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Vol. VII.
Marten <oasettc
I EDITED and published
BY
It'S. F. GRANDISON.
(ON THE BAY)
■j per annum, payable in advance.
mtention! Darien Hussars.
on your parade ground on I'ues-
M dav the 22d of February next, at 11
; B;k, \. m. in full uniform, and provided
rounds of blank cartridges.
1 By order of captain West.
;f WYLLY, serj’t. maj.
■ 25—c-4 ’
J ATTENTION!!!
Uarien Volunteer Guards.
IBiEMBLE on your parade ground on
I,■Saturday the sth February next, pre
..■ at 10 o’clock, a. m. in full uniform, and
•■equipped, for regimental parade.
■The members of the corps are informed
Saturday evening there will be a
Hos the company at the court-house, at
■l the officers will always attend. The
■bers are requested to attend, in order
■ instructed in the manuel, wheeling, &c.
I By order of captain Brailsford.
Mac MAS PER, o, s. and. v. g.
Bi 25-4
Notice.
■ B subscriber will be absent from the
!l state for a few weeks; and has, in his
■ice, appointed Jaues Troup and llen
■arford, Esqs. his attorneys.
THOMAS SPALDING.
■ 18—a—3
M Fencing and Dancing.
■fp. sunscriber will give lessons at Fenc
!■ ing and Dancing in this city, on terms
■( to the pressure of the times, lie will
■d seminarvs or private families—per
■wishing lessons will find him at Mr.
■ts’s. JOHN SUDER.
■ 18—3
The Subscriber
■iNG desirous to bring his business to a
■ close, will in future sell at very redu
■rices, for cash or approved paper only,
■ersons indebted to him, are requested
■tie their accounts without delay, and
■ having demands, to present the same
■vment. C. DAY,
■.—r—4
■ Jltlcinson § JSichols
HAVE FOR SALE
ED BUSHELS OLt) CORN
M 50 pieces 42 inch Cotton Bagging
■ 30-46
1 Corn and Beans.
■4IDD BUSHELS Corn,
■ 22 bushels Beans,
■t received per sloop Cherub from N.
■ina.
■ sale low. Apply to
■ 4-1 B. KTNG & CO.
■ For sale low for cash.
LBS. Coffee
M 5 boxes Havana Preserves
p ATKINSON & NICHOLS.
ft 6-47
Wanton Crapes and Silks.
|E subscribers have just received from
■ New-York via Savannah,
jßyper black Canton Crapes
black Levantive silk
v y°- do. Canton Handkerchiefs
Cotton Cord, and
IV sundry other articles.
■mis. country Gin
■)o. Rye Whiskey,
■>o. sugars, kegs Butter, &c.
mrrier’s
I&SU&RACDI&B
THE YEAH OF OUR LOUD
I 1825,
■foss, dozen or single, with a great vari-
Bf other articles for sale low bv |
t CAMPBELL & SNOW,
■c 28—50
Brought tatgaol on the 2 f st
B u > a negro woman who says her name
■ *NNA, about 35 or 40 year* of age, one
I tooth out, very dark complected, and
■ that she belongs to Mr. John Morel, Sa
■"h. WM. C. TERRELL, gaoler.
In 25-4
['job printing
until/ executed at this office.
DARIEN ’ mSk GAZETTE.
DARIEN, (GEORGIA,) equal ant!
JV* 'jtice.
THE annual meeting of the Agricultural
Society will take place at the Mansion
House, in this city, on the 10th of February.
A punctual attendance of the members is re
quested, for the purpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year. jan 25—4
The following Premiums are offered by the
Union Agricultural Society, for crops to be
raised during 1825; and to be decided on the
2d Thursday in February, 1826.
A gold medal of the value of S2O, for the
greatest production of Cotton , of not less
than 300 lbs. to the acre, from not less than 5
contiguous acres.
A gold medal of the value of S2O, for the
greatest production of Dice, of not less titan
80 bushels to the acre, front 5 contiguous
acres.
