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MUSES RETREAT.
FROM THE PORT FOLIO.
Sweet is the rose-bud, my fair one, that blooms
Through the dews in th: morning of May,
And sweet is the *ong of the bird that relumes,
When the night has departed, its lay.
The lhade of the dark wood is pleasant to me,
And pleasant the murm'riug of (breams,
I joy, whtn from tumult atid care 1 am free,
To be 101 l in my idle day dreams.
But my hours nor the rose-buds nor birds can be
guile,
Nor forells, nor dreams can impart
Their pleasures to me, when I miss the sweet
(mile
That lttays to thy lips from thy heart.
FRtDI R I C •
From the NtW-YORK CHRONICLE
Meflrs. Printers,
Doubting not your rradinefs in giving place to
every thing within your power that would
tend in the least degree to correfl Vice , or
protefi Virtue , 1 have sent you the follow
ing for insertion ; it happened in New York,
was there publijhed some years since , and
was afterwards lepuhlijhcd in Europe, from
whence it is now copied hy one of your friends
and customers,
“ A Gentleman in the midical line was
lome time ftnee requested to visit a patient,
and was convinced up three pair of stairs
info a gloomy, shabby, fkvlighted appart
ment ; when he enter’d he saw two young
females setting on the fide of a very poorly
furnifhed bed, and without curtains, on
approaching he found one of them nearly
‘ in the agonies of death ; (nppnrtcd bv the
other, who was perfuadmg her to take a
bit of bread dip’t in fpiritb ; but the pale
e'AUtated figure refufed, faying in a feeble
languid vokc, it would but contribute to
prolong her miferv, which flic hop’d was
drawing to an end ; ami looking at the
doctor, laid you have come too late fir;
I want not your alfiflance—and thus ad
drefs’d him—
Oil! could’ft thou minister to a mind diseased,
Or stop the access and palVage to remorse—
Herr file-fetched a deep sigh and drop’d
upon the bed—everv means of relief was
aft ird d, but in vain ; for in less than two
hours Jhe expired.
In a small box by the fide of the bed
Wrre found fume papers by which it ap
peared that the youug woman was of a
Root! family, and had more than an ordi
nary v.J vl cation—that file had changed her
name, and t, ncea | c a that of her parents;
j°! U * ,e l >ll ’'d ; and whose greatest fault
, ", ad b f c “ to ° indulgence, and a mif
p aced confidence ~ the prudence of their
favorite daughter.
, On the back of form direftions respec
ting her funeral, ;lie following pathetic
lines were written ; and some little money
in the box was afiigned to have them in
graved on a tomb fione ; thus—
f erses for my Tomb stone , if ever 1 should have
one by a proflhute and a penitent.
Th* wretched vietlm of ■
Reliev’d from life on liumSle bed of clay,
The Lift and only retuge for my woes
A loft, love ruin'd lem tie l repose.
From the fad hour 1 lilteued to his charms,
And fell half forc’d, in the deceivers arms ;
To that whole awiul veil hides every fault,
Sheltering my futferings in this welcome vault.
When pamper’d, ftarv’d, abandon’d or n drink,
My tho glits were rack’d in llriving not to think’
Nor could rejeiflei conscience claim the power
T’ improve the respite of one sciious hour.
1 durst not look to what I was before;
My sou! Ihrunk back, and wifh'd to be no more.
Os eye undaunted, and of touch impure,
Old, e’te of age; worn out when lcarce mature.
Daily debafs’J to (title my disgust
Os forc’d Enjoyment; in aft-tied lull!
Coher’d, wi h guilt, infection, dehr, and want,
My home a brothel, and the llrtets my haunt,
Full seven long years, of infamy I’ve pined,
And tondled, loath'd and prayed upon mankind ;
•Till the lull course of (in and vice gone through,
My ihatier'd tabrick (ailed, at twenty-two ;
Then death, with eveiy horror in his train
lleie closed the scene of naught but guilt and pain ,
Ye fair jllociates of my opening bioom,
O, coinc and weep, and profit at my tomb;
l et rtiy ftort youth, niy blighted beauty ptove,
I The fatal poison of unlawful love,
O, think how quics, my foul career l. ran,
I The dupe ot pilfion, vanity, and man.
