding his unfa
artillery and baggage towards Canada being
vourable prospects, would not think of sa
rendered impracticable by the judicious ,
ving his army by a timely retreat, was highly measures of his adversary, the British gene ,
propitious to the new American commander. ral resolved upon a rapid retreat, merely '
After collecting thirty days provision with what the soldiers could carry on their
Burgoyne passed the Hudson, and encamp backs.
ed at Saratoga. Gates, with numbers already
equal, and continually augmenting, began to

advance towards him With a resolution to
oppose his progress at the risk of a battle.
He encamped at Stillwater, and Burgoyne
hastened forward to open the way with his
sword. ()n the seventeenth of September
the two armies were within four miles of
(To be continued.)
o'
LOVE AND PATRIOTISM;
on,
THE EXTRAORDXNARY ADVENTURES or
ments were the admiration of the other sex,

.tnd the envy of his own. But while indulg
ing in these criminal pursuits, a passion of a
purer kind possessed the empire ofhis heart.
In the course of his visits to the convent, he
had seen and loved mademoiselle Sophia de
Pontis, the amiable friend of his sister. The
heart of Sophia yielded to the attractions of

the Chevalier; their passions was reciprocal.
The baron was not long igndrant of their at-
tachment; his sons visits to the convent were
prohibited, and he was given to understand,
that the daughter of M. Duportail was de

stined for his wife. \Vhat little he knew of
this lady he had learned from having ever
heard a conversation between M. Duportail
and his father, from which it appeared, that
therformer had long mourned a lost daughter.

He farther understood, that as soon as his
education was completed at Paris, it was his

fathers intention that he should set out on
his travels; that he was to remain for some
months in Poland, and that during his re

sidence in that country, he was to be em
ployed in making inquiry respecting the fate
of the daughter of M. nupomu, and if she
yet lived, in endeavvuring to restore her to
herpiicted father. _An opportunity was soon
after embraced by Al. Du portail of commu
nitating to toe chevalier the particulars of
his story, which we now present to our
readers.
.t-y history presents a frightful example
of the instability of lortune. It is indeed very
flattering, but it is also sometimes very dan
gerous, to have an ancient title to sustain,
and a large estate to preserve. The sole

M. DUPORTAIL,
descendant of an illustrious family, whose
Late Major General in the Armies of the
United States.
origin is lost in the darkness of remote ages,
each other. Two days after, skirmishes be
lnterspersed with many Surprisinglncidents in the , I have a right to aspire to, and to occupy the
Life ofthe late
tween advanced parties terminated in an en
rst employment: in the republic which gave
COUNT PULASKL
gagement almost general, in which the ut
me birth, and yetl behold myself condemn
most e'orts of the British merely enabled
From a singular publication, which few ed to languish in a foreign country, amidst
them to maintain the feeling of the preced of our readers will have an opportunity of an indolent and inglorious obscurity.
ing day.
The name of Lovzinski is honourably
seeing, we give the following story. It will
Burgoyne, unassisted by the British forces be necessary to preface it by narrating a few mentioned in the annals of Poland, and that
under Clinton at New York, found himself particulars which are intimately connectedl name is about to perish with myself: l know
unable to pursue his march down the river, with the history.
that an austere philosophy either rejects or
and in the hope of this assistance, was con
It was in the year 1783 that the baron de despises vain titles and corrupting riches,
tent to remain in his camp, and stand on the Faublas arrived in Paris, where he had re and perhaps 1 should console myself if I
defensive. His army was likewise diminish solved to place his daughter in a convent. had lost only these; but, my young friend, I
ed by the desertion of the Indians and the He was accompanied by his son the chevalier weep for an adored spouse,l search after a
Canadian militia, to less than one half of its do Faublas. After remaining some weeks in beloved daughter, and 1 shall never more
original number. Gates nding his forces the capital, the baron by the persuasion of revisit my native land. What courage is
largely increasing, being plentifully supplied his intimate friend, M. Duportail, came to capable of opposing griefs like mine?
with prerisionz, and knowing that Burgoyne the resolution of residing some years in
My father, the baron de Lovzinski, still
had only a limited store, which was rapidly Paris, for the purpose of giving the best more distinguished by his virtues than by his
lessening, and could not be recruited, was
education to the only heir of his name, and
rank,
not without hopes that victory would come,

in time, even without a battle. His troops
of superintending the happiness of a daugh

