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POETRY.
ELEGY on H OP E.
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If?OR thee, O foft-ey’d maid, whose Too th-
JP ing pow’r,
On mis*ry’a furrow’d cheek a smile can
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Whom monarch* and whom (laves alike adore
For thee the Muse attunes her artless lays.
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Oh! then, if e’er from heav’n thy footftepa
stray
If e'er sweet Hope, among the haunts of
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Thou wandei’ft, in what clime or region—fay
That I may fee thee with a purer kefi*
| Or while on fancy's airy wing I fly
To catch thee wand'ring thro' the liquid air,
Oh 1 let me in imagination’s eye,
Behold what form enchanting thou dost
wear.
Lo, where the captite wfetch, on whom has
blown
No zephyr foft, for many a ling'ring day,
Long to the Toothing voice of friend unknown,
And loi*g unblcfo’d by comfort’s cheering
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Yet he, poor belpfefsibul! tho' thus opprefs’d,
By keen adversity and pallid grief; *
Hopes, as at night he lays> him down to rest, *
Returning day lhali bring his mind relief.
The love-lorn damsel, thus, whose swain afaf
Is seeking honor on the tented plain,
Feeds with Tv/cd hopes her befona, that from
war,
Safe to her arms he will return again.
Or should he not return, or (hould he fall,
Tho' agonizing pangs may rend her heart,
Yet still (he hopes, and trutts, that, after all,
In heav’n (he’ll meet him, never more to
pare.
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Thus the bold taT, when forcM, unfurl’d the
fail,
To bid his dearest girl z long adieu,
Hope’s that he ihall again with profp’roua gale
Return with pockets lin’d to bless his Sue*
O’er me, fliould then adverflty her Wand
Still wave, and add fre(h sorrows to this
heart,
Thy balm infufe, with kind benignant band,
O! Toft- cy M maid, and case, allay the smart 1
Teach me, however funk in misery,
However low, however worn with gri«£
To hope, to trull, in that all-feeing eye
Which fees our woes and can afford relief*
% N E C DO T £.
ONE evening while the Count d’Artpia
and the Duke de Chartre were playing
very deep with General Smith at Paris, a pe
tition was brought up from the widow of a
French olheer, Rating her various misfortunes,
and praying their relief. A plate was hand
ed round, and each put in one, two, or three
Louis d’Ora a piece s but when it was held to
General Smith, who was just going to throw
for a flake of five hundred Louis d’Ora, he
laid, Stop m moment , if you plea/e, Sir; here
goes for the widow / He threw, was fuccefs
fuf, end inftaetly f*rcpt the whole into the
Hate, and feat it down to her. The* above
Anecdote it a sass, and therefore deserves to
te recorded, i* honor of tho hooevefenf
Unittfdtpf ’ i I * %TT i»
THE fuhfcriber, hjtvlng been J
frequently called upon by
his old clients, for an adjuflmeftt
of the concerns which were un
settled in his office at the time
the Courts were ffiut in the be
ginning of the late war; and,
considering that he is bound in
honor and justice to do so, gives
notice, that he intends to ride
the erifuing Circuits ; and hopes
that all concerned will avail
themselves of the opportunity of
putting their refpeftive cases upon
f jme iatisfaftory footing*
GfO. WaLToN,
Savannah, February 4th, 1788*
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f'e is about to remove to New
Savannah, near Augutta, where
he will open his office; and
while at this place, he will keep
it at Mrs. W atts’s, on the Bay.
To be Let ,
THE
Mansion House
Belonging to the estate of An
arew M Lean, blquirc, deceaied.
Enquire of
THOMAS COLE.
THE lublcrtber will fell for
Horses, Audited Certifi
cates, or the Paper Medium,
A Traft of Land
Entirely oak and hickory, twen
ty-five miles above Augusta, near
Little River, and adjoining Mr.
Samuel Paine’s,- containing 200
acres, by a survey in the year
1769.
Alio, to be leafed out for one
or two years, the Houle and Lot
on Broad-street, wherein Mr.
Cook, thp Taylor, at present re
sides.
“THOMAS COLE.
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Clarence
To
Claudius.
In whatever part of the Con
tinent this may find thee, upon
fight thereof write thy friend
immediately } and addrels your
letter to die care of Mr. Smith,
Printer, Augusta.
AN apparent sale of a trad of
land called Black Pointy at
the North fide of the opening of
Crooked river, in Camden county*
containing seven thousand acres
and upwards $ also a trad adjoin*
ing to it of eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight acres, said to
be taken in execution, and fold
for non-payment of taxes* is il r
legal, and the public will please
to take notice accordingly $
that all deeds of conveyance ia
any manner relating to that pro*
perty* arc of no effedt whatever,
unless frorifi the fiabfcriber, who
is the legal proprietor who hag
paid the just tax upon theie lands,
and although it Is not one eight
part of the tax which was laid on
them, yet is through foriie mvf
tery, double the amount that
thete very lands are said to be
fold for.
JOHN FERRIE.
Augulfa, aa, 1788.
NOTICE,
yy HEREAS I had the management of $
business carried on under the firm of
GORDON & CONNELL, from the ift tis
August 1784, to the ift of April 178 6, in
whieh Thomas Gordon, Os Pete rib urg,
Virginia, was equally concerned with me*
Thia is to notify to all persons owing money t*
that Concern, whether contracted payable to
me or to Thomas Gordon and Thomas Con*
nell, will implicitly follow laid Mr. Thomas
Gordon’s inftruftions in the payment agree**
able to the undernoted advertisement, for an y
debts due to Gordon and Connell, or a con*
cern in which said Mr. Thomas Gordon and
I were both eonneded under the firm of Con*
ncll, Brown & Co,
THOMAS CONNELL.
Augufla* Jan. atf, 1788,
ALL those indebted to the late concert
of GORDON & CONNELL for trans
actions with Mr. Thomas Connell at this place
are earnestly requeued to pay off their ba
lances to Mr. William Wallace or Mr. Thoa
fnas Connell, Merchants here, or Mr. Jaraea
Wallace, Merchant, in Savannah, who are
fully empowered to. fettle all accounts, receive
payments, and give full acquittances. A*
the concern has been tong dissolved, and con
sequently the debts long due, it is hoped that
all those -indebted will prevent the difagree
ble neccffity of my ordering suits to be com
menced, and tbemfeives from being obliged
to do juffice after the disgrace and expence of •
alawfuit.
THOMAS GORDON.
Augufta, January a 6 , 1788.
N O T I C E?
IDO hereby give this public notice, that I
have removed my Office to the houie of
doioman Ellis y Esq. at Richmond court-houfe*
under the care and diredion of Mr. D .md
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discharge the business that may come into the
said Office, with the greatest care and difa
patch.
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