A gold medal of the value of S2O, for the
greatest production of Sugar and Molasses,
from not less than 5 contigu us acres.
A silver medal ofthewalue of $lO for the
greatest production of Corn of not less than
40 bushels to the acre, for two contiguous
acre *
A silver medal of the value of $lO, for the
greatest production of sweet, potatoes, of not
less than 400 bushels to the acre, from 2 con
tiguous acres.
A silver medal of the value ot $lO, for the
greatest production of Guinea Corn, of not
less than 90 bushels to the acre, from two
contiguous acres.
A gold medal of the value of S2O, for the
greatest production from a combined crop
of any of the forgoing staples, which shall
exceed the value of the single crop; and
which shall not be less in value than any
other obtaining premium.
A discretionary premium of a gold medal
of the value of S2O, or S2O for any improved
machinery for the preparation of cotton, rice
or sugar, for market.
A disc ret binary premium of a gold medal
of the value of S2O, for any mode of improv
ing the staple of cotton, or quality of rice or
sugar, whether in the growth, or in tiie pre
paration for market, which is not generally
practised.
A gold medal of the value of S2O, for the
best acre of Hemp.
A gold medal of the value S2O, for the
best acre of Indigo.
A silver medal of the value of $lO, for the
greatest product es syrup, not less than 300
gallons from 5 contiguous acres.
A premium of $lO for the greatest quan
tity of clear Palma Christie seed raised on
one acre.
Premiums to be awarded on the second Thurs
day in February, 18 27.
A piece of plate of the value of SSO, for
the best Vineyard; of not lesstban 1 acre.
A piece of plate of the value of SSO, to
the person who shall first cultivate 100 olive
trees.
Persons wishing to become candidates for
these premiums will advisethe board of man
agers of their intention previous to the 10th
of October, 18 6.
The Society in offering the above premi
ums, have been influenced in their selection
of objects, by a wish to bring to perfection
the cultivation of the primary staples of our
country, to add to cotnfort and economy by
an attention to the most important articles of
food, and to increase our resources by the
introduction of new and important products
Nrjtice.
f indebted to the subscriber are re-
JL quested to make payment previous to
the 10th January next.
nov 14—48 E, C. GROSVENOR.
NATHAN THOMAS,
(merchant tailor)
INFORMS his customers and friends that
he has returned according to his last
promise, and is now ready to serve them in
his line of business, but not in the most fash
ionable way, as there is very little profit ari
sing to any one from the old way of business,
therefore would recommend and is anxious
to introduce in his little business the new
and pleasing style of delivering one and at
the same time receiving the other. It is of
ten said that short credits make long friends,
and surely no credit ought to make but few
enemies; therefore all who wish to conform
to the above terms are invited to call at his
old stand, on the Bay in Darien, where he
lias on hand a large assortment of Goods in
his line, together with an extensive assort
ment ot HEADY MADE CLOTHING, all
which, considering the severe losses of many
of bis friends, he is determined to sell very
cheap for cash. nov 16 —44
On consignment•
(UtIIIDS. Sugar, 15 bags Coffee
60 bbls. superior No. 3, Mackerel
4 qr. casks sweet-malaga Wine
2 do. do. Sherry do.
50 pieces 42 inch Baltic Hemp Bagging
10 do. 40 do. Flaxen do.
40 bbls. Whiskey—ls bbls. N. Gin
8 do. Dunlaps Ale—s do. Crane’s Cider
Daily expected from New-York per sloop
Trader, Whiskey, N. Gin, Fulton market
Beef, Butter, Cheese, Pork, Sweed’s Iron,
&c. all of which will be aold low. Applv to
nov 30—46 B- KING & CO.
The Subscribers
HAVE RECEIVED FROM LIVERPOOL
By the shifts South-Boston and Pallas,
AT SAVANNAH,
A LARGE SUPPLY OF
NEGRO PLAINS
which art- daily expect*’.i in tins place, and
will be sold at a verv low rate.
nov 2-42 ‘ B. KING & CO.
Heirs of Ann Gwinnett , after
wards JBeline.
