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MISCELLANEOUS.
ORIGINAL POETRY.
HEALTH.
Pay what is valor, what is wealth,
Without that bent of blessings, health ?
Valor is naught and riehes paio,
Without young Hebe, and her train ;
She smiling corner, with roseate mein,
And w ith her ev'ry grace is seen.
Oh when we raise flic pallid head,
And first desprt disease's bed,
With what delight our bosoms thrill,
What bright’ning views our prospects
fill;
We hail with joy returning health,
And heedless are of other wealth,
If safely rescu’d from our pain,
We feel returning strength again.
Bee in some, lone and distant cot,
The. youthful peasant’s happy lot:
He rises with the dappled dawn,
And trips it gaily o’er llie lawn;
Throughout the day he tills the field,
Which soon a harvest rich will yield;
And tho’ he ploughs the wat’ry mead,
He still a stranger is to need.
Then to the sickly monarch turn,
Whose thoughts with gross ambition
burn,
Who weak with luxuries, sinks his
head,
To slumber on a sickly bed ;
What are the trappings spread around,
If rosy beulth cannot he found ?
The cottage hoy is happier far,
Whose views no disappointments mar,
Who envies not the monarch’s wealth
While blest With competence & hoahh.
REMONSTRANCE
Os Almuta II ‘ft of Almas Ali Cairn to
Gen. HASTINGS.
MY subjects slaughter’d, my whole kingdom
sp oitM,
My treasure :■ rifled ar.d my husband slain—
O say, vile m ster, art thou satisfied ’
Hast thou, r.ipiciou: brute! sufficient wealth ?
And, cruel ‘■ art thou fill’d with
blood ’
Perhaps insatiate, thou ait ting still
For human core 1 f* may’.’ tfl ou ever thirst,
And may tlv righ’.f us Gods deny thee water
To cool thy boiling blood, Inhuman wretch !
Have not the bravest of my i. ’ jc 1 • bled ?
Arc they Al.l -- -’ 1 t, mass*-
, !
And did not India foam again with r'’ ’
Where is the murderer who bar si 1
fellow >
Where is the robber!—Where the parr-'.; i
Approach—for ye are innocent and clean ,
Your souls are whiter than the ocean foam,
Compar’d with him, the murderer of millions'.
Yes, bloody brute, the murderer of millions !
Where are the swarms that cover’d all my
land ’
That cultur’d land, of which each foot was
garden,
Doom’d to support the millions of mv host;
Are tin v not butcher’d all — all massacred ?
And butcher’d, bloody monster, by thy hands !
But why 1 because, vile brute, thou must have
wealth:
Because thou must have wealth, my peeple
bled ;
The land was floated with a tide of gore !
Mv fields, my towns, my cities swam in
blood!
And through al! India one horrendous groan ;
The groans of millionsfcchoed to the heavens.
Curst be your nation, and forever curst
The luckless hour, when India first beheld
you.
We have a custom here as old as time,
Os honoring Justice why ? —because ’tis
Justice;
And Virtue is beloved—because ’tis Virtue.
As Indians need no hell, they know of none
You Christians say you’ve one; ’tis well you
have —
Your rrmes call loudly for it, and I’ll swear,
If HASTINGS is not damn’d, your boasted
Gods
Are worse than he: and 1 leaven itself lie
come s
A Mark accomplice in the monster’s guilt.
H ASTINGS! my husband was your pris.
oner i
The wealth of kingdoms flew to his relief:
You took the ransom, and you broke your
faith
Almas was slain’twas perjury to your soul
But perjurv is a little crime to you,
Ir. souls so black it seems almost a virtue.
Know, monster know, that the prodigious
wealth
You sold your soul for, was by justice gain’d;
’Twas not acquir’d by rapine, force and mttr-1
dor i
The treasures of my fathers ! theirs by con
quest,
And legal domination ; from old time
Transmitted by the fattier to the son,
In just succession. Now you call it yours,
And dearly have yon purchas’d it—for knotty
When the just Gods shall hear the cry of
blood,
And of your hands demand the souls you ve
murder’d,
That gold will never pay their price will
never pay
Your awful ransom—You must go where
Almas
Sits on a lofty throne, and every hour
He stabs an Englishman, and sweetly feasts
Upon his bloody heart and trembling liver :
For, monstrous wretch, to thy confusion
know,
Almas can relish now no other food
Than “ hearts of Englishmen !” Yet thou art
safe—
Yes, monster! thou art safe from this repast,
A heart pointed with ten thousand crimes,
Is not a feast for Almas. Tremble yet,
He’ll tear that heart out from its bloody case,
And toss it to his dogs—full many a vulture
Be poison’d by thy corse—wolves shall run
mad,
By feeding on thy murd’rous carcase —more !
