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WHILF. woman, like loft ir.ulic’j charms,
Mo f*e'ly biifs difpenlV,
Some lavourite part ch fair performs,
In concert of the feitfes.
Lave, gi-at firlt fiddle in the band,
Each paffinn quells and raises,
Exploring, wih a mailer’s hand,
Nine Modulati .<'s mazes ;
Till rhe rap foul, supremely bled,
Beams brigh.ly in each feature,
And lovdy woman Hands confell,
The harmony of na'ure.
Hark ! with the p’ dive, in adieiKt,
The sprightly h m i’ mingles I
The Pruhe’s the flute, and the C;<juette,
The live!’ harp that tingle* !
One I old f-.yet; s *he ■ i-iuii g ilrings,
W niie i..aintive t’other pra'es it
Like Catf’.r, tbtr.tovici ry springs,
Like Faijias, ‘hat await* it.
With vaneus gifts to make US bled,
Love (kill* e.uh charm! ‘g creature;
Thor, lovely woman dir.ds confell,
1 he harmony of na’ure.
Maids are of virginals the type,
Wid ws the grownngtymoal,
?en|il* are the (hrill and perceiving pipe,
Flirts are rhe wiry cymbal,
And wives piano f rtes are,
‘I he liafe how old maids thump it.
The horn are arches fair.
An amazon's a trumpet,
Thus, with rare gifts to make ns bled,
Love (k ds his favourite creature,
And ‘hue fvve.t w man ftamis coiifeft,
The harmony • f nature.
FXTRACT
From Alvo>e's “ View of Society
ana mr.rt'e* s tn Sw zerland.”
Suicide is vciy frequent at
G neva. lam told this lias been
the call- fvei li ice the deleft peo
ple in the republic can remeir
bt r ; and is reason to be
htve, that ic happens oftener
here, in proportion to the num
ber of inhabitants, than [in Fng
latid or any other country in Eu
rope.
rhe multiplicity of inOances
which has occurred since 1 have
denhere is Two
that happened very lately are rtr
* markable for the peculiar cir
cumstances which accompanied
them.
The firft was occasioned by a
fulden and unaccountable fit of
despair, which It-izefl the son of
the we alt hit'll and molt r spedta
ble citizen of the republic. This
young gentleman had, in ap*
p arance, every reason to be fa
risfhd wirh his lot. Hews
handsome, and in ihe vigour ot
youth, rnariied to a woman of an
excellent character, who had
hi ought him a great fortune, and
by who ti he wa9 the father of a
fine child. 1 < the in tilt ot ail
tuefe bleffines, luitounded by e
very thing winch could inloirea
man with an attachment to life he
frlc it unsupportable, and with
out any obvious caulcof chagrin,
determined to ddiroy him I'd f.
Having palled fome hours
with his mo her, a mold valuable
woman, and w th lus wiie and
child, he left them in good hu
mor, went into another room,
ipp ied the muzzle of a mulkec
to his foehead, thrult the
trigger wi li his toe, and bitw
out his brains, in .he hearing of
the unfuspedmg company lie
nail jail quitted.
1 he litcond inft.incr, is that of
a blackfmuh, who, taking the
lane la al refoluti *n, and not
having any convenient inflru
men at hand, charged an old
gun ba/tel with a brace of bul
lets, and putting one end into
th fire of h s torge; tied a firing
to the handle of the bellows, by
pulling of he could #-tke
them play, while he was -t v a
convenient dilfance. Kneeling
down, he then placed his head
near the mouth of c..e barrel, ana
moving the bellows by means oi
the flung, they blew up the fire,
he keeping his head with afton
tlhing firmn-ls, and horrible de
liber.* ion, in that pomion, till
the farther end. of the buird Was
Id heated as to kindle the pow
der, whose cxplolion inllantly
drove the buiic.s through his
brains.
