Newspaper Page Text
MDSES RETREAT.
ODE TO HEALTH.
Health, mod honor’d power divine,
Thy presence glads the throng;
The poet’s tuneful lays are thine*
Tit’ enraptur’d seraph's song.
Come, fair Hygeia ! grant a finile,
On me thy gifts bestow ;
Thy brooding influence deign a while
On mortals here below.
May’ll thou my future hopes employ!
Thy conftantaid afford;
With thee each bounteous gift enjoy,
True to my bed and board !
For what imperial crowns birftow,
Whnte’er dear ohjefts prove;
Whate’er delights from riches flow,
Or from the charms of love.
Whate’er the gracious gods supreme
Difpcnfe on mercy’s plan;
All nature’s gifts, that spread and beam
To soothe thnftoils of man.
Thcfe—thefe all hover on thy cheek,
AH flourifh In thine eye;
Bereft of thee the joys we seek
Grow languid, droop, and die.
A SOUND SLEEPER.
WHEN Bctfy the Gay to uld Gripus was wed,
fffter Jane wilh’d her motive to know ;
And vowM,‘Eieflic’<i take the o lb mortal to bed
She’d lead apes in the regions below,’
♦ As to that,’ replied Betsy, ‘purfue your own plan,
But 1 beg you’ll let me purlue mine :
That old mortal has fcitled two thoul'and perann.
And, my dear, he is just eighty-nine !
When this is confiJercd, I think Jane, you’ll own
That your tiller has ailed quite right:
I’ve ten thousand inducements to unite my zone—
And he deep* like a top in the night!’
WANT OF CURIOSITY.
THREE years in London Bob ad t l had been, •
Yet not the Lions nor the Tombs had seen ;
I cannot tell the cause, without a smile
The rogue had been in Newgate all the while,
sentimentoFaristotle.
WHEN Aristotle once was asked,
what a man could gain by uttering fa?f
hnods ? lie replied, “ Not to be credited
wnen he tells the truth.”
,/IN EC DO TES.
A GENTLEMAN once was called
Upon a jury at the Old Bailey, but he be
ing diftrellfd in lircomftances, resolved to
to turn upon the road to mend his fortune;
upon which he ordered his barber to make
him .iffearlet wig, which he wore, and rob
bed two gentlemen ; after which he threw
the wig away. A countryman with his
team travelling the road, picked it up, and
admiring it, throw's off his cap and put on
this fcnrlet wig, thinking it was the fafhion
in London; he loon after arrived in town,
and the two gentlemen who were robbed
feeing the countryman, immediately took
him into custody, supposing him to be the
man who rubbed them f he was brought
up to the Old Bailey for trial, and sworn
to by the two gentlemen. The real high
wayman was on the jury, who thought it
a cruet circumftanee that an innocent man
should fuffer, and putting on the wig, said
to the gentlemen, “ Who was it robbed
you ?" “ Oh, (lavs the gentleman,) it was
you—you are the man, we are sure.”
Then fays the judge to them, “ Why you
two will fay it is me, it I put the wig on.
You have already sworn to one, and want
to swear to another—turn them out of
court, or they will swear to me next.”
A COMPANY of Scholars, going a
bunting, enjoined one of the party, who
was usually very talkative, to prefervc fa
ience, or he would frighten away all the
game. Upon spying a number of Rabbits,
be vociferoully exclaimed, “ ecce ! multi
ci iuuii ! when they disappeared in a mo
ment. Being chid by his companions, he
replied, “ H ’ko the devil would have though:
the Rabbits uttJet/hod latiu ?"
AN a& : on was tried for Bander, in
whit, h an attorney was plaintiff and an ho
nest farmer defendant. It wa:. to recover
damages for calling the attorney a rogue
and a thief; the words were proved to
caot Seer, spoken by the defendant. The
v?rdi& of thejurv was, “We are of opi
nion, that as the plaintiff is an attorney,
the aAion will not he.”
AN Idiot was on his death bed, when
one atked hint where he expefted to go
' l Why, to heaven," aufwered he. “ How
(fays the pefton) are yon not a fool ?”
** (•'*>’» he) God never expected
more than he gave.
From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
To the NEIGHBOR.
