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Jzoses retreat;
“Pow TOM HALLIARD.
By I’eter Pindar, Esq^
NOW the rage of battle ended,
And the French for mercy call,
Death no more, in ftnoke and thunder,
Rode upon the vengeful ball.
Yet what brave and lovely Heroes
Saw the bun of Morning bright—
Ah I condemn’d by cruel Fortune
Ne'er to fee the Star of Night.
From the main deck to the quarter,
Strcw’d with limbs, and wet with blood,
Poor Tom Halliard , pale and wounded,
Crawled where his captain flood.
“ C)! my noble Captain ! tell me,
“ Ere I’m born a corpfc away,
“ Have I done a Seaman’s duty,
“ On this great and glorious day !
44 Tell a dying Sailor truly,
“ For faft,
one a Seaman’s duty ?
there ought my mem’ry blast ?”
“ All! brave Tom the Captain anfwer'd,
“ Thou a Sailor’s part haft done !
“ I revere thy wounds with sorrow—•
•* Wounds by which our glory’s won ?”
“ Thanks, my Captain f—life is ebbing,
“ Fast from this deep wounded heart;
4i But, O grant me one hnall favor,
“ Ere I from this world depart,
* 4 .jid some kind and trusty Sailor,
“ When I’m number’d with the dead,
“ For my dear and constant Gatlirine,
44 Cut a lock from this poor head;
“ Bid Him to my Catherine give it,
*• Saying, Mere alone I die !
“ Kate will keep the mournful present,
41 And embalm it with a sigh.
Bid him too this letter bear her,
** Which I’ve penn’d with panting breath ;
“ Kate may ponder on the writing,
“ When the hand is cold in death.”
" That I will,” replied the Captain,
** And be ever Cathrinc's friend.”
** Ah, tny good and kind Commander,
Now my pains and sorrows end.”
"Mute, towards his Captain, weeping,
Tom uprais’d a thankful eye—
Grateful then, his foot embracing,
Sunk with Kate on his last sigh !
Who that saw a feene so mournful,
Could without a tear depart ?
He muftovvna savage nature —
Pity never warm'd his heart.
Now, in his white hammock shrouded,
By the kind and pensive crew,
As he dropp’d into the ocean,
All burst out —“ Poor Tom, adieu !”
On an ugly Old IKoman , in the dark .
WHILST in the dark, on thy foft hand
I hung,
And hear# the temptingfyren in thy tongue;
What flames, what darts, what anguifli I
endur’d
But, when the candle enter’d I was cur’d.
ANECDOTES.
A man going home late at night was
flopped by the patroies, and alked where
he was going : he being intoxicated with
hquor, told them— 4 - He came from where
they would like to have been, and was go
ing where they dare not come for their
ears.” They then aflted his name and
k where he lived—“ Mv name, (fays he,)
} is seven and twenty (hillings, and where I
live is out ot the King’s dominions.” Up
on whub they took lum to the watch
hmU'c. The next day he was examined
before the jufticc, for the impertinent an
swers given to the patroies. Upon which
he (aid, “ Please your Worlhip, I was at
a punch house, where I had good liquor,
that made me fay they would wifti to be
there; and my going home, was to mv
wife, where they had no right to come;
and my name is Moidore, I live in Little
Britain.” Which answer so well pleased
the iuitice, that he was difeharged imme
diately.
When Ti emiftocles went to Andrus to
demand a levy of money, he said, “ I bring
two gods with me, Force and Pcrfuafion.”
He w.s anfwerrd, and we have two
stronger, Want and Impoflibility.”
Zeno thus add re fled a garrulous vouth,
*’ Nature gave us two tars, and one mouth;
that we might hear much, and talk little.”
from A LONDON PAPER.
A certain Remedy in Putrid Disease!.
In this philosophic age, when diseases so
often change their appearance from what
physicians had any former experience of,
it is pleasing reflection, that the study of
medicine has of late been so much Ampli
fied, and almost every distemper incident
to the human body so fully explained, as
to come within the common apprehensi
ons of mankind. The follow ing faCts
communicated to the world by the reve
rend Mr. Cartwright, afford an antidote
for the most dangerous disease with which
the human body can be afflicted ; so that
it is hoped one of the most crowded ave
nues to the grave is at length in a great
measure closed.
44 Seventeen years ago I went (fays this
benevolent clergyman) to reside at Bramp
ton, a populous village near Chefterfield.
