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Dramatic Tnetry,
From writers 'who lived about the time of
SHAKESPEARE.
TRAGEDY AMD COMEDY.
—fellows both, both twins, but so unlike
As birth to death, wedcing to funeral;
Tor this that reals himself in buskins
quaint,
Is pleasant at the first, proud in the midst,
Stately in all, and bitter death at end.
That in the Pumps doth frown at first ac
quaintance,
Trouble the nndsl, but in the end con
eludes
Closing up all with a sweet catastrophe .
This grave and sad, detain'd with brinish
tears;
That light and quick, with wrinkled laugh
ter painted:
This deals with nobles, kings, and empe
rors,
Full of great fears, great hopes, great en
tcrpiizes;
This other trades with men of mean con
dition,
His projects small, small hopes, and dan
gers little:
This gorgeous, broider’d with rich sen
tences;
That fur, and purfled round with merri
ments.
Both vice detect, and virtue beautify,
By being death’s mirror, and life’s look
ing-glass.
B reiver.
Scholar and his Dog,
I was a scholar; seven useful springs
Hid! deflower in quotations
Os cross'd opinions ’bout the soul of man;
The more I learnt, the more 1 learnt to
doubt.
Delight my spaniel slept, whilst 1 baus’d
leaves,
Toss’d o’er the dunces, pored on the old
print
Os titled words: and still my spaniel slept.
Whilst I wasted lamp oil, bait, d my flesh,
Shrunk up my veins; and still my spaniel
slept*
And still 1 held converse with Zibarell,
Aquinas, Scotus, and the musty saw
■Of antick Donate: still my spaniel slept.
S H «n went I; first, an sit anima;
Then, an it were mortal. O hold, hold;
at that
They’re at brain buffets, fell by the ears
amain
Pell-mell together: still my spaniel slept.
Then, whether ’twere corporeal, local,
fixi.
Ex traduce, hot wbether’l had free will
Or no, hot Philosophers
Stood banding factions, all so strongly
propl,
1 stagger’d, knew not which was firmer
part,
But thought, quoted, read, observ’d, and
prytd,
Stufft noting-books: and still my spaniel
tlepf.
At length he wak’d, and yawn’d; and by
yon sky,
For ought 1 know he knew as much »s I.
Mars ton
False Greatness.
As cedars beaten with continual storms,
So great men flourish; ai d do Imitate
Unskillful statuaries, who suppose,
In forming a Colossus, if they n uke him
Stradd' enough, strut; and look b'g, and
gape.
Their \u. k n goodly; so men merely great,
In their aflected gravity of voice,
Sowerness of countenance, manners’ cru
elty.
Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of
fortune, ,
Think they bear all the kingdom’s worth
before them;
Yet differ not from those Colossick sta
tues,
Which, with heroic forms without o’er
spread,
Within are nought but morter, flint, and
lead.
Chatman.
The Master Spirit,
Give me t spirit that on life’s rough sea
Loves ro have his sails fi ;’d with a lus‘y
wind,
Even tid his sail-yards tremble, his masts
crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low,
That she drinks water, and her keel
ploughs air
There is no danger to a man, that knows
What Life and Death is: there’s not any
law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it law
ful
That he should stoop to any other law;
He goes before them, and commands them
all.
That to himself is a law rational.
Chapman.
Shipwreck by Drink.
This Gentleman and I
Past but just now by your next neigh
bour’s house,
Where, as they say, dwells one young
Lionel,
An unthrift youth: his father now at sea.
———There this night
Was a groat feast.
In the height ot their carousing, all their
brains
Warm’d with the heat of wine, discourse
was offer’d
Os ships and storms at sea: when sudden.
ly*
Out of his giddy wildness, one conceives
The room wherein they quaff’d to be a
Pinnace,
Moving and floating, and the confus’d noise
To be the murmering winds, casts, muri
neri;
That their mislead fast footing did proceed
From rocking of the vessel; This con
ceiv’d.
