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CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF.
WHATE’ER philosophers may chatter,
Who know but little of the matter,
The greatest comforts of our life
Are a good horse—aiid a good wife;;
One for domestic consolation,
And one for health and recreation.
Be cautious then, but not too nice;
Nor listen to each fool’s advice;
Nor, guided'by the public voice,
But your own reason, make your choice.
My horse was old and broken-winded,
Yet this myself 1 hardly minded;
But by nay neighbors I was told,
That when a horse grows stiff and old,
If urg’d to speed—’tis ten to one
He trips and throws his rider down.
I listen’d then to their advice,
And bought a colt—at no small price;
A stately stead, that on the road
Would proudly prance beneath his load.
But this Bucephalus, again,
Put my young family in pain;
Who cordially express’d -their fears,
That I, a man advanc’d in years,
Regardless of my own dear neck,
Should undertake a colt to break;
You are too wise, dear sir, I know,
To hazard thus your life for show;
Risk then no subject for remorse,
But part with this unruly horse!
I next a ponv would have bought,
An useful scrub; but here ’twas thought
(Such is my son’s and daughter’s pride)
It was too mean for me to ride.
Dear sir! said they, it is not fit
For you to mount this paltry tit;
It were as well almcst, alas!
To ride, like Balaam, on an ass.
Again, .to various systems yielding,
I bought a stroirg, stout, stumping gelding;
Assur’d he’d neither trip nor start;
Would carry me—or draw a cart.
But vain were all my irksome labors,
This clumsy beast quite shock'd my neighbors;
Who still would have me, as before,
At buying try rny hand once,more.
One offer’d me a pretty mare,
Just bought, he said, at Bristol fair;
And then my landlord at the Bell
Had a young galloway to sell;
He’d travel fifty miles a day—
“ But try him, sir, before you pay.”
He would not willingly have sold him,
But somebody, he said, had told him,
How much, forsooth, I was distress’d!
And earnestly the matter press’d:
So, willing to do me a favor,
Fie wish’d, he said, that I might have her.
“ Well, landlord, you’re an honest man,
I’ll please my neighbors if J can:
I’rn not a judge, you know, myself,
I’ll trust to you—here take the pelf—”
The purchase made, I now grew wise—
Man John, said I, how are his eyes?
om sir, not blind, you need not fear it,
I mean not yet—though very near it—,
Thus then on every side put to't ,
1 vow’d, at last, I’d walk on foot;
For ’tis in vain, alas! I find,
To think of pleasing all mankind.
’Tis thus in choosing of a horse;
In choosing of a wife—’tis worse.
Handsome or homely; young or old;
Chaste or unchaste; a wit, a scold;
Howe’er she proves, how vain your labor
To please each prying busy neighbor!
Then please yourself; or else for life
Give up that useful tiling—a wife.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE EXCHANGE.
” Savannah, April 6th, 1802.
TVT A ? Y lhare ‘r lders havin ? negfefted to pay the sum
A \ A of twenty dollars, agreeable to the order of the nth
•ay oi January last,
RcfolvcA, that the fliares of fucli defaulters he fold ’-y
public au&ion, at the exchange, on Tuefdav the 27th in-
Rant, between the hours of .0 and 3 o’clock, unlefr such
lhare holders cu (charge the amount called for by laid order.
Refolded, 1 hat the (hare holders be notified to meet at
the exchange, on Tuesday the 27th inflimt, and ded five
i mfyes for the current vpar.
‘ s v Extract from the minutes,
Thomas Pitt, sec’y.
KAGvA February ic, ■
Q EVER A L members ibf oyr Halt India Company have
O petitioned governmait to be indemnified tor the losses
they fuflained in evacuafing Ceylon; and further petition
ing that England may indemnify them for the Dutch East
India Company’s (hips were detained at the com
mencement of the” war;: and also that attention may be
paid to the tranfacUons at Amiens with regard to the Cape
of Good Hope, by wbich.it is faidthat port is to be always
free to the Englilli, but Maintained at the expence of the
republic.
