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For the INTELLIGENCER.
REFLECTIONS
Os an Unfortunate* cn retiring from the World.
O ! worW I world ! hot* deceptioui it thy seeming!
Thou art a hot-bed whence corruption fpring*.
There infant* sprout, and for a season bloom,
Till time revolving bring* them on to youth ;
And then full oft before their fibre* fatten
The blafh of (Linder level them in duft*
Or, it efeaping they take root in manhood
The gtottstt matter creeps throughout the stem,
And lute maJieiou*ithe faring of adtion.
Or, if perchance from fame fma’l whohfome spot
One fair and beauteous dock faould rife to view,
There will the canker Worms of envy fettle,
C.navr on its’rap, which, men yclep reputation,
Till thry despoil it of its former beauty—
Then leave it to be patt with frigid (corn
O 1 dire adverfitj! fruitful fonree of w.it ‘
Parent of ill ! and fountain cf diftrefa !
Tar hom tttenoify buttle of the world
I:i peaceful quiet let me patt the term,
By hcav'n allotted, for my flay on earth.
Give, ye kind poiv'rs. rcfignrtioo calm,
And though by man nrgieiftcd let me bend
lit meek fubotittktn to the will of fate.
Grief has a cure, for the ttill grave i* certain.
Till death relieves me from these world'y c.rea,
Humility be name, aud 0 ! let eager hope
Point to my tt>ttl a world where anguish ends,
And joy eternal, free ttom alloy, reigns.
I/liNRT.
IIOW TO 00T A DASH.
You mu ft firtT fall upon Ibrtje way
to cheat a lay lor, by getting in bi.\
debt; for a great deu! you know, de
pends upon exteriors. There is no
crime in this, for you wiM pay him if
you are able—and good clothes are
very ncceffary for a dufh.
Tell u fine flory to fume acquain
tance, who knows but little about you.
and by this means borrow as much mo
ney as will furnifh you with a very
small bamboo, or a very large cudgel;
extremes arc indispensable for a good
daffi.
When you walk in the street, take
ofFyour hat to every gentleman’s car
riage that pafffs. You may do the
fame to every pretty woman”: for if
she fs well bred, (you being smartly
dressed) flic will return the compli
ment, before Hie be able to recoiled?
whether your’s be a face {he has seen
somewhere or net—those who fee it,
will call you a dashing fellow.
Y/hen a beggar flops you, put vour
hand in your pocket, and tell him you
sre very furry you have got no change.
This, you know, will be ftriß truth ;
and (peaking truth is a commendable
quality. Or, it it suits you better, bid
him go to the parish ; this you may
calily do in a dashing way.
As for vißuals, you must run in
debt at your lodging house. You have
nothing to do when the score becomes
troublcfome, but to cliange your lod
gings—but you must do this very fii
ly, for fear you should be obliged to
cut a da ill behind fame iron barred
window.
Never think of following any busi
ness—such conduit is unworthy of a
ny dasher.
In the evening, never walk flraight
along the footway, but go in a zig
sag diieftion. I his will make fome
people oclieve you have been dashing
down your three bottles after dinner.
No da flier goes home sober.
THE COMMON PROCESS OF MAR
RIAGE.
A 1 cuti or Maiden muling by chance, hro't
ingethn by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate
civ,Hites, go home ar.d dream of one another.—
Having lata to divert attention or diversify
ihovgot, they find themselves uneasy, token they are
opart, and therefore conclude, that they shall be ‘’
happy together. They marry, and discover what i
nothing, but voluntary blindness had before conceal
cd ; they wear out life in altercations, and charge
nature with cruelty,
FOR THE INTELLIGENCER.
Mr. M'Lean,
TRUTH is a virtue which every in
dividual ought to be fair.ilar with—it is the
bounden duty of all to scatter this heavenly
virtue through the Societies to which they may
be attached. The man who is callous to th;s
principle is unworthy the converse of rational
and immortal beings—beings who were created
in the image of Him who holds in his hands the
deflinies of man—Him to whom they are indebt
ed for their existence. The man, who unblufh- :
ingly, endeavors to blast the reputation of an
other, must possess principles not unlike those of j
the Prince of Devils, consequently one who is a
dangerous member of focicty.
I have been led to these remarks, fir, from
hearing a person, endeavor to stab the reputa
tion of an innocent female ; but, he was soon
checked by one who knew the value of a good
name, which put an end to his fiend like remarks
on this innocent—thisunprotefted female. Base,
fir, must be the roan who attempts to deprive an j
innocent one of ah (he pclleties—ner reputa
tion,
I am aware, frr, that virtue itfelf is not a
fefficient (liield to ward off the the (hafts of ma
licious (lander—no one, however virtuous, cf
capcs the feoffs of an Ungrateful world. Look,
to the abuse which has been heaped upon the
President of the'United States—who, it is true,
is but a man—dill one who has, as yet, adminif
ter.ed jutlice to all—one who envies not the
fame of no niam—.one who (lands high in the
eilimaiion of a very large majority cf his fellow
citizens—yet, fir, all this is not fufffeient to
ward off the breath of calumny ; therefore, what
must the one who walks in a lower sphere hope
for ? Poverty, fir, is rto crime—one who seeks
an honed livelihood—one who deals justly with
his fellow-men is as high in the eflimation of his
God, as him who fits upon an earthly throne,
and to whom the unfortunate are compelled to
pay court.
