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MUSES RETREAT.
TO MODESTY.
Hail, Modefiy! who still art fee®
With bl»,fi»ing chtck and downcaA mtin
Ytt beauty count thy hue;
That fluAnng crimson o’er the eyes,
Then fhiftt, it sweetly varied diet,
Alternative to the view.
Sweet Maid 1 who in thyfelf retir’d.
Art tearful moA to be admir’d
And licks thy charmt to hide;
For mudeAy by foft controul.
With fvrav more powerful rules the foul,
Than Beauty’* confcioul pride.
Behold that yet unfolding rose,
Whose budi but half thrmfelvet difdofe
Yet theJ a rich perfume;
Say, can the tulip so invite,
So charm the sense, so feaft the fight,
In all its gaudy bloom?
Without thee, ev’n the Mufe’t fame,
Which boafti a Heav’n inspiring claim,
Were but a vulgar fire;
And love, bcA patfion of the mird,
But that by 'See ’tia rais’d, itfin’d,
Would tank to low desire.
0 Itad’ft thou temper’d Sappho’* lay,
And calm’d imperious paflion’s sway,
She ne’er had fought the Aeep;
Nor from i.s height, by love infpir'd,
Urg’d by disdain, to madness fir’d,
Plung’d headlong in the deep.
Say, could the wave alone afiuage,
Within her breft the glowing rage f
Then dread ye sex, her fate;
And hence be taught a modest part
Alone can charm a lover's heart,
Alone can fix your Aate!
THE MAIDS SOLILOQUY \
It mult be so—-Milton thou reafoneA w^l,
E le whence thi* pleating hope, this fond desire,
Thu longing after something unpoflfefs’d;
Or whence this fccret dread, this inward horror,
Os J.ing unefpoufed—why (hrinks the foul
Back on itfelf, and Aartles at virginity ?
*Ti» iaftinift—faithful inftinft Air* within us,
*Tis nature’* frlf that points out an alliance
And intimates a hulband to the sex
Marriage-—thou pleasing and yet anxious thought,
-ThiO’ what new fcanes and changes muA we pals—
The unchanging Aate in profpelt lies befon me
But Audows, clouds, and darkness reA upon it:
Here will I hold—if nature prompts the wilh
And that she does is plain from all her works,
Our duty and our interelts bids indulge it,
For the great end of nature’s law is bliss:
But yet—in wedlock women muA obey—
I'm weary of these doubts thtprieA Aull end them,
Nor ralhly do 1 venture loss and gain
Bondage and pleasure meets my thoughts at once—
-1 wed—my liberty is gone forever
But happiness from time itfelf secured;
Love fit it fiiall recompence my loss of freedom,
And when my charms Avail fade away, my eyas
Themftlves grow dim, my Aature bent with
Then virtuous triendihip Aiall succeed t>> love
Then plesf’d I’ll scorn infirmities and death,
Renewed immortal in a filial race.
ANECDOTES.
Sir Thomas More, on the clay that he
was beheaded, had a barber sent to him,
because his hair was long, which it was
thought would make him more pitied by
the people. The barber came to him, anil
alked him, “ Whether he would please to
b- trimmed?” “In good faith, honest fel
low, (said Sir Thomas,) the king and I
have a suit for my head; and till the title
be cleareJ, I will do oo cost upon it.”
Two soldiers being condemned to death
in I’landers, the general being prevailed
upon to fparc one of them, ordered them
to call dice upon the drum head for their
lives. The firft, throwing two fixes, fell
a ringing his hands; but was furprized
when the other threw two fixes also. The
officer appointed to fee the execution, or
dered them to throw again; they did so,
and each of them threw two fives; at
which thefoldiers that stood round Ihou
ted, and said neither of them were to die.
Hereupon the officer acquainted the coun
cil of war, who ordered them to throw a
gain; and then came up two fours. The
general being made acquainted with it,
lent for the men, and pardoned them—
‘‘l love,” fxys he 41 in such extraordinary
cases, to Memo the voice of Providence."
A drunk-n fellow having fold all his
f.ooJs to maintain himfelf at hi* pot. ex
>cept his feather bed, at last made awav
with that too; when being reproved for
>t by Come of hk friend!; ‘‘Vhy, tfaid he)
am tr \ well, thank God, and why
should I keep my bed.” * 1
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS ON
matrimony.
