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MUSES RETREAT.
TO DELIA.
lovely maid, with downcast eye,
And cheek with filentforrow pale,
What gives tiay breast the lengthened sigh,
That, heaving, tells a mornful tale ?
Thy tear*, which thus each other chafe,
Bespeak a heart o’ercharg’d with *oe;
Thy sighs, a ftorni that wrecks thy peace,*"
Which fouls like thine Ihould never know.
Oh! tell me, doth some favor’d youth,
Too often bleft, thy beauty flight,
And leave those thrones of love and truth,
That lip and bosom of delight ?
Perhaps to nymphs of other fliades
He feigns the foft, Impaffion’d tear)
With vows their easy faith invades,
That treacherous won thy artless ear.
Let not those maids thy envy move,
For whom his heart may seem to pine ;
That heart can ne’er be bleft by love,
Whofe guilt can force a pang from thine,
of an English Speculator.
We give you, Specs, a-little note
For you to look upon l —
you may fee your brethren’s fate,
Who’re now in gaol— qt gone —
To Pot.
Monday —brought in.
Tueflay —was poflefled of thousands.
H'cJnefday —made a new arrangement
in my household.
Thursday —set up mv equipage.
Friday —went to the ball.
Saturday —to prison—and
Sunday— left alone to meditate on the
vicissitudes of life.
An unfortunate Taylor , who had com
mitted some law business to the hand ofan
Attorney, well praftifed in Im profellion,
had a hill lent him some time since con
taining fucha variety of unexpected charg
es that the thought himfelf fleeced rhoft
unmercifully. The only fatisfaCtion which
occurred to him was to prevail on the con
foieritiows Attorney tohaVea suit ofcloaths
made, for which he, in his turn, gave in
something like the following bill:
To meafnring and taking or ' 1/ 0 (, g
ders fora suit of clothes y J
Warrant and inftruftions to 7
mv foreman for executing > 068
the fame y
Going three times to the 7 0 6 8
woolen draper’s J 1
Fees to the woolen draper 4 4°
Cutting out the cloth 068'
Materials for working 1 16 o
Trying the suit o 13 4
Alterations and amendments 1 j 1 o
Entering it in my day book 0106
Polling it in mv ledger 0 68
Engrofiing the fame o 13 4
Writing to the button mer- 7 0 g
chant, (
piling his declaration, sixteen 1 „ * „
facets 5
Fees to button merchant o 18 o
Removing the suit from" try 7
house to Broadway 3 150
Removing it by Certiorari from 1
Broadway to your country > i 6 o
house )
Waiting out a receipt with a 7
ftiimp, } »'»•
Filing the fame o 6 8
Service of the fame 0 50
Ditto eight times more 100
jf.lß 18 2
By this bill he contrived to have a fuf
ficient set off against the attorney, and ac
ted, no doubt, on principles of equal fair
nets and honesty.
AN E CD O TE.
The following ludicrous circitmftance
actually occurred to a very refpc&able
practitioner of forgery (not an hundred
miles from Worcefler,) whose peculiar
ghastliness of countenance, and thin, mea
gre appearance, fubjeCt him to the con-
Itnnt appellation of “ Death’s Head on a
Mop-flick.”
A country fellow having occafmned to
cenfult him, direCted by the servant to
a room up stairs, where he was informed
hefnould find the Doctor. Honed Hodge
atepndei the stairs, but niiftaking the door
of the apartment, bounced into one where
was, in an erc«ft poftnre, a human Hide- ;
ton '—after a moment’* pause of horror,
the r iftic made a molt precipitate retreat,
his terrors preventing ariv explanation to
the tervniHi, who, with astonishment, he
hdd him darting through the kitchen and
pillage, overtnrniugeverv thing in his wav.
Same few days after this, our hero chan
to encounter the Dodor in the rortd,
M m! bavsn S rather got ,he better of his
* c V C . h * V r<,lT * J rked— 44 Ah. mender,
P 1 ' iho tb « bc’ft, for a!!
4 | thee ft got thy cfeithw on ?
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[By Rrquefi as a Suljoikr.')
French Logan.
Prow the Connefkcut Cguttant>
Hartford, July 0.
Mejfrs. Hudson 6? Goodwin,
I THINK the only man in
the United States who is compe
tent to fettle all differences between
-us, and France, is that a furprifmg
son of diplomacy, Dodlor George
Logan, the Jefferfonian Ambassa
dor Extraordinary to Joel Barlow
and Talleyrand. Nothing in these
wonder working days, can equal
the talents of this marvellous man.
