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~ MUSES RETREAT.
REFLECTIONS at DAY-BREAK.
j[ GAZE from the brow of the deep,
On the town and the landfcapc serene ;
How many this hour are asleep !
How alike are the great and the mean.
The place for their heads to repose,
A stone or a pillar supplies
They’ve put off ail care with their clothes,
And {hut out the world with their eyes.
Reclin’d on the tapestry b^l,
The rich has forgotten his florc ;
The beggar, asleep in his shed,
Remembers his mis’ry no more.
Alike in forgetfulnefs drown'd,
Enwrapt in the mantle of night:
Say, whofeare the {lumbers profound,
Say, whose are the dreams of delight ?
Perhaps to the occupant’s dream,
[For fancy o’er truth can prevail]
The hovel a hotel may seem,
The hotel transform’d to a jail.
Anon they fliail wake from their sleep,
And the fun and their sorrow behold ;
Why wake ye to get or to keep,
Or to feel that ye’re hungry and cold ?
Then lie down and (lumber again—
Ere the day-light appear’d I arose
I (hall fee nought but sorrow and pain,
And again I return to repose.
(From a late Engli/Ji Paper.)
ON Monday the 24th June, a person
who lives not an hundred miles from Ba
grow, in the county of Cumberland (Eng.)
entered for the third time, into the holy
cflate of matrimony. He is not quite for
ty years of age, and had been so lucky as
toobtain the eonfent of this lair-one in lome
tbing Ids than a fortnight:
Rcftraint in all things, makes the pleasure !e(s:
Sweet is .he love that comes with willing-
N ESS,
’The bride and bridegroom were accom
panied to church by a numerons and nolfy
attendance, and the latter took this favora
ble opportunity of having two of his chil
dren christened. This was thrifty on two
accounts : one entertainment, and one
visit to the church, lerved for the whole.
The godfathers and godmothers were dif
tinguiflied from the rest of the company
by their dress: the former appeared in fear
let ; the latter in white tnuflin.—ls it ne
ccflary to fay that the day was pafled in the
greatest feftivitv? —The day was not long
enough for the consumption of 501 b. of
beef, 50! b. of veal, 50'b. of bacon !—and
an ocean of punch and strong beer!—
“JVweCEREsrf B ACC HO frige t Venus
They were obliged to borrow the whole
Might, and half-a-dozen hours of the next
day—which being exhausted, the diflies
emptied, thebow Is drained, the fiddler tired,
and the company —tiply—the new marri
ed pair withdrew —and
Thus ended (hr fun— tu weddinc so rsre,
Modouht, *ll who read this will with they’d been
there,
EPIGRAM,
Ocea/ioned by Laying it cbferved, that the
Chancellor cf the Exchequer had proved hit*-
Jdf a bad arithmetician.
FORA»DirioN,PiTT’s talents let all men revere
Shice he add* to our debt forty millions ayear:
I \ svd sf ra C T l O n his (kill to luipctl will be 1 afli,
Which contrives from the batik to » u r s r r a c t all
the ca(h ;
And tho’ feeble his efforts to m u l t i r l y mtn,
He can multifly Uset again and again ;
In division, what mental will fay he wants
cnons ?*
VTho so ȣtually work< m pivimnc the house.
Then, ye patriots, be ft ill —to your murmurs a truest:
\V hat we w t. a e 1 what we are, think, and lpare
your abuse ;
For you all mull agree that WILL PITT can re
duce.
* A Gieck word, (ignitymg mind or census.
ANECDOTE S.
A CERTAIN bishop was once engag
ed in his noiftnral lucubrations at a late
hour in the evening, when hearing a noise
althc window of his study, lie looked about
and law a man.— ‘Five hilltop f.tid, “ who
is there ?” the man replied Apoftohts Domini,
(i. e. an Apt file of the Lord.) The bifhip
inftantlv grasped his pistol, and faying Re
tipefpiritum Saif Aunt, (i. e. Receive the ho
ly ipitit.) fir'd him dead on the spot—The
Run was found to have beena noted Robber.
A Minister, examining some of his pa
lifhioners, before the facr.uweat, atked one
fc'-S** “ What art thou ov nature r”
« Uvlor, fir.-naid he.
From j. Iluffelh Commercial Gazette.
THE LIMNER.
To fuccecd in every thing , nothing is necessary
but a frong dejire to excel.
ITelvetxus.
