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Fro.n the ( ,V. T.) Daily Advertjer,
Mr, Editor.
1 htg leave to give publicity through the
medium ofyOar paper to the following c!o
-n 'cn' ywngrvphs, from a fcrrrdn of the Rev,
V ; : sa f;r ,\ kt: Kir van, Dean of ICtllala,
in Iceland, which w«rctal;;n down 1 he
lievf ut-thc time of delivery'. D.-an Kir
w.)n has b"«ti lorg rfUv.ru - J the i'vufillon of
Ireland, the brighted gem in pulpit do,
qaer..-." The hold fubjjmlfy of his
i hoy shift the ftrikiop brautres ■of firnres,
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nr.d ; ' csptivadrtg Ifu-.g'U.'Kc'whh wlvwlt ho
a.itrhs Siis grand idea--, eftaVtifhed
his claim to the high prr.tfc «f bring one of
-it? foreman preachers in the Kmifh em
pire.—lt b not lavish or onjuft praise to
fay thn Ireland has given birth to .fume of
the fpil: otjtors that h.tvo ill timid;!tecV the
w -.'ihl. She prides her fell' is having a
Ciirvaii rtt the bar, and a Sheridan in rise
fcn.no, but (he is no left emulous of the
g’yfV cf having a Ki."w;»n in the pulpit,—
Th: buries contained in the following paf
i i• rc many. 1 (hall take the liberty
to |’ i'lt obt h few of t!:a moll prominent.
The Jenchalitable conduct or tile -narrow ■>
rh-mded, bijjotfd Priclf, the (kameftil inhu
manity of the cold, unfeeling Levirc, and
the c ondoling fymp.uhy of the warm-heart
ed Samaritan ars elegantly contraftcd, and
d pitted in the rieli and glowing contours
of a Raphael. H#w eloquent, animated
ami just, the character or ■ “ womi-catinr
calumniators.'* How grand and striking
the thar.kicr of reljgicsis, but uncharitable
perfpns “ wretches with opened biwles and
locked up boweli .’ ’ I low enchanting anti
br.jutiful i«tt ueferiptiori or a womin, piua
challc, and uacor: opted. It remains lor met
to add a few words tefpc&ing the Occasion
of delivering the fermeu from whence these
paragraphs were taken, Jc was a Charity
Scrmvts delivered on behalf ofan inflitution
ctfablilhed in the city of Dublin, denomi
nated the !< h’ctmlc Orphan Society. *’ In
this cJceaifent and ufeful cftablifihinent fe
male orphans receive an education fuiced to
the I'Vhrce of life they ate defined to mova
io, they are inftrufted in t*o precepts of
religion, and when arrived at a mature ag«
arc apprenticed t» rcfpecbible persons.
Arc a tor Eloquenti/e,
St. Lule y chapter Xi.verfet 31, 3?., 33.
" “ Arid by ch ine: there cam.: de>wn a 1
•frtai* pried that way, and when he fw
him he palfcd on the other fide; and like,
wife a I, wire when he was at nut place,
came and lock' d on him, and pȣird by on
the other tide ; but a certain Sarmaritan, as
he murneved, came where he was, and
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when hs saw him h« had coropaffion on
him,
“ Our Saviour intimatsiby this example,
diawn from nature, that nothing is so tru
ly grateful to the mind of out Divine Ait
film, as that pure and extmlive charity,
which, tmreff raiiwd by the principles of
sdy renter, ; fhkacklfd \ y the prejudices *f
any fc£f or degree, views with coiamifera
ting fed Jugs the calamities wf rostlcind, and
has ever a sigh 41 hand for the bufferings of
human nature. Kit J and genial in its isfltu
once, and warm in its exertion, it never
can unconcernedly behold a fellow-creature
ifidlftrcfs, nor fuller the ii>je<T ofcotnpaflton
to puf-* unheeded. In tlw parable here pre
femed, wc behold the cautious pried, the
mit)tiler of God, the attendant of the altar,
©artfully averting his face from the objeif
of (iidreff, as it fearful of trusting t« his re
bellioils fcalirg. The obdurate Levite,
in all the froft or congealed apathy, gaping
or human p tngs, prclcnting a dreadful view
of unfeeling iarcoity, a eel inlenfiblo cowpo
furc. T’hc warm-hearted Samaritan, har,
rowed through the foul at the light of his
fellow ’ifuffttings, with the molf tender and
endearing offtoioufueft, binding up his
wounds, though a 11 ranger t# his religion,
to hii country, and his creed. The wary
hierarch, regarding him an exile from the
pale of his church, and unworthy offacrcd
interference, tv.rscd his eyes from an ohjciil
he deemed unworthy, then rejoiced that
as an infidel he had no claim on his mercy.
