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•y ' VERSES Oa a goose. X J. ET other* pirfe the warbling Thrush, 1- Th» ling: so fwret from yonder bush; Or e!!« the lark th*t lean so high, To j-ourif* mill: thro’ th' sky; Or others if they will may hail, The heautieaol the peace k’s tail, I fingthe bird that’s ht for use. The fat, contented, Hubble goofs Whofs wing my cheerful fire oit blows, Who gives me down for my repose j The flavor of whose food I boast, In pye, or foop or boil’d or rnaft; “ Who lends a tongue unto my foul, “ That’* heard Irom Indies to the pole. ” [ The following is a very new, and a very ex cellent poem. He who can read, without sympathy, in the fourth paragraph, the de scription of a parent's f licitude for the qui et repose, and childhood felicity of her Jon , is unworthy the bleffir.g of a good mother. ] On the RECEIPT of my MOTHER’S PICTURE. [From ”” ■' ""’•’.si > oems.]_ \4T , .vthofe lips had language! Life has pafs’d • haft.y me b U { roughly since 1 heard the last. Thole lips are thine— thy own f yeet lmiles I fee, The fame that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only tails, clfe how tlillindl they fay, «• Gtteve not, my child, chale ail thy tear* away !” The m.ek intelligence of those dear eyes (Biel\ be the art that can immorta <zr, The art that b files time’s tyrauic claim To quench it) here fliine. on me (till the fame. Faithful rememb sneer of one so dear. On, welcome guest though unexuede here ! Who hid<l ft me honor with an artiels long, As cdionite a mother kit lb long, 1 ill ob:y, not wil ingly alone, B.h gladly, as the pucepts were het own j A i l, while thai lace renews my filial grief. Fancy (h <ll weave a cha'm lor my relict— Shall ftetp me in Elylian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou att she. Mym 'ther! when I le.irn’d that thou waft dead, Say, will thouco.iluous o' the teats 1 Ihe.? Haver'd thy Imrit o’er thy forr wing lon, Wreick even then, life'sjourneyjuft begun? Ferhaps thou gsv’ftme, though unseen a kiss, J’erh. psa tear, if fouls can werp in bl Is— Ah, that maternal Imile! it anlwers—Yes, I heaid the hell toll’d on thy burial day, 1 law the hearse that bote hre (lowaway, And, turning Itorn my nuis'ry window, drew A long, lon.' figla and wept a Mt adieu ! But was it fiueh ?—lt w is.—Where thou art gone A iieus and fatewels are a loond unknown, May I but meet thee on that peace ul Ihore, The parting found lha.l pals my lips no more ! Thy maidens griev’j themselves at my concern. Oft gave me promifeof a quick return, What ardently I wilh’d, 1 ior.g btliev^T, And disappointed (fill was ft,II deieiv’d, Fy dilappointment evety day beguil’d, Jlupeol to-moriew tvcti from -AliilJ, Tims many a lad to-moirow came and went, Tnl a i mv flock of mla t sorrow spent, 1 learned at last fubm lfion to my lot, But, though 1 lels deplor’d thee, ne’er forgot. Wh reonce we dwe tour name is hea'd no more, Children not thine have trod my nuis'ry floor And wlieie the gard’ne , Robhin, day by day, l>r« w mi' to sch. ol along the public way, Pcl phted with my bawble coach, and wrapt In fc-rlet mantles warm, and velvet cap *Tis now become a hiftory lirtle known, That once we call’d the paft’ral h»ufe our own. Short lived poflcflion ! hut the record lair, That mem’ey keeps of all thv kindness there, Stilt o«' ives many a storm that has efa-.’d A thoufaml oth * theme* less deeply trac’d, Thy nightly visits tu my chamber made, That thou migh’ft know me lase and warmly laid ; Th\ m ruing bounties e’te 1 leit my home, Tin hiUuit, or contedionary plumb j 1 lie tr.tgraut .%aicu on my cheek* beftow’J l.< th\ own hand, till lrvfh they Ihone and glow’d : A. th j, and more endearing ftillthan all, Thy conftatu flow ot ove that knew no fall, Ne’ei toeghen’d by thol taurfols and breaks That humor it.t< rp I’d too often nuks-s j Ail this ft til legib e in tnem’r ‘s page, And (till to be so, to my latcft age, Adas joy o dut*, in kes me glad to pay Biuh honors to ihee as my numbers may; Perhaps a ’tail memoiial, bit- fiicerc, Not IcoiitVl in heaven, though little notic'd here. * Could time, his flight revers’d, restore the hours When, playing with thy velluie’s tiflued flowers, The violet, the pink, ; nd jeiramine, ) prick’d them into paper with a pin, ( mi , thou « ait happier lha mylcll the while, V u i’A lofty (peak, and fttokc my head and imile) Could thole tew pleutant hours again appear. M igl tone with bt.ng them, woulu 1 wilh thrm here? ] would not trull my heart—the dear delight Si cm* so to be cWfiird, perhaps 1 might. J.i.t