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POETICAL.
FOR THE REFLECTOR.
Mr. Hines.—Every star that twinkles in the literary
night of Georgia, is highly gladsome and benign to the
friend of taste and letters. Y<rir Reflector cheers with
kindly influence the pregnant heart of genius and quick
ens its ebbing pulsation. May its light and warmth long
continue to gladden and animate the proud solita iiiks who
feast upon viewless delicacies ; and dissolve into thin
air the mist of barbarism which magnifies the dwarfish
pretender into something indefinitely huge and conse
quential. May they contribute to the production of am
aranths and evergreens, among which genius, taste, and
feeling will ever delight to associate and rejoice at “ the
least of intellect”—And, sir, if in singleness of spirit you
are indeed a solicitous fosterer of* native literature, the
lovely cowslip or early primrose will be neither rejected
or dispised, because able and signal hands constantly of
fer greater and better things. But I would apologise for
this tessellated vestibule to a smoaky cottage. As I am
an obscure village stranger, you will forgive the pa.ns I
have taken to secure the sweet courtesy of an indulgent
salutation. If some equivocal glymp-.e of merit in the
bantling l send, procure for it your kind greeting, the
wayward progenitor may t»e emboldened to dismiss more
of his offspring for your tender adoption or condign re
proof- If its unthrifty appearance condemn it to obl vi-
on’s duress on your files, or summary dilaceration and
scattering to the w.nds, you need fear no more obtrusion
from COLUMIHANUS.
THE DAWN OF GENIUS.
Wide, thick and joyless, round the savage earth
'flic night of ignorance long time had slept;
Genius'benign, as yet had not its hTfth
And Nature its dear mother childless wept.
No odours cheered, no flowers beautified,
No music breathed a mag.c Winning sound,
The marble yet with nature had not vied—
The princely column had not spurn’d the ground.
The pompous palace had not rear’d its head
To meet the clouds, or brave the mighiy storm ;
On canvass light immortal was not shed,
Nor] spread forever glory’s noble form.
The mighty mind had not begun its march,
Through* the deep hidden mysteries of things;
Unborn Ph losophy hud rear’d no arch
Prouder than monuments of Egy pt’s kings.
The deathless song of Poets none could hear,
Wn.cli binds an hour in eternal chains,
And charms the soul while statues disappear,
And falling pyramids bestrew their plaint.
No ITomerwith immortalizing touch,
Made mortal kings and heroes live for aye,
3eized from old Time’s strong withering rotting clutch,
The well earn’d trophy into endless day.
No Virgil dipt in clear Pierian spring,
The laurels won by proud imperial Rome;
That they might freshen underneath the wing
Of tir’d Time, when lighting late at home.
A M lton had not struck the harp divine,
Uprais’d to heaven nor led down to hell;
With genius travell’d to its last confine ;
Nor held the world in deep poetic spell.
And mighty Shakespeare—nature’s dearest child,
The full inheritor of ull her stores,
His everlasting fabric had not piled,
To whose high summit, Fume still restless soars.
And Henry clothed in thunder had not shook
A sleeping nation into glorious war;
Bead Freedom’s charter from the sun beam book,
Forever chain'd to nature’s sacred car,
Nor Washington, that sum of human worth,
Most sacred name upon my country’s page.
Had yet recall’d lost liberty to earth ;
Unknown to man tor many a wintry age.
But al! was dark, the countless sons of fame
AVhose genius since, has fill’d the world with light,
YVrli grandeur, story, learning, song and name,
Had not emerg’d from the pervasive night.
But see the dawn of genius breaks,
Young Greece beneath the glory wakes ;
And springs with grace, to seize the prize
Of cli.zel, pencil, pen to earn
A name, for which she ’gins to burn
And sees already shine, with tend prophetic eyes.
O see how quick that dawn increases!
The savage breaks his bow to pieces,
And w ith a rapture none can feel
But those on whom the vision steal,
Beholds the muses dress’d in light,
Advance upon his raptured sight.
Their inspiration deeply felt,
The founts of feelmg sweetly melt.
