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MUSES’ RETREAT. For The GEORGIA JOURNAL. PARODY ON HAMLETS SOLILOQUY. To wed, or not to wed ?—that is the question . Whether more prudent’tis to fly —to rove In the sweet vari’gated paths ol Venus, Or tic the more myflcrioua noose of marriage, And by that a& to leave them?—Let usponder: To love j to marry —and in marriage end Thole thousand heart-achs which the roving lover, From his inconstant mirtrefs, often feels ! It is a change devoutly to be wished. To love ! to marry ! —Marry ? and, perchance, To beidecciv’d.—Ay,there’s the poignant rub; For in the scenes of marriage what may come, After we’ve tied th* inextricable {liackles, Mull give us paufe —and there is the refpeid, Which makes such numbers court the Angle life; For who would bear the bach lor s jealoulies, His nightly*watchings, his solicitudes, Anxieties, from doubts of contincncy, In his uncertain, seldom punctual mistress, And all her taunts to his remonfhances, When he himfelf might loon sweet quiet find In matrimony ? Who’d luch mis ry bear ; To throb and pant in pleasure s toillome paths, But that the dread of fomethingafter wedlock That unknown Hate, of which each droll adven- Relatesfuch opposite myflerious things, [turcr Puzzles the will, and makes as rather bear The inconvenience of a lonely state, Than fly to untried new perplexities : Thus diffidence makes cowards of us ail— Thus is the hue of purposed wooing faded, And sicklied o’er with wan uncertainty ; And thus atehievement* of great pith and mo ment, With this regard, their current turn awry, And lose the name of action. RE-VULUSHED BY DESIRE. From the Federal Gazette. Mr. Drown, At a time when mr. Wilcocks fills our papers as well as thole of N.. w- York, with high founding charges againlt mr Genet, the minister ol the republic ol France, it certainly deserves enquiry whether much may not be said on the other lide of the question ;’ anti as both ought to be before the public to enable them to judge, 1 iha 1 Hate what I fuppolc his defence as follows : There are, as I underhand, the 10l lowing charges again!! mr. Genet. ili. The fitting out privateers, and this as it flood before he was received as minkler, and since. idly. His having joined himfelf to the antifederal party. 3(lly. His threatened appeal to the people. And 4thly. His disavowal of the difmif fion of mr. Duplaine. As to his commissioning and fitting out privateers before he was received as minister, he did this under the au- thority and inflru£tions he had frem the nation who sens him, and who in* rpreted one article of the treaty be -11 this country and them as a full ’zation of the measure. His n this occaiion was as repre s nation not as with relpe6t to her own citizens, French and to this hip recognition in was not requilite; any lave done as much, who uniflions from the nation It vras not known at urexeculive interpreted ntly.—No offence on imputable to him— his subsequent re r, was proper and itfdf mult in our y thing previously. ’t privateers luice, ted out since the ts adopted by the cCt ; and it is *fe rules had not ey would have n the firfl head As to the second point of his joining himfelf to the antifederal party, I deem this as thrown out purposely to difgult the federal party with him—for as to what company a man chooses to keep, it is evidently at his own disposal, and can give no reasonable offence to any. I am persuaded mr. Genet is too politic a man to refufe civilities from any party of our citizens, though it is natural as a stranger he lhould pay moll attention to those who had paid mod to him. It is indeed time that these odious and ridiculous diftimdions of federal and antifederal lhould cease among our selves; they form our disgrace, and mean only a fort of watchword to be founded as it serves wary and designing political leaders on all suitable occali ons:—accordingly we find mr. Genet cannot differ in opinion with our exe cutive, but antiiederalifm is intro duced : it would be equally so if the Britilh minister differed, cr any body else. What does all this mean ?—Are we to.gain. ftrepgth by holding up an idea of disunion t —For God’s fake let us drop these trifles, and let the Ame rican republic, like the French, become one and indivisible- But the third charge, and mold loud efl infilled on, is that he threatened an appeal to the people. This ever did appear to me the molt ridiculous thing imaginable—the mountain was in labour and brought forth a mouse. How long since it was deemed a crime for any body so appeal to the American people ?