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MISCELLANEOUS.
ODE TO PITY.
0 TIIOV. th friend of man, assign’d
V it'll hands bis wound* to bind,
And chirm h:a frar.t.c wo :
When first dis're-s, with dagger keen,
lif-ola- forth to w*.te Lis destin’d scene,
Hia wild Unrated foe !
Hy Pella’s* bald, c nwgc name, *
Ily all the griefs bis thought could fraine,
Receive my humble rite :
Long. Pity, Id the nations view
Thy sky-worm robes of tcnd’rest bine,
And eyes of dewy light ?
But wherefore need I wander wide
Tj hold Illssus’ distant side,
Deserted stream, and mute ?
Wild Arunf too has heard thy strains,
And. Echo, midst thy native plains,
B"en sooth’d by Pity’s lute.
There first the wren in myrtles shed
Cn gentlest Otway's infant head,
To him thy cell w*s shewn ;
And while he sung the female heart,
Vi’-h youth’s soft notes unspoil’d by art.
Thy turtles mix’d their own;
Come, Pity, come, by Fancy’*-, aid,
E’en now my thoughts, relenting maid,
Thy temple’s pride design :
Its southern site, its truth complete,
Shall raise a wild enthusiast heat
In all who view the shrine.
There picture’s toils shall well relate,
Mow chance, or hard involving fate,
fi’er moral bliss prevail :
The huskin’d Muse shall near her stand,
And sighing prompt her tender hand,
With each disastrous tale.
There let me oft, re tir'd by day.
In dreams of passion melt away,
Allow’d with thee to dwell.
Thri— svrsse the mournful lamp of night,
Till, Virgin, thou again delight
To hear a British shell i
* Euripides, of whom Aristotle pronounces,
on a comparison of him with Sophocles, that
1 e was the greater master of tender of the
‘tender passions.
f The river Arun runs bv the. village in
Sussex, where Otway Lad bis birth.
S 0 JY G
O MEMORY! thou fond deceiver,
Still importunate and vain,
To former joys, recurring ever,
And turning all the past to pain ;
Thou, like the world, the opprest, oppressing,
Toy smiles increase the wretch’s wo !
And lie who wants each o hm- blessing,
In thee must ever fiid a fie!
For the Patriot.
THE LYSPECTPR....'Sc. IV.
“Li an not on Earth; ’twill pierce thee to
the heart;
A broken, reed, at best; but oft* a spear;
On its sharp point peace bleeds and hope ex
pires.” You KG.
THE clearest evidence of a, fu
ture and immortal state of being,is the
entire insuffieienty of the present, to
render men happy. We have only to
appeal to experience to prove that let
a life be ever so blameless it is inse
cure ayaitist (be attacks of adversity,
ami oftentimes the more conspicuous a
man is for purity the more he renders
himself a target for the shafts of mn.-
Jioe, vice hates the company of virtue
‘because it wishes not its act ions scorned
with the eye of correct reproof, this
-very hatred is the cause of its invete
rate enmity.
Miserable is that wretch who is com
pelled to look to the world and its
empty amusements for happiness, and
still more miserable is he, who seeks
eousislati.nl from the world there are
few who like the good Iranian!an will
stop by the way-side to assist distress,
and like him two, they are generally to
be found not amongst those who attract
the gage of a stupid throng, as they
101 l in the lap of splendor. hnUimongst
a humble ami unassuming tribe; hypo
critical pretension, is too much occu
pied in its own deceits, to hear the
voice of misery or perceive the suppli
cating baud of wretchedness.
The tenure by which w e hold life is
not more frail and inset a re; than the
vain hope w hich leads us to expect that
the world is ever teady to assist us.—
Mankind are fraught with art and in
trigue, ihey delight in cunning wile, be
fore the eol’ossal influence of splendid
renown vi. (tie fails a helpless and scarce
resisting prey.
It is id!-; to expect consolation ft on*
the world,because its own feelings and
interests monopolize its undivided at
tention, because accustomed to fraud
and deceit, it is callous to sympathy,
because it is devoted to self-importance,
and builds its consequence on the des
truction of many a poor but honest man.
“ man’s inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn.”
As the world will not and probably
cannot afford consolation, so it is ac
customed to violate every right, to jus
tify its own wrong, ns the world is a
miserable prop, so it is a bitter back
biting enemy. ’What foolish madness
therefore to place reliance on its sup
port or to believe its promises.
That wretched being whom untow
ard destiny compels to depend for ex
istence on the charity of the world
may in one instance receive the hand
of suecour, but in thousands he will
meet with contempt, decision, and cold
indifference, if he “ ask for bread he
will receive a stone.” Let the pen of
benevolence labor to prove amongst men
an ascendance of virtue over vice, ne
vertheless there are too many examples
to confute its theories, there are too
many principles whoue deleterious ten
dency is well known, which have a
commanding hiasover the human mind.