INFORMATION is wanted as to the repre
sentatives of the above lady, who was
living in Georgia in or about the year 1785,
was the daughter of Button or Britton Gvvin- i
nett, and married to Mr- Peter Belin or Be- j
line, and at the above period had a family.—
Any persons who can prove themselves the
legal representatives, or who can furnish
proofs of the family being exfinet, are re
quested to applv without delay, (if by letter
post paid) to Wm. Roberts, Hope Insur
ance Office, New-York. To the represen
tatives of Mrs. Beline, attention to this may
prove very beneficial,
dec 7—my—47
Last Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Ru
t fus R. Merrill, will please call and make
payment, on or before the first dav of March
next, as'all notes and accounts will he placed
in the hands of an attorney for collection at
that time.
‘DEXTER CLAFLIN, } . ,
- ANSON KIMBERLY, 5 a,tm
jan 25—4
Notice. ,
\LL persons having any demands against
the estate of Leighton Wilson, deceas
ed are requested to render them in proper
ly attested; and those indebted to the same
will make immediate payment to
R. HAZLEHURST, ? ,
J. 11. COUPER, S ®”
dec 28—50
Caution.
THE subscriber takes this method of fore
warning all persons from erecting any
buildings, making any settlements, or tres
passing in any manner whatever on Wolf
Island, the property of the subscriber, with
out his permission, as they will be prosecu
ted to the utmost rigor of the law.
LACHLAN M’INTOSH, jun.
jan 11—h—2
From the last number of the'London Retro
spective Review.
Resolves — Divine, Moral, and Political. The
eighth impression, with new and several other
Additions, both hi Prose and Terse, not ex
tant in the former impressions. By Owen
Felltham, Esq. London: printed (or Peter
Dring, and are to be sold at the Sun, in the
Poultry, next door to the Hose Tavern, 1661.
In a note by the late M. Gilcuriss, upon
some verses, written by Felltham, to -lie
memory of Ben Johnson, we find the follow
ing observation: “It seems something re
markable, that nothing should be known of a
book so popular as Felltham’s Resolves has
always been, beyond the bare circumstances
related by Oldys in his Ms. notes on Lang
baine, of bis father, Thomas Felltham, being
a Sidiolkman, and that Owen was one of three
children.” It is, indeed, remarkable, and
yet so literally the case, that Mr. Cumining,
the latest editor of the Resolves, Who, we be
lieve, during the fourteen years that elapsed
between the first and second editions of his
reprint, sought, with unwearied diligence,
for (further particulars of Felltham, was not
able to add a single fact of importance'to this
brief record of his author’s private history.
But the assertion, that the “ Resolves have al
ways been popular,” is only partially correct.
It is true, they had passed through twelve
editions previous to 1709, but another centu
ry had nearly elapsed ere an attempt was
made to awaken public attention ,n their fa
vour, by a small compilation, entitled “The
Beauties of Owen Felltham ,” containing a se
lection from twenty or thirty of the Essays.
The work itself was then fi)st gliding into
oblivion, when accident threw it into the way
of Mr. James Cumming, a gentleman connec
ted with Indian affairs, who had the taste to
discover the merit of Felltham’s lucubrations,
and the spirit to rescue them from the neg
lect to which they had well nigh fallen a
prey. He published an edition of the Re
solves (with some account of the author and
his writings) in 1806, and a subsequent one j
in 1820, with the addition of a selection from !
the poetry of Felltham.
As two impressions of republication have 1
appeared, we are bound to assume, that it
has met with fair encouragement; but we
have seldom seen it ourselves in the hands
of general readers, and we cannot help sus
pecting that our review will introduce it to
the notice of many who never even heard of
the name of Owen Felltham.
