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MISCKUANKOtJS. THE following Addn :>s wan written by a young gentleman of this city, and intended for the Ist January, 1812.—As it was r.ot then published, ar.U contains many fine pas. sags s, wc now give it an insertion. NEW*YEAirS ADDRESS, ton JAVIIHV Ist, 1812. ” Experience brandishes in her school a whip of scoi7>ions, and teaches nations her summary lessons of wisdom, by the scars and wounds of their adversity.”— Amet. ADDRESS. WHEN first the advcntcrcus prow of Spanish pride, Te Eastern Realms a western world allied ; When first Columbus in his lofty mind, Mid a rude age his wond’rous plan design’s ; When with ids daring balk he sought our shore, Bade Ignorance fly her Empire be no more ; Who could discern that in this western clime’ Events pro teutons in the womb of time Bhould burst to light, ar.d give the scroll of fume, Men whose proud deeds should cancel every name 1 Whocoulddisern the Indians’ peaceful land, In ruin laid by stem Invasion’s hand, A Cortez awe with war’s terrific frown, A Montezuma tremble on his tin-one ; A vile Pizarro, haughty, vain and bold, Thirsting tor Indian blood and Indian gold ? Who could discerh a mighty nation rise, Bounded by Earth, exalted to the skies ; Great by her virtue, in her freedom blest, The last Republic, happiest and best ! Oh had kind Heaven allowed prophetic power, To shew Columbus that eventful hour, When Independence made a glorious stand, And proudly marshall’d her victorious band : When Freedom burst oppression’s magic charm, And braced her Washington's illustrious arm; Ah had lie seen when lowering tempests tost Our Infant barque mid clouds her pathwa,, lost; Unmov’d a hero take the shatter’d helm, And guide to glorious peace a sinking malm ; The bold adventurer with joy elate, Greatful would hail i he high behests of fate ; Would greet the leader of our gallant band, And fervid clasp a kindred worthy’s hand. Relentless time wings its resistless flight. And buries Empires in oblivious night; Even blest Columbia glorying to be free, In some sail hour must feel the stem decree : O, may the writer of this simple lav, Bleep cold in death betbi-iylhui awful day ; And grant high Heaven when on Columbia’s . g shoi e, Her sun of greatness sinks to rise no more, Glorytaisy give one last dread hour of light, And theti- nations feel the awful night. Time fiie9 apfteeyetman unchang’d remains, A being mix’d of pleasures and of pairs ; Ambition prompts—lie seeks immortal lame, Anil lives to raise a never-dying name ; Or basely cringing to a tyrant’s power, Sings hallelujah on his natal hour. Another year has past and we once more, Invoke Heaven’s blessings on our native shore; Again we’er call’d to hail the new-born year, Again with mirth relax the brow of c:.rc ; Again with retrospective eye we scan, The varied pages of tin book of man. Erst when Helvetian Tell rais’d loud his voice, And death or freedom was the Switzer’s choice ; What deeds of fame Helvitia’s sons perform’d! How glow’ll their valour, hotv their fury storm’d! Now sunk in Slavery’.] gloomy night they sleep, Or waking, feel their galling chains and weep. Erst when Van Tromp bade Albion’s navies fear, And Holland hail’d De Rei ter's high career, Tiie honest Dutchman smok’d his pipe secure, Nor fear’d u foreign soldier at his door. Erst when wise Vasa fill’d the Swedish throne, And brave Adolphus fear’d no Despot’s frown, To fame’s bright honors fate had then de creed, Tiie glovious labors of the gallant Swede ; Then, happly then, the bold anil rugged Dane, Sung as hecheirlv plough’d the boisterous main. Erst when great Frederick with matchless force. Mid furious buttle urg’d his gt nerous horse, Thunder’d in arms and led a gallant host: Tiien independent power was Prussia’s boast- Prussia he.s been—and mighty Charles has fought, But where ts Austria ’ Russia now is bought: Where now is Holland and Helvetic, where The Swede the Dane and Prussian fam’d in war 1 Ail sunk in apathy's benumbing night, Unused to wield the sword in fields of flight, Caul’s bloody chief has fix’d his cursed swuv, And Europe lives butjn Napoleon’s dav. One