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On the birth of a Child.
[ From the Latin of Johannes
Secundus .*]
I.
THO’ thou, my charming
boy ! wert born,
Before the church a licence fold.
Thou (halt not, helplcfs and
forlorn,
Thine arms around an hireling
fold.
11.
Since what a thoughtlcfs girl
could lofe
Thy mother forfeited for me,
Dare I, to flab her foie repofe,
Rend her young doating heart
from thee ?
111.
Or would a vulgar hackney kl
nurfe
To all thy little wants attend ?
Ten thoufand times my Hen*-
der purfe
Mull fail to buy thee fuch a friend.
IV.
Though, thy juft claims thou
canlt not plead,
I own the hone ft warmth of na
ture ; '
And what I was, rcfleded read,
In each fond artlels infant fea
ture.
V.
Detefting haughty harfh re
ferve.
Thy tender titles I avow. ,■
Thy father feels, thro’ every
nerve,
A joy he never felt till now.
* This celebrated poet was a
native of the Netherlands j and
died, at the age of twenty five,
in the beginning of the fixtcenth
century.
The REAL GENTLEMAN.
The teal gentleman has a
heart that fympathizes with the
poor, and is fufceptible of all
the tender feelings ; is a good
O O
hufband—a lov ng parent —a
iinccre friend—a quiet neighbour
and a cheerful companion. Un
biased by party, and unpreju
diced by any let of men, he
direds his principal attention to
the good of the public, and to
the fatisfadion of the commu
nity. In charity, he is liberal
without oflcntation ; and to the
diftreffed, he experiences him
lelf a father by ads of humanity.
He is religious without being an
enthufiaft—pious without hypo
crify, and virtuous from innate
principles of goodnefs. His
deportment is graceful and eafy,
and his addrefs engaging and
complaifant. He is affable to
his inferiors—agreeable with his
equals refpcdful to thofe who
are above him—cringing to
none, but polite to all.
ON TEMPERANCE.
Temperance is a jewel, which
the poffeffor may deem invalua
ble—lt is the parent of induf
try, of health, of relped, and
the only way to enfurc an hap
py and venerable old age,—
How often we fee the middle
aged, and even youth, go down
prematurely to the manfions of
the dead, through intemperance
—how often the tendered ties
of focicty, arc rent affndcr —
hew frequently are heard the
deep rending fighs cf a loving
wife, bedewing with her tears,
the fhivrir.g and ffarving off
spring, by the folly of an un
feeling and brutal hufband.
0 Man ! that he Ihould thus
abufe the bounties of a benevo
lent providena—that he fbould
fo far forget the dignity of his
nature —that rcafon, his bead
ed poffeftion, Ihould be over
powered by the gratification of
fenfual appetite, his, in com
mon with the bcafts of the
field.
Misfortune is no cxcufe, his
relation to his God, to his fa
mily, to the world, call aloud
upon him to exercife the facul
ties of his foul.—Let him learn
fortitude, let him pradicc refig
nation to that over-ruling will,
who hath numbered the hairs
of our head.
LOUISVILLE,
SATURDAY, May 23, iBci.
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JVafdngtcn, (Geo.) May 9.
The vicinity of Waldington
was vifited lad Tueiday evening
about five o’clock, with one of
the mod violent hurricanes ever
known in thefe parts. Its main
force palled in different direc
tions, but generally frcm the
wed to the eadward, within half
a mile of town. It is fuppofed
that there w'as 100 buildings le
velled with the ground, and
many people wounded. The
principal force w r as about a
quarter of a mile wide. The
dumps it took up, and the or
chards and fences dedroyed are
almoft incredible. The borders
of the hurricane alfo differed par
tially. The principle one we
have heard of, is the new brick
Academy, w hich roof was taken
off, and part of the weff wall
blowm in, it is fuppofed it can
not be repaired under ioco or
1200 dollars. There appeals,
however, a wonderful Provi
dence, that of 50 or 60 Undents
in fchool at the time, not one
was hurt, they made their efcape
out of the windward dcor, in
the midd of torrents of rain,
without hats or books.
Caleb Strong, is re-elected
governor of Maffachufetts by a
majority of 4CCO.
Frcm Wayne's Gazette U. S.
A writ of capias was this
morning ferved on the Editor
of this Gazette, at the fuit of ‘
of the Honor aide Debt or Micha
el Leir, and Five Thoufand
Dollars bail demanded, and gi
ven, for the Editor’s appearance
in the Supreme Court.
Great Curicfity , difccvcrcd near
the Ohio, related in a letter
frcm a gentleman at Fcrl Ear- .
mar , dated Feb. 7, iSco.
1 mud not dole my letter
without dealing a little in the
wonderful. \\ e have difeever- i
ed the mins of a very ancient
townj it is co reds Iqi are, fur
rounded with a wall which is at
this time two reds thick, and !
five or fix feet high, c:.d fiem
the appearance of foil, two or
three growths have already ad
ded to the manure and the pre
fect timber affords trees feven
feet diameter on the walls ; I
cannot give a minute deferip
tion, without delineating it, for
which I have not time at prefent.
