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MUSES RETREAT.
THE FROWNS OF FORTUNE.
BY MM. ROBINSON.
AS o’er the world, by furrow preft,
1 wander, f.*d and weary,
In hopes to fi id a place of rest,
From (cents forlorn and dreary :
Whcre’ere I go, I’n doom’d to trace,
If fortune smiles, the f oiling face,
But if (lie frowns, I’m fare to lee,
On every face a frown for me !
When morning bluflies thro’ her tears,
AnJ nature flaunt’s her treasures,
How gauiy every path appears,
How rich in boundless pleasures !
But if the dawo in misty gloom.
S ill veils the flnwret’s vivid bloom.
How droops in (hade ihc loftieft rrre,
Whose spreading boughs had flielter’dme ’
Nor truth nor feeling can ensure,
The friend that’s ever smiling;
Worth canti it worldly misery cure
Its darkest hours beguiling ;
This heart which owns the purest flame
Mu ft patient throb nor dare to blame,
Since fortune’s frown, the fates decree,
Through every feene (hould follow me !
Thus all things dark or light appear,
As fortune cheers or saddens :
For time flies flow when grief is near,
B it fvift when trinfport gladden*.
Hope is a trmlient funnier dream,
Where vifinn; g*y and fl ittering (eem
B it truth and reason wake to fee,
Tlten wake away and fade like me !
O! come capricious Fortune, blinJ,
Subdue this bosom’s frding ;
Make di n the fire that warms my inind,
Tiience all its fervor Healing;
Tench me the sordid ferviie art,
To dress in I nv d (guile the heart,
Then ever;, lace flnll cheerful be,
And weir a gentle (mile for me !
MARIA of MOULTNES.
VerfifieJ from Sterne.
Benra th a poplar’s moving (hide,
Where foft the gliding current fl iws,
Maria, loft, unhappy maid!
Delights to weep her many woes !
Her form is fair as orient dawn,
And inikl as ev’ning’s Healing dew,
But ah! <he’w ii!> her j lys withdrawn,
Her parent dead—her love untrue !
Bound gently to her silken zone,
Her Sylvio, faithful fav ’rite, lies;
She thinks on every comfort gone—
* And wilt thou leave me to »?’ die cries.
Difordcred fl ats her vest of fn iw.
Along tne wind her trifles play ;
Her pendent pipe lias creas’d to blow
That nightly woke t ie lole nn la/.
Poor luck r s Fa r ! while pity deigns
O’er human ills o 111 d the tear;
While sorrow ’s yielding foul remains,
Sliil (hill thy melting tale be dear.
Adieu, Maria ! Hrav’n remove
Tiiy faif’riogs from the poplar tree;
Lo! phying Seraphs wail thy love,
And twine the power of blits for thee.
CUriD cf CAMPASPE.
[This elegant little funnel is found in th"*
thirl aft >f m ol ! pliv, entitl'd 44 \L*
EXAM.) ft d?’CAM PAS PE,” written
bv John Lilyu, a celebrared w'riter in
the time -f Qjeen Elizabeth. This
piav wasfi ft prime I in 1591, but the
fotig is given from a la'er edition.]
(ti. Y. D. ADV.
Cupid and my Campa pk playd
At cards for kiflVs ; Cupid payd :
He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows ;
His mother’s doves, and tea ne of sparrows:
L >fes them too ; then down he throw*
The coral of his iippe, the rote
Growing ou’sch.-t k (that none knows how)
W ith these, the chryftal of his browe,
And then the dimple of his chinne ;
All these did my Campafpe winne.
At last he set her both his eyes,
She won, and Cupid blind did rife.
O Love ! Ihs (lie done this to thee ?
What (hall, alas become of mee i
EX ECU riCXS,
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. MISCELLANY.
FROM LITEKAKY LEISURE.
“ Tir’d Niiure’j sweet tcswrer! Bairoly «!eep!”
Young.
Authors of all ages ha*e agreed in dig
nifying (Vep with me engaging name of
the frien-1 of the wretched! Poets have
concurred to bellow cn it the moll de
lightful epithets ! Tiie miserable have im
plored its fuccour, and the weary have
fought the bieiimgs it confers ! The an
cients were so convinced of its benignant
influence on tire human race, that they
defied it; and banco Panca exclaims —
“ Si; (lings <>n the man that invented
deep ! It wraps a man round like a warm
blanket !”
