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Al*o I* AJITAKC*.
The following venes said to be the
production of Thomas Moore ; and were
simp before George the 4th, during his
slay in Ireland.—-They were sent to a
Lady resident in this city; and have
I,een politely offered to us tor publica
tion. ~ _ „
<i —Patrick * Pay."
Though dark are our sorrows, to day
we’ll forget them,
And smile thro* our tears, like asun
beam in show ers.
There never were hearts, if our rulers
would let them, ,
More formed to be gratc r ul and blest
than ours. .
But just when the chain,
Has cens’d to pain,
And hope has cwwreath'd round widi
How eis,
Thine comes a new link,
Our spirits to sink.
_t)h! the joy that wc taste, like the light of
the Poles,
Is a (lash amid darkness, too brilliant to
stay. . ... . .
But tho’ ’twerc the last little spark in
our souls,
Wc must light it up, now on our Princes
day
He loves the green Isle, and his lovers
recorded,*
In hearts which suffered tco much to
forget;
And Hope shall he crown d, and attach
ment rewarded,
And Erin’s pay jubilee, shine out yet.
Thy gt nr *muy he broke.
By many a stroke,
But nothing can cloud its native ray.
Each fragment will cast,
A light till the last.
And thus Erin my coualry, tho’ broken
thou art,
There is a lustre within thee, that ne er
will decay :
A rpirit w hich beams, thro’ each suffering
pari,
And now smiles at their pain, on their
Princes Day.
‘""V Those four lines wrra particularly
itlmiied, and consequently repeated.
For the Chronicle.
i s MV fjiom /’///•; I) EACH.
J saw from the beach when the morning
was shining, .
A ha.k o’er the waters move glorious y on;
I cum* when ihc sun o’er that beach was
declining— „ ,
The hark was still there, but the waters
wer> gone!
Ali! sm-h is the fate of our life’s early
promise, ...
fid ihc spring-tide of joy wc have
known:
Em,|, wave that Vt danced on at morning
ebbs from us,
And leaves u% at eve, on the bleak short
alone 4
Nr’er tell me of glories serenely adorning
The close of our day, the calm cvc ol our
night t
Hive me buck, give me hack, the mild
freshness of morning,
Per clouds and her tears tears arc worth
evening’s best light.
Oh, who would not welcome th&t mo*
ment’s returning, ■
"When passion first mark’d a new life thro
his frame i
And his soul, like tho wood, that grows
precious in burning,
Gave out all its sweets to love’s exquisite
Hanie!
Selected from Moore's Irish Melodics.
FROM CAMPBEI.I ’s POEMS.
• And 1 could weep tbe Oneyda chief
II is descant w ildly thus begun;
»Rut that In ay not stain with grief
‘ The death-sung of my father’s son !
• Or bow his head in woe ;
• For by my wrongs, and by my wrath .
• To-morrow Areouaki’s breath,
• That fit i s yon heav’n with storms ot death,
•Shall light us to the foe :
•A’d we shall shure, in Christian boy .
• ihc foe man’s blood, the avenger’s joy !
•Bu liter, my flow’r,whose breath was giv’n
<Hy milder genii o’er the deep, i
• Vi> spirits of the. white man’s heav’n
• For bid not thee to weep
• Nr ,r will the Ghristian host,
• No, will tbv Label's spirits grieve
iTo see hie, on the bank’s eve,
• Lamenting take a mournful leave
• Os her who lov’d thee most:
•Slu was the rainbow to thy sigh*!
«Thy am—thy heav’n —of losi delight 1
‘To morrow let us do or die !
• But wneu the boll of death is hurl d,
• vu! ulrer then with thee to fly,
• Shall OuUiissi loam the world ?
• geek wc thy <. nee lov’d home
• Tbe hand is gone that erupt us flowers:
• Unheard Uieir clock repeat*it# hours -
• Cold is the hearth within their boa rs.
• And should we thither roam,
• its echos. audits empty m ad,
f Would sound like voices from the dead!
i, Or shall we cro*» von mountain blue,
• V hose atreums my’kindred nation quaff'd;
« A <d by my side, in battle true,
« A thousand warriors drew tbe shaft?
4 Ah ! there is a desolation cold,
• The desert serpent dwells alone,
• Wheie grass o’etgrows each nvauld’ring
bone,
4 Arid stones themselves to ruin grown,
• Like me, are death like old.