ter whom he loved. The young ehevalier
was soon initiated into all the fashionable dis
sipation of the metropolis; his accomplish
which the favour of the prince always con

ters, and Which personal merit sometimes
obtains. He bestowed all the attention of a
tender parent on the edUcation of my two
were so numerous, and his fortified position
.0 strong, that he was able to take measures
en'oyed that consideration at court,
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sisters; and in regard to mine, he ocCupicd

himself with the zeal of a man of family
jealous of the honour of his house, of which
promised to preserve forever that lively af saw this fair maid. Ilivcd onlv for her; I
fection which had constituted the chief hap abandoned my studies; friendship was en
piness of our youth, and I rashly swore that tirely forgotten. I consecrated all my mo
I was the sole hope, and with the activity of the passions of a more advanced age should ments to Lodoiska. My father and hers
could not he long ignorant of my attach
a good citizen, who desires nothing so ar never alter it.
\Vhat animmense void did the absence ment; they did not chide me for it;they
dentlv as to leave to the state a successor
of M. de P
leave in my heart! At rst must have approved it then. This idea ap
worthy of him.
'
While I was pursuing my studies at War it appeared that nothing could compensate ' peared to me to be so well founded, that I
saw, the young P
distinguished him for his loss; the tenderness of a father, the delivered myself up, without suspicion, to
the sweet passion that enchanted me; and I
self among the rest of my companions by caresses of my sisters, affected me but fee
the most amiable qualities. To the charms blv. I thought that no other method remain took my measures so well that I beheld
of a person at once noble and engaging, he ed for me to dissipate the irksomeness of my Lodoiska almost daily, either at home, or in
joined the graces of a cultivated understand situation, than to occupy my leisure mo company with my sisters, who loved her
ing. The uncommon address which he dis ments with some useful pursuit. [therefore enderly:-tw0 sweet years ew away in this
plaved among- us young- warriors; that rare cultivated the French language, already manner.
At length Pulaski took me one day aside,
modesty with which he seemed desirous to esteemed throughout all Europe; I read
conceal his oWn merit from himself. on pur with delight those famous works, the eternal and addressed me thus: Your father and my
pose to exalt the abilities of his less for monuments of genius, which it had pro self have formed great hopes of you, which
tunate rivals, who were generally vanquish duced; and I wondered that, notwithstand your conduct has hitherto justied; I have
ed by him in all our exercises; the urbanity ing snch an ungrateful idiom. so many cele long beheld you employing your youth in
of his manners, and the sweetness of his brated poets, so many excellent philosophers studies equally useful and honourable. To
disposition, xed the attention. commanded and historians, justly immortalized, had been day(he here perceived that I was about to
the esteem, and rendered him the darling of able to distinguish themselves by its neans. interrupt him). \Vhat would you say? do
that illustrious band of young nobility, who
I also applied myselfseriously to the study . you think to tell me any thing that lam un
partook ofour studies and our pleasures.
of geometry; I formed my mind in a particu-' acquaintcd with? do you think that l have
To say that it was the resemblance of our ., lar manner to the pursuit of that noble pro occasion to be the hourly witness of your
characters, and the sympathy of our disposi- i fession which makes a hero at the expense transports, to learn how much my Lodoiska
tions that occasioned my attachment to M. 3! of one hundred thousand unfortunates, and merits to be beloved! It is because I know
de P. would be to pay myself too flattering which men less humane than valiant have as well as you the value of my daughter, that
a compliment; however that may be, we called the grand art of war! Several years you never shall obtain but by meriting her.
both lived together in the most intimate were employed in these pursuits, which are Young man, learn that it is not suicicnt that
equally difcult and laborious; in short, they our foibles should be legitimate to be ex
familiarity.
, cuseable! those of a good citizen ought to be
How happy, but how eeting is that time l solely occupied my thoughts. M. de P
who often wrote to me, no longer received turned entirely to the prot of his country;
of life, when one is unacquaintcd with ambi
love, even love itself, like the basest of the
tion, which sacrices every thing to the de- ," any but short replies, and our correspond
sire of fortune, and the glory that follows.ll euce began to languish by neglect, when at passions, is either despicable or dangerous,
if it does not offer to generous hearts an
in her train, and with love, the supremel length love nished the triumph over fricnd
additional motive to excite them towards
power of which absorbs and connects all our . Ship.
My father had been for a long time inti honour.
faculties upon one sole object! that age of}
Hear me: our monarch, for a long time in
innocent pleasures, and of condent credu- ! mately connected with count Pulaski. Cele
lity; when the heart, as yet a novice, freely brated for the austerity of his manners, a sickly habit of body, seems at length to
follows the impulse of youthful sensibility; famous on account of the inexibility of his approach towards his end. His life, become
and bestows itself unreservedly upon the virtues, which were truly republican, Pu every day more precarious, has awakened
object of disinterested affection! Then, my laski, at once a great captain and a brave the ambition of ourneighbours. They doubt
dear Faublas, then friendship is not a vain l soldier, had on more than one occasion sig less prepare to sow division among us; and
! nalisetl his ery courage, and his ardent they think, that by over-awing our suffrages,
name!
they will be enabled to force upon us a king
The condent of all the secrets of M. de . patriotism.
P
, I myself undertook nothing with
Instructed in ancient literature, he had of their own choosing. Foreign troops have
out'rst intrusting him with my designs; his been taught by history the great lessons of a already dared to appear on the frontiers of
councils regulated my conduct, mine dctcr- : noble disinterestedncs .r'md immoveable con
Poland; already two thousand Polish gen
mint-d his resolutions; our youth had no plea- ; stancy, an absolute devotion to glory. Like tlemen have assembled, on purpose to
sure. which were not shared, no misfortunes I those heroes to whom idolatrous, but grate
punish their audacious insolence. Go and
which were not solaced by our mutual at
ful Rome, elevated altars, Pulaski would join yourself with those brave youths; go,
have sacriced all his property to the pros and at the end of the campaign, rcturcd
tachmcnt.
\Vith what chagrin did I not perceive that perity of his country; he would have spilled covered with the blood of our enemies, and
fatal moment arrive, when my friend, obliged the last drop of his blood for its defence; he show to Pulaski a son-in-law worthy of
him.
by tnc commands of a father to depart from would even have immolated his only, his be
Warsaw, prepared to take leave'of me! We loved daughter, Lodoiska.
I did not hesitate a single moment; my
Lodoiska! how beautiful! how lovely! her father approved of my resolutions, but be
' zThe translator thinks that he can venture to
pronounce M the P
{0 be the llUl-kldll who dear name is always on my lips, her adored ing unable to consent without pain to my
1mg formerly VClhltWi count Pooiatovt ski, and. who remembrance will live for ever in my heart!
precipitate departure, he pressed me for a
lately so worthily lled the throne of Poland.
My friend, from the rst moment that I l
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long time against nis bosom, while a tender