There is no precept in the archives of
1 wisdom more general, or more infilled up
on than that sage maxim of adding dili
gence to thrive apace, as Solomon fays,
or might have Laid, if he has not. Expe
rience quotes proverbs, prudence points
to Pike’s arithmetic, a sober faced indus
try gravely Ihews you a beehive, bu?a!l
this availeth naught. The logic of three
Icore and ten is too frequently the effect of
44 grey iniquity” which (lows more from
peevilhnefs or compunction, than from
benevolence; and the impetuous volatili
ty of youth scorns the stale maxims of
worldly wisdom, and resolves to take no
one’s advice but its own. It would be too
happy for man, could he grow wife with
out experience; and wisdom would be de
prived of half her creed were we to dedinft
the precepts which have flowed from ex
perimental fufferance. Man, in his early
days, like a youthful Sampson, confident
in his might, and strong in the conscious
pride of ability.
“ Feels liis young nerves dilate, the plastic pow
ers
Labor for adlion, 1> ind emotions heave
His bolom, and with nobl-ll phrenly fraught,
From earth to heaven he rolls his daring eye.
Unfettered by the {hackles of restraint, un
circumfcribed in his course, he puts forth,
fair as the (un in his meredian attitude
“ his glory unobfeured,” but rejecting the
precaution of the crafty Uiyfles to tyc up
his indiscretions in a bag, the light of his
reason is soon darkened by the force of
impulse, paflion and folly, till wearied
with counteracting theobftacles which dis
pute his progress, and unable to dilfipate
the mills of disappointment which rile to
obfeure his path, he is compelled to de
feend, “ fliorn of his beams,” to the hea
ven of rest—where he fits down in his old
age like John Bunyaii, to dream morality
for the benefit o{ posterity.
There are in most places, where plea
sure and luxury are the concomitants of
idleness, an accentric race of mortals who
are styled geniuses. Unawed by the
frowns of sobriety, or the solemnity of
decorum, their minds are perpetually in
the clouds, and you may as well attempt
to chain down a comet to its sphere, as to
reduce the vagaries of their wild imagina
tions. And in the perihelion of their cra
ziness, it would be a deed of less difficul
ty to quench a train of lighted gun powder,
than to cool down their fervid fancies to
the temperature of reason. To those who
can habituate themlelves to their whinifi
calities they may make tolerable cronies,
but we must no more look for system amid
the chaos of their brains, than search for
honesty in a courtiers pocket. There is
an affeClation of originality in all they do,
which sets at defiance the decisions of opi
nion, and a hauteur of demeanor which
exaCts obeisance as a tributary debt, which
though they be deemed not dillingnifhing
traits, are yet charaCteriftic of many, and
constitute a material draw back from that
amiable complacency which forms the
doled link in the chain of civilized l'ociety.
So that if you accost the surely Diogenes,
the telly scoundrel will order you to Hand
out of the funlhine. It is here, then, we
fee how little avails the utmost felicity of
talents, unless perseverance and industry
fecund their exertion. From a limited
intercourse with l'ociety they have imbib
ed but a circuml'cribed idea of social utili
ty, and confider talents as an excuse for
idleness, and a licence to roam at large up
on the public. But perversion of ability
is worse than ignorance. And an honelt
man who earns his living, who rears a nu
merous family, and loves his country, is
as much his superior in all that constitutes
true refpeCtebilitv, as the industrious bee
excels the gaudy butter-fly.
Application is a broad faculty of the
mind, which will serve a man to Hand up
on when the unstable, the giant like sup
porters of ge>.ius torter to the earth. It is
the basis en which are upheld the prospe
rity of nations, and the worth of indivi
duals; and in point of utility a mechanic
of probity is of more service to the com
munity than all the geniuses which have
existed since the invention of iron. Who
ever heard of genius and fortune being
coupled together ? And who does not
know that genius is but another name for
the crazy eibows of a thread-bare coat ?
Poets when under the influence of what
they call inspiration, have frequently
charmed us with longs of felicity : But if
' by felicity is meant money, how dare they
’ presume to utter an opinion upon the sub
-1 jeiit? Seldom indeed do they have oppor
tunities of exemplifying their theory.—
However, views of this nature, to their
• optics, generally appear bell at a uiftar.ee.
