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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. * 'i™" 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