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MISCELLANEOUS.
TIIE PJIBBIONB.
AN ODE TO Mt'SIC.
WHEN Munic, heavenly maid, was young
While yet in early Greece she sung,
The Passions oft to hear her shell,
l'i.roug’d around her muffc cell,
Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting,
Posscst beyond the Muse’s painting :
Hy turns they felt the glowing mind
Disturb’d, delighted, rais’d, refin’d :
rill (Hire, ’ti* said, when all where fir’d,
Pill’d with fury, rapt, inspir’d,
From the supporting myrtles round
They snatch’d her instruments of sound :
And, as they oft had heard apart
Sweet lessons of her forceful art,
Each) for Madness rul’d the hour)
Would prove his own expressive power.
First Pear his hand, its shill to try,
Amidst the chords bewildcrc’d laid,
And hack recoil’d lie knew not why,
Ev’n a', the sound himself hud made.
Next Anger rush’d: his eyes on fire,
In lightnings, own’d his secret stings :
In one rude clash lie struck the lyre,
And swept with hurried hand the strings
With woful measures wan Despair
Low, sullen sounds his grief beguil’d ;
A solemn, strange, ami mingled air :
’Twaj sad bv fits, by starts ’twas wild.
Hut thou, 0 Hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure !
Still it whisper’d promis’d pleasure,
And bade the lovely scene at distance hail!
Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale,
3he call’d on Echo still, through all the song .
And, where her sweetest theme she chose
A most responsive voice was heard at evi ry
clus- ;
And hope enchanted smil'd and wav’d her gol
den hair.
And longer had she sung;—but with a frown,
Re venge impatient rose :
He threw his blood-stain'd sword, in thunder,
down;
And, with a with’ring look,
The war-denouncing trumpet took,
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne’er prophetic sounds so full of wo!
And ever and anon, be beat
Tiie doubling drum, with furious beat;
And, though sometimes, each dreary pause
between,
Dejected I’itv, at his side,
Her soul-subduing voice applied,
Vet still lie kept his wild unalter’d mice,
While each strain’d ball of sight seem’d bur
sting from his head.
Thy numbers, Jealousy to nought were fix’d ;
Sad proof of thy distressful state !
Ofdilf ‘ring themes the veering song was mix’d;
And now it courted Love, now raving call'd
on Hate,
With eyes up-vais’d. as one inspir’d,
Pale Melancholy sat retir’d;
And, from her wild sequester’d seat,
In not -s by distance made more sweet,
Tour'd through the mellow horn her pensive
soul:
And dashing soft from rocks around,
Babbling runnels join'd the sound :
Through glades and glooms the mingled mea
sures stole,
Or o’er some haunted stream, with tend
delay,
Hound an holy calm diffusing,
Love of peace and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
But 0! how alter’d was its spvightlier tone,
AVh.cn Cheerfulness, a r.vrnph of healthiest
lute,
Her bow across her shoulder slung,
Her buskins gemm’d with morning dew,
Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket
rung,
The hunter’s call, to Faun and Dryad
known.
The oak-crownM Sisters, and their chaste
ey’d Queen,
Satyrs and Sylvan hoys were seen,
Peeping from forth their alleys green ■
llrown Exercise rejoic’d Ur hear:
And Sport leapt up, and seiz’d his beechen
sjieavi
Last came Joy’s ecstatic trial:
lie, with vinv crown advancing,
First to the lively pipe his hand addrest;
Tbit soon hs saw the brisk awakening viol,
Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov’d the
best ?
Fliey would hare thought who heard the
strain
They saw, in Tcmpe's r ale, her native
maids,
Amidst the festal sounding shades.
To some unwearied minstrel dancing,
While, as his flying fingers kiss’d the strings.
Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic
round:
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone un
bound,
And lie, amidst his frolic plav,
As if'uc would the charming air repay,
Shook, thousand odors from hisdtwv wings.
O Ma*ic ! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom’s aid!
W hy, goddess I why, to us denied/
Lay’st thou thy ancient lyre abide .’
As, in that lov’d Athenian bower,
You learn’d un all-coinirunding power,
Thy mimic sold, O Nymph endear’d,
Cun well recall what then it heard,
Where is thy native simple heart,
DevMe to Virtue, Fancy, Art ‘
Arise, as in that elder time,
Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime ’
Thy wonders in that godlike gc,
Fill thy recording sister’s page— ’
’Tis said, and I believe the tale,
Thy humblest reed could more prevail,
Hail more of strength, diviner rage.
Than all which charms this laggard agr;
Ev’n all at once together found,
Ceciliu’s mingled world of sound—
O bid our vain endeavors cease ;
Revive the just designs of Greece ;
Return in all thy simple state !