Leyden, February 13. We are informed from the
Hague, that the Batavian legislative body adopted, on the
10th of this month, the plan of a voluntary loan of thirty
millions, which was proposed by government, for the pur
pose of relieving the people from a forced contribution to
an equal amount, the extraordinary demands of the pre
sent year having rendered such a sum necessary.
London, January 8. The Irilh rebels having a par
ticular antipathy to the Beresfords, both on account of
their known loyalty, and the perfenal exertions of John
Claudius, at the head of his corps of yeomanry, deter
mined to revenge themselves on that gentleman, by de
ft roy in g all the bank notes of his firm that came within
their power. 1 hey were so active in this mode of revenge
that it is laid they actually burnt notes to the amount of
20,0001. and upwards; and this is since cr’VJ, the Irijh
mode of ruining a banker!
Among the lingular adv-rtifements of the present clay
we cannot avoid noticing one in.whicha perlon oilers him
felt to serve in a nobleman's family as porter and teacher
of the piano forte.
In the late ftorifis a boat's crew of thirteen Irijhmcn
were wrecked on the coast of Scotland, but all of them
got fafe to (bore. I his good fortune did not, however,
prevent much wailing and lamentation, fer each-being able
to count only twelve companions, they set up an Irilh
howl for the lofis ol the thirteenth , whom they had not
sagacity to Jilcover.
January 23. We understand that fir Henry Haves,
wh.o was embarked at Cork for New South Wales, died
before the vtfiVl loft fight ol the land. His body was sent
on shore, and his a trouble and afFedlionate daughter, who
infilled on accompanying him, returned to her friends.
A falhiouable countess alking a young nobleman
whicn he thought the prettier flower, roles or tulips? he
replied with great gallantry, “ Your lady fiiip’s two lips
before all the roles in the world.” -
February 6. ihe following letter was actually written
by an uflier oi a fchool, as a model for a young gentle
an ’ t 0 his piuents that he should be home at the
Christmas vacation. It may well match with tlie Peda
gogue’s well known love-letter in Peregrine Pickle:
r . .' s to verbally declare the sublimity of
latislaction which I experience in the fond anticipation of
pafiing that period ol temporal abftraftion from lcholaftic
attention ordinarily cognominated the vacation, or, as
marking the diurnal lan&imonicus employment ufuallv
ireebed, emphatically appellated holydavs—therefore, in
nnp e aial humble dictates I inform you, that the recess
IS hxea ior 1 lirf Ot’ tli* jnx 6rm Utrutleerrnal uiv MIOTI XJ I
the annual lolar revolutions—Then 11 1 ill I hop.* to experi
ence all thole domiciliary delegations ufuailv attendant on
that periodical ftftivity, coniuncated with the hilarities of
thoie with whom lam enirattrnally connected. I hen
thoie yiands vaporially aflefting our oliadtorv organs with
their fa!ubrions effluvia, and our stomachs witly their invi
goiating influence, will be ahnnd.n'.ly devoured, wliether
confiding ot tern tailed or bulliated quadrupedal carnous
iuoftance, tlie more delicate fibres of the volant aerial in
habitants, or the liibmarine pii’catory reficlents—conclud
ing with thole heterogenous com noli dons called puddings,
aided by the exhilarating effects of vinous libations!”
A uelgian wit wilhes to perpetuate the memory of the
French Revolution by paintings from the following iliuf
trative symbols from fabulous and modern hifior :°
I'iie French Revolution, by the Box of Pandora.
Flench Liberty, hat urn devouring his Children.
National Convention, Tigers fgbtinv.
First Conftitutioh, The Chaos, by Ovid.
Fiench Equality, Circe transforming the Companions
°f Ulyjfes.
Fiench 1 hdofophy, Echis blowing a Trumpet.