Then (hun the padi where gav dclufions Ihine,
B: vouvs the '.clfon sad evperie-ice mine.
jp 3 Blank Deeds of Conveyance,
Hl| For sale at this Office.
FROM THE PORT FOLIO.
THE LAY PREACHER.
“Two are better than one.”
This is Solomon’s theory, and I like it;
his praflice was rather too extensive, for,
in his luxurous palace, seven hundred
wives, and three hundred concubines,
were better than one. Whether the wo
men of Jerusalem were composed of more
mamgeahle materials, than modern fe
males, I am at a loss, for Josephus, wbofe
works I have turned over, to gain infor
mation on this knotty point, fays nothing
of the matter. However, lam inclined
to think Solomon made his domestic ar
rangement loon after he “ planted vine
yards.” Had he chosen a graver moment,
he would not have told the mod confi
dential of his eunuchs that seven hundred
expensive wives, and three hundred ca
pricious concubines, were better than
one. Why the revenues of gold paved
Jerusalem, or the bagnios ofitsfuburbs
could not have furniihed robes for the
married dames, nor rakes for the free !
Men, sage like Solomon, are generally
moderate in their arithmetic of plealures.
But this was too bold a sum in multipli
cation, even for a polygamist, to work.
In all probability, Solomon, though the
oriental writers expatiate upon his refour
ces, found his flock too scanty for the ma
ny and great claims which “ the daugh
ters of Jerusalem” must have made. For
late in life, when the “pitcher” was bro
ken, and the “ silver cord” of love looted
and his “desires failed,” we find him
gravely composing a (ententious proverb,
in praise of sociability, and reducing a
thousand companions to one. His reasons,
too, are not drawn as they would have
been, when he formed his seraglio, from
pafiion and pleasure, but from utility. For
he supports his opinion by arguing, in the
context, that “ two are better than one,”
because in difficulty, or in battle, thev
mutually aflift, or, bedded in a frofty night
they keep each other w^rm.
Although, in remarking upon Solo
mon’s voluptuousness, I have been mo
ved from my naural gravity, as a prea
cher, yet let not the wanton reader con
strue my sermon as a satire upon the sage
prince. After animadverting upon the
rxcefs of his praflice, it is my intention to
echo the benevolence and utility of his so
cial principle.
“Two are better than one.” Dr.
Franklin thought so, when he recommen
ded early marriages. As lam of Angular
continence myfelf, I know nothing of the
matter; but St. Paul, an apostle of expe
rience, tells bachelor and virgin chriftians,
that it is betttr to n.arry than burn. If
they feel this heat, therefore, let them
quench it in legal couples, and choose for
the wedding ring posy, ‘J two are better
than one." My phyfkian declares, that,
in these degenerate days, when illicit love
is common, early marriage is favourable
to health; the philolophers affirm that it
is to morals. The Preacher, therefore,
concludes that “ two are better than one,”
applied to matrimony, is a precept pro
du6five of happiness , and that a young man
who will reject all the concubines, and fix
hundred and ninety-nine of the wives,
which Solomon thought necefiarv, may
be pronounced wiser, as it refpe&s wo
then, titan itiat prince.
In the dark ages, as they were justly fti
led, devotional men used to think that S
Peter, the porter of Heaven’s wicket
would not open it, but to one at a time.
Accordingly, monks and hermits would
wander in defers, or rtfide folitarv in
caves, and infill that an error had crept in
to the proverbs, and that Solomon cer
tainly wrote “ one is better than two."
This was a vile interpretation ; and, il
they had meditated their Bibles well, they
would have difeovered that the founder of
their religion was never so happy as when
“ much people” lurrounded him, and that
the apofiles chose companions in their tra
vel; the one fat socially at a wedding sup
per, and the others resorted to the tem
ples, the town hall, and the market place.
I grieve to fee a melancholy inan, mo
ping in the chimney corner, refuting to
“eat bread,” and, when the cup goes
round, unwilling to pledge a bumper.