Then Eloquence with tongue of fire
Is I lead : the burning crowds admire
And wonder whence the godlike power proceeds
To raise their prostrate minds and push to deathless
Hark, hark the epic harp begins, [deeds.
The mighty song all ages wins,
And Homer still enchains the soul and ear,
Of Philip’s son in conquest’s wide career.
See ! see ! the edifice for gods designed,
Bursts on the eye and swells the glowing mind,
The fair and grand by master hands combin’d,
And godlike forms by sculptured skill reclin’d.
The chizel wakes the hero from the rock,
To tell his.country when he’s gone,
How states are guarded i gloiy won;
And frown when liiev would sink a timid Hock :
Look there amid the living crowd
Oi'citi ens who love him, stands
With features fresh and visage proud;
He who long since hath join'd the bands,
On Styx’s gloomy quiet sands.
That deeply cherish’d sight the pencil gives
By whose strong touch departed greatness lives.
Now all is bright, the sun of genius shines,
Great Plato on llissus’ hanks reclines.
But ah, the night of rudeness falls
Harsh discord through the darkness brands;
The bard’s exalted song is stopt
The pencil spoil’d; the chizel dropt.
But the immortal light could not decay,
It rose on other lands in sacred day,
Most brightly beaming on the freeman’s home,
Most quickly fading on the tyrant’s dome.
Here, in my country, see the gloom recede!
For tins proud genius did our fathers bleed,
That you and liberty might ever leign,
Fill ev’ry heart—immortalize each plain.
Appl.ng, Mav, 1318.
MISCELLANY.
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE?
Letter addressed by her Royal Highness the Princess
Charlotte, to her mother the Princess of Wales, in
October, 1817.
Jf!y dear Mother—A few days will elapse
before I may claimed to be addressed by the
endearing appellation with which I have
commenced this letter; when Providence
may develope to me new duties, which may
in some measure temper, but can. never su
percede those moral and pious obligations
which have been heretofore imposed on me.
Were 1 to disguise my true sentiments, or t*
effect feelings other than those which occu
py my bosom, in the prospect of becoming
a mother, I should feel myself unworthy ol
that parental affection which constitutes at
least the second bliss of life.
United to a man, whose whole attentions
arc directed to the promotion of my happi
ness, 1 cannot hut feel a pleasure in tint an
ticipation of that hour of perilous hope,
which shall enable me to present to him a
new tie of connubial love, and to the nation
a new and abundant sourpe of future pro
mise and consolation. Political considera
tions, in this instance stand in competition
with the more near and natural feelings ol'
the heart. While as a wife, I am alive to all
those anxious susceptibilities which accom
pany my peculiar situation, I am compelled
by circumstances to extend my views to con
templations widely different in their kind, as
in their latitude ; contemplations involving
the dearest and most durable interests of a
people to whom i owe a debt scarcely to he li
quidated—gratitude for unbounded affection.
Toavlieve in some degree this weight of
obligation, and to justify the universal confi
dence in the strength and consistency of my
character, 1 have determined, should it
please Providence to bless me with offspring
so to regulate its early reason, and to direct
its infant energies, that the lessons 1 have
received from you, and tiie wisdom of which
time and observation have confirmed, may
lie handed down to my child, with a view to
the perpetuation of the great principle, that
the legitimate end of all governments is the
welfare of soeiety, and that political and
private virtue is the surest foundation, and
the best bulwark, of a throne.
’ 1h ! my mother, when my timid ima
go * it devolves upon the uncertainty which
veil.- futurity ; when 1 look to the dark pos
sibilities which may put a period to the
dreams of hope ; even shadows shake my
ourage, and 1 feel myself the victim of ter
rors, which reason would almost denominate
absurd. At such a trying moment, why am
I debarred from the consoling voice of ma
ternal affection ? Why is not my mother al
lowed to pour cheerfulness in the sinking
soul of her inexperienced and trembling
child ? I have no friend, no relation, near me
whose advice may guide, or whose admoni
tions chick, my conduct.—Surrounded by
strangers, with a single exception, my heart
feels—itself alone, and should the protection
of Heaven for a moment leave me, and I fall
the presence of a mother would assuredly
impart a serenity and resignation to my
mind, which would smooth the, pillow of my
dying head, and prevent my distracted soul
from erring in the hour of her sternest trial.
