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From the Char left on limes.
[The following pathetic lines
were handed us by a gentle
man, who found them in the
(beet.]
By a lady on her leaving AAmerica,
being rcjelled ly her parents.
Adieu, Columbia , happy land ;
Soon jhall I leave thy fhore:
yldicu , ye friends my heart holds
dear,
Whom 1 jhall fee no mere:
Adieu, my parents, fare yen well,
My hleftings on ye reft ,
Tho' cur ft , and from you I be
fpurn d.
Be ye fupremely lift.
My infant years no par nits knew,'
No father's tender care ,
No mother's foft endearing love.
Bid Anna ever ft:are.
But when invited to your arms ,
With eager hafte 1 few,
To Jh are the fond parental /mile,
And be embrac'd by you.
But new by yen exil'd, erft off.
Spurn'd from ycur very doer !
Unfriended, and on ftrangers ca.ft,
We part to meet no mere !
To ftrangers now I lift my voice,
To you vehofe generous aid
Didfave me f cm perdition's gulf ,
My warmeft thanks be paid.
And in your left extreme ft need.
When foul and body fever,
For this one all, in ay all your fins
Be blotted cut forever.
An Ext em pore SER MON.
Breached at the reqiiejl of two
Scholars —
By a Lover of Ale,
Out of a Hollow Tree.
Beloved,
Let me crave your attention ;
for I am a little man, come at
Hiort warning, to a thin congre
gation—in an unworthy pulpit.
And now beloved my text is
Malt ; which I cannot divide
into fentenccs, becaufc it has
none ; nor into words, it being
but one ; nor into fyllables, be
caufe it is but a monofyllable ;
therefore I mull divide it into
letters, MALT, M, my belo
ved is moral; A is allegorical ;
O *
L is literal; and T theological.
The moral is let forth to reach
drunkards their duty ; wherefore
my firftufe (hall be exhortation.
M my mailer, A all of you, L
leave off, T tippling. The al
legorical is when one thing is
ipoken of, and another thing is
meant; now the thing Ipoken of
is malt: M my mailers, A all
of you, L lillen, 'l' to my text.
But the thing meant is llrong
bet i ; v.hich you ruffles make
M meat, A apparel, L liberty,
T treafure.—The literal is ac
cording to the letters ; M much,
A ale, L little, T third.—The
theological is according to the
effects it works—flrff, in this
world ; fecondly, in the world
to come. Irs effe<sls in this
world are, in fome M murder,
in others A adultery, in fome
L loolcnefs of life, in others,
T treafon. Its effefts in the
world to come aie, M inifery,
A anguiffi, L ErguHhirg, and
T torment. —Now to conclude
Say well and do well, Loth end
with a letter,
Say well is good, but do well is
better.
LATE FOREIGN NEvVS.
LONDON, April i.
A letter from Copenhagen,
dated March i, contains the
following high founding para
graph
“ Lord Nelfcn may come
whenever he plcafes, we arc moll
formidably prepared to receive
him with red-hot balls, for which
purpofc the furnaces are kept
heated night and day. We Hat
ter ourfclves that our prepara
tions are fuch as cannot fail to
repulfe a fleet of one hundred
fail of the line, in cafe of any
attempt made to force the paf
fage of the Sound. The Swe
difh gaily fleet is expeded here
about the latter end of the month,
and our whole fleet of defence
is already Rationed in the road.
The Emperor of Ruffia fends
like-wife thirty fail of the line
and twelve frigates to our affiff
ancc.”
Between one and two o’clock
this morning, the Hamburgh
mail due on Wedncfday came
to hand. Its contents are of con
ffdcrable importance.
It was yefterday reported in
the city, that advice nad been
received of a total change hav
ing taken place in the miniffry
of Ruffia i and although the
rumours could not be traced to
any authentic fource, the credit
which the public opinion feemed
to attach to it, can fed the funds
to experience a rife of near one
per cent.
Our letters from Plymouth
ffate, the arrival at that port of
a cartel from Morlaix, with in
telligence that the French army,
now on its march to co-operate
with the Spaniards, in the inva
fion of Portugal, amounts to
45,000 men.
The Dey of Algiers, as we
have already ffated, appears to
be not only friendly to England,
but alfo to have declared war
againlt her enemy the French
Republic.
April g.
The veffeb by which we re
ceived the laff French journals,
brought back the meffenger dif
patched by M. Otto on Saturday
night to Paris, with the refult
of the Cabinet Council which
fat on that day. The meffenger
has returned with the anfwer of
the Chief Conful, which yeffer
day was reported to be favora
ble, and the funds role upon the
new^s; but it is obvious that no
material ftep can be taken with
a view to negociatc, till Buona
parte has conlultcd his allies ; a
proceeding which will occaffon
a delay of fome weeks.
STONNINGTON, (Con.)
April 28.
Ahufe of the Toft-Office If ablifo
ment.
Several weeks have elapfed
ffnee we have received the Au
rora, from Philadelphia, or the
Mercantile Advertifer and Spec
tator If cm New-York, confe
qucntly enquiries have been made
to the Editor of the Advertifer,
in particular, whether they were
regularly lent ? And we are afTii
rccl by letter, that t( they are
fent with the fame punctuality
as to any of the fubferibers,”
and we believe that the Aurora
and Spectator are as regularly
lent; why not then receive them ?
