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SATURDAY, February 21, 179^.
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
AND
GAZETTE of the STATE .
FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Con/lituiion of Georgia.
AUGUSTA: Printed by JO H N E. SMITH, Printer to the State,* Essays , Articles of Intelligence, Jidvtr
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Mr. Smith,
WALKING down Broad-flreet I found the
inclofed letter, which appears to be a co- '
py from the original, written by a gentleman in
this place to his’ daughter abroad. I was so pleas
ed with the inftrudlions contained therein, that I
have inclofed it foi your publication. Believe me,
fir, if I conceived, for a moment, it would wound
the sensibility of the writer to have it publilhed,
it never (hould have obtained my approbation for
its publicity;— but on the contrary, it must afford
himpleafure to find his system of education for his
daughter, merits attention. The lectures it con
tains are such that every good parent ought to give
his daughter—they ennoble the mind, and give
a grandeur to human nature. You have my per
tniffion to print this—it will serve as an apology
for the other. I have erased all but the initial let
ters of the names—and the writer’s entirely, that
the author might rather be conjettured, than, re
ally known.
NO MATTER WHO.
Augufla, February io, 1795.
Dear H-~,
YOU have now arrived at that age of reason
when inftruftion, I trull, will not be loll—remem
ber I love you—and that, alone, ihould impress
on your mind an obligation: lam your preceptor,
and fliould be obeyed.
In the firft place, my dear H—, I must recom
mend to your attention neatness ; be particularly
careful in making your clothes after the prevailing
falhion, and be sure to put them on with taste, and
keep them very clean; —negligence in that rclped
is a very great fault j—Keep your face, hands,
neck and eveiy part of your flelh clean—let there be
no blackness under your nails—and by all means
attend to your teeth—have them well cleaned eve
ry day, and your mouth after breakfalt and dinner
walked with cold water; —this will prove a pre
servative to them, add sweetness to your breath,
and give you a pretty mouth ; without which no
woman is desirable.
Modesty, by which I mean chastity of manners,
is of the firft importance, and highly ornamental;
whilft lewdness, or too much familiarity, dis
gusts, and is as highly criminal:—Freedom, so far
as it is confident with propriety and dignity of man
ners, is admiflible; but if you once lose fight of
those ornaments, and degenerate into wantonnels,
it is sure to produce contempt Be guarded
therefore, as your happiness, in a great degree,
depends on the opinions of the world—and the moll
abandoned are pleased with virtue.
Keep every man at a proper distance—it will
give you more consequence with them-—and create
refpedt:—Be free without fondnefs, and despise
the wretch who would dare to offer an insult
never let any man take you by the hand and play
with it for half an hour—withdraw' it— -I do not
mean that you should, altogether, deny your hand,
but that freedom, too long indulged, is a-fault.
Study the Graces —let every thing be done with
ease—-walk, fit, and Hand in the moil gracelul at
titudes; and be particular in your language—in
convention let no indelicate idea efca r e you -
Sprightly, but innocent, language is agreeable.
Never thick yourfelf inferior toany-«diftidence will
make you appear awkward—virtue will give you
a dignity that will place you above meanness, will
command refpeft from the world, and make ycu
happy in vourfelf.
Virtue is like a star of undiminished brightness,
whose luftre never fades, but retains its beauty for
ever :—But vice is a demon that will blacken your
profpedls, destroy your hope and annihi ate the re
fpeft, otherwise, the world would have for you
practice virtue then in its unlimited sense but
chastity particularly—for it is— w Like a,Jharer, of 1
the vtajl beautiful and delicate texture that fades at j
the lead ru U touchy and fades forever.”
Add;(bn, in his tragedy of Cato, makes him f.iy !
thus, I quote from memory.
GEORGIA.
1“ If there is a God (and that there is all nature
cries aloud throughout her works)
He must delight in virtue—
And that , which he delights in, mu/l he happy”
Although I have never venerated any particular
system of religion, (having too much absurdity
intervowen in them) nor recommended any to you ; ’
yet I beiieve there is a God*—and you ought to ,
•reverence him—it is he that has made us—and to !
whom we. must be accountable :—He is an incoin- 1
prehenfible being felf-exiftent, and holds his
power from himfelf, and to whom all his creatures
mult be fubordinaic :—Love him then, and do
that that is pleaiing to him, and his infinite good
ness will reward you.
My best refpeCls to your aunt, and am,
Dear H—,
• Your affectionate papa.
Read this letter often to your lifter, and practice
its contents yourfelf, and you wiil obtain happmefs, 1
without end. I
T. brings you two oranges—give C. one, and
keep the other. A Copy .
Augujla, Feh. 8, 179 j.
—~o-<3*>o rs>»o ■Qfc
To the Printer of the Align ft a Chronicle.
Savannan, Feb. 4, I7QC.
SIR,
MANY of my friends, as well as myfclf, hav
ing been greatly entertained with a produc
tion which lately made iis appearance in the
Southern Centinel, in the form of a nramatis per
fonte of a play and farce, which was also ornament- ,
ed with a delightful prologue and epilogue ; I can- 1
not help thinking that it would be pleaiing to the
public, as well as doing jullice to the (hining me
rits of the author, to illultrate by criticism the
many beauties, which ap, ear in his or her produc
tion; and as the printer of the S. Centinel has had 1
the advantage of publilhing the work itfelf, I with
to give you an opportunity of (haring, in some de- !
gree, the universal it has received, by print- j
ing the critique upon it; therefore I have under
taken to (how the beauties of ‘.he epilogue, and |
(hould you insert my obfervatious upon this part of
the authors effufion of wit and genius, I may in all
probability be induced to fend you a few more upon
the prologue.