When, some vile wretch, some monster of
mankind,
Some brute like thee, perhaps tliy relative,
Laden witli horrid crimes without a name,
Shull stalk through earth, and we want rur.
ses for him,
We’ll tourturc thought to curse the wretch .
and then,
To damn him most supreme—we’ll call him
HASTINGS?
THE FEMALE PILGRIM.
fly a Young Lady of Connecticut.
Whither gocst thou, pilgrim stranger,
Passing through this darksome vale;
Knowest thou not ’tis full of danger,
And will not thy courage fail?
Pilgrim thou dost justly call me,
Wandering o’er this waste so wide;
Yet no harm will e’er bcfal me,
While l’m blest with such a guide.
Such a guide; no guide attends thee,
Henee for thee my fears arise;
If a guardian power befriends thee,
’Tis unseen by mortal w
Yes, unsren, but still believe me,
Snch a guide my steps attend}
He’ll in every strait relieve me,
He from every harm defend.
Pilgrim see that stream before thee,
Darkly winding through the vale;
Should its deadly waves roll o’er thee,
Would not then thy courage fail ?
No ! that stream has nothing frightlul,
To its brink my steps I'll bend;
Thence to plunge will be delightful,
There my pilgrimage will end.
While I gaz’d, with speed surprising,
Down the stream she plung’d from
sight;
Gazing still, I saw her rising,
Like an angel clothed in light.
ANECDOTE
Os BOH.iTARTB amd MARIA LOUISA
General Sarrazin has just published
a second number of his work, entitled
the “ Philosopher,” from which we
extract the following anecdote relative
to Bonaparte and the Austrian Arch
duchess.—
“ When Bonaparte was alone for
the first time with his young wife, we
may well imagine he made her the
strongest protestations, as is the cus
tom with all newly married men. He
said amongst many other fashionable
sentiments, that he should esteem him
self the happiest of men* if by his at
tentions to prevent her smallest wishes,
he should succeed in rendering himself
worthy of her love. Maria Louisa
answered, that ‘bat would not be very
difficult, since she had loved him be
fore she knew him. Bonaparte, not
withstanding the suavity with which
that assurance must have filled his
heart, appeared incredulous, and told
her, “ I thank you for the flattering
compliment you have the goodness to
make me, and I beg you to believe I
shall neglect nothing to deserve it.”—
“ 1 tell yon only what I really think,”
replied Maria Louisa, “ 1 am of a fa
mily, in which the love of glory is he
ireditary, aud you have acquired so
much of it, that my avowal ought not to
be suspected.’’ We are assured, that
at these words, Bonaparte could no
longer eonceal his feelings, that he
threw himself at the knees of the Em
press, who hastily raised him up; they
tenderly embraced, and swore to one
another an eternal attachment. As
Bonaparte's happiness would have
been imperfect, if (his had not been
known, he took the first opportunity of
relieving his mind, by imparting the
adventure to Berthier, Duroc, and
other confidants, who each on their
parts, caused this communication to be
rapidly circulated, that the public
might be informed of it.”
London Paper.
From the Neu-Fork Evening Post.
The 30,000 whistle —A letter has
just been received at this office, from a
respectable Mercantile House at Mon
treal, dated the 4th inst. inclnsiug a
proof sheet of the Montreal Courant,
containing a copy of a letter from Hen
ry, to a particular friend of his at that
place. Our correspondent assures us
that the letter is genuine, and address
ed to a gentleman of the first import
ance in that place. It follows ; and
let the people read and reflect upon
it.
From the Montreal Courant.
Mr. Mower —ls you think proper
to insert the inclosed copy of a letter in
your Courant you are welcome to it.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Js'ew-Vork March 6,1812.
My ever dear Friend,
Since my return to this country, I
have written to my friend and agent in
Montreal to dispose of my Books and
other effects in Canada, and given him
orders how to dispose of the proceeds;
this 1 suppose lie has done, if not, and
he should need your assistance or ad
vice, I beg, notwithstanding what fol
lows, you w ill give it him.