•<The'. seek wenottbcircamp—for there—
-4 t he silence dweLs of my despair !
4 But hark, tbe trump!—to-morrow thou
«In glory’s firesslialt dry thy tears :
• Even from the land of shadows now
« ,v»y father’s awful ghost appears,
4 Amids the clouds that round us roll;
4 lie bids my soul for battle thirst—
4Ht bids me dry the last—the first—
« The ou.y tears that ever burst
• From Outahssi’s soul;
• Because 1 may n»»t stain with grief
4 Ihc death-song ol an Indian chiefs*
k.
THE BARE % CVBTOVS
44 Women, »r, Pour *t Centre."
I.
W’lthout our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home, that plighted love en
dears ;
Wilhont the smile from partial beauty
won,
Oh what weje man ?—A world without a
sun.
• « • • *
The World was sad, the Garden was r
wild,
And man tht Hermit sigh’d, 'till woman
’ mil ed.
C AMC CELL.
1.
The only two that in my recollection
Have song of Heaven and Hell, or Maa
riag>‘, are
Dante and Milton, h of both the affection
Was hapless in their nuptials, for some
u bar
or temper ruined Ihc connexion,
(Such things, in fact, it dont ash much to
mar-,)
Hut Dante’s Beatrice, and Milton’s Eve
Were not drawn from their spouses you
conceive.
Bihon.
IT.
Is there a heart that never loved,
Nor fell soft woman’s sigh ?
IS there a man can mark unmoved,
Dear womans tearful eye !
(Hi ! bear him to some distant shore.
Or solitary cell.
Where none but savage monsters roar,
Where man ne’er deigned to dwell.
FITESIHMOXS.
11.
Neither their sighs nor tears are true,
Those idly blow, these idly fall.
Nothing like to ours at all.
But sighs and tears have sexes 100
Lowest,
As much pity ia to be taken of a woman
weeping, us of a goose going barefoot.
Button.
HI.
Grace in all her steps, Heaven in her eye;
In every gesture, dignity and love
Milton.
111.
Oh woman ? woman ! w hether lean or fat;
In face an Angel, but in soul a Cat.
PetKII PISUAB
From the Loudon Examiner.
Newspaper Chat.
The old lUoimk. —M. Masers de la
Tudc, noble by birth, and an officer by
pioft ssion, was imprisoned for great num
ber of yi ara in the Usstille, the dungeon
of the Vincennes, ani the Bicetre, by
order of Madame de Pompadour, the mis
tress of Louis XV, whom be bad unlucki
ly offended. By means of a rope-ladder
four hundred leet in length, with two
hundred steps or cross-bands, all construc
ted out of shirts and stockings carefully
unravelled tor that purpose, he and his
Companion, d’Alegre, found means to
escape ft om one ol the towers of the Bas
tille. At Amsterdam he Was claimed by
the French ambassador, conducted in
chains to France, and iiulu)ged,(or rather
punished, with the sight oi his former
companion, whom he found raving mai.
in the hospital at Chart nton ! After re
maining forty months in his old apartment
in the Bastille, lie Itarned, by means of a
tut of p.iper pasted on a window in la rue
St. Jlntome, that the Marchioness was no
more: but as lie refused to disclose how
he cum< by this intelligence, he was re
manded by U. de Sartines, then licuten
ant de police, to the dungeon at Vincen
nes, whence lie escaped by knocking
down two sentinels Being again take* ,
he was committed to a gloomy cell in the
Picetre, whence he was at length extri
cated hy the kindness of a charitable la
dy, called Madame do Gross, who became
security for his good behaviour, aid actu
ally maintained him out of her li tie in
come. .The authentic memousof M. Mu
sersde la Tude, containing an account of
his confinement during thirty five years in
the state prisons of France, to gratify
tne abandoned mistress <>f a detestably li
ct minus King, were first published in
1738, aud were supposed to have centre
bitted to the justly-destruction of thi-
Bastiile in the year 1789.
Charles Rail, the barrister, was plain
till’ in a horse cause in Ireland, which
was tried by Lord Nnrbtiry As a las' re
source the defendant's counsel called Mr.
