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suppa'ed to be written by a young Lady , wta
wjj compelled to marry again;} ber inchna
tiou, <y«*/ <u?a/ afterwards badly treated by
her reliii i ats, becauje jfce could not lease the
man of their choice •
HOW dark and deflate does all appear !
Whae’er I fee, whatever I go near,
Ddguitmg all—the sweets of life are fled,
And pointing prefciencc counts me with the
dead.
Soon, soon, methinka, the fated time will
come.
When my slum life and fleeting gl-tfs have
run ;
No more the follies of this world I’ll fee,
Bur fm>u, my God, return in peace to thee ;
This last retreat from further ills llnll five,
Alike the mauflon ot the mean and brave :
No more my friends their empty scorn (hall
try,
But all fliall pity when they fee me die ;
A tear, perhaps, they’ll died upon my grave,
And fay, “ (lie’s gone, whom we i effis’d to
il save;”
Ah ! then compunction may reproach each
heart.
And keen ingratitude awaken fin-art•
Not long, my frieuds.lhall you thisform behold.
But know you fold it for the lust of Go'd ;
Compell’d by cruelty to make me wed,
The man I scorn, the mm who strikes me
dead.
V/h le he I love to fad diftrattion run,
For he alas ! 'like me you have undone.
No more (hall I your troubled light invade,
But feck for comfort in the liieut dude ;
Where angels bear the‘happy fouls away,
To feenes of rapture and to endless day.—
But etc I go, thou once beiov’d farewell;
. I flill adme thee, as these lines can tell; *
JVlty ev’ry biifs attend thy latell years,
And sooth aflllftion, and a flu age thy tears—
Tilts hope dull fniouth the pauage which I
take,
And pain and anguidi vanifli for thy fake.
AMA.N DA.
—*
P refines of jn:nd t an Anecdote.
A PRUSSIAN clergyman applied to the
late King of Pruflia for hit permiflion
to preach in his clupel, and to honor him with
his presence. His Majcfly thought it rather
pt efumptuous for a country clergyman to a!k
such a favor, but nevertheless granted his re
quefl, and told him he would give him a text
to preach on, and that he diould preach the <
Sunday following, when he diould attend to
hear him The cl .-gyiiian waited with an
xiety from day to day for the text, as he wish.
ed to have it in time, that he'might make a
fln? fentwn on it} but Sunday morning came
and no text. He, however, went into'the.
pu! it with the intent to preach one of his
old set mons, thinking'the King had forgot to
fend him .1 text. The King came to chapetfoon
after, and lent the clergyman a letter; which
he opened and read ; the contents were, —
Theencloied is your-text; you will preach
immediately.” He opened the bit of paper
that was cnclofed ; when, to his great afto
liifhment, he found it quite blank ; he looked
at the otiier lide of it, it was blank there too.
He held it out for the audience to look at, and
fail, “ Here is nothing;” and then turning it,
« and there is nothing,' and of nothing God
created Heaven and Earth*’ —Then quoting
a verle in the flrft chapter of Gcnefls, lie
p!cached a sermon on it extempore. The
King was so delighted at the great prefetire
vi m>ud winch the almoner had lhewn, that
he made him ids almoner.
Writing Paper
Ewr dale ut the Hinting-Olhce.
To be Sold,
On reafonabli terms, for Cajb, Tobacco, Ne
groes or Hoi jes ,
A verylarge& general Afljrtrr.ent of
MEDICINES,
Just imported from Europe, \Vhkh
are as follow, viz, *
PERUVIAN Bark-
Ca'carella bark
al. p.jlychiift.
Spaniih flies
Flowers or Sulphur
Gentian root
Wbit lead
' Antfni flowers
A ft e s
Jalap m powder f
GLuoei l.ilts
Eplom lalts
Magnesia
Camphire
Litliarg. Aur.
Manna
Myrrhae
Htllabor
Gum. Thus.
Chamomile flowers
Aloes
Red lead
Gum. arabac
Gal anum
Rheubarb
Gum. Fiagaeanth* •
Guiacuin
Burganoy pitch
L»p,s. Caiainin.’
Sennas
Zedoary
Ginger
Long pepper
Crude fulpher
Fart, emetic
Alum. Rupm.
. Calomel
Corroflve fablmate -
Cinnabec ppt.
Sai. ably nth*
Copperas
Borax
Ipecacuanha
Fur me rick
Radx. Columhe.
Cummin feeds
Mace
Cloves
Belt Cinnamon
Chriltal. tartar
Cmneila Alb.
Sal. amnion, crud. '
Radx. galangaF
contrayerva.
Terra Japon.
Creta. ppt.
Fcenu ;reek feeds
Refina flav.
Laudanum '
.Opium
•. il of amber
: Spirits of lavender
Sapo. liquid
Huxham’s tindture bark
Vol iti'e spirits
Balsam capivi
Oil of spike
Val-rian root
Caliiac fiftulm
Liq .enc; root
Oil of vitriol
Aqua tortis
Katfbane
Nitri
Many other Articles too tedious to
mention.
C. Dyfart.
At a Meeting of the Board of
\I ruffe es of the Richmond Aca
demy, Friday, Sept. 11,1709.
IT appearing that the commons
to be leafed but by the act of
AfTem dv ts the fourteenth Au
gust, 1786, have not been clear
ed and cultivated as therein, and by
lever al orders of this Board, have
ben directed. And it having been
Figgeited, that, provided the lease
C/ud be extended, Lvenl of the
iclkes, of their afligns, would bind
themfeives to clear and cultivate the
parts by the n reflectively leafed, in
conformity to the objects of the Lid
act, vvh .reupon -
■i It is ordered , l hat all luch lelfers,
or their afligns, w.lO Ihal! p y the
rents due, an j gi,ve obligat ons, with
lecurity, for the 1 duttona] time as
per annual lease, (haft be entitled to
a le~fc ut seven yea is, to commence
from the third 1 uefday in Oct. ber
next j and tliat the obligations of
all luch as do not comply literally
wi h this order, {halt be put in fait
agreeable to the order of the Board
or the 21 It July lalt, if n >t paid by
the Uid ’third Tuvlday in October
next.
»
Ordered' That the foregoing or
der be published.
hNt> ocl from the p oceedings
of the Boa'a,
; J. avl. SIMMONS, Clerk.
T wenty Dollars Reward.
O f gLEN oui of my pasture, at
Locult Hill, on i hurfday night
between the 10th and nth instant,
two horlts, viz. a white horse, up
wards of fifteen hands high, ten or
twelve years old, branded on the
mounting buttock D. S. Also, a
chrinut lorrel horse about fourteen *
and an haft hands high, fix or seven
x years old, branded on the mounting
buttock 1. W. They both trot and
pace. Any peri.cn delivering the
above herfes to me, at Locust If ill,
John Milton, Augusta, fhali
have the above reward, or in propor
tionfor either,andtwentv pounds fter-
Lng for the conv 6t;on of the thieves;
GEO. HANDLEY.
, Lee sji Kill, Sept. 14, 1789.
“To be Sold,
On the Fuji Monday in Oficber next,
At the town of Waihington, the following
Ts rafts of Land ,
viz.—2cco acres* fecund quality—2ooo dit
to, third quality, hr the county of Franklin,
the property of John Hinfoo, it being for hia
tax for Alls, 1060 acres of the third
quality—3so4 acres pine land, in the comity
of Franklin, the property of George Nailer,
it beuig for his tax for the year 1788.
j BUCKNER. HARRIS, Coll,for
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