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Bf MUSES RETREAT.*
I, ■' FRIENDSHIP.
KCuHS’d l-c heart,unmov’d,can hear
B, Vile insult sneaking in the treach’ious sneer;
HraVretche* Jetcair.ng with malicious mind
JftThe venial errours nat’ral to mankind ;
BfWith greedy third th’ injurious tale devour,
MlAnd vent the lye appointed for the hour.
BPBut doubly cuts’d, who hears with patient foul
I: The drain* ot calumny and dander roll,
If Hade, generou, rage ! with many zeal defend
■'Th' tofultcd virtuesofan absent friend:
K Full to then teeth difeharge th’ avenging flame,
E Kefound his goodness—and enlarge his fame }
-B Him from the frowns offcorn indignant free :
W Hwftrokew Inch wour.ds thy friend ; is aim’dat thee
K* This flrong exertion—this expanded fire
|| FRIENDSHIP demands, and FRIENDSHIP will
infj.ire;
L Even kindling nature would impatient spring,
| Toflueld a dranjer from tlic viper’s ding.
EPIGRAM.
w,
TH folded arms and lifted eyes,
“ Have mercy, heaven !” a person tries ;
I “ Upon our thirdy lun-burnt plains,
“ Thy bleflings lend in genial tains. ’*
The sermon ended, and the prayers
Sir Caflbck for hit home prepares ;
When with his vifagedreft infinites,
“ It rains thank Heaven,” cries farmer Giles.
“ Rains!” quoth the parson, “ sure you joke,
“ Rains 1” Heaven forbid ! I have no cloak.
From a Louden Paper.
I M I'RO M P T U.
By the Honorable Charles Fox. i
Mrs. Montague, disputing with Mr. 1
Fox, who was at one of her parties, con- 1
chided with telling him, that (he did not
regard him three flips of a loitfc ! On which
Jic took up a pen and wrote the following
Epigram :
A Lady once told me—and in her own house, j
That fhc did not me three skips of a
I OUSE.
I forgive the dear creature whatever fhefaid; —
For a woman will talk of what—r u n s in her
HEAD. ;
I
I
THE REAL GENTLEMAN.
THE real gentleman has a heart that
fvmpathizcs with the poor, and fe fufeep
tible of all the tender feelings; is a good j
hufcand—a loving parent —a sincere friend; ;
a quiet neighbor, and a cheerful compan- i
ion. Unbiaffed by party, and unprejndi- I
ced by any set of men, he direfts his prin- 1
cipal attention to the good of the public,
and to the fatisfa&ion of the community.
In charity, he is I beral without ostenta
tion—and to the diftrefled, he experiences
liimfelfa father by a&s of humanity. He
is religious without being an enthusiast,
pious withour hypocrisy, and virtuous
from innate principles of goodness. liis
deportment is graceful and easy, and his
address engaging and complaisant. He is
affable to his inferiors, agreeable with his
equals, refpeftful to those who are above
him, cringing to none, but polite to all.
A N E C D OPE S.
Mr. Sharp the surgeon, beingfent for
to a gentleman who had jnft received a
flight wound in a rencontre, gave orders
to his servant to go home with all hade
imaginable, and fetch a certain plaifter:
the patient, turning a little pale, “ Lord,
Sir, (said lie,) I hope there is no danger r”
—“ Yes, indeed is there, (answered the
surgeon,) for if the fellow does not set up
a good pair of heels, the -wound will heal be
fore he returns."
An Italian BHhop druggled through
great difficulties without repining, and met
with much opposition in difeharge of his
episcopal function without ever betrayin'*
the lead impatience. An intimate friend
of Im, who admired those virtues which
he thought it impossible to imitate, one
day asked the prelate, if he could commu
nicate the secret ot being alwavs easy ?
“Ye., (replied the old nun.) 1 cj.n teach
you my secret, and with great facility ; it
con lifts in nothing more than making a
light use of my eyes.” His friend begged
him to explain himfelf. “ Mod willin
lv, (returned the Billtop,) In whatever date
I am, l tird ot all look up to Heaven, am
remember that my principal buiinefs here,
is. to prepare tor my journey there : I then
look down upon the earth, and tail to
mind how small a space 1 dull occupy in
it when 1 come to be interred: I then look
abroad into the world, and observe what
multitudes there arc, who, in all refpesfh,
arc more unhappy than niyfelf. Tnus 1
team where true happiness is placed,
where all our cares fmift end, and how ve
rcaton 1 have |o repine or com
m
SPEECH of CITIZEN SIEYES,
President of the executive directory, on the ce
lebration of the anniverfafy of Augufl io.