Trust me, thou son of spleen, happiness is
doubled by participation. Arise, there
fore, and be even as this publican ; be so
cial, be merry, go to the door of thy tent,
and if thou ifeefi a man of understanding
pass by, intreat him with a “ turn in hith
er, I beseech thee.” So (hail the “ evil fpir
it” flee, as of yore, from the harp of the
ftiepherd, and all the cares of thy heart be
lulled by the pleasant communion of a
friend.
•
HER EVER Bonaparte advances, we
are prefenred with a dull repetition of the
fame lenfelefs addrelTes, and the fame nau(
eous adulations. We find, ax Amiens,
that a circumflance took place, which, in
Come degree, varied the uniformity or the
scene. A rich merchant’s daughter had
been so inflamed by heroic del'criptions of
.the First Consul, that a most violent pas
fion took poflellion of her whole foul. She
waited for his arrival with the utmost
impatience. No sooner had Bonaparte
entered the apartment, than the young la
dy threw herfelf at his feet, and declared
her paflion in tbs most romantic strains.
With ineffable condescension the little
great man raised up the aftli&ed beauty,
and consoled her in language not unwor
thy the knight of La Mancha. Madam
Bonaparte joined in this tender scene, and
with all due sensibility, comforted this un
happy lady, whom her fiufband’s charms
had over powered. Next day fire prefent*
ed her with a rich medallion of Bonaparte,
to console her for the loss of the orignial,
and there are even hopes that file may, in
due time, appoint her one of her ladies of
honour. [Lon. pap J
BOTONY-BAY.
A late Paris paper contains a letter re
•ceived from Citizen Gregoire, mineralo
gist, dated Basil’s Streight, King’s 111 and,
Dec. 7, 1802, in which he gives the fol
lowing account of the English settlement
in New-Holland :
“After leaving Van Diemen’s Land,
our next halt was at port Jackson. That
riling colony is the firft from which the
natives have no right of complaint against
Europeans. They have been treated with
every attention ; but still rifilt all attempts
ro civilize them Though living, for
these fifteen years, with the English, they
have adopted no English cufiom. Clothes
to them is still a fuperfluitv. They rarely
wear any thing to protect them from cold j
never a garment to hide their r.akednefs.
Their language has, however, bv this in
tercoorle undergone some alterations.
“The English, during the fifteen years
(nice their settlement here, have already
carried their agriculture to a furprizing"
extent. The furefts have given place to
corn fields of wonderful fertility.
Here are already towns and villages
affording every accommodation of Euro
pean luxury. The population amounts
to 8000 fouls, none of whom are (laves. I
fend vou a sample of the wool of this
country. The flieep which bear it are
from Peru, from Paraguay, from the Cape
of Good Hope, and from Bengal. The
breeds are here much improved, and are
mending dailv. Those from Bengal,
which have there nothing but hair, yield
here lambs having a rich fl ece. In a liav
of five months, I excurflons into the
country. Leaving Port Jacklon, we pro
ceeded to furvev the rest ofthecoaftof
Nfc w-Holland. The commander fends to
France the NaruraiilL, w ith what collec
tions we have up to this time made. I
have pafied from the veflel in which I fai
led for Le Geogrcphe, on board w-hich I
succeed my colleague and friend Depuch,
obliged by ill health to return to France.”
Bailaj> t JYlineralogift.
A SINGULAR AWARD.
A hungry beggar obfervingthe fmoak
ing hot viiftuah in a Cook’s shop, went
in, lat himlelf down, and eat some of his
own bread, and was so fatisfied with the
comfortable fiijcll of the meats and sauces
(whereof he tasted no other wife) that he
confeffed that his hunger was as well ap
pealed therewith, and that he had as good
a repast, as if he had indeed fluffed his
paunch with the heft cheer there; which
’he Cook hearing, bade, with astern
countenance the poor Catiff pay for his
dinner; at which the fimplegueft wasaf
tonifhed, and the Cook nu>c.h the more
earned—at last thev both agreed to abide
the award of the firft man that fliould pass
by ; who happened to be a student at law,
to whom as their judge they reherfed the
matter; —which, being heard, the student
caused the poor man to put so much mo
ney between two porringers, as amounted
to the unreafonahle Cook’s demand, and
fitake them in his hearing. This done,
the arbitrator awarded.