Alter these concurring trflimonics of
a!! ages and species in favour of this peri
o li< ai image of death, bold mull be the
man who lhouid presume to fufpr£l that
fiction has more to do in t e bulmefs,
than truth—who iis ul I da t t > hint that
deep, lar from being the univtrlal bene
l<u‘ti»r of mankind, the grand panacea for
all human evils, is in ladt deprecated by
innumerable personages, end utterly de
ad by many more than Macbeth or
Crononbotnnthologos. When a man (e
--iluhnillv employs all his waking hours in
the diligent increife of either know ledge
or we I it, and finds them i fulfil ient to
(atisfy his third —vhen a lady p-lles eve
ry moment either in the coir mplatiou
f her harms, or in receiving the incenle
of innumerable lovers—when toe mind
is perpetually agitated by the interesting
freaks of Fortune at the gambling.table—
or when any other purfmt of equal mag
nitude '•( Inch there be !) engrotf-s the
whole of ii'e, i can conceive that flc.p
may bean unwelcome igpßider.
But t ;s not merely thole who are thus
importantly occupied, who contemn and
defy tiie inroads of that foft deluler!
Many, who, as philofonhical obiervers
might imagine, do nothing but sleep, feel
it an insult to be fu (pelted of giving wav
to hi opprohious a weakntls. The flilhs
and fubterfuges to which many well dif
poled dreamers have recoarfe to prove
themselves awake, at the very moment
when their companions have been dittur
bed by their snoring, relemble the ingrni
ous t v tiions by which accoied culprits
endeavour to t lla >lilh ihe p!ea of an alibi.
1 have fecn a man raxed with being alleep,
rouse himfeif indignantly from a dream,
which perhaps had placed bin) on a throne
and Minnie au air of jocularity, to prove
how well he had been attending to the
convrrlation, whi h had been for fume
time e nployed on a very melancholy
fubjetff.
i\ lumbers of people, ton, aflame a con
sequence to themselves from no other
circuniftanee but that of “ enjoying” (as
1 have heard it exprefTed) “ very bad
’lights’rrfl in general and though they
a(Tel to envy tiie happy forgetfulnefs of
th.de who (leep soundly the night through,
riiev well kn >w they would not relin
quish the superiority of broken (lumbers
for all the advantage* of nudiflurbed re
pole ; while the found Deeper iiitens wiih
envy to the hillory of ilie night’s adven
tures, sighs over every recounted biaft of
win 1 or Di nverof rain which had Heaped
his notice, and is ready to lung himfeif
if a thunder (1 >rm has taken place w hile
he was locked in the embrace of (lumber !
This extreme objection to tl ep extends
itfcjf in a very great degree, over the
whole tern !e world. A lady \onld as
loon be priifed for devourin' .a whole
iliouider of mutton, as congratu ; ated on
a night paifed in so tod repole ! \' v, the
idea s very prevalent indent among the
lair lex ; fit l remember my mother’s
maid-servant ul'ed t.» comnlain Mint “Die
had no comfort of her bed,” and explained
the circumstance !>v faring that Hie went
o Deep the moment (lie laid down, and
never woke again till it was full ine to
r.fe. I was part v led into these r. fh&ions
by the conversation of a young lady,
who called the other morning on my
cousin Dulcihella. I was tiitni g writing
at the table, and Bell, who Knows' 1 would
it any time iofethe thread of m > ideas for
fake of listen ng to any traits of iura<fler,
told her, when Die law her a nTirfafled,
not to mind me, for I was writing, and
fliould not hear her.
The y oung lady began bv complaining |
heavily of her unhappy situ ti u. Bella
was not wanting in aflurmcea us lympa*
thy, nor in requests of toiler confidence ;
and though it was forne time ere the
voiing lady could disclose the cauft of her
d.(quiet, yet at length the fonwig en
deavours of Be!la, added to the natural
wiill, an opprelled heart feels to unburden
itkll to a friend, induced her to a- know -
ledge, that indeed her misery was very
great. *
“To he lure, my dearest 8e.:.-,” (aid
the weeping fair one, “ I seem to enjoy
ill I could wi-li notify, a In'ration,
gaietv, fone beauty, and m >ra t an one
faithful lover;vet lam indeed n f rable!”
“ 3>»t why, I'w-eet Maria,” laid Bella,
“ tell me w!iv r”
“ O l ny dear creature,” replied Maria,
“ f m f» very loun-1 a Deeper, tint I am
qut; diilreflcd! It i> that circ ; n lance
vhich prevents my obtaining tnit -1 iguid
elegint complexion I dote <>u ; nefides,
it feetiij as it I had no fecii ig ! I r ad the
most delightful Novels, and though my
mind is full of the diltrelles of the heroine,
I Deep as soundly as if I did not fympa
thizc in them! Nay even when ?vlr. Da (lily
behaved so ill to me the otiier day, though
I wept Gncerely and bitterly about it, vet
I cried myfelf to Deep like a child ! and
then my aunt, who knows my infirmity, is
always rallying me about it.”