Sir,
lam a Farmer; and I cal! myfelf a mid
ling liver, because I have been midling
1 industrious. Indeed I have always been
used to work pretty hard; and always had
enough to eat and a little to f'pare. I have
brought up a considerable family so far, as
that all my buys are able to earn something,
and all my girls, except the youngest, arc
old enough to heip their mother about the
dairy and house work, and some of them
to card and spin. I once thought I should
have a hard flint to get along, and pay all
my debts and taxes, and come out fair and
square at the end of. every I had
e’en like to have dragged myfelf through
a thicket of briars by looking round on
other folks, who were better on’t in the
world than myfelf, and comparing my
fortune with their’3, who could ride about,
and visit when they please.—They work
ed only when they had a minu to; and I
thought they loved play better than work.
I confefs I fdt inwardly four and cross
when I f'aw some of my old playmates and
school fellows, whom I could always out
fpell, and outcypher at school, and who
would always be at the bottom of the class,
now forfooth wearing their gloves, and
clean boots, and fine shirts; while poor I,
covered with sweat and dirt, was tugging
at the plow, or hoe, or feythe, or fjpade,
or crowbar, from morning until night.—
This was a sorer mortification to me, than
to fee some of the older lawyers in their
offices, and shopkeepers in their (hops,
and rich gentlemen in their carriages. And
freely own that all these fights set mv fpi
rifs a working towards envy, and dilcon
tent and murmuring. I grew morose and
fauev whenever I met any gentle folks;
and if I was driving a team, and they were
infleighs or wheel carriages,l wouldaUvays
keepthepath, andmakethemturnout; and
the more trouble I put them to, the more
was I gratified. But I soon found that
this would not do; that I was only setting
every one of my neighbors against me,
and making myfelf unhappy to no purpose
that all my fretting and grumbling and ill
nature would neither hoe my corn, nor
mow my grass, nor fatten my hogs, nor
bring a single cent into my pocket, nor
make either the real or the would be gen
tleman do my work for me. So I put on,
and wore my considering cap , and set my
reason to work. I reflected, that the
greater part of the people in the country
mu ft be farmers, and raise pork, and beef,
and bread, and butter, and cheese, aud
chickens, and eggs, and apples, and hay,
and oats, else what would become of all
the mechanics, and of all the lawyers, and
do&ors, and scholars, and of all the rest of
the gentry, whether poor or rich ? I con
sidered too, that though a farmer’s life was
laborious; yet in all labor there is profit , and
health, and honor too; for the king him
felf is fervid off the field; and our great
Washington, who is better than all the
kings that are now in the world, is a far
mer : and when I came to look little more
closely into things, I thought I could fee
as much contentment, and harmony, and
independence, and happiness, among far
mers, as among any other set of folks, ei
ther in the city or in the country. And
although I maintained my family by my
hands wtole other people did their’s bv
their heads; and though I got my living
by my work, while others got their’s by
their wits; yet when I conlidered the ware
and tare of confidence, as of interest,
which some had to fijffer, whilst I could
llecp in a whole (kin, undisturbed by fhe
riffs without or compunflions within, J
thought I would not exchange rows with
the beft-of them, for a good deal to boot;
fortheirsappeared harder to hoe than mine.
I conftdered farther that if ever I meant
to deserve the character of a good man, I
must be fubmilfive to Providence and con
tented with my lot; that if ever I intend
ed to be a ufeful man, I must continue to
be iuduftrious and faithful in my calling;
and if ever I wiftied for the good will of
my neighbors and fellow citizens, I must
treat every one according to his rank and
dignity, and be kind and condescending,
and obliging, and friendly to all. After
considering and pondering a spell in this
manner, 1 resolved to go cheerfully to
work and to be content with my condition
and to be good, and to do as much good as
was in mv power; and to make every bo
dy my friend by doing to every body, as I
would have every body do to me in like
circumftanccs. Accordingly, whenever I
am driving my team, and meet ladies and
gentlemen in their carriages, I give way,
and try to save them trouble; and whene
ver 1 itop to let them pass me in a place
of difficulty, I am paid with a nod and
“ thank*ee, fir.” If when I am trudging
in the fun about my necefury btifinefs, I
chance to fee gentlemen who live without
| work, fitting in the (hade at their ease, m
their cool drei** or the lawyers’ clerks m
! their loofi gowns, and nankeens, leaning
1 back in their arm chairs, with a book in
I their lap, and their feet as high their
heads, inftesd of desiring to change condi
tions with them, of wiftiing them to be
d—d, I confider that I have my fatisfac
tions, as well as they their’s, anti that they
have as good a right to enjoy their inno
cent amufemcnts, as I have to enjoy mine.