[From the Univer/al Magazine.]
Hail! wedded love! myfierious law. milton.
IT has ever been a complaint exhibited
again!! moral writers, that they are too
apt to blame the present times, and extol
those that are past —to represent the one as
the period of all vice, and the other as the
blameless and golden age. Perhaps this
observation may not be wholly unfounded;
and the remark made by others of more
acute penetration, may be just—that all
ages will, if accurately examined, be found
equal in their virtues and thcircrimes; and
that the world is neither better nor worse
now, than it was three or four thousand
years ago.
It may, however, I think, be with much
truth declared, that every age, though on
the whole neither more virtuous nor more
vicious than the preceding, has its cha
rafteriftic faults and excellencies ; w’hich
flourifh and decay, and gradually give
place to others of a newer fafhion. It has
been said, that the fafhionable virtue of the
present age is charity ; and which I sin
cerely wifti maybe true, since there are
certainly a multitude of fins among us
which require to be covered by her exten
sive mantle. Were Ito venture to point
out the prevailing vice (and which alone
even charity herfelf can scarcely be hoped
to hide entirely) I ftiould name that most
henious one, conjugal infidelity.
My proposition will perhaps be allowed
to be just, when I state, that under this
term of infidelity, I mean to include every
breach, the least as well as the greatest, of
that solemn vow and promise which is
made, before the altar of God, by both
parties who enter into this important, (let
not my readers smile when I fay) this holy
state of life; and that I confider the smallest
breach of love and duty, reciprocally due
from the husband and the wife to each
other, as almost undoubtedly introdutfive
of the greatest crimes that either of them
can be guilty of again!! God and man
kind.
When a heart oftruefenfibility and feel
ing, trained up in the love of religion, of
decency, of private domestic happiness,
indof all those nameless innocent pleasures
which the virtuous only know how to va
lue, and which they alone are capable of
enjoying—when such a heart places its
unadulterated affeftions on a mind seem
ingly sympathetic, what chastened rap'y-e
does it not hope to experience in the ob
taining that partner for life, without whom
Adam in paradife was acknowledged by
his Creator to be destitute of complete
happinefs!—But how cruel is the sting,
how bitter the disappointment, when, in
lieu, of an affectionate companion, the i
soother of his distresses, the calmer of his ,
pains, he finds himfelf united to an artful
woman, who, with sense enough to coun- i
terfeit for a while the most engaging mild
ness of manners and tenderness of disposi
tion, after marriage throws off the malk,
and valuing herfelf on preserving her vir- I
tue, thinks herfelf at liberty to disregard
every other tie of love and duty. Such a
woman perhaps sports with the misery file i
creates, and glories in it as a mark of her
power over a man whom all her unkind
ness fails to alienate; and who may still
continue true to his part of the engage- i
ment, from motives the mol! pure and
praise worthy.
Nor is the companion to this portrait
less deserving our compaflion ; or (to the
diferace of the men be it spoken) le!s fre- j
quent. Here we (hall fee a mild and timo
rous female, unused to reproof, 1
rd in the ways of the world, fubjeC! to the
brutal ferocity, the unfeeling haughtiness,
of some tyrannic lord and master; who,
far from considering her as his equal, his
deareftand best half, the confidential friend
of his bosom, and the sacred repository of
his nearel! concerns, looks on her only as
a Have, destined to obey his will and trem
ble at his nod; or perhaps as the mere ve
hicle by which his name and family are to
be continued—the fuhjeft «f his sensual
pleasure and his capricious endearments,
at those hours when he is tired of gaming,
drinking, or other vicious though fsfhiona
ble amulements.
If this be, as unhappily it is, the Gtu
ation of many in the married state, it may
be worth while enquiring from whence
these evils spring; which, indeed, threaten
to put an end to the institution itfelf or at
lea!! to deftrov all hopes of happiness in it,'
in the eyes of every reasoning person of
either sex.
