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MISCELLANEOUS. For t’ne American Patriot. THE MORALIST. JVb. 11. Some men in sound and emptiness, delight, Forever changing, never in the right; Pretend to knowledge, but’tis all pretence, And palm their trash Upon the world, for sense. Pedants, are lools of a superior kind, Harmless and weak, fools if you please, inmind, They trade in trifles, skim the surface o’er, And without labour seek, for learned lore, To draw a picture, let us here suppose, A man who sees some further than his nose, >,'o matter who hie father, what his name— Suppose he knows of authors, by their fame. Hut take good heed he never turn a leaf Save for a doze, to give his mind relief, Would you his fund of erudition know 1 Visit Iris Library, hear his critiques flow, Stranger, or friend, it differs not with him, Alike he treats with jargon, prate and whim Nor hope cessation to the word ghow’r, Por thick as hailstones, words and nonsense pour; With eager haste he points to every shelf Nor knows they give a picture of himnelf, No collocation here, hap-hazzard all— Boggrel and learning lay, where first they fall. Unmanbef'd manuscripts are strew’d around, And Homer's dusty volumes sleep profound; For real worth, a true rctpect he a/io-wn, Mr for a moment troubles Locke ’s repose. Authors of merit, authors who have none, Stand, cheek by jowl, as Blacktnore Pope and Donne Here Moore lascivious spreads his gaudy suit, Like some fair tree producing noxious fruit, On cv’ry side, where’er you turn your eyes Squadrons on squadrons, niarshaii’d authors rise, the gorgeous Gibbon, Cowper, Newton here. Unblushing Barlow, Dryden, Southey there, Arcadian metre, Della Curscan line, Along the shelves in gew-guwjsplendor shine, Virgil and Tasso, Dante, Milton, Broom Obscurely mingled grace the Pedant’s room. Tho* every book his giddy', thoughtless pen Scores and rescores, and notes on notes again* Away Eugenio with the prating fool, Who murders grammar by a Webster’* rule. Knowledge, like precious herbs, is oftener found, tn the wild barren than in fertile ground ; The man of sense, tho’ proud, is never vain, Coxcombs and fools are suffer’d to complain, 1 rue Learning asks not fora fulsome praise, Courts no applause, and seeks no vulgar gaze; It is not honorable pride wc flame, File world respects an honest love of fame; These then. Eugenio we would here premise, Are maxims sanction’d by the good mid wise, Again let S dire lash the passing days, And measure blame where others measure praise: When some poor wretch, tu poverty a prey feegs for an alms along the public way, Cruel is he who gives that wretch a sneer, For if he gives no more ; he may a tear; To rescue misery the good man flies, Whilst sorrows boon it starting from his eyes; If henv'ns most just, inscrutable decree, Enacts a difference ’twixt this, and me, Yet, doubtless he who made creation’s laws Binds his own actions by the justest cause; The impious casuist of our modern schools, Alone secs flaws in God’s unerring llules; Is it frail muds of heav’n to complain,? Hid tho’ the arm, ’Us weakness to arraign, Because to oyjr lame sense it ill accords, Mustthatb;-. partial, heavn’ssupreme awards ? Let honest Ignorance ever sacred be, From Satire's lash, just poverty is free ; •Tis not the pen of Calumny 1 wield, Against my page, shall Ignorance find a shield; Misfortune’s victims, our compassion claim, For him who never had is not to blame; ’Tis Satire’s, vile Impostors to detect, And tear the mask from those who dare affect; Nor should their stupid Ignorance avail, “ Who seize the eel of Science by the tail” Who void of knowledge, rack a tinzy Vain For mottos, which they know not to explain . Who deal in Proverbs, without sense, or with, It matters not, alike they pass for pith, Noryetto those false mercy should we show, Who little knowing much affect to know, Can tell perhaps a Broomstick from a It, And comprehend that one and two make three; Knaves manufactur'd of illiterate fools, Election’s echoes, apt convenient tools, 1 Taught to obey a Patron’ll pitful voice, Receive their cue, yet, speak of right, and choice; Bluster alike, injacobinie rant, Or sneak and whine in nic'hodistic, emit; Nothing they know, but what their Leaders know, Tin y love the people, for they told them so. Know tnis of me, and let experience prove, It is not you, your suffrages they love; Who tire the la."lifers of this stupid race ? Otfoprin; s os .lam s, men of double face; Callous to censure, yet pretend to feel, Retail abuse, in loud'assertion’s deal; Tii k out their man and throw their shafts around. 