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* POETRY. X
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the faithful friend.
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7aV grgcn house is myJunrner feat ;
My jhrubs, dijp lac'd fro,.: that
retreaty
Enjoy'd the open air :
Two gold-finches, whose fprtgbtly
Jys “ . ,
ha a been their mutual johcc long.
Liv'd happy prtftners there.
They fang llythc as finches filng
‘That jiuntr'd iooje on gclden wing,
And frolic where they lijl ;
Strangers to liberty , ’lis true ,
But that delight they never knew,
And therefore never mijs'd.
But nature works in every breast,
Fiji mil is never quite furpr efts'd,
And Dick felt fine dejire ,
Which after many an ejfort vain,
Injlrutted him at length to gain
Apafs between the wires.
The open window: fern t'invite
The freeman to a farewell fight,
But Tom was fill confin'd \
And Dicky although his way was
clear ,
Ji ‘as mutch too generous andfin cere
To leave his triend behind.
For fitting on his grated roof.
He chirp'd and ki/s'd him giving
proof
} vat be defin'd no more .*
Fr would ferfake bis cage at lafi ,
‘Till gently jeiz and If hut him j aft
Api tfner as before,
Oye t who never knew the joys,
Os friendfhipy fatisfied with noife >
Fandango, baH or rout !
Blujh when I tell you how a bird
A prifin with a friend> perfered
To liberty without,
ANECDOTES.
Dr. Tadloc, who was a man
of an enormous frze, happened
to go thump thump with his
great legs through a street in
Oxford, where the pavers were
at work hi the middle of July,
the fellows immediately hid
down their rammers. “Ah !
God bleis you matter,” said one
of them, “ it was very kind of
you to come this way, it laves us
a great deal of trouble this hot
weather/**
In the old French war, as it is
called, a gentleman by the name
of Briant, was chaplain on board
an armed vefTel. In the fame
veiTel was an Irilh barber of con
fiuerable wit and humor. The
chaplain was naturally facetious,
sndloveda ‘good turn/ and
would therefore often divert
himfeif in convention with this
barber. One day while under
his hands, he alked him if he
knew the O’Briens in Ireland ?
The barber replied that he did.
‘Weil,’ said his reverence, * that
was my family's name original
ly ; but after we left our country,
we began to be aihamed of the
* Os and have now got our
rame to * Briant:’ bur, added
be, we need not be ashamed of
the family; for it was a high
family in Ireland/ And in
oeed it was/ replied tlie lhaver,
in the tongue of his country r hr
I Ire fccu fcritC of them so
high, that their feet could not
touch the ground/
TREASON!!!
Avery serious complaint was
lodged a few days ago, before a
J uftice of Peace, and one of the
Quorom in a Northern county,
agairift a simple countryman,
for having damned the king." —
A warrant was accordingly iflu
'ed, and the poor trembling de
linquent ‘dragged before the
bench, w'hen the following very
keen and pointed, interrogato
ries, were put to him.
Justice. Harkee! you fellow ;
How came you wickedly and
profanely to damn his rnofc sa
cred Miijtfty George the third,
of Great Britain, France and
Ireland, King Defender of the
Faith, and so forth ?
Countryman. Lordl yourwor
fhip I did not know that king of
clubs was Defender of the Faith
or by my troth I would not a
damn'd it.
Justice. King of Clubs! Why.
you rebelicits rdlcal, what do you
add inful t to treason ? Tell me
what you mean ?
Countryman. Mean your wor
ship, why you mun know that
we were noine and noin, at vvhilk
and fquabbers, Clubs was trumps
I had eace and Queen i’ my own
hernd, but as ill luck would ha’t,
our neighbour Tummas clapt
his king smack on moy queen
and by gadliu they gotten the
odd t r ick. So being welly
throttled with rage,) our Wor
fnip, I, I, I cry'd damn the king!
Justice. O ! well, if that’s all,
you may go about your business,
but fee that you never do so
again.
Countrymen. God bless your
honor I wonna e’en curse a knave
for fear it offends your wor pip.
A Second Epistle to Bachelor:.
Take unto thyfeli a wife, and
obey the ordinance of God ;
take untothyfelf a wife, and be
come a faithful member of foci
cty. But examine with care,
and fix not suddenly; on thy
present choice depends the fu
ture happiness of thee and thy
posterity.
If much of her time is deitroy
ed in dress and ornaments; if
she is enamoured with her own
beauty, and delighted with her
own praise; if Ihe langheth
much and talketh loud; if her
foot abideth not in her father's
house, and her eyes with bold
ness rove on the faces of mm,
though her beauty were as the
Sun in the firmament of Hea
ven, turn thy face from her
charms, turn thy feet from her
paths, and fuffer not thy foul to
be ensnared by the allurements
of thy imagination.
But when thou fmdefl fenfi*
bility of heart, joined with foft
nefs of manners; an accom
plished mind, with a form agree
able to thy fancy; take her
home to thy house, (he is wor
thy to bo thy friend, thy com
panion in life, the wife of thy
bosom.
O cherish her as a Met Ting
fcnt thee from Heaven ; let the
kindneis of thy behaviour en
dear thee to her heart.
She b the mifuefs of thy*
house i treat her; therefore, with
refpeft, that thy servants may
obey her.