When this country was plunging in
to the horrors of war, and fire, blood
and carnage seemed to await us—be
hold ! the Dodlor unadvised, un
protected, and with half a dozen
other uns, set off for France, reach
ed forth his potent hand, adminis
tered his death preventing drugs,
and lo! peace was restored to us.
This is not all—the Dodlor has
found out lately, that he made some
notable difeoveries in France, about
“ the moral and political fituation*’
of that beautified country’, and has
favoured his countrymen with the
fruit of his travels. He fays, “ that
the country vvears the appearance of
prosperity, farm-houfes are building,
the cottagers are clothed, happy and
content.’* It is likely enough this
is true —they have stolen money
and clothes enough in the course of
the revolution, to fill their pockets
and cover their Backs, and until this
ntoney is spent, and these clothes
worn out, I dare fay they will ap
pear happy and content, like all 0-
ther unpunished thieves.
The Dodlor, fays he, “ found the
roads good, and travelling perfedl
ly fafe.” I take it he had a pass
port from Merlin, the chief of the
robbers and highwaymen, and that
is always a protection to the bearer,
as he is supposed to be one of the
gang, and there is this fort of “ ho
nor amongst thieves.” The Dodlor
fays “ the municipal officers keep
the public in a slate of tranquility,
and are attentive to their fundlions.”
Boubtlefs—their fundtion is to cut
off the head of every man who of
fends them* and who could not
keep a country quiet, if he might
murder every man who should make
a noise? The Dodlor fays, “ the
greatest order prevails in Paris.”—
The fame means by which they
keep the country silent operate in
Paris in a tenfold degree—lt is not
strange that the city is peaceable.—
I dare fay it is as still as a burying
yard.
The Dodlor fays, “ the people of
France believe religious establish
ments are foreign to civil institu
tions,” and therefore they have no
religion at all. They are
ed with atheism. However, the
Dodlor fays, he was good enough
to go to church once whilst he was
in Paris. Good Dodlor, I hope you
was edified. “ The Theophilan
thropifls,” the Dodlor fays, “ are
liketheNew England Independents,
the Baptists and the Quakers.—
They pray, fmg hymns, and every
man who is gifted preaches a ser
mon about liberty,” &c. It is pro
bable then, that they all preach, for
there never was a Frenchman but
what was gifted at talking. The
bunch hack Lepeaux is th<T head of
this dub, he is one of the diredto
ry, and every body know, as well
as Dodlor Logan, that all the exe
cutive diredlory are very pious, con
feiauious gentlemen.
The Dodlor then tells ns “ that
die means of knowledge are in such
profufm in Paris, that it is difficult
for a student to make a choice a
midst the variety.” Therejs no
disputing the Dodtor here. Every
| species of villainy is opemy taught
in Paris, and there is no other sci
ence attended rt>. The advantages
of each kind are so tempting, that
I dare fay the young man is puzzled
to know whether he had better turn
robber, highwayman, pirate, athe
ist, keeper of a brothel, or mur
derer. There is but a little to
choole between them ; all are sure
roads to preferment and eminence.
The Dodtor fays, that <c the Lou
vre is full of specimens of exqui
site painting and sculpture.” It is
probable that the diridtory have
lodged theftatues & paintings there,
which their worthy general Buona
parte dole for them in Italy, &c.
The Dodtor fays, he vilkedthe
council of five hundred and the
council of ancients, and the great
ejl order and regularity were preserv
ed in all their deliberations/’ “ I
denounce all religion,” laid Le Ba
boon—Applauses—“ Decreed.” —
“ I move that the Tailors on board
the British tyrant’s fleet may bite the
duji ,” said de Puffe—Loud ap
plauses—Decreed, and honorable
mention in the Bulletin/’ “ I fear,”
said Rantipole, “ that the Austri
ans under the satellite Charles, com
monly called the archduke, will
drive our brave heroes out of Ger
many again-*—Long and repeated
murmurs at all the speech except,
“ our brave heroes ” —feveral mem
bers looked fierce at Rantipole the
president put on his hat, and Ran
tipole fat down confufed.” This
is the order add regularity of these
sapient bodies.
