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POETS’ COfcN&u. ON PERSECUTION. Iu the year 1755, a remonstrance and memo- Htrainat the general assenameiit for thf su pport of Religion, whs presented to tli Legislature of Virginia—lt was de signed thiefly to relieve the Baptists from ti e burthen of paying double >xe* j and vars drawn up by Jambs Madison, Esq. —Many others were present ’d, and a ri'ong the rest, tlie following Linps, writ ten by the Rev- David Thom s, ueeom p oied the ptition sent by the Baptists, and was addressed ns follows : To the Honorable General Assembly now sit- ] tiTiif at Williamsburg, the humble petition of a Country Pod. N'-v, Liberty is r Yl the plan, The eh ; ef pi ui\ of every man, \Y e<,‘ *- ar. s eight, and tills th mouth fit’ P itriots uil f\oin north to south. IT ay < poor herd from >ushes spriiug, V ho yet has but to rusts ks sung, Add-ess your ho;>wfabS Bouse, Ad uot your angry p, ssions reuse i* 1H k ! for a while, your business step, o**e word into \our ears IT drop : IVo longer spend yur nee-dess pains, 1 o -m ml and polisu o’er our ehaius 5 But break th m i#s’ before you rise, Nor disappoint our watebiul eyes. Why says great W'*ssiington and Lee ? * 4 Our country is > rd must bo free,” What *. ys g**e‘ 4 i H nr } Pendleton, Ad L ; b Tty’s minutest son ? *■* 11 one voice, tlpy ;:ll grec 61 made us and we most be free,” yVeedan*ve crave with every bro&lh, A n (jnalLed6>n or a death, The neav’nly liicgging freely give, Or mike ho a:v weish’ll ou< live Tax I1 things : \uter, ah’, ind i ight, If need there be ; y a, ax the nioht : j Bit let our brsvs heroic ]V: ive freely au eeVasiT winds. Its .ki- vies and folly feel your rc !, But leave our eons iem-.? to God ; leave ©*eh mo free to choose hh form Os pi>ty. nor at h*n gtorsx, A:*t h w’‘’o minds the law 7 , A k -eps it whole without afi n> Le him. just as pleases, \ray, Aed j ek for heavep j.i h 7 o-.v? wy 5 Au 1 if ft ms ,5. we ait -must otu, No Man i# . -rg’d •at he .-'one. . MW ■>— <£ -,<r ■ A A’ EC DOTES. A swaggering sou of Join Bull walked jn‘o :h** steam-hortt Ho t t Nnv-York, *r.! and for his beer, ‘nd y zed ri ti *hi;e will* \ppirpnt mortjfi ion, at the elegant fr ned prims of our nsvnl victories which adorn the bar-room. ( • l don’t see ny tbiog of the f igate Che* peake and Sh nn>i — (s sd be)—where ar>* they “ Oh ! s lid t! > facetious landlord th ty tf.ro gone t; New Orleans, *o convey home the killed & woun ded of our tmemieio” A B r iti*h oflfi er walking with an Ameri can ludy in si ;hl of the tloi ks, soon ifter the lto j)shc“—“'there (s-ud the officer, pointing to ho American flis wh. t we fVi m *rly called th:- grid-iron.”—**” I Rltouid suppose (replied me h*d ) that tbs uume v*s peculiarly appli aide now,* sio- e *!> nr-uy of your eouatrvmen have been broiled on it.” ioßFEM^NT.—Commodore Barney, in add ess ng tht voters of prioee G ; go’s, oh o •• and, that he nev r Knew democrat and foil ralists *o agree but in one instance, via : to rw away at Blandesburg! Avery rxtraonhn y cratioa was deliver ed in p rlUmmi ■} lord St .Rhope, iu which he pi eases hims*-lf with .he idea of union betwixt the Roman O.Relic#, Pies ytcri ans. An b; .rod Independents, against *- Old mother church.” A g ;utlc!t)? ri observed yetderday, tbet .:'rem t!>e fuss n-v-de by thb English iu fitting oat an expedition Agi ir.et ih w 44 legitinir.fe *0 “*reign” of Algiers, he doubted w! t her tliey intended sine^T'-iy’to chastise him; but (mien ho snw the B T;ktib bomb-ship was put in r. quisifirp, t.e wis sure they meant to ploy the D—l with his Algeria-’ tn. jtsty. “F ther L , i ße Jesuit, in hia his ory of Sou'h Am nu, *i ys t'nat t: ere is .* couu tn in thill iner, iu which are to Re ft und, Hi res T,o have four legs on (heir b” A, as well a,, the bmdc number on their belly, avd wh m tired of ruu> ingouoneset, they turn ami run on the other, 3. Curious Definition.