Let, the advocates of the amiable Bur
lemagne, attempt to prove that man is
naturally correct, yet alas! their pre
mises are too unsound, their deductions
entirely forced. We must have re
course to actual observation,experience
must teach us, for truly “ the proper
study of mankind is man,” the great
Hook of human nature is not to be learn
ed in the cloister, nor to be opened in
the sequestered haunts of study, it is
to be read in the walks of public life,
and its pages covered in the face of day.
A dependance upon the world is pro
ductive of every species of mortifica
tion and distress, its friendship is in
deed a “ reed that pierces” deception
is its darling attribute aqd the cloak of
hypocrisy its favorite garb.
SKETCH OF LONDON.
[Concluded from our last. j
After be lias studied this portrait of
modern greatness in our sin, which
wi'li a few honorable exceptions, l fear
is too close a resemblance, he may
cast his eyes upon that whimsical and
insignificant thing, called a fine lady;
in whom, although she thinks herself
ihe most important personage in crea
tion, he will search in vain for those
characteristic excellencies of woman,
winning softness, modest reserve, deli
cate sense, elegante economy, and the
regular conduct of domestic affairs
filial, congugal, and parental affection,
end a heart attuned to genuine friend
ship, sympathy anil love. The whole
business ofher life be will perceive to
be pleasures, and the indulgence cf her
capricious humors ; and yet that she is
a novice in her profession! lie will
find her a slave to fashions w hich dis
figure the person, she is so anxious to
adorn : a stronger to true elegance and
taste, altho’ it he what she chiefly af
fects ; and disgusted with the amuse
ments. which have occupied all her
thoughts!
Me will smile to see her mistake af
fected airs, for gentility ; impertinence
tor familiarity : haughtiness for dig
nity ; volubility of tongue for elegance
—Bite ideas, and a round ol‘hackney
praises for sentiment. The most ab
surd prostitution of strong expressions
upon trival subjects, for sublimity of
thought; a troublesome pettishness of
disposition, for a delicate sensibility,
of nerve! and he sometimes will have
occasion to be shocked at her break
ing through tLo modest, the amiable
restraints of nature, and considering
impudence as a womanly virtue! at
her affecting to disbelieve (lie truth of
religion, while she is the dupe of child
ish credulities, braving her maker with
more than masculine infidelity , and y et
screaming and trembling at the sight
of a mouse, or a spider ! He will ob
serve her strictly maintaining all the
appearances of friendship, but totally
lost to ils reality : making generous
offers of assistance to those above the
want of it, and neglecting common ci
vilities to the needy and oppres'scd; —
classing herself amongst the w armest
of yon r friends in your preircnce, and
sporting with your character in the
hour of absentee: estimating Ihe worth
other associates according to the rank
they hold in the polite world, and yet
prostituting all ihe confidence offrieml
sbip to her chamber maid, and the
best utfeetions of her sophisticated na
ture to parrots, monkks and lap-dogs.
Her most serious occupations lie will
observe to consist, either in receiving
or paying irksome visits of economy ;
in which her expressions of the happi
ness she feels at tiie interview,can on
ly be equalled by the real languor and
disgust she experiences, or in answer
ing billets of unmeaning compliments,
or in satisfying her own conceptions of
friendship and politeness, by sending
round an empty equipage, attended
with a train of domestics, to enquire
after the welfare of her most intimate
associates ! in the evenings he will see
her sit down at the card table, with
anxiety, impatience, avarice, anger,
and a thousand evil passions in her
train : and perhaps lie may detect her,
sex and quality, practising at the pool
the worthless tricks of a sharper.
Thus, from a general review ofher
whole life, will our philosopher be ei
ther tempted to turn a partial Maho
metan, and doubt whether some of the
female sex, may not be formed without
a soul; or he will place such a being
among the unsearchable mysteries of
providence !
Satiated with these sights, he will
not he much disposed to visit the par
ties of the Hay Market, Coek-spur
street, and Pieadilly, where the de
pendants and appendages of greatness
chiefly resort; or he might here con
template human nature in a masquer
ade, if it be possible still more fantas
tic! he might behold persons descen
ded from the meanest parentage, and
educated in the humblest walks of life,
suddenly spriuging up like grassy and
pernicious weeds in the place of notra
tive grain, and in the various profes
sions of barbers, taylors, hair-dressers,
milliners, linguists, musicians, &c.
assuming the airs and apeing tlw man
ners of their superiors !