You will be astonished when I tell
yu that to-munoiv I shall sail for
France on board an American sloop of
war, and forever hid adieu to Ameri
ca.
Soon after my departure I suppose
you will have a scene exposed, which
will, in the eyes of the British rabble,
damn my reputation and character, but
in those of the more sensible and liberal
minded, I shall be justified, or at least
excused ; as to the opinion of the
former class 1 care not a cent.
I owe it to you and many of my
friends in Canada, fully to explain the
motives w hich have induced me to a
dopt the measures which I have taken
—they certainly will at the first blush
appear to you to have been founded in
deceit and treachery* but I hope on re
flection, aud a charitable examination,
with a dhe allowance for my feelings
of disappointment in my application for
remuneration, in England for my ser
vices under my unfortunate circum
stances, to be looked upon with a for
giving eye. You know my political
sentiments better than any man in A
mcrica, and I assure you they remain
unalterably the same ; the abhorrence
that 1 formerly entertained of a re
publican government, which I have
frequently expressed to you is still the
same, aud I am happy that I am going
to a country whore the very name of a
republic is detested.
When I left yon in Canada, my hopes
and prospects were fair and promised
success ; I was induced to believe that
I should have found little difficulty in
obtaining from the British Minister,
the place I had in view. I memoria
lized him and expostulated much w ith
his Secretary on the credentials of the
services, which I had rendered, in my
mission under Sir James Craig; but,
with all the influence of my friends,
and my own indefatigable exertions,
I could only acquire civilities and a re
commendation to the present Governor
General of Canada to provide for me:
with these, you will perhaps say, I
ought to have been satisfied ; I was so
at the moment and came out to Ameri
ca with an intention to avail myself of
the strong mandates of the Minister in
my favor, to the head of the govern
ment. My friends in London assisted
me with pecuniary resources. On my
arrival at Boston I found that my pros
pects in life were precarious, and my
expeuces in London had exhausted the
pittance I possessed; I found also that
Canada, from the reports which had
been circulated there, as to my name
and birth, and the manner on which 1
left Ireland, had so injured iny reputa
tion, that if I enjoyed any appointment
from government in that country, I
should at least be suspected. Under
these perplexing circumstances, loaded
with debts in England which I was un
able to satisfy, I examined the state of
politics in the United States, and found
that the means in my power would pro
bably afford me relief. I was long he
sitating what course to pursue; on the
one hand I saw penury and distress, on
the other a probable sacrifice of the re
putation and character I had sustained
in this country and of course my being
obliged to abandon it and my friends
for another, were I may perhaps enjoy
the remainder of iny days with af
fluence; I preferred the uncertainly to
the certainity, and determined to make
proposals to the government here cl
revealing the secrets in my possessio_
They were received with avidity and
the terms I stipulated for complied
with, you may be assured that I made
my disclosures as palatable to the persons
1 had to deal with as I possibly could;
here perhaps, you may censure my con
duct more than in any other part of the
whole transaction ; but it vvfcs necessa
ry, to attain ray object to make it to ap
pear to be worth the purchase, there
fore, you will make allowances for the
many forgeries and impositions which
you will readily detect when you read
the documents disclosed by me, which
of course, will be published by this gov
ernment after my departure ; this I
know well, you w ill from the general
correctness and rectitude of your senti
ments, deems a species of swindling,
1 confess it would be so in any other
Country or anjr <>*!>•• cnUfot, thur. tl.at
political questions in these states
are decided by deception (a more mo
derate term for swindling) you w ill par
don my resorting to it, while acting un
der the sphere of their influence. That
I have imposed on the Head of the
government aud sold to him, secrets of
no kind of importance as they relate to
the different governments, is true; ex
amine the communication, and intelli
gence I gave to Sir James while on my
mission, and you will find they w ere col
lected from Newspapers, and perhaps
sometimes from the sentiments express
ed by private individuals in societies,
wherein I was a guest both with Fed
eralist and Democrats. I was sent at a
time when Great Britain and the States
were on the eve of aw ar : my object
was to discover whether the States
were seriously determined on hostilities
with Britain, this I then thought and
still think, under the Law of Nations,
was justifiable. —l most solemnly as
sure you; that the letter whieh accom
panied the documents 1 transmitted to
Mr. Monroe, was imposed upon me, you
knows well it does not contain my sen
timents, hut I had advanced so far there
was no retreat, and I was obliged to
sign it; the estimate put on my com
munications by this government was
beyond my most sanguine expectations;
and the reward I have received for
them is infinitely greater than I had
contemplated; it is so large that it has
afforded me and my children an ample
competence for life.