nation only dares his savage rage, One nation known oa Fame’s etermai page : The haughty Spaniard cp.um his iron reign, And proudly breaks his adamantine chain. O for a muse whose potent magic charm, Might shake off apathy and coldness warm ; Thrill thro’ the soul with testacy divine, Then should great Wellesly grace a s.inpk line, Then should Brittania glory in his name, Tiie first in valor and the first in fame. Hail, Albion bail, great mistress of the main, May unborn ages bail thy glorious reign : Long may you wield your trident for the world, Long your virtorious banners be unfurl’d ; Unsullied may you live a modem Greece, And curb in France the monster foe of peace. Thus much for Europe— Let us turn our eyes To where Columbia’s cloud capt hills arise ; A people here to generous freedom wed, Possess that land for which their fathers bled, Happy in peace they clank us gallic chain, They four no Lodi dread no Wagram’s plane; If to their Freedom and their Country true, They want not splendor, need no empty slicw. But ah tho’ great Columbia’s friends must own, She bows, supremely bows at folly’s throne; Deception mingles her accursed bowl, And one wide error sweeps tire mighty whole. O must this people see their own disgrace, Must foul intrieguc unmask her haggard faci Yes, tho’ ungrateful be the arduous task, List reader, list, wc patient candor ask ; With patriot ardor some yet dare pursue, Deception’s mazes with Detection’s clue. When Washington bade Despot Legions fly, How shrunk vile faction from hlspiercirg eye, When that great father of his country liv’d, Columbia flourish’d and her commerce tbriv’d; Whcnhis strong arm gave to our freedom birth, Wc ciaim’d a place amid the states of Earth ; A glorious place, respect our valor won, Secure we bask’d in Freedom’s genial Sun ; But now- what sad reverse infests our eyes, That Sun alas is set no more to rise ! Night, cheerless night assumes a gloomy reign, And howling Faction scours our wide do main. Whence, whence my Country springs this source of war 1 Whence do our griefs, oh whence our sorrows flow ? Degrade and Country in your might arise, Let your loud Clarion rend the vaulted skies, Echoe along the rocks which bound the main, And in louil thunder crush Delusion’s reign, Proclaim with words to chill Deception’s plan, “ Arise mi sons defend the rights of man.” Alas what pictures haunt my aching sight. And must this people grope thro’ cheerless night ? Must hellish spells and hypocritic emt, To patriot namings give the name of rant ? ’'hall Jefferson commute our Country’s cause, Where sleeps stern Justice, where insulted laws ? Shall feeble Madison with jargon vile, Trim the last torch to light our funeral pile ? Shall British navies proudly sweep the main, Impress our Seamen, and shall we complain ? We who spurn Peace, yet fear impending war, And shut up Commerce from the generous tar, Cradled in stortns on ocean’s billows bred, Where shall he find a home, a cov’ring shed ? Shall he ye mad-cap politicians say, Shall he turn robber in the face of day, V Ordrag out life to penury a prev ? J Who gives employ ? How can the sailor cliuse! He offers others what yourselves refuse. Where calm Ohio rolls her placid stream, Where plenty reigns & yellow harvest gleam, The farmer droops dejected o’er his toil, W hilst surplus produce heaps the bounteous soil. Where New-York spreads her freighted can. vass wide, And merchant navies in her waters ride, Where with a pondrousload her Commerce toils, Mart of our States, grand store-house of our soils, Where wealth reposing on her native shore, Empties her cornucopia of its store : Now ;—dismal sight! Industry breaks her wand, And moping Indolence displays her band, Mute silence thro’ the useless harbors reigns, And wan distress pervades the idle trains. From sultry Georgia to the bleak Cham plaigne, What plenteous crops might load the heaving main, Hoiv might our Canvass whiten everv sea If blest Columbia tiared indeed be free. Rise real Levers of your country, rise, Exalt to honor but the just and wise Hurl turban’d Ignorance from wisdom’s seat, Trample deccptiou under Freemen's feet An might we call on