If our philosipher should take a
walk among the new buildings in St.
Mary-la-bonne, he will not fail toad
mire the provisions made in this com
modious place, for administering to
v ice and preserving the appearance of
virtue:
Passing by St. Gile's he may have
opportunities of Contemplating men re
duced to the lowest seale of villainy,
lie may behold vice enthroned oh a
dung-hill, surrounded with a retinue
of beggars, thieves, pick-pockets, and
house-breakers, enjoying in common all
the privileges without the chains cf
marriage. He may pick up this valu
able truth out of the duty, that disso
lute manners are unreservedly odious
in rags, that vice appears withal! her
ignominy, where external splendor is
wanted to v arnish the crime, or dazzle
the eye.
Let our observed visit the city, be
will behold the (fill power of interest,
and the various modifications of that
governing principle, the love of money!
he will observe the v irtue of industry
like Aaron’s rod, swallow up almost
every other virtue ; or like the most
subtle leaver., insinuate itself into eve
ry action, and every motive—lie will
bud this at the bottom of many a vice,
and largely blended with many a vir
tue; the bond of all social connections
as well as the general cause of discord.
Yes tlse city is a place where almost
every ai t. ol courtesy and politeness
may be set down to the score of poliey
—where subscriptions and donations to
misery shall be mostly regulated by
some latent expectations of adversity:
where the views cf interest shall ac
company a man to the tavern, to the
play-house, to the public gardens, and
authorise expensive dissipation and
midnight revels! nay, it shall even mix
with his very religion, influence his
c hoice of a preacher, or direct his du
bious steps to a place of worship where
ho may learn “not to love the World,
nor the things of the world 1
He v. ill find the distinguished char
acter of the fair sex to he an eagerness
to pay the most extravagant compli
ments to their husbands wealth, and
by various arts of dissipation, put his
gains and credit to the utmost proof.
In a word he will observe such a gen
eral spirit of luxury, such an affecta
tion affluence amongst our city dames,
as to discountenance the very appear
ance of economy , and render them a
willing prey to milliners, laundresses,
and domestics ; he will perceive such
a rage for imitating the prevailing fa
shions as breaks down every distinction
and unfolds every cla c s ;so that he
shall find it difficult to distinguish the
mistress from her waiting maid; or ile
evpher the wife or daughter of a man
in the lowest possible circumstances
in a public assembly, from a rich heir
ess, or the consort of an oppuleut mer
chant ! he will frequently hear of af
fectionate wives, who plunder their
dear partner at home, (hat they may
support l.is reputation abroad : and in
league with their servants, advance the
price of every marketable commodity
in their daily accounts, to raise a fund
for these secret and Liudible services
-—be will often meet females stepping
nut of pastry shops and dirty courts,
like an heroine on the stage, from a
cottage to a prison, in all the pemp of
dress; and he may sometimes detect
the notable housewife performing her
common domestic offices, in silks, la
ces and broekades, cither from her un
conquerable attachment to finery, or
because the poverty of the wardrobe
will not allow her the necessary
change of suits 1
lathe various outskirts of the town
our inquisitive observer maybe witness
to an odd assemblage of characters,
and situations. He will find some few,
who live and deserve to live, and are
so fortunate as to succeed: many who
would live, and cannot : great num
bers who might live, and will not; and
no small number who do live, and do
not deserve it. He will often discern
silent want and sickness privately strug
gling with woe, while imposture iuter
eefs the plentious streams of mercy,
which would otherwise gladden their
hearts! He will remark with a mix
ture of pity and indignation, the cruel
poliey of the times, which sets open
such multitudes of houses for the pur
poses of riot and intoxication, and thus
debauches the morals of the people, in
order to increase the public revenues!
To this cause will he principally at
tribute the frequent sight of insolence
in rags; of spirits grown ungoverna
ble by being lost to every sense of de
cency of character; cf men reduced
to the lowest ebb of wretchedness, even
beyond the feelingof their ow n misery;
and luminaling their worthless exist
ence by falling victims to the laws,
through crimes of which the laws them
selves have beer, the parents, the nur
ses. and the guardians 1
By the water side he may con
template the sons of ueptune. He will
see an active impetuous race, equally
ready for great and noble exploits, or
for riot and confusion, as the most tri
via! circumstances shall decide! He
wilt find them generous because im
provident and thoughtless, brutal be
cause they are themselves, hard v; and
courageous, because they are ignorant
of danger! In the same person he will
be witness to instances of more than
Roman virtue, mixed with the vices of
a ruffian 1
lie may often behold a city mob doing
wrong, in order to rectify abuses; bul
lying forth to revenge real or imagina
ry evils, and committing stiil greater in
the attempt; meaning well and actuat
ed by right principles in the first in
stance, but in the next degenerating
into a law less banditti; hissing, haloo
ing, pelting or leading in triumph, a
prince or a beggar, according to their
ideas of merit or demerit: but change
ing these ideas, with every wind that
blows.