E. Swif, whose evidence being- decisive
against him, tht Judge said, “ 1 think,
b other, you have now los< yonr cause
with u ivmu ts
A Kentish youth lately a’cfor his sni -
per, at the I’aibot Inn, to the Borough,
three dozen and a hall? of oysters, om
pound ai d a quarter ol cheese, three quar
ters of a pound of bacon, a quantity of
muscles, three sal herrings, nine penny
pies, a large onion, and a hall quartern
loaf, and drank one pot of ale and one of
beer It appeared only an ordinary meal
to him! •
A clergyman prt aching in the neigh
bourhood of M apping, observing ilia'
most part of his audience were in the sea
faring way, embellished his discourse with
several nautical trsops and figures. A
nnmgst other things he advised ill m to
be ever on the watch, so that, on whatsoe
ver tack the Evil One should bear down up
on them, he mtffht be crippled in action
“ Aye, master,” muttered a jolly son ut
Neptune, “but letmeteli you, that w,l(
depend upon your having the weather
gage of him.”
Faacas ox ran North Rom.—The in
habitants of Ferry bridge have been much
amused by a scene which took place late
ly between a noble loid, of the corps di
plomatiqui, and a respectable 'lnnkeept r
ol that town. His lordship, it seems, was
not attended with that prompt obedience
which he had been accustomed to receive
Loin the Bonifactsof Austria; biswell
known impe uosity burst forth; an alter
cation of rather a violent nature ensued,
which terminaud in the rohle ambassador
urning his host out of the room. The
cause «,f contention, we understand, was
the non-appearance oj a jelly !
Traveller,
v« vj. v 7 . . T’
ijp V
The house and estate of Uie late Lord I
Nelson, a Morden, have become the pro
perty, by purchase, of Harrinton, the
opulent distiller at Brentford
Bishop Warburton was one day harangu
ing atßaih in behalf of prerogative, jus'
as all Bishops do.—Quin said, “Pray, m>
Lord, spare me; you are not acquainted
with my principles; I trr. a republican;
and perhaps I even think that the cxccu
tion of Charles the First might be justi
fied.—“ fi ye,” said Warburton, “by
what law ?”—Quin replied, “By alt
the laws he had left them.”—The Bishop
would have got off upon judgment*; and
bade the Wit remember, that all the Re
gicidesca-ne to violent ends; (which how--
ever is false-) —“ 1 wou’d not advise your
Lordship,” said Quin, “to make use of
that inference; for if fam not mistaken,
that was the case of the twelve apostles ”
Horace Wslpole’s taste in Gothic archi
tecture and ornament, canted a number
of applications to see Ids house at Straw
berry-hill. Being, as he himself says, one
day 100 cross, having been plagued all
the week with staring crowds, he exclaim
ed, (it was then raining a deluge,) “Well!
nobody will come to-day.” The words
were scarcely uttered, when the bell
rang. A company dished to see the
house. He replied, “ Tell them they
cannot possibly see the house, but they
are very welcome to walk in the gaaclen ”
According to Hr. Johnson, the two low
est of all human beings are, “a Scribbler,
fora party and a Commissioner ol Excise.”
This was said, we presume, before he
himscll become a party writer and a pen
sioner !
The Earl of Chesterfield, vhen old
feeble, fc on his Jest legs, was strenuous
ly advised by his friend Sir Thor.ias Ro
binson, —who was above six feet liigh,—
11 to go abroad and take exercise, Or he
would the by inr/us ” “If that must be
the case,” said the Noble Wit, “ I am ve
ry glad I am not so tall as you, Sir 'lho <
mas.”—While the Karl was Viceroy in
Ireland, one of the Uitra-Piotestants has
tened to discover to him, that his coach
man privately went to mass ! —‘‘Dots he
indeed?”—(whs his reply to the gap ng
zealot:) —" Well, 111 take care that he
shall never drive me thither.’
I'JIE • CJIP TIVE r UEXCESS.”
The case of this lady is certainly a
strange one; and though there is much
room to suspect very daring fabrical-on of
documents, yet on the other hand, the
conductof authority affoids good ground
for presuming, that there is something
connected will) her pretensions, which
could not beexpostd without some dread
ed scandal. Why did not government in
terfere, when Mrs. Sen es first assumed
the character of a Member of the Royal
Family ? She ostentatiously courted in
quiry ; she drove about the Parks with a
carriage emblazoned with the royal arms ;
she did ail in her power to bring her case
before the Court of Ring’s Bench ; she
even resisted the payment of taxes, we
are told, on the score of privilege. The
documents on which she rested her claims,
all purported to be the autographs of dis
tinguished personages, any attempt to
fabricate whose handwriting could be de
tected with thv greatest facility. The
Court of King’s Bench, however, got rid
of the question on some plea of formali
ty ; people in authority have appeared
studiously to shirk it; and even the Ex
chequer, it is asserted, has forgotten to
lay its iron claw upon the defaulter.
