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ri application before Marriage, 337 A LADY. Prepare me, 0 Almighty Lord, Tor that important day , When I Jhall blight myfolemn word To honor and obey. When at thy Jacrcd alter , /, With trembling feet jhall ft and \Be thy eternalfpirit by To join the beat t and band. United thus , no human force , Can part the happy pair , put life Jhall run a cheerful couvje Offojbineallthe year . fet cv'n whenplenfures cup's enjoy 'd The draught may bitter prove , Vnlefs cur thoughts be eft employ'd On happimfs above, }Within us Lord, new hear tscr eat e , Prepar'd for heavenly blifs That we may feek a better flats, . While we refide in this. fjxcrfs of ceremony fhews want of breeding. Not only want of breeding, out want of good fenfe, and ma ny times want of common fenfe. There is a certain Cafe and graceful mein which is highly requifite to render ourfelves a greeable to ethers, and infpire them with a prepolfefrion in our 1 favour; but this does not con- I fill in “ low bows, and formal j ceremony.” It is fomething which is the refult cf experience and good fenfe. The perfon who is devoid of either of thefe, can never conftitute the u plead ing figure” of lord Bacon. The clown is often produced by want of experience only, but the fuper-ceremonious fop, by a lackage of underftanding. This lafl charadler is not commonly difeovered in any but fuch as have had fomc opportunity of information, but- who, at the fame time, are unbltll with judg ment or difcretion. Thefe fu perfluous formalities are never fimultaneous with an exalted underftanding, or mental dignity. The truly great fpurns them with lovereign contempt. They <exift only in a mind doomed to triviality. I have feen modern bucks of this defeription cut fuch droll vagaries, that it would not fail to convulfc the laughing r O O inufcles of the mofl grave phi lofopher. I have feen them en ter a room containing not more than one or two, and with an air ol much importance, march oft their appointed number of fteps, halt lelfurely, form in a particu lai pofition, and when complete ly made ready, begin their ex ert ife with a kind of oblique obeifance, which is not in the powder of language to reprefent, whiMl their feet deferibed a fee tion, which would defy the art of Euclid or Archimedes to pro ject. ‘ I would not be underftood to inveigh againft all thofe princi ples .of polirenefs taught in forne of our dancing fchoois. On the contrary, I deem them great ac complilhments, and worthy the attention of every perfon. Re fined manners is an eftirnable Ornament. But there arc fome. the contents of'whofr feuds are not of the belt contexture, who carry them to fuch excels, as to render themlcl vts perfectly ridiculous. While’endeavoring to diftinguifh themfelves by a mi flake n politenefs, they draw upon themfeives the jell of the company, as a reward for their | alreeled eccentricity. R E M A R K S. One who danders others to raife himfelf, is like a man who lets fire to one part of a town, in order more lafcly in ano ther. Solicitude in hiding failings make them appear the greater. It is a lafer and eaficr courfe frankly to acknowledge them. A man owns that he is ignorant; we admire his niodefty. I It fays he is old; we fcarce think him fo. He declares himfelf poor i A * we do not believe it. A SAD CATASTROPHE. Women have, in all ages, been at great pains to adorn the outfide of their heads; and this, as well as the other parts of their drefs, thev have from time to * 4 time ingenioufly varied. About the beginning of the American revolution, the general ton , in point of female head drefs, was a Cufncn , of enormous bulk, which the girls wore as con- I Icientioully through the lulcry | heat of dog days, as .during the i rigors of winter. The culhion, in its fir ft eflablifliment, was ft Lifted with fheep’.s woolj but this article, in the progrefs of the American war, growing ex tremely fcarce, many a good girl was obliged to fill her cufhi on with hay. And indeed this was thought to be an ingenious and excellent fubftitute, till the following unlucky accident de ranged the phylofophy of the whole bufincfs, and occafioned great fenfations and alarm : —A girl who had fluffed her cnfhion with new hay, lode out to take an airing, and alighted from her horfe, which it feemswas very hungry, and happening to ftoop his head, the flavour of the hay fo forcibly attracted him, that, all on a fudden, and without malice prepenfe, he committed at one and the fame time the illegal a6ls of affaulc and buttery, and alfo of trover and converfion; for what did he do but feize, open-mouthed, the culhion, and notwithftanding the painful con tortions and piteous fcreams of the unfortunate owner, violently tore it from her head. Indeed, the lols of the cufhion, however confiderable, might have been countervailed ; but the lofs of much hair with it, (for in thofe days the female head was not Ihorn, like that of a friar,) was an aftedlirg circumllance, which muft have rendered her for fomc time, quite inconfolable. ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES. I he language of adulation , efpecialiy if delicate, is pleafmg to mofl perfons. Liftcn nor, however, with eager attention, to the compliments paid you by the other fex; nor believe, be canfe they may utter a few tender cxprefTions, that- thejr sw ena> ( ' moftxl with ycii. \< err ember, J that foir.e gentlemen think it a duty tht*y owe to ladies, to be very complaifanc to them ; but that the very lame compliments they pay to one lady, will, with equal ardor, the next moment, | be conferred by them on ano ther. Avoid ff'etfalien \ it indicates a want of leide. Affectation is j alfo dllagrCcable ; it will expofe you to ridicule; and may obfeure the good qualities you poliefs. While you fhall hold virtue in the highefl eflcem, fufflr not yourfelvcs to be charged with prudery. It may caufc your virtue to be fufptded, and is often a cloak lor a depraved heart. Blufh not to be thought reli gious ■, nothing can fo dignify and bleis human nature as reli gion. But while you drive to !be firiidly religious , you will ! difeard ail the parade and oflen*- ■ ration of hypccrify. Be not liady to propagate a report unfavorable to any of your i fcx. It is an evidence of a bad | hearty to publilh, with phalli re, j the foibles or vices of others, j Such conduCf mud be very tin j becoming in young ladies , for I rcafons too obvious to mention - y j and they fhould always remem ber, that the vices of others, add not to their own virtue. If a prelent is conferred by you, on a gentleman, it fhould be done with great prudence -y and, it fhould be obferved, that equal prudence is required of you, in receiving a prefenc from one not of your fex. If fhould be confidered that beauty is no fign of merit ■, and that a handfome perfon may be rendered difagreeable by pride. Jc will add to your reputation never to be guilty of detraction, but to fhew a regard rather for the honor of others, and to your peace , never to indulge the paf lion of envy. NOTICE. ALL perfons indebted to Pe ter Johnfon Carnes, Efq. late of this county, deceafed, are de fied to make payment as foon as poffible ; and thofe to whom the deceafed flood indebted, to exhibit their claims duly atteft ecl to Michael Shelman, Efq. of this place, or to the Sub feriber at Sylvan-Hill , Franklin county. THOMAS P. CARNES, Adminift rater. Louijvilky Alay ij, 1001, NOTICE. NINE months after date, ap plication will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of the county of JefFerfon, for leave to fella trad! of 287-h. acres of land on Ogechee, in Laid coun ty, bounded by Stephen Derry foz, and Jacob Sutton’s lands, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of Seth Fountain, de- j ceafed. Wm. FOUNTAIN, adm’r. | July 4, 1801. MUSIC BOOKS, for the Violin and German Flute, for fale, at the Office of the Louifviile Gazette. t ON the pet it ten if J t hn 7) lia ble. Jetting firth, th'<t hie time fines f he pur chafed a trait f land of William l ittle, late cf t,.e county of Burke, dccerfed, contain ing two hundred cures, furveyed for and in the name if $ emu J AT Cullengh, joining lands of Alex cruder MdCuilcugb that he paid the full conflderation or pureha/e I money for the faid land, to the Jaid Win. Little, tn Us life time, and took him bend, or obligation in writing fir the making and execut ing good and fujjuient titles to the petitioner fr the Jaid landbut that' the faid Wm. Little died, without having made or executed titles , as by his writing c higet cry he was bound to do. The politico, therefore applies for the benefit cf the at! cf General Affembly cf this ft ate, in Juch cafe made and provide cd. It is therefore ORDERED M That a copy cf this application, and order , be pullifhed in one cf the public Gazettes of this fate, and in three or mere of the me ft public places in this county, atlecft three months and the Executors cf the left Will and 'Leftament cf the faid William Little, deLeafed, will, at the next meeting of the Court of Ordinary thereafter, be directed to make and execute titles to the Jaid John Trimble, for the above-mentioned land, in terms cf the bond in that cafe given. ExtradTrom the Minutes, Vv 7 M. Baduly, c. c. 0. Sept. 14, 1801. ~ noticeT ALL psrfons indebted to the eft ate of Taney C. Key , late cf the county cf Jeff erf on, de Leafed, an hereby requefted to make immediate payment ; and all thfe to whom the faid eft ate is indebted, arc like wife requefted to render in their accounts properly aittfted, on or before the fir ft cf November next. MART KET, Adrrdrx. SAMUEL ANDREWS, GEORGE JONES, Admhnftrators. Louijville, Sept. 19, 18 01. WASHING TOIdCOUNTT7 A PETITION being preferred by Caleb Carmen, to the court of ordinary, praying an order of this court to dirett Ann Dcrfey, to make and execute titles to a cer tain tract cf land, as a.dmlniflra trix cf the eft ate of Leakin Dorfey, deceajed, agreeable to Jaid Leakin Dorfey 1 s bond, beaming date 29 th of September, 1797, obliging hi at to make titles to two hundred eighty feven and cne half ames cf land, lying cn Buffalo creek, furv eyed in the name cf JcJhua Miller, for William Few, efq. and the faid petition with a true copy cf jaid bond being filed in the Clerk's Office of this Court:—lt is ordered , that the foregoing application hepublijb ed in one of the Gazettes of this fate three months, that at the next term thereafter no fujftcient objec tion jbewn, the Jaid Ann Dcrftf adminiftratrix as aforefaid, wft be dire tied to execute titles to Caleb Cannon, according to the ccnditmm cf fatd bond in terms cf the aid A* fitch cafes provided. A true copy from the minute. * September 3, 1801. J. WATTS> Clerk. WRITING PAPER, For Sale at this