If curiosity or commiseration shall 1
induce him to visit the numerous pi i •
suns, he niiUce Plw*, intended A.
schools of reformatio,,, become n0,,?
l ies of vice. Ife w ill observe men r : ,
dered tenfold more darir.g and exj ( .
cnced in iniquity by their ptmishmenh!
lobi to every sense of shame; exe t , t|
the shame of having any remain*.,
virtues; since familiarised to ign oa .
ous deaths, until they placidly conte*
plate them as natural events.
Should our speculative, chance to.
at the same time a practical pJ,;] 0S(
plier, lie w ill retire with due expejj
lion from a place, w here, it | s t ri): .
there is so much to learn yet so lj* t L
to please. But if fate should obli ?
him to take up his residence there )
will make the best of the mnlt er .
prudently enjoy all the town affords,
convert ! ; s knowledge oi‘ mankind jr
possible, to their use; and, jndsi !v ,
with Horace
“ In cither place ’tis folly to comp Lin
I lit-nd.nl, soil not the scene creates ihe paid
Boole lit Brittle 14.
lie will seek happiness within himself
by the practice of virtue, and the pm.
suit of useful science; which fortunat
ly for man, require no paiticular suit
of town or country , but will grow aid
flourish equally well, whereever l!. v
are properly cultivated.
Caution
rjpHE public are cautioned a^air.y
a trading for two A OTIZS and *
}/UE JJILL. drawn in our favor i,.
AbKaham Joseph, who ran away fcf.
tween Ihe Ist and lOtli of April last,
fit#i*i this city.
One net- i t *i sty day s ds’e-i M. rch
One do. do do. A!:.rc. l i
sth for - - - ISS 73
Also, a due bid given us for ft:
balance on thirteen Bales cf Cntte;
sold him, the amount near three bur.
dred dollars. The notes not belli!
due were lodged in bank and of mm
out’ name was on the hack us custom:
ry . M hen lodged in bank the nut
for .390 31 t-2 .'‘ .its was endorsed L
Messrs. I-fi'ltmord and Alien and ou:
selves fer the purpose ts discount.-
V e should hot e advertised them !
fore, hut thinking that when we sc.
them by John Jones, we bud a c.
man, but have been deceived. YY
therefore forewarn all persons fici
trading for the said notes or due bill
above mentioned,as they are net w ort
a cent.
P. 11. & T. Cr pcD.
may 19. 1 1
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
Ijg *'*G entered into partners! ••
8. for the practice of l aw in tli
eastern district in the state of Georgia
tender (heir services to the puhlic.-
I heir office is opened on the corner
Broughton and Lull streets,
IM IIl). V. . KABEHSH \V
YVM. HAULS!HAM.
M.y IJ. 10
ll AS 111 Oil! iSt C'liillCii
05.111 perse:;., inclin'd to purcluv:
L? at (hi late sales huvii’g bee
unavoidably ai !, (lie subscribe: ?.
authorised to sell, at private sale ar
Lew s no! exceeding the number cfitei
For terms, application to Le made t
cames Johnston*. ? ~. ,
, r y warder.'.
and. Lawson.
May 16 4t ii
~fWsAur—~
-i (jw landing from brig ~
73 ilids. Ncw-Orleans SIUQAT*
73 coils bale ROPE
2 Hawsers. On liberal term-’
lILj \ -sIvG i. > ■ ’.A
■April 17 j
Nankeens.
IW Pieces ln Y?<!
•KEEAH, for sale by
J. Caig* &. I*. MitcLeil.
May 15 u> ’
RED-LION MOTE!
-Mi. 200, Mi.rZet-Sriv. t, r ‘V.Ya %ue th-trs
Sirih riireet, on the i'auth side, i-rcl in :
cjnt.'e of the Pri'irifftd lintioritre. chc.
GEORGE YOKE,
¥¥AVIK6 considerably c-olur-f
j[ g this ccncerr, to whi< It, by :
audition to the. building, he has a.'-di
a number of Chcrnler*. a large /Aniifj
room and extensive Siading —
Merchants and Trave.tfe:s,that he hi
it in his power to aceaum.odate tli”
with a well served up table, stood h i
liquors* —moderate ciiasoxs. ar.J ;i
most unremitting attention; in shot
with every convenience, which he -
ters himself, will crive satisfaction
’■ii Friends and the Pr lie.
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