solicitude was depicted in all his looks; his
adieus seemed to be inauspicious; the trou
ble that agitated his heart, seized upon my
own; our tears were mingled on his vener
able cheeks.
Pulaski, who was present at this moving
scone, stoically reproached us for what he
termed a weakness. Dry up your tears, said
he to me, or preserve them for Lodoiska;
it belongs only to childish lovers who sepa
rate themselves from each other for five or
six months, to weep in this manner! He in
structed his daughter, in my presence, both

of my departure, and of the motives which
had determined me to it. Lodoiska grew

pale, sighed, looked at her father with a
face suffused with blushes, and then assured
me in a trembling voice, that her vows should
be offered up for my safe return, and that

her happiness depended upon the safety of
Lovzinski.
To be continued.
of these things are created to answer sum
great end, and I am to full my part also: He

starts into the world, as it were, with activity
and determination, for athinking man is
not a moping idiot, who sits, and laughs, and
wonders; he sees in a moment the feeble
state of man, and man he pities, he sees the

greatness of God, and God he worships. He
considers his exertions necessary for thell
preservation of order and comfort in society;
he does not spare them; he never shrinks
from his part of the duty, and although he

be surrounded with sorrows he does not
murmur. Should he be visited by sickness
and aliction, he looks upon them as the
concomitants of human nature, and bows in
humility: should he be elevated by fortune
and blessed by health, he says, Let me not
forget that I am a man."
The volatile and the giddy pursue the sum
mer vision pleasure, which is light as a moon
beam and rapid in its passing as the tempest

wafted ower. If they should attain it what
is their enjoyment? It is the sport of the

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THE CABINET. N0. LXXII.
A few! but few there are, who in the mind
Perpetual source of consolation nd;

Men feel their weakness, and to numbers run
Themselves to strengthen, or themselves to shun;