*V; . v •
Each one begins to apprehend the diUP
get,
And to 1< ok out for safety Fly, sailh one,
Up to the main lop, and discover. He
(-•limbs by the bed-post to the tester there,
Reports a turbulent sea and tempest to
wards;
And wills them, if they’ll save their ship
and lives,
To cast their lading over-board At this
All fall to work, and hoist into the street,
As to the sea, what next came to then
hand.
Stools, tables, tressels, trenchers, bed
steads, cups,
Po's, plate, and glasses. Here a fellow
whistles;
They fake him for the boatswain: one lies
struggling
Upon the floor, as if be swum for life;
A third takes the base-viol for the cock
boat.
Sits in the belly on’t, labours, and rows;
His oar, the stick with which the fiddle
plaid:
A fourth bestrides his fellow, thinking to
scape
(As did Arion) on the dolphin’s back,
Slid fumbling on a gitlern. The rude
multitude.
Watching without, and gaping for the
spoil
Cast from the windows, went by th’cars
about it;
The Constable is call’d to atone the broil;
Which done, and hearing such a noise
within
Os eminent ship-wreck, enters tli’ house,
and finds them
In this confusion; they adore his S.afl,
And think it Neptune’s Trident; and that
lie
Comes with his Tritons (so they call’d bis
watch)
To calm the tempest and appease the
waves.
And at thi» point we left them.”
Haywood.
Man's Heart
I would fain know what kind of thing a
man’s heart is.
were you never
At Barber Surgeon’s Hall to see a dissec
tion?
I will report it to you: ’tis a thing framrd
With divers corners, and into every cor
ner
A man may entertain a friend: ( here
came
The proverb, A man may love one well,
and yet
Retain a friend in a corner.)——
lush, ’tis not
The real heart; but the unseen facul
ties. —
Those I’ll decipher unto you: (for
surely
The most part are but ciphers.) The
Heart indeed
For the most part doth keep a better
guest
Than himself in him; that is, the soul.—
Now the soul
Being a tree, there are divers branches
spreading out of it.
As loving-affection, suffering-sorrows, and
the like.
Then, Sir, these affections or sorrows be
ing but branches,
Are sometimes lupt off, or of themselves
wither;
And new shoot in their rooms: us forex
ample;
Your friend dies, there appears sorrow,
but it quickly
Withers; then is ( hat branch gone. Again,
you love a friend;
There affection springs forth: at least you
distas.e;
Then that branch withers again, and ano
ther buds
In his room.
Rowley.
Fable.
A Salmon, as she swam unto the sea,
Met with a Dog fish; who encounters her
With his rough language: why art thou
so bold
To mix thyself with our high state of
'floods?
Being no eminent courtier, but one
That for the calmest and fresh time of the
year
Dost live in shallow rivers, rank’st thy
self
With silly Smelts and Shrimps:—and dar
est thou
Pass by otf Dog ship without reverence?
O (quoth the Salmon) sister, be at peace,
Thank Jupiter we both have past the net.
Our value never can be truly Known,
Till in the fisher’s basket we be shewn:
In the market then my price may be the
higher;
Even when 1 am nearest to the conk and
fire.
So to great men the moral may be stretch
ed:
Men oft are valued high when they are
most wretched.
Webster.
Love.
There is no life on earth, but being In
love!
There are no studies, no delights, no bu
siness,
No intercourse, or trade of sense, or soul,
But what is love! 1 was the laziest crea
ture,
Tlie most unprofitable sign of nothing,
The veriest drone, and slept away my lift
Beyond the dormouse, till I was in love!
Anil now I can out-wake the nightingale,
Out-watch an usurer, and out-walk him
too,
Stalk like a ghost that haunted ’bout a
treasure.
And all that fancied treasure, it is love!
Ben Jonson.