Now we da not know that the claims
in question are not founded on the most
impudent fabrication ; and that the v< ry
excess of impudence has not procured
for them hitherto a partial success. Nei
ther do we know, that the inattention of
government is no* simple neglect. Bo
lt the whole business is a trick, such ne
gleet has been extremely culpable .since
it has unquestionably assisted the delu
sion, and may have produced injury, if
not rum, to many industrious tradesmen
A Morning Paper says, the claims of Mrs.
Sc. i res will be discussed shortly in a law
court ; we trus the statement is correct;
and that an end will be put, in some way
or other, to this very ridiculous and mis
chievous affair.
In the following correspondence, Roy
ally has certainly the worst of it, as ge
nerally happens in its encounters w ith the
Press :
To the Editor of the Leeds Mercury
Sin—l must be under the necessity of
proceedii g rigorous.y against the base
libeilev of my character, copied from
your Paper by the Tines —and especially
us every paper of my legitimacy Mis been
proved according to law. You will, Sir,
attend to this notice Olive.
43, Jiing-str ct, Soho, Crl. 21, 1821.
(Sealed with the Royal Anns.)
HKI'LT.
Leeds, Oct. 21,1821.
Madam—l was duly honoured w ulr y our
letter of the 21sl hist, and shall not fail
to attend to the notice it contains. You
must, however, pardon me when 1 ob
serve, “ that the rigorous proceeding”
which you threaten to institute, may be
more properly directed against ihe Be
gist- rof the Parish Chinch if Si. Nich
o’as, Warwick, than against the Leeits
Mercury, —l am, Madam, your most obe
dient and vety hutnbK Servant,
Edward Daises
To Olive, soi-disante, Princess of "i
Cumberland, s
45, A: ng-strect, Soho, London j
From the Works of Sir John Suckling,
MADAM,
By the same Reason the Ancients made
no sacrifice to Death shout’d yom Lady
ship send me no Letters; since there has
been no Return on my Side. But the
Truth is, the Place affords nothing; all our
Days are (as the Women here! alike, and
the Difference of Pair does rarely shew it
seit; such grea Slate do Beauty and the
Sun keep in these Parti: 1 keep Com
pauy With my own Horses, Matlam, to a
v<>»d that of the Men ; and by this you may
guess how great an Enemy to my living
contentedly my f unly is, wliofe Conversa
tion has brought me to so fine a Diet, that
wheresoever I go I must starve : All Days
are tedious, Companies troublesome, ami
Books them selves (Feasts heretofore.) no
Relish in them,Finding you to be the cause
of all this, excuse me, Madam, if 1 resent;
and continue peremptory in she resolution
1 have taken to be,
Madam, du’ing Life,
I’our humblest Servant,
A We*™ oj Sentences out oj tome oj
the -writings oj Lord Halo*.
f It is a strange desire which men have,
to sek power and lose liber y
n Children increase the cares of me ;
bul'they mitigate the remembrance of (
i deati * I
3, Round dealing is the honor of man’s
nature ; and a mixture of falsehood is lik< '
aho' in gold and silver, which may make :
«|,e metal woik the better, but it embas
-1 f. Death openeth the gate to good fame,
ami ext,nguisheth envy
5. Schism, in the Spiritual Body of the
■ Church, is a greater scandal than a corrup
tion in manners; as, in the natural body,
a wound or solution of continuity, is
worse than a corrupt humor
fi. Revenge is a kind of wild justice
which the more a man’s nature runs to,
the more ought law to weed it out.
7 H- that studieth revenge, keepeth
his own wounds green.
8. Revengeful persons live and die like
witches. Their life is mischievous, and
their end is unfortunate.
9 It was an high speech of Senaca, (af
ter the manner of the stoic’s ) That the
good things which belong to prosperity,
arc to be wish’d ; but the good things
which belong to adversity, are to be ad
mired.
10 He that cannot see w ell, let him go
aofdy. . .
11. If a man be thought secret, it invit
etli discovery ; as the more close airsuck
eth in the more open.
