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From the Parterre.
THE STRANGER’S GRAVE.
Where the willow-tree droop# o’er the weary’s last rest,
And the wild-rose of spring ’round Ins pillow is Haunting,
And the hermit of air, from his love-endcarM nest,
A plaintive repose to his spirit is chauntmg;
Tar withdrawn from the path by the traveller trod,
And retired from the tumult of worldly confusion,
The stranger lies wrapt in the green swelling sod.
In the slumber of deep and unbroken seclusion
There no urn proudly rising, is taught to rehearse
The deeds of the wise or the fearless in danger,
Not Friendship’s last tribute, the Tudely etch’d verse.
Appears to emblazon the fame of the stranger.
As an altar of refuge he flew to our clime,
From the scourge of despair and the arrow of anguish,
Misfortune had wither’d the rose of his prime,
And consign’d him on penury’s bosom to languish.
Like a desolate pilgrim, in life’s dreary path
He struggled awhile with the whirlwind and storm;
But fruitless the contest! a prey to their wrath,
He sinks in the tempests that shatter’d his form.
Hope illumined no beacon on death’s stormy deep.
To catch his last sigh Hew no friend or connection,
No hand wiped hishrow, and no eye wak’dto weep,
Or to soothe his last pang with the glance of affection.
No widow oft visits this home of the dead,
When day has departed, to linger and pray,
The tears of bereavement ne’er sprinkle the bed
Where the bones of the stranger are away.
From the Scots Magazine.
[The followingsong was translatedfrowithe German by a
young officer in the Rocket Brigade, attached to the
Swedish corps in the campain of 181 J. He still re
members, with pleasure, hearing it sung by Claudina
Bliinienberg, the prettiest girl in Nordheim, to Mo
zarth’s beautiful air, “Ahi qnesto bingo.”]
O sweet flows the current by town and by tower,
The green sunny vale, and the dark linden bower:
Thy waves as they dimple, smile back on the plain,
And, Rhine! dearest river, thou’rt German again.
Thy roses smell sweeter, the air is more free.
More lively the song of the bird on the tree:—
The yoke of the mighty is shivered in twain}
And, Riant.’ dearest river thou’rt German again.
The land is at peace, and breaks forth into song,
Thy hills in their bosuin the cadence prolong,
Thy sons in their ehaunting re-echo the strain—
Our Rhine , our own river, is German again!
Thy daughters, sweet river, thy daughters so fair,
With their eyes of soft azure, and bright sunny hair,
Ifepeat mid their dances, at eve on the plain—
Our Rhine , our own river, is German again!
From the National Intelligencer.
TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE BRI
TISH EXCHEQUER.
To avoid the terrible catastrophe that long
Lias been predicted, I present you a plan for dis
charging the debt of your nation.
For illustration I will put it down at *IOOO,OOO,
000, sterling, and rate your property, real and
personal, at /5000,000,()00; consequently the
debt, in relation to the visible property, Avill be as
1 is to s—and5 —and the former being extinguished, the
latter will merely charge owners to the extent of
one fifth, or twenty per centum. For the true ba
lance of your great account, you will, therefore,
require in your next budget that each individual
B'shall, in that ratio, contribute to the payment ol
5( the public creditors, provided they shall consent
to receive the same; therein, however, you would
probably find an insurmountable difficulty in the
stubborn ignorance of your subjects, wdio may
pertinaciously persist in the fallacious confidence
of your national credit, whilst to the superior sa
gacity of our philosophers, your government is
paipably progressing to bankruptcy and .dissolu
tion. Why will they prefer mere slips of paper
to the tangible evidence of silver and gold? Is it
because they are exempt from the risk of robbers,
fire, and other casualties? Why are they so stu
pid as to suppose the precious metals, so valuable
a material for the manufacture of cawdle cups
and pap spoons, sleeve buttons and dandy buckles,
safest in your banks, and blindly to trust in the
more portable representations of property, found
ed on the substantial wealth of the jiation? It is
because tficy are regularly yielding a quarterly
yoii\iiooJd fail to dogtinue I advise
you plajtajdnhe next presentation
of j^^^^'wStatistious.
Jt/nc, 1819. *** .
Lemma 1.
An efficient and free government protects both
person and property, and assurts the fruits of in
dustry.
2. Labor is the basis of wealth
3. Money procures labor and impels enter
prise.
4. Public securities assume the character and
perform the functions of money.
The foregoing lemata support the following
corrollary:
A public debt is a public benefit, inasmuch as
it performs the functions of money, which impels
enterprise and procures labor, which is the source
and foundation of wealth and happiness.
The present situation of our monied concerns,
presents the strongest confirmation of the above
conclusion.
Has not the existing state of exhaustion and
paralysis, chiefly resulted from the recent pay
ments of the public debt? If not, to what is it at
tributable? Would not its increase and employ
ment in the construction of roads, the extension of
inland navigation, and other public works, accele
rate thiflMAMUation and promote the public
I belter may be <k \ ibed lor
1 The following was written a short time before
I the conclusion of the late war; they may possibly
1 serve to elicit something useful at the present
day:—>
A plan for insuring the resficct of the enemy,
and to restore peace.