The Resolves, in all the editions, we be
lieve, except the first, consists of two parts
styled Centuries; but the first edition con
tains the latter part only, composed by the
author when in his eighteenth year, and re
vised by him afterwards. Both parts com
prise a series of Essays, on subjects connec
ted with religion, morality, and the conduct
of life, and they appear to have been termed
Resolves, because, at the conclusion of each
Essay, the author generally forms resolutions
founded on his own precepts, having as he
states in his early Preface, written and pub
lished his Reflections, “not so much to please
others as profit himself.” In tnis direct per
sonal application, they differ from the “Es
says, Civil and Moral,” of Lord Bacon, to
which they otherwise hear a frequent re
semblance in manner, and still more in mat
ter, the subjects of a great many of the Re
solves being the same as those treated on by
the illustrious writer alluded to. The style
of Owen Fcdltham is not always equal. He
is occasionally prolix; his illustrations are too
multiplied; and his language is sometimes
loose and familiar. He likewise participates
in the antithetical and punning propensity of
Arthur Warwick, as in the passage—“lt is
from where there is no judgment, that the
heaviest judgment comes.” But his general j
style is nervous and appropriate; rather close
and pointed than diffusive, though at times j
really eloquent. His phrases are such as,
to use his own words, “are expressively per
tinent, which lead the mind to something
beside the naked truth.”—He is prodigal of
metaphor and quotation, and has, perhaps,
on that account, been accused of pedantry;
but, surely, if to quote at all from ancient
writers be allowable, such allusions as the
following add both force and interest to the
maxims they are intended to support.
“1 like o; Solon’s course, in comforting his
constant friend; when, taking him up to the
top of a turret, overlooking all the piled
buildings, he bids him think, how many dis
contents there had been in those houses
since their framing—how many are, and how
many will be; then, if lie can, to leave the
world’s calamities, and mourn but for his
own. To mourn for none else were hard
ness and injustice. To mourn tor all, were
endless. The best way is, to uncontract the
brow, and let the world’s mad spleen fret,
for that we smile in woes.
“Silence was a full answer in that philoso
pher; that being asked what he thought of i
human life, —said nothing, turned him round,
and vanished.”
How delicate and how appropriate is the !
Scriptural metaphor of St. Bernard, in the
succeeding extract.
“Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass;
whereby, in her long remove, she discern
eth God, as if he were nearer hand. I per
suade no man to make it his whole life’s bu
siness. We have bodies as well as souls,
and even this world, while we are in it, ought
somewhat to be cared for. As those States
are likely to flourish, where execution fol
lows sound advisements; so is man, when
contemplation is seconded by action. Con
templation generates; action propagates. —
Without the first, the latter isdefective; with
out the lasi, the first is but abortive, and em
hryous. Saint Bernard compares contempla
tion to Rachel, which was the more fair; but
action to Leah, Which w as the more fruitful.
I will neither always be busy, and doing; nor
ever shut up in nothing but thought. Yet,
that which some would cail idleness, l will
call the sweetest part “of my life, and that is,
my thinking. Surely, God made so many va
rieties in his creatures, as well for the inward
soul, as for the outward senses; though he
made them primarily for his own free-will
and glory. He was a monk of an honester
age, than being asked how he could endure
that life, without the pleasure of books, an
swered—The nature of the creatures was his
library; wherein, when pleased, he could
muse upon God’s deep oracles.”
Like the great Chancellor, lie often brings
the imagination of the poet to aid the wisdom
of the philosopher. Bacon has been much
extolled for the splendour of his imagery:—
we doubt whether many metaphors could be
produced from his works, surpassing the
beauty of tiiose which we shall quote from
the Resolves.
“Learningis like a river, whose head be
ing far in the land, is, at first rising, little,
and easily viewed: but, still as you go, it gap
eth with a wider bank; not without pleasure
and delightful winding, while it is on both
sides set with trees, and the beauties of vari
ous flow’ers. But still the further yon follow
it, the deeper and the broader ’ns, till at last,
it inwaves itself in the unfathomed ocean;
there you see more water, but no shore, —
no end of that liquid fluid vastness. In ma
ny things we may sound Nature, in the sha
dows of her revelations. VYe may trace her
to her second causes; but, beyond them, we
meet with nothing but the puzzle of die soul,
and the dazzle of the mind’s ;!irn eyes.—
While we speak of things that are, that we
may dissect, and have power, and means to
find the causes, there is some pleasure, some
certainty. But, when w e come to metaphy
sics, to long buried antiquity, and unto un
revealed divinity, we are in a sea, which is
deeper than the short reach of the line of
man. Much may be gained by studious in
quisition; but more will ever rest, which
man cannot discover.