A good friend of mine once fell in love,
and he wooed a fair damfei for the space
: of about thirty years. By the duration of
’ his attachment, one might judge that the
ladyVaura&hns were char;n
ing; they were so indeed, so far as fingu
lantv can confer charms, but (lie was lit
tle in the style of the celebrated Duicinea
„ of Don Sancho, the noble governor of
Baratrarra, (lie was the most accompiifhed
beauty within a league, file had only one
eve which was blind, though the other
was a little brimstone red—but who (fum
bles at straws? This however is nothing
to my purpose. My friend fat himfelf
down to the liege with all the (kill of Po
lybius or Felard, and was just upon the
point of throwing himfelf headlong from
the promontary of Leucate, when by dint
of perseverance and the charms of a red
night cap, he saw the termination of his
ordeal, the fair one capitulated, and he
carried off his treble Helen prize with the
triumph of a hero, mod heroically ftnging
Vedi, Vidi, Vici, by the way.
Even strength, without perseverance, is
but an April (hower. Dtimourier, at the
commencement of a campaign overrun
Holland, but u’as compelled to run back
again at the conclusion. Pichegro and
Jourdan in another, by dint of superior
numbers penetrated into Germany, and
the Austrians retreated in every direction ;
but ere they had done, they were compel
led by C'lairfayt in two fucceflive battles,
to walk home again with their “ toes turn
ed inwards.” Moreau likewise, fly in
stratagem, with his bloody boys laid waste
the circle of Swabia and Franconia, but
the archduke proved the inoft cunning of
the two, and compelled him to fly in the
end. And the mighty Buonaparte himfelf,
after having been attended with such a se
ries of victories as have scarcely been wic
nefled since the days of Julius Caesar, was
finally at the time of the treaty of Leoben,
in a posture so precarious, that had his situ
ation been known to the enemy, he and
his whole army might have been demolish
ed at a blow. From these instances we
deduce that were the French endued with
perseverance equal to their impetuosity all
Europe might be vanquiflied by their
arms. But their ficklenefs and volatility
are a general blefiing to mankind.
Had it not been for an ambitious perse
verance, the viituous Socrates, the prince
of philosophers, had been a stone cutter;
and have hewed perhaps the materials to
enclose his own Acodemius with a wail—
the curlifh Cynic, whom Plato denomi
nated a mad Socrates, had continued all
his life time a money coiner. The great
Cardinal Wolfev, had been felling oxen
and fairing pork in Clare market. The
illustrious Chatham, whose eloquence will
command the admiration of ages, had been
but a country hind, dancing round a May
pole, with rustic bumpkins and daisy lafles.
And our own beloved Wafliingron, like
the veteran Cincinnatus, hoeing corn and
gathering tobacco (talks, on his paternal
acres.
Virtue is the application of moral recti
tude to aftive practice. Useless, nay in
jurious are our moil refined speculations
upon it, if the application be not made in
ourselves—And the man, who aflumes
the authority of inftruCtion without exem
plifying in his life the precepts he incul
cates, is like an illuminated lighthouse
which, though it may serve to direCt the
unwary mariner when all is clear, vet in
times of difficulty and doubt, is but a
blind guide, in whose zeal we cannot con
fide, on whose constancy there is no de
pendence.
ORDINANCE
For the better Regulation and
other Persons of Colour 'within the limits of
this City.
Be it Ordained by the Intendant
and Members of the City Council of Augusta,
That from and immediately after the paf
fintr of this ordinance, it (hall be the duty
of every negro, mulatto or other person of
colour redding within the limits of the city
of the age of fourteen years or upwards,
who is free, or claims to be so, to make ap
plication to the clerk of the city council,
and give information of their names, pla
ces of abode, occupation or trade: And it
Avail be the duty of the clerk to register the
fame in a book to be kept for that purpose,
and grant a certificate for luch registry, for
which he {hall be entitled to receive from
the applicant the sum of feventy-five
cents.
AND WHEREAS there are several ne
groes and other Haves redding within the
limits of the city, and cxercifing ufeful
trades and occupations,and who live apart
from their owners or employers :
Be it ordained. That from and immedi
ately after the passing of this ordinance, it
(lull be the duty of every person owning
or having the charge of anv negro or other
■ Have exerciling any ufeful trade or occu
. palion as aforefaid within the limits of this
, city, and living apart from such owner or
: employer, to give a defeription of such
f (lave or Haves to the clerk of the city coun
: cil, and the council will thereupon, if they
• Re fit, authorize the clerk to grant licen
ces, permitting the exercise of fuc
or occupation for one year • th» rr3, ' t
employer .hut becoming fen.rO,, c r
orderly behn.ionr of fuel, fl."' \t *
ing five dollars for the life of the city *?•''
one doiiar’to the clerk for making
ter of such licence, taking
granting a certificate of the°fame.