Men’s Matures more hard and subti l
than Women’s,
How stubbornly this fellow' answer’d me 1
There is a vile dishonest trick in man,
More than in women; all the men 1 mee
Appear thus to me, are harsh and rude,
Ana have a subtilty in every thing,
Which love could never know; but we
fond women,
Harbour the easiest and smoothest tho’ts,
And think all shall go so ; it U unjust
That men and women should be match’
together.
Beaumont & Fletcher.
Limb’s Specimens.
EXTRACTS
From an actount of “ China, hy John Bar
row, Esq. F. It. S. one of the Secreta.
vies of the Admiralty ”
If the embassy of the Earl Macartney
lo the Court of Pekin fallen in its imme
diate object, which was just about as rea
son able as if the Emperor of China had
sent to demand from ns the cession of the
Isle of Whight, it succeeded at least in
'blowing a more clear and distinct light
on the nature of the government, the
laws, language, and literature, of one of
the most ancient, and most extensive,
and, beyond comparison, the most popu
lous nation of the world. It was the,
means of obtaining a nearer insight into 1 "
the manners of the people, and of form
ing a more coirect estimate of their mo
ral character, than had hitherto been giv
en in the prejudiced accounts of the Ko
mish Missionaries. But the. most import
ant acquisition which resulted from this
embassy, in a literary point of view, was,
the complete developement of the extra
ordinary language of the Chinese, which
th. Jesuits had invariably represented as
of so obscure and mysterious a nature, tha'
the whole period of human existence was
too short to acquire even a competent
know .edge of it; whereas we now know
that a moderate degree of application for
two or three years, with the assistance
of . Chinese, will enable the smdeiu to
write it wi'h ease, to read and translate
‘heir most obscure books, and to transa-t
every kind of business, commercial or
political; and that this knowledge has
opened tip a vast fund of literature 1 which,
in Europe, was hardly suspected to ex
ist. To Sir ft eorge St.<unton, in th.
fi st place, to Dr. Mavshman and his son
it Sera upore, to Mr. Morrison, a Mission
ary at Canton, and to Mr Davis, a pro
nosing youth in the Ea»i India Company’s
Fa tory at that port, we are more in
debted for a true and distinct state of the
laws, the language, the institutions, ami
litei attire of China, than to all thevolnmi
nous writings of the Jesuits, which,
owever curious and valuable in mam,
details, are crowded with errors ami ri
aggerations.
The conterminous empires of Russia &
China occupy between them about one
fifth part of the habitable globe, in pretty
nearly equal portions; but the population
of the latter is about 4 imes greater thru
that of the fotmer, ev u after h elming.U
recent addition of ten millions of Poa-s
We can easily trace the boundavi sand
mark the extreme limits of these two
great empires, by parallels of latitude ami
meridional lines of longitude; but when
we come to reduce them to square m it s.
or speak of their contents in acres, tin
mind is bewildered in the magnitude of the
numbers required to express them, ami
forms but an indistinct idea of their super
ficial extent.
Yet in all this extent of frontier, which
cannot than 10,000 geographical
miles, the Chinese territory has hiihert
preserved itself so invulnerable, and even
inaccessible to foreigners, that riot a Rus
sian, a Turcoman, an Afghaun, a Hindoo,
Barman, or Tunquinese, by land, m r an
European nor an Americi.n, among the
numbers that annually procee d to Can on
for the purposes of trade, have at any
time been able to transgress any part of
tins most extensive boundary, without th'
knowledge and permission of its vigilant
an ' jealous government; aided, however,
by a mora barrier, of its-df perhaps inm
p 'able, —(he impossibility of connurni
cation, from the toial ignorance which
prevails, from the highest to the lowest
-if the people, of every language but their
own, and the unaccountable ignorance of
other nations of their language.