French Religion, Artemife in Mourning .
Tiie French People, Clouds carried by*thc Wind.
1 he present Prolpedi, Snow before the Sun.
The Future, The Head of Medusa.
An innkeeper at Liverpool lately left one of his chaise
hories, and consigned the carcase of the animal to a tan
ner. The driver, whole heart admitted the moral obllga-
J lOll v; Nch ftjould exist between the man and his horse,
and whole humanity was a stranger to the refinements of
the world, with native innocence loved the poor beast;
they had long been fellow travellers, and affection forung
liom tlie acquaintance; he would not content to- fee it
mangled; from his pittance, which was Render, he paid
five fhilhngs for the carcase, and the like sum to have it,
as he termed it, decently buried” in an adjoining field.
Leader, you may smile at the limplicitv of this untutored
rudic, but do justice to your own heart, by acknowledg
ing the goodnels of his. .
Fear nary 10. Mr. Abbott was yesterday elected
Ko , the !loule of commons, in the room of fir John
Mittord, promoted lord chancellor of Ireland.
February 12. Thiee corn porters were drinking toge
ther on Wednesday, when one of tfiem, for the triflL :
wager of five (hillings, undertook to eat the worsted flock- 1
which the other two had on, fried in train oil, and
half a pound of yellow soap, by way of bread to this de
ledable ragout. Strange to tell, he won his wager! The
7 ™T! t - fore ” ndertook
. . ma .® raft t a jacket; lie was accordingly mcalur
ed by a tmlor, and the match! rut nut, when, to the
Eao mi.'ratc°! ° M ’ he ““ U P .*• **
ry., R London Fafkions.
of white L T * r° ,ning in i° VO -” e; h COn ™ s
helmet Wn T* fatm ’ made in the foim of a
S, on o"e Sd“ W,t,, a *"“ 1 ’ ° f la “ rel - “ ™
Pla,n white cl,i P hats > in g)-pfey flyle, without any
ornament whatever, tied carelessly under the chin Vtb
pea-green or pink ribbon. 5 Ua
The Arcber-drefs; a petticoat without any train w h
a border of green or blue; a blue or green fiufenet bod
dice, Vandyked at bottom; loose chemiffc He eve.,, an a ‘
handkerchief. The head-dress a finall white or blue Esi 0
hat, turned up in front.
Brown, grey, or olive silk Bookings,* with yellow
orange.clocks, are worn by the’ ladies to walk in. * ° r
Feathers and flowers continue to be much worn,
wreaths of roles on the hair for full dress, in preference t
more cumbrous ornaments.
Small watclies are worn by a few daftiing hel'es on p ‘
bosoms, not bigger than the round of an half Guinea. 1
February 20. Left week the lord proveft and n iae j.
ftrates of Glasgow conferred the freedom of that'eity u ° ’
major Stirling, of the 42d regiment, in tonfideration of
his brilliant services in Egypt. Such services gain at all
times the gratitude of a country.
The Highland Society feme days ago resolved to have
medals struck in honor of the campaign in Eg> pt anf i
battle'of the 21st of Lift March, in which the 42dVfr i lTtt , n !
signalized tliemfclves so much. I hey wilhtd also to
ferjt ant Sinclair, who took the bloody standard of the
vhicibles from the French officer, forrie marked attention’
and made application to the colonel of the regiment toob*
tain leave for him to attend their meeting cn Wedneida
last. On that clay the lociety nief ay the Shakespeare tT
vern. The meeting was attended by a number of noblemen
and gentlemen of rank; and ferjeant Sinclai: having ar .
rived from Winchester was introcneed and very polftel ’
received. Fie was asked if he wifiied to leave the
and the lociety would provide for him in another wav’
which he declined. The lociety afterwards came to arc!