1 1. *: kt good pare they well know who they our.d; A cringing Sycophst, who deals in he;, Whom all deride tmd upright men despise; In these corruptly base, and bullying days, The moat correct, are subjects least, of praise ‘• Yon blustring fool who struts the public way, Fancies himself almost the source of day, Like Alexander, mingles with the gods, And wonders why we shake not, when be nods, Think’st thou Eugenio, tho’ the puppy’s vain, He studies not before he dares arraigh ; He talks of Duels, fisticuff's and swords, Trust me my friend the fellow deals in words; Asperse his courage, heav’r.s hear him rave! He cares not for his virtue, but he’s brave, Push him yet closer, and the wretch is seen, If I offended sir, I did not mean— And yet this fellow reeling from his bow Is, Will talk of greatness, worth and noble soul. In vain we teach a self-conceited fool, For who e’er saw a Vandal put to school; Os all vain Coxcombs, none I more despise, Than those u ho look with other-people’s eyes; Assent because another gave assent, Know well to err, but know not, to repent; To whom the most respect is always shown, Where least acquainted, and where most un known. ORIGINAL POETRY. TO LOUISA. THY form celestial, all the beauties, grace, And cvr’y charm is cent’ri and in thy face. Thy auburn curls, which in luxurianre grow, With study’d negligence o’er thy shoulders flow. Thy breast the seat of rapturous delight, Rejects its coldness ; but as snow is white— As that dissolving down the vallics run, To streams converted by tile potent sun : So does thy heart in melting tear-drops flow, Dissolv’d in pity by the tale of woe. And oh ! whene’er the tears of feeling flow, Adown that cheek of such trims Cendant glow Within my mind no juster semblance grows, Thon would thy cheek be to the blooming rose, And the pure tears, which thy fair cheek suf fuse, Would bear a likeness to the vernal dews, S<| that thy cheek when moisten’d with the tear, Would like a rose, with dew-drops lav’d, ap pear. No thoughts impure that gentle bosom swi 11, Though loves in ambush there delighted dwell; Candid and frank, devoid of every art, Thou'rt lovelier still, sweet victress of my heart, In this, that you, and you alone, appear, To be unconscious that you are so fair. Oh I lovely virgin, who can hear thy voice, And or to love, or not, retain the choice ? Thy gentle accents we the seed of love, Sweet as the strains, which raptur’d mighty jo ve, From thy soft tongue into ihe heart they flow, They quickly root, and soon luxuriant grow: Enraptur’d hearts love’s woral’rous povv’r then feel And prostrate captives at thy altar kneel, Thy form is beauty, all thy heart’s refin’d, And richly cultur’d is thy virgin mind ; From Home’s and Greece’s literary store, With care you’ve gather'd all the useful ore. Knowledge profound—join’d with a heart so pure, Must admiration, and must love secure— Then who can see, deal’ maid, thy beauteous form, Which every grace contributes to adorn ; And all! who’ll liear thy tongue in accents sweet, Prove that thy mind with knowledge is re plete, And, like thy form, the common herd above Yet still continue ignorant of love. Oh I if poor mortal e’er could perfect be, Then sure perfection we behold in thee, As Venus lovely, like Concordia mild, Nature form’d thee—thou’rt Minerva’s child. From a JVothem Paper. FAREWEL TO PEACE; 1 have woo’d tle, meek-eyfel Peace, To thee have turn’d the vocal shell; Now, the darling strain must cease— Harsher notes the Clarion swell; Then fare thee well? for ‘till that hour That seen mv country’s wrongs redress'd* Disgrace would be thy baneful dower, If still I clasp’d thee to my breast; And yet, so beuateous is thy reign, So sweet thy Amaranthine bowers, That like the Cygnet’s dying strain, It soothes—yet grieves the parting hours : But fore thee well! My country calls— ’Tware basest Treason now to skrink: l haste to guard her sacred walls— Link'd with her fate, to swim, or sink. Our country oil's —freemen, crank': ! Rise like the Lion from his lair ! Though Comets glare, and Earthquakes shake, What men can do. that bravely dree ! Tell the proud despot, chief of knaves, That this is F,i-oW#dear bought land; That rather than be Vutlia's slave *, We’U fight and die upon the strand: For here sweet liberty resides, And roves amidst our mountains wild ; Content, in humble guise abides, And Innocence , as sportive child : Guard then these blessings from the foe; Unfurl the siandarrl—plant it high ! Strike, strike, one great, one common blow; Live free, or in the “ loot ditch die /“ Yet—should the storm of warfare race, hnd man ’gainst man sustain the ekock, Whilst ye the awful battle wage— Oh ! dare not Merc ft plea to mock ! Merc;;, morality’s best charm— . Merry, the attribute of Heaven, IVar of its guilt can half disarm, And bid the Warrior rise forgiv’n Spirit of vengeance f Ifcar the plea, Thy bleeding heather haste to save ! Stop, stop the carnage—see''they flee— Oh I cease to conquer for the grave ! Soldier I thy duty bids thee fght, Thy feelings bid thee spare the foe ; Knowing thy wrongs, obey