-* By an act of par* li'in oi, in EJngl.md, every person is obli ged to have his mme end residtuv'e painted on the buck of hii* ofti t, used for the pur po*e of riding in. T o prevent is being so easily rean ssit goes, a division is not com monly made eetw en the vitords. \ coun try m n o ‘ug one i.i liiirv, wiih the le.tters : AMosi iddactonataxi dcaht -read it— U most odd act an a taxed cart ; its true meaning vras— Amos Todd, Jicton ; a icux p d cart. [From the Hibernia Magazine of 1784. J ORIGIN OF THE GREY MAREVbEING THE BETTER HORSE. I had lately the pleasure of pas ■singa very agreeable eveninginj la mixed company with both sex es, where the conversation hap pening to turn upon the proprie ty of that power which men usu ally arrogate to themselves of ru* ling over their wives with des potic sway, a young lady of wit and humor, replied, *‘it might pos sibly be so sometimes, but much eftener the grey mare is the better , horse V’ And very obligingly en tertained the company with the! following account of the rise of that proverbial saying, which is made use of when a woman gov erns her husband. A gentleman'of a certain coun ty in England, having married a young lady of considerable for tune, and with many other charms yet finding, in a very short time, that she was of a high, domineer ing spirit, and always contending to be mistress of him and us him ily, he was resolved to part witn her. Accordingly, he went to her father, and mid him, he found his daughter oi\ueh a temper, & was so heartily tired of her, that if he would take her home again, ho would return every penny of her fortune. The old gentleman having in quired into the cause of his com plaint, asked him,“why he should be more disquieted at it than any other married man, since it was the common case with them all, and consequently no more thanj he ought to have expected when] he entered into the marriage] state r ,s The young gentleman j desired to b** excused, if he said i he was so far from giving his as sent to this assertion, that he thought himself more unhappy than any other man, as his wife had a spirit no way to be quelled, and as most, certainly no man, who had a sense of right and wrong, could ever submit to be governed by his wife. “ Son (said the old man) you are but little acquaint ed with world, if you do not know that all women govern their hus bands, though not all, indeed, by the same method—however, to put an end to all disputes between us, I will put what I have said on this to proof ii you are willing to try it —l have five horses in my stable ; you shall harness these to a cart, in which I shall put a basket containing one hundred eggs; and if, in passing through the country, and making a strict enquiry into the truth or false, hood of my assertion, and leav ing a horse at the house of every man wSto is master of his family himself, and an egg only where his wife governs, you will find your eggs gone before your hor ses, I hope you will then think jyour case not uncommon, but will be contented to go home, look upon your own wife as no worse than her neighbours. If on the other hand your horses are gone first, I will take my daughter home again, and you shall keep her fortune* r The proposal was too a&van-’ tageous to be rejected. Our young married man, therefore set out with great eagerness to get rid, as he thought, of his horses : and his wife. At the first house he came to, •he heared a woman with a surly j and angry voice, call her husband, to go to the door. Here he left an egg, you may be sure, without making any further inquiry; at the next met with something of the same kind; and at every house in short, until his eggs were al most gone, when he arrived at l the seat of a gentleman of family j and figure in the Country; he | j knocked at the door, and inquired for the master of the house ; Was told by a servant that his master j was not yet stirring, but, if he; pleased to walk in, his lady was in‘the parlor. The Ihtly, with great complaisance, de sir* and iura 10 seat himself, ami said, if his bu *inoßs w- 3 very urgent, she would awake her husband, to let him k*:ow it, hut hud much rather not distiirb him. “ Why, re : jit, mad *m (stud he) my business is only ‘lO ask a qo stion, which you can resolve as well a* your husband;, if you will be inge- Dui!, with me j you will, doubtless, think it oti.d, aud it may be deemed impolite Jbr .me, B?a<*h more h stranger, to ask such a (ju sUjb. but a very considerable wager Qependa upon it, nd it may be some advan tage to yutrself to declare the truth to ne. i hope these oorsidaratioas will plead my excuse.