Though I know that this hap
pened literally as I nave related,
yet there is something lb extra
ordinary, and alirr.lt lntredib.e,
in the circumlUnces, that pet
haps i should not have men lon
ed i , had it not been attellcd,
and known to the inhabitants
of Gene va, and all iinglifii
who a c uc prrient here.
Why fun id* is more frequent
in Great-Brica.n and Geneva
than ellewherc, would be a mat
ter ol curious inveil.gation.—
For icapp’ r sverv extraordinary,
at men Id be mod inclined .
to kill themfcrVes in countries
where the bleiTinys of life are
heft secured. There must be
fome strong and peculiar cause
for an effedt (o prepoftcrous.
Before coming here, 1 was of
opinion, that the frequency of
suicide in England, was occafi
orved in a great measure by the
stormy and unequal climate,
which, while it clouds the Iky,
throws also a gloom over the
minds of the natives—To this
cause foreigners generally add,
thac of the use of coai, inlteadof
wood, for furl.
I rested fatisfied with fome
vague theory, builton thefetaken
together—But neither can ac
count for the fame effect at Ge
neva, where coal is not used, and
where the climate is the fame
with that in Switzerland, Savoy,
and the neighbouring parts of
France, where instances of suicide
are much more rare.
Without prtfuming to decide
what a r e the remote cauhs of
this fatal propcnfiiy, it appears
evident to me, that no rcafo ing
can have ihe fmalfeft forte in
preventing it, but what is fun
ded upon the soul’s immortal ty
and a futui e state. What e(fed
can the common arguments have
on a man vylio does no* believe
that neeefia, y & important doc
trine ? He may be told, that he
did not give himfelf life, there
fore he has no right to take it
away—that he is a cenrinel on a
poll, and ought to remain till he
is relieved—What ;s all this to
the man who thinks he is never
to be qutftionetj for his violence
and delertion ?
If you attempt to pick th : s
man’s pride, by aiferting, that it
is a greater proo* of courage to
ro bear the ills of life, than to
flee from them j lie will anlwer
you from the Roman history,
and ask, whether Cato, C a flies,
Marcus, and Brutus, were cow
ar <ls ?
The great legislator of the
Jews fteii-.s to have been con
vinced, that no law or argument
against suicide could have any
influence on eke minds of the
people who were ignorant of the
soul’s immortality ; and, there
fore, as he did not rhirk it ne
ceflary to inftrOft rht m in’ the
one, (for reasons which the Bt
fhopof Ghucdier has unfol f ed
in his t eatife on the Divine Le
gation of Moles,) he a so thought
it iuperfluous to give them any
express law againfl the other.
Those plnlofophtrs, therefore,
who have endeavoured to sh ike
this great important conviction
Horn the minds of men, have
thereby opened a door to luicide,
s well as to other crim. s. For,
whoever reasons againfl that,
without founding unon the doc
trine of a future slate, will soon
fee all his argument overturned.
It mull be acknowledged, t
deed, that in many cales, this
quell ion is decided by men’s
feelings, independent of rcafon
ings of any kind.
Nature has not trusted a mat
ter of so great importance entire
ly to the failiable rejfbn of manj
but has planted in the human
bread such a lcve of life, and
horror of death, as seldom can
be overcome even by the great
est misfo tur.es.
But there is a disease [which
fomettmes affefts the body, and
afterwards communicates its
baneful influence to the mind
over which it hangs, fucli a
cloud of horrors as ♦ renders life
ablolutcly miupportable. In
th s dreadful dale, every pleasing
idea is banished, and all the
lburces of comfort ;in life are
poilbned. Neither fortune, ho
nours, friends, nor family, can
afford the fnallefl fafisfa&ion
Hope, the last p ilar of the
wretched, falls to the ground
Delpair hys hold of the aban
doned fufFerer—Then all re aton
ing becomes vain ; ev. n argu
ments of religion h*veno weight
and tne poor creature embraces
death as his only friend-—which,
as he thinks, may terminate, but
cannot augment, his tnifery.