When I come out of the meadows at
night faint and weary, lugging my scythe,
my dinner bag and bottle, with my frock
reaking with sweat, and my trousers drab
bled in mud, and in this plight happen to
meet some gentlemen escorting a drove of
ladies all in their mulling white as lilies
and neat as pinks, do you thing I curse
them .in my heart, or wish them dragged
in the ditch I tumbled into ? No, fir, no;
I try to think that their dress in an emblem
of their inward purity and innocence. I
bow to them smilingly if I know them,
and I always receives bow and smile from
them. Thus, Mr. Neighbor, I fleer clear
of all unnecefl'ary brambles, and glide over
the rough ground without any bad falls
and bruises, and get along the narrows and
round the corners, without butting heads
or breaking fliins with any of my fellow
travellers. Such is the benefit of a consi
dering cap. It has been better to me than
a king’s crown. By wearing of it I kept
myfelf cheerful, contented, benevolent and
mannerly. I would recommend it to all
my brother farmers, and to all who are in
clined to be envious, and to fret and grum
ble: And give me leave to fay, I think it
will be no disservice to you, fir. Excuse
my boldness, and believe me to be
Your friend, &c.
OFFICIAL LIST OF THE FLEET.
Printed at Cartliagena, by the king’s printer.
The French
Commanded by Admir&t Biuix.
SHIPS. GUNS. COMMANDERS.
Ocean xlB Vice ad. Linoire
Chiefofdi v. Palliere
• Vice ad. Dclmottc
Republican no Vice ad. Bedout
Terrible no Vice ad. Corand
Indomable 92 Vice ad. Dordelin
Invincible no St. Haritier
Formidable 92 Treouart
Temible 74 Moncoufu
Tiranicide 74 Allemande
Censor 74 Faye
Duquefue 74 Kerangall
Jemappe 74 Cofmao
Batavia 74 Dogie
Fogofo 74 Befcon
Celo so 74 Dufay
Mpnte Blanc 74 Maiftral
Cdnftitution 74 Leray
Revolution 74 Rolland
Boufleau 74 Bigot
Cifalpine 74 Bergivin
Watigni 74 Gourdon
Tenth of August 74 Bergeret
Galo 74 Simeon
Tourville 74 Henry
Jean Bart 74 Me>n
Convention 74 Le Bocec
Frigates.
Romena 40 Lacaille
Creole 40 Gourrege
Brabura 36 Labourdones
Cocarde 36 Croize
Hermandad 36 Bernard
La Fiel 36 Chefnau
Corvettes.
Berfeau 24 Bourrard
Tadliti 24 Louvell
Vantau 18 Protau
Afrentoza 18 Rousseau
Lazaro Hoche 18 Baffard
Schooners.
La Biche Kerrimell
Delcubiert Paifart
Given on board the Ocean ,
7th Me(fidor, June 27.
(£f- As this lift is printed by the Spanish,
the names appear'a little different from
what they would in a French publication.
Spanish
Commanded by Don Joseph Mazarredo.
SHIPS. GUNS. COMMANDERS.
Purifima Con* ? The chief admi
ception 116 j ral
Ad. Efcano
Capt. Uriarte
Principe 116 Ad. Gravina
Capt. Yanez
St. Anna 112 Ad. Gradellana
Capt. Cifneros
Condede Regia 112 Ad.Cordova
Capt. Efcano
Reyna Luisa 116 Ad. Nava
/ Capt. Cardoqui
Neptune# 80 Ad. Villavicencio
Capt. Munoz
Mexicano • 112 Salazar
Guerrero 74 Estrada
St.Francifcode
■AAs 74 Goicoechea
S. Pablo 74 Vailabriga
Bahama . 74
S. Juan Ncpo
mufeno 74 - Mondngon
S. felmo 74 Martinez
Lonquiftador 74 —— . Churruca
l Pel ay o 74 Valdez
Suberano 74 Villavicencio
S. Joaquin 74 Spinola
S. Francisco de
PmU 74 Figueroa
Frigates.
