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* POETRY. X V * ■■ ■— the faithful friend. 13 V CO'A pi; H. 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. Connecticut Course?, ■ mm m$ iri 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. Salem Register. Blank Deeds cr Convey ance, FOR SALE A f THIS OFFICE.