“ That is cruel,” observed Bella.
“It is indeed,” replied Maria. “Do
you know the tells me I may try as much
as I plcafe, but I never (hall resemble any
of my favourite heroines while 1 Deep so
well. Now, Heaven knows, my mind
is well stored with all their virtues, and
I am continually exercising myfelf in
real aftion, by fancying very interesting
feenes, and determining how I ougnt to
conduct myfelf, but i*v aunt is very right:
1 cannot for the life of tne, keep my eyes
open five minutes afttr l lay my head
on my pillow.”
“ But how does your aunt know this
to be the fa£t alked Dnlcibelh.
“ Oh,” replied Maria, “ I am unfortu
nately her bedfellow ; and such a num
ber of proofs, has flic to bring of my un
fortunate drowsiness, that I really binfti
whenever flic opens her lips on the (üb
jc£t. Then it is so provoking to hear
her envy me, for the very heaviness (he
laughs at, w hen I would give my ears
but to be able to catch her napping.”
“ To be furr,” ("aid Dulcibeila, “ there
is something valtly engaging in that deli
cacy of feeiing which keeps the eyes
awake to weep, through the whole of a
long winter’s night, which strews the
pillow of down with thorns, and deprive
its elegant polLHor of the vulgar comforts
of oblivion.”
“Oh my dear Dqlcibella,” replied,
Maria, “ how charmingly you exprclx
yourfelf ! I date f.y \ou are not opprtf
l'cd by this nodturnal invader as I am.”
“ No indeed,” answered mv cmfin,
“ I rarely deep above an hour in a night,
and that only at intervals; if the lead
thing p eTes on my mind, I cannot
my eyes.”
“ Ah,” cried the patulant Maria, “ how
provoking! This is the way with evtrv
b >dy but me, and I am lure it is not for
want of feeling, for at this moment 1
could (bed tears by pailfuls ; but so in
vincible is the power of deep, that though
I had my little cousin Fanny to deep
with me, when die had the hooping-cough,
I never awoke even with her fits of cough
ing.”
“ Drink strong green tea,” said Dulci
be!la.
“ I do, I do, my dear creature,” an
fvvered '/laria, “ but it never answers.”
“C irnnit a murder !” exclaimed I,
unawares.
This inadvertency, by convincing Ma
ria that I was attending to the conversa
tion, put an end to her lamentation, and
the two young ladies quitted the roam
together, leaving me to reflect on the
flrange perverlion of tafle and intellect
which could lead authors and moralilts
in all ages to bellow their commendation
on a power so deprecated. Nay, there
are many other pofleflions enumerated as
blellings by that rr. ilia Ken race of men
that are equal!)’ objected to, by those who
aie gifted with tnem. How unanv men
and women furnifli themselves with ad
ditional eyes, not from any def ft in their
own visual organs, but because it is vu -
gar to he too will. Undoubtedly, in
fafli'-onable life it is often convenient not
to fee vr-ry plain ; but this is almost a so
litary inflance, in « hich convenience i<
allowed to regulate f.ifliion. Then again,
health is a blelling equally opprobrious
whh sleep : and many more instances
might be enumerated, if the minds of my
readers were not capable of recalling them
in an inflant I will not even inflance
memory, a talent in which all the world
are ambitioullv defective. Here, indeed,
is another fa rifice to convenience; it is
so pollible to remember just what is agree
able, to have forgotten every thing and
every body but what refleifls honour on
ourselves, and the felf accusation of a
treacherous memory affords so many little
loopholes to vanity, that it is a fubterfuge
very pardonable.
MURDER and SUICIDE.
The paper printed at Newburg, in the
(late of New-York, August tq, fays—
We are informed, by two gentlemen
who p-ilf d through Coi nedflicut Farms,
New Jersey, on Friday !aft, that a
most horrid deed was committed on the
evening before, by a person of the name
of Seaman ; the circumstances, as near as
we can recoiled, are as follows: Mrs. Sea
man had been out to one of the neighbors
on the afternoon nf Thursday, and two
of their children had been to school; on
t ie return of Mrs. Seaman and the chil
dren it was supposed that Mr. Seaman,
after (h itting up the house and fattening
the door-, ptoceeded to butcher his wife
and children. Ail axe was found in the
room, which it is probable was the instru
ment he used to execute the horrid butch
erv, as the marks of the axe were plainly
difeoverd on her forehead, the scull being
daflicd to pieces, and a pillow was found
lying under her head. The children, it is
(uppofed while this was tranfa&ing, had
fled upstairs, where they were pursued and
maflacreed by their inhuman father,
manner too shocking to relate. After
:hefe wicked and barbarous proceedings
he finithed the horrid catastrophe by bio*,
ing out his own brains, his head being al
rrioft entirely fliot from his body, and his
brains Scattered over the room. The fob
lowing morning, the house being flint lon*
ger than ufua!, the neighbors got a ladder,
and difeovered the children in the upper
room lying dead, and the floor Rained
with blood. A ira_eftrate was sent for,
and the house broke open. A of
inquefi w'as called, but we have
ed their verdiit. It is conjeflureJ ts.