no—svhat here we call our l.lc u.uch S < little to he lov’d, and thou so much. That I fliould ill requite thee to conlltatn Thy unbound (pints into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark Lorn Albion’s coast, (The itorms 4 weitbe’d and he ocean crols’d) Shoots -oitu lom* well heven’d isle, W’hete p *e, breathe a d bughter leafo s smile, Titered:* quiet,enton ihefl o;s that Ihow Het be.m tows loan refletlei cleir below, Whi e airs impregnated with inrenfe play Aion id het aiming light It-r streamers g >•• So the 'i, with let's how wit! haft reach’d the (here, ** V i m.e.h sever beat nor billows roat," A 'd thy lose,. ,onio t »n the dang'ious t de I t*. Ic .g fine, has ateket’d t thy fide. b'C me. Caret hop ne to ait an chat rest, A wasstrona po t withheld always diftrefs’d— The h. whi g vend,drive J.vous, tempeftr lofs’d, 5.... s tip?, Iv tmsop’utßg wide, and compafc loft, A'W 4IV bv dav so ne current’s thwarting force •Vts me m >f* T.'ant ft cm a prosperous course. But oh th- thought, th.t thou art fat: and he! J ut thoucht „ yoy, arrive what may to me. My b .s k t that 1 deduce my Wirth i*t,.s ««tlvrott’d *ad tulctj ej tfieearfh ; And tic w, tare we—time, un'evck’J, has run Ihr wonted eourle, y t what I urilh’d is done. ;jy con cmpUtiou’i help, not lought in v.un, I idem t’have liv’d my chi:i.hooa o’er agatr. j j'o have renew’d she joys that once were mine, A ithout t he fin of violating th:n«; And while the wings of fancy iti.l aw free, And l can view this mitn c fltew of th^e, I'tme has but half fuccetaeu in ht 3 theft— fh/felf remov’d, thy power to fo*the me left. Comparifcn between the Sexes . WOMAN is a very nice and very complicated machine. Her springs are infinitely delicate ; and differ from those of man, pretty nearly as the work of a repeating-watch does from that of a townclock. Look at her; how delicately formed ! Examine her senses; how exqtii fiteand nice! Observe her underfranding; how subtle and acute ! But look into her heart; there is the watch-work, composed of parts so minute in themlelves, and so wonderfully combined, that they muftbe seen by a microscopic eye to be clearly ap prehended. The perception of a woman is as quick as lightning Her penetration is intuition; I had inftin£t. By a glance of her eye, draw a deep and just con clusion.. Aik her, how she formed it? {lie Jfinfvver the question. The phi loWpiff deduces inferences; and his in ferences fliall be right: but he gets to the head of the ftair-cale, if I may fay so, by (low degrees, and mounting step by step. She arrives at the top of the ltair-cafc as well as he : but whether (he leaped or flew there, is more than (lie knows herielf. While she trusts her inftinft, she is scarce ever deceived : she is generally loft, when (he attempts to reason. As the perception of women is.furpri fingly quick, so their fouls and imagina tions are uncommonly susceptible. Few of them have talents to write ; but, when they do, how lively are their pidtuies! how animated their deferiptions ! But if lew women write, they all talk; and eve ry man may judge of them in this point, from every circle he goes into. Spirit in convention depends entirely upon fancy ; and women, all over the world, talk bet ter than <OOll. Let a man and a woman of apparently equal understandings, goto i ball: fee which of them will enjoy most pleasure, and bring home the greatest num ber of interesting anecdotes.—Have they a character to pourtrav, or a figure to de f<,ribe, they give but three traits of either the one or the other, and the character is known, or the figure placed before our eye*. Why ? From the fufeeptibility of their nut lona. Ttich fa titles TCCCWC lively impreftions from those principal traits, and they paint those impreftions with the fame vivacity with which they receive them. I remember feeing at Ge neva an Engl i fli la Jy who had j nil come out of Italy. She painted the paflage of the Alps, in fix plirafes, better than I could have done by a fortnight’s labor upon paper. I look upon it, that the elements are not only differently mixed in women, from what they are in men, but that they are almost of different forts. Their fire is purer; their clay is more refined. The difference, I think, may be about the fame, that there is between air and aether; be tween culinary and eleffrical fire. The aetherial fire is not given, perhaps, in so large a proportion to women as to men : but it is a more subtle, and finer spirit. Let a woman of fancy warm in conven tion, she will produce a hundred charm ing images, among