This interdiction of intercourse with a
people who have nothing in common with
the rest of the world, will account for the
to'al ignorance which so long prevailed,
tin Tulle knowledge we yet possess, re
specting this s ngolar id original people;
for that they are an original and unmixed
race we conceive no reasoiiahh .doubt can j
be entertained, though a different hypo
thesis has been held by learned a d inge
nious men. By De Guignes and Freret,
arguing (rom the communicaiona of the
Jesuits, they were supposed to be deriv
ed from a colony of Egyptians; by the
earliei Jesuits, they were set do* n as a
tribe of lews; and hy sir Wil.iam Jones
as desendants of the Csiiaojrya or Milita
ry Caste of Hindoos, called. Chinas,
“who,” sav the pundits, “abandoned
the ordinances of the Veda, and lived
in a state of degradation ” With sub
mission to such high authoriti- s, we should
as soon think of deriving air nk of atree
from its blanches, as of the ■ eopK of Chi
na from any of these. That they are not
Egyptians, the-ingenious I’auw has most
clearly and satisfactorily demonstrated,
by proving that, in no one iota, does there
or ever did there, existent single re
semblance. As little similarity is there
between them and the Hindoos; no two
people, indeed, could possibly differ
more than they do in their physical and
moral character, in tin ir language, and
in theirpolilical and religious institutions.
The colour of the Hindoo is ebon black
or a deep bronze; that of a Chinese a
sickly white, or pale yellow, like that of a
faded leaf, or the root of rhubarb; —the
features of a Hindoo are regular and
placid; those of a Chinese wild, irregu
lar, constant only in the oblique and
< iongated eye, and the broad root of the
nose; the Hindoos are slaves and martyrs
to religious ordinances; the Chinese have
superstitions enough, but, stricily speak
ing, no religious prejudices;—the Hin
does are divided into castes; th* Chinese
know of no such division; —the historical
records of China go far beyond (he time
that these supposed Chinas, of Sir Wil
liam Jones, peopled the country; the
iliiidoos have not apageof history;—the
language of Hindustan is alphabet ic;that of
China a transition from the heiroglyphic
lo the symbolic; and there is not the sligh
test analogy in the colloquial languages ol
the two countries.
Pauw, and some other writers, are of
"pinion, they proceeded originally from
the heights of Tartary. It is, in fact,‘ob
vious enough, that the Tar'ars & Chinese
are one ami the same rade; and the only
question seems to be, whether the latter,
guided by the mountain-streams, descend
'd from the bleak and barren elevations
,f Tartary, which, bulging out of the ge
eral surface of the earth, have bein
impared with the boss of a shield, to the
crtile plains and temperate climate of
:iiina ? or, whether the former are
swarms sent off by an over-abundant po
pulation, and driven into the mountains;.
The former supposition will be
perhaps, as. the more probable of the
tV A Chinese city is nothing more than a i
Tartar camp, surrounded by mounds of
I, to preserve themselves and cattle
from the depredations of "eighbourmg ,
tribes, and nocturnal attacks ol wolvei
and other wild beasts; and a Chinese .
bitalion, the Tartar tent, with its swe p
i„g roof supported poles, excepting
the Chinese have cased their walls With
brick, and tiled the roofs of their houses.
When the famous baibanan Gengis-Kuati
made an irruption into the fertile plains
of China, and Hook possession o a om
nese city, bis soldiers immediately set a
bmit pulling down the four walls of the
ifttiuses, leaving the overhanging roots
supported on the wooden columns, by
which they were converted into excel
lent tents for themselves and horses. Yet
such is the facility with which Chinese
and Tartars amalgamate, that although
this celebrated barbarian could neither
read nor write any language, he listened
lo the advice of the conquered,—became
sensible of the change of situation in
which he found himself,—did every thing
he could to repair the errors he had com
mitted,—and both he and his successors
left good names behind them in the an
nalsof the country. In like manner the
present Mantclioo Tartars, who lived in
tents, and subsited on their cattle aad by
hunli' g, immediately accommodated
themselves to the manners, the customs,
and the institutions of China, preserving
nothing of their own, not even their re
ligion, and scarcely a vestige of ancient
superstitions ilia' do not coincide with
■ hose of the Chinese,—one of the most
singular of which is, their agreement in
the birth of man ard of the serpent-wo
man, and the universal use and estimation
of the ancient Scythian emblem of the
dragon. Next to tiie Chinese, the Turks
seem to have preserved most of the cha
racter and customs of the ancient Scythi
ans from whence they sprang, and :he
Turks are Tarters. Some
or has pointed out a similarity between the
Turks and Chinese in seventeen differ
ent customs; lie might have extended the
parallel to more than that number.