1. Great Britain is the most haughty and dom
ineering of all nations.
2. Her policy is the most consummate —“a
stupendous fabric of human wisdom.”
3. The physical resources of the United States
are unbounded.
We all admit the first proposition.
The political world exhibits proof of the se
cond.
The third cannot justly be denied.
“Fas est ab hoste doccri.”
Let us adopt her institutions; establish a solid
system of finance —a permanent revenue; reduce
the public securities to one class of annuities,
subject to a redeeming fund; create a national
bank co-extensive with the union, and embracing
the interests of all classes; complete a system of
trade and navigation; provide for the progressive
increase of the navy. The details of these mea
sures being wisely adjusted, there would exist no
want of “an adequate circulating medium;” the
fiscal operations of the government would no
longer “labor with extreme inconvenience.”
Opposing to the enemy the force of his own
institution, his fleets and armies would become
harmless as doves; his pride would fall, and his
spirit of domination would become courteous and
complaisant
A weak and pernicious prejudice blinds us to
the causes which are in the power of our oppo
nent.
Let qs profit by his experience.
Statisticus.
Maryland, 4th June, i 819.
MUNGO PARK.
To the editors of the Liverpool MercuryC
Gentlemen —l have this morning received a
letter, via Malta, from a brother of mine at Jed
dah, on the Red Sea, from which I send you the
following extract; if you tnink any credit is due
to the assertions of Pearce, you can, if you think
proper, give it a place ill the Mercury, if not,you
can as easily burn it. Your’s, &.C.
H. B.
Liverpool, Church-street, May 16, 1819.
Dec. 18, 1818. —On my landing at Jeddah, a
place where I did not expect to heat an English
word, I was accosted by a man in the complete
costume of the country, with, “are you an Eng
lishman, sir?” My answer being of course in the
affirmative, appeared to give him pleasure be
yond expression. “Thanks and praises to God,”
lie exclaimed, “I once more hear an English
tongue, which 1 have not done for fourteen years
before.” I have been much amused by him since;
his account of the Abyssineans, the inhabitants of
a country that lias absorbed fourteen years of his
existence, is truly interesting; You must no
doubt have heard or read of him; hfc is that No
thaniel Pearce spoken of by Mr. Salt, in his ac
count of his travels in Abyssina. He was left
there by lord Valentia, and hits bee? the greater
part of the time in the service of out or other of
the chiefs in various parts of the Country: —At
the time I met with him he was endeavoring to
make iris way to Tombuctoo, wljere he says
Mungo Park is still in existence, detained by the
chief. He says the whole country almost idolize
him for his skill in surgery, astronomy, he. he.
They say he is an angel, come from heayen to
administer comforts to them; and he xplains to
them the motions and uses of the heavenly bodies.
He is, Pearce says, very desirous to make his
escape, but finds it impossible. “What,” say they,
■“do you suppose us so toolish as to part with so
invaluable a treasure? If you go away, where are
we to find another possessing so much knowledge,
or who will do us so much good?” Pearce ap
peared to have been resolutely bent on endeavor
ing to reach Tombuctoo, but had for some time
been laboring under severe illness.”—£vc.
Suicide. —>Onthe 20th May, at Piketononthe
Scioto river, (O.) Mr. Sweany committed
the awful crime of deliberate suicide. Between
fifteen and twenty years past, this man assumed
the office of the gospel ministry, and the adminis
tration of the sacraments; and succeeded in de
luding a number of people, of whom better thing’s
were hoped, to become his followers. They re
fused to repent and reform, when called by some
flagrant immoralities which appeared in his life.
He has gone to his own place: but by this unhap
py end, the I.ord wains them once more to t*rn
from their evil ways, and flee to the blood of
sprinkling. The office of the gospel ministry is
sacred; none can invade it with impunity. He
that, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed, and that witfiout re
medy. — Alexandria Herald.
Extract from captain Ross*s worA.—-“August
18. Lat. 76. While the moon was in sight,she
had the appearance of following the sun around
the horizon, and while these bodies were passing
in azimuth along the tops of the mountains, the
snow which coiertd them, and which had natu
rally a yellow tinge, had then the lustre of gold,
and the reflection of these upon the sky, produced
a rich green tint, so delicately beautiful, as to sur
pass description. On the other hand, the rays of
the sun darting over the tops of the mountains,
came in contact with the icebergs, which appear
ed like as many edifices of silver, adorned with
precious stones of every variety.”—Such were
the magic scenes enjoyed during a day, which
lasted from the 7th of June to the 24th of August,
or 1872 hours, without the sun setting to their
Curious Protest. —Mr. H. B. Fearon, of Lon
don, author of a tour through America, recently
published, was on the 12th ult. married at West
Ham, Essex, to Miss Thompson, when a protest
against the marriage ceremony, signed by the
bride and bridegroom, was delivered, previous to
its performance, into the hands of the ministers,
by Mr. Fearon:—the protest contained the follow
ing passages: “The undersigned being Protestant
Dissenters, present to you the following protest
against the marriage ceremony, as at present
performed, and to which according to the laws
of England, they are compelled to subscribe.