fo'uticn to procure him a con.million. The ferjeant dined
with the company. After dinner a solemn dirge* was per
formed, in the true Scotch style, on tlie death of Aber*
cromby,, by a*mofl excellent band. Among the performers
were the Gows, and two celebrated performers on the bag
pipes from Scotland. ~
Thursday was landed at Portsmouth from the Dover
transport, a fine horffe, which attracted a number of fpeft
atoi-s, being the one that lately belonged to that gall mt
officer, fir Ralph Abercromby; it was the horse on which
he rode at the tune he was unhappily wounded at A loan
dria, in Egypt; the horse was wounded in the {boulder. *
Such are the address and dexterity of die P ris footpads
that one of these gentlemen, while lately extricating a
lady from a broken down carriage, in the middle of the
day, contrived to pick her pocket, steal tier watch from
her bosom, and run away with'the coachman’s hat.
The celebrated mrs. Barrington was on i hurfday fully
committed from the public office, Union Hall, to the new
gaol in the borough, to be tried at Kingftcn, being charged
with robbing a gentleman 111 St. George’s Fields of his
watch. A detainer was lodged again!! her, on a furtl er
charge of robbing another gentleman of a pocketbook con
taining fomc valuable propertv.
F.lrs. Barrington is, it I‘etms, in a fair way of visiting
lieu- husband; it was indeed a pity to keep them so long
February 21. i nentuation 01 ownzemna conumic*
to be deplorable. N country has been worle treated dur
ing the war than this unhappy republic, and no country
has defervea it less.
Edinburgh, ’January 2. Samuel Douglas, efq. late
of the illand of Jamaica, died at Charlellon, South Caro
lina, upwards oi’ two years ago, and his corpse having, i n
terms of his will, been put into a leaden coffin, the fame
was lately conveyed to this country, in order to be deoo
fited in a tomb which he bad fome time ago cauled to be
erected, in the new church-yard at Newton Douglas, to
the memory of his revered parents, who resided in that
neighborhood. Mr. Douglas left a considerable sum in
legacies to his relations in Galloway; but the principal
part of his fortune, amounting to upwards of 25,000!. he
has left for the endowment of an academy, for the educa
tion and maintenance of poor children belonging to the pa
rilhes of Penningham and Kirkmabreck, to be built at
Newton Douglas. His funeral took place there on
Tburfday ialt, and was attended by a great number of hi*
relations, as weli as by the gentlemen in the neighbor
hood, w hen an elegant entertainment was provided for the
company at the inns, by order of the trultees to his will.
*s■ -$• •$*
Stephen Piles “J the petition of Cun
v'erjus }> VV ningham Newall, stat-
Cunnincham Newall. J ing, that he is confined in the
gaol of Chatham county, by virtue of a ca. fa. ifliied from
the Superior Court, at the suit of Stephen Files; that he
is unable to fatisfy the fame, or to support himfelf during
his confinement; and that he is willing to deliver up all
liis eftute, real and personal, lor the use of his creditors;
and pra\ ing to be admitted to the benefit of the ad for
carrying into effied the seventh feclion of the fourth ar
ticle of the conffitution; it is ordered , That the creditor
at whofc luit the laid Cunningham Newall is confined, and
ail thole rehding within the limits of this Date, be perl’on
ally served with a copy or copies of this order, or such
copy or copies left at liis or their notorious place of abode;
and in case any creditor or creditors reside out cf this fiate,
having an attorney or attormes within the fame, then
such attorney or attornies to be served with a copy orccK*
pies. And it is further ordered, That this rule be pub
hilled in one ol the gazettes of this city, at leaf! once a
week, tor the term of two months, that all persons con
cerned may appear at the courthouse in Savannah, on the
fourth day of June next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon,
to ihew cause, if any they have, why the said Cunning
ham Newall lliould not be admitted to the benefit of the
said act, agreeably to the prayer of his petition.
Extradl from the minutes , 3 I fi March , 1802.
J. Bulloch, elk. _
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