Ancient usage, universally app- aledto,
is almost the only rule of conduct, and
the only limitation or control prescribed
totxecutive authority vested in the mo
arch. The public voice is nev t heard,
bid the public opinion is sednivasly
courted hy thy sovereign, and conveyed
to every pait of he empire through the
medium of the Pekin Gazette. Pl.is ve
hicle of imperial panegyric is published
daily; it sent forth into ail rhe provinces,
and read in all the public tuv. rns and tea
houses. It s one of the most powerful
engines of slate; and a series of this p.i
per would explain the nature of govern
• lent, better than all the moral maxims
of antiquity on which it is supposed to be
founded. Through it are all the mea
sures of the government, or rather of the
sovereign, communicated to the pubhc
If he fasts or feasts, promotes or de
grades, levies or remits taxes, feeds the
hungry,•-clothes 'he naked, rewards vir
tue, or punishes vice, or in short, whate
ver laudable action lie may perform, it is
announced in this state paper, with the
motives and the reasons that may have gi
v n rise to it. .Every sentence of dealii,
with an abstract of the charges and the
trial, every mitigation of punishment, are
also published in this Gazette
I’he grand leading principle of this pa
triarchal Government is to place the So
vereign at as great a distance from the
people, and as far removed from mortali
ty. as human invention could suggest. —
They not only stile him, the “Son of
Heaven;” but believe him to hr of hea
venly descent; and this superstitious no
tion, appeared in a manner sufficiently
remarkable, by the obstacles thrown iti
the way of the present Manchoo dynasty,
on account of their family not being able
to trace their descent farther back than
eight generations; a deduct of ancient ori
j gin, »’hich was considered hy the Chi
nese as a great reproach. Kiung-hee,
aware of their prejudices, caused the
genealogy of the Tartar family to be
published in the Gazette. It stated
that “the daughter of heaven, descend
ing on the borders of the lake Ponlkoti
ri, at the font of the VVlrite M( untaiii. and
eating s me red fruit that grows there,
conceived, and bore a son, partaking of
her nature, and endowed with wisdom,
strength, ai d beauty; that the people
those him for their Sovereign, and that
from him were descenced t e pr »ent
• Son of Heaven,’ who filled the throne
of China.” Ami this explanation wiped
away the reproach, and fu ly satisfied the
subjects of the “celestial Empire.”
When Pauw observed that China was
governed by the whip &. the bamboo, he
was. ot aware of the theoretical application
of these intruments, especially the latter,
to the whole code of civil and criminal
lawn the remark was not meant to ex
tend beyond the practical application of
these machines to the human body, which,
it must be owned, are effectual aids to
wards the establishment of a s riot police
and that they are freely enough adminis
tered in keeping the peace among the
lower orders; but their use in this way is
by no means so extensive as is generally
supposed, and as the letter of »lie law
would seem to imply. This great em
pire may, notwithstanding, be aptly
enough compared to a great school, of
which the magistrates are the masters,
and the p. opie the scholars. The bam
boo is the ferula, and care is taken that
the child is not to be spoiled by sparing the
rod Tiie bamboo, however, is not used
merely for flogging the people. In the
the fundamental laws of the empire, it
forms the scale by which all punishments
are supposed to be proportioned lo the
crimes committed, k which are carefully
dealt out by weight & measure; and here
also we recognise the work of an ancient
people in a rude state of society. In a
small family', or a community consisting
of a certain number of families, it may
just be possible to “adapt the penalties
of the laws in a just proportion to the
crimes s gainst which they are denounc
ed ;” but the continuance of such a sys
tern in an overgrowr commonwealth af
fords no proof of refined or extensive no
tions of jurisprudence. Punishment, as
an example, to deter others from the
commission of crimes, would seem indeed
to be less the object of Chinese legisla
ion, than that of satisfying the claims of
rigid justice; to wipe off’ a certain degree
of crime by the infliction of a propor
tionate degree of suffering.