Against the marriage ceremony they must sol
emnly protest, because it makes marriage a reli
gious instead of a civil act; because parts of the
ceremony are highly indelicate, and must to
every correctly constituted mind be extremely
offensive; because the man is required to worship
the woman, though the founder of Christianity
has declared, that God is the only object for the
Christian to worship: because it requires the re
cognition qf the doctrine of the Trinity, than
which nothing can be more oppressive to those
who disbelieye conscientiously, and after patient
investigation that doctrine; and because as warm
and firm believers in the truth of Christianity,
they disbelieve and abominate the doctrine of the
Trinity, in the name of which the marriage cere
mony is performed.”
From the Philadelphia Franklin Gazette , 21s: ult.
The Canton has arrived at New-York in *32
days. By her the editors of the Franklin] Gazette
have received thg London Morning Chronicle
to the 12th of May. A motion was made in the
house of commons, May 10, to reduce the num
ber of regiments in tjie ‘ British army, by which
nearly half a million of dollars woulo be saved;
but it t was rejected, as were other motions made
with a view to introduce economy into the mili
tary expenditures. The attorney general gave
notice that he should ask leave to bring in a bill
to prevent British subjects from enlisting in any
foreign service Witfiout a crown license. A re
port had, been received in London, that the Brit
ish troops stationed in the interior of the settle
ment at the Cape of Good Hope, had been sur
prised by the natives, and some! of them, aftiong
whom were three officers, slaughtered. Tran
quility was restored. The police of Vienna is
stated, m an article from that place, to have dis
covered “a secret cypher used by persons, who,
, by means of the English journals, correspond
with Napoleon; and that thus an advertisement,
relating in appearance to ordinary lamuy ass airs,
being read by means of this secret cypher, pre
sents a political meaning very reman, able.”—
The Vienna journals say that the report of an at
tempt to poison the emperor of Austria is a fabri
cation at Baris or London, whetfe a system of that
kind is carried on
The conspirators against the emperor Alexan- ;
’ der had all been found guilty at Brussels, and ;
sentenced to imprisonment. Rigor and Dierieae
for one year; Fouiilot, alias Lacroix, and Busths,
for three years, and Buchor for six years, to be
branded and stand two hours in tne pillory. Tire
conspiracy was to take the emperor ot Russia,
while travelling in the low countries* and com
pel him to permit the return of Napoleon from St.
Helena, proclaim his son emperor of Fiance, and
Maria Louisa queen regent. In case Alexander
refused, he was to be assassinated. The fair at j
Frankjjprt, in Germany, in April was overstock-,
ed with English and French goods, but some
manufacturers of Saxony and Switzerland had
faired very ‘well. I , v
Mr. Tierney had given notice in the British
house of commons, that he should on the Bth day
of May move that body to go into a committee
on the state of the nation, that they might seethe
actual condition of their foreign and domestic
affairs, and ascertain what prospect'of relief they
had from the system on which ministers had act
ed. A motion by lord A. Hamilton, the object
of which was a reform in the Scotch boroughs,
was carried against ministers in the house of com
mons, by a majority of 5. It seems that the ma
gistrates of these boroughs are self elected, and
return members to parliament without the inter
position of the burgesses. This is justly consid
ered a great evil.
The French papers were cautiously availing
themselves of the new freedom they hjive acquir
ed. They particularly deprecate ’ foreign inter
ference in the internal affairs of France. In the
chamber of deputies, a motion was made to dis
pense with the securities required of editors.—
The court of Berlin had become suspicious of the
course of things in Franee. Orders to hasten the
completion of fortresses now erecting on the Rhine
and to provision all the fortresses in that quarter in
future for a year, had in consequence been given.
The anniversaiy of the French king’s return to
Paris was celebrated with usual pomp. The
British high ■ commissioner had opened the 2d
session es the parliament of the United States of
the lonian Islands. The negotiations between
Russia and Turkey were not advancing. Mr.
Grattin’s motion in the house of commons to re
peal the test laws, in favor of the Catholics, was
lost by only two votes, 241 voting for, and 243
against it.
Intelligence from Madrid denies the rumours !
which have been circulated, of disaffection pre- ,
vailing among the troops destined for South ;
America. It says, they are full of zeal for the j
cause, and that their discipline is excellent. The .
marriage of the king is settled, according to ‘
these accounts, and will soon I>e announced. It j
is thought he w ill espouse a princess of Saxony. 1
The bank of England owes 33,000,000, and >
owns in government and other securities about ‘
38,000,000. Its stock of specie and bullion is
not stated. The bank committee recommend in
their report gradual return to cash payments; an ,
entire resumption t take piacfiJD .some years.
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