1 am, 6cc,
THE SAILOR.
WHEN on the guned of a ship,
Poor Jack was running with fome flip,
There came a cruel cannon ball,
Which ?hot his foot off, leg and all.
Jack saw his expectations croft,
Cry’d out., “ D—m me the flip is loft.”
ON DEATH.
By an unalterable decree of Heaven,
“it is appointed to ail men once to die ;
and we are daily so surrounded with acci
dents out ofthecommon road to the grave,
that it is rather a wonder we should live a
day, that linger out threescore years.—
Death mocks and derides the moft pru
dent care and forefight of the w'.frft. mor
tals that endeavor to avoid it, by hasten
ing their ends by the fame means they
thought to prevent it. The only way
not to be lurprifed by death, is to be
always provided to die, for then it never
can come too soon.
From the Repub'ic in Spy, printed in
Northampton, Massachusetts.
ANECDOTE.
A well known bfaik-coctted politician
of this country, in (having himfelf a few
Sun dies ago, happened to cut his upper
lip ; and h; ving no brown paper handy,
cut a small fl and out of newspaper (pre
bao’y a democratic one ) on w>ch was
printed, ** F dera! lies and stuck it
on the wound. Hepp ning to be in one
of his abfiratted fits, he forgot to take
J it eff, ana wore it to the meeting haufe,
j where it i\as read with a great deal ot
j aftoiiifnmrnt by eveiy person near him.
j A wag obf'-rved that hts reverence only
! imitated the practice of tracers, who put
S’gn boards cn their Jb'ipj, on which is in
j tcribcd he name of the aniens they deal
mjlv\ ; —but tha the parson umu, kiiy
I forgoi ir> mention that he told both at
wholes,ite and repair l
A clergyman efj.ied in a poor laho
rer’s parrlcii un b. . hivrt, • tenacious of
his tythes, be tx Limed, “ John, so you
have got ten hce hives, one 1 cla m as
r. cdor of ’ h e parish, fee you bring it to
my house.” The man short ya'ter took
it, ad, on bis arrival at the rtftor’s, was
ordered to carry it into ti e garden :
“ No,” fayj be, “ where’s maffr ?” On
being fh'wn into the parlor, wbeti the
Revere, and D vine lat, “ here,” said lie
“ I’ve br ught your beef, but the hive’s
mine, for d—n me but 1 -gave two pence
for it.” He then (hook out the bees,
comb?, kc. from the hive, and carried it
off with him ; and left the parson to make
the bed he could of the industrious and
enraged infetts. London fop.
LEE Ilf BEDLAM.
When Lee the.poet, vras confined in
Bedlam, a friend went to fee him, and
finding that he *ould converse reasonably,
or at lead reasonably for a poet, imagined
that JLee was cured ot hi* madness.
The poet offered to shew him Bedlam.—
They went over this melancholy medical
prison—Lee moralizing philofophic&lly
enough all the time, to keep his compa
nion perfectly at ease. At length they
afeended together to the top of the buil
ding, and as they were both looking
down from this perilous height, Lee fei
zed his friend by the arm—“ Let us im
mortalize ourselves,” he exclaimed, “ let
us take this leap. We’lljump down to
gether this indent.” “ Any man could
jump down,” fai l his friend, cooly, “ we
fhoulu not immortalize ourselves by that
1 ap ; bu: let us go down, and try if we
can jump up again.” Themadman ilruck
with tiir idea of a more adomfhixg leap
than that which be himfelf had propubd,
yielded to th-s new .mpulfe ar.i his friend
rejoiced to fee him run down (fairs, full
ot anew projett for lecuring immortali
y-
-1 OH SALE
AT COST AND CHARGES.
THE STOCK of a retail (lore, confuting
of a great variety ,f DRY GOODS
and IRONMONGERY.
N ues with approved ind rfers in Savan
nah payable ift. January next, will be re
ceived in payment, or produce, for which a
generous price will he allowed. App'v to
JAMES WALLACE.
