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| POE TR r, I— “rtyftww “ r , V<T; the Minerva. -• ADDRESSED Td LOUISA. From whence, Louisa, comes the • fire, That in my bosom glows ? That thus, awakening fond desire, Forbids my J'oft repose ! , Is it thofc eyesfo keenly bright ? Thoje cheeks of rof eat e. hue ?. v That bosom fw citing with delight, To love and nature true ? Is it (for which a faint might sigh, Which fioic hearts would warm, And give delight to ev'ry eye) That love-inspiring form 7 Oh, no ! V is neither form nor face, That thus enchants my foul: What heart alone could give such grace ? The charm is in the whole, EPIGRAM. You*vc fioTn my ravi fil'd foul away, ** * Maria pity my despair ; Return it to its place, 1 pray, Or take my body in yonr care. : —— ANECD 0 T E £. A plain countryman bringing his daughter to town, said, though (he was brought up altogether in the country, Jhe was a girl of sense. Yes, fays a pretty young female in company, country sense. Why, faith madam, fays the man, country sense is better fame times than city impudence. Aperfon [peaking of Bonapar te's vafi extent of empire , an Ir ; fi> Jailor exclaimed. “By my troth, he has'nt as much ground on the ocean as will make him a potatoe garden.” . ‘ The dcceafed Count Bibb, one ‘night at a cider cellar, told a friend ‘that he intened to leave 20 pound( ‘to be Jpent at his funeral ; whiff induced the other to ajk him, if the money was to be !'pent going or reTurmng ? Bibb good humoredly •hjpiied x P, Going, to be sure ; for, when you return, 1 lhant be with you.” “ “ Awful •infiancc of Almighty wengeadtf , on a cockfghter, as re (corded in the obituary of the Gen 4lemanfs -Magazine u Died April 4, at lottenham, John AxAtfoify Esq. a young man of large fortune, and in thc fplendcr of his horses and carriages rival- Vr d by few country gentlemen.— His table was that of hofpftality , where it may be said he facrijiccd ‘'too much to conviviality . Air. Ardefoif was very fondcf cock fighting, and had a favorite cock upon which be had won many pro fitable matches. The lafi bet he layed upon his coik he loft , which so enraged him, that he had the bird tied to a (pit, and roafied alive before a large fire. The Jcreams cf the miserable animal were Jo of fering, that feme gentlemen who were present attempted to interfere , which so enraged Air. Ardefoif, tint he foized a poker, and with the mofi J uncus vehemence declar ed that he would kill the firfi man who interpejed ; but in the midil cf has pajnonate ajfeveraticns, he 4 ell down dead upon the (tot ! ,f + *• -4 V rom it;l I\v•-V j r.Ea: i v Advertiser. Ext rail from Ur. Miller's exccl cellent difeourfes on fuicide', re cently publifijed. (( Beside the injury done to •focietyin general,-he who de stroys his own life feldom'fatls to •inflict-the deepest wounds upon • all who fraud rriore immediately related to him in domcftic • and social life. Sav, miserable raan ! who art contemplating the crime of felf-murder, haft thou no pa rent, the evening of‘whole- days, by this crime, would oe embit tered, or whose grey hairs would be brought down with sorrow to the crave ? TD.ft thou no a- O miable partner of thy life who would be precipitated by this step into the deeped affliction ? Haft thou no tender babes, who by thy deferticn would be left fatherlefs, and exposed to all the dangers of an unpitying world ? Haft thou no brethren or jifiers to ftiarc in the grief, and the dii grace of thine unworthy con du6t ? Are there no friends who love fhee, who would weep o ver thy folly and iin, and feel themfelves.wounded by thy fail ? In foort, would the execution of thy wicked purpose disturb the peace of no family r torture no bosom of sensibility and kind ness ?. defraud no creditor ? Did thy conduct extend only to thy own person, though fill! a crime it would be comparatively finall. But the consequences of such a step would prcbably extend be yond thy conception, and lait longer than thy mercy. Stay then, guilty man i (by thy mur derous hand ! extinguish not the happiness and the hopes of a fa mily, it may be, of many fami lies ! Forbear, O ! forbear to influft wounds which no time can heal, and which may tempt survivors to wish that thou hatflt never been born ! ******** —Let us go to yonder viftim of impatience and despair, who wanders silent, melancholy, & alone, medita 1 ing the termina tion of his sorrows by the pil tol, or the poisonous draught— Let us approach, and require why he is disgusted with life ?—• •You are embarrassed in your cir cumftantes ; you have been rob bed of your property by-baud, ’or by other difaftious occurren ces ; you have been precipitated from the height of affluence to the moft abject poverty; you i cannot dig, to begyou are ajhamed, and therefore resolve to fly from life. But before you take this dreadful and irrevocable step, pause a moment and an lwer me the following questions ; Is a large portion of property indifpenlably necefiary to hap hinefs ? Have not thoulabds been contented and happy with as imall a pittance-as that w hich you yet pofiefs ? Nay, have not fome found more realerjoy ment after being thus reduced, than they found in the days of their affluence and prosperity ? Was not the Saviour of the world, when he fejourned up on the earth without a place to lay his head I And has he no: by his example, made poverty and iuibrings honorable ? 