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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, TAYLOR ctf HABIT-MAKER , TWO DOORS BELOW SpENCERS COR NE R » WASHINGTON-STREET. Respectfully informs the public, that he has commenced the above business in all its various branches. 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