deranged, as it was laid that he had lor
some time pad exhibited fyinptoms of in
lanity. He was in eafv circumftance*
and his father refldes in New York.
HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM.
IT was a beautiful turn given by a great
lady, who, being alked where her hulband
was, when he lay concealed for havine
been deeply concerned in a confpira* /
resolutely aniwered, “ She had hid hir.
This confeflion drew her before the
King, who told her. nothing butherdif
covering where her lord was concealed,
could lave her from the torture.—“ And
will that do f”fays the iady “Yes,” replied
the King, “ I will give you my word for
it.” “ Ttitn,” fays flie, “ I have hid bins
in my heart, where you will find him.”
A CURIOUS COMBAT.
TWO Gentlemen of high birth, 1
one a Spaniard, and the other a Germ
having rendered Maximilian 11. many
great iervites, they each for recompence
demanded his natural daughter, Helena
Scharfeqnion, in marriage. The Prince,
who entertained equal iefpe£t for them
both, could not give either the preference;
and after much delay, he toid them, that
from the claims they both had to his at
tention and regard, he could not give hit
allent for either of them to marry his
daughter, and they mull decine it bv their
own power and address; but as he did not
willi to riot the lots cf either or both, by
Inhering them to fight with offenlive
weapons, he ordered a large bag to he
brough*, and be who was fuccefsful
enough to put his rival in it, lhoutd obtain
his daughter.
Tiais llrange combat between two gen
tlemen, was in the prefenee of the whole
imperial court, and lasted near an hour.
At length the Spaniard yielded, and the
German, Andre Aberhard, baron es
Tathert, when he had him in the tag,
took him on his back, and placed him at
the Emperor’s feet, and on the following
day he married the beautiful Helena.
ANECD O T E.
SOME years ago, the fan of an emi
nent Jew was on the point of being mar
ried to a Chnftian lady, on which the
father, who had no objection to the reli
gion of the lady, but to the fmailnefs of
her fortune, rspoftulated with his son, and
told him that he might have a ladv with
more money, and that if he married with
out his con lent, he would cut him off
without a (hilling. The son replied, that
whether he conieotcd or not, he would
have the objtft of his wiflies; adding,
hat if he refused, he would turnGiirif
tian, and then he would claim the benefit
“f an Enghfii law, ai d obtain half of
what he pulLfled. At his answer, Mor
decai was greatly confounded, and re
solved to apply to counsel, to know whe
ther there was such a law. The coun
fellor replied, that there certainlv was, a d
that his son, upon turning Christian,
would obtain half his fortune ; but if you
will make me a prelent of ten guineas,
added he, I will put you in a wav to dis
appoint him, and the graceless dog fliall
not be able to obtain a farthing. At this
news the Jew’s hopes revived, and pulling
ten guineas out of his pocket, he inflanrly
clapped them into the lawyer’s hand, ex
prelling his impatience to know how he
was to proceed. “ Why,” said the coun
cilor, “ Mr. Mordecai, you have nothing
to do but turn Chriflian yourfclf.”
NOT I C E. ~
AFTER the expiration of nine month
from the date hereof, an applies
tion will be mide to the honorable the in
ferior couit for the county of Richmond
for leave ro fell a trail of pine land con
taining thirteen hundred acres, as will ap
pear by two grants one for one thousand
acres, granted to Nathaniel Cocke and
Reuben Coleman, in joint-tenancy, the
other three hundred acres granted to John
Ramsey, and conveyed by him, lying on
Rocky Creek mi the said county of Rich
mond ; it being part of the real estate of
Nathaniel Cocke, who fwrvived said P.cu
ben Coleman, for the benefit of the heir*
and creditors of said deceased. \
REBECCA COCKE, Ex’rx.
Wm COCKE, l - ,
NAT HL. COCKE, J hxu
February 17.
& A few Copies of the Ora
tion delivered 3d July, by John For
syth, may be had at this OiSce.
September 15