1 had not been there many months before
a putrid fever broke out amongst us. Find
ing by far the greater number of my pa
rifliioners too poor to afford themselves
medical afliftance, I undertook, by the
help of such books on the iubjeCt of me
dicine as were in my poft'elfion, to pre
feribe for them. I early attended a boy of
about 14 years of age, who was attacked
by the fever. He had not been ill many
days before the symptoms were unequivo
cally putrid; I then adminifterea bark,
wine and such other remedies as my books
directed. My exertions were however of
no avail—his disorder grew every day more
untrackable and malignant, so that I was
in hourly expectation of his diflolution.—
Being under the neceffily of taking a jour
ney, before I set off I went to fee him, as
I thought for the last time, and I prepared
his parents for the event of his death,
which I confulered as inevitable, and re
conciled them in the best manner I was
able, to a loss which I knew they would
feel severely. While I was in converfa
tion on thisdiftrelfing fubjeCt with his mo
ther, I observed in a small corner of the
100 m, a tub of wort working. The fight
brought to my recolleCtion an experiment
I had somewhere met with, “ of a piece
of putrid meat being made sweet by being
suspended over a tub of wort in the aft of
fomentation.” The idea fiafhed into my
mind, that the ycaft might correCt the pu
trid nature of this disease, and instantly
gave him two large fpoonfuls. I then told
the mother, if file found her son better,
to repeat this dose every 3 hours. I then
set out for my journey—upon my return,
after a few days, I anxiously enquired af
ter the boy, and was informed he was re
covered. I could not repress my curiofit v;
I was greatly fatigued with my journey,
and night was coming on—l went dire Ctn
to where he lived, which was 3 miles off,
in a wild part of the moors. The boy
himfelf opened the door, looked surpris
ingly well, and told me he felt better from
the time he took the ycaft.
After 1 left Brampton I lived in Leicef
terftlire. My parishioners being there few
and opulent, 1 dropped the medical cha
ndler entirely, and would not preferibe for
my own family. One of my domestics
falling ill, accordingly the apothecary was
sent for. His complaint was a violent fe
ver, which in its progress became putrid.
Having great reliance, and defcrvedly, on
the apothecary’s penetration and judgment
the man was left solely to his management.
His disorder, however, kept daily gaining
ground, till at length the apothecary con
sidered him in very great danger. At last,
finding every effort to be of Service to him
baffled, he told me he considered it to be
a loft case, and that in his opinion the man
could not survive twenty four hours. On
the apothecary thus giving him up, I de
termined to try the effeCt of yeast, I gave
him two large fpoonfuls, and in fifteen mi
nutes from taking the ycaft, fiis pulse,
though still feeble, began to get composed
and full. He in 3s minutes from his tak
ing it, was able to get up from his bed and
walk in his room. At the expiration of
the second hour, I gave him a bafon of
sago, with a good deal of lemon, wine and
ginger in it—he ate it with an appetite—
in another hour, I repeated the yeast, an
hour afterwards I gave the bark as before
—at the next hour he had food—next ano
ther dose of yeast—and then went to bed
-Mt was nine o’clock he told me he had a
good night, and was recovered. I howev
er repeated the medicine, and he was loon
able to go about his.bufinefs as usual.
44 About a year after this as I was riding
past a detached farm house. at the out
skirts of the village, I observed a farmer’s
daughter standing at the door, apparentlv
in great affliction. On enquiry into the
cause of her distress, she told me her fa
ther was dving: I dismounted and went
into the house to fee him—l found him in
the last stage of putrid fever.—His tongue
was black, his pulse was fcarceiy preemp
tible, and he lay ltretched out iike a corpse.
in a state of drowsy infenfibilitv. 1 im
mediately procured some yeast, which I
dilated with water, and poured dov\ n his
throat; I then left him with little hopes
of recovery — l returned however, in abou’
two hoots, ami fouhd him fenfibie and able
to convcrfe —i then gave him a dose of
bark —he afterwards took at a proper in
terval, some refreshment. I staid with
him till he repeated the yeast, and then left
him, with how to proceed—l
called upon him the next morning at 9
o\lock —I found him apparently well and
walking in his garden. He was an old
man upwards of 70.
“ I have since administered the yeast to
about 50 persons laboring under putrid fe
vers—and what is lingular (continues this
benevolent man) I have loft not a patient.
The above has been handed us by a gen
tleman in this city, who loft two children
by the fever, which has been so prevalent
and so fatal of late. He had a third child
who was taken ill, and this prescription
having come to his knowledge, he made
the experiment, which was happily crown
ed with success. We (hall be happy to
record further proofs of its efficacy.
Edinburg, March, 1799.
Manner of de/lroying lnjefts which attack
Ffuit Trees.
[From the Paris Memoirs of Agriculture.]