“That, as the Cork had fed the poor
man with the smellof his victuals; so the
poor man should pay him therefor, with
only the sound of his coin.”
V
Two girls of fafhinn lately entered an
assembly room just as a fat citizen’s wife
was quitting it. “ Ah, (said one of them,
pretty loud) there is beef a la mode, coming
out.” “ Yes, (retorted the city dame) and
there is game going in.”
A Spunky fellow enlified forafoldier
—on his return from the war, he was in
terrogated as to his exploits—he said he
had cut off a man’s arm; but on being
told that it would have been more heroic
to have cut off his head —Faith, fnid he,
that was off before.
VALUABLE
Lands For Sale.
One trad' within half a mile o'
Washington, Wilkes county, containing
fix hundred and fifty acres, firft and feconc
quality, with tolerable improvements.
One Ditto, three miles from
said town, containing 435 acres, firft qua
lity, with a Large Plantation in tolerable
repair.
The tratfh whereon the fublcri
bers line, having a good Dwelling House,
Store and Cotton House, and is one of
the best stands for a country Store to be
found.—A person wifliing a large and va
luable Plantation connected with the oth
er advantages, may be accommodated
with about 1600 acres, on which there is
a large quantity of prime Land cleared,
with an elegant situation for building, fix
miles from Washington.
800 Acres in Lincoln county,
three miles below the last mentioned,
prime land, with a considerable planta
tion and contiguous to the best range so
cattle, in the fettled part of the country.
1232 Acres in Clarke county,
very good Land unimproved, joining
Greene county line.
The whole, on moderate terms, and
long credit.
Apply to
Wm. & FELIX GILBERT.
October 12. (22)
N O T I C E.
AGREEABLY to an order of the
Honorable the Inferior Court of
this county, will be fold on the firft Tuef
d3v, in January next, in Greenfborough,
for ready money, one hundred and ninety
five Acres of Land more or left, lying in
said county, on the the Beaverdam of
Richland Creek, adjoining Maddox, Ellis
and others, for the benefit of the Heirs
and Creditors of David Walker, late of
this county deceased.
CHARLOTTE WALKER, 7 ,
CLAYBORN MADDOX, j ■
Greene County , Osftober 28.
N O T I CR
On TUESDAY the 3 d of January next ,
IVILL BE SOLD at Fitz M. Hutu's
in Collumbia County t
All the Goods and Chatties of
James Gunby, deceased, Confiding of
one Negro Boy, one Mare, and Cattle,
&c. &c. All turns under Ten
Cafli; fix months credit will be given
for all sums over Ten Dollars ; the pur
chasers giving Notes with approved* Se
curity.
ELIZABETH GUNBY, Adm'rx.
November 22. (2*9)
N O T I C E.
AGREEABLE to an order of the
Honorable Inferior Court of the
county aforefaid, will be fold on the firft
Tuefday in December next, at the Court-
House, in the county aforefaid :
One traft of land in the Fork o£
Oconee and Appalatchee Rivers, on the
Waters of Ellison’s Creek, adjoining
Matthews, Moreland and others—Also,
another trad in said county on the Beav
erdam of Richland Creek, adjoining
Houghton and others, it being the real
estate of Miles Beavers, deceased, fold for
the benefit of the heirs and creditors of
said deceased.
• Wm. JENKINS, Adm'r.
Greene County, Sept. 30.
- NOTICE.
AGREEABLE to an order of the
Honorable the Inferior Court of
this county, will be fold on the firft Tuef
day in December next, ensuing :
Two hundred eighty-seven and
half acres of land more or less on the Wa
ters of Richland Creek, adjoining Hun
ter and others, as the real estate of John
Dunn, deceased, it being for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
David Harrison , 1
Joseph Jackson , > Adrar’s.
Nancy Smith , J
Greene County, Sept. 30
NOTICE. *
ALL persons having demands against
the Estate of Alexander King,
E(q. late of this county, deceased, are de
sired to make them known within the
time preferibed by law, and those indebt
ed are desired to make immediate pay
ment to
Robert M. Cunningham, J .. .
Aaron Levingston , j ' vJ ‘
Greene County, Sept. 30.