And be it further ordained , That ir ( ■
formation and proof before the city •" ' n *
cii of such licenced slave keepinw a aw?' 1 *
derly house, or harbouring any°ru
fla\e or (laves, or receiving any (for
goods, provisions or other articles, know
ing them to be stolen ; the licence off, '
(lave (hall be forfeited, anda renewal
of dial! always thereafter he refufed.
And be it further ordained , That after ft.
15th day of November next, every negro 5
mulatto or meftizzo, who (hall be f o , ln j
redding within the limits of the city, 3 ,j
who (hall not be in the immediate and di
rect employment of some free peif -i"
owning or hiring the fame, or who ■
not have been registered as a fre&perlor
or priviledged to follow some trade or ocl
cupation as before ordained, (hall be con
sidered as a runaway (lave or a vagrant*
And it (hall be the duty of the city marfhai
to apprehend, confine and advertise such
(lave or vagrant, any pass or pretended
pass from his or her owner to the contra
ry notwithstanding.
And be it further ordained That it (hail
not be lawful for any person to hire or rent
or permit the occupation of any house or
tenement belonging to them, by any negro
or person of colour not having a certificate
of registry or licence as before ordained.
And be it further ordained , That any per
foil renting or hiring to, or permitting the
occupation of any house or tenement by
any negro or person of colour not register
ed or licenced as before ordained, and not
being in his or her diredt and immediate
employment, under pretence of the casual
and partial service of such negro or person
of colour, tending to defeat the operation
and effedt of this ordinance according to
the true intent and meaning thereof, (hall
forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars
for every month of such hiring, renting or
occupation, upon due proof of the fame
being made to the city council, to be re
covered by warrant of distress, under the
hand and (cal of the intendant or presiding
warden ; one half for the use of the city,
and the other half for the use of the person
informing and prosecuting for the fame.
AND WHEREAS it has become a fub
jedt of general and just complaint that the
streets are infefted by negroes hawking a
bout beer, cakes and other trifles, to the
evil example of (laves, asd to the c,reo*. an
noyance of the inhabitants; And whereas,
such occupation, if at all allowable, ought
to be confined to such (laves or other per
sons of colour as from age or infirmity are
incapable of labor:
Be it ordained, That the owners or em
ployers of such aged or infirm (laves (hall
apply to the city council; who, if they fee
fit, will authorize the clerk to grant a badge
or licence to fell small wares for a< year,
upon being paid the sum of five dollars
for the use of the city, and feventy-five
cents to the clerk for granting said licence
or badge.
And be it further ordained, That freeper
fons of colour within the limits of the city,
(hall, in this refpedt, be fubjedt to the fame
restraints as (laves, and (hall not be allow
ed to vend any articles in the streets or
public roads, without a licence obtained
on their own application for that purpose.
And be it further ordained, That after the
25th day of Odtober instant, it (hall be the
dutv of the city marflial to apprehend and
confine any (lave or other person of colour,
who (hall be found in the streets or high
roads within the limits of the city, offering
for sale any beer, cakes, pies, fruit or oth
er small wares, without having firft obtain
ed a licence or badge as above diredted;
which (lave or other person of colour (hall
be kept to hard labor in the work-houie
not exceeding thirty days, and until their
jail fees are paid, and may be puniflH,
not exceeding thirty-nine lalhes, at the dis
cretion of any of the wardens to whom the
marflial (hall make his report, I Provided
always , That nothing herein contained
(hall be construed so as to hinder negroes
carrying provisions, vegetables or fruit to
marker, they having a ticket from their
masters for that purpose.
Pajfed in Council , the 3 d day of
Oftober, 1799.
T. GUMMING, Intend**
Attest,
JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, Clerl_
Eight Dollard Reward.
STOLEN on the night of the 19th inb
orn of the lot of Mr. Samuel Scott in
Augusta, a DARK SORREL HORSE,
about fourteen hands high, with a flit m
his left ear, branded with the letter D on*
tier his mane, has a star in his foreheoy,
(hod before, has a scare of the kick of*
horse on his left fore leg. Whoever wu
deliver the said horse to the Subfcri r »
(hall receive the above reward.
Joseph Cox.