“What is that man good for, that cannot be
trusted in his own voluntary relations? One
would break that dial into atoms, whose
false lines only serve to mislead —whose eve
ry stealing minute attempts to shame the
sun. Speech is the commerce of the world,
and words are the cement of society. What
have we to rest upon in this world, but the
professions and declarations that men seri
ously and solemnly offer? When any of
these fail, a ligament of the world is broke;
and whatever tnis upheld as a foundation,
falls.—Truth is tjie good man’s mistress,
whose beauty he dares justify against all the
furious tiltings of her wandering enemies—
bis the buckler under which he lies secure
ly covered from all the strokes of adversa
ries. It is indeed a deity, for God himself is
truth, and never meant to make the heart
and tongue disjunctives.
“He that lives long, dues many times out
live his happiness. As evening tempests are
more frequent, so they carry a blacker ter
ror along: youth, like the sun, oft rises clear
and dancing; when the afternoon is cloudy,
thick, and turbulent ‘***#**
Age, like a long travailed horse, rides dull
toward his journey’s end; while every new
setter out gallops aw’ay, and leaves him to
his melancholy trot. In youth, untamed
blood does goad us into folly; and, till expe
rience reins us, we ride unbilled, wild—and,
in a wonton fling, disturb ourselves, and all
that come but near us. In age, ourselves
are with ousehes displeased. Wearelook
ed upon by others as things to be endured,
not courted or applied to. Who 13 it will
be fond of gathering fading flowers? Fruits
past maturity grow less to be esteemed.—
Beauty itself, once autumned, does not
tempt.”
Proceeding from style to sentiment, we
are every where, in the Resolves, impressed
with a high opinion of our author’s excellent
good sense and knowledge of mankind He
has (as be says ofthe wise m n) “a knowing,
and a practical judgment of his own, that can
direct him in the maze of life—in the bustle
ofthe world—in the twitcfli sand the twirls
of fate ” We could cite a great rr.a 1 v pus-a-
Jes that exe :j:lifv this qualify in a high de
gree: let a few suffice.
“All that affect tilings over-violently, do
over-violently grieve in the disappointment:
which is yet occasioned, by tba , ‘he too
much earnest ness. W ;vit*Gcv**r 1 ‘ ish for,
I will pursue easily, though 1 do •’ ass. s
lv: and if i can, the It nut’s dilige. •; s!u :dh
without the leaping bourns of ths art: -\
if it should happen well, is L vr.t. s
content, as coming less espec
“That mind winch can t tei
terminations private, is .. a he t.r> and
either with his own or oth ‘ c
lets in so much light as will.
signs to sleep—so they conn h ‘)-
ed, while they should gather s’ ■ e
pose. If the business be ot w
come, ’tis vanity to boast of i'; ’tia
with the almanack, to rove a* wiia’/.ve:.
will happen. We boast of tha', which,
i being in our power, is none of our own. ;
i bird that flies. I may as well call mine. Me
j digs in sa id, and lay s Ins beams is water, that
, builds upon events, which no man can be
j master of.
1 “Irresolution is a worser vice than rash
ness: he ihat shoots best may sometimes
miss the mark—but be that shoo s no a* all,
shali be sure never to hit it. A rash act
may be mended bv the activeness o( the pe
nitent, >vhen he sees and finds his erntr. 5 iut
irresolution loosens all the joint* <>f sta'c:—
like uii ague, it shakes not this or that limb,
, but all the body is at once in a fit.”