Oppose not her Inclination
without cause ; she is the part
ner of thy cares, make her also
the companion of thy pleasures.
Reprove her faults with gen
tleness, exaift net her obedience
with rigor.
Truit chy secrets in her breast
her counfils are sincere, thou
fhaltnot be deceived.
Be faithful to her bed ; for
she is the mother cf thy chil
dren.
When pain and fteknefs as
sault her, let thy tendtrnels
soothe her affliction ; a look
from the, of pity and love, shall
alleviate her grief, or mitigate
her pain ; and be of more avail
that ten physicians.
Con fide r the delicacy of her
sex, the tenderness of her frame ;
and be net severe to her weak
ness, but remember thine own
imperfections.
The fly humour of the subse
quent fnear (fays the Port
Folio) could only flow from
the genius of an Addison.
Our ladies have of late thrown
ctfide the tucker , and expefed in
its prim alive nakedness, that gen
tle Jwell cf the breast which it
was ufied to conceal. I observed
this as I was fitting the other day
by a famous she, visitant of my
lady i tzara's, when accidentally ,
as I looked upon her face, letting
my fight fall into her bosom. I was
furprfed with beauties which I
bad never before dfcovered, and
do not know where my eye would
have run if I had not immediately
cbeckeddt. The lady h erf elf could
not help bluffing when fie observ
ed by my looks that floe had made
her neck too beautiful and glaring
an objefl even for a man of my
character and gravity . I could
farce forbear making use of my
hand to cover so unfeemingly a
fight.
A serious caution to the healthy
and strong.
It is of ten found that people, of
feeble corftituticns, by con ft ant care
and attention to their health and
lives , not only live to sit advanced
age, but even enjoy better health
in their former years. On the
other hand, it frequently happens
that perJcnSy of the mofi healthy
and rebufi make , from voluntarily
evp of tires which are made in con
fidence cf the ficrane ‘s cf their bo
dily texture, fuddeniyfink down to
the grave in ihe midfi of their
days.
A melancholy infiance cf the
Utter kind lately happened in this
city , in the fudJen exit of Mr.
George Pratt, whose death was
noticed in our lafi.
Mr. Pratt was an industrious
farmer and his uncommon vigor cf
confiitution seemed to render k)m,
in a manner headless to those pre
cautions for the preservation of
healthy which none may negletd
with fafety. The forenoon of Sa
turday the \yb Taft he , together
with his labourerSy toiled inces
santly at harvefifig under the
heat of a meftft arching fun, which
fi oppressed him that he expressed
an apprthenfion that be was mel
ted.
A little after n:sx the air Sud
denly became chilly , and there fell
a cold power cf rain mingled with
bail, to which he was expefed hi
the open atmcfphcre. —Returning
after the power from his field to
bis house , be did not life the pre
caution of pisting his clothes, but
in his wet habit,/pent the residue
of the afternoon in catching ftp,
wading in the river to a confide- ,
table depth ; nor was it till even
ing that he put on a dry suit cf
clothes ; and befat. there after in
the open air till bed time.
A violent fever quickly enfued\
which baffled medical full, and
about nine days terminated his life ,
IVe hope a publication of tbfte
circumfiauces may prove a faint ary
warning, efpecialLy to perftns
whefe firmnefs and continuity of
health , have rendered them teb
little cautious of expvfmg it.
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The voyage of the Greeks,
Slephanopoli, who were Greeks
fettled in Corsica, and sent from
Italy to Greece, in i797 s > for
niflied the following outlines of
the lonian Republic. To the
Seven Iflcs is united Cerigottc,
which has 17 families living at
present in their native indepen
dence. The lilands are thus des
cribed. Corfu, in N. L. 37,
and E. L. 40, in 3 miles front
Albania. It is above 100 mile3
in circumference, and has afpa
cious and fafe port, defended
by two fort re fifes. Its ttaple D
oil, and its climate excellent.-
Paxo is f;x miles south of Corfu,
and about a fourth part of its
circumference. It produces oil,
and has a third part of the po
pulation of Corfu. Ithaca is
four miles from St. Maur, and
but fix miles in circumference.
It yields grain and wine, and its
population does net exceed
5,000. Cephalorfa, is a mile
Irom Ithaca, and is above 160
miles in circumference j it yields
wine, but depends much upon
its navigation. It employs 150
vc IF Is, a third part of which
carry above 10 guns each. The
population is a quarter greater
than that of Corin. Zante is
forty miles from Cephalonia,
but lias not a third of its circum
ference. Currants and oil, give
the riches of Zante. A revenue
of halfa million of dollars is rai
sed from the flrfl article. It has
but one port, that can admit
large vcfTds. Five families di
vide halt the I Hand, and have
great influence over its very
industrious inhabitants.—lt has
but half the population of Ce
phalonia. Ccrigo is above two
hundred miles from Zante, and
about the fame circumference,
but no more than an eighth of
its population, and this dirnin
ifhed population is attributed
chiefly to the visits from die
JTurkifhand other Cor fairs, and
the infufHcient proreiVion of the
Venetian government. It yields
wine, and its inhabitants arc re
prefenred as the be ft in the
whole republic. No nftiflina
t:on or robbery, evils prevalent
in the oilier ‘Hands, has never
been knownin Carigo.
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