DAY of judice and glory, which the
dedinics of France lele&ed for edablidiing
national independence on the ruins of the
throne, I salute thee in the name of all the
French! On the ioth of Augud royal
ty was overturned in France, it will never
again rife. Such is the oath which you
engraved on the walls of this palace at the
moment even when you expelled the lad
of the tyrants. Thus disappeared that
long succession of despots, whose yoke
was become insupportable, who dyled
themselves the delegates of Heaven, to op
press with more lecurity the earth, who
considered France as their patrimony, the
French as their fubjecis, the laws the ex
pression of «iieir will, and whose hereditary
influence had familiarized us with this ri
diculous language, that perhaps, even at
present it does not drike our ears with
diffident adonidiment. In this lad drug
gie there remained to royalty, as defenders,
the audacity and baseness of a corrupted
court, perfidy, insolence, and the deceit
ful aid of ferviiude. It had for adversa
ries courage, determined resolution, the
enthusiasm of infant liberty, and the gene
rous virtues it inspires. The combat
could not be of long duration—victory
could not be doubtful. But along with
royalty it was impossible to annihilate in
in one clay, all the intcreds it had aflbei
ated, all the inditutions which were too
much identified with it. In republican
France, royalty retained then both friends
and avengers. The one did not even dis
guise their efforts to revive it; founding
their hopes on I know not what fraternity
of thrones, and the mod intimate aliiance
between the throne and the altar; they
armed around us a part of Europe ; they
rekindled in the midd of us the torch of
fanaticifm. The other, more perfidious,
noisy declaimers againd royalty ; but the
secret, and no less implacable enemies of
those who had dedroyed it, adopted every
lind of language, engaged in every mad
ness, and indulged in every cxcefs, with
the double hope of avenging the throne on
its real dedroyers, and making it be re
gretted even by those who had mod ap
plauded its fall. Thus the republic was
condantly the but of direst aggressions,
and of indirect attacks equally formidable.
Citizens, it is not deviating from the spirit
of this fedival, to tell you the means em
ployed by your representatives and #our
magidrates to triumph over so many ob
dacles, and to unite by these means your
patriotism and with their efforts; this is
always continuing to drike royalty ! this
is continuing in some measure to complete
the vi&ory of the ioth of Augud. To the
open enterprizes of royalty,'the republic
oppofecl without relaxation the whole of
the national forces ; it opposed merciless
laws againd the deserters of their country;
severe measures againd all their communes
agitated by royalifm ; indefatigable viol
ence to detest intrigues and the manoeu
vres of those who dared to speak of its re
turn. And those who at this moment
diould deny either these means, or the re
niblican spirit of those who directed them,
can be only madmen or men void of faith.
To indirect aggression might have been
opposed reprellive measures ; they are au
thorifedby the laws and theconditution.—
But because your magidrates are drong re
publicans, because they know that in this
:lafs of aggressors there are Frenchmen
lurried away even by their love for the re
public, and it would be with unconfolable
regret that they would find themselves re
duced to the necessity of diewing them- 1
selves severe to those who might serve the
caui'e of liberty, they widi rather to re
claim them by pressing and fraternal ad
vice, for they cannot abandon the hope of
bringing back to the real intereds of the
public, men whose a&ions may have ap
peared doubtful, but whose intentions may
have remained pure. It is to these, there
fore, that we address ourselves, to point
out to them the small number of falle pa
triots by whom they are agitated and tor
mented, and who fill their minds with the
mod absurd ideas, and their hearts with
extravagant or criminal hopes. The pre
sent circumdances impose this on me as a
duty. lam now going to difeharge it.—
Citizens, whoever those men may be,
whom I perfilt to be few in number, fo
reigners or natives, paid by the enemy, or
obeying the impulse of their own passions,
desiring the fpcedy return of royalty, or
preferring the return of that terror feyuft
!y abhorred by the French, I (hall (ay_
diall exclaim—Beware of considering as
republicans those who have seen iu the
overthrow of the throne, not the means of
edablidiing a new government delired bv
the nation, but the right of overturning at
ad times every thing that may be an obda
c!e to their private ambition. Those who
believe that to eftablidi is always base to
dtdrov always a glory ; who being inve
terate enemies of every thing that is order,
or wlmh has the appearance of order, wifli
to govern by noise, and not by the laws,
who would tear to pieces with their own
hands the government they had themfeives
formed, because a government, were it
their own work, could never accomplifii
according to their fatisfa&ion, all the plans
of their ambition, all the dreams of their
madness. No, these are not republicans!