Another of Feiltharn’s merits is his liberal
allowance for the failings of others, and t tie
kindly feeling with which the sternest of Ids
reproofs is tempered. Thus on the theme
j “that no man can be good to all,” be writes,
! “1 never yet knew any r man so bad, but
! some have thought him honest, and afforded
him love—nor, ever any so good, but some
; have thought him evil and hated him. Few
are so sligmatical as that they are not honest
j to some—and few, again, are so just, as ‘hat
| they seem not to some unequal: either the
j ignorance, the envy, or the partiality of
; tho-e that judge, do constitute,a various man.
: Nar can a man inhimself always appear alike
Ito all. In some, nature hath invested a dis
-1 parity—and in some, accident is the cause of
j disposing us to love or hate Or, if not these,
; the variation of the bodies’ humours r,
1 i perhaps, not any of these. The soul is of
j ten led by secret motions, and loves, site
j knows not why. There are impulsive priva
■ | cies, w hich urge us to a liking, even against
j the parliumenta! acts of the two Houses, rea
; son, Aid the common sense: As if there were
some hidden beauty, fa more rnag-.etic
force than all that the eye can see, —and this,
too, more powerful at one tune than another.
Undiscovered influences please us now, with,
what we would sometimes contemn. I have
come to the same man that hath now wel
comed me with a free expression of love and
courtesy, and another time hath left me un
| saluted at all—yet, knowing him well. 1 have
been certain of his sound affection —and have
found this, not an intended neglect, but an
indisposedness, or a mind seriously busied
within. Occasion reins the motions ot the
stirring mind, l.ike men that walk in their
sleep, we are led about, we neither know
whither nor how.”
Again, “of apprehension in wrongs:”
“We make ourselves more injuries than
are offered us: they many times pass for
wrongs in our own thoughts, that were 1 ever
meant so by the heart of him tha’ sneaketh.
The apprehension of wrong hurts more than
the sharpest part of the w 1 ong done 80,
by falsely makingourselvespatientsof wroiig
we become the true and first actors. It is not
good, in matters of discourtesy, to dive into
. a man’s mind, beyond his own comment: nor
to stir upon a doubtful indignity without it,
unless we have proof that carry weight and
conviction with them. Words do sometimes
fly from the tongue that the heart did neither
hatch nor harbour. Wliile we think to re
venge an injury, we many times begin one;
and, after that, repent our misconceptions.
In tilings ihat may have a double sense, it is
good to think the better was intended; so
shall w e still both keep our friends and qui
etness.”
“Os truth and bitterness in jests:”
“Laughter should dimple the cheek, not
furrow the brow into rttggedness. The birth
is then prodigious, when mischief is the
child of mirth. All should have liberty to
laugh at a jest; but if it throws disgrace upon
one, like the crack of a string, it makes a
slop in the music Flouts, we may see, pro
ceeds from an inward contempt: and ‘here is
nothing cuts deeper in a generous mind than
j scorn. Nature, at first, makes us all equal;
j we are differenced but by accident, and out
i wards; and 1 think it is a jealousy that she
1 hath infused in man, for the maintaining of
j her own honor against external causes. And
i though all have not wit to reject the arrow,
yet most have memory to retain the offence;
; which they will be content to owe awhile
that they may repay it both with advantage
1 ami ease. It is hut an unhappy wit that stirs
np enemies against the owner. A man may
s pit out his friend Irom his tongue, or h.ugh
him into an enemy. Gall in mirth is an ill
mixture, and sometimes truth >s bitterness.
1 w'onld wish any man to be pleasingly mer
ry: but let him beware that lie bring not
truth on the stage, like a wanton with an
; edged weapon.”
Lastly, “ot reprehension,”
“When thou ehidest thy w andering friend,
1 do it secretly; in season, in lovt; not m M le
ear of a popular convention. For. in many
, times, the presence of*a multitude maki a
\ man take up an unjust defence, rather than
fall into a jus* shame. 1) soased eves endure
not an unmasked sur.; 1 loes the wound
but rankle more which fanned bv the pub
lic a-r. Nor can 1 much b me a man, though
he slums t > make llie vt r his confessor;
t for they are the most uncharitable tell-tales
No. 5.