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ORIGINAL POETRY. 3*o*£3fc: 3*06306 ODE to MELANCHOLY, Slat fua cuique dies, breve & irrefarabile tcmpuS, Omnibus rjl vita', Jedfaniam entendtreJc.itis hoc virtutts opus . Virgil. GRAVE melancholy, thoughtful maid, Condud me to the pensive thade, To comtemplate the truth: And there, o ! let me retrofped A chaos of supreme negled, The brilliant day es youth. When yonder fun firft beam’d its ray, To me how fair the dawning day, I lov’d its glittering light: Put ah! when teafon tells me look, Once more on times expanding books, This day I change to uight. Strange metamorphosis of time, Whe all things indicate a crime, In those not ufeful here : Wren melancholy bids us rife, In fancy’d bliss beyond the Ikies,. And hope a bleihng there. Put could old time procrattmate The period fix’d, perhaps by fate, My date of life prottad : The cause that teaches whence I came, Would give me all I want of fame, And learn me how to ad. C— J —. T’o all whom it may coticern ; THE Consul of the United Netheilands make known, that in conferjuence of a Resolution taken by’their High MightinelTes the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, dated January 1 6, 1786, in future no Mediterranean pafies will be granted to veiTels which are not built and fitted out in the Seven Provinces, and entirely owned by fubjeds thereof. JOHN BOONEN GRAVES. Charlejlon, June *4, 1786-. A ST RAT NORSE. MR. HUMPHREY GRAVES informs me of a Roan HORSE, having strayed into his failure, about two miles ftom Augusta, branded on the mounting Ihoulder thus O, 14 hands high, and about iq years old. The owner mufl prove Ins property before me within the time preferibed by law. DALZIEL HUNTER, J. p. /ugujla, April 23, 1787. F O R SALE, For the PAPER MEDIUM, By the Subscriber, A (QUANTITY OF INDIGO SEED. ANDREW INNES. | T 0 B E L E T, By the Cuminijjlcncri cf Le c ivij e vit!e, to the lov.'cjl- Bidder , THE making one hundred thousand well sized merchantable bricks for the public build ings, to be delivered in Government Square; there is clay, wood, and water on the public land. Any person inclined to undertake will please fend their proposals, sealed up, to Hugh Law'fon, at Lewis ville, on or before the firft day of June next, at t r which time such proposals will be opened, and the lowest terms accepted,, on the parties giving secu rity for the performance. One half of the money will be paid on the bricks being kilned, the other half to be paid on tire bricks being delivered. The bricks to be delivered within three months from the time of undertaking. ~ ' All perfous who are iudebted for Sots in Lewis ville, will please to take notice, that unless they r difehargethe fame without loss of time, theCom miflioners will be obliged to proceed according to the articles of sale. N. BROWNSON, } ~ H. LAWSON, j Coptmiffioiteru Lewi/ville, Api l 7, 1787. Five Guineas Reward . STOLEN or STRAYED from Mr.Thompfon’s enclofurc, near the town of Augusta, on the 26th of lalt month, a likely black MARE, very heavy w-ith foal, eight or cine years old, about 14 hands and an half high ; the has a bald face, all her feet white, a hanging mane, long full tail, and is branded on the off buttock (though not very plain) GL, having been formerly owned by Mr. (George Lumpkins, of Wilkes County, of whom flie was purchased. If strayed away only, I will give a liberal Reward, and all expences on her being delivered to .me at Augusta; but if stolen. Five Guineas will be paid on conviction of the Thief. JOHN MEALS. April 6 , Just received from Philadelphia, and to be had at the Printing-Office, The Columbian Magazine, For NOVEMBER 1786. Embellished with two Copper Plates. Containing : A defeription of Bones, &c. found near the river Ohio ; A short defeription of the Crotalus Horridus, or Rattle Snake: Further oh-., fervations on the Locufr of North-America : curious non-defeript Fifb; On the different species of Phobia : A short dissertation on Eclipses : An account of the progress of population, agriculture, manners, and government in Pennsylvania : Mo ral reflections: An account of the effects of the general thaw in March, 1784, upon the river Su fquehannah, and the adjacent country: Some thoughts on real and imaginary evils : Prizes pro posed by the Philadelphia Society for promoting agriculture, the 14th of February, 1786: Mr. Boardley’s account of his own and Mr. Singleton’s experiments, designed toafeertain, with what quan tity of feed sown, and at what* distances, wheat grows best: The Contemplant, an Eaflern Tale : Perrin and Lucetta, ©r rural probity t The Difeo very, a Novel: Solutions to Mathematical questi ons proposed last month : Mathematical queffions proposed : The Columbian ParnaJ/iad—A Poetical Epistle, addressed by a Lady of New-Jersey to her - niece : To Amelia : The Lover’s Complaint: An Indian Eclogue : Zoilus : Addrefsto the owner of a Tinging bird : To Amanda : Imitation of Martial’s 34th Epigram, Book III: The Balloon : A Similie: To Mathematical tpteftion, &c. Sec, GEORGIA. By the Honorable G EO RG E MAT H E tyg Est] uire, Captain-General, Governor, and Con! mander in Chief in and over the ftateaforefai* A Proclamation.; WHEREAS there is just reason to believe I that some wicked and degenerate person I or persons hath contrived to counterfeit feme of I the bills of the paper current money of this f.ate, jf and hath passed or circulated some of the said coui;! I terfeit bills to the great injury of the good people I of the said ftatc, and contrary to the laws thereof: I In order therefore that such atrocious offenders I may be brought to condign punishment, 11-IAVE I by and with the advice and eonfent of the Honor- I able the Executive Council, pursuant to a R.efolu- I tion of the Honorable the House of Aflerobly, I thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, offering I and I do hereby offer, a Reward of TWO HUIj! I DRED and FIFTY POUNDS to any person or 1 perl'ons who lhall prosecute to conviflion any of-1 fender or offenders guilty of counterfeiting the pa-1 per currency or medium of this State, orofhav.B ing any engines, tools, or other machines for the I printing, stamping, or making the fame, or of B counterfeiting the name or names of the figr.cr or i signers thereof, or of uttering, pa fling or attempt-1' ing to pass such counterfeit bill or bills, knowing! them io be counterfeit ; AND I DO, by authority! s of the Resolution aforefaid, hereby offer a full Par-1 don and the like Reward to any person or persons I who lhall give information and prosecute to cen-1, vidion, his, her, or their accomplice, oraccoin*!| plices in the crimes aforefaid : AND I DO further! ftridlv command and enjoin all Magiftratcs, Shel riffs, Constables, and other Officers, and all per-l foils whatsoever, to be diligent in apprehending* and securing such offenders, that they meet the ju» puniftiments of the law. GIVEN under my hand and the great feail . of the said state, at Align ft a, this twemll fecund day of January, in the year of on® Lord one thoufaud seven hundred adl eighty-seven, and of our sovereignty andH independence the eleventh. flf GfcORGE MATHEWS. I By his Honor's Comtnandy J. MIL TO N, Secretary. GOD SAFE 711E STATE! I GEORGIA. By Lewis Gardner , Es (L. S.) > Regificr of Piobatsfo^B LEWIS GARDNER, j the county cf PJchmentßf HERE AS Mary Mathis, Widow, hath v V plied to me for letters of adminifi ration, ol the estate and efTefls of John Mathis, late of till county, deceased : These are therefore to cite all admonifti all and Angular the kindred and crcditorlj of the said deceased, to be and appear hcfoie rig at my Office, on the aift day of May next,flj shew cause, if any they have, why letters of til miniflration ffiould not be granted. I Given under rny hand and fcal, at my Off If the aift day of’April, in the year of I Lord 1787, and in the 1 ith year of dependence of the United States of Arsl rica. NATHANIEL COCKE informs me that t j white Sows came [to his Piar.ta. ■'lf above Rae’s Creek, some time about ki ; . '• ,! l mass, marked with a fmneth crop in the and an underkeel in the left ear. I WILLIAM FREEMAN- ' I. 5; 1787. H