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DARIEN ffi GAZETTE.
Vol. VI.
THE EVE OF * *
BT TUB RKV. O, • j
When eve is purpling cliff arfd cave,
Thoughts of the heart, how soft y flbtff
Not softer on the western waVe
The golden lines-of sunset glow,
V :” -i- f >%. \ ~
Then Ml, “by chance oiwfate removed;
Like spirits'crowd dfßn the eye;
The few we liked*-* he one We loved,
And the whole heart is memory. (
And lifc is like this hour,
Its beauty dying? as we gaze, *
Yet, as the sh*k)waround us lower, •>
Heaven poursabbve the brighter Maze.
When iponung sheds its gorgeous dye,
Our hopei our heart to Earth is given,
But dark find ldnely is the eye,
That agjfreve, to H^ven.
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TllEGfli'fte- %
BT BERNARD BARTON,
, I love to musette n none are tygr},
JVhere yevmree branches wave,
And hear tffe winds, with softest sigh,
Sweeipfro’er the grassy grave.
ft s perns a 4 m on rnfu fmu sic, meet
To soothe a lonely hour; § _
Sai®hough t be * h j? sweet
Than that from pleasure’s bower.
J know not Why it should fi.e saijL , ♦
Or seem a mourpfhl
Unless hy man the spot be Slid
With terrors ns!t its own.
To nature it seems j ust as dear
As earth’s most cheerful site;
The dgw-dropa glitter there as clear,
The sun-beams shine as bright.
tVh e showers descend as.softly there, j
* As on the loveliest flowers; •
Nor does the moonlight secern more fair,
On.beauty’s sweptest bowers.
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Ay! but within—within there sleeps
One, o’er whose clay,
The loathsome earth-worm winds & creeps,
And wastes that form away. v
,
Arid what of that? the frqme that feeds
The.reptile tribe belbvv,
As little of their banquet heeds,
As of the winds that blow.
—-:xOx:*
rhOM THE BOBTOT StAt^SMAS,
“THE JjJAltltlßß MAN.”
“Devoting alj.to love,
“Each was to-each a dearer self.”
■ ttf, . !m f r
As I was passing a short time si*cp through
lie village of C , 1 thought of my
old friend and classmate Orlando, and deter
mined to call and see him, I was musing
upon the days of youth which we had passed
together, with heart so light, atod soul so&jjf
of glee; halcyon days which had passed aw”
and left me almost wearied of life, and allots
dull realities, when I found myself within a
fe.v steps of his residence.
t Orlando lias been married*s or 6 years
mid as I Approached his rural dwelling, I be
held a beautiful little girl about 4 years old,
playing on a lawn in front of it; I soon per
ceived in the brigflt and laughing eye which
inet my gaze as4 enquired for my friend, her
strong resemblance to him; she fle\y Before
me with the lightness al grace of a sylph,
and unceremoniously brought me into, the
presence of her parents. For a moment I
was unobserved; for the attention of both
was fixed on a lovely boy, scarcely a year old,
who had just left the supporting band of his
father, and tottering towards the extended
arms of his .mother, was quickly folded in
her maternal embrace, while a glow of the
purest pleasure suffused her animated coun
tenance. , ♦
I received from them both, that cordial
welcome which is so grateful to the feelings.
I was delighted .with the air of neatness aifd
simplicity which I observed throughout
tlieirdwelling—no costly furniture surround
ed them—hut the room in which we were
seated, was tastefully decorated with flowers
from their own garden—her dress was sim
ple in the extreme, “veiled in a robe of pur
est white.” 1 then felt indeed that “Loveliness
needs not the foreign aid of ornament,” for
she had none but such as nature gave—her
luxuriant auburniresses required to
adorn them, amlshe ware no “brighter dia
monds than her eyes” could furnish, nor
“deeper rubies, than her lips composed.”
I was charmed with her engaging and
lively conversation, the elegance aqf) refine
ment of which, convinced me that in her
close attention to maternal duties she had
nos neglected the cultivation of her mind.
My friend had, it is true, lost some of the
careless gmety of youth, for the affectionate
solicitude of husband and hither. “To his
polished brow a cast off thought had lent:”
butt), when he spoke to mebfhis lovely
little family, what a sunshine of happiness
beamed from his eyes. He led me over the
smiling fields j’ll'ich were spread around his
dwelling and pointed out to me from little
eminences the beauty of the surrounding
scenery.