what’s right, Nor dare to strike a coward’s blow. Arise, Columbia’s F.agle, rise ! And limp once more thy drooping wing ; And as thou soar’st through native skies, May victory triumphant spring! Then gentle peace, my meck-cy’d love, Again we’ll climb the mountain’s height; Again through verdant vallics rove, And live and love with new delight. Chatham Superior Court April Term 1812. GEORGIA, E. Nicholsjunr.for "l UPON Hie peti- Assignees vs. V tion of Ebenezer Owen Hughes. J Nichols junior, praying the foreclosure of the equity of redemption of the following pre mines, morterased bv the’ said Owen Hughes to the said Ebenezer Nichols junior, on the seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eleven ; to secure ihe payment of a bond, bearing even date therewith conditioned, for the payment of the sum of five hun dred uinlc-fyfcw) v-fgfif dollars and seven ty five cents, with interest from the seventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eleven, viz. all that lot of land in the eity of Savannah, in Oglethorpe ward, known in the plan of said eity by the letter [V ) hounded on the west by Fahmstreet, east by a lane, north by Peter Me Farlanc and south by Boltons, containing one hundred and twelve feet and a half from Falun street, back to the lane and sixty seven feet and a half in breadth from north to south. On motion of Thomas E. l.Loyd attorney for the Petitioner It is ordered that the principal inter est and costs due upon said mortgaged premises he paid into court within twelve months from this date, unless the same be so paid, the equity of redemp tion shall thenceforth be foreclosed and other proceedings take place, pursuant to the act of assembly, in such ease made and provided. And it is further ordered, that this rule be published in one of the public Gazettes of this state, once a month for twelvemonths, or served on the mortgager of his special agent at least six mouths previous to the time said money is ordered to be paid into court as aforesaid. Extract from the Minutes Ju6 T. BOLLES, Clerk. April 24 lam 12m 4 OFFICE FOR THE SALE OF NEGROES. rpHE SUBSCRIBER having long l been in the habit of disposing of NEGROES, and being well aequaint witli those persons most likely to pur chase in the states of South Carolina and Georgia; flatters hiiuself that he can obtain fair prices and speedily ef fect sales. Ilis services are tendered, with an assurance, that candor will in all cases be observed as to any enquiry made regarding the character and qual - ifications of Negroes in his possession, and care will be taken to investigate rittleas far as in his power, that impo sitions may be avoided and as he has made it a business will inform himself of the true situation of that species of property. His attention will also be directed to the sale of lands, houses and lots and every article ol‘ merchan dize and produce. 1). POLOCK. N. B. A comfortable house, and a person to take charge of Negroes is provided at 18$ cents per day till sold. Have now for sale several” valuable house servants, and field hands, singly and in families. April 17 law lnt 2 Dr. J. B. Berthelot, Has just received from New-York by the brig Eliza Lord, a quuntity of Genuine Drugs & Medicines, viz. SALT Petre, Gentian Root, Rhubarb, Fob Senna, Magnesia in lumps. Arrow Root, Cream of Tartar, Jalap, Ipecacuanha, Liquorice in sticks, Camphor, Opium, Gum Tragacant'n Trusses, Camomile Flowers, Mercury , or of Supplement, Salt of Lcinon, Sarsapparilla, Cold prest Castor Oil, Spirits of Nitre, Therisque, Henry’s calcined Magnesia, Common do. caleined, Oil of Cloves, Oil of Mint, Nipple, Shells, Breast crooked pipes, British Oil, Essence of Mint, Turlington Essence of Spruce, in pint bottles, &c. &c. ALSO, The genuine Chalybeate Apparient or improved Cheltenham Salts. J. B. BERTHELOT, respect- M.3 folly informs the public, that he possesses a sovereign remedy for oil diseases of a PRIVATE NATURE. Persons of both sexes can with confi dence make use of it. The advanta ges of this remedy j\ re. that young men mav jgj**;/ and be perfectly cured, withfjit a discovery on the part his conn re bon s ; also, the patient may. without apprehending any daijler, expose himtili’ to the cold, night air, and the ram, ttid pursue his usual avocations, as it requires no par ticular thiOJC 1.... Os lai It IVo/n the e.milflKs- SO” Those who mtty applv to him. at his Msdiea* Shop,’nWi the Ex change, may bis assured* df the most profound it El i-i.i r.i No. 200, Market-Street, • ’tin j . doer* of S .rih -V->: centre of the PrfitciprtJptftaSlfi tiWc. GEOIIGE YOKE, HAYING considerably enlarged this concern, to which, by an addition to the building, he has added a number of Chambers, a large Dining, room and extensive Stabling. —lnforms Merchants and Travellers, that he has it in his power to accommodate them with a well served up table, good wives liquors, —moderate charges, and the most unremitting attention; in short, with every convenience, which he Hat ters himself, will give satisfaction L to his Friends and the Public. Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 1811. 1 Sale of Pews, IN CHRIST CHURCH Continued. THE Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church, being encouraged by the sale of the pews made on the 20th inst. are progressing to finish the building. On Monday the fourth day of Mai next, at 12 o’clock a. m. will be ex - posed to sale, at publie Auction, at the said Church, all the pews on the ground floor, except those already sold, in fee simple, subject to future assessments for the support of the Minister and other expenses of thechureh. The plan by which they are to he sold, may be seen at the house of Air. Lawson. The terms will be liberal, a small portion of the consideration money w ill be requir ed in advance, and an extensive credit will be granted for the balance. Those who are attached to the welfare of our flourishing and prosperous city, and de sirous to promote the cause of religion, are solicited and invited to attend to this notice, and not only seeure to them selves and families a valuable and per manent species of property, but at the same time, to promote an understanding highly useful and beneficial. Further particulars of sale w ill be made known at the time. James Johnston,? , John Lawson, x O uraens. April 28 5 Now Landing From BRIG AMERICA. 73 Bids. Philadelphia Superfine Flour, ALSO, From SLOOP SOPIIIA. 33 Boxes brown Soap, 20 l)o. Spermaceti Candles, 1 2 Do. ’I allow do. 10 Hlids. N. E. Rum, 150 Bundles Wrapping Paper, 10 Bbls. Glauber salts, For Sale on Board , Bbls. Apples and Potatoes, 13 Bundles liay, In Store, 36 Quarter and half-quarter Casks L. P. Madeira Wine, 11 Cases Men’s fine and coarse ami Children’s Morocco Hals, 15 Bbls. No. 2 Mackerel; J. BATTELLE. April 24 1 The Subscribers HAVE on hand, and arc now opening, [at their new Store, south side of Johntton’s square] an exten sive assortment of EUROPEAN, IN DIA and DOMESTIC GOODS well calculated for the present and approaching season, which will be dis posed of at their usual low prices for CASH, COTTON, or undoubted town acceptances. ANDREW LOW, & Cos. April 14. 1 “SHOES & BOOTS, Selling off at EMB ARGO prices, THE SUBSCRIBERS, intending to relinquish their present line of business, offer for SALE at very reduc ed prices their WHOLES ALE STOCK IN TRADE, eonpri&ing a general and very extensive assortment of Boots and Shoes, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Purchasers for the country trade are respectfully invited to call. Great, bargains will be offered, as the concern must be closed by the 13th of June next, and until that time, SHOES &e. vvii! he sold at retail much less than the usual prices. They have received large, additions to their former stock, by re cent arrivals from New-York and Bos - ton—among w hich are the follow in 2.: 3000 pair Ladies MORROCCO SUP PERS, all colors and qualities 1500 do do Leather do 2300 Mens SHOES different qualities, Gentlemen’s fine Morrocco and Leal her Pumps [with and without buckles] La dies Kid Slips, do. Morocco Boots, Nankeen Boots,Grecian Sandies, Mis ses and Childs Morocco and Leather Bootees and Slippers, Boys fine Shoes and Pumps, Morocco and Leather— -3 trunks New-York BOOTS, and two do. Boston do.—A quantity of Negro Shoes. ALSO. 2 cases Straw Bonnets, Ht'.mhums India Checks, Gilla Hdkfo. jj e a:r s Writing Paper, Blank Books, plaving Cards. Morocco Skins., iooo vards Tow Cloth, Morrocco, Travelling and House Trunks, fire. He. BARNS & EVELETH. April 14 fiw—— i Gibbons’ Buildings, Notice. Cl REDUfORS of the late Mr. V.Tt / viam Prince, Schoolmaster, are requested to present their demands to the undersigned, without delay. Those indebted for Tuition ac counts, will be called on for payment as soon as they can he adjusted—ln the meantime, they would confer a fa vor, by rendering in statements of the same, the Bocks of the deceased, not having been kept regularly, cor af fording sufficient information for go vernment in settlements. R. RICH ARDSON, Mui r April at- 3t 4 Notice. THE SUBSCRIBER Fl> DS it necessary to bring a!! (ht debts due him up to the tin-; o January last, to a finai settlement; hi has therefore appointed George B MTntosh, Esq. his Attorney, to main collections for him; and all Notes ant Aecompts unsettled on the first daw oi June next, will be put in suit. GEORGE HARRAL. April 21 st 3 LAW ; OFFICE. PTMIE SUBSCRIBERS have en- JL tered into partnership as pme titioners of Law, and opened their of lice in a part of the building lat'eiv oc cupied by Doctors Proctor and Bartow on the Bay, a few doors west of Air John Moore heads store. WILLIAM LE2GII PIERCE JOHN DRYSDALE Junior. April 17 4* 2