-I This bamboo, that makes so con
. - c.miw in the Chinese code, is
i'S s indies in hi* .h 2}«
and 2 inches thick, weighing 2 2-o pound ,
the smaller the same length, - inche
broad, 11 and 115 thick, weight about I
5 1lSS. as a system of divine worship.
. ! pt.yW»r,UGod..n.l».lioUingfo.h
future rewards and punishments, can
hardly be said to exist among the people
It is here at h ast, neither a bond of union,
nor a source of dissentum. I hey hate
no sabbatical institution, no congregation
al voi ship ; no external farms of devo
tion, of petition, or thanksgiving, to the
Supreme Being ; the Emperor_and he
alone, being high priest, and the only in
dividual who stands between Heaven and
the people, having the t ime relation to the
former that the latter are supposed to bear
to him; performs the sacred duties, accord
inu-to the ancient ritual, and at certain fixed
periods ; but the people have no concern
with them The Emperor alone officiate sat
all the solemn Arc-monies, for propitia
ting Heaven, or expressing a grateful
sense of its benefits; and as “Sacrifice*
and oblations can only be acceptable to
heaven, when offered .ip with humble
reverence, and a pure and upright heart,
he prepares himself so- such occasions
bv fasting and abstinence, and acts of be
nevolence and mercy to his subjects.
The equinoxes are the periods when
the grand sacrifices in the temple dedi
cated to Heaven, within the' precincts
of the palace, are offered up; when
everv kind of business in the capita),
all feasts, amusements, marriages, fu
nerals, must be suspended during the
ceremony, the moment of which is an
nonneed to the people by the tolling of
the great bell in Pekin.
All ra ks, however, from the Emperor,
downwards, are full of absurd supersti
tions. The imagination of untutored man,
not easily comprehending a power so al
mighty and u live sal, created a num
her of inferior spiritual beings as the
harbinges and agents of his will; anti
these spiritual agents, which the Chi
nese call Quel-skin, are invisible attenu
ated beings, some white and good, the
advocates of mesa, others black and wick
ed, the punishers of sin; and these “ il
lustrious subjects of the Great Ruler,”
are suposed io preside over the five sea
sons of he year, —over mountains and ri
ve(.B) —over the hearth and the door ot
(lie house, —and influence all the con
cerns of men. o these spirts certain
duties are prescribed, and certain obla
tions offered; the men usually bring wine,
the w omen tea; but these are private ce
remonies and heartless duties; the devo
tion of religion was totally wanting; and
in such a state it was not surprising that
the doctrines and the practice of the sects
of Tao-tse and of F > should captivate the
vulgar, and seduce them to a religion
.that spoke more strongly to the senses.
It would seem, indeed, that the establish
ment of some popular religion is una
voidable, and tha' of Fo may, on this
ground, be encouraged by the govern
ment, though it derives little or no snp
port from it. The ancient religion of Chi
na entertained the idea ot spiritual be
ings, but they never clothed them in a
corporal .form. In the time of Con
• fucius their temples were without images;
their guardian gods ana their evil genii
were imaginary beings, to which the.
neither gave form or substance; but when
the priests of Fo found sheir entrance in
to China, they b roughl with them all the
follies and absurdities of the doctrine o’
Boudh, and grafted them on the supersti
tions of the Chinese. They filled their
temples with all manner ofimages, each
having its peculiar virtues and pe
. culiar influences, and h-vviny for each
a tax on the credulity of the people.—
lu some of these temples are not fewer
than 300 sainted personages—monstrous
figures as large, and frequently many
times larger, than human beings. Theii
bolls and their beads, and burning of in
cense and tapers —their images and then
altars—their singing and processions, were
well calculated to seduce the populace,
who had no outward forms of any religion.