which there fliall not be one indelicate or coarse. Warm a man on the fame fubjedt: he fliall poftiblv find stronger allusions ; but they fliall neither be so brilliant nor so chaste. As to gracefulnefs of expression, it be longs almost exclufivety to women. But men, you fay, have founder judg ments. That they unquestionably have : and for that, 1 confefs, I never could fer but one reason, the difference of their edu cation. Fo theage of thirteen or fourteen, girls are every where superior to boys. At fourteen, a boy begins to get some ad vantages over a girl, and he continues to improve, by means of education, till three or four and twenty, poflibly till thirty. Her education, fu«h as it is, is over at eighteen. He has all the fountains of knowledge open to him—interest to fti tnulate him to exetcife his parts —rivals to emulate— opponents to conquer. His talents are always on the stretch. To this he adds the advantages of travel: and even if he fliould not go abroad, he can enter in*o an infinite number of honfes from which flie is debarred. A found judg ment cannot be formed but bv continual excrcifr, and frequent comparisons. It is nipoftible for women to have these advan tages: and thence, I believe, the principal ■;aufe of the inferiority of their judgment. The liveliness of their fancies, and of their feelings, you will fav, contributes aifo to " eaken their powers of judging. T[iat, probabiy, dees enter for something; but t-usc.uior.mviU be the grand caufc; for quainTance, hue feelings and warm imaginations ? Take a man and a woman, who have never been out of the village in which they were born, and neithe: of whom know how to read : I qieftion much if his de cretive faculties will be found to beftrong er than her’s. As judgment, then, can ccme but from knowledge, I will readily agree that the number cf women who have solid judg ments, is very small. But if I do not con tend for them, on this head, as equal to men, I believe you will not dispute the superior sensibility of their fouls. Their feelings are certainly more exquisite than thole of men ; and their fentimeuts greater and more refined. Though the severity, ill-temper, negleft, and perfidy of men, often force women to have recource to dis simulation—yet when they have noble charafters to deal with, how sincere and ardent is their love! how delicate and solid their attachment! woman is not near so felfifh a creature as man. When a man is in love, the objeft of his passion is, if 1 may fay lb, himfelf. When a woman is enamoured of a man, she forgets herfelf, the world, and all that it contains, and wiflies to exist only for the objeft of her affe&ion. How few men make any vio lent facrifices to fenriment! but how many women does every man know, who have facrificed fortune and honors, to noble, pure, and disinterested motives. A man mounts a breach 5 he braves danger; and obtains a vi&ory.—This is great and glorious.—He has served his country : he has acquired fame, prefer ment, riches.—Wherever he appears, ref peft awaits him ; admiration attends him; crowds press to meet him; and theatres receive him with bursts of applause. His glory dies not with him. Hiftory pre fer ves his memory from oblivion. That thought chears his dying hour : and his lalt words, pronounced with feeble plea- j lure, are, “ I (hall not all die.” A woman lends her hulband to the war. She lived but in that hulband. Her foul goes with him. She trembles for t e dan gers of the sea. She trembles for the dan gers of the land. Every billow that fweils, Ihe thinks is to be his tomb; every ball that flies, she imagines is directed against him. A brilliant capital appears to her a dreary defart; her universe was a man ; and that man’s life, her terror tells her, is in danger. Her days are days of sorrow ; her nights are flee’plefs nights. She fits immoveable, her mornings, in all the dig nity and composure of grief, like Agrip rma in here hair rAyi.n, ftjc seeks repose, repose has fled her couch the silent tears steal down her cheek, and wet her pillow ; or if, by chance, exhaust ed nature finds an hour’s Humber, her fan cy, sickened by her di(tempered foul, fees in thatfleep, a bleeding lover, or his mang led corfe. Time pafles, and her grief in creases; till, worn out at length by too much tenderness, she falls the viftim of too exquisite a sensibility, and finks with sorrow to the grave. No—cold, unfeeling reader—these are not pictures of my creation. They are neither charged, nor embellished; but both copied faithfully from nature—the count d’Eftaign