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MUSES’ RETREAT.
——•*®'C'oS>o SR
For The GEORGIA JOURNAL.
PARODY ON HAMLETS SCLILO%l T T.
To wed, or not to wed ?—that is the question :
Whether more prudent ’tis to fly—to rove
In the sweet vari’gated paths of Venus,
Or tic the more mysterious noose of marriage,
And by that aift to leave them ?—l.et uspondcr:
To love; to marry —and in marriage etui
Tliofe thousand heart-achs which the roving
lover,
From his inconstant mistress, often feels .
It is a change devoutly to be wiflied.
To love ! to marry! —Marry? and, perchance,
To boidecciv’d. —Ay,there s the poignant rub;
For in the feenes of marriage what may come,
After we’ve tied tit* inextricable lhackies,
Mult give us pause—and there is the rtfpect,
Which makes such numbers court the lingle life;
For who would bear the bach lor 8 jealousies,
His nightly” watchings, his solicitudes,
Anxieties, from doubts of continctacy,
In his uncertain, fcldom punctual mistress,
And all her taunts to his remonflrances,
When he hiilifelf might loon sweet quiet find
In matrimony ? Who’d such nus ry bear ;
To throb and pant in pleasure s toillome paths,
But that the dread of something after wedlock
That unknown flate,ofwhich each droll adven-
Relatcs such oppoCte mysterious things, [turcr
Puzzles the will, and makes as rather bear
The inconvenience of a lonely (kite,
Than fly to untried new perplexities :
Thus diffidence makes cowards of us all—
Thus is the hue of purpoftd wooing faded,
And sicklied o’er with wan uncertainty ;
And thus achievement? of great pith and mo
ment,
With this regard, their current turn awry,
And lose the name of aiftion.
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JR£-PUSLaShEd by desire.
From the Federal Gazette.
Mr. Drown,
At a time when mr. Wilcocks fills
our papers as well as thole of Fft v\-
York, with high founding charges
against mr Genet, the minister of the
republic of France, it certainly deserves
enquiry whether much may not be said
on the other lide of the question ;’ and
as both ought to he before ti c public
to enable them to judge, I iha'l Hate
what I funpolc his defence as follows :
There are, as I underhand, the fol
lowing charges against mr. Genet.
ill. The fitting out privateers, and
this as it (toed before he was received
as mini-fter, and iince.
2dly. Bis having joined himfelf to
the antifederal party.
3<ily. Bis threatened appeal to the
people. And
4.1 hly. Bis 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 inftru&ions he had frem
the nation who sens him, and vs ho in-
rpreted one article of the treaty be
ll this country and them as a full
• zation of the nieafure. His
•1 this occasion was as repre
's nation not as with refpe£l
to her own citizens, French
and to this hi? recognition in
was not requisite; any
iave done as much, who
‘.millions fsom the nation
It was not known at
nr executive interpreted
ntly.—No offence on
imputable to him—
his ftibfequent re
r, was proper and
itfelf mull in our
y thing previously.
‘t privateers fice,
ted out since the
ts adopted by the
c<sl ; and it is
*fe rules had not
ey would have
n the lirft head
As to the second pointof his joining
himfelf to the antifederal party, I deem
this as thrown out purposely to disgust
the federal party with him—for as to
what company a manchoofes to keep,
it is evidently at his own dilpofal, 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 ({ranger he lhould pay mall attention
to those who had paidmoft to him. It
is indeed time that these odious and
ridiculous diftinftions 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 occafi
ons:—accordingly we find mr. Genet
cannot differ in opinion with ourcxe
cutive, but anti federal ism is intro
duced : it would be equally so if the
Britilh minister differed, or any body
elfc. What does all this mean ?—Are
we to-gain-ftrepgth by holding up an
idea of disunion f—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 moft loud
est infilled on, is that he threatened an
appeal to the people. This ever did
appear to me the moft ridiculous thing
imaginable—the mountain was in
labour and brought forth a mouse.
How long since it was deemed a crime
for any body to appeal to the American
people ?—Are not our newfpapcrs
open ?—Will not the American people
interest themselves who read in them
the mi-fortunes of the P >tes, of any
body, of any nation ?Is not the
American people, wdio have formed
all our governments and maintained
our liberty, deserving of confidence,
anddifereet in the use of it?—A wiier
or better people exist 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 answer lhould j
have been dear and concife—Weil, do
—I care not —I am lure I a6l for the
bell of my own nation —and if you
think this wrong, appeal to them as
often as vou please, it matters nothing
to me—l am always pleased my con
dud lhould be laid before my condi
ments —I 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 4 to mean nothing, uulefs it be
thrown out as a tub to the whale.
As to the difavovve! of the difmiffion
of mr. Duplaine, it evidently rests on
constitutional ground. Does, or does
not the constitution of the United
States authorife the president to dismiss
foreign ministers and confuls?—if it
does, I fay it is great povvergiven him,
since it enables him to involve this
country in war when he pleafts ; a
power I had thought veiled in congress
only ; they will however, be belt judges
on this point, and by and by determine
it for themselves. “ I am lorry, how
“ ever, in the mean time, the procla
“ mation palftd since mr. Duplaine’s
,4 acquittal by the proper court; now
“ gives it an air of improper intcifcr
“ ence.”
I would beg leave, in conclusion, to
allure mr. Wilcocks, that I am quite
as good a friend to our federal conftt
tution as he is, but differ with him, as
to the refpc-il with which our govern
ment is every where treated abroad.