Confirm the talcs her sons relate I
NORTHERN MAILS 4 Soliloquy.
These Northern Mails — O how they vex me,
And now bv day and night perplex me ;
But I’ll not fret—show no dejection
About die late New York election—
Not I—no sigh, or tear, or groan,
Shall come from me—but the New l/ian—
I’ll come up soon—prey go to ski p
Mv deur, don’t let it make you weep—
You know, you know, yes, you do know,
And 1 do too—know, isn’t it so—
Canada—Florida—Loan—Election—
I’m coming dear—l’ve no objection—
Oh ! northern mails 1 my heart don’t flutter,
I’m not the one to stul—stut—stutter—
On Northern Mails !
llefle dions on War!
[Extracted from a Sermon delivered in the
Baptist Meeting-House, in Cambridge, Eng”
land.]
By the Rev. Robert Hale.
“ We have heard of the ravages ol‘
armies, and the depopulation of coun
tries, but they have merely supplied a
topic of discourse, and have occasioned
no serious alarm. The military sys
tem as far as it has appeared in this
country of late, has been seen only on
the side of its gaiety and pomp, a
pleasing show, without imparting any
idea of its horrors; and the rumors of
battles and slaughter, conveyed from
afar, has rather amused our leisure,
than disturbed our repose. While we
cannot be too thankful for our security
it has placed us under a disadvantage
in one respect; which is, that we have
learned to contemplate war with too
much indifference, and to feel for the
unhappy countries immediately involv
ed in it too little compassion. Heal
war, my brethren, is a very different
thing from that painted image of it,
which you see on a parade, or at a
review; it is the most awful scourge
that Providence employs for the chas
tisement of man. It is the garment of
vengeance with which the Deity arrays
himself, when he comes forth to punish
the inhabitants of the earth. It is the
day of the Lord, cruel both with wrath
and fierce artger.
M War may he considered in two
views, as it affects the happiness, and
as it affects the virtue of mankind ; as
a source of misery, and as a source of
crimes.
*• Though we must nil die, as the wo
man of Tekoa said, and are as water
spilt upon the ground which cannot he
gathered up ; yet it is impossible for a
human mind to contemplate the rapid
extinction of innumerable lives without
concent. To perish in a moment, to
be hurried instantaneously, withont
preparation and without warning, into
the presence of the Supreme Judge, has
something in it inexpressibly awful and
affecting.
“ Though the whole rate of man is
doomed to dissolution, and we are aP
hastening to our long home; yet at
each successive moment, life and death
seem to divide betwixt them the domi
nion of mankind, and life to have the
larger share. It is otherwise in war:
death reigns there, without a rival, and
without control, War is the work, the
element, or rather the sport and tri
umph of death, who glories, not only
in the extent of his conquest, but in the
richness of his spoil. In the other me
thods of attack, iti the other forms
which death assume*, the feeble and
the aged, who at the best can live but
a short time, are usually the victims;
here it is the vigorous and the strong,
ll i* remarked ly the most ancient of
poets, that in peace children bury their
parent*, in war parents bury their chil
dren ; nor is the difference small.—
Children lament their parents, sincere
ly, indeed, but with that moderate and
tranquil sorrow, which it is natural fur
those to feel who are conscious of re.
turning many tender ties, many animat
ing prospects. Parents mourn fur their
children in the bitterness of despair ;
the aged parent, the widowed
loses, when she is deprived of her chil
dren, every thing hut the capacity of
suffering; her heart, withered and de
solate, admits no other object, cherish
es no other hope. It is Rachel weep
ing for her children, and refusing to be
comforted, because they are not.
“ But to confine our attention to the
number of the slain, would give us a
very inadequate idea of the ravages of
the sword. The lot of (hose who pe
rish instantaneously may he consider
ed, apart from religious prospects, as
comparatively happy, since (hey are
exempt from those lingering diseases
and slow torments to which others are
liable. We cannot see an individual
expire, though a stranger or an enemy,
without being sensibly moved, and
prompted by compassion to lend him
every assistance in our power. livery
trace of resentment vanishes in a mo
ment ; every other emotion gives way
to pity and terror. In these last ex
tremities w e rememher nothing but the
respect and tenderness due to our com
mon nature. What a scene then must
a field of battle present, where thou
sands are left without assistance, and
J ..
without pity, w ith their wounds expos
ed to the piercing air, while the blood
freezing as it flows, hinds them to the
earth, amidst the trampling of horses,
ami the insults of ah enraged foe ! —lf
they arc spared by the humanity of the
enemy, and carried from the field, it is
but a prolongation of torment. Con
veyed in uneasy vehicles, often to a re
mote distance, through roads almost
impassible, they are lodged in ill-pre
pared resceptaclcs, for the wounded
and the sick, where the variety of dis
tresses baffles all the efforts of huma
nity and skill- and renders it impossi
ble to give to each the attention he de
mands. Far from their native home,
to tender assiduities of friendship, no
well-known voice, no wife, or mother,
or sister, is near to soothe their sor
rows, relieve their thirst,or close their
eyes in death!—Unhappy man! and
must you he swept into the grave un
noticed and unnumbered,and no friend
ly tear be shed for your sufferings, or
mingled w ith your dust ?