those who cannot resolve to forgive the
oldest and moll incorruptible friends of li
berty; who insult them even in propor
tion to the confidence with which they are
honored by the nation, or the services
which they have performed. Conquerors
of the 23d Thermidor, August 10, you to
whom the congratulations of this day are
addrefled; vou yourselves have not been
able to efoope. These calumniators attack
every one who has acquired a name, they
wish to tarnish every glory. Those are
not republicans, whose ferviie fouls cannot
conceive that the founders of liberty and
the republic are republicans, who repear
ing the delirious infuits of the fame court
which the 10th August reverfed,and which
they avenge, since they become its imita
tors, still endeavor to impute to them, as
the objett of their secret willies, I know
not what phantom of a king, led round in
turns to all those whom they wish to de
stroy, frantic detra&ors or hypocrites, who
/hutting their eyes against all evidence,
persist to be ignorant that the men above
all mod frequently attacked by this absurd
accusation, have a thousand times and at
the very beginning of the revolution mani
fefto their ardent desire, that the man,
whom I will not even name, had always
remained, he and his agents, in the ranks
of the enemies, instead of carrying uneasi
ness, mistrust, and danger into ours. No,
they are not republicans; those who, thro’
their demagogical language, fuffer to ap
pear the ftiameful predileftion which they
retain for royal superstitions, and seem at
every moment to tell you that since a king
was attacked they may with morejuftice
attack the magistrates of the people. No!
those men are not republicans, who can
perform no other part but that of collect
ing, inflaming, and exciting discontent a
gainst the eftabliflied order; those men,
who in former times thought it neceftary
and proper to punish with death all those
who durst venture not to be content; those
men who would confider peace as an evil,
who would regret victory, who calculate
upon our disasters as the means of in
creasing their influence; those men who
repose their hopes upon internal diftraCtion
enjoy no happiness but in animosities.
They denounce with audacity before the
multitude, but shrink back when they are
called upon to sign the denunciation.—
Thirsting for vengeance they exclaim a
gainst the salutary delays which the law
prescribes both to save innocence, and to
tend with more certainty to reach the guil
ty. These men are not republicans, who
by the frantic violence of their provoca
tions strike dismay to the hearts of the so
ber citizens, who dry up the sources of
public wealth, give a mortal wound to
credit annihilate commerce, and paralife
all industry. Who inceflantly speak of
our calamities, and yet as their caprices en
creafe the number of the wretched, call
themfeives the friends of the people, and
only exasperated instead of serving them;
influence each other against the foreign
enemy, firmly determined, however, not
to expose themfeives in the combat.
Shall it be then, that because they repe|#
with more noise the real emotions of our
common indignation against the dilapida
tors and traitors, that they hope to impose
upon you ? But have not the people, in
their daily experience, learnt that it is not
the men who speak the loudest are the
freeft from reproach ? That many de
nounce only that they may not be denoun
ced; and whom shall persuade that those
who govern do not feel a civic grief much
more sincere, much more profound than
themfeives, at the affii&ing ipeftacle of the
injuries done to our country ; at the mo
mttit ,400 when they are called upon to
find a remedy ? Have they given a greater
guarantee of thrir morality and their ci
viim ? Do they enjoy a purer reputation ?
Are they more austere in their manners—
more of citizens ? And if their indignation
be real, instead of these clamors, which are
only addrefled to the passions, and will
protect the criminal, because they involve
them with the innocent, why do they not
wish to assist the ufeful operation of the
laws, in multiplying and augmenting the
researches, in colle<Eting the proofs, and in
fine in enlightening the magistrates? But
whv lhould I hefitateto speak it boldly,
their objeft ur.queftionably is notjuftice?