—The hardened IfracHte, struck v, i<k fur
prifeatfuch unusual mi fiery 1 gazed *n his
faffcrings in the petrified ir.fenlibility of a
roonusunta.l Hatue-.-and having cool/ con
templated the paitt of a fellow creature,
with dsliherntc compofarc, palfed by, TK»
generous-hearted Samaritan, blinded in the
midß of Pagsn darknefis, and uuinftruded
by the precepts *f a 3i?iv:r.e Jesus, obeying
the call ofhutmnity, and yielding to th«
cUii)F»s of nature, was ttrnck with the raoft
heart-felt throes at the fight of an ex pi ting
Rraugcr, and drowning rtligious prcjndice
in the zeal of companion, anxioully fought
to alleviate his fulFmngs in all the tender,
nets of condoling fyiapathy.
At a time when the v oice of religion is
choaksd in the din of contending factious,
Htil mankind, in the avidity vurh which
they purfuc the world, have atmoft forgot
ten the name of idigton ; when the interor 1
orders of (betety me laid prdftrate in one
universal carnage of brutality, and debafe
menr, while rko superior circles exhibit an
unvaried fyftcm of depravity, and extrava
g mcc, the middle ranks in all the emula
tions of je«lo«s rivalry, endeavouring to
«kccl then* in their vicious p'-ofc/fion ; when 1
1 the entire irafs, in the cagernefs rrith !
which they peifuc tlicit object, have for
gotten every other cons ieraticn, both tem
poral and eternal ; whed we behold the rich
unable longer to support their paternal pro
perty, bringing their edatts to the hammer,
and vending every thing that renders man
kind and human natura valuable ; when we
behold incrv, I fay, abandon foul and body
to the common fewer of corruption, while
the poor, «nre!lrsined by the difeiplin# of
civilization, untutored by the precepts of
religion, reared in ignorance of thcmfclVcs,
a*d *f their duty, thinking alone «fcommit
ting depredations on all the other orders ot
focicty ; and case only from mifehief, when
1 ailed fcy intoxication.
Are there not (nay I have known) crowds
of characters through all the walks of fociecy
who with the most scrupulous honesty, would
forbear knowingly to rob their neighbour
of a penny, who gdaid against all fraud in
their transactions with the meft circumfpeft
minuteness, and yet have every nobicr
faculty of che f*ul so abfatbed in the ‘ovc of
money, and the define of acquiring it,
is to be rendered thereby incapable of any
generous effort ; dead at once to the fulfrr
ings of hum inity, . and the cries of the dis >
trefled; this 1 believe Übe the lowed
fpcctcs ot human-degradation.. And yet is
there any man who hears me, but imagines
that by the arquifiton of large property
and poffdfions, he would be rendered more
happy than he at present finds himfeif, and
forne cf what he tdeems the cares of litc,
be thereby alleviated ? Yet when vain
man realizes thcfeexpeCtions, and the money
he so eagerly fought afier becomes ki.s own,
the phantom of contentment ftlll perches at
a further dlflanc'-, attracting the fond pur
fuic in a mere alluring form.
“C< mpellM by Heps unccafi'ig pursue,
" Sju.e iliCiiHi- |oud iliac imeks me with the
view,
“ That like the circle hounding earth arulikies,
“ Allures from far, yet as 1 follow. flics.*’
Do vre notbthold in all fiat ions, worm
eating calumniators, like beasts of prey,
prowling through all ranks for characters
to feed on ? VVhofs breath, more dcftruc
tirc than the poison of the adder, ruin a
character at every hlalb ; differing the un
guarded victim, with all the ingenuity of
the carring knife ; and faflening a tooth
whoever admittance can be found. And
yet (hould we in return analize their own
ConduCt, it will be found diverfifiei by
no good action from the cradle to the church.