1 lie happy couple appeared to live in Ar
cadiaji simplicity, enjoying all the calm plea
sures of .a rural fife. I left them with regret,
wishing that ( was like Orlando, a “married
man,” and returned home to mourn over the
<K>iit?ry and cheerless lot of an
OLD BATCHELOR.
IIAIUEN, (GEORGIA,) THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1824.
The follo wing speech was delivered
by Mr. Jeffrey* at the anniversary din
ner in EdirtfJUEgh, on the 26th January,
given by the friends and adrftirets of
Mr. Fox, in commemoration of his
principles. At this dfhnfer the chief
whig nobility ancf gentry of Scotland
altendf audit was before ?uch ah assern
hly that this gjfcquent* tribute to the
free institutions and chibring example
of America was pronounced. We
have the more pleasure in making this
speech,public here, gs we have reason
tq know thatMr. Jeffrey differs ergjpe
ly in his sentiments of our country
from the prejudiced,, pot to, say vepal,
conductors of the Quarterly Review
and that, \vhile the latter lose no op
portunity disparaging our morals,
manners, and laws, Mr.
plestuK in’bearing testimony |o their
purity and effect.—AT. Y. „fmericdn.
Mi . Jeffrey rose, and was welcomed
with longhand loud applause. After
‘this had subsided, he proceeded.-*-
Thtthgh it is,.the principal business,of
a meeting like this to do hondr to the
champions of odr own rights, and the
principles bf our own freedom, I pro
pose now, with your Lordship’s indul
gence, to bring under its notice* the
concerns and the merits of another
c6untry, w|k;h though, .1 thank God,
now independent in delation
to us, l yiust never will be regarded as
alien either to the people of Britain or
the cbrrtmon inlerestsof liberty. I,ml
- Lords, to the United States of
America. (Applause.) It is not any
part, Jtowever of my purpose to enlarge
on her present greatness and growing
impotUjfneb* or tw maghty influence
which sheis destined hereafter to ex
erC'isq on tlfe fortunes of thp w<#ld.—
Tb that futtlrijy it is annimating to
look forward—and to think that there
is nothing in the prospect it presents-to
us that s is not bright with the promise
df great But itis rath
er to her present condition, and to the
advantages we > have already derived
from her, that I wish to call the atten
tions f the meeting. For, to my mind/
that ration has already done the most
essqnlialjse/vice to the cause of free
dom —not perhaps so much by the
conduct of her people, or by the acts of
her government, as by ner rhere exis
tence —irt‘ peace, respect,
ity, under more practically
popular, and a constitution more pure
ly democratic, than has ever prevailed
among civilized*men wfrom the begin
ning of the^vnrld —thus ‘affording a
ifinten&jl iUustratioq, and irrefragable
proof, xjf the possibility of reconciling
the utmost extent of freedom, with the
maintenance of public authority, and
the greatest order, and tranquility and
security to private rights, with the
most unbounded exercise of political
ones. What indeed, can furnish
so conclusive and triumphant, a refuta
tion of thq pitiful sophisms and absurd
predictions by which the advocates of
existing abuse have times endea
vored to create a jearousy and appre
hension of reform? You’ cannot touch
the most corrupt and imbecile govem
n?cnt vrithout unsettling the principles
and unhinging the frame of society—
you cannot give the people political
rights without entouraging them to be
disobedient to lawful authority and
sowing the seeds of continual “rebellion
and perpetual discontent—nor recog
nize popular pretensions in any shape,
without coming ultimately to the abo
lition of all distinctions, and the divi
sion and%lestruction of all property—
without involving society, in ishort, in*
disorders at once frightful and con
temptible, and reducing all things to
the level of an insecure, and ignoble,
and bloody equality. Such are the
reasonings by which we are now to be
persuaded that liberty is incompatible
with private happiness or national
prosperity,& that the despotic govern
ments of the world ought to be main
tained,if it were only to protect the peo
ple from the consequences of allowing
them any controul over the conduct of
their rulers! To these we need not
nolv answer in words, or by reference
to past and questionable examples; but
we put them down at once, and tram
ple them contemptuously to the eaith,
by a short appeal to the existence and
condition of Americai (Great afis
filan.se.J What is the cornuy of the
piniveise, I would now ask', in which
property is most sacred, or industry
most sure *>f its reward? Where is the
authority of law’ most omnipotent?