12 Keep your authority wholly from
your Children, net so your purse.
13 Men of noble birth are noted to be
envious towards new men when they rise.
For the distance is altered ; a, d it is like a
deceit of the eye, that when others come
on, they think themselves go buck.
14, That envy is most malignant which
is like Cain’s, who envied Ins brnlhei be
cause his sacrifice was het.er accepted,
when there was no body but God to look
'' on.
1 1.5 The lovers of great place are im
pati- nt of privat'-mss, even in »ge which
• requires the shadow; tike eld townsmen
: that will be still sitting at theii strtet-dooi,
’ though they offer age to scorn
1 6 In evil, the best condition is, not to
will; the next, not to can.
17 In great place, ask counsel of both
times : of the ancient timas, what is best;
i and of the latter time what is fittest.
, 18 As in nature things move more vio
i lently to their place, and calmly in their
place: so virtue iu ambition is violent; in
1 authority, settled and calm.
19. Boldness in civil business, is like
Pronun. atiou in the orator of Demosthe
nes; tin* first, second, and thir hing.
20. Boldness is blind : wherefore’tis ill
in counsel, but good in execution For in
; counsel it is good to see dangers, in Exc
, cutions not to see them, except they be
i very great.
21. Without good nature, man is but a
better kind oi vermin,
22. God nev- r wrought mil acie to con
vince Atheism, because bis ordinary Works
convince it.
23. The great Atheists indeed are Hypo
crite?, who are always handling Ilo'i
, things, but without feeling; so as they
. mus: needs be cautcriz.d in the end.
24 The master of superstition is the
1 people. And in all superstitions, wise men
follow fools
I 25 In removing superstitions, cure wcnlf
be had that (as it fareth in ill pa g*ngs)
. the good be not taken away with the bad
which is commonly done, when the peopi.
i is (tie physician.
26. He that goeth into a country befor.
he ha-h some entrance into the Irnguagi,
gocih to school, and not to travel
27. It is a misi cable state of mind (and
■ yet it is commonly the case of kings) t-.
have few things to desire, and many things
'o fear.
28. Depression of the nobility may
make a king more absolute, but less safe.
• 29. All precepts concerning kings, art
in effect, comprehended in these remem
b ranees; rt member thou art a man: re
- member tho-i art God’s vicegerent The
one bndleth their power, and the other
■ their will.
30 Things will have their first or se
cond agitation If they be not tossed up
cn -he arguments of counsel, they will be
tossed upon the waves of fortune.
; 31. iho true composition of a counsel
lor, is rather to be skilled in his master’s
business than his nature ; for then he is
[- like to advise him, and not to feed his
humour.
| 32. Private opinion is more free, but
opinion before others is more reverend.
' 33. Fortune is like a market, where me
ny limes if you stay a little, the price wiil
’ fail
34. Fortune sometimes turneth the han
die of the bottle, which is easy to be taken
hold of; and after the belly, which is hard
to grasp.
35. Generally it is good to commit the
r beginning of all gieat actions, to Algris
1 with an hundred eyes; and the ends of
i them to Rriareus with an hundred hands;
first to watch and then to speed.
’ 35. There’s great difference betwixt a
• cunning man and a wise man. There he
that can pack the cards, who yet can’t play
well; they are good in canvasses and sac
s tions, and yet otherwise mean men.
37. Extreme self-lovers will set a man’s
house on fire, though it were but to roast
their eggs.
33. New things, like strangers, are
more admirer, and less favoured.
39. It were good that men in their in
novations, would follow the example of
time itself, which indeed innovateth great
ly, but quietly ; and by degrees scarce to
be perceived.
; 40 They that reverence too much told
- time, are but a scorn to ti e new.
i 41. The Spaniards and Spartans have
i been noted to be of small dispatch. Mi
p venga la muerte de Spagna ,- let my death
1 come from Spain, for then it will be sure
t to be long a coming.
: 42. Yon had better take, for business, a
. man somewhat absurd, than over formal
43. Those who want friends to whom
r to open their griefs, are cannibals of their
' own hearts.
- 44. Number itself importeth not much
t in armies, were the people are of weak
r courage. Fop (as Virgil says) it never
I troubles a wclf how many the sheep be.
• Let States, that aim at greatness,
s take heed how their nobility and gentry
; multiply too fast. In coppice woods, if you
i leave your staddles too thick, you shall ne
ver have clean underwood, but shrubs and
bushes.