It is evident from fimilar com
plaints of many of our typogra
phical brethren, that the papers
are either deftroyed through
party views, or detained for pe
rufal by feme of the Poll Mailers
on the fouthern route. In feve
ral inflances papers have been
received at this office without
rappers, and much foiled both
in fide and out, evidently occa
fioned by perufal, with a direc
tion on the paper ; others have
come to hand four or five weeks
after publication,frequently tore,
cut and injured. Of late, how
ever, we have not received thofe
papers in any fituafion. As none
but poll- mailers, ortheir clerks,
(who are fworn equally the lame
as a poll- maker) have a right to
open and dole a mail, we have
reafons diffidently flrong, to
lliggrft that papers, and fre
quently letters, are embezzled
by feme of them, notwithstand
ing their dolemn cath, and a
bond which they forfeit by fucli
conduCt, and an additional pe
nalty of 50 dollars. The public
being thus deprived of informa
tion by fuch infamous fellows,
we hope ere long, that meafures
will be taken by our prefent ad
mmittration, to revive the de
clining (late of the poll-office
eflablifhment, by a removal or
punifiiment of villains who thus
abufe their trufl to anfwcr party
views, or procure information
at the expence of other people
by detaining their papers. It is
well known what the political
principles of mod of the pod
malfers are, and it is with deep
regret, that we have cccafion to
a Cert that fuch unwarrantable
crimes are committed by the
advocates of “ order and good
government.”
The good citizens who live
adjacent to certain poll offices
on the fouthern route from New r -
London, would do well in keep
ing an eye over the pod-matters;
examining the newfpapers in
their pofleflioii, and they will
undoubtedly make dome difeo
veries, by which the authors of
fuch villainy may be brought to
condign punidnnent.
New-Jersey.
TRENTON, ApUiS.
On Thu/fday laid w as brought
to this place, the famous Mam
moth Ox, bred by John Hum
phries of Hopewell, in this
county. This extraordinary ani
mal far furpafles in fizc any of
the fame fpecics ever raided in
America, or perhaps in the j
world. He is now feven years :
ill *
md and was pure haled dor the
dum of three hundred dollars.
His meafurernent is as follows :
his height i 3 hands, i inch and 1
J-4ths ; length 18 feet 2 inches |
and a half; circumference near j
the fore Ihoulders 14 feet; and -
from his wethers to the bottom
or the dow lap, he meafures five
feet and Even inches.
NEW- YORK, y.-y 16.
IM PORTANT.
[From the weft rrfpeftable fcurcc.]
Advices from London, under
date of the nth of April, re .
ccived by the Atalanta, from
Briftol, date, that couriers were
continually palling between Lor.
don and Paris ; and that t was
probable a minifter would be
appointed on the part of Eng,
i land to treat for peace ; although
i it is thought much will depend
on the event of the expedition
again ft Egypt. The Danes
have taken poflcfllon of Ham.
burgh and the Pruffians of Han
over. The feet under Sir Hvdo
i Parkerhadnotcntered the Sound
when they were laft heard from.
Riots on account of the fcarcitv
of provifions had taken place in
feveral manufacturing towns in
but had been quelled
by the military.
NORFOLK, May 14,
COMMUNICATION.
Vaccine Dif cafe.
We arc authorifed to lay, from
medical information, that the
Ccw-Pcxy as introduced here,
; has failed in its imputed power
of precluding the Small Pc::,
Moll of thole who have fince
been introduced for the latter
diftafe received it as ufual—lt
is not intended by this to preju
dice the public mind againft the
fnppofed improvement in the
practice of inoculation ; fcecauie
from the great refpeCl due to
the talents and candour of the
original and fuccefsful experi
menters in the vaccine difeaje , vc
are obliged to fufpcCb that the
matter here ufed, was cither not
genuine, or had left its virtue.
We only mean to guard thefe
who have received the matter
from this place, againft tilifting
to the difeafe produced by it as
a fecurity to prevent the Small
Fox.
CHARLESTON, May 18.
Capt. Hoyt, arrived here yes
terday from Ph ladelphia, on his
pafiage fpeke a brig from Leg
horn bound to Baltimore, the
captain of which informed him,
that the Algerine cruifers cap
tured every American vcliel
they fell in with.
SAVANNAH, May 20.
1 Extra ft cf a letter fran an cjftcer
at Fort- JVilkinJcfi , to his friend
in this city , dated May 8 th %
1801.
<c We have alarming news
from the Seminolcs towns: —
Bowles’s revived intereft and in
fluence at this juncture, will cer
tainly lhake the authority of the
United States. From the bek
information received as late as
this day, Mr. Bowles has receiv
ed a cat go of valuable goods
from feme one of the Jamaica
ports —the traders are Hocking
to him, and I fear will become
his advocates, as he di/pofes ct
goods at an extremely low rate,
letters from col. Hawkins anr.
Timothy Barnard, fay, iC
mifehief makers are again at.
work—a conventionof the Crec*
Nation will take place on tho
23d of May-—we know not ttm
event."