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TO ‘ HARITY. JTr.;i Chsri'y ! look benign, Po-rfrrvfl st onrr* 'hy tact* divine, Sob frtotltfr ofonr grief; T1 V r*rder, (vmD’thrrir foul. At ragged merit ne’er d ; d fcowl, But oflcrM quick relief. Wb ft fierce /million drench’d in blood, G'orif 8 to fee the purple flcOd, Of human pore flow round : Thou ftriv’ft the lab’ring m’ndfoeafr, From each corroding, fell dihtfe, And gently heal the wound. From Pride with half averted eye, Where fcorn and p'ty feem »o tic, Thru filed with eager hade ; Her idle pomp and linfel glare, tlcy may make idcots (Ur*, But ill accord thy fade from prim’d with fordid pelf, worn In l ore with care of felt, W ,f h horror dolt thru tu n ; f?it T p r z’d ’o fee 'he mind cf man, Sc fat dipref* from nature'# plan', M for itfe'j to burn. Cone then br tht maid, grant the beheft, »nd with tbyfelf fill .very bicaft, No» leave an emp’y fpape; JFrom meenpef# cleanfe the hurron mind, Of ne but gen’rou# thought# behind •f*nd love for all oar race. LA VINA or the RUINED FAIR. A R ECENT F ACT; ** Ye Heavens, if innocence deferve your care, «• Why have ye made it fatal to the fair ? *' Bafe man, the turn of our fex was born, u Th<* beauteous are bio prey, the reft b : s fcoro i 11 Alike ut f rtunntr, our fate ?a furh, tl We cither p'tafc too little, or too muT,” Gentle love f engaging fuhjeß ! thou haft, occupied a varied of pens. Scarce a poet hut has turn'd his lyre to fmg the. heart felf hlifs. or poignant woe, that flaw from thee. Thou art the darling theme of tie youthful hard the juvenile mufe re cords with delight the tehder anxie ties that caufe the lovers hea t to palp tale ; and whenhe is deJcrihing ihefe fo/t emotions, oft-times he feels what he de/crihes. Emhtliijhed with beauty s biillianf hloflcms , la vina bloomed the fair eft flower in all the va'r; though fortune had left her deftitute cf any pecuniary attraßicns, yet nature had done her part in end'iwrnr her form with p erf on a! accomphjhments ; hut ah ! how often has a handfome tare been t ? ruin of its pojfrffor ! i double Jhare c) diferetion is neceffary to keep it unfulhed., and vneentaminat cd; for, as the fuhhme Wilton fays, “ Bear:*, .ke the fa - AfiTeriin tree, Laden n h bloom ng , old had need the guard, “ Oi 7>asro" w„tch, with uoenchaot* ed eyr, v - To fnvf her IcfTonrt end defend her fru t ** F>om'h-r*fl ! and of incontinence ” flat 1 , Javira been lefs fair, fie would have at trailed left attention , and con/equently more happy, 7 has the fragrant violet is often plucked fr m its native kd to wither and decay . while the homely daify is ful lered to remain in umnokfted ft cu rl ty. A fair form always excites admi ration. and one of Lavinas war me ft admirers was Lorenzo,'the fpright ly, profligate Loienzo ; to an en gaging perjon he joined an infuriat ing addrefs, and by a them fan d ten der off dwties, he ftoon made a con quefl of Lavinas heart ; to be brief he robbed her of her only portion, her andJhortly after , left the injured fair , u 7o think on what was paft, and Cgh Blent.”—. Bitter were the ftrfattens which Crtur e d I,avina's hreafl when for fa hen by her unprincipled fedneer ; ennfeious as fhe was , that hr grow ing jhame would foem he obvious ic every eye, and her fituat.ion expo/ed to the redicule of an unfeeling cen forious world. Unhappy Lavina ! No more to thee the joyous morn appear, “ That led the tranquil hour#,of fpot lefs fame » “ For thou haft ftccpt a father’# couch in tear#, “ dud ting’d a mother’# glowing thee* with ftiamc.