46. A civil war is like the heat of a
•lever i but a foreign war is like tbs heat
of ««rcto, and arveth to keep the tody »
in health . . ,
47 Suspicions among thoughts, are lik ,
bars among b.rds-they ever fly by twj-
*4B- Base natures, if they find themselves j
once suspected, will never be Uue.
40 Men ought to find the difference be '
tween saltnrss and bitterness. Certain y *
lie that hath a aityrical vein, as he maketh
others rfraid of his wit, so he had need be ■
afraid of others memory. ,
50. Discretion in speech is more than ■
Men seem neither well to understand
their riches, nor strength : ot the former
tl.ev believe greater things than they
should, and of the latter much ess. And
from hence certain fatal pillars have boun
ded the progress of tearing.
53 Kich.-s are the baggage of virtue ;
they can’t be spar’d, nor left behind, but
they hinder the march.
53 Great riches have sold more men
than ever they have bought out.
54 Riches have Wings; and sometimes
they fly away of themselves, and sometimes
they must be set flying to bring in more.
55. He that d--fers his Charity Mill he is
dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather
libera’ ofanother man’s, than of his own.
56- Ambition is like choler; if it .can
move, it mates men active ; if it be ston’d
it becomes adust, and makes men melan
choly. ■
57. To take a souther without ambition,
is to poll off his spufs.
58 Some ambitious men seem as screens
to princes in matters of danger ami envy..
For no man will lake such parts, except he
be like tha seeld dove, that mounts and
mounts because he cannot see about |him.
59 Princes and states should tluise such,.
Ministers as are more sensible of duty than
rising; and should discern a busy nature
from a willing mind.
60 A man’s nature runs either to herbs
or weeds; therefore let him seasonably
\» ater the one, ami destroy the other
61. If a man (ook sharply and attentive
ly, he shall see lot tune; for though she be
b'ind, *fie is not invisible.
62 Usury bringeth the treasure of a
realm or state in-6 few hands: for the usm
rer being at cor aint.ies, and others at un
certainties ; at the end of the Game, most
of the money will be in the box.
63. Beauty is best in a body that hath
rather dignity of presence, than beamy
of aspect. The beautiful prove accom
plished, but not of great spirit; and study
for the most part, rather behaviour than
virtue.
64 The best part of beauty, is that
hie!i picture cannot express.
65. He who builds a fair house upon an
ill srat, commits himself to piison.
66 If you will work on any man, you
must cither know his nature and fashions,
and so lead him;'or his ends, ai dso per
suade him; or t'is weaknesses and disad
vantages, and so awe him; or those that
have interest in him, a* rl so govern him.
67. Costly followers (among whom we
may reckon those w ho are importunate in
suits) are not to be liked; lest while a
man maketh his t ain longer, he maketh
his wings shorter.
68. Fame is like a river that beareth up
•V’ gs i, lit and swollen, and drowns things
weighty and solid,
69. Seneca sai h well, that anger islik
rail, which breaks itsefl upon that it.
f«ds
70. Excusations, cessions, modesty it
se’f well governed, arc but arts of osten
tation.
71 High treason is not written in ice;
hat when the body reicnteth, the impres*
-ion should go away
73 The best governments are always
object to be like the fairest crystals;
nerein every iscle or grain is seen ;
ibich, in a fouler stone is never perceiv
1
73 Hollow Church Papists are like the
roots of nettles, which themselves sting
ur.l; but yet they Lear all the slinging
leaves.
■waaßM—a
[Extracts from an article, entitled Hor
ticulture, in the last Supplement to the
Encyclopocdia Britannica, by Patiuck
Nmt, Esq. F. U. S E F 1,. S.]
Prcducutm of new seedling
Finite.
During the lasi iwcnty years great a'-
teinion has been paid to the production of
new seedling varieties of the mote hardy
frui’s suited to our climate. For excit
ing the attention of the public to
tins important matter, we are parti
cularly indebted to Mr Knight. A very
succinct statement of his views on tins
subject, which have sometimes been
s-rangely misrepresented and even turned
into ridicule, mar here be proper. In Ins
Treatisi on the Apple and Pear, he noticed
in a particular manner the fact, that some
cf the-finest cider and perry fruits of .he
seventeenth century have already become
extinct. 1 his fact was undeniable ; for
daily experience showed, that the golden
pippin iu England, the grey Lc.sdmgton
and white Hawthorndean in Scotland, and
other old apples were fast wearing out
Mr Kn’ght remarked, that eath variety f
fruit springs from an individual at lirs’;
and that, by means of grafting or budding,
the individual only has been extended.