“ Merlin, LepeauX, and Treil
hard, are men of talents,” fays the
Dodtor. They must be men of ta
lents and shekels too, if they have
kept half the money thpy have plun
dered from mankind. “ The po
pulation of France is thirty-five
millions,” fays the Dodtor. They
grow faft. At the beginning of
the revolution, they counted twen
ty millions, then twenty-five mil
lions, and now they have encreafed
to thirty-five millions. They have
murdered and otherwise disposed of
several millions since they began to
be free , and yet they multiply as faft
as the lice did in Egypt. I hope
they will flop soon, or they will o
verrun the whole world. The Doc
tor fays, that “ during an awful mo
ment of revolutionary frenzy, crimes
were committed, in violation of the
found principles of justice and hu
manity.” Fye Dodtor! How can
you fay so! What, Frenchmen com
mit crimes ! Impossible ! “ But,”
fays the Dodtor, “ these crimes have
been condemned and punished by
the nation,” No Dodtor, you are
still mistaken—they never commit
ted any crimes, and therefore could
not be punilhed.
Now Dodtor, you fee that I ajw
prove of almost every thing you
have said. You wrote the text, and
I have written the paraphrase. You
have painted France like the Gar
den of Eden, and I have agreed to
it. Now why did not you stop
here ? But, you are the Cow'that
gives a good mess of milk, and then
kicks over the pail. Your con
cluding sentence spoils the whole.
The devil himfelf would not Aval
low it. The rest of it might rub
and go. But this would stick in
the throat of a wbipper-will.— You
fay, Dodtor, that “ at prefect; no go
vernment in Europe is more firmly
ejlablijhedi mere ably adminijlered, or
better calculated to promote the gen
eral httppinefs of its citizens , than
, that of France .” Now Dodtor, not
' -ts ‘ H
only you, and I, but every man, I
woman, and child in the United 1
States knows, that this is a down. 1
right lie. Why Dodtor, if you were ]
a member of the council of fl V r- I
hundred, as you are of the legifl a . I
ture of Pennsylvania, and should I
go on a million to dome other ccun. 1
try from France, ks you did from 1
this country to France, of your o4n I
head , it would be the last place y ou 1
would ever go to with a bead, un- i
less perchance you might step off t 0 I
Cayenne. Now, do you call this fl
able administration ? No Dodfor I
you ought to have duck to proba! 8
bilitv, and then all would have o one I
off fwimmihgly- The pretty story I
you tell about France would have 8
backed the nomination of a new 8
commission to treat with the raf- 1
cals, every body would have fop. 8
posed that the President was influ. ]
enced to make the nomination by
your address, and suggestions, you I
would have been a Great Man, and I
the President would have been left I
to take care of himfelf. 1
BRISSOT. I
By request, the following is republijh - I
ed from the Augufla Chronicle. I
Caution to Negro Purchasers from I
any other State except this. j
The law of the State of Georgia I
is thus, viz. No Negroe shall be I
brought in it, without being liable I
each of them to the fine of 1000 !
dollars, and the person or persons
is from said law bound to convey ]
them back from whence they were I
brought, and give good security I
that he will do so, besides paying I
the above sum of iooo dollars dol
lars for each negroe.
N. B. A friend to the negroe
purchasers, who does not know the
law of this state, cautions all offi
cers who have, taken tfae following
obligation, viz. “1,A.8. do fo-’
lemnly swear or affirm (as the case
may be) thht I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the state of Geor- *
gia, and to the utmost of my pow
er, and ability, observe, conform to,
support and defend the constitution
thereof, without any reservation or
■ equivocation whatsoever-, and the
constitution of the United States.
So help me God.
From the above oath I am of «
opinion that all men who have tak
en the fame, ought to give, notice
of the bnly evil which is a disgrace •
to the law and the people who coun
tenance the business.
Afriend to the State and the Laws.
Harris, Maher f^Co.
HAVE RECEIVED,
From Li&rpooty Philadelphia and New- Yorks
& ' ' f' •
'the following
G O O D S|
—ri —_
Plated Harness Furniture,
r j fafhionable,
Ditto, Brass ditto, ditto, ditto.
Twelve dozen Windsor Chairs, plain and
fafhionable,
Cordage, tar’d and white,
Paints and Oil,
Lampblack in lb. papers,
Tea, Bohea and Souchong,
Coffee, MolajP'es,.
Sugar, refined, Jamaica and Havannah, l\
Wine, Port and Sherry, excellent,
Brandy, Bpurdeaux and Northern,
Rum, Jamaica and New-Eirgland,
Holland Geneva, and Marooning Cases,
Empty Bottles and best Corks, &V. Sfr.
—A L S O,—
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
SADDLERT ,
And one pair large, Elegant Parlour
LOOKING GLASSES.
August 2i. (6 at)