Is this evident in the detention of our
lliips in England, on frivolous pre
tences, fix or twelvemonths at a time,
is it to be seen in their hands being
forcibly taken from them ? or so in
duced or enlisted as amounts nearly to
as much —ls it visible in the Britilh
king’s prohibition of our Pennsylvania
farmers carrying their wheat to a
French marker, while he won’t buy it
himfelf at his ow n.—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 complaint to make
against the infclent and abusive treat
ment of the Britilh king, cur ancient
enemy, and I tear at prelent, not dtf
pofed to be our cordial friend. Be is
one of the league at present combined
against France, our ancient ally, no
body knows why or wherefore. -Be
.an owe us no triendlhip, and I hope
we (hall never go too far in a frivo.ous
Jependance upon his (hides.
I approve of ou- government’s desire
to be” neutral. I (hall refped the
firmnefs with which they preserve
their neutrality ; but I wifti them, on
hi 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 folititing the nation’s alliftance.
By this means they will manifeft to the
world, a greatness and magnanimity of
conddl, that cannot but have the hap
piest effedt on all their future uegocia
tions.
FAIR PLAY.
—o®o®o®0 —
MISCELL ANE OUS R EPOSITORT.
NATIONAL URBANITY.
Miss Hannah More, an elegant
Eng’ilh writer, remarks, “ That all
the h-iafted conquells of the Edwards
and Henrys of England over France,
do not confer such lubStanhal glory on
Great-Britain, as (he derives from hav
ing received, protected, and supported,
among multitudes ol other fufferers, at
a time and under cireumllances ft
peculiarly difadvantageotis to herfelf
throe thousand priests of a nation habi
tually her enemy, and a religion in
tolerant and ho(t ;: e to her own.—
“ This,” lh ■ exclaims, “ is the (olid
triumphs of true chriftianity.”
— oss-o'se>o<s>o
REFINEMENT.
It is a fa£l, that notwiihftanding
there are in the city of Boris near
thirty theatres, open every night ; that
there was not at the date of the latt
accounts, “ one place open for religi
ous worlhip 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 favour 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 feriec,
of all the holds of men killed in the field
of battle, or dying of camp diseases.
—csoa^-o-so—
THE CRUSADE.
The invasion 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 hun (red millions bl
men ; as usual, in almost every war,
gaining nothing, and losing every thing
—yet such was the complex effrontery
of hypocrisy and guilt, fanaticifm Aid
peculation, that each perpetrator and
abettor of these unexampled enor
mities, duped the people with a vain
reference to fanflions, of all others the
moft 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—2nd they 1
accordingly denominated it The I
Holy War.
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ANECDOTE.
A soldier in the garriftm of Prussian
Silesia, being fulpe&ed of making
free with the offerings made by thu
pious roman cath jlics, to the celeb ated
image of a wonder working virgin:
he was watched, and upon his being
searched, two diver hearts were found
upon him. He was dragged be foie I
the magistrate, impriftmed, tried, and
condemned to death. In the course
of his trial he confidently denied having
committed the theft, but that the.vi g;n
herfelf, in pity to his poverty, had or
dered him to take the above offerings.
The sentence, with the prifonet’s de
fence, was as usual laid before the iate
kitig. His ma jelly converted v i,h
fevera! of the roinilh divines, alktng
them whether such a miracle was poili
ble, according to the tenets of their
religion. They unanimoully answered
that the cale was very extraordinary,
but not absolutely impoftibffe ; upon
which the king wrote in his own hand
the following words:
“ The culprit cannot be put to
death, because he pofiiively denies the
charge, and that the divines of his re
ligion, declare that the miracle wrought
in his fav >ur 1- not impoftible ; but
we flricliy forbid him, under the pain
of death, to receive any present from
the Virgin Mary, or any faint w hat
ever, in future.”
(Signed) FREDERIC.
— o<3s>o *>o—-
ON THE POWER OF MONEY.
Money, with more than tutelary
power, protects its votaries from in
tuits and op pre Ik ns: it lilences the
enraged accufer,and snatches the sword
from the hand of j office. Towns and
cities,like Jericho, without any miracle,
have fallen flat before it: it has flopped
the. mouths of cannons, and more fur !
prising (fill, of faction and murder.
It has thrown a fort of glory about
the glob >le and opaque skulls of mer
cenary magistrates ; it has imoarted a
dread and reverence to the. enligns of
authority; and llrange, palling strange,
to fay, it has made youth and beauty
fly to the arms of age and impotence;
it gives charms to deformi’y and de
teflation; transforms Hymen into
M imrn in, and the g >;1 of love into a
satyr. It has built bridges without
foundations, formed libraries without
books, h ifpi’a s without endowments,
and churclies without benefices. If
has turned conlcience into a deist,
honour into a pimp, courage into a
modern officer, and honesty into a
llock-johber.—There is nothing won
derful it has noteff.-cled—except mak
ing men wife, virtuous and happy.
—<s>ooo m>o so
W I T.
Os the hits of the Engliih, at the
French fans culottes, the neated we
have is in a letter from Plym uith. It
is there dated, that fomeof the French
.prisoners procured clothes,and escaped
in that disguise !
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APOPH THEGMS.
The gentled, and perhaps one of
the mod effectual methods of flopping
the progress of vice, is by removing the
temptation.
Vices, like diseases, are often here
ditary. The property of the one is to
infefl the manners, as the other peifons
the springs of life.
Virtue is a diamond which when the
world despises, it is plain that knaves
and fools have too much sway there
in.
Virtue is the furefl foundation both
of reputation and fortune, and the firfl
step to greatness is to be honed.
The firfl: years of man mud moke
provision for the lad. He that never
thinks, can never be wife.