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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. <=• 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. 9 —C c 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 ! <r*. U 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.