Whatever tendency to decay and extinc
tion existed in the individual at first, must,
he observed, exist in all the extentions of
that individual accomplished by means of
budsorgiafts By careful manupemei t
or fortunate situation, the health and life
ot a particular individual or original tree
may be prolonged; and, in like manner,
some buds or grafts, placed on vigorous
stocks and nursed in favourable situations,
may long survive the other buds or grafts
from the same tree, or may long survive
the original unengrafted tree. Still, in
all of them, there is a progress to ex
tinotion; the same inevitable fate awaits
them: the only renewal of an individual,
the only true reproduction, is by seed.
Mr Knight’s doctrine, we may add,
seems now 1 1 be established as to fruit
trees. It may be extended to
all trees, and even to all the more perfect
tribes of plants; for tbs sagacious Philip
Miller long ago observed, that herbace
ous plants propagated by culling*, became
barren in a few years. The importance
nf acquiring new varieties of our staple
fruits from the seed is now, therefore, un.-
veraally acknowledged ; and as a taste
for experimenting in this way is preva
lent, we may probably do an acceptable
service to our readers, in bringing toge
ther some of the precautions adopted
by the distinguished horticulturist alreaflv
so often mentioned, and the facilities
which have been devised towards success j k
iu this interesting branch of gardening. /If!
The seeds to be sown should belong to ''y
1 lie finest kinds of fruit, and should beta,
ken from the ripest, largest, and best fU. i
voured .-.pecimens of each kind; for .1.
though some crab-apples may result frem f'
sowing the seeds of the nonpariel or the R
Newtown pippin, yet from the seeds cf I
such excellent varieties, there is a great- t
er chance of procuring an apple somewhat 1
similar in qualities Mr. Knight took tin. |k
common pains in order to procure prom- j
ising seeds: for example, lie prepared
stocks of the best kinds of apple capable
of being propagated by cuttings, and iff
planter these stocks against a wall in a R
rich soil; these were next year grafted £
with the golden pippin. In the courts of
Ihe following* winter, the young trees
were raised from the ground, and the M
roots being shortened they were replant
ed iu the same spot. By ibis mode of
treatment they were brought info a bear
ing state at the end of two seasons. Only
two apples were suffered to remain <m 3
each little tree ; these fruit consequently
attained a large size and perfect maturity.
Toe seeds of the apples thus procured,
were sowp, in the hopes of procuring
seedlings possessed of qualities allied to *3
those of the go,den pippin;, and if these 7
hopes have not yet beer fully realized, j
the success Ims been sufficient, at least f
to encourage to perseverance in similar j
modes of experimenting. [
It may litre be mentioned further, 111 at, j
with the view of producing a variety uni- a
ting the good properties of two known B
and highly approved kinds, Mr.'Knight,
Mr. Macdonald, and some others, have !
been at the pains to bring the pollen of
the one kind in contact with the pistils
of the other. To do this with proper es- I
feci, r quires some nicety and caution, I*
Mr. Knight opened the unexpanded bios- U
som of the variety destined to be the fe. H
male parent of the expected progeny,and [I
with a pair of small pointed scissors cut a- f?
way ati the stamina while the anthers
were yet unripe; taking great care to
leave the style and stigmata uninjured. (>;
ihe full blown blossoms of the ot hr, va- fl
noty were afterwards applied. Thcfrulta ftj
p. suiting from such artificial impregnation Jf
have been of the most promising charac- S
ter: the seeds of these fruits, again were ||
sown, with the expectation of procuring (*
improved varieties and there is every m
iv aso 1 o think that the expectation will R
be realized. Mr. Knight has often remark- R
ed in the progeny, a strong prevalence of I
the constitution and habits of the female r
parent - in this country, therefore, in ex- I
peri men mg on pears, the pollen of the I.