June J 7 ts St
RICH MOV D BA i HS.
Joseph G. Poster,
FINDING it impolfible to give p< rfonal at
tendance at the Richmond li iths this sea
son, is induced to offer them for (ale, confid
ing of soo acres of Land, - ith 1 - Frame ant>
4 Log Houles. For the acc mmoda-ion of
purchasers this will be divided if sou and expe
dient It is unneceffar. t a enter into a deferip
tion of the above l’rCmifes, as they are wel
known, and bid fair to becor.tr a lource of in
calculable profit to any one who will purchase
or leafie the fame, and is difpoied to attend to
their imm-ovement. April ->8 69
Marshal’s Sales,
On thejirst Tuesday in August next, will
be sold at the Court-House in Savannah,
7 Negroes levied on as the property of
Thomas Singleton,deceafed, by virtue of se
veral executions.
4 Negroes and the glebe Trad near the
City of Savannah, Containing 330 acres,
more or lets; levied on as the property of
William Hobkirk, at the suit of John Miller,
he former purchaler not complying with the
tales of the ad initant.
ALSO, 300 acres inland swamp, in Bryan
County ; 1,200 acres pine land in Effingham
County ■, 200 acres oak land in Columbia
County ; 200 acres land in Burke County,
levied on as the property of Oliver Bowen
Esq. decealcd.
BEN. WALL, M. F) G.
J uly 9 ts 8t
Slllson LON do n ,
FOR SALE BY
BOLTON.
July 8 ts. 1.
TA A. COLLECTORS SALES, i
WILL be fold at the court hr use i. j
the town <a BRUNSWICK on
the 17th and y of August next, the
following property in arrears for
Taxes or so much thereof as will
iatisfy <he Taxes due therein, with
coils for the yea r s 1802 and 1803.
VIZ ;
251 Acres land returned by H. D,
Stone, tax 13d- 3° c *
For 1803,
2950 Acres land re urned by John
Palmer, tax 7i. 37 1-2 c.
1000 Acres land refurntd by Johi
iVPlntofh tax 56d. 97 i-2c.
28 Acres land’ returned by B it
fon Bunlc’ey, tax 2d. 41 1.4 c,
45 Acres land returned by Robert
Powers, /ax 74c.
20 j Acres land returned by Geo.
Tillot, /3X 4 years, 2d. 44 i-Bc*
671; Aci-aland relumed by Jacob
C. Parts, tax 2d. 61 1.2 c.
450 Acres land returned by Richd,
Ward, tax 4d. 7 1.2 c
For John Jarrott, Ward’s and
Jarrott’s is 4 years 2d. 60c.
William Gibs one Ui boufe, —
tax 6d 87 1 2.
JAMES POWELL, c. r. g. c.
• June 18; fs
City Sheriff’s Sale.
ON the ftrft Tuesday in Augufl
next wi! be sold at the Ccurt House
m this City betwixt the hours of ten
and three o’ciccic one Negro ir.an
named PUNCH, seized as the pro
perty of EPHRAMAM NILES, to
satisfy several exccut ons, pointed ou
jyoi e of the pLintiff's.
Conditions Cash.
JNG. WILLIAMS, S. C. S.
In 14 ts 82
v/l 1 Y OHLRIFE b BALLS
UN he firlt Tuesday in August
next will be sold at the Court-House
10 ibis c ty, between the hours or 10
md 30clock, A negro G.rl named
iue se.z “and as the prepefty of John
lajve to satisfy several executions.
John Williams* scs
Ju!v I 87 t*
CITY SHERIFFS SA.i_.jl.
ON the firft T uesday in August
next, will be fold a/ the cour/ houle in
mis city be/ween /he hours of ten and
ta ree o’clock—
A two story heufe in Percival
Ward, oh part of /he 10/ a/ j efent
jeeupied by Rob/. Greer and o/hers,
bounding on Bull J/icer; and a lane,
e : zrd as /he propety of Henry Lyon ,
nd poih/ed ou/ h he defendan/,
LIKEWISE.