“ We must remember, however, that
as a very small proportion of a mili
tary life is spent in actual combat, so
it is a very small part of its miseries
which must be ascribed to this source.
More arc consumed by the rust of inac
tivity than hy the edge of the sword—
confined to a scanty or unwholscme di.
et, exposed in sickly climates, harras
sed with tiresome and perpetual a
larms; their life is a continual scene of
hardships and dangers. They grow
familiar with hunger, cold and watch
fulness. Crowded into hospitals and
prisons, contagion spreads among their
ranks, till the ravages of disease ex-
ceed those of the enemy.
” We have hitherto adverted only to
the sufferings of those who are engag
ed in the profession of arms, without
taking into our account the situation of
the countries tvhieh are the scene of
hostilities. How dreadful to hold eve
ry thing ut the mercy of an enemy, aud
to receive 1 iitsell as a boon depen
dant on the sword. How boundless
the feus which such a situation must
inspire, where the issues of life and
death are determined by no kimvn
laws, principles or customs, and no
conjecture can be formed of our desti
ny, except as far as it is dimly dcry
phered in characters cf blood, in the
dictates of revenge aud the caprices o!
power.
“ Conceive but for a moment the con
stera&t'.cu which the approach of an
invading army would impress on tue
peaceful villages in this neighborhood.
When you have placed yourselves for
an instant in that .situation, yon will
learn to sympathise with those unhap
py countries which have sustained the
ravages of arms. But how is it possi
ble to give you an idea of these horrors.”
Here you behold rich harvests, the
bounty of heaven and the reward of in
dustry, consumed in a moment, or
trampled under foot, w hile famine and
pestilence follow the steps of desola
tion. There the cottages of peasants
given up to the Haines, mothers expir
ing through fear, not for themselves
but their infants; the inhabitants fly
ing with their helpless babes in all di
rections, miserable fugitives on their
native soil! In another part you wit
ness opulent cities taken hy storm ; the
streets where no sounds were heard but
those of peaceful industry, filled on a
sudden w ith slaughter and blood, re
sounding with the cries of the pursuing
and the pursued ; the palaces of the
nobles demolished, the houses of the
rich pillaged, the chastity of virgins
and of matrons violated, and every age.
sex and rank, mingled in promiscuous
massacre and ruin. The contempla
tion of such scenes as tl ese forces on
us this awful reflection; that neither
Ihc fury of wild beasts, the concussions
of the earth,'nor the violence of tem
pests, are to he compared to the rava
ges of arms; and that nature in her ut
most extent, or more properly, divine
justice in its utmost severity, lias sup
plied no enemy to man so terrible as
man.
“ Still however it would be happy
fur mankind if the effects of national
hostility terminated here; hut the fact
is, that they w ho are farthest removed
from its immediate desolation, share
largely in the calamity. They are
drained of the most precious pail of
their population, their youth, to repair
the waste made hy the sword. They
are drained of their wealth, hy the pro
digious expense incurred iu the equip
ment of fleets, and the subsistence cf
armies in remote parts. The accumu
lation of debts and taxes diminishes the
public strength, and depresses private
industry. An augmentation in (he ne
cessaries of life, inconvenient to alj
classes, full with peculiar weight on
the laboring poor, who must carry their
industry to market every day, and
therefore cannot wait for that advance
of price which gradually attaches to
every other article.
“ In commercial states whatever in
terrupts their intercourse is a fatal blow
to national prosperity. Such states
having a mutual dependance on each
other, the effects of their hostility ex
tend far beyond the parties engaged in
the contest.
-• The plague of a w idely extended
war, possesses in fact a sort of omni
presence, by which it makes itself eve.
ry where felt; for while it gives up
myriads to slaughter in one part of the
globe, it is busily employed in scatter
ing over countries, exempt from its im
mediate desolations, the seeds of fa
mine, pestilence and death.