I am now a citizeu of the world; amj
go to tread on anew theatre under a
government which I always detected .
I dread to meet the piercing eye of the
Great Emperor, but have na alterna
tive , and although clothed with the
warmest recommendations of the
French Minister and the government
of this country, still I tremble and
doubt w hat reception I shall meet with;
however, you will hear from me in
France, il l can only get a fair footing
there. I have an opinion of the resour
ces of my imagination, that I flatter
myself I shall succeed : my plans
matured,and do not be surprised if, 0 „
hear from me in England. But, when
ever fortune shall fix me; I shall eve
retain the most lasting remembrance M *
the attentions and civilities you hav
formerly conferred on ine.
Believe me to be
Most faithfully yours
JOHN HENRY.
Carriage & Horses.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
OFFERS for sale his CARRIAGE
and HORSES, which are infi.
rior to none in the city. To save tin
necessary trouble, the lowest price w ill
be fifteen hundred dollars.
GEOROE HARRAL
April 28. ot 5
Mrs. RAMSAY.
A few Copies, for sale by
HARRAL Sf COPPEE, Boltons
Centre Building, and at this Office.
(sT This work comes particularly
recommended to the pious, from its
interesting materials, adorned bv thy
elegant pen of the celebrated’ Ur.
Ramsay.
April 14 i
Administrator’s Sale.
JLIi be sold, before iny store,
▼ ▼ on FRIDAY, the 13th day of
May, at the usual hour, all the person
al property of 1 liomas Harrison, dee.
consisting of Wearing Apparel, House
hold and Kitchen Furniture. By or
der of the administrator.
D. WILLIFORD, Auct’r.
May 1 o
SHOES k BOOTST
Selling off at EMBARGO prices,
THE SUBSCRIBERS, intending
to relinquish their present line of
business, offer for SALE at very redve
ed prices their WHO I ,ES ALE STOC K
IN TRADE, conprising a general and
very extensive assortment of
Boots and Shoes,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Purchasers for the country trade ar:
respectfully invited to cull. Gr.
bargains will be offered, as the concern
must be. closed by the 13lh of June next,
and until that time, SHOES &c. will
be sold at retail much less than the
usual prices. I hey have received large
additions to their former stock, by re
cent arrivals from New-York *nd Bos
ton—among which are the following :
3000 pair Ladies MORROCOO SLIP
PERS. all colors and qualities
1300 do do Leather do
2300 Mens SHOES different qualities,
Gentlemen s fine Mnrrocco and Leather
Pumps [with and without buckles] La
dies Kid Slips, do. Morocco Boots,
Nankeen Boots,Grecian Sandies,bus
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, Humhnms-
India C hecks, Gilla Hcikfs. lot) Ream*
Writing Paper, Blank R oo ks. playing
L 1 *™*’, * lor ° cco Skirv - moo yards
low Cloth, Morroccw, Travelling and
House Trunks, &c. & c .
BARNS & EVELETH.
April 14 6vv—l Gibbons’ Buildings
Notice.
Hthe SUBSCRI^ess,
I- re ™* vd ther OFFICE.
If T,■ t 1 sauth side of
Fatal? nf It to Ihe
Store east of the
store oiMes‘, lß . Low and Wallace
PEIRCE & DRYSDALE.
-May C 2t s
RED-LION hotel,
Ao. 200, Market-Street, -within fc:, r doors of
Sixth Street, on the Sooth side, ami in the
centre of the Principal Importers lie
GEORGE YOKE,
HAb ING considerably enlarged
this concern, to which, by “a-;
addition to the building, he has added
a number of Chambers, a large I)bm>".
room and extensive &tabling~—lnforms
Merchants and Travellers,that he ha?
it in his power to accommodate them
with a well serve* up fM<?,good wines
liquors , —moderate charges, and the
most unremitting attention; in short,
with every convenience, vvhicfrhe flat
ters himself, will give satisfaction to
his Friends and the Public.
Philadelphia, 2, i