Secluded from the giddy world, 1 have
learned to set a true value on that retire
ment, which has taught me more perfect
knowledge, not only of myself, but of the
society over which I may one day be call
ed to rule—folly and pride no longer wear to
me the imposing blazonry, which they exhib
ited to my early years. 1 have read, rellect-
ed, and conversed : and l trust the evidence
of a future day will rest lie me from the im
putation of having read, reilected, and con
versed in vain.
The sufferings of my early years, acute
as they were in their operation, have not
been unproductive of instruction. Their
effect has been to correct tiiat sanguinness of
disposition which was too commonly a source
of severe disappointment, and which uni
formly led me to view things through a pre
judiced medium. A sort of premature ex
perience has given me that insight into hu
man life and human character, whirl), in
ordinary cases and circumstances, is the re
sult of the. study and observation of years.
Your virtues, my dearest mother, and
your alllictions, added to the affection, which
nature had entwined about my heart, and
urged me to cling to you in all changes and
under all shades of persecutions with a con
stancy which those who hated you termed
obstinacy, but with those who loved you, el
evated by the iiifiue of honorable persever
ance. 1 felt that I was not merely acquies
cing in the first of my moral duties.
In proportion, however, as 1 love you, do
I now feel the bitterness of your absence.
You have no substitute in this heart. There
is none to occupy your place to my seeking
eye ; even the affectionate attentions of an
amiable consort are insufficient to supply the
chasm in my bosom, but leave me unsatisfied.
1 have illustrious relatives, it is true ; but
they offer tome no kindness; and if they
did, there are certain slumbering- recollect
tions which would awake in my brain, and
check my ardor to rel ieve them. I have
but one mother ; and no variation of place
or circumstances can remove her from my
sight. Heaven impressed her image on my
soul, and time, has established it there as its
native and legitimate sphere. '
By a refinement of cruelty, indeed, we
may he separated on earth, and 1 as well as
yourself, may be doomed the victim of an
unjfist and malignant spirit of persecution ;
hut in a better world our congenial spirits
woukl rush to meet each other where no en
vious nor hating friends can interfere to im
pede the pleasures which flo *. from the foun
tain of filial and maternal love.
Suck sentiments as these naturally arise
out of the contemplations of my situation at
ibis moment. Should it be the pleasure ol
Providence that l survive the hour of ap
proaching danger, 1 may at some future pe
riod he endowed with power to restore you
to that situation whirl) you were formed to
embellish, but in which the jealousies of in
ferior minds would not suffer you lo remain.
But if an all-wise decree should summon
me from this sphere of anxious apprehension,
not for myself, but for my mother, a pang ol
terror shoots across my wildered brain—even
then, however, iny last prayer would be to
Heaven to gift you with that sublime feeling
of pious resignation, which would teach you
to bow submissive to the chastening stroke of
our common father, and to console your at-
ilictod heart with the anticipation of our re
union in a world where felicity is unimpair
ed, and to which malice is inadmissible.
Believe me, my adored mother, i fear less
to die than to live ; the prospect of protract
ed existence is so blended with dangers and
difficulties, so shadowed with clouds and un
certainties, so replete with anxieties and ap
prehensions, that I must shrink from the
contemplation of it, and tly for refuge even
to the probability of my removal from so joy
less an inheritance. The page of history
has determined, that happiness is not the
possession of those who move in the lofty
circles to which my birth entitles me to look.
I cannot hope for an exception in my favor.
All the joys of life are centered in my pre
sent retirement; and they are ever poor be-
eause you are not a participator in them.—
But even this unqualified enjoyment must he
brief; and I must emerge into a situation
uncongenial to my soul, and destructive to
all my hopes of felicity on earth. What
cause then have I to shun that issue, whirl)
others may behold with horror ? What cause
have I to cove-, that existence, which others
so highly prize ? Death would obliterate no
image of delight from my heart, save that
which in the portrait of a beloved mother,
nature lias still left to the hoping doubting,
yet fearing charlotte.