Whgre is intelligence and wealth most
widelyjdiffused and most rapidly pro
grejydve? Where is society in its gen- 1
erardescriiiuon most peaceable, and
orderly 1 ,• and fftor'al, and contented?
Wheae are popular tumults least
known, anduhe spirit an 4 ‘existence,
and almost llie (fame, of a mob least
hears ol? Wherb, in short, is political
animosity least pr* alent— -faction sub
duedH'aUKb at this moment, even party
nearly Extinguished, it. a prevailing
feeling of national pride and satisfac
tion? Wh?re, but in America? (Im
mense applause.) America, thaUaid
the foundation of her Republican Con
stitution in a violent, radical, sanguin
ary revolution—America, with her
funtltftriental (Jpmpcracy, made more
unmanageable, and apparently more
hazardous, by being broken tp into I
do not ffriow how many gonfederated
and independent democracies—Amer
ica, with Universal Suffrage, and
weekly elections-—a |ree
‘and unrrmised press; without an estab
lished an hei editary nobili
ty, or. a permanent executive—with
all that is combustible, in .short, and
pregnant with danger, on tne hypothe
sis of tyrannf, and without one of the
cheeky o’ safeguards by which alonlb
they contend the benefits or the very*
being of society can be maintained!—
*Peals of Afiplauss.) There is some
thing at once audacious and rediculaus
in maintaining such docy-ines in the
face of such experienced Nor can any
thing be founded on the novelty of these
institutions, or the pretence that they
have not yet sfeen put fairly on tffeir tri
al. Americajias igone on prospering
under them for forty ygars —and has
exhibited a picture of uninterrupted,
rapickunprecedented in wealth
population, intelligence, ana concord,
while all life arbitrary governments of
the old world liave'been overrun with,
bankruptcise, conspiracies, rebellions,
and revolutions, and are at this moment
trembling in the consciousness of their
insecurity, and vainly endeavouring t®
repress irrepressible discontents, by
confederated violence andterror. (Ap*
plause<) If any thing more were requi
red to show the superior security, as
wejl as energy and happiness of free
government, I must bteg merely to
contrast tne condition of South Ameri
ca, as it was still very lately -with that
of theriiappy country to which I have
been referring. These .southern settle
ments had the advantage of being ear
lier established, and followed from
the first by the,fostering care of the
parent state. Tlidy were placed in a
more fertile soil and arnore propitious
climate; but they were governed by
non-resident despots, and -given over to
bigolted priests and courtly favorites,
and wanting freedom, all the blessings
of nature were turned to curses. Their
treasures were exhausted—the popu
lation withered and shrunk under
them—both races were degraded by
their mixture —afid they became at
last among the governing classes a de
generatetLand corrupted mass, wnich
moulder*away, and dissovled in its
own rotteness—till it fertilized the soil j
over which it was scattered, for that,
fusing and glorious harvest of liberty 1
which now co’ ered it wi ll the beauty ;
of its promise! In the Nortft llie lot’
of our emigranLcoufitrymen was cast in :
more ungenial regions—and their first
struggtesS’either totally neglected or
but coldly supported by the mother i
country—but, carrying with them that j
innate love of freedom, which I trust I
will run fore-or, in the blood of all
Britain, they surmounted all difficul- 1
ties—and even under the colonial and
qot always equitable government of
England ffiey made very considerable
advances in wealth and civilization; and
ever since they have been lelt to build
for themselves on this firm foundation,
have so multiplied and increased in the
land, and advanced with such tniracq
lotft rapidity in wealth, population, in
dustry and power,a6 not only to put to
shame the stationary communities of
Europe, but even to make her statists j
and political economists revise and re-’
model their systems, to correspond
with their unnatural and excessive
’ prosperity! Su?h my Lord are the
\ services which I conceive America to
have rendered to the cause of liberty—
and though they are, as I apprehend
truly incalculable in value and a
mount, it is pleasing to think that they
have been rendered, not only without
sacrifice or effort on Hfer part—but al
most without her consciousness or co
operation. They have flowed like a
healing virtue from her existence 8c h'er
example. She has only had to be free:
and peaceful, and happy, and prosper
ous in ‘herfreedom,-to-put down the
disgustiilfiPbpbis’ry of the hireling ad
vocate.* of*power, and to give the
strongest encouragement to all the na
tions of the earth to emulate her hap
piness apd peace by irritating her free-
For these services—foi that
encouragement— foi these lessons
sheis entitled to our warmest gratitude.