*’ Spekstone. Unhappy Lavina, if this record of thy misfortune deter hut one fair vefltl from fplilling on the fatal rocks oj Jedußion : thou haft rM been ruined in vain ; nor Jhall L rank the time [pent in writing this, amongfl my unprofitable moments. To the PUBLIC. TH E Editor of the Louifvlik Gazette refpeßfully informs the public in general , and his Friends in particular, that he has this day taken into co partnerfhip, Mr. fames Bely. 7he bujineft will in future be conduced under the Firm of DAY AND H ELY, Whofe attentions will be exercifed to render general fatisfallion — And they pledge them[elves for the con ft ant eercife of their be jftjudg ment in the dlfpofition of fuch efays and intelligence as may be prefented for publication • Ambrofc Day, James Hely, To the Patrons of the Louifvillc Gazette. 03" The Editor of this Gazette, requefls all thofe who have any De mands againf him , to prrfent them for payment ; and thofe Sub/cnbers zvho are in arrears, are particularly called upon to pay them as early as p'ffihle as it will be neceffary to clofe all accounts immediately. The public and Sub/cribers will pleafe to accept the expiejfionof the moft ftneere gratitude , as a pift acknowledgment for the ve'y kind fipport the Editor has receivedfuice his commencement in bufinefs . Ambrofe Day. April 29, 1800, NOTICE. [PH AT nine months after the date hereof, application will he made to the honorable the inferior court cf the county of Warren, Jcr leave to fell a traß of land, contain ing two hundred acres, on the Ogechee river , adjoining Lewis Bradiy and Fingery: it being the the real eflate of John Curry , de ceafed, jor the benefit of the heirs 0/ jaid (fate, Benjamin Warner, Richard Curry, Admrmfhators cf Jaid ejlate, February 20, 1800. N O T 1 C E. WHEREAS my wife, Rhoda Coleman, has left my bed and hoarding againft rny will ; ihefe are therefore to forwarn all petfone from deali ng# with her on my account, as I am determined to be the difpofer of my own property, and to pay no debts, but thofe of ray own contracting. John Coleman, J&rfon County, Feb. 35, IROO. BLANK. DEEDS For Sale at this Office, for sale, At this Printing-Office, cheap fit cajh % a collcßion of BOOK S, VIZ . Brookes'* Gazetteer Nugent's French & Erglifh Dift'onsry Htlhny of the Heavens Hargrave* Law Trafls bchiefer's Practice of the L»w Spirit of Laws H ftory of Paraguay Gordon's Tacitus Addifon’s Works Spencer’s Works Adventures cf Peregrine Pickle Adventures of Jofcpli Andrews Gulliver's Travels Briliot on Commerce Arthur Mervyo ; or Memoirs of the Year 1793•• Domeftic Memoirs MyHerica of Udolpfio Romance of the Forcfi Haunted Pn'nry Kea'e'a Sketches from Nature Caroline of Litchfield Offspring of RulTcl Eden Vale Civil Officer Frsnklin's Lift The Remembrancer The Decameron, or Ten Days Enter* talnmeot of Boccacc Elements of Fortification Hayes's Negotiator's Magazine The Other Side of the Queftioa Tale of a Tub Couftiturion* of the U. States Hive, a collc&ioo of Thoughts Nihcll nn the Polfe New Eoglifh Difpenfatory Compleat Letter Writer Hayes’s Imereft American Accountant Wilfon s Arithmetic Tutor’s A Aidant Seh 'olmafter's .Afliftant Complete French Mafter, for ladies find gentlemen An iotrodudion to Geography, prin cipally defigned for the ufc of fchools Mafon on Self Knowledge Seltft Plays Calvinifm Improved The Rel gion of Satan, or Autichrift delineated A new Hieroglyphical Bible, for the ■mufemeot and infirudion of chil dren, being a fcleflion of the rooft ufcful Itffons, and mod intcrcffing narrative* ; (CcripfuraUy arranged) from Geocfis to the Revelations, with familiar figures end fir king emblems, elegantly engraved A Defence of the Old Tefiamcnt, in a feriea of letters, uddrefTcd to Thomas Paine, author or a book, entitled, the Age of Reafoo, part the fecond, bcinf? an invcftigition of True and of Fabalona 'I hcology—By David Levi, author of letters to Dr. Pricft ly, in anfw'r to his to the Jews, &c, Love and Patriotifm ! or the adventure* of M. Duportail, late major genera! in the armies of tbt United States, interfperfed with many furpnzing incidents in the life of the late Count Pu'.aufki A Didiionary of Love; wherein is the defeription of a perfeft beauty ; the picture of a Fop or Macaroni f and a key to -'ll the arch phrafes, difficult