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POETICAL SELECTIONS.
Extract from the Prologue to u Edward
and Eleonora,” a Tragedy.
TO every earthly thing; s* great the rage
For simile—have bards compar'd the Stage.
Let fancy, then, leave land—and put to sea,
And let the Theatre—a vessel be—
The audience, passengers—and players, the
crew,
With the Dramatic Ocean full in view.
One vast deep, immeasurably wide,
Barks of all sorts lie waiting for the tide :
It serves at six —high-water at each port;
The colors then—are hoisted at each fort.
To sprightly music is unfurl’d each sail.
And each commander begs the prosperous gale
Brig—sloop—and cutter—fishing-smack—and
sknller.
Thames at a rowing match—was never fuller.
In English manufactur’d goods bur rough
Some Captains deal—and stine in German
stuff.
Some vessels in a night—so great their speed,
Shall start at London-bridge—and reach the
Tweed,
Ere supper-time—then as they shift the scene,
Link Greece to Rome, and skip the space be
tween—
To Italy and France some gaily roarn,
And bring the fashions—and the follies home;
Others are laden de<p—with Indian stoves,
And, though o’er stock’d, add luxury to our
shores;
While from their reckoning some so widely
wander,
The passengers all rise on the commander;
Swear that the vessels are with rubbish stor’d,
And throw the useless lumber overboard:
Souse, like the Eddiatone, goes down—the
freight,
Tlip pond’rous dullness sinking with its weight.
Thus torpid Tragedy like lead will drop;
While flippant Farce—(a feather)— swims at
top.
Yet many a bark is stow’d with sense & wit.
With all that Nature wrought, or Shakespeare
writ;
With all that fancy prints, or genu!* draws—
Welcome such freights—and hailed with just
applause.
ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
The following 1 anecdote was related
to me by his Excellency Governor John
son (Maryland) one of the few surviv
ing heroes of 1774- This truly great
man, at commencing the race of life,
received from his father no better spur
than a plain education , which he early
exerted on the study of the law. His
genius was like a flash of lightning on
the darksome night. Truth, though
small as a minikin pin, was made to
glister upon the dullest optic ; and ju
ries, though pannelled from little chil
dren, could run with goggling eyes to
pick it up. In plain, his talents com
manded the deepest admiration—his
honesty inspired universal confidence ;
clients and causes sprung up around
him, like leaves upon the young Cataw
ba—guineas and Half joes ripened upon
him, thick and yellow as oranges in the
gardens of Charleston. Led by true
self-love, the people of Maryland bro’t
him forward upon every call of difficul
ty ancl danger. The brilliancy of his
talents, they knew, would reflect honor
upon themselves —the strength of his
judgment prove the best shield of their
own rights. At the commencement of
the revolutionary troubles, by unani
mous suffrage, he was sent a delegate to
the Jirst congress, and took Ins seat with
the Great Washington, in the fearful
days of ’74» After this, he was called
to the government of his own state,
which high and difficult place, as often
as the constitution would allow, he was
compelled to fill, and, indeed, much oft
ener than he wished. It is hardly ne
cessarv to add, that he is now in the
evening of his days—but it is not the
sad evening of the idler , whose youth is
Jolly, and his age a curse —it is not the
dark evening of the old bachelor, poor
man ! who writes his name with a sigh,
and looks with sorrow on his wealth,
soon to become the prey of strangers—
but it is the gay, luxurious evening of
a “ long vernal day dignified \\\X h use
ful toils and elegant studies ; brightened
by the beams of virtuous love; and
which, crowned with riches and honor,
he is now deliciously spending, sur
rounded by his children, in whose bloom,
with transport he beholds his youth re
newed, his name perpetuated, and his
riches , by those he loves, long to be en
joyed. They, in return, exult in a father
whose talents they reverence, whose vir
tues they esteem, and whose tender
ness and generosity render him the ob
ject of their dearest love. Daughters
of beauty ! soul enchanting forms of
female elegance ! what have been my
feelings on seeing your “ mind illumin'd
faces,” brightened with joy at the first
sound of his coming foot-steps—O !
what have been my feelings on seeing
you rising up, witfi softly rolling eyes
of love, to meet his aged presence, and,
witii accents sweeter than music, bid
him u good morning P* while he, with
looks and tones of answering tender
ness and love, has replied, “ God 'bless
my children—God bless my dear daugh
ters /"
It was in one of these finely moraliz
ing ; one of these soul refining scenes,
in the dining room of his charming
daughter, married to the wealthy and
accomplished John Graham, Esq. near
Fredericktown, that Mr. Johnson gave
me the following anecdote of Washing
ton—“ You seem sir," said he,address
ing himself to me, “ very fond of collect
ing anecdotes of Gen. Washington,
I’ll tell you one, & one too to which you
may attach the most entire faith, for I
have heard it a dozen times, and oftener,
from the lips of a very valuable man and
magistrate, in Conostoga, a Mr. Con
rad Hogmyer—Just before the revolu
tionary war,” said Mr. Hogmyer, “ I
took atrip, for my health's sake , to the
Sweet Springs of Virginia, where I
found a world of people collected; some,
like me, looking for health, others for
pleasure. In consequence of the crowd,
I was at first rather hard run for lodg
ings, but at length was lucky enough to
get a matrass in the hut of a very honest
baker of my acquaintance, who often
visited these springs for the benefit of
his oven, Being the only man of the
trade on the turf, and well skilled in the
science of dough, be met with no small
encouragement; and it was really mat
ter of great gratitude to see what heaps
of English loaves, Indian pones.—
French bricks, cakes and crackers, lay
piled up on his tables every morning.—
I often also, amused myself in marking
the various airs and manners of the dif
ferent waiters, who in gay liveries and
shining black faces came in every mor
ning, ratling their silver, and tripping
away with bread by the basket. Among
these plump, gay looking sons and
daughters of Africa, I saw every now
and then a poor Lazarite, with fallow
cheek and hollow eye, slowly creeping
to the table, and at a nod from the baker,
eagerly seize a fine loaf and bear it oft*
without depositing a cent. Surely iho’t
I to myself, this baker must be the best
man or the greatest fool in the world ;
but fearing that this latter cap. best fit
ted lvis per uranium, I one morning,
could not help breaking my mind to
him for crediting his bread to such un
promising dealers. “ Stophel,” for that
was his name, “ you seem, said I, to
sell a world of bread here every day,
but notwithstanding that, I fear you
don’t gain much by it." No ! ’Squire,
why what makes you think so ?"—"You
credit too much, Stophel.”—Not I in
deed, sir, not I, I don’t credit a> cent.