Hamilton’s great name Greene, Ellsworth, 1-* wrens, men of endless fame’ : Where arc onr hopes ? where Jay and Bayard where, W’here Marshall, Pinckney, glorious chief in war f Johnson arise, speak venerable sacc TJI us the wise experience of age : Griswold and Picliering jour country’s pride, Go King and Morris rally at their side ; Talents and manly worth arise once more, Assert our Freedom bid our cannon roar ; Proclaim the Constitution is assailed, Try one last effort, Virtue never fail’d, O save your country names to country dear, Columbia’s sons your warning voice will hear; D.spel the mists which cloud Conviction’s Sun, \risc, arise ere fiction’s arts are done : O let us not again invoke your power, O’er freedom’s ahar hangs t dismal hour ; Office and Place are pawned for foreign gold, Outcasts and Wretches lave their country sold : What are our councils, councils but in name, Measures replete with infamy and shame; Philosophy that teaches not to feel A policy which sleeps whilst villains steal: These are our helmsmen, draw the curtain draw, Blind are our Watchmen mute our public law. O grant kind Heaven one sacred ray of ligh, Put down Presumption, string the nervis of might; Give us to live respected, or to fall, And let wide min whelm the guilty all, Purge the dire comment from the page of time. Or else propitious smile let Freedom thrive, And patriot honor ye t respected live. Then shrill the Eagle bear our flag unfurl’d, And save the relics of a prostrate world; Columbia’s genius on her clifis elate, O’er Earth and Sea, shall shake tho bolt of fate ; With keenest eye her real Interest scan, The friend indeed of poor insulted m m. Then those who hold Columbia’s honor dear, With loud acclaim shall greet the new Lorn year. January 1, 1812. THE LYSPECTOII...SSO. VI. “ Strong Labour gets up at the first morning dawn, “ And stoutly steps over the dew-spangled lawn, “ I’or with him goes health from a cottage of thatch.” W HEN Ada, queen of Caria, sent a variety of dishes and a number of excellent cooks to Alexander, he re turned them with the following re mark, expressive of an heroic modera tion : “ I have no need of them ; for I have been supplied with better rooks by my tutor Leonidas ; a march be fore day to dress iny dinner; and a light dinner to prepare my supper.” Here the pride of Maeedon, and the terror of Asia, proved himself not less wise, than his vigorous and rapid con quests shewed him great: Such men are fit to govern. Temperance and exercise, areas re quisite to give health and vigor to the mind, as to the body; so nice is the connexion, and so immediate the sym pathies between the corporeal and men tal faculties, that the least derange ment in the one, injures more or less, the other : A man bred in the lap of effeminacy, is as indifferently calcula ted for the cabinet, as the field ; as weak in athletic sports, as in the pur suits of Literature ; the bloated Sou of Luxury, whose days are devoted to the pleasures of the table, and whose nights are spent in dissipation and debauche ry, is virtually a dead member of So ciety ; his example it is true may vi tiate public morals, but his labours can in no respect benefit the world. It is a standing instance of the essen tial importance of Temperance and in dustry, that in those communities where these virtues reside, the powers of man are exhibited in their most admirable lights: What gave to the Helvetic confederacy their high name for mar tial feats, and hardy valour, but the simple manners and frugal habits of its respective Cantons ? Where has stern, inflexible virtue risen to so high a pitch as in ancient Sparta ? It was not until the arts of Spain corrupted the habits of the Dutch, that they became a prey to ambitions invasion Holland had seen a time when her arms under the auspices of a Be Witt & Maurice, had spread her name and renown thro’ the remotest climes—Had Rome main tained its pristine virtue, the army of Cfesar would never have conquered by despoiling the fair features oipitit ma'i tre opponents. Arts ami Sciences have always re sorted to those countries where the con genial manners of the inhabitants not only