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W T y «£—.in " ' m 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, HAS FOR SALE , Few Hogsheads of MOLASSES. ISAAC HERBERT. August;. (3t. 4,)