So strong was the res- mblauce of the in
terior of a temple of Fo—the dress of the.
priests—and the ceremonies of devotion,
to those of the church of Rome, that one
of the Catholic missionaries says, it seem
ed as if the devil had run a race with the
Jesuits to China, and, having got the start
of them, its t contrived these things for
their mortification.
The origin of Chinese poetry is indi
cated by the component parts of the
character employed to express it —words
of the temple —short measured sentences,
dehve'ed as instructions to the people—
soch are those in the ancient writings,
and such chiefly are the moral maxims of
Confucius- I is so far from bring true,
as Gr- zier flippantly asserts, “that a learn
ed man writing good verses, would he
considered in the same light ai a dragoon
officer p aymg well on the fiddle,” that
there are few men having any pretensions
to learning, who do not write verses.—
The several odes and didactic poems of
Kien-hmg. were quite sufficient to make
poetry fashionable, if there were no taste
for it among the people ; but all are fond
of poetry. We have before us the ransla
tion of a part of an Ode on England & Lon
don, written bv a common Chinese servant
bro’t over by a gentleman from Canton, in
which are many just observations, with ac
curate 8c concise descriptions; the climat--,
he says, is cold, and people live close,
to fires; that the houses aie so lofty that
you may pluck the stars. Kang-he made
the same observation to the Jesuits, and
supposed that Europeans lived like birds
in the air, f* ■ want of space to build upon.
Our Chinese proceeds to say, that the
virtuous read their sacred book, and (~ pc.
lee to GotJ pray to God; that they hate
the French, and are always fighting
them; that the little girls have red cheeks;
and tne ladies are fair as the white gem,
that husbands and wives love each other;
that the playhouses are shut in the day
and open at night; that players are hand
some, and their perfcimance delightful,
&c.
Among the specimens of ancient po
etry from the Shoo-king, the following
is an address of the Emperor Chun to his
■ ministers :
i Koo, koong khee tsai
Yuen shyen khee tsai
Pith koong hee tsai.
When the chief ministers delight in
r their duty,
The sovereign rises to successful ex
• ertion,
A multitude of inferior officers ar
■ dently co-operating.
To v\ Inch the itiinlsUf. ...
the same strain; 3 t3s Joi
Yuev shyen ming tsai
Koo koong lyang tsai
Shyu tse khang tsai
When the sovereign is , v ; se
ihe ministers are faithf.ir
trust, ' '
And all things hnppi] v s „
We give the following f'
zier’s collection, ss no unfavorab'.
men of modern poetry, n m ‘ f
the Contented Philosopher
“ My palace is a litile cl.unh*,
my own length; finery ncv.-,- J
8t neatness never left it. i\y
and the coverlid a piece of d-u, 1
I sit by day, by night, °
is on one side, ami on the ot!, Pp ,
perfume. 'I he singing of
rustling of the breeze, the B[l
of a brook, j a>e the only son,,,
hear. My window will .'mt, an j
open.—hut to wisfemc-n only; ,|, e
slum it. ! shave not like spriest
I fast not like the Tao-tse. Ttm
in my heart, innocence guides
tions. Without a master, and ®
scholar, I waste not my life in j
of nothings, and .in writing ch
still less in whetting (he edges
or in trimming words of praise,
no views; no projects,
more c 1 • ’ins for me than wealth
the pleasures of the, world cost j,
single wish. The enj lyrrr-nt of,
solitude is my chief concirii,
surrounds me, and hustle shiuy
contemplate the heavens and am|
1 look on the earth and amcomli
remain in the world without bei
One clay leads on another, am!o«,
followed by another, the las'will
me safe to port, and I shall have |
mvse f.”