But though to thisnpr-wcakness may be prone,
Let's learn to live, few'We must die alone.
Crabbe.
Among the many vicissitudes to which

man is subject, it has pleased the almighty
Architect who created him, to endow him
with a certain principle fully adequate to

assist him in his difculties, and protecthim
in his dangers. This gift is the inestimable
one of reason which is common to us all,
but which very often, either through pro
fligacy, or neglect, becomes too feeble to
support us, and too irresolute to retain its
authority. Indeed in proportion to the great
mass of mankind the thinking part is incon
tk-ctatton; their joy is unreal; for let us but

turn the picture and look at their situation.
Let us look at them stripped of their gou
gaws of fashion; let us look at them as they
are, and we will see a set of miserable crea
tures destitute of every thing like comfort;

they may be placed in the splendour of
courts, and the gaudy scenes of wealth and
extravagance, but these will not always
please; they cannot always be dazzled by
the glare of gaiety and deafened by the riots
of dissipation; they must sometimes be
alone. And now we see them in the weak
ness of mortality, with nothing to depend on
but the mind. Have they a mind? has it not
evaporated in licentiousness? is it not pat-y
lised by vice? if it yet remain where is that
food which must be dealt to it in large por
tions to support it? It cannot exist on the
misty aliment inhaled in the vagaries of the
body after pleasure; it requires recurrence
to science, and ability to think; the one they
have not given it the time to acquire, the
other they have driven from it by their folly.
How sad is their situation here; they cannot
moment, and returns no more; it is borne'

upon the wings of time from the recollec support it; the mind has rebelled and the
tion, as is an object which is swapt from u~ body must be called into action to appease
by the mountain stream; it is immersed in it. There is yet another situation in which
vapours, it glides from the fancy, and is ~hty may be placed: they may be over.
lorgotten. Such a class of beings who look whelmed by calamities and misfor

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LITERATURE AND USEFUL INTELLIGENCE.

Variety s the very spice of Ufa,

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INDEX TO THE PROSE.

A. B. to Philo Madan, 360.

Admonisher, the scntentious, 155.

All things beautiful in their time, 331.

American millstone manufactory,_ 96.

Biography. Sketch of the life of John Howard, 153,

Criu'cus and C0. Levity and Light Reading by, 44

Memoirs of William Cushing, 169.

Sketch of the life of Benjamin Douglas

Cushing William, memoirs of, 169.

Danish custom house oicera brought home by an

Life of Livia Drusilla, 313, 321, 329, 337.

Architecture, Dysterian iron, 62.

Cabinet, 111, 124, 141,143, 156,163,171, 182, 195,

Amicuss criticism, 61.

Amicus to Philo Madan, 108,

Mom, a, 13, 112, 168, 191, 207, 215, 223,231,

399, 407, 415.

Ardennis, or the Spirit of the Wood, 378, 386, 394,

Drinker, Edward, brief account of, 343.

Drusilla, Livia, life of, 313, 321, 329, 337.

Arlotto, Piovano, anecdote of, 191.

Canibals, savage, island of, 221.

Articial cold, new mode of producing, 232.

Capital punishments, essay on, by llerminius, 228.

Dysterian iron architecture, 62.

Caraccas, geography of, 66, 74-.

Avarice, on the torments of, 327.

Caustic, Clementina, to the editor, 373.

Babylon, description of, 319.

Censor, 92, 125, 140, 164, 173, 196, 211,306, 346.

Change of times, 231.

Deattie, of Dreaming, 11, 19, 29, 37, 45.

Chateaubriant, count, history of, 341, 351.

Chemistry, discoveries in, 336, 344-

Equitns, 107, 114, 132, 141, 165.

Chemical manufactures, 104-.

China, manufacture of, in the United States, 111.

Bertrand on the passion of love, 299.

Colburn, Zerah, 368.

Eugenius, communication from, 18.

Collector, 84-, 93.

Fejee Islands, 221.

Life of David Rittenhouse, 25, 33, 41.

Corn, seed, 48.

Fine arts, 320.

Life of illiam Penn, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81,

Country preacher, account of the, 398, 405.

Bible soeicties, 278, 287.

Biograghy. Memoirs of the life and character of

Court of Death, 359.

Critique on Laurel Hill, 156, 173, 181.

INDEX TO THE PROSE.

Letter from Nobody to Somebody, 57)

Letter from a mother to her son, 236.

N.s Criticism, 85.

Genius and taste contrasted, 27.

Letter from a clergyman in Philadelphia to the