With refpea to the men, when we fee
how early boys are introduced into public
life, and fuffered to be witnellefs ot feenes
44 which shame the confeious check of
truth"—when we reflea to what language
they are daily and hourly permitted to li*f
ten—when we fee the state of youth en
tirely blotted out from the book of fa!h
ionable life, and the fchool-bov suddenly
start up into man—when vice' is known
before it can be praflifed—are we anv lon
ger to wonder at the excefles into which
they arc carried headlong?— And when
the bloom of virtue is destroyed, and de
bauchery has obtained complete pofleflion
both of his mind and perion, rendering
them equally difguftful to the eye and the
heart of female dilicacy, if at last, by the
mediation and importunity of friends and
relations, and by the hypocrisy of a few
weeks, be obtains the hand of a virtuous
woman in marriage—what must be ex
pected to be the rel'ult, butdiftafte and dis
gust? And this will be resented by the of
fender with all that malignity which the
vicious ever bear towards those they have
injured.
As to the female sex, I wifli to deliver
my sentiments in a gentler way ; and yet
there are surely faults on their sides, which
will not yield to gentle medicines. Among
these (land foremoft, as Baders of
those bands most hostile to connubial felici
ty, pride and affectation—a pride which
induces them to confider themselves as de
graded, by doing their duty—which looks
on every concession made to their hufhands
as unbecoming women of spirit—the most
dangerous, and let them forgive me when
I add, the most detestable character, when
carried to its full extent, ever assumed by
those who were “ framed for the tender
offic'esof love”—a pride which blinds them
to their own defcCts, and emblazons their
excellencies beyond even the flatteries of a
lover—an affeCtation, which prevents them
from acknowledging what they feel, and
introduces a caprice deftruCtive of their
own and their husband’s peace. I will
proceed no farther in this unpleasant de
scription.
In addition to these failings, peculiar to
each sex, ought to be mentioned —the
thoughtless indifference with which this
most awful engagement is entered into by
the young, the old, and the mid4le aged—
the utter ignorance, before hand, of what
they are about to do—the inattention at
the time as to what they are doing—and
the forgetfulnefs afterward, of what they
have done.
For better for worfe—for richer for poor
er—in sickness and in health—till death us
do part! Do these words mean any thing?
and how are they confident with feperate
maintenance, feperate beds, feperate plea
sures, and that great root of ail evils, di
vorces? If people come together with an
intention, or even a consciousness of the
poflibility (not to fay the probability) of
violating every condition on which they
are joined, except those contained in the
marriage settlement, the performance of
which may be compelled by law; it
would be better at once to omit trifling
with what is by some religions esteemed a
sacrament, and to depend wholly on the
indenture tripartite.
I know it is often alledged, by both par
ties, that the temper and disposition of the
other are so bad, they cannot be born with;
and that it is better to part, than to live in
perpetual quarrels and uneasiness. But
whence does this complaint arise? From
hypocrisy before marrnage, and want of
patience and tenderness afterward. Let
every married person, husbands as well as
wives, keep in mind one Angle maxim, and
I will venture tb insure an end to at least
two thirds of the quarrels which arise be
tween them. This maxim, therefore, I
(hall give my fair readers as a charm; it
consists of three words, which if they will
repeat three times deliberately before they
utter one intended hasty exprefiion, they
need not doubt of securing the love and
tenderness of their husbands; whom I en
join reciprocally topra&ifeit when it comes
to their turns:
BEAR AND FORBEAR.
THOUGHTS,
To the 'wife and learned—-and Prejident and
Congress of the United Stales.
WHEN I was a child I thought, and
now that I am old I think the fame,
and that thought of young and old is, that
if it was possible to make the water which
is on one fide of a wheel stay there and ne
ver come down from that fide, when the
wheel should turn, that the wheel then
should turn forever—l suppose a wheel
with a pipe round it as a hoop, I suppose
if the pipe, the round pipe was full of wa
ter only one fide from bottom to top, and
the other fide full of air from bottom to
top, the fide of the wheel full of water
from bottom to top, ought to be more hea
vy than the fide wherein is no water, and
the wheel ought to turn ; let it be put in
the open air or balanced in the middle of
a pipe of water as the earth is in the mid
dle of the air, the wheel funk into the wa
ter having one fide full of air, and one fids
full of water, would turn in the water as
in the air, this is probable ; now, as to the
possibility of the round pipe of the wheel
to be full of water from bottom to top on
ly one fide, let the wheel turn or not turn
to be always full the fame, and the other
fide always emptier it turn or not; this
is a thing not impossible but poffible— \ n
putting some quick-ftlver in the round
pipe of the wheel, the auick-filver will be
in the low part of the pipe, then water may
be put on the top of the quick-silver one
fide, the water on the quick-fiiver that fide
{hall rema,* 111 Galways the fame, j ct t
wheel turn or not turn,' and the other fijl
(hall always be empty the fame, ] ct J
whetl turn or not turn—but I cannot Jr
if the wheel shall turn or not turn, bei
I am not learned, and I have not l
enced if, but I suppose the wheel will
turn, because the water in the pipe*
fide of the wheel, is equal in weight to is!