Atocha 40 Capt. O’^fg
Carmen 34 Buftii.,,,
Flora _ 40
Prolerpina 34 Vhl
Perla* 34 Movua
Venganza 34 Calderon
Soledad 34 ■ Qiiefeda
Matilde 34 Crquijo
Brigs.
Defcubndcr 14 Capt. Pantoja
Vigilante 14 Cordova
Vivo 16 Di (lobes,
Given on board the Purifima C;n C ’\
tion at Carthagena , June 23 ‘
June 20
live o’clock, p. M . “
The French fleet is all out, a n d t .
Spanish is getting under way.
AMERICAN COURAGE.
The following is taken from the Star, a L*idm
Paper of 18 th July:
Copy of a letter from captain John Watts
of the American fliip Planter, dated nff
Dover, July 15.
I failed from Hampton Roads, Junei?
in company with the ship Merchant, load!
ed bv J. Brown of Richmond, and coal
signed to Lamb and Younger, London'
bound for yo*#r place.—We out-failed | )e |
much, loft fight of her the lame day.—
Nothing particularly occurred for 24days;
but when in the lat. of 20, 2, and Ion#!
17, 30, on the 10th of July,’at 2, P. jj’
espied a lofty fliip to the southward in
cnafe of us. By her appearance we were
all fully convinced flie was an enemy, and
being likewise certain we could outfail her
at 4, P. M. had ail ready for aftion, down
all small fails up courses, spread boarding
nettings, &c. At half past 5, P. M. we
backed our main-top-fail, and laid by for
her; all hands giving her 3 cheers; die
then bore, down under our flarboard quar
ter, fired one gun into us, and fliewed Na
tional colors; we found her to be a priva
teer of 22 guns, twelves, nines and fixes,
with small arms in the tops, and full or
men. We immediately rounded to, and
gave her a broad fide, which commenced
the aft ion on both sides: the firft broad
side we received cut away all our halyards,
top sheets and braces, and killed 3 men on
the quarter deck. We kept up a constant
fire for two glafles and a half when (he
sheered off to repair damages, and in about
one glass returned to board us, with his
bloody flag hoisted; we were all in read;*
nefs to receive him, got our broadsides to
bear upon him, and poured in our iangrige
and grape (hot with great fuccels. A hea
vy fire kept upon botH fWrs-for Three gaf
fes this second time, in all, the
ment continued for five glafles; at last lit
found we would not give out, and night
coming on, sheered off and flood to the
South Weft. His loss no doubt was con
siderable, as the last two .glafles were so
nigh each other, and our well direfted fire
mu ft have done great damage. My brave
(hip’s company afted with a degree of
cool and undaunted courage which no
doubt does credit to the flag. I cannot
help mentioning the good conduft of my
passengers during the action : Mr. M Ken
non, and Mr. Hodgfon, with small arms,
stood to their quarters with a degree of no
ble spirit; my two Lady passengers Mrs.
M‘Dowell and Miss Mary Harley, kept
conveying their cartridges from the maga
zine to the deck, and were very attentive
to the wounded, both during and aftef the
aftion, in dressing their wounds, and ad
ministering every comfort the ship could
afford, in which we were no wife deficient
for a merchant ship.
When she sheered off, saw him heaving
the dead bodies overboard in abundance.
Our ship is damaged in the hull; one 12
pound shot under the starboard cat-head,
splintered the sides much ; one double
headed shot through the long-boat; fails,
rigging? spars, prodegioufly injured.
I here give you a lift of the killed and
wounded:
KILLED.
John Leetch, j| William Tohnfton,
Samuel Huffman, || William Chester.
WOUNDED.
W. M'Kennon, paf-1| Wm. Begnale, f«*
fenger, || man,
Dan. Comb, 2d mate, || John Baron, do.
D. Gordon, feaman,|, Goodwin Hill, do.
Henry Mason, do. {j John Brown, do.
The force of the Planter was twelve 9
pounders, fix 6 pounders—43 men.
Spring GOODS.
The SUBSCRIBERS,
Have just received per the Jhip FOX from LON
DON, andfor Saleat their Store on bro sD"
STREET,
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OT
Fancy & Fafhionabk Articles*
Suitable to the season, which will be fo* o
at their usual low price, for cajh or county
product.
Reuben Butler, & r h
July 17, T *