What can they be likened to? But (if wiy
hearers will allow me the exprefiion) a t (k:ur.
bU-'s fly which gluts itfelf with avidity on
the corrupted part of the ctrcafe leaving
unnoticed the part that is found.
Outwardly adorned with the robes of
fandlity, when all within is of a midnight
hue, whose jetty garments are of a fn*w
drop whiteness, compared to the still ware
blackened dye of their abandoned hearts.
Is this religion ? Is this charity ? Wrotches
with opened ipibles and locked up bowels.
Words arc but the leave*, aliens are the
fruit of religion ; and if th« gown I wear
i» the only emblem ot mine, I am of being
esteemed the rninifter of God, I am unwor
thy of the charge I bnar.
Do we not behold the rising generation—
idle, ignorant, uninitrulted, illiterate-.-
b#rn to the firft raaks #f faciety-—deftiotd
far the firll fituati#nsin life, unfit for any
---men who rife to vice and debauchery,
and lit down to fieop with infamy,.-.
Illustrious idlers, born like gaudy infers
to buzz awhile upon the earth, and th«n
expire. Whcrt then amid such general de.
predatiou can we hope for amendment or
where (ball we strive to stem this torrent of
corruption f where but in tire very bud of
life, and by rocking our infants in the cradle
of religion. At length then let us fecludt
them from tke world—let us seclude them
from the pollution of thefu corrupted times,
I again address you on the behalf of female
orphans--.again you behold m* the advocate
•f thctc little ones. Snatched from the cold
bed of poverty and (aroint.... transplanted to
the vernal sunshine of parity and virtue,
your bounty has infufed the divine sparks
of religion into their minds. I know you
will not prove deficient in carrying into
effevl what you have so liberally begun.
Alas! but if you are truly charitable-.-
why dots charity require an advocate ?
. Why fomany and repeated felicitation* to
wear a melancholy fubjvO: to the bone ?
It is falfecharity which require* stimulation,
which is seen to fink with ex ha lifted capacity
nay lower than the very ebb of human
feeling*, from the feilifn •pprehenfion of
having been once imposed cn : a transient
gleam which expiring fntn, contrails nor*
tirongly the prevailing darkness. V/euld I
c»u!d excite that true charity, that living
flame, which would burn to the root of all
our f«iTerSnos! yet mach 1 acknowledge
has been already done, it were, ungrateful
to deny tht liberality of your beauty j for
hundreds cf orphans are relieved at your
hand .. But yet are not the doors «F our
1 charity still blocked up with fupplicantg
imploring admittance ? Are not there myriad*
of victims, call upen the world unfriandsd
and unprotected, compelled to seek refugo
from famine in the arras of infamy, whom
the money which is nightly fquandertd at
the gaming tabic would hive rendered the
firtcvtl in valuable bletTmg3 of foeictf and |
ornamental membsrsof (Sit fiste. But let j
us hasten from this unplcafing fubjeft. i
'Tison the behalf »f women that I r.cnr
address you*—woman the raoft noble 'or
debased of ctcatores, the n»oft invaluable
blcffing of human society, or the naoft
fevcrc fcoufge of almighty viutation. Wo
behold her when uncorruptcd, like an honfe
hold divinity, leading her tender offspring
in tke paths of virtue and innocence, in
stilling the rudiments of religion into their
dawning minds, inftrafting them, as they
advance, in th« articles of faith, guarding
them ky her precepts against the wicked nefs
of the world, encouraging them by her
example to purity and honor.”
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' Prom tJoe Wajh'mgton FederjiliJt .
44 The man who makes one valuable im
provement, is a more important benefactor
to his species, than an Alexander, a Casfar,
or a hundred other conquerors. His glory
in the ettimation of a truly civilized age,
will be greater and more lasting than that
oft bofc admired ravagers of the world.”