Dramatic entertainments are]
as in Europe closely connected
etry. The songs and recilati*
lighter pieces, abound with char
double meaning and equivocal
sion ; Im are generally so contrii
while the written characters s 1
one sense, the sound shall r.>nvi
ear another; and these sub'erf.ig
sorted to in order to avoid that pm
which the magistrates would li
ed to inflict for a breach of the
peering public decorum, in the
tion 05 exhibition of any thing"
and unequivocally obscene; ami
life is represented on the stage
any of Us polish or cmhellslm
acts, however infamous or honj
exhibited on the stage; annul
execution. Wether the culprit
demnecl to die by the cord, by
tion, by being cut into ten tlwiu
ces, or by being Head alive,the
tors must be indulged with aslgi
operation. Nor do they stop
Those functions of animal life, 01
decency requires a veil to be ibr
exhibited in full display ; many
si 1 gross and indelicate, so coir
dialogue, and so indecent in lb
representation, that foreigners*
witnessed them have retired from
ire in disgust.
( 'To be continued in our na
— 1
FORIKVN
Satanfah, Octob
. By the arrival of the Ship Ogl
captain Rawson, we have receivt
pool papers to the 251 h August, 1
Tin to the 19th of Ihe same Will
A letter from Liverpool, tec
- the Oglethorpe, states, that ani
quantity of hardware, of the®
inon description, and suitable
lion sales, has been ordered fall
ern stales.
Much excitement existed at Li
- at the conduct of the gomntne
arrangement of the Queen’s b
The preparations for celebrating
rent having been frustrated by l
posed to it, by means of a sum
; placard.
, The jury of inquest upon!*
. of tlie men killed at the funs®
- Queen, had not come to adt
Much complaint is made of diet
, to screen the offenders by undit
■ to conceal them, and by pI JC "
cles in the way of witnesses 1
identify them.
t \ Pans paper says, that the
whose arrival is spoken ot byfa
is no other than Joseph Bonapal
- had left Am rica for the put] ll
■ fording assistance to the Gm»»
j Nothing but rumours are Jp™
subject of Russia and Austria
• portaut despatches arc said »
, received from the Austrian.®
r at Petersburg!! Reports ot m
, having obtained the medial'**
land, and a declaration of die v *
- Emperor Alexander, continue 1
tion. The Courier is not ofop l *
views of Kusshi tend to war
which would excite the J al ! j
• allies—unless it is to be
I the same views upon which
: Piedmont were occupied j)
; At St. Petetsburgh, o ■ fa",* 1 . [
I expectations were entertain*
- with Turkey. a
Ypsilanti is placed unde*
t lance of an Austrian officer
1 The commerce of Cadiz oas
ry severely from the patriotl
- The yellow fever is said .
, introduced into the departing
Pvrenees, by a vi-ssel from ■
; By a letter from Leghorni .
1 inst. it appears that the slue
1 belonging to the capt. of tlie
andria, on her return from s
' been taken off'Cape Passarn.
’ at Idra, and converted i n |° i
; The Turks were thrown ‘
r the Greeks alleging tha
; try men met the same fat* * J
, pie. It is stated that fouro%
; longing to the Pacha of IjKK
/ captured and carried into Lj
The village of Stron, in (
, lately nearly destroyed
sion. It was situated on » .a
- water of several springs '
y and undermined the towis^jj
s which is in ruins Whci*
been before seen, roofs an
seen rising from the prouD'J jit
has entirely disappeared*
thrown out of its channel
r formed a bay, is now
earth. „ t fi*
The following article »PPj j,<
stituiional paper :- 7‘‘
- been ordered out otß*- 3 . -f#
as well as from the *