That corner /enenien/, oppofir-
Saul Simons, on JefFeifon S re t, ficn*
ing J. T. Lawance’s buiidini-s, fe
rd as the prqpei/y of B. A. M’Ahs*
ler.
John Williams , /. c. s.
June 2S S6.
SHERIFF’S SALES,
ON the fuff Tuesday, in Sep
•eir.ber next will be fold, at the
Court-house in Savannah, be
tween the hours of ten and three
o’clock, All that two llory house
or tenement on t he Tything.
Reynold’s ward, in the lane op
posite John Williams the painter,
together with the out houles, sei
zed under execution as the pro
perty of Mary M’Lallan.
John Williams, c. s. s.
July 19 qr
NOTICE.
ALL Persons that have any demands a
gainlt the ellate of Wm. ALLEN,
dec’d. are re quelled to bring ‘in their ac
coniits properly attefted—ana those that are
indebted to the fatd eila'e are requeued to
make immediate payment, otherwise they
will find their accounts ia ihe hands cf an
attorney for collection.
J. PITTMAN, Aim's.
June 18 6w. 86
NOTICE,
A LL persons having any demands -igainh
aX. the ellate of JOSfAH TATTNALL
Junr. esquire are requested to render them
i.ro .eily attested and those indebted aie de
filed ta make payment to Ebenezer Liark
Moore’s Wharf,
GEORGE JONES, ) F _. a
E. JACKSON. j R3 ’
April 25
NOTICE.
ALL Persons mho have demands again*
the efta'e of JOHN HERS, dec’d. art
requeiled to render them m attested agreea
ble to aw, and those who arc indebted to
thefaid ellate are desired to make payment
to the fubferibers-
FREDERICK HERB, Aiv'r.
CATHARINE HERB, Adm'rx.
Julyi 6\v. 87
*** Any person aefirous
of purchasing a fehoaner of about iaa tons
burther, now budding on the Cumberfand
river, to be comp; ted and dcliv.-ed r.e ;t
fpnrg. and paid f..r’.ia’.f incafh and half in
dry goods, is requeiled to state proposals by
the ton cr otherw.fe, to the editor of this pa
per
June >5 ts 8 :
CAUTION
ALL P rsnr.s are cautioned againfl pur
chahng Lit No. 9 ir. Prince-Street, it b. ing
-he moperty of the subscriber only, who i
il,. h.le owner *nd proprietor of it Ae
of rift to my daughter, being dated prev 11 j
to ihe time it -.Vas drew- , isct no effe ct.
bzvßAri M’BRIDE,
July 86 ts yl
L nr 1 rr-M.-jmru-u- f
CUR rl3 BOLf O > x •
tr AVE received very lately fonv.’ ‘uW; -n, I
1 ro their STOCK OF GuODS a.i I
makes their alLrtmeat very exte.iUvs ana u j
offered by \vl* defale or retail.
They have also for fate Rhode iLana
STONE LIME.
June i3 __
Cos fF K E & MOLiSSES.
LANDING this day from the S:ho°
ner Carolina, at the subscribers wharf
25 Hods. Retailing MOLa!jSE3
30 Bags Pi-me COFFEE
For Lie low if taken from on board.
Thomas Lawrence.
May ts 71
ARRIVED,
FOUR Boxes cf Carey's Family Bible
Subfcrifcers and others can have them by
the box or tingle book. Apply at of
William Wilton, to
j. G. Holcombe.
July 19 5’ 9f N_
CORN AND CORN FLOUR.
TOR SALE BYTHE SUBSCRIBES.
1500 Bushes Kentucky corn,
90 Barrels kiln dried c> rn flour, in the
hiceft order Terms very lew.
john P. Williamson.
July 19 lit 92
Removal.
