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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
Number 79.
A MEDITATION.
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BHOEVeR attentively furvevs the narrow
circle of human life, will soon view with
an eye of indifference the mifefics and en
joyments that surround it. -How short
and momentaiy the former, how vain
and flattering the latter, when compared
w ith the boundless ages of eternity! Hap
piness is the pursuit of every individual
on this fide the silent and peaceful grave.—There all our
cam and enjoyments cease, and there the wretched and the
fortunate promifcuouily mingle in their parent earth. The
ills of life fit heavy on us all; we fed difquictude a thousand
ways; wc are born with feeds of sickness and of sorrow, and
all infirmities spring up with manhood. Our only consola
tion is to bear with patience, and try to (mooch thole rubs
we cannot poffiblv remove. He who enjoys an uninterrupted
series of happiness (if human nature is capable of enjoying
such a ftatc) refiefts w ith horror and regret on his final diflo
lution, while the miferablc and unfortunate wilh for it, as
the only hopes of their happiness. Is thy happiness placed
in the act|di£tion of w ealth, -beyond what is really ncceffary
for the enjoyment of life ?—1 he obtaining it (hall make the*
completely miferablc! Dost thou seek for happiness in the
gratification of thy youthful passions? Disease and infirmities
(hall overtake you e’er you reach the meridian of life! Not
only the falfc plcalures of the £ay and youthful, hut even the
more (olid and rcafonable enjoyments of dotndlick .happi
ness frequently fall a prey to the malice of invidious for
tune. Is thy happiness placed in thy. (air partner for life ?
Fool as thou urt! ficknets or death thall deprive thee of that
bleCng; or perhaps (which is worl'c) a frenzy (hall seize
upon her brain, which (hall snatch her from thy arms for
ever: Loll to all rcafon, and to every enjoyment of life (it
may be in the bloom of her youth) the shall hate and despise
thee: To add to thy mifcrv, thou shalt fee her become the
mock and ridiculeoif evecy nxdiih and uffthinking brute in
vcftrd with the (hape of an human creature. Thyrfis and
Amarante, the kindest couple, of (hepherd and shepherdess,
that ever met, were at lad unhappily parted by a moil de
plorable fate: As the miftiefs was asleep on the grass, a fer
rnt bit her by the hreaft, and (he died of the wound. As
m as the (hepherd had difeharged all ihc funeral rites and
dories, he raised the green fed to the honour of her memory,
and paid her daily viuts, strewing roses and other flowers
irccnd it, writh a particular caution that no fort of unclean
thing (hould be (offered near it. As he was one day, either
killing worms with his feet, or cutting them to pieces with
h* (beep hook, there was a voice fpakc to him to this pur
nofe ; •* Be not so cruel, gentle (hepherd, to thy once be
loved ; for the worms that thou haft now deflroy
d, with a friendly intention, are no other than a part of that
creature; or, if 1 may not be credited, look under the foil
that covers them, and believe thine own eves.” He had no
(boner raised the sod, than whole (hoais of maggots came
creeping out from under it, and these wards along with them;
** Think no more what I once was, but treasure op this in
thy mind, that what Araarante is at prefeat, Thyrfis rauft
one day be.’*
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ANEGROE WENCH, named Juliana, with her MU
LATTO CHILD, well known in Savannah, for
merly belonging to Mr. Coi. Any person wanting to pur
chafe* her, or with her daughter Hannah, i young wench,
Buy apply to John Smith by letter.
THURSDAY, October 4, 1764.
European intelligence.
w Linden, June 17.
HE last articles from Wilda, of the 29th u!t.
\R * 3 . v tke Ruffian troops were all quiet
T r* ?? and lhat the ufa S c of thc Proteflants is
!•/ VR Ilkc t 0 cause great troubles; they are in
V( Breal8 real numbers, both noblemen, gentlemen
and others J a treated like the lews!
* ? nd vc “eluded from all places in the cul
ftoins, and the department of the finances. Before these
,1 “ f ®. l r ut ‘ ons were taken, the Protestants of Great Po
land, Kanich and Siradia, prefenteda moil pathctick repre
sentation totheGrods, signed by I24hands, but they have
not been any wife regarded. 7
We hear from Rati (bon of the 14th inst. that Count Bra
mcky had hindered the passage of 500 Turkifti horse into the
territories of a neighbouring power; and that the comman
dant of a frontier fortrefs had sent out a party of huflars
w ho, after a (harp (kirmilh, had seized their horses and
brought them off* and that this behaviour had greatly dif
gulled the court. 1
June 28. Francis Garden, Esq. ofJohnfton, advocate,
and one ol his Majesty’s Solicitor Generals for Scotland, is
appointed a Lord of ifeftion in that kingdom, in place of hit
uncle, the late Lord Preftongrangc, deceafcd
The Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwickc we are told liea
dangerously ill.
June 29. By the lafl letters from Lisbon we are credibly
informed, that his Portuguese Majcfty, on account of the
late dreadful event, has ordered an additional number of
hands to the new custom-house which is building, on which
therp was upwards of 800 men employed.
It is supposed that feme of the Jcfuits agents have set fire
to the custom-house at Lisbon.
Advices from Lisbon mention, that 4000 tons of naval
and military (lores have been lately (hipped for the Portu
fuefc settlements in the Brazils ; orders are also lent over to
uild at St. Salvador five men of war of the line, and to put
even* place of strength on the frontiers ip a proper state of
defence.
We hear that fome frefh in ft ructions are shortly to be sent
to the Earl of Rochford, ambassador at the court of Spain.
It is reported that two noble Earls will ihortly resign with
pettfions of 1000 L per ann. each.
I he King of Prufua granted, on the 29th ult. a patent to
cur Iccge!, Privy-Coonfellor of Commerce, to re
elublifh an Fall-India Company at Embden.
. Wedncfday the Court ot Common Pleas was moved to
increase iftbes on the return of the diilringas, issued at the
suit of Mr. Beardmorc*s clerk agaiuft the Earl of Halifax,
when the court was pleased to order cool, issues on the alias
diftringas, it appearing, by affidavit, that this a&ion has
been commenced for near 12 months, and no appearance
yet entered for the defendant.
J**e 30. A letter from the confines of Poland, dated the
1 jth inst. fays, “ The Count dc Branicky, with fome of
hss friends, is on the frontiers of Hungary, but the troops
have not followed him.**
i he Marshal of the confederacy of Lithuania has con
demned Col. Woladkowitz to lose his estate and life, for
having killed a Ruffian huflar; but the Colonel has had the
precaution to retire in time to a place of (afoty.
I here is a report current, that a memorial was received
from France on Tucfday or Wedncftlay, but on what ac
count we cannot pretend to fay.
On Thursday morning it was reported, that a certain
personage had, at a late august meeting, ft rang !y urged the
expediency of fending out a British fquadroa on a visit to
Spaniih main.