—Are not our newlpapers open ?—Will not the American people interefl themfdves who read in them the mi fortunes of the Poles, of any body, of any nation ?—ls not the American people, who have formed all our governments and maintained our liberty, deserving of confidence, and difereet in the use of it ?—A wiler or better people exifl not on the globe —there is .no danger from any body’s appealing to them. If it was threaten ed to appeal to them, the lhould have been clear and concise—Well, do I care not —1 am Cure I a£t tor the bell of my own nation —and if you ■ think this wrong, appeal to them as j often as you please, it matters nothing to me—l am always pleaied my con duit lhould be laid before my condi ments —1 have nothing to conceal — nothing to fear. Surely this mode of reasoning would have been more noble and magnanimous than to make such a noise as there has been made about this, which appears to me flat nonsense and* to mean nothing, unless it be thrown out as a tub to the whale. As to the difavowe! of the difmiflion of mr. Duplaine, it evidently relts on conllitutional ground. Does, or does not the conltitution of the United States authorife the president to dismiss foteign minillers and confuls?—if it dots, I fay it is great povvergiven him, since it enables him to involve this country in war when he pleases ; a power I had thought veiled in congress only ; they will however, be bell judges on this point, and by and by determine it for themfelvcs. “ I am lorry, how “ ever, in the mean time, the procla “ mation palled since mr. Dtiplaine’s “ acquittal by the pr per court; now “ gives it an air of improper interfer “ once.” I would beg leave, in conclusion, to allure mr. Wi!cock. c , that I am quite as good a friend to our federal conlh union as he is, but differ with him, as to the refpeift with w hich our govern ment is every where treated abroad. Is this evident in the detention of our (hips in England, on frivolous pre tences, fix or twel /e months at a time, is it to be seen in their hands being forcibly taken from them ? or so in duced or enlifled as amounts nearly to as much —ls it viable in the Britilh king’s prohibition of our Pennsylvania farmers carrying their wheat to a French market, while he won’t buy it himfelf at his own.—No, fir, our go vernment is miserably ill treated,and I hope the time is not distant, when they will difeover, that as well as mr. Genet, we have heavy complaints to make againlt the insolent and abusive treat ment of the Britilh king, our ancient enemy, and I fear at present, not dil pofed to be our cordial friend. He is one of the league ar present combined againfl France, our ancient ally, no body knows why or wherefore. -He -an owe us no frisndlhip, and I linpe we lhall never go *oo far in a frivolous dependance upon his fnnles. I approve of ou. government’s desire to be neutral. I shall refpedt the firmnefs with which they preserve their neutrality; but I wiih them, on a!1 occasions, so to act towards France and its ministers, now in the day of their political misfortunes, as they would have done in 1778, when we were foliating the nation’s afliflance. By this means they will manifclt to the world, a greatness and magnanimity ol conddl, that cannot but have the hap piest effed on all their future negotia tions* FAIR FLAY. —o^oos>o MISCELLANEOUS REPOSITORY NATIONAL URBANITY. Miss Hannah More, an elegant Eng’.ilh writer, remarks, “ That all the b'lafted conquells of the Edwards •and Hcnrys of England over France, do not confer such lubftantial glory on Great-Britain, as (he derives from hav ing received, protected, and supported, among multitudes ol other fufferers,at a time and under circumflanoes so peculi irly disadvantageous to herfelf three thousand priefls of a nation habi tually her enemy, and a religion in tolerant and holt-'e to her own.— “ 1 his,” Ihe exclaims, “ is the solid triumphs of true chriflianity.” —o o<so<o REFINEMENT. It is a fa 6l, that notwithflanding there are in the city of P..