Oct. to] 1817.
.A’etc Excavation in Pompeii.—A large fo
rum lias lately been uncovered in Pompeii,
surrounded by Doric k columns of granite,
with pedestals inscribed with names, but
without statues. Tills is thought to be some
confirmation of the opinion, that the inhabi
tants removed their valuable effects before
the destruction of the city, or that they re
covered them afterwards by digging. By
the side of this lorum a temple of Venus lias
likewise been uncovered, and also another
temple adjoining it. In the temple of Ve
nus were found a bronze statue of that god
dess, several marble statues of consuls, and
of other personages. These edifices seem
to be far more elegant than any of those be
fore brought to light, and doubtless occupied
the most magnificent part of the city, being
three public buildings in the immediate vi
cinity of a large edifice dug out a few years
igo.
.3 quaiuiury.—A sailor travelling in New-
England, fell in company with a man pos
sessing a tull share of \ ankee curiosity, who,
after many important questions, such as,
where he came from, where he was travel
ling Ac. observing his companion had lost an
arm, inquired, <* Pray may I make bold to
ask how you lost your arm !” » I’ll tell you
(says the other) if you won’t ask me another
question.” « Well 1 won’t,” savs he
“ Then ’twas bit off,” says the sailor. The
honest Yankee was about as had off now as
he was before, lie kept silence for a few
minutes ; but at length in an ague of impa
tient curiosity, but too mindful of his pro
mise to ask the question direct, ho burst forth
with tiiis ejaculation—“ I wish I knew what
bit it off!”
Foote once walking with a friend, met a
beggar who earnestly solicited their charity.
.Tis trend refused ; and, on Foote giving
him a few pence, said, ** I believe you are
duped, f ir 1 am morally certain the fellow is
an imposter.” He is either the most distres
sed man, or the best actor, I ever saw in my
life,” replied Foote, “ and as either one or
the other, he has a brotherly claim upon me.”
I ranris i. was the. first monarch w ho in
troduced ladies at Ins court. lie said, in a
style of true gallantry, »that a drawing
room without ladies, was like the year with
out the spring; or rather, like the spring
spring without flowers.”
H E ALT 11Y SI T LA IT ON.
,OMAS HUSOX, from Charlotte, (N. C.)
as opened a boarding house in Jackson
county, at Jefferson. Families removing from
the low counties, and travellers, may be assured
ot comfort and convenience.
A THIEF.
O N the night of the 2Sd irist. was stolen from
the subscriber, a small sorrel-roan horse,
14 1-2 hands high, five years old, swab tail, near
ly blind in his left eye, trots and canters. As a
person of suspicious aspect, was seen near the
place, hut a little before the horse was missiug,
it is probable he was carried to the upper part of
the state. Thirty dollars will be given, for the
apprehension and conviction of the thief, and re
storation of the horse, or ten dollars for the horse
nhme. PETER MILLS.
Shonlderbone, Hancock county, May 30 ? 1818.
OF THE STATE OF r.EORut
l JJollars, divided into
Dollars each, of winch are to be rcservpil r T
state 4000 Shares q.ir'nn
For the Marine and Fire Insurance " •
Company its present capital, 4000
Subscriptions fur the citizens of the
State at large, in Books to be kept
open at Savannah, Augusta, Mil-
ledgeville and Darien, f u r thirty-
days—12,000
'TS Capital to consist of Two ,
S 400,000
1,200,050
The Privileges to be applied to the
fur, are ° m
1st—Banking on tlie common principle with
the right of purchasing and trading in the’usud
manner, i:i bills of exchange.
2d—Tlie privileges now belongin'' to the «
vannah Marine and Fire InsuranceYlumnanr*
3d—The privilege of Domestic Internal h
provement, viz.
1st—To advance money on mortgage and o.
ther security, to aid in the erection of Buildings
2d—To erect Buildings on Buildino- Least-'
or Purchased Land, and of ::!i other matters it!
cidentto Buildings and [inprovementsof tlie kind"
provided tlie Institution shall be compelled tost#
out any such Buildings or improvements, when,
ever a net profit of 10 per cent ua its advances
can he realized.