and lady Cornwallis. The former is now a grandee of Spain, covered with ribands, and aiming to arrive at the head of the state. His ientiments were noble: but they had for objeft only himfelf. Thelatter thought not of herfeif: she did for another. ANECDOTES. Os the King of Pruffta. OLD Frederick had a great opinion of the utility of experience—A very young graduate presented a petition, requeuing his majeftv would appoint him a iupreme general. The king wrote under his peti tion—“ Turn to your bible, and in the tenth chapter and fifth verse of the second hook of Samuel, you will find it thus writ ten; “ Tarry at Jericho until your beard is grown, and then come again.” Hey wood the epigrammatift, being ask ed by queen Mary the I. what wind blew him to court ?” answered he, two winds, The one to fee your majt/ly. “ We thank you for that, said the queen : and what is the other r” That your maje.Ty, said he might fee me. » ~ The works of the greatest literary inge nuity are often negle&ed by the age m which they were written. Sensible of this 1 Dr. Goldsmith drew the following bill up on future ages. Mr. Poficrity, Sir , Nine hundred and ninety-nine years after the fi-lit hereof, pay the hearer hereof a tkoufand pounds tvotfh of prafe , free from all deductions what former, it being a commodity that will if then very Jerviceable to him, end place it to the ac cc.or.pt cf &c. As FPI GRAM. Five Reopens for Drzohinp. GOOD Wine—a Friend: or ben'? dry; Or, left we ihould be by and bv Or, any other reilbn vrhy. ' 1 W 'WULUIiU ITSTI7D A , HAVE FOR SALE, | At Stoiefor Kelly occupied ly M\Ca»h, I TON Dunk LEY, 1 A GENERAL ASSORTMENT* 0? 1 G 0_ G 33 S I Suitable for the prefer.t Sccfooe * I AMONG WHICH ASE, 1 CHINTZES, $ DIMITIES, ‘ 1 CALLICOES, § LINENS, 1% MUSLINS, § HUMHUMS,&J| ALSO, Jamaica, Weft-India Sc Northward P VIJ! JI by the hogshead or gallon, Teneriffe and Sherry Wine by the pi*. I quarter cask or gallon, I Sugar per barrel or tingle potind, j Coffee in bags. Also, GIN, § PEPPER, BRANDY, § ALSPICE, AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT 0* GROCERIES. All which will be fold on the lowest term) for CASH. They have a few hundred weight of BACON. • a J u, y 1 7« ts. r. SPRING GOODI~ The SUBSCRIBERS, Have just received per the flip fox from loj*. don. and for Sale at their Store an broa©. street, A COMPLETE ASSORT MEKT Op Fancy if Fashionable Articles, Suitable to the season, which will be fold ‘‘ at their usual low price, tor eafti or corny I produce. Reuben Butler, if Co.. J”b’ »7« t. | JOSEPH CARRIE, | Has for Sale at his Store in BROAD-street CORN if CORN MEAL, * j by the small or large quantities, cheap for CASH. July 17. *2t. The Subscribers, Ref eSi fully acquaint the inhabitants of An* gnfta and its vicinity , THAT THEY HAVE COMMENCED THE Gold if Silver Smiths, Book-Binding and Stationary BUSINESS, In SAVANNAH. W T here they have on hand, a compleat Ajjortment of BOOKS; Principally Novels, the newest and mo 3 interesting—Among which are, The Monk, § Itallian Nun, Moore’s, § The Hive, Edward, § Count Roderick's Camilla, § Cuftle, Evellina, § Tom Jones, Itallian, § Telernachus, Sec, American Bee, § likewise, Histories and School Books. They have also on hand, , an Afortment of JEWELRY. *** Merchants and others supplied with BLANK BOOKS of any defeription, and Books Re-bound on reasonable terms. P? The ftri&eft attention will be paii to all orders they mav be favored with. MILLER & POWERS. Savannah, July 11. t> * FINAL NOTICE. THE fubferiber supposes the following extraft will be a fufficient apoligy for his afleffing the defaulters with a dou ble tax, anti publilhipg their names cn the firft of Auguli next. “ The Receivers of Tax Returns for the year 1799, are requested to complete and forward their returns as early as possi ble, that the Collectors may have them in time to proceed in their collections previ ous to the meeting of the next legislature, which will be in November (two month* earlier than hft year.) JOHN' BERRIEN, Treafurer* The officers commanding the several company diftri&s, who have not vet fur* nifhed me with a lift of the inhabitants li able to pay tax, are once more requested to do so cn or before the 25th inst. other ? wife the law will be enforced. JO’S. HUTCHINSON, R.T.R- Ricbnond county, July lb, 1799. W ANTE D, ~~ A Bov of about 13 or 14 years of age, wno has received a liberal education and can come well recommended, as Ap prentice to the Printing-Business.— Apply at this office. July 17. Biank Deeds of Conveyance, lor Lie at this Office.