-ris near thirty theatres, open every night ; that there was not at the date of the latt accounts, “ one place open for religi j ous worship of any kind or defeription, throughout that vast metropolis.” The French, it is true, may have something else to do, than going to church ; but in America, we “ ordered such things much better,” and, without anv de gree of superstition, it may rationally be inferred, that to our frequent ap peals to the throne of grace, and re liance on the lavour of Heaven, our success is in a great mealure to be at tributed. W A R S. In 1776, Voltaire, in a difeourfe, adverting with due scorn and execu tion, on the folly and flagitioufnefs of wars, recapitulated, with the rapid power of his lingular mind, the five and twenty wars with which France and England had been cursed since the conquelt; and he proposed, as a didac tic work of obvious use, a table of mortality—a recapitulation, in series, of all the bolls of men killed in the field of battle, or dying of camp diseases. THE CRUSADE. The invalion of France, at the pre sent period, is not inaptly compared to the crusade, which commenced in 1095 —which, though it was permitted to rage for nothing—though it was known only by the llnbby failure, and by the wide spread misery of the events —though thecurfe concluded with the murder of two hnn ired millions bl men ; as usual, in almost every war, gaining nothing, and loling every thing —yet such was the complex effrontery of hypocrisy and guilt, fanaticifm dVid peculation, that each perpetrator and abettor of these unexampled enor mi ties, duped the people witli a vain reference to fan&ions, of all others the molt solemn and cheering—they pre tended to fee, in each outward circum llance—they pretended to feel, in each inward emotion, that—they were the fainted servants of Heaven, particularly set apart for a pious design—and they j accordingly denominated it The 1 Holy War. ANECDOTE. A soldier in the garrikm of Prulfian | Silt-fia, being fufpeiled of making free with the offerings made by th; I pious roman catholics to the cel.;b ated I image ol a wonder working virgin; I he was watched, and upon his being I searched, two liner hearts were found I upon him. He was dragged before 1 the magistrate, impriioned, tried, and | condemned to death. In the course [ of his trial lie confidently denied having | committed the theft, but that the.vi o.u I herfelf, in pity to his poverty, had w- 1 dered him to take ihe above offerings. The lenience, with the prifonei’s tie- j fence, was as usual laid before the late king. His m.ijdtv conversed wiih several of the roinilh divines, alkmg them whether such a miracle was poili ble, according to the tenets of their religion. They unanimoully answered that the case was very extraordinary, but not absolutely impoffibte ; upon which the king wrote in his own hand the following words: “ The culprit cannot be put to death, beeaufe he positively denies the charge, and that the divines of his re ligion, declare that the miracle wrought in his favour is not impolfible ; but we fcricliy forbid him, under the pain of death, to receive any present from the Virgin Mary, or any faint what ever, in future.” (Signed) FREDERIC. O -eir-'O— — ON THE POWER OF MONEY. Money, with more than tutelary power, protects its votaries from in tuits and oppress : it silences the enraged accufer.and snatches the sword from the hand of justice. Towns and cities,like J ericho, without any miracle, have fallen flat before it; it has (topped th- mouths of cannons, a:\rl n’ ore flirt prifiog It ill, of fadtion anl rm dvf* It has thrown a fort of glory about the globule and opaque Ikulls of mer cenary magistrates; it has imparted a dread and reverence to the.cnfigns of authority; and Ibange, palling strange, to fay, it has made youth and beauty fly to the armsofage and impotence; it gives charms t > deformity and de foliation ; transforms Hymen into M unmon, and the g >,l of love into a satyr. It has built bridges without foundations, formed libraries without books, hopi'a's without endowments, and churches without benefices. It has turned conscience into a deiff, honour into a pimp, courage into a modern officer, and honeffy into a Itock-jobber.—There is nothing won derful it has not eff.-elect—except mak ing men wife, virtuous and happy. —<s:a>Mo-®o— V/ I T. Os the hits of the Engliffi, at the French fans culottes, the neatest we have is in a letter from Plymouth. It is there Hated, that forae of the French •prisoners procured clothes,and escaped in that disguise ! Apophthegms. The gentlefl, and perhaps one of the mod effectual methods of flopping the progress of vice, is by removing the temptation. V ices, like diseases, are often here ditary. The property of the one is to infeft the manners, as the other psifons the springs of life. Virtue is a diamond which when the world despises, it is plain that knaves and fools have too much fvvay there in. Virtue is the furefl foundation both of reputation and fortune, and the firlt flep to greatness is to be honed. The firfl years of man mud make provision for the last. He that never thinks, can never be wife.