• FrofrJJbr Barton,
Mr. Rino, *
Altho’ I oonnot coincide with Dr. Swift
in considering that man who c?ufes 44 ®pe
blade of gtafs to grow” more ufeful than
the 44 whole hereof poll ticiatia,” yet I do
valus very highly all agricultural improve
ments. In the propcfals i have issued for
the publication of a new work on cheoiiftry
. -to be adapted to the use of the citizens
in general-—it is Hated that i would relate
fyipc experiments, inftitnted to throw light
on the art of enriching impaverifhed lands.
The rcfnlt of several of these, has so far ex
ceeded my mod sanguine expe&ations, that
1 hafien to publish them.—hoping to turn
the attention of farmers to a fubjedf, by
which their dnterefts may be incalculably
promoted.
From a trainof reasoning, I was led to
believe that the common fca, pit, or mineral
coal which is fa abundant in the United
States—-which finely pul verified, »ight
prove a ufeful manure. To afeertain the
truth of this, I nude in lha latter part of*
last month, the following cxpuiment.
In three small pots I put equal quantities
ofa yellow clay which had, lately keen re
moved from several feet below the furface
of the earth. To tke firfi pot, a table spoon
full of finely powered pir coal was added ;
to the fecor-d, the fame quantity of powder
ed charcoal obtained from tke consulua oak,
and the third was left without any addition,
Th* fame mfaiber of found grains of cora
was planted ia each ; the fame quantity of
water was daily addod to each, and they
were exposed in similar fi matrons to tha
aftitns of light. The rapidity of the growth
of the corn in the pot with the sea coal ex
ceeded any thing of the kind I ever v/itnef
fed. Many days did not elapse, before this
•orn was four isches high, while at this
time, that with the common charcoal was
not two inches high, and that in tha day
alone had only sprouted.
After this experiment was made, I pro
cured several final! pots, and in each put the
fame quantify of clay. To the firft I added
a drachm of sea coal : to the second a drachm
of horfc manure; to the third the fame quan
tity «f plainer of Paris, and to the fourth
the fame quantity of cer/mcn afees, The
fifth was left without any addition. To
each of these the fame number of found
grab* of wheat and corn were added. The
precautions taken in the firit experimeat,
were ftridly adhered to in this instance.
In a few day* my great expectations from
the pit coal were feme what leflened, kv
perceiving that the wheat with the horse
manure was an inch high before that of the
other pots appeared. However this was
for. but a short time ; for the wheat in the
pot with tha fca coal, came op, grew to
f equal height in a few days, and in a
rtr.ight, although the weather was cold,
exseeded it by two inches. Tha corn in
the pot with coal, maintained a still greater
fupeiiority--.it appeared more healthy, and
was more than twice as large, as the largest
in the cflicr pots. Sever?! of my acquain
tances were aftooilhed to fee this great dif
ference in vegetation produced in so (hort
a time.
Pit coal mast be cheaper than any article
used as a manure, since it is found in so
many parts of this country. The above
experiments unqncftionably (hew that wheo
powdered, its power in quickening the
vegetation of corn and wheat, is much
greater than any manure, with which we
are acquainted. Our knowledge of the
effefts of chemical bodies -on growing
vegetables is bur in its infancy. Probably
the difeoveries which have been made, are
not as generally know n as they (hould be.
It may be owing to this cause : for example
that ao ounce of fulpkuric acid is not added
to every cart load cf manure, which has
long since been found in England to render
j it doubly valuable, i (hall continue my
enquiries into this fubjetf, and I have been
proraifed the affiance of levcrai rclpefhhlc
characters. But this will be of little conse
quence compared to what could be afforded
by the rcfearchss of a numerous people, 'fo
render therefore the work lam preparing,
more ufefol, I hove to invite such farmers
L’ - i *■’ ■
ss rats notice new faA*, t» cotr aun r
*«». “ 06 ! " we!l “ '!» dyers, We*,.'.’
umulers, tanners, and *H t j lc ~r ai !
chemlfls wl» have made any improved ?!
in their respective arts,
I c©ngrat©iat© my fellow.citizens of W
£ ir ‘ia» on the fair profpeft of renovating
their large trafts of impoveriihed lands.
fpeediiy using the c©al in their incx-i-/*?/" 7
«ine.i- I hope the fertility of all
will soon he reftared ; and that the labor/".?
poor among* my hospitable countrymen /i
future, may not fuller so much, as to /-
de pendent for bread.