quick-silver which contra-baiam.es it
the other fide ; therefore, for to make t,
wheel turn, the outside of the w heel oupf
to be as full of buckets as poffiblf jj
mouth of the buckets are in the pip e *
water, then the water in the buckets
be weighty on rhe wheel and not on
quick-silver, which will raifeno higher on
the other fide of the wheel than it did when
there was no buckets; so a bucket wheel
made will turn, and the buckets that fi-jj
will be always full from bottom to top_
This firs, is certain and evident, that the
bucket wheel turns the buckets, being f H |j
one fide and not the other, and they will
always be filled.by the round pipe of the
wheel which is always full the fame, let the
wheel turn or not turn. I hope that these
my thoughts shall not altogether p ro v e
fruitlefs and unprofitable to the world; if
there is any reward, I hope that the Prefi.
dent and Representatives of the United
States, will not forget that I am old, poor
and in need, having spent my life' i n ft u .
dying upon perpetual motion , expefting
to find something ufeful to the world of
men: for I tefiify, that the chief thing I
aim at, is to be ufeful to men. lam firs
your poor unlearned, unexperienced well
vvifher and friend,, &c.
Francois Rene le Roy du Cerqueil.
Julv. 1 799- (tf*6)
gI oT gia.
By His Excellency JAMES JACKSON,
Governor and Commander in Ch ief of the
Army and Navy of this State, and of the
Militia thereof.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, I have received official
information of a moil barbarous
and cruel murder having been committed
on the body of Allen Womack, in the
county of Franklin, in this State, on the
thirtieth day of May lall, which appears
from the inquest held thereon, and return
ed to the Executive department, to have
been perpetrated by one Hardy Harden , of
Pendleton county, in the State of South
Carolina who has since abfeonded: In or
der, therefore, that the said Hardy Harden
may be brought to exemplary justice, I
HAVE THOUGHT FIT to issue this
my PROCLAMATION, hereby offering
a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS to any person or persons who will
apprehend the said Hardy Harden , and
lodge him in some secure goal within this
State. AND I further charge all officers
civil and military belonging to this State,
to be aiding and afiifting in apprehending
and fecUring the said Hardy fo that
he may be brought to trial and condign
punishment accordingly.
GIVEN under my hand and the
Great Seal of the said State , at
Lcuijville, this eleventh day of
XL. S. T July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred aud nine
ty-nine.
JAMES JACKSON.
By the Governor,
Horatio Marbury, D. Sec'ry.
GOD SAVE THE STATE.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Louisville , 25 th July % 1799.
Ordered,
THAT the Clerks of the Superior and
Inferior Courts of the refpeftive
counties of this State do within one month
after the 16th day of August next, make a
true return to the Executive Department
under their hands and seals, of all the
county officers who have taken and fub
feribed the oath to support and maintain
the constitution of this State, in pursuance
of the aft of the General Alfembly of this
State, palled the 16th day of February
last, entitled, “ An aft to compel all offi
cers civil and military within this State to
take and fubferibe an oath to support the
constitution thereof.”—And that they do
further make return in like manner of all
officers who may have negleftcd or refufed
to take the fame.
Taken from the Minutes ,
THOMAS JOHNSON, Sec'ry.
W. S. SMITH,
BEGS leave to inform his friends, that
he has removed into the House lately oc
cupied by Col. R. Watkins, where he pro
poses to entertain a few refpeftable boar
ders.—He also hopes to have it in his
power to accommodate his transient
friends.
August 7. (ts. 4.)
The Subscriber,
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