offered an assylum but gave them the hand of succour and pat rone re - it has been upon this principle that We have seen them flourish in temperate ages, or consume amidst (he fires of Luxury ; Genoa and \ enice. had once a great name for virtue, and the island oi Landia exhibited the glorious issue of a contest in which the arms of ef feminacy opposed the stern valour of a frugal people ; But Genoa and Venice are now no more—Luxury has levelled ilicir greatness and rendered them fit tools for designing ambition. Americans—No country offers grea ter inducement* to the preservation of these virtues; the high example of their worth, which your Revolution evinced, should render them dear and inestimable to every lover of his coun try, it is by their aid alone that an im pervious harrier may be erected against the arm of conquest. However strong the javelin and however firm the nerve that impels it, still the shield of Tem perance intervened, the blow of a child is not more efficient. Reader look at the Eastern Section of this favored country and learn to respeet its guar dian genii—Frugality & Industry. Let ns try the subject in another point of view, as operating upon the constitution of men ; health generally resides with a laborious and free Pea santry ; and as it must be considered amongst the choicest of Heaven’s bles sings, so it follows, that the industri ous mind is infinitely more happy than the pampered cit. Who that has seen the rosy tenants of thatched cottage indulging in their innocent amusements has wished to he transported to the dull insipidity of the polished assem bly ; in the one case, you see the cher ub smile of real contentment and jocu lar mirth, in the other, a fictitious hap piness and studied deportment ; here you observe the untutored sincerity of affection, there an interested attach ment.—Who then can doubt but that morality, [the health of the mind] is more perfect around the hnmble hearth than in the gevv-gaw parade of the splendid circle ? The idea of the poet whose lines gave my page, are not less beautiful than correct. The suit whose rising rays only provoke the sluggard to eke out his heavy doze ; finds the votary of Temperance ready w ith health, and refreshed with wholesome rest; ready to hail his welcome beams ; the room of one is crowded with empirics and potions, the other hardly knows the name of Medicine, and never listened to the footsteps of the son of Escula pius. Reader, under every principle which can exalt man in his own correct esti mation, cultivate the nobler virtue of Temperanee, 110 surer safeguard can be found against the encroachments of vice, none so secure against the attacks of disease. 1 would apply my remarks particularly to this Society : In warm latitudes we invariably find the great est inclination to the use of destructive stimulants, and there have not been wanting those who inculcate adoetrine the most baneful, that the effects of ex cessive external heat, should be coun teracted by a fictitious internal warmth. This my he correct, but it certainly is a mad and desperate remedy, to sw al low Arsnic, as an antidote to Opium; or Copperas, to neutralize the poison of the Serpent.—lndeed I cannot but think that the alarming mortality which hashing afflicted by annual visitations the health of Savannah, is to be at tributed to the dissipated cast of char acter which marks citizens; No pub lic body can meet, but the consequence must be a nocturnal celebration at the orgies of Bacchus ; a Corps cf Volun teers cannot parade, without alarming Society with subsequent broils ana nightly carousals. I conclude this day’s remarks, by the following quotation from that ex cellent work, The Looker-on : “ I never shall forget one of my great grandfather’s letters on the death of his youngest Brother, who was cut off at the age of 71. —Wherein, after palling him young fellow, lie tells us that he met his death in the act of pul ling on a tight pair of boots, after eat ing a bason of broth with Cayenne pep per. It has ever since been looked upon in our family as an unpardonable debauch, to swallow any thing that can raise the smallest combustion