, . THOMAS EWELL,
Georgetown dijirtgi of 1
Columbia, 1805. f
From the American Citizen,
Mr. Ch EtTH
If you think vVUh me that the following
fad merits publicity, you will pleafc
give it *n inferrion.
Henry Adams,, whose death from main*,
nar.t fever was reported yesterday, t bs»
whom a man of more cotred principles or
benevolence does not cxift, became fenfibie
of his approaching dissolution about 2,
hours before his death. His mind was ex
qmfitely occupied about his children, # nc a
ifr. of four and another of feyen years old
My children! O my motheriefs children?
was his mceflant and ?fflidi*g excia«atio*.
Upon being a flared by a friend he would p r *
vide for them, to the agonizing anxieti«
ota tender and alFedionate parent, futceded
the roost placid serenity ; but to the point.
Mr. Josiah Given, of Orchard/ near
Pumpftrecf called on the depositary of his
confidence this morning, and in a most va
thetic manner, thus addrefled him ;—«» g? r ”
last week I buried the last of fix Tons, will
you permtt me to adopt the youngest fan
°* thadeceafed Adams, ftr whom while 15,
ving, 1 cherished the fincerefl friendlhi/
•nd now feel a strong dafire to bring up one
of his children ? I afibre you I will *d«,
cate and, if permitted to remain with me ’*
will wife him tenScrly.” The per fen '}/
thus addreffeil was, with Sterne, convii?-
ced cchad a ftul, ror it produced femationg
that could not for by any con,
bination es Shatter or morion. The recor
ding angel will give the proposal a cerffpi!
cuous place ©n the register of Heave*. *
Neiv.rork. Qtfober 8, , B# r.
CHARLESTON, Goober 2 r.
. departed this life, on Tuefday, /ha Btk
infl. at his feat in Mecklenburg county,
(Virginia) Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bart,
in the 72 year of his age.
Front a Louden taper.
By the perusal ©f the following pathetic
lines, our readers will, no d©uht, be high
ly gratilied. We have not yet hed tk«
pleafurc of hearing the Mafic adapted t©
them by the No ole Lord, whose name is
.. afterwards mentioned- but wa are toM
that tais compcfition is in spirit and ia
charms, congenial to the words of the ingca
ious Poet, whose verles now before us can
not be read by the mod indifferent obferrer,
without much grateful fcnfibility,for,ti)e un
happy influence ©f the passions ;
THE DESERTER’S MEDITATION.
Written by John Fbilpot Curran, Esq. ft*
t» Mafic asm Duet by the Earl of 'Bar
ry mete ; and lately performed mi Mt/r>
tlmrrifon's & Bane maids Concert ,
If sadly thinking,
A*d spirits finking,
Could more than drinking
Our griefs compof© ;
A cure for sorrow,
From Care I’d borrow.
And hope to-nsorrow
Might end my woes,
lut since in wailing,
Ther’s naught availing.
Far death unfailing.
Will ftrik© his blow ;
Then for that re.ifen.
And for the fisafon,
Let us be merry.
Before we go,
A way-worn ranger.
To joy a (hanger,
Through cv’ry danger.
My course I’re run :
Now Death befriending,
Kis last aid lending.
My griefs %re ending,
My woes are dene:
No more a R©ver,
Or hsplefj Lover,
Those cares are ©ver—-
“ My cup rpns low.’ J
Then for that rcafon.
And for the fesfon,
Let us be merry.
Before we gw. /
N O T I C.E.
fa LL psrfons to whom the cfhte of ths
2 1 late Andrew lur.ee Hands indebted ;:tp
ft ju'-fted to render their accounts proper*/
attrtfsd ; and those indebted to tie (aid es
tate to make i.*xiediate payment to
JAMES IJKGGS, Ad**'
Angufla, Dec, 8,1 804. l **