13c w ’ fifos, though you are now so ft rammed circurr stances, may . not a k ; nd providence hereafter fmiie upon yen, and reward your inauftry with comfort and plenty ? Who can tell but that, - bke Job, your latter end, in rhis re sped! may be more blejfed than your beginning ? But even sup posing the woaft-j will you de stroy a life on •which so much depends, for the-lake, of trea- ; lures which are tranfieht and unfatisfying; -for a lime-glitter ing dull, which pen flies in the tiling; “ for so much train as may be grasped thus ?** Mise rable estimate ! Ignoble alter native ! Live, and exhibit the sublime, the edifying ipedtacle, of one struggling with -want, and yet holding raft his integrity. FROM THE MINERVA. ( Concluded from cur inf.) Harley was a good deal ft ruck by this discovery ; he had pru dence enough, however, to conceal his amazement and bow ing as low to the monarch, as his -dignity required, left him immediately, and joined his comoanions. He found them in a quarter of the house set apart for the in sane of the other sex, fevers! of whom had gathered about the female visitors, and were exa mining, with rather more accu racy than might have been ex pected, the-particulars of their dress. Separate from the rest flood one, whole appearance had fome thirg of superior dignity. Her face, though pale and wafted, was less fqualul than thole of the others, and (bowed a dejec tion of that decent kind, wnich moves our pity ; unmixed with horror: upon her, therefore, the eves of all were immediately • * turned. The keeper, who ac companied them, observed it-; ts This, 0 said he, “is a young lady, who was born to ride in her coach and fix. She was be loved, if the story T have heard is true, by a young gentleman, her equal in birth, though by no means her match in fortune : but love, they fay, is blind, and so she fancied him as much as he did her. Her father, it Items, would not hear of their marriage, and threatened to turn her out cf doors, if ever (he law him again. Upon this the young gentleman took a voyage to the Weft-Indies, in hope’s of betteiing his fortune, and ob taining his mistress ; but he was Icarce landed, when he was seized with one cf thole fevers which are common in thole Is lands, and died in a few days, lamented by every one that knew him. This news’foon reached his mistress, who was at the fame time prelied by her father to marry a rich miforly s fellow, who was old enough to he her grandfather, ft he death of her lover had no effect on , her inhuman parent: he was | only the more earned for her \ marriage with the man he had provide 1 for her ; and that be tween her despam 2: the death oi the one, a. and Ur svetfton to ’ the btU\. she poor your-., * “ vas reduced to the ecu <};•'■ you lee her in. but Got! w . not prufper lech cruelty ; her father's affairs boon after wen: to wreck, and he died a! me ft a beggar.” Though this story was told H very plain language, it had par ticularly-attracted Hatley’s no tice ; he had given it the tribute •of lbme tears. The unfortunate -yoiK-g- lady had nil now feetntd entranc’ and in thong u, with her eyes cn a little garner ru g foe wore on her fi <r r ; fne turned them now upon 1 iadeyu ?Jy Billy is nc> more !’’ laid Inr, do you weep nfar my- Billy ! Bleflings on your rears ! I wool j weep too, but rhy brain is dry; and it burns, it bur ns, burns :’ ’ —She drew nearer to fdarley. {C Be comforted, voting lady, ‘ faip he <c your'Bii’y is in i)ra ven.”— <JC Is he in- eed ? r>-d fhaii we meet e.g-ftn ? and fna 1 that frightful man (pointing t > the keeper) ru -1 be there ?—• Alas ! lam grown mu.-uhrv e-f late ; I have almofc to think of Heaven : yet I pray sometimes ; when 7 can, I pro , and sometimes Iftng; when l am faddeir, I sing :—You tftail hear me—hufn ! “ L'rht he the earth on Billy's K./-. ✓ breast, And green thefod that wrafs hit grave !” There was a- plaintive wftdne'k in the air no: to be withstood ; and, except the keeper’s, there was not an unmoistened eye ag round her, ” Do you weep an-ftn ?” said foe: ct 1 would not have you weep; you are like my Duly a you nre, believe; just so he looked when he p;ave this ringi poor Billy ! ‘twas the last time ever we met ! a ‘Twas when the seas were roaring—l love you for re fumb ling my Billy ; but I foail never love any man like him”—She ft retched out her hand to Har ley; he prdTed it between both his, and bathed it with his tears* —“ Nay, that’s Billy’s ring said foe, “ you cannot have ir s indeed, but here is another, look here, which I plaited to-day of fome gold thread from th s bit of fnuff; will you keep it for my fake ; I am a ft range girl; but my Feart is harm Id's; my poor heart; it will built lbme day ; feel how it bears ! ” She pre fif'd his hand to her bosom, then holding her head fn the at titude of hfteniiig—Hark ! one, two, three ! be quiet, thou little trembler ; my BuSy is cold !—but I had forgotten the ring.”—She put it on his huger. <c Farewell i l muff leave ‘you row/’—She would have with drawn her hand; Harley held it to his lips.—j dare not stay longer ; my head throbs iadly : farewell.” She walked with a hurried step to a little apart ment at so medl ft an ce. Harley flood fixed in aftop.ifoment and piry ; his friend gave money to the keeper.—Harley looked on his ring.—-He put a couple of guineas into the man’s hand :—. Be kind to that unfortunate.** —1 le burst into ce Ul <ll *X 1 left them.