within us.” One Hundred BAGS COTTON wanted to fill up the sh william <§• HENRI, for Liverpool, j proceed to Boston, and wait the remo I val of the Embargo ; also FIFT Bags can be taken on deck, and a fe cabin passengers, if early applicativ e is made to capt Hudson on board, or to JOHN CARNOCHAN. May 12 61 9 lO” PERSONS who have not complied w ith the terms of the Sales, of PEWS in Christ Church, will please call on the subscriber for their titles. JOHN LAWSON. may 26 13 Just Received, By late arrivals from the Nortktcard, 2,000 Pair Men’s lined and bound Shoes, 2 Large trunks Morocco Slppers, 1 do. Kid do. 2 dc. boys Shoes, 1 Case Straw Bonnets of the latest Fashions 2000 Yards straw braid and trimmings all of which w ill be sold low for cusli, or in barter for prime upland Cotton. E. STODDARD. , _ Joiauien't Sc -aure May 12 o Fresh Eoots &* Shoes Received per Ship Woodbine, f nn A'eic-l'ork. at OLIVER H. TAYLOR’S .Market Square SUW ARROW Boots, Top Boots, Gentlemen’s morning SLIPS. Ditto Lace BOOTS, Ladies Morocco Lace BOTTS, Ditto do. Grecian ties, lndispensibles, with Pocket Book at tached them Boot Cord, Boot Webbing, &r. Which with former large and w t ;• selected Stock, will be sold low { cash only. B. J. SCRIBNER. may 29 14 Saddlery Store. THE SUBSCRIBER, HAYING purchased the Stock i- Trade of D. W. Johnson, 0 £ let s for sale at the most reduced pri ces for cash only, a general assert, ment of Men’s and Ladies SADDLES, of all descriptions : Plated and Bras? mounted Harness ; Plated Bridles cf all descriptions, Whips, Valeisea Trunks, &e. &c. THOS : JOHNSON, may 29 3w 14 Notice. THE SUBSCRIBER’S Business calling him out of this state, for a short time, has an pointed Mr. Thomas Johnson his at torney in fact. B. W. JOHNSON. S3 3w 14 ter Substitute for Cash, THE subscribers taking into con sideration the extreme dulr.ess or the times, oner for sale their remain* ing stock cf Shoes, and Boots Or any part thereof in barter for prime Cotton and Rice. JCT* Purchasers for the country trade wiil End it for their advantage to c ill as the above stock will be said low. BARNS & EVELETH. may 19 ii Gibbons’ Buildings Caution UjUUiE public are cautioned against tr £ii a S f:,r two JS'QTES ar.a-a ULh HILL, drawn in our favor bv Abraham Joseph, who ran awav be tween the Ist and loth of April last, Irani this city. °nc note at sixty days dated March 3d for ct oor c* , o One do. do. do. March sth for * - - 153 73 Also, a due bill given ns for the balance on thirteen Bales of Cotton sold him, the amount near three kin dred dollars. The notes n~t b due w ere lodged in bank and cf coum our name was on the back as customs ry. M hen lodged in bank the note (or 290 37 1-3 cents was endorsed tv Messrs Kiehmcnd and Allen and our. selves for the purpose of discount.- ” e sliouhj have advertise and them k fore, hnt thinking that when we sect them ay John Jones, we had a pod man, but have been deceived. We therefore forewarn alt persons front trading for the said notes or due bills above mentioned, as thev are net worth a cent. P. H. Sc T. CraT?c2. may 19. Attention! the subscriber, *',RS ior sale a number of v:, ,N ~ liable SLA A ES, singly and ia families; among tliemare Blacksmith railors, Bakers, Coopers, and a fcU ’ teat stands the manufactur-I of i J B) S l:j 5 V ai 7* females, ,| <• ••ants. ( * .1 <ng to purclia.- e. >-o good ar. op •• : Tie,eJ -roes at low r eg. I I CT° Application to be made at hi* office, for the sale cf Negress, r.cai the Exchange, D. POLGCS. ; ma . v 29. i4 a RED-LION HOTEL, JVe. 200, Market-Street, n-iilir fas? dome. Sixth Street, on the South side, and in tU centre of the Frincihal Importers, £-. GEORGE YOKE, MAYING considerably enlarge'. this concern, to which, by K addition to the building, lie has ad.Ta; a number of Chambers, a large jpVi*£ room and extensive Stabling—imrra Merchants and Travellers, that he h* it in Lis power to accommodate tfcefl with a well served up table, goodn ict liquors , —moderate ciiaeces, and th most unremitting attention: in shop with every convenience, which he tens himself, will give satisfaction • his Friends and the Public. Philadelphia, JYcv. z, iSH- i