What they wish is to miilead the public
by exciting dittruft, to overwhelm men’s
minds with confufion and dismay, and to
drive the people of France to despair, to
gain pofleffion of all authority in the con
vulsion, in a word, to govern at any ex
pence. Frenchmen, you know well how
1 they govern ! The executive dire&ory
1 knows all the enemies, who are confpirin"
against the republic. * 0
In the midst of these agitators, who in
truth are but few in number, but who
, teem to multiply their force by their own ,
norfe, they do not lose fight of that
class of royalists, distinguished by J? ~ r
curable frenzy, sighing for the return
master, recalling him with their"unr a
vows, their utmost efforts; justly inch,?
mg among the number of their auxilbrL
all of whatever description they may hi’
who at present threaten the conftituti’
and the government. They declare tIT
they will be equally inflexible aa a j n fi. ,a »
the enemies of the constitution, “hat f UD
rior to danger, calm amidst the storm
they will combat all the public foes ti
daunted and unceasing— not, however b'
playing off the one against the other’for
this impolitic game is cruel, and unworthy
of republicans; but by equally repreffij,
them all by those powerful means with
which the constitution of the year tbr »
has armed them, and that immense
rity of citizens, who are firmly determined
to defend it—to yield obedience to law
alone, and at every moment to rally round
the guardian authorities.—
Viva la repullique.
From the Litchfield, (Con.) Paper.
Preliminary remarks of the Chief jufice Roof
in pronouncing Sentence of Death a.
gainfl Gideon Waftiburn, convifted If a
?noft unnatural and beastly crime.
WHENEVER a fellow mortal, one
of our own species, is brought to the bar
of this court to receive the awful sentence
of death, justly merited, for some capita!
offence, our minds are agitated with a va
riety of sensations : When we look on the
prisoner, we are moved and melted with
tenderness and pity towards the unhappy
man, who is about to fall a viftim to his
crimes, by the hand of justice ; when we
turn our eyes from the prisoner to his
crimes, we are smitten with horror and a
mazement at the atrocity of his guilt; and
when we compare the sentence with the
greatness of his offence, it meets with our
cordial approbation, and we fay with one
voice, it must be so ;—for both'the law
and the fafetv of society require it. And
when an old man, bowing under the bur
dens of age, and of accumulated guilt,
whofie hoary head, which, in different cir
cumstances, and having been found in the
ways of righteousness, would have been a
crown of glory, commanded reverence
and refpeft from all—but, instead thereof,
has grown grey in the vile drugery of fin
and fatan—is brought into this lituation';
our feeling are harrowed up, and tortured
with indignation and contempt of the cri
minal, for his baseness and the njoftpoig
nant grief for the difhonorcTdne human
nature.
Washburn, God, has given you to fee
long life, and many days:—few, who have
been born into the world, have arrived to
the advanced age you are of:—This gave
you an enlarged opportunity of doing
much service for God, and much good for
your fellow-men, and has greatly enhanced
the score of your accountability ; and to
human appearance, you have counterac
ted the merciful designs of your Maker,
have set at naught the councils of his wis
dom and his grace, and in defiance of all
the government and laws divine and hu
man, have poftituted your reason to the
blind and unrestrained impulse of sensual
passions; and by the fury of brutal lulls,
have been hurried on to perpetrate crimes
beyond the natural force of your years.
May all who behold you, and who lhall
hear of your abominable deeds and of your
unhappp fate, take warning from your ex
ample. Eut although your crimes are ma
ny and great, they do not exceed the
boundless mercy of God, to pardon through
the all fufficient atonement of his Son.
We do therefore recommend you to the
mercy of God for pardon and salvation,
through the merits of his Son; and do re
commend it to you, to employ the few
moments that shall be allowed you, of a
long life spent in wickedness, in humble
and fervent prayer to Almighty God, that
he would give you a realizing sense of vouf
fins and misery, true contrition of heart
for, and a genuine repentance of them;
and that he would enable you, by his grace,
to be wife in his Son the Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal salvation.
Henry Darnell,
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