It is four fquare, with twelve
gates, three on each fide, and
very regular between the town
and the Ohio are regular forth
fications, with turrets of obfer
vation, lines of defence, out
works, &c. In the town are a
number of raifed grounds, with
regular afeents to them, proba
bly places of worfhip, and a
canal to lead water from the
town, eight rods wide—a wall
on each fide which is ilill thirty
feet high in feme places—the
burying grounds, ike. &c.—
We have made every enquiry
of inhabitants and Indians they
can give nofatisfactory accounts.
The Indians fay their fathers do
not know who made them ; then
it w r ould be mere ccnjedure in
me to flrive to unravel the fe
cret. That they are not works
of nature, is certain ; and that
the Indians in their prefent flare,.
have not made them, is as cer
tain : then it follows, that the
prefer it Indians are defeendants
of nations once acquainted with
arts, or this continent was inha
bited by a nation unknown, who
are 101 l in the revolutions of
time, and entirely extindf; for
many reafons I am apt to em
brace the latter ; but Jet either
of the two be true, it convinces
me, that we know. very little
refpedting the firll peopling of
America.
LONDON, March 4.
Capture of the Kent Eaji-India
man.
It is with great concern wc
announce the capture of the
Kent Eaft Indiaman, in the Bay
of Bengal, on the 7th Oftober,
off the Sand Heads, by the
Confiance French privateer, of
26 guns and 250 men, after an
obllinate engagement of near
one hour and 45 minutes, in
which capt. Rivington, of the
Kent, was unfortunately killed,
bravely defending the company’s
property till the laft moment of
his exigence, when he exclaim
ed, “ do not give up the (hip.”
Mr. Cator, a free merchant, alfo
fell, covered wath wounds. All
the furviving paffengers who
were able to be .moved, weie
put on board an Arab, and
landed in Calcutta.
W e are in great hopes that
the Kent has been re-captured,
as the F ox and Arrogant, of 32
guns, had failed on a cruife, the
laft of Oblober, having received
information of the Confiance.
The Kent was in 25 fathom
water, and took the Confiance
for a pilot Hoop. The crew of
the Confiance were all armed
with fabres and piflols, and had
been thrice encouraged with li
quor, previoully to their board
ing the Kent.
The Titration of Mrs. and
Mifs Cater rnnfl have been dif
tiefiing in the extreme.
General St. John and his fa
mily weie on board the Kent,
and appear to have been parti
cularly 11 nfortunate. All his
jewels, plate and baggage had
been burnt on board the Queen.
The gallant captain Pilkington*
the General’s
feverely wounded in defending
the general’s family.
1 he French behaved with a
cruelty almoft unexampled, giv
ing no quarter, and ftabbing
even the Tick in their hammocks.
Previous r Q their boarding!
the Kent had evidently the ad
vantage j and had the crew, been
equally armed with offenfive
weapons, or had more mufque
try, the Confiancc would, in all
probability, have paid dearly
for the ralhncfs of the attempt.
This is the fame fhip which was
beat off formerly by the Arnif
ton. t
The aGove melancholy ac
count came by an overland dif
patch from Bengal, dated the
Bth of Odtober.
March 14.
Our readers will lee that the
fleet under admiral fir Hyde
Parker, confi fling of 17 ilvps
of the line, three frigates, and
amounting in all to 47 fail, have
failed from Yarmouth to the
North Seas. It is a mod for
midable armament; and by.the
number of gun-boats, bombs
and. veffcls of that delcription,
there is no doubt but that it is
intended to attempt a ccup-ds
wain.
His majcfly’s perfeft and
happy recovery now brings us
back to the arrangement which
was partly formed at the eve of
. his indifpofitioh for a new mi
nifiry. No impediment now
remains for carrying his makf
ty’s wifhes into effeft. The
follc'wing’is the lift of names as
they have come to our know
ledge :
Mr. Addington, firft lord of
the treafuiy, and chancellor of
the exchequer.
Lord Eldon, lord chancellor.
Earl of Wcftmoreland, lord
prefident.
Duke of Portland, privy feal.
Lord Hobart, fecretary of
ftate for the foreign department.
Mr. T. Pelham, ditto, for
the home department.
Lord Llawkeftmry, fecretary
of ftace for the war department.
Earl St. Vincent, firft lord of
the admiralty.
Earl of Chatham, mafter ge
neral of the ordinance.
Mr. Charles Yorke, fecretary
at war.
Mr. D. Ryder, treafurer of
the navy.
Lord Glenbervie, and Mr.
Steel, jointpay-mafters general.
Lord Huckland, and Lord
Spencer, joint poft-mafters ge
neral.
Lord Lewifhham, Prefident
of the board of controul.
Earl Hardwicke, lord lieute
nant of Ireland. < 1
Mr. Charles Abbot, fecretary
to the lord lieutenant.
The law arrangements con
tinue as they have been announc
ed and partly filled. Sir Pepper
Arden to be chief juftice o t the
common pleas, and fir William
Grant mafter of the rolls.
March 16.
We can allure our readers
from undoubted authority, that
Mr. Pitt refigned the (cals ot
chancellor of the exchequer into
his majefty’s hands at the queen 6