4th—The privilege of taking an interest in aid
making advances on any internal impn-vementi
of Canals, ltoails, See. &c. and in short, of o W( ,
rally bending its attention to Internal Improve,
merit, whether in the advance of Agriculture,
Building, or Transportation.
At a meeting of the Subscribers to the Buili!,
ing and Insurance Bank of Georgia, Banm M'Kio.
ne, Esq. was called to the chair.
Resolved, that five Coirftnissi mersbe appointed
to do all things that are needful to carry the above
into operation.—The following persons were an.
pointed: Win. Scarbrough, .). S. Bulloch, K
Burroughs, Robt. Isaac and John P. Henry.
Resolved, that on all subscriptions alr«A
made, the payment of Two Dollars per siiin
shall be paid within ten days from this date; aij
in ca»e of non compliance to do the same, s*|
subscriptions, shall be deemed forfeited, ami sic|
names be stricken of!'; and that in all future suh
scriptious tlie sum of two dollars per shan
shall be paid duwn at the lime of subscribing.
Terms of Subscription.—No individual slot
be permitted to subscribe for more than fifty slim
In case of ail excess of subscription the slum
will be fairly apportioned to each subscriber.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
M AVIXti been appointed Commissioners ft
receiving Subscriptions to the •• Duitiiiu*
and Insurance Bank of Georgia,” give mitite,
that Subscription Books will be opened at l>
Post Office on Tuesday next, at 10 o’clock, and
will continue open every day, (Sundays except
ed) until the last day of June, at which time tin
Books will be sent to Savannah—Orders fr
tlie country promptly attended to, arid rereipts
sent, by the same conveyance that brings the of.
der. j. m’kinsb,
Augusta, May 23, 1318.
3. FRASER,
H. H. MUSGROVt,
A. SLAUGHTER,
R. J. MEIGS.
twenty-five DOLLARS REV/.I
S TRAYED from the subscriber, on tlie 24
March last, a bay mare, two years old,
a black main anil tail, very short neck, has i
eyes, has some white hairs upon her rump,
tail, and well made. T he above reward wi
given to any person, who will deliver to me
mare, or reasonable compensation will be i
to any person who will inform me where she
be had. maiiv villi At
Wilkinson county, 3 miles below Brown’s null. M
NOTICE.
SOTIIEREAS I do caution all persons against
▼ ▼ trading for two notes of hand, given by
e to Ishain Laws, for twenty -five dollars each,
; I do not intend paying them*
BENJAMIN HEDSAGt
May 20, 1818.
ESTRAY HORSE TAKEN UP.
7BXAK.EX ur> by- the subscriber a few days
Jr., since a Bay Horse, 7 or 8 years old, aboit
5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, his two fore feet white,
a switch tail and shod all round. The owner#
get said horse by applying to me on Canev-Hfiil
near the line which divides Baldw in and Lues.
DAVIS AHNElt.
Mav 20.
NOTICE.
i LI, persons indebted to the estate of Hil
icJL liam Ryle, deceased, late of Putnam w
ty, are itquir.-d to make payment withoutdebj
—and those who have any demands against i'M
estate, are requested to present them for settle
ment. LEO. ABERcnoMBlE, IldUl’r.
HATS.
^TPHE subscriber, wishing to close his business
J£_ will sell at reduced prices, his extensive as
sortment of Huts, consisting of Ladies’ Bearers
of the latest fashion. Gentlemen's superfine fie*
ver hats, common and low priced Fur do. M* ,,!
and Boy’s Wool do. Children's Fur and Mm'iico
do. &c. &c. all of which will be sold citlmq#
wholesale or retail, much lower tl.au have e v4f
been sold in tiiis place.
All persons indebted to the subscriber art
earnestly requested to make payment imm*®'
ately ; and those having any demands again* * 1
him, to present them for payment.
A. HANSCOm
Milledgcville, March 10, 1818.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
i. B. HINES,
THREE DOLL-LBS PER YEAR, IN ADVAYC