A FRIEND TO VIRTUE.
FROM THE AURORA.
Ships, Colonies, Commerce.
The affairs cf the world are now
ours; becairfethe current of worldly
affairs has taken fnch a course, as to
leave the Untied States no choice be
tween playing the hog in fwiiriming
again!? it, or going along with it hnoo
thly and gaily and triumphantly.
Every event in political tranfa&ions
in modern times, is foretold by a
phrase, or anticipated by a bon-motor
an epigram—What a volume was con
tained in the sentiment, that nothing
in the present, fhouid resemble the
preceding century —it was at firft tak
en as a bold faying, a figure of rheto
ric, and it is already matter of history,
and bye and bye it will be history al
together.
Who cen forget the offers made to
the king of Prussia, before the battle of
Jena —and the bon-mot that was pro
duced by the cavalier’s reply to the
king of Prussia P— c * We (hall reply
to this letter in a month in Berlin.”—
Who can forget the conduß of the
Swcdifh monarch in Stralfund—that
Stralfund is now a French fortrefs on
the Baltic ?
Who can forget British indemnity
for the pad, and security for the fu
ture ?—What a satire on human foily
is the security of Britain now.
About ten or twelve months ago,
we ventured- to suggest, that Bona
parte would find resources for Ihips.
colonies and commerce', in ancient
Greece, and the ihores of the'JEuxinc.
■We gave wur readers a ferics ofeffays
on the commerce’ of the Levant, and
promiffd another series on the com
merce of the Euxine—The atfivc in
terference of Ruffa in the war the
temporary success of the British min
filer, Arbutbnot, at Conftantinopie—-
and the occupation of Malta by Jhe
British, deprived us of a principal
part of the motive for this exam.na
tion; because, the mass of readers do
not derive so much gratification from
the contemplation of {peculations ti’at
are remote in their accompliihment, as
they do from the examination of e
vents, that are in the course to exig
ence. The French are now, in LB,
in the Euxine, and allied with Ruffa,
and wc may take up the (peculation
with more advantage in the course of
the winter, than we could at any peri
•od previous to the battlcof Friedland,
but we fir all just observe here, fn pas
sant, that by the battle of Fiiedland,
France obtained the molt ample re
sources for ships —that is, naval stores,
that are to be found on earth, by o
pening the Euxine.
Since that period, also, Dalmatia
and the whole coast and harbors of
Greece are opened to France. The
forefts of Maccdon and Mingrclia—
the cedars of Lebanon and the oaks
of the Boryfihenes—the timber and
the tar and turpentine, and hemp of
Grim Tartary, arc opened to her ar
lenals.
May we, without irritating those
who never foretell nor forefee, and we
might add, never und.erftand any thing,
may we refer to another case, in which
we ventured to anticipate as ptobable,
but is now about to become reahiy.
It is notorious that the discipline of
the Spanish navy is beyond all com
parifion bad—while in the art of ship
building the have no fupcrlors. Spa-*
nifh valor and Spanish honor have ne
ver been doubtful as they concern the
nation. But the apaihy of the nation
has become such, both in military and
naval affairs, that anew genius is re
quired to revive their ancient charac
ter.for enterp’rize and atchievmenr.
We ventured to surmise ten or
twelve months ago, that wiih a view to
the acquisition of {hips, colonics and
commerce, Bonaparte would endeav
or to infufe into the Spar.ith nation the
fame fpiiit by which he has enabled
France to elcßcrize the world, & that
Portugal would probably be given to
the Spanish monarchy, in exchange
for that southern border of the Bay of
Biscay, which extends from Bayonne
to Finifterre.
It now appears that this plan is on
the tarpis and that the vacant kingdom
in the projeß of the western empire,
may bt filled up with the name ol Na
voree.
It is now probable that the Spanish
provinces of Gallacia from the mouth
of the river Minho, will be formed in
to this new kingdom, under the old ti
de, with Asturias, Biscay, Navarre,
Arragon north of the Ebro, and Ca
talonia to the mouth of the fame liver,
will be ceded to Spain in exchange
for Portugal.
The cessions in relation to the great
Scheme of {nips, colonies and com
merce, are of the greatest consequence.