Monsieur de Those, having found that
oil of turpentine, when applied to animals
which were covered with virmin, destroy
ed these virmin without hurting the ani
mal, the author of this memoir tried it on
leveral kinds of tree lice and other infetfts ;
all of which it killed without hurting the
trees. He then mixed some of the oil of
turpentine with fine earth, so as to make
it incorporate well, and added water, stir
ring it carefully, till the whole was brought
to a considerable degree of fluidity. In this
mixture he dipped branches of fruit trees
covered with infers, which were entirely
destroyed by it, eggs and all, without hurl
ing the fruit, branch of leaves. The
composition may begot off by artificial
watering, or be waflied away by the firft
fliower. From these experiments, he
think that oil of turpentine may be as well
employed for killing various kinds of lice
that infeftdomeftic animals, and Sometimes
produce diseases as well as on fruit trees.
Experiments will ascertain how far this re
medy will prove efficacious in different
cases.
[From a Boston paper.]
Tremendous effects of Lightning.
On the evening of the 26th ultimo, a
pine tree, three feet diameter, in the wef
teriy part of Chrleftown, was struck with
lightning, surprisingly shivered in pieces,
and thrown in all polfible directions. At
least two acres and an half were strewed
with tyhe fragments, some exceedingly mi
nute, wners larger. One splinter, thirty
one fet\ lory/ and very (lender, was thrown
at the diftabce of forty yards. What is
ftilj more surprising in the phenomenon,
after the tremendous eledric force had thus
left the tree, a fad trophy of its rage, it en
tered the ground, but immediately return
ed again to the furface. So immensely
great was the quantum of lightning col
lected the absorbent power of the earth
was infufficient to diftraCt and exhaust it
at once. It took an easterly direction from
the (lump and plowed a ditch in its passage.
After the lightning had gonefeveral feet in
a collected mass, it divided into three dif
ferent branches, gradually ’diverging in
their course. The middle or main division
proceeded with a feeminglv omnipotent
power. It repeatedly entered the ground
and emerged in succession, violently tore
up the dirt, leaving considerable cavities
behind, rent feveralrocks in pieces, throw
ing some fractured parts thirteen yards,
fliivered old logs to atoms, scorched the
grass, finally entered the earth fifty-eight
yards distant from where the tree flood,
and apparently was absorbed. The left
exterior division, split two rocks, went
into the ground sixteen yards from the
fturnp, and continued its fubterraneous
course twenty-three and an half yards.
Then it returned to the furface, and hav
ing continued ten and an half yards fur
ther leaving marks of heat on the vegeta :
bit growth, it entered the earth with a con
siderable breach, and the eye could trace
its vestiges no further.
The right exterior division proceeded
nearly sixty yards, sometimes choosing a
fubterraneous, and sometimes an rerial
passage. Finally it appears to have divid
ed under ground, then burst forth in four
different places with astonishing violence,
and afterwards disappeared in the brink of
a rivulet.
Aifo, not long since in the westerly part
of Dudlv, several trees (landing Together
were struck with lightning, and five cattle,
happening to be nigh them, were inftaat
ly killed.
Do not such phenomena as these afford
extensive scope to the serious and contem
plative mind ? Are they not a ioud warn
ing to a careless world to believe and adore
the Almighty Jehovah, whole smile is life,
and whofc frown is inevitable death ?
“ When the blue ightfiing's ftero terrific gi re,
Spreads direful no;ie and tumult through the sir,
And rei.ds tTecs and rocks asunder ;
Let the proud infidel his head recune,
And liumMy own the Author is Divine.
And revere the God cf thunder.”
SPRING GOOD'S.
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STREET,
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Suitable to the feafun, which wifi be fold
at their ufuai low price, for 'cajh or county
produce.
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J u| y u- i.
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quarter talk or gallon,
Sugar per barrel or single pound,
Coffee in bags. Also,
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BRANDY, § ALSPICE,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT Os
GRO.CERIES.
All which will be fold on the lowed terms
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Kf* They have a few hundred weight
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gu/la and its vicinity ,
THAT THEY HAVE COMMENCED THE
Gold (3 Silver Smiths , Book-Binding
and Stationary BUSINESS ,
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Where they have on hand, a compleat
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Savannah, July 11. 4t. *
L O S T,
BETWEEN Augusta and the Sand
hills, a small Biack Leather POCKET
BOOK, containing several papers of little
value, and a ticket in the Charleston East
Bay-Street Lottery. A reward will be
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.My 3*- (ts- 3-)
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TWO PAIR MAHOGANY
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AN active Boy about fourteen or fif
teen years of age, as an Apprentice
to theCarpenterand joiner's trade—None
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