—lt is madam, to desire to be infor- Tad, whether you govern your husband, or he rnley over you ” —‘ Indeed, sir, (replied the lady) your question is somewhat odd ; but us l think 00 one ought 10 be ashamed of doing then duty, 1 sh-.1l uwke no scruple to say, th :t i have been always proud to a ‘bey'my husband in ail things t but if a wo* ingn’s own word is to be suspected in such a <-ee, let him answer, far here he conies ” The gentleman at that moment entering the room, *nd, after some apologies, being made acquainted with the business, confirm ed every word his obedient wife had report ed in her own favof 5 upon which ho was invited to which horse in the tacm he liked best, nml to accept of it as a pre sent. A black gelding struck the fancy of the gentleman most, but the lady desired! he would choose the grey mare, whieh she thought would be very fit for her side sad dle. Her husband gave substantial reasons wl>y the black horse would be most useful to them; but madam still persisted in her claim to the f?fey mare.—> <k What said she sod will you not take her then ? But I say you sh li : for lam sure the grey mare is much the better horse.” — u Well my dear (repli ed the hnsbaud) if it must be so.”— k< You must tfcke an egg (replied the gentleman carter) and 1 must take all sny horses back j again, and endeuvor to live happy with aiy i wife.” EXECUTOR'S Sale. Will be sold, on the third Mon day in October next at the house of Simon Caldwell, the land be longing to the estate of James Spivey (late of Burke County de ceased,) lying on Williamson Swamp, Jefferson County, it be ing the Will of James Spivey dec. containing two hundred & seventy five acres more or less, also sundry other articles tco te dious to mention. Terms made known on the day of sale. JJldelon Spivey, > Exr>s John Cock, 3 Burke county, August, 19, IS 16. “"notice. Nine months after date appli cation will be made to the hon orable the Inferior Court of Jef ferson county, for leave to sell all the real estate of Ichabud Ledbetter, late of said county deceased* JOHN COOK, Administrator . April 9, FOR SALE OR RENT. The place on which Mr. W m. Hargrove now lives, eight or ten miles from Waynesborough, There is about sixty acres clear ■ed and in cultivation. The un cleared land is prime for cotton and cor*. The above place will > be sold subject to certain claims that will be made known to the pur chaser, or rented for one or more years, LEWIS KENNOIST. Louisytlie, Sep. 22. ~notTce7~ —o Nine months after date ap*pli cation will be made to the honor able the Inferior Court of Jeffer son county, for leave to sell all the real estate of Iraac Hudson, iate of said county deceased. James Hudson , Adiiim’r May 16, “notice. Nine month-!* after date appli cation will be made to the honor able the Inferior Court of Jeffer son county, for leave to to sell all the real estate of Hampton Hud son, late of said county 1 ceased* James Hudson, Executor. June 12, IS 16. NOTICE. Nine months after date appli cation will be made to the Hon orable the Inferior Court of Jef ferson County, for leave to sell a tract of land tying in the Coun ty of Wayne, No. 126, contain ing 4SG acres, belonging to the estate of John Green deceased. RACHEL GREEN, Adm’x. WARREN GREEN, Adm’r. August 20th 1816. ~nolice7 Nine months after date ap di cation will be made to the honor able the inferior Court of Scriv en county, for leave to sell all the real estate of Benjamin Lanier, late of said county deceased. Robert Lanier, Guardian. 6th June, 1816., NOTICE” All persons having demands a* gainst the estate of Wm. Foun tain, dec. are requested to render ‘them in property authenticated within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make im* mediate payment. Aaron Low , ? R , Jonas Mayoy .$ Sept. 5, 1816. NOTICE. All persons indebted to the es tate of Noah Minton, late of Burke county, deceased, are call edon to make immediate payment —and those having demands, will r ender their accounts within the time prescribed by law. Jonathan Mintott, Adm'r . Aug* I, 16x6*