THE Subfcnl>er has just removed hispre
lent it'-ckof goods to his new store on
Barrack Gibbons Esqr’s wharf, next below
Messrs. I. Caig, and R. Mitc.hels ; where he
offeis them for sale, wholelale and retail at
his ufnal low prices for calh or on time to
those who have been in the habit of paying
pur, dual.
Hhds. Jam. V/. India, and N. E.
rum,
Pipes Ho!. Gin, and Cogniac Eran
d7
Casks Madeira, TenerifFe, and
ry Wines,
Do. Pert and Claret, aifo; pr. do.
zen,
Do. Peach Brandy, and Vinegar
Do. Porter, Ale and Cider, 3 doz.
each,
Do. Loaf, Brown, and Havanna
Sugars,
Chests Hyfo.i, Hyfonskin and Bohea
If eas,
Bags Coffee, Pepper, Ginger, and
A1 spice,
Saddles, caddie bags and bridles,
Bars Iron, ar,d sheer moulds,
Reams writing and wrapping paper,
Boxes mould audits, kegs many.
faQurbed tobacco,
Also, on consignment,
Yellow Nankeens, Umbrella* and
parrasols,
Blue ftrouds, boxes Chin 2,
t And'.v. Knox>
July 12 ts 90
PUBLIC NOTICE,
THE SUBSCRIBER being legz
lv appointed A r signee to the elfate of
st. GREEN W JOi\ES late cf this
place, he hereby icquefls all those that
*re ii deb ed to the iaid eftait to come
forward and pay he fame on or before
he firft day of Sepiember nexi, other
wise their accounts will be placed in
the h nds of an Attorney for colltc
:icn—and those to whom ihe eflate is
i'idsbted ate d.fired to present there
accounts ancfleJ.
The Sales of the stock in ’rade of
she said B. GREEN & JONES, can
fi ing of d/y geed , groceries, and
crcclcry, will take place on l huj sd.ij
the firft day of Au.juft next at ihe
(lore of Thomas G’ William Smith
precisely at 10 o’clock.
T hos. Smith.
Tuly ig *z 82
§0 Dollars Heward.
Fifteen dollars will be paid for apprehend
ing and delivering to the fubferiber in Sa
vannah or securing in Jail within the slate a
negro boy named 80, Ire is of a black com.
plexian, (lender make, speaks tolerable good
Enghfh, and about twelve years of age. —
An addi'i-m of Fifrean Dollars will be given
forproof of his being harboured by a white
person. And Twenty Dollars rawardwi!/ be
paid for apprehending and bringing back a
new negro man named Miamto, who left my
yard abuot three weeks ago. He is about 5
feet 4 inches tall of a black complexion,
fpeakj no Enghfh, slender made, is about 3 0
years of age, had on when he went away a
blue jacket and striped trowfers. It is sup
posed lie lias ftroileil awav with feme of his
c iuntry negroes and cannot find his way
heme. ‘4
M. Shearer.
July f. ts. 98.
One hundred dollars reward
RANAWAY
FROM * * v joscriher his nr uiatfo
! fervan/ ROBERT ccmmonlv called
ROBERT KENNKDY. He hud
on when he cft.i short blue coat
and blue ovtrhalls and a glazed ha',
.ibouz five feet ten inches high, strait
and we’il mi le. liis more /han pro
bable he will mike fer ihe up country
,s be was formerly owned by Mr
Sim’s us Auu’ifla. The above fewato
■ will b* paid /,> any person who wiii
j give ir/ormation of his bei"g harbou ’
■ -d n a white prtfen, or a reward
wtr./v dollars for appiehendir.g hit,
rnd oelivc.i.'g bim to tne fuif tiocr o”
depc:::ing him in the c#unty goal.
All ma i is of veILL are Caut-ooed
iioin carrying the fetd feilow off.
JOHN H. MOREL,
fine 10 ts hi
Merchants Entries,
or sale at this Cnice.