“ Aye ! how do you make that out, Sto
phel, don’t I see these poor people ev
ery day carrying away your bread and
yet paying you nothing Pshaw, no
matter for that, ’squire, Lln-y’ilpay me
all in the lump at last "At last! at
Iu h ! ! Oh lio, at the last day I suppose
you mean, Stophel, when you have the
conscience to expect that God Almigh
ty will stand paymaster, and wipe off all
your old scores for you.”—Oh no!
’squire, we poor bakers can’t give such
long credit; but i’ll tell you how we
manage the matter—that good man,
Cel. George Washington, is here.
Every season, as soon as lie comes, he
calls and says to me, " Stophel, says lie,
you seem to have a good deal of com
pany, and among the rest, I fear there
are some who don’t come here for plea
sure, and yet, you know, they can’t do
without eating ; though pale and sickiy,
they must have bread but it will never
do to make them pay lor it. Poor crea
tures ! they seem already low spirited
enough, through sickness and poverty ;
their spirits must'not be sunk any lower,
by taking from them every day, what
little money they pinched from their
poor families at home. I'll tell you
what’s to be done, Stbphel, you must
give each of them a good hot loaf every
morning, and charge it to me ; when I
ujn going away I’il pay you for all.”—
And believe me, ’squire, lie has often,
at the end of the season, paid me as
much as 80 dollars, and that too for poor
creatures who did not know the hand
that led them, for I had strict orders ■
from him, not to mention a syllable of
it to any body.” !
Os the History (in five vols. and an J
Atlas) of this great man, the first four
vols. elegantly finished, are now at my
friend Doctor Murray’s, ready for the
subscribers. The stli vol. treats ol’the
PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER aild AD
ministation of Washington; a sub
ject new and singularly interesting. Alld
by leltcr from the Honorable Judge
W ashing ton, I am at liberty to state,
that, “ both in matter and manner, it will (
do great honor to the author." Together
with the Atlas, it is expected here in ,
November.
It iv ill I hope be remembered by
the subscribers , whether they call
themselves men of this world or of
the next, that in this affair of their
Father Washington, they have
been most sacredly counted on as
men of honor ! In consequence
of giving him their names, the
Editor has finished their books
in a style of uncommon elegance....
And those who now hold back
their few dollars (which can’t en
rich them) will be so far forth ac
cessary to the ruin of a very val
uable citizen and his young family.
M. L. WEEMS.
EXTRACT
The female mind is naturally credu
lous, affectionate, and in itsattachments,
ardent. If in her peculiar situation, her
assiduities must be deemed in any de
gree culpable, -let us remember that
this is but a frail vessel of refined clay.
When the awful record of her errors is
enrolled, may that sigh which was
breathed for the misery of a fellow mor
tal wast away the scroll, and tears which
flowed for the calamities of others float
the memorial down the stream of obliv
ion !
On the errors of women let us look
with the allowance and hummanity of
men. Enchanting woman ! thou balm
of life ! soother of sorrow ! solace of the
soul ! How dost thou lesson the load of
human misery, and lead the wretched in
to the valley of delight! Without thee
how heavily would men drag through
a dreary world ! but if the white hand of
a fascinating female be twined round
his arm, how joyous, how lightly doth
he trip along the path.
That warm and tender friend who in
the most trying situations retains her
enthusiastic fondness, and in every
change of fortune, preserves unabated
love ought to be embraced as the first
benison of heaven, the completion
of earthly happiness. Let man draw
such a prize in the Lottery of Life,
and glide down the stream of existence
with such a partner, neither the cold
averted eye of a summer friend, nor the
frowns of an adverse fortune, should
produce a pang, nor excite a murmur.
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SIDNEY
ON
GOVERNMENT.
Gentlemen who have never read
this celebrated performance may form
some idea of its intrinsic worth and im
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the following extract of a letter (to the
editor,) from his Excellency the Presi
dent of the United States. ,
Washington, Dec. 13, 1804.
Sir,
\ T OU ask my opinion on the sub
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non Sidney. The world has so long
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of his “ discourses on government," that
it seems superfluous, and even pre
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TH: JEFFERSON.
The Revd. Mr. Weems.
October 4. 11
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