But tlffi time is perhaps come vihsn
she is destined to,rendei still more ac
tive and essential servicts, and to confer
benefits,by which**Alley oaf*ther more,
ajid still deeper obligations.
It was toojnugh perhaps to expec
that, while her own peace and hofo ir
.were not in question, infant giant
smßald streach her unnervedarm at- ss
merely to conuol
the encroachtdfenis of foreign despots,
and stranger nations—or testify, other
%fee than by h#r practice, her stotp of
then- pretentjons, and her abfiorrenco
of the acts by which the^ are animated.
Butas soon as*he theit ar
rogance is directed to thethioi es o|shat
majestic comimem—onemexfteme* of
which is guarded and sanctified by her
seat—as soon as the orders of her land
are praßned by the rumouf ten of the
unhallowed approach of ihe'priqciple3
of powers of the holy allianee—- there
issues forth that calm, resolute, -awful
voice of determined IreedJin, and pre
pared resistance, at which the heart of
the tyrant quails more fearfully than at
the loudest note of defiance, arid which/
like the low muttering of the thunder,
announces that pvenging justice is pre
paring her bolts to cast town the pride
of her oppressors. fMay we hope, too,
that the symptoms, though tardy and
somewhat reluctant, of a more liberal
spirit:—and a.4rue sympathy witli Eng
lish feeling, which have lately appear
ed in some oftthe measures of our ad
ministration, may lead to an entire res
■toratfon of cordiality with our kinsmen
of the new world, and place us once
more irfahe delightful relation of fel
low labourers in support oi.the same
rights—and fellow champions of the
same regulated freedom. When ty
rants confederate, freemen should unite
—when bad men league togethet tor
oppression, good men must join for
their safety and protection. It is in this
spirit, and for this purposp, that I offer
this toast to your acceptance. W lien
the people and the government are
identified, it is most respectful to speak
of them under the name of their ruler
—and as the President of this imperial
republic has lately done himself such
distinguished honor by the manly, wise
and dignified Message he has addn ss
ed to his countrymen, and, through
them, to the world, I hope to meet rith
your approbation.in proposing— he
Health of the President of the United
States of America, and a sfpeedijrun
ion of all free nations against the en
croachments of tyranny.”
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, From the London Courier, Feb. 9.
Th*Rev. Sii Henry Bute Durliev,Bart.
This gentleman, who, so. ah “ e halt
a century, has been distinguished m ihe
literary and political world, di tl bn the
Ist ol Feb. at Cheltenham,agon 78. His
father ./as a respectable cleigyiiHii at
Chelmsford,in E'Srx, by wnom hi was
educated, and afterwards sent to Col
lege. His fi:st engagement in public
or political itfe, was his establishing the
Morning Post and Morning Herald
newspapeis—tne latter in 1780, the
former a few'years previous He also
commenced the Courier de l’
printed in French, and the English
Chronicle. Os the Morning Herald he
was for many years sole proprietor and
he supported the paper with extraor
dinary success by his wit aqd versatili
ty of talent. To ttfe Probationary
Odes and the Rolliad . which at that
time drew universal attention, he con
tributed la. gelv; and wrote dmirley the
Vortigem and Rowena, a satirical
work.pourtraying, with admirable spir
it, and in the diction of Shakspeare*
the characters of all theeminenl persons
of that day. This appeared at the
time of Ireland’s forgery. In the time
of Mr. Garrick, he produced the ope
ra of thp Rival Candidates at Di ury
lane theatre, and afterwards the Black
amoor washed White , which, in conse-
Iquence of party spirit running so high
at that period, caused a contest among
the audience, ith drawn swoids, upon
the stage itself He was#he author of
the operas ol The Fiitch of Bacon an
i The Woodman, The former V9O
No. 12.