terms, and peculiar idioms, ufed in that uo verfai language Greek and Lmio School Books French and Dutch Books Merchant Account Books, and Black Books of all kinds MUSIC BOOKS, for the Harpficord, Guitar, Violin, Flute, Clarinet and Hautboy# Together with a great variety of OLD BOOKS, too tedious to men tion. also, Pencils, camphorated Sealing Wax, and beft BLACK INK, by the quart bottle or froaller quantity. April 29, 1800. JUST RECEIVED, And may he had at this Office , A few copies of The Profpeft Before Us, A political publication, By JAMES T, CALLENDER, April 09, ; A Lift of Letters remaining m the P of-Office at LoujvtUe , cn the frfi day of April . 1800, which 2/not taken cut before the fir ft day of July next , will he Jcnt to the General Pofl-Ojfice as dead Letters. MAfOR JAMES ARM STRONG, John Addi fon ; Ddvicl Bryant, J arne3 Boyctt, John Buckner, Samuel Benedix, Mrs. Bofomwortb, or Mr. Holmes, 2. Nirnrnd Buike, Jeremiah Caldwell, John Cobbs Deaclesion Davis; Alexander Gordon, Samuel Garrett. Mit chell Griffiin,; Mark Holton 2. George Hargrove. William Hooks; David Jamerfon; Wil liam Kennedy; William Log ger, Peter Lealh ; John Man- Ton, Sarah Mulryan, or Mrs. Holmes, John Marffiall, John Montforf, Mr. Mackisick, Ti mothy M‘Kinney; Elijah Ncl fon ; Reuben Rogers; Eliza Smith, Rowland Stone, Hugh Wilfon, John Weft. Spencer Wilfon, Hcmy Smith. . JAMES BOZEMAN m. N; B, The Northern mail will be made up at half after (even o'clock on Sunday even ings, and the Southern mail at ten o’clock, a. m. on Wed nefdays. All letters intended to be conveyed on thofe days, mult be delivered at the poll office by the time abovemen tiobed, or they will lay till the next poft. April 15, 1800. *) By J 9iAk Watti 9 GEORGIA, ( Cirri of the Court of hVaJhington County, f Ordinary, for IVaJb" j ington County. WHEREAS Fliazer Cummin» hath ap plied to me for letters of adminif tration on the tflate of John Cummins, deceafed ; thefe are therefore to cite and admonifh all and fingnlar the kindred and creditors of the faid deceafed. to be and appear at my office, • n or before the ift day of July neat, to /hew caufc, if any they have, why letters of adminiftrg tion fhould not be granted. Given under my hand, this tfl day ct Jnne, ?800, and in the twenty fourth >ear ot the American Inde pendence. J. Watts, clerk c. 0. Jefferfon Superior Court, April Term, 1799. PreCent the bon. Geo. Walton. UPON the petition of Narhanisl N‘Mic kin, Rithaid Curry, and Benjamin Warner, praying the foreclofure of lb« equity of redemption, in and toacertaia trart '.{la id, containing four hundred acres, fiti ate, lying and being in the iaid county of Jefferfon, enc hundred ac»cs of which was granted to Frederick Dugiafs.and th« other three hundred acres to Kaac Auger, mortgaged to the faid Nathaniel M'Mickin, Richaicl Currey, and Benjamin Warner, by Ifaat for the fccuring the pay ment of a fum of money contained ins bund hearing date the 10th day of July, one thoufaud fevea hundred and ninety eight. upon motion of Mr, Carnet, attor ney for the petitioners ; it is ordered, that the principal, intcreft and cofts be paid into court, within twelve months from the date hereof, olherwife the equity of redemption will be for ever foreclofed, and other pro ceedings take ptace, agreeable tnan art of aflcmbly, in fuch cafes made and provided T and that this rule be pubiifhed in ore of the gazettes of this Bate, at lead once sft every mouth, until the expiration of the faid twelve months, or ferved upon the mortgage,or hil fpccial agent, at halt fi< month* previous to the espiration of the laid twelve months. Certified this 4th dayof Oftober Wm. M‘Dowcll, derk. National Magazine. Sub/cribers to the National % Magazine, are refpeftjully informed that the firfl , jecond and third numbers are juft received , and ready to be delivered at this Office, ivhere fuh/cripiions for the work, will he received. May 27*