The author begins with an address to his audi
ence in these lines.
" You fee my friends, in spite of Britilh gold,
“ Those tory bloodhounds, yet have loft their
hold ;
" Nor could the arts, of cunning Tom devise,
“ A scheme, to rob us, of our lawiul prize.”
I am certain every man of taste, must join with
me in admiring the “ Vis Poetica” which is to
be found in the two firft lines.—The freedom with
which the fpeCiators arc addrelied by the title ol
“ my friends” breathes the true spirit ot equality ;
—in this enlightened age players ought not to
flatter or be subservient to their auditors; and I
may add, the exprefiion thews the author has a very
good o. inion ot his own merit; 54 Britilh gold” mud
be in my opinion a happy allusion to the many
Britilh prizes our good friends the French enrich
us with, for as to the coin itfelf few people ot my
acquaintance have latterly been troubled with it; |
nothing can be more beautiful, shan by analogy, i
diftinguiihing Tories by the name ot bloodhound*; 1
whole dilpjfiticns every one mud be -veil acquaint
ed with; 44 cunning l orn” is a title of fu much
pleafimtry, that every reader muit smile itc the
noveirv, as well as coacifenafs of the expredion --
The whole of these four lines justly deserves to be
ranked as a model 01 theatrical poetry; there is
| uut one word of tw > fyilables alio a e 1 to each line,
j ;11 the force of m >ao.yiiaotes is .n icb by {
’ .Mr. Pope in his Bathos, where he fays.
[Vol. IX. No. 437.}
“ And ten oft creep in one dull line.’*
Some people may imagine that Mr. Pope meant to
fatyrize this kind of writing ; but 1 have been con
fidently allured that he only wished to prevent the
small wits trom using it, that he might bring i: to
! perfection himfelf ; which he would have done,
• had he lived a little longer.-—But not to digrels,
; —The fifth and sixth lines of our author set in one
; view the whole profelfion of the law; however,
; though I mulf give him credit for the novel ideas
he possesses, yet I mull aicufe him in some inea
fure of plagearilin ; as I remember in a jrobatio
nary ode lor the laurcallhip written by Sir Jos.
Mawbey ; the minutest parts of a hog were so well
related, that it gained him immortal honour; and
if the author recollects the above mentioned ode, he
will find that he has, perhaps thoughtlcfsly, alinolt
paraprafed it; but this is a trifling blemilh tn so
elegant a production.
The two succeeding lines introduce to our notice
I two characters, the firft of which, is employed
draining the law, like rice gruel, through a lieve,
| the latier is represented like a drawcanfir, keeping
I whole thousands at bay; however we are relieved
in the next lines by an intormaticn, that in spite of
these formidable characters, the prize is our own*
and the author concludes with the following line,
“ And left those tory bears, t 6 fuck thefr paws.’*
The transformation of blood-hounds into bears, is
molt certainly a new idea and a nervous stroke of
wit, and by this metamorphosis I must naturally infer
that the author means to drive them entirelv from
the society of mankind, into the wild, uninhabit
-1 ed woods, and if that is really his intension, I
cannot suppose there is much more danger to be
feared from their ferocity.—ln short, to sum up
my ideas of the epilogue, I conclude that the au
thor, whoever he or (lie may be, is a person that
1 deserves every attention from the police of the ci
ty of Savannah, and I have not a doubt, if the name
! of the author was known, the person of him or her,
1 would receive every honour due to such extraordi
‘ nary talents from the corporation of this place.
1 , o<9 e o^i t O'^> : o , S o
, The following interejling article is translated from a
Hamburg papa of the I ft of November la ft.
R A T I S B O N, October 23.
On the 20th October r hc elector of Mentz, in
his quality ol arch chancellor ot the empire, com
municated to the Diet by his directorial ambassador,
the fu.lowing very important pro^ofition.
The elector has perceived by the report of his
directorial ambassador of the 6th instant, that the
registers have been opened in all the three colleges
of the empire, on the imperial decree, with refprCt
to the quintuple contingent, and that the two high
er colleges have actually taken the vote thereupon,
iiis electoral grace will try to bring forth his quin
tuple contingent with all pollible speed, and in
general cxercife ad his might to perform what the
cncrealing danger of the country may re uire.
He is likewise convinced, that all his co-eftatcs of
the empire will employ equal zeal, that the Ger
man empire may (hew itfelf in a turure campaign
in lucli force, that they may promise theinlelves
the end intended thereby. 44 In the mean while,
his electoral grace cannot conceal his opinion, that
the will of the Palatine court, expressed on this
occalimi on the records of the empire—-that with
the fame propriety they' ought to deliberate, hence
forth how to make an end of this ruinous war, by
an acceptable peace”— seems to drferve the grout
ed attention, anl further rn-utfre drliberadon, his
imperial majesty himfelf having declared in 'he
aforementioned decree, reflecting the quintuple
contingent, that he w.is wiiihig so hear any other
proportion 4 how their com non country might be
laved.” The Germ tn empire was obl ged to ("up
pert the ftatei who were wronged in Alfacc an f