On the Mediterranean—they give
Barcelona, lortofa and Martoral and
mat hardy race of men whole charac
ter is the fame as their neighbors of
Roufflon,
On the Atlantic the acquisition is
immense it gives to the western empire
I uy an the Minho-, the important and
defenfible pofuion of Vigo, the ports
of Garcia, Encobr’s, Villa Major, and
MurOs, Finifterre, Dea Corunna, Fer
roi and Ortegal, Bares, St. Ciprian
and A vales, Villa Viciofe, St. Ande
rs Santiliana, Csllro, and Btlboa and
the Snug ports of ilundara, Leva, St.
Sebalfian, and Fontarabia.
By the po Iff Li on of the coast from
St. Jean de Luz to Vigo— Cape
Clear in Ireland, and Capa Fini[\ ti>
in Gallacia, both in 8 degrees weft : 0n
gitude from Paris, become the a Ui j
extremes of the great Bay of Bif Cay
But the occupation is not so
point as the advantage, ny the occy.
pation of this coast, the cauipmp n .
and the oilpatch of effects are bets
rendered facile, and less fubjeß to be
aff’cßed by weather, at the lame
that they multiply the means of Hujiq.
ing equipping and manning of fS^.
Thcfe territories, whether in f U p Cl
ficial extent or population are about
equal ; but the provinces of the new
kingdom are incomparably, heft f or
the purposes ol naval equipment and
commerce.
We entertain no doubt that such in.
disposition is to be made—because ft
arises out of the very nccelities into
which France has been forced—ft u
with her and England who Ilia!!?-.
•Rome or Carthage.
— —
NEW-YORK, November 6.
The Boston Gazette, announcing the arrival
of the Aristides, fays,
“ The Points in controvcrfy between the ‘J.
ni:ecl States and Great Britain, had ‘been differ,
led by the refpeclive mini tiers; and that such aa
amicable adjustment had taken place, as to war.
rant a notice from loth Parties,
“ That Peace and Friendftnp might he conu.
dered as being again restored between the
Two Countries.-
The United States fchconer Revenge,.wt3;o
leave England about the 20th September, wiih
■ dispatches for the United States.
Dispatches arc said to have been received from
our ministers at London of as late a dale a: the
Sd of September. The recal of admiral Berk
* ley is stated as certain.
The bed informed circles at the City of Waft,
ingtor, men who undoubtedly derive their b.
preffions from executive information, are of opi
nion that the present difeufiions with Greer.
Britain will terminate amicably. As icon astir:
Revenge (hillhave returned, the Preddentneani
to communicate to Congress all the doc.imer.ts,
(forming a voluminous mass) on the fubjeft.
- *-• - Phil. Got.
POSTSCRIPT
’ To the Boston Chronicle of Monday-Odder 2. j
Yesterday, after our paper had gone to press,
the drip Ar. Aides arrived here from Liverpool,
■ bringing papers cf that city to the 16th Six*
I ’ tenber, and London to the 14th. Their cor..
[ j tents are of the highest importance, rs will be
, [ seer. by the subsequent extradltf, which are all we
| could prepare in lea for. for. this day’s paper.—
,j Copenhagen had not surrendered on the 4th
j September, nor did it appear that it would soon
:[ do so. Our differences with England were dis
cnfilng by authorized agents, ar.d fome of the
papers anticipated an amicable issue.
• . ””
Evacuation of South America.
LONDON, September 12.
The Saracen (loop, of 18 guns, arrived yester
day at Portsmouth, with dispatches from lieut.
t gen. Whitefocke, dated the 10th ,of July, cor
mining the ungrateful intelligence, that the Bnt
ifn forces under his command had made an at
tack upon Buenos Ayres, but had experienced
fomuch resistance from the numerous forces of
the enemy, that after having gained possession of
part of the town, it was thought prudent to en
ter-into a capitulation, by which it has been •
greed to evacuate not only the part of Buenos
Ayres, of which our troops had gained poifeffwn,
but Monte Video, Maldonado, in fine, the whole
of South America, within the (hort space of two
months. The following Buiiettin was sent from
the Adtr.irality to the Lord Mayor, and, by hfe
order, polled on the Mansion House, ar.d com
municated to Lloyd’s;
“ Downing. Street, Sept. 12, 1807.
ri Lord Csftlereah has the honor of acquaint
jmg the Lord Mayor, that dispatches hav been
received this morning, from lieut. gen. Whits
i loeke, dated July 10, by which it appears, tlirt
m an attack upon the town of Buenos Ayres, hi?
majesty’s troops experienced so much resistance
from the tumultuous force of the rnemy, thaf
i after gaining poSefiiou of part of the town, with
. severe loss on the sth July, the lieut. general
thought it prudent to enter into a negotiation
with general Liniers who commanded the eiU
my’s forces, by which he agreed to ewcuite
11 Sou.th-America within two months, upon con
, du:on that all prisoners taken in the attack, ’
well as those captured at the fiirrender of Buenot
Ayres, (houbl be restored. The total loj* *’
1 mounts in killed 316, wounded 674, o“®**
: 1 208.