more delicate French kinds, as the era*. H
anne, eolmar, or chaumontelle, should I
be dusted upon the tWers (alwavs depri* I
, ved of stinnna) of the murifmvl egg, the, If
grey achan, the green yam, or others that ||
t ate Hardy or or British origin. By these if
, means, it mav be hoped hat, in the course |(
. of another generation, excellent winter ft
1 P c: ~3 may be obtained in abundance from [I
1 m,vs audard trees; for at presen. we are *2
1 nearly d srituteof hardy w inter pears. I
Some persoi s make a p ac ice of sowing -1
• k’ a' numbe rs of seeds, tax.n indiscrimw f
, "Ulesy Out ot some hundreds of such if
seed i*tgs,a Very fv* only muv prove deser* I
v, ntf "fa.-y notice. In the ordinal? course I
ot nature, die lapse of.-.ix or perhaps fen I
years would be required before the fruit R
. could be seen. But in ov.i< Pro f orm a §
. (Tciictal es.irnate of die character of the
s edting trees, it is not necessary to wait &
. till tiiey actually nrodune fVu.t: even in the *■
firs, season, such an opinion may,to some M
extent, be formed, fro;, the shape
i textile of tht leaves; hose which are Id*
. pointed, thin and smooth, promising lit-R,
. lie; while those which are blunt or round,®
thick, aid inclined to be downy, promise 1
well In the second 3 ear, Jits- tests are ll
, m. • e satisfactory ; foi the 1. av es „{ good t
1 kinds the Above noticed qoaii. *
- ties yearly. Plants whose buds in tin ;iew
wood an full anckprominen*, are much to
be prt ferred to those whose buds are small
and almost sunk into the bark.
, Some means have likewise been devised U
for hastening the production of the fmitfi
of seedling *rces, or shortening the neri-B
c od of probation. Ihe moving „1 Jieß
plants and shortening of their roots ha veil
“•ready been mentioned. Mi. TPiliiams tff|'
P I’dmaston, an eminent. English horticul’«• I
-5 rist, h..s s’iccteded in promoJng tlnii 1
early puberty, by using means to' hasten f
. t hat peculiar organization of the i-.a i /
f which appears nee. ssaiyto format., n
,• of blossom-buds. The see.w co.’raJ Ij-"
. only of select kinds) are sown in po 3, f
3 l ke growth ot the se .ilmg plants njf
forwarded by the artificial heat of a peach ft)
►’ l,onse 0! ' vinery, t hey are af.ervvaidlii'ri
s planted out in nursery lines. Every win-K
■ er, all small ti.fl. ig lateral shia.ts are re R-.
1 moved, leaving ii lt . stronger laterals fl If
s full length ; and s.icli -.general dspon-H
1 lion of the b andies is effected, di .ttkel
? leaves ot tin upper siioo.s do not shatltl
. those below. Every leaf, by its full ex-il
posiire to light, is tiiu - rendered an efitf
r c,ent organ, and much sooner becomeil
. capable of tunning its first blossoin-biii!.™
, Diose who have even slightly studied vep'-R
1 viable physiology, must bo convinced ■
die great conssqiier.ee of a tending to suc'iw
p apparently minute circumstances' Anot!>/
5 et phm ft sorted to with success, consis'»K
, taking cions from the seedling tneife
a. d grafmg them on* wiii.trees in
. hearing; in this way, the fruit may t:M
, se<;n iu tnree or four years from ll e so-ll
[■ ing of the seeds. Hi'possessi s any pro’ivly
f '.sing qualities, such as fine colour, fii re
t u ebS or flavour, u ought not to lobe rt||
jecled at firs- on account of acidity cat
smallness ot s-izep If a seedling be some?
what juicy, it. is very p-omising, for th:Ri
, good quality also increases with its years®
and ii is remarked, that a fruit having Rf
firm pulp commonly improves with thiß
age of the tree, but - hut a soft or meal'll
pulp gets worse. In general it may bfl
remarked, that the fruit has alwavsa te<iT|\
dency to improve in mellowness and ii’,(
size, as ihe tree itself becomes slrongeMil
and approaches maturity. ,■
Notice. !
NINE months after date apphcatiotjfl
will be made to the Court of OrdinaJ
-try of Clark county, for leave to sell
undivided fifth part of a tract of land i f]
Oglethorpe county, on Long creek, adjoin'' '
•t.g lands of Wm Baity and others, ct'ft {
taining fourteen hundred and fifty aertfj 1
be the same more or less, belonging f 4.
he orphans of Marco Phinizy, d e c° to b* i -
sold tor the benefit of said orpl t! , n i , \
. Jacob Phinizy, Guardian 1
) January 10, \