“ If Statesmen, if Christian statesmen
at least, had a proper feeling on this
subject, and would open (heir hearts to
the reflections which such scenes must
inspire, instead of rushing eagerly to
arms, from the thirst of conquest or the
thirst of gain, w ould they not hesitate
long—w ould they not try every expedi
ent. every lenient art, consistent with
national honor, before they Ventured on
this desperate remedy, or rather, be.
fore they plunged into this gulph of
horror.”
r * mm miMiit jpiwmi in.nrmumiM nui.so
ICP* One Hundred BAGS cl
COTTON wanted to fill up the ship
william HENBr, for Liverpool, to
proceed to Boston, and wait the remo
val of the Embargo ; also FIFTY
Bags ean be taken on deck, and a few
cabin passengers, if early application
is made to capt Hudson cn board, or to
JOHN CARNOCHAN.
May 12 6t £
Blanks of every de
scription executed with neatness
and dispatch, at the office of the
American Patriot.
Just Received.
JO Hhds 4thproof Rum
2 Pipes Cogniac Brandy
6 Do. Spanish do.
13 Pipes Gin
30 Barrels do.
7 Hhds. N. E. Rum
JO Barrels Apple Brandy
40 Barrels Muscovado Sugar
0 Chests Hyson Tea
jo do. Hvsou Skin do.
20 Barrel’s Crackers
20 Coils Cordage
30 Pieces Russia Duck
200 Boxes Soup and Candles
so Bags Coffee
Pepper, Pimento, &e.
100 Pieces Flag Handkerchiefs
ALSO,
4 Patent Time Pieces
HOW E & DEMON.
May 8 3t 9
Nankeens.
tooo Pieces long Yellow NAN
KEENS, for sale hy
J. Caig 8c R. Mitchell.
May tJ jo
At Private Sale,
JO Hhds. Fair view Gin,
1J do. and 20 bills. Whiskey,
3 Pipes India Point Gin,
2 do. Spanish Brandy,
1 Pipe and 2 this. French do.
4 lihds. high flavored 4th proof
R um,
4 do. and 3 bids. N. E. Rum.
20 Bills. Philadelphia Beer [fresh]
10 do. Shrub.
2 Pipes Madeira Wine,
10 Hhds. and 5 bids. Mustovad#
Sugar,
12 ( bests Hyson Tea,
20 Bags Coffee.
23 do. Black Pepper.
50 Boxes Soap and Candles,
10 do. Chocolate,
to BI.E. prime Beef,
23 Kegs Manufactured Tobacco,
0 Hiiils. Glass Ware,
0 Boxes Cotton Cuius, No- 8-
100 Pieces Humhums,
~o Pieces Cotton Bagging,
3o do. Tow Cloth,
lo do. Ticklenburgs.
Do Reams Writing Paper,
23 Coils White Rope,
3 Boxes (’ottc.ii Cards,
30 M. white Chapel Needles,
\ Small Trunk Cutlery,
Cassinere, Calico, India Bed-
Spreads, Handkerchiefs, &,f. &c.
I). WILLIFORD.
May t. o
At Private Sale.
10,000 lbs Cordage; 2 Hawsers
20 Id: k Molasses code.!. ugar
30 do. N. E. Rum, 20 do. Whiskey
10 pipes Brandy ; 30 bids Brandy
50 Ids. .Apple Brandy
15 hhds \\ est-India Rein
too Lags and 20 Kiris. CoSes
80 pipes Gin
4'J bids. Flour
20 chests Hvson Tea
30 bids. Loaf Korar
30 boxes Candles
10 pipes Brandi
Alto,trill he c. dwgcdur Cciton.
H pipes Madeira Yvh e
200 kegs Gunpowder
G clie sis Ik skin Tea
4 elegant stick bodied Giggs.
DUNNING & CLAY,
may 8 3t J t
“the subscribers,
P A\ ING entered into partnership,
iLfl. for the practice of Law in the
eastern district in the state of Georgia.
tender their services to tbe public.
I'heir office is opened on the corner of
Broughton and Lull streets.
RICH!). W. IIABKRSH V‘l
WM. HABERSHAM.
May 15. 10
Pews in Christ Church.
SOME persons inclined to purchase
Pews at the late sales haring been
unavoidably absent, the subsc ribci s arc
authorised to sell, at private sale, anv
Pews not exceeding t lie number often
For terms, application to be made ts.
James Johnston, ) W(trd^
J. Lawson* $
May 15 it ii
RED-LION HOTEL.
JVV 200, Jlfin‘/:et- Street , -within Jour d'bvs'J
Sixth Street, on the South side* end in ti t
centre of the Principal Tmf tor tern, &c.
GEORGE YOKE,
HAA ING considerably enlarged
this concern, to which, by an
addition to the building, lie 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 whits
liquors. —moderate charges, and the
most unremitting attention; in short,
w ith every convenience, which no. nat
ters himself, will give satisfaction to
his Friends and the Public.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2. 1811- t